Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-09
GLORY CF THE JEW.
Grand VindicaiiOn OF ITIs Race by a
Jewish Statesman.

Grand ViudicaiiOn OF His Race by n
Jewish Statesman.
When we regard the position
that members of the jewish race
have come to hold in the life OF
Che civilized world and yet note
The savage anti-semitic spirit that
prevails in Europe. the following
magnificent passage in a speech
delivered by Sir Julian Salomops
tthe well-known lawyer) in the
Legislative Council of New South
Wales becomes deeply interest
ing, says the Japan Advertiser:
"I am a Jew, l was born it. l
belong to that race from which
The reyered founder of the Chris
lian religion sprang. And were
it that all people were as free from
serious crime as the Hebrew peo-
pie you might close up many of
your prisons. Many Of the cri mes
that startle one into fear and
trembling are not crimes of the
Jews. Their faults--of which [ am
not ignorant-are not greater
than those of other people in con-
nection with trade and traffic, and
have sprung from the action of
other nations towards them.
Only within my time have the
learned and liberal professions
been opened to Jews. For ages
they were forced into the lowest
csliings, and were denied an out
,et. Unthinking bigots believed
that they were carrying out the
will of God in torturipg, in burn
ing, in maltreating, and in i'm
prisoning the people to whom l
belong. 1t is in recent times
ihey were set free. 1t is in my
lifetime that the first Jew was
ever admitted to the Bar. They
we're shut out because they would
not take the oath, as they did not
believe in it. But since the
time that they have been allowed
10 take degrees at the Universities.
to be admitted to all the learned
professions, | appeal to everyone
who knows them whether some of
lhe most distinguished men on
Me Bench, at the Bar, in the arts
and sciences, in music, and III
everything else, have not sprung
from this people! And forgive me
saying this: l ask everyone,
when in the hour of mourning
or tribulation, bowed down by
grief that no worldly prosperity
can assuage-to whose writings
do you all turn for consolation
and sympathy? To the writings of
the Jews. And l should be
poltroon coward, as well as fool,
il were not proud to belong to
ace that has given the writings
Of Isaiah to the world; the psalms
Of David, and the many beautiful
thoughts upon which the civiliza-
hon and consolation and the
happiness of the world depend.
! do not mean that l my
self am united to one body
Of theologians or to another. My
daughter is married to an honor
able man and an admirable Chris
iian. and not to Jew; and every
one who knows me knows that
shey might as well tell me to
Judge a man by the coat he wears
as to try to sway me by the par
hcular form Of belief he has. L
DO not by this mean any aspersion
IN Christianity, for it is to Chris
tianity that the world can only
look for the regeneration of man
Kind. 1t struck off the shackles
,t the slave, has mitigated the
norrors of war, and is working
10 the end that all the religions
will strike off their is u.s. and put
sheir heads together to bring con-
ISOLATION to the poor, and TO the
unfortunate, and strength to US