The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-03
WHAT THE WORLD
OWES THE JEWS
interesting Lecture Delivered
by DR.. NJ. G. Peters at
Assembly Hall.
DOCTOR IS HISTORICAL
AND SOMETIMES FUNNY
John Henry Smith Gets Rather
Uneasy at Times as Preacher
Progresses.

subject of Dr. Madison G.. Peters S lec-
ture at the Assembly hill Tuesday nlght
was one of the most entertaining au
dresses heard in this city for some time.
Perhaps never before in the historic
building has one witnessed such com,
bination for there were on the stand
John Henry Smith, who presided, ana
Anthem II Lund, Mormons; DIR. Peters,
who is Presbyterian preacher, Gentlle' :
Rabbi Freund. Jew; and the audience
was made up OF all denominations.
DR.. Peters is not only full OF facts,
but he has much humor. AS an evidence
of the spcaker's versatility, he SAID :
of Brother Smith S mother (rcferring
TO John IIenry) had swappcd places
with my mother ] would have been a
Mormon and Brother Smith would nave
been a Presbyterian preachcr; or II
Rabbi Freund' Is mother had changed
places with my mother, the RABBI would
have been Presbyterian preacher and
| would have been your rabbi - rms
statement was made in support of the
assertion made by the speaker that
the question of religious faith was very
much matter of the accident of birth.
John Henry Smith introduced Dr>
Peters TO the audience and In the course
of his address the doctor said;
Some Jewish History.
Long before Socrates taught philosophy
had an organized civilization. The Jews
were factors and bankers before we
knew how to read. The Jewish race has
produced proportionately q greater num-
Der of great men than any other race
The Jews constitute but | per cent OF
the human race, and their contribution
to The lists OF great names is far ana
away out OF proportion TO their num-
hers. The Jew has made marvellous
fight In the world, and he has done IL.
as Moses Mendelssohn said, with has
,l.,, II. x.l-
The Jew has given To the world the
knowledge OF the only lruc and living
God. He has given Moses. who in the
twelve united states OF Israel, gave to
the world the first republic. The Ameri-
can commonwealth was built along the
lines OF the old Hebrew commonwealth.
Jesus the Ideal Of the race. was a Jew.
The Bible, both the old and new tesla
ments. were written by Jews. with the
possible exception of Job, who was an
Arabian Emr. Professionalism was the
the Bible; Martin Luther's Hebrew
teacher was a Jew, Nicholns De Lyra,
Jews in Finance.
The Jews in finance are almost inNaria-
bly, creators and not pullcrs down. The
Jews. with few exceptions, have made
their money as merchants and manutac-
turcrs Capital and Jew arc not synony
nous terms. There are financiers like
the Rothschilds. and Schif, and there are
socialistic Jews like Marx and La Sale.
and the socialists cannot dynamite the
Jews without abandoning their leaders.
Originally the Jews were an aSrlcul-
tural people, and sons OF Shem first built
their cities remote from the channels OF
trade. but the misfortune of persecution
made traders OF them. The Jew Is large
is a man ol commerce, but commerce and
civilization are closely allied Wherever
you see the prosperous condition OF COM
merce you see civilization on the boom.
The Jew is a middle man, but the
ynn nsl,.. tIly
the products of the manufacturer and
disposes Of them becomes important
a cog wheel in the machinery OF society
as the railroad
The inordiuate love OF gold is one OF
the perils of our civilization and is the
snare of all races and religions alike. The
Christian Is TO blame for the money lend
Ing characteristics OF the jew; he drove
him from all branches OF trade. Is IL
right To insult his race by sneering
ly calling him Jew? The Jew knows how
to deal in money. but the Christian gave
him the points in the game OF usury.
Among Jews. as among Christians, there
arc those who think more of the man
with bonds in his pockets than of bonds
on his hands and feet.
The jew has his faults. but with all
the rough handling the world has given
him II is wonderful that lie has not more
faults. The Jew is what we made him,
His virtues are the result OF Judaic
teaching, his vices are the result OF cir
cumstances which Genties have massed
Il
ne is the handiwork of our civilization.
Prejudice Against Hebrew.
The prejudice that exists against the
Jew must be traced to this as the lead
ing One is made responsible for
ALL and all arc made responsible for one.
Is il fair To let prejudice against the in
dIviduals develop into prejudice against
a race? Let the reproach be cast where
il belongs, upon the individual and not
upon the race. The social standards Of
To- net hi1rh md itCi
low other peoples in corresponding
positions, Money often gets ahead OF the
manners of Jews and Gentiles alike, No
people suffer more on account OF vulgar
Jews than the refined Jews. But why
should / a Christian be insultcd and
prescribed because Of the vulgar Cen
lilies?
How many people do you know who
have had more than two generations OF
refined society? While some Jews, like
Ccntiies. have grown coarse in the strug-
gle for existence. your squeamiSh Ameri-
can need not he uneasy. the children OF
these same "butinsky. bumptious Jews''
will he the quiet and cultivated ladies
and gentlemen OF tomorrow and become
enormous forces for good in American
>ociety.
Cry of Jew Halter
DR. Peters spoke at length of the con
spicuous part of the Jews in the wars
Df the American republic and Of the
good citizenship Of the Jew, and added {;
In America the jew has a double
claim Ia recognition-the claim OF the
man under the wide tolerance OF the
twentieth century and the claim of the
American under the broad spirit OF the
American constitution. The Jew in
America has not received the treatment
he merits as a citizen. He II carcatured
In the comic papers. black balled In clubs
and lodges. shut out Of hotels and many
OF tho schools OF the country. ! have
seen Jewish children GO home from our
public schools In tears because Of the
offensive epithets with which they were
tainted
The cry OF the Jew hater is the cry
OF the beaten man. The Jew wins be-
cause he deserves it Everywhere he is
dlsciplining his reasoning powers and
learning how to do better work which
insures that success which clamoring and
complaining never win. II is not strange
that the Jew is winning II were strange
II he did not win II the Jew continues
ms he has begun he will hold the fu-
ture.
At the conclusion Of the lecture DR.
Peters thanked the Mormon people for
rhe use Of the assembly hall, and John
Henry Smith thanked the lectnrnr for