The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-10-27
THE JEWS OF MOROCCO.
a MOST INTERESTING AND MOST
TRYING RACE or PEOPLE,

Every Imaginable Degradation The Ter
ribie Punishments Sometimes inflicted
ga the Hebrews-The Jews Quarters.
THE Jews of Morocco are TO my mind at
once the most interesting and the most
trying race of people ever met. Subject
TO restrictions In their life and business
which would exterminate an ordinary race
of people In two generations, they have
grown. prospered and in many places are
masters Of their masters.
No one knows just where the Moorish
Jews came from. but of course they have
been connected With the lost tribes and
all that The main facts are. they are in
Morocco without knowing themselves Just
how they got there Among the anomalies
connected with them Is that they are
hated and despised by the Moors, subject
TO every insult and degradation that can
b imagined; yet they are recognized as
such necessary members of society that
there is law, which is actively enforced,
forbidding Jews to leave the country
under any circumstances. The Jews. out
side of one or two coast towns are treated
worse than the meanest and lowest animals;
and, whether in the way of retaliation or
the means which In the 81 st place secured
them this brutal treatment l am not com
petent to say, they in return treat the
Moors with fairly devilish cruelty when
they get them In their power, as they
often do through money transactions. for,
as In other lands, the superior cunning of
the Jews makes them the bankers of the
country, and. with a debtors law which
allows the Imprisonment of man until
his debt is discharged. there are ample
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incarnate.
KILLING A JEW.
: In return for this Moor thinks no
more Of killing a Jew. If he can do it
quietly. than of killing rat; and as for
dishonoring the family of Jew. 1t is
looked upon as the natural course OF
events. and truth compels me to say that
the husband and father looks on the trans
action with fair degree of complacency.
provided always it helps along some end
no has in view The Jews are not allowed
to carry arms of any kind. nor to ride
upon horse. mule, donkey or bullock.
but must make all journeys on foot.
neither are they allowed to wear any foot
covering outside of their own quarter
where they are herded together like ami
mails. their dress being regulated and re
stricted so they may always be known
from the believers at a glance, and they
are forbidden to build any placesof worship
or to hold religious services OF any kind
which command is religionsly disregarded
services being held regularly in their
houses, with. In some cities. a guard
posted TO inform OF the approach OF
strangers. If there Is any nasty work to
be done, as for instance the enbalming OF
the heads of executed rebels SO that they
may hang the longer at the traitors gate,
the Jews are pressed Into the service. II
the. sultan or one of his officers wishes q
few thousand dollars to meet a sudden
demand. some wealthy Jew. who has paid
the least for protection, Is seized without
notice and thrown into dungeon until
he has been squeezed out of proper sum
II q Jew meets Moor, no matter how
low the position of the latter he is obliged
to step barefooted into the filth of the
middle of the street so as not to touch the
garments of a follower of the prophet. and
he Is not allowed under any circumstances
to enter the street upon which a mosque
Is situated. The punishment for the dis.
regard of any of these laws is simply ter.
rife, ranging from burning to death to
bastinadoing.
THE BATH NKSowN.