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PEEFACE.
This book deals with facts, and the critic will be forced to acknowledge that the truth, and nothing but the truth, is revealed in every page.
This expose is not half as severe as the subject treated of demands. Still, enough is told to bring to light the hidden venom and baneful influence of a race deemed by many ee inoffensive. 93
To La France Juive of Edward Drumont, a duo- decimo in two volumes, containing together more than one thousand pages, the author gratefully ac- knowledges his obligations for assistance derived in the preparation of this book. La France Juive. how- ever, is not a safe snide for the average reader. Every statement of Drumont has been carefully an- alyzed, examined, and fully verified before it was ac- cepted by the author for publication in this volume.
Although Drumonrs books have found readers by the thousand, and his La France Juive, in a short space of time, ran through one hundred and twenty- six editions, it must be confessed that the French writer is too often carried away by his prejudices, while his attacks on Americans, and on Free-IvTasons, and on Protestantism are not only unwarranted, but puerile and spiteful in the extreme,
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The author again asserts that everything brought forward in this book, however startling it may seem, is nevertheless a fact. His whole aim has been to present the truth in all matters pertaining to this malignant and diabolical race, that has obtained so strong a foothold in our country.
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, CUSTOMS AXD HABITS
OF THE JEWS,
It must not be supposed that the Jews as a class are an intelligent race. Assurance is often mistaken for in- telligence. I admit that there have been eminent men among the Jews, as, for instance, their renowned law- giver and leader in ancient times, Moses. But a care- ful examination of this anomaly (it is not an excep- tion) will show that the great men among the Jews have drunk copious draughts of Aryan civilization, and have quickly either renounced Judaism or adopted a nominal, sometimes a real, Christianity. Thus their famous men — Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, Ed- ward Gans, Moses Mendelssohn, Disraeli, and Johann N eander — cannot be fairly called Jews : for either they became rank infidels, or they carefully tried to conceal their origin by a change of name, a practice followed to the present day.
"What a difference between the Aryan and the Jew ! The one^ is the child of light, the other of darkness. See how the Aryan raises his head and looks toward
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the sky ; while the J ew constantly looks on the ground, always thinking, always meditating, always contriving, always plotting, plotting, plotting. By the term Ar- yan we designate the superior family of the white race. The word is akin to a Greek word meaning best or noblest, which enters into the formation of many Ens:-
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their Aryan character," Modern erudition recognizes the common parentage of the Latin and the Greek with the Persian and the Sanskrit, and has drawn to- gether all these scattered brothers into one and the same fold. There is, therefore, a brotherhood exist- ing among all the superior white nations. A misfor- tune to the one, like an electric shock, reaches the heart of all. Tiiese different nations of Aryan origin fraternize easily with one another, amalgamate, and in time become one, and to such an extent that it is dif- ficult when so amalgamated to separate or to distin- guish them. The Jew alone, ever since his first ap- pearance upon the earth, has remained separate and distinct, and will to the end remain an alien in the great family of nations.
No race of men excepting, perhaps the negroes, have a physiognomy so characteristic ; no race has preserved mere faithfully the original type. "It is our own ideas," says Edward Brumont, " which are in the way
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of our thoroughly understanding the Jew, and clearly depicting him — ideas due mainly to the atmosphere in which we live, an atmosphere absolutely distinct from that breathed by the Jew."
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u The Jew is a coward " is a common expression. Eighteen centuries of persecution supported with in- credible endurance testify that if the Jew lacks com- bativeness, he has that other form of courage called persistence.
Can we seriously treat as cowards people who have suffered everything rather than renounce their faith ?
" The Jew is a worshiper of money." This affirma- tion is rather a declamatory phrase than a thoughtful or serious utterance.
How often do we see men and women with time- honored names offer their greetings to a Seligman, an Qppenheimer, or a Kothschild, everyone of whom re- gards Christ, whom the Christians adore, as the great- est of impostors. What prompts them to do this ? Has the Jew who attracts them superior intelligence ? Is he an incomparable entertainer ? Has he rendered service to the Government ? By no means. He is an alien, a German or a Pole, a Jew in faith, little given to conversation, a vain fellow, who often repays the hospitality that he gives to his guest with vulgarities ; a hospitality that he extends only through vanity and ostentation.
What motive brings together these eminent men ? The love of money. Why do they go there ? To kneel before the golden calf.
66 Would you know what is the voice of the blood," said to one of his friends a French duke, who, despite the tears of his mother,- had married a Kothschild of Frankfort, " See ! " He called his little boy, took out a louis from his pocket, and showed it to him. The
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eyes of the child almost started from their sockets. It was the Semitic instinct manifesting itself.
It has already been stated that nearly all Christian nations are linked together by the closest ties by reason of their common descent from the Aryan race, which has giyen to the world its greatest civilizations.
Sidon, Carthage and Tyre no doubt attained, in times gone by, a high degree of commercial prosperity. Tradition has it that the Hebrews had connections with certain of the old, half -Arab inhabitants of the Sinaitic peninsula, and the Arabian Empire in ancient times attained a passing splendor. But this epheme- ral prosperity in no wise resembled the fertile and en- during civilization of Greece or Eome, or even the Christian society of the middle ages.
The Aryan alone possesses the idea of justice, the sentiment of liberty, the conception of the beautiful.
Gellion-Danglar in his admirable work, Les Sem- ites et le Semitisme, says : " The Semitic civilizations, however brilliant they may appear, are only vain images, more or less vulgar parodies, paper edifices, which certain people have the complacency to display as enduring works made of marble and bronze. The bizarre, the monstrous hold in it the place of the beautiful; while profusion and ostentation have ban- ished from art both taste and decency."
From the earliest times we find the Aryan in con- flict with the Jew. Troas was a city peopled by Jews, and the conflict between the two races explains the peculiar vibration emanating from the Trojan War. Louis Benloew says " Paris was one of those ambula-
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tory Jews who wandered about the coast of Greece. Not content with carrying off the beautiful Helen, which an Aryan might have done in the blindness of passion, he also carried away the treasures of his host. Herodotus, the historian, describes him as haying been forced by a tempest to land in Egypt, and being de- nounced to Pharaoh not only for having dishonored the host who had welcomed him, but also for having stolen his treasures, was ordered by the Egyptian king immediately to depart from his dominion, for Pharaoh was unwilling to violate the laws of hospital- ity which Paris had so little respected."
From the earliest dawn of history the dream of the Semite, in fact his fixed thought and purpose, has been to reduce the Aryan to servitude, to put him to the severest straits. He sought to reach that point by war. Hannibal, who pitched his camp under the walls of Rome, well-nigh succeeded. But the ruins of Carthage and the bleaching bones of the Saracens record the lesson given to these presumptuous devils.
Judaism, however, is still confident of success. But it is no longer the Carthaginian or the Saracen who conducts the movement. It is the Jew of to-day who has replaced violence with treachery and fraud. Silent, progressive, serpent-like, slow encroachment has succeeded the boisterous invasion of old. No more armed hordes announce their arrival with cries, but separate companies wind their way slowly, group by group, and take possession without noise, of all places, of all functions of a country, from the lowest to the highest.
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In the environs of Wilna, that hot-bed of Juda- ism, has been organized many an exodus which has brought misfortune to Germany. France and England, and now threatens to do likewise in the United States.
Previously to the year 1825 there were hardlv anv Jews in America, To-day the Jewish societies in2\ew York city alone own real estate valued at nearly thirty million dollars. There are now more than nine hundred thousand Israelites in the United Stares. Let the reader stroll down Broadway, or down any of the lead- ing streets of New York city, and he will find Jewish names plenty as the locusts of Egypt. By far the greater number of these Jews come from TVilna. and these Wilna Jews during the Franco-Eussian "War as- sassinated the wounded French soldiers lying upon the field of battle. Thiers relates this episode in his Histoire du Oonsulat et dc J 'Empire. u Horrible thing to be told/"' he says, "the miserable Polish Jews, as soon as they saw the enemy in retreat, began to throw our wounded soldiers out of the windows, and some- times even to strangle them, thus getting rid of them, after having despoiled them of everything. A sad homage offered to the Russians, the partisans of whom they were."
The Jew is a born trafficker, a born liar, full of cunning and intrigue. The Aryan is enthusiastic, heroic, chivalrous, frank and confident. The Jew sees nothing beyond the present. The Aryan is the child of Heaven, constantly preoccupied with superior as- pirations. The one lives in the real, the other in the ideal.
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The Jew is mercenary by instinct. He has the bent for everything pertaining to business, for everything that gives him the opportunity to cheat his fellow men. The Aryan is agriculturist, poet, and, above all, a soldier. War is his element. He goes merrily to face danger, and he despises death.
The Jew has no creative faculty. On the other hand, the Aryan invents. Xot one invention ever was made by a Jew. There is not a word of truth in the stereotyped phrase that the Jews invented the letter of credit. The letter of credit, the check, was in use in Athens four centuries before the Chris- tian era. In Isocrates this fact is plainly told. The Aryan organizes, creates, while the Jew derives all the resulting advantages, which he naturally keeps for himself. The Aryan undertakes voyages of adven- ture and discovers unknown regions. The Jew waits until all has been explored, until the country has been opened, to enrich himself at the expense of others. In a word— everything pertaining to daring deeds, everything tending to enlarge the terrestrial domain is absolutely beyond the Jew. He can exist only in the midst of a civilization he has not created. The Aryan is hail, fellow, well met. He is happy, provided one relates to him one of those legends for which his imagination longs, being wholly en- wrapped in the marvelous. What pleases him is not one of those Semitic adventures contained in the Thousand and One Nights, in which singers discover untold treasures, and fishermen cast their nets in the sea and draw them out full of diamonds. To
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move the Aryan there should be heroic deeds full of devotion, a hero who scorns danger, like Gilbert de Koussilon, for instance, who, after haying refused to wed the daughter of a Sultan, pierced five thousand miscreants with a single blow of his unerring lance.
However perspicacious the intelligence of the Jew may appear, it is in reality limited. He has neither the faculty to foresee events, nor of looking beyond his hooked nose ; nor the gift of understanding deli- cate shades of thought and character, for which the Aryan exposes his life without regret.
Kenan has thus described many of these points : "The Semitic race is recognized in a unique manner by negative characters. It has neither mythology nor epopee, neither science nor philosophy, neither fiction, plastic arts nor civil life ; in a word, absence of com- plexity of shade — exclusive sentiment of unity — is its characteristic. Morality itself has always been under- stood by that race in a manner different from ours. The Jew recognizes duties peculiar to himself. To carry out his vengeance, avenge that which he believes to be his right, is, with him, a sort of obligation. On the other hand, to ask him to keep his word, render justice in a disinterested manner, is to ask him to do the im- possible. There is nothing that takes the place in these passionate souls of the indomitable sentiment of /. Besides, religion is, with the Jew, a sort of special duty which has but a distant tie with every-day morality."
Elsewhere he adds: "The spirit of the Jew lacks breadth and delicacy. Interest is never banished from
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his morality. The ideal woman,, depicted in the Book of Proverbs, is an economical housekeeper, profitable to her husband, but, withal, of a very limited moral- ity. Jewish poetry offers scarcely a page embellished with the charm of sentimentality. Love enters into it only in the form of a lascivious and burning voluptu- ousness."
Gustave Tridon, in his book Le Molachisme Juif, calls the Jew, "The stain in the picture of civilization, the bad genius of the earth. His gifts are pests. To fight the Semitic ideas is the duty of the Aryan race. 93
Eenan wrote the above before the unheard-of suc- cesses of Judaism during recent years. Nothing is more curious than to study the manner with which Eenan, so wonderfully endowed in a scholarly point of view, yet so low in respect to character, kneels be- fore his victors. Eenan. after having asserted that the supposed services rendered to civilization by the Jews amount to nothing, suddenly declares, in a lecture delivered before the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Studies, that the Jews are our benefactors. Bat Alphonse de Rothschild presided over the society, which fact explains the lies uttered by Eenan. The Jew banker smiled on the orator prostrated before him, with a smile at once patronizing and scornful. " "What a valet ! 33 he seems to say ; "what a miser- able fellow." TTe, on our part, would say, how much he is to be pitied. You, both great and small : you, who defend as well as you can the victim of Calvary, the God whom your fathers have prayed to, do you
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not feel a thousand times happier than this apostate, who kisses the hand of the executioner of Christ for a handful of gold thrown at him with disgust ? Do yon not believe that the poor missionary, who offers his prayer before a piece of bread, has a more tranquil soul than this rich academician of princely income, and friend of the Rothschilds ?
The Jews yearn for whatever flatters their vanity. They seek with grotesque eagerness military titles, titles of baron and count, which look as well on those manipulators of money as the hat of a woman upon a monkey. " There is no trickster," says Edward Drummont, "no matter of how low degree, no dealer in cast-off clothing, no special partner in a pawn-shop, who is not a member of the Legion of Honor. "
The right of the Jew to oppress others is a part of his religion. It is for him an article of faith. It is repeated in every line of the Bible and the Talmud.
" Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. " (Psalm, ii.)
All means are good, provided they are directed against the Christian — the Goy (singular Goy, plural Goym. )
" One can and must kill the best of the Goym."
"The money of the Goym belongs to the Jews. Hence it is permitted to rob and deceive them."
The social evolution itself of the Jew is absolutely different from ours. The type of the Aryan family in the state of civilization is that of the Roman ge?is,
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which gave rise to the feudal family. Daring many generations the vital force and the genius are, so to speak, limited, but at once, and unexpectedly, there appears an illustrious representative who has the sum total of the qualities of his manly race. This predes- tined being often takes a century to make his appear- ance, but from the lowest extraction there sometimes rises one of those complete figures at once charm- ing and valorous, heroic and lettered, just and great, such as are to be met with so often in the pages of history.
In the Semitic race things occur differently. In the East a cam el -driver, a water-carrier, a barber, is often raised to the highest honors by a whim of the sovereign. He suddenly becomes a pasha, a vizier, a confidant of the prince, like Mustapha-ben-Ismael, who introduced himself to the bardo by selling small cakes, and who, according to the suggestive expres- sion of M. Dauphin, "rendered to his master services both day and night/'
The s&me case applies to the Jew. Beyond the sa- cerdotal families, which constitute a veritable nobility, distinction of rank does not exist. There are no illus- trious families among the Jews. Glory is never left as a legacy. In less than twenty years, if circum- stances are favorable, the Jew attains his full develop- ment. He is born in the bosom of a Judengasse, earns a little money in a successful operation, gravi- tates into a great city, buys the title of baron, and assumes the manners of one who has always been reared in velvet. The transition is instantaneous. He
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experiences no astonishment, lie ignores all the delica- cies of modesty.
Take a Russian Jew, as he is in his native place, clad in dirty garments that beggar description, wear- ing ear-rings long as a corkscrew, and after a month of baths he will install himself in a box at the opera with the aplomb of a Seligman or a Wormser.
We know, here in the United States, of two Jew brothers, who in Germany were itinerant Tenders of notions, and who, from tillage to village, their pack on their shoulders, sold cheap wares. They made a little money, came to New York, engaged a gentleman to write a book in German for them, the elder put his name on it as the author, opened a school, gave to himself the title of professor, engaged two or three teachers of foreign languages, had them write as many books in their native tongue, repeated the same ef- frontery as in the case of the German work, except that now he appeared as co-author, and to-day the ig- norant suspender dealers of Germany enrich them- selves by selling at a high price their assurance to the easily-gulled Americans.
On the other hand an honest Gentile of the middle, or even of the lowest class, who has enriched himself in an honorable way, will always have an embarrassed air and will avoid the elegant centers of society. His son, reared in the midst of better conditions, will with greater ease of manner enter the refined circles of the world. The grandchild will, in the course of time, if the family continue to live in easy circumstances, live honestly, and in the true Christian spirit represent the
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picture of the true gentleman so common in our American society. He Trill be endowed with a deli- cacy of thought and a refinement of sentiment that the Jew never possesses.
If the Jew suddenly reaches the extreme of assur- ance, he never attains distinction. Excepting in the case of a few Portuguese Jews who in youth have beautiful and expressive eyes, and in old age a certain Oriental majesty, one can never find among the Jews that indescribable calm, courtesy, and dignity which distinguish the American, the Englishman, the French- man or any other Christian gentleman, though clothed in threadbare garments.
The Jew is insolent, never proud. He never gets beyond what is termed " cheek. " The Eothsclnlds, and others of the same class, notwithstanding their millions, appear little better than dealers in cast-off clothing. Their women with all their diamonds al- ways look like venders of toilet articles, clothed in gaudy garments. Equality, the first condition of so- cial intercourse, is lacking among the Jews. The Jew — let this remark be well kept in mind — will never be the equal of the Gentile. He either cringes before you or seeks to crush you. He is either above you or below you, never your equal.
Let the reader only refresh his memory^ and he will acknowledge that even in a few minutes' conversation this phenomenon clearly manifests itself. As soon as you enter into conversation with a Jew at all famil- iarly he will seek to overwhelm you. It is necessary continually to remind him who you are and what he is,
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The monotony of type is the striking peculiarity of the Jewish race. The Jew lacks that refined culture, that sparkling cleverness which is the very salt of con- versation. One rarely meets with those piquant ob- servations and witty remarks which many a conversa- tionalist sows by hazard in the intimacy of the social circle. Were the Jew equipped with these advantages, he would turn them to his own pecuniary profit.
The Jew is a monochord, and the longest conversa- tion offers no surprise to him.
It is necessary to become acquainted with the native, the Oriental Jew, in order to understand fully the Jew of civilization. The Presbnrg Jew, particularly, gives an idea of the intermediate state between the sordid Jew of Galicia and the opulent Jew of the capitals.
Picture to yourself a road that creeps up dry, dusty, almost whitish. To the right and left are small, dingy little shops, or small houses like those in the Orient, furnished with bars not unlike those in the middle ages. In the public highway exists pell-mell — in the midst of dirt of all kinds, bits of iron, broken pieces of odds and ends, heaps of garbage — a population of seven to eight thousand Jews. Yonder swelter the old men, remarkable for their ugly features, and by their side lie young girls of wondrous beauty, clothed in tatters. The long coat dominates among men, who mark the present by the greasy tall hat they wear, and recall the past with their dirty feet, which are always bare, and with their never-combed hair. One seems everywhere to recognize faces of familiar acquaint-
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ances, and this corner of the Ghetto has the air of a little Paris or New York. Those two dirty Jews yon- der, revolting in their general aspect, do they not re- semble Dreyfus, Lockroy, or better still, are they not the striking picture of many well-known Jews here in New York ? Notice this young bony girl who walks bare-footed, dressed in a dirty camisole and a skirt that reaches to her knees. Is she not the very type of Sarah Bernhardt when a child ? In fine, put on dia- monds, new garments, on all these peojxle, on all these dealers in second-hand articles, receivers of stolen goods, keepers of pawn-shops, moneylenders on wages, and you will have the upper class of the New York Jews.
These Jews, however, are not in the least dissatisfied with their condition, for they wait patiently for the time of full tide which will carry them into a city, and shortly afterward to fortune.
At the end of the hill one finds himself before the castle of Schlossberg, the four walls of which alone re- main standing, but where once were crowned the kings of Hungary. This castle stands like a motion- less giant with a strange relief looking at space. At its feet slowly flows the Danube, sleepy and morose, and seeming to oppose itself with a dogged resistance to the steamboats that with difficulty ply their way up the stream. To the left lies the island of An, with its small country seats. At your feet stretch banks of sand, and in the far distance are to be seen large islands called "The Garden of Gold/' This spot, once the seat of royalty, has to-day a profoundly melancholy
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aspect. The feudal world, with all its glories, its he- roic recollections, its triumphant pomp, is in rains, like yonder deserted castle. The new world moves and agitates itself a few steps distant in yonder Jewish col- ony, from which will rise, until the hour of Christian regeneration strikes, the Jew millionaires, worshiped by a servile society, the Jew traders who delight in glaring advertisements, in fact, all those who, with Jewish effrontery, pose before an imbecile and easily gulled public.
