New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-16
THE HEBREW IN Politics.
Gold,rin SmfM hl Inc Ninclec,.M ColiTN

GoIdriu smith ~ The Nineteenth Cc'tUN
There is general curiosity, NOT u1in!n-i'I WIN
anxiety to know what course IN po.luc7 lEo gu
franchised jew will take. lie II everywhere max
ING his way into the political arena. Which Ihuc,u
under the system Of party golrrn"'n, SulI l'l'
traditional habits almost as well a. ihr stock cN-
change. 4 money power Is SIRE IN me mann 10 uc
conservative, and tie inclination at JrNl>h "raIth
IN fine side of reaction IN England an nthrF Coul-
tries is already becoming apparent IooT jews VIII
lie found IN the revolutionary, ana even ~ lIc
socialist. camp. But III whatever camp The jew II
fnuud nc will be apt for some me unless the
doctrine Of hcredIty is utterly false to retain th'
habits formed durng eighteen centuries "l ltiHc-
rant existence. without a country. aud under or
cumstanccs which rendered cunning. hupi"tht's,
onI intri.ruc almost ~ necessary weapons II soil
defence i'm his case ~ the sword ana tIlc dlrc were
i'm the case of the cudal soldier lie Will Ice often
disnuscd To study the spirit OF the age much ~
Inc studies the stoch list and 10 turn the kno"c.dgc
10 his own proh IN he same way. II J., very likely
that ne may sometimes outrun and ovcract national
sentiment or even national passion, which he does
not himself share. This Is one OF Tie dangerous
liabilities of his character as q statesman. 1t
might have been sup oScd that the Jews, having
been for so many centuries shut out lrom military
life, would hc free from mllltarsm indeed a high
rank in civilization has been plau-ibly cIlmcd Tor
them on that ground. Yet jewish statesman got
M JinuoI,m much rs he wOuld have got up a
snccuIgtiye mania for "A commercial purpose and
his consuming patriotism threw quite INTO the
shade that OF men who, though opposed to Jingosn
would have gwen their lives for the country.
Amono the ablCst aud most active organizers of
that rebellion IN the United states winch cost "a
thousand millions sterling and half million of
lives was a jewish Senator from Louisiana who
when the crash came, unlike the other leaders
went oil 10 push his fortune elsewhere. There was
no particular reason why lie should not 30 So beng
as he was, "A member Of a cosmopolitan race; but
there was n particular reason why the people who
had no other country should receive his couhscls
with caution III question ot national NE or death.
4 poitical advcnturcT will not be spaGlng of that
which i'm the pride Of Jewish superiority he regards
az " gutter blood" Joseph. being the Prime Min
lister of Pharaoh displays his statecratt for the
hot ton tffFt Ia
ADVANTAGE of the niece ssites OF the people in time
of famine for the purpose OF getting thom To sur
render their frcchods into the royal hands. lie
would no doubt have played the game OF an aTistoC-
racy or even of q democracy IN the same spirit.
though his natural taste ias an Oriental, would
lead him if possible to be the yzi' OF an absolute
tnonarch There are some who think that the
Hebrew adventurcr, with a ccol head aud cool
heart may he specially useful as mediator be-
tween heated political parties. and Tcconcllcr Of
the interests which they rcprecnt. But this is
surely n condemnation of party rather than recon-
incubation Of the Hebrew. Mr.. Ollphant. in the
work to which reference has already been made,
proposes that Palestine should be restored To the
Jew with some Of the vacant country adjoining
and IT appears that this plan is not unlikely 10 bo
carried into effect. The restoration OF Their own
land may have the same good Influence upon the
jews which il has had upon the Greeks. II il not
likely that of those now settled IN the West any
considerable number would ever turn then
stems eastward We know the anccdote Of the
Partisan Jew who said that If the kingdom Ct
Jerusalem was restored he should ask for the am
bassadOrshp NJ IaIlS; Dut Tue "tsJWaIu HOW OIL
migration might be checked, and from the eastern
parts of Europe where the relations OF the Jews to
the native population very bad, some Of them
light return to their own land. Mr.. Oliphant
seems 20 have little hope Of seeing the Jews, even
i'm Palestine take TO husbandry, and proposes that
thew should be the landowners. and that the land
should be titled for them by "fellahs." We must
assume that fcilahs convinced of the Validity OF
the 'Jews' claim to exemption from the ndignity
of manual labor will be found, But necessity
would in time compel the jew once more TO handle
the plough. The situation at all events would be
DISPATCHES about religious liberation would that
Israel is not sect but tribe, and that the diff
entity with which they have TO deal arises not merely
from difference of opinion, any anlnosties pro
duced by it, 1t IRON consecrated exclusiveness Of