The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-20


who had sustained them through unpre-
cedented trials, and guarded them
through unheard of perils. they assumed
the name of Disraeli, name never
born before or since by any other family
in order that their race might be forever
recognized. From this stock sprang the
great Premier, whose own life is more
wondrous tale than that of Alroy, more
splendid romance than Tanered or Bene-
tia. The philantropist, Sir Moses Mon
tefiore, was Sheriff of London, was
knighted by the Queen upon the occasion
of her visit to the city in 1916, ana was
shortly afterwards made baronet. In
1910. with Cremieux, and on several
other occasions, he visited the East in
behalf of the Damascan Hebrews. In 1916,
he persuaded the Emperor Nicholas to
suspend the execution OF an
EDIcT AGAINST THE JEWS,
And was invited to visit Poland to con-
cert measures of relief for his suffering
brethren in that unhappy country. In
1854, he collected funds for the famine
stricken inhabitants of the East, and se-
cured from the Sultan the privilege of
holding real estate in Jerusalem, where
he built poor houses and encouraged in
dustry aud agriculture. In 1868, with
the help of Queen Elizabeth at Madrid,
he procured firman from the Sultan of
Morocco putting his Jewish subjects upon
an equal footing with his Christian ones.
In his SD year, he made his last visit to
Palestine, to assist those who had suf-
fered with the cholera, and whose crops
had been destroyed by locusts. The
next year he went to Bucharest, to
use his influence against the ill
treatment of the Jews of Roumania.
In 1867 he endowed the Jewish College
at Ramsgate in honor of his deceased
wife. On September oath, 1862, he was
presented with the freedom OF the city
of London and valuable present in to-
ken of his benevolence. In Spain Emilio
CASTELAR, ranks with the foremost men of
the age, as an eminent orator and un-
compromising Republican. In 1864 he
founded journal called LA Dem0crG-
eia," in which he developed his social
and political principles. He was
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
In 1866, but escaped into France. In
1868 he returned to Spain, became a
member of the Cortez and q leader of the
Republican party. He is considered the
ablest political orator in Spain, became
Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1873, and
was President of the Spanish Republic
from September 1878, to January 1874.
Once on time, as the fairy tales recite,
William TX, Langrave of Hesse was alb
sorbed in game of chess, behind his
chair, silent and attentive to every move,
stood an unobtrusive Hebrew,
awaiting an audience with the
Prince. The game was going
against VIM, who turning, sud
denly asked, "Do you understand
chess 2" Sufficiently well, your serene
Highness, to induce me, were the game
mine, to castle on the Kings side" That
was master stroke, turning defeat into
victory, and SO delighting the King that
| he said, "You are wise man; he who
can extricate chess-player from such a
difficulty as / was in, must have very
clear head for business" That wary
counsellor was Mayer Anselm Roths-
child, the first great Knight of the Red
Shield; that lucky hint secured to the
banker the use of $40 900, 900 and gen.
erations of financial glory. The success
of the Rothschilds is too well known to
need repetition here; one of that family,
however, was lin 1851 the first Hebrew
to enter the British Parliament, from
which his race had been before exclud-
ed. In that year statute was passed
allowing either house to dispense with
the clause in the oath requiring the mem
ber to swear "upon the true faith of a
Christian" whenever in its opinion the
public interest required it. Proclaimed
in the United States and France, the
rights of the Jews were recognized in
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, parts of
Germany, Canada and Jamaica, and in
1889, throughout Germany, Italy,
Hungary, and finally in Norway and
England. Among their
MOST JEALOUS DEFENDERS
Were the Frenchman Gregoire, the Pole
Czacki, the German Welcker, the Irish
man O'Cennell, the Englishman Lord
John Russell, the italian DAzeglio, and
the Hungarian Eotvos, all Christians;
the Jews by descent Borne and Disraeh,
and the protesting Jews Jacobssohn,
Tugenhold, Riesser, Philipssohn, Mon
tefiore and Cremieux. The revolutionary
movement of 1889 proved the immense
progress of the Jews as well as public
opinion since the days of Mendelssohn
and Lessing. The Jews Cremieux, Good
chaux and Fould minister of State)
were among the ministers of the French
republic. Pincherle was member of
the Provisional Government of Venice.
jacob, of Honigsberg, was leader of the
| opposition in the Berlin Parliament.
Reisser was Vice President of that Of
| Frankfort DR.. Fischhof stood at the
head of affairs in Vienna after the flight
| of the Court. Meisels, the Rabbi of
| Cracow, was elected to the Austrian Diet
by the Polish patriots. Jews were Off
GERS of high rank in the Hungarian
| army, chief of whom was the Adlutant
Freund, afterwards Mahmoud Pasha
during the war in Turkey. And here let
me quote the words of an eloquent East
ern journalist, spoken at the fair given
in aid of the
BALTIMORE HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM:
History records no such wonderful ex-
ample as that of the prescribed Hebrew
race, though weary centuries of exile and
persecution, clinging to the faith of their
fathers, and keeping unsullled the mem
! ory of their former greatness. They have
kept alive the sweet influences of home;
the altar fires of love and affection have
blazed brightly on their family hearths;
virtue and charity have been their watch
words, and in their obedience to moral
and physical laws they have taught les
son to more pretentious people, who,
while claiming a greater degree of
progress and intelligence, have
had their social systems stain
ed with dark blots of evil.
Literature, science, art and politics
stand indebted to them, charity and
beneicence have spread wherever they
have found a home, and to-day We feel
that they have conduced to the prosper
ity of the Republic, and may be looked
upon as factor that will help to bring
about the era for which we all so earnest
ly long-that of universal peace and
God-like liberty. To-day the world
contains about 5,500,000 Hebrews.
Through the blessing of God, their long
night of sorrow seems to have drawn to
close, and the glorious spirit of the
nineteenth century, addressing them in
cheering accents. exclaims, '' Veritds, ros
iiberabur"-the truth shall make you
free.
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