One must not judge of the artistic or literary ability of the Jews by what they publish to-day. The Jew is incapable of rising above a very limited height. They have no men of genius to compare with Dante, Shakespeare, Bossuet, Victor Hugo, Emerson, Long- fellow, JSfewton. The man of genius is a superior be-' ing, ready to sacrifice himself for the good of human- ity. It is the nature of the Jew to sacrifice nothing at all. Their Shakespeare is Adolph D'Ennery, and their Kaphael is Worms. What more striking example of the utter lack of creative power among the Semitic races could we have than in Carthage, which, though she was for a time mistress of the world, has not left behind a single work of art ? The excavations made there have brought to light only a few insignificant objects, while the humblest town of Greece yields every day new treasures. There was more art in the homeliest water-pot made by an artisan of Tanagraor of Bceotia than in the whole of Carthage. In Perrot's and Chipiez's History of the Art of Antiquity we are told : " The Phoenicians knew how, by cunning or force,
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to snatch away everything not sold to them. They were slave-traders, and used every means that enabled them to rob or to carry off beautiful girls or young boys. Nobody was able to cope with them, and all feared and detested them."
In art the Jews have created nothing original, powerful, or touching. They produce only low, vul- gar works. They busy themselves with what enables them to make ••'moneys;" with what flatters the vulgar appetites of the multitude ; with what satis- fies their Jewish venom and hatred. They often ac- complish this by turning into ridicule the pious recol- lections, heroic deeds, august traditions of the Chris- tians, at whose expense they live.
"Note well," says Edward Drumont, "the manner in which the Jew carries out his work. If called upon to ridicule the army at a time when a terrible war is about to break forth, the Jew, Ludovic Halevy, pro- duces the disgraceful composition known as the Gen- eral Bourn. If heroism, honest love, or any immortal masterpiece is to be ridiculed, the Jew, Offenbach, is at hand. Is it necessary to hold up to scorn the works of Shakespeare, of Eacine, or of Moliere ? the Jew, Busnach, is ready to perform the task. In a word, the J ew corrupts everything that exists. The innocent and mirth-provoking old French dance, the tonne enfant, is turned by the Jew into the ignoble can-can. Prom the light, airy, joyous songs of old he constructs those obscene, rude, and lascivious airs that disgrace the stage. The quick, aggressive, and, at times, cutting journalism of old he has converted into blackmail.
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From the attractive and occasionally decolletee photo- graphs of the eighteenth century he develops the most obscene pictures to be thought of. From the inno- cent and amusing caricatures of Daumier he makes the infamous, impure pictures of Strauss, a worthy parent of the musician of the same name.
"The dancing halls, where the youth of by-gone days amused themselves in an honest way, have degen- erated into a place of prostitution, thanks to the Jew Markowski, and the androgynous Wolff. Thus while these low creatures commit these infamous acts in France and elsewhere, they have the effrontery to screen themselves by declaring, 6 Behold how low France has fallen ! Behold her literature ! Behold what she is producing !?"
"When have the ancestors of these men prayed with our own ? In what Corner of the village or of the city are their family tombs ? In what parish registry does one find the names of these new-comers, who, less than a century ago, had not the right to live upon the earth from which they now seek to drive us away ? By what tie do they attach themselves to the traditions of our race ?
The Jew acquires easily the slang of a language, but never its purity and finish. In order to speak a lan- guage one must first of all think in the language. There is, between the expression and the thought, the closest connection. One must not expect a Jew to naturalize his style as he does his person. One must have sucked, at one's own birth, of the native bever- age, have truly arisen from the native soil. Then one
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can defend, like Henry Clay or Daniel "Webster ; write like Hawthorne or Shakespeare, who hated and de- spised the Jew ; attack like Voltaire ; defend like Choate. As I am writing the above, I recall the ac- count given by the Rabbi Benjamin de Tudele, who, while visiting Greece during the middle ages, met a horde of Jews encamped upon Mount Parnassus. "What a lamentable spectacle ! Bands of these servile, circumcised dogs, whom Aristophanes so despised, in- stalled among those laurels where, during the glorious times of Hellas, the God with the Silver Bow guided the sacred choir of the sister muses.
This inability to acquire a foreign language extends even to its pronunciation. The Jew who so easily speaks slang always retains a guttural sound that never fails to manifest itself. Eichard Andree has affirmed this fact in his book entitled Interesting Observations Respecting the Jews. "Most of the Jews," he says, "even the educated, have a peculiar accent that causes them easily to be recognized. It is a mark of race common among the Jews of all nations."
The Jew, being thus incapable of entering into the domains of creative art, has also failed to penetrate into the unexplored regions of science. He sells eye- glasses and telescopes, but never discovers new stars in the immensity of the heavens, like Leverrier. He does not discover a new continent, like Columbus; he does not divine the laws of attraction, like JNfew- ton. The claim of the Jews, that they kept the depot of science during the middle ages and transmitted to us the discoveries of the Arabs, is not true. The
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Jews have made themselves appear learned by picking up some crumbs from the books of Aristotle. They have simply played the role of the ass in the fable, who put on the skin of a dead lion. During centuries they have monopolized the profession of medicine, which rendered espionage easy by permitting them to enter everywhere, but never for a minute did they think of the circulation of the blood. The Jew doctors of that period were a thousand times more ignorant in a scientific point of view than their cotemporaries. They believed that the heavens were solid ; that the firmament was pierced with holes from which rain fell. They formulated axioms of this sort : " A little wine and bread taken on an empty stomach preserves the liver from sixty maladies " It is a sure sign of too much blood when one dreams of a cock."
It is to the Aryan that we owe all discoveries, both great and small. It is to him that is due the art of printing, the discovery of gunpowder, of America, of steam, of electricity, of the circulation of the blood, of the laws of attraction. All progress has been evolved from the natural development of Christian civ- ilization. The Jew, one must never weary of repeat- ing it, only exploits that which Christian genius and work have achieved.
The true emblem of the Jew is that hideous bird that installs itself in the nest constructed by another. We know a Jew abroad whose life would make an interesting subject for a novel. A few years ago he gave himself the title of general, and re- cently posed before the world as an archaeologist.
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He palmed off upon a board of mummified directors a large number of objects, many of them of more than doubtful authenticity, and pocketed for his worthless collection a princely fortune.
Haying indicated th'e principal traits common to all Jews, let us now examine more closely the race and the species. The principal signs by which the Jews can be recognized are the following:
The famous hooked nose, the restless eyes, the close- set teeth, the elongated ears, the square nails (instead of being tapered in the shape of an almond), the fiat foot, the round knees, the soft hand, almost melting with the hypocrisy of the traitor. Often they have one arm longer than the other. Lavater observes: " Physical degradation closely follows upon moral deg- radation. This is strongly remarked among the Jews, who, of all races of men, are the most depraved."
The Jewish tribes have preserved to this day almost intact the features that formerly distinguished them, a number of which are indicated in the Bible. G-am- betta, with his nose of so pronounced a curve, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. To the same tribe belong the Seligmans, the Oppenheimers and the Wormsers, which accounts for the mutual sympathy existing among them. The Stearns, who with few exceptions are of a dark and velvet-like skin, belong to the tribe of Dantet The Jacobs as a rule belong to the tribe of Judah. The numberless Levys, notwithstanding- slight differences of type, belong to the tribe of Asser.
Besides these tribal peculiarities, it is absolutely nec- essary to distinguish two different types of J ews, the
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Jew of the South and the Jew of the North, the Por- tuguese Jew and the German Jew.
The Jews of the Portuguese rite' claim to have settled in Spain during the earliest antiquity. They reject with horror all kinds of relation " with the murderers of Christ." They even claim that the Jews living in Toledo had, at the time of the Cruci- fixion, written to their brethren in Jerusalem to de- ter them from committing so great a sin. Whether these claims are correct or not, it is an indisputable fact that there exists a great difference between the Portuguese and the German Jew.
Warmed by the sun of the Orient, the Jew of the South is at times physically beautiful. It is not rare to find in him preserved the Arab type in all its pu- rity. A few recall, with their mild, velvet-like, caress- ing eyes, their ebon hair, s'ome comparison of the Moorish kings or of a Castilian Hidalgo. They are obliged, however, to keep their hands gloved, for this greedy, avaricious, low race quickly manifests itself by the curved fingers, which are ever restless, ever ready to seize or to rob.
The German* Jews have none of the above personal advantages. Their weak, glassy eyes seldom look you straight in the face. Their skin is yellowish, and their hair often of the same disagreeable color. Their beard, almost always of a reddish hue, is now and then black, but of a faded black which recalls an old Prince Albert coat. He is the type of the old slave-trader, of the lowest kind of usurer. Good fortune never changes him while touching him with its wand.
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TVhen one sees- him driving in his magnificent carriage, one is reminded of itinerant venders in thread and needles, and of money-lenders of the Shylock kind. In a word, the German Jew is a vain, ignorant, tricky, ungrateful, low, creeping, insolent, dirty, ill-smelling fellow. The German Jewess is imperious, credulous, prone to blackmail, and seldom faithful to her conju- gal ties.
The above description is given by one of their co- religionists, Mr. Cerfbeer de Medelsheim. The same author brings against the rabbis accusations that we do not reproduce, because never does a Christian writer attack a priest, no matter to what religion he may be- long. He leaves this task to the writers of the Jewish press.
The Jew of the South mingles a grain of poetry with his financial enterprises. He takes away your purse — it is the race that demands it — but he does it by means of certain proceedings not wanting in a sentiment of grandeur.
The Jew of the Xorth has not even the genius of commerce. He is the one who rubs off the metal from gold pieces, who, as it is said in Frankfort, causes gold coins to suffer the operation of circum- cision. His brother of the South works, moves, ex- erts himself. He of the K"orth does not stir, but be- hind his window, motionless and stagnant, waits for success to come to him. He enriches himself though he never produces. The one is the quick, restless, alert water-bug ; the other, the indolent, lazy parasite, living in inertia, at the expense of the human body.
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In a word, the Jew who can be tolerated is the man of the South. But the venomous being — he who makes obscene caricatures, he who spits upon the crucifix — is the Jew of the North. The Jews of the South have suffered much more than those of the North, but they haye been much less despised. Martyrdom, as it often happens, has aggrandized, as it were, their descendants ; while the habit of liv- ing in public humiliation has plunged into degrada- tion the sons of the German Jews. It must not be forgotten, however, that the true Jew is the Jew of the North.
But, excepting a few passing dissensions, both those of the North and the South are closely united against the Goy, the stranger, the Christian.
In 1865, at the time when it was proposed to unite the two rites, a pamphlet appeared, written by a Jew and addressed to the committee that had in charge the proposed fusion of the two sects, couched in the following terms : u Can the divinity of Jesus Christ resist the light of our epoch ? If that divin- ity is to conserve its prestige, if the unity of God, the divinity of Jesus, the holy Trinity, and the ador- ation of the Virgin are still to continue, without human intellect being offended ; if the hour for which we have been so long waiting has not yet arrived, let us be on our guard. Let us be patient, resigned, and let us remit intact the worship of our fathers to the generation that shall have the glory of causing the just, religious idea of the only God to triumph.55
Keligion among the Jews is but of secondary im-
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portance. The question of race is what, above all, preoccupies them. Even among those who haye aban- doned Judaism, a Jew has no difficulty in recognizing his own people. He knows if there is a drop of Jew- ish blood in one's veins, and very readily spares an antagonist because he has discovered in him a brother who has wandered from the way.
The above point is admirably shown in Daniel Deronda, that marvelous study of Judaism. From one end of the universe to the other Israel sends its emissaries to discover the fragments of the lost tribes, among which Gad and loadde have completely disappeared. They are sought with eagerness, per- severance and patience, because as long as they are dispersed the family is not complete.
It was in order to find these lost tribes that the Jew Benjamin, who died in London in 1864, visited during many long years Egypt, Syria, Bagdad, India, China and Persia. Another Jew, Wiener, professor at the "Lycee Bonaparte," went to look for them in South America, and the funds of public instruction were used to defray the expenses of those patriotic missions. It is for this same purpose that Disraeli made England undertake, under the false pretext of an offense to Eng- land, the war of Afghanistan, which cost the lives of so many men and the expenditure of an enormous amount of money. Mr. Gladstone, in the great meet- ing held on the 8th of October, 1881, in Leeds, de- nounced that disastrous expedition, which resulted in alienating the Afghans from the English, and in over- • throwing the moral barrier existing between England
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and the Russian Empire. The events of 1885, when England backed down before Kussia, prove how clearly Gladstone saw the whole matter.
The main body of the Jews is divided, as it were, into three army corps. First, the true Jews, the Notoires, as the Jewish Archives call them ; that is, the known Jews, who venerate officially Abraham and Jacob, and who are pleased to maintain the possibility of making their fortune by remaining faithful to their worship. Second, the disguised Jews, or free-thinkers, type of G-ambetta, Dreyfus, Professor Worman, etc., who carefully conceal their Jewish origin, but ridicule the Christians in the name of the glorious principles of tolerance, civilization and liberty. Third, the conservative Jews, who, Christian in appearance, are united to the two former classes by the closest ties, and communicate to their comrades the secrets which may be useful to them. In the above relations lies the incredible success of the Jew.
Solidarity is the force of the Jew. All the Jews are clannish in the extreme, which characteristic we ob- serve in them from one end of the world to the other, with an exactitude truly touching. One may easily understand what an advantage this principle of soli- darity gives the Jew over the Christian, who, while readv to assist the unfortunate, has little of the senti- raent of solidarity. Iso one can, more than myself, admire charity, that sublime flower that Christianity has caused to bloom in the human heart. That un- weary charity, ardent and inexhaustible, which always gi^es. gives without ceasing, not only money, but its
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whole heart, time, intelligence. The Christians open their arms to the unfortunate. They are ready to respond to an appeal, but they do not keep close together. Accustomed, which is after all quite nat- ural, to consider themselves at home in a country that belongs to them, they do not think of mustering their ranks in close array to resist the Jew. Accordingly, the Jew can easily attack us with surprising insolence. To-day it is a merchant whose capital the Jew covets, and the entire Jewish commercial world combines to force him into bankruptcy. To-morrow it is a writer who has wounded them, and whom the Jews reduce to despair, perhaps to drunkenness or madness. Again, there is a •gentleman bearing a time-honored name, .and who, unwittingly perhaps, has rudely accosted a spurious Jew baron. Plans are immediately formu- lated to procure for the unfortunate a J ewish mistress for blackmailing purposes. Sometimes no efforts are spared to engage the victim into a supposed advan- tageous affair. His hopes are aroused by a first gain, but finally ruin and perhaps infamy are branded upon his once fair name.
Had the merchant, the writer, and the aristocrat united, they would have escaped, they would have mutually defended one another. Each would have brought assistance to the other ; but they succumbed, without even suspecting who was their cruel enemy. By reason of this solidarity, everything that happens to a Jew, even in the remotest corner of the desert, assumes the proportions of an event. The Jew, in fact, has a way of braying that is peculiar to him-
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self — "Grow and increase, ye numberless posterity of Abraham;'5
As soon as a Jew becomes interested in any matter, a great commotion is sure to break forth. How did Olivier Pain die? Nobody knows. His friends are sorry for hiro, but the public at large takes little, if any, interest in his fate. Now it so happens that Bismarck, who is desirous to have France and Eng- land estranged the one from the other, formed a plan to have Lord Lyons, who for many years had been the English Ambassador in Paris, ill treated. Thereupon the Jew, Goedschel Selikowitch, appeared upon the scene. He published a pamphlet entitled, The Sheol of the Jeivs, and the Sest of the Egyptians. That is all that is known of him. In return he knows the most secret things, he saw Olivier Pain shot, he affirms it upon his honor, he declares that this outrageous ac- tion must not remain unpunished. He is believed. Meetings of indignation are organized, and Eng- land and her venerable queen are both outrageously insulted. Diplomatic notes follow. Eochefort swears that he will avenge by the death of Lord Lyons the murder of Pain. Everybody is frightened. The English Embassy closes its doors.
A wretched Jew sufficed to create all this hubbub. How does the Jew manage to disturb the entire world ? Nobody knows. It is his secret, it is a special gift of his and it comes quite natural to him.
No matter to what country a Jew may belong, he will never fail to find assistance proffered to him. Country, in the sense we attach to this word,, has no
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meaning whatever to the Jew. I do not clearly see why one should reproach the Jew for attaching a dif- ferent meaning to the word country than we do. To use an energetic expression of the "Alliance Israelite " the Jew is a member of the "inexorable universal- ity" "What does country mean ? The land of our fathers. The sentiment of country is engraved in our heart, just as names are cut into a tree, and which each year that passes causes to adhere and penetrate more deeply into the bark in proportion as the tree grows older, so that in course of time both name and tree make one whole. One cannot be an improvised patriot. Patriotism exists in the blood, in the bones. Can the J£w who is continually wandering, who is a nomad, experience sentiments so lasting ? No doubt one can change country, as so many foreign- ers do every day in America ; as many Italians did at the time of the arrival in France of Catherine de Medicis • as the French Protestants at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. But that such transplantation may succeed, it is necessary that the soil shall be very like the one left. It is necessary that Christian elements shall be present in the moisture of the ground. Furthermore, the first condition of adopting another country is to re- nounce one's own. Now the Jew has a country that he never renounces. It is Jerusalem, the holy and mysterious Jerusalem — Jerusalem triumphant or per- secuted, joyous or afflicted, serves as a tie to all her children who every year at the Eosch-Haschana say, " next year in Jerusalem. "
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Outside of Jerusalem every country, be it France, Germany. England or America, is for the Jew simply a place in which to sojourn, and where he may find it profitable to live for a time : but of which he forms a part simply in the capacity of a free associate or a temporary member. If the reader would consider the matter in its regular and normal condition, he would be convinced that the Jew has no incentive that weighs with him to be a patriot. Why should a Eoth- schild, a BischofEsheim, be attached to the France of Fontenoy, of St. Louis, of Henry IV. and Louis XIV. ? Why should a Wormser or an Oppenheimer take any patriotic interest in this land of ours ?
" By its traditions, its beliefs, its recollections," says Drum out, "France is the absolute negation of all Jew- ish temperament. When France has not burned the Jew. she has obstinately closed her doors against him, covered him with scorn, and has branded his name with the cruelest insults.*'
Again, one must not judge the Jew after our own ideas of right and justice. It cannot be gainsaid that the Jew never fails to betray his employer. Cavour used to sav of his secretary* the Jew Artom. "'That man is precious to me, for he makes known what I intend to say. I do not know how he does it, but I have no sooner uttered a word or conceived a plan than he has betrayed me, even before leaving mv office.*' "Why should God have created the Jews/*'* says Bismarck, " if it were not to serve as spies ? "
Sedecias poisoned Charles the Bald. The Jew Meire poisoned Henry III., of Castile; the Council
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of Ten discussed, on the 9th of July, 1477, the prop- osition of the Jew, Salomoncini, and of his brother, who offered to have Mahomet II. poisoned by his phy- sician, the Jew Valcho. The Jew Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth, was hanged for allowing himself to be bribed by Philip II. The Jew Louis Goldsmith served as a spy to Talleyrand, in England, during the First Empire. The Jew Michel was guillotined for having surrendered to Russia military documents. Another Jew, a few years ago, stole the plans of the Eussian War Office. Only to-day, October 26, 1887, the notorious Jew, Menzil Mart, one of General Boulan- ger's spies, stole from the commander of a garrison in Austrian Galicia the plans of three forts, and fled with them to Russia. "Who does not remember the repeated attempts made by the Jewess Kaulla to seize the plans of the French mobilization ? The Jew, Gustave Klootz, betrayed General Hicks, who was destroyed with his army by the soldiers of Mahdi. The renowned poet, Krazjewski, trusted himself to the Jew Adler, who sold him to Prussia, and the old Polish bard was cast into a fortress.
These facts, which it would be easy to multiply, have reference not to an isolated case which proves nothing against a collectivity, but to the entire race, the race of Abraham.
Is this considered espionage or treason by the Jews ? Kot in the least. They do not betray a country that they do not have ; they simply engage in a busi- ness affair or a speculation. The true traitors to their country are the natives, who permit the Jew to
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thrust his nose where he has no business. " The Re- publican ministers" who, says Dramont, "not con- tent with naming an officer of the Legion of Honor, Oppert de Blowitz, a German by birth, and an English- man when occasion may demand it. take him for a confidant, communicate to him the secrets of the War Office — they are the ones who deserve blame and con- tempt. " By what right could you prevent a Jew, oscil- lating between two countries, from favoring with his information the one of the two that pays him the best ?
This, it is well understood, renders very difficult the study of the Jew in a criminal jDoint of view.
The evil the Jews commit, a frightful and fathom- less unknown evil, enters into the category of crimes committed in the name of " the right of state." To assassinate, ruin, despoil the Christian, constitutes for the Jew an act authorized by his religion, acceptable to his God. As Eisenmenger explains it in his Ju- daism Exposed, \ ' It is what the J ews call * to commit a Korbaiv Such a Jew, who will, by the aid of his co- religionists, reduce to despair or suicide a Christian merchant whose place he covets, will be, in the esti- mation of his own people, the most charitable, the most serviceable, the most disinterested of friends."'
