The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-07

EWOre TO De T6NeISGu Oi1 "A-A4N
venging himself for the obscure medIoc-
rity in which ne had hitherto lived, where
as so NANNY others rapidly attained sue
cess and fortune; and he wrote that as
tonishng book which burst like thunder
clap revealing his name to the general
public and bringing MIN at once money
and renown-I mean La France Juive.
Jewish France appeared nj 1856. In
very short time rs editions were sold.
On the morrow of its publication the press
was full of protestation from men VINO
declared themselves 10 have been Ioeiied
by the author, and Of reports OF duels De-
tween NJ Drumont and some OF his VIC
Tins Several pursued him in court, OUT
the majority shrugged their shoulders ard
said: 1T is pamphlet, raking toge-
Their of calumnious stories. fabricated anec-
dotes. and veritable lies" A magistrate
would presently, in suit brought against
N. Drumont, call it the Directory of de-
famation." Polemics, duels, suits, are more
than is needed TO make a success of any
book. and the public eagerly devoured that
of NJ Drumonts.
What is 10 be found in the two compact
vo- tunes of which Jewish France con-
SnStS. FlTSt Oh al, SCdiudiOuS LeiACo eDDAN
the principal leaders OF the Republican
party, whom the author reproached with
being dishonest themselves, or of having
fc.e,gn origin or a jewish connection.
Gambetta and Jules Simon are discovered
to Rave been Jews-;ho former of ItaiIan
the latter of German origin. Such as are
not Jews themselves are accused OF beng
IN The hands Of Jews. The number CT
worthy Christians denounced as Jews Is
considerable. There follows long, brlst-
ling and pedantic history of the Jews,
showing that Drumont had laboriously alb
stracted all the works written against
them His theory about them is summed
I'D in this phrase: 1.-The Semitic is mercan-
tile, avarcous, intriguing, subtle CRAFTY,
the Aryan is a son of heaven constantly
concerned with higher aspirations. The
one lives in real the other in the ideal.
Proceeding from this psychologist found
alton, he shows the Frenchman that,whlle
he was thus LIVING, or was supposed to
be living. Sin the ideal" the Jew came
from Frankfort, Hamburg, or Warsaw
and siezed upon his money his occupation,
and his land and made him parish IN
the very country of his ancestors; has ty-
rannzed over him by invading politics and
grasping all the administrative posts ana
the magistracy; has insulted his faith, and
expelled Catholicism from the schools and
hospitals. For a thousand pages the au-
thor harps upon this one theme with ex-
amples often mendacious and with names
for the most part non-Jewish.
The movement excited by Drumont' S
book was at the outset solely Catholic 1T
was singularly reinforced by two events,
the Panama crash and the Dreyfus affair.
In the former, by a deplorable coincidence,
three of the most unpopular men, by
reason Of having acted as intermediates
| in the great wastage and principals in the
work of corruption, were Israelites. The
| Incapable or criminal directors of the COM
pany, the corrupted Deputies or Senators
were all Christians. But those who had
squandered the shareholders millions in
| brides to journalists and, legislators were
that INSCRIPTIONS financier, Baron dc
Reinach: Cornelius Hertz, physician, cleo
| trician, and man of affairs; and the Aaron
| Cor Arton). clever swindler, whose history
! is a romance now being terminated in
! Jail. It is quite ineligible that the small
| bourgeois of France who mad read Dru'
mont's TRADES against the Jews, and who
subsequently lost their savings nj Panama
anti-Semites with no great effort.
| Next came the Dreyfus affair. In the
interval, Drumont had founded his journal
the Libre Parole. in which he renewed
daily the work of anti-Semitic defamation
| by the same procedure as in his book. One
| may guess what arguments he could draw
from the Panama revelations as from the
| Dreyfus process. His journal and Roche
forts were the most popular of thos'
| classed by Zoa under the name of "th'
filthy press" But Drumont is much su
perior to Rochefort. However, in spit
of the Libre Parole. and Notwithstanding
the support of some other reactionar!
journals which borrowed their anti Sem
manned purely clerical weapon. Drumon
tried nj 1888 to become a Deputy. and faileC
pitifully. In the Chamber, ant-Semitisn
was represented solely by an obscure an
moreover stupid Deputy, who was til
laughing-stock of everybody. The Dreyfu
affair. which reused this wind of folly il
France was needed to give anti-Semitisn
the appearance of taking shape and win
mig over the masses. In the May cleo
ton, Drumont was chosen in AlCers. I
half-a-dozen other French districts Depu
ties wearing the anti-Semite badge wer
elected. All without exception were char
latans who wanted TO work the popula
drift, or fanatics poisoned by reading tn
Libre Parole.
When once the Dreyfus affair is Over
and the dementia Gained down. nothin
will remain Of all this, because anti-Sem
itism in France has no excuse for beins
The Jews there are but little nj excess @
$4,000 to 10000, of whom the great ma
| iOrty are thoroughly assimilated
among them are many financiers who hsv
come from Germany and have made rapi
fortunes, a great number were born !
France or were brought there at an earl
age. and have made an honorable OF Illus
trious name in the sciences. in uteratur,
in the magistracy and the army. TIL
University reckons among its best ma.
ters eminent Jews. Everywhere that con
petition exists. the Jews distinguish them
selves by their brilliant success Tn
Reinach family comprises three brother
OF two are savants and one A POLITICAL,
who are remarkable samples Of the worn
ing powers and intellectual suppleness
the Jews.
Furthermore. the fact OF being a Je
has not been an obstacle in the vie
either OF popular suffrage OF Of the Coy
eminent. In Parliament. since $50 ar
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