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Show WHAT A MAN CAN ACCOMPLISH. A sketch of Hcrr Bernhard Dernburg1, the great Jew of Germany, Ger-many, is a reminder of Disraeli, the Jew premier of England. A dispatch dis-patch from Berlin says : When the Junkers rendered the position of Herr Bernhard Dernburg Dern-burg intolerable and practically drove him out of official life they fondly believed that they had finally crushed him and that no more would be heard of their arch enemy. In that lay their mistake. So far from being- obliterated Dernburg has emerged from the melee with his position stronger today than ever before and his popularity among the masses increased a hundredfold. All Germany now, with the exception of the aristocratic party and the court camarilla, regards Dernburg as the greatest man the country has possessed since the days cf Bismarck and Von Moltke. Not only has he become the finest administrator the empire has ever known; not only has he awakened the nation to a sense of importance import-ance of its colonies ; over and above all this he has taken his place at the head of the democracy of Germany, which is moving with the times against the old rule of the wealthy and landed classes. He typifies the struggle of business methods and efficiency against the ways of bureaucracy. To the great mass of his countrymen he is the coming man. When the present chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, gives up his post and this cannot be delayed much longer Dernburg will probably be acclaimed as his successor. And the kaiser will indorse the national choice. Few men in face of the opposition he had to encounter would have stuck to a job so long as Dernburg did to his post as secretary of the colonies. His enemies made his life a positive hell. Every - device of reactionist and bureaucracy was brought to bear against him. His wife and family were boycotted. No ministers or their wives would call on him, not one cf hisrcolleagues would greet him in the street. In society he was commonly referred to as "the Jew shyster," To "cut" him openly became a social observance. Even when the kaiser came to his aid and, paid him marked attention by visiting him at his home, hostilities were only relaxed in the very slightest degree and the conspiracy to make his life a misery was continued con-tinued with almost unabated vigor. At the colonial office he was detested because he made his aristocratic aris-tocratic subordinates work and keep their hours. Those in higher positions regarded it as their right to be impertinent to him because they knew they had the full support and approval of the Junker camarilla at court. Flagrant disloyalty met him everywhere. ' When Disraeli first aspired to office he was defeated. He was rejected a second and a third time, but finally won. Then when he made his maiden speech in Parliament, he was scoffed at. He said . to his taunters that while they had come to deride, they eventually would be compelled to listen to him. With the patience and per-sistence per-sistence and one-mindedness characteristic of the Jewish people, the comparatively obscure Jew in Parliament, continued his struggle " against what to others would have been discouraging, insurmountable obstacles and finally became England's most distinguished and admired ad-mired statesman, Lord Beaconsfleld. Here we have the key to the success of the Jew in any walk in life. Dernburg and Disraeli are tho development of a trait. of a race which has forced recognition in a thousand walks of life. What the Jews have accomplished, though they have been hounded, reviled and hated, should prove an inspiration to every man or woman who, ; laboring for greater achievement, feels that the odds of adversity are too overwhelming. I |