The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-08
POSSIBLY JEWISH GORDONS.
TWO VIEW sUesEsT1oSs a. TO IHErR
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To THE EprroR or TEE suS-Sir: At length.
| TO an accom- pa mi msnt Of seversst Johnsoness
lever the fsvorite language Of the college stu
| dent or older sciolist. Who with the friendly
aid OF websters Unabridged and perhnps. =
Rogets "Thessurus." seeks to pose AZ the
| learned scholarl our friend Gordon has let ny
. Psrthisn shat He has now. ss he phrases
H. withdrawn into rstirsmenti ssy. rather
| has returned to his native obscufity-has sunk
| down now into the sub-cellar Of oblivion. He
has FIRST feathered his weapon with all the
| honeysd phrases and compliments he could
command, aud then has tipped II ss did. per-
haps. his archer OF olden times. with the dead
Hest venom. Both alike are powerlsss to
injure. for both combined fail to carry II
to its mark. We want neither his oompll-
ments. nor do We fear his reproachea Tirneo
Ddnaos Fl dond Jtrentost Let Gordon not now
attempt TO pose as the friend Of the Jews.
| who. but yesterday. he could not csnsure In
| terms bitter enough to suit his purposss- He
should be consistent above all things.
Gordon defes us to show where he ever con-
demned the race ss q race. or the religion as
religion. But yesterday he could believe that
| Il was q sufficient proof Of Lord Gordon's In
| sanity that he became jew. To-day he doffs
| his hat in pious reverence But yesterday We
were spirilloid race neurotic, rschitio To-
day he rants Of poor Israel. and the tear
| stained. wailinR wall OF Zion. But Yesterday
the noblest OF disinterestsj philantbro-
pists Of our times. Baron Hirsch. was con-
tsmptuously derided By him as Baron Goat
creditor OF the Prince OF Wales. To-day the
name OF Monte6ore sounds In his ears like the
diapason OF an organ. BAIL II 10 disgusting.
The truth OF the matter 10 that Gordon, like
most half-baked philosophers. has stirred
more than no can quiet has embraced more
than he can hold. or. in homely phrase. has
bitten OF more than he can chew. Unlike his
bibulous oompatriots. he departs from ances-
trail tradition and begins to take water. He
has divided the Jews into two classes. the
philanthropists and the Anarchists. He 10
willing. aim ost, to embrace the former half.
He 10 therefore. by his own showing. In spirit
half Jew and hence By his own ratiocin alton.
half insane. No. friend Gordon. We are not all
either mllliona irs philanthropists or contempt
ible Anarchists
You hold up as . horrible example the as
sassination OF . Gar By Jew. In the irst
place. II you will read the pages OF history.
learned scholar that you are. you will Doubt
less find that not Jews alone were Nihilists
and Anarchists in Russia. The aureola. OF
wisdom that encirclss your throbbinR brain
even as q halo may gather CLEAN OF sddi-
tional brightness In the added knowledge that
non-Jewish Booth once assassinated q
blessed Lincoln. an uncircumcised Guiteau
once shot down . noble Garfield like q dog.
You give us Emma Goldman and Berkman.
answer you with Ravachol. with Valiant with
Herr Most. with Justus Schwab. with
Rosa, with Parsons. with Lingg. with
Neebe with Fielding. with all their other
anarchists crew. not to exclude the
Mans. who travel In class all By
themselves. Let not Gordon make compar-
isona He may ind them odious. after all
Bstterisr that he should retreat-sven IL whom
so doing he adopts the method OF the savory
animal known to naturAlists as the Aephils |
Chtnod. Besides. comparisons are foreign to |
the purpose. which was to ascertain without |
personalities. the origin Of the name Gordon |
I have this theory on that subject which |
would advance without. however. insisting |
word scr. IN Hebrew. signifies soioafninr. as
may be found from the twenty FIRST chapter OF |
stranger The word don s ~as b o9os
By many Of the noted Spanish jews Of the mid
81 ~ ana
be ssd r9% any G,s rn As5 hs
well be that some Of them reached Russia. and
In place Of Don. would be styled Gordon.
would thus become Cor Don Abarbansl. or.
trapsposing the .diectives, after the manner
Assi ssss ! { Sstd0n PEACE
To THE EDITOR OF TIE srN-Sir: After the
liberal mud finging and persistent digres-
TEEN M 9ds6sd fSS Sasss oi Tsiss
two later letters. propose to lead tho war
81 t.
snd ps
e to of,sr evidence that Jews come rightly and
1852 The y:S''S roais s l q fSna sS Ii:
ss asbsW ros judah fosS Gosdo.
parer commented upon the singulArity OF q
usually denotes one Of Scotch family or de-
scent Its remarks elected two letters In the
number in question. extracts from which fol-
10 reply e the n.r.gI.Ps. 1aas. II: beading Of
..psSsi Of year reader. SaySs .Ipr.s.sd .upr:. nae
S..,sn gS'S should bear 40 very seo,Sh name 4.
myself am q native Of The same d.sposc .mpiP. az
ssi SS: AtsPs SS,. o
!. asS1 aas . r q 20 aSa.
=; s;.s s !;
the poet ooruon oeaonseo TO Tue same FANNY
From the second letter I extract the fol-
lowing:
sst:.,ss 90 III: not: S lac. %:sh: i.'P: .a., say:
should bear very Scotch name as cetaoS p:9ssS:
you will Auw me 70 give description OF ho family
In Neustadtsugind Russia. came by the sans nsmsi |
About thirty years there lived very respected
and wsLlssTnsd man IN ssustAdt, whose surn
Gordon. He vas fond OF explaining how bis name
came TO D. qordon H.. grandfather lived in G.Idumt.
ed Gordon. |
Lots Of surnAmss we're taken Incidentally or com.
p1AOTily by Law, 81 the Jews only Known
a. A. the OF b. and recruiting time the hoTi-
ties lOsa 60 rho who AukAIS WAs |
sent out that the Jews must take surnAmsG HE |
father being OF the representatives. IAid TO the
GoVsTnment OhheiAli where TO get the names |
from - II Will name you. Who're do come from -
= GArdums" vas the reply, We'll let year name be
Gordon"
There is no reason why this spontaneously
given Information should no: be taken as au-
thsntic. especially As many Russians know
q can testify similarly NJ: Gordon may be
sHInamss. but he must see that there 10 no
II he will acknowledge himself mistaken In the
ohArgs with which he started out there Is hone |
lhaN h u.fN ralaa ms |