The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-07
Abstract of an Instructive and
Interesting Lecture.
BIBLE NEEDS NO DEFENSE
Humanity Is Calling for a Moses to
Deliver Mankind From The Egypt
ian Slavery OF Selfish
Plutocracy.

evening the underlying meaning OF the
following lines taken from this weeks
scriptural lesson: Then came Amalek and
fought with Israel in Rephidim. And
Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men
and go out and fight with Amalek. s"
Those gifted young people whose ig-
norance is thinly covered by the veneer
of Ingersolism those hercuean schol-
are ~ who disclaim against religion and
the Bible they. of course, can see no
meaning stored away in the lines Just
quoted Alasi 1t Is too true that even Ill
our small circle there are number OF
young people who imagine that they can
best affect an air of intellectual superior
ity by ridicuiing and sneering at the Bi-
BILE. This greatest of all books, this kohi-
moor in the collection of the world most
precious gems, needs no defense ut my
hands For centuries and centuries II has
withstood the onslaught of critic and foe.
For centuries and centuries the Hoods OF
hate passed over it, but 1t did not sub
merge 1t.
Rob Ii of all miracle and of all the SUI
pernatural; yea, proclaim its human orr
gin and scientifically establish your claim.
and it will still continue To be the most
humanizing, the most influential agency
in the affairs of society. But / am not
speaking tonight on the Bible.
Israel had hardly begun breathing the
salubrious atmosphere OF freedom. hardly
had the chain OF Egyptian serNitude been
sundered hardly had they closed their
eyes on their foe struggling in the en-
brace of the pillows of the Red sea, when
they are overtaken by the overwhelming
/ numbers of Amalek. With trepidation
they look to their heroic leader, Moses,
for deliverance from this new danger
Choose us men, commands Moses to
Joshua. who will 90 and fight with the
enemy TO us, too, comes this laundering
| know a. time III
history when there WAS a greater need or
valiant, intrepid, determined, brave, couf
ageous and heroic men TO enlist In the
battle for humanity, for justice and right
t than to-day. The enemies of liberty and
I of equality are rampant. Greed and av-
! arice prejudice and blind hate. are wag
4 ing II destructive war against millions of
4 inoffensive, yet silent sufferers. Not yet
/ has humanity reached the haven of peace.
i prosperity and plenty ! grant that by
/ comparison with other generations ours
/ will not suffer / readily recognize that we
+ have made phenomenal strides upwards.
Cast we our glance wherever we may,
/ and progress will meet our gaze But
! what can be said of an age Boosting of A
| Washington, "A Lincoln, a Grant and n
I Bryan, that Is enacting laws to keep out
+ of a free country the oppressed, perse-
/ cuted and downtrodden because their edu-
cational accomplishments have been neg
4 lected-chiehy through no fault of their
1 own2'ta
The rabbi referred to the Literary
clause in the Lodge bill. which includes
among the excluded classes all persons
between the ages of IL and 60 that cannot
/ read or write the language of their ma
i tive country. MS well as the sick. the poor
/ and the helpless. This he characterizes as
/ un-American, as violation of the high
/ er law" which not only runs through tile
entire constitution OF this country. but
FEly
OF the same.
Let me quote the Nestor of American
Judaism, DR.. Wise. on the subject;
This higher law meant something
higher even than the constitution Of the
United States and the power vested in
the government and people. 1t meant the
inalienabe rights Of man as free, intel
lectual and moral being, it meant the un-
written law impressed and imprinted on
human nature from the beginning. Any
legislation contrary 10 this higher law Is
criminal. One of these inalienabe rights
Of man Is TO live, to change his place OF
abode ad libitum. and TO breathe God )
free air anywhere on land or sea, or in a
balloon i'll the air. The civilized world ac-
knowledges and respects this inaiienable
right-Kussia only, and only in regard to
the Jews. exeepted-and established IT.
passport mail and transportation systems
upon this universal right of all men, We
the people Of the United States never
dreamt of violating this law, upon which
in fact our national existence and all ouI
public institutions We're erected, which Is
an essential element in the spirit Of oul
history and in the conscience and con.
seriousness Of our people. But now at the
zenith and power OF our wealth we de.
clare this higher law null and void in re
gard to iliterate persons between tho
ages OF Is and 60 years who desire TO lane
on our shores; that Is, We declare on the
strength of our own egotism that those IL
literatc persons are no human beings
have no rights of man. and we exclude
them from the rights of man. as Ger.
many excludes from its borders infected
hogs, although no other civilized natior
does the same fragrant wrong. IL a pool
man comes To your neighbors door 4
ask a crust of bread To save him from
| starvation or If hungry dog comes x
his yard and he drives him away witt
4 curse on his lips, you despise the hard
hearted man; but nation doing the sama
thing precisely you excuse on economical
grounds
...If Homer. the slave philosopher o
the Stoies or Moses. Mendelssohn or an.
other distinguished hnnchback would ar
rive AT any of our ports, your new law
would not allow the cripple TO land, Al
they did but shortly turn away SOM
Mohammedans because they did not be
lieve In monogamy. IL a pennless scien
tiiic tourist would come 10 our shores, a
has been the case frequently to on
knowledge, even with Gersteeker. Benja
min III. and others. your laws would shi
| him back 10 the place whence he came
So absurd and semi barbarons are you
laws restricting immigration. Still none
50 absurd and barbarous, SO entirely IN
imicai 10 the interests Of the country, :
revolving To the laws of God and tn
rights OF man a. il that literary claus
which refuses the rights of man 10 one o
account Of his not having obtained d
accomplishment You might as well "a
ne who understands nothing nf music
drawing, painting. dancing-all nice AZ
compliShmeutSs cannot come in here.
Humanity is calling for Moses to d
liver mankind from a thralldom which
as bitter as Egyptian slarery-the shaver
10 "a selfish plutoeracy- The battle Il
eternal and universal justice commence
these thousands of years ago By Israel