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 A Symposium of Accomplishments, 
 Appointments, Friendly Acts Per- 
 formed and Humane Treatment Ad- 
 vocated for the Jewish Race Here 
 and Abroad by the Wilson Admin- 
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HON. WOODROW WILSON 
 President of the United States. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Having a competency in a business way, the inspiration of 
 this volume does not come from the alluring promises of any 
 political party, as I am not courting favors from either ; but 
 it emanates from a keen sense of gratuity for what has been 
 accomplished, and I submit this acknowledgment without 
 hope of fee or reward save the consciousness that I am aiding 
 and assisting my brethren. 
 
 In presenting this to my people I do so with the hope that 
 the many reasons herein advanced why we should support 
 the Wilson Administration in the coming campaign may 
 reach the conscience of those who love and live for the 
 emancipation of the Hebrew race. 
 
 Of all nations in ancient times, the Hebrews approached 
 the nearest to the possession of the eternal principles upon 
 which liberty rests. They were made acquainted with the 
 existence and the omnipotence of the Creator. From Him 
 they received the law to be holy and perfect. They rose with 
 David to the heights of penitence and prayer; they lifted 
 their voices with Isaiah in preparing the glory of the Lord ; 
 they shouted praises with Daniel in foretelling the endless 
 majesty of His Kingdom. At this latter date, buffeted upon 
 the billows of contemptuous commercialism, yet in fulfill- 
 ment of the prophecy, they arise equal to the occasion and 
 accept Woodrow Wilson as the Moses to lead the children of 
 Israel from 'neath the yoke of bondage and oppression still 
 bourne in European countries. 
 
 With absolute faith, fidelity and love for the man justified 
 by a predicated past, I respectfuly dedicate to him this 
 volume. 
 
 JOS. A. WILNER. 
 
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 Compiled by 
 JOSEPH A. WILNER 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
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WHY! 
 
 WOODROW WILSON SHOULD RECEIVE THE UNDI- 
 VIDED SUPPORT OF EVERY JEW IN AMERICA. 
 
 "Take heed to thyself lest thou make a covenant with the 
 inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a 
 snare in the midst of thee" — forewarns the Hebrew law. 
 
 The ritual of time-honored customs and obedience to the 
 divine precepts, from which source came the law, presents 
 to the American people the commendable fact that there is 
 no "Jewish Vote." 
 
 The Jews are strictly nonpartisan. Like all intelligent 
 citizens they use decided discretion in selecting their man 
 and vote for the one they believe will serve the country best. 
 Notwithstanding the claims of some petty politicians of a 
 partisan Jewish vote, it is an absolute fact that the Jews 
 stand steadfast, will give their support and always remember 
 their friends more so than any other race or creed, particu- 
 larly those who have rendered unusual aid and defended 
 their cause. 
 
 The famous French attorney, Labori, who defended the 
 cause of the martyred Dreyfus, will forever remain immor- 
 tal. Count Tolstoi and Gorky, occasional defenders of Jewry 
 in Russia, are recalled with admiration and gratitude. The 
 illustrious Pontifs, Pope Innocent II, Alexander III and Clem- 
 ent VI, who interceded for the Jews throughout their Pontifi- 
 cal careers in Spain, Germany and France, and defended and 
 protected them during the darks days of barbarity, preju- 
 dice and persecution, covering a period of years — their 
 benevolent attitude toward the members of the Jewish faith 
 will always .live in the hearts of the Hebrew race with loving 
 reverence. 
 
 Likewise the name of Woodrow Wilson will forever be a 
 household word with every Jew throughout the entire world 
 as the emancipator of the children of Israel. This assertion 
 is not a mere prediction or a prophecy — it is based on actual 
 deeds performed in the recent past. More was done in the 
 past three-and-a-half years for distressed Jews abroad by 
 President Wilson and his administration than all the relief 
 combined during the prior sixteen years, which is the object 
 of this pamphlet : to familiarize the Jews with the assistance 
 
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rendered to their oppressed brethren wherever possible by 
 the man now before you, of whom it is your sacred duty to 
 continue him in the place where his scholarly attainments 
 and gentlemanly principles will redound to your pride and 
 prestige in the days to come. 
 
 Much more is yet to be done. The opportune time for 
 greater accomplishments are at hand. The 1916 Democratic 
 Platform proclaims: "At the earliest practical opportunity 
 our country should strive earnestly for peace among the 
 warring nations of Europe and seek to bring about the adop- 
 tion of the fundamental principles of justice and humanity, 
 that all men shall enjoy equality of right and freedom from 
 discrimination in the land wherein they dwell." 
 
 Our brethren are subjected to cruel oppression and hor- 
 rible persecution in some of the belligerent countries, par- 
 ticularly Russia, where their sufferings have reached the cli- 
 max during the present war; consequently at the close of 
 the war, when Peace Treaties are to be signed, where can we 
 find a more courageous man, a more determined man, a man 
 of deep scholarship and reserved force, a lover of peace, jus- 
 tice and humanity to intercede in behalf of our cause and 
 solicitate with the powers for the emancipation of the Jews 
 from their plight and secure them equal rights, than our 
 President and President-to-be, Woodrow Wilson — loyal to 
 his pledges, the redeemer of his party's promises, the Prince 
 of Peace, the Friend of the Jews. 
 
NO TREATY WITH RUSSIA UNLESS DISCRIMINATION 
 AGAINST JEWISH CITIZENS CEASE. 
 
 July 3rd, 1912, the Democratic National Convention at 
 Baltimore adopted a plank, as follows: "We commend the 
 patriotism of the Democratic members of the Senate and 
 House of Representatives which compelled the termination 
 of the Russian treaty of 1832, and we pledge ourselves anew 
 to preserve the sacred rights of American citizenship at 
 home and abroad. 
 
 "No treaty should receive the sanction of our Government 
 which does not recognize the equality of all our citizens irre- 
 spective of race or creed, and which does not expressly guar- 
 antee the fundamental right of expatriation. The constitu- 
 tional right of American citizens should protect them on our 
 borders and go with them throughout the world, and every 
 American citizen residing or having property in any foreign 
 country, is entitled to and must be given the full protection 
 of the United States Government both for himself and his 
 property." 
 
 Has the Administration lived up to this plank? It has. 
 In spite of the powerful influence brought to bear by large 
 commercial interests and a subsidized press here and abroad 
 which urged that steps be taken for the negotiation of a new 
 treaty with Russia, without paying any heed to the Passport 
 question, giving as their reason for such stand the resump- 
 tion of a large export trade. President Wilson remained firm 
 and loyal to his pledge. 
 
 It has been and will be his purpose to see that no treaty 
 shall be ratified by the United States with any foreign coun- 
 try unless discrimination against the Jews cease. 
 
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 PRESIDENT WILSON GUARANTEES CIVIL RIGHTS 
 FOR 250,000 JEWS TRANSFERRED FROM UNDER 
 THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT TO THE EXTENDED 
 BOUNDARIES OF SERVIA, GREECE AND BULGARIA. 
 
 The war in the Balkan peninsular, which began in Octo- 
 ber, 1912, and concluded in August, 1913, has resulted in 
 the cession of an immense region formerly belonging to the 
 Ottoman Empire, to the Balkan States. In this conquered 
 territory over a quarter of a million Jews, exiled by Spain in 
 1492, had been residing for more than 400 years, reasonably 
 free from harsh discrimination. 
 
