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Show Our Hebrew Fellow Citizens. It is said that the total number of Jews in the United States is now not less than 1,600,000, and may reach a total of 2,000,000. There are about 1,000,000 Jews In New York city, 180,-000 180,-000 in Chicago, and 100,000 in Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Several other American cities contain from 30,000 to 80,000 Jews. Throughout the south in the largest towns the Jews are coming to exercise no mean influence as factors in the business world, and the positions o influence occupied by many of the people peo-ple gives the race a power far beyond be-yond what might be indicated by its numbers. It is said that there are about 3,000 Jewish lawyers and 1,000 Jewish physicians in New York city. Jews own some of the greatest daily papers in the country, such as the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the New York Times, World and Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Chattanooga Chat-tanooga Times. |