WHEN the Sunday closing bill was before the Senate recently, Senator Bailey, of Texas, and Money, of Mississippi, defended the rights of Jews to observe the seventh day as the Sabbath. The former gentleman said, in the course of an eloquent speech:
"I have never attempted to discriminate against the Jew, because he has never attempted to discriminate against anybody. Not only so, but no class of people in America are more law-abiding and more thoroly respect the rights of every man than the Jews. That must be said to their honor here and in every other forum. They obey the law more exactly than any other of our fellow citizens; there are fewer of them in the poorhouses than any other race of people."
Senator Money said in part:
"There is no other people on the face of the earth who for thousands of years, without a home, have distinctly preserved their nationality and their features. The Jew of to-day is the same as the Jew of 4,000 years ago in the monumental land of Egypt. But the great crowning monument of the Jew, if I may say it, is that he has preserved his identity through all the changes and revolutions of time. Distressed, persecuted, driven from post to pillar, consigned to obscure countries, and even expelled from countries which he has made to flourish, he has never failed to preserve the original Jewish characteristics."— Detroit News Tribune.