 The American Jewry feeling most deeply concerned over 
 the lot which may have befell these Turkish citizens un- 
 der their new sovereigns, being mindful that the Greek 
 Orthodox Church, which is so notoriously hostile to the Jews 
 in Russia, is practically the predominating church in the 
 Balkan States, endeavored to safeguard their positions by 
 having representatives of the American Jewish Committee 
 appeal to President Wilson to use his good offices in an effort 
 to secure the insertion of a clause in the Treaty of London 
 and Bucharest to insure full civil and religious liberty to all 
 inhabitants, without distinction as to race or creed. 
 
 President Wilson became deeply interested in the matter 
 and promised to give the subject his earnest consideration 
 and act at the opportune time. Accordingly, the State De- 
 partment instructed the American Ambassador at London 
 to express to the British foreign office, the head of which was 
 the chairman of the Conference of Ambassadors of the Euro 
 pean powers, to wit: That the United States would regard 
 with satisfaction any agreement that might ultimately be 
 concluded in regard to the settlement of the affairs in the 
 Balkan Peninsular of a provision assuring the full enjoy- 
 ment of religious and civil liberty to the inhabitants of the 
 territory in question without distinction of race or creed. 
 
 The American Ministers accredited to Greece and Monte- 
 negro, and to Bulgaria, Servia and Roumania was also in- 
 structed to make similar requests of their governments as 
 well as the delegates of all countries participating in the 
 Peace Conference at Bucharest — to include in the Treaty of 
 
Peace a special provision guaranteeing to all inhabitants of 
 the annexed territory full rights of citizenship without dis- 
 tinction to race or creed. 
 
 The earnest efforts of President Wilson is most notewor- 
 thy and will forever remain in the hearts and history of the 
 Jews as having been successful in safeguarding the liberty 
 of 250,000 of their people in according them the full enjoy- 
 mentof civil rights and religious freedom. 
 
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 PRESIDENT WILSON VETOED THE BURNETT IMMI- 
 GRATION BILL ON ACCOUNT OF THE LITERACY 
 TEST, JANUARY 28, 1915. 
 
 Extracts from a letter written by President Wilson (then 
 Governor Wilson) to Dr. Cyrus Adler, showing his attitude 
 towards immigration: 
 
 "This country can afford to use and should give oppor- 
 tunity to every man and woman of sound morals, sound 
 mind, and sound body who comes in good faith to spend his 
 or her energies in our life, and I should certainly be inclined, 
 so far as I am concerned, to scrutinize very jealously any 
 restrictions that would limit that principle in practice." 
 
 Below we print the literacy clause of the Burnett Bill, 
 restricting immigration, which was vetoed by President 
 Wilson : 
 
 "The following persons shall also be excluded from ad- 
 mission thereto : All aliens over sixteen years of age, physi- 
 cally capable of reading, who can not read the English lan- 
 guage, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew 
 or Yiddish : Provided, That any admissible alien or any alien 
 heretofore or hereafter legally admitted, or any citizen of 
 the United States, may bring in or send for his father or 
 grandfather, over fifty-five years of age; his wife, his 
 mother, his grandmother, or his unmarried or widowed 
 daughter, if otherwise admissible, whether such relative can 
 read or not ; and such relative shall be permitted to enter. 
 That for the purpose of ascertaining whether aliens can 
 read, the immigrant inspectors shall furnish with slips, of 
 uniform size, prepared under the direction of the Secretary 
 of Labor, each containing not less than thirty nor more than 
 forty words in ordinary use, printed in plainly legible type in 
 some one of the various languages and dialects of immi- 
 grants. Each alien may designate the particular language 
 or dialects in which he desires the examination to be made, 
 and shall be required to read the words printed on the slip 
 in such language or dialect." 
 
 In vetoing this measure. President Wilson said : 
 
 "Restrictions like these, adopted earlier in our history as 
 a Nation, would very materially have altered the course and 
 
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 cooled the humane ardors of our politics. The right of 
 political asylum has brought to this country many a man of 
 noble character and elevated purpose who was marked as an 
 outlaw in his own less fortunate land, and who has yet 
 become an ornament to our citizenship and to our public 
 councils. The children and compatriots of these illustrious 
 Americans must stand amazed to see the representatives of 
 their Nation now resolved, in the fullness of our own Na- 
 tional strength and at the maturity of our great institutions 
 to risk turning such men back from our shores without test 
 of quality or purpose. It is difficult for me to believe that 
 the full effect of this feature of the bill was realized when it 
 was framed and adopted, and it is impossible for me to assent 
 to it in the form which it is here cast. 
 
 "The literacy test and the tests that accompany it consti- 
 tute an even more radical change in the policy of the Nation. 
 Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who 
 were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self- 
 support or such personal records and antecedents as were 
 likely to make them a menace to our peace and order or to 
 the wholesome and essential relationships of life. In this 
 bill it is proposed to turn away from tests of character and 
 of quality and impose tests which exclude and restrict, for 
 the new tests here embodied are not tests of quality or of 
 character or of personal fitness, but tests of opportunity. 
 Those who come to seek opportunity are not to be admitted 
 unless they have already had one of the chief of the oppor- 
 tunities they seek, the opportunity of education. The object 
 of such provisions is restriction, not selection." 
 
 President Wilson vetoing the bill was an act for which 
 the Jews in particular should forever feel grateful. Had 
 this bill become a law it would have worked considerable 
 hardship upon the immigrant and would have debarred a 
 great number of literates in spite of the fact that 85 per 
 cent of the Jewish immigrants can read Hebrew or Yiddish. 
 Fifteen per cent of the literate class at least, being agitated 
 and in an excitable state of mind, would have become con- 
 fused and fail to pass the test, the penalty for which would 
 have been deportation. 
 
 As a rule the Jewish immigrant, fleeing from a country 
 
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 where he is constantly aggrandized by carpet-baggers and 
 freebooters from the highest government official down to 
 the petty police officer, with thoughts of loved ones behind, 
 in most cases destitute, suffer a mental agony that wholly 
 unfits one for an educational test of any description, to say 
 nothing of the horrors experienced crossing the border 
 (especially from Russia) which fills one with despair. 
 
 It is hardly fair to subject an immigrant to a rigid exam- 
 ination, unless he is in a composed state of mind, cool and 
 collected. 
 
 The Jewish immigrant upon reaching our shores, after 
 experiencing the rudeness of steamship agents, lingering in 
 port for weeks prior to the ship's departure, suffering the 
 hardships of a steerage, cognizant of the possibility of be- 
 ing refused to land, doubtful as to his relatives or friends' 
 ability to meet him, reach the immigration inspector in a 
 state of mental aberration that completely unfits him for any 
 test whatever, though he may be everything desired of one 
 agreeable as a citizen. Such conditions are responsible for 
 at least 15 per cent of our brethren failing to satisfy our 
 immigrations officers, and consequently deported, while in 
 every other respect they are desirable. 
 
 This document is of further importance to the Jews be- 
 cause of the contents therein, and the reasons cited by the 
 President for vetoing the bill are facts concerning and 
 alluding to the Jews only, wherein he said: 
 
 "For the new tests here embodied are not tests of quality 
 or of character or of personal fitness, but tests of oppor- 
 tunity. Those who come to seek opportunity are not to be 
 admitted unless they have already had one of the chief op- 
 portunities they seek — the opportunity of education," which 
 is aimed with reference to the Jews who are denied the right 
 of education in some of the lands from whence they come. 
 
