Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-02
Gales aud Sketfhfs.
HE TELLS THE GROCER WHAT He THINKS
OF THE jews.

s.Say, I don't want you round here no
MORE" said the groceryman to the bad
boy. as he came in with his breeches
tucked in his boots. and wanted to borrow
fish pole. IL have noticed you lately
going round a good deal with that
..Sheenvn boy Those Jews are no good.
and if You 90 with that boy you will be
ruined. Now keep away from here until
YOU let that boy alone" and the grocery
man looked mad. though he was polite
enough when a Jewish lady. who lived
in the same block, came in and bought
some groceries.
..Well. what's the matter with that
boy ?- asked the bad boy. the blood COM
ing to his face indignantly. Has he
done ANYTHING that wasn't righte | have
never seen boy that was any striaghter
than he is"
THAT don't make any odds. Jews are
all alike. That boy will cheat you out of
your eve teeth. He will pinch a penny
until the goddess of liberty will grunt.
You ask your pa what he thinks about
YOUR going with Jew boys" and the gro
cery man looked as though. if his advice
was taken, the bad boy would be saved.
80, 90 way" said the bad boy. "Pa
saws he had just as soon borrow money
of Jew as anybody. Say, that 'Sheeny.'
boy, as you call him, has done me more
good than any boy ever played with.
He has taught me more about the proper
way to treat my parents than anybody.
You ought to see him at home. He
never plays any jokes on his parents,
and is Just as tender to his ma as though
she was his best girl. His ma isn't very
healthy. and he is always on the lookout
for something he NAV do to save her step
or make her enjoy herself. His pa is
close trader in buuiness, but at home the
family has a regular picnic all the time.
There is never anything but smiles in their
house and the door who come there to beg.
ALWAYS 90 away with baskets full. and if
the baskets are too heavy this 'Sheeny'
boy whom you abuse goes and helps carry
the baskets home for them. He will work
all day to put up swing for poor neigh
boris children, and furnish the rope. |
have seen him unscrew the top of his little
savings bank and take all the money out
to give way to those who are destitute.
And his father and mother encourage him
in doing good. Why he is the tenderest
hearted boy | ever saw. and am going to
stand by him. don't care darn whether
his nose is put on sideways or endways.
whether he says has du ksoch. or tra-la-
la,' as long as his heart is as big as peck
measure. and as tender as new asparagus,
he is friend of mine. and don't you for
get it,"
"Well." said the groceryman,a "a little tax
en- back. this one may be all right. but
YOU ought to know that the Jews crucified
Christ, and you ought to have some pride
about you, and go back on them like the
rest of us. 1t is fashionable to abuse
Jews
80, give me rest" said the boy, mad
enough to kick somebody. Suppose
few of them did lynch a man 1900 years
ago. they didn't know what they were
about. Didn't Christ say so. and didn't
he forgive them, and ask his Heavenly
Father to forgive them If the ono cruci-
fed could forgive them, what are you
monkeying for at this late day? You poor
old fraud, you haven't got any right to
make that old affair personal matter,
and put on any style over people better
than you are. | never heard of Jew
being in Jail or poor house. They don't
steal. They don't put sand in their sugar.
| never knew a Jew to refuse to contrib
ute to any charitable object, or to turn a
deserving applicant for assistance away
from his door. Some of them may be as
mean as some of us United States fellows
but they have got to be awful mean if they
are Was the crucifxion of Christ the
only crime that was ever committed in
this world that should be remembered,
and the people prejudiced against the per-
IN,
land burned people at the stake on ac-
count of their religious convictions. Sup
pose every New Englander who wears
spectacles and eats beans, should be
looked upon as you look upon the Jews,
because their torefathers roasted Chris
tians on the half-shell. what kind of So
ciety would we have any way? Their re-
ligion is none of your business or mine,
but you could learn great deal that
would benefit you if you could at
tend their synagogue for a few months,
and listen to the teachings of good rabbi.
The only thing have against them. is
that they won't let their Young people
marry amongst our folks, but they will
get over that some day Ii the Jews
should get to marrying Gentiles, there
would be a stop put to some of the extrav-
agances of the Gentiles. and it would be
millions of dollars in the pockets of the
people.
''Well, they won't eat pork" said the
grocer as last argument against the
Jews. ANY people that will go back on
one of the greatest products of the
country. are to blame. If the Jews would
eat pork it would 60 up two cents pound
in week"
30, you darn old fool" said the bad
boy. perfectly disguised. That is pref
ty argument. Whiskey is as great a
product of the country as pork, and YOU
don't drink whiskey. so you 90 back on a
great national product the same as they
do. They don't need pork in their busi-
ness. and you don't need whiskey in yours,
and neither of you have to use it, No,
sir. Until you show me some reason for
gong back on my 'sheeney' friend. be-
sides the fact that his ancestors did a
wrong eighteen hundred years ago and
the fact that he is not mashed on pork
spare ribs, he can consider Hennery
his friend. and will follow the examples
of kindness and charity which he ALWAYS
displays. and in time may see that there
is good deal of fun in the world without