The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-09-01
PERSECUTION OF
THE JEWS.
The Reason, Mark Twain
Says, Is Jealousy.
THEY NEVER BEG THEIR BREAD.
Their Charitable Institutions are Sup
ported by Themselves, and They
Never Nag or Poster Gentiles For Con-
tributiOns.

Mark Twain, writing in Harper's
Magazine, says:
1.-THE Jew is not disturber of the
peace of any country. Even his
enemies will concede that. He Is
not lOafer, he is not a sot, he is not
noisy, he Is not brawler nor a rio
ter, he is not quarrelsome. In the
statistics of crime his presence is
cOnspicuously rare-in all countries.
With murder and other crimes of
violence be has but little to do; he
is stranger to the hangman. In
the police courts daily long roll of
assaults and drunk and disorder
lies his name seldom appears. That
the Jewish home is a home in the
truest sense is fact which no one
will dispute. The family is knitted
together by the strongest affections;
its members show each other every
due respect; and reverence for the
elders Is an inviolate law of the
house. The Jew is not a burden on
the charities of the state nor of the
city these could cease from their
functions without affecting him.
When he is we'll enough, he works;
when he is incapacitated, his own
people take care of him. Aud not in
a poor and stlngy way, but with
! fine and large benevolence. His
race is entitled to be called the most
benevolent of all the races of men.
A Jewish beggar is not impossible,
perhaps; such a thing may exist,
but there are few men that can say
they have seen that spectacle. Tho
Jew has been staged in many un-
complimentary forms, but, so far as
know, no dramatist has done him
the injustice to stage him as a beg
gar. Whenever Jew has real need
to beg, his people save him from the
necessity of doing it. The charita-
Bile institutions of the Jews are sup
ported by Jewish money, and am
ply. The Jews make no noise about
it; it is done quietly; they do not
nag and poster and harass us for
contributions; they give us peace,
and set us an eXample--an example
which we have not found ourselves
able to follow.
"In Berlin, few years ago, | read
a speech which frankly urged the
expulsion of the Jews from Ger
many; and the agitator's reason was
AS frank as his proposition. 1t was
this: that eighty ,fOe per cent. of the
successful lawyers of Berlin were
Jews, and that about the came per-
centage of the great and lucrative
business of all sorts in Germany
were in the hands of the Jewish
race! Isn't it an amazing confes-
sion? 1t was but another way OF
saying that in population of Is OO0,-
600, of whom onlv 10000 were regis
tered as Jews, eighty-five per cent
of the brains and honesty of the
whole was lodged in the Jews.
must insist upon the honesty-it is
an essential of successful business
taken by small and large. Of course
it does not rule out rascals entirely
even among Christians, but it is q
good working rule, nevertheless
The speakers figures may have been
inexact, but the motive of persecu.
J ton stands out as clear as day.
The man claimed that in Berlin
the banks, the newspapers, the
theatres, the great mercantile, ship
ping, mining, and manufacturing
interests, the big army and city con-
tracts, the tramways, and pretty
much all other properties of higt
: value, and also the small businesses
were in the hands of the Jews
He said the Jew was pushing th'
) Christian to the wall all along tn,
line; that it was all Christian
could do to scrape together living
and thatithe Jew must be banished
aud soon-there was no other way
of saving the Christian. Here II
z Vienna, last autumn, an agitatol
said that all these disastrous detail
: were true of Austria Hungary also
and ia fierce language be demanded
| the expulsion Of the Jews. Whel
politicians come out without a blusl
and read the baby act in this franl
way, unrebuked, it is very good in
! dication that they have a marke
I back of them, and know where t.
, fish for votes"