in America.
Thus far Sidonia is described from the outside. But now he begins to speak for himself, and it is in behalf and praise of the Jews. He is discussing the discrimination practiced against his people in England.- DISRAELI-BRITISH PREMIER, PORTRAYS JEWS 193 It is the old story. Everywhere, even in the United States, the same story. Crying for pity while usurp¬ ing power! “We poor Jews” wails a New York multi-millionaire at whose finger legislatures quail and even Presidents of the United States grow respectful.
The following quotation was written in 1844: Britons must be impressed with its uncanny parallel to their affairs today: it is Sidonia speaking— “ * * * yet, since your society has become agi¬ tated in England, and powerful combinations menace your institutions, you find the once loyal Hebrew in¬ variably arrayed in the same ranks as the leveller and latitudinarian, apd prepared to support the policy which may even endanger his life and property, rather than tamely continue under a system which seeks to de¬ grade him.”