The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28

Mrs. J. A. Hargroder, who was en route from Texas to Birmingham to join her husband. who came here recently. was robbed of s1OS on the Queen and Crescent train just before reaching this city yesterday morning. She reported the matter when the train reached here at $40 o'clock
 It seems that during the night Mrs. Hargroder placed her satchel on the seat >-S-s-s->~~~-e-e-4-~->-e-s the inborn kindness of the Hebrew 8 heart The Jews of New York alone for their twelve leading charities contributed upward of $S00,000 a year. And as I mingle with these people. and breathe the spirit that animates them. and feel their en- thusiasm for humanity stirring my own pulses, and see that they are as intent as Christians are to do all the good they can, to all the people they can. in all the ways they can, I cannot help but feel that their Father is our Father, and that the spiritual Christ, the essential Christ, must be their Lord as well as ours, and while having no sympathy with those who would proselyte them, they practice the gospel of love as preached by Christianity. and so I can take the good Jew by the hand with my heart III H. anu tdli illt DiOlltls
 The almshouse has no need to provide for the Jew. If one Jew gets into trouble all the others stand by him. He Is do- nestle above all men, The divorce court seldom knows of him. Drunkenness Is not a Jewish vice. The only occupation that does not thrive among the Jews is that of the saloon-keeper. To the potter's field the Jew Is absolutely unknown With the Jew, next to the respect for the xriF fl,ax ffnt4f for fIa
 Double Claim to Recognition.
 In America the Jew has double claim to recognition-the claim of the man un- der the wide tolerance of the twentieth century and the claim of the American citizen under the broad spirit of the American constitution. Has he received the Urea tment he merits as a man and the rights he deserves as citizen? He Is caricatured in the comic papers, in our social, professional and even political clubs the Jew is blackballed. The wealthy Jewish merchant looking for summer resort, will be handed a circu- lar bearing the footnote, No Jews taken" The Jew Is excluded from so- ciety. Hosts apologize for the stranger by assuring you that The is good fel- low if he is a Jew" Mass meetings have recently been held in several cities for the purpose of protesting against the con- tinual ill-treatment and persecution to which the poor Jews in general and Jew ish peddlers In particular are subjected, not only by the hoodlums, but by the school children. In Detroit the mayor had to make a special appeal to the po- lice to prevent violence and injustices. In Chicago. the mayor sent a request to the president of the board of education, the result of which was that the superintend- ent of schools issued instructions to the principals of all the schools to warn their pupils against calling offensive names, throwing stones or otheraise in- turing poor Jews. These instructions were carried out by means of the principals. The archbishop was also approached on the subject have seen Jewish children go home from our public schools in tears because of the offensive names with which they were taunted. Outrages are frequently perpetrated upon the Jews in our cities under the very noses of the police-outrages which are a disgrace to the republic. Russian and Roumanian im- migrants who are striving with might and main to earn a livelihood meet with a reception from the denlzens of streets not at all creditable to our citizens. It Is not to the credit of the rich and in- fluential Jews of our cities that they do not seek to right these wrongs heaped upon their poorer brethren. These toil- ing co-religionists are worthy of the in- fiuence and assistance of their more for tunate brethren. The non-Jewish world has only conterr pt for the Jew who does not seek to l. ke the name of Jew re- spected throughout every nook and cor ner of the nation.
 Faith in Jews.
 In their dealings Jews are as honorable as ether men. At meeting in New York of the Association of Credit Men, at which but a few Jews were present, the late Hon. William L. Strong, former mayor of the city, said: q have lost less money selling goods to men who were not worth anything than in sell ing goods to wealthy concerns. I have a case in mind of one who began buying on credit of me one case of goods In two years his credit with us amounted to $30,000. He was Jew. In sixteen years he divided s250O00 with his partner I am about one-fourth Jew myself-that is, I have more faith in Jews paying than I have in Gentiels doing so. We have lost four times with the latter to one of the former, and of Jews who failed, ten have paid 100 cents on the dollar to one of the Gentiles" This was not said at a gathering of Jews, but given as a fact of value to be borne in mind by credit men in arriving at decisions.
 The social standards of the Jews are just as low and just as fine as other peoples in corresponding position. Money often gets ahead of the manners of Jew and Gentle alike. Where do you not find the parvenu in American society? How many people do you know who have had