The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20

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editorial page and placed in IAN OBJ
scure corner" While sympathy is
sweet. and a scant share of it comes
my way, I must remark that the
gentleman is mistaken. The Call has
many things, but it has no obscure
corners.
A man named Erickson has expended
| 800 in a vain effort to collect from
needy cripple a debt of 81. 1 hope
Erickson will not be discouraged.
About the only good a man Of his
stamp can do in community is
through keeping his money in circula-
! ton.
| Three times has Dawson City suf-
! fered seriously from fire caused by the
mania of quick tempered woman for
throwing lighted lamps. Her feminine
instinct recognizes the value of mis-
| sile which is certain to do damage
whether or not il reaches the thing at
which it is thrown. However, if with
| out appearing to be lacking in defer
! ence, a policeman or some brave citizen
! could induce the lady to hurl the COM
| paratively innocuous and non-eXplosiVe
brickbat when she desires to express
disapprobation, Dawson property would
be regarded as a better insurance risk.
Christian Science is severely scored
every time anybody has the misfortune
to die under it's tender ministratlons.
1t does not seem to me that this is falr,
since people do die with learned doctors
| holding consultations at the bedside.
! They die with their systems SO full OF
drugs as to practically be embalmed IN
advance. They die while the surgeon
| is wiping the ready knife with Wnlch
he has been carving their mortal parts.
In fact, people have a habit OF dying,
and whether they reach the END I'M
aided, or boosted along by potlons or
prayer, really matters little. L do not
wish to be understood as 1ndorslng
Christian Science, nor as condemnlng
it. True, according to my present
light, it seems to me the most paIpable
nonsense. People who recover after
submitting to it 1 believe have simply
permitted nature to take a course I'M
hammered, to have benefited by the eX-
ercise of their own wills, or to have
imagined their ills in the first place
But if such persons die, they at least
have the satisfaction of departing in
peace. and there is no assurance that
thew would have lived longer had their
hours of sickness been made miserable
by dosing.
A rabbi of this city has been dis
CUISINE the intermarriage OF Je" anu
Gentle and expresses disapproVal OF
oot
haps a delicate one, among people OIL
sense, it may be considered without OIL
Tense. The rabbis of this city are
scholarly and erudite. In the world OF
intellect they have high standing.
| Many of them are broad men. They
are active in the shaping OF aIalrs ana
their counsel is sought. Inc Jews are
prominent in local business circles, they
are given office, in time or war they
enlist Many are teachers IN the puphc
schools In fact, save for clannlsh-
ness instituted all preserved by them-
selves, they are as other American cltl-
zens. The objection urged against IN
termarriage is in effect that it Will i'm
pair the integrity of this clannishness.
True. but why should not the racial dis
tinction disappear? OF what value is
it? What has it protited the race! L
ask in respect II ignorance. To me 1t
appears that the dividing line has been
a mistake and a detriment There are
countries in Which the Jew does not
have the freedom here given without
question. In Russia he is treated worse
than a serf. In France, boasting OF It's
advanced civilization, which is, by the
way. a state of social rottenness, the
Jew is baited and badgered. Because
of the blood in his veins Dreyfus Is an
exile chained. disgraced, the cruelty
of his treatment a reproach to the
world. Since the Jew has no country
of his own there follows the privilege
of becoming a citizen of, for instance,
such a country as the United States.
The Scandinavian comes here and his
grandchildren only realize from study
of geography that the northern PENN
su1a exists. So with the German, the
Swiss, with representatives of other
nations. These do not remain in classes
nor seek to do so, and yet they speak
different languages for a time, have
diverse customs for a generation. AT
the last they are amalgamated. The
Jews, even though born here, refuse
and perhaps always will. To this char
acteristic NAV be ascribed the treat
ment to which they have been sub
jected abroad, and it keeps alive here
a division for which, as one having no
prejudice, fail to perceive excuse. In
the fullness of time the elements
brought by immigration must coalesca
ultimately, to be described as Ameri-
cans Why should one element, COM
paratively few in number, its interests
common with the interests of all the
others be among us, daily associates,
friends, and still refuse to be of US? 1t
might be thought that the circumstance
of being welcome, held equal before the
law embarrassed, would lead to de-
sire for complete assimilation by the
nation, almost the only one, which has
treated this element in accordance with
Justice and right.
DR. Clifford is quoted in an Oakland
prohibition paper as saying that no
man has a right to go into the liquor