AN APPEAL TO THE JEWS,

TO STIMULATE THEM TO OBTAIN A

HIGHER STATE OF CIVILIZATION;

AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF

MORAL DISCIPLINE.

swan me Boden SEMPER VERITAS.

SAN FRANCISCO:

FRANCIS & VALENTINE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTING HOUSE, 517 CLAY ST.

[1878]

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INTRODUCTION.

San Francisco, California, June, 1878. SEMPER VERITAS.

Translation of the Proverbs in the order as they appear throughout the work:

Omnia bona bonis.
All things are good, with the good.

Auri sacri fames.
The accursed thirst for gold.

Non est omnibus hoc vitium. Everybody has not this vice.

Una golondrina no hace verano. One swallow don't make a summer.

Prêt pour mon pays.

Ready for any purpose for my country.

Nemo me impune lacessit. Nobody shall offend me with impunity.

Quien mucho abraza, poco aprieta. He who grasps at too much, clutches little.

I desire improvement.

Credat Judæus appella.

Let the circumcised Jews believe it.

Nunquam sera ad bonus mores via. It is never too late to improve.

Finis coronat opus.

The end crowns the work

Fiat justicia, ruat cœlum. Let justice be done, though heaven should burst.

La patience est arrière, mais son fruit est doux. Patience is not always agreeable, but its fruit is sweet.

Chi tace confessa. Silence gives consent

DECISION AND PRINCIPLE.

Hear, land of Yanks and brither Jews,
Read and hear the latest news:

If there's a hole in a' your coats,

I rede ye tent it;
A chiel's amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it.

That the reader may not be led to suppose that this and the subsequent articles were given publicity with any other motive than that the public in general might obtain a lesson which might accrue to the advantage of those, whose narrow-mindedness of a certain conception of right, true dignity and honor, require their shamelessness exposed to create a reform; I have given the date of every article as it issued from the press, which articles I introduce irrespective of date, when the subject is most applicable.

OMNIA BONA BONIS.

NON EST OMNIBUS HOC VITIUM.

As Prime Ministers, and likewise the Public Press, are invested with the privilege of using their influence to suppress or promote war, according to circumstances, there indubitably can be no legal authority to debar the individual, however obscure his position in society may be, the right, by every rule of justice, to expose the fallacies and vices of corporations, rings and sects, when such become a national calamity and disgrace

LYING.

Oct. 26th, 1877. Veritas

To prove that the American people know well the Jew's character, I refer my readers to Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoffard's delineation in "The Point Lace

^"Whose leveth instruction leveth knowledge, but he who hateth reproof is brutish."

THE JEWS IN SOCIETY.

[N. Y. World.]

In conversation with a World reporter during the day, Mr. Leopold Bamberger, the Secretary of the Jewish Board of Delegates, and a prominent member of Jewish society, said: "To any one who knows aught of Jewish society in New York, Mr. Hilton's

wholesale slanders must appear particularly unjust and silly. How many of these terrible Jews do you suppose there are in this country? Not more than 240,000, and of these one-third are in New York. The other 160,000 are scattered over the country; yet such is their industry and such their business, activity that you hear of them controlling trade in every section.

In New York City the Jews are largely interested in real estate; they own three times as much property as three times their number of Christians of the same standing. They are bankers, or, like Phillips, and Hart, and May, and King, they control railroads. They have the woolen business largely in their control, and every one knows who it is that has the large hat factories, tobacco houses and clothing stores. It is safe to say that not one per cent. of our people has inherited their wealth; they are essentially a working race.

difficult to get an entree into our best society, or even our middle class society. Take such families as the Kings, whom I have just mentioned; there is Mrs. King, of 386 Fifth Avenue, just near Mrs. Stewart's; there is the family of Edward J. King, the large fur merchant, at 357 Fifth Avenue, just opposite, and higher up, at 473, within a few doors of Mr. Vanderbilt's, is the house of Mr. George King's family. Mr. David James King, of 16 West Forty-fifth Street, is of the same family, and married a daughter of Eugene S. Ballin, the banker. All the people are sought and highly respected in any society, as is Mr. Lewis May, who married into the King family, and is known as one of the most liberal and philanthropic of our wealthy Israelites. Near neighbors of these are the Seligmans—Joseph, the cause of all this hotel trouble, residing on Thirty-fourth Street, just near Fifth Avenue, and two doors from his brother James, whose son Eugene recently distinguished himself by taking the first prizes in every branch of study at Columbia Col-

Mr. Bamberger added some interesting facts as to the position the Jews occupy in the colleges in this city, especially in Columbia and the colleges of New York. He added that many of the French flat buildings belong to Jews, the "Albany" to Mr. Lewis May, the "Newport" to Mr. Ferdinand Mayer, and a new building now being erected to Mr. King. He said that it was the real-estate speculations of the Jews at Long Branch, and especially the liberality of the Seligman's, which had made that place instead of marring it. He said, that as the Catholics and Protestants have a Baxter Street and Sixth Ward, so the Jews have a Chatham Street and an Avenue A; but if there is any

preponderance of respectability on either side, it is in favor of the Jews.

be enabled to escape unblushingly and fearlessly the just retribution of public exposure. What paper in the United States has contributed so much to unearth public corruption, and endeavor to bring the perpetrators to shame, as the "San Francisco Chronicle;" nor can there be any doubt that the bold stand it has taken has tendered illimitably to deter public officials the franchise, which heretofore they considered a privileged right, to plunder our government to any and every extent. Did every Daily Newspaper make it a duty, as becomes them to act in unison to expose vice in every shape, in place of displaying inveterate hate and jealousy, our public and social morals would undoubtedly improve, instead of becoming each decade a greater blot to our ancestral character.

To the Editor of the American Union:—

SIR: The following letter, addressed to the subscriber, explains itself. Albeit an unpleasant task, I consider myself in duty bound to comply, lest I might be considered scrupulous, timorous, or incapable.

VERITAS.

