Mr. Wessolowsky does not refer to
this fact il a spirit of comnpllaint, but
to show, as lie says, that the Jew has
aw instinctive dislike to share the
public charity himself or to permit
the widow, the orphan or the decrepit
of his race to do so. Consequently,
while the Jew is a liberalI contributor
to the govei inent, he is unuuestiou
ably a cheap citizen. The same
argument applies to aRl other States
in the Union with equal force. In the
matter of the criminal record the lec
turer showed that in twenty-two
States there were but fourteen Jew
ish criminals, where, if the ratio of
crime was the same among the Jews
as among other peqple, the number
would have been several IRhundreds.
Froim the Jew Rs it citizen lie
passed on to the second branch of the
subject, which alluded to the Jew as
a " politician." Out of tour hRndred
thousand Jews in the United States
he knew of but five who held posi
tionms of ally particular note. Why
was this? Not because the Jew was
excluded from the benefits of his citi
zenship in that respect, for this great
Democratic country excluded no citi
zen of capacity and integrity. But
tihe cause was, the Jew could do -bet
ter outside of political preferment.
They are essentially a commercial
people, and while they always ever
iise their right of citisenship at the
ballot-box, very few of them eare to
seek political preferment.
Our Letter from Europe.
The Paris Exposition.
IV.
I left off my description last week
with the Prince of Wales' collection.
