THE JEWS IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 172, 14 July 1876, Page 8

THE JEWS IN GERMANY.

Come and read, and then acknowledge that what the Radical Railway organ in Prussia now says, has been repeated again and a^ain in our columns, with a warning cry of danger. The danger signal should be hoisted outside the house of every Jew : now learn why : Considerable attention has been excited at Berlin by an article written iv a newspaper of extreme Radical politics, the . ' Eisenbahn Zeitung," or " Railway Gazette," calling for the expulsion of the Jews from the German Empire. The exile of the Jesuits, it says, is a 1 fait accompli, and that of the Hebrews must follow, if Germany is to be saved from a danger indescribable by any other term than that of " invasion," so numerous are the Jews, so audacious, and so powerful. Their activity, the writer goes on to say, is immense, and the more active they are the more mischief they do the country. Their activity, he asserts, is entirely devoted to gain, quocunque tnodo j and, as they outnumber the Christians* on the Bourse of Berlin as 20 to 1, while official statistics of taxaW tion show that Christian wealth is to Jewish only in the proporv tion of 10 to 1, he thinks the conclusion is mathematically warranted that the acquisitiveness of the Hebrew race exceeds that of the Christians tenfold. Only twenty-five years ago the mansions in the aristocratic suburb of Berlin, called Unter den Linden, belonged exclusively to Christians ; those houses are now, without a single exception, the property of Jews, so that the boulevard is now popularly called the Judengasse, or " Jews- street." Then also joint-stock companies, which to a lamentable extent, have proved themselves of late years little else than a mode of swindling and plundering the public, are principally in the hands of the Jews, who outnumber the Christians on their boards of directors in the proportion of 90 to 1. As to the public Press, it has long been known that it is in Germany to a great extent at the disposal of Jews. The Radical railway organ's conclusion is : — " We expelled the Jesuits that we might not cease to be Germans, we must take some measures with the Jews if we would escape being beggars." He asserts that the complaints of people who have grievances against the Jews is loud throughout Germany, and that "the Jewish question has become a question of life and death. Why does not the majority of the nation exhibit as much resolution against the Jews as it did against the Jesuits P" The reason is evident. It is not in obedience to the dictates of genuine public opinion that the Jesuits and the Church have been persecuted in Germany. The country is ruled by two powers : openly by Caesarism and secretly by revolutionary influences. The Catholics have been sacrificed to a temporary coalition of the two naturally hostile forces. The ill-assorted compact already shows signs of dissolution. When it breaks up, a change of the present policy ■will become inevitable. — ' Catholic Examiner.'