Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-29
THE HEBREWS AND THE CRU
SADEBS.

The minister of the Hebrew congregu-
ton. at Williamsport, having been i'm
portuned to lend his aid to the female
crusade against whiskey, replied as fol-
lows:
The undersigned. having received a
letter from the Women's Temperance
Organization, of Williamsport, request
ing him 70 appoint committee of six
Hebrew ladies to cooperate with them
in their noble work, bess leave to in
form the above named organization in
the same way as one of our leading
papers III the West answered the same
request.
our Christian neighbors, that the He
brews are not fanaticized with the wo-
mans temperance crusade. 1t is diff
cult task to fanaticize the sober, earnest.
thoughtful. practical and considerate
Israelite. No Jewish lady will go out
on a public demonstration. She would
consider it violation of chastity. pro-
pristy anu duty TO desert her household
duties, to neglect her family and to
abandon her feelings Of propriety so far
as to run to the public meetings twice a
day, parade the streets and make a pub
lie show of herself She would consider
herself disgraced in Welding her better
nature 20 sway of unlimited passion
and savage fanaticism. But aside from
all this, the Jew cannot appreciate these
crusaders, because he drinks and is no
drunkard, he plays and is no gambler,
and he lives we'll and is no glutton; be-
cause his mind is well balanced. He
knows where to stop. His mind is in
dependent. because he is not brought up
to say amen" to the priests dicta. He
thinks, and thinking. always from his
childhood, his intelligence is vigorous
enough to perform its proper functions.
To believe without appeal to intelligence
is to deaden the latter by perpetual rest.
Therefore, firm believers are weak reas-
oners. People brought up with faith are
not under the proper control of intelli-
gencs, and will either run into unbridled
passions or ungoverned fanaticism. The
Jew goes to no extremes, as a rule.
Besides, the Jew is no hypocrite, GER
tainly not in its family. If he drinks
wine or strong drink, or plays game of
cards, his wife and his children are not
excluded from the same pleasure. What
ever is not prohibited loses much of its
charm. Those young people who drink
of wine and beer at their parents table
become no drunkards and no temper
ance fanatics. Hypocrisy makes a crime
of that which is actually done, and is
not to be done: therefore, the young like
to drink steal;hily, and drink passion
ately.
But aside of all this, any Jewish lady
would consider it sacrilege and bias
phemy to abuse prayer and benediction
for purposes of public demonstration, in
which the wires are laid and drawn by
politicians on one hand, and by men
who make money out of the affair on the
other. No daughter of Israel will take
the name of the Lord God in vain. To
drag about in the mud of the street the
hottest of human feelings, is far from the
hearts of the daughters of Sarah, Re
becca, Rachel and Leah. Miriam shout.
and sings when liberty triumphs; De-
borah rises when the country is in dam
GER; but there were no whisky AmaZons
in the tents of Israel. Therefore, our
daughters cannot be misled into this
piece of business. S. PRUDENTIAL,
Minister of the Hebrew Congregation,
Beth Hashalom.
In the EorSe of REPRESENTATIVES on