Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-12
pEsERET EVENING NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Il, 1VOO

Women and girls were brutally beaten
and kicked In a city Ike odessa,
whore there Is an ample police force. the
government can hardly be considered
without responsibility when not sup
pressing such riots by a murderous
mob.
In Germany the race hatred Is hardly
less pronounced The ignorant masses
stil believe that the Jews are obduct-
ing Christian children whose blood Is
used IN some secret rites, and influential
papers are said 20 give support to such
supersttou8 beliefs.
In France the government is endea-
vorlng TO suppress ant.semite riots,
but success is not always attending the
efforts. In Austria Ct Is said that Jew
ish children are locked up in converts,
that their souls may be saved and In
Rumanla. It seems. there Is a regular
ahti-Jewlsh crusade a Bucharest cor
respondent Of d London paper says
Every jew who had the appearance
" being poor was seized in the street
or To the Ceaina ga sort oi r. cafe Whete
poor Jews take ten ana brumuy
dragged 10 the police station. Hundreds
OF Jews We're thrown into fhe subter-
ranean cells, and only those who were
able 10 rely on influential Intervention
on their behalf succeeded IN gaining
their liberty an the rest were sent 70
their place Of origin, "a term which Is
used for Migrants, These places OF ORE
gin are towns u which some had not
resided f0r five ten. or even forty years.
A number of these unfortunate persons
who We're sent 10 their last place ot
origin knew nobody IN the town IN
which they were born. and were even
more unhappy than at home. AZ the
railway station at TecoutchI a portion
Of the Jews expelled from Bucharest
We're abandoned boy the police and left
90 continue their journey alone without
a sou IN their pockets. The terror
which reigued Tor some weeks in the
capital can only be compared with that
Of the memorable days Of the hunt Of
'vagabUnds from J8ssy Do 1851 The
Jews were afraid To- leave their homes
ana 90 attend 20 their business, and
IN those painful days the cafes were
deserted"
It Is curious TO notice that the objec-
ton to the Hebrews IN Europe IS pre-
clsely that urged against the Chinese
among the CausasIans and, we pre-
sumo. identical with the Chinese OBJ
jections to foreigners generally The
Munich Algemelne Zeitung states this
objection thus;
"The jew hawkers and peddlers
have ruined the Roumanian squire
and farmer They creep IN.
everywhere, fattenng upon the
labOrs Of others. We state but
fact which cannot be gainsaid Many
European papers attribute the Jewish
emigration to Jow-baiting but this Is
a mistake. There have been some local
rebellions OF the people against their
eNpiOiters. but this wholesale emigra-
ton has a different cause The major
ity OF the emigrants have no definite
calling or handIcraft; they leave the
country because the people have been
SO Impoverished by them that the Jews
themselves find IL difficult 20 make a
living. They used 10 go from the north
10 the south The south, too, has now
been impoverished, and the Jews now
cross the frontiers Whoever has seen
the doings Of these business men must
admit that they are not desirable cle-
ment. They are a cancer on the body
Of nation
Where race prejudice exists, It Is not
difficult TO find an excuse Tor t. But
as long az It crops up In nearly all
parts Of the world there Is reason for
leniency In dealing with itin pagan ma
lions.