Show THE JEWISH RACE our readers have already learned of the disgraceful persecution to which the jews are thi moment ex posed in enlightened germany and even at the very eat of intel ligis nce the capital berlin the has ben of the first papers in this part oi the country to arouse the indignation of a justice lovida public over abeso outrage ai birly a month go whet the first parks of the present fire commenced to glimmer never since then have we failed to record telegraphically and condemn editorially the coane pursued by the anti semite league under guidance of the zealot at the court of the emperor Wil belm today to day we wish to introduce to our friends a cele berated savant A da Can dolle of geneva who speaks of the jewish race and its virtue as follows everywhere I have found says if de in his great work huewe att sciences ct ties ivanh beux deux the jewish people the same laborious intelligent economical almost to avarice tome times but benevolent little disposed to violence or assaults on persons and not addicted te drinkens drun kens ness they are accused of having no dignity of being too submissive and to shrewd in business transactions on the whole they jiosi the good and bad qualities of civilized nations ris excellent qualities and tolerable failings the spectacle which europe would present were it inhabited exclusively by israelites would be most strange there would then be no more wars hence the moral sense would not be jo frequently shocked millions of men would not be torn from useful aad peaceable labor and national debts and popular taxes would be diminished owing to the known tendencies of the israelites the cult of sciences literature and arts par tic of music would find eager nd numerous devotees industry and commerce would there would be few ae on persons and encroachments encroach ments on property would seldom be by violence Wealth would accumulate by the efficiency of intelligent and systematic labor combined with frugality this wealth would exercise munificent charity fhe clergy would not come in con lica with the state on any but trill ing matters unfortunately there would be some bribery and little firmness in officials ageg would be early frequent and generally respected and inviolate hence the evils springing from lasciviousness would bo scarce this fact as well as some good hygienic precepts would tend to make the population strong and healthy births would ba nume numerous rou the natural lease of life longer prom all these causes the population would in a remarkable degreed it bouw e somewhat dome what liko the condition of Chi with infinitely more amov clity more intelligence more taste and without iha atrocious rebellions and car nages i ii how Is it that these small jewish communities scattered all over the world possess virtue sand shortcomings with an advanced state of civilization arom the commonly accepted news of the philosophers and historians this cannot be explained if religion atone decided nd defined the character of fews and christians the very cen arary sees would have to exist the israelites are guided principally by the old testament the christians by the new ac cording to certain superficial interpretations it would follow that the very old testament must create rude manners and produce certain acts of injustice ilis opposed to represent god as a revengeful being who visits the sins of ho fathers on many generations who selects one people ani neglects ae others the new testament on the contrary ia steeped in mildness benevolence jene and submission according to its representations god adepts and claims all men his children irrespective of race or origin forbearance and humility are recommended to the very extreme as where we are required to turn the left cheek if our right one has been struck but how Bt rangel it is the jews who are bumble and for bearing almost to the letter of this injunction while the christians are so often overbearing vio lent exclusive in their affections find inordinately sevedio in their laws if the religions alone had the peoples characters the jews might well be violent vicious and lindic vin dic tire while submission and patience would distinguish tho christians lat the contrary i the case the jews are said to ba sive suspicious saving and loyal Q their relatives because they hava always been persecuted but several christian have been persecuted and variously oppressed but have always shown a tendency and determination to revolt the jews have suffered in silence while the spaniard under the arab the poles under the the irish under the daglish bavo acted quite whenever they thought to havo reasons for and chances for redress the relative forbearance and patience of the Is therefore depends neither on their religion nor on he treat ment through history it i atily natural ioie nc tha can solve the enigma the jewish raw i of th oldest peoples of clilia tion that has never mingled with any other paring the brutalities litie of the feu il middle ago the jews invented commercial relations to connect the nations anch as the bills of exchange they cultivated the art and As early as two yea four thousand years ago they had remark able moral and intellectual principles which tradition preserved ora the universal dispersion did not hinder the isolation of the raca from all its motley surroundings fience it i that an israelite however much lie resembles his great grandfather or bears the features of fin ancestor of old testament Teat ament ages still possesses tho distinctions of a civilized man and that beautiful cast which baa at til time and in all climes been a source of admiration for the artist speaking of the christians de Can dolle clocea hi sensible sen aible chapter with a paragraph from gallons hereditary genius where abu distinguished author aada of the nations of modern yesterday only man waa a barbarian lishco it cannot be demanded that the natural capabilities of his race should already have ben refined in direct ratio to the real advance ho has made we men of modern age wo are beanca transplanted which offers un clila atio conditions and nour ashment our instincts a go astray under these changed circumstances thus say the laws of nature |