The absence of every serious statistical document, and the ability with which the Jews, who are always
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conniving among themselves, conceal their acts, sur- round, I repeat it, every research of this kind with difficulties .almost insurmountable. In 1847 Cerfbeer de Medelsheim gave the following
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interesting figures : " There are/? he said, " in the twenty-two principal prisons of France about 18,000 prisoners. The number of Jews among these 18,000 is about 110. Now, the population of France being 34,000,000, the proportion of a prisoner is about one- half per cent, on a thousand inhabitants. The Jews being about 100,000 in all, the proportion of the con- demned Israelites is, therefore, more than one on each thousand of their co-religionists/' To-day, however, the numberless Levys, Salomons, Mayers, etc., who swarm the police departments, and who occupy all offices from the highest to the lowest, never arrest one of their co-religionists, excepting when driven to the last extremity.
Maxime Du Camp, only a few years ago, 1867, thus wrote concerning the dark ways of the Jews :
" The time served in prison by the Jew family Nathans, father, mother, brothers, sisters-in-law and sons-in-law, in all, fourteen persons, represent a total of two hundred years of prison life. The Jews are to be feared, not for their desperate deeds, for they rarely commit murder, but for their tenacity and persistency in evil ; for the inviolable secrecy they keep among themselves ; for the wonderful patience they display, and the facility with which they conceal themselves among their co-religionists. The Jew thieves rarely put themselves in open combat against society. They are always in a state of secret and con- cealed animosity. One would suppose that they are pledged to vengeance, that they are in the right, and that, after all, they plunder and seize only the prop- 3
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erty of which their ancestors have so often been de- prived and despoiled by ours.'5
Oftentimes they unite and engage in wholesale steal- ing, just as one would enter into an honorable enter- prise on an extensive scale. - They have their corre- spondents, tbeir warehouses, and their buyers. It is in this way that the Nathans proceeded, of whom we have just spoken. Everything with them has a value : the lead stolen from the public sewers, as well as the handkerchiefs picked from the pockets of strangers. The chief generally assumes the title of commission merchant, and forwards stolen goods to the United States, Germany, Kussia, England, Italy and to other parts of the world. The quaint German-Hebraic jar- gon that they speak among themselves is well-nigh incomprehensible, and renders all means for their capture abortive. They are the cleverest receivers of stolen property, and conceal their nefarious doings behind the screen of a business honestly pursued.
An old Jew fireman, called Cornu, was one morning walking in the Champs Elysees, and was met by two thieves, great admirers of the old Jew's bold deeds. "Well, Father Cornu," said they to him, "what are you doing, now ?" "Always the same grande sou- lasse" he replied, with an innocent air — "always the grande soulasse." By grande soulasse he meant mur- der followed by theft,
Nathan, the senior, was a veritable patriarch, and was imprisoned for the last time when seventy years old on the 6th of May, 1852. He ostensibly carried on the business of dealer in wood, and enjoyed a high
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reputation in his quarter. He loved art, and was the friend of artists, to whom he loaned money at the modest interest of fifty per cent,
" The clan of the Nathans/- says the Celebrated Cases, " has had its feminine celebrities also. Min- ette, or Esther Nathan, wife to Mayer, was a thief of watches, and also of money tills, and so was also her sister, Eosine Nathan, famous for her elegant manners and skill in disguises. She was twice in prison, and twice did Esther put on the rich garments of her sis- ter, because Eosine Nathan had, during many years, deceived both her victims and the police, under the most astounding and divers disguises. A society lady when circumstances required it, she had her valets, her carriages, her diamonds and silks. She had the address and outward appearance of a great lady. She was as clever a comedienne as she was a thief. She closely resembled Schumacher, that well-known daughter of a coachman, and who was one of the elegantes of Paris, and was married to the Marquis of Maubreuil. Her brother was in prison, while his sister received the most distinguished people in Paris."
These criminal associations of the Jews are handed down from father to son. In the month of October, 1884, one called Mayer was arrested at Strasbourg, where he kept a central bureau for stolen securities. There was captured at his house shares stolen at Brus- sels, representing a value of 400,000 francs. Also, stocks belonging to Mr. Burat, a banker, valued at a million francs ; also bonds stolen from the Widow Bon-
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temps, proprietor of the cafe in the Montmarfare the- ater, worth 200.000 francs. It would seem difficult to conceive how Mayer could have succeeded in entering into relations with all these thieves scattered through- out Europe had there not existed an organization cosmopolitan in its scope, and doing business on a stupendous scale. Can there be anything more sig- nificant than the following letters, addressed to the
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Paris Financial Association, concerning a famous robbery, and signed Michael Abrahams ? Commen- tary would be useless before the tranquil effrontery of these people who serve as agents to thieves.
Telegraphic address.. ) Abraham. London. \
London, the 27th Sept.. Sox-lock.
To tlie Financial Association. Paris: GrBNTLEMEN :
We have this clay received a visit from Mr. Samuels, who is the agent of the holders of your shares. He begs us to inform
you that the shares of Xo. will be returned to you upon
payment of So per cent, of their value. As to the other shares, fi City of Brussels," etc., he wishes you to make an offer of so much per cent, before they are returned to you.
AVe believe that the shares of No. can be had for less
than 35 per cent. Please inform us what sum your clients are willing to sacrifice for the return of their property.
(Signed.) Michael Abrahams, Son & Co.
Here is another letter from the same firm, while negotiations were in progress, in the hope of obtaining better terms :
Since the receipt of your letter of the 25th of October, we liave received a visit from an agent of the unlawful keepers of
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your values. We are authorized to inform you that all further negotiations are at an end, for his friends will not accept the 100,000 francs you offer. Accept, gentlemen, our sincere re- gards.
(Signed,) Michael Abrahams, Sox & Co.
The murder of the watch-maker Peschard at Caen serves to illustrate still further the character of the Jew. All the accused were German Jews. Minder, alias Graft, Gugenheim, alias Mayer, and Louise Mayer all have the well-known physiognomy. Solomon Ulmo, apparently an honest merchant, but in reality affiliated to a band of assassins, presents a most strik- ing appearance. There is nothing more remarkable than the interior of the homes of these Jew malefac- tors. Murder is looked upon only as a speculation, and does not exclude domestic virtues. The family of the TTlmos lived well at Chaumont, a city that con- tains a considerable number of Jews. The son, ac- cording to the testimony of the witnesses, was very diligent in his business, was never seen in a cafe, and was blindly obedient to his father. The most incred- ible parsimony ruled in the household, the whole expense not amounting to more than $6 per month. The Peschard affair occurred on the 30th of August, 1857, and justice was meted out to the criminals; but had this occurred to-day, it would have been immedi- ately stifled. The Jews are not pursued to-day, ex- cepting upon rare occasions, and when it is absolutely impossible to do otherwise.
Hirsch, the banker, who was caught dealing in spurious bank-notes which he knew to be false, was
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condemned, it is true, on the 8th of May, 1884, to a fine of 7,500 francs; but said fine, relatively light, had the character of a disciplinary penalty, of a family reprimand, as it were. Were you, my reader, to pre- sent yourself to the house of the Rothschilds with a spurious bank-note, you would be arrested, imprisoned, questioned as to your accomplices, and finally con- demned to prison at hard labor. In the month of August, 1885, two criminals, Gaspard and Mayer, were convicted of the murder of a trunk manufact- urer and were both committed to prison. Gaspard was the unconscious instrument of Mayer, who con- ceived the idea of the crime, and coldly proposed the murder. But Mayer was a Jew, and consequently was pardoned, while Gaspard was executed.
When the law pretends to busy itself with the Jew, it is simply to acquit him. A few years ago the wealthy Jew banker, Baron d'Erlanger, was in trouble by reason of peculations of his. Jseediess to say that the case was thrown out of court on account of non- residence."
Respecting the complete impunity of the Jews, proofs gather eyery day under our own eyes. " Is it necessary," says Drumont, "to recall to Parisians the little episode of that poor Spanish courtesan, so full of vitality and spirit, and who had an insurmountable horror for the very idea of suicide, but who is believed to this day to have thrown herself out of her window, when in truth she was hurled from the height of a balcony by her Jew loyer,who had in his veins the blood of a barbarian, but dreamed of a princely marriage? The simple ex-
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agination of the spot would have convinced a child of the utter absurdity and falsity of the theory of suicide/'
In 1882 a woman, a Sniyrneote, was arrested in a great dry goods store in Paris, in the very act of theft. This woman was found to he related to a J ewish actress who wearies the world with her vagaries, all done for advertising purposes. It was declared that the thief was a victim to kleptomania. Imagine a woman be- longing to a Christian family, and stealing an object worth not more than ten cents in a Jew store, and you will see if she is a kleptomaniac. Sarah Bernhardt, fired with indignation on account of the book of Marie Colombier, invaded, with three companions, the rooms of her rival. She broke everything in her way. There was manifestly a violation of domicile. Did anybody prosecute her ? It would have been useless.
Most of the Jew failures in business are only prear- ranged plans, committed with a view of robbing the GentileT' To cite but recent events, says Drumont : " Have we not seen two Jews of Mayence, the brothers Bloch, establish themselves in 1882, on Aboukir Street, Paris, and after having received many consignments, run away in September, 1883, on the eve of a bank- ruptcy of 300,000 francs? " In August, 1884, a North German Jew, Mendel, established in Enghien Street, Paris, fled with more than 600,000 francs' worth of diamonds belonging to Christians who had trusted him. The Jew, John David, director of the National Credit, stole more than 3,000,000 francs, the savings of hard- working people. Twelve hundred depositors brought an action against him, but the incorruptible magis-
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trates allowed David to depart in peace. It was true that afterward he was condemned to ten years' impris- onment, and a fine of 3,000 francs, with fire years of surveillance, but it was all the same to David. The bird had flown to foreign lands to enjoy quietly the products of his theft."
There are also kings among the Jews, as the Israel- ite Archives call them. Ephrussi, a penniless advent- urer not long ago, is to-day the king of wheat, as was formerly Moses Friendlander, who died in San Fran- cisco in 1878. Moses Banger was the king of cotton, when, in 1883, he failed in Liverpool for about $4,000,- 000. Spreckels is the real king of the Sandwich Islands, known also as the sugar king of- the Pacific coast. Stroiisberg, alias Baron Hirsch, is the king of rail- roads. There is also a king of baccarat, the Jew W. E. Deutch, who won at the Washington Club and at the Press Club more than 2,000,000 francs.
In an old Byzantine writer we find an interesting but at the same time heart-rending account of a corner in wheat, organized by a family of Tarsus Jews, the chief of whom was called Johannes Eockefellos. The result of this corner, while it brought fabulous wealth "to the abominable clan of the Eockefellos, shattered the foundations of our prosperity, brought ruin and death to our beloved fellow-citizens, and prepared the destruction of our fair city/5 The people, the author informs us, finally arose as one man against the family; , but the three prominent brothers, Johannes, Moses, and Wilhelm, made their escape to western Europe and there were lost. The name is certainly suggestive.
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The Jewesses furnish the strongest contingent to the prostitution of great cities. This fact cannot be denied, and the Archives Israelites have also recognized it. "We reproduce in part the article. " For the last quarter of a century moralists have been at a loss to explain how it is that among the women who lead a bad life a greater number of Jewesses are to be noticed than of Christians. This unfortunately is but too true, because in Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and elsewhere, among the demi-monde, in the public streets, and in the houses of prostitution, one meets with a greater number of Jewesses than of Christians, taking into consideration, of course, the difference in number between the two populations."
This vice, however, has a particular character among the Jewesses. It is certain that the Jew father and mother unhesitatingly sell their daughters when they are poor. The Jewess prostitutes herself for money, and she does so boldly, deliberately, without the slight- est shadow of intoxication, and with the firm determi- nation of getting married as soon as she has accumu- lated some money. They often marry an actor, a merchant, or a financier.
A few years ago, in a trial in Vienna, a Jew lawyer, Glaser by name, declared : " Every woman has the right to sell her body and to derive by the sale the best possible profit." The outraged public cried out in loud condemnation. The presiding judge expressed his astonishment. Glaser, however, asserted only what Semitic tradition teaches. The Jewish prosti- tute often serves Israel in her particular way, for she
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is an excellent instrument of information to Jewish diplomacy.
The Jewesses of the rich classes live, even here in New York, in Oriental fashion. They take their siesta in the afternoon, and live a sort of secret and isolated life. They are strangers to violent passions, which -so often trouble the heart of the Gentile woman lost to religion. They are void of ail sentiment, of the ideal, a peculiar characteristic of the Israelites.
What is the cause, the great cause of the ruin of Gentile women ? It is the inspiration toward a mistaken ideal, the dream of being superior to all others, the chimerical hope of achieving indepen- dence, the thirst for living, be it only for a few short hours, in the ethereal regions of an esthetic existence of ardent love and infinite tenderness. Neither the Jew nor the Jewess has these sentiments.
A Jewess will never discuss religious questions, for the Jew knows well the danger that may arise and might cause the blindness of Israel to be revealed. The Talmud formally forbids women the study of religious subjects. He who teaches his daughter the sacred law is as guilty as he who would teach her indecent ways. 99 But if the Jewess does not know the teachings of her religion, she practices it faithfully, even in the most troubled existence. Miss Ada Isaacs Menken, the actress, whom Rothschild called the in- spired Deborah of her race, after having appeared for thirty consecutive nights in San Francisco, all at once stopped to celebrate the night of Koi-Xidre, and passed it in a Polish Mimian. Xo sooner did an arti-
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cle appear against her co-religionists than she sent an answer to- defend them in The Israelite, of Cin- cinnati.
Here again we must praise the respect with which the Jews surround a girl of their race, no matter the calling she may follow. If an actress, they declare that never has the world seen any one more beautiful. They will go into ecstasy, into hysterics, they will cry with admiration as soon as she makes her appearance. If she returns to a normal life, all doors are open to her.
Virginity, virtue, innocence, purity, are only so much capital with the Jew, a capital that one must defend, but which may be regained if lost. The loss of it is only a bad bargain, over which one must pass the sponge of oblivion without the slightest cause for grief. If an artist, a merchant, or a financier ever gets into trouble, you will always find that admirable solidarity which is the only virtue of the Jew, which explains, justifies, almost legitimates his success.
If a libelous sheet ever brings an accusation against a Christian, all his former friends, acquaintances, and associates will avoid him. One and all will say, " I do not know him."'
But on the bench of infamy, at the feet of the scaf- fold, the Jew never abandons his own, and will never permit an insult that in his opinion and belief affects " the great family."
If a drama is played in which a Jew is pictured in a disagreeable light, no efforts are spared to have it fail. Once it was intended to produce at the " Gaite " a
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piece entitled Tlie Lender on Wages, in which the usurer was a Jew. The director was called upon, the matter was explained to him, and the usurer was changed into a Christian.
Mr. Haliays-Dabot relates that it was intended to produce in the theater of " Ambigu-Comique'' Shakespeare's immortal work, Tlie Merchant of Venice. In this great creation, which revives the centuries of oppression, which depicts the Jew, his secret in- trigues and plots against the Christian, all blended in the loathsome character of Shylock, whose sarcastic laugh and cries of despair lighten the somber side of the middle ages, everything, both time and place of action, was changed, including the low and savage type of Shylock, into a close Venetian merchant, solely to please the Jews of the metropolis.
Imagine if the work of any great literary genius ever suffered such a mutilation out of respect for the feelings of the Christians.
THE LONGEVITY OE THE JEWS.
According to observations made in Germany by the Jew Meyer, the average life of the Jew is thirty-seven years, and that of the Christian is twenty-seven, a difference of eleven years.
Dr. Lagneau read, a paper before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences respecting the increase of population among the Jews compared with that noticed among Catholics and Protestants.
According to the doctor the increase of Catholics, Protestants and Jews is as one, two, three.
The Jews in Russia, Poland, Prussia, Austria and
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France present the most rapid increase. In the two countries last named it is seven times more rapid than among the Catholics and Protestants.
But as the Jews, both as a race and as individuals, are absolutely different in their evolution from the Gentiles, they, the Jews, are also entirely different in a sanitary point of view.
The Jew is subject to all the maladies that indicate the corruption of blood, such as scrofula, leprosy, itch, salt-rheum, erysipelas, and all skin diseases. Nearly all the low classes of the Jews have the itch. Many of the most elegant Jews whose hands we shake, are likewise affected with it, though they keep it secret. All take care not to engage a physician who is not of their religion, an example that the Gentiles ought to imitate. On the other hand, the Jew possesses a wonderful aptitude in adapting him- self to all climates. " There are Jews under all de- grees of latitude, from the 33d degree of the south hemisphere to the 60th of the northern latitude, from Montevideo to Quebec, from Gibraltar to the coast of Xorway, from Algiers to the Cape of Good Hope, from Jappa to Pekin.'' Thus spoke one of them in a transport of admiration.
Through a phenomenon that attracted attention more than a hundred times in the middle ages, and that has been noticed at the present day at the time of the cholera in France, Spain, Italy and else- where, the Jew seems to enjoy in respect to epidemics particular immunity. There seems to be within him a sort of permanent pest, which guarantees him against
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the ordinary scourge. He is his own vaccine as it were, a living antidote. The plague recedes when it smells him.
It is a matter of fact that the Jew is ill-smelling. This smell exists even among the richest, a fetor judaica. which indicates the race and assists them to recognize one another. The most charming Jewesses, notwithstanding the perfumes they use, justify the words of Martial : " Qui bene olet male olet."
This fact has been a hundred times verified. All Jews are ill-smelling, "puent," said Victor Hugo.
"In 1266," relates Hugo, "in a memorable assem- bly that took place before the King and Queen of Ara- gon, to which were invited the learned Eabbi Zeckhiel and brother Paul Cyrac, a very learned Dominican, a great discussion arose, during which the Jew cited the Toldos, the Archives of Sanhedrim, the Talmud, etc. The Queen, who evidently was impressed with the great learning of the Eabbi, ended by asking him why it was that the Jews smell so bad. The con- sternation of the assembly may easily be imagined."
The question why the Jews smell bad has for a long time puzzled many men. During the middle ages it was believed that they could be freed of this odor through baptism. Bail claims that this offensive smell is owing to natural causes, just as there are negroes to this day who exhale an unbear- able odor.
Neurosis is the implacable malady of the Jews. Among that people for so long a time persecuted, liv- ing always in the midst of continual changes and
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incessant activity, shaken afterward by the fever of speculation, and following no professions excepting those in which the mind is in continual energy, the nervous system has ended by altering itself.
In Prussia the proportion of lunatics is much greater among the Jews than among the Christians, for whilst it is 24.1 in 10,000 Protestants, 23.7 in a like num- ber of Catholics, the Jews are 38.9 in 10,000. In Italy there is one lunatic among 384 Jews, and one among 778 Catholics.
This neurosis seems to be transmitted even to those whose mother only is a Jewess.
Sarah Bernhardt, with her dark forebodings, her coffin of white satin constantly in her room, is evi- dently a victim to neurosis.
One must not lose sight, however, of the fact that the Jew, even in his most delirious conceptions, looks out for self. Even when he loses his head he saves the cash-box. This disease the Jew, strange though it may appear, has communicated to our generation. For the last twenty years that the Jews have held the wires of secret diplomacy, and have reduced the once honorable office of ambassador to mere parade, European diplomacy has truly become unbearable and foolish. The saying of Bismarck : " Paris is the home of fools, inhabited by monkeys," can be as well applied to Germany and to the rest of Europe. There is no longer a shadow of conscience in the councils of sovereigns, nor even of justice in government. Neu- rosis deprives the Jew of all modesty, reflection, thought, and drowns in him the enormity of what he
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dares to do, and brings forth types of men altogether different from those of former generations. To these types belong those who have suddenly acquired for- tunes of unheard-of proportions ; types of men who lead an extravagant existence, possessing sums ac- quired with astounding effrontery, an effrontery that confounds all reason. The Jew always goes forward, trusting in the Mazzal. What is the Mazzal ? It is neither the Fatum of the ancients nor is it Christian Providence. It is good luck, chance, the Jewish star. Every Jewish life seems a realized novel.
