Year: 1878

tongue, to gain their full confidence
they entrusted everything to his care
and management, and to their greatest
distress he turned out to be the wrong
man, totally unfit and undeserving of the
great confidence. He mismanaged their
where, quaralled with everybody, and
once he so far forgot himself as to call
the President a liar in an open meeting
before large audience, so that rough
and tumble fight was only prevented
with great difficulty. Being chairman of
the committee Of arrangements, he once
placed upon the platform, to entertain
the Society, totally drunken person. so
that many turned away in disgust, and
from that time their misfortunes COM
menced which terminated in the total
ruin of the Association. Now all this is
hardly credible How thinking and prac-
tical young men could so carelessly mis-
place their confidence in perfect
stranger, is in itself an objectionable
mistake and they cannot blame anybody
but themselves Anyway this is an
earnest lesson, worth the consideration
of other Y. NJ. H. AS


At present we have here only three
Literary Associations the Zion on the
West and the Standard and Progress on
the South Side, and, according to my
judgment, the Zion alone stands to-day.
feaevulopctl as eatns organization ms full
strength of a promising and useful ex-
istence. Their meetings are all very
we'll attended and the best spirit Of peace
and harmony reigns supreme. [ wish
them success in all their undertakings
we are proud of such model Society.


ISRAELITES BEFORE THE PUBLIC.


There is not exactly a1shus in Chicago.
Our intelligent neighbors know to value
our friendship and to respect our rights.
The Chicago papers very seldom do what
we could call injustice to us. 1t is true
they are very eager to chronicle every
little wrong perpetrated by son of
Abraham, but to their credit be it said,
that they do not often suppress the pub
lication of facts which reflect honor on
the name of Israel. That they cannot
the word Jew, dragging it in where it
Uue ledSt UelOHSS, Is IOU lOCdl evil III
is the same all over this great republic,
and the English press in this country
which is of course the leading one, is not
by all means free of prejudice against
our race. To the shame of the entire
American nation be it said that the
press, which is considered all over the
world as the right hand of civilization
and the herald of tolerance and emanci-
patton, has in this great country not yet
thrown off the shackles of unjust and
foolish prejudices against an entire race
which has proven to consist flaw abiding
peaceable and enterprising citizens, who
have contributed largely to the prosper
ity of the republic, their adopted home,
which they love with all their heart and
soul. Not long ago [ was astonished
to find an item in the local of one
of our dailies' news column running
in this style: "A boy was arrested on the
West Side for stealing jewelry. His
mother works with Jewess." And this
is not the only instance; if we would pay
close attention to the fact, we could
point out many such foolish and curious
paragraphs. In the face of such preju-
diced treatment it is perhaps better for
us that the papers do not mention us as
often as we would perhaps think them
in duty bound to do; the lsraelites form
ing community of nearly over $4,000
citizens, with many prominent business