Show JEWS NEED NO DEFENDING We Ve note with a little HUle surprise that thata a Jewish rabbi has delivered at least one address that can be bo described as asa asa asa a defense of the Jewish faith and the Hebrew nation Wo We 0 dont don't think the they need any defending II d The speaker in question is a man of very er great ability He lIe Is la inspired with love 10 for his people and veneration veneration venera venera- J. J tion for his cause He is moved of or I course by tho Iho most noble purposes when ho he speaks In defense of or the tho Jew And yet et with all aU the respect In the world we want to tell teU him that his people are In no no need of ot apology And they never have been Men do not know how far back written history goes Every new generation generation gen gen- finds new records Beyond Rome is Greece beyond Greece Judea Ju Ju- 1 dea beyond Judea Egypt Egypt and and Baby Daby- lon Ion Ion and Nineveh And beyond beron these possibly China More 1 will wit be known of that in a few years And meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time something startling will be bA dis i covered of or the East Indian cities that have hao long been forgotten And int In inI I t time it Is 13 possible the true story of ot the cliff dwellers In n southern Utah tah ill Ill be told I But mt wherever the tho record rord of man mann has bas i hron bren written on written on parchment or paper r I or tile tile there there Is nothing finer or more honorable than the record left by bj the Jews Unless It be the record the Jews who came me after ha have made Furthermore their book is the fountain foun bun tain lain head of nfl all the literature that has filled full tull tho the river banks of Inspiration tion for two thousand lId years ears There Is tho the fertilizing germ of civilization In which we of or Christendom revel to to- lay day The man who doesn't know the Bible Is ignorant The man who does know It is educated cultivated HeIs Ho He HoIs Hois is master of himself and equal to the situation wherever he ho may be The Old Testament distinctively the Jewish JowIsh Bible Is the most impressive impress impress- ive hook book of any race In any age It differs not In degree but in kind It Itis Itis Itis is the panorama of that endless creation creation creation crea crea- tion which will never be finish finished d until perfection In body and in spirit has been Leen reached And the men of the Jewish race express In their lives live and records the varying passions and virtues of that humanity which has been lifting from the tho depths through all the centuries and which the children chil- chil dren of Abraham Isaac and Jacob have helped to lift An And the Jewish record is not in the distant past The Jew stands shoulder er erto to shoulder with the best men in the I world to today lav He was need as a sol sol sol- dier tiler and better as a citizen citizen He has always alwa's been a successful business man Maybe 1 he was a careful even evena a crafty trader But he has been the merchant and the tho banker of the world and that cannot be done without commercial commercial com corn mercial honor and commercial sense The Jew is Is more than most a home person There are arc few rew domestic broils among amons them Jewish women are rarely found In the divorce court Jewish children are arc not in the court There are no in the tho bad houses Jews live well wen They dress their children well They have handsome home adornments pretty prett silver and china and personal jewelry But their married men buy these things for their own wives not for other women Such a people needs no defending |