New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-09

THE AVTI-.JEWLSH MOVElfENT IN GERNANf
The movement against the Hebrews whlch
began in Germany last Summer has developed
TO such an extent that it has become positive
fanaticism and has carried with II many ln'ei-
Eeent people who would seem by their soclai
nosition and character to be placed far above
the influence of race or religious prejudice.
II is. perhaps. not surprising that the reaction
ary and ultramontane newspapers should JOIN
in the crusade; but that many liberal organs
should express sympathy for 1t is clrcuh-
stance which astonishes coOl-headed observers
in the German cities. One of the journals oil
the latter class discussing what it calls the great
" question of the future for Eastern Ger
"many,n complains that all the lower forms OF
labor and service in the workshops, the felds,
the bitches and the swamps, fall to the lot OF
the German element. while the constantly IN
creasing Jewish element obtains enormous
possessions in capital and land, and raises
itself 20 power and influence in every depart
ment of public life. TO speak OF the protest
AGAINST this tendency" says this journal, " IN
ga frivolous fashion, as II 1T were mcdlD-
oval persecution of the Jews, Is to SANDER
History, patriotism and the ideal conception
Z" of the Nation and the Fatherand." Among
eminent men who have joined in this singular
and unreasonable movement, Is Professor
Treitschke. who says. in the last issue OF the
Prussian JahrJnch, that the Jews are not Ger
mans; that they are incapable of German
notTiotism that they have their own national
life, their own ideas, and that they strive TO
extend. fortify and elevate their nationality at
the expense of German nationality.
Ii is curious to observe that III Germany
there is no such complaint oil the ignorance
and bad manners of the Jews rs was made at
come of our fashionable American watering
places last year. On the contrary the hostile
feeling is chiefly occaSioned by the fact that IL
larger proportion of them are educated, we'll
TODD and possessed of social and political in
fluence than of the German element. Professor
Treitschke says that in few years every tenth
educated man will he a jew, for that Is the
proportiOn of Jews to non-Jews in the
higher institutions of learning, although the
nropor!lon of the Hebrew element in the pop
ulation to other elements Is only one to sew
enty-fve. In fact, the essence of the COM
plant is that the Jews not only have more
children, but educate them better and know
how TO acquire wealth. anu SUTTON utttcI lHdh
the genuine Teutons
The anti-SemItc agitation, rs its friends
term it Qts opponents apply the appropriate
old German word Judcnhet>e). has for it's pur-
pose the exclusion of Jews from clubs, social
circles, public Offices and important business
trusts. How unreasonable, unchaIitable ana
antagonistic TO the spirit of the age II is we
need not stop to discuss, further than to say
that il will occur to every sensible man that
if the German race cannot hold It's own
against the competition of n small minority Of
Israelites whose nationality IL more or less a
bar TO their advancement even in the most lib
eral portions Of the Empire. il deserves to 90
under. 1t is gratifying to learn that the Ger
man Crown Prince has placed himself
squarely in opposition to this absurd
movement. At concert for charitable
purposes last month of the Jewish CultaShdlie
in Berlin, the Emperor, the Empress, the
Grown Prince aud his wife, and other mem
bers of the Imperial family, publicly declared
by their presence that they have no sympathy
with the persecution; and the day before the
event the Grown Prince said to Councillor
Magnus that he desired by his attendance at
the Synagogue Concert To show his uuquall-
fled opposition To the hostile movement against
the Jews. 81 have been long time abroad,
he continued. There first read the news OF
1.-THE ant-Semitic agitation in Berlin. The
feeling / had was one of shame that such
things could occur in Germany"