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Show JEWS PERSECUTED y EVEN IN AMERICA, ! 3AY5 DR. PETERS. BALTIMORE, Md : May 25. Dr. Madison C. Peters, pastor of the Baptist tabernacle here, in his service last night denounced the persecution of the Jews in Russia, and then startled bis audience by declaring that in a meas- ure the people of the United States are guilty of the same crimes for which Russia and the Russians are censured. He said in part: "In America the Jew has a double claim to recognition the claim of the man under the wide tolerance of the twentieth century, snd the claim of the American citizen under the broad spirit pf the American Constitution. "Has he received the treatment he merits as a man, and the rights he deserves de-serves as a citizen? He is caricatured in the comlo papers and on our stage. In our social, professional, and even political clubs he is blackballed. "I have seen Jewish children go home from our public schools in tears because of the offensive names with which they were taunted. Outrages are frequently perpetrated upon the Jews in our cities under , the eyes of the police outrages which are a disgrace to our RepubUc. "Russian and Roumanian immigrants, immi-grants, who are striving with might and main to earn a livelihood, meet with a reception from the denlsens of the streets not at all creditable to American citisenBhip. "Our own skirts are far from clean of anti-Semitism." |