The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-16
lis IT LOVE OF MONEY?
The Failing is a 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 Penl-
Tertiary. Their Beautiful
Home Life.

ANAiiio g
ward Leigh Pells 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
dav. 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.. Fell says that it is
a little remarkable that very few specific
charges nave ever been brought against
him. Nobody has accused him of being
a disturber of the peace; nobody ever
called him a lOafer ora Sot, or a quar-
relsome fellow; nobody ever wrote him
down in the criminal class; nobody has
accused him of q lack of benevolence. 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 ami 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 vi Jul wv VI oiS 49, $500
bat that this, after all, is the secret OF
the worlds age-long prejudice against
the Jew. From Jacobs day, whereVe"
the Israelite has gone he has made money
faster than his neighbors, and for this
he has never been forgiven. AS for the
modern Jews love Of money, it is q most
natural failing. As 4 famous AnglO-JeW-
ism physician once said: 1T should not be
forgotten that all other means of distinc-
ton have been denied the Jew. He must
rise by wealth or not rise at all, and if,
as he we'll knows. to insure wealth be
to insure rank, respect and attention in
society, docs the blame rest with him
who endeavors 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 a miser, and that he desires to acquire
wealth merely fer the loathsome graft
~fication 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
al races VI IloH. L ne JEWISH DoSSdI Is
not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may
exist, but 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 | know, no
dramatist has done him the injustice to
stage him as a beggar. Whenever a 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 eXamDle-an exam
pie which we have not found ourselves
able to follow"
Speaking of the Jews law-abiding
spirit, DR.. Pell 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 p~enitentiary, wrote: Il
take pleasure in saying that l sign the
pardon IN part as a recognition of the
good and laW-abiding 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. a patriot
Dr.. pell quotes the Rev. Madison c.. Pc
ters, who says in his "Justice to the
Jew that until very recently the Jews
were rarely ever permitted the onnortu-
nifty of fighting for their country. but
whenever they have been allowed to en-
ter the lists they have proved that the
cchtumely heaped upon them had not
Quenched their manhood"
1T Is we'll known says DR.. Pell. "that
during the Revolution a large promotion
OF the sinews Of war were provided nv
patriot Jews. Hayne Solomon. of pbiIa.
delph1a gave six hundred thousand dol
lars 1or this purpose, not one penny Of
whlch mas ever been repaid to his heirs,
BENJAMIN Levy of Philadelphia and Ben
Jamin Jacobs of New York were amono
the slgners of the Bills of Credit for The
continental Congress of 1875, while Sam
uel Lyon of New York. another na+r;oto
Jew, signed similar bills in 1879. Isaoc
moses and Herman Levy. of P~hiIadelnbio
tohtrlDuted large sums for the sunnort
VI lne army IN the field. A South Caro-
iha Jew, Manuel Mordecia Noah. served
as an ofhcer on Washington's staff and
gave one hundred thousand dollars for 49,
support OF the army. In an unnuhloho
letter OF Jared Sparks the story is to1d
Ina at the outbreak of the Revo,utior
u'nlez' d Jew OF New York city. pro-
- organize a company of soldiers
. service. A member of the Continon.
d congress to whom he unfolded bis
pan demonstrated with him on accom-.
:. MS age ne being then sixty-eight: bu,
tue old man coClly replied that he co,1l
arop d Quiet as we'll as a younger man
80 went MS way. AS Mr.. Peters q
'he part which the Jews took in the 1ot.
%ai oet"een the States was SO conspicI.
~" M II would be difficult to picl
"e nlos' prominent men in the con.