The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-06-07

THE one standing miracle of all
the ages is the Jew. Hated
i and despised as he has been by
all the nations for over 1000
years, he has outlived them all. Jews
saw Babylonia crumble into dust; they
saw the Assyrian Empire spring into
being, live its allotted span, and dis
appear into the mists of time; they
watched the wandering shepherds on
the plains of Greece grow into
mighty nation, and, as serenely.
watched that nation pass away. They
heard the sound of Roman legions
marching to the conquest of the world,
and saw the barbarians of Northern
Europe hurl that empire into eternity:
while midst all these changes the Jews
alone remained unchanged. Babylon
ian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman have
gone and left all but their names be.
hind, while the despised Jew shows by
that very modern law, "the survival of
the fttest," was, and is, of the very
essence of eternity.
1t is often said as an excuse for
anti-semitism that the Jews are q
parasite race, and while constantly
absorbing from their surroundings,
never themselves contribute anything
of value to humanity, but is this so?
Let us see. To the world of music,
they gave Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer
and Rossini, surely no cpntem ptible
contribution, to say nothing of one
not often known as Jew, is Sir
Arthur Sullivan, the pioneer of oper-
attic comedy. :.
As statesmen, will merely mention
Disraeli. I don't think Englishmen
had cause for regret when that Jew
made their insular kingdom, into
world-embracing empire
As poet and philosopher the name
of Heinrich Heine is surely not con-
temptible, while Lessing laid down
the structure of economic law as we
understand it today.
As philanthropists, something the
common herd never by the widest
stretch of Imagination conceives Jew
could be, they can point with pride to
Baron Hirsch and Sir Moses Montefore.
We get our best knowledge of Plato
from Philo, Jew. We draw all our
information as to the growth and his
tory of the Christian church from
Neander, another Jew. We form our
judgment of the historic art from the
standard of Rachel, Jewess, and we
judge our military heroes from, the
standard set by that bravest and best
of all of Napoleon's marshals, Massena,
Jew.
Jews have always produced men of
the highest possible culture, men who
have given their talents to the world,
without money and without hope or
expectation of reward, without even
the hope of appreciation. Now, what
constitutes "good citizenship?' Is it
not, "that body of men who obey the
law, and do not become burden or
tax to the community?" 1 think it is.
Then, judging by this standard, is not
the Jew, who as class, furnishes no
beggars, and the smallest percentage
of criminals, "good citizen" What
causes then, this latent hatred of the
Jew? Is it not rather caused by
fear, or dread, of their mental SUPERB
ority instead of the loud-mouthed
assertions of the hoi polloi, that they
are parasites, and should be treated as
such?
Among the most prominent families
of Spain and the Netherlands, were the
M0ncadas. They furnished the state
with statesmen of marked and con-
spicuous ability. Jews! The leading
family of Venice in its palmiest days
was the Contarini. One of them be-
coming doge, and another cardinal
of the Roman church, were also Of
Hebrew descent.
ALI thru the Middle Ages when igno-
rance and superstition held sway
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