The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07

q" Jews in this country. Today the lat
est estimated total is 2.3i9 75i
IT those figures are to be accepted as
correct. and necessarily they are unOfI1-
cial. since the United States scrupIes
to inquire into the religion Of any man
there are more Jews In America than
trta-Hungary, with n Jewish population
of 2.25S,.262. stands third: Germany is
fourth. with ti1.,@l: Turker fifth with
rs. 80; Rounania sixth. with 80 900, and
Great Britain seventh. with 5000. while
Morocco. Tunis. Holland. and France are
IN" only other countries having a Jewish
population of lN.t"r or more. New York,
where every fifth or sixth man is n JCw
has more Jewish residents than any
other city in the world. and possibly
more than ever actually We're gathered
within the wallis of Jerusalem when Zion
was in its glory.
Thriving on Persecution.
Notwithstanding the great exodus 10
the United States. the Russian census
takcr. when last he made his rounds
was astonished To find more Jews than
on his former visit. the total amounting
up to 6,Oo0.i15. Crowded as they are. in
poverty and ignorance. with "A million
and half of their numbers gone to other
countries. they still showed a large IN
Crcas" of population within the Pale.
Although fecund race the Russian
Jews have a lower birth rate than their
Christian nciGhbOrs But their death rate
Is twice as low rs the mortality percent
age among the Slavs living beside them
This phenomenon is to be found I'm the
vital statistics OF many countries. and II
has even been calculated the world round
that the expectation Of life of a Christian
at birth is only forty years, while that OF
the Jewish baby is sixty.
Whether any of this greater tcnaclty
of life springs from the race itself il IN
that the longevity OF the Jew is favored
by certain of his habits and customs
In the first place. the Jewish mother
is said to be more likely than any other
father Is less likely than the Christian
parent to be alcoholic Moreover, II IA
common belief that nothing has done
more than the Mosaic rules in the mat
ter of diet and cleanliness 10 save the
jews from determination in the midst Of
the denselv crowded ghettocs to which
he has been so generally confined through
700 years.
The Host of Israel.
Whatever may he the various con-
tributory causes. the amazing fact is
forth standing that the Jews. with
present pres t, oN world or population OF more
Gus than ever before since first
they emerged upon the horizon OF
history and began their wonderful
march across its pages. Conquered
and enslaved by Egyptians, Assyrians
and the Babylonians. vanquished by
the Greeks. dispersed by the Romans,
branded and banned by Christendom,
where are their triumphant foes to-
day Where is the kingdom OF the
Pharaohs. where the majesty of
Nineveh. the splendor Of Babylon. the
glory that was Greece and the gran
deur that was Rome? They had but
names written in the dust of their
ruins. Still this strange host of Israel
disarmed now for twenty centuries
marches irresistIbly onward with no
Aoc In f,,,
sword than it's wit. sharpened by the
flint of adversely; with no other
strategy than to bend before the
wave. and IL passes over you: oppose
it, and IL will sweep you away"
BY Herod's Wall.