Take, for instance, the notorious woman known as Madame de Pai'va. Born of a family of Polish Jews called Lachmann, she married a poor tailor in Mos- cow, and, quickly tiring of him, came to Paris on foot to seek her fortune. She experienced in the streets of Paris all the privations of ill fortune, all the horrors of venal love. She fell one day exhausted from inani- tion in the Champs Elysees, and she swore to herself that it would be on this very spot where her mansion should rise, when fate, in which she blindly trusted, would at last relent. She went to live with the famous pianist, Herz, who introduced her to the Tuileries as his legitimate wife. She was given to understand that her society was not wanted, and she swore to be. avenged. Shortly afterward she married, this time regularly, the Marquis of Paiva, who, a few months ]ater, committed suicide. She then became the mistress of Count Henkel, one of the richest men in France. She received diplomats, bankers, authors and artists in her fairy home in the Champs Elysees.
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With the peculiar intelligence of her race which the sentiment of hatred sharpens, she organized shortly before the Franco- Prussian War a system of espionage against the French, which facilitated her relations with some world-famous diplomats, who daily dined in her house and there discussed the affairs of France. It was she who prepared the overthrow of the Second Empire, and as Countess Henkel de Donnesmarck she bought the diamonds of the Empress, by whom she had been formerly repulsed, and caused to be built, in the interior of Silesia, by Lefuel, the architect of imperial palaces, a chateau, the counterpart of the Tuileries from which she had been expelled.
She was a born artist, and although the daughter of peasants, had the intuition and the refined con- ceptions of a lady. But she was not happy amid her princely surroundings, for she was a victim of neurosis. She was tormented with the idea that peo- ple wished to murder her. She forbade, under pen- alty of immediate dismissal, any one to be in the park when she was present. The woman who had ex- perienced the pangs of hunger, and had belonged to all, was more of a despot, more severe in her manners and more haughty in her demeanor than a duchess. She ruled her vast number of domestics most rigor- ously, and instantly dismissed a poor mattre d'liotel for having once smiled at a funny word uttered at dinner. She was fifty-six years old when she died of a disease of the brain in her Tuileries in Silesia. Now, if one should collect all these traits and en- deavor to establish a little order in the life and 4
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career of these strange personages, there would rise a figure peculiarly Jewish.
What a subject for a novel the career of the son of the Hungarian Rabbi, who subsequently became Mid- hat Pasha, would furnish ! Once pasha, he began, ac- cording to Jewish custom, by assisting his own peo- ple, and organized Jewish schools in the Orient, and then tried to introduce revolutionary doctrines into Turkey, the land of stagnation, and soon found means to disturb and arouse even the Turks, whom one would suppose nothing could . disturb. He created the party of young Turkey, and had for ad- viser one Simon Deutch, a Jew, a political court- ier, an apostle of anarchy, who had lived in the houses of ambassadors and princes, as well as in the beer saloons of the lowest quarters. It was under the very eyes of Midhat in his konak, overlooking the shores of the Bosphorus, that the Sultan, his bene- factor, Abdul Aziz, was murdered. Midhat was dis- graced, recalled, condemned to death, which he es- caped. Finally he was banished to Djeddah, where he still concocted new intrigues with the Madhi, which finally made it necessary for the Sultan to poison him. There are countless lives like these among the Jews.
If you would see a true specimen of the public man among the Jews, study the career of IN aquet. He claimed to have discovered, when still a mere youth, a process by which a city could be reduced to ashes. He published a book entitled Religion, Property, Family, in which he advocated common property in woman*
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In later years lie placed himself under an agent, and •went from city to city preaching the adoption of di- vorce in France. The Jew, even when successful, always remains mean, mercenary and tricky. JSTaquet, not content wTith degrading society, invented also a pomade to make the hair grow and become glossy. Thus Naquet was by turns a chemist, a lecturer, a manufacturer, a senator, and furthermore he was called by his people " the rampart of Judaism."
Divorce in France was an idea of the Jews. Mon- seigneur Freppel, a Catholic orator, declared in a public seance held on the 19th of July, 1884, that the movement which will end by the adoption of the law of divorce was purely a Semitic movement. " Side, if you please, gentlemen," said the distin- guished orator, " side with Israel ; we remain, we abide with the Church and with France."
According to the Jewish doctrines contained in the book Ketouboth, one is at liberty to repudiate his wife without even returning to her her dowry, provided she gives to her husband forbidden food to eat ; deceives him respecting the period of her sickness ; walks bare- footed ; speaks ill of her husband's parents ; talks so loud when in her husband's bed as to be heard by those sleeping in an adjoining room. . .
" The Jew," says Drumont, "not content with occu- pying a prominent place in a society which he has not created, seeks to overturn or at least to modify its laws and customs. Formerly, if a man had acquired proof that he had been robbed by his broker, in a stock operation, he could appeal to the law for protec-
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tion. He could save a part of his patrimony, the dowry perhaps of his daughter, the bread of his old age. But under the law proposed by the Jews, he cannot do so now, and the poor Goy must render to Shylock his last penny. "
On every occasion the Jew's first thought is to bene- fit his own people. Manufacturers find themselves ruined by the Jews, despoiled of their income, and robbed of their trade-marks.
Formerly, the European stock exchanges were composed of an eminently honorable body of men. To-day they are largely composed of tricksters, owing to the admission into them of the Eothschilds and the rest of the band of Jews. Is not this also true of the Xew York Stock Exchange ?
The Jew has been the cause of the most dramatic events that have occurred in the world's history. He carries death and ruin with him into all the coun- tries he invades, and into all the homes into which he is admitted. Ruin and death have been the result of most marriages of which one of the contracting par- ties was a Jew. The Duke of Eichelien married the Jewess Heine, and he went to die prematurely in the Orient. The daughter of the Duke de Persigny mar- ried the Jew Friedman, and ended her life in prison. De Poliomac married the Jewess Mires, and ruin in- vaded his home. Euin and dishonor invaded the home of La Panouse. who married the Jewess Heil- bronn. The lawyer Bernays, who married a Jewess, was murdered by the Hungarian Jew Peltzer. The Count Batthyani married a daughter of the Jew
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Schossberger, and was killed in a duel by the Jew Eossenberg, while the Count's wife contracted a new marriage a few months later. In the month of Feb- ruary, 1883, Daniel ISTaquet, one of the richest Jews of the south of France, and a relative of jSTaquet, the hair restorer, threw himself out of the window of his house and fractured his skull. In the month of Oc- tober, 1885, the rich Jew banker Primsel, the partner of Dreyfus, of guano fame, threw himself into the Seine from the top of a bridge.
Sudden death is, however, more frequent among the Jews than suicide, although the latter has in- creased of late with astounding rapidity, a fact which attests that neurosis is a disease with which nearly ail Jews are affected. What more terrible spectacle than the neurosis of the Jew Paradol, who was made so much of, bowed down to as a great man, and yet, at the age of forty, ended his days in so tragic a manner in "Washington, after leading a showy, fastidious, but empty existence, which, in many respects, recalls the career of the Jew Gambetta. There, again, the fatal- ity common to the race strikes, in a pitiless manner, the Paradol family. The son committed suicide at the age of twenty, while the daughter, to whom Ma- dame Eothschild, for personal motives, had offered a dowry of 100,000 francs, refused to marry, and en- tered a con vent, sorrow's last refuge.
We have enumerated only the events which occur among the upper classes, and which cause a profound impression. It would be difficult to collect the num- berless tragedies enacted in the middle and lower
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classes ; the deeds committed in the more modest spheres, where the Jew, if he does not himself com- mit the crime, is the instigator and the cause.
The Jew who, according to the saying of Hegel, " has been precipitated beyond' nature," has sought in vain through prodigies of astuteness and patience to enjoy social lif e ; he is always driven from it, seem- ingly by an invincible force.
A drama, similar to the one that took place in the palace of Mykense, has already forced the door of the proud house of the Eothschilds, who thought that they had made a compact with fortune. The entire world spoke of the suicide of Baron Jacob Eothschild, which, in many respects, recalls the tragic death of young Bel- mont, the son of one of the richest Jew bankers in New York. Although the Eothschilds have made the Christians pay dearly for that death, they do not forget that the blood of a suicide leaves an ineffaceable stain, brings an irresistible misfortune into a house, and over it suspends a curse. They feel, amid their feasts, that a certain ominous bird hovers over them ready to claim its own.
Mystery surrounds the terrible scenes which are continually enacted among the Jews. In vain we may try, we cannot ascertain the motive for the extraor- dinary acts of either Eothschild, Belmont, Wimpfen, or of many others.
The race, although well-conditioned for rapid prop- agation, nevertheless degenerates. Tradition relates that a certain inhabitant of Sicily, during the reign of King William, found in the earth a bottle that con-
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tained liquid gold. He drank it and again became a youth. But gold has not effected this transformation among the Jews. Examine them where you will and you will find that financiers, diplomats, journalists; wire-pullers, one and all, are a prey to ansemotrophy.* Their eyes, which roll with feverish anxiety, denote hepatic + maladies. The Jew carries in his liver the secretion produced by the hatred of eighteen centu- ries. There are instances of heart-rending atavism \ among them. The race, in proportion as it leads a civilized life, returns to the primitive type of pure Orientalism. They live in rooms hermetically closed, just as the lower class of Chinese do, where reigns an over-heated atmosphere. In the immense hotels in Vienna they constantly seek the seclusion of corners and dark, hidden places, even in broad daylight. Take into your hand the little womanish fingers of the young Jew, which end in the shape of a shuttle, and, while they still denote the peculiar penchant of the race, they no longer have the solid and curved form of their fathers. The young Jews have the sickly color of wax ; they tremble under our Northern sky, and, when they can afford it, they skulk away to Bermuda or to Xice. This physical condition, in part, explains the sadness that is the distinctive trait of the Jew's character.
* Ana?motrophy. a deficiency of sanguineous nourishment, f Hepatic, pertaining to the liver.
1 Atavism, the recurrence of a disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation after an intermission for a generation or tvro.
DEGEUEEATION OF THE JEWS
Ix order to succeed in their attacks on Christian civilization, the Jews have to assume the dissruise of the free-thinker. They shield themselves from the superstitions and prejudices of the-Christian faith be- hind those empty but high-sounding phrases, liberty and emancipation. At no remote period they were in the habit of celebrating secretly in their homes their religious rites, but little by little they have become indifferent in the exercise of them.
Besides the great religious feasts which tend to unite the whole race., as, for instance, circumcision, the Purim, Bar Mitzwa. there were formerly a thousand other ceremonies that closely drew together the bonds of the fraternity. A Sioum, that is to say, the end of a chapter of the Talmud, studied either by a society or by a private person, gave occasion to a repast. When it was announced that there was ZocJier at a house, that is, that a male infant had been born, the privilege was accorded even to a stranger to. go and salute it. The week that preceded a marriage was spent in festivities on a large scale. The table was loaded with those sweetmeats and those cakes that Henry Heine has more than once enumerated. These ceremonies, however, are to-day among the things of the past. But it must not be supposed that the Jews are less faithful now than formerly to the cardinal re-
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ligious rites of their faith. A Jew editor of even a low revolutionary sheet, after inserting a violent article in which our institutions are savagely attacked, and our faith is ridiculed; a Jew editor, who laughs at our sacraments, at our Christian doctrines and habits, is the first to hasten to his synagogue, and there dis- charge his religious duties.
It is true, however, that a sort of religious indiffer- ence has entered the homes of many an Israelite.
If the Jews of Eoumania maintain at great expense the Isrolzka family, the supposed sacred family, from which it is believed that the Messiah will at some time issue, if the Jews of Poland leave their windows open when it thunders for the Messiah to come in, the great body of the civilized Jews no longer believe in the com- ing of the Kedeemer. They believe only in Israel, in Israel at large, which will be the Messiah, or, in other words, the great future reigning nation.
Michael Weil, a great Eabbi, says the prophecies have never made mention either of a descendant of David or of a Messiah King — not even of a personal Messiah. The true Kedeemer, according to him, would no longer be a personality, but would be Israel transformed into a lighthouse of nations, built upon the noble functions of humanity, teaching truth with ' its books, its history, its constancy, and its fidelity to doctrines.
It does not seem necessary to answer this impudent assertion. This gang of tricksters, of manipulators of money, is to be the lighthouse of nations, nations that have produced a Washington, a Franklin, a Bacon, a
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Shakespeare, a Charlemagne, a St. Louis, a G-oethe, a Dante, a Socrates, a Leonidas, and so many others ; nations that have produced the greatest thinkers, men of the loftiest genius as well as the most admirably organized societies ! The Jew must have lost his head, even if the romantic hope of his race of acquiring what numberless generations of Christians have found- ed, created and produced, has been realized beyond expectation.
By means of false promises the Jews succeed in gathering from the pockets of the poor, from the depth of woollen stockings and the pockets of old coats, the savings which the faithful wife showed with a happy smile to the husband, who feared that the time was not distant when he would no longer be able to work. With the product of these thefts they buy historic estates, where eminent men of former times rested after having grown old in the service of their country ; thereon the degenerate scions of the aristoc- racy disgrace themselves by bowing to and admiring these thieves and spurious Jew barons, whose coat of arms would be more appropriately impressed upon pig-pens.
But how sad to think that these men are nominated ministers and ambassadors, as in the case of Eaynal Bischoffsheim and others. A feeling, however, of disap- pointment has come over the Jews. They seem to say, " Is this all ?" In the boxes of fashionable theaters, paid for with the pilfered savings of the poor whom they have reduced to despair, on the balconies of the castles they have stolen, these victors are assailed by
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the cankerous thoughts which came over the biblical
Schelemo on the terraces of his palace and in the alleys
of his garden.
" Man has no advantage over the beasts. Both have
the same end. both return to dust/5
C:A living dog is better than a dead lion.''
" The best thing for man is to eat, drink and enjoy
himself."
Thus speaks in the Ecclesiastics Kohelet, the faith- ful adherent of Sadducean morality. The vision of death that comes with long strides, the vision of that coffin that is raised into yonder magnificent apart- ment, the windows of which remain veiled during seven days, the appearance of that corpse which is carried off almost in a decayed state, cast an inefface- able shadow upon all the Jews.
The Jews avoid even to pronounce the word death. We find in the Ketouboth that a rabbi was repri- manded for having said in a funeral oration, " Many men will empty the cup of life." Abbaye says, "Many men have emptied the cup of life 99 is an allowable ex- pression, but we must not say, "Many men will empty the cup." In Beracloth Abbaye again forbids the mention of the word death. The custom of throw- ing water before the door of a house in which a death occurred was due to this same sentiment. It was the way of announcing the death to the neighbors without employing the forbidden word.
Although the Jews have preserved the idea of one God, their belief in a future life is wavering and con- fused. The Pharisees had spiritual tendencies, but the
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Sadducees were absolutely materialistic. There is little or no mention of the immortality of the soul in the Pentateuch, and the only text that clearly speaks of immortality in the Old Testament is the following verse of Daniel : " And many of them that sleep in the dust ol the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
The Mischma forbids the discussion of these jorob- leins, and the Agaclah brings to the defence of this injunction the story of the four well-known doctors, Ben-Azai, Ben-Zoina, Akiba, and Acher, who dared to venture into the avenues of Paradise. The first died, the second became a lunatic, Acher became an apos- tate, while Akiba alone got out of the scrape by the exercise of his daring and good sense. In a word, the Jewish faith never puts in the first rank the doctrine of future life.
The narrowness of the Jew's horizon is evident. He is destitute of the beautiful hope^ that are our con- solation and our joy.
Swedenborg, in whom we often find descriptions worthy of Dante, thus speaks of a particular part in hell in which the Jews abound. "In this part of hell," he says, "the Jews were in great numbers. Their presence as they came near the other spirits was manifest by a disgusting smell of rats. There the Jews run about the streets in the mud, complain- ing and uttering lamentations."
We must not omit to mention that the Jews of to- day are much troubled and preoccupied with the anti-Semitic movement that is apparent throughout
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Europe. From 1870 to 1879 they traversed a period of delirious pride. " What happiness to live at such an epoch " — " Es ist eime Lust zu leben" — the Jew "Wolff wrote in the National Zeitung at the time when the Laskers, the Bleichroeders, the Hausemanns, the Ickelheimers, like hungry vultures, despoiled of their billions the Prussians who were, so to speak, intoxi- cated with glory. "What happiness thrilled the band of harpies in France and Xew York who saw money, palaces, princely dwellings, all in their possession.
But they have now lowered a little the tone of their voices, for they feel that there is a movement among the Christians of all countries which will be much stronger than the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
The Jew is naturally a morose being. Enriched, he adds insolence to his moroseness. He is what mav be termed arrogantly morose. Drumont says that hypochondria, which is only one of the forms of neu- rosis, is the sole gift which the Jews have made to France, once so gay, so laughing, and so abounding in strength and gayety. "The Jews are both morose and sombre, " said Shaftesbury in his Characteristics, a sentiment profounder than it appears. It is an error to believe that the Jew finds amusement in the society of his own people; an error even to believe that he loves them. The Christians seldom support one another, but they love one another, they experience pleasure in seeing one another. The Jews, on the contrary, sustain one another even unto death, but they cannot tolerate the society of one another. As soon as they are no longer engaged in business
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they run off like one possessed, They do not feel at ease in the society of Christians, and a word of vene- ration for the Founder of the Christian religion suf- fices to render them ill. A pleasantry at the expense of Judas, while they may receive it with a sickly smile, really exasperates them. In fine, the following injunction written over the doors of the Ghettos in Italy is something that the Jews everywhere follow : " Ne populo regni coelestis hoeredi usus cum ex- lioerede sit."
"Let the people, heirs to the kingdom of Heaven, have nothing in common with those excluded there- from/5
At times a smile full of meaning illumines these bloodless visages at the thought of some joke played upon a Christian. The fox, in fact, is the allegorical beast of the Jew. The Meschdbot Schualim, or The Fables, of the Fox, is the first book put into the hands of the young Jew. Later in life he finishes his training by exercising every manner of deceit and theft upon the Aryan. After having, for instance, like Bleichroeder, organized the expedition against Tunis, which cost France the lives of many of her children and the alliance of Italy, he tramples upon the dignity of his victim by causing himself to be nominated commander of the Legion of Honor by an unworthy and corrupt minister.
It may seem strange to the reader if we add that be- sides the above characteristics there is another side in the Jew^s nature, resembling the innocence of a child. Innocence among the Jews ! You are certainly jesting!
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It is not a jest. The Jew, who is the embodiment of all that is sharp, close and most contemptible in nature, has the astuteness of the savage as well as the vanity of a child. His mouth opens with pleasure as he contemplates some cheap mark of distinction bestowed upon him, just as the mouth of the African opens, whose eyes and teeth shine with pleasure when he ob- tains a piece of painted glass or a remnant of some gaudy colored cloth.
Did you ever notice the Jew Free-Jlasons when out on parade ? There is among these vain creatures a child-like pleasure in wearing a costume which dis- tinguishes them from the rest. When the Jew re- lates to you that he has been rewarded with some cheap medallion for vending chocolate or shoe-black- ing, or some other such stuff, his pale face lights up with a ray of happiness similar to that which often illumines the faces of children upon the possession of some new toy.
THE JETTS' HATRED FOR THE CHRISTIANS.
The sentiment that dominates the corrupt and pas- sionate soul of the Jew is his hatred for the Church and its ministers. This hatred is, after all, natural. The vow of the missionary is a permanent mockery at the wealth of the Jew, who is incapable of buying with all his gold what the poorest Christian possesses — faith and hope, sentiments absolutely unknown among the Jews. Religion among the Jews is fidelity to tradition, an attachment to the race to which they belong. But there
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is not a word in the Hebrew language to express faith. The Jewish word emouna means constancy, tenacity, but not faith.
Simon, alias Loekroy, may insult yonder poor mis- sionary. Dreyfus may raise his voice against those poor sisters of charity who are ever ready to sac- rifice their lives upon the field of battle or in the chambers of sickness. There will always remain to them the crucifix they wear around their necks. The fact alone that their sublime virtues and disinterest- edness exist is like a thorn in the bed of the vulgar Jew Sybarite who feels himself powerless over these souls.
But if the Jews, these perpetual agitators, have well- nigh succeeded in shaking the foundations of society with the money they have wrongfully acquired, the fact remains that the day is not far distant when a new society will rise that will crush them. The day is near at hand when all their ill-gotten gains will be distributed amongst those who will take part in the mighty struggle now brewing, distributed as formerly lands and fiefs were distributed among the bravest.
In Germany, in Eussia, in Austria, in Roumania, in France, even in America, where the movement just begins, all classes, rich and poor, in fact all of Chris- tian origin, agree upon one point — the wisdom of forming an anti-Semitic alliance, an alliance directed against the Jew.
