The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12
THE REAL JEW
DIR. Edward Leigh Pell Makes Ont q
Good Case for a Much misunderstood
People.

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the Jews. in which the author says
that while the Jew a had q place IN
the worlds CONSCIOUSNESS since Aora-
hams day, IL is only within the men,
DRY OF men now living that he has be-
u 10 find a place in the worlds con-
science
Speaking OF the age4ong prejudice
against the Jew. DR.. PelI says that 1t
is a little remarkable that very few
specific charges have ever been brought
against him. Nobody has accused
him Of being a disturber o. the peace:
nobody eve called him q loafer or a
sot, or a Quarrelsome fellow; nobody
ever wrote him down in the criminal
class; nobody has accused MIN OF a
lack Of ~benevolence- We lay been
| content 10 hate him for what he Is.
perhaps, rather h for anything that
ne has done. But, no; this sentence
will not pass There is one thing for
which We hate him, and that = his
inordinate love Of money. YET, when
We come to examine our hearts on this
matter we are not sure whether it Is
his love of money that is SO exaS-
perating, or the fact that he is COM
stantly getting in the way OF our low
OF money. / am not sure but that this,
after all, is the secret Of the worlds
age-long prejudice against the Jew.
From jacobs day, wherever the Israel
lite has gone he has made money faster
than his neighborS, and for his he has
never been forgiven. AS for the mod
ern Jews love Of money, ii is a most
natural failing. AS a famous Anglo
Jewish physician once said: 1t should
not be forgotten that other means
of distinction have been denied the
Jew. He must rise by wealth or not
rise at all, and if. as he well knows,
to insure wealth be TO insure rank,
respect n attention in society, does
the blame rest with him who ~endeavors
to acquire wealth for the distinction
which it will purchase, or with that
society which 50 readily bows down
at the shrine OF Mammon?' AS this
writer says, it is not pretended hat
the Jew is a miser, and that he desires
to acquire wealth merely for the oath
some qualification of boarding il. The
Jewish merchant is generally profuse
in his expenditure; he has labOred to
gain riches on o OF the respect
what they Will procure for him and
he is proud of e~Xpending them with
the same view
Moreover, the Jew is liberal. In
deed, as Mr.. Clemens has said. his race
is entitled to be called the most be
nevolent of all races of men. The
Jewish beggar is not impossible, per-
hapS; such a thing may exist, but
there are few men that can say they
rave seen that spectacle. The Jew has
been staged in many uncomplimentary
forms, but, SO far as / know. no dra-
matist has don him the injustice 20
stage him as a beggar. Whenever a
Jew has real need to beg, his people
save him from the necessity Of doing
ii. The charitable institutions of the
Jews are supported by Jewish money
and amply. The Jews make no noise
about it; it Dis 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.'
Speaking of the Jews law-ab:ding
spirit, DR.. Pel says that a Hebrew is
rarely found in prison, and recalls the
statement OF Governor Vance, of North
Carolina, who, when ~pardoning the
only Jew in the state penitentiary,
wrote: Il take pleasure in saying that
l sign the pardon in part Is a recog-
milton of the good and law-abiding
character of our Jewish citizens, this
being the first serious case brought to
my notice on the part of that people
In defending the Jew again of the
charge so often made that he is not,
and in the nature. of things cannot be,
a patriot. Dr.. Pell quotes the Rev.
Madison c.. Peters, who says in his
Justice to the jew" that until very
recently the Jews were rarely ever
permitted the opportunity of fighting
for their country, but whenever they
lave been allowe TO enter the lists
thy have proved that the oontumely
heaped upon them had not Quenched
their manhood"
1T is well KNOWN says DR.. PelI,
that during the revolution a large
proportion of the sinews of war were
provided by patriotic Jews. Hayne
Solomon of PhiladaInhGa AVA sly hun
dred thousand dollars for this pur-
pose, not one penny of which has ever
been repaid to his heirs. Benjamin
Levy of Philadelphia and Benjamin
Jacobs of New York were among the
signers of the bills of credit for the
continental of 1916, while
Samuel Lyon OF New York, another
patriotic Jew, signed similar bills in
1779. saa Moses and Herman Levy.
of Philadelphia, contributed large sums
for the support Of the army in the
field. "A South Carolina Jew, Manuel
Mordecai Noah, served as an officer
or W~ashington's staff, and gave m
hundred thousand dollars for the sup
port Of the army. In an unpublished
letter Of Jared Sparks the story is told
that at the outbreak of the revolution
Mr.. Gomez, a Jew of New York city,
proposed TO organize a company of SOL
dierS for service. A membe of the
continental congress TO whom he un-
folded his plan demonstrated with him
on % of his age. he being then
s~ixty-eight; but the old man cody re-
piled that he could stop a bullet as well
as a younger man, and went his way.
AS Mr.. Peters says, the part which
the Jews ook in the late war between
the states was so conspicuous that It
would be difficult TO pick out the most
prominent men in the conflict either
on the federal or the confederate side"
DR.. Pell speaks Of the beautiful home
life OF the Jew, and notes the fact that
nowhere is he a cuInberer of the
ground. He is In every calling. and
in every calling he excels." Concluding
his estimate, the author says that the
indestructibility of the Jew is an in
d~estructible in behalf Of
the worth Of the rac I'm spite Of all
things he lives Tyranny and disper-
sion have failed to exterminate him.
The Pharaohs of Egypt made his life
a burden. but he lived: the Crusaders
overs him with but he