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THE PROHIBITION OF
SHEHITAH.

(Continued From Page 1.)

cruelty to animals, pleading for the

legal prohibition of Shehitah. A simi-

lar sentimentality is even reported

from Russia proper at a time, when

dashing Jewish infants out of thir I
story windows %■ iiii• treated as an in

nocent, popular diversion.

.Antisee.
Mc municipalities in Austria, such as'
Homburg in 1895 and Vienna in 1913,

prohibited Shehitah in the city abat-

toirs, probably only as a demonstra-!
hon. knowing that the central atithori•

tics and tile courts would set such mi l
ordinance .1sifle as unconstitutional.

Switzerland Last to Prohibit.

The case in Sw it /erland Which fur
Milled the occasion for this presenta-

tion of the subject actually started

Independence
During War Times

' til n (1-" t•'."'Zitit';r '. c esrl a'if
( ttl,a the freest rti ::in un i t it r 's.
in Hirop•, %N.'. :inning the last to ad,
mit the Jews to full citizenship. It

PAGE SEVEN

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\Vann days—the parks—and smiling
baby faces.
These suggest the new carriage, which

brings Its to say that we arc showing the
finest and la-gest line we have ever car-
ried.

All well made--the kind to be proud of
--priced consistently right.

1 . .srecially et inplcte is our line of gon-
dola carriages and park strollers in kari-
'ous •t ins, as well as the l'ullinan sleepers
in several designs.

Twenty Gondola Carriaves
at $23.50 Each

They imoe in a rich in or \ finish , hai't sale
curtains, and all are beactjullv in., It. and
ill'holstered• We will in t he alit to re.
place these at tile price, Si/ early st It r 11,1 it

