Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES.

JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Something About Their Aggregate
Numbers, Their distribution. and
Their Occupation.
1t will surprise good many people to
be told that there are not more than
go, coo Jews in this country. or one to
every 20 Of the population. The COM
mon error in regard to their numbers is
probably due to the fact that most Jews
are engaged in active business, in mer-
chandising or banking, and are estab-
lished in the principal streets in our
great cities, where they are constantly
under the public eye. The recent
exodus from Russia has also con
tributed to give exaggerated notions of
their multitude. According to the cen ;
sus of 1850 there are $50, 9S4 Jews in the
United States. The emigration from
Russia has added some 1900 to the
number, so that the Jewish population
OF the country may be estimated as
above, at about $50, 900. The Russian
Jews are strictly orthodox, close Observ-
ers to the rites and ceremonies Of their
ancient religion, while the great MAORI
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attachment to the religion of their an
cestors, and are Hebrews only In race.
OF the 60, 600 Jews in the city of New
York not more than 5 per cent belong
to the synagogues, so that in the matter
of religion the Russian Jews are further
removed from their relatives who came
to this country from Germany and Aus
tria than the latter are from Christians.
Of the total number of Jews in the
United States New York has 8O,51S
Pennsylvania, 10000. Illinois, 1925 ;
California, 1850, and Ohio, 1851
these five States containing more than
half the Jews of the entire country.
There are are 1O, 337 Jews in Maryland,
8, 500 in Massachusetts, 1858 in Louisi.
lana, 1880 in Missouri, 1888 in New
Jersey, and the rest are scattered over
the country. busily plying trade, from
Maine to Oregon. More than two thirds
of all the Jews of tine country are con-
gregated in the principal cities. New
York contains $4,000; San Francisco,
$1,000; Brooklyn, 14.0O1; Philadelphia,
1900; Chicago, $4,000; Baltimore, TO-
GOO Cincinnati. 5000; Boston, 1000;
st. Louis, $500; New Orleans, 5000 ;
Cleveland. $500; Newark, $500, and
SO on down the list. The attachment of
the Jews to trade and banking, which
necessarily attracts them to large cities,
is a remarkable instance of the perpetual
ton of traits when forced in certain
direction. The ancient dwellers in Pal
estine we're shepherds and farmers, and
their attachment to pastoral and agri-
cultural life is abundantly attested in
their poetry. But Christian persecu-
ton left them in Europe no pursuits but
merchandising, banking and money
lending. Until comparatively modern
times Jews were rot permitted to own
real estate in Christian cour tries. They
could enter neither of the learned
professions nor be apprenticed in
any of the guilds of mechanics be-
causeof the Christian prejudices against
their race. OF necessity, therefore,
their pursuits were narrowed to
merchandising and money-lending until
they have become by the law of evolu-
ton the bankers of the world. The
hostility to the Jews that has recently
manifested itself in Germany, to say
nothing Of the prosecutions to which
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barbarian Russians, is due in about equal
degree to their superior skill in business
and to the iberality of their politics.
In former times Christian Kings applied
the thumb-screw and the rack to extort
from the Jew banker revelation of the
hiding place of his treasure, and thus
obtain a forced loan. But we have
changed all that now. Nowadays the
rulers OF nations go to tie Jewish cap
italists Of London and Paris and ask
them to put loan on the market, and
wars are made and cities are bombarded
by Christian fleets to enforce payment.
1t was not surprising when it was an
nounced some time ago from London !:
''Little doing Oh Change to-day, as it
is Jewish holiday" Christian per-
secutions have made, in long process
of ti1ae, the descendants Of the shep-
herds and peasant farmers of Judea the
money-lenders of the world. Nothing
else was left for them. After awhile,
under the operation of the perfect social
and political freedom OF the United
States, and the constant process OF as
sanitation, the pursuits of the Jews will
take as vide a range as those of the rest
OF their fellow-countrymen.-Phita-