Evening journal., 1907-08-19

roads and other established and incorporated in
dustries. The Hebrews, with comparatively few
exceptions, made their money as manufacturers
and merchants. Capital and Hebrew are not
synonymous terms, the leading spirits Of the an
tagonistic forces-capital and labor-are He
brews. There are fnanciers like the Rothschild,
and there are Socialists like Lasaile, Marx and
Singer. The capitalists cannot curse the Hebrew
and the Socialist cannot dynamite the Hebrew
without abandoning their very leaders Samuel
Gompers, president of the Amrican Federation
OF Labor, which is the largest body of working
men in the United States, is a Hebrew
When Aristotle said in his philosophy that man
was Cosmos little world-he may have had
a brain picture of the Hebrew, for such is the
Hebrew cosmos. To most people, or to use
the more applied term Jew, the Hebrew is criti-
cised for being clannsh, but what people are not?
Everyone clings to his own Persecution has
had great deal to do with molding the customs
OF the Jews who, in foreign countries, denied
their civil rights, despoiled OF their property,
scourged and murdered, have only been made
tougher and longer-lived Their enemies have
given them strength and trained them most adj
miraby for the battle of life. No matter in what
part of the world fortune may lead him, it is
claimed that the Jew is an exile, but if this be so
he is the livelest exile that ever turned his face
towards the rising sun Of another country No
matter in what business the Jew engages, he
seems to succeed
Viewing the Jew from sociological stand
point, is it not strange that the world in general
has not had to deal with the Jew as a tramp?
The Jew as a drunkard is rarity; in fact we
have scarcely heard of such. The almshouse has
no need to provide for the Jews. If one Jew gets
into trouble all the others stand by him. The
divorce court seldom hears of them. TO deny
that they are domestic is to deny world-known
truth. To Potters Field they are absolutely un-
known What would the world have been with
out the Bible? And the Jews gave to the world
this Book of books.
The Hebrews of this city have reasons to con-
gratuate themselves over the building of their
synagogue which ought to stand as monument
to their posterity. The Jew and the Gentle may
differ in their religious worship, but there is no
reason why each one cannot get along and each
be the better for the others ideas hopes, sorrows,
joys faith and aspirations. The proposed syna-
gogue is a splendid result of years Of toll, of
nightly vigils and plans on the part of our He
brew friends. 1t must be source of qualification
to each and every member of the Adas Kodesch
to look down over these years and say with
Jacob: Il have built tabernacle unto the Lord
for sacrifice"
THE EVENING JOURNAL extends its con-
gratulations to the members Of this congregation,
with hopes for years of prosperity and life, and
all those things that make for that Righteousness
which is uplifting in power and strength and
goodness of all people-that righteousness which
enables all men Of all creeds to look fearlessly
toward the end of the temporal existence, and the
beginning Of the eternal, and which will make it
possible for all to live our lives effectively, nobly
grandly