To the Editor of the "Nowta-CniNa Day News"
Sin,—"There is nothing new under the sun," was. said by" ancient Jewish seer. The agitation in. England we stir up a wave of anti-Semitism reported in your today's issue by Transocean Service, may or may not result in a flare up, But it is well to note the trend of mind of the army of workless. who. Would do anything. and everything, every day in every way. The, struggle for existence is becoming harder and men go! crazy for crumbs of bread! to "sustain themselves and' their families, Seapegoats must be found to excite the imagination and ap-Peal to the lowest. instincts of the mob, There is nothing stronger than human prejudice and the easiest and safest way to remedy discontent and dissatisfaction is to strike at the dew by painting him in the darkest hue and dispossessing him of his Tights and savings and privileges.
There is nothing new under the sun," is worth stressing because] the Cendeney to-day in certain quarters is to go back to the Dark Ages, revive auto da fe and the Inlaw and ord It. is reported that this illegitimate propaganda is well financed from certain quarters and is working! slowly but surely ta. inveigle eivilised countries under its rip.
An appeal to the British Government for measures to stem the tide of anti-Semitic incitement in Eng-h is assuming a danous character, was made by the don Jewish Tengthy editorial in its issue of De-comber 22, Tt stresses the danger of} allowing "printed slanders to. be distributed freely in England' and to reach ignorant and ill-balanced individual The story detailed by the Trans gan. your to-day' issue, shows that the Campaign is striking. root {in some part of England, and men and women are lead to believe that} the Jew is at the bottom of all trouble from which the earth is grouning as if beneath a heavy) cloud. "Anti-Semitism on British gait" is the dream of the power that secking to revive the. Medieval Age and no money and no forts will be spared to drag England into the precipice, But will England inten to the voice of the Dark Age: and tolerate feudalism and anarchism? The very idea absurd, but still there 3 no. knowing what the power of unrestrained proj propaganda may do, We can no longer, afford to take "Fear of Jewish domination" is. alt convenient slogan which fits in with Yho present. distress into which the whole world hax been thrown. The campaign of hatred and slang der is being intensified and " the minds of the rank and file are poisoned with the new dispensation, Dace Dr. Stephen 8. Wive, 1
endure the God of Israel but not the Israel of God." Ovid said, "Every one. who rian whom he fears would perish." That is the essence of modern anti-Semitism. The way to capture -adherents.to its cause is to glorify ignorance, magnify human sufferings "and fill the eyes with dust. Prejudice is never easy unless it} can pass itself off for reason.
The men who stand behind the anti-Semitic plank in England certainly do, not represent the voice of the British nation. Perhaps we have given them unmerited atten-Hon and advertisement. T am reminded of a passage in Burke which aptly describes the present sate folly to strike a blow at Eng-lond's prestige as a world Powe "upecause half a dozen, grasshopper under a fern, make the eld ring with heir importunate chink, whist neath: the shadow ofthe British on Wousands "of great cuttle, repes
have the, cud' and ae slent pray hot imagine that those who 4 holee are the only Inbal Held; thay, of zon, titans of the numbers or that a imengre, hopping, thou troublesome, trisects of the hour." The British Bmpire was not built by the small "insects of the hour." Those who had built have digged its foundation deeper so that. the tooth of time will not be able to gawa and which the arrows of out destroy, wraieea Fageous fortune will not be able to
Shanghai, Feb, 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.