The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-15
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Oss II lbs most contemplate factions in
the Gesmafs reichstag il the ansi-semife o.
Jew Batting party. There il no excuse for
the exisssfsee Of this party. and yet II
ciings 80 life and has transported its
seness 70 s'rneriea. for Jev batting has Of
recent nosshs become one Of the outrsges
that can BIS seen in New York city That
the Germaa nation or any respectable na-
tion shouts include an anti-Jew party in
its parliament II . snbjec. for deep
regret Emperor William the First:
his son, Emperor Frederick. and
Bisnsrek treated the Jews Of Germany
With high respect: they recognized their
peculiar talents for finance, business,
music. ph.,ology. poetry and philosophy.
bisnsrek vas = friend Of LassaIIe, the
great Hebsew founder Of modern German
Socialism he was friend OF many Of the
great Hebrew bankers, who periodically
helped hira over many rough spot in the
road. EHperor Frederick appreciated the
inteiiectuai power of his Jew subjects, and
tendered Them the highest social couE-
sesies.
II - an astonishing thing that such
plscs in Germany, where the highest
walks of learning and scholarship are not
seldom ssorned by Jews. The great Ger
man Lesssng, in his Nathan, the WISE"
praises tbs Jew, and the English dramatist
Cumberiaad. in l79s, declares that in his
~xl~ If Ia d, 10
render Justice TO . illuminated peo-
pie. wa.ser Scott made . Jexess his
finest hefoine. Dickens atoned for his
Fagin BY his picture Of Riah in 'Our
Mutual fSiend," Disraeli. always true 70
HE race. aseated the Jew with honor in his
fiction. ard George Eliot's eloquent pict-
urs of Nordecai in Daniel Deronda,"
stands fog the obsolete type Of the OPP
pressed Jsw Of the Middle Ages. No mod
srn Jew would go back to Palestine il ne
could.
The abass lavished upon the Jew by the
Juvensl and Tacitus. 10 TO be taken a. the
natural oppression Of hostility and con-
tempt on the part OF the egotistic pagan
conqueror for the conquered. who fought
bitterly u the last. and even in slavery
would not abandon their Flaw and the
prophets' It was like the contempt and
race hate, expressed by the English for the
French from Crecy to Waterloo; the con-
tempt sud hate felt to this day by the
English tory for the Irish home rule
party; tie contempt and hate felt BY the
South for the North in the old days when
North oisequiously adjusted the stirrups
and buckjed the girth: the contempt and
hate expressed today by Germany for
France.
1t Is o noteworthy fact that Jew batting
has beea transplantsd from Europe to
Americas for within the last ten days sew
eral persons have been prosecuted for tie
unprovoxed nightly assaults upon peace
able Jess in New York. If the Jew that
Shakespeare drew could walk the fields Of
earth teaay he would End that the versa
tile Hebrew race has had its revenge. q
humans revenge, on the civilization Of the
day WHEN Antonio spat upon his gaber-
dine ana plucked him by the beard. The
greatess' Of modern finance ministers
was q saw; the greatest Of modern act
rssses, Hachsi. was Jewsss: the greatest
wit anc satirist Of Germany. Heins. was of
Jewish lineage. In music Meyerbeer,
Mendel ssohn and Joachim were Jews. The
great English opera singer. Braham. was
Q Jew, In music. art. law, medicine.
finance, commerce, pathology and science
the Helsrew blood has proved itself the
abiest, most acute and versatile Of its time.
Batting. the Jews is like the barbarian
Ganis Batting the Greeks and the Romans.