The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-13

Jews, " as a GLASS" were denied the
right of Insurance in their companies,
because Of their well known dishon-
esty? Aud one of the principle
Democratic papers IN the United
States, the New York Herald, defend
ed the measure in the following ef-
+ fectiVe manner:
IN considering the Jew question. facts
mast not be lost sight OF. IL is a fact that
on . Jew risks 1t Is a fact that about
forty per cent. of the fraud cases are on
Jew risks The statistics OF Insurance
companies doing an agency and general
business, establish these facts beyond con-
tTogeTsy.
It4s another fact tina Jew risks /" are
+ confined almost exclusively 10 the trading
and merchandise classes, and these COM
prise less than oue-haff the whole nufnber
+ OF risks written. II is a further fact, that
the Jew population Of the United states is
less than two II p hundred persons, and
( the loss cases and the frau cases should
sfand "a that proportion. What are the
facts2 Instead Of two IN each one hun
dTeds they reach ten IN each hundred Of
the losses ana forty in each hundred OF the
frauds; that il. Observing the ratios, five
jew losses and twenty jew frauds to one
Gentle: or. fu~ciudelIhe lew element ia
Ethe whole number of risks written, as be-
fore stated, and o have ten Jew losses
and forty jew frauds to one Gentle. You
cannot gei away from THESE results, unless
arithmetic is a lie.
l. HIS AACdCuLG hdC AU4uu necessary
because Irresponsible and itinerant
Jews, "as a class 7 would effect an
Insurance on their goods, secretly dis
pose of them and set ere to and burn
up their buildings in order to secure
the insurance, by which profound
game they made thousands of dollars.
The gentlemen who have replied with
so much ylgor in the Evansville pa
pers to our other article, may be ex-
ceptions to the general rules charac-
t~eristic of this people, but they might
as well try to change the current Of
the ocean as to successfully contradict
the verdict of mankind in this par
tieular. They would succeed far bet
ter If they would undertake to instill
honest principles in the minds of their
children, instead of teaching them to
despise Christians because they be
heye that Christ was the true Messiah.
The assertion that JEWS ARR DEMO
Gratis, Is, like all other rules, sub
jectt to exceptions, and we are glad to
note the exceptions in the city of Ey-
ansville.
Buta Democratic Jew is the rule,
and a Republican Jew the exception,
unless we are greatly mistaken, aud
We don't believe even the amiable Mr..
L%owenstine, who so powerfully ac-
cuses us of writing all those low
and sneaking capacities, will deny
this.
We said we never heard ola jew
ish soldier during the war on either
side. This we reassert. And since
this matter has created such an obi
Gus stink among these men with
keen black eyes and curly hair; men
who sells dings sheap," as the n. Y.
Heratd der,sigely says of the Jews,
we have talked with several men,
both Republicans and Democrats,
who. served In the Federal and Rebel
armies during the war, who uniformal-
~ cOrroborate our own experience. La
attempting to contradict this state
ment, Mr.. Lowenstein refers to five
Jews who were soldiers in the Fed
eral army from the city of Evansville
not mentioning the Jews who par
ticipated in the 100 days service")
aud then concludes, without fear of
successful contradiction" that COM
paratively more Jews have served in
the rank and file of our armies, than
of any other nationality or creed"
Well, Mr.. LoWenstein to the contrary Z
nevertheless, we do know that the alb
sence of Jewish soldiers in the West
ern armies was a notorious fact and
often the subject of remark by both
officers aud men. But when we come
to the army vultures," we do know
that the Jews were largely repre-
sented.
IF the article which has given such
lively Offense to these illiterate. seaV<
engers, who, In their desperation,
have been exceedingly successful in
numbering the English language, had
contained nothing but notorious lies,
as 1t Is frantically urged, it would
have probably OccasIoned little or no
comment, but the truth, which 50
often, for poliey's sake Is sighted, in
this instance had a telling effect.
The Evansville journal patroniz-
ingly reminds the public that the
article IS merely the expression Of an
individual, and he alone and not the
Republican party Is responsible for
1t. We thank the Journal for its
goodness. We don't want the Re-
publican party to be held responsible
for u opinions. We did not aim to
particularly express the opinion of
the Republican party; but whether
we aimed to express a Republican
opinion OF not, we did express mainly
the opinion of the civilized world
(%ineludIng the churches to which the.
editors Of the Journal belong), with
the exception perhaps of the Journal
and the Jews.
We are not of those who believe in /.
catering to doctrines antagonistic to
acceDted and ciViliZed Christianitv tn =