The _Flag of Judah_, price one penny, largest circulation of any Jewish organ, continued to flutter, defying the battle, the breeze and its communal1 contemporaries. At Passover there had been an illusive3 augmentation of advertisements proclaiming the virtues5 of unleavened everything. With the end of the Festival, most of these fell out, staying as short a time as the daffodils. Raphael was in despair at the meagre attenuated6 appearance of the erst prosperous-looking pages. The weekly loss on the paper weighed upon his conscience.
"We shall never succeed," said the sub-editor, shaking his romantic hair, "till we run it for the Upper Ten. These ten people can make the paper, just as they are now killing7 it by refusing their countenance8."
"But they must surely reckon with us sooner or later," said Raphael.
"It will he a long reckoning. I fear: you take my advice and put in more butter. It'll be _kosher_ butter, coming from us." The little Bohemian laughed as heartily9 as his eyeglass permitted.
"No; we must stick to our guns. After all, we have had some very good things lately. Those articles of Pinchas's are not bad either."
"They're so beastly egotistical. Still his theories are ingenious and far more interesting than those terribly dull long letters of Henry Goldsmith, which you will put in."
Raphael flushed a little and began to walk up and down the new and superior sanctum with his ungainly strides, puffing10 furiously at his pipe The appearance of the room was less bare; the floor was carpeted with old newspapers and scraps11 of letters. A huge picture of an Atlantic Liner, the gift of a Steamship12 Company, leaned cumbrously against a wall.
"Still, all our literary excellencies," pursued Sampson, "are outweighed13 by our shortcomings in getting births, marriages and deaths. We are gravelled for lack of that sort of matter What is the use of your elaborate essay on the Septuagint, when the public is dying to hear who's dead?"
"Yes, I am afraid it is so." said Raphael, emitting a huge volume of smoke.
"I'm sure it is so. If you would only give me a freer hand, I feel sure I could work up that column. We can at least make a better show: I would avoid the danger of discovery by shifting the scene to foreign parts. I could marry some people in Born-bay and kill some in Cape15 Town, redressing16 the balance by bringing others into existence at Cairo and Cincinnati. Our contemporaries would score off us in local interest, but we should take the shine out of them in cosmopolitanism17."
"No, no; remember that _Meshumad_" said Raphael, smiling.
"He was real; if you had allowed me to invent a corpse18, we should have been saved that _contretemps_. We have one 'death' this week fortunately, and I am sure to fish out another in the daily papers. But we haven't had a 'birth' for three weeks running; it's just ruining our reputation. Everybody knows that the orthodox are a fertile lot, and it looks as if we hadn't got the support even of our own party. Ta ra ra ta! Now you must really let me have a 'birth.' I give you my word, nobody'll suspect it isn't genuine. Come now. How's this?" He scribbled19 on a piece of paper and handed it to Raphael, who read:
"BIRTH, on the 15th inst. at 17 East Stuart Lane, Kennington, the wife of Joseph Samuels of a son."
"There!" said Sampson proudly, "Who would believe the little beggar had no existence? Nobody lives in Kennington, and that East Stuart Lane is a master-stroke. You might suspect Stuart Lane, but nobody would ever dream there's no such place as _East_ Stuart Lane. Don't say the little chap must die. I begin to take quite a paternal20 interest in him. May I announce him? Don't be too scrupulous21. Who'll be a penny the worse for it?" He began to chirp22, with bird-like trills of melody.
Raphael hesitated: his moral fibre had been weakened. It is impossible to touch print and not be denied.
Suddenly Sampson ceased to whistle and smote23 his head with his chubby24 fist. "Ass2 that I am!" he exclaimed.
"What new reasons have you discovered to think so?" said Raphael.
"Why, we dare not create boys. We shall be found out; boys must be circumcised and some of the periphrastically styled 'Initiators into the Abrahamic Covenant25' may spot us. It was a girl that Mrs. Joseph Samuels was guilty of." He amended26 the sex.
Raphael laughed heartily. "Put it by; there's another day yet; we shall see."
"Very well," said Sampson resignedly. "Perhaps by to-morrow we shall be in luck and able to sing 'unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.' By the way, did you see the letter complaining of our using that quotation27, on the ground it was from the New Testament28?"
