Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-29
PROSECUTED JEWS.
Lecture Delivered Before the Monu-
mental City Lodge, No. 81 lBalti-
morel. Independent
Order OF B'nai Birth, by the Rev. DIR.
Schneeberger-"Why is the Jew
Prosecuted ,.

The first OF series of lectures before the
Monumental City Lodge No. 81 (Balti-
more) Independent Order of B'nai Birth,
delivered recently by the Rev. DIR.
Sehneeberger. His subject was: why is
the Jew PersecutedT' Language fails to
describe all the troubles and torments our
co-religionists have had to endure for the
past thousand years, and still in the nine
tenth century, with its culture and enlight-
eminent, and IN countries that rank high in
intellectual attachments, we find the old story
repeating itself The latest Jew-baiter
makes his appearance in the person of the
renowned Oxford professor, Goodwin Smith,
who has hurled his artillery through an
article in the NtaeteeHh Century, most adroitly
turned to Justify the German Jew-baiters in
their persecution. Mr.. Smith is curiously
pious, and ostensibly worships Him who
said, glove ye one another" despite
the anomaly that he deifes the blood
clotted tigers OF the French revolution. How
many generations is it, Mr.. Smith, since
Highlander and Lowlander were Strengthening
each other with a ferocity surprising the
darkest days of Corsican vendetta? Was
Lord Beaconsfield miserable" Jew because
he belonged to q loving race in whose veins
fratricidal drop does not flow? Is it not
strange that Christ, that sublime Jew, should
spring from this race? Know, false prophet,
that to-day the Jewish race bears the same
relation to other races that Christ bears to
the individual. Ingratitude is the leprosy OF
the soul. Goodwin Smith and your class,
this is your infrmity. Rochefouesuld
says: "We never forgive those we have in
jured." Is that the reason why you and your
class, who are obliged TO the Jews for all
your religion, and for half your artistic
and commercial prosperity, cannot forgive
them? Give back what we have lent you,
and forgive US. Know that they who gnaw
file destroy their teeth. 1t is curious fact
that the nations distinguished for persecut-
ing the Jews in the past are to-day in an ad-
vanced state of national decay, or are dead
and buried in the dust and oblivion of many
ages Scorpion like, they have stung them
selves to death. The foundation of British
Jurisprudence has its origin in rabbinical
lore; the modern. schools OF philosophy
readily salute the memory of the immortal
Spinozs Eliminate from your creeds all
that proceeds from the Jews and you would
not have enough lett to inspire tract
Who helped preserve pure literature
amid the barbaric darkness of the
middle ages but the Learned Jews? In what
literature can you find sublimer philip
pics and olynthiacs than those of the in
spired Jews Isaiah and David? Half OF
this century's great mdestTi and r1fHosi
were or are jews, yet Richard Wagner, that
musical file-biter, asserts that "Jews really
have no soul for music" Can ile-biting go
any further? Fiie-biters, do the Jews fill
your penal institutions? Do you often see a
drunken Jew? How many drunken Jew
esses did ever catch your eye? How often is
a Jew hanged for murder? How many high
way robberies are committed by Jews? Are
not Jewish women noted for their charity
and virtue? Did Mr.. Smith ever hear of
Jewish bank directors indulging in the Peck
snitfian practice of swindling shareholders
out Of 50.000,000? Jews, however "misera-
ble," are never fools Russia, pre-eminently
an autocracy of fle-biters, is smarting un-
der their humiliating inability to negotiate
loan, refused by Jewish bankers, I'M
der the rule OF the last Of the Belshazzars;
she shivers TO the heart as the stark and in
exiiuguishable spectre OF nihilism points TO
the future. 1t is no longer secret that the
present car is an enemy of our people, and
that hordes of petty Russian tyrants, from
common policemen TO the highest generals,
pursue their malicious deeds with impunity,
knowing that no vengeance will reach those
who wrong the qews. Russia's loss is Amer
ica's gain; hither come in troops mechanics
students and laborers of all kinds Among
them are farmers already sent to Louisiana
and South Carolina, and about a dozen fam
lilies have settled in Baltimore. The next
charge Is that the Jew doesn't die quickly
enough. Their obedience to the Mo-
sale letary laws and sanitary ar
rangements have rendered their NOR
tally less than that OF surrounding
peoples. 1t Is wickedness in the Jew that
makes him cling to this wicked world while
Gentiles hasten to quit it for their heavenly
paradise. In view of the fate that awaits
the poor blind Jew there, godly men should
not begrudge him the short delay he tries to
gain here by living more nationally than his
neignbor Another crime is that the Jew is
too gifted, and though few in number, COM
petes too successfully in the race for intellec-
tual distinction. They hold too many profes-
sorships in universities and too few INN ates
of the penitentiaries; they have too many
judges and too few criminals; they bewitch us
| with their music, they delight US on the
stage, they command respect In par
Lament, they enrich science, and, most
of all, they begin to throw an entirely
new light on the early history of our re-
ligion. 1t is in vain to seek to degrade our
race Jew-haters and Jew-baiters have ex-
listed from time immemorisl, and will exist
in all time to come. 1t was some fifty five
years ago that Borne gave TO Heinrich Heine
the following bit of satire on JeS-baiting in
Germany: ait is remarkable that all perse.
cutors OF the Jews end so badly. Nebuchad
nezzar ended as an OK, and in his old days
had to eat grass. AS for Hannah, prime
minister of Persia, was he not hanged Al
las" And Antiochus, king of Syria. did h'
not rot while alive on account of vermin'
Surely the latter prosecutors should have Z