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Show (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 'Attention:' Hitler' 'TpHIS is marked" "Attention: Adolf Schickelgruber, alias Hitler": You say the Jews and Poles are "inferior races" and not fit to associate asso-ciate with your tribe of "Nordic supermen." So, ever since you came to power in Germany, you have subjected sub-jected them to the crudest, most senseless persecution that a so-called so-called human being ever visited upon his fellow-men. This is to tell you about something some-thing which took place recently in the second largest city of a land where its citizens "hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men, are created equal; that they are endowed en-dowed by their Creator with certain cer-tain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit pur-suit of happiness." In this city a great crowd of people peo-ple gathered to dedicate this monu ment.. x a y s t i That figure on the left is the like-cefcs like-cefcs of a man named Robert Morris. Mor-ris. (Possibly you wouldn't know about him, Herr Schickelgruber.) That majestic figure in the center is George Washington. (Surely you've heard of him!) The name of the man on the right is Haym Salomon and mark this well, Adolf! he was a Polish Jew! In fact, it was to honor especially this scion of what you would call a "doubly inferior race" that this monument was erected. The reason they are clasping hands, Herr Schickelgruber, is because be-cause they once joined together in a fight for freedom from the tyranny of a stupid king in whose veins, incidentally, in-cidentally, ran the blood of that race which you boastfully call "Nordic "Nor-dic supermen." Now, 160 years after aft-er their successful fight for liberty, they are still clasping hands as a symbol of the unity that exists in the nation which they helped create and against which you declared war last December. This monument is symbolical of another fact also, Herr Schickelgruber. Schickelgru-ber. You have conquered the native na-tive land of Haym Salomon but some day it will free itself from your hateful rule just as the native land of Robert Morris and George Washington (and Haym Salomon's adopted land) freed itself from the hateful rule of another despot of German blood! The Morris-Washington-Salomon monument which was dedicated in Chicago recently pays belated tribute trib-ute to one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. 'Born in Poland in 1749, Salomon came to America in 1772 and set himself up as a broker and commission merchant mer-chant in New York city. He might have made a fortune for himself but he hindered his chances by joining join-ing the Sons of Liberty to help resist re-sist oppressive acts of the British crown. Imprisoned by the British soon after the opening of the Revolution, Salomon escaped to Philadelphia. There he met Robert Morris who had been made superintendent of finance and upon whom fell the tik of providing the money to pay Washington's Wash-ington's soldiers and keep the struggling strug-gling new government from collapsing collaps-ing for lack of funds. It was to Haym Salomon that Morris turned when he was desperately in need of money to keep the revolution going and the Polish Jew never failed him. The ledgers of Robert Morris, which have been preserved, are filled with no less than 75 entries bearing the name of Haym . Salomon Salo-mon and, although the total amount of money which he supplied will never be known, it is estimated that it totaled at least $800,000. Although it can not be proved definitely that all of this was his own money, it is probable that the most of it was. And his reward? When he died January 6, 1785, it was found that he was virtually bankrupt. He left a widow and four children facing poverty pov-erty and it is a melancholy fact that for more than 80 years his heirs tried in vain to get recompense from congress for the money which Salomon Salo-mon had lent to the patriot cause. Besides providing money for the expenses of Washington's army, Salomon Sal-omon helped equip and form independent inde-pendent companies of soldiers for whom there were no public funds. He alsp advanced money to some of the leading men of the time who could not have continued in public service without this help. Among the famous generals and statesmen whom he helped are these: James Madison, $426; General St. Clair. $220; Baron Steuben, S100; General Mifflin. $738; Edmund Randolph, S378; General Mercer, $5,373; and J. j Ross, $8,000. |