The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-02-14
THE JEWISH RACE.
Something of the Race, Its History and
Accomplishments.

Hebrew Congregations at Atlanta
was the appearance of an. editorial
in the Evening Georgian, written by
the talented John Temple Graves,
which read as follows:
ATLANTA WELCOMES REPRESENTA-
TIvES OF AN INDUSTRIOUS RACE.
When the gavel fell upon the
council table of the twentieth an
nual convention of the United He
brew Congregations of America, At
lanta became for period the host
to the representatives of a great and
historic race.
No one thing better marks the
progress and enlightenment of this
great age than the march of the He
brew to the worlds recognition and
respect.
The distrust and disrespect for
Jews has become throughout all the
world, except in Russia and Turkey,
a discredited and dishonored thing,
and the student of history in the
broader light of these better days
has come to realize the Jews high
place in history and in the hope of
the world.
1t is a splendid race, splendid in
their patience, and in their love for
one another, in their endurance and
sagacity, and splendid in their in
Z flexible adherence to their Mosaic
creeds.
If, in this age of fashionable and
garish pretension one wants an aris-
tocracy of birth and blood, where
could he find it better than in the
Jew? These are the purest blooded
and the best descended people in the
world. Not Mirabeau in the French
convention, nor Patrick Henry in the
house of burgesses, nor "Sam''
Adams in the good cd colonial days,
ever said a more driving thing than
Disraell said in the English commons
in replying to the charge that he
was Jew: 'Yes, L am a Jew; and
when the ancestors of the right
honorable gentleman were in an I'M
known island, mine were priests in
the temple of Cod"
When the stale sentiment of preju-
dice in the English commons said to
the Jews in Europe: "You are only
fit to make money, you are not fit for
the army, you are not fit for the
halls of parliament, Macauley rose
in his place and Numbered: "How
dare you take this much-for granted?
Throw open the doors of your house
of commons, throw wide the ranks OF
your imperial army before you dare to
deny eloquence to the countrymen of
Isaiah, or valor to the descendants OF
the Saccabeesr
Is it the aristocracy of talent which
lifts one man above another? The
great church historian, Neander, was
a Jew, Soult and Massena, Napo.
leans great marshals, were Jews
The brilliant Heinze was Jew, and
in the worlds roll of great soldiers,
authors, musicians, sculptors, poets,
philosophers and financiers there are
more Hebrew names than our columns
can recite.
Among the aristocracy of wealth it
is known of men that the financial
power of the Sews in Europe can pre-.
vent the floating of almost any ma
tional loan which might be put upon
the markets of the world.
Certainly no noble ana advancing
Christianity can afford to hate the
Jews. The mystery of the Incarna.
tion found expression in the flesh and
blood of d Jew, and therefore in a
sense we worship a Jew.
We get our Ten Commandments
the very foundation of our civiliza.
ton, through Jew. We sing Jewish
psalms. We are uplifted by the pas
sion and poetry of Jewish prophets
and we rely upon Jewish biographies
for the only history we have Of
Christ. We get our Pauline theology
from Jew, and we catch our earliest
glimpses of the next world through
the sublime apocalyptic vision of Z
Jew.
No teachers of philosophy can af
ford to speak slightingly of the Jew
while they implant ideas absorbed
from Maimonides and Spinoza. NJ
musician can fail to lift his hat to {
race that has given us Rossini
Myerbeer and Mendelssohn. NJ
actor or actress strutting on AM
stage can sneer at the Jew so long a:
they would give half of their re
naming lives to reach the height
which Rachel, the great queen o.
tragedy, attained, and which Salvini
the king of tragedy, trod with power
and majesty for so many years.
No politician can. fail to respect Z
people who gave Disraeli to the Eng
lish, and made England's queen the
empress of the east. 1t was Jew
who was for years the adroit and sa
gacious chairman of the national
committee of one of our greatest
political parties. Perhaps the
brainiest man in the Southern Con.
federacy was judah P. Benjamin, 4
Jew. And Carl Schurz and Oscar
Straus in two American cabinets of