Excerpt from Jewish Life Under Emancipation

It was an old and a true allegation against John Bull that he had no tact in dealing with other races than his own. He did not mean to be unjust or unfair, but he trampled on the sensitiveness which he could not understand. In Ireland he called the Roman Catholic faith "a lie and a heathenish superstition", or, in a lighter mood, made imbecile jokes about pigs and potatoes. In Scotland, thriftiness and oatmeal were the themes of bis pleasantry, in Wales he found the language, the literature, and the local nomenclature equally comic, and reserved his loudest guffaw for the Eisteddfod. Abroad) "Foreigners don't wash" was the all-embracing formula. Nasality, Bloomerism, and Dollars epitomized his notion of American civilization, and he cheerfully echoed the sentiments

Of all who tinder Eastern skies
Call Aryan man a blasted nigger.

Now, of late years, John has altered his course. Some faint conception of his previous foolishness has dawned on his mind, and, as he is a thoroughly good fellow at heart, he has tried to make amends. The present war has taught him a good deal that he did not know before, and he renders a homage, all the more enthusiastic because belated, to the principle of Nationality.

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