Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1882, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1882 —— - .The Omabha Bee. Publithed every morning, except Sunday, ®he only Monday moming daily, TERMS BY MAIL — ..810,00 | Three Months, 85,00 One . 1.00 PHE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev. ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID:~ One Year, $2.00 | Three Months,, 50 Bix Months. 1.00 | Ome v e D Asrricas News Covpaxy, Sole Agents for Newedealers in the United States, CORRFSPONDE ¥—All Communi. estions relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the Enitos or Tar Rr BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Buines Betwrs aud Kenattances suould be ad dAressed to THE OMAHA PunLisuing Cov- PAxXY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post~ office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Comvany, QYAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs. Ei\ ROSEWATER. Editor. Proclamation by the Governor Convening the Legislature. Wiirnras, The constitution of the state of Nebraska provides that the governor tnay, on extraordinary_oceasions, convene the legislature by proclamation; and WirnEAs, Important public interest of an extraordinary character requires the exercise of this authority; _ Therefore, I, Alhinus Nance, governor of the state of Nebraska, do hereoy con- ature of eaid state to meet sion at the capitol in Lincoln cdnesday the 10th of May, 1852, at lock m, of eaid day for the purposes stated as follows, to-wit: st. To apportion the state i congressional distriots and to provi the election of representatives therein, Recond. To amend an_ nct ar proved March 1st, 1881, entitled “An act toin- corporate cities of the first class and regu- Iation of their duties, powers and govern- ment,” by conferring additional power wpon cities of the first class for the pur- pose of paving or ma iziug stroets and slleysand als o providing for the crea- tion un nprointment of & board of public works there Third. To assign tha county of Custer to some judicial district in the state. Fourth, To amend section 69, chapter 14, of the compiled statutes of Nebraska entitled *Cities of the second class and villages, % Fiith, To provide for the expenses in- cnrred in suppressing the recent riots at O.wabs and protecting citizens of the state from domestic violence. Bixth, To give the assent of state the to the provision of an act of congress to extend the northern boundary of the state of Nebraska. Seventh. To provide for the payment of the ordinary and contingent expenses of the legislature incurred during the epecial session hereby convened. In testimony whereof, I huve hereunto set my band and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state. 2 Done at L'ncoln, this 20th of April, A. D.,1882, the sixteenth year of the state, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixth, By 1 he governor: ALBINUS NANOE. S0, AL Secretary of Sta.e. NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS. The publishers of Tie DEr have made arrangements with the Amecican News Company to supply Newa D-pots in 1li- nols, Towa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, Al dealerawho keep Tie Daiiy Bz on sde should hereafter address their crders to the Manager American News Company, Omsha, Neb. ParNELL is now the ‘‘uncrowned king of Ireland” and ‘‘Buckshot’ Fos- ter takes a back seat. Tue Dutch captured Holland cen- turies azo, and it now looks as if they had similar designs on Dakota. Twelve thousand Hollanders are pre- paring to immigrate to Dakota this season, Miss Pi Couzexs has a new lecture entitled “‘Some Mistakes about Eve.” A rest on the Mormon Commission would offer an excellent opportunity for extending the scope of the lecture. Tue first business before the legis- lature next week will be to forward the persons and papers which the com- mittee on judiciary have asked for, to sustain Tom Majors’ claim to a seat in congress, A TeLeGrAM from Des Moines -atates that Gov. Kirkwood has not definitely decided whether or not he will enter on a canvass for congress, As soon as he makes an aflirmative decision other candidates will stand from under. OxauA's police force will have all they can do to repress the tramp ele- ment which is becoming dangerously numerous in this city, Four burg- laries have been reported within a week, and it begins to Jook s if unother organized gang, like that from which this city suffored a fow years ago, was forming in our idst, Kaxsas Ciry 1s calling for an an- nual license for the street cars at the rate of from §50 to $50 per car. The city ordinances already contain some stringent street railway legislation, Companies are compelled to lay the flat rail, to pave the entire space be- tween the tracks and for eighteen inches on either side thereof with stone or wood block, and the right of taxation upon roadbed franchise and peasonsl property is made inhgrent i the city. SEE——— Tuere is & strike impending in Nebraska that the militia reinforced by all the troops under General Crook’s command can't put down, More thau five thousand politicians are organizing for a strike for higher places—ranging all the way from United Btates senator down to