The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

free speech and"
Constitution bell" snapped the detective.
and pulled the Yiddish loan Of Arc from
her perch by the legs. IL was no time for
the amenities.
For more than half an hour the East Side
was in one big uproar that swept from
edge to edge, north, south, east and west
like a sandstone. When the hands OF the
clock pointed to IL the East Sid had set
tied back into its old life.
Pushcarts had been righted and the
scattered ends Of the stock had been as
sorted, and Pincus was selling near silk,
pickles and soda water to Mrs. Abe, while
their thoughts centred only on profit and
loss and mer
The littlest children were beginning to
play again under tho horses heels and there
was only one remainder Of the terror Of n
few moments before-the click Of shod
hoofs as the mounted police patrolled the
streets slowly and watched with wary side
glances the cagey East Side for signs Of
new explosiveness.
But the police had no more work 20 do
that day. The region had had the finest
Panic in its history and was promising
shamefacedly never to do it again-until
the next time.
Why does only the East Side 60 of half
cooked into these uproars that result in
80 much smashing Of windows and Of police
captains tempers7
The Syrian quarter around Washington
street is damned as full Of people, pro-
po~rtionately, who are Just as free from
college educations, more free, in fact,
than the East Side. The big West Side
hahauaa awnapf Tor Nha uaAlr AND rlota nm
San Juan Hill, but these are prompted prin-
cipally by the ECSTASY of spirit any healthy
mar feels In throwing a brick at q police
a
Chinatown has its periodic tong out
breaks and Little Italy works of surplus
mercy with periodic Standings and shoot
ing scrapes. but only the East Side rises
en- masse to do things. Also 1t is the one
neighborhood where the women do prac-
tically all Of the fighting. They are in the
lead at every big panic.
Perhaps it is not conducive to neuro
apathy to be chased by a hairy person for
blocks through the streets Of Kishineff
every time one goes out TO buy a pound Of
candles for the humble morning meal.
Then when one has hidden In q cellar with
a mumbling old grandfather and several
whining children for several days waiting
a chance to fee west across the Atlantic
to the Promised Land, IL takes a longer
time thar most OF the East Side has been
in America to get the kinks out OF ones
overwrought nervous system. Besides, the
crimson block type headlines Of massaores
in Russia with which the evening yellows
keep alive the East Sides memories Of .
violent past do not make for quiet and
restful confidence in the powers that be,
even in Manhattan.
Wherefore when some time q physi-
clans appointed by the Health Board started
on a still hunt for throat and eye lesion
among the thousands OF little ones in the
schools a few cheap practitioners on the
East Side banked upon the dense ignorance
and mistrust OF many Of the mothers and
spread a story that there were to be general
massacres Of the children in the schools
at the instigation Of the Government.
The alleged physicians were prompted
to this mischief making through fear that
they would lose their fees Of rs cents and
so rents which they charge for the removal
Of adenoids and for the treatment Of ira
choma, treatments that the Health Board
physicians give free. The school ply
sicians never operate upon q child, how
ever, without the consent Of the parents.
When one IL brought into contact with
the ignorance Of some Of these mothers,
one oan readily understand why they hy
into a panic when they are spurred on by
designing practitioners Of q certain stamp.
But a panic that got under way three years
ago was caused simply by q rumor that a
big black man was vending his murderous
way from school to school and leaving a
trail of slaughtered Ikeys and Rachels be-
hind him.
That panic was nipped early because
the teachers heard Of the story in time
to turn the children out into the streets
before the maddened mothers had arrived
at the schools. II the teachers had known
something In advance Of the big fuss last
June they could have beaded it Oh In tho
same way, but the East Side was one big
emotional explosion and the children had
been thrown into q panic by the uproar
outside the windows long before an mixing
Of the nature Of the trouble had got 10 the
school authorities.
You would be unable 10 find q more re-
pentant and shamefaced creature than
Mrs. Izkowitz or Mrs. Blumbaum five
minutes after . panic is ended. tn
Cnlluren as bDey are DculS e0 nOtno tIOn
the excitement by the arm blush even
more violently than the mothers and insist
that their mammas didn't TO make an ex-
c~itements-it is always the other children's
mammal that went up in the air.
The school panics began the riot mischief.
and now the East Side has the habit. Il In
curious TO note, too, that 1t Is these very
grown up children, who have known only
the grossest repression and persecution
in other lands for years, who are the first
violently TO assert their rights In the land
OF the free when they think they are being
imposed upon.
Does kosher meat 60 up two and a half
cents a pound? Hire q OF the halls hat
flourish in every block on the East Side
and have everybody with indignations
como to the meetink and work up excite
ments.
Naturally the only way to bring the
slaughter houses In the neighborhood Of
Eor4u-aacond atpoat and thu East Rivar