San Francisco, Nov. 15, 1876

VERITAS: Dear Sir—The truthful manner in which you have handled every subject that has appeared in the AMERICAN UNION induces me and others to request of you to favor us with your views on the Daily Press of this city, for which we shall be very thankful.

MANY SUBSCRIBERS.

THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.

A more argumentative engagement possibly cannot offer itself to analyze, than the effect the moral or pernicious tendencies the Daily Newspaper provokes. Its influence is stupendous. It undoubtedly exalts or depreciates the moral practice of men towards each other, likewise the intellectual feeling, the sentiment and perception of passing and future events. It possesses greater advantages over all other printed matter in dictating the style of expression and moral result, than

There are imperfections, irregularities, improprieties and innovations practiced in our dailies, contrary to the regime of a well constituted and truly respectable

paper. It is an imperfection in a newspaper to eulogize the moral character of the dead because he held a high public office; the greatest scrutiny and reserve should be observed. Boss Tweed, without doubt, will be puffed sky-high as a model of purity when he dies.

It is an irregularity, it is sycophantic and sickening to publish the names of persons because they wish to see their names in print, who attended some private party. It is highly improper, it is low in the extreme, it is absurd, it is disgraceful, for the reason that it is a very bad example when the proprietors of influential dailies, as they style themselves, debase their position with daily abuse of each other. It is to be supposed that when a person fills a position that entitles him to be considered a gentleman, he should act as such. It is likewise an impropriety, because it is inconsistent, to extol a lady's beauty, and her dress as costly in the extreme, inciting a pernicious competition in others of her sex, who possibly can ill afford it, and in another column exhorting a more economical mode of living.

Consistency they say's a jewel; its truth I plainly see, But a gentleman without manners, is an anomaly.

It is an innovation to repeat the same subject in a well-organized daily, unless it is classed among the advertisements. A good song, an excellent dinner, and good advice will bear repetition, but clippings never.

In treating of the errors of our dailies, too much opprobrium cannot be expressed respecting their competition to excel in their powers of sensational capacity in every case of suicide, murder, homicide, burglary and petty theft. There appears to be a conglomerated unity of desire and determination to enhance their frequency by narrating with the utmost pertinacity the most minute details of acts, which there can be little doubt have become more frequent by the preparation caused by repeated handling. It is a demoralizing practice which should be abolished, for it is irrefragible,

Nov. 25, 1876.

VERITAS.

APPLY THE TEST OF TRUTH.

"The truth may be blamed,
Though it never can be shamed."

When Senator R—— addressed the French Democrats, on the 26th ult., at Pacific Hall, he endeavored to flatter his constituents by asserting that "Frenchmen are more entitled to naturalization than any other nation," which assertion will not stand the test, as shall be proved by a simple comparison between them and the Germans.

Mr. R—— cannot but admit that there are no foreigners in this country more clannish than the French, to wit: They eat no other than French bread. Show me one who drinks our wines. They drink no water but in their wine, coffee or bouillon. Every person who knows the French people is aware that they only drink water as a substitute for an emetic. They credulously believe there is no place equal to la belle France—no language comparable with the French language—no soldiers equal to the French. As a mass they despise our institutions and language, which is proven by the one in a hundred who acquires it.

It may in truth be said that the Chinese come here to realize a trivial fortune to return to China. May not the same be said of nine-tenths of the French who come here? Many remember when fully one third of the population of this city were French. Where are they now? They have returned to France with their gains. The few who are here are either expatriates, or living here with a sole longing desire and intent to return when circumstances permit.

Did General Lafayette come here exclusively to aid the American people? Did he not come here as a military adventurer? knowing that his military education might probably consign him to a position in a newly organized body, fighting for the glorious liberty we now enjoy, at the same time wreak revenge on his country's enemy by assisting a party in conflict with a

elucidated fact that Frenchman are not more entitled to naturalization than other foreign subjects, which may be further exemplified by the fact that the very party our worthy Senator addressed are those who supported, by their subscriptions, the second daily newspaper printed in this city, L'Echo du Pacifique, which succumbed to mob-violence occasioned by its vituperous language against the Federal Government during the war, nor was it the only one. Thereby hangs a tale. If a nation, whose mobility of government every second decade, for centuries past, is a criterion to judge by, its prospects for a protracted peace are but illusory, and the stability of its government hangs but on a slender thread.

Senator R——is not requested to retract his assertion, but he must necessarily admit that there are true Republican Frenchmen here, such as unsuccessfully patronized the defunct Phare, L' Union, L' Independant, papers which always eulogized our institutions and opposed the party, which has ever proved itself the bane and cause of every revolution, and has ultimately entailed the discredit on them of being the most fickle, vain, changing people in Europe, notwithstanding their very many estimable qualifications.

As a man may be known by the company he keeps, equally may the people of a nation be judged by examining the stability or pusilanimity of its government. If despotic, ignorance will be the result. If liberal, intelligence will accrue—the harbinger of progress, activity, and wealth. It may be urged that the French are Republicans because they now pretend to enjoy that government at present in France; it is no criterion; there is an infinite difference between a nation becoming this or that, when the object is more to destroy an old dynasty that has been unsuccessful in accomplishing a victorious ambition, than when the change is effected by the moral conviction that the people are prepared for a radical change. It is very

MOSES AND AARON.

Our religious people have said a great deal about Moses and Aaron, but there is a little story that has never been in print, which is more likely to be true than anything else we have read or heard about them. Those notables of divine history, Moses and Aaron, were partners. Moses was running the business in the mountains, and Aaron attending to the finances in the valley. Moses, in one of his summer tours in the mountains, was out of luck. The congregations he preached to did not "come out" very well; so Moses concluded to take a hand at poker. It was too close a game, so he tried his luck at faro without success, and the result was, he came down in the valley broke. He called on his pard, Aaron, who had also made a failure, financially, in the preaching business, but had made a big deal in a corner on pork, having bought up all the hogs in the country. He had made a clean monopoly of the pork business, but as it was outside of the line of the firm business, he considered it was his own private speculation. Moses did not "see it" in that way, and demanded a share of the profits. Aaron could not "see it." Moses proposed a compromise, but it was no go, when Moses said:

"Aaron, you and I have been partners a long time, and if you don't divide, I will break you, sure."