HON. ROBERT LANSING 
 Secretary of State. 
 
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 WHAT THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION DID FOR THE 
 JEWS OF PALESTINE. 
 
 (Data furnished by the State Department, upon request, June 2G, 1910.) 
 
 Among the first to suffer from the gigantic struggle now 
 raging in Europe were the Jews of Palestine. The greater 
 part of them being dependent upon the benevolence of their 
 co-religionists in Europe for their maintenance. With the 
 outbreak of the war, not only was their source of supply 
 simultaneously cut off, thus affecting their economical con- 
 dition, but the Turkish program adopted for the consolida- 
 tion of the Empire included a mandate that all Jewish sub- 
 jects of the countries at war with Turkey must, within a 
 short specified period, be deported or expelled. 
 
 The expulsion began in October, 1914, by debarring and 
 exiling three hundred and fifty unfortunate Jewish families, 
 compelling them to return to Russia. The Colonists, most 
 of whom were not Turkish subjects, have suffered from vio- 
 lence, pillage and incendiarism, leaving entire communities 
 in misery, famine and destitution. 
 
 A great calamity to befall Israel in the land of their 
 fathers ! The cry of distress reached the ears of the Amer- 
 ican Ambassador, the great philanthropist, Henry Morgen- 
 thau, and like Queen Esther who hurried to the Persian 
 King, risking her life in order to save her people from de- 
 struction, he hastened and appeared before the Turkish 
 Ministry and demanded in the name of his Government that 
 the atrocities committed upon the defenseless Jews be 
 stopped, and further pleaded with the Government not to 
 expel Russian Jews, but, instead, allow them to become 
 Turkish citizens. 
 
 Accordingly, on November 26, 1914, the State Department 
 at Washington received assurances from the Turkish Gov- 
 ernment that it would not expel the alien Jews from her 
 domain, but would permit them to become naturalized Turk- 
 ish citizens, and that the officials in charge of the territory 
 where outrages occurred had been punished by removal. 
 
 The State Department informed the American Jewish 
 Relief Committee that 6,000 foreign Jewish refugees were 
 being provided with transportation to Alexandria, Egypt, 
 
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 on the U. S. S. Tennessee, and that large numbers are ex- 
 pected, all of whom are in destitute condition, and that funds 
 for their relief were urgently needed. The American Am- 
 bassador, Henry Morgenthau, cabled to the Committee that 
 $50,000 be forwarded to him immediately for the relief of 
 starving Jews of Palestine. 
 
 During January and the early part of February, 1915, 
 the U. S, S. Tennessee was busily engaged in transporting 
 Jews from Jaffa to Alexandria. On February 18, 1915, 
 Captain Benton C. Decker, commanding officer of the Ten- 
 nessee, reported (in part) as follows, relative to the landing 
 of the refugees at Alexandria and the reception given lo 
 the Tennessee at that place : 
 
 "1. On arriving inside the breakwater at Alexandria on 
 February 17th, it was apparent that there was on foot an 
 effort to render the ship honors by the Jewish community. 
 Numbers of Jews were on the breakwater and cheered the 
 ship as she passed, also a number of boats were filled with 
 Jews and officials having duty in connection with the refu- 
 gees. A moving picture machine was in operation on one of 
 the boats taking a picture of the ship as she moved through 
 the water. 
 
 "2. Upon securing to the buoy, Mr. Hornblower, repre- 
 senting the Interior Department, came on board with the 
 committee and stated that he wanted to take pictures of the 
 refugees and their disembarkment and other objects that 
 would be of interest to the people here and in other parts 
 of the world, showing what the Tennessee was doing. This 
 privilege I was glad to accord Mr. Hornblower, with the 
 understanding, however, that a copy of all pictures should be 
 given the ship for the Navy Department, which he readily 
 consented to do. 
 
 "3. The Jewish Relief Committee came on board and 
 their representative stated that they desired to present to 
 the ship, for the officers and crew, a testimonial of their 
 appreciation of the work done in transporting the refugees. 
 On account of the limited time that they had to prepare this 
 testimonial, and the fact that the ship might never return 
 to Alexandria, they requested that I give them an oppor- 
 tunity during the evening to present it formally to the ship. 
 About ten members of the Committee came on board about 
 
HON. JOSEPHUS DANIELS 
 Secretary of the Navy. 
 
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 8 o'clock and were assembled in the Admiral's cabin with 
 such officers as were on board. It was my intention to have 
 received it on the quarter-deck in the presence of the officers 
 and crew, but on account of the lateness of the hour the 
 ceremony had to take place in the cabin. 
 
 "4. The testimonial was in the shape of a silver tablet 
 of about 5V2 by 8y2 inches, mounted on a black marble slab 
 13 by 17 inches. The chief Rabbi of Alexandria presented 
 the tablet with a few remarks in French as to the gratitude 
 of the refugees and the Committee for the work that the 
 Tennessee had done, and that the remembrance of it would 
 long remain in the minds of the Jewish people, both by 
 those who had been benefited by the work and by the Jews 
 as a race. To this I replied, in the name of the officers and 
 crew of the ship, that the acceptance of the testimonial was 
 a great pleasure ; that the work done by the Tennessee was 
 such that we could not take any of their gratitude to our- 
 selves personally, though it undoubtedly meant much extra 
 work and trouble for the officers and crew. I wanted all the 
 refugees to know, and the Jewish Committee to inform them, 
 that their gratitude was due to the people of the United 
 States, who stood, in this time of great turmoil and upheaval, 
 for the interests of humanity. That, in our work, we had 
 been constrained by the knowledge that the people of the 
 United States desired such efforts made by their repre- 
 sentatives, wherever they might be. Later I had the pleas- 
 ure of showing the chief Rabbi about the ship and pointing 
 out to him the organization that we had followed in assign- 
 ing the refugees to quarters on the ship, and he expressed 
 himself as very much pleased with the manner in which 
 they had been cared for and the kindness of their treatment. 
 
 "5. During the evening the French Consul called on 
 board officially, to express his thanks for the treatment that 
 had been accorded French citizens, and to inform me that 
 he had reported the work done by the Tennessee to his gov- 
 ernment and that he had been directed to extend to me the 
 thanks of the French Government for the work done by the 
 Tennessee. I informed him that I would report the matter 
 to the Government, and I knew that the Government would 
 be pleased at the recognition of the work done by the Ten- 
 nessee. He remained on board and was present at the pre- 
 sentation of the testimonial by the Committee." 
 
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 During the summer of 1915, a serious question arose as 
 to what could be done for a large number of Jewish refugees 
 who had gathered at or near the various Turkish seaports, 
 as the Egyptian Government refused to permit any more 
 to be brought to Egypt and the Turkish Government threat- 
 ened to have these Jews placed in internment camps unless 
 they left Turkey immediately. Finally, arrangements were 
 effected by the American Ambassador at Constantinople, 
 Henry Morgenthau, under which these refugees were per- 
 mitted to go to Crete, and on August 26th the work of 
 transporting these people was begun by the U. S. S. Chester 
 which sailed from Beirut on that date. The Chester was 
 assisted in this work by the U. S. S. Des Moines and by the 
 middle of September all the remaining Jewish refugees had 
 been transported to Crete. 
 
