Arizona republican., 1901-10-01
:PERsECUTING THE JEWS gE
Writer in the Jewish Spectator Gives
 Some Advice.

If baptism of the body Is a good thin S
 for our Christian friends, we should
 think the baptism of the heart would
 also be a good thing. To wash the
 heart clean of Jew hatred would cer-
 tainly add much to the comfort of
 thousands of good and respectable ci.-
 izens. Some of them may be impoiite.
 some may be arrogant. some showy CT
 gaudy in dress, some may even try to
 beat many a Christian in vulgarity.
 Even so. why attempt to ostracize or
 prosecute an entire sect Cor if you pre-
 fer it. race) for it? This confounded
 Jew hatred is a chestnut of ancient
 times, based on the crimes of the Ro-
 man people, which the Roman church
 first worked around for selfish purposes
 into so-called Christianity, which still
 sticks to the masses at one time or to
 the classes at another time, to suit the
 purpose of the hour. wise German
 ruler said: Tt never paid any nation
 to prosecute the Jews" Spain is a liv-
 ing example of this truism. The Jew ish people are d wealth producing pea
 pie. We may talk as much as Vt. please about trades. about mechanics. about farmers, etc, and we may en- deavor to slur this commercial people, or. if you please, this commercial race or nation, yet if we stop a moment, if we look at the thrift of her great en- terprises, if we look at the trade on land and the commerce on rivers, on lakes and on. oceans; if we look into the exchanges of nations. and then see how easily all these great transactions are consummated through great bank ing houses which are, so to say, the wings of all this traffic, then we con clude that after all. the mechanics oe our shops, the laborers of our wharves, etc, owe their very existence to that commercial people. What could they do without commerce and trade? What would become of them in that com | merce and trade? Today one-half of this so-callei civilized world wculi starve without commerce and trade. ! The Jew is keeping the "ball in mo- tion." and gives employment to mill | lions of people, and as our wise men have said, Keeps the world at peace" It is about time for Jew hatred to die It can do but little good at the begin ming of the twentieth century. Edu- cate the faulty Jew and baptize the heart of the faulty Christian. We do not care to be fault finding. but. some how. ones patience gives way, hearing forever and again this intolerant Jew hatred Of some good Christians, com piacently tolerated by many other good Christians. We say it is the duty of Christians or not. to put a stop to this sort of persecution under the American flag. It is degrading the flag. which never was intended to wave over such narrow minded fanatics, over such purse-proud fools. If in th!, there is need of ostracism, os- tracize the Jew hater. We have no use for him. ''in the land of the free and in the home of the brave" It is but iS norance who in our time of existence will unblushingly maintain that "the Jews killed Christ" when all the learned men of the country know that the Romans did it. And not only di1 they cruelty the Christ, but they perse cuted the Christian sect' for centur,es after. Only ignorance can continue the old charge. By all means baptize the heart.