The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-19

friendly monarchs of that coun,rv lean to-.
give persecution, for it is the heritage of INV
| , cannot however, pass lightly over the
| a-..a crime which was committed against
| pos'erity, when the philosophy. poetry. music
ano art OF centuries were madly svent svax 70
s'atiiy the lust OF Roman ecclesiastical amsl.
| ton. 1@A''e"- "nioi-
nen driveu from Spain, after wandering
aoou., many OF my ancestors went to Venice.
40 . sne1s 'of time we're given comparatively
OF Venice" while yet poetic fct;on. does NO, e..
askeiale WAT they were called upon to endure
" lines. ihis shakespearean Hebrew to my
An.no clearly illustrates three thoughtA
re sentiment toward the Jew during the
Va Saeen Elizabeth of England. their con-
oi'ion An venice and that behind the lines we
AAS reao the unmistakabls evidence that the
sisH. playwright intended to plead the cause of
.ne uo"ntroodep as boldly Is he dared in the
uA1soW age la which he lived. He did not
nae sne Digotry OF the period. Notwithstand-
.ns TINS, England first regarded shylock as
oiooo'hirsty monster, the scoundrei of all time,
nan "hess heart was CONCEALED IN uncommon
cruelty ana several centuries echo with sp-
P'ause AZ this theory. Not only the modern
'ew' bus current literature rejects such an
opinion OF shyioek. Ii the Jewish usurer was
anything ne was prince of his tribe; q ripe
sn' neorew full OF pious regard for the
history and traditions OF bis people. The treat
meat that he and his had been subjected to at
'ne hands OF men his interiors in ell save out
wato power had filed him with lofty indigaa-
uou. wnen day after day they spat upon his
apparei, cursed him, called him "dog of Jew"
Inockeo ut his sacred nation, and when they
transformer his loving daughter into q thief
VINO roooed him In the night time amid the
ihocking ana taunting OF his foes, il embittered
MS soui. No wonder, then. that he should have
exclaimed that when Antonio was once in his
po"sr ne would feed fat the ancient grudge he
khuf n<t
reasons, ano show me the man under similar con.
oitioas who would not have felt the same way
aua VIII wear him in my heart of hearts
IS the perfect specimen of manhood W hich all
the ages have produced. He hated Antonio be-
cause the latter spurned the Jewish nation and
FenEion, because he was a Christian and be-
cause he brought down the rate of interest in
venice for the loan of money. We're not these
enough! MAINTAIN that Shylock was the type
OF MS race, oi persecution; thatit was more
Than mere lust OF personal revenge that urged
MIN TO insist upon She fulfiiiment OF the terms
ana conditions OF the bond; that Antonio, who
nao not carried out MS contract, was no longer
20 sAyiocx person, but the representative OF
christian persecution, and that the Jew then
and there aimed 10 visit retribution ON oppres-
sion and brutality for the accumulated wrongs
| OF ages BE that ~ It may, rather would have
been the despised, rejected ShyIock, defeated,
humbled to the dust In Venice, than to have
been Porfia or any member OF her royal COM
pahy. lhe Jew pleaded for equity, but the age
denied II him The creatures that sat in iuug-
ment upon him forgot that right, not might, is
Gods answering rule by which lie passes final
judgment upon the sons OF men.
Thus it continued. European nations consid.
efing the case OF the Jew exceptional, left him
altogether outside the application of the
binary rules OF mercy and justice. He was
allowed tn acquire neither realty Q peyma-
nent residence anywhere. There was but one
hat hA a "a 81
money. Necessity made him shrewder than his
| fellows, and naturally he succeeded better
AlngS piundered him, aud what left over
became the common booty of the ignorant
| rabbie, which, inspired by . crafty Protest
| ant and Catholic priesthood. inaugurated .
continuous brutality, at which GOD himself in
| heaven frowned and at which the devil in hell
| grinned in Satanic ferocity, and all too in the
name OF the gentle. meek and lowly Christ
| whose mild teachings these human blood
| hounds protested to follow.
| Is il any wonder, then, that the Jews proved
| stubborn when confronted in the persons of
| their Prosecutors with what appeared to them
| TO be the products OF Christian precept? Is it
source OF surprise that to trick such religious
hypocrites was deemed popular virtue.
There is not one person here today who does
not know full well our story in France, Austria,
| Germany. Poland, Russia, England and the
| United States France for over a century has
| been good to my people, and they have shown
their gratitude by spending their blood in the
| great revolution which paved the way for uni
versai freedom and by teing foremost in every
subsequent move for progress. education aud
| liberty.
| Within the memory OF even the youngest OF
| Us here there have been remark able anti Semitic
movements in Germany, but they have been
| headed Oft by broad spirit of liberality which
| Jewish educators in the schools and UNIVERSE
ties of that country had inculca,ed, against
| which hate could not live AID prejudice was
| forced To bow low in the dust.
| Austria several times under the guise of anti.
usury laws aimed almost to reinslave the Jews,
but Israelitish intellect and courage turned the
| tables against the few that desired oppression
ard the bowling demagogue has been forever
| silence1.
| Poland had always tried to be fair to the He
| brews, but Russian baroarism stepped in and
/ the red hand of her lazy Cossacks grasped the
| throat of the down-trodden, aud even the logic
of the nineteenth century has not taught the
| czar that by his treatment of the Jews he is
slowly but surely paving the way for the down
fall of either himself his not very remote sue
cessor. II Baron dc Hirsch succeeds in his pro-
ject OF gradually removing all the Jews from
| Russia, we may yet live to see that nation a
| tenth-rste power engaged in the vain attempt to
| lure back the Jews TO God-for saken and pow
| erty stricken land.
| IL Is with the English speaking countries,
| however. tina, would especially deal Almost
mn TO the time of our civil war in Great Britain
| the Jews were deprived o. civil rights Accord
| ing to Sir Waiter SCOTS "Ivanhoe,'' Isaac of
York, wss fine bird for the plucking OF rapa-
cious John during the absence of Richard the
| Lion Hearted on his crusede to capture Jerusa-
lem from the Turks. and rom that time on in
! England the Jew had but few rights which the
! frcehoder was bound To respect Ia vain did
| great statesmen appeal She voice of the rabble
prevailed.
/ What, lie, the Jew, oespised and rejected,
! legtsiate for Christians This dare not be: it
| was an ungodly procedure. Did not the Bl ole
/ propaesy that the jews were TO be- prosecuted?
| should religious England aid in the fasiicg-
ton of Scriptures and in eisproviug the divinity
| of its inspirationY such uaholy presumption
| could not but bring down the nation the
| foulest calamities aud the unmitigsted wrath of
| God The last Argument used against
| the Jew was that political power was
a privilege. and Tot right. and
| tina: the Israslite presumptious in
| daring to aspire TO the exercise thereof Mac
| suley IN an admirable essay on the subject said
! .hst crafty churehmen aud political dema-
| yogues thus sought 10 throw upon the Jew the
| burden of proving that ne ought 10 have that
| which was his right by the bossted free cous,i-
tuition which belonged Ia thu whole English
| nation.
| Dlsrasii. the gTes; ami gifted writer and
| statesman, played a noble part in the struggle
for Jewish emancipation. IL seems to he the
| fashion of some 20 claim that every eresI and
| noted man 10 either Jew or OF Heoraie origin
| This shall not DO but one can no more ignore
| the Jew that there was in Disrsei than We
| could i'm sgine the 20 flourish bsrefs of air
/ ana sunxhire Isaac Disraeis Fsth