Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-13
THE ANTI-sEMITE AGITAroR.

THE ANTI-SEMITE AGITATOR,
 There is no room in the United States for Dr. Ahlwardt, who has come over the seas to wage war against our Jewish fellow-citizens. He imagines that the Jews of this country are the crushed people of the middle ages. The result will astonish him. No doubt his hair would stand on end if he knew that on Thanksgiving Day at Mobile the Methodist and Jewish congregations united in the synagogue in thanks to God for His mercies to the E citizens of the United States. Dr. Ahl- wardt has forgotten that not many years ago the Jewish race held the premiership of Europe. Disraei in Great Britain, Cavour in Italy, Castelar, in Spain and Gambetta in France were the foremost men of their day. They were all Jews. The man who held the chairmanship of the democratic party in this country so long and so ully-Belmont-was Jew. The gentleman who saved the United States recently from going to the bowwows. if we may believe Mr Car llsle, is a Jew-Baron Rothschild--and Miss Hannah Rothschild was the lovely wife of Lord Rosebery late premier of
 
 ever. to meet the rabid screed of the German agitator. Our Jewish citizens need no defense. The American Jew stands at the top, side by side with men of other religions. In commerce. in the professions, in every department of trade, he meets his fe1iow-citizens upon perfect terms of equality, and he vies with them in pushing forward every public enter- lNli lia nho Til fx-
 Speaking of the proposed lectures of this agitator, the Mobile Herald very truly remarks:
 "In these lectures he will advocate the exclusion of Jews from the holding of public offices, from the enjoyment of the rights of citizenship and from having any share in public affairs.
 "Dr. Ahlwardt might just as well take the first steamer and return to his native land. He is not at all wanted in this country. He must either be crank or a bigot whose intolerant spirit has reached a condition of frenzy. If we believed Tn the doctrine of the transmigration or souls we should fancy that this zealot was a reproduction of some persecutor Of the middle ages, or of some narrow minded court chaplain of 200 years ago. Not believing in the transmigraton of souls we can only view him as terrible example of the lengths to which intoler, ance will carry man Of small mlno ana no soul to speak of.
 "Dr. Ahlwardt has come to the wrong country to advocate his mediaeval doc trines. This is the land of civil and re- ligious liberty, and the downfall of the one would be followed by the downfall of the other Hand in hand they have guided our progress in the past; hand in hand they will rule our destiny in the future.
 "Dr Ahlwardt will find that the Jews of America comprise among them many of our best and most useful citizens; that as rule they are orderly law-abiding and ever ready to assist in advancing the interests of the country, common wealth and community; and that they are devoted heart and soul to the land that truly illustrates those principles of religious liberty that some other lands have proclaimed but failed to properly carry out.
 "He will also find Jew and Christian dwelling together in peace and unity, with mutual respect and mutual kindli- ness. If Dr. Ahlwardt had~been in Mo bile on Thanksgiving Day, and had wit messed the union service of praise and thanksgiving at the synagogue. he might have learned a lesson of tolerance and good feeling, of the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man, that would have made him wiser and better. and caused him to stop his fanatical outcry."