The daily independent., 1937-07-30
THE EDITOR
REBUkED

REBUkED cation from distinguished
New York Jew who seems
to have missed the import of an editora
published in this column recently, entitled
"Ofensive Types" The editorial in question
dealt with offensive types of Jewish people
with whom we are all familiar, and was IL
no sense intended as a reflection upon the
Jewish people collectively But read the
letter:
Editors The Daily Independent:
As l read your editorial concerning the lngratl-
tude of the Jew toward the Christian it occurred
to me that ingrattude is not confined to the
Jews. guess you know that.
If the Christians were in the minority, and
were Judged along the same principles, don't
believe they would relish it very much.
The facts of life. unfortunately. indicate that
no race or religion is free from wicked disagree
able and dscordant thinkers and doers.
When you printed and told the truth in your
own city. you were assaulted and threatened
and your son was assaulted and threatened for
doing the same thing.
Newspapers throughout the country carry news
indicating the crooked connvance and crooked
dealings between politicians and courts of just
ice and stress the sectional differences between
races. This state of facts not alone prevails in
your section and state but in every other section
and most every other country throughout the
world. Surely such characteristics of So-called
Christians are just as deplorabe as the case of
the Jew your editorial speaks about.
The man who helped the Jew had an oppor-
tunity of pulling him out of the berth and throw
ing him on the deck where he belonged Why
didn't he do 1t? And. for doing good deed, he
himself should be happy. But when he condemns
the whole race for the acts of one man, it does
not seem logical or right. Anyhow the Jew only
hurt one man but the ones who assaulted you
and your son for endeavoring to help and who
was not punished and incarcerated affected the
whole community 1t is just as difficult for the
right living Christians to control all who claim
to be that, as it is for the right living, thinking
and acting people of any religion throughout the
world, to control their brothers.
The human mind sometimes feels that by
knocking down some other fellow, it is raising
itself
1t is a difficult thing to love everybody It is
sometimes difficult to love your own family and
relatives and it is increasingly difficult to love
people who do not agree or conform with YOUR
ideals ideas and temperaments. There is moth
ing new about that.
Christ whom the Christians profess to follow.
taught peace. not war; love. not hate-and St.
John says II a man says he loves God and hateth
his brother, he is a liar because he has never
seen God; and again. Jesus said everyone who
does right to the other is his brother and none
others are. So, you can see just how many broth
ers we each have.
We should try to follow the PRINCIPLES upon
which the American commonwealth was founded
and that includes the liberty of religious wor
ship and protection of all alike and there is no
better medium to spread the right doctrines than
the newspapers especially those controlled by
fearless and honest editors
1 trust that this letter isn't obnoxious to you
and that you can see your way clear to pub
lish it.
A ALEXANDER.
New York City,
July q, 1887.
We assure Mr. Alexander that his letter
upon our editorial is not OBJ
noxious to us and we regret that our edi-
foriaI seems to have been obnoxious to him