The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1898, Page 25

66 = = "FTER four hundred years Is- |ficed as pledges. The monarchs of day of reckoning with | finance simply shrugged their shoul- its arch enemy, has | ders, but remained obdurate, while RN 0 panish securities went lower and low- | er on 'change. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1898. REVENGE AND RECOMPENSE IS MIN of the town and the nobility. The rab- ble attacked the stronghold in superior numbers and’set fire to the building. The Jews saw that there was no chance for escape and that their presence en- quen race. It involved nt but the whole reaching dand tinguished, center d o ligmans had lots of money for Uncle soon as the rabble laid hands upon |&ll felt as t the feet of the Jewish MONCY | gapm which he could have as long as ve> them. Eleven thousand Jews were |Stroyed for a th gs for.the m tc 7 on the War | he wanted it, upon his own terms; no baptized in Barcelona on that occa- |9f Zion had far against a_power The de- | security required, except his evidence slon; few escaped, but not one Jew re- | demned to exile k s oriB 3 btedness. And, in case thelr re- mained in Barcelona, In Catalonia | from fancy 2 2 and in Aragon the wealthy Jews were | that the Quite a different scene was enacted dangered the lives of thelr protectors. this side of the Atlantic. When Presi- The braver ones went forth to meet | | dent McKinley saw that war was in- . their persecutors in the open and they evitable his trusted friend, Senator Y fell in honorable combat. The remain- Hanna, went to New York to see the der either put an end to their misera- Seligmans, the great financiers. The 4 . Cilis ble existence, or were put to death, as . TT hould become “x““us‘edvfl‘)‘e‘ and giving expression to thelr feelings | they had reached the very zenith of | were the beginning of the period of rs have be oEsthle” contingencies, . ANz s ction in | Were the poster Sagiis > for possible contingencles, the | of joy over any aduantage reported in | infiuence and prosperity the storm of | carnage which spread to all cities of | SPared having secured protection in | 3ra% | BCq Sinong ther descendn & no ecom- Tondon ‘Paris, Fiankfort and fa\‘;.;‘r nf‘shxs country by their violent | spoliation and persecution, which had | Spain and over the entire peninsula, | & o e 3 i om’-. King - I Lelp to | other money centers, and the reply g:; l&uehéfi;’sn(s' shaking of their bodies | devastated the Jewish quarters of |growing in fury as it progressed, until | The closing scene in this dreadful | yepce the & dooked-Upan e, “h source was that all the |t} they utter against Spain, | France and Germany, broke overSpain, | every Jew had been either murdered, | drama, marking a dark page in the his- R Toli iorarouiAkneed s as they designate it.|the stronghold of Jews of all Europe. | baptized or banished, and Spain was at | tory of civilization, came in 1492, whe 3 ed on call at an inter- | ders intensity of that feeling can be un- | That persecution changed the history |the mercy of the lawless, bloodthirsty | the sovereigns of Spain issued an edict = by ‘the Government. I:'Slf})d oniy, by those who have|of the Jews and turned the fortunes |mob. The craving for plunder and the | expelling all Jews from Castile, Ara- ted States was enabled to 1’"'}4}1 through tradition and had im-|of Spain. Until that period Spain had | worst animal passions drew to the |gon, Sicily and Sardinia, and that if | specte “bay battle-ships, move | fianted In their youthful hearts a re- | been mistress of the world, on land | rioters’ ranks the very worst elements | one were found within the proscribed | another, and prince ire everything needed ‘;1‘1 }‘:‘ the atrocities inflicted upon}and sea. The Mediterranean was to |from all classes, who masqueraded un- | territory after four months from that | were compelled to nd millions with every | ; edr n by the cruel, inhuman Span- | her as an inland lake, her fleet cover- |der religious fervor, while the persecu- | day he should be put to death without | the doors of the | expedition, knowing that as many more | ““jg ing and traversing it from end to end. | tion swept like a raging torrent over |trial. They were not allowed to take | millions of du S 2 2 serve, while Spain | yan ler the destruction of the second | All other countries were more or less | Spain, leaving death and devastation | with them any gold, silver, money, or | computation, y money to repair | (eMPle, the fall of the Jewish empire, | dependent upon Spain In their foreign | in its path. Riot and rebellion were |forbidden articles of export, iwhich | sessed on their : the children of Ierael became dismem- | trade relations. While thus intoxl- |rampant throughout the Kingdom. |was equal to sending them forth desti- | @way in their hands ?::S«xi ;g:& lthexr natéonnllly and werrln cated by her own glory and power, | Armed mobs patrolled the streets, defy- | tute and penniless from the land in | thus left denuded a5 Sy > 5 eless wanderers among the |slowly but surely she encompassed her | ing the authorities. Men tock to arms | v 'y ad dwelt for The Jewish yvouth of New York form- | savage tribes of Asfa Minor, the north [own downfall. It was near the close | for the lust of spoils, murder and ra- R e tonon, srene ed one regiment and fu equippe ;|coast of Africa and wherever they|of the fourteenth century that fanat- | pine. They lost all human feelings | ness, wealth and- oultore they had so ‘hicago furnished another regiment of | ¢oyng A 1 B S intelligent, patriotic young Dklil.(.‘e, a foothold or temporary abiding |icism, bigotry, hatred and religious [and turned to vultures, largely contributed. from “accursed, money would be furn one’ county hong JEWs. . the; 1 . could not raise enou her old ships and make them at least vorthy. - Jews £ ¥ 11 on their travel ag the first 5 | . Their natural trend was toward | frenzy e ion a The rioters, y der the Stars and Stripes. 0 star. | tive business o positions 1o Lok wub | brethren had settled many years be-|” It arose in Seville. The new mon- | tacked Cordova, the parent community | CFOWR to recall the cruel edict, and the| “It was a kind of exodu: on.a From San Francisco alone 109 stal-|arms for the country, —SIX hundred|fore the destruction of the temple, |arch, Henry III, a feeble boy of 1l,|of the peninsuia, murdering all Jews|King was about to yield, when Tor-|scale, moving eastward chféfly:t wart Jeivish youths went to the front | young Russians from New Jersey, Who | founded colonies and prospered in all | treated the matter with indifference, | who refused baptism. Toledo, the cap- | quemada again interfered, threatened as if the Jews ‘were.-t0. ap ut “the a number portion to the er the Czar of Rus- ry regiment, and The National Coun- *l of Jewish women held meetings in Philadelphia and Baltimore and effect- their pursuits. Many thousands of the | until it became too late to stem the |ital. contained the largest community. [and cajoled, until he carried his point, nomads, in course of time, reached the | wild current. On March 15, 1391, Mar- | Here the mob rose on June 20, a Jewish | against the earnest advice of the ing shores of Spain, where they found rest | tinez deliberately incited the mob to | fast day, and slaughtered the steadfast King's councilors. The Jews could not | secure dv from their years of wandering. They |riot and violence against the Jews. The | adherents to the ancient faith. At the | realize on their lands, houses, goods |ure were settled, e amization to give practical ald | DrOUght some civilization with them, | passion of the multitude had become | approach of the merciless mob, when |and chattels. They could not take any | through the: calamit SULRD OTERT 't had laws and maintained order. A | inflamed and broke out in a wild up- | escape seemed impossible, many of the | with them, owing to the restrictions, | scription, the humiliz Lot SOy e thrifty, industrial, peace-loving people, |roar. The Jewish quarter was pillaged | most prominent - Jews put to death |nor could they obtain any bills of ex- frerix American Patriotic !:gengue of | they prospered and gained in influence | and many of its inhabitants met in- | mothers, wives, daughters and sisters |change, as all the commerce was in the | that they encounte in Jews organized in_ Cincinnatl | until they controlled the principal in-|stant death. The Governor, unable to |to save them from the worse fate of [ hands of Marranos, Who would not| The story of Isrg v 15, elected Rev. Dr. Isaac Wise, | dustries of the land inhabited by an in- | restrain the m b, sent messengers to |falling into the hands of the inhuman | risk being seen -peaking to a -Jew or|hands of cruel, i e great Jewish savant, its Pr"smept- dolent race, The sanitary and marriage | the King for assistance. When the mil- | rioters, and killed themselves. Seventy | having any business with him. r be forgotten by °t r con- | issued un appeal to all Israelites, Urg-|laws which the Jews held sacred as|itary arrived the knights, nobles and | communities were made the victims of | A palatial