Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-03
JEWISH PERSECUTToN
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Last month in every paper published
WITHIN the limits of civilization appeared
a telegram from Morocco announcing that
d shocking outrage had been perpetrated
on no fewer than eight Jewesses by the Or
oer OF British representative. This sud
zen outburst of Jew-baiting under such
distinguished auspices sent a shudder of
horror through the world. If British
representatives" took to fogging Jewish
maldens naked in Moorish market nlsces
where could the hapless children of the
chosen race hope for immunity from the
ruthless hatred of their prosecutors? For
tunately for the credit of the British name.
the publication of the details of the out
rage entirely clears Englishmen from any
share in the crime; and, as for the jew
batting, it turns out that the 'British rep
resentative,'' who acted so abominabIy.
was so far from being animated by relig-
lous blgotry or race prejudice that he
was himself Jew both by breed and de.
scent. The whole story, however, is SO
suggestive that it is worth while reproduc-
ing its leading features from that unex-
ceptionable authority on all Jewish mat
tors, The Jewish World. In the little Jew
lsh town of Casabianca, there lives a Jew.
lsh family named Amiei. The head of
the house, who earned his living by acting
as interpreter for the British vice consul.
was much troubled by the dissolute con-
duct of his two sons. Like Hophni and
Phlnehas, they grieved the soul of their
father by their scandalous debaucherv.
Their lntrigues with certain welI-known
Jewesses of light repute were constant
source of sorrow to the old man. and one
night at the end of January, when the
youngsters returned unusually late from a
carousal with their com panions he ven
tured to expostulate with them. They re-
Piled by firing couple of pistol shots at
their father, who, being thoroughly
alarmed by the attempt upon his life, fed
IN haste to the basha, who at once sent a
hle OF soldiers to arrest the would-be par
rlcldes. There was stiff resistance. but
eventually the young Jews were captured
and imprisoned. The next day they each
received 600 blows with the bastinado in
the presence of their father. His wrath
however, was by no means quenched. Like
other fathers who have to mourn the wick
edness of unrepentant prodigals, his in
dIgnatlon grow hotter and hotter against
the sirens whose charms had wrecked the
virtue of his sons. He applied to the
basha to arrest all the Jewish women of
bad repute to whom he attributed his
children's ruin. The basha called the
Jewish sheik, furnished him with a force
OF soldiers, and gave him a warrant to ar
rest every Jewess whom the Jew AmieI
reasonably suspected of completely in the
ruin of the young Jews who had lust been
Dastlnadoed. The Jewish sheik apparent
~ nothing 10th, took the soldiers, and that
night hauled out of their beds the eight
Jewesses whose suffering has horrifsd Eu-
rope. Of these eight, one is declared to
be Jewish girl of unimpeached re-
speciality, as, indeed, is not unlikely.
A Jewish police des mGurs improvised in
Morocco can hardly expect to escape the
blunders into which the police charged
with such duties constantly fall in more
civilized lands. OF the other seven they
were, to say the least, no better than they
should be. Next morning the whole eight
were stretched fat in the market place.
face downward. A Moor held each hand,
another stood upon their shoulders. and
they were severely logged by relays of
soldiers. One of them is said to have gone
mad during the process. When it was over
the wretched women were bundled into
jail, pending their expulsion from the
town. The American vice consul, himself
Jew, interfered, and they we're released
That is the whole story; and a very dis
gushing and horrible story it is, but any
thing more absolutely different from ''per-
secution" could hardly be imagined. The
man Amiel was Jew, his sons were Jews.
The arrests were made by the Jewish
sheik at the suggestion of the Jew Amiel,
and the punishment WAS inflicted on the
Jewesses by the Moors, solely at the re-
quest of the Jews. Whether Arniel is, a fit
ting person to represent" this country,
even IN the humble character of inter
prefer, is another question.-PaU Mall
Gazette.