The Charleston Daily News

never regarded it as a tie of affection between the editor of the Herald and myself that we both happened to be of the same religion, nor do I accept it now as a reproach: that I am of Jewish descent. Most of the Christians I have met with in this world were amenable to the same charge. Furthermore, there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent my being even a Jew. You will agree with me that we may both believe in a creed without doing much credit to it. I am not sure that the precepts of Christianity have been observed by you, Mr. Bennett. When cowhided and spat upon on the one side, you have not meekly turned the other for equal chastisement. Do not I remember that once upon a time you took refuge, like a craven, behind the crinoline of a lady, just as now you try to screen yourself. Were you the champion of the widow and the orphan when you hunted a helpless husband to the grave by the fear of persecution? Does your right hand know what your left hand does in the way of charity—or does anybody else's hand know? You boast of your wealth, but it cannot buy you respect—nor a proscenium box at the opera. But this you can do: give the cost of the proscenium box which you have occupied to the scandal of every opera habitue for three years, to some charity—say half to a Christian and half to a Jewish hospital.

The Roving Diplomat, with the compliments of MAX MARETZEK.

small change, if any remain, can be handed to the MAX MARETZEK.