residence was bartered It is amohg its can nize in every city and | God-given, divine institutions, were |the better classes of Christians took |that terrible violence, which traveled | away for an ass and a magnificent | Saddest traditions, who raise funds, equip sol-|conducive of making theirs a healthy, |sides with the Jews in an effort to sup- [like the black scourge. At Ascalona|.ouptry seat was exchanged for a bolt | Femember Spain: ¥ tle-ship, present it to|sturdy race. In the knowledge of ag- |press mob violence. By their com- | not a single Jew remained alive. Three | o¢ cloth or linen, Torquemada forbade | tred at his mother and aid the GOvern- | ricultural pursults they Were in ad- |bined efforts they succeeded in quelling | Weeks after the outbreak at Toledo the | .) ‘Christians to have intercourse with | has never been - in its present strug- | vance of the Spanish primitive peasant, | the riots, but not until many Jews had | inhabitants of Valencia rose agathst | J‘.’, der penalty of excommun- | teaches it to her child, ghts and human lib- | whom they naturally outstripped. been killed and much property looted | the Jews. Of the 5000 Jews in that city | fryioe ™ e Jows made ready to go, | . Listen to the'lu To fully appreciate the intense hatred |or destroyed. not one remained. About 250 were mur- | .°at ‘{{L ot b meumycma“; s you ente ‘e have left the country of our |of Jews against Spain. which has been | Three months later, June 6, 1391, the | dered at the first attack, some fled | KDOW “B’O‘f‘ 35‘50001} s e the appeal . “because we [nursed and has surviv d centuries, it | rabble again attacked and set fire to |and all the rest embraced Christianity. | death. =Over 30GOR Jews, WiG BEC TEZ | the Atlantic to the Be have come to this coun- | is necessary to know the history of the | the Jewish quarter, resuming its “holy” | Throughout the kingdom the Jews were | fused baptism, left b ¥ ro | twitight of the waning. r. Let us give | Jews in Spain, as it has been handed | massacre with increased fury. Of a |attacked with fire and sword. become homeless wanderers o he | ou will hear the:- or . estimated | On August 5, the massacre of the |8lobe, not knowing whither they Were | hant in soft and pldintiv the privilege | one generation to the other among the | at about 30,000 souls, 4000 were killed | Jews began in Barcelona, the proudest | 80ing, nor wlat fate awalted them, | fgpring of Israe protection of the | children of Israel The chapter opens | outright, women and children were sold |home of Jewish intelligence and wealth, | Carrying with them memories of grief | tha coming of the N in a halo of glory. made more radiant | into Mohammelan slavery and the rest | The great fortunes which the Jews of | and misery, torture and persecution. | pack to the prami t example of the intense |by the sunshine of peace and pros- | permitted themselves to be baptized to |that place had acquired by their ex- Professor Graetz, the eminent histor- | the unwritten verses nst Spain harbored by the | perity, but closes with the recital of | escape death or a worse fate. The syn- | tensive maritime commerce excited the | ian, writes of the expulsion of the Jews | jargon—the refrain o thodox Jew can be daily seen | perfidy, tyranny, wholesale murder, pil- | agogues were converted into churches, | envy of the rabble. In the first on- | from Spain and its consequence in the | “Accursed Spain. ¢ Y in front of the | lage and rapine at the hands of in-|and the once wealthy and important |slaught nearly 2500 victims fell. A | following words: “The expulsion of the | . swish newspapers, | furiated mobs. | Jewish community of Seville was a |large portion of the Jewish commun- | Jews from the Pyrenean Peninsula, un- - s of these people congre- The fancied security of the Jews in | thing of the past. ity found shelter in the citadel, where | wise as it was inhuman, forms in vari- Silver money 250,y e eagerly scanning the bulletins |Spain was of short duration. Just as The horrible scenes enacted at Seville | they were defended by the Governor | ous ways a well marked turning point | circulation in some parts;of-Spain.. with the First Re nal hc in excess of their % until victo e faith in nd believe that been chosen | especl instr t athath, -.other country how | down through books and tradition from | community of 7000 families 1 that the R WAR DERTGE, UNCLE S5AM: “THOUGHT L WAS T0 FREE CUBA! “8¢rp, / You, 'CR.5p. ‘ Hiomy 1L ‘-'ftrrgf 88rgp, Tog "B / <z C(ONCERT OF EUROPH X hEaALy vSUunn&AMusmg‘eur AT CADIZ LOUIS, RePvBLIC,