Chas. Joseph Seores Feature Syndicate for Irresponsible Charge
Mr. Hen, who is a non-Jew, was ac##ed in an article entitled. “It Doesn’t Pay” refeased by a New York concern operating under the title Seven. Arts Fen## Syndicate of “angling for Jewish money.” The article was under the signature of Robert Stone.
Replying to a communication from Mr. ### Mr. I hurt a rote:
“The ### cliqued are ## to engender anti-Semitism more rapadly than any ###### interest ### If I must ## the Jews themselves I have ## stomach for going ahead with a work wherewith Jewish interests, Jewish well being (even Jewish desting ), are so largely involved.
“This ## article is not particularly important in itself; the important thing is the at ## of Jewry as indicated by the fact of ##### by a major portion of the Jewish press–which, it is reasonable to assume, knows its business and its audience. As for the effects upon me, the harm it has done is impossible of reparation. I no longer have any heart for the work that for so long has been the greatest interest of my life. The enthusiasm I kept alive and active under many difficulties through the years of my self-delusion has been destroyed in an hour. ‘Finis’ has been written to my participation in Jewish affairs.
That you may understand the finality of this. I am returning all the remittances that came to me for ‘Gladiator’ subscriptions. Why should I waste the remuant of my life in striving to benefit those who resist such service, and who doubtless would persist in harassing and hampering and opposing me and continue to heap upon me base and baseless slanders, and in the end render my labors frustrate?”
Mr. Joseph urged Mr. Hurt to disregard the criticism from an unrepresentative source adding:
“I. consider it a most unfortunate and tragic incident and one which reflerts litle credit upon those of our faith who have attacked a faithful friend and devoted champion of our people and our faith.
“Waltor Hurt you are doing ## an ## and the Jewish people of the United States an even greater injustice.”
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