In our opinion one of the mosteffective ways of stopping
these appalling evils, evils as degrading to the persecutors as to the persecuted, is publicity. This is just one of the cases where publicity, though it may sometimes seem to do harm, is the only real cure. If the Jews are wise they will court, not resent, investigation on such obscure points M the revolutionary action of the secret societies, and of the connection of the Jews there- with. As a proof of our belief in publicity We would point to two things--theiPreyfes trial and the ritual murder trial in Russia. The tremendous publicity given to both of these trials helped the Jews rather than injured them. Of course we do not expect the Jews to be pleased with the Spectator, and we admire rather than condemn the Jewish Chronicle for its desire to hit back at us or anyone else whom it regards as a tormentor of Israel. All the same, and assuming, as we indeed do, the com- plete innocence of the Jewish race as a whole, we are convinced that we shall prove in the end the best friend of the beet Jews. We do not expect theJews ever to admit this. They will naturally take the line of " Save us from such hateful friends a these l "
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