The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-07

guish its professors from the persons,
now pretty numerous who, while Chris
tian in name, sit loose to Christian doc
trine The children of Jewish theists will
be almost apt the children of other
theists to he caught up by the move
ment which carries the sons and daugh-
ters of evangelical Anglicans and of Non
conformists toward. or all the way to,
the Church of Rome"
Where, thea. is this centrifugal force
to be found. which will hold together the
various elements in Israel. no matter
what their theological opinions may be?
ANTI-sEMITIsM
Before attempting to answer this uues-
ton, word must be said in regard to the
anti-Semitic movement, the recrudescence
OF which has so profoundly affected the
Jewish people during the last twenty
years of the nineteenth century. A word
only, because the facts are of too recent
date to need a detailed statement here.
The great mastermnd, Zunz, writing in
Germany in 1892, believed that persecution
for religious belief could not withstand the
onslaughts of the new era. Theodore
Reinach. some fifty years later. asserted
that anti-Semitism was impossible in
France. How sadly has a dement, been
given to the hopes thus expressed, espe-
cially Gin these two countries,
l pass over the outbreaks against the
Jews during the .arly years of the nine
teenth century, even the Damascus blood
accusation in 1Si0 and the forcible bap-
tism of little Edgar Mortara in 1858; they
were believed to belong to the old order
of things, with which the new, at least
in that direction, had nothing in COM
mon. 1 confine myself simply to the mod
ern form of anti-Judaisn, which has
been dignified by the name of anti
Semitism. 1t is hard for a Jew to
speak of these things with COM
posture or with the judicial mind of a mere
chronicler Of events. Neither emancipa-
ton from without nor reform from within
has beer able to stay the hand of the de-
stroyer of Israel's peace. 1t has been con-
tended that in most countries the Jews
Were not ready to be emancipated; that
in some the nOn-Jewish population was
not sufficiently advanced to make emanci-
patton effective. The first may be true in
regard 10 the Algerian Jews; the second,
in regard to those in Roumania: but it is
not true of the other nations on the Euro
pean continent. Starting in Germany, per-
haps as a political move on the part of
Bismarck, it spread into Russia. Galicia,
Austria, Roumania. and France. In most
of these countries it not only found eX-
preston in the exclusion of the Jews
from all social intercourse with their fe!
lows but in Russia produced the riots of
1881 and 1852; in Austria and Bohemia the
turbulent scene in the Reichstag. and even
the pillaging of Jewish houses and Jewish
synagogues; in Roumania it received the
active support of the Government and re-
duced the Jews there to practical penury;
while in France it showed itself in accusa-
lions against the Jews which for barbar
ity could match any that were brought
against them in the Middle Ages. The
charges against the Jews are varied in
been blamed for exploiting the agricul-
tural class and for serving the interests
of the Liberal party. forgetting that Leo
and Stahl. the founders of the Orthodox
party in Prussia, We're themselves Jews
and that Disraeli in England was born of
the same race. The most foolish accusa-
tons on almost every conceivable subject
have been lodged against them by such
men as Ahlwart. Stocker. Lueger. and
Drumont: and In late years the old and
foolish charge that the jews use the
blood of Christian children in the making