Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-18
JEWISH PERSECUTION.
Inside History o an Event That Hor
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Last month in every paper published
within the limits Of civilization appear
ed telegram from Morocco announcing
that a shocking outrage had been per-
petrated on no fewer than eli ht 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. If"Brltish representatives
took to Hogging Jewish maidens naked
in Moorish market places, where could
the hapIess 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 the crime;
and, as for Jew-baiting, it turns out that
the "Britlsh representatives" who acted
so abolninabIe was SO tar from being an
mated by religious bigotry or race pre-
judice that be 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 unexct ptiunable authority on
all Jewish matters, the Jewish World.
In tie little Moorish town Of Casabldn~
ca there lives Jewish family named
Amiel. The head Of the house, earned
his living by acting us interpreter for the
British Vice Consul, WAS mulch troubled
by the dissolute conduct OF his two sons.
Like Hophni and Phlnehas. thew
grieved the soul OF their father by their
scandalous debauchery. Their i'll
trigues with certain we'll 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 carouse with their companions;
he ventured to expostulate with them.
They replied by firing couple of pistol
shots at their iather, who, being thor
oughly alarmed by the attempt upon his
lie, fled in haste to the BaslAa, who at
once sent file Of soldiers to arrest the
wouh-be par.icides. There was a stiff
resistance, but eventually the young
Jews were captured and imprisoned.
The next day they each received 6uO
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 nnrepentant prodigals, his lndig-
nation grew hotter and hotter against
the sirens whose charms had
wrecked the virtue of his sons. lie
applied to the Basha to arrest all the
Jewish women of bad repute to whom
he attributed bis children's ruin. The
Basha called the jewish Shejkh, furnish
n y
him a 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-
decd. The Jewish oneikh, apparently
no,hjng 10th, took the Soldiers and that
night Ii ,uled out CT their beds the 81, Int
Jewesses whose suderings have horri-
fed Europe Of these eight, one is de-
clared to be Jewish girl of unimpeach-
ed responsibility, as, indeed, is not un-
likely. A Jewish police DIES m9urs inn
provised in Morocco can hardly expect
to escape the blunders into which the
police charged with such duties constant
ly 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 flat in
the market-place, face downwards. A
Moor held each hand, another stood up
on their shoulders, and they we're &C.
verely Aoeged 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 a very dis
gusting and horrible story it is, bnt any,
thing more absolutely different from:
persecution could hardly be imagined
The man Amiel was Jew, his sons
we're Jews. The arrests were made by
the Jewish Sheikh at the suggestion o,
the Jew AmieI, and the punishment was
inflicted on the Jewesses by the Moors
solely at the request of the Jews. Wheth-
er Amiel is a fitting person to "repre-
SENT this country, even in the humble
character otinterpreter, is another ques'
ton.