The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-18
PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.
Speech in the House by M'dermott of New
Jersey.

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Jersey.
Washington; April IA wide
departure from the usual beaten
path of Congressional oratory
was made in a speech delivered
to-day by Mr.. McDermott II New
Jersey. whose attendance upon
the House this session has been
infreQuent on account Of illness.
He spoke under the elasticity of
the rules governing debate when
!. the House is in committee of the
whole on the State of the Union.
He said:
With the approach of Easter
come the stories of threatened
massacre in Russia. Men and
boys, women and girls, babes in
mothers arms to be slaughtered
by savage bigots in whose brains
the Russian GreekChurch seems
to have left no trace of mercy.
In the name of Christ and the
Cross men calledChristians have
tortured and slaughtered men,
women and children duringl1, 800
years. In the name of the Cross
bigots have prosecuted each 9th
er, the Jew and the heather.
During 100 years of the Chris
tian era nearly every fanatic
who evolved from his mean and
miserable brain command
from Heaven" cheerfully and
diligently prosecuted those of
his fellowmen who disagreed
with his insanity. Around the
stake, in ,ithe torture chamber
and on the field Of battle ''Chris-
tian soldiers" have been trans
formed into wild beasts: sparing
none. While engaged in the
congenial occupation of murder
ing each other. frenzied zealots
of nearly all theChristian creeds
have made com mon cause
against the Jews. The world
has been drenched with their
blood, as though God had given
commandment for the extermin-
alton of these whom the Old
Testament nominates His chosen
children.
Mr. McDermott traced the his
tory of persecution of the Jews
and declared that it was not un.
tila Christianity had obtained
domination that they were per-
secuted because they had refused
to 'saccept Christ" He con-
tinued:
From then the spirit of op-
preston has grown. Persecr-
ton of the Jews because they
are Jews is today tolerated in
but few parts of the Christian
world, so far as the statute books
go;but the spirit that is breathed
in the words Christ killer is
found in the eyes and on the
tongues of Christians in the new
world as we'll as in the old. 1t
is not difficult to find the cause
of this. Many people are, after
a fashion, taught the Bible;some
read it. Nearly all who are
taught it and many of those who
read it get the idea that nearly
900 .years ago the Jews cruci-
fed Christ, that his cruel death
is ever to be subject of sorrow,
and that the Jews are. unless
they give evidence by conver-
sion, that they join in that sor.
row, to be hated and bounded
even into death. Against these
Jews who refuse to forsake the
beliefs of their fathers, the big
OTIS of the Russian church pro
ceed with sword and torch, and
never so ferociously as on the
anniversary of the day when
Christ is supposed to have risen
from the dead.
We cannot effectively remon-
strate to the Russian Govern
ment to Interfere. We can, OBJ
serving every p1 opriety, ask
that thepower of the church be
used to .prevent occurrences OF
brutalities that shock the civil
lied world. We can do more
than this; We can set an ex-
ample; we can teach the men,
women and children of our own
land to array themselves on the
side of truth: we can teach in
press and pulpit that the state
ment that Jesus Christ was cru
cited by the Jewish nation is
the wickedest falsehood that
ever fell from human lips. If
Christ was a mortal, if He was
the Son of Joseph and Mary,
born in the good old fashioned
way, He was crucified by the Ro.
mans. If He was szthe Son of
God, He was crucihed by the di-
rection of His Father. Under
neither proposition, can the Jews
be held accountable. If He was
a mortal, He was the prls-
oner of Rome, and the Jews. as
a race, never cried for His blood.
After a review of the evidence
in the Gospels Mr.. McDermott
concluded:
To the Jews of 1900 years ago
and to the Jews Of today the
New~Testament did not and does
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