Aaron leaned back and said:

"Moses, you can sail in as fast as you please; you can't hurt me, and nary a hog will I give you."

Moses at once commenced preaching to the people that all the diseases among them came from eating pork, and right there he made the Jews believe the devil was in the hogs. The people arose en masse, and drove the last one of Aaron's hogs into the sea and drowned them, which cleaned out Aaron entirely, and to this day many of the Jews believe the devil is in the hogs, and won't eat any pork.

First. "The Jews have reason to be a proud people." Pride signifies insolence, unreasonable self-esteem, and rude treatment to others, on the one hand; dignity of manner, loftiness of air, generous elation of heart, on the other. To which of these the Jews deserve the preference, I leave it to my readers to decide.

Second. "That they are building up our cities, and exert no weak leverage in securing the prosperity of

the country," is apparent from the Three Balls men's ready acceptance of stolen property at one-tenth part of its value, thus facilitating, and in a great manner encouraging the dishonestly inclined to impel an increase of taxation to defray the expense of providing for thieves, incubated by their reciprocity of action, and to build up new jails to beautify our cities, whereby the prosperity (ruin) of the country is most assuredly secured.

strated facts that their unjustifiable method of accumulating their wealth has propagated evils that all the abstruse logic, classical rhetoric, and perverse prevarication is incapable of excusing them of having sinistrously perverted the social system of the commercial community of this country, whereby we have become almost as vitiated as themselves. Nor do I gainsay the truth, as a fact, that there are thousands in this country to-day, who are of Mr. Hilton's opinion respecting the moral worth of the Jews.

PRÊT POUR MON PAYS.

truer than the other, for the reason that if such were the fact, all men would be of the same opinion. Each person's religion is the correct one, consequently every other person's must necessarily be wrong. One fact is certain: Religion has destroyed the confidence that all persons should entertain in each other. It has caused more strife, personal abuse and bitter hostile feeling than all other evils combined. It has been the cause of the perpetration of the most atrocious crimes, butcheries and protracted wars from time immemorial to the present day, than history relates, or imagination conceives. The present conflict in Europe might be adjusted by arbitration in a week, did not the great curse, difference of creed, usurp the practice of reason and right. Nor is the future horoscope of our country untinged by the shadow of a cloud that may yet darken our brightest anticipations of the future.

NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT

The following article was written in answer to the Lecture already alluded to:

Editor American Union.—Sir: Please to admit the following communication: Did the Hon. Simon Wolff, of Washington, in his Lecture on the 1st inst., in the Temple Emanu-El, imagine that his assertion, "It is a sad commentary on the United States that the Jew is so little known and appreciated," would be indisputedly acknowledged in silence? If there is any country in existence worthy to boast that it was born inheriting the virtues, Truth and Fair-dealing, from its founders, it is the United States; and it admits of no controversy to assert that the true American is in action an example to the world, respecting a due acknowledgment of the virtues of its alien population; nor is there a government so ready to make concessions to endeavor to prove that its great study is to "lean to mercy's side." However true it may be that "the Jew is found."

actively pushing forward the world's prosperity," that good is annulled by the stupendous evil he has promulgated throughout this country by the introduction of a vice execrably detrimental to the laws and best interests of commerce, that any "defamation and persecution" he suffers is only the retributive result caused by effect. There are always two sides to a question. Had the honorable gentleman exercised his eloquence at "\$1 admission" for the benefit of instigating his Tribe to abolish the causes of the "prejudice" it so deservedly merits, the following criticism might possibly have been dispensed with:

San Francisco, Oct. 3, 1877.

TIT FOR TAT.

[This article was received too late for our issue of Oct. 5. We will take pleasure in furnishing space in this journal to any argument its assertions may bring forth. Send us your communications.—Ed.]

I have omitted a few allusive points in the above article, reserved for a similar work intended for future publication.

The publication of the above prompted the bartender of an Israelitish whisky shop to assume the championship of his tribe and to comment on it in the following manner:

San Francisco, Oct. 18, 1877.

Editor of the American Union—SIR: In your paper of the 12th instant you published a communication over the signature of "Tit for Tat," apologizing for not publishing it sooner. I read this communication, and think the apology should have been given your readers for its publication. "Tit for Tat" makes a wholesale and unjustifiable attack upon the Jews and the Chinese, and in classifying them he says:

"If ever a people become converts to a strange worship, it will be by shaming them out of their error and simplicity, and there can be no more effective manner than by comparison based on facts—to wit, the similarity of the Jew and the Chinaman."

And he further says that-

"The Jew, characteristically, is untruthful. Fair dealing is foreign to his nature—covetously mean in the extreme, generous to his tribe, which are true types of cowardice."

We would ask "Tit for Tat" what he means by "cowardice," for if we understand that term, his own communication stamps him as a coward of the worst kind; for the person who writes such anonymous communications shows himself wanting in both moral and physical courage necessary to father his own dirty offspring. If "Tit for Tat" wishes a discussion on

the subject matter of his article, let him come out like a man, and not hide himself behind the nom de plume of a coward.

I should not have noticed this matter but for its appearance in a paper which has respectable pretentions, and seemed to invite attention to this article. No person but a fool, an idiot or a lunatic can successfully maintain the charges and assertions of "Tit for Tat" in this enlightened age.

Will "Tit for Tat" give his real name or offer an apology for his conduct? We want no hiding behind the scenes. Unless he does so, we must infer that he has exhausted his credit among our Jewish merchants, and has resolved to this cowardly device to pay off his just debts.

