The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08
EVOLUTION OF THE JEW
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actually forces him higher and higher
IN the scale For IL is in the Oldest
and most cultured communities that he
even now occupies his Hottest position.
financially, socially, intellectually ana
politically.
1t therefore behooVes the Jew to
bear in mind this lofty destiny ard 10
be prepared for it, Especially ought
our young men and women to feel that
they are chosen instruments set apart
for this high mission. The promised
Messiah is come and he is with you.
You are the saYiours, for you are the
ones To whom is committed the future
Of Judaism. You are To eXemplify the
virtues contained in the worship of the
one and only true God.
1t was said of old that the streets
I OF Jerusalem We're kept clean because
every man swept before his own door
The idea is an excellent one for it in
culcated the fact that the work we have
TO do in the world must be accomplish
ed by personal effort. 1t is not by some
tremendous achievement not by some
sudden and impusiye effort. not by be-
ing great in the eyes of the world that
Judaism has maintained itself through
the ages. 1t is true thar the deeds Of
+ Maimonides, the SpinoZas. the Men
delssohns. the Rothschilds and the
Hirsches have attracted attention To us
wrought out by those silent and obscure
individuals who have kept the faith and
have maintained their integrity, who
have observed the Law when otherwise
IL would have been lost. forsaken and
neglected. The duty of keeping the flag
OF Judaism aleft is no less necessary
now Than when il was the object of
persecution and obliquy, the target for
the sneers of men and the derision of
the world.
1T was to the jew that these very
sneerers We're indebted for their rescue
from a degrading slavery. II was be-
cause the jew prospered in spite of the
curses of the church that al last the
church curses lost their power IT was
bcause the jew did NOT blanch. but
went to the rack and stake i'm defense
of his principles that finally led the
men of intellect in the foremost ranks
or the thinkers. To follow his example
1t was the inspiration drawn from the
Hebrew Scriptures that nerNed the arm
+ of Saxon reformer and Holland patriot
The doctrine of passive non-resistance
gave way before illusions To the dagger
of Ehud and the sword Of the Lord and
of Gideon. Ii was this that laid the
foundation for that tremendous out
burst for personal liberty that aroused
Europe in the sixteenth century and
eliminated in the Declaration of fnde-
pendence in the eighteenth For the
tenet that all men are equal before the
law is not the logical deduction Of the
Christian faith. for that says: Render
unto Caesar the things that are Gaze
sar's but 1t comes from the old Testa-
ment. from job defending himself be-
fore the Almighty. from Mordecai reso-
+ lutely refusing TO bow the knee 10 Ha-
man. from Elijah flinging defiance into
the face of wicked Ahab from Nathan
accusing David Of immoral conduct.
+ exclaning in stentorian voice. Thou
art the man., from the Maccabees
whose heroic souls stoutly upheld the
national life and did not scruple TO con-
front the imperial power Of Rome it.
self. What a wonderful career does
this nation present! Driven from it's
home outeast among the nations. its
temple destroyed and its religion over
thrown, IL has in its very SORROWS been
benefactor 10 those who have OPP
pressed it.
In whatever branch of human effort
he has turned his attention he has in
all cases bettered the example. The
very sweating shops that he Is re-
preached with establishing in London
have 50 cheapened clothing that the
London poor now no longer deal so
largely in secondhand clothing with
its power Of spreading infectious dis
ease, but they are enabled to wear gar
ments made of new cloth. So that the
jew working along the line of the sur
Vixal Of the fittest' deals with Natures
principles of science than are those who
deride and malign him. For the effort
of civilization lis constantly To produce
a better article for the same price or
the same article for cheaper price.
The Jew has long ago recognized this
fact, and his labors have been in that
direction. The world has only just ar
rived at a recognition OF the truth Of
his position. and is beginning TO follow
in his footsteps.
These facts ought To make US not
only proud that we belong to this race.
dominant by the force Of its genius and
In the front rank in the very highest
departments of human effort. but we
ought 10 be soiicitous that our work
snail add luster TO that which has gone
before
The term jew, long uttered as
word of derisiOn. has now been so
changed that IL begins 10 be phrased on
the worlds lips as a note of admira-
ton, perseverance and devotion to duty.
Let US take up the burden which our
fathers have carried and In high hope
and confidence bear IL onward. Let Il
become TO us an inspiration melting us
to loftier effort and grander achieve
ment. The race is not always TO the
swift, but TO the persevering. He VINO
continues 10 the end shall wear a
crown. The age is pregnant with great
events. Discovery treads fast upon the
heel of invention. No man need tarry
in the slough OF despond and sigh for
opportunity. All that has been done
promises 10 BE- dwarfed and belittled
by the possibility OF the future. The
Jew will stand in the front ranks Of
those who bent these great discov-
cries to the will OF man for the beneut
or the race
The young are in an especial man