The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-28
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
tFrom thu, London Tablet. Sept. 6.

The Position o.. the Jews in Europe.
tFrom thu, London Tablet. Sept. g. |,
Unquestio, Iably one of the most remark
able feasug,e Of the present SITUATION ,.h
Europe ys the ascendency which ye"sn
tinance and Jewish activity e1etS Al ra. .ne
reading centres of the anti. Christian IeSo-
lntion. It 10 nothing new for jews 70 DC
successful In money dealings, nothing new
for jews to display great ana; IN GER
tain sense, daring activity. Mhas, now.
capitalists and Jewish journalists, in Ger
mary. in Austria, and In Italy especially,
have &C cepted and improved az Bonrse. rig
gers ard opinion riggers on the side OF the
tian civilization. We do not mean to say
thai, there are not numerous and honorable |
exceptions. On the contrary, there are
m any good and worthy members OF the
Hebrew persuasion, men who sincereiy anu
npriphtly practice the faith of their fathers.
while they exhibit towards Christianity all
the kindliness and respect which are com
patible with an unhappy adhesion to the
errors of the superseded dispensati0n'
Wherever the Catholic meets with he
sympathy and feels for theIn regard. IL Id
not of such Jews, however, that we are
speaking, but Of the crafty and unscrupu-
.aons tribe of stock -jobbers ana JoooeIs an
politics who have descended like locusts or
risen like the malaria In so many Catholic
countries, and who mnkin9 comfnon cause
with every variety Of i@piety and Inn
morality, debauchees and atheists, snarch-
lists and despots, free-masons and free
lovers, seem solely intent upon the work OF
uprooting aud destroying the very founda-
tions OF religion, morality, and Justice from
tho ninds Of governments and nations. 10
acenoordat to DO broken In the spite OF
solemn engagements, is a sainted Pontif
to be- reviled and insulted In his august
captivity Jewpoliticians are at hand to
violate public faith. Jewish Journalistic
are eager in the business Of outrage and
contumely. IL banking swindle to be
pulled Jew cunning iinprovises the con-
trivance, jew capital supplies the means
by which o city, q province, population
is to be cajoled and hocussed into the
Grundung or Gesel'sehatt which Is . to spread m.
munity. Is q Religious Corporation to be
suppressed and robbed, its helpless mem
bers cast into the streets or baniahed a
Dina of the Opinione, an Arbib OF the
paper and pen and goodwill to extol con.
.7scation and to glo,ify cowardice and
cruelty.
- In Sy-gone centuries it was Paganisn
Christianity, as the Revolution Expresses i
to-day, and under the Cesars, as unde
the Caliphs and Soldans, the most bite
enemies of persecuted Christendom were t.
be found among willy, Jew slaves who ha'
man proconsuls, and Saracenic Emirs. II
the dawn of the middle. ages, when thu
young civilization Of Christian Europe wa
still learning to sit erect and to couch 1T
invincible spear, there was not townlant
on the coasts of the Mediterranean which
had not to dread the passage of the fatiye
eyed traders who, while they sold theil
snowy wares to the curious populace, OF
dispensed their coin to the INDECENT noble
were mapping dowa the windings OF the
river and the ramparts of the castle for the
swift keels of the Barbsry galleys and thu
stealthy escalade of the turbaned pirates
Where the gaberdine penetrated the cattat
followed. Jew brokers supplied the hare re |;
dens, Kidnapped by heathen Borussians fo
the procurers of the infdel. We know thu
terrible consequences for the Jews them
selves of the maddened indignation Of Eu
rope, consequences which must be lamentet
and condemned, but which, unhappily, car
be only too fully accounted for. Forum
ately, in course of time, the jews iearnes
prudence as Europe gained strength, ant
Europe in turn was able to snow Soieratio'
in recompense for amendment.
AS the Abbes Lemonn-both convert
from Judaism-have recently reminde'
their unconverted brethren, nowhere dl'
the jews, after the first heat Of Christian
that frat heat, receive q forgiveness o
tender and enjoy o protection 30 secure q
within the royalty of the Sovereign Pontif
The dispersed race themselves were Won
to call Rome !" the paradise OF the Jews.
England expelleeits Hebrew population
Spain sharpened against them the swor
OF its political Inq 1isition. In Rome th
life and property Of the jews was the sut
ject Of a special providence, and 1t SCENE
as if, in the lapse of time, the 1sraeiite
most learned to love the Church, at lea
at Rome, while assuredly the Church straiI
ed every law, short of violating the righ
of conscience, in order to win the hear
and predispose the Wills of her jewish sui
iecta Within the Jewiah quarter, the chi
dren of Israel were as free to practice the
faith and their national customs as with
the Holy City which had passed away fro'
them. Nay, they were more free, and
multiplied immunities could blunt I'll
edge of exile, they had no reason to regre
the valleys of Jud0a. The very rents {
their dwellings could not be raised above
fixed and moderate rate. Every descriE
ton Of service, even the obligation of bea!
ing arms, which could possibly hurt thei