" In all affairs," says Bossuet, " there is a something that prepares them, determines them, and leads them to success." The true science of history is to study
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the secret causes that have brought about great changes and the important conjunctures that made them occur.
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE EXPULSION OF
JEWS iiy 1394.
The Jews came into France shortly after the inva- sion of .the Romans. In the fourth century, toward the year 353, they assassinated a Eoman officer, who, after having governed Egypt, returned to Gaul by order of the Emperor Constats. Among the Gauls, the Jews were no better received than they were in Rome. Kor were they better treated by the Visi- goths. The council held iz. forbade the Chris- tians to associate with the Jews or to eat with them. Clotaire II. withdrew from them the right to begin an action against the Christians, in 633 Dagobert II. expelled them from his States. They were always punished for their usurious dealings, but they always repeated the offence, and finally th^y became so rich that we find them in later years prominent even in po- litical affairs. Charlemagne added a Jew to the em- bassy he sent to Haroun-al-Raschid. Their influence was so great that, not content writh obtaining freedom of worship, they sought to pass a law that no business should be transacted on Saturday, and demanded hea^y import duties destined to crush their Christian competitors, while they were themselves arch smug- glers, and the manufacturers of spurious goods which they palmed off as being imported. They were,
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furthermore, the associates of all the lowest elements of those times.
As to-clav. their audacity in wrong-doing made everybody dislike them. The Bishop of Lyons wrote a treatise entitled The Insolence of the Jews, which paper, were it to be done into English, would faith- fully describe the life, and the low. vulgar, nauseat- ing ways of the modern Jew, in the transaction of business.
Drawn toward the Orient by the attraction of race, the Jews unceasingly connived with the Saracens, to whom they delivered Beziers, Xarbonne and Toulouse. Owing to this treason, each year on Easter Sunday a Jew was chosen, three slaps were given him at the door of the cathedral, and a fine of thirteen pounds' worth of tapers was imposed upon him.
Their condition, however, was gradually improved. In 1131, when Pope Innocent II. went to France, the synagogue took part in the immense parade that passed before the Pontiff.
As Ions: as the Jews abstained from ruining the country with their jobbery, their treason, and murder of Christian children, they were left as tranquil as the Christians of those times. They were as rich then as they are now, and owned one-half of the city of Paris.
A curious characteristic which denotes the in- credible tenacity of the Jews, and the persistency with which oral tradition is transmitted by this people for whom centuries do not count, is their obstinacy in re- turning as masters to a place from which they have
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been expelled. The mills of Cordeil, which formerly belonged to the Jew Crescent, now belong to the Jew Erlanger. Nearly all the domains of the Isle of France, where the Jews used to live, belong now to the family of Camondo, to Ephrussi, and to Koths- child. The historian Michelet says : " With all their rich possessions, the Jews of the middle ages lived as they formerly lived in the Orient. They never failed to torment the Gentiles. In times of epidemics and political ruin they were in league with the vilest and lowest element of society."
Peter the Venerable, Abbe of Cluny, mentions the unheard-of crimes of the Jews, who profaned the churches, overthrew the altars, burned the crosses, whipped the priests, poisoned the monks, and forced them to take to themselves women by threats and tor- ments.
The Jews committed still more dastardly crimes. The children, those candid and charming creatures in the souls of whom the purity of heaven is reflected, have always been the object of the Jews' hatred. Herod caused them to be massacred. The Jews of the middle ages bled them and then crucified them. All the testimony, all the commemorative monuments raised to celebrate a crime of which an entire city was a witness, all authentic documents, everything upon which true historic facts are founded, agree, and all contemporaneous writers are unanimous in their testi- mony concerning the assassination of Christian chil- dren by the Jews.
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prosperity of a country, as soon as he is left alone, had assumed proportions beyond bearing. Bitter com- plaints were heard on all sides. Philip-August, upon his ascending the throne, confiscated a part of the possessions of the Jews, and cancelled all debts due to them. Napoleon was obliged to act in about the same way. Every potentate who has the sense of right and justice in him, every government, ought to act in a like manner. It would suffice to say to them, " You have not acquired the millions you possess by work, but by deceit and lying. You have not created values ; you have only possessed yourself of the values created by others. Make part restitution of the wealth you have wrongfully acquired." No one would find fault that a Seligman, a Belmont, or a Eothschild, for in- stance, should be left with a yearly income of half a million only.
St. Louis, " the king without fear," determined to ascertain for himself, and carefully to examine into, the cause of the complaints and bitter animosity against the Jews. This great and good king, who had an inexhaustible love for justice, sought to know why the Jews were the object of the hatred of all. "Upon the demand of Pope Gregory IX., whose attention was also called to this fact, he caused the Talmud to be examined in a solemn assembly, over which presided William d'Auvergne, and in which the rabbis were in\*ited to take part. "It was in Paris, in the begin- ning of summer, the 24th of June, 1240, when this memorable council took place. The Court of St. Louis was presided over on that day by Queen Blanche.
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. . . . A few volumes, covered with strange characters, attracted the attention of the curious, and. it became known through Nicholas, a converted Jew, that the characters were Hebrew letters, and that the books were the Talmud. But soon a more interesting spectacle attracted the attention of the assembly. Four rabbis had just entered the room. They were Jechiel, of Paris ; Judah, son of David ; Samuel, son of Solomon, and Moses, of Coucy, son of J acob — the latter a famous orator known throughout France and Spain. They entered, sad and uneasy, into the palace of the king, while the assembled Jews scattered them- selves about like a flock of sheep without a shepherd."
Every opportunity was given to the Jews to defend themselves, which they did with courage and ability. They, however, were forced to acknowledge that the Talmud contained precepts not only contrary to the good of Christian society, but of every civilized so- ciety. Passages were read which horrified the listen- ers. The book said that Jesus Christ was plunged into hell, into ever-boiling mud ; that the Divine Son of the Holy Virgin was the fruit of adulterous in- tercourse with a soldier named Pandara, and that the ministers were no better than howling dogs. Other passages were read that increased the fear of the Jews and the indignation of the Christians,
"It is right to kill the best of the Goy."
"The word given to a Goy need not be kept."
" Thrice every day, during their prayers, the Jews must hurl curses against the ministers of the church, the kings, and enemies of Judaism.
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St. Louis displayed an extraordinary amount of moderation. As Jecliiel was trembling with fear, one of the officers of the king said, " Jecliiel, who thinks of doing any harm to the Jews ? "
The Talmud alone was condemned, and all the copies that could be found were cast into the flames.
In conformity with his paternal goodness and kind- ness. St. Louis took active measures against the Jews only when he was forced to do so in order to protect his subjects from these rapacious wolyes. The Ordi- nance of 1254 forbids the Jews from practising usury, from attacking or blaspheming the belief of the people among whom they live, and enjoins them to follow an honest living.
The Jews were now forced to walk carefully. The times threatened to be bad for them. Their litera- ture shows the disturbed condition of their mind. To the light, airy verses, the suggestive and coarse songs of the period., now succeeded plaintive elegies.
" Alas, the daughter of Judah is clothed anew in mourning, because the shades of the evening have spread."
" Hope in my goodness, oh, my dove ! I shall praise as of old, my Tabernacle. I shall then prepare a lamp to David, my king : then shall I repress the ferocious beasts that have kept themselves in ambuscade, in order to devour thee, oh, my beautiful dove ! whose voice is so agreeable."
Their schools were closed, but we must not forget that while the Jews for centuries wearied everybody with their complaints and misfortunes, as soon as
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they obtained a semblance of authority they lost no time in closing the schools of others.
We must, however, render this justice to the Jews. They supported adversity in an admirable manner. During these persecutions they stand forth almost un- equalled in their heroism, patience and abnegation. The mothers often threw their children ■ into the flames through fear that they would be baptized.
On the 26th of May, 1288, on Good Friday, the Gentiles invaded the house of the rich Jew, Isaac Chatelain, arrested him and all his family. The prisoners offered to buy their liberty with gold, but it was not accepted. They were told that their lives would be spared on condition that they abjure Juda- ism. This they refused, and on Saturday, the 24th of April, 1288, the 5048th year of the Jewish era, the entire family, numbering thirteen, were cast into the flames. All faced death with intrepidity, singing the Schema and mutually encouraging one another. The wife of Isaac herself walked into the flames, followed by her husband and the rest of the family.
In order to appreciate fully this strength of charac- ter, we must go back to the times in which these scenes were enacted. Society was then absolutely religious. The Jew, by placing himself outside of this society, put himself not only beyond the law, but, to employ the expression of Hegel, " he cast himself outside of nature. " What had the Jews to gain by struggling against so many united forces, when, since the fall of their temple, they had found their God deaf to all their prayers ? Their energy, however, was marvel-
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ous ; their courage in the face of death has never been equalled. Then, and then only, does the Jew become the personage that Michelet has painted in an incomparable page that has the life of a work by Kembrandt.
"During the middle ages, he who knew where gold was to be found, the true alchemist, the true sorcerer was the Jew, or the half Jew, the Lombard Jew. The Jew, everywhere thought to be an impure being, the Jew who could not touch a Christian woman without risking his life, the despised being upon whom every- body spat, — it was to him that one had to apply in time of need. This prolific nation alone had what may be called the multiplying force ; the force that engenders, that increases the sheep of Jacob, as well as the shekels of Shylock. During the middle ages, though persecuted, banished, recalled, the Jews were the middle men, the men who stood between the royal treasury and the victims of the treasury; suck- ing the gold from below and rendering it to the king with an ugly grimace. Something, however, always stuck to their fingers. They knew that they lived in constant danger, and yet in their hands Was all the wealth of the country. To-day they are free, and, despite the kicks they have received, they have reached their present enviable position. . . . Want, bitter want alone, forced the poor man to address himself to the Jew, to approach his dingy little house, to speak to the man who had crucified his children. When yonder poor man had spent his last resource, when his bed had been sold, when his wife and children
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slept upon the ground, trembling with fever, slowly, and with downcast head, he directed his steps toward the odious house of the Jew, and long stood before the door ere he knocked. The Jew opened with precaution the little window, and the following strange dialogue ensued : 6 What did the Chris- tian sav ?' 'In the name of God— 9 ' The Jew killed this God of yours, did he?' ' In the name of pity — ' ' Have the Christians ever shown pity or mercy to a Jew ? These are not the words wanted here. I must have a pledge.' ' What pledge could he offer who had nothing?' 'My friend,' said the Jew, ' in conformity with the laws of the king, I can lend you nothing. No, this bloody garment and this bit of iron will not do. The law prevents me from advancing money upon such objects. But you can offer yourself as a pledge. I am not of your race. My right is not the right of a Christian. It is an old right. Your flesh will do for me. Blood for gold.' "
The Jews were more harshly treated by Philip the Handsome than by any of his predecessors. The edict of 1306 expelled them, and decreed the confiscation of their property.
The Jews kept up their courage, and determined to be avenged.
It is an incontestable fact that the Jews entered into a compact with the King of Granada and the Sultan of Tunis, whereby they organized a conspiracy known as the "League of the Leprous," composed only of per- sons stricken with leprosy. This was done with a view to poison the wells and public fountains, and in
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this way spread death, create one of those crises, one of those vague periods of uneasiness and of trou- ble, which have rendered possible the terrible up- heaval of '93, so profitable to Israel.
Proofs abound, and the existence of a general upris- ing of the leprous is attested by all contemporary authors, one of whom says : " With our own eyes we saw a woman afflicted with leprosy, and who, fearing to be arrested, cast behind her a bundle of ra2's, which was immediately brought to court, and upon being opened, there was found in it the head of an adder, the claws of a toad, and something resembling the hair of woman, steeped in a dark and foetid liquor, — a fearful thing both to see and to smell. The whole was thrown into a blazing fire, but as it did not burn, it was clear that it was a virulent poison."
Another writer says : " There were many opinions, of which the most prevalent was, that the Moors of Granada, seeing themselves so often worsted, con- ceived the plan of avenging themselves, and entered into a plot with the Jews to destroy the Christians. But as the Jews were already suspected, they applied to the lepers, who were easily persuaded to form the said league. The Jews advised these miserable fel- lows that, as they were held in so despicable and de- graded a condition, it would be well to compass the death of all Christians, or at any rate spread leprosy among them." The historian Michelet also relates : "A well-known leper, seized with fear, confessed that a rich Jew gave him money, and also certain drugs composed of human blood, urine
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and human flesh, called the body of Christ. All this was dried and battered down, and then a weight was attached to it, and the whole was thrown into the public fountains and wells."
Is it astonishing that the lepers were thus insti- gated by the Jews ? Do we not see in this the habitual manner and method pursued by the Semite in his work of revenge ? The lepers, the downtrod- den people, the pariahs, the moujiks of Eussia, are to the Jew only ready-found instruments that he arouses, agitates, deceives, and lets loose upon society, with fat promises and big words, and that he after- ward abandons to their fate. Pay no attention to this singular mixture of urine and human blood, but sup- pose that the ingredients are petroleum, nitro-gly- cerine or dynamite, and you will be in the full tide of the modern movement — a movement headed by the Jews who preach the use of fulminating cotton, or by those like the Jewess Jessa Heffmann, who in Eussia preaches dynamite, or the Jew Most who, in America, preaches anarchy,- and then conceals himself under a harlot's bed ; all these dastardly crimes are the peculiar business of the Jew. Did not the Jew Mezzeroff, only the other day, here in 2s~ew York, in a public lecture, advise bomb-throwing as the only means left to the Irish to obtain their rights from the English ? And are not the greater part of the criminal anarchists in Chicago of the Jewish faith ? The Aryan temperament does not adopt this method of revenge. The Aryan will thrust a knife into you, or kill you with a revolver, but he understands nothing
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of this peculiar chemistry. During the last Cretan insurrection the Jews threw poison into the wells around Chania, and many Greek volunteers died from the effects.
The hatred of the crucifix is a dominant sentiment of the Jew. King Jean the Good tried to win their loyalty by generous concessions. But the Jews con- tinued in their evil doings, and in their unaccountable intrigues and jobbery.
Thev began anew to ruin the country, and it is also positively asserted that they strangled Christian chil- dren on Good Friday. The people of those times, who were less patient than those of the present day, rose against them, the preachers denounced them from the pulpit, and in the course of time the kings were compelled to adopt stringent laws against them.
Charles VI. issued, on the 17th of September, 1394, a rigorous decree of banishment, and forbade them, under penalty of death, to remain in his kingdom.
Two years were allowed the Jews to wind up their affairs, after which time they were obliged to quit France. This date of 1394 is one of the most im- portant, not only as regards French history, but also as regards Christian civilization. Former kings exercised both mildness and severity toward the Jew. But now it has been proved that the Jew could not become acclimatized to the soil of France. The most diverse races — Celts, Gauls, Gallo-Romans, Germans, Franks, Xormans, have been fused into that harmo- nious whole which forms the French nation of to-day. They smoothed down their differences, and have niutu-
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ally tolerated one another's faults. The Jew alone was not able to enter into this amalgamation,, The people therefore said to him, "My friend, we cannot get along together. Let us separate, and good luck to you."
This may be termed intolerance, but it is intoler- ance only in the sense that science applies to the word when it says, "The subject cannot tolerate this matter." France could not tolerate the Jew? and ac- cordingly expelled him. She will receive him back after many long years, but she will be sick of her bargain, which will inevitably cause her rain.
Owing to the elimination of this vermin France, which was still plunged into the horrors of war, at- tained, with an almost astonishing rapidity, a degree of almost incredible prosperity. She again became the great European nation, and ruled with her arms, letters, arts, exquisite courtesy, taste, and with the charm of her benevolent, kind, and social nature. She became the arbiter, the model, the envy of the world. She counted among her sons famous generals, illustrious statesmen, incomparable writers. She met with triumphs and reverses, but her honor remained spotless. She was not exempt from vices, but her vices were not those which degrade, and when she rushed to arms, it was neither for the sake of the Mexicans nor for the Tunisians. At home her people were, if not rich, at least happy, because the Jew was not there to bring havoc with his jobbery, his fanaticism, and his parasitism. Beginning with 1394, the glorious time when the Jew was banished, France kept on the road
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of prosperity : in a word, she ascended. From the year 1789, the ill-omened year when the Jew was received "back, France moved unceasingly on the downward track.
What became of the Jew from 1394 to 1789 ? No- body knows. He disappeared, he vanished, he bur- rowed like the groundhog, or, like the hunted rab- bit, changed his place of action, modified his plans, cooled his ardor. He seems to have plunged into the dreams of tradition, to have been absorbed in the study of the Zoliar or of Seplier Zetzirah. He became an alchemist, a magician, and claimed to foretell the future by questioning the stars. The one thought which preoccupied him throughout this time was how to act. Both France and Spain had closed their doors against him. Spain, which the Jews surrendered to the Moors, expelled him, and in a short time after- ward the chivalrous Spaniards foot by foot recon- quered the soil of their country, and being rid of the Jews, they were enabled to add glorious pages to their history, such as we find during the reign of Philip II.
The Jews naturally considered Germany as their land of promise. Germany was, at that time, divided into a number of small principalities, hence the royal authority was less powerful than on the other side of the Ehine. But Germany hated the Jew as much as France did, and now and then did not hesitate to burn a few of them.
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Darmesteter says that the Jew was also occupied at that time in laying bare the vulnerable points of- the Church, and that he brought to this task the formida- ble sagacity of the oppressed. He was the adviser of the unbeliever. All free-thinkers, all whose minds were dissatisfied, diseased, came to seek him in their darkness. The Jew was at work in his great workshop of blasphemy. It was he who forged the poisonous and corrupt arms of irony — shafts which he be- queathed to sceptics and libertines, and the sarcasm of Voltaire may be considered as the last expiring echo of his work.
Protestantism served as a stepping-stone to the Jews to regain a foothold in society.
In 1520, the very year when Luther burned the Bull of the Pope at Wittenberg, the first edition of the Talmud was printed in Vienna.
Luther, however, was far from being the friend of the Jews. He was more cruel toward them than any Catholic priest has ever thought of being. " To ashes, to ashes with all the synagogues, and all the houses of the Jews. Let them be all packed into stables, let all their treasures and goods be taken away from them, and let them be used for the maintenance of converts. Let the Jews and the robust Jewesses be forced to the severest labor. Let their books of prayer be taken away from them, and be it forbidden them under penalty of death to ever pronounce the word of God. Let there be no mercy or pity shown to the Jews. Let our princes drive them out of their provinces. Let the ministers inculcate into the minds of their hearers
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hatred of the Jew. Had I authority over the Jews, I would call together the most learned and the richest of them, and would threaten to have their tongue cut to the very roots, in order to prove to them that the Christian doctrine does not teach one God only, but a God in three persons."
These were the words of Luther, the apostle of Prot- estantism.
Protestantism, however, was profitable to the Jew. It gave him the opportunity to enfranchise himself, and permitted him to remain in Germany, where he again exercised his usurious nature, from which the Church, with a maternal solicitude, during many a- century protected the Aryan.
The picture of that epoch of transition is curious to study on account of its analogy with the movement that takes place to-day. People then lost the taste for work. They sought enterprises which promised large returns for as little work as possible. The num- ber of drinking places increased to an alarming extent. Farmers became poor, and were forced to sell their products at any price. Corporations were impover- ished ; in fact, the whole population stood face to face wTith ruin. The greater part of the people threw themselves into the fever of speculation, and, as it always happens, the majority were ruined, while a small proportion only became wealthy.
In the mean time the Jews were constantly conniv- ing among themselves and casting longing eyes to- ward Prance. But the times were not as yet propi- tious for Israel. Louis XII. imposed upon the coun-
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tries newly acquired by France the same decree of ex- pulsion as was promulgated by Charles VI., which act of his won for him the surname of Father of the People.
A few Jews expelled from Spain succeeded in find- ing at that time a domicile at Bordeaux. But with what great precaution they had to act ! What a num- ber of disguises tbey had to assume ! It is to the credit, however, of this colony, to say that they repaid their hospitality to France by giving to the world Mon- taigne, and it is a fact that for at least one hundred and years they abstained from exercising their faith in any form whatever. The letters-patent granted by Henry II. authorizing their sojourn were delivered not to the Jews but to new Christians.
