The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-13

Hebrew Of the Hebrews" Ee said
these are the words OF the Apostle
Paul. Men Of all ages had been proud OF
their ancestors. Paul had reason to
boast Of his Jewish extraction.
To the people OF Wheeling there are
not many frst.class summer resorts or
places for family boarding. to which one
can fee from tho heat OF the city. One
such house, which has come somewhat
into public favor. has, during the past
week given the communl,ya genuine
sensation by declaring quarantine
against oil Jews. Had It been agalnst
sumo ono individual or family, we
should not have condescended 10 note
the occurrence. But when the Jews, as
a body. are thus singled out. We cannot
hold our peace. Who are tho Jews?
What is their, record7 Why quarantine
against all Jews.
l. Look at their legacy to the world.
The Jews gave us the Bible. They gave
to the world the noblest conception OF
God-one God, the Jehovah OF Revela-
tion. Jesus Christ himself was Jew.
The Jews carried Greek learning Into
Europe, dissspating medieval darkness.
They were tho pioneers OF Biblical crit
icism. They supplied the weapons for
the Protestant Reformation. On the
binding and the title page of its books,
the Jewish Publication Society OF Amer
lea has pictured the lamb and the lion
lying down together. and the child play
Ing with the asp. while underneath the
picture Is written the words. "Israers
mission Is peace The picture tells
what Israel's prophet saw more than
twenty-five centuries ago. That Is the
mission of the Je~-peace; peace
through morality and religion.
2. Look at their home life. Who has
sung more sweetly than the Hebrew
poet OF home, where every man shall
sit under his vine and under his fig
tree. and none shall make them afraid"
where the father OF a large family is
like the fortunate hunter. with q CULVER
full OF arrows: where the children are
likened TO olive plants around the
fathers table, and where n cardinal
virtue Of childhood Is honor to father
and mother And where shall one look
to-day for finer types OF domestic fe-
liclty than may be found in Jewish
homes? The extent TO which the Jew
etucates his children. and helps his
poor 10 become self-supporting; and the
very small percentage which he fur
nishes to the annals OF crime. give to
him q high character for morality.
3. Look at their position In art, litera-
ture. philanthropy. finances and states-
manship. need only mention O few OF
the many names OF worldwide renown.
In philanthropy there are Sir Moses
Montefore. an English Jew, and Baron
Hirsch.. both OF them distinguished for
their philanthropic mission to the world.
In finance there are the Rothschilds-
English and German-Hebrew bankers,
to whom the nations OF Europe have
looked to more than once In their finan-
cial crises.
In philosophy the Jews have furnished
Spinoza, tho pioneer Of modern phIloso-
ply; not to speak of Aiarmonides and
Moses Mendelssohn, OF earlier date.
In music who does not know OF Men
delssohn, the great German composer.
who was Jew. and who has no super
Tor in an age OF the world. And Anton
Rublnstein, the great pianist, was q
Russian Jew; while Remenyi, the violin
LIST, who. died recently In California, ac-
knowledged TO be the equal OF Ole Bull,
was Hungarian Jew.
In craftsmanship who has not heard of
the great DLsraeli, the only near ap-
proach to Gladstone In the English par
Lament? He was Jew Also the
Hon. Oscar Strauss who has second
time been appointed minister to Turkey,
Is a Jew. Mr.. Straus served under
President Clevelands administration.
Never was the country so well repre-
sented before. Mr.. Harrison wished to
continue him, as also did Mr.. Cleveland
during his second term, when the mis-
slonaries and other American citizens
in Turkey urged Mr.. Strauss return. but
he could not so. Now, at this time, the
troublesome questions between the
United States and Porto Rico are very
urgent, and President Mckinley feels
the need of the services OF the man
who has before this succeeded at the
difficult post.
need not stop. to enumerate the
great names of Jews In literature, SCI
ence and exploration. One other fact
only I mention. One OF the great New
York newspapers has for its editor q
Jew, and the leading newspaper west OF
the Mississippi. the Omaha Bee, has
another.
4. Look at their loyalty. The position
OF the Jews In the world Is peculiar.
They may be English. German. Prus-
sian, Hungarian, American, and as such
loyal to the land OF their birth. The
jew. In our midst, Is an American. His
loyalty in this war with Spain Is unQes-
toned. And why not? It was Jew
that plloted Columbus when he first
landed on Cuban~soil. And modern
Jews have abundant and eolemn rea-
sons for interest In our war for Cuba.
The more devuut among them, like
those described by Zangwill in his
Children OF the Ghetto" hold that
prophecy foretells the ruin of Spain bya
nation which previously has succored
the JewB. These Jews Identify the Unit
ed Sntes as that nation, and believe
that God intends 10 use 1t to nvenge
His people against their opprcssors. No
wonder we arc told that special prayers
are made In synagogucs In behalf of
the United States. ,ia55 N
When reflect upon the record which
the Jew has made for himself. and upon
the further fact that ne has become an
important factor in more than one de-
partment OF our economy-I confess 10
an unutterablc surprise ut the ignorance
and tho narrowness OF any person or
class OF persons who prcsumcs
to declare a quarantine against
tho Jews as such Such n fact
may have been consistent with
The education of earlier times, hut Il ia
out OF time with the civilization at the
threehold OF the nineteenth century. 1t
Is unsChristian: 1t Is narrow; It Is little.
and as they would put It In Kentucky.
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