 Relief Ships to Palestine. 
 
 On November 6, 1914, Mr. Glazebrook, the American 
 Consul at Jerusalem, cabled to the Department, through the 
 American Embassy at Constantinople, that the situation 
 arising out of the war prevented remittances being sent 
 from Europe for the Jews in Palestine, that the extent of the 
 suffering among the poorer members of this race was with- 
 out precedent, and that even the prosperous farmers and 
 planters were destitute because of the lack of an outlet for 
 their products. The Consul concluded with an appeal to the 
 citizens of the United States to render all possible assistance 
 towards the relief of the extreme destitution prevalent in 
 Palestine. 
 
 The Department at once communicated the contents of 
 this cablegram to Mr. Louis Marshall, President of the 
 American Jewish Committee, who in reply requested the 
 Departmnet to inform him "whether protection from 
 belligerent nations can be assured for food shipped to Pales- 
 tine, including assurances from Turkey against requision- 
 ment by it of cargo when delivered." 
 
 In order to obtain the information requested by Mr. Mar- 
 shall, the following cablegram was sent by the Department 
 on December 5, 1914, to the American Ambassador at Con- 
 stantinople : 
 
 "American Jewish Committee is considering advisability 
 
HON. HENRY MORGANTHEAU 
 Former Ambassador to Turkey. 
 
of sending ship with provisions for relief of destitute of 
 Palestine. Please ascertain from Turkish Government 
 whether it will grant permission for supplies to be landed in 
 Palestine and distributed under American supervision, and 
 whether it will guarantee not to requisition said supplies. 
 An early reply is requested." 
 
 The Department also sent the following telegram to the 
 American Ambassadors at London and Paris: 
 
 Please ascertain from foreign office whether (British or 
 French) Government will grant free passage from America 
 or neutral port to some port in Palestine of ship or food and 
 other supplies furnished by the American Jewish Commit- 
 tee for the destitute of Palestine, these supplies to be dis- 
 tributed under the supervision of Americans." 
 
 After considerable negotiation, the necessary consent was 
 obtained from the British and French Governments, and 
 also satisfactory guarantees from the Turkish Government. 
 The Turkish Government later agreed to exempt the relief 
 supplies sent to Palestine from the payment of custom 
 duties. 
 
 The question of securing a proper ship to transport the 
 relief supplies to Palestine was for a time a matter of great 
 difficulty. The problem was finally solved by Mr. Josephus 
 Daniels, Secretary of the Navy Department, who gave to 
 the Jewish Relief Committee space on the U. S. Collier, 
 Vulcan, which sailed from Philadelphia for Syrian ports on 
 March 14, 1915. 
 
 Mr. Lewis H. Levin, of Baltimore, was sent with the 
 Vulcan by the American Jewish Relief Committee to aid 
 in the distribution of the food. He was also appointed a 
 Special Agent by the Department for this purpose. A full 
 description of the work of distributing the relief supplies 
 on the Vulcan is contained in a report, dated July 25, 
 1915, from Mr. Levin to the Department. The report is as 
 follows : 
 
 'Tn Jaffa there was a prolonged negotiation with the au- 
 thorities in reference to the waiving of the duty on the 
 cargo, and this matter was finally settled through the valu- 
 able assistance of Ambassador Morgenthau, with whom 
 communication was had by telegraph. 
 
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 "On May 6, the unloading of the Vulcan by lighters was 
 begun, and this took several days, and it took a number of 
 days in addition to haul the supplies by donkey from the 
 Custom House to the stores prepared to receive them. 
 
 "As the distribution of the supplies was to be under the 
 control of the American Consul at Jerusalem, Dr. Glaze- 
 brook took an active part in arranging for the landing of 
 the cargo without duty, and also in the appointment of 
 committees of Moslems, Jews and Christians who were to 
 make the actual distribution. These committees were con- 
 stituted either by him or with approval, and they will attend 
 to the actual distribution, Dr. Glazebrook, however, main- 
 taining supervision over them and having the final authority 
 in all matters involved. 
 
 "A concession was also gotten from the railroad which 
 used to run between Jerusalem and Jaffa. A good deal of 
 transportation will have to be done either by donkey or 
 camel. Owing to the number of camels required by the mili- 
 tary authorities, transportation presents unusual difficulties. 
 
 "The American Consul at Jerusalem is prepared to dis- 
 tribute any funds that may be sent him, whether for par- 
 ticular individuals or institutions, or for general relief. He 
 has this work well systematized and is willing and able to 
 take charge of any relief funds that may be sent." 
 
 Medical Supplies for Palestine. 
 
 June, 1915, Henry Morgenthau, American Ambassador 
 at Constantinople, at the request of the State Department, 
 purchased a supply of quinine and forwarded it by the U. 
 S. S. Tennessee to the health bureau at Jerusalem. Later in 
 the year the Department, at the request of the American 
 Consul at Jerusalem, arranged for the shipment to that 
 place of a supply of anti-meningitis serum from the Rocke- 
 feller Institute for Medical research. 
 
 Transmission of Funds for Relief of Jews in Palestine and 
 Other Portions of Turkey. 
 
 An important part of the work of the Department in be- 
 half of members of the Jewish race has consisted largely in 
 the transmission of funds to, and for the relief of, members 
 of this race in Palestine and in various other sections of 
 the Turkish Empire. On account of the many difficulties 
 
and obstacles imposed by the war, the Department has been 
 obliged to resort to various methods and expedients to secure 
 the transmission and delivery of these funds. A large part 
 of these funds were transmitted through American Am- 
 bassador Henry Morgenthau at Constantinople; but on 
 several occasions it was found necessary to use the U. S. S. 
 Tennessee and the U. S. S. North Carolina to transport 
 money from Alexandria, Egypt, and other places, to Pales- 
 tine. 
 
 The United States Government has not restricted its 
 activities in this line to the transmission of funds from this 
 country, but has likewise been ready to assist in the trans- 
 mission of funds raised in other countries for the benefit of 
 the Jews of Palestine. 
 
 The State iJepartment instructed the American consulate 
 at Alexandria to act as a depositary and distribution agency 
 for Americans who desire dto send money to their relatives 
 in Palestine. 
 
 In February, 1916, space on the U. S. S. Collier, Sterling, 
 was given the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suf- 
 fering through the war, and to the American Red Cross, 
 for the transportation of medical supplies intended for the 
 Jewish hospitals in Jerusalem. 
 
 Petroleum and Other Supplies for Palestine Colonists. 
 
 A prolonged effort was made by the Department to secure 
 the consent of the various belligerent governments for the 
 introduction of petroleum into Palestine to be distributed 
 among the orange and grape growers of the region. On 
 April 7, 1915, cablegrams were sent, upon request of Mr. 
 Brandeis and Rabbi Wise, to the American Ambassadors 
 at London, Paris, Constantinople and Berlin, instructing the 
 two former to endeavor to secure the consent of the govern- 
 ment to which they were accredited, to the introduction into 
 Palestine of twenty thousand cases of petroleum to be dis-' 
 tributed to orange growers through the American consular 
 representatives, and instructing the two latter to attempt 
 to secure guarantees from the Turkish and German govern- 
 ments that no part of such shipment should be requisitioned 
 for military or other purposes. 
 