"Yes," said Raphael smiling. "Of course the man doesn't know his Old Testament, but I trace his misconception to his having heard Handel's Messiah. I wonder he doesn't find fault with the Morning Service for containing the Lord's Prayer, or with Moses for saying 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'"
"Still, that's the sort of man newspapers have to cater29 for," said the sub-editor. "And we don't. We have cut down our Provincial30 Notes to a column. My idea would be to make two pages of them, not cutting out any of the people's names and leaving in more of the adjectives. Every man's name we mention means at least one copy sold. Why can't we drag in a couple of thousand names every week?"
"That would make our circulation altogether nominal," laughed Raphael, not taking the suggestion seriously.
Little Sampson was not only the Mephistopheles of the office, debauching his editor's guileless mind with all the wily ways of the old journalistic hand; he was of real use in protecting Raphael against the thousand and one pitfalls31 that make the editorial chair as perilous32 to the occupant as Sweeney Todd's; against the people who tried to get libels inserted as news or as advertisements, against the self-puffers and the axe-grinders. He also taught Raphael how to commence interesting correspondence and how to close awkward. The _Flag_ played a part in many violent discussions. Little Sampson was great in inventing communal crises, and in getting the public to believe it was excited. He also won a great victory over the other party every three weeks; Raphael did not wish to have so many of these victories, but little Sampson pointed34 out that if he did not have them, the rival newspaper would annex35 them. One of the earliest sensations of the _Flag_ was a correspondence exposing the misdeeds of some communal officials; but in the end the very persons who made the allegations ate humble36 pie. Evidently official pressure had been brought to bear, for red tape rampant37 might have been the heraldic device of Jewish officialdom. In no department did Jews exhibit more strikingly their marvellous powers of assimilation to their neighbors.
Among the discussions which rent the body politic38 was the question of building a huge synagogue for the poor. The _Flag_ said it would only concentrate them, and its word prevailed. There were also the grave questions of English and harmoniums in the synagogue, of the confirmation40 of girls and their utilization41 in the choir42. The Rabbinate, whose grave difficulties in reconciling all parties to its rule, were augmented43 by the existence of the _Flag_, pronounced it heinous44 to introduce English excerpts45 into the liturgy46; if, however, they were not read from the central platform, they were legitimate47; harmoniums were permissible48, but only during special services; and an organization of mixed voices was allowable, but not a mixed choir; children might be confirmed, but the word "confirmation" should be avoided. Poor Rabbinate! The politics of the little community were extremely complex. What with rabid zealots yearning49 for the piety50 of the good old times, spiritually-minded ministers working with uncomfortable earnestness for a larger Judaism, radicals51 dropping out, moderates clamoring for quiet, and schismatics organizing new and tiresome52 movements, the Rabbinate could scarcely do aught else than emit sonorous53 platitudes54 and remain in office.
And beneath all these surface ruffles55 was the steady silent drift of the new generation away from the old landmarks56. The synagogue did not attract; it spoke57 Hebrew to those whose mother-tongue was English; its appeal was made through channels which conveyed nothing to them; it was out of touch with their real lives; its liturgy prayed for the restoration of sacrifices which they did not want and for the welfare of Babylonian colleges that had ceased to exist. The old generation merely believed its beliefs; if the new as much as professed58 them, it was only by virtue4 of the old home associations and the inertia59 of indifference60. Practically, it was without religion. The Reform Synagogue, though a centre of culture and prosperity, was cold, crude and devoid61 of magnetism62. Half a century of stagnant63 reform and restless dissolution had left Orthodoxy still the Established Doxy. For, as Orthodoxy evaporated in England, it was replaced by fresh streams from Russia, to be evaporated and replaced in turn, England acting64 as an automatic distillery. Thus the Rabbinate still reigned65, though it scarcely governed either the East End or the West. For the East End formed a Federation66 of the smaller synagogues to oppose the dominance of the United Synagogue, importing a minister of superior orthodoxy from the Continent, and the _Flag_ had powerful leaders on the great struggle between plutocracy67 and democracy, and the voice of Mr. Henry Goldsmith was heard on behalf of Whitechapel. And the West, in so far as it had spiritual aspirations68, fed them on non-Jewish literature and the higher thought of the age. The finer spirits, indeed, were groping for a purpose and a destiny, doubtful even, if the racial isolation69 they perpetuated70 were not an anachronism. While the community had been battling for civil and religious liberty, there had been a unifying71, almost spiritualizing, influence in the sense of common injustice72, and the question _cui bono_ had been postponed73. Drowning men do not ask if life is worth living. Later, the Russian persecutions came to interfere75 again with national introspection, sending a powerful wave of racial sympathy round the earth. In England a backwash of the wave left the Asmonean Society, wherein, for the first time in history, Jews gathered with nothing in common save blood--artists, lawyers, writers, doctors--men who in pre-emancipation times might have become Christians76 like Heine, but who now formed an effective protest against the popular conceptions of the Jew, and a valuable antidote77 to the disproportionate notoriety achieved by less creditable types. At the Asmonean Society, brilliant free-lances, each thinking himself a solitary78 exception to a race of bigots, met one another in mutual79 astonishment80. Raphael alienated81 several readers by uncompromising approval of this characteristically modern movement. Another symptom of the new intensity82 of national brotherhood83 was the attempt towards amalgamating84 the Spanish and German communities, but brotherhood broke down under the disparity of revenue, the rich Spanish sect85 displaying once again the exclusiveness which has marked its history.
