New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-17
THE JEWS IN FRANCE.
A WARFARE AGAINST THE REPUBLIC.
Paris. June "a

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! laboring classes revenge upon Germany, all give
place to it, or are absorbed in it; for the eaden
of the anti-Jewish agitation shrewdly contrive 70
| fix upon the Chosen People responsibility for
every evil, real or fanced, that afflicts society,"
| Already long ago, il was demonstrated by these
gentlemen that Germany won IN lS7O-1 by the
aid of the Jews The troubles between labor
and capital are ascribed to the same source. And
as for the friction between the Republic and Rene,
aothing could be clearer than that 1t Is fonented
| by Jews, for the sake Of inJuring the hated
| Christian religion. SO the Jew-hnnt is begun.
II is curious that il should be SO, that this mere
handful OF denationalized Hebrews should 80 dis
turb nation great as France.
For the Jews of France are mere handful.
| though it is inapt TO speak of them as remnant
of nation. Politically speaking, of course. the
Jews Of to-day are not nation at all But then
they are just as certainly not remnant. They
are much more numerous and wealthy to-day than
| ever before in the history OF the world.
In the days of the greatest prosperity and power
OF the Jewish kingdom, under David and Solo
mon. the Chosen People probably did not number.
all told, more than 100000 Now they number
| considerably more than twice as many. In Asia.
their original home, there not more than
half a million, settled in Syria, Persia, Arabia.
| India and China. Perhaps half a million more
are to be found in Africa, chiefly in Nor; Geo, the
descendants Of those Jews who, in the glorious
year of Columbus's discovery OF America, were
| ruthlessly expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and
| Isabella considerable contingent is to be
found in both North and South America But
the chief modern home Of the Children Of ISRAEL
is in Europe and the Jews have become dis
tnctively European people. Even thos' who
live in Syria. and in Palestine itself, arc Europeans
traneplante1 to Asian soil.
The principal seat of the Jewish people is in
Eastern and Central Europe. There they setted
in the days of the Crusadcs. Ages before, the
rising tide of Mahometanism had driven them
ont Of Asia. TO the western countries OF Europe.
Then prosecutions came upon them there, and
they were driven back again toward the East.
r. was noble thing for the Crusader TO fight the
infde Turk II was esteemed far nober thing
TO harry and Cypress and rob and STAY the Jew.
Between the two mistones the Jews were ground.
And on the border line between the two Powers
they settled. That place of settlement was
Poland At one time that Kingdom contained nine
tenths Of all the Jews in the world or the re-
manning TENTH the greater part found bone IN
Rumania
With the Acknowledgement of Poland, the Jews
were divided between the partitioning Powers.
Russia got most of them. There were year or
two ago in the Cars domain, and chiefly in the
Polish provinces. fully 100000 Jews The
prosecutions and the exodus have materially re-
duced the number, but there are still far more
Jews in Russia than in any other country in the
world Austria, chiefly in her Polish provinces.
has now nearly 100000, and Germany
$50. 900 Rumania has fully 100000 and
Turkey in Europe $4,000. Holland. Eng
land and France have each Some $4,000; Italy
50 O0O Bulgaria 10000; Switzerland lO,oOOa
Denmark Belgium and Servia 5000 each, and
Sweden 5000. In Norway there are only few
hundred, and in Spain and Portugal none, save'
the | 500 who find shelter at Gibraltar under the
British flag.
The curious fact thus appears that in Europe
the Jews most multiply in numbers in the house or
bondage Can il be that, for some mysterious
reason, liberty does not agree with them' For
instance they are most numerous in Russia where
the ordinary rights even Of the brute creation are
not accorded to them. They abound in Rumania!t
where they have been much oppressed. In Eng
land and France on the contrary, where freedom
and equality are granted TO them, they are CON-
paratively few.
And then here is another curious circumstance,
that where they ewest they are most influential.
In Russia, among 100000 Jews, there is scarcely
one OF commanding Importance; while In England,
with only $4,000, there has been Disraeli, and
there are to-day many Jews in the very foremfet
ranks of public life. As for France, with only
so 600 IL is almost easier TO enumerate all the
leading men who are not Jews than those who are.
Truly they are a peculiar people. As the iuustrl-
Gus Jew Hcine said: The world does not UNDER
stand them Their doings and starvings. their
ways. their intentions and purposes. are all
sealed book. Tie Jew is to-day, as he wac IN the
Middle Ages, a walking mystery
Bitter as the persecution of the Jews II
Germany few years ago under the instigation OF
the notorious Stoccker, and brutal it now is in
Russia, II is in France that the movement displays
the mcst marked and interesting characteristics
4 little while ago VI. Drumont published his COOK,
La France Juive.' Ii was received with mih'
gled feelings of establishment, consternaton ana
contempt. IL has become the gospel Of new dis
pensation, a dspensation OF persecution
Indeed, il is astonishing 10 observe the NUMBER
of Jews who occupy important positions III france
and il is scarcely an eXageation 10 say that
the country is denominated By them socially
politically and financially. Nor is this inappro-
pirate, for the Third Republic was founded Dy
q jew, Leon Gambetta, who was the pupil OF
another Jew, Cremieux; and besides these two
there were in the inst Republican Cabinet three
other Jews, Jules Simon, Magnin and Ernst
Picard. Then. after NIacAiahon was cast aside.
every succeeding Government had Jewish members.
Indeed. the roll OF eminent Republican statesmen
In France is another book of numbers Ferry, Flo
quct. Ranc, Spuller, Challcmel Lacour. Reinaeh'
Meyer Dreyfus, Bert, Lockroy. Sec, Strauss, Levy
Laurent, Naquet, all Jews.
Yet one is not prepared to say that these men
have been curse TO France. BY their energy
shrewdness and industry they hav" made them
selves leaders. But they have also led the Repuo-
lie in paths of peace and power. Why do not VI.
Drumont. the Marquis de Mores, and me rest OF
the Jew-haers themselves go in and win the leader
ship? The race is open and free 70 all. The secret