The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
CONCERNING THE JEWS.
Reply TO a Recent Article by Mark
Twain.
Arthur Brisbane in New York Journal.


Twain.
Arthur Brisbane in New York Journal
This seems rather a good week TO re-
view Mark Twains article on the Jews
in the current Harper's Monthly.
The Dreyfus verdict has been discussed
more or less intelligently by every civil
lied being able to read. Doubtless many
have discovered for the first time the exist.
ence of that Jewish question which Mark
Twain devojes his interesting and amusns
observations.
The last paragraph in the article Is the
best Il is n interest ng question, admira
bly, formulated. Here it is:
ITO conclude-if the statistics are right.
the Jews constitute but one per cent. of
the human race. II suggests nebu,ous
dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze Of
the milky way. Properly the jew ought
hardly to be heard of, but he is heard Of,
has always been heard Of He is piom-
nent on the planet as any otuvr people.
and his conmerc al Importance is eXtraV-
| aeantsy out OF proportion TO the smallnesS
of his bulk. His contributions 10 lie
worlds list of great names in literature,
science, art, music, finance, medicine, and
abuuse leaning a,e also away out OF
proportion to the weakness of his mum
| bSES. ne mas IN iOe z ndENIlOIS llSfI Ill
this world in all the ages; and has done
| il with his hands tied behind him I'C
| could be vain OF himself, and be excused
| to7 II. The Egyptian. the Baby an, ana
| the Persian rose. hred the p.alItt with
! sound end spler do, tnen faded 10 dream
! stuff and passed away; the Greek and the
| Roman followed. and made a vast no Sc
| and they are some; other D. rles have
| sprung up and held their torch high for a
| time, but il burned our, and hoy sit in
! twilight now, or have vani he'd. The Jew
saw them all, beat them al and is now
! what he always was, exhibiting 10 dead
| ence, no irfrmities of age, no weakening
of his parts, no slowing of his energies. no
dulling of his arert and aggressive nina
! All things are mortal bat he Jew, an
| other forces pass. hut ne remains. What
is the secret of his immortality
Some weeks ago il was suggested in this
| newspaper that Jewish achievement was
| due to compulsory brain development-tO
| the fact that Jews had been treated by
| mankind generally our early monkey
| ancestors were treated by the carnivorous
| tribes, and compelled in spite of them
! selves to develop that brain power which
| has made them successful in spite of cease
! less and combined hostility. This expla-
! nation of the Jews immortality, however,
is not entirely satisfactory.
The orthodox Jew declares that he re-
| ceives direct from God Almighty special
| qualifications and special powers. He is
| says he. the Creators chosen one. predes-
| tined to surpass and outlive all others.
| The Gentle remarks that while Jews
| have been able, they have not by any
means developed the ablest men on tn
| eartn. In fact, not the greatest man in
any single line of endeavor has been
} Jew, says the Gentle If their brains
were so very good they would have devel-
| oped at least one brain of superlative
| power.
1t happens that the Jewish race did de-
| velop such a brain, assuming Moses L
! have been a Jew. and we beg to call 10
the attention of Mark Twain the import
ance of Moses as solution of his prob
! lem.
The wisdom of Moses. the greatest of
Jews, answers at least partially the ques-
| ton what is the secret of the Jews i'm
! mortalty?' Moses SHINES as the greatest,
| common-sense doctor the earth has known.
1t cannot perhaps be truthfully said that
| he knew more than others concerning wise
| living and the rules which, thanks TO
! him, have kept the Jews free from disease
| and possible extinction. But Moses pos
| sessed the greatest of qualities. He knew
| how to make his knowledge useful. He
! could compel ignorant tribes to obey the
rules laid down for them. He made his
| health laws a part of his national religion.
| He ordered the Jew to wash himself and
| eat carefully, and the Jew, accepting the
orders as divine. faithfully obeyed them.
Vital statistics of the Jews show that
| their death rate is everywhere lower than
that of the peoples among whom they live.
A few weeks ago Sir w. II. Preece,
| president of the Sanitary Institute OF Lon
don, declared that the greatest sanitary
engineer the world he'd ever known was
Moses He was a great doctor and sub
limated Col Waring.
In the past 3,400 years, while the Jews
| have been living in accordance with Moses
laws, the rest of the human race has lived
| in helter-skelter, disorganized, unhealthy,
more or less crazy fashion.
In the middle ages the Jew was temper
ate, while the Christian noble who Dor
roWed or stole his money was eating anG
drinking himself to death
Thanks TO Moses, the Jews have escap-
ed hereditary disease taints handed down
from one generation OF CHRISTIANS to an
other.
The doctrines Of Moses, which consti-
tute the most important part of the Jewish
religion, are simple rules for wise living
They are taught as part of religion TO the
Jewish children and obeyed religiously by
the Jews through life.
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Jehovah to look out for six things First
pure air; second pure water; third, pure
food; fourth. pure soil; fifth, pure dwell
ings sixth, pure bodies.
Thousands of years ago Moses compelled
the Jews to carry their refuse and garbage
from their tents TO clear space OUTSIDE
of the camp and burn it, This insured
pure air In New York city to-day two
millions of enlightened Christians dom
know enough to take Moses suggestion.
We dump our sewage into the river or
ocean. Later on we battle in il. II floats
around to pollute the atmosphere.
In regulating the food supply of the
Israelites, Moses proved his knowledge of
their requirements as an Eastern nation
and his acquaintance with dietetic common
sense in general
we have ali read jokes of greater or less
value on Moses objection to ham and 9th
err hog products.
Moses probably did not really dispise the
swine for splitting his hoof without at the
same time chewing his cud He was too
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