Amid these internal problems, the unspeakable immigrant was an added thorn. Very often the victim of Continental86 persecution74 was assisted on to America, but the idea that he was hurtful to native labor14 rankled87 in the minds of Englishmen, and the Jewish leaders were anxious to remove it, all but proving him a boon88. In despair, it was sought to 'anglicize him by discourses89 in Yiddish. With the Poor Alien question was connected the return to Palestine. The Holy Land League still pinned its faith to Zion, and the _Flag_ was with it to the extent of preferring the ancient father-land, as the scene of agricultural experiments, to the South American soils selected by other schemes. It was generally felt that the redemption of Judaism lay largely in a return to the land, after several centuries of less primitive90 and more degrading occupations. When South America was chosen, Strelitski was the first to counsel the League to co-operate in the experiment, on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. But, for the orthodox the difficulties of regeneration by the spade were enhanced by the Sabbatical Year Institute of the Pentateuch, ordaining91 that land must lie fallow in the seventh year. It happened that this septennial holiday was just going on, and the faithful Palestine farmers were starving in voluntary martyrdom. The _Flag_ raised a subscription92 for their benefit. Raphael wished to head the list with twenty pounds, but on the advice of little Sampson he broke it up into a variety of small amounts, spread over several weeks, and attached to imaginary names and initials. Seeing so many other readers contributing, few readers felt called upon to tax themselves. The _Flag_ received the ornate thanks of a pleiad of Palestine Rabbis for its contribution of twenty-five guineas, two of which were from Mr. Henry Goldsmith. Gideon, the member for Whitechapel, remained callous93 to the sufferings of his brethren in the Holy Land. In daily contact with so many diverse interests, Raphael's mind widened as imperceptibly as the body grows. He learned the manners of many men and committees--admired the genuine goodness of some of the Jewish philanthropists and the fluent oratory94 of all; even while he realized the pettiness of their outlook and their reluctance95 to face facts. They were timorous96, with a dread97 of decisive action and definitive98 speech, suggesting the differential, deprecatory corporeal99 wrigglings of the mediaeval few. They seemed to keep strict ward33 over the technical privileges of the different bodies they belonged to, and in their capacity of members of the Fiddle-de-dee to quarrel with themselves as members of the Fiddle-de-dum, and to pass votes of condolence or congratulation twice over as members of both. But the more he saw of his race the more he marvelled100 at the omnipresent ability, being tempted101 at times to allow truth to the view that Judaism was a successful sociological experiment, the moral and physical training of a chosen race whose very dietary had been religiously regulated.
And even the revelations of the seamy side of human character which thrust themselves upon the most purblind102 of editors were blessings103 in disguise. The office of the _Flag_ was a forcing-house for Raphael; many latent thoughts developed into extraordinary maturity104. A month of the _Flag_ was equal to a year of experience in the outside world. And not even little Sampson himself was keener to appreciate the humors of the office when no principle was involved; though what made the sub-editor roar with laughter often made the editor miserable105 for the day. For compensation, Raphael had felicities from which little Sampson was cut off; gladdened by revelations of earnestness and piety in letters that were merely bad English to the sub-editor.
A thing that set them both laughing occurred on the top of their conversation about the reader who objected to quotations106 from the Old Testament. A package of four old _Flags_ arrived, accompanied by a letter. This was the letter:
"DEAR SIR:
"Your man called upon me last night, asking for payment for four advertisements of my Passover groceries. But I have changed my mind about them and do not want them; and therefore beg to return the four numbers sent me You will see I have not opened them or soiled them in any way, so please cancel the claim in your books.
"Yours truly,
"ISAAC WOLLBERG."
