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elves that compliment, but it is authen-

| tie.
| feel convinced that the eruciixion has
| not much TO do with the worlds attitude
| toward the Jew; that the reasons for it are
| older than that event, as suggested by
Egypt's experience and by Romes regret
! for having prosecuted an unknown quantity
| called Christian, under the mistaken i'm
preston that she was merely prosecuting
Jew. Merely a Jew-a skinned eel who
was used to it, presumably. | am per-
suaded that in Russia, Austria, and Ger
| many nine-tenths of the hostility to the
Jews comes from the average Christian s
inability to compete successfully with the
average Jew in business-in either straight
business or the questionable sort.
| In Berlin few years ago | read speech
| which frankly urged the expulsion of the
Jews from Germany; and the agitator' 9
reason was as frank as his proposition. 1t
was this That 50 per cent of the successful
!, lawyers of Berlin We're Jews, and that
| about the same percentage of the great and
| lucrative businesses of all sorts in Germany
were in the hands OF the Jewish race =
| The man claimed that in Berlin the
| banks. the newspapers, the theatres, the
| great mercantile, shipping, mining, and
| manufacturing interests, the big army and
! city contracts, the tramways, and pretty
much ali other properties of high value,
! and also the small businesses-were in the
hands of the Jews. He said the Jew was
| pushing the Christian to the wall all along
| the line; that it was all a Christian could
| do to scrape together living and that the
/ Jew must be banished, and soon-there was
no other way of saving the Christian. In
| Vienna last autumn an agitator said that
all these disastrous details were true of
Austria Hungary also.
You note the crucial point of the men
| toned agitation; the argument is that the
Christian cannot compete with the Jew,
and that hence his very bread is in peril.
To human beings this is much more hate
inspiring thing than is any detail connected
with religion. With most people, of ne
cessity, bread and meat take first rank, re-
ligion second. l am convinced that the
persecution of the Jew is not due in any
large degree to religious prejudice.
No, the Jew is money getter and in
getting his money he is a very serious OBJ
struction to less capable neighbors who
are on the same quest l think that that is
the trouble.
Point No. 4.-"The Jews have no party;
they are non participants"
Perhaps you have let the secret out and
given yourself away. 1t seems hardly a
credit to the race that it is able to say
that; or to you, sir, that you can say it
without remorse; more, that you should
offer it as plea against maltreatment, in
justice, and oppression. Who gives the
Jew the right, who gives any race the
right, to sit still, in a free country, and
let somebody else look after its safety? The
| oppressed Jew was entitled to all pity in
the former times under brutal autocracies.
for he was weak and friendless, and had
no way to help his case. But he has ways
now, and he has had them for century
but do not see that he has tried to make
serious use of them. When the Revolution
set him free In France 1t was an act of
grace-the grace of other people: he does
not appear in it as helper. I do not know
that he helped when England set him free.
Among the Twelve Sane Men of France
who have stepped forward with great Zola
at their head to fight land win, hope and
believed the battle for the most UNANIMOUSLY
misused Jew of modern times, do you find
! a great or rich or illustrious Jew helping :?
In the United States he was created free in
the beginntng-he did not need to help of
course. In Austria and Germany and
France he has vote, but of what
considerable use is it to him? He
1t to the best effect. With all his
splendid capacities and all his fat wealth
he is today not politically important in
any country. In America, as early as 1854
the ignorant Irish hodcarrier, who had a
spirit of his own and a way of exposing il
TO the weather, made it apparent to all that
he must be politically reckoned with; yet
fifteen years before that we hardly knew
what an Irishman looked like. AS an in
telligent force, and numerically, he has al
ways been away down, but he has governed
the country just the same. 1t was because
he was organized. 1t made his vote val
uable-in fact, essential.
You will say the Jew is everywhere nu-
mericaily feeble. That is nothing to the
point-with the Irishman's history for an
object lesson.
AS to your numerical weakness. / men
toned some figures awhile ago-500 000-
as the Jewish population of Germany
will add some more-6. 900. 000 in Russia
5000, 600 in Austria, $50, 600 in the United
States. / take them from memory; / read
them in the Cyclopaedia Britannica ten o..
twelve years ago. Still, | am entirely sure
of them. If those statistics are correct my
argument is not as strong as Ii ought to be
as concerns America but 1t still has
strength. II is plenty strong enough as
concerns Austria, for ten years ago $780,
900 was per cent of the Empires popula-
ton. The Irish would govern the kingdom
of heaven If they had a strength there like
that. Look at the city of New
York, and look at Boston, and Philadel-
phia, and New Orleans and Chicago, and