me- ber of the legislature, There are already about three hundered candi- dates for the seven stato oftices and three seats in congress. But we don't hear of a single candidate that wants to be uominated contingent COngressuIAn, - | circumnavigation, We CONGRESSIONAL APPORTION! MENT. A number of editors in various sec- tions of this state are trying to act as a “‘steering committee” for the legis- lature, in connection with the pro- posed division of Nebraska into con greesional districts. All those fresh water mariners live in mortal dread lest our ship of state shall apring a leak and ¢o down in the political maelstrom that surges in and around Douglae county. Foremost among these is the Blair by right of discovery of the only channel that can be followed with | since it avoids the dreaded danger by Pilot, which claims credit perfgct safety quote from the Blair maviner to show his jeweled consistency: The Pilot pronounces unhesitatingly and emphatically for a division of the state into congrescional districts, in the manner designated in the so-called “Burng bill.”" This is the only divis- ion that can be made in justice to the political rights of the several counties, and with due regard to the popula. tion of the several counties affected. 1t is the only plan that will satisfy the people. * * * The line would run between Doug- las aud Washington counties west to the Platte river, up the river to the west line of Saunders, and south on the west side of Saund- ers, Lancaster and Gage to the Kansas line. The territory south and east of this line wouid constitute one distriot, with a population of 171,000. The territory west or this district and south of the Platte another district, with a population of 150,000, and all the territory north of the Platte, ex- cept Douglas and Sarpy, would con- stitute the third district. This gives the most densely settled counties to the district having the most popula- tion, and as the west and north must necessarily increase in numbers the fastest on account of their extreme size, the population would soon be- cowe equalized. * * * * Of course it is desirable to have the districts as nearly equal as esible, if it. It is also desifable to equalize the political power of the saveral counties in each district, as nearly as may be, in justice to all. This county has had the ex- perience of being one of several com- paratively weak counties placed in a judicial district with a strong one. The result 1s the strong county mon- opoliz s the politics of the entire dis- trict. No nomination has been or can be made for district officers out- side of Omaha, and even with the other counties supporcing republicans of Omaha in good faith, she has forced a democratic judge and prosecuting attorney on us for many years. The same would be true of a congressional district. Douglas uululty can_either rule or ruin the whole North Platte country. The same also will be true of Lancas- ter if placed in a western district. The interests of the western and northern counties are scattered, and will be gathered up by a strong com- bined interest and ruled with a rod of iron. We want an end to this system, The Blair marine has been looking through an inverted telescope. Doug- las, Sarpy, Washington and Burt counties constitute the third judicial district. Population, according to the national census of 1880: Burt 6,949, Sarpy 4,239, Washington 8,650; total 19,838, against Douglas 337,870, Majorities rule in ‘this country. With nearly double the population and more than ten times the litiga- tion than all the remainder of the dis- trict, Douglas county 1s entitled to the court officers whose time is mostly taken up in Omaha. g The district has elccted a democrat- ic judge because the republican can- didates happened to be men that did not enjoy popular confidence and re- spect. Integrity and ability are re- garded as more essential qualifications for judges in thisdistrict than partizan ship. When the republicans nomi- nate upright, competent and reputa- ble candidatos they will elect them, * But how would Omaha and Douglas county rule with an irom rod in & congressional district that contains 150,000 or 160,000 population? Does any sane man believe Douglas county with her 37,870 people will dcminate over and out vote the re- maining counties with their 125,000 people! Has Douglas county ruled with an iron rod in our cougresssonal nomina- tions during the last ten years! How came it that Washington coun- ty. with less than 7,000 people, ten years ago could dominate the whole state and beat Douglas county out of a congressman in 1872, and agein in 18747 How have Douglas and Lancaster dominated over the state ever since, while little Madison and Cumings county were furnishing our congressmen ! Why has Douglas county, with her iron rod, failed to secure asingle state officer since Nebraska's admission into the union! Will those political horse marines that want to act as a steering com- nuttee for the legislature explain how Douglas county, with 3,500 ropubli- can votes, will dominate over any district that must contain at least 20,000 republican voters! lowa carries off' the honors in the contest for the sccretaryship of the | ropublican central