Show 1 I Rabbi Freund on Temperance 1 Explains for Our Readers why Jews are Not i Drunkards i McClure's in recent issues has been publishing articles touching on the liquor In one such a man who had gone into the saloon business gives his Several times in the course of that article he takes occasion to comment on the fact that during his career as he had never seen a Jewish In fact he ex- 1 presses an admiration of the tem- j habit of the This 1 generalization in praise of the so- i briety of the Jew is made by a non-Jew and is concurred in by j many who give attention to a study of the When we seek the reason for the sobriety of the Jewish people it will not be found attributable to abstention or Judaism teaches a temperate and proper use of all of the good things that life has to Abstinence as an extreme i h is as harmful as the other extreme of What is needed for all religious denominations to teach and have is This the Jew to an Morality can not be legislated into it must be the growth and response to the understanding of what can be helpful to The safe and sane course is the The Jew is not a But not from utilitarian selfish motives because of what he can get out of the business of Wine is used in Jewish ceremonial It is not And the moderate use of spirituous liquors is not to be The true solution of the whole problem is the proper regulation of the in the encomiums of the heaped the Jew for his beautiful home he has succeeded here where have Excess evert as that of un bridled intolerance of the clamorous advocates of prohibition is as detrimental to moral well being It as physical must react for In this brief article for several reasons for temperate sobriety of the I have not endeavored to adduce scientific may be secured from a reference to the article on alcoholism to be found in the Jewish Encyclopedia published by Funk and to be secured at the public The Jew is not a but a firm believer in life and RABBI CHARLES J. |