The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-26
THE JEWS or THE UNITED
STATES. ...
Their Wealth ~ Computed by DR.. Isidore
1Inger-The ManchuEian PrOjsct.

6lnGef-Tho MAnchunan PrOjsct.
To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sr: The
Baltimore correspondent OF the London
Jctcish Chronicle Of Aug. II makes the curl
Gus statement that the Jews Of New York
city have a combined wealth Of over 5000 .OOo.-
900. and that the trade In the hands OF jew
ish mlddlemen and manufacturers annually
equals an amount approximately the same
but he prudently adds that he does not vouch
for the figures and has no idea whence they
were gathered"
The recent sending OF bombs to Messrs.
Wasserman. SchiH and Guggenheim and.
more yet. the publication Of an anti-Semitic
and anti-plutocratic letter Of menace which
had been. months ago, addressed to Philip
Cowen, editor Of the American Hebrtw. by
a trio OF. probably. Russian anarchists OF
Jewish descent. and the bringing OF Com
missioner McAdoo 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 O
merely politlco-economlca standpoint. but
also with regard to the immigration problem
and In wider sense. as an important eie-
| ment for the eventual solution OF the Jewish
question in general
There were about 25O, 900 Jews-i. g.. $4,000
Jewish familles--in the United States In 1880
II Gear Alexander ii. had not been blown up,
with the evident connivance ofthe leaders
OF the reactlonary party. the 18th OF March
OF the year following but had been allowed
to grant his people a genuine constitution
and real liberty. his Jewish subjects would
have remained In their fatherland. securing
their own and contributing to the muEhik's
prosperity, and the $50 900 Jews OF 1880 by
natural increase augmented by another 80, 900
or 90 900, would to-day have formed the bulk
Of the Jewish population OF the United States
At this Juncture. and to confirm the above
| surmlse, ii may be proper to state that be-
tween 1921 and 1870 only 1850 Jewish immi-
grants from the Russian pale itself and from
Russian Poland came to this country, while
of the grand tota. Of 1851 Jewish immi-
grants to the States. actually counted from
1881 TO 1908, more than 500 900 were Russians
since, according to the report OF tho United
Hebrew Charities OF New York. 4O8.O57 Of
them landed at Castle Garden and Ellis Island
alone between 1884 and October. le0sl In
the same period l5s.sO9 Jew1 hailing from
Austria. for the greater part from the poverty
stricken province Of Galicia; 81, 900 Rumani-
ans and l6.469 Germans arrived at the port
OF New York. while England furnished only
| a quota Of 2,27s. Turkey palestine includedh
| 1884; Holland 524: Sweden. $50; France. 354.
and Denmark. 225.
What lie now the probable accumulated
wealth OF the native 800 900 Jews and of the
additional 100000 newcomers? To give
attempt. But this much can, on general
principles. be admitted: Jewish family
living a minimum Of twenty Ave years in
prosperous and free 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 the Russians, 10
per cent. of the Austrians and rs per cent
OF the Germans and British took the same
0ioht dprip ho Inst
that there may be 375. 900 individuals. or about
rs. goo well to do Jewish families In the United
States. the other 225 600 having yet to struggle
for the earning of their daily bread.
How many Jewish multimllionalres are
there from New York to San Francisco and
from Chicago to New Orleans? Hardly a
dozen. for II you have named Kuhn, Loeb
l. Co. with Its four or five partners,, the
Guggenheims. Seligmans. Lewisohns OF this
city and two or three Jewish Cr9suses In
the West You have nearly exhausted the list.
as far as the wealth of a jew may be COM
puted from his contributions to Jewish chari-
table institutions. The fact that among the
forty-odd princes Of finance and industry
vino made Up the late Equitable board of
directors there was only one Hebrew iJaoob
H. Schlff) gives US the right cue az to the
real participation Of the Jews in the riches
OF this country.
You were kind enough, in one OF your
editorials OF last Sunday. to allude to my
su question thrown out In my open letter to
Mr.. Witte as to the possibility ofreplacing
the chimerical Palestinian plan of Jewish
salvation by the opening up Of Manchuria
to the 1000, 900 of Russian Jews who are not
only treated by their own Government in
every regard with cruel harshness. but are
literally starving to death. Would that
score or 80 of American Jewish millionaires,
instead Of entertaining well meant but use
less pourparlers with MIR. Witte. might be
induced to form syndicate Offering the
same shrewd Russian statesman and dnan-
cier and the perhaps still shrewder Japanese.
Barons Komura and Kaneko. plan how
to use the Trans-Sberian and Manchurian
railroads for the opening Of a new chapter
In the commercial history OF the Far East
and for the salvation Of millions of their own
brethren. ls1DoRE SINGER.
NEW YORK. Aug. ~.