The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-21
THE JEWS AND THEIR FOES
A Vigorous Defense of Much Abused
bntPatient and Sturdy Race Of People.
The Rothschilds. Judah. Benjamin. Madame
Adam. Disraeli and Sarah Bernhardt's Life
WOrk-LOyalty 10 Kindred and Friends.

Special Correspondence of the sunday Journal.
NEW YORK, May l7.-As q nation we
count ourselves very liberal We make q
great mistake. As q nation we are not
broad in our ideas. and We lack considers.
ton. We form ourselves into little cliques
and we say. This is the Law. and every.
thing not done according to this law shall
not be considered" Then we go out into
the world and we behave like the pride Of
the barry srd-we crow because somebody
else has laid en- egg. Lacking national Re.
ligion. We seem TO regard it as aduty every
now and then to attack somebody's faith,
and the result is that we prove to the
world at large that this 10 q free country
only in impotence and ignorance. People
who have thought much. or have anything
to think with, agree that 1t is the right Of
every man to believe as he wishes. TO live
up TO that belief, and people who know
realize that those men who have a faith.
and who live upto that faith, make the
best citizens in the world.
Yesterday in our own free country it 10
possible that the Catholics were attacked,
tomorrow it may be the Protestants. and
day after tomorrow 1T may be the Jews
The last have been the people who have
suffered the most because. having big
brains. they have chung TO their faith and
detied persecution. no matter how severe
1t was. They have. more than any
other people In the world. been
forced to suffer indignitiea At one
time they wore q badge telling of their
belief; at another. although they might
trade in country, country where they
were violently prosecuted, they could not
leave 1t and carry either Jewels or gold with
them. Only few weeks ago jewish
gentleman as you all know. was black
bailed at q club in New York. A gentle
man. whose father had gladly given or has
great wealth at the time of the war. and
the objection made against him was. not
that be was iliterate. not that he
was bad-mannered not that he was
drunkard. not that he was q roue.
but simply that he was Jew. When
/ read about IL. l said to myself: Thank
goodness. was born down South, where
the Jews. when they are gentlemen, when
they are we'll educated and well born. are
appreciated" L remembered that Jew
was the brain of the ConfederacY; remem.
bered the old Jewish families In Richmond
and Charleston. and i remembered that
distinguished Jew, Mendez Cohen. laid out
the city of Baltimore. But / never rely en-
tlrely on what 1 think myself, so / asked
the cleyerest man l knew whas he thought
about t.
And he said: IF they keep on this CONN.,
try will be as narrow as Russia and as Bit
ter as Germany" And then he reminded
me that while the Jews were not farmers
nor soldiers. they were essentially students
and financiers. The Rothschilds. who ere.
ated their great fortune by being honora-
BILE to the man who believed in them. never
ask whether you are q Protestant or q Jew
if you are in need of money. And tins
family fam. AL over tsr .t the .o world has
for little children and retreats for
old people, and the question OF our coming
or going Is never made one of faith. That
YOU are IN need of kindness of u shelter;
that you are sick and Door Is enough. Some
of the greatest doctors have been Jews.
The editor of the best-known medical jour-
nal in existence-the Lancet-Earnest Hart.
is Jew, and 1t Is his wife who 10 bringing
TO this country and exhibiting at the
worlds fair the Irish village, with o view
of promoting the sale of Irish lace and so
helping the poverty stricken peasants OF
Ireland.
CHARITABLE AND HoME-LovING.
Great diplomates have been Jews-Dis-
raelps name telling of the race from which
he came and of which he never ceased to
he proud. It is said that Mime. Adam 10 q
Jewess. certainly Sarah Bernhardt is. Al
Jews, you can count all over your fingers.
come back. count again. and even
then you will not have gotten the
names of ALL The Jews are an honest
people; they live well. and invariably pay
their debts. In some charitable work con-
nectsd with a Catholic maternity. have
met q number of Jews, and 1t has never
been necessary TO ask them for q penny,
they have invariably said to me. on
have something to do with the Baby.
Home, haven't youf Put this In for me-"
And this" nine times out of ten, was
good round SUN; Tor, when the Jews give.
they give gladly and literally.
Among the French people. almost with.
out exception, the cleverest writers and
the cleverest painters are of Jewish birth,
and though at first 1t may seem strange,
few Gentiles have been able TO paint the
Madonna and Child" as has the Jew. DO
you know whyf Because there are no peo-
pie rho have the same respect for women,
and who are 80 tender toward them. The
mother Is the queen. and to her and for beI
is given every possible consideration.
In England the Jews have so intermar.
ried with the nobility that they have lost
something of their distinctive race traits.
but the klndliness. the motherliness and
the respect shown TO the older people never
seems TO fade away. Tbs spanish Jew ID
an aristocrat. proud of his birth. proud or
his faith and only counting as on equal
terms with HIM his much prouder brother
the Portuguese. He delights In tracing
back his ancestry until IL is possible you
laugh, as l did, and force one of them 70
confess that no matter how far back he
may 90 he eventually reaches Adam and
Eve, and we have some claim on them.
JEWS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS.
The subject TO me land / am sure 10 YOU
is worth thinking about. because we are
always proclaiminG our liberality. our will.
iDgness TO meet every man on the demo
cratic plane and our gauginR men by theii
brains. IL this were true we should hear
no nonsense about Jew or gentle. The IL.
norent says: THE Jew doesn't accept
Christ" Neither. my friend, does the
Unitarian. or the Hicksite Quaker
And then, too, You must remein bel
that Christ Himself was Jew. q fact that
seems to be forgotten by q great many peo-
pie. Who are you, my neigbbor. that you
should say what a man should and what q
man should not belIevei Who are you
that you should dictate form of religion.
and say. let every man follow thlsf You
answer me In q roundabout way, and say
that the Jews are dirty. Well, suppose you
had come from Poland or Russia. wretched-
IL poor, with family 20 support, and that
over there even cleanliness costs some.
thiDgf i have taken the trouble To 90 IN
the Jewish. the Italian and the Chinese
|. quarters in New York. | never want
to go again But / will tell you this; The
Italians are much dirtier than the Jew and
both Chinese and Italians have but one
desire-that is. TO N AXE enough money TO