The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-31

and that hencefoitl no Jew shall
travel on his road or enter his hote'.
Corbin evidently would have hiss hotel
and railway gratuitousIy advertised as
was Hilton's at Saratoga, when Selig-
man was foolish enough to resent,
through the press and public meetings.
social indignity. This was ali that
Hilton wal ted. Let the Hebrews make
the world believe that IIilton's is the
central seat OF American exclusiveness,
and the vulgar mob of parvenues and
shoddy sristocrscy, born of thefts and
speculations levied upon the woes of
patriotism, will be gathered there and
Hilton is enriched as few have been by
Hebrew folly. Even so OF the tavern
keeper at Coney Island. He would
turn away Lord Bsaconefield or Crem-
ieux or the Hebrew Senator from Lou
isiana, or the accomplished Judah P.
Benjamin, the brains OF tae JEFF Davis
government, that he may be advertised
at the cost of the Jews. But then we
were taught lesson by Seligmsn's
folly and HIlton's cunning, and these
Sunday junketers from New York city
will hardly undertake to resent an out
rage as the Coney Island tavern keeper
would have them. Esc!i mans house is
his castle, and though the law may
compel taverG-keeper to entertain
every clearly, sober person who prof
fers the cost, it would be most unwise
for the Jews 10 gain by law rights al
ready won by native decencg and good
conduct, aud therefore We may have
everywhere rival Hebrew hotels, out
vicine those managed by exclusive, ig-
norAnt Americans.
Not many days ago, learned rabbis
Of the Hebrew faith, sitting in council
in the East, advised the Jews to un.
deitile the cultivation OF the soil,
even rs in this occupation their fathers
once excelled all the nat ons. The
race furnish the best merchants and
bankers Of the world. Would not the
same fXedness of purpose and shrewd-
ness and tact and tircless toll and re-
lentless economy make the Hebrews
the beat agriculluralists mankind has
known! Would the Hebrew plant one
crop each year, to he destroyed by the
drought IN the valley of the Colorado,
when by irrigating his farm he could
make two crops GOO per cent with
absolute certainty TO make the cent
per cent. there is no task that Hebrew
genius, toll and energy will not
achieve. Would Hebrews burn cedar
wood, costing five dollars per cord,
when there are fires denuding the
mountains at this very hour, when the
Cuero and Indianola road, extended to
Austin, would furnish Bastrop coal at
five dollars per ton and when the
northwestern narrow gauge would cup
ply ''Pittsburg" coal at six dollars? But
Hebrews adhere to occupations that af-
feet personal property alone, because
vulgar prejudices of former ages ex-
cluded them from the ownership OF
realty which could not be instantly
converted into gold and concealed.
There is no reason why Hebrews should
not prosper here "a shepherds and
herdsmen as in Bethlehem. II
they respect the injunctions of
their learned advisers who recent
ly commended this policy, they
will excel as agriculturslists, just as
they are most skillful and prosperous
of tradesmen. Tavern-keepers will
then draw their choicest supplies from
Hebrew gardeners, and one skillful,
intelligent, active Hebrew farmer in
each neighborhood, by his very exam
pie and energy, will revolutionize its
habits and make the country blossom
as the rose. Tavern-keepers, like Hill
ton and this fellow Corbin at Coney
Island, will not then be enabled to war
upon race peculiar of itself and the
more in its business habits. These will
be so diversified that the Hebrew will
lose much of that distinctiveness,
springing from drummers' hotel habits
condemned by Corbin and Hilton.