The record-union., 1899-09-22

1mitatOrS, should copy their elders in
going on q strike. For the cause of
down trodden labor like the sure
enough grown-up strikers, the New
York newsboys also declared that they
were opposed to violence" One of The
New York papers quotes a leader of
the strike as using the following anus
ing language. which is quite in line
with some of the eloquence of walking
delegates:
"Feliers, we don't want no yolens,
but ii yuse catch any kids a-selliny de
WorP or Jornal, jes' soak 'em. See?''
Another amusing fact in connection
with the newsboys' strike was that the
two yellow papers affected by 1t had
been highly indignant against the
Brooklyn Street Car Company, when
Its men were out on strike, and in
sisted that the company should be
forced to arbitrate the question, al
though the company declared that
there was nothing to arbitrate. With
a strike on their own hands, the two
saffron sheets suddenly developed an
amusing lack of interest in the ques-
ton of arbitration. AS between the
striking kids" and the two newspapers
which represent all that is least desir-
able in American journalism the ma
jority of the public will feel about the
same way as the old woman is reported
to have felt while her husband " as en-
gagged in a tussle with bear.
THE DREYFUS BOYCOTT.
Stockton independent: No govern
ment will undertake TO boycott France
or the Paris Exposition because of the
Dreyfus decision. 1t would not be prop
er for a government to take formal
notice of the internal affairs of an
other country unless some of its own
citizens were directly injured. But
this reason does not hold good with
private parties. The world knows that
the French metropolis has been for sew
eral years tuning it's politeness and
hospitality to the right pitch to catch
the spare francs of visitors in 1900.
So much is Paris wrapped up in this
great undertaking that it exercises a
marked influence on the Government
and has been exerted to bring about a
better feeling with Germany. A gen.
eral boycott or a threatened boycott OF
the exposition by exhibitors and in
tended visitors in England, Germany
and America would have greater
weight than any other influence to
bring France to realization of the
injustice that she is shielding beneath
the tinsel of her corrupt military.
The Dreyfus case has passed beyond
the stage where it can be considered
an individual or even a national con-
Germ. 1t has become a vital issue for
all Christendom. Above the question OF
mere sympathy for Dreyfus, the indi-
vidual, and beyond the issue in France
of the supremacy of the civil or the
military power is the great question
whether at the close of the nineteenth
century the Jewish race and the Jew
ish religion shall be tolerated by the
hosts of that later religion that is con-
fessedly founded upon and sprung from
the religion of the Jews.
In the Dreyfus case there was un-
disguised prejudice against the Jews in
all the proceedings. Dreyfus was Sc
lected as the scapegoat for the army
because he was jew. The prejudice
against the Jewish race in France was
bred in the church, cultivated in the
army and melted by political agitation.
There seems to have been no recog-
milton or appreciation of the fact that
when the standard of France went
down at Sedan it was through the Jews
of Paris and Berlin that France was
enabled to arrange that indemnity
that wrenched the nation from under
the heel of Bismarck and permitted the
rise of the republic. It is this lack
of appreciation, this ingratitude, this
ingrained prejudice, bigotry and In
tolerance that is being boycotted,