The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop!
By Martin H. Glynn
(Former Governor of the State of N.Y.)
From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help, and
eight hundred thousand little children cry for bread.
These children, these men and women are our fellow-members of the human
family, with the same claim on life as we, the same susceptibility to the
winter's cold, the same propensity to death before the fangs of hunger.
Within them reside the illimitable possibilities for the advancement of
the human race as naturally would reside in six million human beings. We
may not be their keepers but we ought to be their helpers.
In the face of death, in the throes of starvation there is no place
for mental distinctions of creed, no place for physical differentiations
of race. In this catastrophe, when six million human beings are being whirled
toward the grave by a cruel and relentless fate, only the most idealistic
promptings of human nature should sway the heart and move the hand.
Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of
life; eight hundred thousand children cry for bread. And this fate is upon
them through no fault of their own, through no transgression of the laws
of God or man; but through the awful tyranny of war and a bigoted lust
for Jewish blood.
In this threatened holocaust of human life, forgotten are the niceties
of philosophical distinction, forgotten are the differences of historical
interpretation; and the determination to help the helpless, to shelter
the homeless, to clothe the naked and to feed the hungry becomes a religion
at whose altar men of every race can worship and women of every creed can
kneel. In this calamity the temporalities of man's fashionings fall away
before the eternal verities of life, and we awaken to the fact that from
the hands of one God we all come and before the tribunal of one God we
all must stand on the day of final reckoning. And when that reckoning comes
mere profession of lips will not weigh a pennyweight; but deeds, mere intangible
deeds, deeds that dry the tear of sorrow and allay the pain of anguish,
deeds that with the spirit of the Good Samaritan pour oil and wine in wounds
and find sustenance and shelter for the suffering and the stricken, will
outweigh all the stars in the heavens, all the waters in the seas, all
the rocks and metals in all the celestian globes that revolve in the firmament
around us.
Race is a matter of accident; creed, partly a matter of inheritance,
partly a matter of environment, partly one's method of ratiocination; but
our physical wants and corporeal needs are implanted in all of us by the
hand of God, and the man or woman who can, and will not, hear the cry of
the starving; who can, and will not, take heed of the wail of the dying;
who can, and will not, stretch forth a helping hand to those who sink beneath
the waves of adversity is an assassin of nature's finest instincts, a traitor
to the cause of the human family and an abjurer of the natural law written
upon the tablets of every human heart by the finger of God himself.
And so in the spirit that turned the poor widow's votive offering of
copper into silver, and the silver into gold when placed upon God's altar,
the people of this country are called upon to sanctify their money by giving
$35,000,000 in the name of the humanity of Moses to six million famished
men and women.
Six million men and women are dying -- eight hundred thousand little
children are crying for bread.
And why?
Because of a war to lay Autocracy in the dust and give Democracy the
sceptre of the Just.
And in that war for democracy 200,000 Jewish lads from the United States
fought beneath the Stars and Stripes. In the 77th Division alone there
were 14,000 of them, and in Argonne Forest this division captured 54 German
guns.This shows that at Argonne the Jewish boys from the United States
fought for democracy as Joshua fought against the Amalekites on the plains
of Abraham. In an address on the so-called "Lost Battalion," led by Colonel
Whittlesey of Pittsfield, Major-General Alexander shows the fighting stuff
these Jewish boys were made of. In some way or another Whittlesey's command
was surrounded. They were short of rations. They tried to get word back
to the rear telling of their plight. They tried and they tried, but their
men never got through. Paralysis and stupefaction and despair were in the
air. And when the hour was darkest and all seemed lost, a soldier lad stepped
forward, and said to Col. Whittlesey: "I will try to get through." He tried,
he was wounded, he had to creep and crawl, but he got through.To-day he
wears the Distinguished Service Cross and his name is
Abraham Krotoshansky.
Because of this war for Democracy six million Jewsh men and women are
starving across the seas; eight hundred thousand Jewish babies are crying
for bread.
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In the name of Abraham Krotoshinsky who saved the "Lost Battalion,"
in the name of the one hundred and ninety-nine thousand and nine hundred
and ninety-nine other Jewish boys who fought for Democracy beneath the
Stars and Stripes won't you give copper, or silver, or gold, to keep life
in the heart of these men and these women; to keep blood in the bodies
of these babies?
The Jew Has Helped Everybody But The Jew.
In the world war the Jew has helped everybody but the Jew. "Over there"
he helped in camp, in council and in conflict. "Over here" he helped the
Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., the Knights of Columbus, the Masons, the Salvation
Army and everybody else. So now is the time for everybody to help the Jew,
and God knows now is the time he needs it.
From out of the gloom of this war every other race, save one or two,
has snatched a ray of sunshine. But amid the encircling gloom there is
no light for the Jew "to lead thou me on." The war is over for everyone,
but the Jew. The knife is still at his throat and an unreasoning and unreasonable
century-old lust for Jewish blood opens his veins. The Jew in Roumania,
Poland and Ukrainia is being made the scapegoat of the war. Since the armistice
has been signed thousands of Jews in Ukrainia have been offered up as living
sacrifices to diabolical greed and fanatical passion -- their throats cut,
their bodies rended limb from limb by assassin bands and rabid soldiery.
In the city of Proskunoff one day a few weeks ago the dawn saw the door
of every house wherein lived a Jew marked as a shambles for slaughter.
For four days, from sunrise to sunset, fanatics plied the dagger like demons
from hell, stopping only to eat with hands adrip with the blood of Jewishvictims.
They killed the men; they were less merciful to women. These they violated,
and then they killed. From a purpose to a fury, from a fury to a habit
ran this killing of the Jews, until within four days the streets of Proskunoff
ran red with blood like gutters of a slaughter house, until its homes became
a morgue for thousands of slaughtered human beings whose gaping wounds
cried out for vengeance and whose eyes had turned to stone at the horrors
they had seen. As Hon. Simon W. Rosendale, aptly paraphrasing Bobby Burns'
thought, in his speech not long ago, said it is the age-old story of "man's
inhumanity to man that makes countless thousands mourn." For as it has
been at Proskunoff, so has it been in a hundred other places.The bloody
tale hath repetition ad nauseum. It is the same tear-stained story -- the
same old stain upon the escutcheon of humanity. Verily, Byron was right
when he wrote:
Tribes of the wandering feet and weary breast
Whither shall ye flee to be at rest?
The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave,
Mankind their countries, Israel but the grave.
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and the crucifixion of Jews must stop. We repeat the war is over for everybody,
but the Jew. Like Isaac the knife is at his throat, but unlike Isaac no
power seems able to stop the steel from thirsting for his blood. But some
power the world must raise up to prevent this decimation of a deserving
race. For the peace of the world a League of Nations let us have by all
means; but for the Humanity of the World, to give justice to the Jew and
other oppressed peoples on earth, let us have a Truce of God! -- Albany
Times Union.
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