The Portland daily press., 1899-09-06

In she prisoners dock OF the police court
In any civilized country. he Is never .
| loAfer. street tough, OF rioter. The
hangman is a stranger to him. You can
never find beggar who Is q jew and
he ls not burden on the charities OF any
community. Tho Jews maintain for their
own 1noapables prlnoeiy benevolences iE.
volying large expenditures Of money and
make NO noise about It. That the jew is
ae honest ~ the rest of mankind u evil
dent from his trsncndous success In
trade and flnanos. Some may ob3ect %
| that stat snsnt, bus ~ IL true. Businesa
speaking broadly, fnust be conducted
honestly In the bong run to suoceed.
No one can aeEy that ss money -Eettsr
the Jew leAas Tie wurld. Today ehe
worlds finance is really managed by
Jews. The greatest banking hopss IN
existence is that OF sne kathsohflds. Sud
denly remove tbs Jsws from the trade
and finance OF New York city and our
commercial metropolis would sink Kto the
level Of IsonisvIlie. KY. or perhaps st.
require brAins and II the Jew succeeds
In them better than other people it shows
that his intsliect IN kesner In those pur-
suits than his competitor'a IL may be
added that. as Marx Twain says, the
Jews "contribations 70 the worlds list
of great names In literature. science. ART,
music, medicine apd abstrnse leayning
are away out OF proportion 10 the weak
ness OF bis numbers." The Jews nave
us the wonderful literature sof the Bible.
The German Koch may ba mentioned In
ths scienos OF medioine the late Mr.
Disraeli In pofitzos, Mendelssohn and Ru-
bernstein In music. Bernhartit In drama
tic art ana Spincza In philosophy. In
view OF these facts. together with the ter
ribie handicap OF persecution which they
have steadily undergone Tor centuries it
can be safely maintained that the Jews,
Notwithstanding their faults, are q supe-
rior race
Yet the civilized wor Id, that Is to say
the Christian world 10 which the Jews
have belonged. have treated them rs badly
as, II not worse, than the so-cniled In
ferior races. Mark Twain explains this
persecution as In no Etrue sense due to
the fact of the lcrucifixiop of Jesus, but
as due primarily to the actual and incon-
testable superiority of the Jews in the
prizes of life. Aud IL must be admitted
by unprejudiced people that he has come
very near TO the truth. Mark Twain re-
calls that Jews were unpopular before the
Christian era. Even In Genesis Xvii
there In related the story Of how Joseph,
jew, "cornered" all the wealth Of
Egypt, in time Of famine,- proceeding
which must have made the jew disa-
Rreeable memory for sages after in that
part OF the ancient world. The simple
truth 10 that the jew always has been and
Is to-day too smart for many people to
live with. The present anti-Semitio
agitation In European countries is large.
ly based on this one fact. The jew
baiters" Of Vienna. Berlin and Paris
frankly say that the Jews must be put
down because they are monopolizing all
the business aud professions OF the land
and controlling all the wealth. They
must be putdown, in brief, because the
nthRr white nos
them. Perhaps II we had as many Jews
in tho United Statess as they have In
Europe The same harsh, proscriptive
antagonism against them would spring
up. As it lie, the jew is much ostracised
socially.
Is there anything in the wonderful story
of the Jews to give courage to inferior
races in their upward struggle? Perhaps
not. A black man might say that there
is little use In trying to be a superior race
when superior race Is prosecuted and
oppressed with even more bitterness than
an inferior race. That. however, is not
quite the way to view the situation. The
world is growing better, and both
superior and inferior races fare to have a
fairer chance in the golden future than
In ths dreary past. The Jews will never
be oppressed again as they have been, not
withstaDding the "Jew-baiters" of
should give the black men and the brown
men courage. BY the time bney reach the
intellectual briiliancy of the Jews they
win be able to boss mankind, II bossing
he then part OF the divine scheme Of
things.
AS for the people who have been sup
pressing and persecnting both superior
and inferior races-what OF themg The
fact that they try to put down a raoe in
many respects their betters, simply be-
cause THY cannot compete with surpass-
Ing excellence, places them in no fiatter-
ing light.