Mr. Speaker. it was left for that broadminded Englishman who wrote so splendidly the Protestant history of England to say. when the Jewish disability act was under discussion in the English Par] iament. that for ages it had been the custom to call these men cursed Jews. dogs of Jews. but that the nation which could boast of Isaiah among its poets and the Maccabees aiong its generals could not be derided by any Englishspeaking people. And when this Knownothing party was raised to limit immigration of Irish Catholics. which wanted to shut out immigrants because of their race and religion. this same broadminded Englishman. in his famous criticism upon Rankes History of the Popes. used this language. which. for cogent force and the swelling grandeur of its sentences. cannot be surpassed: There is not. and there never was on this earth. awork of husan policyso well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that :hurch joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other insti. ition is left standing which carries the mind hack to the times when the smoke . sacrifice rose from the Pantheon. and when camelopards and tigers abounded in the rFlavian amphitheater.
Identified stereotypes
Negative stereotypes of Jewish people as 'cursed Jews' and 'dogs of Jews' are mentioned to be refuted.