The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-14
JEW AND CHRISTIAN.
Humanity to Unite Them without Inter
mRrrihGe-Tha vitality OF Zionism.

| humanity TO Unite Them without inter-
marrihGe-The vitality OF Zionism.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: You say
the jew Is hated on chronological rather than
| on religious grounds. and you advise inter-
marriage In order that his racial character
istics. which alone initiate against him. may
be obliterated. l do not think your argument
| Is sound. Since you admit that the hatred
| which is based on religious prejudice Is disap-
| pearinR. although the Jews are not absorbed
| bv the Christian Church. why may not that
| hatred which is based on ethnolog ical gro unds
disappear without the remedy you suggest
Humane sentiment has brought tho Jew
| and the Christian nearer to the bond OF
fraternity and when that sentiment shall have
grown deeper and broader there will be no
| thought OF hostility on any ground whatever.
| II is mistake not to take into account tho fact
| that the impeachment Is not in those who are
hated; but IN those who hate. Far better
with anti-Semlt SIN than to apply remedies to
those who are the innocent cause OF II.
ALBANY. June IL, JupAICUs.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-.Sr: Your to-
days editorial on the Jewish question respec-
ting the Ionite project. is very logical farIas
| 1t goes. but believe it does not go far enough
and to the vital point.
According to my view. the Jewish people
need change nothing in religion nor In their
But let them change their Names that ia all.
Whenever they como to that conclusion and.
Instead Of Cohn. Levy. Hlrsch. Moses Wolf
and Rosenthal. they adopt names like Curry.
Hearst. Leary. Murray. Sinclair, Miles and SO
VIII then be said about the prominence Of Jew
ish merchants on Broad way and other streets.
S has rae sGsaaf
being an exception. jews will be noticed as
little as the various other creeds are noticed.
n IA N N In lngf Aonr
notwlthstandng. STUDENT.
NEW YORK. June IL.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Anti
semitIsm Is only to be found among the low
and ignorant In the United States less anti
Semitic feeling prevails than anywhere else.
because we in America receive more liberal
education: and again, here we ore allowed, to
Americans are not slow to recognize. ''''' WV
~ Grant me little more space, to illustrate how
1so o Ib for fhe evils
thing else
liyed on the east side all OF my life. and can
when, g jew could not pass through any street.
from Madison street to the East River and from
being molcsted. often seriously hurt or course
there are occasions when Jew, on the east
getting fewer every ' succeSdnR Year o' 'e' are
Now what a change; Christians and He
6s CT a Ms s s nys
said above, and not as you claim, that inter-
Wrr 1ggS1s he 9py The cy'h race
nizable race" and yet 1t will receive just treat
ment In time.
OF the press" to hasten along that which must
come,unity and love among all people. dis
regard Of race and color. b. NJ.
NEW YoRK. juno H.
To THE EDIToR OF THE SuN-cir: May be
permitted to give your readers the stand point
Of the great majority OF Jews concerning your
editorials OF yesterday and o-day on Zionism
and intermarrage and on The Struggle for
Asia Mnor?"
You state that Zionsms ideals are impossi-
bic and impractcable; that Jews must go
back to Palestine or intsrmarry, and so be
merged Into tho Christian world; that pales-
tine is not desirable country. and foreign in
tervention In some form is necessary, and
must come soon at that. IL the country asia
Minor is to be saved from the worst conse-
Quences OF tho anarchy now prevailing"
Your first statement Is answered by the last
quote. Foreign intervention will one day
be as necessary" to save Palestine as you de-
clare 1t to be necessary to save Asia Minor. its
northern boundary. When that day comes tho
commercial. political and. above oil, the ro-
liRious jealouses OF the great powers will ne
cessitate the erection OF neutral State.
Commercial Jcaousies. To-days editorial
sufficiently shows their keenness. You write
ably upon the railroad jealousies OF four Of tho
great powers in Asia Minor. The same must
obtain In Palestine. and to a greater extent
For Palestine Is geographically the centre Of
trade between Africa and Egypt: the trade az
Europe with Asia will be poured into its
Mediterranean ports and Australia will feed it's
Red Sea ports when they arc rebuilt. What
was 1t but the conveyance of tho five great
trade routes of Europe. Africa and Asia which
In SolomOn's timo gave Palestine that pros
perity which is SO picturesGuey described by
saying that silver in Jerusalem was as stones2
Was not Tyre. on the same Mediterranean
coast. the great seaport of antiquity? We're
HG1 the nphGntians; who owned Tyre and
navigators in their day? Was not Palestine
once one Of the granaries OF the Roman world
Palestine has grand commercial and agricu-
turaI future; Monism,,s idenI is that Palestine
tm n be as i vas Why Is that imposshle
be q source OF spiritual guickening for, the
World Exactly tn as Rome IS for the Catholic
poral aspirations and will ask for loyalty in
temporal affairs from none Of her children in
cable Another ideal is that there will be 10.
Gated the permanent tribunal for information
arbitrSsti ST., H., The time may not be ripe for it
ton that such court he located in Belgium or
Switzerland because neutral. is very signin-
impossible nor imrractlcabIe. O''''>'
Political jealousies. No great power can
afford to have another standing sentinel over
It's communications with possessions in East
Africa or Asia England In Egypt cannot be
repeated.
Religious jcalous!es. Catholic. Protestant
and Greek Church can never agree which one
shall hold palesti1e's holy places.
length in, Looking Ahead" They constitute
the so-called Eastern question. and they are Of
intense interest to all concerned in the COM
world.
AS for Jews, going back to Paestino. Zionsm
says no, and quotes Isaiah xl.. a. among
shall their seed be known, and their Offspring
In the midst OF the peoples" Only some will go
The reason for this also negatives your suG-
Gcstion as to our intermarrying.
Our separation and our dispersion are neces- |
sary for the salvation OF the world.
Had We merged in the Greek or Roman |
world tho world to-day would not have the |
Bible. Christianity, could not hayo been born.
Jesus would have been n Crock or n Roman |
In America least of all must the voice be |
heard suggestin that we lose our identity 1t |
y, 20 say the least. ungrnteiul 10 suggest It.
But for our Billie the purtans who taught |
King Charles that kings rule hut by grace OF
the ruled II Kings. Mi, =, who quoted the |
OF Ia , l,Ni,,