committee, Hon. D, B. Heuderson, of Dubuque, is the mau agreed upon to take charge of the grand distribution of campaign ammu- nition. It is understood that he will be the next wmember from the Du- buque distriet, but has pledged hiw- self to give his whole time to the work of the committee, and will be in Washington all sumwer in connection with his duties, He is spoken of by the Towa senators and members as be- ing a person extremely well fitted for the duties of the position, and they guarantee that the selection is a wise Mr. Edward McPherson, clerk of the house, who made an active can- one. vass for the place, says he is well sat isfied with Mr. Henderson, as his own physical strength is not equal to the labor, Your ‘rained politician always comes up smiling after a knock-dewn in ths prize ring. HORACE MAYNARD, The telegraph announces the death at Knoxville, Tenn., of Hon, Horace Maynard. He was born in Massa- chusetts in 1814, was graduated from Ambherst college 1n 1838, and shortly afterwards emigrated to Tennessee, where he became a well known and successful lawyer, For six years, from 1857-1863, he represented the East Tennessee district in congress, and during the first two yesrs of the war was the only southern congress- man that kept his seat withoutreturn- ing to his district for re-election. He was re-elected to congress in 1806, remaing in his seat until 1875. His whole congressional term was sixteen years duration. In 1875 Mr. May- nard was sent to Constantinople as American minister to Turkey, return- ing in 1880 as the successor oi Judge Key as postmaster general, and holding that position until Gen- eral Garfleld was inaugurated. Mr. Maynard received thirly votes for vice president at the Chicago conven- tion in 1880. Before the war he was, next to Parson Brownlow, the most bitter political opponent of Andy Johnson, but when Johnson pro- nounced for the union they made up. At the close of Johnson's presidential term they renewed the old feud and fought it out to the bitter end, May- nard as representative of the radical republican and old whig element, and Johnson as defender of ‘‘my policy” and expounder of the constitution ac- cording to the old bourbon version. Although a Massachusetts Yankee by birth and education, Maynard was personally a typical southerner, swarthy as a Spaniard, with long jet black hair and the make-up pecu- liar to the scions of southern chivalry. Like General John A. Logan, he had some Indian blood in him. Upto the outbreak of the war, Maynard was just as staunch a defender and champion of slavery as any slave- holder,and if heentertained free soil or abolition sentiments, he was discreet onough never to give them voice. But after the emancipation proclama- tion had been issued Maynard became a pronounced abolitionist. It will be remembered that Lin- coln's so-called emancipation procla- mation did not emancipate the slaves in East Tennessee, the district which Maynard represented in congress, any more than it emancipated the slaves in Kentucky, West Virginia, Dela- Missouri, Maryland, and sections of the confederate states in which Unior men predominated, and which were occupied by federal troops. Maynard had, however, become more radieal at this stage than President Lincoln himself, and he labored m and out of congress for abaolute emancipation and the constitutional amendments prohibiting slavery. ware, COMMENTING on the recent dynamite fizzle in New York, The Cincinnau Commercial, which nobody has ever accused of sympathy with communism or socialism, says; ‘‘Superintendent Walling assumes that one of the infer- nal machines, which set fire to a neighbor's door mat, was intended for him, and was the contrivance of some OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The withdrawal of the coercion poliey, the release of the suspects, including Parnell, Dillon and Davitt, and the resignation of Mr. Forster as chief secretary for Ireland, are such radical changes in the policy of the Giladstone government that it is no wonder thst England and her two parties are nervous over the startling departure, Mr. Gladstone’s change of policy was foreshadowed several months ago in his speech admitting the coming possibility of home rule, for which he was so gravely taken to task by the tories. In his views upon the failure of coer- cion he has had all along the support of the radical wing of the liveral party, who were anxious to dispose of the question as soon as possible. Two weeks ago the retirement of Forster was rumored in Downing street, and it was understood that negotiations were in progress between the Jand league and the hberal government looking to a speedy solution of the difficulty, The secret is finally dis- closed. Mr. Giladstone declares Fors- ter's policy of coercion a failure, throws open the prison doors, an- nounces broad and liberal measures of relief for tenants, and places in the seat of his former secretary for Ire- land a noted friend and advucate of tenant rights and home rule. There are hopeful prospects for the Irish people resulting from this flank movement on the tory ranks. The liberal party will at once receive heavy reinforcemonts from the Par- nellites and home rulers, which ought to more than