MARQUIS LEVY,

115 Page Street.

P. S.—Hebrew papers please copy.

The Hebrew papers did not please to copy. Neither will they copy this Work, or they are much more independent papers than I give them credit to be. For they knew that "Truth is truth to the end of reckoning." It was not because the name of the writer was unknown. Nor has the writer the minutest reason to be ashamed of his name. Yet had the reflections of my Article been ten times more severe than they were, the galled Champion's last sentence in defence of his Tribe vividly portrays the vile, sordid revenge, which only a Jew of the true Shylock stamp, or some other ignoble specimen of humanity would seek as redress. But he did not surmise that the coward was one whose very nature revolts at the idea of sacrificing character for greed, which he thus demonstrates:

Perdition seize his soul,
Who would by a single word or action,
So demean his own self-esteem,
As pander to a low crowd,
Whose sycophantic wiles,
Serve but to wheedle and extort,
To their own greed.

"He who would nobly live,
"Wouldn't flatter Neptune for his trident
"Or Jove for his power to thunder,
"His heart's his mouth;
"What his breast forges,
"That his tongue must tell,
"And being angry, doth forget that e'er
"He heard the name of death."

The immortal Shakespeare says: "If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew. What should his suffiance be? By Christian example, why revenge." But as the great delineator of human nature has not defined the action one Jew should apply to another Jew, I will assume the responsibility, presuming myself to be a truthful Jew: not to revenge, but to teach a Jew the duty he owes himself, his creed and his God, by making him ashamed of the odium his sordid meanness and untruthfulness have entailed on his race.

Editor American Union.—Sir: Had the person in answer to my communication, by your invitation, demonstrated by facts any error of mine, in lieu of stamping himself to be of that class, who, in default of a knowledge of the exposures likely to accrue, and of further provoking explanations detrimental to the cause he so lamentably fails to defend; or have otherwise than soiled the columns of your paper by an irascible and pot-house jargon of abuse, symbolic of a premeditated intention of a breach of the peace, I should in all probability have abstained from making further remarks; but I don't feel disposed to be terrified into silence, consequently I will give the following lucid facts for his entertainment and contemplation: It is better that there should be one coward who dares to confront a lecturer, who for one hour and a half, not content alone, to arrogate facts, but in express terms to insult and misrepresent the country sheltering him by contumaciously derogating its greatest virtue. Very

"No more shall the children of Judah sing The lay of a happier time, Nor strike the harp with a golden string, 'Neath the sun of an Eastern clime, This was the lay of a Jewish maid,
But not in her father's bowers;
So sweetly she sang as in silence she strayed
O'er the ruins of Babylon's towers."

It does not imply that every person who signs an article allegorically should be lacking in moral and physical courage, as is exemplified by the infinite communications submitted to the public press of this and every other city. The more vital points alluded to in my article have been summarily dismissed by asserting "that only a fool, an idiot or a lunatic can successfully maintain the charges and assertions in this enlightened age." It is in this enlightened age that we begin to know the errors which have heretofore pervaded the social system, and are to-day permeating the daily walks of life; and it becomes every person to endeavor to illustrate any evil which may be conducive to an improvement and amelioration; and thanks to the great boon of this great country that a free press has and will ever be the means whereby every human frailty may be reflected in its true light, publicly and broadcast.

Considering I have trespassed too much on your columns for this issue, I shall conclude by requesting you to refer your correspondent to an article of mine in your paper, headed "Hosanna! Hosea! Emanu-El," dated October 27, 1876; likewise to one on "Lying" in last week's issue, by the same, and learn a lesson, which will doubtless assure him that I am not the demented fool and coward he surmises, nor will he be less interested in case he covets me further to epitomize facts not at all likely to enhance the characteristics of his Tribe. The only apology I desire to render is:

"Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be he who first cries hold, enough!"

Oct. 29, 1877.

TIT FOR TAT.

QUIEN MUCHO ABRAZA POCO APRIETA.

There are certain incontrovertible facts that all the logic, ancient or modern, cannot annul, let partizan opinion rage to its utmost as it may, and all endeavors to circumscribe its range to mitigate the error, must

Having made an allusion to two nations, the United States and Great Britain, having acted alike, respecting the emancipation of the Jews, leads me to express

The descension and degradation of the British people from the high standard of moral principle in trade, for which they were an example to the world at large, may justly be attributed to the great influx of Jews, with their avaricious propensities; and our comparatively young country, composed of a cosmopolitan population, consequently more likely to imbibe, and and less likely to inhibit, their fraudulent practices, have tended to reduce us to that state of degeneracy, which causes every one to be dubious of the honesty of his neighbor, and to blush with shame and sorrow at our deviation from the path of the moral principles of our departed ancestors, whose simple word was their bond, and one price their ruling passion. The passage of the "Jews Disabilities Bill" was an Act applauded by every lover of freedom, and no greater act of ingratitude has ever been committed, not even by savages, than by those Jews who have failed to emancipate themselves from those vile practices which have caused, and still cause them to be "the object of scorn and hatred" among nations. But words fail to express the credit due to those Jews who have gratefully endeavored to elevate themselves by purity of action to attain the level of civilization, whereby they may, with every justice, boast of their "Influence on the Progress of the World."

