Smith's quotation, "that there are communities in which
lynch-law is better than any other."

From this he proceeded to decry over-wrought sentiment in favor of
criminals:

Germs of maudlin sentimentality are widespread. On every
hand we hear slimy, mushy, gushy expressions of sympathy,
the criminal called "plucky," "nervy," "fighting against
fearful odds for his life."

It is said that society has no right to put murderers to
death. In my opinion, society must fall back on the law of
self-preservation. It should cut through and make war, in my
opinion, for its life. Life imprisonment is not possible,
because there is no life imprisonment.

In the next year nine thousand people will be murdered. As I
stand here to-day I tell you that nine thousand are doomed
to death with all the cruelty of the criminal heart, and
with no regard for home and families, and two-thirds of
those murders will be due to the maudlin sentiment sometimes
called mercy.

I have no sympathy for the criminal. My sympathy is for
those who will be murdered, for their families and for their
children.

This sham humanitarianism has become a stench. The cry now
is for righteousness. The past generation has abolished
human slavery. It is for the present to deal with the
problems of the future and among them this problem of crime.
Young men, like Jerome, like Folk and Hughes, resolve never
to be servants of criminals, but to do your best to punish
crime as it should be punished.

OLD MALIGNMENTS OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

The Long-Existent Prejudice Against the
Jew Is Explained by a Leading
Rabbi of New York.

No other race has been so vilified as the Jew. Hatred for Hebrews has been
endemic in Europe since the Dark Ages, and even to-day in France and
Germany the anti-Semitic movements have considerable strength. How can
this be? Is the feeling a survival of anger at a race which rejected
Jesus? Or is it based on desperate hostility toward a race which can
succeed in business where a Gentile fails?

The Rev. Dr. S. Schulman, of the Temple Beth-El, New York City, in a
recent sermon sought to answer these questions. Part of his discourse we
quote:

We are the victims of the world's literature, of its
prevailing creed, and the popular judgment. The greatest
master in the world's literature, seeking a type that on
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