Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
Can He Beat the Jews !

censu, IN Prussia recently and IL trans
pires that out Of some GOO bankers in
Berlin, the sons Of Jacob own more than
500. In towns or cities where there are
200 merchants, loo OF them belong to
the cNiled race. While the umsuspecting
Teuton was drinking his beer and
smoking his mecrschaum Mordecai was
pocketing and sailing down all the
money in the Kingdom. The Germans
are more alarmed than were the Califor-
mans over the heather Chinee. win
Bismarck drive out the Jews from
Deutchland9 The Egyptians, a long
time ago, tried this plan, and the refu-
gees borrowed gold and silver, all they
could Of their neighbors. and left full
handed, and so they spoiled the Egyp-
tians The Prussian Jews have in their
possession far the largest part of the
precious metals in The kingdom, and be
sure ii they are expelled thence they
will not leave their gods behind them.
/ The jew in Europe and Asia is always
in the ,nnc condition he was when he
eat his first passover. with his staff in
his hand and his pack on his back, filled
with gold diamonds and precious
/ stones, embrionic riches Of little bulk,
ready to leave one county and 60 to an
other at a moments warning. Not al
/ lowed to take rest in the soil or cult
waite local attachments, he fixed his
heart and his eye Oh gold and silver,
whatever was portable. large in value
hut little in size and weight He be-
longed to no country the world was
his iilbert and he seized the kernel and
left the she'll to his prosecutors. lie
lived on little; never a spend-thrift In
this respect he was like oul dreaded
Chinaman. His great ancestor, Jacob,
was an adept in the art of accumula-
tione and by a cunning and hardly an
honest artiticc nc quite bankruptcd his
fGther-m-law in a cattle transaction, and
he and his mother cheated Esau out of
his birth-right. Anthropologists pre-
sent this a. an instance to prove that
the moral as well as physical traits of
the progenita will follow his descend
ants for generations; in fact until that
race is extinct The jew had the adj
vantage four thousand years ago Of a
teacher and legislator infinitely superior
10 Bismarck. twas "Amram' SON that
taught his nation what they should eat
and drink, their frequent additions, their
personal cleanliness, the idea of spirit
ual existence without form or parts, by
whom the Heavens and Earth were ere
ated lie taught them what virtues they
should practice what vice, hey should
abhor. The bond of their nationality
was not territory or locality Il human
constitution il was belief in the adj
ventof soue great leader. and They have
followed this promise for thousands of
years, :, cloud ~ la, and pillar of
fire by night. through ali vicissitudes
and prosecutions, unhcard-of cruelty
and oppression until the liberalitv Of
modela times hats given them an oppor-
tunity 10 manifest their peculiar traits,
capacity ard genius. Il must be remem-
bered that Christ and his apostles were
Jews, and regarded rs men; we see that
this race ha, furnished the faith the
reeds, the song. Of worship Of Christen-
dC m. History will show too. that be-
fore the birth Of Christ, they always oc-
cupied positions near the throne .Jo-
sepl wa, second in Pharaoh ! Kingdom.
Mordecai ~upplanted Hannah in the Per-
sian Court. Daniel virtually swayed the
>eePtrc of the Chaldcan as well as the
Mede. The position that Disraelli now
occupies in England his predecessors
filled among the ancient nations
II will be hard for Bismarck to crush
. people Of such an ancestry. of such an
education and such a capacitA 1t would
be- all right could he persuade all the
Germans to become Jews 1t is inipos-
sibIc to persuade the Jews to become
hri,iianS We read the PRESBYTERIAN
Missionary Society lay out in one year
$4,000 in the conversion of the jews.
The result Wa, one half-converted jew
and ON, -erio'l, enquirer. That board
gave il up There Is somehow vitality
in the Jewish ideas OF religion, that rem
der, it immortal. Neither fire can con
sumo it, OF water drown, OF sword or
ta%ot eXtinguish it
But We predict one result \ severe
old-fashioned persecution Of the Jews
in Germany will be the means Of driy-
ing them all TO America the Rothschilds
included We shall not object; the
treasure OF the ages will then be here.