There are particular features in the character of the Jew that Mr. Wolff designed to stimulate his audience to believe they possessed in a superlative degree—" as an example to the whole world;" he referred to their virtues, "Benevolence and Affection." Benevolence, in the strict meaning of the word, implies a disposition to do good, which, as far as my weak perception permits me to construe it, involves a satisfaction in demonstrating sympathy; and a distribution of alms and kind attentions to the sick and indigent, irrespective of nationality, creed or color. Yet there are two classes of benevolence or disposition to do good. One natural, and the other acquired by civilization. The Hon. gentleman would infer that the Jews possess their benevolence from inheritance, acquired by the precepts of Moses, from which he would wish us to believe has "sprung every good." I simply ask then, from what

source has all the good sprung where his precepts are yet to this day a dead letter. Or do they naturally possess it, as the savages, who lavish it only on their own kindred, which the Jew's general action justifies me to say, is the case. Their affection, as I shall proceed to prove, is tantamount to that the tiger displays in the jungle, or the domestic hen with her brood. The most accurate manner to obtain the truth, is by comparison, which I shall apply by the following examples, to prove the fact:

Further detail is unnecessary, yet a thousand examples might be quoted. Their being of a different religion has no effect whatever if they are both good or both bad. If by chance any vice predominates on either side, and all hope of a reformation is lost, patience then ceases to be a virtue, and a separation is the natural consequence, and is perfectly justifiable; nor can the hymenean chains of any religion prevent it. That there are too many hasty divorces cannot be de-

The few examples herein illustrated are proofs that the American people do know the characteristics of the Jews here, and could it serve any good purpose, an equally lucid portrayal could be made of their more practiced exclusiveness, and the lack of true civilization still

existing in every part of Europe; and no impartial traveler can deny that the Jews in the United States, after a single succession, are only pigmies in low cunning and untruth, in comparison with their counterparts abroad; which plainly elucidates how a superior civilization may be acquired by the example of those who have adopted a more modern theological theory as the basis of improvement, which has served to exalt in a supreme manner the character of the Jews in this country.

am not sufficient alchymist to determine. Be that as it may. I forthwith reproduce a letter of mine to a gentleman with whom I supposed I was well acquainted, will justify that my actions accord with my admonitions.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 1877.

Very respectfully, Your's,

Alias VERITAS.

SPERO MELIORA.

The following was published with the hopes it might instigate a movement to abolish an unwarrantable infraction on humanity, at the same time incite some impartial Lecturer to enlighten "the unappreciative American people in their ignorance of legendary and circumscribed knowledge" (applied by Mr. Wolff.)

CREDAT JUDÆUS APPELLA!

CIRCUMCISION.

Let the United States enroll the Abolition of this most unnatural and unwarrantable act of the dark ages in the catalogue of her achievements, worthy of statesmen deserving the plaudits of true civilization. Furthermore, the numerous premature deaths occassioned by this inhuman and immoral act demands its immediate suppression, which may be enacted as unconstitutional and contrary to the statutes of this country, and a flagrant violation of the authorized rules of the above-mentioned society.

Nov. 12, 1877.

VERITAS.

NUNQUAM SERA AD BONUS MORES VIA.

It is to be hoped that when the next Lecturer, with "The Jew" as his text, stands on the rostrum, the highest encomiums he may present will prove inadequate to the deserts the Jews will merit by the perfect change of system they will have adopted to the aggrandizement of their position in the community at large, as regards not only commercial pursuits, but that their contracted ideas will have found the expansion so absolutely necessary to obtain the combined qualifications, Truth, Honor and Valor. Finis coronat opus.

The following Articles on Education and Instruction were inserted in the American Union one year previously to Mr. Wolff's advent here. The contents of which will illustrate the fact that whatever adverse criticisms may be usurped by parasites whose perversity of disposition to acknowledge positive truth, accompanied by an interested partiality to the Jews, may be extended; the award of good intention inevitably must be the unanimous opinion of all impartial readers.

EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION.

I shall not only attempt to draw a comparison between the two most essential branches of social civilization—education and instruction—but I shall endeavor to elucidate the social benefits of each in its respective true light and value as they act upon us in our domestic and commercial course through life.

By education—that is the scholastic improvement we receive. First, the superiority in competition with others who have not availed themselves of its benefits when the opportunity presented itself. Secondly, the independence we feel when brought in conflict with the vicissitudes of maintaining ourselves, and charged with the necessity of providing for a numerous family. Thirdly, the confidence and satisfaction we are bound

to feel of having proved ourselves grateful for the sacrifices our kind parents and teachers have manifested in procuring us this inestimable blessing.

Nov. 10, 1876. VERITAS.

(To be continued in our next.)

EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION.

[Continued from our last.]

The preceeding article in our last number, on Education and Instruction, was simply a prelude and con-

trast between these two offsprings of social civilization, which necessarily invoke and materially determine the sphere of future prominence through life. In acquiring superior advantages of the former, unaccompanied by a truly moral inculcation of the latter, too frequently arms the possessor with a weapon which qualifies persons to commit aggressions that lead to ignominy, as is evinced by the many accomplished offenders now suffering the penalties of their crimes, who, had they in their youth been as diligently instructed by their parents at home to persistently avoid the consequences of untruth and dishonesty, as they were when at school to improve their educational duties, their career would undoubtedly have been to ennoble, instead of proving themselves to be a disgrace to their families and connections.

It is indisputable to refute the greater necessity of inculcating fundamental moral principles in youth than the higher branches of education, verified by the fact that the true fundamental principles of a nation's greatness, truth and honesty, are as fully developed and as generally diffused and practiced by the ignorant, humble plebeian, as are generally enacted by those who enjoy the advantages of the very highest attainments by education. The universal expression, "I will give my children a good education," appears to be tantamount to that they perform all the duties that devolve upon them by sending their children to school. If so, it necessarily follows that they either do not know their duty as parents, or that they are basely neglectful of protecting their own future reputation, which depends materially upon the actions of their children. A child's first principles of lying and stealing are not imbibed at school. They are vices acquired by the wilful neglect of those parents who lose the command of their children to keep them from evil company, occasioned by their having neglected to enforce the required respectful and implicit obedience that engenders love,

—love without obedience where it is due is but a mere convenience, which is proved by the wilful absence of children from the paternal roof, that has obligated the authorities here to enact a salutary law prohibiting youths to be in the streets after eight o'clock at night, which proves that no heed was given to the parents' behests, which would have evaded that law, had such been the case.

