El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-05
KING CHARLES.

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
apOlOgtst 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
heir children to the public schools, al
though entitled to do so free of ex-
tense; that they controlled trade and
practiced usury; that they were dirty
and altogether undesirable from every
Point of view to the state. Neverthe-
less, when Sir Moses Montefiore began
his earnest crusade in Europe and en-
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
a relation to the state which, if not
rntfrely 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, too-to keep a village pub
lie house. On the other hand, it is a
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 of the volume
extols his reign, but there are some
letters which are worth preserving.
One was evoked by a letter of SYM
pathy written to the unhappy mother
of the slain prince imperial by the
king:
"Chiselhurst, Aug 10, 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 1 loved.
I rest near them, and here my isola-
ton seems less great. L have known
both extremes, and the want of stabil-
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 it's authorship might be uues- |
toned but there is one incident which |
reveals much OF the personality of |
the writer When he was summoned |
to his principality it was necessary to |
cross the Austro-Bavarian frontier at
SaIzburg He travelled in multi with
Councillor Won Werner and stopped at
Zurich on the afternoon of May IL,
1866, to arrange about passports. Won
Werner te1egraphed Swiss official,
whom the princes father had already
asked about the passes, to arrange a
meeting at st. Gallen. but. as this Of