The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15

Jacob H. Schiff, New York Banker and
 PhIanthroplst.
 believed to be the largest stockholder in the London Times, and of late years many of that famous journals leading employees, besides M. de Blowitz, have been Jews. De Blowitz' successor at Paris, MT Lavino. is one of these an- other Is MT. Braham, the correspondent whose recent expulsion from Russia bade fair to become an international incident. 1t is probable that the fact of his race ed when they emerged from the darkness with which he was treated by the Mus covite authorities. The Daily Telegraph, which, perhaps stands next to the Times in prestige among the London newspa pers, Is mainly the property of Sir Ed ward LevyLawson, whose name was Levy before he added it's present suffix, and who has just been created a peer under the style and title of Lord Burn ham. On the European continent, the Vienna Fremdenblatt is one of many prominent journals controlled by Jewish owners. And the Hebrew influence is equally in evidence in New York, where the World and the Times, two of the three leading daily newspapers, are own
 
 The position of the Jews in Russia is so sore a subject that the less we speak of 1t the better. Suffice it to say that the Muscovite governments attitude to- ward it's Hebrew subjects is practically that which the western nations abandon ed when the emerged from the darkness of medievalsm into the light of modern ity Responsibility for this condition of things does not rest with the czar; the fact that it exists is one of the many proofs that his supposed autocratic pow CT is paralyzed by the reactionary bur eaucracy that stands between him and the reforms he would fain inaugurate. There are Jews who have found high favor with him-such as M. WarshavslH, the banker Dr. Drabkn, and especially Baron Gunsberg, the financier and phi lanthropist.
 Baron Gunsberg's career is a proof of the fact that the most severe repression can not wholly prevent the Jew from finding his way to the front. He is a Hebrew of the strictest and most ortho- dox type, who has made no concession to Russian prejudice. His home is a truly Jewish one of the old type, where not only are Sabbaths and festivals scruulously observed, but even the smallest rites and customs are faithfully kept up. The baron was formerly a member of the city council of St. Pe- tersburg but lost his seat under new regulation excluding Jews from munich pal office. He has served, however, on several government commissions, and heads of bureaus have consulted him as an official representative of his race. When he celebrated his seventieth birth day. last January, several of the czar s teto lad l. the emperor sent an aide-decamp to of fer congratulations.
 Turkey is not regarded as an enlight- ened country, but the position of the Jew is better in the sultan's dominions than in those of the czar. Among the Turkish Hebrews who hold high positions in various fields are Isaac Bey, an ad- miral in the navy; Elias Pasha, oculist to the sultan; and Castro Bey, a lead ing physician.
 Three famous Jews who have not as yet been mentioned are George Brandes, the Danish scholar and historian whose book on Shakespeare is probably the best summary of all that we know of the great Elizabethan dramatist; Josef Is- raels, the Dutch landscape and figure painter, a veteran who stands in the very first rank of European artists, and pr. Herzl. of Vienna, the leader of the so-called Zionist movement, which aims to colonize Palestine with Hebrew set-i tiers.
 In conclusion. will give three quota tions which are significant of the posi- ton held by the Jews in America two centuries ago and the place they have gained today One is from the records of meeting of the New York common council, in September, 1885:
 "The petition of Saul Browne recom- mended by the governor was read, and the councils opinion endorsed thereupon was that noe Jew ought to sell by retaile within this citty, but may by whole sale If the governor think fit to permit the same"
 The second is from a recent utteranee of a well-known New Yorker-not a Jew himself:
 "The Jews crowd to the front in every thing. I, for one, am a firm believer in the immigrant Jew and his boy. Ignor- ant they are. but with the thirst for Hnowledge that surmounts any barrier. The boy takes all the prizes in the school Ills comrades sheer that he will not light. Neither will he when there is nothing to gained by it; yet in defense of lis rights, there is in all the world no 'uch fighter as he. Literally, he will die lighting by inches. Witness his strikes! believe that should the time come when he country needs fighting men, the son of the despised Jew will resurrect on American soil-the first that bade him old Maccabee type. and Jet an example for all the rest of us to ollow."
 And, in support of this. I will quote a couple of sentences from one of Presi- lent Roosevelt's speeches:
 At Santiago. one of the best officers n the regular regiments who fought be- tide me was a Hebrew. One of the com nanders of the ships that did so we'll in he blockade of the Cuban coast was a 
 It may be of interest to add that the officers referred to were Major Ebstein, if the Nineteenth Infantry, and Con- nander Adolph Mark. United States. Navy