well

hail for CttatIll'ItS excluded Jews Irani'
atilt ist d.
residence, with the exception of the
two village communities of Emlingen
and Lengnau in the canton of Aar-
particularly emphasize, the spirit of
gau, w ho,.probahly granted a refuge
THRIFT and SAVINCS in rains of
there liming the Thirty Year \Var.l
smaller denominations. The half-dollars,
and originally admitted only tempor.;
COMPLETE 110;.:E FIURNIZHERS
quarters, dimes and nickels that comprise
:idly, were permitted to rennin; after '
CORNER l
Wt.( PIASTINGC
a bill are often carelessly handled and
the close of the war. These two com- ,
CLOW. 1.31 ywoocw.tno
on
Mt KOMI HOG,THVI‘Aditir
dwindle away. THESE BITS OF
inunities were granted immunity from
NOM. woo IVORTWIT“ cans can TnI urea
CHANCE AIIE VITALLY ESSENTIAL
it law, issued Nov. 13, 1855, which
rprescrbed the killing of all 'animals
IN THE LIFE OF EVERY MAN DUR-
by stniming•thent with a blow on the
ING WAR-TIME. TIIEY REPRESENT
head. This execution was extended
THE MONEY THAT ('AN BE SAVED
in 18tio to the whole canton, probably
without curtailing necessary expenditunst
for technical reasons, for the restric- 1
or restricting patriotic participation in
live laws remained in force, and it
Liberty Loans and War Charities. Gel
was just the canton of Aargau which
one of our pocket banks; we will pay
retarded the complete emancipation of
the trot until 1878. Other cantons. I
Inn, sec, began to avail themselves iil 1
the subterfuge of Shehitah prohibition
'to check the immigration of Jews. So
the city of St. ball issued such a pro•
hihition in 1874 which was declared
Interest Compounded Semi-Annually
naconstinitional two wears later. The
agltation continued. until the prohibi-
and you will be extending to a further
tion was inatIc federal law by a refer-
degree your ability to maintain and es-
endum vote, taken Aug. 211, 1893. The
tablish YOUR INDEPENDENCE. Learn
'a‘owed motive was always prevention
the habit of being thrifty and you will
4 cruelty • and, indeed, the exception
be able to care for yourself, then you van
granted for the killing of fowl by an
better care for others.
order of Oct. 2•, 1907, would seem to guaranteed by the constitution, and it
derstand the English language to
LOUIS MARSHALL'S
com.rni this explanation. Oil the had in this stand the stnoli.: support
conduct their religious worship in
other hand, the Federal Council re- of the powerful clerical party which
PROTEST.
We Make Loans on Completed Homes and
their homes. It inferentially means
fused at the beginning of the war in saw in such cast, a welcome oppor-
that neither Catholic nor Jewish serv-
1914 to suspend the law', when the tunity to demonstrate that it stood,
Those Under Construction.
ice can be conducted in a church or
(Contintn•d from Pace 1.1
I , neighboring states on which observ- not for privilege, but for a principle.
synagogue, for, if any language other
ant Jews depended for their meat sup- 'h he Prussian government, while not ago at Hartford. The audience con-
pls. issued a general prohibition sympathetic to Judaism, took the same sisted almost entirely of foreign-born than the English language is used, it
must be conducted in the homes of
against the exportation of meat. It stand, and when indiddnal cities or citizens. After I had spoken, the edi-
the worshippers or abandoned alto-
must he recognized as humane indeed counties adopted measures, int, rfer- tor of one of the leading Yiddish dail- gether. If thk is not a direct viola-
that the grand duchy of 'laden and the ing with the practice of Shehitah, the ies of
NOV York, who is a Socialist, tion of the guaranty of freedom to
kingdom of Italy made an exception higher government authorities; or the
wbrship God • according to the dic-
from the prohibition of export in favor courts promptly vetoed hit in. The spoke, approaching the s ubp ct from tates of one's own conscience, I ant
of kosher meat, and it also is to he' same was the case in Ilavaria, where au angle which the average mall at a loss to know what it means. We
equally recognized as a token of re- the controlling power is in the hands would not have understood. I can
,
have certainly not reached the point
Washington Boulevard at Clifford.
!igloos toleration that the Swiss Fed-lof the Catholics. Other states, like assure you that 1 have never hear d a %%lien a man can he suspected of trea.
more patriotic address, and that I
eral l. mined in the fourth year of the Paden and \\ nertemberg , met the an- itecer
sate an audience that was more son, sedition and disloyalty because
55 at- . adopted the same policy.
list tunic clamor for restriction by
enthusiastically receptive than that to Ile prays to God in a language other
regulations
which
did
not
seriously
in-
Action in Germany.
•ind] I have referred. I can also than English, or because he gives re-
The true interpretation of facts is tt rtere with the pract . .ce as 'Itch. So say that a very large ',ere, maw- of demos instruction to his children in
a language which he, in common with
a
a
s
-. I
' the most difficult problem of historic •
those present were the parents of
se . elice. Facts, at least in modern issued July 29. 1903, the blowing un Lt s %vim are in the American army all mankind, has for centuries re-
times, can be ascertained with the aid of the longs for the sake ■ , f ritualistic and who rejoiced that they were en- garded as a sacred language.
of newspapers, parliamentary recor , ls examination a. unsanitary, which in abl, d to demonstrate their loyalty to Espionage Will Not Be Destroyed
by Ban.
and codes tif law. The ideas underly- addition coatd lie obsiatt.d. if the longs the land which they love and cherish
'acre destroyed all" they had bee" and to which they awe the blessings
ing such fact, will always ,,,wain
'When our boys reach France thee
ject to individualistic interpretation. thus examined.
of liberty.
find themselves greatly embarrassed
Effect of War on Pi- acticc.
It is therefore difficult to rap what
There is nothing to which men and by their ignorance of French. Our
had inspired the prohibition m Slichi-
Th e war aire..t e d the ex i st i ng pi t i im wimen hold more tenaciously than French and Italian allies find it diffi-
tali in Saxony, th e onl y l arge state of !dhotis in some manner even outside their traditions, including the lan- cult to make themselves understood
tiermany which had such as law on its of S,vitzerlaild or created new legisla- guage of their ancestors. That is evi- Icy their English and American fel-
