Evening journal., 1896-06-11
LETTERS From 1Hs PEOPLE.
National Health OF the Jews.


The modern Frerchmsn cjsims decent
from the valiant Franks, the epsnisrds
from the Kelmus Go'hs ard the Eogllsh-
man from the three siroogest nations o.
the North--the s-xons, the Danes and
the N,rmaps. a noble pedigree In any
case. Ths Jew, on the contrary. 10 the
direct defcerdaDt of tribe Of diseais I'd
slaves. ground down and degraded both
In body al In spirit by four crniur es +
brutal lasery iU he brick fields OF an
Client Egypt When Moses led the chill
dren Of Israel out Of Egypt he bad u e
The most extraordinary Of all social pro
bl.ms 10 solve. and one that no modern
so dier or statesman would ever think Of
attempting.
"Out Of great mass OF corrupt and
graded and cowaTdly humR iLy to Great,
an undying people, who could I've and
flourish IN any climate, ard With any
form OF civilization; pc pie bat DO dis
sater la war or prosecu 10 l., no matter boS
ftarfnl could destroy or even permanently
iDjure; and above all people Who ccnd
become the spiritual peopls aud ON
wbomIwould spring all ihs trsa at spir u.l
teachers Of humanity; "a pee PIE who ,afer
thirty centuries Of existence, are siill The
heslthiest and most energetic PEOPLE In
ihe world, and who seem gif &c with a
strange dover Of rerpe uJ' health ard
vigor
"Tbe Jews we're slaves ii Egyp'. Nine
vsh and Babylon; the jew still lives, bnt
where are the dsfcsLdsnts of his OLD
mAstert2 The Jew lived aId Il Nrist ed
through the whole period OF fhs Pc Sian.
the Hellenic and r man civil izision and
watc he'd them ops by oHs expire Toe
Jew lived through the who'll ricd Of
civilization in Spkin, al d through the
whole OF the Byzantine Epoire. AID
witnessed the destruction OF b1tb aud
endured the long misery aud psrseiution
Of the Middle Ages, sDd Is at this M
ment as fresh aud vigorous as when he
emerged from the desert to cong lsr
Canaan.
"Tn' method by which Moses so'vsd
this wondsrful problem OF restoring tbe
national health OF a diseased, degraded
and n lsersbls people. as SHOWN by my
paper contributed TO the Sanitary be
cord, Is mAsterful IN It's very simplicity
and consisted In compelling tuose pso
PIE 20 live for forty years In conformity
10 the highest fAnitary laws. And the
general scope OF those laws We will
briefly deserbs. making ali necessary
allowances for difference in the names
and classification OF diseases The entire
people we're removed from the contsml
nation OF civilization and the impure life
OF cities to the solltudes of the desert
and tho pure brscing air of The noun
tains ln the camp OF Moses cleanliness
Of every kind WAS vigorously enforced
aud carried out Ia q manner impossible
In modern times. Food aud dtink we're
under careful inspection and nothing
impure, unWholesome. or In eny way
liable to cause dIsesse was allowed to be
used Every Gaze OF epidemic disease
vas Isolated, house purified. infected bed
ding burned and every person la contact
with the disease Was Isolated until cleans
ed and purified I 4 the treatment OF such
diseases Moses In many respects aptici
pated modern BEnitary sciences by about
thirty centuries Prostitution and I'll les
attendant diseases which destroys hu
manity WAS abolished In toto; no dsu
ghter Of IIrael was silo Wsd t) fjliow
such a bu mess under the penalty OF
death Aud. stranger stiil, nearly Il the
dissased, the sypbilitic. the scrof ulous
epilepiic, and other sufferers from the
dissafes OF civilization wire isolated be
yobd the csmp eud for any heal.hy per
son to 80 near them or to touch them
was to become uDclean and be separated
until cleansed aud purified.
Under such regulations, vigorously
enforced, the national health WAS found
TO rise year after year, aud at the end OF
forty year new race appeared. rs
stioug. IS hsrdy ard If reliant as their
pre- decessors were diseased, degraded
and cowsrdly In plsin laDgusee the
high standard OF natural health pos
seesed by the jewish race 10 q climates,
and through every form Of civilization,
Is altogether owing TO the sanitary code,
both ply ysicsl and moral. given to them
By NJ oses. aud which they have generally
acted up to-and every tins. as history
sho rs, that they have abandonei their
Law aud inltAtsd the clvlliz I'D people
eEouLd them, their national health
esssned sui some great disaster fell
npon them; Al IS long as they keep 70
these sanitary laws they will defy every
climate ard law through every civil ~
tian. and lie still this strongest people
b siesly aud intellectually ia tins
world.
AT the present tins the 6aanciel aud
mercantile world Is largely cJntrolled b.
mon of this race Ani oa5 tsE yesrs a 20
the Pine Minister Of England vas =
Jew. the greatest statesman OF France
wss few. snd-the leader OF the liberal
party 10 Germany vas Jew.
1T the Jews nc any tine abandon
their sanitary laws, an come as drunk
en- as many Criticisms are. and as i'm
moral, ss r,ckiea7 ard as impTudsnt. then
no Jews will lose their national health
and become As diseased aud % weak AS
@Any COrle'iAD people are At the preteat
moment.
The great hope OF modern civilization
is that Ia o1e form or anoChsr al
governments ore beginning to real -
u 9 great external principle that tue
nstionsl health is inpreme law. but the
sffjrts nsde In this ctr. ciion IRE IS YET
very dsinl aDd elementary. ID ctnnos
Tor moment b- c0@psTei 10 ito sanit-
sry code Voluntarily obsyed by the Jewish
people
1'nls bit Of history of the national
health OF the J~Wet 10 ha on the
CnIieiiArs, spd ehou d be reso by
ssuitsIisus every where The edicis and
sa~s formulated by Moses werr on
forc, 10 the letter and this accounts
for the longevity and bealthfulDess Of
II hg Jews
We have good laws In Delaware,
ssp cially the laws for the protection OF