The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-03-21


licences of Indebtedness forced from them
their goods seized, and they themselves, thus
stripped Of everything, banshed the king
dom. In the same realm of France, having
been allowed to return, in the year 1921 9
most horrible massacre was inflicted upon
them. In their agony, Jewish fathers and
and mothers threw their children to the
Christian mob to appease their devilsh fu.
ry, and in vain. On the breaking out Of the
plague in the following year, the widest
crimes were laid to their charge, and in
whole provinces every Jew was burned. At
Chinon, a deep ditch was dug, an enormous
pile was raised, and one hundred and sixty
of both sexes burned together.
They appeared in England at an early age
and they were petted and plundered and per.
secuted. In 1889 because some of them came
to witness the coronation of King Richard
OF the Lion Heart they were attacked by the
mob, their houses pillsged aud burned, and
themselves murdered and in York where il
was proposed to force them to Christian bsp-
tism they preferred voluntary .martyrdom.
Persecution and plumber continued, exclu.
sion from trades and calliugs, refusal of 9TH
ers to deal with them, fines and imprisouments
made life intolerable and in 1853 they
begged, of their own accord, to be allowed to
leave the kingdom. They were pursu.ded
t. remain, for they bad wealth snd they
were industrious but in 1900 they were
driven from the shores of England, pursued
by the execrations of the infuriste rsbble,
after leaving in the hands Of the king all
their property, accounts, obligations and
mortgages. Time and space fail to follow
them through Spain and Holland and Ger
many, and recount the prosecutions, and
murders and plunderings to which they were
subjected. 1t is horrible beyond dcscrip-
tion and almost beyond the Imagination to
conceive. The decree of Edward l. by which
they were banished from England in 1890
remained in force for more than 300 years ::
and it was while they were under the han
of that decree. that the prediction now un-
der consideration was made. When to all
human foresight no such thing was posi-
ble when no Jew dared put HE foot in Eng
land, when King, Lords aud Commons we're
all supporting the persecution Of the hated
race, we are told that at last England shall
admit Jew. But it was not until the reipn
OF Charles H., more than 200 Year, after the
utterance of the prophecy that they we're
permitted to return. In 1928 they acquired
the right to possess land, in 1853 they OBJ.
taned the right of naturalization. Nearly 4
hundred years after, they could be meu bsrs.
OF civic corporations, then advocates 4; in
1915 they could hold the Office of Alderman
and Lord Mayor, in 1853 they were admit
ted to Parliament, and in 1868 Mr.. Disraeli,
Jew, was made Prime Minister of England.
4 little more than 400 years had elapsed
Ance the prediction, and England not only
4 ,.nitted the hated and psrsecsted and ban
ished Jew, but Jew guided the des,ine, Of
that England in which 600 years BEFORE he
dared not even to reside.
And it is net among the least curious of
these historical facts, that the second clause
of the first part of this prophecy, that rels.
ting to the religious element of it, should
~ g." anu Shu uuiihk tu0 premiership OI
this same Jew. That the Cross under his
management Of the foreign policy Of Eng
land should rise over the Crescent, and that
England should be restrained under his lea
dership, from carrying out the so.called east.
ern policy. Nor is it beyond the considera-
ton Of this question, to remember that many
English statesmen consider the policy of Mr..
Disraeli most inimical to the welfare of
England-that the peace of Berlin is but a
sowing of the dragons teeth, and that all
the pomp aud parade of ministers, will he
but dust and ashes, Would it not be stern
historical compensation to find the wind
sown by England, return . whirlwind out of
the hand os this jew? Look at the politi-
cal and social condition Of the nations which
for long years plundered, and .persecuted
and butchered his race, see the position in
which this peace of Berlin has placed them,
bark to the mutterings of new wars in vsri-
Gus parts of the empire of Grest Britain
which already load the breeze, consider the
difficulty of carrying out the provisions Of
this patched up peace, the load assumed by
England in her new role of guardian, and
then remember that peace as the work Of the
Jew, and in that light consider the last two
lines of the prophecy.