Milford chronicle., 1904-03-04

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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 q
strong barrier to social preferment is
the fact of man belonging TO that
race, a representative of which Shake
speare immortalized in ShylOck, the
cruel and remOrseless creditor.
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Obliterate Social Prejudice.
l contend that racial prejudice is op-
posed to the spirit of Christ and Chris
tianity, and 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
spake unto the shrewd lawyer who was
trying to entrap him by a series Of
catch questions; thirdly, l 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 +. 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 vet
had a Hebrew client. Thinking this
matter over as l was coming home. l
met the learned judge of one Of the
highest courts, and he bore witness
with me to the same effect He, nei-
ther at the bar nor on the bench, nad
ever seen a Hebrew arraigned for
crime" Governor Vance of North Car
Olina 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 /
Olina Hebrew thief there had been ten
thousand gentle criminals. Am l not I
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 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 Hebrew
son sitting in the presence of an old
father when that father has to stand.
tilial duty is always practiced in the
Hebrew home The Hebrew freside
IS as pure and noble as any gentle q
ireside. 8
Equal is the Jew to the gentle in '
eference to brains and philanthropy,
Is well as purity and honesty. Who G
we're Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, t
LmOng the greatest of composers? Jews. [
Who were Benedict Spinoza and Baron o
iothschild? Jews. Who was the might b
est opponent Os William E. Gladstone "
nd the favOrite prime minister of all )
he Victorian era? Benjamin Disraeli. "
Jew. Who was Judah p. BENJAMIN. W
7hom the great senator of Missouri, d
ieorge Vest, declared was the best d
lentally equipped man he ever knew Il
public life and who after the civil al
ar became the leader of the London Il
arr A Jew. He was, like Sir George a
essel and Moses MOntefOre and Baron te
irsch, Jew. Oh, my friends. on e
count of the gospel teachings, on ac-
'unt OF the honesty and purity of the III
w, let us try to break down the clan III
shness of the ghetto. Let us try to of
this not by social prejudice, but by e
arning to welcome the Jew into our ye
mes as we would be willing to vel hi
me an Italian, a Frenchman. an W
lglishman. Scotchman. Russian Sc
a Swede. Let us break down the tia
of the ghetto by going I'M
rth with brOtherly love to greet the 1C
W as Christ the Hebrew went to ag
vt the Samaritans. ini
Why Jesus Revealed Himself. III
l second reason, l think. why Christ ga
lst needs go through Samaria was ist
1t he wished to reprove social II! nn'
,judice. He held converse on that ie'
lrney with a notorious female out wa
It. She was not "respectat le" sin u
. By that I mean she was aot one p,
those able, to travel forbidden paths iiei
yet cover up her sinful tracks so Oii' lr
t the worlds prying eyes did not ~ ~
them. She was not a hypocrite. ~"
ng two separate lives - one life
ich made her outward reputation Y
d and another life which showed her altl
er character to be bad. She did not SER
in secret. She sinned openly. She anc
! like the far famed Catherine Of life
sia. she was like ex-Queen Isabella a c
Spain, she was as vicious as Cleo dist
a Of Alexandria. whose poisonous are
d ought to have choked to death chu
fatal asp which she once bugged sub
INST her white skin. She was one his
not only openly sinned, but boast mfr