The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-28
TIE RABBI SCHULZ 1EIAL-AboUT
REPORTING THE SAME

II WAS with extreme reluctance that we
finally concluded to publish the proceed
ina in the RABBI SCHULZ investigation
now being had before the executive
board of the Jewish congregation II
ia a matter that perhaps, seems to the very
critically disposed as fitted for rather class
Of Journals that exclusively devote their
columns TO the scandalous in the social
snhere than for general newspaper that
finds its way into so many family circles
Bot the case is one tf such prominence on
account OF the high official position heiu IN
the religious world Dy the defendant
in the prosecution, and because OF
the unauestioned character of the prose.
cutors that it becomes OF widest interest
aud deepest significance. 1t is somewhat
akin in this regard to the celebrated
BggcHER.Turor suit, the full details OF
which, during the trial, were daily flashed
on tie wires of the world and filed columns
of the daily press-save that all the parties
implicated had been of the greatest re-
spectability. 1t might be urged that much
of the disgusting minute in the pending
case might have been omitted from the re-
port. but experience not familiar to such
critics, determined us to take no such lib
critics, if any publication at all should be
made, in order that neither side might
complain of any perversion, Partially or
variance on such sensitive and serious SUD-
iect, We therefore concluded to give what
ever might be ELECTED in this church
council, feeling that if the ears OF the
religious could receive the same the
secular might also bear it. Besides THIS
view, another patent argument appeareo'
va: The news was wired all over u g
c,untry substantially AS now REPRODUCED
BY the HERALD, and no suppression oy us
could eventually have kept it from our
readers. Indeed, the matter had become
town talk, and the tongue was busy al
through the air with what the types nave
merely transferred to paper And, alter
all, it is questionable whether the facts
with the lessons they teach, had not better
be known as now served to the public, that
Justice may be done all parties as against,
wild exaggerations. wrongful prevarications'
ETC., etc. We all have to come IN hourly
momentary contact in some manner
with the wickedness of the world, all OF US,
the Young and the old, and 1t Is not
the mere view of vice that hurts or cor
rupts the correctly taught heart. VINO
ressons 30 proceeds from the wrong pre-
mise. 1t is the part of sound sense TO con-
csde the existence, even the extent OF vice.
and of correct sentiment to discountenance
and condemn it. We had best be frank
and honest with our children, and they a.
we'll be directly advised, first as well as in
directly learn at last that there is moral
evil iust as well as there is physical pain,
IN the world, and permeating all through
il and of contagious character, too. They
will learn this somehow and at some time,
however vigilant guardian may be to
avoid il, Just as surely as they will learn
from their geography that there are physi
cal diversities on this globe the
rough and the smooth, that there
are plants and minerals OF the
most poisonous nature, as we'll as some o.
the m st healing medical virtues. We de
oeiye our children from, and even about
their birth, with many other kinds of fairy
tale, about Santa Claus, and all manner
Of similar things, while we strive to teach
them truth and honesty in certain other
directions. Our social arrangements seem
sometimes sadly out of joint, and some
things seem radically wrong, for while we
desire and solicit the full confidence OF our
children and their scrupulous fidelity, we
fortbwith set about alternating their conhd-
ing dispositions by receptions which they
will subsequently discern. and by our re.
buffs and reproofs, when they would and
should freely speak with us on all-impor'
tant matters, we insist on foolishly keeping
yelled. And this begets deception
nm their part toward ourselves
We do not say that society is quite ripe foi
such change, and we are free to admit thai
precipitations or violent transformation
are most frequently damaging and danger
ous and costly In many ways Therefore
IL becomes a nice question how far a daily
journal ought to verge toward the police
style of news service on prominent subjects
such az the one now under review. Inc
t,utb is newspaper reporters ought to be
allowed 10 be present at all such trials, and
then they may be able to shape and frame
language in such reading as will not be toe
e,aring, without loss as to the meaning
Rut 80 long as they be excluded they mus
either get what they do, as best they can
or take directly and literally from the pro
oeedings as recorded.