Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-24

suit to injury, this very fact has been
thrown up TO them. Whether England
became a "nation Of shop.keepers"
through her own narrow laws, would be
an interesting subject Of investigation.
Later on, when these barriers we're re-
moved we find them working successfully
in the arts and sciences, and among these
the Montefores distinguishing them
selves.
"Moses Montefore received com
mercial training, and was admitted to
membership In the Stock Exchange. In
1912 he married Judith, daughter of l..
b. Cohen, Esq., and the sister OF judith
united the Montefiore and Rothschlld
families by becoming the wife of Nathan
Meyer Rothschild. In 1914 he was
elected Gabay (or treasurer) of the Portu.
guese synsgogue, and in 1924 assisted in
forming the Alliance insurance office, of
which he was elected the first president,
which position he has held to the present
time-a period of sixty years. His in.
tegrity and courtesy had intrenched him
in the esteem and friendship of ali with
whom he had dealings, to an extraor.
dinary degree"
Coupling the Montefored and the
Rothchilds two philanthropic
names whom we find working together
for the common good-it might not be
out of place here to comment upon tho
fact that ono of our ablest divines in this
city, lately, in his first lecture on ''cen-
tralization of Wealth." was unhappy in
his choice in singing out the Rothchilds
as one of the common enemy. 1t may
have been force of habit. erich as q
jew" "rich as the Rothchilds," has be-
come almost an axiom, to tell you that
the majority of Jews are not rich-at
least to that degree thought by the
world-woufd hardly be creditedr But
that thesh 75000,0 900 of people this is
about their number, more or less
make themselves 80 felt that
their numbers seem ten times greater,
cannet be disputed. Neither can the
enormous wealth of the Rothschids.
will admit that million spent In erect
Ing stables would be better applied to
tenements for the poor. But let us
pause moment longer with these Crms-
uses who are also the Mwcenas of our
day. George Eliot gives pretty picture
Of the home.life of one of them in "Dan-
el Deronds. AS she was an honored
quest there, she knew whereof che wrote.
How was this vast fortune started} Not
BY stocks and corners, but in noble
Iced. Anselm Rothschild (red shield;
hence the name) was a poor man in the
of this century, doing business
n small way at Frankfort -on-the- Main,
when, in one of those revolutionary
lpheavals of which Germany had
10 many, nobleman entrusted this poor
Jew-whose people were notallowed out
ide of the gates after dark; who were
lept in ghettoes by themselves; like
hings uncleaD, which, in contact, might
their kind; ponned In like
beasts of burden, the remnants of whose
ages you can yet see--to the man Of this
lespised people hs intrusted his treasures
or safe keeping during Ais absence.
There could be no other bond between
hese two but the honor of man to man.
10 well did Mayer Anslem guard these
iches that, after maay years of STRIFE,
hey were returned intact. In gratitude
his nobleman gave him large sum,
esides furthering Mis- interests, as
10. was in position to do
o. This was about she start of the
who, also recognizing that
nifty Ia strength, have always worked in b
Go to Frankfurt and Gee the
ospitsls for the sick; the homes that
ave bsen made happy; tho dowerr' that
ave been given to young people to help
hem along IN their marriages. To VI
xist. To Pasis and to London, where
not for the rich but for the
oor, are held in their palatia4 homes
here the accumulated click OF gold has
ono mnoh. for their fellowmen. All
is never born, neves married,
or buried, without tho remembrance of
10 poor in large suma If the centrah-
alton of wealth in earBe, until better '
measures prevail leb us prey
nat it remains>in such hands. ] am not
ere ae thessr peoples panegyrist, but
IMPLY give facts that al the world magI
now. Contrast with. these Stewart,
no shuts himoelf and his money up In a,
I'D marble palace, scheming how heJ
,uld Jew dowaI uBe, the words advised
, here a poor clerk how lS- ceuldj
own a noighbop who was trying IN. make
q honest living.
To retroce our steps We have wander
too long already on side. path, pluck
~ n flower here and there, and Ialmost !
the rose in Sir Moses gar
On, Lady Judith, who Sloomed SO s~eet- +
VI for him, being u woman of great i
laracter and mentally well endowed. :
o this couple who stood sponsors in. I
hAdhood, the BLESSING o. having Children
their own was denied While this was.
sorrow to them, yet their married life Il,
'as a, happy one. Hand in hand, they
-cnt about their works Of philanthsopy-Is
,nsing, planning and dreaming sf the
ood yet to bo done. lady Judith wrote
diary about their frat trip to the Holy !
end In 1897, which was, printed. We Snext
nd this couple in Syria, in 1887, which
ras suffering from the havocs OF the
lague and earthquakes. The towns of /
iberias and Safed had been swept awayi
oom the earth. and tn few living souls
sft were racked with fever. Nothing
aunted, Moses and his wife prersed for :
rard, and, enoamping on Mount Olivet, !
,egan their mission Of mercy. 'At1
,afed, says Mr. Joseph GuedaGh, che
ave every applicant Spanish dollar, ;
,hildren und or l3 (eacept orphans, who
'eceived the full amount) half n, dollar.
A whole day was consumed in desing
,ut this munifcent charity, which was
repeated In several towns" For this
act of bravery he was, upon his return
to London, knighted by he queen
and alectao aheriff of London and