Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-26
THE POOREST OF ALL.

President Wilson. Americas must do
her part in this great work which is
humanitarian.
The Jew lives all over the face Of
the earth. He is among us. Let US
share with him.
The following interesting and in
slructiya editorial is from the Macon
Telegraph;
Last to be thought Of, last to attract
succor of all the poor and PROSTATE
people whose bodily entity has been
almost ground out under the wheels of
the juggernaut that left Potsdam to
roll over Europe one August morning
not so long ago, there is coming to
America now the plea for the Jew.
Our hearts have poured out in the
wake of the awful crime against the
Belgians and their shutting out; we
have given out money an VIDE wept for
the reincarnation of the tragedy of
Poland; we have poured out for Ar
menia; we have given our store to the
wounded and suffering of England,
France and Germany in such volume
that the charity of America at least is
of high repute among the people of
the earth-aIl these we have succored
in some measure-all but the Jew.
And yet it is doubtful if any people on
the face of the globe have suffered as
have the Jews caught in the modern
Jewry-G alicia-between the upper
and neither millstones, ground and
powdered and crushed under the
backward and forward crunching of
the battle-maddened Teuton and mar
TALLY singing Slay
Hated by the Russians with that
WORST of all passions, the resentment
of the inferior in power over the SUI
perior subjected by brute force, dis.
liked by the Teuton because so thor
oughly and proudly anti-anything-per
taining-to- what Prussia stands for,
they have been given scanter kind
ness, consideration and treatment than
any people caught in those buffer
States which have suffered so in the
fighting. Less attention has been paid
to them than to any, even though it is
to the Jew the world owes so much Of
the good it really has. The Jews have
given us the Decalogue, that tablet
the criterion for all formal law and
government; they have given us the
Psalm of David and the Proverbs of
Solomon; they have given us Jesus of
Nazareth and the Apostle Paul. Our
art, literature, crafts and commerce
have more than we realize, been de-
veloped, enriched and stabilized by
the Jew. 1t is this and their present
plight that moved Bishop Greer so to
speak in Philadelphia to a monster
audience recently:
Therefore. say it is humanity's
debt to the Jew and l appeal to that
humanity of the American people,
which is the boast the legitimate
beast, the only worth while boast and
giary of the American people which
never fails to respond to any human
needs, no matter how remote, as it is
responding no wso literally and SO
freely, l appeal to that humanity, that
American humanity, to pay promptly,
with free and open hand, its debt. its
human debt, to the Jewish people in
this their bitter hour, and so discharge
its Indebtedness to its own American
human life. In the name of the Chris
tian church, in the name of civiliza-
tion, in the name Of American human.
ity, I appeal in behalf of the Jew, who
is suffering today-men, women and
children-tonight, on the other sire Ct
the seas.
And so say we all. A fund is being
raised to help these sufferers. For
every 1sraelitish dime in the contri-
button box there should be a Gentle
dollar. Macon does not fail in these
things, as a rule Macon cannot fail
in this.