Washington sentinel., 1898-01-01
ENGLAND.
THE NEW HEPl HRPl
Spectator,
ENGLAND.

The novel desire to persecute the
/ Jews which is Spreading so fast through
Europe, and which will produce grave
| political consequences, is marked by
some new and some unexp ected feat.
ures. In the first place, IT is much more
general than it was. The ews have
been persecuted in turn by every
nation, including our own; but Sharp
persecution, the kind which threatens
life and property, has usually broken
out in one nation at a time. Now the
whole Continent persecutes. It IS, we
believe, literally true that while Jews
| everywhere rise to the top of all profes.
sions except the naval, there is no coun-
try IN Europe except England, certainly
no large country, where the race, as a
race, does not feel that it IS in lmmedi-
ate and most serious danger.
The new hatred, which is far deeper
than when, in 1873, George Elliot pub
lished "Theophrastus Such" with Its
eloquent but forgotten appeal on behalf
Of the race, is the more remarkable
becaUs OF its contrast with the new
spiri "a the age, which. in theory at all
events, tends towards a regime of
"love." The nations are believed to
have become gentler and in some
departments OF life-e. g., the entire
disuSe ofjudicial torture-the belief is
certainly we'll founded. Religious big
Otry has in a marked manner died away,
and, moreover, the Continental world
tends towards Theism-that is, towards
the very doctrine of which the Jews for
ages upon ages alone upheld the torch.
The horror OF the foreigner qNs for.
eIgner has almost disappeared, all the
peoples tolerating, if they do not like,
all visitors who are white and who speak
in any ineligible tongue. The old
jealousy OF "prarts," that is, of
intellectual rapidity, which was
once infinitely stronger than the
literary class of to-day could be
induced to believe, has died away or
conf ed i'seli-a very curious fact--to
a asection Ofthe upper and middle classes,
many of whom remain proud OF their
stOlidity and mental slowness. The
world, in fact, though TAR from gentle.
has become distinctly gentleT, and
brutality is no longer confounded with
nlavl l''Css. but the change, winch is
saving. g.thousands OF the inefficient, and
in great physicians opinion lowering
the vital force of whole sections Of
society. has brought no comfort or pro-
lection to the Jew. That he gives some
provocations is undeniable; but the
marvel remains that he gives only the
same eprovocations as other people, upon
whom they are not visited. He is so
lawabiding that his tondness for law is
constantly brought against him as a re.
proach. He marries only among his
own people, but so on the Continent do
all the aristocratic castles. He wears
east Of Vienna a special costume, but so
in half the countries of Europe, and
specially in France, do a large proper.
tiOn Of those who live by labor. He re-
tains AsiatIc ideas about food, but his
ideas only bind him to abstinences; and
unlike the European in Asia, he eats
nothing which inspires the populace
with disgust. He has no ways which
are shocking, for though he will not ad-
init, cannot with his history admit,
that polygamy is crime condemned by
that earliest revelation, the birth equal.
ity IN the number of the sexes, he has
IN Europe and America given up the
practice. He makes money whenever
he can, but so does everybody else in
every race; while il "the poor" as a
corporation have moral claims, VIII ere
is there poverty like that of the Jew
maj jority, who do not even possess what |
every other nation except the Parsee |
possesses, the estate which we call a |
country? That the lew is insolent in |
prosperity is often true, but in what re. |
spect does his insolence differ from that |
OF multitudes who are allo we'd to walk |
about swelling in all cities without any. |
BODY bespattering them with mud. /
There is, in fact, no visible reason for
the new persecution of the lew, except |
the reason which has been pleaded ever
since the days of Vespasian that he IS
lew and ought, therefore, TO be sent
away.
What IS the remedy for a sitUatlon
which is a disgrace to Europe2 We have
none to suggest, because we only believe
in one, which will not be accepted.
When all the Christian Churches plead
tor the Jew as they plead for all other
men who are, uniustlv oDnressed the |
Jews will be safe; but in a generation
which has complacently endured the
massacre OF the Armenians TOR the
offence OF being Christians we can have
little hope thai that course will be inn
mediately followed, The other rene
dies suggested are all useless. elm
prove the laws" says one; but it is not
The laws, but the execution of the laws
oi which Jews have to complain. let
hem give up their separat4ness, says
another; but they will not do it, any
more than the aristocratic castles will,
and as their separateness has its roots in
history, and has lasted three thousand
years, it is ridiculous to make OF it a
moral offence "Let them work, ;" says
| third but what Jew attempts, if he
has no money, to live by loafng, or
where is the really poor lew who shirks
working for fourteen hours a day2 Our
East End does not snarl at the Jew for
lis laziness but tor his industry. "Let
hem," says a fourth, "all turn Chris
JAMS" but that excellent advice might