El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-20

Chicago and on that same night four
Jews were among six who signed the
first paper calling a mass meeting
looking toward the abolition of slavery.
rabbi David Einhorn in Baltimore
fired shot and shell into slavery and
was driven out of the city because OF
his utterances. Jews were responsible
for the nomination Of Abraham Lincoln
for the presidency, judge Biddenhuffer
making the fight for him that nomin-
ated him.
AT the time of the civil war. there
were only $50, 900 Jews in the United
States but 1000 served on both sides
and there were many Of them officers.
1.-TWO officers with Roosevelt were
Jews The first man to enlist in the
Spanish war was Jew. There were
nine Jews on the Maine when she was
sunk.
The Cohentingents.
There was one regiment from Coli
fornia that had so many Cohens in the
ranks, they nicknamed it the Cohen
tingent. There were 1000 Jews in the
war with Spain and 1 am satisfied that
enough men could have been recruited
from the Russian Jews on the east side
Of New York to lick Spain. was chap
lain of one regiment and 1 know. The
a Jew.
I'm politics, Col. Fred Phillips was
the first Jew elected to the New York
legislature, in 1877, but because he was
a Jew he was denied his place. Israel
Jacobs was elected to congress from
Pennsylvania in 1871 and was the first
Jew in congress; there have been 25
there since.
Judah P BENJAMIN, the senator, ora.
tor To- oiT,-S
of the Confederacy, was sew, the
greatest this country has ever pro-
duced
"a man once told him that his an
cestor had signed the declaration OF in
dependence and Benjamin replied that
his ancestor Moses, had signed the ten
commandments.
THE Jews have been prominent in
art, music, sculpture, literature. There
are none more prominent than Strauss,
Rubenstein, Mendelssohn, Bach and
other Jewish composers. Damroscn
brought opera to the United States and
his son, Walter, is now doing more 10
educate the American people 70 the
value of good music than any other
man.
The jew in Business.
THE common belief is that the Jews
have all the money. But of the 1900
millionaires in New York only $50 are
Jews and if you were to divide the
money held by all the 100000 Jews
in the world equally among them, each
would not have enough TO sit in a
poker game.
"One thing is sure, the Jews do not
spend their money until they make it
They do not make their money by cor
| nering the necessities of life or by
wrecking other peoples fortunes, but
with a few exceptions, as merchants
and manufacturers.
Samuel Gompers, who secured the
eight hour law for the laboring man,
is Jew.
'Basing this statement on the re-
ports OF Dun and Bradstreet. wherever
you find Jews, business is on the boom
and wherever you find no Jews, busi-
ness is on the bun.
Their Place In Education.
mo people sacrifice so much for
their children as do the Jews. In the
college Of the city of New York last
year there were LAG graduates and 122
of them were Jews. At Columbia uni
versity Is percent of the students are
Jews and the only way you can keep
them from getting all the prizes is to
remove them from competition.
There is no reason why there should
be any prejudice but there is. I saw
letter sent from a New York hotel to
prominent Los Angeles Jew a few
days ago which said we do not take
Jews.
There are bad Jews and there are
good Jews as there are bad Christians
and good Christians, but because one is
bad, the whole race should. not be held
responsible. If the Jew is bad, we
ought to take the blame, for our insti-
tutions have made h4m So
The Jew has not been accorded his
rights. He has been cartooned lin the
papers, caricatured on the stage, black
balled in the clubs and even in the
lodge room just because he is a Jew.
It is unfair. The Jews have just as
high and as low standards OF morals
as others in corresponding positions"