"But if he is as ignorant as all that, how could he have written the letter?" asked Raphael.
"Oh, it was probably written for him for twopence by the Shalotten _Shammos_, the begging-letter writer."
"This is almost as funny as Karlkammer!" said Raphael.
Karlkammer had sent in a long essay on the Sabbatical Year question, which Raphael had revised and published with Karlkammer's title at the head and Karlkammer's name at the foot. Yet, owing to the few rearrangements and inversions108 of sentences, Karlkammer never identified it as his own, and was perpetually calling to inquire when his article would appear. He brought with him fresh manuscripts of the article as originally written. He was not the only caller; Raphael was much pestered109 by visitors on kindly110 counsel bent111 or stern exhortation112. The sternest were those who had never yet paid their subscriptions113. De Haan also kept up proprietorial114 rights of interference. In private life Raphael suffered much from pillars of the Montagu Samuels type, who accused him of flippancy115, and no communal crisis invented by little Sampson ever equalled the pother and commotion116 that arose when Raphael incautiously allowed him to burlesque117 the notorious _Mordecai Josephs_ by comically exaggerating its exaggerations. The community took it seriously, as an attack upon the race. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goldsmith were scandalized, and Raphael had to shield little Sampson by accepting the whole responsibility for its appearance.
"Talking of Karlkammer's article, are you ever going to use up Herman's scientific paper?" asked little Sampson.
"I'm afraid so," said Raphael; "I don't know how we can get out of it. But his eternal _kosher_ meat sticks in my throat. We are Jews for the love of God, not to be saved from consumption bacilli. But I won't use it to-morrow; we have Miss Cissy Levine's tale. It's not half bad. What a pity she has the expenses of her books paid! If she had to achieve publication by merit, her style might be less slipshod."
"I wish some rich Jew would pay the expenses of my opera tour," said little Sampson, ruefully. "My style of doing the thing would be improved. The people who are backing me up are awfully118 stingy, actually buying up battered119 old helmets for my chorus of Amazons."
Intermittently120 the question of the sub-editor's departure for the provinces came up: it was only second in frequency to his "victories." About once a month the preparations for the tour were complete, and he would go about in a heyday121 of jubilant vocalization; then his comic prima-donna would fall ill or elope, his conductor would get drunk, his chorus would strike, and little Sampson would continue to sub-edit _The Flag of Judah_.
Pinchas unceremoniously turned the handle of the door and came in. The sub-editor immediately hurried out to get a cup of tea. Pinchas had fastened upon him the responsibility for the omission122 of an article last week, and had come to believe that he was in league with rival Continental scholars to keep Melchitsedek Pinchas's effusions out of print, and so little Sampson dared not face the angry savant. Raphael, thus deserted123, cowered124 in his chair. He did not fear death, but he feared Pinchas, and had fallen into the cowardly habit of bribing125 him lavishly126 not to fill the paper. Fortunately, the poet was in high feather.
"Don't forget the announcement that I lecture at the Club on Sunday. You see all the efforts of Reb Shemuel, of the Rev39. Joseph Strelitski, of the Chief Rabbi, of Ebenezer vid his blue spectacles, of Sampson, of all the phalanx of English Men-of-the-Earth, they all fail. Ab, I am a great man."
"I won't forget," said Raphael wearily. "The announcement is already in print."
"Ah, I love you. You are the best man in the vorld. It is you who have championed me against those who are thirsting for my blood. And now I vill tell you joyful127 news. There is a maiden128 coming up to see you--she is asking in the publisher's office--oh such a lovely maiden!"
"What maiden?"
"I do not know; but vai-r-r-y beaudiful. Aha, I vill go. Have you not been good to _me_? But vy come not beaudiful maidens130 to _me_?"
"No, no, you needn't go," said Raphael, getting red.
Pinchas grinned as one who knew better, and struck a match to rekindle131 a stump132 of cigar. "No, no, I go write my lecture--oh it vill be a great lecture. You vill announce it in the paper! You vill not leave it out like Sampson left out my article last week." He was at the door now, with his finger alongside his nose.
Raphael shook himself impatiently, and the poet threw the door wide open and disappeared.
For a full minute Raphael dared not look towards the door for fear of seeing the poet's cajoling head framed in the opening. When he did, he was transfixed to see Esther Ansell's there, regarding him pensively133.
His heart beat painfully at the shock; the room seemed flooded with sunlight.
"May I come in?" she said, smiling.
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