The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16
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| fEwS COMPARE FAvoRABLY WITT CHRISTIANS
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There is not q drop OF Jewish blood In INV
veins; am not connected with tho Jows by tho
marriage OF any near or distant xinsman; /
owo no jew dollar and nd jew owes me- I
speak from tho vantage ground Of absolute IN
dependence 1t is splendid race splendid In
their patience, In their love for one another, In
their endurance, in their sagacity and temperate
habits, and splendid in their in1exiblo adherence
to their Mosaic ideals.
Do you want an arstocracy of blood and
birth? The Jews are the purest blooded peon,e
and havc tho best established descent in the
world. Not Mirabeau in the French conyen.
ton, nor Patrick Henry in the house of Bur
gcsses, nor "Sam" Adams in old colonial deva
ever said more thrilling thing than Disraeli
said In the English commons in reply to the
charge that he was Jew: Eyes, am q Jewi
When the ancestors of tho honorable gentleman
were brutal savages in an unknown island mine
were priests In the templel'
Do you seek arlstocracy of talcnt7 Tho
great church historian NcarSitr vas q Jew:
Napoleons marshsls, Soult and Mnssena were
Jews; tho brilliant and cynical Heine was q
Jew and-but tho worlds roll Of great soldiers
authors, musicians, painters, poets, philoso-
piers and hnancicrs contain more Hebrew
names than could recite in many hours
That you never see q Jew tramp or O Jew
drunkard is a proverb, that you never meet n
jew beggar Is q commonplace, and it IS a stntis-
teal fact that there are relatively fewer IN.
mates OF our hospitals, jails and warehouses;
furnished by the Jews than any other race con-
tributes.
Convert the Jewsl Let us first convert our
modern Christians to genuine Christianity Sup.
press the Jewsl A score of Russian czars can.
not do IT. Every people on earth has tried II
and failed. They have outlived the Tudors and
the Plantagenots, the Romanons, the TYRANNY
OF Spain, the dynastfes OF France Charlemagne.
Constantine, the Caesars, tho Babylonian kings
and the Egyptian Pharaohs 1t was Gods own
race for 1000 years, and the awful persecution
1t has survived for 1900 more stamps 1t MS a
race stiu bearing some mysterious relation to
the plans OF the eternal. Tho beauty and fidel-
1ty OF Jcwcss women command my homage and
among wealthy and educated Jews the exouis.
lie refinement of Jewesses, their culture and
high breeding, blended with sort of Oriental
grace and dignity, put them among the most
charming women In the world
But the Jew Is tricky Is he? Were YOU
ever taken in by u Methodist class leader on n
real estate trade? Did you ever get into close
quarters with Presbyterian Spectator? Did
you ever buy mining stock on the representa-
tons OF an Episcopalian broker? Did you over
take mans word any quicker because he was a
Baptist or Roman Catholics Did YOU never SEQ
stone Weighing twenty pounds concealed in q
bale OF cotton grown by a southerner? Did you
never find lurd In the butter sold by New
England Puritan?
The belief that the Jew Is more dishonest
than the Gentle is onc-half nonsense and the
other half prejudice and falsehood. The anti
Jewish feeling which now seems to be rising
again is un-Christ!an, .inhuman and un-Amer-
tcan- No man can share il who believes In tho
universal fnthcrhood Of God and the universal
brotherhood OF man. II is born OF the devil and
Is oct"s'ablc. GEORGE r. WENDIiN0