Arizona republican., 1898-02-14
JEW EATERS.

One of the most scandalous and dis
 heartening blots on the civilization of
 the day is the new outburst of hatred and persecution against the Jews which has appeared in every nation in
 Europe except England. In this coul-
 try as in England the Jew suffers from
 no disability or prejudice in any de-
 realize what the frenzy is which
 threatens to revive the horrors Of
 mediaeval Jew batting.
 When in a country like France, the
 brute cry of Down with the Jews!"
 resounding in the boulevards and in the slums and among all ranks and classes, reaches to the courts of jus tice and the officers of gevrnment, civilization and liberty are thr a ened with overthrow, When hatred is manifested in attempts to loot the homes and shops of the Jews, when the mob turns to pillage, the infamy appears still more base
 Dreyfus was convicted not because he was a traitor but because he was Jew. The anti-semetic frenzy is running mad in France. The mob rabies may break out any day in mur- der and plunder. The same fever of hatred rages all over the continent of Europe. It is a hate which blackens and destroys the elementary human virtues. Drumont, author of France Juive," book in which the widest fictions of the middle ages are revived against the Jews, was started in life by the brothers Pereire, Jews. The Marquis de Mores did not become ap anti-semite till he had borrowed 20,- 900 francs from Dr. Cornelius Herz.
 Not only in France, in Austria when ever the mob rises it attacks Jews. In Vienna, in Prague they are despoiled and murdered without protection. In Germany powerful party makes of their expulsion its shibboleth. In Rou- mania when the mob assaults Jew, the police stand by and smile. Jews may not follow a trade except on ser
  treated as a slave race, penned up in districts to starve and suffer and be the object of the barbarous riots of peasant mobs. In Italy there is the same blind malice, though it's mani have not been so outrage ous. With this wild and ungovern- able passion in the heart of the na- ions, the twentieth century may wit ness a massacre which will recall the lays of Peter the Hermit.
 The old prejudice, which was partly 1 'acial and partly religious and partly | lue to the separatist habits of the l Jews, has been intensified by the Shy ock idea, too common among the ! people, that capitalists are their ene- 1 mics and that of all capitalists the | Jews, because they live by distribu- ion and avoid hard manual labor, are | he richest, most arrogant and most | offensive.
 The new Hep! Hep! is a strange re- lection on the spirit of the age which | S supposed to be goverened by love | md charity. In other departments nen are becoming opposed to physical ruelty, to religious bigotry, even to acial dislike; they are in theory more olerant, more cosmopolitan, and less of quick brains and re- ined culture. But the Jew hater is he fly in the pot of ointment.
 What is the provocation for the new There is none The Jew S law abiding to an extreme. True, le marries among his own people; so 10 other aristocratic castes in Flu ope. He has oriental ideas of diet, but he ,ats nothing disgusting to the people 'ound about him as the European loes when he goes to Asia He makes money when he can; so does every body else. The prejudice is utterly rational.