The Greenville times., 1898-01-22
PERIODICAL PERSECUTION.


e century. Whether or not thi
curious recurrence of persecutio
is due to any unknown influence
it is nevertheless demonstrated f
be "A fact by yperience, and ha
a existed from the dark ages. Uusu
ally the anti-Jewish manifesto
tions have been produced by ia
natic religious feeling, or have a
' least been cloaked by this senti
ment. The wave of persecution
+, which is at present surging oyel
Europe has for its cause an en-
tirely different feeling, beins
avowedly produced by the com
mercial and financial superiority
of the Jews, and the fact that they
are gradually acquiring the lion,
share of the wealth and power,
1t is to be feared that popular
hatred based on this ground bodies
no good to the Jewish people. 1t
will be acknowledged that the
Hebrew, wherever he is suffered
to take root and grow, soon passes
and out-hourishes his competitors.
He is possessed Of natural shrewd-
ness, keen business sense, and un-
firing industry in the accumua-
ton Of wealth with which other
races cannot successfully compete.
He bends every energy to money
getting. 1t is his first and almost
his only consideration, and CON
slant effort, united to natural gen
ius, makes him almost certainly
successful. Money is power, -.
not knowledge. While other
races are spending time and tai
ents in a thousand different pur-
suits the Jew is concentrating
himself upon one. The result is
inevitable. A nation awakens
suddenly to the fact that this alien
race has absorbed the greater part
of its wealth, and thereby gained
possession of its political and com
mercial machinery. An unreason-
ing jealousy seizes them and popu-
lar uprisings against the Jews fol
low 1t has been the case ever
since the sons of Jacob prospered
in the land of Egypt, and will con-
tinue to be as long the Jewish race
their strange policy of
segregation and alienation-a poll
cy which seems to strengthen and
become more fixed as the ages go
by.
1t IS the conventional practice OF
American writer's to wonder at
and deplore this unrelenting per-
secution Of people whose only
offense is religious and social diff
ference, and to condemn unre- {
servedly such manifestations of
prejudice as are now drawing the I
eyes of the world upon France.
This is one sided view, The in .
ustice Of indiscriminate perseou-
ion cannot, of course, be too
trongly condemned; and any one
amiliar with the Jewish people t
must grant them the possession of 9
many high and admirable qualities. b
like the rest of mankind, there {
re individual exceptions, and il
here are also race traits which v
t least explain the occasional out tc
reaks of Indignation. b
The Jew is greedy. He is never a.
ltisfied. He is, in many cases, &C
lerciless. Many striking in LA
,ances of Jewish generosity and W
,rbearance have come within the sc
riter's knowledge, but, taken as
whole, the tendency of the lace
Nv, as in the days Of Pharaoh, is i
"spoil the Egyptians" Once ~
'ssessed of money and power, -,
c jew becomes arrogant and -
.erbearing So dceaa, the Eng ~, ~
hman, Frcnchman, German; .a a'
or any other man. -,
Shakespeare seldom made mis-.
ke. He did not create typical ~
W, The jew Shylook repre- -,
nted was the outgrowth of ages
repression, tyranny and perse- oh.
ton, during which the worst and -.
lest Jewish national character III
ic had been sharpened by unre A.,
lting conflict with hostile
rid. With the down fall of the '
mple the doom of Ishmael be-
ne that of the seed of Sarah. BIZ
e hand of every man has been ere
orally against them, and their ow