balance any losses from the whigs. In the mutual inter- change of civilities between the fol- lowers of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Glad- stone in parliament there are strong indications of an alliance which will enable the premier to carry oat his plan of peasant proprietorship at an early day. Arrears of rent caused by the ‘“bad years” are to be released. Every tenant, by having his account squared by the government, is to be permitted to take advantage of the land act, and with the general adop- tion of that measure throughout the country, the greatest of Ireland’s wrongs will be in a fair way to be righted. Mr. Gladstone announces that Parnell has given him his assur- ance that the ‘‘No Rent” proclamation will now be rescinded. This s proper. There should be a prompt cessation of outrages, and a determi- nation on the part of the Irish people to take every advantage of the oppor- tunities offered. Siberia seems to have baen traduced by travelers who have represented its one vast inhospitable desert waste. Mr. George Kennan's late lectures in this country afford a very clear insight into the resources of Siberia, as well as the occupations and condution of its inhabitants. He says the population is now about 5,000,000, and the peo- zone, for it must be remembered that the area is 6,000,000 square miles, its length 5,000 and its width 2, miles. He shows that tobacco is raised in portions of Siberia, while English authorities would have us be- lieve the country is desolated by per- petual frosts. Between 1827 and 1847, 159,735 were sent to Siberia, of whom only 445 were exiled for politiosl purposes; of these 443, two-thirds belong to the nobility, From 1867 to 1872 64,274 persons were exiled; of these 5,000 were sentenced to hard labor and the other 92 per cent. simply banished and allowed freedom within & smaller or larger district, in proportion to the gravity of their crimes. Mr. Kennan exiles one or more socialists because he had forbidden a street socialistic parade. Upon that hint the leading New York newspapers proceed to declaim against the socialists and the dan- gerous conspiracy they have formed aguinst the lives and property of the great capitalists of that sayn there are o nly two mines worked by convicts in Siberia, one a ocusl mine and the other a placer mine. The transportation of exiles 18 con- ducted by rail, by boat and by wag- ons, and they are supplied with the necessities of life until they find work or get into busizess for themselves. city. As a fact, however, there has not yet been produced a single bit of evidence justitying such a conclusion, or going to show that the sending of the internal machines was the work of other than some ignorant and blun- dering miscreant. It has been, how- over, tolerably well established that the address of the parties to whom the three machines were sent was in one and the same handwriting. They were also wrappad in copies of a Ger- man newspaper, from which the astute editors jump to the conclusion that the whole thing was the work of Ger- man socialists. It is a wonderfully logical sequel Tue New York senate is still de- bating the bill for a railroad commis- sion passed by the assembly, which provided for the election of the mem- bers composing it by the people. The senate, which is strongly influenced by the corporations, will probably wwend the bill by providing for the choice of the commissioners by the governor, whom it is hoped can in turn be chosen and contrulled by the wonopolies, Tue Philadelphia Record thinks that the “small minded swindler arrested for stealing railroad passes | deserves the severest condemnation. 1f ho had simply stolen the railroad itself he might have become an Wall street board of brokers. The trade between China and Siberia is large, 2,000 merchants being en- gaged in it. The day will come when the erain of Siberia will be sold in competition with the grain grown on the same parallel of latitude in North America, France is a nation of rural propri- etors. There are 5,000,000, of whom atleast 4,000,000actually cultivate the s0il. Some of these owners also rent land other than their own, and M. de Lavergne estimates that more than 862,000 peasant owners are also tenants, One case is cited in which one farm of fifty acres was rented from nineteen different proprietors, While this subdivision of land prop- erty secures the most thorough cul- tivation, it aiso sumewhat increases the burdens which land has to bear, for the general expenses of inheritance, subdivision, transfer and leasing are high in proportion to the value of the property conveyed. The average awount of land owned by 3,020,000 of the rural proprietors is less than two and one-half acry apiece. The Herzegovinian insurrection still continues, but it is eviaent that without the patronage of Russia the insurgents must sooner or later suc- cumb to the Austriau forces. The struggle goes on, however, with the same varying results that attend an hounored and respected member of the | Indian campaign in this country, and the Crivoscians, fortified in their mountain fastness, familiar with every path and advantage of defence, wage a warfare as continuous and more dangerous than that of the Sioux