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LEO M. FRANK. 308

‘we arrested Gantt, when we arrested Lee, when we arrested
others? No, the prejudica came when wo arrested this mau,
and never until he waa arrested was there a ory of prejudice.

Those gentlemen over there were disappointed when we did
not pitch our case along that line, but not a word emanated
from this side, showing any prejudice on our part, showing
any feeling against Jew or Gentile.

‘We would not have dared to come into this presence and ask
the conviction of a man because he was a Gentile, a Jew or
anegro. Oh, no two men ever had any greater pleasure shown
on their faces than did Mr, Arnold and Mr, Rosser when they
started to question Kendley and began to get before the court
something ebout prejudice against the Jews. They seized
with avidity the suggestion that Frank was a Jew.

Remember, they put it before this court, and we did not;
the word Jew never escaped our lips. I say that the race this
man comes from ia 28 good es ours; his forefathers were civil. -
ized and living in cities and following laws when cura were
roaming at large in the forest and eating human flesh. I say
his race is just as good as ours, but no better. I honor the race
that produced Disracli, the greatest of British statesmen;
that produced Jadah P. Benjamin, as great a lawyer as Eng-
land or America ever saw; I honor the Strauss brothers; I
roomed with one of his raca at college; one of my partners is
is of his race. I served on the board of trustees of Grady hoa-
pital with Mr, Hirsch, and I know others, too many to count,
but when Lientenant Becker wished to make away with his
enemies, he sought men of this man’s race.

Then, you will recall Abe Hummel, the raseally lawyer, and
Renff, another scoundrel, and Schwartz, who killed a little girt
in New York, and seores of others, and you will find that this
great race is ag amenable to the same laws as any others of the
white race or as the black race is. .

‘They rise to heights sublime, but they aleo sink to the low-
est depths of degradation!

We don’t ask a conviction of this man except in conformity
with the Jaw which His Honor will give you in charge, His |

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