The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-12
- ssss go 1905 . .
PROSECUTION OF JEWS.
A Trick Of Brutal and Ignorant
Rulers.


tions that diversified some IA centuries
of European history.
According to the proofs of that in
vestigator "anti-Semitism" Is merely
an alias of anti-Liberalism, an exped-
lent of unpopular despots. trying to
avert the attention of rebellious mob
Especially in case that mob is savage
ly ignorant as we'll as insubordinate.
In civilized countries the trick can
not be made to work. If Napoleon Ill
had tried it in 1870 the liberal press
would have had his hide on the fence
in week. With such bankers as the
Rothschilds to plumber the temptation
must have been great. Let's turn
those patriots on the Prussians,"
thought the imperilled emperor, "a
Jew crusade cannot be doomed nova
days."
The Russian lmperialists doomed it
with complete success. Their Doors
are in that stage of emotional barbar-
ism that made things little uncom-
Portable for the despots of Western
Europe at a time when mutinous peas
ants had learned the power of COOP
GRAFTON.
Hard times? No wonder" The
autOcratS agents would whisper. Can't
help being hard, with all those Jews
getting rich at other peoples expense.
And terrorizing their poor neighbors
with their hOrrid practices: Well
poisoning and killing and eating Chris
tian children. Killed so many saints.
too. you know. Whenever times get
little better, they will drug the wells
and springs"
Sparkcatching and fire of anti-Heb-
rev indignation soon rising in destruc-
tive flames. A fiendishly cunning APP
peal to propensity that makes all
savages kin. The penchant for wreck
ing their i'll humor on men, children
or pets who can be slugged with i'm
punity. Dam-break OF accumulated
wrath along lines of least resistance.
Privately good many of those rioters
would have preferred to tear their
blood-sucking autocrat limb from limb.
But his steep castle walls and double
shotted artillery? Better take it out
of the Jews; no risk there to speak of
and a chance for no end OF loot. -
The outburst of murderous rage
might exceed the expectations of the
government intriguers; hundreds of
helpless men, women and children
slain like wild beasts; barbarities like
ly to provoke the protests of their hui
name neighbOrS; but in the meantime
they had answered their purpose of
affording vent to the pent up trucu-
lence of the tax-burdened Doors; riot
ers sneaking back to their dens like
sheep killing hounds, and not apt to
growl too audibly for months to come.
Some of their worst ruffians actual
ly now fawning on the government that
could saddle them with perilous indict-
ments. glad to make friends with the
police and lessen the odium of their
enormities by SANDER.
Five or six hundred slain? Some of
them chopped to pieces? Burnt alive in
their last retreats? Well, what else
could they expect? Shouldn't roast
and eat so many of our children; little
Hans Krautzer never seen alive after
he went to town that night so many
others missing; all stewed up for Pass
over meat, no doubt. And all these
fevers and hog choleras now fully ex-
planned. Wholesale well-poisoning
Besides, really good radiance. Stiff
necked unbelievers.
BY that trick Mohammedan, as we'll
as Christian despots pulled themselves
out of innumerable scrapes. Basil the
Second OF the Byzantine Empire was
onsthe point of being mobbed when he
cOntrived to hound the rabble on the
Hebrew ghetto, which at that time oc-
cupied some fifty streets of Western
Constantinople. When the looting
had ceased he summoned some of the
ringleaders and surprised them by let
ting them off with lecture on the
beauty of several orthodox virtues, pa
thence, charity and forbearance. Won't
do to chop up SO many peddlers; some
of them were useful, though unbeliev-
ing. All things considered may let
you off this time, if you promise to be-
have for year or two. Am always in
clined to make allowance for the fol-
bles of human nature"
Such a kind ruler! The father of his
country after all. The riot had acted
ans chuckled whenever they met in a
by-lane.
Several of the Mohammedan califs
tried the same trick. Nay, Mohammed
himself had not the slightest scruple
about Its expedience whenever his pop
ularfty became shaky. 1t is on record
that he went thrice out of his way to
attack the villages of Hebrews who ig-
nored his gospel while he compromised
with Arab communities that openly
ridiculed his pretensions.
Phillip, the Fair of France, the same
rascal who engineered the slander-plot
for the ruin of the Knights Templars
banished $4,000 Jews, including all
his majesty's creditors, but, on second
thought, recalled a few able financiers
and offered to let them collect what
debts they could squeeze out of his
subjects if they would contract to pay
him twO-thirds share of the proceeds.
A considerable sum was raised on
these terms, when his majesty again
experienced an attack of scruples'
about treaties with unbelievers and
threatened to Danish his purveyors or
jail them on general principles I'M
less
They took the hint and salved his
conscience with another CARLOAD of
Doodle, and only then were surren-
dered to the fury of the mob, who COL
Jared their scant savings and tortured
them in search of hidden pennies.
A still more odious despot, Louis XII,
had a fit of piety whenever his credi-
tors became shrill, and at last announ-
ced his intention to hang six of them
for the benefit of his soul. He adriotly
avoided to spy<sy names and was
pleased to find that the wholesalers
kept out of his way, or even offered adj
ditional loans if he would guarantee
their survival.
Poor, hunted pariahs had their
agents in every part of Europe Offering
to rent lands and houses at twice the
usual rates, and it is curious fact
that Poland and Russia granted Thorn