against our regular troops. The Aus- trians have a task on hand that their brave opponents will prolong to the extreme limit of endurance. The salvation army in England has proved to be such a financial bonanza to its originators, one ‘‘General” Booth and his family, that other sim- ilar organizations for the saving of souls—on a paying basis—have sprung up. ‘“ieneral” Booth, therefore, ap- peals to the people not to patro his rivals, notably a ‘‘King Jesu's Army”—not #s might be supposed be- cause they do not furnish the same quantity and quality of ‘‘salvation,” but because they are not the brigades and regiments commanded by the simon-pure inventors of this way of marching to glory. Alexander II1 has again postponed his coronation, The discovery at Moscow that the patriot charged with illuminating the Kremlin during the coronation ceremonies had arranged an ingenious plan for blowing up the fortress has caused consternation in the Imperial palace. A mutinous spirit seems to prevail in the British navy, and its oflicers have been getting into trouble of late. A midshipmax on the Northumber- land was attacted by two sailors of the same ship, and thrown from the land- ing steps of Gibraltar dockyard into the water, and then subsequently they tried to drowu him. The men were court-martialed and sentenced to five and seven years’ penal servitude respectively. On the Bachante, the ship in which the royal sprigs have been sailing around the world, there has also been some unpleasant and significent eigns of discontent. A short time since one of the ratlines mas maliciously cut, and, in spite of their protests, the whole watch was made to suffer by having leave stop- ped and extra duty imposed. Subse- quently some rope was missed, and ugain the whole watch was to be punished, but the men flat- ly refused to submit. A court-martial was the result, and ten men were sentenced to vari-us terms of imprisonment, from three to twelve months. The vice-admiral submitted the official report to the admiralty with the indorsement, ‘*That the mis- conduct of the men was largely due to the injudicious conduct of Lord Charles Scott and Commander Hull of the Bacchante.” The matter has been considered by the admiralty, and, asa result, they have remitted six months of the imprisonment 1n six of the cases, A short time ago, it will be re- membered, the men on board of the Duke of Wellington protested in a very vigerous manner against being drafted to some of the ships in the Mediterranean, and this mutinous ple are settled mostly in the fertile |spirit is undoubtedly due to the fact that there ure brutes amongt the ofli- cers in that service of the same stripe as those who disgrace the United States navy. The Sucz Canal company hgures for 1881 are of much genera! interest. The uationality of {he vessels passing through during the year was as fol- lows: British, 2,2 French, 109; Dutch, 70; Austrian, 65; Ttalian, 51; Spauish, 46; German, 40; 20; Belgian, 14; Danish, 13; Egyp- tian, 11; Turkish, 11; Norwegian,10; Chinese, 4; Portuguese, 4; Liberian, Siamese aud Sarawak, 1 each. Total, 2,727 vessels. The proportion of British tonnage has steadily increased since the canal was opened. In 1870 it was G4 per cent of the whole, and in 1881 it was 82 per cent. The above figures have another melau- choly sigaificance, in showing that not a sinele American ship passed through che Suez canal last year. The foreign carrying trade of the United States is unquestionably a thing of the past. A ¢ood deal of money is now being consumed in hunting for disabled Arctic search expeditions, One of the mose foolhardy of explorers is Leigh Smith, who went yachting for the North Pole, and is supposed to be AMERICAN JEWS, A Calm, Dispassionate Review of Facts as They Exist To-day. Their Love of Liberty Compared With That of Other Races. Hounded and Robbed in the Old World, They Become Faithful Citizens of the New. Mr. Louis R. Ehrich, an American Hebrew now in France, writes to The American Register the following reply to some uncomplimentary remarks made by that paper upon his race: ““In your issue of March 11, under the heading of ‘‘Here and There,” you published some remarks with ref. erence to the Jews against which I most earnestly protest as infinitely unjust and calculated to spread in- juricus and unfounded prejudices, To your doubt as to the advisability of colonizing Russian Hebrews in the United States, I take no exception. That is a question which time alone can solve. But when you go further and say ‘‘it is very seldom we see a Jew engaged in agriculture or iden- tifying himself in the national wel- fare o1 the country in which he is so- journing; a Jew 1n England is not an Englishman, one in America is not an American, nor does either care a jot about the welfare of the country in which he lives,” ete., I maintain that you, doubtiess through misinforma- tion, very gravely misstate the truth, Iaman American-born citizen ot Hebrew descent, and I am naturally acquainted with hundreds of Ameri- can Hebrews of all classes, collegiate- ly educated and self-made men, pro- fessional and busiuess men. On the other hand I graduated at Yale when there were only two Hebrews in the college, so that I had an