The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-02-23
The lows In l,crmAnY.

Tho outbreak Of feeling against tho
Jow8 in Germany would seem to be an
machrOnism, if we had not seen signs OF
the samo disposition in this country.
Petitions have been numcrousIy signed
TO restrict the civil rights Of the Hebrew
population, and to repeal the laws which
provide for its equality with the rest Of
the people. An association called the
Anti Semitic League has been formed,
and there have been great public meet
iug3 hostile to the jews. The Hebrew
Hcpuchrcs in some parts Of the country
have hnua dosccratcd by mobs, and an
eminent Lutheran clergyman, Il court
chaplain, supposed to be favored Joy the
court, hus openly denounced the Jews
without rcproof from the Cousisorium.
'nhcromo some million and half of He
hows in Germany, and they have be-
come 40 substantial and important mn
element Of German life and society that
- crusade against them contemplating
thcr disability is an event Of vital sig
uIiicancc.
Itrs, indeed, the fact that they have
hocomo this important element Of the
population which stimulates the hostile
movement IT is felt that a people who
control enormous capital, who influence
the trade and commercial relations Of
the empire, whose acutcnrss and ability
give them command Of the intellectual
mud aesthetic development Of the coun-
try, are essentially aliens, with no nntu-
mI or permanent interest III the com
munlly, and that Us the Turks were
said to be- merely cncampcd IN Europe,
the jews are but curampcd in Germany.
They fill tine places, they carry of the
prizes, they are becoming too powerful.
The great landed estates are passing in
to their hands. They own the palaces
in the towns. They ARE the merchant
princes. They are the professors and
Judges and magistrates. In another
generation, say tine nIarmists, if the
laws remain unchanged they will he the
lords Of the Tcutons, and do what they
will Disraclis "Asian mystery" re-
appears. 1t is certainly one of the most
striking spoctacles Of modern history;a
great and proud people, still flushed
with triumph after II vast war which
BUNDLED ono of the ancient powers of
Europe, and changed the European
map-a war directed IN the Cabinet by
the most renowned Of modern statesmen,
and led in the field 10y II most sagacious
and famous soldlcr-Tccoiling with the
apprehension that shrcwd alien people
among It's population should by essential
superiority absorb the controlling nj
tiOnnl power.
For that is the root of the feeling. 1t
is not concealed. Bismarck himself in
his earlier years shared the npprchcn-
sion and expressed the hostility. But
it will end probably i'll this widespread
cbullitlon Of feeling. OF the great null
titude Of Hebrew people in Germany n
large proportion ARE undoubtedly thor
Oughly Gcrmanizod. Germany is their
home and that of their ancestors, and
will be that Of their children. Ii they
aro magistrates and governors, it is be-
cause they are found to be moro capa-
bic. If they are great propriotors, it is
because theyarc clcvCrcr traders III they
arc professors and authors and artists,
it is because the Hebrew genius is not
extinct. Germany will not go backward
and discredit her civilization with the
wrongs o.. fcudalism. Tho rule of mod
ern times is freedom, and the tools to
him who can use them. Bismarck could
no longer be called the greatest of mod
crn statesmen i under his sway Ger
many were forced to confess that upon
it's own soil, in its own pursuits, it could
not compete under equal laws against
an alien and homeless race.-HWpor's
Weekly.