The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-30
BY A. E. cAFFEE.

the Hapsburgs austrian COURT, the
most exclusive Of all the European no.
bility, on an occasion received a Roths-
child. In London, the Hebrew aristo-
crat is a leader of society, and there are
Jewish homes where admission is as ca
gerly sought as are presentations at
Buckingham palace. Fashion, politics,
literature, art, diplomacy, are discussed
on planes that few Gentle hostesses can
compass. They are adopts and connoir-
seurs In social and fashionable problems
As a matter of history, the patrictan
Jew is ambitious to intermarry his pref
ty daughters with the English nobility.
for instance, Lord Roseberry seems to
have made no distinction between a wife
from the Jewish artstocrats and the
wealthy American heiresses. These
facts have enlarged the social force of
the aristocratic Jew. In truth, England
has gained immense power through and
from this most picturesque people The
bourgeois Jew holds closer to the Mosaic
law. and forbids intermarriage. The
Jews are a patriotic race of men; they
love their adopted country, no matter on
what spot they pitch their prophetic for
tunes;-thrust from their temples which
God built, they took up the precarious
tramp of Nomads-from country to coun-
try; they struggled for national exist
ence with the willy Egyptians, Assyr-
ians, Babylonians, Syrians and Romans;
defeated, debased and all but extermin-
ated by each of these aggressive people,
and have outlived them all. They have
been maltreated. scourged. insulted and
oppressed by empires and republics; by
| kings, popes, inquisators Saracens, and
| sultans; kicked out of Christian %
| SPAIN Norway and Greek Russia;-their
| oppressors and n,urderers the while
4 singing their prophetic hymns, and be-
| lieving in their prophets; all this even
| in the name of the jews God. Their lit
| erary empire embraced philosophers
| among the Saracens at Cordova- This
! same prosecuted race brought the wis.,
dom OF the east and sowed its seed in
| the soil across the Pyrinees and the
Rhine; and they have been treated as
| slaves and dogs by Pagans, Mohamme-
| dams and Christians. Their liberty-lov-
| ing spirit lined them up under Kosciusizo
| and old Butcher their worst crime),
| while they were forbidden the right of
| living In the towns, villages and streets
| Of those governments. 1t Is to the re-
| fined type of patrician Jews that Sir
| Marcus Samuel-a great anglo-Japanese
/ merchant belongs; type OF refined and
elegant citizenship not to be equalled ex-
cept in the most exclusive homes of
well-born Englishmen. In literature.
art. politics, philosophy, society, the
Jew has played his part; and. not ig-
nobly.
But. it is Of the ancient people Of God
that I am impressed. and intended to
write. being diverted by the popular out
cry against the murders and butcheries
of helpless human beings in Roumania
and Russia. Yes, Of that wonderful peo-
pie whom ''Rebecca" 80 wildly portrays.
All, "Rebecca," when shall we see thy
like again?-'I tell thee, proud Templar,
that not in thy fiercest battles hast thou
displayed more Of your Wanted courage
than has been shown by woman when
called upon to suffer by affection and
duty" And, again, when the inhuman
cruelty of the so-called champion of
Christianity had well-nigh dethroned her
reason and driven her TO desperatfon:-
Read the ancient history of the people
of God, and tell me II those by whom
Jehovah wrought such marvels among
the nations were then a people Of nisers
and usurers7 And know, proud knight,
i we number names amongst us t6 which
your boasted northern nobility Ia as the
gourd to the cerad-names that ascend
far back to these high times when the
Divine Presence shook the meroy-seat
between the cherubim, and which de-
rived their spiendor from no earthly
prince, but from the Awful Voice which
babe their fathers be nearest the con-
gregation of the vision SUCH WE'RE
THE PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF
| kACQH The ansiaRG Jars nat aHil