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Show THE JEW AND THE KILLING OF ROSENTHAL. The killing of Herman Rosenthal by the hired assassins of the New York police has created a sensation which will not down. The part Mayor Gaynor has played since the tragedy has astounded the country. The head of New York's city government had tried Ui dismiss the tragedy with, a wave of his hand and, failing in that, he has sought to minimize the whole affair by saying: We havo in this city the largest foreign population of any city, and a large number of them arc degenerates and criminals. The gambling of the city Ib almost all Jn their hands, not to ment'on other vices and crimes. The published names of every one connectodnearly or remotely with Rosenthal and his murder show the m to he of this same class of lawless foreigners to which ho belonged. This is a direct slap at (he Jaws of Xew York, which the Phil- adelphia North American resents by saying: , "Wc have no intention here to offer any defense for the Jews as a class. They need no defense. And if they did, they have among ( their own ranks men of profound scholarship and brilliant attainments, attain-ments, conversant in the wonderful history of their race, ready to overwhelm any opponent with the sheer weight of universally ac- : knowledged facts. ' i "All that our present civilization knows of ethics or morality - we got from the Jew. All that we possess of pure spirituality can I be traced to the Jew, who, when the whole world was steeped in the grossest materialism, had developed the first conception of an all- i wise, all-powerful, all-just God, free from the passions and the base motives of men. "And the Jew has kept that faith through thousands of years of persecution, of suppression, of ignominy, of injustice. And despite de-spite conditions which would have annihilated a race of less firm moral fiber, the Jew through the ages has been a model of domestic virtues to the world. These are absolutely incompatible with the character which is imputed by the inference of Mayor Gaynor 's statement. He accounts for the lawlessness, for the corruption, for the murder, by saying that those connected with the affair are of the same class of lawless foreigners. I "Doctor M agues rightly asks, 'When docs the foreigner cease and the native begin? The men in this crime are natives. They were probably all bom in this country. If any were not, they must have come here at so early an age that their entire education and J environment has been American, if New York can be regarded as i American. "The Jewish immigrants to this country were patient, plodding, tractable people, who asked only a chance to work and to know ' what the laws are that they might obey- them. It had been their habit for generations. There were no "Bridgie Webbers, or Jack l Roses, or Herman Rosenthals among them These-have been the pro-' t duct of an environment not American, but New York. 5 "They are the result of the atmosphere of Manhattan island. Into that whirlpool of mammon is poured the wealth of a continent. Great legitimate businesses are there, mammoth enterprises, of manu- i facture and distribution. But these are overshadowed by the gi- gantic business centered in Wall street, the purpose of which is to get money without rendering an equivalent. 'This thought permeates Xew York. The dazzling fortuues heaped up in a short time by the manipulators of value make the ' creators of value look cheap and mean in the eyes of impressionable c iouth To reap riches by giving senjee, by manufacturing or dis- tributing, is but a last resort, something to be doue when nil else fails. Get rich quick iB the slogan. It takes hold even of the offico J boy and tho clerk and the typist, who reflect in a small way the : spirit that surrounds them. "Get rich quick, not by giving values to the community, but by J taking something from it and giving nothing in return. It is all J a game of wits, not an inspiration to work or to honest enterprise. ' "The foreigner goes there with his inherited and fixed habits of patient toil, of family devotion, of sense of responsibility to an Unseen Power. ' " "He is an incongruous figure against the background of cor- szr 'nirii ruption and chicanery and sharp practice, and of getting the other man's money with a careless hand and spending it just as carelessly. "It is not to be wondered at that the foreigner's American children chil-dren in some instances break from the hereditary bonds of honorable toil or honorable, plodding business and join in the game of wits "But it is not due to the fact that they are foreigners. Their fathers Avere foreigners. They were not gamblers and murderers." This gct-rich-quick spirit is one that the Progressive party is preparing to fight by making possible a square deal all around, so that ambitious young men, whether foreign or native born, shall have before them real opportunities, within legitimate lines, to make for themselves honored names and to acquire a competence. As it is today, the avenues to honest endeavor of promise are being closed by the predatory rich who, controlling the old political parties, also control legislation with which they legalize their unfair methods and perpetuate their "graft." While our restless young men have held up to them as exemplars the very rich who have, grown rich by high finance, there will exist a spirit of recklessness which will justify desperate means in the attaining of wealth. |