The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-18
THE JEWS.


! the Jews by the marriage of any near
or distant kinsman. / owe no Jew a
dollar ard no Jew owes me Among
all my personal or intimate frien5s [
cannot name one. single Jew. l speak,
therefore, from tn vantage ground Of
| absolute independence and imnar-
J tiality.
II is a splendid racc--sp]cndid in
their patience, in their love for one
another, in their endurance, in their
! sasacity and temperate habits, in
their intellectual resources, and splcn-
did in their inflexible adherence to
their Mosaic ideals.
DO you want an aristocracy Of
blood and birth. The Jews, then, arc
the purest bloodsd people and have
the best established descent in the
world. Neither, did Miraheau in the
French Assembly nor Patrick Henry
in the House of Burgesses. nor did
Sam Adams in old Colonial days. ever
say a mere thrilling thing than Dis
roeli in the English Commons in re-
ply to O'Connelrs charge that he was
jew: yes I am Jew!'; and
when the ancestors of the right
honorable gcntlemen were brutal saw
ages In an unknown island. mine
! were priests ir the temple!"
DO you seek ar aristocracy Of tall
ent? The great church historian
Ncander was Jew; Napoleon's mar
shals. Soult and Messana, were Jews;
Gambetta was a Jew; the brilliant
ana cynical Heinc was a Jew; and
but the worlds roll Of great soldiers.
authors. musicians. painters. poots
philosophers, and financicrs, contains
more Hebrew rames than I could re-
cite in many hours.
Arc you looking fer an aristocracy
OF wealth? The combined financial
power OF the Jaws Of Europe, and
america can prevent the flc ating of
any national loan which may be put
"P''t SuE suoAhCSS VI TIC WOTtO. ?
1t Is a spurious false Christianity
thst hates Jews. The mystery of the
Incarnation found expression in the
flesh and blood OF a Jew, and there
fore, in a scnss We worship q Jew.
We get our ten cpmrpandme Its, tn.
yer fourdation OF cur civilization.
through tho Jews. We sing Jewish
psalms. we lare upliftcd by the pas
sion and POETRY " Jewish prophets
and we rely on jewish biographies
for the only history we have of
Christ We get our Pauline theology
from Jew, and we catch our earliest
glimpse Of the next world through the
sublime apocalyrtic vision cf a Jcw.
The. forsooth. we Christians turn
about and sneer at Jews have con-
verscd with teachers Of phi
losophy who spoke slightingly
Of the Jews. and yet were
teaching with enthusiasm ideas
which they had absorbed from Mai
monidIes and Spipeza. the two great
est philosophers, omitting Kant,
since Ploto's day-both Of them Jews.
I have heard musicians de-
ncunco Jews and then spend
days and nights trying to inter-
pref tho beauties Of Rossini,
Neyerbesr and Strauss-all Jews.
talked the other day with a gifted
actress and heard bbth her and her
husband swccpingly condemn. conf
Acntially. Of course. the whole race Of ,
Jews. and yet that woman would give
hat her remaining life IL she could
only reach the heights which the great
queen Of tragedy, Rachel, trod with
such majesty and power-and Rachel
was q Jcwess, As Is Bernhardt, the
greatest genius on the stage to-day.
Here in Washington have
heard aspiring politicians. when
beyond the reach OF the re-
portcr's pencil, sneer at Jews,
and yet it was Jew that made Eng
lands Queen Empress Of India, and it
was a Jew who was for years the ad-
roit and sagacious chairman Of the
national committee OF one of our
great political parties. The most
powerful intellect in the Southern
Confederacy was that Of Judah p.
benjamin, Jew; and Chase. when
managing our national finances in q
perilous time owed much Of his sue
cess t. tho constant advice of a New
York Jew. i
That you never see Jew tramp or
Jew drunkard - provcrb: that you
never see Jew begger is a common
place: and 1t is q statistical fact that