The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14
is IT LOVE OF MONEY!
The Failing is Natural One With
This People.
ONLY AVENUE BY WHICH THEY CAN RISE
Why Governor Vance Once Pardoned a Jew
That Was in the North Carolina Peni-
tentary. Their Beautiful
Home Life.

Richmod, Va, October 12-In DR.. Ed
ward Leigh Pell's new book, "The Bright
Side of Humanity published during the
past week, there is a notable chapter on
the Jews, in which the author says that
while the Jew has had a place in the
worlds consciousness since Abraham's
day, it is only within the memory of men
now living that he has begun to find a
place in the worlds conscience.
Speaking of the age-long prejudice
against the Jew, Dr. Pell says that it is
little remarkable that very few specific
charges have ever been brought against
him. Nobody has accused him of being
disturber of the peace; nobody ever
called him a loafer or a sot, or a quar-
relsome fellow; nobody ever wrote him
down in the criminal class; nobody has
accused him of lack of benevolencc We
have been content to hate him for what
he is, perhaps, rather than for anything
that he has done But, no; this sentence
will not pass. There is one thing for
which we hate him, and that is his inor
dinate love of money Yet, when we
come to examine our hearts on this mat
ter we are not sure whether it is his love
of money that is so exasperating, or the
fact that he is constantly getting in the
way of our love 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 Israelite has gone he has made money
faster than his neighbors, and for this
he has never been forgiven. AS for the
modern Jew s'Ioye of money, it is most
natural falling. AS famous Anglo-Jew-
ism physician once said: 1T should not be
forgotten that all other means Of distinc-
tion have been denied the Jew He must
rise by wealth or not rise at all, and IT,
as he well knows, TO insure wealth be
to insure rank, respect and attention in
society, does the blame rest with him
who eudeavors to acquire wealth for the
distinction which it will purchase. or with
that society which so readily bows down
at the shrine of Mammon? AS this wri-
ter says, it is not pretended that the Jew
is miser, and that he desires to acquire
wealth merely for the loathsome graft
fcation of having it, The Jewish mer-
chant is generally profuse in his expendi-
ture; he has labored to gain riches on
account of the respect which they will
procure for him, and he is proud of ex-
pending them with the same view
Moreover. the Jew is liberal. Indeed.
as Mr.. Clemens has said, his race is en-
titled to be called the most benevolent of
all races of men. The Jewish beggar is
not impossible, perhaps; such thing may
exist, bat there are few men that can
say they have seen that spectacle. The
Jew has been staged in many uncompli
mentary forms but, so far as I know, no
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stage him as a beggar. Whenever Jew
has real need to beg. his people save him
from the necessity of doing it. The char
liable institutions of the Jews are sup
ported by Jewish money, and amply. The
Jews make no noise about it, it is done
quietly; they do not nag and poster and
harass us for contributions; they give us
peace, and set us an example--an exam
pie which we have not found ourselves
able to follow
spirit, DR.. Pell says that 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 penitcntiary wrote: II
take pleasure in saying that | sign the
pardon in part as recognition of the
good and law wabding character of our
Jewish citizens, this being the first seri-
Gus 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, patriot,
DR. Pcl quotes the Rev Madison G. Pc
ters, who says in his Justice to the
jew" that until very recently the Jews
we're rarely ever permitted the opportu
nifty of fighting for their country but
whenever they have been allowed to en-
ter the lists they have proved that the
contumely heaped upon them had not
quenched their manhood.
at is well known. says Or. Pell, that
during the Revolution large proportion
of the sinews of war were provided by
patriot Jews Hayne Solomon, of Phila-
deIphia gave six hundred thousand dol
lars for this purpose. not one penny of
which has ever been repaid to his heirs
BENJAMIN Levy of Philadelphia and Ben
iamn Jacobs of New York wcrc among
tho signcrs Of the Bills of Credit for the
Continental Congress of 1916. while Sam
uel Lyon of Now York, another patriotic
Jew. signed similar bills in 1879. Isaac
Moses and Herman Levy, Of Philadelphia.
contributed large sums for the support
Of tho armv in the field. South Caro-
lima Jew, Manuel Mordecia Noah. served
as an officer on Washngton's staff. and
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