The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-29
IHI IN rs.
a Splendid Tribute 10 Them by George X.
NendIing.

NcndIing.
The suhioined article. written by George
! X. Vending for the New York Herald
at its request. and published over his
Signature in it's issue OF January 81. 1872,
attracted wide attention. Nh vending
Will lecture on StOn-wall jackson at the
y. NJ. c. \. tomorrow evening.
There is not a drop OF Jewish blood IN
my veins. | am not connected with the
Jews by the marriage Of any near or
distant kinsman / owe 10 jew dollar
and no Jew ewes me. Among all my
personal or intimate friends / cannot
name che single Jew. l peak from the
vantage ground Of absolute independence.
1t is 4 splendid race-sriendid IN their
patience, I'm their love for one another,
in their endurance. in their sasacity and
temperate habits. and splendid In their
inflexible adhere CO 10 their Mosaic ideals.
Do you want an aristocracy Of blood
and birth? The Jews are the purcSt-
hlOoded people and have the best estab-
! lished descent in the world. Not Mira
beau in the French convention nor Pat
rick Henry I'm the House Of Burgesses,
nor "Sam" Adams I'm Old Colonial davs
ever said a moro thrinng thing than
Disraeli said in the English Commons IN
reply TO the charge mat he was jew:
Eyes | am a Jowi And when the ances-
tors Of the right honorable gentleman
were brutal sayages in an unknown IS
land mine were priests In the temple
DO you seek an arlstOcracy OF talent?
The great church historian Neander was
a Jew: Napoleon's marshais. SOult and
Massena, were Jews; the brilliant ana
cynical Heinc was a jew. and-but the
| worlds roll OF great soldiers. authors,
musicians, painters, poets, philosophers
.fg.r- a Hebrew
names than ! can recite I'm many hours.
Are you looking for an aristocracy OF
wealth? The combined financial power
Of the Jews in Europe can prevent the
floating of almost any national loan
which may be put upon the markets OF
the world,
1t is a spurious. false Christianity that
hates Jews. The mystery of the incar-
nation found expression in Che flesh and
blood of a Jew. and therefore. I'm sense
We worship jew. We get our Ten
Commandments-th very foundation of
our civilZ. tion-through the jew.
We sing Jewish psalms, are up
lifted by the passion ana poetry
Of Jewish pr.phets. and rely on
Jewish biographies FOR the only history
we have Of Christ. We get our Pauline
theology from a jew. and we catch our
earliest glimpse Of the next world through
the sublime apocalyptic vision Of jew.
Then, forsooth. we Christians turn about
and sheer at Jews.
have converscd with teachers OF phi
losophy who spoke siightnsly OF the
Jews, and yet were teaching with en-
thusiam ideas which they had absorbed
from MaimOnides and Spinoza, the two
greatest philosophers, emitting Kant.
since PlatO's day-b0th OF them Jews.
| have heard musicians GcnOunce Jews
and then spend days and nights trying
10 interpret the beauties of Rossini Mey-
ererbeer, and MendelssOhn-all jews. !
talked the other day with "A gifted ac-
tress. and heard both her ana her nus
band sweepingly condemn. coniidenually'
of course. tho whole race Of Jews, ana
yet that woman would give half her re-
naming part OF her life If she could
only reach the heights which the great
queen Of tragedy. Rachel trod with such
majesty and power-aud Rachel was
Jewcss. Here in Washington have
heard aspiring politicians, when beyond
the reach Of the reporters pencil, sheer
at Jews. and yet IL was jew that made
England's Queen Empress Of India, ana
IL was Jew who was for years the
adrOit and sagaciOus chairman OF the
national committee OF one Of OR great
political parties The brainicst man IN
the Southern COnfederacy was Judah r.
BENJAMIN. a jew: and Chase. when man
aging our national finances in a perilous
time. owed much of sis success TO the
constant advice of New OrK jew.
That YOU never see a jew tramp or q
Jew drunkard is a provcrb; That you
never see a jew bcggar IS common
place; that IL is a statistical fact that
there are relatively fewer inmates 81 our
hospitals. jails and workhouses furnished
by the Jews that any other race contrib
utes.
Convert the Jews Yes. but meanwhile
let us convert many Of our church mem
bers to genuine Christianity. suppress
the Jews, \ score of Russian cars can
not do it, Every people on earth mas
tried il and failed. They have outllVed
the Tudors and the Plantagenets' the
Romanoms. the tyranny of Spain, the
dynasties of France, Charlemagne, Con-
stantine the Caesars, the Banylonlau
kings and the Egyptian Pharaohs. II
was Gods own race Tor 400 years, and
the awful persecution it has survived
for 1000 years more stamps 1t as race
still bearing some mysterious relation
to the plans 81 the Eternal. The beau
" and fidelity of Jewish women COM
mand my homage and among wealthy
and educated Jews the exquisite refine
ment of Jcwcsses, their culture and hlgh
breeding. blended with a sort of Oriental
grace and dignity, pul them among tie
most charming women in the world.
But the jew Is tricky, is he? Were
you never taken in by METHODIST class
leader on real estate trade? DID you
never get into close quarters with
Presbyterian speculator? Did you ever
buy mining stock on the representations
Of an Episcopalian broker? Did you ever
take mans word quicker because he
was a Baptist or Roman Catholic? DID
you never see a stone weighing twenty
hounds concealed in bale Of cotton
grown by a Southerner? Did you never
find lard In the butter sold by a New
England Puritan?
The belief that the jew is more dis
honest than the Gentle is onc-half non
sense and the other half prejudice and
falsehood. The anti-Jewish feeling which
now seems to be rising again is unchris-
tan inhuman and un-American. NO
man can share IL who believes In the
universal fathcrh0od Of God AID the uni |
versal brotherhood Of man. IL IS born
OF the devil and IS detestable.
GEORGE r. VENDING.
A Mistake About Mr.. Ellis Brown Corrected
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