statute books. It was passed larcit tion. lit .\Isace, the municipal an _ deuced on almost every page of his- low-soldiers. One of the advantages
21, 18' , 2, and repealed Dec. 211, 1910, tharities, at the outbreak of the war. tuns \VItY, then, should we, at this that the German army is said to have
One thing is certain that Stixony had prohibited Shellitall ior the sake of Ihne. when 'it is essential that all had in 1870, as well as during the
it strong antisemitic party. Expelled conserving the blood, lint made an \ merican"Itall en - olterate , when no present war, was due to its acquaint-
lit the beginning of the sixtt•enthcent exception ill favor of the rattle „eed- .\ werican should lie made to feel that ance with French and other lan-
Suitable for medical or professional pur-
is inferior to his fellow-citizen, guages. Would America be better
ttd- Y. at the dale when Luther was the ell for the required amount oi
when no unwarranted insinuation qualified to carry on this war by
spiritual adviser of its ruler, the Jews meat. The Italian go ,,, raia•n ,
poses. Very prominent. Good advertising
.t
in
should
be made as to his loyalty, say closing its eyes to the existence of
were adiMtted to Dresden in very Honed similar legislation in
limited numbers ill 1750, ithrn the terest of conserving the hide, but also to any part of our citizenship that it languages other than English? Will
center.
Elector, hating gained the t•xpensi‘e made an exception for the required must confine itself to the use of the espionage lie destroyed by the device
English language, otherwise its loy- of prohibiting the use of a language
crown of Poland, needed the assi-t• amount of hos!), r meat.
so, as in Red I
isnrk, the war ally and patriotism is impugned and other than English publicly and per-
ance of the able banker, Berman of
Also floor space for clothing store business.
is to he deemed as giving aid and mitting it to be employed secretly?
Halberstadt.
The restrictions re - h as produced a higher regard for hi.-
enifort to the enemy?
I trust that you will pardon this
maint•II for the most part in f,o - ce mi. I man e feelin g . if we mav tern] it •
Second floor. Elaborate entrance. Rent rea-
Hebrew Schools Cannot Exist.
If ngthy letter, and I am sure that
lit the entrance of Saxony into thcl for it i; more than tinestionabl.•.
Your
proclamation,
however,
as-
you
will not misinterpret tpy motives,
North-4 ierman Federation, created in I whether Shehitah is more cruel tb..a
sonable.
n n s a more vital phase when 'Ii-
as yours, are to do all that It
18n7, i . nmpelled it to submit to I'le l any timer mode of killing. Great an
.,1 to religious instruction and is humanly possible to do for the
principle of Mil religious and ini1 . 11, at thoriti15 nil phy s i o lo g y have declre.
11,1t. As you know', the service. winning of this war by America and
equality for all citizens. The
it the most humane and, at the sue ,
tihulir ,.lurches ' 0 eundueled for the perpetration of liberty under
!mind:aim' naturally grew, anti r-•,. Mae, the most sanitary mode of pr•.
Latin. the mass, the most a democratic form of gtos eminent.
from about IMO in pre-entanciigif•tii
iding meat. This is the opinion to
part of the service, being ex- Nly deep concern is lest. in this
303 Hodges Bldg.
tint,. to 17.587 in 1910, though..fflioirities. like the Englishman Leo: solemn
i
ti
0
struggle for the preservation of lib-
number represents only a little tier
ill, the German \'ircha w
c."""
." the services
"" are
the
'r"°(."
synagogue
conducted
erty, we should destroy those things
one-third al a per cent of the tmal Italian d;rcolani.
Dr, Isaac Dentin. exclusively in Hebrew.
Instruction
The
Hirsch I lildesht.imer colic " 1 in Hebrew is a part of the education which are most essential to it, liberty
PoPhlatMm
of speech. liberty of the press and
hn•au cr. showed lt" abatement , and such statements which remove es Cry
!if ever• child which is brought in libt.rty of conscience.
it is eel-bolds significant that at the doubt. The toils thing in which a ;If?.
strictly within the traditions of Juda-
Most respectfully yours.
R. it )stag eleetions in 1909, the only test may I based
facts, I, inunil in
dasei.
ism. This instruction is given in pri-
LOUIS MARSHALL.
district which did not return a social- the case 01 Jowl ;Omit ntaY '""'" vale schools at the expense of the
Ilis Excellency.
ist, was represented by an antisemitic. the slashing, made by a very _sharp . parents or „f p hil„th r „ p i,.
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
;(iVEKNOR 11 A It DI NO.
What induced the government to re- knife on account (Si the closing up of It cannot he imparted with English
Executive Chamber,
peal the prohibition of Shehitah eight- the slash and the consequent slowlieS, as the only medium of communica-
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Des Moines, Iowa.
teen years after its enactment, is not of bleeding.
Protests
against
this
lino.
Taking
your
proclamation
lit-
.
•
President known.
•
•
stsITON KAUFMAN
It was certainly a surpri:e, practice. based on dialectical Itsistsol erally, these schools would have to
for in former years the minister of the law and preventing it s original I tr closed and these 'children would
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is attended by numerous observant Shehitah by Hirsch ltachtell•• a l'ohs'a their children in all of the lands of
Jews from the East of Europe, for in rabbi of the Seventeenth eclittln the earth for twenty centuries, even
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his excellency's opinion Shehitah was There are liberals. %silo believe them: during the dark days of medievalism.
it symbol of separation which the gov- selves to be such, who, in spite of Under your proclamation you com-
Editorial Contributor ernment saw no reason to encourage.
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN,
their hest will, have not sufficient mainl those who cannot speak or ■ 111
Individual cities, like Zittati and Lein- Lroad•mind edness to consider :Hell
reach
this sic, continued even after the abroga- cases from the viewpoint of those con-
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Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postotfice at Detroit,
declared such legislation a violation of spoke, when he denounced those who
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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