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PRAISE for the Jewish Race.
From The Nelo York Journal of Commerce
June ID

TFOW IJe 4NeO IOTH journal OF commerce,
June To-
At the laying Of the cornerstone of the
Jewish synagogue at Edgewater, Staten
Island, yesterday, Erastus Wiman made a
very interesting address, in which he
showed in a most able manner the status of
the Jewish race in trade, education, art and
general human progress. The following Is
a portion of Mr.. Wiman's address:
Taking broader survey than even the
United States affords, it is found that out of
a population OF 400, 600 900 which the
world contains, there are only about .0OO,-
600 Jews, or only one-half of per cent Of
these only 100000 ever had q chance to
make any progress. Yet it can be shown
that this small race has produced far more
than its share of scholars, poets,s linguists,
great painters. composers, scientific men
and fnanciers. Very few Jews are crimi-
nails. Hardly any are tramps or loafers,
few or none are drunkards. Among the
loafers on our street corners and in public
places, frowsy and unksmpt. one looks in
vain for the Jewish cast of features. Again,
they do little or no laboring work, and it is
only in very rare instances that the
Jews settle down to common labor
ing. Few ever become servants. and
none remain in mental or subordinate
positions longer than an opportunity
arises to start in some line of independent
ChOAo AOi InoDoclNoss 1G0 O0W6 hTo 10 Dc
found in Wall street, holding their own
with the shrewdest and cleverest of
Christian merchants and financiers They
are in the professions and every conceivable
line of trade and effort, and appear to be
always the same progressive, apt, quick
keen, sagacious people. Disraeh did not
outstate the universally of their influence
when he said one-half the Christian world
worshiped a Jew and the other half a
InUage Ha koonipo within he zE- ok
bounds Of truth, too. when he tainted some
English noblemen with the fact that when
their ancestors were herdiDg swine on the
banks of the Rhine and the Thames, his
were lawgivers Ia the holy city of Jeru-
alem. He apty called them muddy
blooded barons.n The Jews have been per-
secuted in every country in the world ex-
cept in these United States, and il is only
In compar atively recent time that the
Israelite has bee given a chance even in
England and France, yet there is no coun-
try where they do not hold far more than
their share of wealth and influence. As to
usury, Shylock never charged half Of l per
cent. per day for money, or 1921 per cent.
per annum, as Is sometimes done in Wall
street, If one wants to be skinned artist
ically these days he need not go to the
Jews. Christians will do it in a most
scientific manner and strictly according TO
law. Il is significant that the only country
where Jews are seriously prosecuted now is
in that half barbarous empire, Russia,
whose whole government and system is an
unspeakable atrocfty. However. the pun
ishmeut Of Russia will come in due course,
and 1t may safely be left to this little race,
which holds in its hands the control Of the
finances ia Europe. Russia viii not be for
gotten when opportunity offers. This and
other instances which all history affords
show the Jews to be evidently q people
apart--one of the imperial races Of the
earth and as indestructihls as matter itself.