The Newtown bee., 1896-05-15
WOULD IT NOT BE WELL

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 for the narrow Gentle, as he finds him.
 self looking with the eye of scorn on the race to which St Paul belonged, to hang up this list of eminent Isrealites to re-
 mind him that God has honored the per- secuted Jew by an endowment of genius it might trouble e adverse critic to du- plicate?
 This Baron Maurice de Hirsch, who died last Monday in Hungary at one of
 his many half royal palaces, was we'll born, his father having been knfghted in Bavaria for noble services rendered the state. His cradle was rocked in poverty,
 for titles and at1luence are not always twins, even in royal lands. He gets what schooling he has in Brussels; but it is not much, for neither his purse nor his wishes
 incline him to the realm of books. He is
 said to have been fond of mathematics,
 as no doubt he was, for he was always
 good at counting, until he had counted
 up his millions. Two Hebrews take the
 young Jew into their banking house as
 clerk, for they see in his bright face and
 square head the lineaments of a master.
 His eyes have a full, sharp look, as if he could see something for them-perhapg
 little something for himself. He wins by his shreWdness position in the firm and
 makes himself more secure by winning
 the daughter of one of the partners of
 the house. He does not work seven years even, before this young Jacob takes for his OWD, not Leah, but the Rachel of the family. He has one motto from the
 start. It is get the best, and the fair Jewess falls to his heart. Finance be- comes his passion. His eyes see afar. He has a " ill which does not break, and
 that faculty of organization which is the high-Water gu8ge 0 f success in our time. lie is promoter, it would seem, although no evidence is ar hand that he grabs all the reverue. He is scrupulousIy exact, and as vigorously honest. but determined persistent, audacious. When others run away he stays to conquer. He is afraid
 of nothing but defeat, and shows his fear of that hy defeating it, He organizes tbe railway system which connects Buda- pest with Narna. In 1869 8 Belgian
 fin 9Dcier falls to pieces. He has been swamped by Turkish railway bonds. They are deemed as worthless as our bonds were il the markets of London in the early part of the Civil War. George
 Peabody believed in his fathers and mothers land and took the depreciated debentures, and out of his accumulations built colleges and churches anu schools and model tenement houses. Hirsch saw in the depreciatcd Turkish securities the opportunity of a life. They swelled into an extraordinary value, and before I5 years had passed only the Rothschilds were his superiors in wealth on the Conti- nent of Europe. Generous contribu- ti0ns followed to all worthy charities. He founded public schools" In Egypt, in Turkey and in Asia NInOr are build ings reared by his money and adorned
 with his name. In le95 he offered the Russian government SlO. .00O,O00 for schools which should be free to all, ire
 spectjve of color or race or creed or sex.
 The Christian Car declined the Hebrew
 gift. He was smartiDg under the pain of having expelled the thrifty Jews from
 his cold empire. What could such an
 offer mean: It was Trojan horse. It should not enter the walls of his Troy. so THE CHEAT HEBREW
 spends it himself on his countrymen and adds another ten millions to it. He heaps co4ls of fire on the holy head of this Vi
 car of Christ by giving $20O,O 900
 for the schools of the Greek church in Russia to be expended by their own saints. He builds roads by the league in
 Hungary and puts up bridges of stone across which the generations will pass when he is dust like the avenues leading up to them. His benefcences are count, ed by the thousand. He heaps rolls of coin on his table that he may not be de-
 layed in his gifts to the worthy poor. In 1890 this cosmopolitan prince of finance
 and philanthropy begins to send money
 to the United States. He sees in this
 good land a cline in which no breeze of
 Intolerance is likely to rend the flag. God grant it never may. Let Catholic and
 Hebrew and MOhap medan bow their knee as they choose. Religion is bigger than oftice and more sacred. Truth will last when governments have gone down. First sums of S50,000 began to come, fol- lowing one another with refreshing fer tihty like flowers in June and July, until the investments of this Hungarian lord
 in the Jewish people and their future amount to $2, 300, ,000. Normal graduates teach the children of Russian and Rou- manian immigrants, so that the second generation may have better chance with
 the world than their persecuted fathers had. 4 mechanical training school is one Cf his institutions, in which carpen-
 try, plumbing, iron working, painting in fresco,ar taught so that the Jew may be something beside a trader; and farm
 lands have been bought by the acre and by the township in Connecticut and in New Jersey that the Hebrew may get
 back to the land which is the foundation
 of all wealth. Our unused New England farms are held by the Hirsch fund in
 trust for these wanderers over land and
 sea and within 20 miles of Cape May a
 town which was going to seed has been
 taken up, divided into farms, and equip ped with modern appliances, and loaned
 to these people at small rate of interest,
 all of which goes into 8 fund which st
 the end of ten years leaves the occupant
 of the land it's owner, ,and the fund is still intact to renew elsewhere it's function of