abundant op- portunity of studying the temper and teelings of our Christian young men. Comparing, now, the two classes with- out favor or prejudice, I can truthful- ly affirm that among the majority of American Hebrew citizens of my ac- quaintance, there is as high an appre- ciation of the privilege and blessing of American citizenship, as fervent a love of country, as lofty a patriotism, and as great a readiness to offer sac- rifices for the genersl good, as exists among the most patriotic of New Eng- land stock. If this be 8o, the problem presents itself —how it comes that so many in- telligent men, including even liberals of the stamp of Prof. Goldwin Smith, should have such striking misconcep- tions concerning the Hebrew race. This problem has frequently engaged my attention, and I otfer the follow- ing explanation, premising that T spsak only of American Hebrews: The flest cause of misconception has arisen from imputing to the Jews of the present time ideas and feelings which were, in great part, true of their grandfathers. The Jew of even two generations back felt that he be- longed to the nation of Jews. His weekly prayer was that the temple of Jerusalem might be rebuilt, and he vaguely believed that the Jews would in reassemble as a nation in Pales- tine. This belicf is dead. The re- form ¢ongregations (vastly in the ma- jority) have erased this prayer from their prayer book. The orthodox con- gregations, who retain it, interpret it in a figurative sense as expressing a re- turn to a state of society in which all shall worship one Giod.” The prepon- derating majority of American He- brews under 50 years of age, including all who are American born, have lost all conception of a Hebraw nation. They recognize that they are descend- ants of the Hebrew race just as the earl of Beaconsfield recognized it, and just as the sons of Mayor Grace might recognizs that they are descendants of the Irish race. Nothing more. nation is the United States. They identify themselves, body and soul, with it. Before all clse the wish to be and they are faithful American citizens. A second cause of misconception has, perhaps, naturally arisen from the clannishness of the Jews, their so- cial shyness, exclusiveness and seem- ing want of ‘sympathy with their Christian neighbors. Toreproach the Jews for this fault is as grossly unjust as it would be to put out a man’s eye and then reproach him for blindness, For some eighteen hundred years the Jews were compelled to live apart, compelled to be clannish, compelled to seek sympathy and society in their own narrow circle; and now, after a few years of perfect liberty and equality, they are reproached for be- ing clannish, Why, sir, not evena quarter of a century has gone by since the *‘Jewish disabilities bill” passed in the parhament of hberal England. Baron Rothschild was returned t parliament for the city of London four different times before he was allowed to take his seat in 1838. Strange, verily, that this people should be shy and exclusive, And, forsooth, the Jews are not in the ice off the Siberian coast. He had no special qualifications for the work, but probably undertook it as much from a spirit of adventure as from any other motive. Now Sir Allen Young has ftitted out a steamer to go in search of the yachtman, The German government intends to attach architects and engineers to its legations abroad, with a view of being kept informed of the improvements and inventions which may occur in foreign countrie: Revised of the census in Frauce place the population at 57,. 221,000, or au increase of 416,000 since 187G, Nearly all this increase comes from towns having a population of 30,000 and upward. returns congratulated (ianeral Pope, whose headquarters have been transferred from the saddle to Fort Leavenworth, for the brilliant achievements of his Apache General Pope is more the trail leading to a major general- ship than in Chief Loco's wherea- bouts, oflicers in the campaign, interested in GeNenar SHERIDAN has ofiizally | farmers, Strange reproach! The Esquimaux are six feet high. Is heredity nothing? Can you confine a race in certain conditions forcenturies without expecting inevitable results! For more than seventeen centuries the nations said to the Jews: *You dare not till the soil. Be doctors, merchants, money-lenders—but you dare not be farmers.” It might be difficult, think you not, to farm land if one could get no land to farm! Only the last few generations of Jews, even in progressive England have had the right to possess land, A few de- cades cannot undo the work of centu- ries. Indeed, when I at times glance back over the history of my race and reflect how its every step has left a trail of Dblood behind it, how it has been hunted, banished, robbep, and massacred for centuries, when I real- ize that even to-day, among the en- lightened class there still exists a lingering, unfounded prejudice against Jows, 1 wonder almost that a fierce, undying hate has not been born in their hoarts, and that they do not lust for a revenge which centuries could not giut, But when, in con- trast, 1 call to mind numbers of Jew ish men of my acquaintance, men overflowing with a wide, all-embracing ohilanthropy, whose love of humanity nows no difference and no limit, whose every hope and thought is for the ennobling of the hum family, 1 feel, indecd, that they give expression Their | anew to that spirit of forgiveness, which said: ‘‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The third and principal cause of misunderstanding the Jews, and one which, to a great degree, justifies the charge of tribalism, is that they do {not intermarry with Christians. 