The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-01
PRAISE JEWS IN
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  rights for all, will you make good citl- zens" The rule that equality Tn flght IS essential to good citizenship has never been better supported than by the result of according equal rights to the Jews who found a home on the soil or the United States.
 1T do not overlook the fact that the full enjoyment by tpe Jews of religious and industrial freedom was not without re straint or limitation at the time of thelr first arrival Nor am I in the least in clined 10 claim that Jewish characteristics or the Jewish religion are, or ever nave been, absolutely preventative of bad men and bad citizens It cannot be denleu however that with even the limited equality of rights at first accorded to the Jews by the American colonies, their loyalty and effective patriotism when needed were not wanting.
 Makinq Their Impress.
 I've have today only to look about us to discover that in every phase or pres ent American enterprise an ehort, the Jews of the United States, with unre- stricted toleration and equality are mak- ing their impress more and more deep and permanent upon our citizenship. They accumulate wealth without exhibiting or
  business recklessness. They especially care for their poor, but they do 1t sensibly and in a way that avoids pauper making. On every side are seen monuments Of their charitable work and evidences Of their determination to furnish their children and youth equipment for usefulness and sell support. It is not among them that dangerous discontent and violent demon- strations against peace and order arc
 larA n something of separateness in their social life among us. but this should be natur- ally expected among those who are not altogether free from the disposition born of persecution and the loss of nationality, to seek in a common devotion to their peculiar religious creed the strongest bond of their social fellowships. And yet, With 1t all they are by no means laggard In the civic duty and the work In behalf of the general welfare of the state which are the badges of good eitizenship.
 ''It is time for the unreserved acknowl- edgment that the toleration and equal opportunity accorded to the Jews of the United States have been abundantly re- paid to us And in making up the ac- counts let us not omit to put to their credit the occasion presented to us through our concession to them Of tolera- ton and equality of strengthening by wholesome exercise the spirit of broad minded Justice and consideration which, as long as we are true to ourselves, we must infiexibly pronounce as the distin- guishing and saving trait of our na- tionality.
 Prejudice Cruelty lnveterate.
 "r know that human prejudice-espe- cially that growing out of race or re- ligjon--is cruelty inveterate and lasting. t,, tla nraln6iNp against the Jews still exists, there can be no place for it among the people of the United States. unless they are heed less of good faith. reereant to the under lying principles of their free government and insensible to every pledge involved in our boasted equality or citizenship.
 Roger Williams, the pioneer of re- ligious liberty in America, expressed the fear. long before the United States be- came nation, that England and the other nations had score to pay to the Jews. and he added these words: I de- sire not the liberty to myself which l would not freely and impartially weigh out to all the consciences of the world beside Our nation will have no score to pay to the Jews. As a people we shall never suffer the humiliation of appealing to them for favors with the shamefaced- ness of intolerance unforgotten and un- forgiven. The Jews of the United States have become our fellow-citizens. and, like US have at heart the prosperity and safety of our common country. for as much as we have desired not mat liberty to ourselves which we would not freely and impartially weigh out to all the con sciences of the world beside
 After all, it comes to this. We cele- brate an event in the history of our coun- try fraught with important results deeply concerning us all as citizens of the United States 1E the spirit of true American ism let us all rejoice in the good which the settlement we commemorate has brought to -se nation in which we all