Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-16
A FINE TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS.


of Talent and of Wealth.
The suhjoined article, written by
George R. Vending for the New York
Herald at its request, and published
over his signature in it's issue of Jan.
uary 81, 1892, attracted wide atten'
ton:
"There is not a drop of Jewish blood
in nv veins. I am not connected with
the Jews by marriage or any near or
distant kinsman. 1 owe no Jew dol
lar and no Jew owes me. Among all
nv personal or intimate friends 1 can
not name one single Jew. 1 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 conven-
ton, 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, I am Jew
And when the ancestors of the right
honorable gentleman were brutal saw
ages in an unknown island, mine were
priests in the temple
"Do you seek an aristocracy of tai
ent? The great church historian, Ne
auder, was a Jew; Napoleon's mar
shalls, Soult and Massena, were Jews ;
the brilliant and cynical Heine was a
Jew, and-but the worlds roll of great
soldiers, authors, musicians, painters,
poets, philosophers and inanciers, con-
tain more Hebrew names than 1 can
recite in many hours.
"Are you looking for an aristocracy
of wealth? The combined financial
power of Jews in Europe can prevent
the floating of almost any national
loan which may he put upon the mar
kets of the world !!
"It is spurious, false Christianity
that hates the Jews. The mystery of
the incarnation found expression in the
flesh and blood of Jew. We get our
Ten Commandments-the very founda-
ton of our civilization-through the
Jew. We sing Jewish Psalms, are up
lifted by the passion and poetry of
Jewish prophets, and rely on Jewish
biographers for the only history we
have of Christ. We get our Pauline
theory from Jew, and we catch our
earliest glimpse of the next world
through the sublime apocalytic vision
of Jew. Then, forsooth, we Chris
tains turn about and sneer at Jews.
"I have conversed with teachers of
philosophy who spoke slightingly of
the Jews, and yet were teaching with
enthusiasm ideas which they had ab-
sorbed from Maimonides and Spinoza,
the two greatest philosophers, emitting
Kant, since Plato's day-both of them
Jews. I have heard musicians de-
nounce Jews and then spends days and
nights trying to interpret the beauties
of Rossini, Meyerbeer and Mendels-
sohn-all Jews. talked the other day
with a gifted actress, and heard both
her and her husband sweepingly con-
demn, confidentially, of course, the
whole race of Jews, and yet that wo-
man would give half the remaining
part of her life if she could only reach
the heights which the great queen of
tragedy, Rachel, trod with such majes-
ty and power-and Rachel was Jew
ess. Here in Washington I have heard
aspiring politicians when beyond the
reach of the reporters pencil, sneer at
Jews, and yet it was Jew that made
England's Queen Empress of India, and
it was a Jew who for years was the
adroit and sagacious chairman of the
national committee of one of our great
political parties. The brainiest man
in the Southern Confederacy was Judah
P. Benajmin, a Jew; and Chase, when
managing our national finances in a
perilous time, owed much of his suc-
cess to the constant advice of New
York Jew. That you never see Jew
tramp or Jew drunkard is proverb !;
that you never see Jew beggar is a
commonplace; that it is statistical