The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-02
4 REMARKApLE sERMoN
BY Rabbi Hirses, OF chlcago-p De-
nouacts the Colonial Dames-Antl-
semltIsn1 IN America the Yllest Kind.

BY Rabbi Hissea, OF chIcago-De-
rouacts the Colonial Dames-Aatl-
semltIs1 In America the vilsst Kind.
Chicago r-ocsaa: "The women OF
America are tired OF being plain Amer
leans, said Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch. yes
terday, from his pulpit In Sinai tenn
pie. The nation does not create any
aristocracv, 80 they must create one for
themselves. They ore Colonial Danes
Daughters Of the American Revolution
and Daughters OF the Revolution
They stand or pedestal above other
mortals. Take OF youe hat to the
Daughters OF the Revolution. And who
| Is the piebeiln OF pIebeians? The Jew.
| The Daughter OF the Revolution can
trace her descent back perhaps three or
{, four generations. But the Jew can trace
his back further than the birth OF Je-
sus.
This Is the character OF an:I-Semi-
usna IN America, the meaaest and VII
est OF oil Bat we Jews In America ore
Americans. We should have patience.
and smile at the contor:!ons OF shod-
dy aristocracy. As humanity Is not per-
feet. we Jews mus, expect 20 bear the
burden OF our historic appointment, Ma
tioaallsm gone 10 seed In Germany. Rus
sIa end France. and toreign!sm In this
Country are the. sponsors for anti-ssm-
Itisni. Twenty years from now the pes.
| thence will have run itz lsagth. The
nations will awake from the nightmare
| OF natIonalism and will than realize
a Ion t. ~ nrer a n Inv
forces, and not an organization OF
blood"
"Saticualisrn Gone 20 Seed" was the
general subject OF the sermon. Its
i concrete application was the effect OF
na;!onalism upon the Jewish race. as
demonstrated IN modern antl-Seritlc
tendencies OF the nations. "a
'.As nations are the last productions
of historical forces." said the rabbi,
"theY must be the final form into which
the human spirI. IS cast. II this be SO.
thinker will certainly not raise his
voice against the legitimacy OF the
nation, and national pride and seif-con-
sciousness The nation gives US our
literature, our art, and our Ideals. HUI
mainly Is not desert 1t 10 not o ter
ritory that knows no permanent lines
OF distinction. Humanity Is what the
earth is--a vast territory Of differences,
OF mountains and plains. piateaus and
decllyities, cities and villages. and OF
wastes aId laughing gardens. The trou-
bic nowadays IS that natlonalism has
gone to seed; that the nations have
forgotten the duty that Is theirs 70 per-
form for humanity"
The application % this Introduction to
the subject. so far as the Jewish race ID
concerned, was that In all OF the mod
ern cations the tendencies toward ma
tionalism have been 10 the exclusion OF
the JEW from the whole us common
part OF the state.
Among the trials OF the Russian Jews.
DR.. HIrsch referred 10 those OF the ST.
berian prisons. saying: "The terrors
which hell cannot duplicate are Witness
es to the divine Christianity that lives
In the hearts OF the noblemen.. II that Is
nobility. who would be q noble? II that
IS Christianity, who would be Chris
tiaI?
The lntole-ant spirit Of nat!onal!sm
among the French, It was argued, was
heritage OF the national sensltlyeness
that has always been q part OF the
French people. From her dream In
which she had long believed herself to
Oe tHe UrsI nation Oh tHe WOEla. y EdHSc
had suffered rude awakening IN 1870.
With the national sensitivcness still
foremost, she would not admit that she
had not been prepared for war, even
nttcc the conquest by Germany, but In
1911 began to look for traitors. She
claimed not 10 have been conquered.
but TO have been sold out. That was ma
tlorallsm gone TO seed, also. How It ar
.ected the Jewish race II was now IN
evidence In thn unti-Semitlc riots be-
cause one who happened TO bear Jew
ish name was accused, and wan per-
haps guilty OF treason. But that one
man was not given chance to meet MS
occusers and 10 know their charges,
while the whole world was clamoriag
for an open trial on the accusations.
In Germany, he asserted. the very
people loudest to decry the jews on the
ground that they are not Ce.mans were
themselves OF questionable descent.
"SntioDalism gone to seed In Ger
manV," he sald.s"ls the eSstise for anti
Semitism. il Is not nnti-Jewlsm
In answer to the charge OF raclllisu.
which he admitted that The Jewish peo-