The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15


to recognition-the claim of the
man under the wide tolerance OF
the twentieth century, and the
claim of the American citizen TN.
der the broad spirit of the Amer
ican Constitution.
America grants liberty to the
jew. but to a great extent denies
him fraternity and equality. AT
many socials, professional and
even political clubs he is ostra.
cised from what is called socie-
ty; he cannot send his children
to the select sprivate schools OF
the country, he is lampooned on
the stage and carlcatured in the
papers. In many Of the hotels
and summer resorts conspicuous
signs are displayed, announcing;
"No Jews wanted Ihave>seen
jewish childrengo home from our
public schools in tears because of
the offensive epithets with which
they were taunted. These are
not only not advantages, they
are curses.
Nowhere on earth for near two
thousand years has the jew had
any material advantages. But
Paul recognizes the superior
value of spiritual force. and that
is the reason he declares that the
jew has much advantage every
way. The jew has given to the
world it's best gifts. He died
that others might live: and man
kind has used his body as a STEP
ping-stone on which to rise to
higher planes.
Neither Mirabeau in the
French Revolution, nor Patrick
Henry in the Virginia House OF
Burgesses, nor Samuel Adams in
the only colonial days, ever said
a more thrilling thing than was
said by Benjamin Disraell in the
English House of Commons, in
reply TO the taunt that he was
Jew: eyes, I am a Jew, and
when the ancestors of the hon
orable gentleman were brutal
savages in an unknown land,
mine were priests in the Temple. .
And he reminded the Christians
who scoffed at him that at that
very time the Christian world
was divided between the Protes.
tants who worshipped a jew, and
the Catholic who worshipped a
Jewess.
Long before Socrates taught
philosophy, or before Herodotus
wrote history, Israel had an or
ganized civilization. It had lite
rature before most nations had
letters, and art while other ma
tions knew only war and savage
ny. Drader quotes Cabanis as
saying that "they"-the Jews
''were our factors and bankers
before we knew how to read.
While the ancestors of Euro
pean kings and mobiles were re.
Yelling in coarseness or ignorant
Iy bending their backs to the
commands of their superiors, the
Jews were the torch bearers of
the world. They were .usty and
vigorous before Babylon or Nine
veh reared their temples to the
sky; they were learned before
Rameses I. cut his heiroglyphics
on the obelisks of Egypt; they
were skilled architects before
the Pharaohs dreamt of laying
the first stone of the pyramids;
they were warriors skilled in
arms before the Grecian hosts
swopped down on the plains Of
Troy; they had cities before
Romulus and Remus traced the
walls of imperial Rome, and they
had poets, bards, philosophers
and scholars before the blind
beggar of Scios lisped his lisped
his numbers in the myrtle groves
of Greece. They have seen AS.
syria, Carthage, Babylonia,
Greece, Rome sink under the ru-
ms of their own magni6cence;
they have witnessed the ascent
Of the Crescent and looked upon
the rise of the Cross; and through
all they have kept their eyes
calmly, steadily on the Star of
Israel, whose light burns as
bright to-day as when it first
rose over the eastern hills and
shone down on the shepherd
kings of Chaldea; and, though
they have lost their country,
they still look to the Star Of ia
cob to guide them back to the in
heritance that should be theirs.
We cannot realize all the Jews
have done for civilization and
and enlightenment until
We imagine sheir work taken