Truth and honesty, the hand-in-hand companions of valor and fidelity, are maxims instilled by the energetic and compulsory dictation and example of the parents. Dishonesty and untruth are the counterparts of cowardice and vice. Truth is acquired by practicing it; nor is untruth or lying less so. A child hears its parents lying in jest—its imitative powers receive the impress, not thinking for a moment that the parent can do wrong; it is there and then initiated and inoculated. And who does not know how difficult it is to obliterate first impressions and habits? No greater proof, if any is required, than to see our school children cheering with ecstatic enthusiasm the elected candidate of their parents, without the least particular reason for doing so. It is not presumption to assert that principle or fundamental truth rigorously engendered and instilled in youth is rarely effaced; nor is it arrogance to affirm that a genuine adhesion to truth is the basis from which every ornament in character develops itself. A sincerely truthful man can neither steal, cheat, commit fraud, or be treacherous or deceitful; in a word, he is ever to be depended upon; and vice versa may be said of untruth; it is indubitably and unquestionably the propagation of almost every evil.

Nov. 17, 1876.

VERITAS.

[To be continued in our next.

EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION.

[Continued from our last.]

tendency to confusion reigns at home, it is but natural to suppose that little better may be expected when the children attain their majority. There is a maxim—"A place for everything, and everything in its place." However often anything is used, it should always be replaced clean, to be ready when required, and easily found.

If every child capable of performing any household duty should be allotted a certain duty to execute, when not preparing for class, such duty would necessarily be beneficial exercise, at the same time exempt them from the liability of getting into bad company in the streets. Habits of cleanliness are principally acquired at home.

Obedience—the great benefactor, defender and confidence of a nation's honor. It is an anemaly to expect that a child who is not obedient to his parents in all things, can be obedient to his God. Parents who raise their children in disobedience to their commands at home, are wholly and solely responsible for their disobedience to the Ten Great Commandments of Moses and every act they commit against the civil laws of the land.

Civility—Freedom from barbarity; Rule of decency; partaking of the nature of a civilized state; the Herald and Harbinger of first principles and Proclaimer of the antecedents of the parents. Digame con andas ti direquien eres. "A man is known by the company he keeps," and "Birds of a feather will flock together." It is an undeniable fact that our instincts, that is, our desires and aversions, acting in the mind, control the power that determines the will to seek our affinity, or to shun the antipodes of our nature.

What other men dislike is sure to please,
Of all mankind these dear antipodes:
Through pride, not malice, they run counter still,
Civility in a gentleman—incivility is a ruffian's will.

It is to society what the scent is to the rose; it is the distinguishing feature that enhances the friendship of

we as parents and guardians generate and promote by example, and in nowise, manner or pretext can we in truth assert that it is not our duty to ourselves and to them, to show them a better example.

Nov. 25, 1876.

VERITAS.

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

It may be very well for a preacher who is paid a high salary to endeavor to entertain his congregation for an hour in diffusing his ideas on the above subject, which I shall laconically explain, and I trust will be far more easily understood in fewer words than he employed sentences.

There can be but one legitimate method practiced in truly American school teaching, and that is: it must be purely secular, supported by direct taxation for that purpose. If any one particular dogma is permitted, it is an innovation on the constitution of this great country, and is a just reason of offense to every other creed in existence. It is derogatory for any minister to disparage the tenets of his neighbor in the pulpit. Let the public press do its duty, and endeavor to shame all abuses from church doctrines and abominable fallacies, which eventually will succumb and become obsolete by its powerful influence. With the aid of astronomy, science and a general compulsory education, man's common sense will eventually develop the truth, that to do right is his own truest interest, which requires no divine law to impel its execution.—What has ever transpired to convince common sense to the contrary, that the present generation is not as much at fault respecting the truth of the mysteries of religion, as we now suppose the absurdities of the heathen mythology to be? Nor can it be denied that there is just cause to lament the predominance of a disposition to introduce imaginary miracles, equally absurd as any we endeavor to dispel, to wit: Infallibility, spiritual-

ism, mormonism, and others equally idolatrous, contrary to reason, and grotesque.

Nov. 19, 1877.

VFRITAS.

The acknowledgement of my incapacity to indite an Article as worthy of perusal as the following, clipped from the "San Francisco Chronicle," Dec. 23, 1877, I trust will justify me to solicit the indulgence of my readers in reproducing it here:

THE CAUSE OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION.

Taken collectively, the people of the United States have many admirable qualities. In war they are brave, persevering and formidable; in business affairs, liberal and enterprising; in social life, gay, generous, and lavish with their money; intellectually, they are progressive and enlightened. Made up from all nations, such a population naturally comes to regard prejudice, intolerance and oppression with decided aversion. And yet, with these and many other excellent qualities, as a nation we are getting a bad name abroad. We are considered the most mercenary people on the globe, and, what is still worse, we largely deserve such a reputation. Nowhere else is the worship of money so universally carried to an extreme as in this country. A frenzied desire for the speedy accumulation of wealth is found among all classes, and while a stimulus is thus given to commercial and industrial enterprises that is of great public benefit, the evils that are engendered are correspondingly great, and, unless soon remedied, forecast ominous changes in our national future.

It is impossible to dispute the fact that our only generally recognized standard of respectability is the possession of wealth. In city or country a man's standing largely depends upon his means. His weight in social or local affairs is in almost exact proportion to the amount of money his check is good for. He is

rated from a financial standpoint almost exclusively. If he is rich he is worth cultivating. Intellectually or morally he may be what he pleases, but financially he must exhibit a faultless showing. The admission of all this is the reverse of flattering, but there is no evading the truth of it. Honor, talent, artistic endowments, professional attainments, genuine manhood and purity of character are quite well appreciated, but they are minor matters. The grave question is, How much is a man worth?

parliamentary bodies in the world, who, if justice could be meted out to him, would be wearing the striped livery of a penitentiary. Neither his political associates nor opponents deny his guilt and depravity, and yet he is a United States Senator, and wields great power in an assembly that should be emblematic of dignity, honor and integrity.