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 REFUGEES SUBSISTED BY THE NAVY DEPARTMENT 
 IN CONNECTION WITH RELIEF WORK IN MEDITER- 
 RANEAN WATERS SINCE AUGUST 1, 1914, AS FOL- 
 LOWS: 
 
 (Data furnished by the Navy Department, upon request, June 26, 1916.) 
 
 Ship. Period Subsisted. No. of Refugees. 
 
 MEMPHIS— Sept. 3 to 7, 1914, inc 500 (estimated) 
 
 Dec. 26 to 29, 1914, inc 500 (estimated) 
 
 Part of Jan. 29 and 30, 1915.... 26 
 Part of Jan. 14 and 15, 1915... 663 
 Part of Jan. 18 and 19, 1915.. .1364 
 Part of Jan. 29 and 30, 1915.. .1027 
 Part of Feb. 16 and 17, 1915.... 674 
 
 CAESAR— Part of July 21 to 23, 1915, inc.. 304 
 
 Total 5058 
 
 SHIPMENTS : 
 
 About Mar. 14, 1915, by Vulcan from Philadelphia, about 
 925 tons Jewish Relief Stores (flour, rice, beans, etc.) ship- 
 ped by Jewish Relief Association for distribution to needy 
 Jews in Palestine, to be landed at Jaffa. 
 
 About March 14, 1915, by Vulcan, $25,000 to American 
 Consul in Jerusalem for the Commissary of the Holy Lands 
 (expenses of convent of St. Zavior, Jerusalem). 
 
 In November, 1915, about one million Christmas presents 
 for children in the various belligerent countries of Europe. 
 
 In February, 1916, 60,000 lbs. Passover cakes, from Louis 
 S. Gottlieb, Field Secretary, Hebrew Sheltering and Immi- 
 grant Aid Society of America, Washington, D. C, for Alex- 
 andria, Egypt. 
 
 In June, 1915, by Chester, 1200 lbs. Absorbent Cotton for 
 Syrian Protestant College Hospital, Beirut, Syria. 
 
27 
 
 WHAT THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION HAS ENDEAV- 
 ORED TO DO FOR THE JEWS OF POLAND AND 
 RUSSIA. 
 
 The United States Government has endeavored on many 
 occasions to assist the Jews in Poland and Russia, equally 
 with those of Palestine and in other parts of Turkey, but 
 alas, there is between these two countries a great difference 
 in the situations which handicapped the United States Gov- 
 ernment from exercising its benevolent attitude towards the 
 Jews of Russia. In the first place there is a greater number 
 of Consular Officers in Turkey which made it possible for 
 these officials to be in closer touch with local conditions 
 throughout the Empire, and keep our Government informed 
 of prevailing conditions, while there are only a few Ameri- 
 can Consuls in Russia. Again the existence of extra terri- 
 torial rights in Turkey gives the American Government 
 much greater rights than we have ever enjoyed in Russia. 
 
 Furthermore, the abrogation of the Treaty of 1832 with 
 Russia, placed the administration to a still greater disadvan- 
 tage to be able to do anything for our afflicted brethren in 
 Russia, however the United States has been continually en- 
 deavoring, by appealing to the sense of humanity of the 
 principal belligerent powers of Europe to bring about an 
 agreement under which relief supplies can be sent to the dis- 
 tressed and starving Jews of Poland, and their efforts will 
 be crowned with success in the near future. The State De- 
 partment has given assistance on numerous occasions to the 
 American Jewish Committee and to the Hebrew Sheltering 
 and Immigrant Aid Society, who have been engaged in relief 
 work in Russia and Galicia. Whether in transmission of 
 funds to the thousands of destitute and homeless people, or 
 as to inquiries of the whereabouts and welfare of many Jews 
 who have their relatives in this country. 
 
 The United States Government is ever on the alert for 
 the welfare of the Russian Jews who have suffered from 
 the great war more than any other people, whose cry of 
 despair has touched the hearts of all Americans and who 
 have contributed nobly towards the cause of the down- 
 trodden upon the call for aid issued by our great President. 
 
Ciiurtvxy K re II inn Slur. 
 
 Uncle Sam Responds to the Aid of the Jewish War Suflerers. 
 
29 
 
 PRESIDENT CALLS UPON THE COUNTRY TO GIVE 
 AID TO SUFFERING JEWS. 
 
 President Wilson issued (January 11, 1916) a proclama- 
 tion, calling upon the people of the country to contribute to 
 the relief of the millions of suffering Jews in the war regions 
 of Europe, fixing January 27, 1916, as the day for making 
 contributions. It follows : 
 
 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
 AMERICA. 
 
 A PROCLAMATION. 
 
 Whereas, I have received from the Senate of the United 
 States a resolution, passed January 6, 1916, reading as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 "Whereas in the various countries now engaged in war 
 there are nine millions of Jews, the great majority of whom 
 are destitute of food, shelter and clothing ; and 
 
 Whereas the people of the United States of America have 
 learned with sorrow of this terrible plight of millions of 
 human beings and have most generously responded to the 
 cry of help whenever such an appeal has reached them ; 
 therefore, be it 
 
 "Resolved, That in view of the misery, wretchedness and 
 hardships which these nine millions of Jews are suffering, 
 the President of the United States respectfully asked to 
 designate a day on which the citizens of this country may 
 give the expression to their sympathy by contributing to the 
 funds now being raised for the relief of the Jews in the 
 war zones ; and 
 
 Whereas I feel confident that the people of the United 
 States will be moved to aid the war-stricken people of a race 
 which has given the United States so many worthy citizens : 
 
 Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
 United States, in compliance with the suggestion of the 
 Senate thereof, do appoint and proclaim January 27, 1916, 
 as a day upon which the people of the United States may 
 make such contributions as they feel disposed for the aid of 
 the stricken Jewish people. 
 
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 In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
 caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 
 
 Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day of 
 January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred 
 and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States 
 the one hundred and fortieth. 
 
 Contributions may be addressed to the American Red 
 Cross, Washington, D. C, which will care for their proper 
 distribution. 
 
 (Seal.) WOODROW WILSON. 
 
 By the President : 
 ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State. 
 
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 "PALESTINE FOR THE JEWS" 
 
 Memorial Sent to President Wilson Asks for Conference of 
 
 Powers to Arrange for Permanent Political 
 
 Home. — Prominent Signers. 
 
 A memorial, petitioning President Wilson to use his good 
 ofRces to intercede with the governments of Europe for an 
 international conference that will consider the conditions of 
 the Jews and their right to a protected political home in 
 Palestine, has been submitted to the President by William 
 E. Blackstone, of Los Angeles, California. This memorial 
 was unanimously adopted at the recent convention of the 
 Presbyterian General Assembly at Atlantic City and has 
 had the approval and endorsement of eminent statesmen, 
 clergymen, philanthropists, financiers, business and profes- 
 sional men throughout the land. 
 
 It is believed by Mr. Blackstone, who has long been a 
 staunch friend of the Jews, that the imminent outcome of 
 the present great cataclysm abroad is a most opportune time 
 for the calling of such a conference of the Powers with a 
 view to making some satisfactory arrangement for the per- 
 manent re-settlement of the Jews in the Holy Land. The 
 text of the present memorial follows : 
 
 MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON. 
 
