The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-11-15
Tribute 10 the Jews.

The subjoined article, written by
George r. Vending for The New
York Herald at it's request, and pub.
lished over his signature in its issue of
January 81. 1892, attracted wide atten-
ton.
"There is not drop of Jewish blood
in nv veins. l am not connected
with the Jews by marriage or any near
or distant kinsman. I owe no Jew a
dollar and no Jew owes me. Among
all nv personal or intimate friends l
can not name one single Jew. l speak
from the vantage ground OF absolute
independence. =
"Do YOU want an arlstocracY OF
blood and birth? The Jews are the
purest blooded people and have the
best established descent in the world,
Not Mirabeau in the French conven-
ton nor Patrick Henry in the house OF
Burgesses, nor Sam Adams in the
old Colonial days ever said more
Thrilling thing that Disraell said IN the
English Commons in reply to the
charge that he was Jew: Yes, am
a Jew! And when the ancestors OF
the right honorable gentleman were
brutal savagesin an unknown island,
mine were priests in the temple.
"Do YOU seek an aristocracy OF tai
ent? The great Church historian,
Neahder, was Jew: Napoleon's
marshall, Soult and Massena, were
.Tews. the brilliant and cynical Heine
was q Jew, and-but the worlds roll
of great soldiers authors, musicians,
painters, poets philosophers and finan-
ciers' contain more Hebrew nam es
than can recite in many hours.
"Are YOU looking for an arlstocracyy
of wealth? The Combined financial
power of Jews in Europe can prevent,
the floating of almost any natlonal
loan which may be put upon the
markets of the world
ut is spurious, false Chrltlanlty
that hates the Jews. The mystery OF
the incarnation found expression IN
the flesh and blood of Jew. We get
our Ten Commandments-the very
foundation of our civilization-through
the Jew. We sing Jewish Psalms, are
uplifted by the passion and poetry. OF
Jewish prophets, and rely on Jewish
hiopraphers for the only hi-tory we
have Of Christ. We get our Pauline
theory from a Jew, and we catch our
earliest glimpse of the next world
through the sublime apocalyptlc Wis
ion of a Jew. Then forsooth, we
Christians turn about and sneer. at
Jews. .,
I have conversed with teachers OF
philosophy who spoke slightlngly OF
the Jews, and yet were teaching Win
enthusiams ideas which they had
absorbed from Mainmonides and
Sp1noza, the two greatest philosophers,
omitting Kant, since Plato's day,
both of them Jews. I have heard
musicians denounce Jews and then
spend DAYS and nights trying to inter
pret the beauties of Rossini, Meyerbeer
and Mendelsohn-all Jews; talked
the other day with gifted actress,
and heard both her and her husband
sweepingly condemn, contdentlally,
of course, the whole race of Jews, ana
vet that woman would give half the
Remaining part of her life if she could
only reach the heights which the great
queen of tragedy, Rachel, trod with
such majesty and poWer-ano hscnel
was a Jewess. Here in Washington L
have heard aspiring politicians when
beyond the reach of a reporters pencil,
sneer at Jews, and yet it was Jew
that made England's Queen Em-
press of India, and it was a Jew
who for wears was the adroit and saga
cious chairman of the national com,
mittee of one of our great political
parties. The brainiest man IN tne
Southern Confederacy was judah Z.
BENJAMIN, Jew, and Chase when
managing our national finance In q
periloIs time. owed much of his sue
cess to the constant advice of New
York Jew. That you never see Jew
tramp or a Jew drunkard is proverb
that YOU never see q Jew beggar Is
commonplace; that Is statistical fact
that there are relatively fewer inmates
of our hospitals, jails and workhouses
furnished by Jews than any other race
contributes.
"Convert the Jews! Yes, but mean
while let us convert many OF our
Church members to genuine Christian,
ity. Suppress the Jews! A score OF
Russian Cars cannot do it. Every
people on earth has tried it and failed;
They have outlived the Tudors and
the Plantagenets, the Romanoffss, the
tyranny Of Spain, the dynasties ol
France, Charlemagne, Constant'"e,
the Caesars, the Babylonlan kings ana
tbe Epvntian Pharoahs. It was Coos