To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cuina Dany News."
Sin,—The series of articles republished in your widely-read paper from the London "Morning Post," are bound to amuse some and annoy many others. Mr, Lucien
writing in the London "Spectator" Wolf, the noted Jewish publicist, of June 12 last, gave a crushing exposure of the genesis of the "Jewish Peril? and characterized the "pamphlet" by Nilus as "a clumsy Russian forgery intended to pander to the superstition of the hidden hand.'
The accusation that the Jews have a secret organization "aspire ing for the dominion of the world and the subjugation of all races" is a farrago of anti-Semitic falsehood from beginning to end. In the words of the London "Jewish Chronicle," "The whole thing is a nightmare, the figment of a disordered brain, the emanation of man fit either for a gaol or a criminal lunatic asylum." The Jews? real-ambition was, is, and will eye be to realize the dream of hi§ prophets, who foretold the time when men should gather around the altar of the One God as children around their father's table. Let me quote here the views of a modern Rabbi. in Israel "One God, one Brotherhood, one €nd and aim in vi to elevate mankind—these ave not yet properly understood, When they are, we shall be done. As the ambassadors of an idea, we shaly delivered on portfolios' to the nal of the earth, and we may go out of ex tence, Our mission will be over; but until then yield not; remain, if pos. sible, active, if not possible, silent, witnesses of the Lord. And, as in the past, Judaisn gave rise to the creeds that' have blessed men so greatly, so in the future, on the eternal principles of Judaism there will be constracted an all-embracing metaphysical system, the religion of the future, when the one God and one Brotherhood shall have brought about the one aim, the complete elevation of man,"
It is thus palpably evident that the series of articles to which you throughout the world. I believe it was Edmund Burke who said, "You canna; indite a whole people." And even if this were possible, it is in poor taste and very ungracious of anyone ty try to crush the manhood of a nation when the basis of its civilization is to be found in the Mosaic Ten Commandments and the Nine Beatitudes of Rabbi Jesus.
The old Latins had a saying that "of the dead one should say only what is good," which saying, judging from what we see and hear, might often be interpreted as meaning, "Of the living one should say only what is bad." Perhaps if. the Jew were dead, there would be no end of eulogies of him. His chief offence apparently, in the eyes of his detractors, is deathlessness.
I am, ete., N. BL B. Ezra. Shanghai, Sept. 5.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.