The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-27
Heritage From the Hebrews.

All we have in heritage. all we have in
life. all We move TO in the days TO be-
spring from the wells of Jewish life aud
teaching. This you owe TO the Jew ana
more than this. That national life from
whose mind and heart and womb these
great gifts have reached us is forever
creditor. We are 10 it forever debtor.
Love, not hate. Senile, not sacrasm. rev
eTence, not ribald Jest. should we give to
this people out of whose GOd-paSSiOn
these gifts have come and through the
portals of whose history have entered into
earth such priceless thongs. The Chris
ton church has duty in discharging lis
debt. How shall it be done? Through a
StOcker- God forbid. Through a Pobie-
OdOnosOff? When shall the en- dbe OF
DToyfuss' cFHdities and KishineV and POI
taVa horrors? 1t Will come when We sense
in fulness that all we hold of preciousness
was borne in Jewish chalices and Baskets.
The twentieth century will, | believe, sec
no blacker thing than the wicked massa-
cres of this year, 1906, in Russia, such AS
those scenes at Odessa and Warsaw fur
nish, when 1900 mon, women and chill
dren, innocent, defenSelesS and poor, were
slain like vermin by Russian cruelty and
hate
Russia Will Pay Price.
Russia viii pay the price. She paid for
Kishinev at Mukden. She will pay and
should for the shocking brutalities of this
month in another blaW aimed at her by
every Christian government on the face
II.
which are calling today TO compel the
sutton TO order and justice in Macedonia
ought to sail to Cronstadt and Odessa
with the writ of justice and the demand
of Christian civilization. that the Israelite
shall have in common with every creature
the right to life and love, happiness and
religious belief.
That blow which entrenched barbarism
received in the palace at Peterhof last
month in the issuance Of the Magna
Charta of Russian freedom. Should be
followed by another in the combined pro-
test of ChriStendOm against this Darbdr-
ity America which had an ear for Cuba
and her people, should hear the wall OF
these children of God and should protect
more enphatically than after Kishiney
/ urge you to write to the warm hearted
and brilliant president of this republic, TO
petition him for Intervention, TO beseech
him TO secure the cooperation of Chris
tan nations in representations 10 the
Russian government which shall bring an
end to these things. Russia should be
ostracized Her diplomatic representa-
tives should be persona non gfata al
every capital unless this iniquity ceases
and her isolation in this time Of defeat
abroad and revolution at home become
even more pronounced, until the ornate
curse of cruelty shall be outwrOught IN
the complete eslipse of all that which has
brought the shadows of this latest shame
to the earth. And those of you whose
hearts yearn with sympathy for the wild
Ows and orphans, and who can offer OF
your substance 10 their reiieI. give II, ana
lei MS all pray that God will give nightly
of his grace and love 10 this, his Olden
people. that the ears may be unstopped
the ewes opened and the soul illumlned by
the light of that high gift of Israel which
is today the center of the worlds desire