The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-01-11

disreputablo and that they are gradually. BY
their sdroitness In finance. politics. and Jour
nalism. making the people Of Germany their
slaves. The remedy proposed is a league Of
Christians against trading with them and
holding social intercourse with them. their OK
clusion from public oflice--boycotting Thorn. In
Shorthand. fall elae fails. their banishment from
German soil. Tho less refined and more IA
natical OF tho German Jew-haters would CO.
and sometimes have gone, 30 far as to inflict
bodily injuries upon the objects OF their ami
mostly. and accounts OF tho deplorable out
RACES thus occasioned have. from time to time.
reached our shores.
DIR. Won Hartmann first addresses himself to
what will seem to American minds the unne-
cessnry task of exhibiting the value OF the jew
ish population as an element OF the German
nationality and the impolicy as well as the i'm
possibility Of extirpating it. The sobriety.
chastity. industry. shrewdness. thrift, and fore
sight of the Jew. he says. supplement precise
ly tho deficiency In those qualities which char
acterizss the German. The Germans are on
the one hand ideal and impractical while on
the other they are addicted to sensual pleas
ures. Their eyes are fixed on the stars. but
they walk into the mrs. Therefore. while they
gain wealth less easily than the Jews. they
spend 1t more prodigally and with less regard
to their future needs. The consequence 10
all OF kinds. but they save their earnings. so
that whom the German requires money for some
unexpected emergency he is compelled to resort
for II to the more provident Jew. This ia the
whole secret oil the jews financial and com
mercial supremacy in Germany. For the same
reason no excels tie German Christian in
practical politics and In those artistic and liter
AIRY pursuits. such as music. acting. and jour
nalism. which lead directly to fortune. lie is
quicker to see what the public taste demands
and more fertile and ingenio in supplying It,
and thus his wares find reader market.
Before the present war upon them broke ont,
the Jews DR.. Won Hartmann says, we're gradu-
ally merg ng with the German people. the bar
ricr OF their difference in race and religion
was meltn. away, tho stamp OF lnferiority i'm
pressed upon them by medi1val oppression
was disappearing through cultivation. aud
very soon there would have begun intermar-
r!ages between thom and Christians, which
would have min !lsl the good qualities OF both
and eiraced their faults. Now this beneficial
process has been arrested and turned the re-
verse way. The anta.onsm between Jews md
Christians has been Intensified. and II will take
years to repair the mischief done.
DIR. Won Hartmann does not deny. however.
that the jew hating Germans have some good
reasops for their views. The Jews DO indeed.
in his opinion, form race distinct from tho
Germans. Their religion. too. differing not
merely in doctrine from that which Is generally
protested. but consisting also in peculiar GUS
toms. ceremonies and dietary laws makes tho
distinction more marked Besides long ages OF
persecution have taught the Jews 10 stand by
ono another without respect to their country OF
residence. their former exclusion from honora-
b,e occupations has rendered them familiar
with those less honorable. and their business
hn. ola not IN
prof., Is by miniStcring to meas appcttes for
self-indulgencs rather than to their nober do
sircs. Thus tho Jews have risen ns it were
upon the ruins of the character and fortunes of
their fellow citizens. AID their industry while
It enricheS them. !mooverishe5 those whom
they apparently serve As Philosophical
thinker DR.. Won Hartmann secs plainly that
violent measures. legislative or otherwise. will
not remedy these evils. The German Christians
must first reform thens lives. They must
Practise iru.aiity aud salt-iouu and thus
keep out Of the c,utche3 ot tho Jewish money
lender. They must resist tho captivating Of
iors OF thu Jewish ira lnsman to serve heir ap-
retites and their vices a. he expense Of their
Independence. and they must cease to pay
tribute TO the jews in art and in literature. vino
oEer them momentary enjoyment but no genu-
inc aesthetic Improvement.
Corrcspondingy DR.. Won Hartmann recon-
NJ onas to his Jewish follow countrymen to dis
arm THAR anomj.. bv sb,,1onine, thosa ,,nr-
sui,. and metb,ls which instlv eycta dis.
anproh,tion. Lee. ,ham do bnsincss bonostlv
and with reference to promoting tho national
welfare; lei hem cease to be Jews first and
Germnns ni,erwarl md cease tn sunport ono
another in their e,terprisas repordlaaa NJ
Christian ip..roa,s md nnoIIv lar tbo,, ,h,r
don the dream Of an ultimate national restora-
ton 10 Palestine md to the supremncy az tho
"orlu whlcn Is nourisheu oy 100 h'erai inter-