THE JEWISH QUESTION IN GERMANY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2991, 26 January 1881, Page 4

THE JEWISH QUESTION IN GERMANY.

The "powers that bo" in Northern Germany are raising up thousands of enemies for themsolves by their persecution of the Jews. It is to be remarked that among the German Socialists six out of every halfdozen aro of Hebrew origio, and the presumption is that they have been led to revolt against the present order of society by the odious manner in which they have been treated. In Hamburg, Bremen, Frank-fort-on-the-Main, and other towns where Socialism is firmly seated and promises to undertake formidable measures, the Jews are among the most prominent conspirators. The Christians —if so they may be called — have made strenuous endeavors to keep them out of all the recognised and regular walks of society ; what more natural than that they would turn away and try to invent a new order of things in which they will be prominent? Frankly, a people "i patient and less worthy than the leo- •'»uld rebel against such blackJews vto. '« constantly heaped upon guardism as 1 »- Itt the other day, a proit in Germany. Om., "* -1 that laws be minent German denianciew -<\ CO -which made against "that frightful *-. •' j n threatens to subjugate the country." one section tho people threaten to take the matter into their own hands, if laws are not speedily enacted against the Jews. There is a preacher named Stoecken who is giving Anti-Semitic lectures, to which thousands flock. The Catholics and Lutherans are equally bigoted in this senseless and cruel persecution. " Every country has the Jews that it deserves," is an old and witty saying. In France tbe Jew is respectable and respected, because he is not made to feci in any way that he is an alien. And the Jews have a right to the power which thej get; they ■work hard and long for it. They are the real governors of a very large portion of Europe ; and if thoy were inclined to shut up their banks, buckle their money-bags, and depart for parts unknown, Germany and France would cry out after them to remain. The short-sighted Prussians may gratify their propensity for bullying for a short time, but the Jew will get his vengeance. He is wily, and bides his time. He will not allow himself to gravitate back to the degradation in which his forefathers languished in the Middle Ages.—Edward King in Boston Journal.