The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-26
THE JEWS or THE UNITED
STATES.
Their wealth - Computed by Dr. Isidore
Ringer--Thc Manchurian ProIsct.

Their wealth % Computed by Dr. IstdOre
singor--Thc Manchurian Project.
To THE EDITOR or THE suN-Sir: The
Baltimore correspondent OF the London
yevish Chronicle of Aug. II makes the curl
GUS statement that the Jews Of New York
city have combined wealth Of over tOoO. oO0.-
600. and that the trade In the hands of jew
lsh middlemen and manufacturers annually
equals an amount approximately the same :;
but he prudently adds thathe does not vouch
for the figures and has no Idea whence they
were gathered"
Tho recent sending of bombs TO Messrs.
Wasserman. Sohir and Gusgenhelm and.
more yet, the publication Of an antl-Semtio
and antl-plutocratlo letter OF menace which
had BEEN months ago, addressed 70 Philip
Cowen. editor Of the American Hsbrev. by
a trio Of. probably. Russian anarchists OF
jewish descent. and tho bringing Of Com
missioner MoAdoo into connection with these
criminal attempts. make Q closer study OF
the true financial situation OF the Jews OF this
country highly desirable. not only from
merely politlco-economioal standpoint. but
also with regard to the immigration problem
and. In q wider sense, a. an important ele-
ment TOR the eventual solution Of the Jewish
gu estton In general.
There were about $50. 900 Jews-i. O., $1,000
jewish familles--in the United States In 1880.
II Gar Alexander II. had not been blown up.
with the evident connivance Of the leaders
OF the reactionary party. the 18th Of March
OF the year following but had been allowed
to grant his people q genuine constitution
and real liberty. Ills Jewish subjects would
have remained In their fatherland. securing
their own and contributing to the muEhlks
prosperity, and the $4,000 Jews OF 1880. BY
natural increase augmented by another 5000
or 10000. would to-day have formed the bulk
OF the Jewish population Of the United States.
At this junoture. and to confirm the above
surmise, It may be proper to state that be-
tween 1891 and 1870 only 1850 Jewish imrni-
grants from the Russian pale itself and from
Russian Poland came to this country. while
Of the Grand totaQ Of 77S.lsi Jewish inaml-
grants to the States. actually counted. from
1881 TO 1908. moro than 10000 were Russians,
since. according to the report Of the United
Hebrew Charities Of New York, 40o,S57 Of
them landed at Castle Garden and Ellis Island
alone between 1884 and October. I00St In
the same period $4,000 jews halllng from
Austria. for the greater part from tho poverty
stricken province of Galicia: $1,000 Humans
ans and lS.4eo Germans arrived at the port
of New York. while England funished only
a quota of a.27s. Turkey Palestine includsd).
1884: Holland. 624: Sweden, $50: France. $50.
and Den mark. 225.
What is now tho probable accumulated
wealth OF tho native SOC. 900 Jews and Of the
additional 200, 900 newcomersi To give
even approximate figures were Ridiculous
attempt. But this much can. on general
principles. be admitted: a Jewish family
living q minimum Of twenty-five years In a
prosperous and FREQ country like ours either
goes to the wall or mounts the economic
ladder. at length reaching the well to do"
stage. We can further reasonably suppose
that about 10 per cent OF ths Russians. Is
per cent OF the Austrians and Is per cent.
OF the Germans and British took the same
flight during the last twenty-five years. 90
that there may be s75. 900 individuals, or about
rs 900 well to do Jewish families In the United
States, the other 225 900 having yot to struggle
for the earning Of their daily bread.
How many Jewish multimillonai aires are
there from New York to San Francisco and
from Chicago to New Orleans2 Hardly a
dozen, for II You have named Kuhn, Loeb
Il Co. with Its four or i've partners). the
Guggenheims. seligmans, Lewisohns of this
city and two or three Jewish Crosuses In
the West You have nearly exhausted the list.
as far as the wealth Of q jew may be COM
puted from his contributions to Jewish charl-
table institutions. The fact that among the
forty-odd princes of finance and industry
who made up the lato EGa!ts5!s board OF
directors there was only one Hebrew (Jacob
II. schif) gives us the right cue a. to the
real participation Of the Jews in the riches
Oh TINS country.
You were kind enough, In one of your
editorials Of last Sunday. to allude to my
thrown out In my open letter to
Mr.. Wltte as to the possibility ofreplacing
the chlmerioal Palestinian plan OF Jewish
salvation by tho opening up OF Manchuris
to the 6,o0o. 600 Of Russian Jews who are not \
only treated by their own Government In
every regard with cruel hardness. but are
literally starving to DEATH Would that
score or 30 Of American Jewish uilllonsires.
instead Of entertaining well meant but use-
less pourparlers with Mr.. Witte. might be
induced to form a syndicate Offering <he
same shrewd Russian statesman and fi1an-
cier and the perhaps still shrewder Japanese.
Barons Komura and Kaneko. a plan how
to use the Trans-Siberian and Manchurian
railroads for the opening Of q new chapter
In the commercial history OF the Far East
and for the salvation OF millions Of their own
brethren. lsIDoRE SrSaER.
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