The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-23
CARLYLE AND THE JEWS.


CARLYLE AND THE JEWS.
To THE EDITOR OF THE New York HERALD
Thomas Carlyle lately asked. .How long will John
Bull stand having q miserable Jew dance on his
belly?" 1t is more than time that the numerous
intellectual ruffians, whom the author of ''Sartor
Resartus represents, should receive fitting rebuke;
not but that the Jews, the classic race, superior
decay could well afford to treat with unaffected con-
tempt these false prophets who still sni1 with
dent gusto the bloody memories Of Titus Andronicus
The essential fact is not whether Lord Beaconsfeld
is not successful Prime Minister; the essen
tial fact Is that his origin-raceis used term of
reproach. Would Thomas Carlyle dare to apply the
expression miserable Protestant miserable Catho-
lic" to any one?" How dare he reserve his brutal
and inconsistent bigory for Englands brilliant and
gifted Prime Minister. who spurns 1.-The disturber
Of the peace Of Europe" with one foot,
while the other trembles the verge
the sweet but narrow circle Of generous hearted.
gentle friends. imagine that examples such Gold
win Smith. Wagner. Carlyle represent (not to mem
ton the immortal name of the late lamented A. L.
Stewards grave GUARDIAN are rare exceptions. Such
is not. the case; they are only too numerous. Had
this class decency they would not be eager to
tear away the veil that covers the naked wounds Of
the most heroic and enduring people of sacred or
profane history people who flourish after wsding
through the blood and insults of twenty CEN
turiss-a people who survive the unexampled saugh-
ters Of the Latin pagans. while already the MEM
cries of their executoners have grown gray and dim
in the mist of agesa people who survive their deci
nation by the rabble Of medieval Europe and the
horrors Of the Spanish Inquisition and who still
likely to survive despite the contempt of the histor
cal comedian of the French Revolution. How dare
these creatures use the word jew" but with
ence, gratitude and love- when they and their class
know well that far back the days of Nnevehs
royal magnifcence the Jews already had their inn
mortal poets, statesmen and warriors their beaut-
f,f1 md nnf1 yua
while their ancestors covered in the wreched huts
and holes to gnaw their rawbones in darkness. cold
and dirt These iconocasts very pous after their
own fashion, the murderous executioners Of the
Spanish Inquisition and anto da e performed their
horrid functions telling their beads and holding aof
the emblem of Him who taught and preached the
philosophy of love. And this CHASTITY mockery of
religion is echoed to-day only because they who would
act it dare not 1t is only reserved for philosophers of
the blood andron school to prostitute their gener
GUS gifts and lay their infectious but still beautiful
lies at the bloody shrine of hero worship. Yet Mr.
Carlyle is curiously pious and ostensbly worships
Him who said. Love We one another" despite the
anomaly that he dees the gore cotted tigers Of the
Mr.. Carlyle, since the Highlandcrs and the Lowland
were slaughterng each other with ferocity
Mr.. Carlyle. is Lord BaconsHeld miserable Jew
because he belongs to u loving race, in the veins OF
whom the fratricidal drop does not how? and is it
not strange. Mr.. Carlyle. that Jesus Christ-that
sublime Jew-shOuld spring from and belong to the
whose intensity and fidelity OF affections are
unique among the family Of nations? Know false
prophet that to-day the Jewish bears the same
relation to other that you believe Christ bears
TO the individual Ingratitude Is the eprosy Of the
SOUL Carlyle and your class this is your nfrmity-
you with honey on your lips, fire your
tongues and fints in your heartsl Rochefou-
Is that the reason why You and your class who
obliged to the Jews for all your religions manu-
featuring Jewish literature into multfarous creeds
who obliged to the Jews for half your artistic and
commercial pr0sperity-cannot forgive them? o
give back what we have lent you and forgive US!
Know. Carlyle and your class. that they who gnaw
file destroy their teeth. You have been gnawing at
the Jews . long time; and 1t In q curious fact that
the very nations who in the past have distinguished
themselves by Jewish prosecutions are to-day in
advanced stage Of national decay dead and buried
in the dust and oblivion of many ages. scorpion
like, they have stung themselves to death. How well
the file survives The foundation of English iuris-
prudence has its origin in rabbinical lore. The mod
ern schools Of philosophy reverently salute the
Spinoza. Feeble shadows all their school.
men cast beside the towering majesty Of
Maimonides. Eliminate from your creeds all
that proceeded from and was influenced
by the Jews, and you would not have enough left to
inspire tract Who helped to preserve pure iitera
turc and learning amid the barbaric darkness the
Middle Ages but learned Jews? In what literature
can you and sublimer philippines and olynthics than
those of the inspired Jews Isaiah and David Take
only from the present century the names Of Jews
whose genius has adorned science and art and what
> vast gap would be left yawning in modern prog
tuosi we're and are Jews; yet Wagner that musical
ne bitter. asserts that Jews really have soul for
company know that nature has made the Jews
they are also miserable Jews. MI. Carlyle Sis
finds . bagpipe. haggis and = peck o. maui
sufficient for his aesthetic needs There is not sim
gls European to-day which has not Jewish
many irreparable. challenge Carlyle and his
class to name . denomination who will equal in
proportion to numbers, the magnificent charities of
the Jews. True, II they understand the art of money
making better than you. they also understand better
than you do the diviner part generously sharing it,
File bitcrs do the Jews fill your penal institutional
How often do drunken JewY ia
y Jew hung for murder? Are not Jewish women
chastel Mr.. Carlyle. did you ever hear Of jewish
bank directors indulging in the Pecksnfian fsllacy
or swindling the shareholders of . bank out Of
$50 900 That honor Mr.. Carlyle. was reserved
never such fools They understand banking Compare
the criminal statistics Of the Jews with those OF any
denomination and the extraordinary fact will stare
you in the face that they the most law abiding
people In the world II the Jews are miserable, y
1t because they not whiskey drinking people?
Russia, prominently autocracy of file biters, Is
smarting to-day under the humliating conscious
Of her inability to negotiate oan refused her
by Jewish bankers. Mr.. Carlyle. you who failed
poet In your youthful, file biting days. and you who
openly declare your hostility to poetry will be ex-
cused II you are unable to perceive poetical justice
ut the head Of and control the finances OF the
world. This little handful OF people, 1.-The chosen
few. who, compared 10 those surrounding them.
u drop In . bucket are such an important factor
in the business of the world that Its entire social
structure would be shaken and shattered to it's
foundation II deprived OF their support for q single
week "The mills Of the gods grind slowly but they
grind exceeding fne." Russia ruled by the last Of
the Beshazzsrs shivers to the heart the stark and
spectre OF nihilism points to the
Meme. meme tcke nphdrsin' OF the future Roumana
has suffered she made others suffer II In precisely
this class Of Russian, Houmanian and Polish Jews
who having settled in this country attract attention
by their mannerism. The scourging of twenty cen
turtles seem TO have bent them down - with mantle
of lead Having lived long in darkness In IL y
wonder that they should look feel and act strange,
dazed and half blinded by the white light Of freedom
and the grand possibilities of sefrespect Look
faces Of those poor creatures and you will be struck
by the psthos of expression that yet to cry,
30 God, yet how long p 1t Is this class who, at
tanning competence. betray how unaccustomed they
to comfort by childish ostentation of manner,
which looks like shoddyism. but Is not. II is only
the ignorance Of not knowing how to be happy grace
fully. This condition easily disappears after the
first second generation, while each succeeding
naturally assumes the elegant bearing and uncbru-
sive refinement OF manner characteristic of all ORR.
entail races.