The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-05-05
HON. ALLAN L.
McDERMO MONT'S
Speech In the House of Rep
resentatives, April It'll.
Representative From New Jersey
Addresses the House on the
Crucifixion of Christ.

| SA0~AAAAOAl Vi ~AhAots
"If Christ was a mortal, he was
crucified by the Romans. If he was
the Son of God, he was crucified by
the direction of His Father. In
neither case can the Jewish race be
| held accountable"
Mr.. Chairman711Vith the approach
ened massacre in Russia Men and
boys, women and girls, babes in mo-
thers' arms, are to be slaughtered by
savage bigots, in whose brains the
Russian Greek Church seems to have
left no trace of mercy.
| In the name of Christ and the cross
men called Christians have tortured
and slaughtered men, women and
chirdren during eighteen hundred
years. In the name of the cross,
bigots have perscuted each other, the
/ Jew, and the heathen. During seven
teen hundred years of the Christian
era nearly every fanatic who evolved
from his mean and miserable brain a
! command from heaven cheerfully
and diligently prosecuted those of his
fellowmen who disagreed with his
! insanity Around the stake, in the
torture chamber, and on the field of
| battle Christian soldiers" have been
| transformed into wild beasts, spar
ing none
While engaged in the genial occu-
patton OF numbering each other, fren-
zied zealots OF nearly all the Chris
tian creeds have been drenched with
ktheir blood, as though God had given
command for the determination Of
those whom the Old Testament de-
nominates chs chosen children In
Chapter XIII Of Deuteronomy the
! following directions are given for
taking care Of town where false
gods" are worshiped:
| Thou shalt surely smite the inhab-
itants OF that city with the edge OF
the sword, destroying 1T utterly, and
| all that IS therein and the cattle there
lof. with the edge Of the sword And
thou shalt gather all the spoil of it
into the midst of the street Nereof,
and shall burn with fire the city and
all the spoil thereof"
These directions were, according
to the Old Testament, revealed by
God and written by Moses. If the
legend could be changed to have the
| order written by Satan and issued
from hell, a very great work of JUS
tice would be done to the regulations
| Of both God and Moses K iso.l-
icult to form a correct estimate OF
Moses, but it is certain that he is one
of the great figures in the history
of mankind. He was a great soldier,
a great statesman, a great man, and
it well to redeem his name from
SANDER The directions were writ
ten long after his death, and the
wretch who wrote them probably
Ii, ~, 1,
ably thought that his heart of rock
and brain of hate were under divine
guidance, whereas he was merely fe-
rocious and insane. The commands
cannot now be read without shud-
der, and yet it would seem as if they
had been taken as a pattern for the
use of the "Christian sword" in deal
ing with the Jews.
In the old world persecution of the
Jews stains almost every chapter OF
history Before the Christian era
these people were prosecuted, MUIR
dered, enslaved; but this was in the
regular course of events, the business
! of nations then being to persecute,
murder and enslave, a sort of orderly
procedure in days when every nation
was against every other nation, when
war was constant, when man had not
learned the dignity of labor But it
was not until Christianity had OBJ
tanned dominion that the Jews were
prosecuted because they refused to
accept Christ From then the spirit
| of oppression has grown. Persecu-
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.
II is not difficult to find the cause of
this. Many people are, after fash
ion. taught the Bible. Some read it.
Nearly all who are taught it and
many Of those who read it get the
idea that nearly nineteen hundred
years ago the Jew crucihed Christ;
that his cruel death is to be ever
subject of sorrow, and that the Jews
are, unless they give evidence by
conversion that they join IN that sor-
row, to be hated and bounded even
unto death.
Persecution of Jews has always
ceased with apostacy 1t is so in
Russia today. There the Jew who
will say that he believes in the RUS
sian Greek Church becomes man
before the law, and his life and prop
erty are safe. He is no longer a
|"Christ killer Against those Jews
who refuse to forsake the beliefs of
their fathers, the bigots of the Rus
sian church proceed 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. AT Easter the Russians
greet each other, the first speaker
saying, "Christos voscress" (Christ
IS risen), and the response is always
"Vo istiney voscress" tHe is risen.
indeed. Anyone who has visited
Russia er studied the history of its
people knows what vague ideas are
embraced in these Easter greetings
| There-and perhaps here-there is a
/ belief that the resurrected Christ tri-
! unphed over his enemies-the Jews
The greetings over. horror follows.
We cannot effectively remonstrate to
the Russian government, asking 1t