The dread which the Jews are awakening in Eastern Europe
-almost equals the dread felt for them in Western Europe six hundred years ago, and is based on 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 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 asserted, 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, and 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 sate, their rise into a dreaded order has 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 would be this,—that in the country where they are most perfectly free, France, they are least hated or dis- trusted. In England their conduct in reference to Turkey has undoubtedly profoundly modified the opinion of all Liberals, and will affect their future.
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