The Washington herald., 1907-04-29
THINKS RACE DOOMED
Rabbi Simon Says Old Char
acteristics Are Fading.
CAUSE OF THEIR PERSECUTION
steadfast Devotion TO Faith of Their
FOrefathers Is Given as Reason for
Preiuaice-Jew Must Make HIS
Home in the Land ina Which lie
Lives-seeuIar League Election.

''The Jew as a race has practically
passed away" said DIR. Abram Simon,
rabbi Of the Eighth Street Temple. in an
address before the Secular League. in
Pythian Temple, yesterday. In a discus
sion Of Some Jewish Problems DR..
Simon reviewed the history OF his race.
the persecution which they have endured
for the past $500 years. and pointed the
way toward the establishment of a mutual
feeling Of brotherhood between Jew and
Christian.
THE greatest difficulty with which the
Jew has had to contend for the last thirty
five centuries. said DR.. Simon. is that of
prejudice. and that because all nations
have objected TO the Jewish Interpretation
of the Ruler OF the universe.
dew an Intense IndividuaIist.
His history throughout all the ages has
shown him to be an intense individualist,
a believer in the unity Of God. and in this
belief he viii accept no compromise.
1T is because Of his steadfast devo-
ton t. the faith Of his fathers that ne
has been made the victim Of a prejudice
unworthy Of Christianity and OF man
hood and womanhood.
"The Jew as a race has practically
passed away. and he is to-day the COS
mopoite OF the world. The pure blood
OF Abraham does not run in my veins
more than in yours. The Jews Of to-day
are descended from the two tribes. num-
herring 42.000, who returned after their
Wanderings to Palestine. How much pure
blood Is left to their descendants, who
for the past g $50 years have been put 10
the vilest prosecutions?
characteristics Passing Away
Though It Is said a Jew Is known by
his racial characteristics. his desire 10
acquire money, MS determination 10 ex-
act the pound of flesh and an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a TOOTH The world
is beginning to realize that these racial
characteristics are rapidly passing away,
and that the jew IS of that country IN
which he resides. an American. German.
Frenchman, or Russian. These nations.
however. refuse TO accept him because Of
his belief that God is unit
THE time has come 20 think of the
Jew as a human being. and to realize
that all the prosecutions TO which he has
been subjected have done the world no
good.
III the descendants OF the two tribes
who returned 10 Palestine are response
bic for ali the sins laid at their door by
Russia and other countries Of Europe.
what would be the result If the ten lost
tribes were ressuTreCtedT
The Task of the jew To-day.
The task Of the Jew to-day is not to
burden himself with the troubles of his
race, or, following the dream of the
prophets, 70 return to Palestine, there
10 found a nation respected by the world.
but TO make that country In which he
lives his nearest and dearest possession. q"
The present officers Of the league were
elected FOR another year. as follows.
President. DR. J. J. Shirley: vice presi-
dents. Gen. William Birney Prof David
Eccles Mrs. Sarah II. Sawyer. and Maj
Maurice Pechin: secretary, Chase Roys.
and treasurer. Prof. Hyland c. Kirk.
No more meetings of the league wifi be
held until October.