The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
JEWISH PERSECUTION.
Inside History o anEvent That Hor
rlfled the Civilized World.

Inside History o Fan Event That Hor.
rif1ed the civilized World.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Last month in every paper published
within the limits of civilization appear
ed telegram from Morocco announcing
that shocking outrage had been per-
petrated on no fewer than eight Jew
esses by the order of a British represen-
tative. This sudden outburst of Jew
batting under such distinguished aus
pices sent shudder of horror through
the world. 1f"British representatives
took to tlogging Jewish maidens naked
in Moorish market places, where could
the hapless children of the chosen race
hope for immunity from the ruthless
hatred of their prosecutors? Fortu-
nately for the credit OF the British
name, the publication of the de-
tails Of the outrage entirely clears Eng
lishmen from any share IN Tue crime;
and, as for Jew-baiting, it turns out that
the :'British representatives" who acted
so abominable was so far from being an
mated bv religious bigotry or race pre-
iudice that he was himself Jew both by
creed aud descent. The whole story ,
however, is so suggestive that it is worth
while reproducing its leading features
from that unexceptionable authority on
all Jewish matters, the Jewish World.
In tie little Moorish town OF Casablan.
ca there lives Jewish family named
Amiel. The head of the house, earned
his living by acting as Interpreter for the
British Vice Consul, was much troubled
by the dissolute conduct OF his two sons.
Like Hophni and Phinehas, they
grieyed the soul Of their father by their
scandalous debauchery. Their in
trigues with certain Well-known
JeWesses of light repute were a constant
source of sorrow to the old man, and
one night at the end of January, when
the Youngsters returned unusually late
from carouse with their companions,
he ventured to expostulate with them.
They replied by firing a couple Of pistol
shots at their father, who, being thor
oughly alarmed by the attempt upon his
llte, fled in haste to the Basha, who at
once sent file of soldiers to arrest the
w3uld-be PARTICLES. There was a Stiff
resistance, but eventually the young
Jews were captured and imprisoned.
The next day they each received 60
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 wicked
ness of unrepentant prodigals, his lndig-
nation grew hotter and hotter against
the sirens whose charms had
wrecked the virtue Of his sons. He
applied to the Busha to arrest all the
Jewish women of bad repute to whom
he attributed his children's ruin. The
Basha called the Jewish Shejkh, furnish
ed him with force OF soldiers, and gave
him warrant to arrest every Jewess
whom the Jew Amiel reasonably sus-
pected of completely in the ruin of the
young Jews who had just been bastina-
doed. The Jewish Sheikh, apparently
nothing 10th, took the soldiers, and that
night hauled out of their beds the ely ut
Jewesses whose suferings have horri-
fed Europe. OF these eight, one is de-
clared to be a Jewish girl Of unimpeach-
ed responsibility, as, indeed, is not un.
likely. A Jewish police des meurs i'm
provised in Morocco can hardly expect
to escape the blunders into which the
police charged with such duties constant
~ fall in more civilized lands. Of the
other seven they were, to say the least
no better than they should be. Next
the whole eight were stretched fiat in
the uarket-place, face downwards. A
Moor held each hand, another stood up
on their shoulders, and they were Sc.
verely fogged by relays ofsoldiers. One
of them is said to have gone mad during
the process. When i; was over, the
wretched women were bundled into Jail
pending their expulsion from the town.
The American Vice-Consul, himself a
Jew, interfered, and they were released.
That is the whole story, and very dis
gushing and horrible story it is, but any
thing more absolutely different from
'persecution" could hardly be imagined.
The man Amiel was Jew, his sons
were Jews. The arrests were made by
the Jewish Sheikh at the suggestion OF
the Jew Amiel, and the punishment was
inflicted on the Jewesses by the Moors
solely at the request ofthe Jews. Wheth-
er Amiel is fitting person to "repre-
sent" this country, even in the humble
character ofinterpreter, is another ques-
ton.