The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1893-12-08

Our livery young contemporary, HE
JEWISH SOUTH, is very much exercised over
the small army of Jewish tramps commonly
called "schnorrers," who are, as rule, to be
found only in the larger cities of this country.
we believe with our contemporary that this
evil OF the peripatetic railroad tramp is on the
increase, but bless you how are you going to
stop IL when 1t has grown to such pitch that
the majority of our co-religionst have come to
look upon it as FIXTURE or in measure. az a
necessary evil, and is especially true Of our
own Salt City, whose generous open handed
Yenudlm would feel as If there was something
gone wrong if the long visaged faces of any
where from dozen to fifty of. those indi-
viduals with their tales of woe running like q
creased clock work-the result of continuous
recltals-did not appear weekly, but you can
not deny the right of individuals to make q
collection on Monday for Yohanan and Sch
muel, on Tuesday for Reb Itzel on Wednes-
day for Reb Soandso, or some one without that
tltle though that were rather q hard thing to
lind, inasmuch as our working Jews are like
the majority of Southern gentlemen who are
blessed with title of Captain, Colonel or
Major, the only difference being that one is
the title militant, the other religious But
frankly speaking, if any number of our CO
religionists, who firmly believe they are re-
lleving the wants of distressed beings, wish to
do so, why not allow them to continue 80 do
ing, instead of taking concerted action to de-
prlve them Of that pleasure. And yet there is
an easy solution to the problem of bestowing
indiscriminate charity by simply referring
each individual case to some organized charit-
able society"
Our views concerning the outrages at Frank
lin, st. Mary Parish, Louisiana, are in full
agreement with those expressed by our able
- -
ter. To expel from village or town num-
Der, small or great, of class of people, belong
l to one race and creed, because they use
some illegitimate or irregular methods of bust
ness, is the Russian, but not the American
method OF government and means of redress.
There are in this country thousands of persons,
non lsraelites, who manage all kinds Of fakes,
holding mock auctions, selling nostrums, etc
there are contractors who cheat laborers, white
and black, in the payment, or rather non-pay-
ment, OF their wages-we even now of reput-
able and first-class merchants who sell lead
era :, below cost price to tempt and attract buy
ers, but who has ever heard that the whole
community arose against q number of such
faklrs, mock auctiOneers, irresponsible cOntrac-
tors and "below cost" selling merchants to
drive them in body from the town?
II some man or woman feels aggIieved at
an action taken. he or she may have such
party sued or arrested and exposed to the con
tempt of the public and as warning to pur-
chasers-but why just in the case of Jews an
exceptionally severe and entirely lawless course
should be pursued we fail to understand and
hereby most emphatically denounce. Let the
evil doors be exposed by legitimate ways; let
the individual Jew who commits wrong be
despised, but do not pollute the American roll
by Russian barbarism and ipjustice. -Jecish
Spectator.