, 1872-12-27

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THE ROUMANIkN JEWS.
And the Rncc characteristics "h1ca
arc tho Secrets of Their Power
From the London Saturday Rcrisw:
It is not merely religious fanaticsrn that sets
the Roumanians against tho jews. 1t Is the Ola
story. The Jews aro too clover for the chris
tians. They aro more thrifty, more Intelligent,
more united. They make money when the dc,
graded Christians do not make it. They lend
money and get hold Of the property OF their
There is something certainly very sweet in the
barbarous mind in first taking mans money,
and then, when he wants his money back, kick
ing him and boating him and half killing him on
high religious grounds. The Roumanians aro
in this respect only in the mental state in which
Englishmen we're in the thirteenth century.
The strange thing is, that in spite Of all perse-
cution the Jows hold their ground. An e1-
tremo amount Of persecution, Of course,
quenches the efforts and spirits Of the Jews, as
it does the efforts and spirits OF every body OF
men.
Tho Jews wore kept out Of England from the
days Of Edward I. to tho days of Cromwell.
They we're hunted into Morocco or into the pale
Of the Church by the Spanish inquisition. But
they aro not to be crushed By half measures.
Wherever money is to be mado, and they are
permitted to hold life even as persecuted and
miserable race, they flourish, multiply, and
grow rich. No spot is too remote, no form OF
trade too disgusting, no climate too unhealthy
for the jew. He does not fear insulation or dis
comfort, for ho and his people have been for
centuries isolated and miserable. He is sus-
tanned BY tho tradition Of his race, by the sym
pathy Of his brethren, by the hopes Of his reig-
accumulates. In Roumania the Jews are said to
be hated more than in the other aemi-bnrba1ous
countries in the vicinity, because there are so
many Of them there. They aggrayate the Chris
tians by multiplying as the sands Of the seas,
where they are most trodden under foot and
prosecuted; and fear OF q power they cannot
crush is ones.a<. the strongest influences at work
to animate t6eIury Of the Roumanian popu1a-
ton.
There is no real difference between the Rou-
mia, nor they in their turn, be separated from
the Jews OF Germany, OF France, or Of England.
The dirty, greasy usurpers of Roumania are the
humble brethren OF the fnanciers Of London and
Frankfort, and that the Jews are great power
in Europe is incontestable: What arc, it may
be asked, tho secrets Of their power? They
are religion, the capacity for making money,
and internal union. 4 ceremonial, and, there
fore, exclusive religion, a religion that binds
together its members by rites that seem strange
to the rest OF the world, has a strong hold
upon those who are within the fold. They
are like the tenants of beleagured fort cut
off from tho rest OF mankind and obliged to
protect themselves and help each other. But
eminence. Tho Jews and the Parsees are
eminent, not only becauee they circuncise
their sons, or light fires on the tops of their
houses, but because they make money.
The money they have gives them conse-
quence; but it is not only the money itself that
ing money which raise them the patience, the
good sense, the capacity for holding on when
others arc frightened, the dnring to make
stroke when the risk is sufficient to appal.
And the Jows are not only religious and rich,
they are bound together by intimate ties. Tho
inner world Of Judaism is that of Democracy.
The millionaire never dreams of despisng. or
failing to aid his poorest nnd most degraded
brother The kindnesso of Jews for Jews is unfail-
ing, spontaneous and unaffected. The shabbiost
hat buyer or orange seller Of Hounsditch is as
sure Of having the means provided for him OF
keeping the sacred feast Of the Passover as if ho
lived in Piccadilly mansion. To the oyes Of
Jews even tho most degraded of Jews do not
seem so degraded as they do to the eyes OF tho
outer world. The poorest, porhaps,. have pos.
sessions which redeem them in tho eyes Of
their brethren, and many OF the lowest,
greasiest, and most uuattractiVe Hebrews
clothes or skins arc known BY theircoreligio
to be able to repeat by note portions of tie sa-
cred volumes BY the hour at d time. Toalltheso
permanent causes Of Jewish eminence there
must, however, be added one that has only had
time to develop itself since extreme bigotry has
died away, and since in Western Europe the
Jews have beon treated, first with contemptuous
toloretion, then with cold respect, and finally,
when they are very, very rich, with sorv1o ado
ration.
These people-so exclusive, so intensely na-
tiona1, SO intimately linked toGether-hayo
shown the most astonishing aptitude for idonti-
flying themselves with the several countries in
which they have cast their fortunes. An Eng
-1e1,y, rfo1r f,at>
it's and English education, makes an excellent
magistrate, plays to perfection tho part Of e
squire, and even exercises diecreetly the power
which, with its inexhaustiblo oddity, the English
law gives to him, while it denies it to members
Of the largest Christian Sect and presents in
cumbentH to livings as to please tho most fas-
tidious Bishops. Tho French Jews wero stout
friends of France during tho war; served n
volunteers in the defence of Paris, and opened
their purses to the national wants and their
houses to the suffering French. Tho German
Jews were us stout Germans in their turn,
and IN war, as in peace, they arc always
ready to show themselves Germans az well Us
Jews. It is the combination OF the qualities OF
both nations that is now raising the foremost of
the German Jews to tAoir high rank in the
world OF wealth. In th.t world, to bo German
1s to be trader who il is very hard to rival to
be Jow, is to bo Cd operator whom it is inroB-
sible to beat; but 20 be 8 German jew is to be q
prince and captaiu among the people.
In this way tde Jews have managed to oyer-
como much af the antipathy which would nat
ura!}y attack to mon Of an alien race and an alien
standing nloof from England and Eng
lishmea. But it is impossible there
shout not be somo sort Of aocia1 barrier be-
twcsn tho Jews and the Christian. They oAn-
n> intermarry, and it necessarily chius the
hndness and intimacy of family intercourse
whcn NIL the young people know that friendship
can pc-c- grow into anything else. In order to
overcome this obstacle, many wealthy Jews have