The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-27
THR BUILDING
RUSSIAN JEWS AND CHOLERA.
Rev. Dir. Caiisch Takes Exceptions to q
Statement Of DIR. Mcclure.

Rev. BIZ CaNsch Takes Exceptions TO a
Statement Of DIR. Mcclure.
Edtog Of The Times:
II was with considerable pain that /
read in the article Oh the cholera by DR..
Hunter Mcclure. i'm The Times Of the
10Th instant. the statements that doubt
less The Russian Jews first brought the
germs 10 Hamburg. and that these
jews are now sWalnIug 10 America, and
Will ncxt year probably carry the disease
70 u.s.
l was panied that so scholarly a gen
tloman should in the first place. be 80
r-asflv mistaken. and that, secondly. lac
sbolilL by the prestige Of his scholarship
and authority. give SO wide hearing 10
So unkind and dangerous AN error.
III has been cOuclvsivcly and cOnYlnc-
isiv proven that tine Russian Jews did
uot bring the cholera 10 Hamburg. Mr.
Harold Frederic. the European CORE
spondeut of the New York Times. has
shown beyond the shadow Of a doubt
that the cholera was brought Is KAN
burg in cargocs from BatOum. II ls
further a significant fact that the Jews
OF Russia. while not enjoying complete
exemption from the disease, have had a
Hrec immunity from it, raVageS, IN the
first place. and, secondly, from death,
cfcu AFTER il had been contracted. And
further still those enigrant cXlles from
Russia. though peELed IN barracks like
cattle and subjected 10 every KIND OF
iuhuman treatment, yet, even men, were
les, sufferers from the sconrge than the
free citizens OF Hamburg itself.
lt is the old. old story that the Jews
Lave hccn the srapegOat % the sins OF
tine world From the time when the
"bldc, death rayag"d ali Europe dur
iug the Fourteenth cent1ry. when Inc
jew. were bounded and butchered he
cause ther had, according to the popular
idea. poisoned the wells, through every
epidemic and plague that has swept over
the world since. il has been always the
Jew,-thc Jews. And for always thn
samc reason the Jews. as Il RUE, have
ever been the least sufferers from the DIS
enscs. And now. long past high noon ot
this nineteenth century, gentleman OF
the standing and scholarship of Or. Hun-
ter Mcclure says again the Jews. IL
is as untrue as ii ever was, ana as cruel
a. Sc is untrue.
Even if they were the innocent and UNI
willing media of the transmission of the
cAolcra ! might almost be tempted 10 say
that il is but just and poetic retrbuuon
upon the nations of the world for their
selfish silence during the period OF Rus
STA s. barbarOuS atrocities. NO sense al
humanity. and. l might add, not all the
Christianity of the world. moved a sin
gle power 10 interference in behalf of
the human beings 50 inhumanly treated.
because the tormcntOrs were processing
Christians of the strictest orthodox type
aud the unhappy victims We're nothing
but Jews. Now that Russia = conduct
threatens their own safety the powers
first begin 20 learn of the cruelty and
move about 10 save themselves.
That here in free aud enlightened
America The voice of the proletarian rab-
bic might be raised in the old refrain Of
plaved-out centuries might perhaps be
awaited. but that a gentleman standing
% high in the ranks of the most behen-
cent IF professions and through 50 wide
& reaching medium az The Times should
echo il excites surprise not unmngled
with grief. and ! earnestly trust Dr.
Mcclure may have seen his error.
Respectfully,
Epw,rD n. CNIscH.
Rabbi Conservation Beth Ahaba.