Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-09-07


n cient Greek and Roman. Egyptian and
r Carthaginian has entirely disappeared
!. by the process of absorption, the jew
still contiOnues Whether his home is
America, Europe on the far East, he is
jew still, with, all the charac-
!, teristics of face, voice, manner and DIS
position that he can never disguise,
wherever he goes.
This very tenacity Of race instinct,
though it may De passive, is calculated
to attract the disrespect and animosi-
~ of other races, having totally differ
ent conceptions The jew is looked
upon as a relic of the past that long
ago ought to have disappeared. The
very strength and power that have
preserved him are viewed with fear
and hatred. 1t is as clear as anything
that long after Germans cease to be
Germans and Americans cease to be
Americans, in the mutations of time.
the jew will still be jew. 1t does
really seem as if he were constantly i'm
readiness to be gathered, with others
OF his kind, back to Jerusalem. as
scripture prophesieth, and that wheth-
er the call comes soon or thousands of
years from now it would make no diff |
ference-the jew would always be
ready to respond.
But il is not Tor his eXcmsiyeness
alone that the jew is hated. If that
were all, the world could laugh at him,
but would never raise the arm of per
secution against him. The chief rea-
son why the jew is maligned and
abused is because he is so successful
in the pursuit of wealth, fame and
power Instead of offering him hon.
age for his superiority, the rest Of
mankind execrates him. To the CON- |
mon mind the jew is only worthy of
on account Of his history and
his methods. II is impossible to have
for those who rise above the
common level and so persecution is
escorted TO in the effort to drag him
pack and under The same Jealous
md angry emotions that move the t
southern white when he sees negro
Use in the human scale above him ex-
lite the populace of Europe against the 4
lew. And more, because in CONT
rental Europe, the jew is the conspic- .
Ious success in every country. The 1,
wealth Of Europe is in the control of
he jew. With it comes the power I
nd the fame. 9,
As citizen, the jew has a complex
OF good and bad qualities. =
lie is almost invariably man of char 81
cter. Very few Jews ever get to the
He is a man of his u
'ord-with the qualification that what b
! sometimes taken for his word does d.
OF turn out to be such, but Just al
lisapprehension on the part of the fl
arty he is dealing with. The jew is Vi
exemplary habits, never drunken or te
icious, is cheerful in manner, kind :.
] his family and often generous in a
'ays Of his own. He Is ever man Of
eace, never brawling or quarrelsome. M M
e is industrious, patient and perse-
ering. These are his good qualities. ia
is bad ones, as they exist in the com
ION mind,are that he is sordid. grasp FL
q, avaricious, with a mind solely in DC
mt on the accumulation of wealth, he
ithout the finer instincts OF love for wi
,untry and his felowman that he ~
lould have. In Shylock Shakespeare da
fetched exactly the Aryan idea Of the
w and as Shylock the jew has be- mn M
me known and hated everywhere. Of
Whether because he is of peaceful by
sposition or because he does not me
ish to allow such things to interfere in
it'll the "main chance the jew is Mi
ldom found under arms, ready to de- III,
nd the country that he finds it profit r.
lie to live in. Who ever heard of a C
eat general who was Jew or of a
wish regiment or brigade? While
hers are giving their blood, the jew NJ,
'eps on accumulating Quite likely S
5 distaste for combat is one great Az
ason Tor his material success, but it an,
mot fail to excite feelings of ami 4
osity, nevertheless, The jew is not tea
miser that he is commonly pictured. ~,
E loves to make money for the sake &c,
making it, but he spends it freely, \
en- generously. Some of the worlds 10 tII ,
eatest philanthropists. Baron Hirsch n
+ example, have been Jews. Yet as car
whole, considering his pecuniary All
ilities. the jew could hardly be v
'ssed among the freest of givers. G 5ss,