TEUTON AND JEW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7970, 22 February 1906, Page 3

TEUTON AND JEW.

A COMPARISON.

Writing of the German Jews, a correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says:— The real brains oC Gormany, commercially and intellectually, are provided by tbe Jews. Thn Gorman Jew is the brainy man in the Kaiser's Empire. It is his energy, bis boldness, his intrepidity in trade an;l his power in finance which make things move. Germany without tbe Jews would play a small part commercially outside its own borders. The treatment which the German Government has moted out to the Jews baa only served to accentuate the aggressive qualities of the race. They are denied complete civil rights. They must not hold commissions iu the Army or Navy, and they are excluded from the great world of officialdom. They assert themselves ail the more in trade and finance, iu law, in journalism, and literature, and art. They are not prevented from beiug professors, and Jewish professors are contributing much of the original thought whbh Germany produces. The most enterprising Germans in England "are Jews. The great mining magnates of South Africa are Jews from Germany. The greatest shipping company in the world—the Ham-burg-American, tbe Kaiser's special • pride—has as its organising genius a I Jew —-Herr Ballin—-one of tbe few Jews whom tbe Emperor has been < compelled to acknowledge. Jew? are found in prominent positions among the economists, and the scientists, arid tbe lawyers. They sun- ; ply much of the Liberal thought 10 the country. Most of the leaders of tbe Social Democrats ou the Her- ' lin Town Council belong to the Eebrew ra e. In German trade tbe Jew Is tbe pioneer, it is the knowledge that the Jew* is superior to him in brain power, in energy and euttrcrise, that makes the dominating Teuton withhold complete civil > rights from this remarkable race. As might be expected, a German replied, asserting the superiority of his own people. Jtte did not question the genius of the Jew, his Dusiness capacity, his success 1 ] in profpssions, but, he asked—ls he supplying them with their best at' tributes; is he engaged in these professions in improving the world, in giving it new ideals; aro these professions the better for his presence. To every one of these questions he gave an emphatic negative. "We Germans do not glorify mere brain power in races or in individu.ale. Thark God we are still idealists,, and probably this ljles at tbe root of *our| qtfarrei with the Jews. We have not yet reached the stage bowing of down to wealth. We object to the ostentation of the Jews. We do hot like to see them occupying rows of the best houses, in the best quarters in the city; filling the best places in our theatres; filling the best restaurants and creating by their luxury and ostentation an atmosphere of Orientalism, a shallow hard glitter in society, which is not German, which is not Christian. Our best elementn will always resist a party where Jewisn materialism is supreme. Our Jews have beon undoubtedly law-abiding. They perform their civic duties. When called on to serve as soldiers they do their duty. Many of them died heroic deaths in the Franco-Prus-sian War. But we feel instinctively that tbey are not with us, that they are a nation within a nation. Wo know tbe chicanery and trickery to which they too often resort to avoid military servicu. We know their hatred life.