aceful people in the world. They come the nearest to
acting on the theory of the Golden Rule, of any class of people, and
they are about the only people that will turn the other cheek, when hit
on the jaw. They have been assailed for thousands of years, until they
look upon being ostracised and trodden upon as one of the things they
must expect, and they don't kick half as much as they ought to. If they
had the enthusiasm and the fighting qualities of the Irish, they would
take blackthorn clubs and mow a swath through France wide enough for an
army to march over. Why don't you fellows wait until the Jews map out a
plan of campaign, and then follow them? It is no dead sure thing that if
the people of other countries boycotted France, that they would not
ruin more Jews than Frenchmen, as the Jews are in business that the
Exposition will make or break, while the French just sit around and
drink absinthe and shout 'viva la armee!' Don't you see you may ruin the
very people you want to help? Then, stop and think of another thing.
It is not many months ago that a Jew cadet at West Point was hazed and
abused and ostracised by the other cadets, and had his life made such a
burden that he had to resign and go home, heart-broken to a heart-broken
mother. That was almost as bad as the Dreyfus case as far as it went.
How can the President boycott France for abusing Jews when our own army
officers, that are to be, have shown a meanness that will size up pretty
fairly with the French army devils. I'll tell you, boys, what you do.
Let your sympathy go out to Dreyfus, and all his people, but don't go
off half-cocked. Wait until the representative Jews of this country
decide what it is their duty to do in this case, and then join them, and
help them, whether it is to fight or to pray. If they conclude to sit
down, and look sorry, and turn the other cheek, and be swatted some
more, you be sorry also. If they decide to get on their ears, and fight,
with money, or guns, or boycott, you do as you like about helping them
out. But if you read, in a day or two, that France has borrowed a few
more millions of Rothschild, to pay off these officers who have
persecuted Dreyfus, you can make up your minds that it is a good deal
like our politics here at home, mighty badly mixed. Now you go and get
me a wash basin of hot soft water, and some rags, and I will clean this
gun, and you disband your army, and appoint a good Jew for colonel, and
when he say