The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-21
THE PROSECUTED JEW.
MerCifuI Bah Defends a Much abused
but Sturdy Race.

World-renowned Thrifty Israelites.
The Rothschilds, Judah Benjamin,
Mime. Adams Disraeli and Sarah
Bernhardt's Life Work Reviewed.
Jesus Christ, the immortal Hebrew.
Moses Descendants Are Loyal to
Kindred and Friends Jewish Di-
vorces Rare-Make Smooth. Life's
Rough Pathway-At the Last Great
Day of the Universe.
(Copyright.)
New York, May 20.-As a nation I'VE
count ourselves very liberal. We make a
great mistake AS a nation we are not
broad in our ideas, and we lack considera-
| ton We form ourselves into little
cliques, and we say, This is law, and
everything not done according to this law
shall not be considered" Then we go
out into the world and behave like the
pride of the barnyard-we crow because
somebody else has laid an egg. Lacking
national religion, we seem to regard it as
duty every now and then TO attack
somebody's faith, and the result is that
we prove to the world at large that this
| is free country only in impudence and
| ignorance. People who have thought
much, or have anything to think with,
agree that it is the right of every man to
believe as he wishes, to live up to that be-
! lief, and people who know realize that
those men who have a faith, and who
| live up to that faith, make the best citi-
zens in the world
IN OUR LAND OF FREEDOM
Yesterday in our own free country il is
| possible that the Catholics were attacked.
| tomorrow it may be the Protestants, and
| day after tomorrow it may be the Jews.
| The last have been the people who have
suffered the most, because, having big
GRAINS, they have chung to their faith and
! defied persecution, no matter how severe
! it was They have, more than any other
people in the world, been forced TO suffer
| indignities. At one time they wore a
| badge telling of their belief; at another,
| although they might trade in country, a
country where they were violently perse-
cuted, they could not leave it and carry
either jewels or gold with them. Only a
few weeks ago Jewish gentle
man, as you all know, was black
| balled at a club in New York. A gentle
man, whose father had gladly given of
his great wealth at the time of the war,
| and the objection made against him was
not that he was illiterate, not that he was
bad-mannered, not that he was a drunk
ard, not that he was roue, but simply
| that he was Jew. When / read about
it, I said to myself: "Thank goodness, ]
was born down south, where the Jews
when they are gentlemen, when they are
well educated and well born, are appre-
ciated." / remembered that Jew was
the brain of the confederacy;I remem-
bered the old Jewish families in Richmond
and Charleston, and / remembered that a
distinguished jew, Mendez Cohen, laid
out the city of Baltimore. But never
rely entirely on what ] think myself, so ]
asked the cleverest man / knew what he
thought about il.
And he said: IF they keep on, this
country viii be as narrow as Russia and
| as bitter as Germany And then he re.
minded me that while the Jews were not
farmers nor soldiers, they were essen.
TALLY students and financiers. The Roths.
childs, who created their great fortune
| by being honorable 70 the man who be,
! lieved In them, never ask whether y0u