 "Whereas, the civilized world seeks some feasible method 
 of relieving the persecuted Jew; and 
 
 "Whereas, we recognize the difficulty of harmonizing the 
 widely divergent races of the multitudinous population of 
 Russia and other nations; and 
 
 "Whereas, the governments of these nations should prop- 
 erly resent any foreign interference with their internal af- 
 fairs; and 
 
 "Whereas, each of many nations can consistently point 
 to the others as evidence that the Jews are not in its domin- 
 ion alone oppressed and slaughtered ; and 
 
 "Whereas, the Jewish question is world-wide and demands 
 an international remedy ; and 
 
 "Whereas, the environment of the Jew is so fraught with 
 
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 alarming danger in many quarters of the world that human- 
 ity and the Golden Rule demand speedy action ; and 
 
 "Whereas, the Jews, when expelled from Spain, were 
 given an asylum in Turkey and have, since then, until the 
 breaking out of the present unprecedented war, received 
 such comparatively kind treatment in the Sultan's dominions 
 as to give assurance that some satisfactory arrangement 
 can now be made for their permanent re-settlement in Pal- 
 estine ; and 
 
 "Whereas, a memorial copy of which is attached hereto, 
 was presented by Mr. Wm. E. Blackstone in 1891, to Hon. 
 Benjamin Harrison, then President of the United States, 
 entitled 'What shall be done for the Russian Jews ?' in which 
 it was prayed that the good offices of this Government might 
 be used to intercede with the Governments of Europe for 
 an international conference to consider the condition of the 
 Jews and their right to a home in Palestine ; and 
 
 "W^hereas, the remarkable endorsement of the Memorial 
 by eminent statesmen, clergymen, philanthropists, finan- 
 ciers, the religious and secular press of our country, as well 
 as our most prominent citizens, cannot fail to emphasize the 
 wisdom of the plan proposed ; and 
 
 "Whereas, the records of the State Department at Wash- 
 ington, since the presentation of said memorial evidence 
 the devlopment of a rmarkably benign activity on the part 
 of our Government in behalf of the Jews ; and 
 
 "Whereas, we deem the imminent outcome of the present 
 sad and destructive war a most opportune time for calling 
 such an international conference of the powers : 
 
 "Now, therefore, we, the undersigned, representative in- 
 dividuals, societies, organizations and public officers in the 
 United States, most respectfully commend the Memorial 
 aforesaid, and the attached letter of presentation and docu- 
 ments attached and pertaining thereto, to the Honorable 
 Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, and offi- 
 cers of our Government, for consideration of the action 
 therein prayed, and such measures as may be deemed wise 
 and best for the permanent relief of the Jews." 
 
 May 8, 1916. 
 
 President Wilson was deeply interested in this memorial 
 and promised to give his earnest consideration at the oppor- 
 tune time. 
 
HON. LOUIS D. BRANDIES 
 Associate Justice U. S. Supreme Court. 
 
35 
 
 THE NOMINATION OF LOUIS D. BRANDIES AS ASSO- 
 CIATE JUSTICE TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME 
 COURT RAISED THE IRE OF THE BIG INTERESTS 
 AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 The appointment of the Hon. Louis D. Brandies — the great 
 leader of his race, Zionist, the IdeaHst, whose loyalty and 
 devotion to his brethren is unalloyed, whose activities into 
 the Jewish welfare are marked with zeal and sincerity — to 
 the highest judicial tribunal in the world, has incurred the 
 wrath of the privilege dclass of the big interests against the 
 President. 
 
 The fight waged against Mr. Brandies' confirmation, which 
 has been conducted with bitterness and passion, was merely 
 the under current working against and aimed at President 
 Wilson. Had the opposition succeeded in preventing the 
 confirmation, Mr. Brandies having come out unscathed from 
 the scrutinizing investigation, his character without a flaw, 
 publicly and privately would have been bigger and stronger 
 as a public man and a jurist, to say nothing of having re- 
 ceived the distinction and singular honor of the appointment 
 having been made by one of the greatest Presidents of the 
 United States. The eloquent eulogy, the tribute paid by the 
 President to him, would sufl^ice to more than offset his 
 rejection by the Senate. 
 
 But President Wilson, more than any one else, would have 
 felt the keenness of disappointment. He would have felt 
 doubly hurt. The triumph of his antagonists, the leaders 
 of reaction and prejudice whose purpose it would be to check 
 progress and give reform a set-back would have been accom- 
 plished; besides losing such a valuable addition to the Su- 
 preme Court bench. The President knew that he would sub- 
 ject himself to criticism and be censured by the big interests 
 for nominating a Jew as Associate Justice to the United 
 States Supreme Court; but desiring to serve his country best 
 he has shown rare courage and selected an eminent master 
 of law as well as a man of marked ability, and did not allow 
 race prejudice to effect his naming of Louis D. Brandies. 
 
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 THE PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE TO BRANDIES. 
 
 (In response to a request by Senator C. A. Culberson, Chair- 
 man of the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Wilson 
 has sent the following letter, giving his reasons for nomi- 
 nating Louis D. Brandies, of Boston, for Associate Justice 
 of the United States Supreme Court.) 
 
 I am very much obliged to you for giving me an oppor- 
 tunity to make clear to the Judiciary Committee my reasons 
 for nominating Mr. Louis D. Brandies to fill the vacancy in 
 the Supreme Court of the United States, created by the 
 death of Mr. Justice Lamar, for I am profoundly interested 
 in the confirmation of the appointment by the Senate. 
 
 There is probably no more important duty imposed upon 
 the President in connection with the general Administration 
 of the Government than that of naming members of the 
 Supreme Court ; and I need hardly tell you that I named Mr. 
 Brandies as a member of that great tribunal only because I 
 knew him to be singularly qualified by learning, by gifts, and 
 by character for the position. 
 
 Many charges have been made against Mr. Brandeis. 
 The report of your sub-committee has already made it plain 
 to you and to the country at large how unfounded those 
 charges were. They threw a great deal more light upon the 
 character and motives with whom they originated than 
 upon the qualifications of Mr. Brandies. I myself looked into 
 them three years ago when I desired to make Mr. Brandies a 
 member of my cabinet, and found that they proceeded for 
 the most part from those who hated Mr. Brandies because 
 he had refused to be serviceable to them in the promotion 
 of their own selfish interests, and from those whom they 
 had prejudiced and misled. The propaganda in this matter 
 has been very extraordinary and very distressing to those 
 who love fairness and value the dignity of the great pro- 
 fessions. 
 
 I perceived from the first that the charges were intrinsi- 
 cally incredible by any one who had really known Mr. Bran- 
 dies. I have known him. I have tested him by seeking his 
 advice upon some of the most difficult and perplexing public 
 questions about which it was necessary for me to form judg- 
 
37 
 
 ment. I have dealt with him in matters where nice questions 
 and the public benefit, were involved. In every matter in 
 of honor and fair play, as well as large questions of justice 
 which I have made test of his judgment and point of view, I 
 have received from him counsel singularly enlightening, 
 singularly clear-sighted and judicial, and, above all, full of 
 moral stimulation. He is a friend of all just men and a lover 
 of the right, and he knows more than how to talk about the 
 right — he knows how to set it forward in the face of its 
 enemies. I knew from direct personal knowledge of the man 
 what I was doing when I named him for the highest and 
 most responsible tribunal of the nation. 
 
