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262 ROAMIN' IN THE GLOAMIN'
much did it represent? I can hear some of you ask. I'd hate to tell you. But I ear-marked it for a new Rolls Royce on my return home! Mind you, I had no compunction about charging the Jews in Johannesburg for the privilege of hearing me because the Jews like to give money to Scotsmen. And I should think that two-thirds of the inhabitants of the city are of the ancient faith. I met many of them and they were all very kind to me. At the hotel where I was living a well-known member of the race kept me in fits of laughter telling me stories against his own people.
"I suppose, Sir Harry," he said to me one afternoon after lunch, 'you think that the gold industry is the chief business in Jo'burg? Veil, you're wrong. It's bankruptcy! There are more people go bankrupt out here than in any other city in the world. The trade in bankruptcy is very flourishing. Did you ever hear the story about the two Jews in Jo'burg who were drawing up articles of partnership before their lawyer? No! Veil, the lawyer goes all over the articles before the final signing and suddenly says, 'But there are no mentions of fire or bankruptcy — I have made a mistake, these must go in !' 'Quite right,' says the partners speaking at once. Tut them in but the profits are equal in both cases !' "
Some years ago, I believe, a League of Gentiles was formed in Johannesburg with the avowed object of curtailing the powers and the prominence of the Jews. So far as I was able to judge this league had not made any substantial progress up till the time of my visit. New York and Jo'burg seem to me to be the Jerusalems of the modern world. I don't know what we Scots are going to do about it, speaking generally, that is. But I have certainly done my duty in both places by taking pretty substantial toll from the Israelites within their borders !
One of the greatest compliments I have ever received