The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-08

you better look to your laurels for that little New Orleans Jew has stated your case out of court" Did he not stand before Queen Victoria. and lay down the law for all the British empire2 Could he not repeat the words of Disreali. who when de- rided for being of Jewish extraction. by an English aristocrat, had ex- claimed, When your ancestors were bowling sayages, in the forests of Europe, mine were kings and priests of the most High God?"
 What right had Christians to deride Jew when most of them worshipped Jewish woman, and all of them daily bowed their heads in adoratiol to a son of Abraham, Jesus of Nazareth.
 Thomas Jefferson had taught Leo N Levi and the thirteen United States unanimously declared These self-evident truths" that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ilalien- able rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ness; that to secure these rights gov. ernments were instituted among men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: that when- ever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying it's foundation on such prlnei- ples, and organizing it's powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and hap piness. Prudence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transcient causes and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that ma I. kind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to forms to which they are accustomed; but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, eyinces a desire to re- duce them under absolute despotism, 1t is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and pro- vide new guards for their future se- curity and happiness.
 We'll did the young Jew ponder and profit by this teaching of his knowl- edge father when like Moses he went forth from his alma mater the Uni yersity of Virginia, armed and equipped with All the learning of the Egyptians"
 After leaving the University. he saw his people oppressed by the Rus sians" Unlike Moses, he did not kill an individual, then flee to the desert but penaed a petition, had it signed by 13O00 of the ablest men of the earth; presented it to the president of the United States and had it forward ed to the czar of Russia who refused to receive it. This act Of infinite littleness on the part of the czar only served as a setting in the Fourth Dimension. for the grandest document written by any modern civilian. Like David's pebble, it went home Presi- dent Roosevelt, on reading it, ex- claimed, "A truly great man Joln Hay. then secretary of state. said of it:
 Tt gives me pleasure to accept the charge Of this important and signifi- cant document, and assign it a place in the archives of the department of state
 Although the copy of your petition did not reach the high destination for which it was intended, its words have attained a worldwide publicity, and found a Judgment in many thousands of minds. This petition will always be memorable, not only for what it contains, but also for the number and weight of the signatures attached to it, embracing, as it does, some of the most eminent names of our generation of men renowned for intelligence philanthropy and public spirit In