Another band tried to enter France by another way, and in 1615 it was found necessary to enforce anew the edict of expulsion, which, however, was not strictly carried out, as the Jews, during the minority of Louis XIII., had come into France in considerable numbers. They had a powerful protector at court, one Goncini, who was surrounded by a great number of Jews, and who was engaged in many an act of jobbery, wrong- doing, and deceit. The history of that man reminds us of the life of Gambetta, who may be considered as a second incarnation of Concini. Fortunately, France m those days had men who considered a hostile citizen more dangerous than a foreign foe. A simple captain named De Vitry, sword in hand, and attended by three soldiers only, stood on a bridge and there hindered
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was advancing, followed by a numerous escort, re- sembling a regiment "Halt, there !" cried De Vitry. "Who dares speak thus to me ?" said Con- cini, and, as the presumptuous foreigner accompanied his words with a significant gesture, De Vitry took careful aim and pierced his brain with a pistol shot. Upon this, he entered the palace of the king, and said, "It is done." "Much obliged to you, my cousin," replied Louis XIII, to the humble captain whose courage alone had just made him a relative of the king. "You are a marshal and a duke, and I am happy to be the first to salute you with your new title."
Heroism to-day, however, does not enter into our relations with the Jews, who are permitted to under- take everything, and slowly but surely to undermine the foundations of our prosperity. Scarcely was Con- cini killed when the order was strictly enforced for the Jews to disappear. The only Jew who remained in France was Lopez, who claimed that he was a Portu- guese and formerly belonged to the Mohammedan faith. The poor fellow ate pork to such an extent every day that he fell sick, bat he succeeded in allay- ing all suspicions regarding his nationality. He was a dealer in bric-a-brac, then in diamonds, then a banker, later an ambassador, and finally counsellor of state. He was at once a Proust and a Bischoffsheim.
Henry IV. saw in Lopez an excellent instrument with which to create trouble in the home affairs of Spain. The death of the King put an end to this plan, but Lopez was not discouraged, and returned to the business of a diamond broker, in which he acquired
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such skill that uncut diamonds were sent to him from every part of Europe, which he ground in a manner not before known.
Richelieu, whose genius reminds us of that of Bismarck, employed Lop?z as a spy, and intrusted him with an important mission to the government of Holland. The nature of the Jew both in prosperity and adversity remains unchanged. His instincts are always the same. If a Jew were crowned king, he would find some means to sell the jewels of the crown. Lopez did not neglect the furtherance of his private ends during his extraordinary mission, and on his re- turn to Paris announced a sale of bric-a-brac which was more loudly advertised than the one by Sara Bernhardt. He bought in Holland a thousand different curios, said to have come from India, and their sale brought him fabulous wealth. For a Jew, however, Lopez was an honest man. He was accused of being a spy of two governments, but it was shown that he served only one, which fact alone may well raise a doubt in the mind of the reader as to his being a veritable Jew. He displayed his wealth with the bad taste so common among his people. He had a beautiful house, of which he constantlv boasted. But what is there astonishing in this ? Baron Hirsch, the well-known Jew banker, in the course of a dinner, said to his guest at the time when strawberries were served, in the month of Jan- uarv : " Do not hesitate to eat as many as you like. The cost is dear, but I do not mind it." 'This same Jew said to Lavisse, Professor of History at the Sor- bonne, who was engaged to give private lessons to his
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son : (t Pray smoke this cigar. It is true that you cannot afford to smoke as good at home, for it cost me fifteen cents."
Lopez died in Paris in 1649, and was buried accord- ing to the rites of the Catholic faith — a faith which he 'ostensibly exercised during his residence in Paris.
By carefully concealing their origin, the Jews ceased to be regarded as the pariahs — that degraded class in India of whom we are told that, before a native ex- changes a word with one, he places his hand before his mouth. Holland offered to the Jews an asylum, and there we find them in great numbers.
Alone of all races, the Jew can exist in every climate, but at the same time he cannot exist without doing injury to others as well as to himself. With his love for wrong-doing and intrigue, his mania for un- ceasingly attacking the religion of Christ, the Jew is exposed to certain temptations to which he is always the victim. This, in part, explains the continual per- secutions of which he has always been the object. As soon as he enters into relations with the Germans, noted for their love of the abstract ; or with the French, so fond of change ; or with the Slavs, so given to dreaming, he cannot restrain himself. He invents socialism, internationalism, or nihilism. He hurls upon the society that has received him revolutionary doctrines, and finally all join in driving him away.
It is remarkable, however, that the Jew has been powerless to make much of an impression on either the English or the Dutch. He perceives by instinct, through his long proboscis, that it would be useless to
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attempt anything against these two peoples, so wedded to their own customs, so firm in their traditions, so attentive to their interests. He contents himself with proposing certain affairs, which are minutely discussed by the natives, and only entered into when they are good ; but he abstains from relating fabulous stories, and does not create either a loan or a commune.*
Holland, which is a matter-of-fact countrv. averse to that chivalrous ideal which is also so antipathetical to the sons of Jacob, was the cradle of the modern Jew. For the first time in his existence the Jew found there not the splendid success which intoxi- cates and destroys him, but the calm of long dura- tion, the regular and normal life, f
* Xihilism and the Commune are the special creations of the Jews. More than twenty thousand Jews joined the last com- munal insurrection in Paris. The chiefs of the Commune were, with few exceptions, ali Jews. The war with Prussia had drawn toward the unhappy city of Paris a large number of Jews, who flock always toward any spot where events are thrown out of their ordinary course. Notice the following, all of whom occu- pied a prominent position during the last Commune :
Babick, surgeon -in-chief ; Crabulinski, colonel of the staff; Dombrowski, general of the forces of the Commune : Burnofr, commander of a legion ; Echenlamb, colonel ; Kertzfeld, direc- tor-in- chief of the ambulances ; Iziquerdo, surgeon-major ; Landowski, aide-de-camp ; Mizara, commandant of the One Hundred and Fourth Battalion : Ploubinski, staff-officer ; Wro- bleswski, general; Rubilowicz, surgeon-major, etc., etc.
I A reaction, however, seems to have been produced even in little Holland, because the Jews always end by exasperating the most patient and peacefully-inclined people. At Amster- dam, in 1884, the proprietor of the best cafe in the city refused
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It is Rembrandt whom we must contemplate,, study, scrutinize, ransack, analyze, before we clearly under- stand the Dutch Jew. Throughout his life Rem- brandt lived constantly with Israel. His studio, re- plete with countless bric-a-brac and objects of art, was a veritable storehouse, resembling the shops where second-hand goods are sold. The eye, on entering his place, for a moment remained bewildered, but from the extreme end a sordid old man, with a hooked nose, slowly arose. It was Rembrandt himself. His work is of Jew color, yellow, of that earnest, fervid and warm yellow which looks like the reflection of gold laid upon an old rowel of the middle ages, for- gotten in a corner. How life-like are the Jews
to admit Jews to his establishment, claiming that their presence was ruining his business, and that his guests asked him not to permit Jews in his place. Xo matter in what circles the Jews may move, rich or poor, they can never rid themselves of vul- garity. Notice them in the railroad cars, with their filthy ways, insolent manners, their feet stretched upon the seats. They seem to feel that because they have paid their fare they own the whole road. Judge Hilton, when he drove away the Jews from the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, did so after full and careful deliberation, and because the presence of the Jews was detri- mental to the interests he was in duty bound to protect. We are grateful to the Judge for this act of his. There is not a hotel at which the Jews congregate, but a peculiar stain attaches to it. Coney Island dates its decadence from the day the Jews invaded its Hotel Brighton. This is the reason why the far-seeing Austin Corbin publicly announced that no Jews would be permitted at either the Manhattan or the Oriental, on the east end of Coney Island, and accordingly that part of the island has remained respectable.
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painted by Eembrandt ! They seem constantly talk- ing of affairs as they emerge from a synagogue, ever occupied in discussing the value of a florin, or of the last consignments received from Batavia. They wind their way, stick in hand, wdth the air of a wandering Jew, who feels as if he had reached a spot where he can for a moment rest.
Owing to the, relatively speaking, quiet life which the Jews led in Holland, their condition seems to have improved. In England Cromwell was the jealous protector of the Jews. It was he who raised the decree of banishment that weighed upon them. Mean- time the Jews were tolerated in Metz and Stras- bourg, which proves that there is no victory without its inconveniences, for the conquest of Alsace brought into France a considerable number of Jews, whom the country could well have afforded to do without. About that time the French authorities insisted that the old usages affecting the Jews should be relaxed, because many of them were employed as military con- tractors. This change benefited the Jews, whose num- bers now amounted to upward of 20,000, and who possessed property estimated at from four to five mil- lions of our money.
Louis XII. had extended to the territory of Prov- ence the ordinance that expelled the Jews from France, but many among them followed the advice given them by their co-religionists in foreign lands, and pretended to be converted to the Christian faith. In 1489, the year when it was reported that the Jews were again to be banished, a famous rabbi wrote, in
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the name of his brothers, to the rabbis of Constanti- nople, seeking advice as to what ought to be done, and the following letter, dated the 21st of December, 1489, was received :
Well-beloved Brothers in Moses : We have received your letter, in which you enumerate the misfortunes and the wrongs you suffer. These have troubled us deeply, as they have you. But the advice of the greatest rabbis and the governors of your race is this:
You say that the King of France wishes you to become Christians. Do so, since you cannot do otherwise ; but keep al- ways the law of Moses in your heart.
You say that the Gentiles wish to take your property away. Make your sons merchants, and through traffic you will, little by little, get their riches and possessions.
You complain that they plot against your life. Make your children physicians and apothecaries, which will enable them to poison and kill the Gentiles without fear of detection or punish- ment.
You say that your synagogues are being destroyed. Make your children priests, and they will be able to destroy the churches of our enemies.
And as to what you say, that you endure great vexations, make your children lawyers and notaries, and urge upon them to apparently embrace public affairs, and in this way you will dom- inate the Gentiles, get their lands, and avenge yourselves upon them. Do not neglect the advice we give to you, because experience will teach you that from being low you will attain a lofty eminence.
Y. S. S. Y. F. F.,
Prince of the Jews of Constantinople, 1489.*
*The original text of the two letters above mentioned ' was published for the first time by Abbe Bouis, priest of
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In Avignon, which was at that time a Popish district, the Jews of France had found almost com- plete liberty and comparative security. Avignon, during the middle ages, may be called the Paradise of the Jews. From time to time, of course, popular uprisings took place against them, owing to their cruel usury, but the Pope always intervened to appease the people.
In Avignon, as elsewhere, the Jews did not scruple to commit acts of dishonesty and scurrility toward the Christians. For a long time there could be seen at the entrance of the Church of St. Peter a holy- water font, which recalled one of their offensive acts. This font was entitled "The Font of the Beautiful Jewess." A Jewess of rare beauty had penetrated into the church on an Easter Sunday, and spat upon the holy water. For this act of hers she was publicly scourged, and a commemorative inscription recalled both the sacrilegious act and the punishment im- posed.
The Jewish colony at Bordeaux prospered to a remarkable degree. As to Spain, after the defeat of the Moors the people of that country followed the example of France, and eliminated from their bosom the elements that were the cause of continual trouble.
• On the 30th of March, 1492, King Ferdinand of
Aries, in a work which bears the title, The Royal Crown of the Kings of Aries, dedicated to the Councillors and Governors of the City, by J. Bonis, Priest of Avignon, 1644.
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Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, upon the advice of the illustrious Ximenes, issued a decree which or- dered all Israelites to leave the country. The vears
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following their e.vpulsion may be considered the most glorious in Spanish history.
A. few families, thereupon, sought refuge in Portu- gal. There they found a precarious existence, and shortly afterward they were again expelled, and Mon- taigne, whose parents were among those persecuted, related the heart-rending circumstances of this new exodus in a chapter that aroused more feeling than any other page of the sceptic.
Montaigne and Dumas, both of whom are of Jewish extraction on their mother's side, are the only two French writers really worthy of being called writers that the race of Israel has given us, both of whom, however, are impregnated with Christian blood. With- out seeking to establish a comparison between the two, which would be strained, — between the laughing and light mockery of the one, and the bitter raillery of the second, — it may be affirmed that both have been de- stroyers, both have put in relief the vices and weak- nesses of humanity, without proposing any loftier aim for man to strive for. Both were gigglers, and morose at the same time ; both void of illusions and destroy- ers of the illusions of others.
Xo writer has ever been more occupied with religious questions than Dumas. None has ever penetrated more deeply into the depths of the human heart. Had his robust and virile intelligence been enlightened by the truth, he would have rendered immense ser-
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rices to the world. He himself seems to have had the feeling of what he was losing and of the harm he caused to others by his unbelief. He never lent his ears to any proposals, yile temptations, or to a desire of being on good terms with the so-called free- thinkers, of whom he often spoke with scorn, but he was unable to take the one decisive step. He was born blind, and he remained blind to the end of his days. Vain were his efforts to escape from the fatality of the race.
We have already stated that the Portuguese Jews have never been able to enter France as Jews, but as new Christians. " It is impossible," says a document written in 1767, " to conceive of a plan formulated with greater skill and cunning, than the one for the establishment of the Jews at Bordeaux. That lie of being new Christians was well calculated to please his Christian majesty."
It is true that these Portuguese Jews always protest- ed with energy whenever they were spoken of as Jews.
In the year 1614, fearful that active measures would be adopted against them, they addressed a pe- tition to the king, stating : " For many years we have been living at Bordeaux, and, owing to the bitter jeal- ousy of which we are the innocent cause on account of our prosperity, we are accused of being Jews, when in truth we are good Christians and Cath- olics."
They scrupulously adhered to all the outward prac- tices of the Catholic faith. Their births, marriages,
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deaths were inscribed in the register of the church. Their contracts were preceded by the words, " In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."
After having liyed in this manner for nearly one hundred and fifty years, the Jews remained as faithful to their belief as on the day when they first set foot in France. As circumstances fayored, by degrees, they more openly returned to Judaism, had their children baptized in their faith, and old marriages were celebrated anew according to their own rite. A large number of Jews also, whose families had for two centuries officially practised Catholicism in Spain, crossed the frontier, in 1686, and came to Bordeaux to be circumcised, and remarried according to the Jewish faith. The persistency, the stubborn vital- ity of Judaism, which nothing eyer impairs, oyer which centuries glide without making any impres- sion, and which maintaius itself in all its entirety from father to son in the intimacy of the home circle, is certainly a most curious phenomenon for an observer.
In 1839 an English Jew wished to communicate with his co-religionists in Spain, and after a great deal of trouble obtained a letter of introduction to a few Jews in that country. He arrived at the house of a Jew in a certain city in Spain, the name of which he discreetly does not mention. On entering the parlor he found it full of statuettes of saints, silver crosses, and other sacred images. He made himself known, but his host, after welcoming him, begged him to say not a word that might compromise him, because the
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people of the country believed him to be a zealous Catholic, and both his own son and daughter were ig- norant of the fact that he was a Jew.
At midnight the chief of the family and his visitor descended into a subterranean passage. There they met a small society of Jews, the existence of which no one suspected. The well-known lamp was suspended from the ceiling. Toward the East stood a box cov- ered with black velvet, containing the rolls of the Penta- teuch, and a copy of the Prophets, while upon a table of bronze were engraved the Ten Commandments. Side by side with the box was a Jew calendar, containing a list of the illustrious men among the Jews who with- out being known as such had played an important part in the affairs of Spain. In the centre, upon a table covered with a piece of black marble, were the prayer- books of the Jews.
There was only one tomb in this whole place. Obliged to bear the humiliation of being buried in a Catholic cemetery, and to endure the prayers of the priest, the Jews succeeded in having the body of their rabbi escape this profanation, and had it buried there. At the death of each member of the community the Jews deposited a small piece of stone near the ven- erated tomb.
Both the stranger and the Spaniard conversed a long time in this sanctuary of their common hopes, and then through a small hole they noticed the day about to break, and the hour for morning prayers close at hand. " We must not quit the synagogue without having raised our hearts toward the God of
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our fathers/' said the Spaniard. The bell of a neigh- boring conyent struck its silvery and clear notes. A light movement was heard in the house above. It was the young girl who hastened to church to be present at the first mass. Ten years later the same traveller returned to Spain. But instead of the humble house of his co-religionist, he found in its place an impos- ing palace. They sat at the table, and a prayer was offered in a loud voice. The young girl was now openly a Jewess.
The Jews have now taken almost exclusive pos- session of Spain. This explains the reason why Spain withers from the effects of incessant revolu- tions.
Among the numberless foreign Jews who wormed their way into France in 1789, a great many in- stalled themselves without beating of drums or sound of trumpets, and lived the life of ordinary mortals. But when occasion presented itself, the old hatred against Christianity, which had remained dormant among .their fathers, was rekindled among the sons, who are falsely taken to be free-thinkers, but who have never failed to break down the doors of sanc- tuaries and otherwise injure our institutions.
A document of 1733 affirms : " The Jews em- ployed good-looking country girls for servants, whose honor they violated in order to use them for nurses to their own children, while the babes born of the girls were sent away as foundlings."
The Goy, son or daughter of the Goyrn, everything is created to enrich and amuse the Jew.
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Bordeaux was, however, a very narrow territory for the Jews. It was Paris that they coveted and where their ambition centred. In 1767 they tried to take advantage of a decree permitting foreigners to join the great body of native tradesmen. The mer- chants of Paris, one and all, energetically protested against the admission of Jews. They protested vehe- mently against the equality sought to be established between Jews and foreigners. The foreigner is open to ideas common to all civilized people. The Jew belongs to no class of civilized beings. He is a pil- ferer.
The petition of the merchants was couched in the following terms : " The admission of this people into a well-organized, law-abiding society threatens to be dangerous. The Jews can well be compared to wasps who introduce themselves into hives in order to kill the bees, and then open their stomachs and suck the honey from their entrails. It is utterly impossible to attrib- ute to the Jews qualities befitting a law-abiding citi- zen, for they are nowhere reared in the principles of what may be termed legitimate authority. They be- lieve every government to be an usurpation of their rights. They consider all values as being rightfully theirs, and the subjects of all countries as having robbed them of their possessions. There is a peculiar philosophy current in our day, which seeks to justify the. Jews by reason of the trials they have undergone, trials imposed upon them by the Christian sovereigns of Europe. We must either regard the Jews as guilty, or reproach the sovereigns, perhaps the predecessors
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of your majesty, for a cruelty belonging to the most barbarous centuries."
The merchants of the eighteenth century were less stupid than those of the present day, who allow them- selves to be driven from their homes, to make room for thieves who never cease to plot and rob those who fool- ishly permit the Jew to be established among them.
This celebrated document of the merchants seems, as it were, the last will of the old type of merchant, so upright, so conscientious, so foreign to all the ways of shameful effrontery always employed by the Jews in the transaction of business, and which made every city in Europe to be looked upon by the tourist as a true den of brigands.
All strangers who visit Paris are bored to death by the Jews. They run about like particles of quick- silver. They are on the lookout, like a hunter for his prey. They disappear and, quick as thought, they reappear to meet in some frequented thoroughfare. *
* The following account, taken from one of the New York papers, explains the methods pursued by the Jews in acquiring in a few years vast sums of money, while they bring ruin to all their competitors. It concerns the disappearance of the Jew, Isidore Cohnfeld, a large dealer in ostrich feathers, and a reputed millionaire.
He lived in good style in his handsome residence, 56 West Fifty-seventh Street, and owned the celebrated trotter, Maxey Cobbe, the trotting mare Minnie, and other road and turf ani- mals. His method of business was in all respects peculiar to the Jew. He purchased largely in the London market, i. e., he had large consignments sent to him from Gentiles and sold them in New York at prices which swamped ail competitors. Recently his
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The document further stated : ic Fortunes are rarely made rapidly in commerce, when practised in good faith, as it ought to be. The Jews in a short space of time amass enormous fortunes. Can it be that they arrive so rapidly to a high degree of prosperity by extra- ordinary business capacity ? . . . The Jews can- not boast of having in any way benefited the countries where they have been tolerated. All work demanding constant and laborious application is shunned by them. But to profit by the discoveries of others, to counter- feit the productions of their competitors, to exercise every sort of usury, to receive stolen goods, to buy from everybody, even from a thief or an assassin, to introduce into a country forbidden goods, to offer to unhappy debtors resources that bring about their ruin, to engage in every low act of jobbery and extor- tion, are the means constantly resorted to by the Jews, to further their worldly interests.
"To allow a single Jew to be established in a city would be to leave the door open to the whole race ; would be to array against every merchant the forces of a powerful corporation that would not fail to crush the business of every firm and consequently of the en- tire city. The most vigorous laws that could be enacted, the combined vigilance of magistrates and of
auctions increased in frequency, and a well-known feather im- porter remarked that some goods had been sold at a figure below that which Mr. Cohnf eld gave for them. On Saturday last it was reported that Mr. Cohnf eld had been absent from his store for two days, and on Monday it was reported that he had left the city.
