THE JEWS AND THE “SPECTATOR.”

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 30, 25 December 1878, Page 3

THE JEWS AND THE “SPECTATOR.”

The Spectator writes :—The dread which the Jews are awakening iu Eastern Europe almost equals the dread felt for them in Western Europe six hundred years ago, and U based on the same grounds. They display a talent for accumulation which Christians cannot compete, and which tends to make of them an ascendant caste. It is gravely asserted in the Roumanian Parliament that the true difficulty in the way of allowing them the equal rights which were secured by the Treaty of Berlin, is the certainty entertained by Roumanians and Servians that they would gradually oust the peasantry till they possessed the whole land. In 'Hungary it is assei ted, even in Reuter’s telegrams, that they have purchased so many estates as to make an alteration in the Constitution needful, and in Germany literature is full of the success of the Jews in ousting the ancient families. Their remarkable success in politics, and their instinct for acquiring pecuniary control of the Press, are observed in all free countries, ami have recently called forth pamphlets, and even books, penetrated with a most energetic hate. Considering that a hundred years ago the Jews were a despised caste, their rise into a dreaded order lias been singularly rapid—too rapid, we imagine, for them to be perfectly safe in their new position. The explanation of their success is, we presume, that their peculiar capacity exactly suits the conditions of modern life, and their best defence jvould be this —that in the country where they are most perfectly free, France, they are least hated or distrusted. In England their conduct in reference to Turkey has undoubtedly profoundly modified the opinion of all Liberals, and will affect their future.