The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-04-11
MUCH ABOUT THE jews.
A WONDERFUL PEOPLE.
No People Can outmatch Them.

The Baltimore Herald.
| The trt tn OF the Book is proven by
the history of the Jews. The persis
tence of the Jewish type is remarkable.
Heredlty is emphatic environment
never oycrcomes it, There may be
French, Spanish. German, English and
Russian Jews, still there Is that pecu-
liar trademark which reveals tie Jew.
Aud yet no people have been more in
fuenced by environment than the Jew.
/ Without homeland and national life,
and without friends, but driven from
place to place, subjected to persecu-
ton and Punishment, they have eyer
been wanderers. Why, then, his great
vitality? The life insurance compa-
MES tell OF the expectation of life,
Experience shows that the Jews is
fourteen years grea er than that of the
Christian. This Is surprise. Why
Is it?
The longevity OF the Jew is due
chiefly to the claw of Moses"-a law
which touches the morals, and also
the body.
A Polish Jew writes: "Moses dis
covered the tricLinae; that is why he
forbade the eating of pork" Science
is in this latter day giving attention to
the important question, What foods
are clean and what unclean? The Jew
was more temperate and observant of
hygienic laws than the rest of the race.
Ali animals that showed the slightest
symptoms of disease were discarded
and careful inspection characterized
every part Of the killing of the animal.
Because of his scrupulous carefulness
the Jew is the possessor to-day of the
greatest amount of life-force. The
Jewish mind is wonderful, and no peo-
| ple-when number are taken into ac-
| count--can outmatch the Jew. How
small race and yet how potent his
influence Only about century ago
did he achieve his freedom in France !;
while half that number of years is too
long to n easure his eni.anchisement
in the rest OF Europe. Note the atti-
tude of Russia. He was without a
home or friend no institutions of
learning open to his steps /; no social or
political preferment for him.
| He knew how to measure events and
men with accuracy. He saw that
wealth alone opened up the way to in
duence and power. He would seek
this and hold the Christian In his
power by the mortgage he would hold
against him.
As result of his environments he
developed passion Tor gold, for in this
he found his only passport to power
and influence. He became the world s
pawnbroker. But this is not all there
is to the Jew. He is a student. We
at first wander that such is the case
when SO little opportunity had been
given to taste the sweets of knowledge.
But the old Rabbi rises before u.s.
How he is revered and honored! The
Jewish youth always reveres the aged.
He is a teacher. He reveals the hid
den beauty of the claw" ard of the
Talmud. The youth wanted to be like
the teacher, and by questions and
every effort they sought to know all
that he knew.
This fire, kindled by the first sparks
of learning, famed into burning en-
thus!asm for knowledge in every child g
mind. The result was that all the
Jews became educated. His genius
rose from the gloom like sun out OF
| the darkness of the night, and ever
since it has shone out in brightness
upon the worlds history. Let history
give back to us few names, that we
may see some Of the leaders. There is
in music the incompatible Mendels.
sohn, who is loyed by every heart,
whatever lis nationality, if his soul is
not dead. In finance, there stand the
Rothschllds, who have been the bank
ers for all Europe and on whose de-
clsions even political failures and sue
cesses have depended, while even the
destiny of a nation has been held in
their scales.
! Helue rises high in the realm OF
poetry, while Gambetta has aroused
the world by his eloquence and daring.
If you would know the place Disraeli
occupies in English history let the
proud position OF Great Britain as a
world power to-day pay large tribute
to his wise craftsmanship. Maimoni.
des in theology, and Spinoza in philos
ophy, who has SO greatly affected the
metaphysics! thinking Germany, rank
high, while IN astronomy we stop with
reverence at the name Of the great
Herschel, who has uncovered for us
the thinking of God in the vast heights
e above our heads until we have said
"The heavens declare the glory ol
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