THE PROGRESS OF THE JEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 15 March 1879, Page 4

THE PROGRESS OF THE JEWS.

-The Spectator says:- The dread which the Jews are awakening in Easttern Europe almost equals the dread felt for them- in Western Europe six hundred years ago, and is based upon the same grounds. They display a talent for. accumulation with which Christians cannot compete, and which tends to make of them an ascendant caste. It is gravely asserted in the Roumanian Pailfcuient that the true difficulty m the way of allowing them the equal rights which were secured hv the Treaty of Berlin i^ the certainty* entertained by the Kouraanians and Servians that they would gradually oust the peasantry till they .possessed the whole land.) In Hungary, it is asserted even in Keuter's telegrams, that they have purchased bo many estates as to make an alteration in the Constitution needful, and id Germany literature is fall of success of the Jews in ousting the ancient families. Their remarkable aucceas in politics, and their instinct for acquiring pecuniary control over the Press, are observed in all free countries, and have recently called forth pamphlets, and .even books, penetrated with a most energetic hate. Considering that ar hundred years ago the Jews were a despised caste, their rise into a dreaded order has been singularly »pid-fcoo rapid, we imagine, for them to be perfectly safein their new position. The explanation of their success is, we presume, that tbeir peculiar capacity exactly gmts the condition of modem life, and their best defence would be this— that in a country where they are moafc perfectly free, France, they are least hated or distrusted.