1 confess that, in the past, Jewish parents had an aversion, almost in- | describably intense, against having their children matry out of the race. They felt that their religious ideas, habits, customs, € were so wholly different that intermarriage must mean either unhappiness for the married pair, or apostasy and conse- quent separation from the parent house. 'This feeling, in a measure, etill exists, but there is a large and growing class of Hebrews who lament it, who regret this isolation of the race, who understand the necessity and advantage of mixing with the blood of other races, and whose only objection to urging their children to iutermarry with Christians lies in the same practical consideration which would prevent a Protestant father from giving his daughter to the son of a bigoted Catholic family. Har- mony and happiness in the home cir- cle is a sacred heirloom among He- brews, which all shrink from sacri- ficing. But the day is approaching when there will exist in all races a large educated majority, who will at- tach all value to goodness and moral~ ity, ana none at all to dogmatic re- ligious profession. When that day shall have come, Hebrews will inter- marry with Christians. I, for one, helieve and sincerely hope that, with- in a few centuries, the l{ebrews, as a separate, isolated race, will have dis- uppeared from oft the face of the the earth. Let it be undewstood, Mr. Editor, that I perfectly understand the faults of the Hebrew people. We haye a large class who have enriched their bank accounts without enriching their manners and brains; who nustake dis- play for refinement, and who think that the value and enjoyment of wealth lie in the show of wealth. This class, not at all confined to Hebrews, is as irritating to educated Jews as to educated Christians. Kindly patience must be had with them. The majority give good educations to their chil- dren. We have dregs, vile dregs. What race has not! But statistics compel the admission that, of all races, we contribute the least proportional per- centage to the criminal classes of so- ciety. On the other hand as a type of the noble, liberal, edicated Hebrew, let me instance those who, with liberal Christians, have united in the forma- tion of the “‘Society for Ethical Cul- ture” in the city of New York. Iin- terpret the lessons of their elojuent leader, Prof. Felix Adler, as meaning: “God? An hepggiter? I know not what ye ave. 'l y belongs to us; and the children of men need light and help. 'T'o work, then, brothers! And when the last hungering man shall have been fed, when the last suftering man shall have been relieved, when the last benighted man shall have been educated—then, and not till then, let us take time to pry into the infinite and unknowable.” This society nurses the sick, it feeds, clothes and educates the children of the poorest without knowing, or car- ing to know, their religion or natien- ality. Tt represents the flower of American Hebrews. You must acknowledge, dear sir, that I have discussed the Hebrew suestion in_all trankness and without reserve. If my words have lsd you to believe that your remarks were hasty, and that they did an injustice to very many of your fellow country- {men, I trust that you will have the manly generosity to admit it. Gambetta Since His Fall. Comiag from the chamber the other day (writes o Paris correspondent of The New York Post) I saw M. Gam- betta on the bridge opposite the lais Bourbon, urging his portly per- son against a wind which churued the Seine into a whirlpool, and made most pedestrians clutch their hair despairingly. The great man had grown old with almost alarming rap- idity, but not since his fall. On the contrary, it is only from the moment of his departure from power that his eye has brightened and his step has grown comparatively light. His face 18 flushed and his eyes are sunken, not, as a rehable informant who was with me when he passed told me, be- cause of dissipation, but because of overwork., Never man toiled as Gambetta toiled for twelve or four- teen woeks previous to his resigna- tion. His doctor gave him the choice to die or to stop work, and before he was compelled to admit publicly thet his physical energies were lagging came the political crisin which gave him repose. e went down to the Cham- ber on the day that I saw him with the air of a man who still had an im- portant place there; and I ohserved that hats were doffed on all sides as he went along, Wicked De Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of The Lon- don Times, says that Gambotta still keeps the tri-colored cockade, which belonge to the prime minister’s equip- age, upon his coachman’s hat, which, if true, might be considered as an in- dication of great expectations. 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