The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-17

which declared that any person who
denied the Trinity should be PUNISH
ED WITH DEATH" In 1918, bill
to repeal the provision that no man
should hold office without signing a
declaration that he believed in the
Christian religion" was defeated a
third time after three days debate.
Upon its defeat these verses appeared
in Benjamin Franklin's Gazette, Phila-
delphia:
what. still reject the fated race,
Thus long denied repose-
What! madly striving to efface
The rights that heaven bestows.
"Say, flows not in each Jewish vein,
without control
A tide as pure-as free from stain
As warns the Christians soul?
DO We not the times discern,
That these shall cease to roam
That Shiloh, pledged for their return,
Will bring his ransomed home!
Be error, quick, to darkness hurld!
No more with hate pursue
For he who died to save IA world
Immanuel-was a jew.
1t was not until 1926 that Maryland
granted the Jew his full civil rights.
Today in Baltimore the Jews control
much of its most important business,
and a Jew, Isador Rayner, is the Demo
cratic nominee for Attorney General.
One of the most interesting chapters
in a book that abounds in interesting
facts that do justice to the jew, is
the one 1.-THE Jew in Finance" Mr..
Peters says, "The jew in finance is al
most invariably creator and not a
puller-down" With few exceptions,
they have made their money as mer-
chants and manufacturers. The three
notable exceptions are Paliakoff, the
Russian railway king; Pera1es, the
French railroad kings; and the Roths-
childs, the last named having founded
the great banking family that exer-
cises more power than kings or presi-
dents. The history of the beginning
of the Rothschilds is interesting. Mayer
Anselm Bower Rothschild, the founder
of the wealthiest family of modern
times, was born in Frankfort in ll43
and died there in 1872. He belonged
to a poor Jewish family and was clerk
in Hanover before he established HIM
self at Frankfort, where he started as q
money-lender under the Red Shield
(Rothschild.) Hence the name. Here
his integrity and ability brought him
into relations with the German govern
ment during the wars of Napoleon. Ihe
elector William, ON his fight in 1906
after the invasion by the French, in
trusted about $5,000,000 to Rothschild
for eight years, and the judicious IN
yestment of this capital was the foun'
dation of his fortune, and so faithfully
was this trust administered that when
William was restored to power Roths-
child returned the value of the property
with interest.
DR.. Peters disposes of the idea that
the Jews are rich, and says the prOyerb
Erich as a Jew" is incorrect. In fact
1.-The Jews are the poorest of all people
that can claim to be civilized. If their
wealth and capital were equally dis
tributed among the Jews, they would
dispute with Ireland and Russia for
the lowest place in the scale of wealth
The 100000 Jews living in Africa and
Asia are poor. The four and "A hall
millions who live in the east of Europe
are only just raised above pauperism
while a good proportion are sunk even
below that level Among the four mil
lions of Russian Jews only three names
Gunzburg, Poliakoff and Brodsky, rise
above the general level of Woodworking
poverty" Among the more than 1,20O
milionaires of New York city not over
twelve are Jewish names, and not over
twenty-five among the 1000 million
aires in America small proportion for
so great a population. Why are they