El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-02
lew and Judaism on Trial at Kief;
- 'RitualMurder' Charge Monstrous Libel
Judaism Should Perish but False as It Nansty
Should Be Condemned by Nations.
By Rabbi MART Paste o Temple

all they could to hush up this crying
case. While striving TO huSh up TINS
case. the Jews inSlStenIly deny the
existence of such ritual murder law IN
their religion. calling liars the per-
sons who bring light before the Rus
sian DeOpIe upon the truth of these
ritual murders and murders legends
And the Associated Press dispatch OF
october 26, says: 1.-The organ of the
sBlaclx Hundred today again prints
violent article melting to risings
against Jews" Surely further proof Is
unnecessary.
But why has this superstition been
reneWed2 The student of history IN
derstands it readily. 1t has always
been the plan of nations divided
against themselves and on the brink OF
civil war. to arouse antagOniSm against
some part of the nation most defence
less or declare war against a foreign
nation. In this way the spirit OF pa
triotism is aroused and the pressing
local wrong forgotten.
Change Is DeIng Wrought.
The spirit Of freedom and of free
institutions has been at work IN Rus
STA AutOcracy finds itself more and
more on the defence and less and less
able to cope with the situation. The
DOuma, terror stricken as 1t is, stun
has some brave souls fired with love
of freedom and opposed to the pOIcy
of oppression and suppression carried
Fear is at hand lest the pale of settle
ment" to which the Jews are confined,
be abolished at any time and should
this occur, if the right of residence IN
all parts of the empire be granted 10
the Jews, then the Russian populace
and peasants would come In direct con-
tact with the Jews and find them not
scarecrOws and murdererS as pictured
by the autocrats, but men of nesh ana
blood, seeking every avenue TO MAKE
an honest living and ready to nelp the
peasant out of the clutches Of their
masters. To overcome such a posi-
bility this superstition has been re-
vived and the emancipation OF Russia
from the thraldOm of bureaucracy mas
been retarded another decade.
Civilization Protests.
And the result Of this accusation
seems to have an effect opposite to that
desired by the prosecutors The Civil
liZed world stands aghaSt at the posi-
bility of such trial taking place IN
the goth century. Protests have been
forwarded from all civilized nations OF
the world. In the United States city
after city has held mass meeting 10
place itself on record as opposed 10
such a libel. Here the Jewish clT1zen
is free and his fellow citizen knows
such an accusation can have no 1oun0a-
ton in facts This city has held no
such meeting and yet there should be
held such a mass meeting as will give
the lie TO these accusations and declare
Russia unfit for participation in the
family Of civilized nations.
It is almost unbelievable The zOth
century. Boosting of its wonderful al
vance is besmirched by such a trial
In the middle ages when the knOwl-
edge of reading and writing was the
privilege of the few, such a legend
might find believers but today, Wnen
men read the news of the previous day
and even Of the same day at their
meals. such an infamous lie should not
be allowed to find Judgements in the
minds of ignorant peasants. The civil
lized nations of the world owe this
much to the present and the future.
God grant that the day be not distant
when Russia shall be called to judg-
ment before the bar OF modern enlight-
ment and the Jew receive the right to
live and to love, the right of every
child of God