The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-26
IN DEFENCE OF THE JEWS
A People Prominent lin The An
nails of History
Noted for Their Patience, Love for
One Another, Sagacity and Tcmpee-
ance Habits and Splendid I'm Their
Adherence to Their Religious Faith.

Editor Daily Industrial News:
There is not drop OF Jewish blood
in my veins. am not connected with
| the Jews by marriage or any near or
| distant kinsman. owe no Jew a
dollar, and no Jew owes me- Among
all my personal or intimate friends 1
| cannot name one single Jew. speak
from the vantage ground Of absolute
independence.
1t is splendid race-splendid in
! their patience. In their love for ono
| another, in their endurance. In their
sagacity and temperate habits. and
| splendid in their iniexible adherence
| TO the Mosaic ideals.
Do YOU want an aristocracy of blood
and birth? The Jews are the purest
| blooded and have the best established
| descent in the world Not Mirabeau
| in the French convention. nor Pat
| rick Henry in the house Of Burgesses,
| nor Sam Adams in old colonial days
ever said n more thrilling thing than
| Disraeli said in the English commons
in reply to the charge that he was Il
| jew Yes. | am jew And when
| the ancestors of the right honorable
gentleman We're brutal sayages in an
unknown island. mine were priests in
| the temple
Do you seek an aristocracy of tall
ent? The great church historian, Ne
andor. was n Jew; Napoleon's mar
shals, Soult and Massena. were Jews:
the brilliant and cynical Heipe was a
Jew; and-but, the worlds roll OF
great soldiers. authors. musicians,
painters. poets, philosophers and f.
nanciers contains more Hebrew names
than l can recite in many hours.
Are you looking for an aristocracy
of wealth? The combined financial
power of the Jews in Europe can pre-
vent the floating of almost any ma
tional loan which may be put upon
the markets of the world,
1t is spurious, false Christianity that
hates Jews The mystery Of the in
carnation found expression in the
flesh and blood of Jew. and, there
fore, in a sense. we worship a Jew.
We get our Ten Commandment
the very foundation Of our civiliza-
tion-through the Jew We sing Jew
ish psalms, are uplifted by the passion
and poetry of Jewish prophets and
rely on Jewish biographies for the
only history we have of Christ. We
get our Pauline theology from a jew
and we catch our earliest glimpse or
the next world through the sublime
apocalyptic vision Of a Jew. Then.
!. forsooth, We Christians turn about and
neor at Jews.
have conversed with teachers Gf
philosophy who spoke lightly Of ;he
Jews, and yet were teaching with en-
thusiasm ideas which they had abb
sorbed from Malmonides and Spinoza-
the two greatest philosophers, omit
ting Kant, since Plato's day-both of
them Jews. | have heard musicians
denouncing Jews and then spend days
and nights trying 10 interpret the
beauties OF Rossini, Mayerbeer and
Mendelssohn-all Jews. | talked the
other day with a gifted actress and
heard both her and her husband
sweepingly condemn confidentially, OF
course. the whole race of Jews, and
, vet that woman would give half her
; remaining part of life If she could
only reach the heights which the
> great queen of tragedy. Rachel. trod
with such majesty and power-and
= Rachel was JeweSS.
1 In w aSllD2 L nave utdIu
piring politicians, when beyond the
! reach of the reporters pencil, sneer
at Jew, and yet il was a Jew who
made Englands queen empress OF In
dia and it was a Jew who was for
;. years the adrot and sage cious chair
e man Of the national committee OF one
> Of our great political parties. The
T | brainiest man in the southern Con-
q federacy was Judah p. Benjamin, q
. Jew; and Chase. when managing Oh!
national finances n a perilous time
{ owed much OF his success TO the con
= slant advice Of a New +~rk Jew. ina
YOU never see a Jew amp or a Jew
2 drunkard is a proverb; that you never
see a Jew begger is z commonplace
o and It Is a statistical fact that ther'
/ are relatively fewer inmates OF ou
5 hospitals. jails and warehouses; fur
II { nished by Jews than any other rae
Ii contributes.
lie Suppress the Jews, A score D
e Russian cars cannot do IL. Ever.
IS people on this earth has tried an
/ failed. They have outiived the III
lie dors and Plantaganets, the Romanofs
ID the tyranny of Spain, the dynasde
< of France, Charlemange. Constantine
IT the CaesSrs, the Babylonian azing
= and the Egyptian Pharoahs. II wa
er Gods own race for 1000 years. an
IN the awful persecution 1t has surviv
le ed for 1900 more stamps IL as
G race still bearing some mysterious re
~ latfon to the plan OF the Eternal. Tn
ID beauty and fidelity of Jewish wome
't, command my homage, and anon
r wealthy and educated Jews the e,
10 quisite refinement Of Jewesses- thei
Ia culture and high breeding, blende
n | with a sort OF Oriental grace and de
er nifty, put them among the mos
1e charming women of the world.-FaI
as Play.
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II Young Mother at 30.