 Of his extraordinary ability as a lawyer, no man who is 
 competent to judge can speak with anything but the highest 
 admiration. You will remember that in the opinion of the 
 late Chief Justice Fuller he was the ablest man who ever ap- 
 peared before the Supreme Court of the United States. He 
 is also, the Chief Justice added, absolutely fearless in the 
 discharge of his duties. 
 
 Those who have resorted to him for assistance in settling 
 great industrial disputes can testify to his fairness and love 
 of justice. In the troublesome controversies between the 
 garment workers and manufactures of New York City, for 
 example, he gave a truly remarkable proof of his judicial 
 temperament and had what must have been the great satis- 
 faction of rendering decisions which both sides were willing 
 to accept as disinterested and even-handed. 
 
 Mr. Brandies has rendered many notable services to the 
 City and State with which his professional life has been iden- 
 tified. He successfully directed the difficult campaign which 
 resulted in obtaining cheaper gas for the City of Boston. It 
 was chiefly under his guidance and through his efforts that 
 legislation was secured in Masachusetts which authorized 
 savings banks to issue insurance policies for small sums at 
 much reduced rates. And some gentlemen who tried very 
 hard to obtain control by the Boston elevated railway com- 
 pany of the subways of the city for a period of ninety-nine 
 years can probably testify as to his ability as the people's 
 advocate, when public interests call for an effective cham- 
 pion. He rendered those services without compensation, 
 and earned, whether he got it or not, gratitude of every citi- 
 zen of the State and city he served. 
 
38 
 
 These are but a few of the services of this kind he has 
 freely rendered. It will hearten friends of community and 
 public rights throughout the country to see his quality sig- 
 nally recognized by his elevation to the Supreme Bench. 
 For the whole country is aware of his quality, and is inter- 
 ested in this appointment. 
 
 I did not, in making choice of Mr. Brandies, ask for or de- 
 pend on "endorsements." I acted upon public knowledge and 
 personal acquaintance with the man, and preferred to name 
 a lawyer for this great office whose abilities and character 
 were so widely recognized that he needed no endorsement. 
 I did, however, personally consult many men in whose judg- 
 ment I had great confidence, and, am happy to say, was sup- 
 ported in my selection by the voluntary recommendation of 
 the Attorney-General of the United States, who urged Mr. 
 Brandies upon my consideration independently of any sug- 
 gestion from me. 
 
 Let me say by way of summing up, my dear Senator, that 
 I nominated Mr. Brandies for the Supreme Court because it 
 was, and is, my deliberate judgment that, of all the men 
 now at the bar whom it has been my privilege to observe, 
 test, and know, he is exceptionally qualified. I cannot speak 
 too highly of his impartial, impersonal, orderly, and con- 
 structive mind, his rare analytical powers, his deep human 
 sympathy, his profound acquaintance with the historical 
 roots of our institutions and insight into their spirit, or of 
 the many evidences he has given of being imbued to the very 
 heart with our American ideals of justice and equality of 
 opportunity ; of his knowledge of modern economic condi- 
 tions and of the way they bear upon the masses of the peo- 
 ple ; or of his genius in getting persons to unite in common 
 and harmonious action and look with frank and kindly eyes 
 into each other's minds, who had before been heated antago- 
 nists. This friend of justice and of men will ornament the 
 high court of which we are justly proud. 
 
 I am glad to have had the opportunity to pay this tribute 
 of admiration and of confidence; and I beg that your com- 
 mittee will accept this nomination as coming from me quick 
 with a sense of public obligation and responsibility. 
 
 WOODROW WILSON. 
 
HON. WILLIAM B. WILSON 
 Secretary of Labor. 
 
41 
 
 DEEDS PERFORMED BY WM. B. WILSON, SECRETARY 
 OF LABOR, IN BEHALF OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS. 
 
 (Data furnished by the Dept. of Labor, upon request, June 26, 191G.) 
 
 Wm. B. Wilson, the coal miner, who began work in the 
 mines when but nine years old, an immigrant himself, has 
 always displayed sympathy with the Jewish immigrants. 
 When aliens are adjudged to be deported by the special 
 board of inquiry and appeals are taken to the Secretary of 
 Labor, Mr. Wilson has never failed to give the immigrant all 
 the chances that the law may allow to admit them within our 
 borders. In some particular instances, where political refu- 
 gees were concerned, and if returned back to their country 
 their life would be in danger, the Secretary has always 
 granted them the freedom to land. 
 
 During the period of the European War, from August 1, 
 1914, to June 30, 1916, approximately 30,000 Jewish immi- 
 grants arrived in the United States applying for admission. 
 The statistics show that about 61 per cent of this number 
 were excluded from admission by the immigration authori- 
 ties for the reason that they fell within the class of aliens 
 excluded from admission as provided in the immigration 
 law. A large proportion of the whole number of Jewish ar- 
 rivals came from Russia. The balance came from Austria, 
 Greece and Turkey. Most of the aliens who were rejected 
 fell within the excluded class known as "Persons likely to 
 become public charges." The ultimate decision as to whether 
 the aliens are likely to become public charges rests with the 
 Secretary of Labor on appeal from the excluding decision of 
 the Board of Special Inquiry. In passing upon the appeals 
 of these excluded Jewish aliens, the Secretary, rather than 
 force them to return to countries that are engaged in, and 
 devastated by the great war, especially the Russian Jewish 
 immigrants, to whom it would mean imprisonment for life, 
 exile to Siberia, or court-martialed, the Secretary ordered 
 their admission unconditionally. 
 
42 
 
 APPOINTMENTS OF HONOR TO JEWS BY PRESIDENT 
 
 WILSON. 
 
 BINNARD, JOSEPH, Butte, Mont., appointed by President, 
 United States Land Registrar of Montana, January, 
 1914. 
 
 DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., San Francisco, Cal, ap- 
 pointed consul for Siam, July 28, 1913. 
 
 DOCKWEILER, ISADORE B., Los Angeles, Cal., appointed 
 by President, member Board of Indian Commissioners, 
 December, 1913. 
 
 LEDERER, EPHRIAM, Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by 
 President, Collector of Internal Revenue for First Dis- 
 trict of Philadelphia, November 3, 1913. 
 
 MORGENTHAU, HENRY, New York City, appointed by 
 President, Ambassador to Turkey, August, 1913. 
 
 MORRIS, IRA NELSON, Chicago, 111., appointed Special 
 Commissioner to Italy in behalf of Panama Exposition, 
 November, 1913 ; appointed Ambassador to Sweden. 
 
 PRAEGER, OTTO, appointed by President, Postmaster of 
 Washington, D. C, February, 1914. 
 
 STRASSBURGER, MILTON, Washington, D. C, appointed 
 by President, one of three Municipal Court Judges of 
 District of Columbia, February, 1914. 
 
 STRAUS, OSCAR S., New York City, reappointed member 
 Permanent Hague Tribunal of Peace for six years, 
 March, 1914. 
 
 STRECKER, CHAS. B., Boston, Mass., appointed temporary 
 chairman State Democratic Convention, October, 1913 ; 
 appointed by President, Assistant Treasurer of United 
 States at Boston, March, 1914. 
 
 VOGEL, MARTIN, New York City, appointed by President, 
 to take charge of sub-treasury in New York City, Oc- 
 tober, 1913. 
 
43 
 
 WARBURG, PAUL M., New York City, nominated by Presi- 
 dent, as the New York Representative on the New Fed- 
 eral Reserve Board, May, 1914. 
 
