New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-24
NEW ANTI-SEMITE PARTY.
RECENT PHASES OF TIE AGliAiioN In
GERMANY-HERR STOECKERS DE-
POSITION.

POSITION.
Berlin. August g.
p, .ho winter of 1890 Hofprediger Stoecker was II
A., middle of his crusade against the Jews, al
,horgb the movement was generally supposed to
have diminished rather than gathered In intensity
since he started it. remember nearing MIN
80 at that time in the great hall OF the
I1,Iharmonie. When the students Of Berlin
t-,,ars,v were holding kommers-a sort
- heor festival in which the various stu
dant societies vie with each otner IN the ex-
assion of patriotic sentiments, In the singing OF
student songs and most of all In the consumption
>, Tho aud that they deem most essential to their
o,, beng 1t was easy to account Tor the deafen-
ing applause with which such an assempiage greeted
.ha uofnrediger's appeal to racial prejudice These
o,,ar-Iarpe Young men, whose time was so much
given I'D to carousng. duellins' ana the IKE hao
M liking for the tong Jewish student VINO 30 far
surpassed them on the path to learning. But now
the Hofpredger is fallen, overthro"h py 'he mon
ster of his own creation. The voters OF Neu-settin
, h,, an enormous majority rejected him as
candidate for the Reichstag thus depriving him
NJ a seat in that body. Professor Paui foerster.
h,s successful competitor, is member OF the new
Anti-Semitic party, stoecker having appeared 10
the canvass as Conservative
The Anti-Semtic party has got away then from
s,oecker and his "Standpunkt," as the Germans
cav and the war now wagng between him ana the
reu leaders Is a bitter one. Who are these new
leaders and what Is the change that has come over
the party? The change from StoecKer 10 an AM.
wardt does not at first sight seem one ihes ~ ooh-
tribute much advantage to the party that makes IT,
This extraordinary individual MADE hImsef the
clown of the last Reichstag and. as 1t seemed at
the time the laughing stock of the country yet no
has been returned to the new legislature ana win
him some fourteen or fifteen others OF MS way OK
,hinking-enough TO form "Fraktion, or inde-
pendent group I'm Parliament, while AT 'he same
time the number of AntiSemitc votes cast mas risen
from, a few thousands to about halt milion
Ahlwardt f. therefore an enigma wnich II "oud
no rash TO attempt TO characterize In the absence
% y norsonal acounintance. ] know that some OF
the leaders in the other parties DO not peheVe IN
the honesty of his intentions, ana the deieated oi'
prediCer says quite openly that ne does ho'' out
this is not the universal opinion, either OUTSIDE or
within political circles. $500 -
There seems upon the whole, TO be peter reason
for the supposltion that he IS honest ana what inc
country neople at home call 'simple-minded, TO the
extent at least that he cannot help from time to
time TO speak it bluny) making a fooi OF himself.
He was for a long time an admirer OIL Stoecher,
and has but lately deserted him. Stoecker, he now
declares left the Anti-Semtc party when he ex-
messed the conviction that the time is now too late
to work for repeal of the laws emancipating the
Jews But whatever may be the thought OF Ahl-
wardt he is not be considered the leader OF the
new party He himself has recognized Boeckel as
the holder of this position and it was Boeckel who
negotiated with Caprvi the price to be paid by the
Government for the Anti-Semic votes cast Tor the
Army bill Boeckel, much Ahlwardt. Is dis
liked and feared by the Christian Social party, and
his sudden change Of front the Army bill, against
which he had written brochure tends 10 cast some
dscredit upon his sincerity. lie is merchant. and
as such already disnclired to hold the views on
general politics represented by his predecessor.
This difference in station between the Old leader
,ba preacher
Boeckel and Ahwardt. miidle-class agitators-
marks nearly enough the change that has come over
into radtalism that has been taken. This accounts
for the large increase in the vote. ior part .naS
could not at the time remain conservative
party Proof that a tacit alliance tied the party
than that afforded by tn. fact tina; Stoec1er was
member Of both is furnished row by The Wsiilnsss
in the Conservative press over the democratizng OK
the new Anti-Semtic party. 49,,
In truth. the Conservatives used Stoocker ana hls
followers shield to conceal their own hostiy
TO all measures of reform. III there be ahythns
rotten in the State they were quite conen, 10 f fb
good old German nature and with il our pest m
sttuons" They tod this 20 the peasants on o rhs
and now the AntI-semitlc party. to bring Itself
a new element Of strength. is telling these same
peasants that not the Jews aiohf, pun aiso me
'Junlers" H. o.. the Conservative land-owning no.
besD are to blame FOR their misery No wonder
that the Conservative party Is disappointed IN us
pr0esS B the the pssai!s II 'ne ey e mu n' viii
have been done for the cause Of reform. II they
accept advice only from their old taskmasters
they cannot help learning before long that the Jew
alone Is not responsible for their poverty. and thus
the ground will be broken for the doctrines Of the
Social Democrats, who viii reap a tremendous mar
THE ouinlon Of the Socialist leaders on the whole
new Arti-Senitc movement * most interesting ana
important. Singer who is himself a Hebrew, calls
ii der Socalisnus der dummen"-the socialism OF
observation-disclosures. while they recognize the evils In
herent in capltalistic society. do not recognize
them such but soribe them to a single class OF
cXpioiers-namely, the Jews. IT this be true, t!le
main point Is that the evils are recognized ana ne
Socialists would be Justified IN holding that tnis
large body OF votes L. now on its way 10 social
democracy pure and simple. So long as II remains
Anu-Semitc. II will have In the social lemocrais
foe. for such movement substitutes for the c,as3
struggle begun by the Socialists another class
struggle based upon quite another pfncipertha. ..
natonaity-and is besides step In tho direction
Of anarchy rather than one toward that completion
OF development that the scientific Socialist considers
must precede the entire realization OF his ideal
tlsm radicalsm is therefore full of significance
for the future OF the movement that today calls
founded upon race prejudice alone then Herr Hot:
precAscr stoecker is perfectly right in saying that
seryatiyes. and that II is mistake TO accuse any
body but the Jews OF bringing harm to the, Stat.
divide us Germans class against class, instead OF
helping unite us against the common enemy ne
the movement becomes democratic, that is.
who suffer from much besides the perncious &C,
tivity Of the Jews II loses in intensity its outloo.
is broadened. and 1t falls in time into the usual
position of political party-it cannot afford TO be
cranky" any subject
The Anti-Semites OF to-day. when they come 70
specify what they want done, either socialistic
anarchisc. or reactionary, and II is open 10
them to develop I'm Of these directions al
though I'm the first two cases 1t would probably be
at the price of their identity. For time.
under the present leadership. they may be success
ful In keeping themselves before the country, ow-
ing 10 the mudded condition of affairs IN the new
Reichstag but 1t is impossible TO believe that The
public will not quickly find them out and Justly
stgmatize them as party OF traders living pohtl.
cally by the same business" principles, or lack OF
principles for which they hold the Jews responsible
in modern commerce and society. In the mean
time they have the ear IL cannot be doubted. or
4 class that is reached neither by the Social Demo-
Gratis by the Christian Socialists OF the Stoecker
stripe. l. e.. the small shopkeepers. who come IN
throngs to their meetings. Let these once learn
that not the Jew alone, but the large capitalist
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