Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-18
KING OF ROUMANIA.
TELLS OF WARFARE AGAINST
THE JEWS.
Saws That IL Is just and Accuses These
People of Extorting Wealth from the
cages.
Especial letter.


have peculiar value to students of the
Eastern situation. 1t does not profess
to be philosophic nor even purely au
Photographic. but just a record OF the
struggle of his kingdom to lift itself
to a place among European nations.
and of the conflicting influences which
were applied in order to attain success.
The most interesting chapter in the
volume tells the story of pro-Semittc
agitation in the East, and the resist
ance to the Jewish demands Cor equal
rights. 1t was upon this question that
tho Western nations, with high philan-
thropy, made such earnest protest, and
despite the opposition of Russia fin
ally secured for the Moldavian He
brews something approaching fair
treatment from the government and
king by whom they had long been OPP
pressed. The king takes constant OPP
pOrtunity to define and defend the po-
sitiOns on this question. from out OF
which he was forced one after another
to retreat. He declares that the Jews
held mortgages on the greater part OF
viders they had monopolized the trade
IN spirits. They had in times of FAM
Inc and scarcity always been ready
TO lend money to the needless land
owners and peasants at exorbitant
rates. and had thus acquired a hold
upon them which could not be shaken
off. Even the bitter hatred with which
the Moldavians regarded the Jews and
the violence caused by that feeling
were powerleSs to prevent the constant
immigration of Jews from Poland and
southern Russia, where they expert
enced a far harder lot than in Rou-
mania 1t is pointed out by the regal
apolOgiSt that the Jews were aliens
and strangers by reason of language.
custom and religion and desired TO re-
main so: that they refused to send
their children to the public schools, al-
though entitled to do so free of eX-
pense: that they controlled trade ana
practiced ucury; that they were dirty
and altogether undesirable from every
point of view to the state. Neverthe-
less. when Sir Moses MontefOre began
listed for the Moldavian Hebrews the
sympathy of the civilized world. so
much pressure was brought to bear
upon the crown that the proposed Is
raelites were advanced step by step TO
a relation to the state which, if not
entirely satisfactory, is far removed
from the one in which it was sought to
restrain them. The whole history OF
the legislation and the correspondence
with crowned heads is given in the
volume and to it the reader must turn
! for details. King Charles cannot re-
frain, however, from giving a parting
| thrust when he says with bitterness in
| his concluding lines on this subject:
| "One must know the villagers of Mol
| davia to be able to judge the noxious
| influence excited on the rural pOpula
| ton by the Jew and his adulterated
| brandy. In Poland and Hungary the
! Jew is TO this day forbidden-and
| rightfully, toto keep a village pub
| lie house On the other hand. it is
| pity that in Roumania Jews may not
| hold licenses for the sale of tobacco,
as they now have become the most ar
rant smugglers." This is the last slap
by the king The rest CT the volume
extols his reign. but there are some
letters which are worth preserving.
One was evoked by letter of SYM
pathy written to the unhappy mother
of the slain prince imperial by the
king:
"ChiselhurSt, Aug. Is, 1879.
"You recall to me the days of hap
piness, and by recurring to the pres
ent you share my illimitable grief.
Everything has fallen from ME, and
only two tombs are left of all l loved.
/ rest near them, and here my isola-
ton seems less great. l have known
| both extremes. and the want OF stabil-
| ity of human fortunes. We are wrong
IN not fixing our eyes beyond this life
and on that one where nothing changes
and where we shall rejoin those whom
We love to all eternity. EUGENE"
The volume is singularly barren of
! personal incident and if it were not
for the title and an occasional lapse
of the writer into the use Of the third
person its authorship might be ques-
toned, but there is one incident which
reveals much of the personality OF
the writer When he was summoned
to his principally it was necessary to
cross the Austro-Bavarian frontier at
Salzburg. He Travelled in multi with
Councillor Won Werner and stopped at