 WEINSTOCK, HARRIS, Sacramento, Cal., appointed by 
 President, member National Commission on Industrial 
 Relations, July, 1913. 
 
 DINKELSPIEL, H. G. W., San Francisco, Cal., appointed 
 Consul General and Legal Adviser of Siam, May, 1915. 
 
 EINSTEIN, LEWIS, New York, sent by President to Tur- 
 key to assist Ambassador Morgenthau, March 13, 1915. 
 
 EISNER, MARK, New York City, appointed Collector of In- 
 ternal Revenue for the Third District, March 3, 1915. 
 
 ISAACS, CHARLES, appointed United States Consul at 
 Montreal, Canada, October, 1914. 
 
 KAUFMANN, MOSES, Lexington, Ky., appointed Postmas- 
 ter, December 31, 1914. 
 
 ROWE, LEO. S., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Secretary 
 of Treasury McAdoo, to be secretary-general of the 
 Pan-American financial conference, May, 1914. 
 
 WARBURG, PAUL M., New York City, appointed by Presi- 
 dent, member of Federal Reserve Board, August, 1914. 
 
 WEINSTEIN, MYER, appointed by President, Collector of 
 Customs, Buffalo, N. Y., August, 1914. 
 
 BRANDIES, LOUIS D., Boston, Mass., appointed by Presi- 
 dent, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme 
 Court, January, 1916. 
 
 ELKUS, ABRAM I., New York City, appointed by President, 
 Ambasador to Turkey, May, 1916. 
 
44 
 
 VIEWS OF SAMUEL GOMPERS, PRESIDENT OF THE 
 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. 
 
 "More Progressive Labor Legislation has been enacted 
 into Law for the good and benefit of the working class of 
 this country in the past four years than ever before in the 
 history of the United States." — Samuel Gompers. 
 
 Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation 
 of Labor, the head of almost 3,000,000 organized workers, is 
 not an advocate of partisan politics, his political policies are 
 based strictly upo nthe independent use of the ballot by trade 
 unionists. With no party affiliations, his political activities 
 are directed to further the cause of Labor and secure hu- 
 mane legislation for the benefit of the workers of America. 
 He is the author of the famous Slogan used by organized 
 labor since 1906, "Reward Your Friends, Rebuke Your Ene- 
 mies," which resulted in unparalleled success in obtaining 
 remedial legislation for the welfare of the workingman. 
 
 The Democratic Party during the short period of its in< 
 cumbency enacted into statutes a great deal of legislation 
 beneficial to the laboring class. The Jews are pioneers in 
 the American Labor movement since its inception, and the 
 Jewish workingmen were equally benefited by the progres- 
 sive legislation enacted in the Halls of Congress under the 
 Democratic Party. 
 
 The following is the record of labor legislation passed dur- 
 ing the Wilson Administration : 
 
 1. Organizations of Labor and Farmers taken from the 
 purview of the Antitrust Act. 
 
 2. Limitation of the use and prevention of the abuse of 
 the writ of injunction in labor disputes. 
 
 3. Legislation defining and restricting punishment for 
 alleged contempts of injunction writs and providing jury 
 trial in contempt cases. 
 
 4. Department of Justice prohibited from using Antitrust 
 appropriation funds to prosecute labor and farmers' organi- 
 zations under the Antitrust Act. 
 
 5. Passage of Seaman's law, abolishing involuntary servi- 
 tude, providing better treatment of seamen and improved 
 life-saving provisions on vessels at sea. 
 
HON. SAMUEL GOMPERS 
 President of the American Federation of Labor. 
 
47 
 
 6. Eight-hour law enacted for women and child workers 
 of the District of Columbia. 
 
 7. Eight-hour law passed for employes under the Alaska 
 Coal Land Act. 
 
 8. Industrial Education provided with appropriations for 
 farmers and rural residents under the Agricultural Exten- 
 sion Act. 
 
 9. Taylor System, stop-watch, and speeding-up methods 
 in United States arsenals prohibited. 
 
 10. Piecework prohibited in Post-ofRce Department, in 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 11. Public construction of battleships, transports and 
 other vessels in U. S. navy yards extended. Repairs to ves- 
 sels of the Navy to be made in governmental instead of pri- 
 vate yards. Steadier work assured to employes of govern- 
 ment navy yards. 
 
 12. Senatorial investigation of industrial disputes in coal 
 fields of West Virginia, whereby peace was restored; the 
 eight-hour day secured; check weighmen provided, and 10 
 per cent increase in wages gained. 
 
 13. Compensation for Injuries Act extended to Post-ofRce 
 employes. 
 
 14. Special Congressional investigation of industrial dis- 
 putes in the Colorado coal fields and the Michigan copper 
 region, wherein all of the complaints and charges made by 
 the men of Labor against the mining companies and the 
 alliance of these companies with the political and military 
 powers of the states were officially verified and substan- 
 tiated. 
 
 15. The Clayton Anti-trust law which removes labor 
 from being a commodity and which puts real teeth into the 
 Sherman law and compels big business to use legitimate 
 methods. 
 
 16. The establishment of a Department of Labor thus 
 giving labor a voice in the councils of the nation through 
 the Secretary of Labor. 
 
 17. The Child Labor bill, which prohibits interstate com- 
 merce in articles of goods produced by child labor. 
 
 18. Workman's Compensation Bill. 
 
48 
 
 DWORIM HEYETSIM MIN HALEV NICHNOSIM EL 
 
 HALEV. 
 
 (Words emanating: from the heart penetrates deep into the heart.) 
 
 Fellow Jews : 
 
 We of America whom God has spared from such affliction 
 as has overtaken our brethren in Europe, have responded 
 with the utmost generosity to the cry of despair from the 
 sufferers abroad, but our duty has not ended yet. The noble 
 work must go on. Not only is it our sacred duty to extend 
 the helping hand for the relief of the persecuted, the home- 
 less and starved, whose present sufferings are unparalleled in 
 the history of the children of Israel ; but it behooves us to 
 take the initiative after this great war, which is proclaimed 
 by the parties in conflict to be a struggle for existence and 
 justice, to secure that same liberty, civil, political and relig- 
 ious rights for the Jews in these countries where they are 
 now denied. 
 
 The St. Louis platform has made the first step in this 
 direction. It adopted the very plank pledging to give the 
 Jews of the world that which they have been trying to secure 
 in some countries for centuries — promising the universal 
 emancipation of the Jews from their present oppression — 
 "that all men shall enjoy equality of right and freedom from 
 discrimination in the land wherein they dwell." 
 
 The re-election of President Wilson will bring us direct to 
 our goal and will give him a better chance to further redeem 
 his party's pledges. To support Woodrow Wilson, who has 
 heretofore shown much interest and sympathy towards the 
 Jewish cause, without any prior pledges on his Party's part, 
 means to give support to this great movement for justice 
 and equal rights. To vote for Wilson means to vote for the 
 insertion of a clause in the terms of peace at the close of the 
 war, guaranteeing the full and absolute civil, political and 
 religious liberty for the Jews of Russia and Roumania. In 
 due recognition of those things already achieved (as describ- 
 ed in this pamphlet), a firm belief in present declarations 
 and further action, it is our duty to continue to stand to- 
 gether and give our support to a man who is proving to be 
 our Redeemer, regardless of his political affiliation. 
 
 Vote for and re-elect Woodrow Wilson President of the 
 United States. 
 
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