The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-20
JEWISH BLOOD
Is NOT DISTINCT.
Rabbi HirSch Says They Are
Just Like Other MOrtals.
THE JEWS FORMERLY FARMERS.
They Were Forced to BE Money Lenders
Bnt the Comic Paper Yarns Could
lie Put on Others just as
Well as on the Jews.

BE Put on Others just as
Well as on the Jews.
DR.. Emil G.. Hirsch, the eminent
Jewish rabbi of Chicago, spoke to an
audience of sixteen hundred people at
the tabernacle Friday night on the sub
ject Facts and Fictions About the
Jews" The address was one of the
most pleasing, instructive and enter
tanning that has been delivered in the
Peoples lecture couse for a long time.
DR.. Hirsch is a scholar and an orator
and his efforts not only cleared up
many of the misrepresentation in the
/ public mind concerning the Jew, but
it glowed with rhetorical fire and dra-
matte eloquence.
He prefaced his address with reference
| to the fact that throughout the world
the Jew was prosecuted and harrassed,
and has been for centuries. Even to-
day in Russia he is crushed worse than
slave. The prejudice has extended to
Germany and in France. the people
have so far forgotten the motto that
is blazoned on every public building,
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" that
the world has just recently been shock (
ed by relentless anti-Semetic agita-
ton and persecution. While the pre-
| judice in America does not extend to
political persecution here it takes the
form of social ostracism. And in the
social circle where money and not
royalty is king, the daughter removed
three or four generations from some
more honest oyster monger of a great
grand father, refuses to associate with
some cultured Jew whose ancestors may
be much more renowned. And the
speaker thought that the Jew did not
miss much just here, when it came to
the social aristocracy of America built
| on the dollar
The speaker said that the idea that
Jew was a distinct race of pure blood
was wrong. His blood was no more
pure than any other people. He is not
today a direct descendant of the Semetic
race. Up till within few centuries he
mad not been allowed to mix extensively
with other races but now he is as
others are and today even the Jewish
church is not settled in favor of oppos-
ing intermarriage with non-Jews.
Further the Jew is not distinct ma
ton. He is imbued with patriotism
as other men. In this country he loves
the Stars and Stripes. In France he fol-
lows tri-color with love and loyalty. In
whatever land he lives he is a patriot
to that land.
DR.. Hirsch said one of the public mis-.
conceptions of the Jewish character was
that he was a lover of money beyond
others. He said this idea was largely
the result of the constant work Of the
comic papers. 1t was on a par with the
average European idea that an Ameri.
| al,n
was an ability to chew tobacco anc
| squirt the juice out in q perfect para.
bola. He said it was fact that Europe
|, thought that Americans were all adept!
at this art and never missed the spit
toon.
The Jews are money lending rae,
said he, not because it is the natura
trend of the race but because from
the third to the eighteenth centur!
they were compelled to be money len
ders by law. Prejudice enacted Law
shutting them out of tho natural pur
suits and permitting them to loal
money because it was then a thing alb
horred and the Jew was driven to it
Naturally he was a farmer. Holy wri
is proof of it. Even the parallels o
Jesus, which he said were the creates
|
given to the world We're all drawn from
the farm.
3 He said the Jew is not a shylock. II
Y dare not, if he is a religious Jew, eXac
t a pound of flesh. Shakespeare did no
' mean to represent the Jew as the worl
> has taken it.
In closing the lecture DR.. Hirscl
dwelt beautifully on what the true Jey
l really was. He said he was a man a
1 other men. There was nothing distinc
e about him from others. He wants moth
ing for himself that others may hav
I He only desires the fatherhood of Go
/, and the brotherhood of man. He want
: to live in liberty. He believes that h
n can go to God in person and ask 70
= pardon of his sins and get it withou
= atonement or Intervention. And jus
e in this is the greatest difference be
I tween his religious belief and that G
I the modern christian. He believes tina
Christ was one of the greatest teacher
v of the world and should he come agai
q he would be welcomed in every synago
que with hosannas. The Jew was wait
ing for second Christmas when ther
should come peace on earth, and goo
will among men.