Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THAT BOGEY MANTHE JEW This little book is not by way of being a’‘ propaganda.“ I was impelled to write it merely because taking up the gauntlet in behalf of the fellow who is receiving the punches is a sort of psychic habit into which I have fallen. I confess, too, that I am inclined to flare up a bit when anybody hurts the amour propre of my friendsand I have many among the Jews, whom I am proud to know. There are many Jews whom I do not, and never could, likebut, taking the social field by and large, I have met a lot of Gentiles that have not precisely appealed to mealthough I believe that I am as loyal to my race as are most people. Speaking metaphorically, I shall spank the Jew, now and then, in apurely impersonal and friendly way and in no pharisaical spirit. In a strictly impartial way, one can hold the mirror up to the other fellow without thereby claimingeven tacitlycosmetic perfection for himself. Those among the Jews whom I admire and like, appeal to me, neither because of nor despite their being Jews. Their race receives no more consideration at my hands than does the cut of their clothes or their political complexionand yet, I confess that I am imbued with a fair share of what often passes for race prejudice, which, in the last analysis, as applied to inter- Caucasian antipathies, is not race prejudice at all, but merely race egotism, often admixed with clashing self-interests of one kind or another, religious bigotry and intolerance. These various antagonistic things are by no means one-sided. The Jew possibly entertains more than his shareof these human failings, for which he pays a price that is entirely too high. The Jew is not always more sinned against than sinning, and has in his own hands the remedies for many of the afflictions and affr…
