The Jewish outlook., 1908-06-19
Defends the American Jews
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erica. He maintains that the Jew
built the saloons. TO blind what he
believes are his credulous auditors
he would have them read the names
over the saloon doors and see that
they are the names of Jews. Is it
not notorious that were the devil to
seek the shade of a saloOnkeeper or
that of habitue of the saloon he
would not be likely to go to ceme-
terry Of the Jew?
To further substantiate his claim
that the Jew is responsible for the sa-
looms of America he quotes some scur-
rilous jingles from comic paper to
the effect that the Jew is pawn
broker! Only an intellect such as
that of this peripatetic vender of re-
ligion could perpetrate such bril-,
liant bit of logic. These jingles are
eloquent testimony that there is an
abundance of rhyme in this reverend
haranguer's vituperations. but. alas
for him. not reason. The fact of the
matter is. the Jews may be found in
every legitimate line of business. and
to attack the Jews as a body because
one of these legitimate lines of bust
ness is at present unpopular. is GER
tainly very singular.
Wherefore. then. this seismic up
heaval of clerical mentality! The
basic clause. whether geologic or psy-
chOlogic. is not only hatred. but
envy. The very Savior whom this
.Jew-hater lalids is not IL member of
the Coburn family If we are to be-
lieve the New Testament he was Jew
who came to minister to the Jew.
(Matthew ". 6: XIV. "a And were
lie to come today He would feel at
home in the synagogue. but in the Co
burn church-homeless. He would
frown upon the Rev. Mr. Coburn and
his ill-masked malice. but would en-
tend the hand of kinship and sym
pathy to the martyr of the ages-the
Jew.
While this evangelistic vituperator
goes about poisoning the minds and
the hearts of the people. what is the
Jew doing-thc Jew. who is of the
flesh and blood of Jesus? See the
Jew. Nathan Straris. with his pasteir-
lied milk. saving tens of thousands
of infants from death in America.
England and Germany. Why did
not the reverend calumniator point to
this rose in the fragrant chaplet of
Jewish achievement
Let this sanctimOnious servant of
the defied Jew tarry while i'm Spo-
kane and note the typically bcncficent
influence of the jew Many the church
that has sought and has received the
contribution of the Jew. The Jew
recognized that the Young Men 5
Christian Association is one of Spo-
kane s assets and has given it his sup.
port. moral and financial. When the
women of Spokane set about to fur
iilsh the building. who took the lead
\ Jewess. When the public charities
appealed for annual contributions the
Jews again displayed a generous riv-
airy with their fellow citizens. And
this despite the fact that no Jew evcr
gets the benefit of the public charities
for the Jew has ever taken full charge
of his own poor.
The trouble with Rev. Mr.. Coburn
is that he is afflicted with a double
neutrality-suspicious. of prohibition and
poverty of thought Wherefore he
gives ear to the valuable council in
tended for cvangelists of his ilk
When you want to rant and can t
damn the Jew Would that this blat-
ant bigot would realize that comic
paper. however "bright and callstic.