The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-19

mltic papers are, many of them, written by Jews.
 The control of finance and the stupen- dous success which follow their devo- tion to the trade in money have brought to the Jews great fortune and much ha- tired. As in the thirteenth century the peasantry, goaded to madness, rose against those whom they deemed to be their prosecutors.
 | Look at this pictures:
 It is evening in winter. The tearing wind from the north howls and means,
 driving the snow before it in dust that 1 finds it's way into every nook, A hovel stands by the roadway, it's rickety door | secured by a paddock. The few sticks of furniture, even the miserable bed upon which it's emaciated occupant lay, had been seized by the Jew to whom she is in debt, and the door is closed against her. The rags that scarcely cover her are all the worldly goods that she possesses. Food she" has none. Old, lonely and i'll, she has no strength to drag herself to the village. She sinks down in the snow to die. In the morning her frozen body Is found with smile on it's worn face.
 | This is no fancy sketch NIt is fact. The sequel is equally striking. The peasants, furious at the cruelty, sur rounded the Jew lenders house the next night. Having caught him and bound him, they skinned him alive. | And thus the weary circle of Jewish extortion and un-Christian resentment Is traversed in Austria as in every country where Jews and Gentiles have come into conflict since the Dispersion | In commerce and money making gen- erally the Jew beats the Austrian all along the line. The Austrian's weak ness is his opportunity. Among the pleasure-loving and indolent Austrians the Israelite reaps a rich harvest. The Austrian revenges himself with hatred and abuse. He perceives thataEe is out 1 d.stanced; but he refuses to see that the real cause is his own idleness and Jew | ish industry.
 l In France the feeling against the
 Jews has been so frequently described in the newspapers that there is no oc- casion to dwell upon the facts which
 gave rise to it. The multiplication of
 their numbers, and what may be called
 the "aloofness of Israeli are rapidly
 bringing the Jewish question to the front. Jewish champions compare themselves with the Huguenots; but
 the large majority of the. Jews, whether ] in England or elsewhere. have no title i to be included in the same category as 1 that of a race whose absorption by the land of its adoption is a matter of two generations. The difference between l the Jewish element in national life and
 in every other racial constituent lies in the fact that whereas all other races in 1 termarry, worship and eat with us, the
 strict Jew will do none of these things.
 He remains aloof. He preserves his tribal customs. He Is intensely proud of his origin, and not seldom, secretly
 or openly. contemptuous toward the l people of his adoption.
 l The synagogues and the Jewish con- 1 gregations in Poland, Lithuania and Galicia, in case of need, exercise a stronger influence in the west over good
 and humane western Jews than any of the social or religious forces by which they are surrounded. As long as their
 diet is different, as long as Sunday is a
 week day. as long as their origin is Ori-
 ental, as long as they decline to inter-
 marry, so long is 1t impossible to re-
 gard the Jews as English, French ' Spanish, German, Italian or Russian. There exist, no doubt, few of thesup-
 per classes who are absorbed, and by intermarriage and education have be-
 come Anglicized as the Huguenots are
 Anglicized. Of these I do not speak; I eTefer to that far larger proportion of the Jewish immigrants whose colonies
 are to be found throughout Europe. A l great change is at hand. After six centuries of more or less federation. the signs are not wanting that the Jewish question is ripe for entrance into new
 stage. As in other matters, it is for Russia to take the lead. She Is com pelled to do so; and her part will con- sist in the provision of territory by
 which the redundant population of her own Jewish pale may find home, and perhaps state. The only spot availa- ble seems to be in the depopulated val leys and plains of Armenia It will be
 strange if prophecy is fulfilled in this way. Personally, believe it to be not l only likely, but nevitable.-Arnold White in Chambers Journal