Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-02-19
THE SCATTERED NATION.
A FORCIBLE ARGUMENT IN BE-
HALF OF THE JEWISH RACE.
tTSation of Shop-Keepers" Alone but
Having Distinguished Men in Every
Branch of the Worlds Work.


Having Distinguished Men in Every
Branch of the Worlds Work.
For the Sentinel.
There is no quarter of the world
in which the Jews are not found,
and wherever they are, prosperity
usually attends them, and the
people among whom they dwell.
No people on earth hive undergone,
at the hands of prosecuting and fanat-
ic mobs, such outrageously inhuman
treatment, despite which they have
always succeeded and triumphed in
the end, when their tormentors and
oppressors have failed. Notwithstand-
inr our boasted civilization and high
degrae of culture, we are still preju-
diced against this people, and the ha-
tired of them is not limited to the mar
row-minded and ignorant, who SEEM
ingly regard the Jews as men not en-
dowed with feelings and instincts like
other men. Can any one look on the
outrages lately committed by the
"Anti-Semitics" of Germany, Austria
and Russia, (the movement in Germa-
nv being headed by the eourtpreaeher)
aud say that the humanising effects of
christianity are at work among the
paople of these countries? Why send
missionaries abroad to convert the
heathen when in so-calied civilized
countries there are so many people
VINO need the elevating powers Of ed
ue;ltion to free them from the un-
tauadel su superstitions of the dark ages,
- it pleases us Of an enlightened age
10 term the medieval period Of the
worlds history.
There are people in >our midst
also, who believe that everything
bad, which can be said of u jew,
Is, and Of necessity must be true,
and those whose duty in life is to
teach them that all men are brethren,
that to love thy neighbor as thyself,
aries to Jew and heather as we'll as
to Gentle. These men, instead of
leading the ignorant into paths OF
knowledge and virtue, often infame
their passions, so easily aroused, only
to recognize the full extent of their
action when violence and crime have
resulted from their hot-headed utter
ances.
When from the minds of ev-
cry one the lurking, long lingering,
and only half suppressed prejudices
against the "cursctl jew shall have
been eradicated, when the descendants
of the ancient house Of Israel shall be
judged according to their merits, and
when the same Justice shall be shown
to them that is accorded to other men,
then, dnd not till then, may we in
truth say that Civilization and En-
lightenment have lifted us above the
level of the common herd Of the mid
die ages, then we will have a practical
realization Of the truth that, despite
the creed he may or may not profess,
a mans i man for a that"
| do not mean to accuse all men,
whose calling it is to instruct, either as
teachegS. ministers, or what not, of be-
ing leaders in the frequent outbreaks,
by words of violence as we'll as deeds
of violence, against the more fertu-
nate Jewish neighbors of these rioters,
but do say that there aie many
such U Eho have done, and continue to
do so. and though their part be ST
lent orc it is a most efectual one
fuirminded, liberal and educated men
are generally free from this damnable
creed-hatred, and knowing the his
tory of the Jews they know how to
account for all in their lives which
may offend the delicate and refined
sensorium of the "Judeuhetzers."
The whole secret of the indignation
mani tested towards the Jews, and the
oppression resulting therefrom, lies in
the fact that they, as rule, always
succeed in life, where others perhaps
do not-they have the knack of max
ing money and of keeping it, and in
an age Of money getting like ours, is
this a crime? Do not many of the
men we send to our legislative halls,
whose dignity and honor should be the
essence of their official character, sell
their honor and manhood for money
Is not the aristocracy- of our country
ever more and more becoming one, not
of birth, but of wealth? Is not the
ignorant parvenu gradually becoming
an important element in our social
circles Why taunt the Jew with
having no thought but of money, and
the art 6 acquiring it, when all men
strive afer the same goal. and only
dcspise she Jew because he now sue
cessfully plies trade which his FORE
fathers were forced to adopt because
of the prosecutions practiced by their
forefatEers, and which trail the expe-
rlcnces thus acquired ami hereditarily
transmitted materially benefit. IF Jus
tice, Law, Politics, and Society are all
ruled ey money, corruptly used, why
can not jew honestly engage in any
thing that will bring him money.
without having the taunt flung at him
that the mercantile profession is the
only one a Jew can take up? That
this is lie, no one who knows any
thing whatever of history need be
told-we have had Jews, and have
them now, in every walk of life, filling
the highest posts in their respective
spheres Of duty. In politics Gambetta
Laker, Beaeonsfeld, Judah p. Benja
min, Crenaieux, Tould and Goud-
schaux; ip music, Nfeyerbeer & Men
delsohn, Rubenstein and Joachim; in
literature, Isaac Disre.i, Berthold
AueEbach Bentley, the greatest Sans
krit scholar of our day, Jacob Ber-