The Jewish outlook., 1908-05-22

NelC Will appear as lnaI OF Il DfOau
liberalist, who said in effect: In this
country merit and not tradition shall
rule. | am a Democrat from Dallas,
but by Gantlings! think will jump
the ticket and vote for the r. r.
should he ask for the White House job
again.
The discrimination against the He
brew since the coming of Christ has
been purely religious, technically
damnable and profoundly wrong. n
mans belief in God should be
enough, whether he lives under cOnsti-
tuition or czar. ''In God we trust
does stand as our nation s faith. 1t
scintillates in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence: it lives in our courts of JUS
tce: il is the life-blOod of Our moral
ity, and the sub-strata of our enlight-
ened civilization. The preservation of
that faith is interviewer with our pO-
liticai life. and yet its broad interpre.
tation will not offend the majesty of
God. or impair that constitution writ
ten by jefferson and perpetuated by
old daddy Abe and his fighting clans.
The difference between Jew and
Gentle began at the cross. At first
question of church it changed to one
of state. and. at last, became the law
of Separation-aS certain and fixed as
Ilindoo faith. The disagreement was
one of mental calculation. The Man
OF Galilee referring to Mosaic
teachings-''Not one iot or little of
law shall pass away and those who
listened were satisfied. But when He
preached the Trinity, instead of the
Unity of God-said that one was three
God was the Father. Son and Holy
Ghost-the Hebrew used his own
mathematics to figure the Triune, and
came to the conclusion cone wasn't
three. by II durn sight, He refused
to believe that which he couldn t un-
dcrstand. lie took the position thar
the words spoken by Christ were due
to sacred aspiration and not to divine
inspiration. In other words. His
speech was that of teacher. or proph-
ct. and not that of a Savior. 1t was
the Jews opinion and he had right
to it.
AT the time Christ was crucificd the
nations of the earth were warning one
with the other. The spirit of unrcs:
was upon the face of the deep. The
star of Bethlehem was lost for u mo-
mcnt and faiths staggered as govern
ments changed. Then the sermon on
the mount was remembered and came
like breath of hope to those who
longed for another life and Prom
isod Lana. The city upon the seven
hills was the first to bring order out
of chaos. Its emperor proclaimed
Jesus the Son of the Living God, and
the old Roman amphithcater. the
playhouse of Nero. closed its doors to
listen no more to leopard S grumble or
tigers growl. The faith of Constan-
tine soon became as unreasonable as
it was beautiful-soon for every Jew
who disbelicved there were thousand
Chrstians-t survival of the fittest
became Il law-thc Jew in the minor
ity was coaxcd with sword and con-
vcrted with club. The fight still
goes on. Ask the begging Jew of Rus
sia if you disbclieve. The fight is on
over faith God pity both Jew and
Gentle! Both may be wrong.
OF the Jew. Brann. the Iconoclast.
has said: ''For twenty centuries We
have regarded the Jew with sllspicioT.
treated him as if he were an inferior
race. as though in his bosom beat the
heart of an inhrman harpy, in his
veins cOursed the accursed blood of
the hycna. For twenty centuries the