It is trite to say that State Legislatures and city governments throughout the country are more or less tainted with corruption; that our vessels of war sink with their crews that rogues may grow rich; that private business affairs suffer from the universal contagion. It is useless to cry out against either political party as the cause of it all. No matter which is in the ascendancy in any particular section, the result is the same. Everybody is determined to get rich, by fair means or foul, and what is more to be deplored, it is usually considered enough to know that a man is rich, without stopping to inquire how he came by his money. Society and the nation are absolutely poisoned by a mania for wealth and the respectability that wealth purchases.

What can be the future of a free people when such a condition of affairs passes unchallenged? There can be but one answer: A change must be brought about; men must be judged once more by the ancient standards of true manhood—honesty, integrity and faithful public service, and the dollar criterion must be done away with. If this connot be brought about, the complete failure of republican institutions in this country will result in the near future. Liberty and corruption cannot thrive together.

FIAT JUSTICIA, RUAT CŒLUM.

I will add another Cause, still more palpable, of Public Corruption.

OH LAW! WHERE IS THY JUSTICE.

How fortunate it may be for that defaulting pension agent, who was tried and convicted in the United States. Circuit Court and sentenced to pay \$5,000 fine, or to undergo two years' imprisonment if not paid, to be now at large, is but another proof that in no part of the world is crime permitted to expurgate its penalties as it is in this country. It is no wonder that our jails are full, and that crime is raging rampant, when the defection issues from the Bench, whose important salary, if for no other more just reasons, should command efficiency to counteract every evasion of punishment on conviction. What on earth should deter anyone from acting the rascal, when cases such as this are transpiring daily in every State of the Union. Oh Crime! Where is thy punishment? Oh law! Where is thy justice? Feb. 24, 1877.

A CORRECTION.

Editor of the American Union.—Sir: Permit me, through the columns of your paper, seeing that you have espoused the Workingmen's platform, to correct a few erroneous ideas, that many American-born citizens in the city, and probably outside of it, entertain: First, That the leaders of the Workingmen's party are foreigners. Second, That they have no right to presume to take the steps they do. Third, That they are men who have been implicated in similar movements before they came to this country. Admitting the latter to be the fact, it in nowise abrogates their right to endeavor to ameliorate the corrupt state of affairs here, which in reality exists in every department, where justice in defense of the laboring classes is brought in conflict. Always provided that their endeavors are conducted exempt from Ku-Kluxism, which implies threats and violence, producing terrorism and depression in every branch of business.

Feb. 11, 1878.

VERITAS.

THE CHILDE HAROLD.

When on his own ship's deck he stood He no greater honor sought, Than to brave the winds and waves; Fear was absent from his thought.

He entertained no lack of duty,
Nor mutterings from his crew,
He treated them as his children,
As in duty bound to do.

Full weight and good their rations were, With an allowance of grog likewise, The rain and storms they heeded not, Nor thunder from the skies.

A SUGGESTION

against horse-stealing, when no man's horse was safe; it likewise remedied the evil. The daily occurence of these two last crimes, which stain our nation's reputation not a little, require immediate effective means to abolish. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth is Bible precept, and until we abolish the system of the sycophantic practice of imprisonment for crimes which capital punishment alone can check, we deserve and merit the consequences of our own puerile and disastrous action.

Oct. 30, 1877.

A TRUE YARN.

On the 17th of February, 1854, the barque "Zoroida," Captain R—, hauled from Long Wharf, and made sail for Guaymas, in the Gulf of California, with seventy-five passengers aboard. After doubling Cape San Lucas, the ship's course was shaped for the head of the Gulf; but by some mismanagement the vessel was suddenly brought up all standing with a sort of earthquake shock, which staggered, if it did not terrify all hands. The captain, panic struck, ordered all the halliards fore and aft to be let go, but finding that the ship continued to strike harder and harder, dived below into the cabin, where he occupied his time on his marrow bones in prayer. An old salt whose name was on the passenger list, awake to the situation, exhorted attention by saying, that if the passengers would abide by his directions and see his orders obeyed, as the captain had deserted his post, he would endeavor to save the ship, which he was confident he could do. The mate was mustered and told politely, that if he did not see the orders complied with by the crew, that he would be thrown overboard. Soundings were then taken for the direction of deep water; sail was made on the ship, a spar and tackle were applied in such a manner that every time the ship lifted, by applying a

San Francisco, June 5, 1878.

VERITAS.

THE DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES.

THE SABBATH.

Having casually adverted to the propagation of marriage, I shall briefly, yet practically and materially, make a few pertinent remarks in relation to the ordination and the respect paid to the Sabbath day. For example, the Jew celebrates a Sabbath on Saturday, June 1; the Roman Catholics and all Protestants from that faith on the following day, Sunday, June 2. All who yet adopt the Old Style, or adhere to the Greek Church, their first Sunday in the same month of June,

Thou Great First Cause, least understood,
To all my sense confined;
To know but this, that Thou art good,
And that myself am blind.

That the curiosity of my readers may be assuaged respecting the tenets of my religion, I desire them to

understand that I justify my only right to live is by my readiness to preserve order; to abide by the laws of my country; to support the honor and dignity of the flag that protects me, and lastly, I anchor all hope of any future happiness on the firm conviction that, "to do to others as I would they should do unto me," will be the surest method of deserving it. Let the sternest and most criticising theologists, bigoted enthusiasts and devote religionists of whatever denomination analyze and criticise to their utmost capability. They will in no manner or respect offend me or the principles of my faith. I contemn and despise any religion whose precepts and forms will not bear every kind of investigation and examination regarding its forms and its practical result. Otherwise, I contend that it is abundant proof that absolute error exists.

Of the multitudinous abuses which exist, devoid of the least shadow of occasion, otherwise than a laxity of duty on the part of those persons who, were they placed in the position as passengers would, in all probability be the formost to complain, urged me to publish the following:

A RAILROAD ABUSE.

