Posted by Richard Rogers on Thursday, January 05, 2006 at 10:11PM :
In Reply to: Re: neo nazi thought.. dodge content posted by Ragnar on Thursday, January 05, 2006 at 3:40PM :
I have not the knowledge to opine whether the Dodge Boys were jewish - So what if they were? In 1899, Mark Twain - a Gentile - wrote the following in Harpers Magazine:
Evaluation of the Jew, by Mark Twain
"The Jew is not a disturber of the peace in any country. Even his enemies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not noisy, he is not a brawler nor a rioter, he is not quarrelsome.
In the statistics of crime, his presence is conspicously rare in all countries. With murder and other crimes of violence, he has but little to do. He is a stranger to the hangman. In the police court's daily roll of "assaults" and "drunks" and "disorderly's," his name seldom appears.
That the jewish home is a home in the truest sense, is a fact that no one will dispute. The family is knitted together by the strongest affections; its members show each other every due respect, and reverence for the elders is an inviolate law of the house.
The Jew is not a burden on the charities of the State nor of the City. These could cease from their functions without affecting him. When he is well enough, he works. When he is incapacitated, his own people take care of him, and not in a poor and stingy way, but with the finest and largest benevolence. His race is entitled to be called the most benevolent of all the races of men.
A Jewish beggar is not impossible. Perhaps such a thing may exist, but there are few men who can say that they have seen that spectacle. The Jew has been staged in many uncomplimentary forms, but so far as I know, no dramatist has done him the injustice to stage him as a beggar.
Whenever a Jew has real need to beg, his people save him from the necessity of doing it. The charitable institutions of the Jews are supported by Jewish money, and amply. The Jews make no noise about it; it is done quietly. They do not nag and pester and harass us for contributions, they give us peace, and set us an example which we have not found ourselves able to follow.
To conclude: --- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him.
He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. What is the secret of his immortality?"
Richard W. Rogers
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