The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-07-12
THE JEW,
A FINE TRIBUTE,
By Hon Geo. R. Vending,
Who was at Marietta
Chautauqua,

There is not drop of Jewish blood
in my veins. | am not connected with
the Jews by the marriage of any near
or distant kinsman. / owe no Jew a
dollar and no Jew owes me. Among
all my personal or intimate friends
cannot name one single Jew. l speak
from the vantage ground OF absolute
independence.
1t is splendid race--splendid in
their patience, in their love for one an
other, in their endurance, in their sa-
gacity and temperate habits and splen-
did in their inflexible adherence to
their Mosaic ideals.
Do you want an aristocracy of blood
and birth? The Jews are the purest
blooded and have the best established
decent in the world. Not Mirabeau in
the French convention, nor Patrick
Henry in the house of Burgesses, nor
Sam" Adams in colonial days ever
said more thriving thing than Disraeli
said in the English commons in reply
to a charge that he was Jew. Eyes,
am jew And when the ancestors
of the right honorable gentlemen were
brutal savages in an unknown island
mine we're priests in the temple
Do you seek an aristocracy Of talent?
The great church historian Neander
was jew; Napoleon's marshals, Soult
and Massena, were Jews; the brilliant
and cynical Heine was Jew; and-but
the worlds roll Of great soldiers, au.
thors, musicians, painters, poets, phil.
osophers and tinanciers contain more
Hebrew names than l can recite in
many hours.
Are you looking for an aristocracy oil
wealth? The combined financial power
OF the Jews in Europe can prevent the
floating of almost any national loan
which may be put upon the markets OF
the world.
1t isa spurious, false christianity that
hates Jews. The mystery of incarna.
ton found expression in the flesh and
blood in the Jew. We get our Ter
Commandments-the very foundation
OF our civilization-through the Jew
We sing Jewish psalms, are uplifted by
passion and poetry of Jewish prophets
and rely on Jewish biographies for the
emily history we have of Christ. We
get our Pauline theology from Jew
and we catch our earliest glimpse o.
the next world through the sublime
apocalyptic vision of Jew. Then for
sooth we Christians turn about and
sheer at Jews.
have conversed with teachers o.
philosophy who spoke very lightly Of
the Jews, and yet were teaching with
enthusiasm ideas which they had alb.
sorbed from Maimonideo and Spinoza
the two greatest philosophers, omit.
ting Kant, since Plato's day-both o.
them Jews. | have also heard must
sicians denounce Jews and then spend
days and nights trying to interpret the
beauties of Rossini, Meyerbeer and
Mendelsshon-all Jews. ] talked the
other day with gifted actress, anC
heard both her and her husband sweep
ingly condemn, confidentially of course
the whole race of Jews, and vet tina
woman would give half her remaining
part of life if she could only reach the
heights which the great queen of trag.
edy, Rachel, trod with such majesty
and power-and Rachel was a Jewess
Here in Washington have heard as.
piring politicians, when beyond the
reach OF the reporters pencil. sheer al
Jews, and yet it was Jew that made
England's Queen Empress of India, and
it was Jew who was for years the
adroit and sagacious chairman of the
national committee of one of our great
political parties. The brainiest man il
the Southern Confederacy was Juda 2
Benjamin, jew; and Chase, wher
managing our national finances in 9
perilous time, owed much of his success:
to the constant advice of a New York
Jew. That you never see Jew tramr
or Jew drunkard is proverb. That