Show BUTLER ON THE JEWS I 1 THE GERALS GENERALS S SPEECH AT THE HEBREW faut faul IN BOSTON I 1 E am very much obliged to you fellow citizens for your kind bind cor dail and aad courteous greeting and it is my first bounden duty to pa pay y my respects in grateful recognition of it durn turn I 1 am bound to believe that the reason why JL b have ave avo been so greeted by you is because you have found in my public career whether for good or illi fil that it has ever been for the good of all people without distinction of rage race or cond condition lilon of i life prolonged aplina applause use but for you and your your race there is no higher history among all the nations of the earth node no devout sincere christian can doubt mor tor a moment the wonderful char actor of the tho hebrew race sprung from the tho loins of abraham they were as we are tonight to night by our bible and yours gods chosen people and for them he became legislator guide and friend he brought them into and out of bf egypt by a series of mira miracles clear showing that of them he be expected much in hi the economy of his hia universe and when he thundered from mount sinla binia amid the of that dread ful and terrible yet glorious occasion to mankind the tuo hosi host alid arid highest code of omars laws ever promulgated to man they evinced their divine in them were found two B treat edof that th at have never been incorporated in any ancient code of laws he gave to moses the great command take thou no usury of thy brother 11 ile fie gave to moses that oversight and that knowledge that enabled him to embody in his code of bf laws better sanitary regulations than have been embodied in any code of laws since andin and in all that remarkable career of the jewish nation we bee see that he proposed that from that nation hib his chosen people should come coma the emanation of his plan pian of salvation to mankind man mun kind and from that nation has come the religion which has covered theearta the earth with civilization pr prolonged ol 01 red ged ap 3 clause his e one bained together in most moso a remarkable manner mannor nob not aa as a n nation a t ion lon for they for 1000 years have hot existed as a nation but there has been a solidarity of people in the economy of thel the jewish race that has kept them to themselves although scattered all over the world amid the 9 greatest reat rest and most moat terrible persecutions for many years almost ages that would have destroyed any other nation the tee hebrew nation ia Is a nation distinguished for three cha characteristics rieter the integrity the thrift and the industry of her men and the purity chastity and domestic virtues of her women loud and prolonged applause I 1 need pay no compliment where none Is needed I 1 speak from know knowledge leage ledge ori on the subject for forty years save one I 1 have been conversant with khedri the criminal courts of ma massachusetts and many other states and I 1 have never yet had a hebrew client as a cri manal storms of appl appi applause alfee but you may say that was beca because iise ilse the hebrews did not choose you for their lawyer prolonged laughter and applause but that is not he the true answer for lor I 1 never yet saw a veritable iare lare isrealite alite in the prisoner prisoners a box for crime in my life ilfe renewed applause and thinking of this matter as I 1 was coming here herd I 1 met a learned judge of one of the high e mt et t coulta urh urt of the commonwealth of ma moro more r bot e than h an years experience at the bar and bencebi bench and anda I 1 put the same question to him and he hi said he bore witness with me to the same eam ne effect he neither at the bar nor no the bench had ever seen any hebrew arraigned for crime thunders of applause another fact is that the jewish race having remained intact for so many years must come from some preordination ol 01 the almighty that they should keep themselves to themselves to return again and possess the promised land after more than forty years and perhaps centuries of wandering away from it and that time which has been the dream of tile the hebrew debrew philosopher the topic and prophecy of the hebrew prophet the hope of the hebrew statesman seems about to be fulfilled for under the lead of the m man an choto dayis the most powerful on earth a single man mau standing out the central figure of all ali europe the man whose fame has pervaded even the schoolboys school boys I 1 mind so that it is said that when a question was put to one of them how is the ot 0 europe divided he replied replie dBy 4 by shouts of laughter cries of goedl and applause under the lead of him the greatest man naw now living and of your race a protectorate over nver der jerusalem was established with him at the head of it would woula it not seim seem seem the dream the thought the hope of or the hebrew statesman poet philosopher lo and prophet are about to be realized reali ted and supremely over al all nil iother other lother nobles and kings kingsland kin gsand and emperors emora amora per orb ora gmora giand eland the family W whose ose leave is required by kinks kings and emperors before they can go towar to war or before they can make peace their assent must be asked to the terms proposed no great ireat reuie for c ebna euna ona merce between eu europe and asia can be opened without the consent of that family who chive amassed mone money not for the sake of money alone for their accumulations are past all dreams of avarice but they are the accumulations n J s 0 of jf power which has made them greater than all need I 1 call the namo name of tho the family of abe ahe the to show the most powerful family faintly on earth belonging to the rape rage race of people I 1 see before me prolonged applause what destiny for you and youre wherever whenever you may roam for what whit you are ye preserved served belongs to the future it is in the womb of time and can be known only to your great lawgiver lawgiver he who in i his providence has baa preserved your people for some come wise purpose unknown to td inan kidd and is only to be guessed from the great results that have already come from his bis chosen people these thoughts crowd upon me andi and I 1 have to fo give them thern utterance they may well present themselves to your mind and I 1 cannot see eee how jiow ilow any man of your race can feel otherwise than that he is the equal of the princes and the nobles of the earth great greats applause and here in america youl you i have that equality with all other C men and the opportunity of making what you are a leading in the state and in 17 the country foi fox the power of your people is felt and known here and i the highest offices in the united states senate and house of n have been filled by rep of your our people few tow ia in comparison on with the others though you may be and when I 1 remember what may bo be in store for you do 1 I 1 not do well toc to call cail sli these matters of the past to your minds so that every one of these young men here may feel that he has a place to fill in the world orid orld which requires all the indus tryall the intelligence and all the good conduct possible to make himself the equal of those of his people who have gone before him prolonged applause and I 1 have not mot failed if I 1 have inspired that proper and high ambition that should make any one of your sour children look upon the great efforts of his people and endeavor to follow their good example whether ia in te thib charity of a montefiore lore in the statesmanship of a beacom field or in ehe the acquired wealth and power of a their excellence so 80 gre grent great at and so illustrious that while each may hope in some degree to equal none can hope to excel immense applause mr chairman and fellow elsil zens zone allow me we then with high re r for your people with strong feelings of good will to each pirson person i ally for your kindness and atten I 1 tion to bid bil you each and all a fair goodnight good night new york graphic |