New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

TT is difficult for an inhabitant Of the
United States to conceive of case
- being brought to trial on such
charge as that on which a poor Jewish
worker in a brickyard, by name Beiliss, is
now being tried at Kieff. Russia The
body Of a Christian boy was found in a
cave with many knife thrusts in 1t in the
year 1911 For thirty months the prose-
cutting officers and the secret ponce
worked upon the case. 1t was brought 10
trial recently, and, because of its charac-
ter, found space in the press OF the world
The charge is that the boy was killed IN
order that blood might be secured for the
purpose of conducting certain Jewish
ritualistic practices. The case is Of inter-
est partly because the Car is said TO Do
personally concerned in raising antag-
onism among the dark masses oil Rus
STA against the Jews, and partly because
OF the absurdty Of bringing such charse
against the Jews, who are VIGOROUSLY op'
posed to tasting blood, whether OF human
or other origin, or using corpse for any
purpose and party because Of evidence
that the case is a "frame-up." 1t is dlt-
fcult to make head or tail out OF It's
actual merits because Of the contradictory
and hazy character Of the testimony.
oVERzEALoUS PROSECUTORS.
The poor workman who has been haled
Sefore the court as the guilty man mas
almost been lost sight Of in the anxiety OF
the prosecutors TO prove that the Jews
are addicted to the use Of Christian oioou
in secret ceremonials. Much Of the testl-
mony has nothing to do with his alleged
connection with the boys death
AS a matter of fact, the only feature OF
interest in the case is that the world mas
not yet outgrown the myth Of JEWISH
ritual calling for the use of human Dloou'
and that the government of a country
which thinks of itself as one Of the CIV
iized nations can support such an ABSURD
charge.
The notion that the Jews desired Chris
tan or other Gentle blood for special re-
ngious purposes is coeval with the chris
tan era. Like a lie, it seems Impossible
to overtake and disprove the accusation
once and for all. Josephus, in a poiemAc
against the Alexandrian gramrhariaii
Apion, charges the latter with having az
cused the Jews of annually fattehlhs
Greek in the temple, killing him. onellhs
his body as a sacrifice, eating MS lhleiiai
organs and swearing an oath OF enmlty
against all Greeks. A certain Democrilus
Is quoted by Suidas as saying that every
seven years the Jews catch STRANGER
whom they offer as sacrifice. killing MN
BY tearing his flesh into shreds.
A CANTERBURY TALE.
Those who have read Chaucer's can
terbury Tales" will recall in the rrio'
esses Tale the verse:
yonge Hew Of Lincolne. slaine Also
With cursed Jewes, as IL is notaple
For II mis- hut A litel while ago, -,
Pray exc for us, we sinful folk uhstaOie
That of his mercie God so merclauie'
9n Us his CRETE mercie multiple
For reverence of his Moder Mary
The tale contains an account OF curious
Incident I'm connection with rituahsuc
murder by the Jews said to have TAKEN
place In a great Asiatic city. In this case
the innocent lad. after his throat had been
cut. insisted on singing 20 Alma redemp-
toris mater" until
=. +. in a tombe of marble stones clere
Enclose they his litel body swete.
Upon his bire ay little, this innocent
beforn the auter while the masse last;
ana after that, the abbot with covent
nan spedde hem for TO berie him ful fast;
xxha when they holy water on him cast
let spake this child, wnan spreint was
the holy water
And sang. o Alma redemptoris mater.
az throte is cut unto my nekke-bon.
IL. sh,nis child, an as by way or kinde.
snuld have deyS. we longe time agon:
11 wv Jesu crist, as We in bookes finde.
40, nat his glory Ast and be In minde
J ynn.e ior the worship OF his moder dere,
may l sing o Alma loude and clere.
me reference to "Yonge Hew of Lin
sone Is TO case Of blood accusation
"n'en has been preserved in ballad and
o."cr hterary forms to this day. Hugh
e tne eight-yenr-old son Of Beatrice,
"0'nan hv;ag in lincoln, England, In the