The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-05-18
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN. MAY is, 1912.

THE CATHOLIC BU
the population, and their number, ac-
tivity, and the Sionist movement
amongst them has begun to disturb the
patriotic Poles. According to Stats
tics the Jews represent % per cent
of the scholastic population of Galicia.
They occupy important positions in
the two Polish Universities and they
are now demanding that the word
"natione judens" should appear on the
diplomas they receive from these seats
of learning. The professions, particu-
larly law and medicine, are encum-
bered by them. In one small town
which possesses twenty advocates, all,
with one exception, are Jews. 1t is
among the intellectual men of Judaism,
up to date in their ideas and equip
ment, and free from ancient religious
traditions, that the Church finds her
greatest enemies, for they have &C.
cepted Modernism in it's worst form.
They are determined partisans of the
Socialists and anti-clericals, and allies
of the Freemasons. The great propri-
etors in Galicia form a special class
who have the right to certain num-
Der of deputies. This class includes
the Polish aristocracy, but the number
of Jews included in it has increased
with extraordinary rapidity. In 1861
there were only SO, ten years later the
number had doubled, but in 1908, the
last statistics available, it had reached
the alarming total of ATS, or more
than twenty per cent. If the move
ment continues the historic seats of
the ancient nobility of Poland will
soon be in the hands of the Jews COM
pletely, for prodigal and extravaganza,
they are continually placing them
selves under heavy monetary obliga-
lions.
Jews and the Liquor Traffic.
AS to commerce it has long been
monopolished by the Isrealites. 1t is
computed that ninety out of every hun
dred merchants are Jews. In the
small towns all the shops are closed on
Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. There
is hardly a village which has not it's
Jew, who acts as intermediary be-
tween the peasants and the merchants
Gently the liquor traffic was entirely
in their hands, but the first move on
the part of those who wish to break
the net they are weaving round this
Catholic land, has taken the form of
law which limits the number of these
establishments, and gives the Cover
nor the power of license. This law
caused great agitation in the Ghetto.
Last autumn three thousand of these
"Schnapsjuden" as they are called,
went to Vienna, and endeavoured vain
ly, by means of their deputies, to
block the proposed measure. The new
law is especially welcomed by the
Clergy who have been making great
efforts to stem the ravages of alcohol
ism, and who consider, with reason,
the village 'schnapsjuden" powerful
agent for decentralization.
The Jews and the Press.
With their usual foresight the Jews
have interested themselves in many
papers and magazines and the most
widely read journal of the country is
in the hands of liberal Jews, who are
enemies to Catholicism. Many small
local daily sheets printed in Polish are
edited by them, while for their own
people they publish important papers
in what is called "jorgon," sort of
patois of their own, printed in Hebrew
letters. Their self-confdence is mani
fest from the fact that they have re-
Gently demanded that chair of "Jor-
gon' be established at the University
of Leopol, and their political influence
is so great that they usually get what
they demand. The Government never
allows them to be violently attacked,
and in the Independent papers it is no
unusual thing to come across white
column imprinted, with only the word
"skenfiskowano" on it, intimating that
an attack on the Jews has been CEN
sored out of it's columns!
These few facts of the power and in
crease of the Israelite in one small
Catholic country of Europe, under a
Catholic administration, are useful for
two things. First, they will be pleas
ant and instructive reading for those
devoted friends of the Jewish race,
who are continually accusing their fell
low Christians of unreasonably perse-
cutting the poor Hebrew. Secondly,
they demonstrate publicly, what is
largely the case in better known coun-
tries of the world, though there the
control is more subtle and secret, but,
as in Poland through the purse. The
Jews control the worlds press and the
worlds war chest. They are not a
forgiving race and they do not love
Christians. We have to take care that
thew do not control things more pre-