Daily Republican., 1888-06-18

Absus the Jews.
The following GRAFTON in regard to the
Jews was pronounced by Master Abe
Lieberman, OF this city, ct the twenty.
sixth annual commencement of the
Penneylvauia Military Academy. n
Chester, Pa, on Thursday, the l4th in
atant:
! Whom we have injured we hate
Human nature g so conet tuted that
when a man infiic 8 4 wiliful injury. he
Immediately begins to hate the victim OF
his wrong.
WITT the conquering tread of the i'm
perial legions in the valleys of Palestine,
began Rome's he I'd Of Judea. The
more Rome Numbered the mere she
hated.
When the hills OF the Eternal City re-
sounded with the martial step of veteran
iegidns, laden with jewels and with gems,
despoiled from the daughters of Jerusa-
lem, Rcme's hate, already deep, became
still deeper
Ever since Titus conquered Judes, and
GROVE the remnants OF the nation into
exile, Israel has known no pea Q.
All history for the past eighteen cen
turtles teens with countless records of the
prosecutions OF the Jews, banisbments.
Icon6scations, incarceraiions, whippipgs.
burnings, nameless tortures, robberies
and dea hs; these have been the constant
companions OF Israel During the cru
eades and the iuquisition, mistaken ia
tics, assa sinated, tortured, and burned
Jews by the hundred thousand, cairsinx
out the very contrary OF the teachings Of
him whom thew professed to follow.
The Jew In Palestine was the embo IL
ment OF refinement aud worthy of imita
tion in all social customs. but when he
was denied the rights of citizenship, for
bldden to sojourn in any country, worse
of than the slave, who at least could
look to his master for the protection ofI
his HE, forced to live the loves most
AFFECT life OF all Gods or aturss, is it any
wonder that he contracted some dis
agreeable habits9 Who was to b anne for
4? Those VIII hated him because hey
bad Injured him.
1t is not my intention to criticise CbrIs-
ianity, but every reader OF history must
see plainly that the Jewish nation sui.
Tered unutterAbly at the hands OF those
governments claiming to act under the
religion of love
All the cruelties " hich tho most fer d.
sh natures were capable of inventinF,
4nd from a recital of which the stoutest
leart recoiis, were for centuries heaped
on the defenceless Jew Is tt not n
wonder that de pite such treatment he
preserved his noble character, perse-
1ered In his faith, and rem aimed stead
ast In his mission to spread light aud
ruth In the world.
The unreasonable treatment OF the
lew 10 not confined to the middle ages.
or until very recent years Jew NAV
ave been q personifc alton of virtue, J.,
nan ike Bayard of old, without fear or
eproach, still, his adhering to Judaism
eprived him OF the rights, protection
nd qualifications which even tue lowest
erf enjoyed
Al the present day, in many so called
heightened lands, the Israelite is.still re-
arded as the pariah of Gre ,tion. the
ereditary outcast of humani v.
In the spring of 1882, when a peasant I
irl disappeared in Hungary, the old war O
y was raised: "The Jews have killed 8
er to secure her bl cd for ritual pur- i
oses." A mob at once wrought it's old
me atrocities, although 1t Is well known e
iat 10 Jewish ceremonies no blood of o
ny kind is permitted, much leas human '
looj.
But the times are rapid y changing C
Is encouraging to see that new day II
as already dawned upon the desce ndants I
Abraham. In the Republic OF the
nited States, where all men are free and 81
luali where the European notions OF Il
nth prevail net, men have discovered #
At by his deed. /
men realize that relig lus body that
N trace back Its ancestry for nearly c
O0 years and point to a record of @ 600
'ars oil benefits lavished by them upon IL
ankind, from whom have sprung the I
Tristan faith, and its founders is de- in
rvlng OF the respect of the Intelligent
orld. A
Here, where no legislative act for the G
'rsecution OF Israel has ey dlsgraced
statutes, where no public wrong nj
ward the Jews has ey been the parent il
public hate, here has sprung forth the be
ca that no man is TO be punished, m
orued, or stunned, because of the
Inca OF his ancestors, but that every o'
an, jew and Gentle alike, is 10 be ee 70
smed according to his individual ca
erits.
Here dwell Christian and Jew side hv m
lie, peacefully, lovingly, aiding each II
her, uniting with each other in the he
essed work for which religion exists b
the earth, and In the spreading of the
eat principles of political and religious sis
srty 70
The sun of Jewish liberty has risen and ra
glorious rays will soon oispel the logs m
prejudice and hate, still lingering on L.
9 European horizon.