The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-07-19

ruptcyF Shame on you not on
them. Is it true that they have
among them many who are untrust-
worthy? l suppose they must he
the only people on Gods earth any
portion of whom are not trust
worthy! Now suppose there are
Jews that are sometimes tempted of
the devil; suppose there are crafty
men among the Jews; but believe
that for their numbers there are
fewer such men among them than
among us, and that of men OF high
and honorable dealing with enor-
nous interests at stake, of trust
worthy men in the administration
of affairs, they have more in pro
portion to their numbers than our
own or any other race-stock, in this
or any other land.
If, then, you look upon their ge-
MUS, upon their antiquity, upon
their early and continuing services,
upon the legacy which they have
given to the gentle ..worlas upon
their fidelity TO their faith, upon
their heroism, upon their industry,
upon their enterprise, and upon
their substantial integrity, they are
of all people under the sun the last
that should be insulted, either by
retail or by wholesale. And if in
all the world you had sought for a
place in which to base an insult for
mere race you could not have found
another where it would have been so
disreputable as in America, where
the race spirit is opposed to our
fundamental Interpretation of relig-
ion not only, but of morality and of
civic economy. But of all places in
America where society attempts to
keep its garments free from cotact
with the vulgar people, think of
hotel; and of all hotels a thousand
room hotel in Saratoga! Listen, .
ye astonished people: where for
fifty years North and south and East
and West have come together, and
been instructed, sometimes by min
listers and sometimes by Morrlsseys
and where every form of pleasurable
vice, every sort of amusement,
everything that would draw custom,
has been common-there, in Sara
toga, the Corinth of America, in a
hotel designed to accommodate two
thousand people, it seems society
is so developed that it will not con-
sent to go unless everybody that
comes is fit to associate with men
who made their money yesterday, or
few years ago, selling Goldfish!
What is society in American 1t is
a disposition to be independent -
The power of a man to take care of
himself and his family by his own
wit and industry-that makes a man
respectable in so far as economies
is concerned; and it is not in good
tatste for a man that inherits all his
money, and does not earn n dollar
himself, TO reproach men who have
not a dollar that they did not earn
themselves. OF all people in crea
tion the Hebrews least deserve the
ban, the finger of scorn, the ostra
cism, of polite society. The trouble
is, men have not been to school
enough to learn the decency which
belongs TO the instruction Of the
Jews, to their institutions, and to
their fundamental ideas of manhood
and religion.
Are these people aiding or are
they quenching civilization in our
land? Are they bearing their part
in the advance of knowledge IN
America? Are they educating their
children? Are they publishing
hooks and newspapers2 Are they
opening synagogues? Are they the
corrupters of morality? Is it in the
Jewish family that the monstrous
spawn is bred that degrades Chris
tian hoaseholds2 1t was left for
Christian reformers TO unloose the
bands and throw open the door
to every foul solicitation and every
base temptation that plays about
every household in the land. Are
the Jews remiss In rearing their
children in those elements of educa-
tion and training which go to make
a character distinguished for virtue,
integrity and manhood?
Are they in our poor housesY In
which, Are they in our jails?-
Where2 Are they in our reforma.
tories? Point them out. Do their
women defle our streets? You can
not find another people in America
among whom the social virtues are
more vigorously taught and OBJ
served than among the Israelites.
Exceptions there are, but their
are such as l have |
represented them to be. They are
a temperate people, and we largely !
tend to be a lascivIous people
They are a people excessively care
full of their children, and there is n |
great laxity among us in the educa-
tion Of the household. We may |
well take lessons, of them. They |
were the schoolmasters Of our ia |
theirs, and we may well go to school |
to the same masters.
They are becoming landowners
in America, by reason Of the liber.
ty and toleration which reign here
and as land owners those very pc
culiarities which made them often
sive at other times are dropping |
away from them. There can be no /
question that the Jewish race stock,
if it De suffered in the largest spirit |
of true Christianity TO have its way, /
will merge with the American stock |
During all the two thousand years
in which the Jews have been wan
derers on the globe, persecuted and
there has been no induce
ment for them to invest their money
in landed estates, and their property
has been Of a movable kind; but
they are now buying land in Amer
lea and i tell you the land that
people stand on forms them more
than they form the land by their
agriculture; and more among us
than anywhere else they become
citizens. They come here % live
and stay; and their children will IN
termarry with ours; their blood will
flow into the common stream with
ours; and e their virtues might be