The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-31
GLAD LOEB STORY
SAW LIGHT OF DAY
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and our common civic, industrial, com
mcrcial and national life. We would
live at peace anu in amity with you.
We value your friendship and good
will. we fain would have IT. put
never at the loss of our social and reil-
zion, self-respect That there are some
of us who to further their civic. pro,
fessional or social ambition, feel tha'
/, &, reresaarv for them TO prove recre-
ant TO their traditional trust and their
fathers faith is an Indictment of them
and of Yourselves who make the con-
aitfons thereof-but not of us.
..I.ilSewise 1t is not to be expected
of human nature that we, who are
faithful, do not deplore the weakness
NJ our recreant ones or resent the con-
ditions that compel their recreancs.
AS we are part of your lie IN an
things save religious outlook, SO we
are like you in all the virtues ana luil-
ings of our common humanity we
have our good and our bad, our desir-
able, and our undesirablcs. But, class
for class. station for station, opportu-
nity for opportunity, we are no worse
than YOU are We don't want TO be
Judged en- bloc, but as individuals. W.
do not ask for recognition, CONNER
cially. socially or politically, as a group,
but as units. We don't want man
to be elected to office because ne IS
Jew. But we don't want him TO DE
turned down only because he is Jew.
We want him to stand or fall on his
individual merit We don't expect
urn, TO be favored because it Is Jewish.
we don't want it unjustlS treated or
DETAINED because it IS. We resent the
Wholesale social discrimination prac-
tiled against us, not because dlscrlfi-
ination is unjust, but because II Is
general and not specific We feel that
Justice requires that discrimination
should be exercised amongst US as
individuals, and not against us as
class.
Literary Muck-Rnkers.
1--WE deplore the outreaching fingers
of the dead hand of medieval reli-
-;ous antipatly. when it becomes evil
dent. as it sometimes does, in the daily
press, when wrong-doer who happens
to be n Jew is labeled as such. and the
religious atnliation of other maietac-
tors is never mentioned, except In the
case of ministers who go wrong OF III
literature, where the tendency among
some writer's seems to be to popularlhe
their productions by making the VII
lain of the plot a Jew; or When some
magazine mucll-raker prints Wildly eA-
aggerated dcfamatory statements, upon
the merest hearsly evidence and utter
" fails OF his proof when asked ior
II. or when in the public Schools.
teachers sometimes give explanations
or make wholly irrelevant statements
ithat tend to set aside and humiliate
the Jewish children and cause their
Christian schoolmates to look upon
them with scorn and derision; or when.
in courts Of Justice, lawyers, even those
or good standing, will appeal to the
basest of passions, religious prejudice
and seek to influence jury against
party to the case who happens to DO Y
Jew: or, finally, when, In the church
itself. in the pulpit and the Sunday
sch,ol room. the doctrine Is still
taught that the Jews are decides cruel
and bloodthlrsty cruciiiers, and the
heart OF innocent childhood is intlamed
with hatred and the antipathy OIL MAJ
ture breasts is confirmed.
"rhese arc the things that make pos
siblc such incidents as that which we
have taken for our theme, wherein the
point is, not whether Mr. Loeb Is 4
Jew or not. but In the statement that
he was rejected because 1t was thought
he was a Jew. and wherein the shame
rests, 1oL WitH vi ltoeo' ~ ~ ~
| Jews, but with the Union League Club
and the spirit of Christian intolerance
that was In evidence.
Feast OF Dedication.
Dr. Calsch concluded his address
with a spirited reference to the FesSt
| of Dedication, which Is being observed
| this week by the synagogue, and which
recalled conditions wherein the Jews
| had to battle against worse things
| than now exist. Their valor under
Maccabean leadership gained the VIC
tory over syrian armies and Hellenic
| degeneracy. and he besought his peo-
pie 70 keep alive the Maccabean spirit
In their bosonls for the still unended
conflict between right and Injustice,
between light and darkness, between
! faith and superstition
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