The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-10
A JUST REBUKE.
A Defamer of the Jews Called to
Account.
From the Chicago Evening Post.


From the Chicago Evening Post.
Ed L. Huntley, a travelling man COM
monty known as Diamond Ed ~ and who
who has attained considerable notoriety re-
Gently from an alleged robbery of his dia-
monds in the far west, has been sending out
postal cards containing scurrilous attack
on the Jews. These cards have been mailed
TO Huutley'S customers in the clothing trade
and also to many well-known Chicago citi-
zens. Among those sent out was one to
Rev. Sam Small, who has been stopping at
the Sherman house. Mr.. Small resents the
attack on the Hebrews in the following let
ter, which he sent TO Huntley;
CHICAGO, April is.
Ed L. Huntley, Chicago. H.!
DEAR SRI have Just received from you
postal card addressed to myself with certain
letters "a. j. S. S. appended to my name, the
meaning Of which letters l cannot Imagine. |
suppose there is a joke of some occult sort,
characteristic of yourself, involved in the cab
alistlc superScription, As am not In the cheap
clothing business do not understand why you
should send me such a card with an address
that is unbecoming. for humoly consider my
self entitled to the ordinary respect which
obtains among gentlemen. II, however,
as seems probable, you thought your method
of advertising your business by slurring the
appearance and enterprise of the jew would
AFFORD me qualification because ] am a Christian
minister you are immeaSurably mistaken. I beg
to say to you that nothing is more offensive to
my sense OF manhood. decency and religious
duty than the too common practice among
some Christians, and many who think they are
CHRISTIANS, because they are not Jews of cast
ing contempt upon and using opprobrious
terms toward our fellow citizens who are Israel
ties.
In nationality many of them are as truly
Americans as any of the descendants of the
Maydower adventurers or the cavalier settlers
OF the South Atlantic coast. In religion they
are, when they are religious, adherents of the
fundamental faith of all those in the world that
truly believe in the one God. AS citizens OF the
United States they have proved for more than
"a century among the most law-abidIng, patr,
QUO, thrifty and socially pure of our composte
population. In commerce they may excite envy
and Jealousy, but if we only ran our
courts and penal institutions in the United
states for the trial and punish
ment OF Jews those institutions would speedily
oecome the minor rather than the major
machlnerles of our judicial and social order. |
thank God that it is not the part of true
Christanity,to emphasize prejudice against and
inaugurate prosecutions of the Jews. but it is
rather TO break down the middle wall of parti .
ton between Jew and Gentle. and finally bring
both to the one Baptism, one faith and one
Lord. AS an humble minister of that Chris
tIanity stand always to share the blessings of
the age the country and the constitution with
the jews. and to parade with them in the bat
tie against silly. traditional preiudices and all
other forms CT petty and unchristian ostrac;sm.
10 say the least OF il, in the United States Of
America, however. it may be in Russia or else
where, 1t is unpatriotic. unjust and almost I'M
pardonable to drag these gangrened methods OF
speech, influence and competition into the arena
OF business life. If you cannot compete with
the lew without such aid then do not curse
him, but go into some other business wherein
you will not encounter his vigilance. diligence
and enterprise At any rate, suchsa change of
business might free you from the necessity Of
mailing abroad these uhgenteel and un-Ameri-
can postal cards and of being robbed of your
diamonds in such manner as to obtain q wide
spread advertisement. Yours truly.
SAM w SNAIL