The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

i practlC1OnerS, Wno regard CllentS dS tHeii slaves, courts as their playthings. ana juries as their dupes. He belonged rath | CT to that powerful and persuasive army
 of specialists. who carry no banners. wac beat no drums. but where they are mer learn that push and 'bustle' and smart. ness are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.
 | "A smart lawyer once advised his brethren of the bar, as follows: The first
 duty of the lawyer is to get on, the sec | ond to get honor and the third to get honest Leo Levi was honest first, last | and all the time. He was not the i'm. portunate mendicant for popular applause Superior to the Vaccinations of wealth, the charm of power, he did not employ his gifts solely for self-aggrandizement. but
 he devoted his energies for the public
 veal and his voice was heard in the coun- cils of the State. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He sided with the weak.
 the poor, the wronged. He climbed the
 heights, leaving superstition far below. | while on his forehead fell the golden dawning of a peter day.
 Unlike some Jewish lawyers, Leo Levi | was conscious of his Judaism. This, think was his chief characteristic. If he was Jew, Judaism was for him a l solemn responsibility. a sublime duty. In his contact with men and the world he never minimized the obligations that were his by the accident of birth from Jewish mother. nor by yearning for the 'heshpots
 of Egypt did he seek to indicate that he regarded the accident a misfortune. Whenever and wherever an anti-Sefnltic attack was made he was the first to repel
 1t. feeling that the insult of one was the insult of all and that in the danger of oil n
 Championed the Downtrodden. "Sut little time have at my command to illustrate in detail the aggressive Jew ish consciousness of him whose eyes are now curtained by the everlasting dark. But one instance must be mentioned. One day in the city of New York the coffin of Chief Rabbi Joseph was be- ing carried to the long home. Thousands upon thousands of Russian
 Jews dwelling in the city were mourn fully following to the grave the remains
 of their idol, their leader. Not a sound
 was heard, hardly funeral note, as slowly the cavalcade wended its way through the crowded thoroughfares of
 the metropolis. Suddenly from the win
 dows of one of the great factories lining
 the wayside. missiles were thrown upon the innocent, inoffensive, mourners AAldA SiAOitAy OOAOWs UAA
 was confusion. and a riot was in pro- gress. The police, instead of protecting
 the funeral cortege from the insults and
 injuries of the mob, were the foremost
 in clubbing and beating the hapless, un-
 fortunate Jews.
 ''In American Israel. an incident such
 as this, I take it, would be passed over
 by a large majority in contemptuous si- lence. After all. what are the trials and
 tribulations of the Russian Jew to us? He speaks a different language; his cus- toms are not ours, his religion. even. is altogether different from that which we profess. We would be sorry for him, per- haps, and lament that even in America he is not allowed to bury his dead with out molestation, but there our sympathy would cease and not a hand would be lifted in his defense. Not so, Leo Levi. Single-handed and alone, this American Israelite pleaded the cause of his Rus sian brethren. He did not rest until every ring-leader in the disgraceful mob had been punished and many chieftains of police discharged from their posts of honor. His letter of appeal to Mayor Seth Low on this ocasion, Is a document worthy to be preserved in the archives where lie enshrined the great liberty breathing papers which have guaranteed free institutions to the Anglo-Saxon world.
 But our sainted dead was not only the champion of the down-trodden with out, he was their friend and helper with in. It was he and he alone who destroy ed the infamous traffic in girls, which had become a hideous cancer upon the East Side" district of the city of New York. It was he, and he alone, who stood single-handed against strongly banded union of miscreantS, diabolical in their cleverness. It was he who exposed their Villainy and who vouchsafed to the un- fortunate women of the Ghetto safe- guards for the preservation of that pure, spotless, radiant womanhood which was the only treasure that they had left in the world.
 Again. it was largely through Leo Lewis influence that there was estab- lished in the sea-board cities of this country the Industrial Removal Office" an institution designed to relieve the congestion of Jewish immigration in the vast commercial centers and to distrib- ute the victims of foreign oppression fin the rural districts of the United States, Through the removal office more than A. 600 Jewish families last year found per manent homes on beautiful farms scat tered all over this land.
 But not only did our leader provide for the wandering tribes of Judah new and attractive homes, he went down into those which they already had and elevat- ed them. He established 'neighborhood settlements and meeting houses where the poor might gather and listen to in- spring words from the country's think CTS. In these houses, Dr. Hirsch and Bishop Potter were prominent speakers, but Leo Levi presided. He instituted art galleries and wrote personal letters to the famous artists of the world inviting their cooperation to elevate the heart and life of this downtrodden people. He secured for his art gallery a genuine appreciation and he induced Sir Moses Ezekiel to give to it a bas relief copv in bronze of his famous statue Israel which is one of the glories of Fairmont Park in Philadelphia.
 It was Leo Levi who established the
 Home Bureau for Jewish Orphans , Free from the sickly sentimentalIsm that oetokens the charlatan, but endowed with that clear insight that is ever the distinguishing trait of the true humani- tartan. he perceived the wrong that was being yearly perpetrated against orphan children, locking them up in huge asv- Iums' where they are known bv numbers and not by names, where they are given uniforms like prisoners. where their individuality is completely crushed under the red-tape of deadening official oom. lie pleaded that homes be found for orphans outside of the asylum so that the poor dependent little ones might at least nave the lnnuences and the training ac- SiSters