hand and masterful leadership and at the same time with a
justice and a generosity that made him at once feared, respected
and loved.''

After General Grant's tour around the world, he told Senator
Stewart that the most astonishing thing which he had seen was
that wherever the Chinese had come into competition with the
Jew, the Chinese had driven out the Jew. We know the
persistence of the Jew, that he has held his own against every
other people. Despite the fact that he has no home and no
Government, that he has been ridiculed and persecuted by all
men, that everywhere he is an alien in race, country and
religion, he has laboured on, patiently, resolutely, distancing
every rival, surmounting every obstacle, compelling even his
enemies to acknowledge his shrewdness and his determination
till to-day in Russia, in Austria, in Germany, in England, the
Jew is bitterly conceded to be master in the editorial chair, at
the bar, in the universities, in the counting-house and in the
banking office; while the proudest of monarchs will undertake
no enterprise requiring large expenditure until he is assured of
the support of the keen-eyed, swarthy-visaged men who control
the sinews of war. Generations of exclusion from agriculture
and the mechanical arts and of devotion to commerce, have
developed and inbred in the Jew a marvellous facility for trade.

And yet this race, which has so abundantly demonstrated its
ability to cope with the Greek, the Slav and the Teuton, finds
itself outreached in cunning, outworn in persistence and over-
matched in strength by an olive-complexioned, almond-eyed
fellow with felt shoes, baggy trousers, loose tunic, round cap