The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-10

fish shall be read. both for the elegance
of its style and for its amusing in
structiveness THAT most entertaining
and searching writer" Lord Byron said
Of him. and the University of Oxford
created him a doctor of civil law, which
sixty years ago was distinction indeed
for any English school to confer upon
Jew, for at that Time no Jew had entered
parliament Today England delights to
honor him. In the law. in diplomacy, In
the high places of civic government he
stands eminent.
In the United States, where the spirit of
religious liberation was part of the
constitution itself, the Jew has long been
distinguished in the higher walks of poll
tics. AS early as 1871 Pennsylvania re-
turned Israel Jacobs as member of the
house of representatives. Since then all
but few of the newer states have fire.
quently been represented in congress by
a Jew. Joseph Simon. of Oregon holds
seat In the senate now, and has had a
number Of distinguished predecessors of
his race In the same august body. Among
these should not be forgotten that most
eminent and intellectual man, Judah P.
Benjamin, who, resigning his senatorial
tcga when war seemed imminent cast
his lot with the people of his own state
of Louisiana and his own South and be-
came successfully attorney general, sec
rotary of war and secretary of state for
the Confederacy Then, at the close of
the war, broken in fortune and bitter at
heart, he built in a new land a reputation
as an advocate which made him the peer
of any other practicing English law at
the staid English bar.
1t would be a work of supererogation
more than to direct mere attention to the
Icing list of Jewish juriStS of distinction
and counselors Of eloquence and repute
who have adorned and still grace both
bench and bar in this country Illinois
herself, Cook county herself, has in the
past and still can furnish many shining
examples of the eminence of the Jew az
judge or advocate Racially he is of jul
dicial cast of thought racially the very
fineness of his mind is calculated to I'M
derstand to associate, to weigh and to
examine those hair-splitting differentia-
tons which are ultimately passed upon
by courts of last resort 1t may be remem-
| oered that Jacob wrestled successfully
with the angel, and that the Scripture is
filled with examples of the persuasive
eloquence of the Jew. Even that hard
headed King Agrippa admitted that al
most was he persuaded by him who had
been a pharisee of the pharisees, which
shows that even in apostasy the Jew re-
tains the glamor Of his speech.
The charge hurled against the Jew by
the rabd anti-Semites is that he is not
TO be trusted, that he overreaches in bar
gains, that he is dishonorable. There was
certain. Meyer Anselm Rothschild once
who was born about the middle Of the
last century in the Jews alley in Frank
fort-on-the-Main. and was reared to be-
come q priest of his fathers faith. But
his talents lay another way. The neo-
phyte deserted the altar to become u
changer of money, a lender Of shekels,
and thus he was when after the triumph
ant victory of Jena Napoleon declared
forfeited the estates and Golfers of the
landgrave of Hesse Cassel and dispatched
a French army to Frankfort to see that
the landgrave made proper return on