National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-12-26
HATING THE JEWS,
why the Germans nrn 80 hitter Against
the Hebrew Ra@e


Rabbi Adler, invthe Nindecnh Century for De.
eember, says: ~ have yet to advert TO the
Jlud@ophobia existing among certain sections Of
traces this antipathy TO the reawakening OF
national life. Professor Mommseu. who assur-
edly speaks with greater authority on this theme,
brands u as n monster bred Of national feeling
run wild cinc Missgebtrt des t,reoeieeten nation
allen Gquhis). The sentiment Is probably due TO n
variety of causes. When cherished by the ag-
the fact that Judaism Is the arGhatype Of the re-
ligious principle which he abhors. Thus the Jew
OF Germany has, in our day. to bear the brunt not
odium dnh-heoiogictrm. But there is also the
economic cause.
THE BUREAUCRAT OF GERMANY,
whose salary is mere pittance; the Junker who
who eats up his patrimony in the morning Of life
the smalltrader, who, through lack of energy and
industry, misses his ohance--all these are filed
with envy at the jew, who, by his self-denying
thrift when young, his inexhausiiblc energy, his
capacity for work, and his commercial skill,
achieves success, and is enabled In the evening Of
life to live on scale of luxury which TO them Is
nnattainabc. Now, will readily admit that the
Jews of Germany (and possibly OF other countriesl
tondness for superfluous finery. Yet purse pride
and money y-arrogance are characteristic OF the
paiTenu ofevery creed, whether he be Sir GOrgius
Midas orr
GENTLEMAN or SEMITIC EXTRACTION.
II takes time fori the gold fresh from tho fiery
furnace Of success TO quiet down TO the sober
beauty of UicH or. 1t would, however, be mon
srons injustice to assert that II is only in the
for wealth that the jew seeks to compete with his
Christian neighbor. The most rubid Judnophobe
viii readily admit that there is hardly one small
town In Germany without its Jewish physician,
and that there is no university which has not more
than It's due proportion ofproesSorial chairs occu
pied by Hebrews Nor can he deny the services
rendered by that high minded politician, Lusker,
the value of the contributions of Trnube to medical
science, the importance of the studies of Bentley,
one of Germany's best Sanskirt scholars, and the
profound learning Of such men us Bcrneys, Sten-
thn, and LAZARUS The solution Of the Jewish
question in Germany may then with safety be left
to be worked out by the intelligence and good
sense Of the men oflight and leading
AMONG THE GREAT TEUTosIc NATION.
The Christian, finding that the jew has gained
his position by his superior diligence skill, and
energy, will, Instead Of snecring Mt work and
trade, seek to labor with cquol diligence equal
SKIN, and equal energy, aud while competing with
him in every fcd-cOmmerclal, professional, and
politlcai-will yet live with him (as is happily the
case In England, France, Austria, and Hollaud)
on terms of nmity and good fellow citizenship.
And the time Is probably not far distant when
Germany will regard the Jew -baitingas u hidcous
nightmare, which, during period of political
dcntitOn, disturbed her for q brief while; when
she will subscribe to the scathng verdict passed
upon II by her future Emperor that 1t Is a blot
and stain upon the nineteenth century"