The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-12-06
What he World Owes the Jews.

with the Jews Oy marriage u dny hc"A
or distant kinsman; I owe no Jew
a dollar and No Jew owes me.
speak from the vantage ground OF
ABSOLUTE independence. 1t is a splen'
did race. splendid in their patience, in
their love for one another, in their en-
durance, in their sagacity and temper
ate habits. and splendid in their infex-
ible adherance to their Mosaic ideas.
Do you want an aristocracy OF blood
aud birth? The Jews are the purest
blooded people and have the best es'
tabIished decent in the world. Not
Mirabeau in the French Convention.
nor Patrick Henry in the House OF
Burgesses, nor "Sam" Adams i'll the
old Colonial days ever said more
thrilling thing than Disraeli said in
the English Commons in reply to the
charge that he was Jew:
Eyes, am a jew! When the an
cestors of the honorable gentleman
were brutal savages in an unknown
island, mine were priests in the Tenn
ple!'
DO YOU seek an aristocracy of talent?
The great church historian Neander
| was a Jew; Napoleon's marshals, Soult
and Massena, were Jews, the brilliant
and cynical Heine was Jew; and
but the worlds roll of great soldiers,
authors, musicians, painters, poets,
philosophers and financiers contain
more Hebrew names than | could re-
cite in many hours. Are you looking
for an aristocracy of wealth? The com
bined financial power of the Jews OF
Europe can prevent the floating OF al
most apy national loan which may be
put upon the markets of the world! 1T
is spurious, false Christianity that
hates Jews. The mystery OF the in
carnation found expression in the flesh
and blood of a Jew. We got our ten
Comma mandments-the very foundation
of our civilization through the Jews.
We sing Jewish psalms and are uplift
ed by the passion and poetry OF Jewish
prophets and rely on Jewish bio
graphies for the only history we have
of Christ. We get our Pauline thee
logy from Jew, and we catch our
clea. est glimpses of the next world
through the apocalyptic vision of a
Jew. Then forsooth, we Christians
turn about and sneer at Jews! have
couversed of philosophy who spoke
slightingly OF the Jews, and yet was
reaching with enthusias N ideas which
they had absorbed from Maimonides
and Spinoza, the two greatest philo-
sophers; omitting Kant since Plates
dav-both of them Jews. Ihave heard
musicians denounce Jews and then
spend DAYS and nights trying to inter
pret the beauties of Rossini Meyer
bear. and Mendelssohn-all Jews.
talked the other day with a gifted
actress, and heard both her and
her husband sweepingly condemn
confidently of course, the whole
race of Jews, and yet that woman
would give half her remaining life II
she could only reach the heights
which the great queen of tragedy,
Rachel trod with such majesty and
power-and Rachel was Jewess'
Here in Washington have heard aspir-
ing politicians, when beyond the reach
of the Reporters pencil, sneer at Jews
and vet it was Jew who made Eng
lands Queen Empress of India, and 1t
was a Jew who was for years the adroit
and sapacious chairman of the nation
al committee of one of our great poll
t;cal parties. The brainiest man in
,be Southern Coufederacy was judah
p Reniamain, jew, and Chase, when
managing our natioual finances IN q
n.r;,ous time, owed much of his success
! IN the constant advice of New YORK
! Jew, Jessie Seligman.
That YOU never see Jew tramp or
Jew drunkard is a proverb, that you
never meet jew beggar is q common
,,ace. and IL is . statistical fact that
there NJ. relatively fewer inmates OF
IN. hospital, jails and warehouses;
furnished by the Jews than any other
r.cs contribntes. Suppress the Jews'
A score OF Russian Czars cannot do IL
Every people on earth has tried !, and
failed. They have ouilived the Tudor'
md the Plsntsgenets, the Romsnoifs,
~. tyranny OF spain, the dynssties OF
4 rh.-i.na0ue Constantine, the