The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17

Jew is a profound money hunter. It
is but natural he should be. That GU
pidity, or, if you prefer, that gold
greed, has been through centuries de-
veloped rs his one hope for safety.
In the expressions which have borne
upon him. and which in all countries
have this still bear him down, your
Jew has found in money his last cave
OF retreat He might bulwark himself
with riches. With others, gold would
mean luxury; with the Jew. it stodd
for life itself, and to go wanting it
was to be tooth and nail about the dig
glng of his own grave"
And it is your theory. then" said
l. that the great need for gold which
for ages was to stare the Jew in the
face became the seed of that genius,
to gather which now the race is heir
tor"
without question:" said Noah.
More; since the Jew has been safe of
his goods and his blood in this land
of ours, and the rowels of that great
need no longer lance the TANKS of eff
fort and set it to the leap, we rear a
kind of Jew who owns no mighty care
for money 1 will find you Jews in our
midst who can still be hawks to
swoop, but who have no hold to keep.
They will spend you their riches or
give them away like water We shall
yet rear al american Jew WHO mas
no skill to get money. Still, going
back to that first thought-for it is
worrying my soul like a dog-of those
money influences busy with the enlist
ment of Webb, l am free to say even
in his worst hour your Jew would never
take a bride. He would sell neither
his friend nor his principle; those were
never Jewish ways of money-finding.
Your Jew makes a stout patriot"
Gni6 mt hat
can that a Jew"
when, then" responded Noah.
'there be none to whom America
means 50 much. You, being of the
strain of Saxon-Dane, would have JUS
tice in England, welcome. in Russia,
friendship in France. What would your
Jew meet? Your Jew loves America
because he loves himself; he he a pa
triot since he is a Jew"
And yet" L protested, 'it is no
question of cool selfishness with your
Jew. He is as spontaneously the pa
triot as any other. Take Judah Touro;
whose money or whose blood was more
at the beck of his country that Janu
airy day at New Orleans?"
why, yes, that is true" said Noah.
But you should reflect; patriotism,
like every other emotion-if it be
mothers love for her child-has ever
its first feet in selfishness. That would
be the tale OF Jew or Gentle the wide
world round. Selishness seems but
rough, unworthy root, but from it have
Powered art, poetry, science or what
you Will The lineage of each senti-
ment of beauty whether it be the ten
derest charity or that self-sacrifice that
lays down it's life, begins with unset
fishness-that mighty cornerstone of
| the world
Beware of metaphysics. said I.
THAT, at least. would be our matter
of-fact Generals caution"
"Who? the PRESIDENT" Noah laugh
ed. Il will let you in with a secret.
| There is only one to be more the sem
| timentalist than your 'matter-of- fact
| General, and that my friend, is your
| self. However, keeping from the per-
Sonal, l would still stand firm to 1t
that selfishness is the beginning of the
virtues. Those better expressions,
| charity and love, come by it's -cultiva-
ton just as the generous apple has for
it's forebear that bitter, thorny, sour
creature, the wild crab. Now your
Jew, has been vastly cultivated'-here
came Noah's look of satire-"he has
| been ploughed by adversely and har-
rowed by oppression. Thus farmed,
your Jew will produce those Judah
Touros you tell of. There were mates
for Touro throughout our years of rev.
olution. There dwelt but 700 families
of Jews in this land when Concord and
Lexington and Bunker Hill fell forth
From Lexington until CORVALLIS, those
Jews were busy with their ducats and
| their blood for freedom. They gave
millions. Old Haym Solomon alone
| gave $500, 600. He was the richest of
his day; he died copper poor to the
obolary point of greats and farthings.
! At his end he said: 81 die broken and
/ L., ~ toI - a d
since 1 have lived to see civil and re-
ligious liberty established on this soil !"
Rivera, broad of shoulder, mild of
| eye, here drew near and made a slight
motion, as one who points with his
thumb, towards the tap-room of the
tavern. Noah would seem instantly to
understand his wordless satellite.
Come" said Noah. eagerly, IT can
show you those Catron thugs 1 warned
you against. 1t may serve you to
! krow their faces"
81 had forgotten to ask" I returned.
! Has any of them gone about to mo-
lest you? I see you still safe"
1T is because I am looked on" re-
! turned Noah, lightly, "as d Jew most
perilous. Those Catron five minutes at
| Gadsby's did me good service. Also,
since l love quiet, 1 would have gos-
sip give wings to it how l carry a
knife. The truth is, these caitiff folk
mistrust me as trap of death"
There was a rude group gathered
about a table i'm the bar. The menu
! bers were drinking rum from tin meas
lures, and their vivid noses and feat
ures much afame would not have said
the habit was one lately taken up.
Those be our friends" whispered
/ Noah. That animal with the Shout
| ders OF a buffalo, the iron jaw, and no
forehead to speak off, is a prize-fighter
| of renown. He was brought over to