The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-10-05
TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS.
SOME OF THE WORLDS GREAT
EST MEN AND WOMEN
Have Belonged to this Race of Peo.
pie In Whom we See an Aristocracy y
of Birth and Blood, Talent and
Wealth-A Spurious, False Chris
tianity that Hates the Jews.
George r. Vending in New Yorl
Herald)

There is not a drop of Jewish
blood in my veins. | am not con-
nected with the Jews by marriages or
any near or distant kinsman. | owe
no Jew dollar and no jew owes me.
Among all my personal or intimate
friends l can not name one single
jew. l speak from the vantage ground
of absolute independence.
'.Do you want an aristocracy 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 convcn-
tion nor Patrick Henry in the House
of Burgesses, nor Sam Adams in the
old Colonial days ever said more
thrilling thing than Disraeli said in
the English Commons in reply to the
charge that he was Jew: Yes, !
am Jew! And when the ancestors
of the right honorable gentleman
ware brutal savages in an unknown
island. mine were priests in the tenn
Pile
do you seek an aristocracy of
talent? The great church historian,
Neander, was Jew; Napoleon
marhals, Soult and Messcna, were
Jews; the brilliant and cynical Heine
was Jew, and-but the worlds roll
of great soldiers, authors, musicians,
painters, poets, philosophers and
tinanciers, contains more Hebrews
names than l can recite in hours.
Are you looking for an aristocracy
OF wealth? The combined tinanlcial
power of Jews in Europe can prevent
the floating OF almost any national
loan which may be put upon the
markets of the world!
lit is a spurious, false Christianity
that hates the Jews. The mystery
of the incarnation found expression
in the flesh and blood of 6 Jew. We
get our Ten Commandments-the
very foundation of our civilization
through the Jews. We sing Jewish
Psalms, are uplifted by the passion
and poetry Of Jewish prophets, and
rely on Jewish biographers for the
HISTORY we have of Christ. We got
our Pauline theory from Jew, and
we catch our earliest glimpse of the
next world through the sublime
apocalyptic vision of a Jew, then,
forsooth, we Christians turn about
and sneer at Jews.
81 have conversed with teachers of
philosophy who spoke slightingly OF
the Jews, and yet were teaching with
enthusiasm ideas which they had alb
sorbed from Maimonides and Spinoza,
the two greatest philosophers, omitting
Kant since Plato's day-both of them
Jews. ! have heard musicians de-
nounce Jews and then spend days
and nights trying to interpret the
beauties of Rossini, Meyerbeer and
Mendels sohn - all Jews. | talked
the other day with gifted actress,
and heard both her and her husband
sweepingly condemn, confidentially
of course, the whole race OF Jews
and yet that woman would give hall
the remaining part of her life if she
could only reach the heigh hts which
the great queen Of tragedy, Rachel,
tro<l with such majesty and power
| and Rachel was a Jewess. Here il
Washington l have heard aspiring
politicians when beyond the reach OF
| the reporters pencil, sneer at Jews,
and vet it was Jew that made Eng
lands Queen Empress of India, and
it was Jew who for years was tho
adroit and sagacious chairman OF the
national committee of one Of oul
great political parties. The brainies1
man in the Southern Confederacy Wa:
| Judah =. Benz jamin, Jew, anc
Chase, when managing our national
! finances in a perilous time, owet
| much of his success TO the constan
| advice of a New York Jew. That yot
| never see a Jew tramp or a Jew
drunkard is proverb; that yol
never see Jew beggar is common
place; that it is statistical fact thai
there are relatively fewer inmates 0
our hospitals, jails and workhouse
furnished by the Jews than any otheI
race contributes.
s.Convert the Jews Yes, bu
meanwhile let us convert many O
our church members to genuin
Christianity. Suppress the Jews!
score of Russian Cars cannot do IL
Every people on earth has tried
and failed. They have outlived tn
Tudors and the Plantagenets, tn
Romanoffs, the tyranny Of Spain, tn
dynasties OF France, CharlemaSne
Constantine, the Caesars, the Bah
ylonian kings and the Egyptiai
Pharoahs. 1t was Gods own race TO
1000 years, and the awful persecu
ton it has survived for 1900 year
more stamps it as race still bearin
some mysterious relation to til
plans Of the Eternal. The beaut
and fidelity OF Jewish women con
mand my homage, and amonj
wealthy and educated Jewesses, thel
culture and high breeding, blende
with a sort OF Oriental grace an
dignity, put them among the mos
chxrming women in the world.
But the Jew is tricky. Is he
We're YOU never taken in by Methc
dist class leader on a real estat
trader Did you never get into clos
/ quarters with a Presbyterian sPec'
latore Did you ever buy minin
stock on the representations OF
Episcopalian broker' Did you eve
take mans word quicker becau'
he was Baptist or Roman Catholic
Did you never see a stone weighin
twenty pounds concealed in bale
cotton grown by a Southerner? ID
YOU never find lard in the butter so
BY New England Puritan'
The belief that the Jew is mo
dishonest than the Gentle is on
half nonsense and the other ha
prejudice and faisehood. The AMI
Jewish feeling which now seems
be rising against these people is u
! ;nbup,an and nm merica