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Gluck agreed readily, naming a low figure. After half an hour's discussion it was reduced by ten per cent. "Good-bye, then," said De Haan. "So let it stand. We shall start with a thousand copies of the first number, but where we shall end, the Holy One, blessed be He, alone knows. I will now leave you and the editor to talk over the rest. To-day's Monday.
He brought with him fresh manuscripts of the article as originally written. He was not the only caller; Raphael was much pestered by visitors on kindly counsel bent or stern exhortation. The sternest were those who had never yet paid their subscriptions. De Haan also kept up proprietorial rights of interference.
De Haan also extorted a condition that the Flag should continue to be the organ of the Kosher Co-operative Society, for at least six months, doubtless perceiving that should the paper live and thrive over that period, it would not then pay the proprietor to alter its principles.
"But do you mean to say you look upon them as facts?" cried Raphael, sawing the air wildly and pacing about on the toes of the Committee. "Surely!" said De Haan, while a low growl at his blasphemous doubts ran along the lips of the Committee. "Was it treacherously to undermine Judaism that you so eagerly offered to edit for nothing?" said the furniture-dealer who was always failing.
Any Jewish paper could be entirely supported by voluntary contributions as, for the matter of that, could any newspaper in the world." He got up and shook the coal-dust languidly from his cloak. "Besides, we shall all be helping you with articles," said De Haan, encouragingly. "Yes, we shall all be helping you," said Ebenezer.
De Haan immediately conceived a vast contemptuous admiration of the man. "You von't forget me," whispered Pinchas, buttonholing the editor at the first opportunity, and placing his forefinger insinuatingly alongside his nose. "You vill remember that I expect a commission on your salary."
"You are playing into the hands of our enemies," said De Haan, shaking his head. "We must not let our readers even imagine that the prayer-book can be tampered with. It's the thin end of the wedge. To trim our liturgy is like trimming living flesh; wherever you cut, the blood oozes. The four cubits of the Halacha that is what is wanted, not changes in the liturgy.
"It'll be enough if we cover the East End," said Schlesinger, drily. "Quite so. The East End is London as far as we're concerned," said De Haan readily. Raphael took the pen and the paper which De Haan tendered him and wrote The Flag of Judah, the title having been fixed at their first interview. "The only orthodox paper!" dictated De Haan. "Largest circulation of any Jewish paper in the world!"
"Moreover," said he, "I noticed that it is expected of these papers to publish obituaries of communal celebrities, for whose biographies no adequate materials are anywhere extant. It would scarcely be decent to obtrude upon the sacred grief of the bereaved relatives with a request for particulars." "Oh, that's all right," laughed De Haan.
Grotius and Hoogerbeets were confined in the castle of Louvestein. Moersbergen, a leading patriot of Utrecht, De Haan, pensionary of Haarlem, and Uitenbogaard, the chosen confidant of Maurice, but the friend of Barneveldt, were next accused and sentenced to imprisonment or banishment. And thus Arminianism, deprived of its chiefs, was for the time completely stifled.
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