Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-02-19
THE JEWS.

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The subjoined article written for the
| New York Herald at its request. and
published over his signature in the is
sue of January 81, 1892. attracted
wide attention and was reprinted in
| hundreds of newspapers. The News
reproduces it with Mr. Weddings ap-
proval to supply many requests:
There is not a drop of Jewish
blood in my veins. | am not connect
ed with the Jews by marriage or any
| near or distant kinsman. l owe no
/ Jew a dollar and no Jew owes me.
! Among all my personal or intimate
! friends ! cannot name one single Jew
| | speak from the vantage ground of
absolute independence.
1t is a splendid race-splendid by
their patience. in their love for one
another. in their endurance. in their
sagacity and temperate habits, and
splendid in their infleXible adherence
to their Mosaic ideals.
DO you want an aristocracy 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 conven-
tion. not Patrick Henry in the house
of burgesses, nor Sam Adams in old
colonial days, ever said more thrill
ing thing than Disraelli said in the
English commons in reply to the
charge that he was Jew: Yes, l am
a Jew, And when the ancestors OF
the right honorable gentleman were
brutal savages in an unknown island,
mine were priests in the temple
| DO you seek an aristocracy of tai
ent? The church historian Neander
was Jew; Napoleons marshals,
Soult and Alassena, were Jews; the
brilliant cynical Heine was Jew,
and-but the worlds roll of great sol
diers, authors, musicians, painters,
| poets, philosophers and financiers
contain more Hebrew names than /
can recite in many hours.
| Are you looking for an arstocra-
cy of wealth? The combined finan-
cial 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 spurious, false Christianity
that hates Jews The mystery of the
incarnation found expression in the
| flesh and blood of Jew, and there
fore, in a sense, we worship Jew.
| We get our ten commandments-th
very foundation of our civilization
through the Jews. We sing Jewish
! psalms, and rely on Jewish biogra-
piers for the only history we have
of Christ. We get our Pauline theolo-
gy from a Jew, and we catch our ear
liest glimpse of the next world
through the sublime apocalyptic vi
sion of Jew. Then, forsooth, we
! Christians turn around and sneer at
Jews.
II have conversed with teachers of
philosophy who speak slightingly of
the Jews, and yet were teaching with
enthusiasm ideas which they had alb
sorbed from the Maimonides and
Spinzoa, the two greatest philoso-
piers. emitting Kant, since Plato's
day-both of them Jews. have
heard musicians denounce Jews and
then spend days and nights trying to
interpret the beauties of Rossini, Mey-
erbeer and Mendelssohn-all Jews.
l talked the other day with a gifted
actress, and heard her and her hus-
band sweepingly condemn. confiden-
TALLY. of course, the whole race OF
Jews. and yet that woman would give
half her remaining life if she could
only reach the heights which the
great queen of tragedy, Rachel trod
with such majesty and power-and
Rachel was a Jewess!
Here in Washington | have heard
aspiring politicians, when beyond the
, reach of the reporters pencil, sneer
at Jews, and yet it was a Jew that
made England's queen Empress of In
dia, and 1t was Jew who was for
years the adroit and sagacious chair
man OF the national committee of one
OF our great political parties. The
brainiest man in the Southern Con
federacy was Judah p Benjamin, a
Few: and Chase, when managing ON
national finances in perilous time
. owed much of his success to the con
l stant advice of a New York Jew
That YOU never see Jew tramp or
, Jew drunkard Is proyerb; That yot
never see Jew beggar is common
I place: and it is a statistical fact tina
! there are relatively fewer inmates o
our hospitals. jails and workhousei
T furnished by the Jews than any othe
:, race contributes.
Il Convert the Jews Yes. but mean
e while let us convert many OF on
church members to genuine Chris
lanity. Suppress the Jews! A scor
It OF Russian czars cannot 90 II
Every people on earth has tried II an