The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-23
Mobile Senator AnsWers
 Attacks on JelDs and Cities

the stripe, 1t emblem of her desreda 1 ton.
 MT. President. hold in my hand [ | newspaper published. not at St. Pc | tersburg, Russia, but at the town O. Ozark, in this State, and as 1t seemi | inhamed by passion or blinded by | bigotry in It's fearful assaults on { certain class of our fellow citizens. | propose to read extracts from It's edi' | torial, and make such comments there. l on as appear to me proper and right l leaders in this crusade of bhnd pas. sion and wild fanaticism and intoler- ant bigotry. He 1t was who offered
 the resolution commenting constitu- tional prohibition at q recent Alabama church association held at Andaiusia He Is also a reverend and, like the
 other sweet-scented patriot, the mar from Ohio, has been stalking around the lobby of this Capitol like Alexan- der Selkirk. monarch of all he sur. veyed.' Here are extracts from the leading editorial of the latest issue of his paper, bearing. what declared the other day, would be the harvest from the seed of dfscord and dissension now being sown broadcast in Alabama." Mir. Hamburger then read the edito-
 rial which was severe attack on the people of Montgomery and denunciatory of the Jews as e people. The article contained such expressions as "degener- ate Jew-ridden Montgomery" Gen. tiles who have cowardiy hidden away" Jews as a body and as one man stand for liQuor and the debauchery of our citizenship and as a body should be condemned for their acts." and similar violent statements.
 "It must be apparent, to you. MT. President, and to you Senators that this tirade of invective and abuse is directed at these people because they are Jews ana this is free country where they have the same right to se- lect their form of worship as the edi- tor of this paper, or anybody else in America. I had hoped that the days of Kfownothingism when cur fellow Catholic citizens were prescribed be- cause of their religion, that the days of such fanatical crusades of anti1M Ma sorry, when 0 man was socially ostra- aised. politically condemned. and com mercially boycotted because he was a member of that worldwide and cen- tury-old fraternity-that the days Of abuse and violence against q farmer because he exercised his God-given right and refused to join the Alliance, say I had hoped these days were gone to return no more forever, but
  he traduced and revilei in 8 rrohibi- ton sheet edited by a so-called Chris tian minister because he is Jew.
 "Mr. President. the Jew does not need me to defend him from these as- nersions on his name. his race and his religion. His splendid history, ante dating our civilization by tncusands of years, is imperishable. His is the race that gave us a David with his psalms, Solomon with his proverbs. and a Joshua with his generalship. His is tho race that gave us St. Pet CT, Q St. Paul. but far above all these gave us the Saviour of mankind. Ills is the race that gave us Moses, the great law gtrer whose laws have al- ways been and still are the basis of all human laws. In the trying days of the ill-starred nation that fell, it gave to the people of the South Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, who sat here In this historic capitol because of his wisdom and his patriotism, became known as the brains of the Confed- eracy.' His Is race, sir that gaVs us thousands of others whose names ani characters are honored by all men who admire genius and merit. Is 1t any wonder then that the Jew Is proud of his people and his ancestors? Do we not recall the stinging rebuke of Dis raeli to the man who twitted him with being a Jew: ''Yes." he said, T sHl Jew and am proud of it. My ances- tors were living in marble palaces and making laws for a great people while yours were half clad barbarians wan dering around barefooted through the forests of Germany" But what save that strict Presbyterian. that matchless man of letters, the great Macaulay In his speech in the House of Commons on April [, 1888. in reply to certain strictures of the member from Oxforo on the Jew. He said: Nobody knows better than my honorable friend that there is nothing in their national char acter that .unfits them for the high est duties of citizens. He knows that in the infancy of civilization when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still un- known to Athens, when scarcely a matched hut stood on what was after- wards the site of Rome, this condemned people had their fenced cities and ce- dar palaces, their splendid temple
 their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning. their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers. their historians and their poets What nation ever ccntended mere manfully againt overwhelming odds for It's independence and religion? What nation even In its last agonies
 gave Sucn slShdl pIOoI OA what may be accomplished by brave despair? Let us open to them every career in
 which ability and energy can be dis played. Until we have done this let
 us not presume to say that there as no genius among the countrymen of Isaiah---no heroism among the descend ants of the Maccabees."
 "Ah, Mir. President, would that I could recall at this moment a few of
 the beautiful sentiments expressed by Governor Vance of North Carolina in
 his glowing tribute to the Jew in his
 lecture, The Scattered Nation" That
 old Southern patriot said he never
 saw a Jew in the penitentiary. which proved conclusively that they were g lawabiding, not a law breaking people
 To which, Mir. President, I would add that I have never seen a Jew who was
 an idler. a beggar. or drunkard, nor
 have I ever seen town of any activ. ity, energy or industry which did not
 number Jews among its citizens"