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the police, nothing, in fact, would be able to prevent the exercise of their cupidity and of their rapacity. "
The document ends with these words : "It was once asked of a philosopher whence he came ? He answered that he was a cosmopolitan, that is to say, a citizen of the world. Another said: ' I prefer my family to myself, my country to my family, the world to my country/ Let the defenders of the Jews make no mistake. The Jews are not cosmopolitans. They are citizens of no country. They prefer themselves to all the rest of mankind, they are the enemies of man, whom they aim to enslave."
This document made a deep impression, and on the 7th of February, 1777, the Jews were refused admis- sion into Paris. The Jews engaged one Lacretelle to defend them, but they chose a singular defender, for their advocate thus wrote about them :
" The Jews, who are accustomed to the scorn of everybody, make their way in the world by adopting only the most base and corrupt methods. A Jew never hesitates to sacrifice his reputation if he can by so doing acquire even the smallest sum of money. His whole art consists of the art of cheating. Usury is his arm. It is a monster that in silence and in darkness disguises itself in a thousand forms ; contin- ually calculating the hours, the minutes that increase his gains. . . *"
Finally, toward the end of the eighteenth century, the Jews after persistent efforts succeeded in worming their way into Paris, where, however, their existence was very precarious. They were obliged every month
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to haye their permits to remain renewed, or their de- parture could be demanded at once. A single inci- dent will suffice to give an idea of their miserable ex- istence. They were not allowed to haye a cemetery of their own.
They interred their dead in the back yard of a mis- erable inn, in a spot called La Villette, and paid the inn-keepei* fifty francs for permission to inter the body of eyery distinguished Jew. The proprietor piti- lessly exploited these pariahs, insulted them in their dearest beliefs, had oxen and horses killed and skinned on the ground he allowed for their burial, mixed the flesh and bones of the animals with their dead bodies, troubled them in their funeral ceremonies, and finally threatened no longer to receive their dead.
What a contrast between that time and the pres- ent ! Behold these miserable men who furtiyely wormed their way into an obscure corner, without a place to weep or to offer the last prayer of the widow and of the orphan ! . . . H Oh, Eternal Eock of the world, God who liyest and foreyer existest, Thou who art full of pity, Thou who pardonest the offences and effacest the iniquities, I implore Thee for the soul of him who has just died." Behold them to-day ! They are the financial despots of eyery city through the streets of which they glide like shadows.
They own palaces, they rule the Goy.
This burial-ground of bygone days still exists in Paris in Flandre Street, ifo. 44. In the back yard, which looks like a farm-yard, hens, turkeys, and geese wade in a pool of murky water. The people
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living in this neighborhood do not know even of the existence of the cemetery. . . .
ISTo spot is more suitable for meditation. The black wall around it crumbles piece by piece. The grass grows dry and thin in this sterile enclosure, in which here and there a few scrawny trees cast their shadows. The humidity has eaten into the tombstones covered with Hebraic characters and has rendered most of the inscriptions illegible. The place is now used as a receptacle for garbage, and in the corners are heaps of empty bottles and bits of old iron. Amid the scanty verdure a few inscriptions are still to be seen.
"Here reposes the well-beloved Judith Delvallee Silveyra, thirty-six years old, born at Pantin, near Paris, on the 9th of Tristry, 5563d year of the crea- tion of the world."
One is moved almost to pity to think of those clan- destine funerals of bygone days. True, the Jews have also been insulting to our dead the moment they in their turn were masters ; still one is moved, and involuntarily takes a keen interest in their efforts to obtain a tomb in that France that in later years was destined to be theirs. Not till the 31st of March, 1785, were the Jews permitted to buy at Montrouge a piece of ground to receive their dead. It continued to be their cemetery until the year 1804.
Louis XVI. sought to improve the condition of the Jews, and the following interesting anecdote is re- lated :
" One day in the year 1787 Louis XVI., happy,
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smiling and in good humor, went hunting, surrounded with all the splendid pomp which accompanied even to the chase the ruler of the most beautiful kingdom upon the earth.
"Suddenly, in the environs of Versailles, a place which to this day awakens in one's mind an idea of greatness and of melancholy majesty akin to the im- pression of the setting sun, the king saw four old men of strange appearance carrying a coffin covered with a rough piece of cloth. A small number of people of Oriental type, hooked nose and humble mien, followed. Upon the order of the king, the captain of the guards accosted the funeral train, and informed his majesty that they were Jews transport- ing the body of one of their co-religionists to the cemetery at Montrouge. . . .
" Pity took possession of the honest heart of the king who, although of a weak nature, was never known to commit a wicked or cruel act. The re- membrance of those poor Jews whom he met on his way haunted him in his palace where he ruled in the splendor of his power. He summoned his Prime Minister and won him over to his generous ideas. A commission was nominated with authority to devise means to better the condition of the Jews, and a number of prominent Israelites were invited to assist the commission in their work.
"This king, who busied himself with the misfor- tunes of others, had already been doomed by his im- placable enemies, the revolutionists, to the scaffold, and his body — the body of the Christian king who first of
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all kings interested himself in the Jews, was mutilated, and was delivered to the Jews without even being covered with a piece of rough cloth, and by them it was cast into a ditch full of burning lime in Anjou Street."
Did the Jews of those times feel any sorrow at the fate of their friend, the unfortunate monarch ? The Jew newspapers contained only brutal allusions, and in recent years during the anniversary of the execu- tion of the King, the paper La Lanterne of the Jew Mayer, and La Nation of the Jew Dreyfus, announced that "the happy event" will be celebrated with con- certs and other amusements.
During those times the Jew, though admitted no- where, was to be found everywhere. The strength of the Jew then was his apparent weakness, just as his weakness to-day is his aj3parent strength, so cynically displayed — a seemingly colossal strength, but which rests upon no solid foundation, for a few clicks of the telegraph will any day suffice to confiscate his un- righteously acquired riches.
Marie-Therese was the implacable enemy of the Jews. She renewed against them the laws of former years. She compelled them to wear a long beard and to have a small piece of yellow cloth sewed upon the rio'ht arm of their coat sleeve. On the 22d of Decern- ber, 1744, the following royal edict was promulgated at Prague and throughout the kingdom of Bohemia :
" 1st. For various reasons I have decided no longer to tolerate the Jews in my Kingdom of Bohemia, I therefore demand that on the last day of January,
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1745, all Jews depart from the city of Prague, and if any shall be found, the soldiery are hereby com- manded to drive them hence.
" 2d. That ample time, however, may be given them to arrange their affairs and to dispose of their effects, a month will be granted during which they may remain in my kingdom.
i( 3d. At the expiration of the above time all Jews must quit the Kingdom of Bohemia."
How powerful the Jews were at that time, and with how great a force they exercised their authority, which since the foundation of the Alliance Israelite Univer- selle manifests itself daily with constantly increasing freedom and insolence, is evidenced by the earnestness with which certain kingdoms in Europe intervened in their behalf. Baron Van Barmenie, the ambassa- dor of Holland, was requested to defend their cause. The English plenipotentiary, Thomas Eobinson, ad- dressed also a note to Marie-Therese. They suc- ceeded, however, only in obtaining a postponement of the decree of banishment to the end of March. On that day 28,000 Israelites had to quit Bohemia.
Efforts to revoke the edict were renewed, and owing to new and repeated representations and remonstrances entered into at the same time by Poland, Denmark, and Sweden, the Jews finally succeeded in their efforts and were allowed to remain in Bohemia, The Jews in Holland and Belgium struck a medallion to commem- orate the joyful event.
As soon as a favorable opportunity presented itself the Jews pitilessly avenged themselves upon Marie-
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Antoinette for the rebuffs and heavy taxation imposed upon them by Marie-Therese.
Never since the Crucifixion has severer torture been inflicted on a human being than was inflicted on An- toinette by the revolutionists, goaded on by the Jews, who always spoke of her as the Austrian.
Soon after the abolition of the decree against the Jews in Bohemia, another decree appeared in France permitting the Jews to re-enter France.
The Jew was in France !
This news circulated from city to city, everywhere reawakening hope, even in the most distant ghettos, and giving cause for thanksgiving in all the temples and synagogues.
On the 21st of October, 1793, a Hebrew song was sung in the synagogue of Metz, to the air of the Mar- seillaise, proclaiming the triumph of Israel.
The ancient Cabala * was finished. The new Cab- ala began. The Jew was no longer the accursed sor- cerer whom Michelet depicted performing his witch- craft in the shades of night. He had transformed himself. He could now operate in the ful] light of day. The pen of the Hungarian Jew journalist replaced the wand of the magician. The magical mirror was
* Cabala — a mysterious kind of science among the Jewish rabbis. This science consists chiefly in understanding the com- bination of certain letters, words and numbers, which are al- leged to be significant. Every letter, word and number is supposed to contain a mystery, and the Cabalists even pretend to foretell events by the study of this science.
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broken. To the fanatical apparitions of former years illusions of a peculiarly strange nature succeeded — illusions unceasingly feeding the poor dupes with the deceptive image of a happiness that constantly flees.
Why should any one blame Shylock, who asked for only a pound of human flesh ? The Jew of to-day does not care for a pound of Christian flesh. He wants the entire body, aye, he wants the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Gentiles who rot upon battle-fields fought solely to benefit Israel. *
What are a few ducats ? It is millions that hence- forth the Goy is going to sweat. The J ews now handle gold by the shovelful. They found banks, institu- tions of credit, invite subscriptions to loans of all sorts, national loans, foreign loans, loans of war, loans of peace, loans of Europe, Asia, Turkey, Mexico, Eussia, Honduras, Columbia, etc.
This transformation is complete, and this time the magical charm has entirely succeeded. By a singular hallucination this serf, this pariah, in a word, the Jew, who has been more of a slave than were the beasts of burden of Pharaoh, considers himself to-day the most free, the most enviable and cleverest of men. The outcasts of old are now our Kothschilds, our
*Le Play has noticed this transformation. " New influ- ences," he says, "bear to-day in bringing about the scourge of war. War is brought about by certain manipulators of money who engage in gambling operations throughout the European exchanges, found scandalous fortunes upon loans contracted seemingly for expenses of war, or for the payment of excessive ransom imposed by the conqueror."
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Seiigmans, our Hausemans, our Wormsers, our Op« penheiins, our Kathans, our Henriques, our Schenks, our De Cordovas, etc.!
What has this transformation cost ? Formerly an American, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, whether a laborer in the fields or in the cities, was happy and peaceful as long as his associates were of the same race, as long as there were no Jews around. At eventide the peasants danced, accompanied by their bagpipes ; mechanics had their fraternal corporations and meet- ings in which feeling allusions were made to the memory of a dead companion.
Look now at the workman of our large cities. He listens to the Jew. who like the serpent of old advises him to revolt against the existing state of affairs. He bends like the Jews of the pyramids over his work. He has become a slave, very like the slave of ancient times, who, according to Aristotle, was but a living machine.
Is it necessary to arouse this human machine ? Is it necessary that these victims whom the Jews have taught that there is no heaven, should free themselves, if but for a moment, from the frightful reality that weighs them down ? The Jew offers them burning alcohol. Instead of innocent beverages, the Jew offers adulte- rated mixtures, mixtures which give the victims the delirium tremens at the end of a few years, but for a time galvanize the dormant organization.
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THE JEWS DURING THE REVOLUTION AND THE FIRST
EMPIRE.
The Jew during the Ee volution was constantly on the move. He planned and connived in order to exert a powerful influence in a society the framework of which was, as it were, now in ruins. The occasion was favorable. The scaffold had been erected that took off the heads of many of the most honest and the most intelligent men of that eventful period. The Jew had no longer to fear the vigilance of which he was the object in that old society where young and old knew one another from having prayed together in the same church, and were besides held together by a thousand traditional ties.
From its very beginning the Eevolution had, like the present Republic of France, which the Jews have organized, the character of an invasion. The native French element had disappeared, like to-day, from the Republic, and the Jews seized upon the important positions and terrorized the country, as they do to- day.
" All the turbulent elements/' says Forneron, "all the outlaws had centred in France." Switzerland, for example, sent Marat, Hulin, Claviere, all leaders of murderous bands. These outlaws were welcomed, like brothers, by the Jews in Paris, who now claimed to direct the destinies of France and of the human kind.
Who has not heard of Marat ? The counterfeit of his repulsive figure is to be seen in Madame Tussaud's establishment in London. Marat, who was afflicted
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with leprosy, a disease peculiarly Jewish, had for ad- viser and inseparable companion the notorious Jew, Pereyra. The true name of Marat was Mara. The family was expelled from Spain. They went first to Sardinia and thence to Switzerland, where, being un- able to openly practise Judaism, they embraced Protes- tantism. Marat was, by birth and instinct, a true son of Judah, and a prominent figure in doing the work of the guillotine. The nature of Marat could not de- ceive the careful observer. It was the Jews' neurosis, K~o Gentile would advocate in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg, as Marat did, the killing of 200,000 people without distinction of age or sex. JsTo Gentile would dare advise it. The Jew alone dares to counsel it and to do it.
This unique audacity, this unparalleled impudence which we meet with in all the enterprises of the Jews, comes of the venom instilled centuries ago into their blood. The religion that teaches the Jews that they are superior to all other men, that they must annihi- late everything foreign to them, and that everything upon the earth belongs to them, is the source of the delirious conceptions peculiar to the race. It is the basis of their theories and the cause of their seemingly incomprehensible aberrations.
The common phrase, " the revolting Marat/' does not half express the idea sought to be conveyed. .No doubt his mouth — in which the lips were hardly discernible, being contracted as if by lockjaw — was ferocious, but his eyes were beautiful. True, they sparkle with fury in the Marat of Tussaud, but they are mild
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and soft in the pictures painted by Boze and Madame Alais. Examine carefully at the Musee Carnavlet the bust of Marat, and you Trill perceive the pure type of the Jew. a hallucinatory a victim of neuropathy. You will discover, as in the case of Eobespierre, of Guiteau, the assassin, whose ancestors were French Jews, and of many other actors of like tragic scenes, that want of symmetry in the two sides of the face that betrays the maniac.
The wax figure taken almost immediately after the fatal wound inflicted upon Marat by Charlotte Cor- day, which figure is to be seen in Madame Tussaud's Musee, gives the same impression. Here we have the hand with its tapering fingers, a hand not of a mur- derer who strikes from instinct, but of a methodical scoundrel, of one who acts from theory and cold de- liberation. Death has spread suddenly upon the face the domineering nature, the basis of the Jew's tem- perament, moroseness mingled with sadness.
No doubt there were other persons besides the Jews who at that time denounced and sent many a good man to the scaffold. But if a patient research were to be made among the official archives of the period, if one would inquire into the time certain persons and families entered France, the Jew would occupy a prominent place, and a hereditary hatred for Chris- tianity would be traced to families of pure Semitic origin.
The first act of the Jews, who were now anxious to prove themselves worthy of their emancipation, was to steal the crown jewels. The sight of these
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treasures, patiently accumulated during generations, and which consisted of royal crowns, cups offered by Suger, jewels given by Richelieu, magnificent and glorious souvenirs, divided hastily on the bank of the Seine, secreted under ground or thrown into a pool of water, dragged into the vilest resorts, concealed in tatters, is the very image of the brilliant past of the unfortunate France, now delivered to a horde of Jews.
The theft of the crown jewels nourished for a long time the commerce of the German Jews.
The bulletin of the criminal tribunal of those times says : " One of the first persons found guilty of the theft of the crown jewels was a Jew named Louis Lyre, a native of London, twenty-eight years old, ostensibly a merchant. . . . He was found guilty of having participated in the robberies committed during the nights of the 11th, loth and 15th of Sep- tember, and to have sold in the course of the ssme month 'to a certain Moyse Trenel pearls and dia- monds, his share of the theft. He made a will on the 13th of October. 1792, and at half -past ten in the evening of the same clay he suffered death, displaying a courage and a coolness worthy of a better cause. "
Another Jew, Delcampo, alias Deschamps, was also executed.
All the Jews in Paris were implicated in the rob- 'bery of the crown jewels. " The crown jewels," says Drumont, "have never been in luck either with the Eepublicans or the Jews. The first Republic allowed them to be stolen. Under the present Republic the Jew Lockroy entered into an agreement with certain
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gentlemen with hooked noses who congregate in the basement of the cafe 'De Suede/ to pass a law au- thorizing the sale of all these souvenirs of bygone glory."
It was the Jews also who at that time organized the systematic pillaging of the churches and the destruc- tion of all the masterpieces inspired by faith and ex- ecuted by genius. Those stormy years were admira- bly suited for the Jew to satisfy both his hatred and his cupidity. The silver of the churches passed into his rapacious hands. The public treasury received no benefit whatever from his wholesale spoliations.
"The Jews often bought entire churches with a handful of assignats (paper money of the French Ee- public), and when tranquillity was restored they let them to the Christians at an exorbitant rental. France was their prey, and Capefigue, in his History of Great Financial Operations, thus describes the situation :
" The Jews entered Paris like hungry wolves. At first they were timid and ostensibly engaged only in selling second-hand clothes, cheap wares, and in mildly exercising their old trade of usury. They were not yet sufficiently strong to establish banks, which were in the hands of the Genoese. They were satisfied with 'buying and bidding in, in connivance with auc- tioneers, the furniture of castles, the relics of the churches, and with lending to the old aristocratic families that were banished a few louis on good values, and at an appalling interest. . . . Left alone, in a short time they will be masters of the industrial and financial markets,"
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How true the words of Oapefigue ! Wherever a Jew has established a bank he has changed the ex- isting order of things. "Whenever the Jew enters into a business transaction with a Gentile his first thought is to swindle and ruin him. The greatest financial catastrophes that have occurred in Europe have been the work of the Jew. America, by reason of its vast extent of territory and exhaustless resources, has not as yet keenly felt the wounds inflicted by these fellows. But hardly a day passes that we do not read in the newspapers accounts of their peculiar operations. To conceal their tracks they often, by mutual arrange- ment, institute suits against one another, while their aim is to ruin the Christian. Thousands of examples could be cited to prove the truth of this statement, but one will suffice, which we copy from the New York Times of November 8, 1887 :
"The Fifth National Bank in St. Louis closed its door at 1.15 P. M. to-day. I. B. Eosenthal, Joseph Specht and Marcus Wolfe are directors of the bank [no comments are needed as to their origin]. Marcus Wolfe [poor fellow] brought two suits of attachment against I. B. Eosenthal, aggregating $71,000, and it is thought that Eosenthal was indebted to the bank to a considerable amount. The bank is situated at 700 North Broadway, and has a capital stock of $390,000. The usual deposits amounted to about $400,000. On Friday they had to meet a heavy run, and as the de- positors continued to withdraw their funds the bank closed its doors a few minutes before one o'clock. Henry Oderstolz [another one of the seed of Jacob] is
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president, and C. C. Crecilius [of the same stock] cashier. . . . Within the last month the stock of the bank has sold at 105, and this morning it found a ready market at 95. "
The Jew of 1800 was less accomplished than the Jew of to-day. He was half brigand and half banker, or rather, he began to be a brigand before he estab- lished himself as a banker. To illustrate the above it is necessary only to recall the career of the famous Jew Michael, the assassin, whose granddaughters married dukes and princes, without, however, obliter- ating the sinister reputation which to this day clings to them. Michael enticed to his castle in the sub- urbs of Paris a family of noble French exiles, whom he strangled in order to obtain the money and valu- ables they carried. Acquitted by a jury which he had bribed, notwithstanding the overwhelming proofs, which have disappeared together with the briefs of the trial, he was none the less looked upon as guilty by the public.
In the mean time the Jews were watching the polit- ical horizon. They waited for a Cromwell, who was so favorable to them. He came.
Was Napoleon of Semitic origin? Disraeli said he was, and the author of Judaism in France is of the same opinion. It is certain that the Balearic Isles and Corsica served as a refuge to many Jews banished from Spain and Italy. These exiles, it would seem, were converted to Christianity, and, as has been the case in Spain, they took the names of Orsini, Colonna, and Bonaparte, Christians that served them
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as godfathers. The historian, Michelet, has three times spoken of this matter. "I said/' he says in his Nineteenth Century, "that an Englishman sought to make people believe that Bonaparte "was of Jewish extraction; As Corsica contained formerly a vast number of Jews who settled there from Africa, it seems that Bonaparte may have belonged to the Moors more than to the Italians.'5
Napoleon was just the man to act the important part that the Jews expected of him. From the very start the Jewish capitalists adopted him. All the wealthy Jews of the time may be said to have been in silent partnership with him during his first expe- dition into Italy, when the treasury of the country was empty. His early exploits were greatly exag- gerated, and the enthusiasm inspired by his achieve- ments having been fanned to fever heat by the Jews, wron for him the entire country. We have had a repetition of this sort of excitement in the case of G-ambetta, who, although really dishonest, swayed all France with his eloquence, still France looked on him, for a time at least, as the predestined man.
