The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-26
THE JEWS IN HISTORY.
The Part They Have Played in the
worlds Affairs.


Editor Morning News: Please grant
me space to say a few words in sup
port of what Mr.. Wilenski said to one
of your reporters in regard to Jewish
! immigration, as published in yester-
| days paper, and at the same time ex-
| press my thoughts and feelings in
reference to the recent massacre of
helpless men, women and children of
the Jewish faith by so-called Chris
tians in that dreaded country, Russia,
whose people commit murder and 9TH
er indeScribable outrages worse than
murder disguised as religion; where the
Greek bishop Gan official of RussFa's
! State church,. after there had been
many murders and unspeakable in
famies practiced this same bishop, in
riding through the mob of fiendish as
sassns and I'avishers bestows his
| blessings upon them" What can be
expected of the fanatical and ignorant
peasants, when the actual leaders of
the mob were students from the Roy
all school and citys religious col
leges. Count Cassini, the Russian
minister at Washington, charges the
Jews as being money-lenders and liV
ing off the fat of the land in general.
Even if what he says be true, the laws
of Russia, instituted directly against
the Jews, known as the May laws"
are responsible, which compel him to
drift from his known usefulness in
other and broader fields. From an
anti-semetic point of view the main
prejudice lies in the fact that the Jew
made a mistake in allowing God to
create him a Jew, and his being a
Jew is sufficient for the Russian to
hate and to murder. The following ar
T..1- L
men, George r. Vending, for the New
York Herald true Christian in every
sense of the word, would make q fit
ting answer to Count Cassinis SANDER
Gus insinuations:
There is not drop of Jewish blood
in my veins. | am not connected with
the Jews by marriage or any near or
distant kinsman. l owe no Jew dol
lar, and no Jew owes me- | speak
from the vantage ground of absolute
independence. Do you want an aris-
tocracy of blood and birth? The Jews
are the purest blooded people and have
the best established descent in the
world. Not Mirabeau in the French
convention, no Patrick Henry in the
House of Burgesses, no Sam Adams
in the old Colonial days, ever said
more thrilling thing than Disreali said
in the English Commons in reply to
the charge that he was a Jew:
Yes, l am d Jew, and when the an
cestors of the right honorable gentle
men were brutal saVages in an un-
known island, mine were priests in the
temple. Do you seek an aristocracy in
talent. The great historian, Neander,
was a Jew. Napoleon's marshals, Solt
and Massena were Jews the brilliant
and cynical Heine was a Jew. and
but the worlds roll of great soldiers,
authors, musicians, painters, poets,
philosophers and financiers contain
more Hebrew names than I can recite
in many hours. Are you looking for an
aristocracy of 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 is spe-
cious false Christianity that hates the
Jew. The mystery of the incarnation
found expressions in the flesh and
blood of Jew. We sing Jewish songs,
are uplifted by the passions and poetry
of Jewish prophets. and rely on Jew
ish biographers for the only history we
have of Christ We get our Pauline
theory from a Jew. and we catch our
earliest glimpse of the next world
throug the sublime apocalyptic vision
of a Jew.
Teachers of philosophy are teaching
with enthusiasm ideas which they had
ABSORBED 1TOHl AdlIiOIlltlGS anu OiAliO-
"a, the two great philosophers emitting
Kant since Plato's days-both of them
Jews, musicians spend day and night
trying to interpret the beauties of Ros-
SIM, Meyerbeer, and Mendelssohn-all
Jews 1t was a Jew that made Eng
lands Queen Empress of India, and 1t
was Jew who for years was the adroit
and sagacious chairman of the ma
tiona1 committee of one of our great
political parties. The brainest man in
the Southern Confederacy was Judah
P. Benjiman, a jew, and Chase when
managing or finances in a perilous
time, owed much of his success to the
advice of New York Jew.
That you never see a Jew tramp, or
a Jew drunkard is a proverb, that you
never see Jew beggar is a common
place; that it is a statistical fact that
there are relatively fewer inmates OF
our hospitals, jails, and work houses
furnished by the Jews than any other
race contributes,
Convert the Jews? Yes; but, mean
while let us convert many of our church
mem bers to genuine Christianity. Sup
press the JewsH A score of Russian
Cars cannot do it.
Every people on earth have tried ii
and failed. They have outlived the