The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-13
nm. EVIL G. nnsons LEcrrnE.
ON "Facts and Fiction About the
Jews" at Guards Hall.

wv - nFAs ana tictton Ahout the
Jews" at Guards Hall.
Rev. Or. Emil Hirsch delivered ~ the
Guards Han last nlght tho third lecture
OF the Savannah lecture course. on Facts
ami Fiction About The Jews" The hah
was well nlcd though the audience was
10. 80 large az that az the previous lee
ture.
Or Hirsch wne introduced by Mr.. +
A. Stovnu. IT, began his lecture by a
comparison Of the Jewish race 20 the
Egyptian SPHINX. where tho fertile
tract % land oions the Nile meets the
whirhng desert Of sand. 10 said. there
81 cuuoutly wrought fgure that has
hecn az OTIS post Tor forty centuriee The
expression Of its couuteuance is both
quizzIral and quaint a look Of humor
and irony developed. oue might fancy.
from tts watch Of the changes % time
since ifF hlrih the figure has seen empires
rise 3nd lall dyuastlcs come and 90.
and civilization developed ard vanish
Like that Egyptian SPHINX 80 has tho
jew been FOR forty centuries and more.
ne was present when the foundation col
the pyramids were laid. he has seen tho
parthonon tower toward heaven. and tho
huildirg Of the Roman Pantheon THE
Pathsnon. and tbs Pantheon have crum-
hled 20 dust but tho Jew 81 stan 60 tho
world. De seems 20 share with the aphlnx
The power 10 resist time.
The likeness between tho Jewish race
ana thc sphinx s. even moro pronounced.
the sphinx propounded an uusolveI rio
die. and she jew has been the enigma OF
all history"
The lecturer took up the jewish aucs-
sion itself citing the conditions Of the
jewish people. and the prejudicea and gov
ermental tyranny 20 which they were sub
1ected in the di0crcns European conn-
tries. particularly Russia. Germany
France and Roumania. In an Europe.
De said. "tho only oasis ln this desert OF
hatred Is the United Kingdom. pre- sided
over by Victoria. more than Queen. the
grand old woman OF the nineteenth cw-
tury.
Nor IN America have YOU the right 10
oriticise Europe tn her treatment ~ th,
Jews. Tor While here the anti-semitlsm ls
not political 81 he nevertheless social ana
81 IS not uncommon 20 hear from some
q the American women. particularly
those along the Atlantic coast. the remark
That 90 allow a Jewish woman In poiife
society would b. hut the entering vedre
u vulgarism. And this from women who
when they can trace their family back
Tor three generations md that their mrs.
ancestors 10 This country are either a fur
trapper or else an Irish oysterman So
you see that the Jewish question Is bv no
mans relegated 10 nrcheologv."
Continuing the speaker said that the
jew Is not a distinct race. Anthrop,lo-
E'sts have established the fact that tho
pure scmites have long heads while the
researches Of Prof Virchow OF Germany
nave shown that Jews the world over
p1rtake o. the characteristics OF the pe5-
pie among whom they live. The Jewish
race intermiNed with other races even as
Tar back as the time Of Moses who when
Ne led hts people out Of Egypt. took with
them number Of the people OF the
country who were not Jews. and whose
own wife. might be DESERVED In the words
Of the classic song. she was not co ored
but was born that way" Mixed mar
ruEes were interdicted." Dr. Hlrsch
said, during tho middle ages, not BY the
jews. but by the governments OF the
Christian countries. In the present cen
fury however. he said such marriages
between Jews and Christians are again
becoming very frequent
Considering the jew from political
standpoint Dr Hirsch said that there
was "A time when the Jews were an indie
pendent political nation but ID ended when
the Romans fred che Temple at Jerusa-
sem. and only once since that time. about
0fiy years after. had the Jews made any
attempt 20 re-establIsh their own pollf-
ical independence. They are loyal cid
gems Of the countries they inhnbt. Or
Hirsch said, and as corroborative evidence
De cited the numbers OF Jews that had
fought IN both tho Union and the Confcd-
crate Army, ana again in the United
States Army IN the spanish-American
War.
IN discussing the jew from n CONNER
ciai standpoint, he said that n he be a
shrewd business man. the necessity for
being 80 has been forced upou him hv
the Christian governments and even then
he stands az the bottom Of the ladder IA
this regard when he is compared TO other
peoples. on rung higher than the Jew.
Or. Hirsch said IS 10 be found the
Yankee. still higher the American aud the
Greek, and at the top OF the ladder the
Heather Chsnee
The wide dissemination f the idea that
the jew Is so distinctly ami characterle-
tically OF graspiug nature. IL due. he
said. % the so-called comic papers Tho
manufacture OF these papers. b. said. s.
very simple: take an Irlshman with a
short pipe. followed by a goat. a German
with long pipe. peculiar cap. slippers.
and beer. an American heiress around
which circles a foreign count or no ac-
count. an unfortunate suburhanlte who f.
loaded each evening with bundles and a
nc-y cook: a negro with either a water
melon. or a chicken: and che Jew who
according 20 its way OF presenting him
A. not 80 mtch OF monotheist as =
moncytheist sample Of the wit whom
the jew u spoken OF may be- had from
the story Of little Ikey" who. Ia one
OF these publications Is represented as
having swallowed a gold collar \ hasty
consultation % his family is held. tho
members being more alarmed az the pos
sible loss OF che dollar than that OF the
childs life. The doctor Is calied IN ana
applied tho stomach pump to recover che
lost dollar. but can only secure Is cents
the other - cents being retained by key
a. his commission.
MAY III TRIED NEXT WEEK.