The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
LAZARUS WRITES
 ON WASSON TALK
CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THAT THE SPEAKER IS MINISTER OF cos PEEL WHEN JUDGED BY HIS IN. TEMPERANCE IN LANGUAGE.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 have been a very careful reader of all of your articles regarding the constitu- tional amendment, and assure you the letter from Scottsboro, which appeared this morning. was a great surprise to me-
 I can easily see why MT. Conner de- fends his side of the case He forced the Issue upon the people and, right or wrong, he must defend 1t. What I cannot un- derstand Is why the Rev. Wasson should use the language he does. Your corre- spondent quotes him as saying. He did not forget to pay his respects to The ge-Herald, the Safe and Sane Leon McCord, and the 'hook-nosed Lsraelite from down in Mobile I should like to know what kind of a nose has the Rev. Wasson? What kind of nose has The Age-Herald and what kind of nose has Leon McCord, and what kind of nose has Major Screws of the Montgomery Ad- vertiser. The Bible says. God created man In His own image" and I presume the Rev. Wasson thinks that the Lord made mistake during creation. Doubt less the Rev. Wasson could improve things if matters were left in his hands.
 It is really hard to believe that the Rev. Wasson is minister of the gospel. From he is a follower of the Great Teacher, whom all revere, Jews as well as Gentiles. Has not Rev. Wasson dug deeply enough into his B ble to find the commands. Judge not, lest ye be judged" and also, ''If ye forgive not those who trespass against you, neither will our Heavenly Father for give you your trespasses. for as you out to you?'
 I would like to know also why the Rev. Wasson was so particular to mention the religion of the gentleman from Mobile? ? He did not mention the religion of other men. Why, then, should he say, ..the hook-nosed Israelite from down in Mo- bile?'
 He did 1t because he is a narrow-mind- ed, pretudiced and uncharitable man. He belongs away back in the dark ages, in the day when people were hung and quar- tered and boiled in oil and stoned to death because they did not believe the things which they were told or expected to believe.
 What has the Jew to do with the prohi- bition fight in this state? The Jews are a temperate. law-abfding people; there are few drunkards among them, and they need no prohibition laws. They do not get drunk because they know 1t is not right, not because 1t is against the law If the Rev. Wasson will spend his time teaching his flock to do right because 1t is right, instead of taking the stump to help further the political ambitions of a few narrow-minded men, he will do some good. If he has not the ability to tell them what Is right, if he has not enough of their confidence to be able to teach them what is right, he will never succeed in forcing them to do 1t by law.
 Let's stop this fussing and wrangling Let's vote for what we think is right, and if some one else does not agree with you, don't say, 'T am little Johnnie Know It AL" q am right and you are wrong" "You are crooked and base and mean and a grafter."
 That is not Christianity nor is 1t Judaism. Let's vote LOT the best interests of the state of Alabama and don't dirty up our religion with politics.
 LEW LAZARUS.
 Birmingham, September 1o 1909.