Evening journal., 1907-08-19
Monday, August I9, 1907
HEBREWS AND THEIR SYNAGOGUE.

THE pet phrase of a "red letter day" has
u various significance, according to the
usage of the term, but the Hebrews of this city
can now use and claim this saying Of the French
with more than appropriate effect, for yesterday
was to them real "red letter day" The corner
stone laying services of Adas Kodesch Syna-
gogue, the house Of worship which the Hebrews
are erecting was an event Of more than passing
notice, considering that the services crowned ef-
forts reaching over quarter Of century begin
ming in the year of 1881.
To write epitomely of the Hebrews, whose
birth sources were the Arabian desert wlds,
iwhose wonderful resurrection from the densest
obscurity to unquestonable power and influence
and spheric position and dispersion, whose fgur-
ing in history is wider than the Ganges and deeper
than the abyss OF w. is no small matter In an
age when men thought themselves surrounded
by countless spirits, by great gods Of heaven,
earth, and hell of the wind, the sun, the moon,
the stars and the sea, the Jew knew that God was
One, the Maker of heaven and earth and Ruler
OF all therein Scientists tell MS that millions upon
millions of people dotted this land, thousands
upon thousands of years before Abraham listened
TO the voice OF that Mysterious Being Who COM
manded him to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. Yet no
scientist in our history has dared to upset the
traditional belief that the Hebrew as fathered by
Abraham, knew that Being whom we now call
God. How wonderful is all thisl How strangely
beautiful And yet how divinely true.
There is much reason for holding the
Jews to be an extraordinary people, for
at no time have they been numerous.
Speaking Of the Hebrew in this country:
There exists no census Of this people and any
count OF them is merest guess work. Population
experts however, have put the worlds Hebraic
total at 100000; of these one and one-half
millions are in America; and 100000 of those
one and half millions are in the city of New
York-not for the extent Of their territorial do
minion or their empire, which even in the days of
its greatest extension covered only tract which
extends from but small part of the successive
empires of Macedonian, Roman and Turk What
a power it was before Titus came But how
wonderful in deeds How extraordinary is the
ancient literature of the race In poetic strength
and religious importance, it surpasses that of all
other nations. We read of the Hebrew every
whereof Heine in poetry and literature, OF Men
delssohn in music, of Rubens in art. of Montihore
in philanthrophy, of scores upon scores besides in
science, philosophy and the higher politics. Go
where you will you will meet the Hebrew. About
Robert Morris, the money man of the Revou-
tionary War, those who read history find such
names as Ben Levy, Ben Jacobs. Samuel Lyon,
Isaac Morris, Manuel Mordeca Noah, Hyam Sal
omon, and many another son Of Israel. These
not only contributed counsel, but treasure; Hyam
Solomon alone gave more than $6soooo and
ruined himself financially in the cause of Ameri-
liberty. The British so much detested his
power of activities that they caught him and
locked him in Prevot prison in New York. Later
he died pauper, leaving wife and four children.
Even on his bed of death his heart was gladdened
by the knowledge that freedom had been won
from England. Who, then, can read history and
say the Jew is not patriotics
In finance the Hebrew has for more than four
hundred years been the factor that supplied the
earth with money The financial system Of the
world. its inventions and perfection we owe to
the Rothschilds, who were the first to make ma
tonal loans popular. The Hebrew in finance is
invariably creator and not puller-down. Many
pf the great fortunes which have been made not
able in America have been made by wrecked rail-