Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-11
STUDENT Of JEW
EULOGIzES RACE
Or. Madison C. Peters Applauded
for Speech in Simpson
Auditorium
STRAIGHT TALK ON JUSTICE
Speaker ReCounts Part Hebrew
Plays in the Making of
America
STRAIGHT TALK ON JUSTICE

DR.. Madison C. Peters of New York
delivered his lecture last night on the
part of the Jew in the Making of
America to a good-sized and appre-
ciative audience in Simpson auditorium.
While DR.. Peters is not Jew himsen
he has made that race special study
for many years and is known over
many parts of the United States as
the author of Justice to the Jew.
His auditors last evening were about
equally divided among Jews and Cen
tiles and the speaker was often and
heartily applauded by both alike.
There was no prejudice shown, only
straight talk on justice. After telling
the story of the part, that the Jew
has played in the making of this coun-
try DR.. Peters said in conclusions:
1.-The Jew has a claim to recognition
the claim Of the man under the wide
tolerance Of the twentieth century and
the claim Of the American citizen un-
der the broad spirit of the American
constitution. He has not received the
treatment he merits as a man nor the
rights he deserves as a citizen. He is
caricatured in the comic papers, ridt-
culed on the stage, and blackballed in
our social, professional and even po-
litical clubs.
"The line is often drawn against
him even in the lodge room. The
wealthy Jewish merchant, looking for
a summer resort, will receive a foot
note, No Jews taken The Jew is.
excluded from society. I have seen
Jewish children go home from our
public schools in tears because of the
offensive epithets with which they
were taunted.
TAUNTS GROSSLY UNJUST
Ii.
itors or rivals his competitors, If Of
Hebrew blood, has Jew hissed at him.
Judaism is made responsible for every
trick in trade We forget the fact
that our notions Of integrity, derived
from the Bible, We owe to the Jew,
who gave that great book to the
world.
"It is Just as unreasonable to use
the word Yankee for all the mean
ness which it is alleged would cheat
in the measurement If given the right
to sell out the Atlantic ocean by the
pint as to make the word Jew a verb
to designate taking advantage in
trade. have seen some mean
Yankees, who, in the words of another,
with a jackknife and a pine shingle
could in two hours time whittle the
smartest Jew in America out of his
homestead in the Abrahamic Cove
landers, among whom are the largest
hearted and biggest Drained people on
earth. on account of the proverbial
meanness and trickery of some, is GER
tainly unreasonable prejudice.
with all the rough handling the
world has given to the Jew, 1t is Won
derful that he has not more faults.
The prejudice that exists against the
Jew must be traced to this cause: One
is made responsible for all and all
are made responsible for one.
"The social standards of the Jew
are Just as low and just as high as
other peoples in corresponding posi-
tions. Money often gets ahead of the
manners of the Jew and Gentle alike.
No people suffer more on account OF
the vulgar Jews than the high
minded and refined Hebrew men and
women. But where do you not find
the parvenu in American society? Few
people have had more than two gem
erations Of continuous wealth and the
conditions of refined socinety.
sOLICITUDE FOR CHILDREN
"Among Jews and Gentiles there are
vulgar, offensive snobs who will fill
you with insufferable disgust. There
are some Jews, as there are some Gen.
tiles, who have gained money before
they had time to gain culture. But,
as Israel Zangwill has well said, ex-
clusion carries with it some tremen-
dous dangers, and such perils of resus-
citating the old medieval savagery
which Americans came to overthrow,
that this deadly weapon should be re-
sorted to only after all other methods
have failed. And as one who has
for many years, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the
Gulf. among men Of high and low de-
gree, native born and immigrant, has
closely studied the Jewish character,
in it's shades as well as in its lights,
and as one who has written and
spoken without fear and favor, 1 be-
lieve that I can assure our American
aristocrats that the disappearance of
any unpleasant social taints in the
Jew Is only question of another gem
Grafton or two.
mo people in our midst sacrifice
more for the education of their chill
dren than the poorest Jews, and from
the assertive, buttinsky-bumptious
Jew, who may have grown coarse in
| the struggle for existence, there VIII
| come the quiet. cultivated. broad
| minded and progressive ladies and
gentlemen who will be a mighty force
| in helping their Gentle brothers and
| sisters in making America peerless,
unrivaled, unapproached and unap-
proachable among the nations of the
earth"
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