Napoleon acquitted himself of all obligations he had toward the Jews, for he granted them the free exercise of religion and the full enjoyment of political rights.
A great council, composed of the most prominent rabbis, took place on the 4th of February, 1807. Its sittings lasted until the 4th of March of the same year. This council was -well calculated to awe the imagination of the descendants of a race so long pro-
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scribed. For the first time since the destruction of the temple a Sanhedrim collected the members of that wandering family. The representatives of Israel were moved by the solemnity of this spectacle. One of their first acts had truly something noble in its character, altogether foreign to everything expected from that race.
They recalled the long persecutions, the long years that had passed — years replete with keen sufferings. They remembered that for years only one man had spoken in their behalf, had unceasingly declared that we ought to respect the liberty of their conscience, and had set the example of tolerance by according to the Jews in his kingdom better treatment than they had had elsewhere. This man, always the same in doctrine, always the same in his goodness, was the vicar of Christ.
The popes have always accorded to the Jews their august protection. In the seventh century St. Gregory protected them throughout the entire world. Alex- ander II. warmly congratulated the bishops of Spain for having taken under their protection the persecuted Israelites. Innocent II. and Alexander III. took active measures in their behalf ; Gregory IX. inter- posed for them in France, England and Spain, and forbade, under penalty of excommunication, any one from troubling their feasts. Clement YI. granted them an asylum at Avignon ; Xicholas II. wrote to the Inquisition not to force the Jews to embrace Christianity, and Clement XIII. granted them j>er- mission to bring up their children as they wished, a
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kindness which the Jews repaid by stealing the chil- dren of the Christians as soon as they were able to do so.
After many years of persecution the Jews, at last finding themselves left in peace, wished to thank the pontiffs, who had so often interested themselves in their affairs and made themselves the advocates of the proscribed race. These thanks the members of the Sanhedrim expressed in an address, which is certainly an honorable page in Jewish history.
The address was as follows: " The Israelites of the Empire of France and of the Kingdom of Italy, at their Synod held on the 30th of last March, penetrated with gratitude for the successive benefits that the Christian clergy have rendered in past cen- turies to the Israelites of the various States of Eu- rope—
"And full of gratitude for the welcome that the several pontiffs have extended to the Israelites in various countries, when barbarity, prejudice and ig- norance incited the people to persecute and expel the Jews from the bosom of society —
" Decree,
" That the expression of these sentiments be re- corded in the proceedings of this day, that they may forever remain as an authentic testimony of the grati- tude of the Jews for the benefits conferred upon pre- ceding generations by the Christian clergy."
It behooves us to compare the address of the 5th of February, 1807, with the account of the infamies committed by the Jews of Eome, as related by two
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converted Israelites, who subsequently became priests, the Abbes Leman, in a pamphlet entitled : Letter to the Israelites throughout the world, respecting the conduct of their co-religionists in Rome during the captivity of Pius IX. in the Vatican.
"On the 20th of September, 1870/' relate the Brothers Leman, "the Pontifical Zouaves, defenders of Kome, received orders from Pius IX. no longer to con- tinue their heroic defence. Thereupon they left the ramparts and assembled, sad and isolated, in the Vati- can. -But as they were crossing the bridge of St. Ange, numerous bands of Jews heaped insults upon them, forcibly took away the packages containing their travelling outfits, and pretending that robbery was not their actual motive, but that it was done for political reasons, cast the packages over the bridge into the Tiber. Below, however, were their boatmen, who collected into their boats everything thrown from above. The Jews afterward pillaged the barracks and took away arms, uniforms, even the furniture, and the planks. Last year, 1872, acts of abomination and ferocity were again committed by the Jews — acts that beggar description. They cursed and struck the peacefully disposed Christians as they were leaving the church ; turned sacred things into ridicule, in- sulted the priests, soiled the images of the Madonna, and threw into the crowd balls of lead, which resulted in the shedding of blood/'
Only a year or two ago did we not see the Jew Levy, author of a blackmailing pamphlet against the Pope, declare that the anti-clerical congress, which he had
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organized, would meet next year in Borne, in order more keenly to defy the august captive in the Vatican?
This is the way the Jew generally returns favors.
In 1807 the hearts of the Israelites overflowed with gratitude. The thanks voted in Hebrew to Napoleon seem instinct with the breath of biblical poetry.
(i Napoleon, all kings have vanished before thee. Their wisdom has been bewildered, and they have reeled like one intoxicated. At the battle of Auster- litz thou hast shattered the forces of two emperors. Death marched before thee. Thou hast marked his path, and never once did death turn from it. The past generations that death has devoured, that hell has swallowed, at the report of thy exploits have exclaimed : e Among warriors, among heroes, never has one resembled thee/ God has chosen Napoleon to govern his people. Napoleon alone has done as many great deeds as have all the heroes of past cen- turies."
The Jewish Synod advised the Jews to conform to the laws of the country, and to do everything in their power to win the esteem and the good- will of their fellow citizens. Vain words ! The Synod did not succeed in changing the Jewish temperament. Noth- ing in the world's history has ever made any impres- sion upon the J ew.
The struggle against Judaism was carried on even during the reign of Napoleon, but it was carried on unperceived; on account of the terrible events which were then crowrding upon one another.
Through a phenomenon that will be the perpetual
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astonishment of history, Napoleon, the little sub- lieutenant of artillery, occupied the place of chief of an empire, an empire impregnated with the spirit of absolute authority, impregnated with the traditions belonging to hereditary monarchy. This parvenu, we are forced to acknowledge it, was the last sovereign who truly governed France.
Eminent men of that period acknowledged that it was wrong to grant to the Jews equality of rights. No one would have found fault had Napoleon sought merely to ameliorate the condition of the Jew ; to have been inspired, for instance, with that Eoman wisdom of old, which distinguished between the Eoman citizen and the public slaves of the Eoman citizen. The Eornans allowed their slaves the free enjoyment of their property. They even allowed them to display an arrogant luxury, but half of their property, after their death, belonged to the State. Such a law applied to the wealthy class among the Jews, to families like the Eothschilds, the Ephrussi, or Baron Hirsch, who reduced Eoumania almost to pau- perism, would give excellent results. It would cause to revert to the public treasury part of the ill-gotten gains of these usurers, without, at the same time, pre- venting this race from exercising their vocation. Even during the most ill-fated period -of Eome's his- tory, the freedman was not admitted into the curia of a provincial city. The Eoman people never be- lieved that a foreigner, even though naturalized, could be the equal of the sons ot the old citizens who had founded Eome's greatness.
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At the time when equal rights were granted to the Jews, an illustrious Frenchman, whose lofty and se- rene intelligence was proof against eyery fanatical in- fluence, expressed himself clearly upon this question in a document of not more than thirty pages, which is a masterpiece of impartiality and good sense.
4 'The Assembly," he said, "has thought that in order to render the Jews good citizens, it would suffice to have them par- ticipate, without special conditions being imposed upon them, in all the rights enjoyed by the natives. Experience has unfor- tunately proved that if the Assembly has not lacked in philoso- phy, it has lacked in forethought, and that in certain cases new laws cannot be promulgated without detriment.
" The error arises in this case from the fact that the Assembly has not clearly understood the suitableness of the Jew to enjoy full civil rights. The Jews formerly had their territory and their government. But from the moment they were dispersed they began to wander over the globe, seeking a retreat but not a country. They have existed among all nations without ever uniting with any. This order of things is owing to the nature and strength of the Jewish institutions. Various nations may have one common object, as, for instance, that of main- taining their liberty. But each nation has an object which is peculiarly its own. Aggrandizement was that of Home, war that of Lacedsemon, letters that of Athens, commerce that of Carthage, and religion that of the Jews. . . . Religion or- dinarily is related to things which affect the conscience. But among the Jews religion embraces everything which constitutes and moulds society. To this end the Jews form everywhere a people within a people. They are neither Frenchmen nor Germans. They are Jews, and Jews they will remain. . . .
"It follows that it would not have been unwise or unjust to have submitted to exceptional laws this kind of a corporation which, by its institutions, its principles, and its customs, has remained constantly separated from society at large,"
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The Jews of those times had not yet entered upon those gigantic financial movements which they said 66 would be the glory of the nineteenth century/' and which movements consist in causing the gold of the universe to be circulated and ' ' scooped in." The Jews of those times were satisfied to follow their an- cestral and time-honored business — usury — and freed of all fetters, and armed with equal rights, they prac- tised it without let or hindrance.
Unhappy Alsace writhed in the grasp of these vam- pires. She prayed, supplicated, cried, agitated, and finally threatened. The honest Kellermann, who had led so many heroic charges, felt his courage abandon- ing him before the wave of German Jews who seized upon the unfortunate province which he governed. Driven to despair, he poured his sorrows into the bosom of the Emperor, to whom he wrote in 1806 : " The usury of the Jews is frightful. They repudiate the receipts for loans returned to them, which receipts I myself know to have been duly signed by them, averring that they are forgeries." The Emperor, not- withstanding-his many services to Judaism, was now forced to issue the following decree on the 17th of March, 1808 :
"Henceforth, and beginning with the 1st of July, no Jew will be allowed to engage in business of what- soever sort or nature, without first having received an official permission from the governor of his district, which permission will not be granted but upon strict examination and careful investigation, and only when it has been fully ascertained that the said Jew has
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not practised usury, or has not been engaged in anv illegal traffic. 99
Besides the above decree Xapoleon issued another, requiring that as many of the Jews as had no family name or a first name should at once take one. He for- bade them to have for a family name one from the Old Testament^ or to take the name of a city, for which the Jews had a great fondness.
A commission was appointed with orders to give names to the Jews, and the Jews succeeded in bribing the petty officials, who were appointed to see that this decree was carried out, by paying them a small sum in consideration for which the commission gave them a beautiful naine, as of a bird, a flower, or a name of good omen. The Jews called themselves the evening breeze, or the morning perfume. For instance,, the name Rosenthal means valley of roses ; Wohlgeruch, good odor j Edelstein, precious stone; Golclader. a vein of gold. Those who refused to pay were given ridiculous or disagreeable names, as, for instance, Galgenvogel, a jail Jnrd ; Saufer, drunkard; TTein- glaSj wineglass.
The most common name anions: the Jews is that of Mayer. It is very ancient, and figures both in the Old Testament and in the Talmud. It pleases the Jews, for it evokes in them the image of something that shines. The true name is Meier, meaning: re- splendent, brilliant, and it comes from a word mean- ing light Cohn, Kahn, Kohn, Cahen, Cahun are very ancient derivatives of the Hebrew word Cohen, meaning a priest of the family of Aaron. The first
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names prevalent among the Jews are generally trans- lations of Hebrew names. Maurice corresponds to Moses, Isidore to Isaac, Edward to Aaron, James to Jacob.
The Jews, in consequence of the new measures adoped against them, limited themselves to uttering doleful complaints. But the divorce, as it were, was complete between them and the Emperor. Napoleon, leaving aside the question of his origin, was in many respects the opposite of the typical Jew. In a dis- cussion before the Council of State he said : " No- body complains of the Protestants or of the Catholics. People always complain of the Jews. The fact is, that the evil done by the Jews does not come from individuals, but from the very constitution of the people. They are the grasshoppers and the worms that ravage France. "
Beginning with 1810, the Jew, who up to that time had sustained Napoleon, now that he had nothing further to expect from him, took side with his enemies. The mighty Emperor had henceforth opposed to him that mysterious money force that no one can success- fully oppose, not even a Napoleon.
Judaism, which is unequalled in its power to push forward, to extol and to launch any form of enter- prise,, is likewise unequalled in its power to destroy, to undermine, to sap and to ruin. "When the Jew is an enemy, be it to the chief of an empire or to a pri- vate person, to a journalist or to an artist, each feels himself suddenly surrounded by a thousand Lilipntian wires which impede him in every step he may take.
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The enemy of the Jew is crossed and thwarted on all sides, as Disraeli so well expressed it, Traduced, dis- honored,- demoralized, he does not know which way to turn, nothing succeeds, and he does not understand the reason of his repeated failures.
To defy this occult power, before which even a Bis- marck retreated, there needs upright men who have meditated upon the words of Christ, " Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake : for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."'
ISTo doubt Napoleon's expedition to Russia contrib- uted to his downfall. But sooner or later the finan- cial Jewish coalition would have ruined him. The future banker of the Holy Alliance, Rothschild, displayed, when the catastrophe neared, unparalleled activity.
When evening fell upon "Waterloo, when the Em- peror tried in vain to penetrate the last square, one of the Rothschilds who watched at Brussels was imme- diately informed of the defeat. This information came from the Jews who followed the army, and who did so in order to kill outright the wounded soldiers, and to rob their bodies. Were he to arrive first in Eng- land, he could make an immense sum of money, esti- mated by some at £20,000,000. He ran like a deer to Ostencl, but a frightful tempest well-nigh rendered the passage across impossible. Perplexed for a mo- ment at the waves which roared with fury, the banker, notwithstanding the danger, gave the order to depart. "Do not be afraid," he might have said to the beat- man ; " thou earliest more than did the bark of old.
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Thou earnest the misfortune df Caesar and the for- tune of Rothschild."
"Bonaparte was dead," wrote Michelet. "Of the century of iron was born the century of money. Owing to the loans contracted, loans apparently made to prepare for war in time of peace, the Jew was the man of the hour. Then sprang also the famous Jew Eodrigues, who, under the name of St. Simon, founded a new sect, wrote a new gospel that tended to cast a cloak of respectability over the Jews, which, though light in itself, covered many of their sinful acts. . . . The Jews created reservoirs into which capital incessantly poured."
People and kings were no longer anything but pup- pets, the strings by which they were moved being held by the Jews. Christian nations have heretofore fought for country, glory, and their flag. In future we shall find them fighting their battles for the sake of Israel, with the permission of Israel, and for the satisfaction of Israel.
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In 1790 the Jew arrived in France. Under the First Republic and under the First Empire he rambled about aimlessly, seeking a place. Later, under the Eest oration and the Monarchy of July, " he sat in the parlor." Under the Second Empire he slept in the bed of others. Under the Third Eepublic he be- gan to drive the natives from their homes, or, at the least, he began to force them to work for him. "In 1890," says Drumont, "if, as I wish to believe,
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notwithstanding past* follies, there is still concealed among the Gentiles a sufficient amount of strength to snatch us from death, the Jew will return to his start- ing point, after restituting in a wholesale manner what he took <in retail ' from the too trusting and hospitable Aryan. "
All the blood shed upon the scaffold, and upon the fields of battle, battles which recall the genius of Napoleon and the tenacity of Wellington, all ended in what maybe termed "a settlement of accounts/' All that formidable human movement that cost the lives of thousands of Aryans had just been settled in the Judengasse of Frankfort. The man of the time was a Jew, a tricky Jew, known to the world as the great financier, Rothschild.
The Aryans had killed one another during the previous twenty-five years in order to raise to emi- nence a Jew of loathsome mien. who. while thev were fighting, quietly gnawed upon ducats.
While he collected into his hands all the private treasures of Germany and of England, Kothschild placed his capital at the disposal of the French Gov- ernment. But, like Maitre Jacques in ISAvare of Moiiere, he changed role according to circumstances. He was by turns the most implacable of creditors and the most accommodating of lenders. How is it possi- ble to dispute the validity of a loan with one who so readily obliges you ?
Under the pressure of this accommodating Shylock France had to pay, even to the last cent, the most impudent claims, the most fraudulent accounts, the
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most chimerical debts. Every damage, real or imag- inary, that an army of 1,500,000 had caused during its march across Europe, had to be settled by the Ees- toration, but engrossed by the filthy hands of the sub- ordinate Jews, through whom these claims had passed before reaching the neater but equally avaricious hands of Eothschild. At the call of Israel the dead seemed even to rise from their tombs, and France had to pay the accounts of a regiment of German cavalry which a certain unheard-of general had collected to assist France. These operations powerfully aided the plans of the Jews, from whom these claims were redeemed with interest, claims that the Jews had obtained for a mere nothing. The Jews were every- where busy in ferreting out these claims, for they knew that there was one in France, one of their own, who treated of affairs of state directly with the ministers.
James de Eothschild, who in former years was in- stalled at Provence Street, was no longer the obscure money-lender of by-gone days. He was an Austrian baron, raised to this position by Metternich. The Duchess of Angouleme was surprised and shocked at the proposal once made to her to admit Roths- child's wife to her presence, a shrug of her shoulders eloquently expressing her disgust. But notwithstand- ing the rebuff of the Duchess, Eothschild himself was already a power in the financial world.
The Jews on the other side of the Ehine, who were still timidly trying to establish themselves in Paris, looked upon the house of the Eothschilds as the
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mother of French Judaism. "With that spirit of solidarity that animates the race, the Eothschilds assisted the newly arrived Jews, furnished them with the means to exercise their trade of petty usury, and at the same time received from the new- coiners valuable information, and organized that secret Jewish police which has not its equal in the entire world.
"The Eestoration had not perceived the danger of this Jewish invasion, and the Jews were accordingly able to follow out their silent work. To the little syn- agogue in St. Avoie Street, with which they were con- tent until the year 1821, now succeeded a pretentious temple in Victory Street, a name in which the Jews claimed to see a favorable omen.
It was in 1818 that the Semitic question was again brought to the attention of the Chambers. A cour- ageous citizen, the Marquis de Lallier, demanded in a petition that the decree of 1808 should be ex- tended against the Jews for the period of ten years. The petition passed without a dissenting vote. But secret influences were brought to bear that put an end to a further mention of the subject.
The Jews, we must admit, then displayed great political acumen, for they induced people to speak as little about them as possible.
The crowding and noisy Jews of to-day did not then exist. In proportion as they are to-day cynical, grossly blasphemous, dazzled by their triumphs, im- agining themselves to be already completely our masters, to an equal extent under the Eestoration
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they were patient, humble, and content to wait. It was enough for them to be allowed to wait.
The number of bankers of purely French origin was then very limited in Paris, for, as Toussenel says, "It is so repulsive to France, that great and generous nation, to follow the ignoble traffic which forces man to lie, that it had been found necessary to import the Jndah to exercise it." Opposed to the Kothschilds and the Jew Barings stood forth the distinguished French financiers, Casimir Perier, Lafitte, and a few others, who occupied in the financial world an honor- able position. Had these few Aryans united they would from the very beginning have stopped the es- tablishment of the Jewish bank, which introduced theft and ruin into the markets, for the French bank- ers were in close relations with ministers who were not like those of to-day, promoters of stock-swindling operations. They were men who never lent their names or influence to launch forth mines without mineral. They were irreproachable men who, upon leaving the offices intrusted to them, kept for their patrimony only a name upon which no suspicion could be breathed. But petty grudges, as it often happens, stifled patriotism among the native bankers, and the Jew bank was allowed to be established.
With the rule of Louis-Philippe, the reign of the Jew began. Under the Eestoration one could ap- proximately compute the number of Jews. Every Jew was obliged to have his name registered. In 1830 Kothschild succeeded in having this law an- nulled. As Toussenel savs : " There was no longer 9
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a reigning power in France, for the Jews kept it en- slaved."
During this reign of the Jews an imperishable masterpiece appeared — the book, by Toussenel, en- titled The Jews, the Kings of the Epoch. A philo- sophical and social study, the work of a poet, of a thinker, of a Christian, this admirable work by Toussenel has to this day remained without an equal.
Toussenel had in him what the saints possessed to an exceptional degree— hatred and love : the love for the poor, the suffering and the humble ; hatred for the swindler, the thief, the trafficker in human flesh. In that eloquent work of Toussenel, the Jew is depicted in his hideous nakedness. His filthy bar- gains and swindling operations are clearly told. The everyday life of Eothschild is drawn in all its rottenness, as well as that of the Jews Leon Say, John Lemoinne, Aaron Eaffalowich, and of others who ob- tained official positions and concessions through black- mail and bribery.
Jewish exploitation is also displayed in this book in all its cynicism. We find ministers of state appro- priating for the construction of the Northern Railroad 100,000,000 francs, an enormous sum for those years, and when no more resources were available the min- isters turned the railroad over to the Rothschilds for a