The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-01-13
NO. ~
The Prosecuted Jew.

The Prosecuted Jew.
The persecution now going on in Prussia O
theJews, has attracted attention in this coun
. try and the pulpit and the press are discoursine
with much feeling and ability on the subject
. A recent number the Boston 1raoeler, one
:. OF our ablest and most conservative exchanges
contains the following interesting article on
the subject.
'The petition to Prince Bismarck with re-
gard to the Jews now being circulated in
Germany, and which has called forth already
, several eloquent protests from prominent pull
, PITS IN this count v, is like an echo from the
Middle Ages. 1t points out that in many re-
spects the Jewish element is getting the mas
tery over the Christian population; that in the
naIu laoor OF the great masses the Jews take
little part, reapng where they have not sown :
that capital is concentrated in Jewish hands !:
ana that the power thus exerted threatens to
suDvert the nationality of the Teutonlc race.
, ouch document would seem worse than
childish did we not know that it voiced the
sentiments ola very large number of the hui
man race in this nineteenth century ofenlight-
ment and freedom. Why is it that the Jew
mas been selected as the one object of hate on
the part of all nations, and how. under the
most crushing persecution. has he been able to
maintain his own individuality? There is on
y one answer for the right-minded thinker.
Inc jews are superior race, and survive
because of the all-pervading law that only the
weaker go to the wall Their history since the
dispersion is that OF almost one continued
struggle with the oppressor Wherever they
| have wandered they have met with contume
" and death. We think of the massacre in
London on the coronation day of Richard l. of
| the nVe hundred Jews bes1eged in York castle
cutting their thrOats to escape worse death
at the hands OF the mob of the Jews hanged
and CHARTERED in London in 1878 on the
charge OF clipping coin; of the wholesale massa-
ere during the black plague of the Danish
| menus from nearly every country in Christen-
dom. But there is no need of rehearsing the
dreary catalogue. 1t is only within fifty years
| IN England that Jew has been able to enjoy
political or religious liberty. In 1885 David
oolomons was elected Sheriff of London, and
| a special enactment was required to- enable
INN to act. A year later the first bill for Jew
ish emancipation was introduced into the
House of Commons, and failed to pass by an
overwhelming majority. In 1S49 Baron
Rothschild was returned to Parliament from
the city of London and in 1851 Mr. Solomons
was elected member tor Greenwich, but Meth
er was allowed to sit Finally, in 1858, an act
was passed enabling Jews TO sit in Parliament
and at the general election Solomons retired
from Greenwich and allowed Mr. Gladstonet to
permitted a Jewish member OF Parliament to
take the oath, emitting the phrase ION the
faith OF a Christian" Ten years later the re-
hglous tests were abolished at Oxford, and
Jew first received.a degree. But, maligned
and downtrodden as they have been, deprived
OF and clrcumscrlbed in their rights, both
ecclesiastical and civil; driven from town to
town, province to province denied admission
to the ranks of honorable occupation over
taxed, degraded and plundered: butchered bv
mobs beheaded by rulers. and burned nv cr1i
saders compelled to herd by themselves de-
prived of the aid which social distinction can
oestow-these people have submitted patient
ly, have risen to. positions of emnence' have
saved nations from bankruptcy. have given to
the world Its religion, to England one of its
greatest statesmen to the Germany which
now revives the hateful story of the mast q
philosopher, composer. a poet. a critic and -
NOVELIST who have had few EQUALS. and to the
world in general many ofthe most distinguish
ed men in all classes and professions Here in
America the feeling toward the Jews has nat
urally been less violent, They have been turn
ed away from hotels but they have not been
denied the rights of citizenship, They have
taken their positions as useful members of So
ciety, and the country has been gamer nv
their labors. As Mr.. Beecher well saws. if the
Jews are undertaking the Yankees they had
better marry Jewish maidens and breed an
improved race, supposing that undersellinc ia
vital threat to national supremacy It is the
same IN Germany. No nation to-day can af
ford, in purely material sense, to legislate in
favor of or in opposition to class. whose
only Iault Is It's power to rise superior to cir
we believe tho h.tta, 80 pSisecutols. bus
nla will nreva;i ~ 49,, a. "a ZIG peo
rrscefl ele -, ;i,.,s enis ofelehI as
moi he nermitted ~ ro ~, Ifi ny S WI!
only add one n,ore ~ u1es ~ VIII
exercise of authority With 49, III s 5
How far the Jeu,s orc ;,a,tie anu uissi
Socialist movement we oannnt aoo, WIZ If., 'ne
were IN no driven ;nto ;t ,,,yy a.,
could not bnt he d;caStrnrs 0'ppo' ''io result
Rev Henry Ward Paeohor o,,d D.
CoIlyer both referred to Tho ,,arsao,,t;o, Ne O.
Jews in Germany in tbe;r lot S',sdas " sno
mons. The former said
81 should do mvself d;sorod;+ e a;a 80.
affirm that no more earnest and wv nos
u,,oI f1r tL 1.tD. e 80 GU ooSoi man can
pie than l. When an appeal is made to the
people OF America on their behalf it comes
WIN peeullar claims to natl n such as we
arc we are lhdeOted TO the Jews more than
70 all otner people put together. 10 them we
owe me earliest form OF commonwealth estab-
llsneo ny MOSES we owe the rights OF foreign
ef i,, ID strange land to the doctrines of the
olu Testament as estanlished by the great law
AANeb'Ct W euio uOIC
IMAM to any other for the household, for the
education otchildren, for the first rights of cit
izenshp we are indebted to them for the
nlghest conception OF womanhoOd. 5~~
BARBARIc IDEAS OF WOMAN
will evervwbere load 70 horhar;o,,, a.,
of woman If tha11 ar w va ana lucas
bring exaltation and rafir oas.t anu renneu'
ME And here stands hilr1, tan I've " evefy PEG
pio -, n it neie Status niSh the jewish people
tor and MOTT 81 ,vha
be; and at the time when women in Greece liv-
Gu ID profound ignorance, in Palestine she was