The times., 1899-09-03

| Cincinnati, and San Francisco-how your
race swarms in those placesi-and every
where else in America, down 10 the least
| little village. Read the signs on the
marts of commerce and on the shops:
| Goldstein (gold stone), Edelstein (precious
stone) Blumenthal (fiower vale), Rosen-
thai (rose vale), yeilchenduft tviolet
| odor), Singvogel (song bird), Rosenweig
| (rose branch), and all the amazing list OF
! beautiful and enviable names which Prus-
!; sia and Austria glorified you with so long
| ago.
| Now, why was the race renamed?
have been told that in Prussia 1t was given
+; to using fictitious names. and often chang
| ing them, so as to beat the taxgatherer,
/ escape military service, and so on; and
! that finally the idea was hit upon of fur
nishing all the inmates of a house with one
/ and the same surname, and then holding
/ the house responsible right along for those
inmates, and accountable for any diSap
/ pearanceS that might occur; it made the
Jews keep track of each other for self in
| terests sake, and saved the Government
/ the trouble.
| If that explanation of how the Jews of
/ Prussia came to be renamed is correct, if
| it is true that they fctitiously registered
themselves to gain certain advantages, it
may possibly be true that in America they
refrain from registering themselves as
! Jews to fend OF the damaging prejudices
| of the Christian customer. / have no way
of knowing whether this notion is well
| founded or not. There may be other and
better ways of explaining why only that
poor little $50, 600 of our Jews got into the
Cyelopaedia. | may, of course, be mis-
taken, but l am strongly of the opinion
that we have an immense Jewish popula-
| tion in America.
/ IN IN
| improve the situation?"
| | think so. II / may make a suggestion
| without seeming to be trying to teach my
grandmother how TO suck eggs. l Will Of
| fer it. In our days we have learned the
value of combination. We apply it every
wherein railway systems in trusts, in
trade unions, in Salvation Armies, in min
or politics, in major politics, in European
concerts. Whatever our strength may be-
big or little, we organize it. We have
found out that that is the only way TO get
| the most out of il that is in it, We know
| the weakness of individual sticks, and the
strength of the concentrated fagot. Sup
| pose you try scheme like this, for in
stance. In England and America put every
| Jew on the census book as a Jew lin case
| you have not been doing that. Get up vol
unteer regiments composed of Jews so.ely,
and, when the drum beats, fall in and go
| that you have few Massenas among you,
and that you feed on country bur don't
| like TO fight for il. Next, in politics. or
| ganiZe your strength. band together and
deliver the casting vote where you can, and
| where you can't, compel as good terms as
| possible. You hudde to yourselves al
ready in all countries, but you huddle to
no sufficient purpose, politically speaking.
| You do not seem to be organized except
! tent; there you compel your due of reeog-
nition-you do not have to beg for it. 1t
shows what you can do when you band to-
gether for definite purpose.
! And then from America and England you
can encourage your in Austria
France, and Germany, and materially hep
| it
You seem TO think that the Jews take no
hand in politics here, that they are ''abso-
| lutely non participants" | am assured by
men competent to speak that this is a very
large error that the Jews are exceedingly
active in politics all over the Empire but
that they scatter their work and their
votes among the numerous parties, and
thus lose the advantages TO be had by con-
centration. l think that in America they
scatter too, but you know more about that
| than | do.
Point No 5.-"Will the persecution of
the Jews ever come to an end?"
On the score of religion, l think it Las
already come to an end. On the score of
race prejudice and trade | have the idea
that it will continue. That is here and
there in spots about the world, where a
barbarous ignorance and a sort of mere
animal civilization prevail; but | do not
think that elsewhere the Jew need now
stand in any fear of being robbed and
raided. Among the high civilizations he
seems to be very comfortably situated in
deed, and to have more than his proper
tionate share of the properties going.
1t has that look in Vienna l suppose the
race prejudice cannot be removed; but he
can stand that; it is no particular matter
By his make and ways he is substantially
a foreigner wherever he may be, and even
the angels dislike a foreigner. / am using
this word foreigner in the German sense
stranger. Nearly all of us have an an
tipathy to stranger, even of our own
nationality. We pile gripsacks In vacant
seat to keep him from getting it; and a
dog goes further, and does as a .avage
wouid-challenges him on the spot. The
German dictionary seems TO make no dis
tinction between a stranger and a for
eigner; in its view stranger is 4 for
eigner-a sound position, l think. You
will always be by ways and habits and