The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-14

| 1t had always held an exceptional po-
sotion, and been tolerated only. III
those countries the anti-Semitic doc
thrice resulted in an influx of pauper
! isolated outbreaks of the mob against
the Jews. Such fits repeated twice or
thrice resu0lted in an influx of pauper
Jews into England and America but
for about ten years little or nothing
has been heard of this movement.
! Anti-Semitism made its appearance
in France and Austria simultaneously
and in both countries it now seems to
I be nearing its end. In both countries
the Roman Catholic Church and the
reactlonary party hailed it as an ally,
particularly in Austria. Here the ground
had been wonderfully prepared The
lower middle class of the indigenous
Vienna population is light and shallow
minded, pleasure loving, thoughtless
/ The so-called Liberal party was de-
feated and PROSTATE, the country had
just passed through severe eeonCm-
ical crisis, and all the distress suffered
owing to that made the Austrians, who
have SO little common sense, only the
more stupid and superstitious. Soon
viz Nly was IdlStll tIdl IL w DIS dll lIlC
fault of the Jews" They have the most
money-so ran The tion-they
produce most cheaply, they create
hurtful competition, they are smarter
and work longer hours than the Cen
tiles, they spend less and are satisfied
with small profits. This movement was
at once supported by the ruling arts
tocracy and the clergy for the social
question had just then been knocking
at the door,
The Socialist agitation was already
beginning to spread in the country, and
Anarchist crimes were following one
another in rapid succession. Count
Taafa, high Tory, as well as shrewd
and INSCRIPTIONS politician, was Prime
Minister. He at once perceived that
he could make the movement of service
to the aristocracy and clergy against
Liberalism and the rising Socialism.
BY clandestinely fostering the anti
Semetic agitation the clergy and aris-
tocracy succeeded in diverting a large
portion of the Socialist movement,
which was naturally directed against
the Jews. AS q consequence Socialism
which started in Austria with so much
promise, has made comparatively little
progress since. Anti-Semitism, under
the false flag of Christian Socialism.
rapidly spread in Vienna-shortly be-
fore the very bulwark of Liberalism be-
came almost entirely anti-Semitic.
In the Vienna Town Concil and in the
Provincial Diet of Lower Austria, in
which the Liberal party used to pre-
J1,,
immense majoriaies. But what was
their programme on getting into office?
Not the improvement of the condition
of the working classes, not the abolition
of the prerogatives of the nobility
nor the diminution of the burdens of
nor the alienation of the
distress among the poor. Never a word !
did they say about these things, or
about the liberty of the press, or the |
right of combination. The Government,
the nobility and the Church remained |
unbalanced! At all the thou
sands of noisy meetings, in their daily |
papers, nothing was said or written ex-
cept that the whole abominable Jewish |
race ought to be annihilated But as
that could not well be done, these aliens
NGic " We HulllStl Oul VI tue country
which they and their forefathers have
inhabited for the last twelve hundred
years. If that, too, proved impossible
they were to be deprived of citizenship
First of all, they were to be excluded
from all public offices, and from the
numerous chairs which they occupy at
the universities and other educational
Institutes. The celebrated Vienna med
cal faculty, the anti-Semites COM
planned, was tainted by the
Jews! The majority Of the professors
belong to the Hebrew race; the greater
part of the big daily newspapers are
written by Jews; trade, wholesale and
'etail is chiefly in their hands.
Consequently the watchword con-
SANITY given to the befooled multitude
vas: Don't buy of Jews don't read
Jewish newspapers" OF the million
ind half of inhabitants of this capt.
al, about 900 are Jews. But of the
900 physicians half are Jews, and of
like 1000 lawyers, some $50
,elong to what Lord Beaconsfield
allied the superior race!
There was a superabundance of the
|
nd all the low instincts of the lower
lasses and besides that the anti-Sem-
tes appeared under the well-sounding
nd enticing name of Christian Social
sm' The oppressed We're promised
clip and salvation. 1t is, however, true
hat the large well-organized Social
Democratic party, the only self-reliant
nd enlightened party in Austria, was
ot to be misled and corrupted by the {
dictionary demagogues. But the mass
f the lower middle class, which is bad
Y off, and which is in a transitional
condition, the small trademen, ,
Tho daily receive new wounds from
apitalistic industry, the daddy paid :
over officials, the great army of SER
ants and petty folk adopted the anti /.
emitic doctrine with fiery zeal These /,
eople have the franchise, but the
ocial Democratic workmen have not =
When the elections came, the anti-Sem-
es were victorious, as they desired to !,
e. Their first act after obtaining the :,
PIPER hand was to cut out of the NUM- !
pal budget of $4,000 forms an item of 2
900 forms for school requisites for poor :,
aildren. The items for building new a
'hools, for the supply of drinking o
alter for almshouses, for the feeding n
nd nursing the sick poor were also +.
reduced. Now we are al O