Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-14


with the herculean form of the SaxoI
and the gigantic Slav are all brothers
The Jew has no right to hate the Sa
marian; neither has the Samaritan 8
right to hate the jew"
But. though the Samaritan should
love the Jew and the Jew love the Sa
maritan, just study how the old racia
prejudices against the Hebrew race
as a venomous serpent with its Shiny
coils. has come wriggling down through
the ages. Why is that finely dressed
and courteous gentleman refused adj
mittance into some of the leading hotels
Of Saratoga and New York? He is
Jew. Why was Alfred Dreyfus sent
to Devils island to be more inhumanly
treated than any government would
allow any man to treat dumb brute.
He was a Jew. Why the clannishness
of the ghetto? Because the gentle by
sneers and SCOTS refuses to associate
with the jew; therefore the Jew finds
most of his associations with the Jew,
Why the public ridicule against a class
Of men who are the greatest financiers
and masters of barter and gain of the
world? Because for centuries the Jew
had no way of making a living except
through barter and gain and as a
money lender. He could not hold land,
for the princes and the people would
rob him of his land. He could not 60
into statecraft or into the army, be-
cause there he was not allowed to go.
Though social recognition in certain
regions is now accorded to the Hebrew
race, as the British house Of lords has
been opened to them, yet even today
strong barrier to social preferment is
the fact of a man belonging to that
race, a representative of which Shake
speare immortalized in Shylock, the
cruel and remorseless creditor.
ObIiterate Social Prejudice.
1 contend that racial prejudice is OPP
posed to the spirit Of Christ and Chris
tianity, and 1 base my belief, first, on
this journey that our Lord took through
Samaria; secondly, on account of the
lesson which Christ taught in the para
BILE of the good Samaritan" which he
spalze unto the shrewd lawyer who was
trying to entrap him by a series of
catch questions; thirdly, 1 plead for
this obliteration of social prejudice be-
cause the Jew is not only as honest as
the gentle, but mentally, morally and
physically is in every way his equal, if
not his superior. Equal in honesty;
Benjamin L. Butler few years before
his death gave this testimony: "For
forty years, save one, have been con-
versant with the criminal courts Of
Massachusetts, and l have never yet
had a Hebrew client. Thinking this
matter over as 1 was coming home,
met the learned judge of one of the
highest courts, and he bore witness
with me to the same effect. He, nei-
Their at the bar nor on the bench, had
ever seen a Hebrew arraigned for
crime" Governor Vance Of North Car
Dina when in office pardoned a Jew
because he was the first Hebrew who
had ever been arraigned and convicted
for crime in all the history of the
state. Where there was one North Car
DINA Hebrew thief there had been ten
thousand gentle criminals. Am 1 not
right in saying that the Hebrew is as
honest as the gentle?
jew and Gentle Equal.
Equal is the Jew to the gentle in
the sweetness and purity of his do
nestle life Not only are they faithful
as a race as husbands and wives, but
they are also irreproachable in their
relations as parents and children. You
never hear a Hebrew girl insulting
her mother. You never see a Hebrew
son sitting in the presence Of an old
father when that father has to stand.
Filial duty is always practiced in the
Hebrew home. The Hebrew freside
is as pure and noble as any gentle
fireside.
| Equal is the Jew to the gentle in
reference to brains and philanthropy,
as well as purity and honesty. Who
were Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn,
among the greatest Of composers? Jews.
Who were Benedict Spinoza and Baron
Rothschild? Jews. Who was the might
TEST opponent of William e. Gladstone
and the favOrite prime minister of all
the Victorian era? Benjamin Disraeli
a Jew. Who was Judah p. Benjamin,
whom the great senator of Missouri
George Vest, declared was the best
mentally equipped man he ever knew
in public life and who after the civil
war became the leader of the London
bar? A Jew. He was, like Sir George
Jessel and Moses Montefore and Baron
Hirsch, Jew. Oh, my friends, on
account Of the gospel teachings, on &C
count of the honesty and purity of the
Jew, let us try to break down the clan
nishness of the ghetto. Let US try to
do this not by social prejudice, but by
learning to welcome the Jew into our
homes as we would be willing to wei
come an Italian, a Frenchman, an
Englishman, a Scotchnan, Russian
or Swede. Let us break down the
clannishness of the ghetto by going
forth with brotherly love to greet the
Jew as Christ the Hebrew went to
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