The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-03-27

Their incompatibility, therefore, is
racial, fixed by natural law. The Jews
shrewdness, the Jews business meth.
DDS. the Jews aggressveness and for
wardness. the Jews capacity for COM
acteristics, unalterable, ineradicable.
1t is the French savant Renan who is
supposed to have been the first to coin
the phrase, "anti-semitism in char
acterization and explanation Of the
prejudice against, and hostility to. the
Jew. He, too, based it all on racial
grounds. The antagonism Of the gen.
tile world to the Jew is the racial an
But is the Jew Semitef Who knowsf
What does the word "Semite' connote,
anvwayf
The distinction between Aryan and
Semitic is purely linguistic. Because
certain nations are found speaking
kindred languages they are grouped to.
gether as constituting a distinct branch
of the human family. The Hebrew Ian
guage and the Assyrian Arabic, Phoe-
nican, etc, being akin. those who spoke
them are supposed to have been eth
nically related, constituting a group of
Semitic peoples, corresponding to the
group Of Semitic languages. The same
principle Of grouping is applied to the
Arvans
But the Hebrew language is in the
Bible itself spoken of as the language
Israelites subseQuentlv occupied. In
other words, having settled in that
country, they adopted it's language,
even as all nations that come to Ameri-
ca adont tn" English language as their
own: What language tho Israelites
originally spoke we do not know. What
country their first ancestors migrated
from, we do not know. The traditions
on this point, recorded in the Bible
itself, vary.
A national group may speak a dia-
lect akin to that of another national
group, may live in the same or in con-
tiguous territory, and still not be re,
lated to it by blood not have sprung
from the same stock. The component
clements of modern nations amply illus
trate that. Were the Hebrews the
kindred Of the Arabs, Assyrians, Phe::
means, etc, and therefore, unrelated
and alien to any member of the So
called Aryan groupf Who knowsf
The Modern Jew.
Take the Jew as he Is at the pres
ent time. What Is there that charac-
torizes him as BELONGING to q separate
race, to q separate branch Of the hu-
nan family treef Is 1t his physique.
his physiognomy, his mind, his charac-
teri The Jew is in all these respects
Jew Of one country differs In all these
respects from the Jew Of every other
country, provided they are all native
to their respective soils, or, still bet
ter, have lived there for several gen
erations. That which commonly passes
as the jewish type is really the type of
the people occupying the rim Of the
Malt -.
lived. ,fourished or suffered for many
centuries. The Jew who has lived in
Russia for many generations Is com
pletely assimilated to the Slav type;
while the Jew Of Germany. with the
same number Of generations back Of
him, Is cast in the Teutonic mold.
A great deal Of rubbish is being
said and written about the jews Pc
culiar mentality and character. The
Jew Is this or that or the other thing;
he possesses or lacks this or that or the
other endowment Of heart or mind: II
all the traits, good and evil, that have
been predicated Of the Jew were &C.
tually imprinted by nature upon some
living being, there would be produced
q monstrosity the like Of which the
world has never seen. The Jew, as,
fall short in anything. He Is neither
superior nor inferior. 90,
The fiction that the Jew is the world ?
foremost figure in commerce and
finance has long been exploded. How
many Of Americas multi millionaries.
captains Of industry and heads Of big
busness rs are Jews' The Jew does mot mot
having the power Of debating war or
peace. the declarations Of certain
scientist to the contrary
Notwithstanding That the Jew has
urtil now been SO largely and conspic-
uously represented In trade and com.
merce Is entirely due to his peculiar
his unfortunate history.
When all avenues Of useful activity
but those Of petty trading and money
pressors, what could he do but take to
petty trading and money lending, and
acquire q cunning therein that has at
tracted the worlds attention. But SEQ
how quickly he Is abandoning them
now in favor Of the learned and skilled
professions, useful trades and even
agriculture. Has not the Jew really
achieved greater results in the domains
of letters, science and philosophy than
In the spheres Of commerce and
fnancei But even here he Is not pecu-
liarly gifted. Others have done equal.
" we'll.
The Antagonism Religious.
No, there is nothing about the Jew
to mark him off as belonging to sepa,
rate race. The bond that has united
the Jews the world over is q national
religious bond TLey have had the
samo faith. the same past. the same
hopes and aspirations. Once they were
q nation. When the national bond
broken, and they were scattered over
the world, their faith united them, and
they continued to cheris sh their ma
tional memories and national hopes.
They mingled with all other nation
and all other groups of the human fam
ily. and. where allowed to do SO, be-
came In all respects, except that OF re.
hgion, like them integral parts OF
them.
Il Is in tais sphere, the sphere Of re-
ligion, that the Jew, as q Jew, has
really distinguished himself. He has
produced the longest line of prophets,
preachers of righteousness. tribunes of
the people. propagandists Of Justice and
peace. beginning with Moses down to
the very latest Of them. Joseph Fels.
Being the most oppressed of all peo-
Dles, his soul became the most sensi-
tive to the world wrongs, and, when
gifted with the necessary power, he
rang . clarion note for -tpstica- and
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