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

that intellect which always stands SEN
tinel over the Hebrew soon subdueS
the gust However strong in Shylock
time might have been the hatred OF the
Jew toward the Christian, the lust OF
lucre was more strong, and Shakespeare
might have ransacked every Ghetto III
ChristendOm without finding a jew, or
4 Christian either, who would have pre-
ferred Il pound of flesh to pound steri-
ing. and Jews also shrink from physical
contests. Their disposition is to triumph
nv intellect rather than violence. 1t
was this trait more than any other that
rendered them, in the Middle Ages,
so repulsive to the masses, who were
all of the Morissey and muscular Chris
tjanty school. The contempt Of daugh-
ter for her parent is equally uncharacter-
istic Of the jew. The Jews are uni
versally admired for the affections
which adorn their domestic life. Inc
more they have been pushed from the
society of the family of man the greater
has been the intensity with which they
have chung to the love of their family.
mo one can ever have visited the
houses Of the Jews without having been
struck by the glowing affection with
which the daughter greets the father
ne he returns from the days campaign
and the sights and sneers of his gaber-
dine and yellow cap provoke, and with
ont observing how those small, restless
eyes that sparkle and CLEAN, shine out
in a softened, loving luster as they fall
mon the face of Rebecca or Jessica, or
Sarah. and how he stands no longer
with crooked back, but erect and COM
Ia hOIIGnhnI1
goods with Civilizations vehement as the
nreiudices which during the day have
called and fretted his nature. To do
iuetice 70 the grandeurs of the Jewish
race and to brand with infamy Its
infirmities, it is not enough to produce
q repulsive delineation of the latter. 1t
would be only just to give an expression
TO the former, and to exhibit that SUI
periority of intellect which has survived
all persecution, and which, soaring above
preiudices of the hour, has filled us with
reluctant admiration on finding now
many of the great events when marx
the progress of the age or minister 10 It's
improvements, or elevate its tastes, may
he traced to the wonderful workings OF
the soul of the Hebrew, and the SUI
premacy of that spiritual nature which
gave mankind its noblest religion, It's
nobIest laws, and some of its noblest
poesy and music"
DIR. Peters also shows that usury Is
not a Jewish characteristic, but. attain
cd sits most infamous aspect among
the Greeks. "Usury was practlced by
some Jews. but it is not a Jewish any
more than it is Christian character
istic,' says DR.. Peters, and he adds:
'"The royal spendthrifts and their
impecunious subjects borrowed from the
industrious and provident Jews. But
when the time came to pay they raised
the CRY against the crime of usury,
and the INDECENT Christian borrowers,
the Castilian mobiles O. plundered and
murdered the Jewish money-lenders and
thus avenged the crime of usury and
cancelled their debts.
"Jhe most UNANIMOUSLY notorious usur-
ers of which history tells were the Lom-
hards. Audlpy, Pcroli and the Caurslni,
not Jews Writing in the reign of Ellz-
abeth. Bacon says of usury:
".Since there must be borrowing and
lending, and men are so hard OF heart
that they will not lend freely. usury
must be permitted. Only Utop;an
government would attempt to suppress
usury. Usury could only be practlced
by Christians. as Jews were not then
tolerated in England"
The chapters on THE Attitude of Mod
ern Judaism 1.-THE Talmud' and Pre-
iudice Against the Jew" show that DR..
Peters has learned the true faith and
come TO feel the passions of the jew.
From the opening to the close of his jus
tice to the Jew" the work Mr.. Peters
undertook IS well done and its wide
reading will end such prejudice as exists
against the Hebrew population. Hap
pily that prejudice which has been
barrier against the progress Of tile jew
has well-nigh been buried along
with all other species of bigotry and
intolerance, and in America today the
lew has won for himself position that
is as honorable as that possessed by
the descendants of the Puritan and the
Cavalier. The fact that Dreyfus is
Jew would have denied him worldwide
sympathy less than century ago; to-
day, we live i'll a broader day and III
the universal denunciation of the mar
tyrdom of Dreyfus, it is established
that "A mans a man for a that"
oDAVID HARUM," by Edward
Moves Wescoft. ID. Appleton Il CO.,