Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-29
JEWS OF NEW YORK.
Hosts of Israel Who ars Victorious
in Business.
Hebrew Wealth. Energy. Influence
and Success Young Mem and
Na!cens---The Causes OF
Success.
u. 3. Ralnh in San Francisco Chronicle

table New Jerusalen-a city full OF Jews.
You seem to meet Jews or be reminded of
tslenl wherever you turn. Take Broadway,
for instance. You notice that nearly all the
signs bear foreign names, and that while
some are Irish, some Polish, some French or
Italian, the great majority are German Look
again and you see that nine-tenths of the
Germans are German Jews. You can tell
that by the faces in the doorways, and there
are Jews, too. under the signs bearing the
names of either nationalities. Turn down
one block to Church street, thu main thor
oughfare of the great dry goods district,
with its towering piles Of marble, iron, and
brownstone, holding such treasure that a
fire scarcely ever destroys a building there
without its being reckoned a million-dollar
confagration. There are 1896, 100000 of in
surance risks on that little district.
THE HOSTS OF ISRAEL.
Why, you say to yourself, nearly every
face in the stores is Jews face-nearly
every firms sign is made up Of Jews names.
See the great palaces Of the elothiers, the
biggest and showiest stores ia the metropolis
seven in ten ara owned by jews. What
raft of Jews there is on Wall street, with the
great house of Seligman at their head. What
q hold the Jews have on the amusement
trade, from Rudolf Aronson, the musical
caterer, and Theodore Moss, treasurer of
Wallack's theatre, down to the firm Of Morris
& Hickman of the principal Bowsry museum.
What scores of rich Jew lawyers there are.
What place the Jews held in the brewing
trade. Why, there is a noted Jew pugilist;
there are several Jew burglars; the biggest
receiver Of stolen goods in the United States
is Mother Mandelbaum, a Jswess, and Ru-
dolph, the billiard expert, is a jew. Two
daily morning newspapers belong to Jews
and every daily paper numbers Jews among
its editors and reporters. Everybody who
buys pack of playing cards anywhere in
the United States pays tribute to Jew, a
Mr. Cohen. The great markets are full of
Jews ard the big east-gide slaughter house
district is wholly composed of Jews. The
most singular street in New York, Division
street, which presents a long line Of millinery
stores side by side, without any other sorts of
stores to interrupt the singular array, is ex-
clusively street Of Jews
CITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
Lexington avenue, one Of the choicest resi-
dence streets of the city, lined with fine
houses, is Jews street, and the adjacent
blocks Of the side streets are almost given I'D
to Jews What sort of firm went bankrupt
the other day and gave about 81 .O0O, 900
preference to creditors-the largest sum of
preferred credits ever fixed upona A Jew
cloth house. Who married the fat woman.
a Jew boy. Jews have built churches here
hardly surpassed in cost or beauty There is
no more liberal, extensive or noble charity
than the Jewish hospital, the Mount Sinai
NO class spends more to support the opera
or to make art flourish here than the Jews.
don't care where you 20 or what you do in
New York, whether it be TO walk or ride, to
shop or visit, buy or sell, t. be amused or
fed, you viii re sure to meet Jews at your
elbows, by your side, behind the counters,
the desk, the box Offices, in police uniforms,
clubs-you had better quis Nav York if you
have got any silly prejudice against the
chosen people Of Ged.
WHY THEY sgCCEED.
Yet all this effect is produced by about
100000 Jews. 1t is less than one-tenth of the
population that has managed to assert itself
SO as to stamp New York as the Jews para
disc. It has happened that there are dozen
reasons why Jews should remain with US. e.
tablish industries, build homes, found chart
ties, mingle with Christians and identify
themselves with Gotham as they have not
done with any other city in the world except
London. They have como to New York
because it is the business centre and aror,ls
the most opportunities for turning over and
making msney. Thsy have put themselves
forward as they have not done else
where, even in London, not only because
this is the principal city in free conn
try, without any established church of
its own, but because they have found that
whatever pTejudices may exist against them
in the minds of individuals, there is 40 gen
eral or popular expression of that feeling.
We New Workers, whether we be Jews or
Gentiies, are very fond Of saying that there is
no public spirit here. Nobody cares what
blcckheads or scoundrels are elected to form
our city government; nobody cares Whistler
We have the Bar.holdi statue of Lib
erty" or not; nobody cares whether
Central park is being neglected or
beautified; nobody cares whether our har-
Dor is being gradually filed up with the
garbage our servants are too lazy or corrupt
to carry out to sea; nobody in New York
cares for anybody but himself ''Rurrah for
me, and you go to the devilr' is the motto OF
the New Yorker. Everybody says that OF Us
and we have little doubt that it is true
INFLUENTIAL JEWS.
Well, see how that works in the case OF =
Jew. If be settles down in an inland country
town the children boot him in the streets and
peg stones at his store windows His custom
is confined to the poor and Ignorant, to whom
he sells the lowest grades Of goods at the low
est line of prices There is 70 Christian door
open to aim, no Christian hand extended
towards him, and at the same time there is
10 jewish community with its Hebrew
tongue and synagogue to make him feel that
he belongs to body of influence with COM
mon iatc,est % bind it together. Let him
come to New York. Nobody VII boot at
him or stone his windows That Is fhs fate of
the latest xnd NEST odd a.d weakest conner
the Shinansa- A Jew does not at
txast sstsstisa. A hundred Of them
with bags On their baes and
boards to their waists, all walking
together up Broadway, would NOT
excite rsrnark. Our Jew son sees that and
walks Hsrs proudly and goes ebout his
work with mere confidence. Next he finds
his fellow-Jsws honored IN every CONNER
cicl calling Es finds them lavish and they
take him into splendid homes, let him share
pews with thsm in palatial synagogues
on Murray Ell. he reads the names of
Jews ameag the guests at pEbhc dinners.
Ho sabcczibss 70 Jews newspapers, gets
Jews Esat with ease wherever he
may live, ruzs across Jews everywhere