All my sympathies are on the side of those who toil--of those who produce the real wealth of the world--of those who carry the burdens of mankind. Any man who wishes to force his brother to work--to toil--more than eight hours a day is not a civilized man. My hope for the workingman has its foundation in the fact that he is growing more and more intelligent. I have also the same hope for the capitalist. The time must come when the capitalist will clearly and plainly see that his interests are identical with those of the laboring man. He will finally become intelligent enough to know that his prosperity depends on the prosperity of those who labor. When both become intelligent the matter will be settled. Neither labor nor capital should resort to force.--The Morning Journal, April 27, 1890. THE JEWS. WHEN I was a child, I was taught that the Jews were an exceedingly hard-hearted and cruel people, and that they were so destitute of the finer feelings that they had a little while before that time crucified the only perfect man who had appeared upon the earth; that this perfect man was also perfect God, and that the Jews had really stained their hands with the blood of the Infinite. When I got somewhat older, I found that nearly all people had been guilty of substantially the same crime--that is, that they had destroyed the progressive and the thoughtful; that religionists had in all ages been cruel; that the chief priests of all people had incited the mob, to the end that heretics--that is to say, philosophers--that is to say, men who knew that the chief priests were hypocrites--might be destroyed. I also found that Christians had committed more of these crimes than all other religionists put together. I also became acquainted with a large number of Jewish people, and I found them like other people, except that, as a rule, they were more industrious, more temperate, had fewer vagrants among them, no beggars, very few criminals; and in addition to all this, I found that they were intelligent, kind to their wives and children, and that, as a rule, they kept their contracts and paid their debts. The prejudice was created almost entirely by religious, or rather irreligious, instruction. All children in Christian countries are taught that all the Jews are to be eternally damned who die in the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; that it is not enough to believe in the inspiration of the Old Testament--not enough to obey the Ten Commandments--not enough to believe the miracles performed in the days of the prophets, but that every Jew must accept the New Testament and must be a believer in Christianity--that is to say, he must be regenerated--or he will simply be eternal kindling wood.