We recommend the Superintendents of the Street Railroad Companies to admonish their conductors of the apathy they evince in endeavoring to accommodate the patrons of their roads to obtain seats when the complement of seats are partially occupied. It is as much a conductor's duty to study the interest of the shareholders by endeavoring to accommodate its patrons, whereby the management may achieve credit for such, as they manifest for themselves by the assiduous application they use to obtain their positions. However small a matter it may appear in the eyes of some people, that others make complaints, only justifies the supposition that they were never in a position otherwise than to

serve; and who, like many of the conductors on the cars, obsequiously apply for positions, which, when conceded them, they study how little they can do. The employee who otherwise than studies to forward the interest of his employer as if it were his own, is only an eye-servant, of which there are an infinite number in this city. The above allusions are by no means intended to repudiate the amount of labor the conductors perform, and the many hours they are on duty for the low pittance they receive, in proportion to the average compensation paid others for what is termed a day's work in this city; yet I do maintain that so long as any person thinks his position worth holding, it is his duty to perform it diligently, to the best interest of his employer, or otherwise he should resign it.

Dec. 8, 1877.

The contents of the following letter forwarded by post speaks for itself:

LA PATIENCE EST AMÈRE MAIS SON FRUIT EST DOUX.

San Francisco, June 21, 1878.

Mr. Gus. S. Sutro, 536 McAllister Street.

SIR:—I regret in no mean degree that a man holding the position of Judge of the Polling transactions of the late Election, which you did, should have acted with so great a want of dignity and self-respect, as to make the remark you did to me, relative to a public official paper. Your assertion that the "Chronicle," which I had taken there, as official evidence of the boundaries of the Precincts, "not being wanted there," displayed little less than a despicable, to say the least, malignity of feeling to its Publishers and Editors only, as the mere fraction of paper on which its title was printed could in no wise have offended, more than any scrap of waste paper. Thus I take this early opportunity, as

our business relations have ceased, to state to you that, had it not been for the position I held, which I had sworn to serve faithfully, and the probability of creating a dispute likely to disturb the proceedings of the board, then engaged on official duty, I should at that time have distinctly given you to understand that was a cowardly innuendo, you would no more dare to make in the office of that paper, in presence of its Editors and Proprietors, than you have a desire, possibly, to see this in print. When the contents of the "San Francisco Chronicle" prove otherwise than to be a credit to those persons connected with it, I am at liberty to discontinue my subscription, but I should not then be justified to offend others who differed from me, under any pretext whatever, more especially a perfect stranger, and he so situated that compulsory silence was necessarily urgent; consequently, I trust you will not oblige me, in my own defence of the injury, your want of manners and misplaced arrogance led you to suppose you might inflict with impunity, to take such steps as will redound to your shame and discomfiture.

I am, sir,
Yours respectfully,
No.....St. — — —

CHI TACE CONFESSA.

The popular consequence inferred for abstaining to give a reason for an alleged offense, when asked, is paramount to an acknowledgment of the fact, or impresses an idea that the accused assumes a superiority of manhood; an unrecognized assumption in this country, which subjects the aggressor to the damning proofs of arrogance and imbecility, co-operative evils of self-defense in civil life; and thereby becomes liable to remarks likely to be constituted by the aggrieved party to vindicate his grievance. It is not the assumed

If the Jews of this city, by their desire of seeing perpetuated a benighted holocaust system, have taken umbrage at the elevated position the Proprietors of the "Chronicle" have achieved; the superior talent its Editors have displayed, and the perceptible activity of its employees, it no less evinces a lack of independence and want of perception in them to appreciate an independent journal, by their unanimity of determination to divest themselves of the advantages the Americans manifest by their superior intelligence and reliance

on extraordinary ability and perseverance. Had the same allusion been made to me, respecting any other Journal I thought proper to have in my possession, I should have resented the dastardly insult as akin to myself, and I trust have found words compatible to defend it. In presenting letters to the public anonymously signed imposes an obligation, which truth alone can defend, and I shall shield myself under no other plea, as an excuse for not being a coward, than by repeating the words, copied from a Free distributed Reply to a Discourse on our Public Schools in 1875, issued by one of the most prominent orthodox Israelites of this city: "As to my writing under a mask, I have been under the impression that it matters little to the general public, in a discussion of any principle, who may be the advocate on either side. An intelligent public, one would think, would be swayed by the reason and argument, and not by the signature affixed to a communication, which, doubtless, is the reason why communications are signed by initials."

I pity the want of dignity in those persons who write more for the satisfaction of lauding themselves than for any particular desire of discouraging evils or promoting virtue; and in the whole course of my life, I never regretted the want of means so much as I do to-day, that I am unable to distribute this work gratis.

THE PUBLIC PRESS.

What power on earth so great!
What influence so stupendous!
When dictated by unerring Truth,
Devoid of all dissembling subterfuge,
For fear of the results of showing a bold front
By exposure, to expunge existing evils.
Thrice cursed be he who wields a traitorous pen
To play the sycophant to criminals of high degree,
Or connive with error of outrageous hue.
Words are but letters. Books are but words—

The ranking of each in its respective niche, To portray the coward, or the hero; The former by his dastard acts; The hero by his faultless majesty. So then does it become this mighty power To publish its due and rightful judgment To crush or elevate.

CONCLUSION.

In conclusion, I desire to state that I have omitted many pertinent remarks and comparisons analogous to this attempt at reform, which I reserve for a future publication, as I intend to allow no stone to remain unturned, till all efforts fail me in reflecting every blasting error in its true light. My next subject I promise will be no less interesting to the public, nor will my applications be less seering to an equally pernicious evil, which I have the presumption to imagine I am perfectly competent to expose to the very bone. Furthermore, I would add, that it is my intention to perfect my attempt at reform by dramatizing each work, for which I have secured the necessary copyright.

ERRATA.

On page 4, for Spiro read Spero.

" 4, " arrière " amère.

" 30, " thousands read millions.

" 36, " suffiance " sufferance.