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DER WAHRE JUDE

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The new Dreyfus Trials

The truth shall spring out of the earth. (Psalm 85:11)

Justice has won again. The truth can not be suppressed forever, but has to surface like oil on water. It is possible that the falsehood, the lie, can win for a short time, but later the truth has to come to light.

We saw that happening during the Dreyfus trials. It is horrible to think about the heap of lies and duplicity which the French generals pinned on poor Dreyfus, just because he is Jewish. After hundreds of years the world will think the story of Dreyfus to be a fairy tale which is a preposterous lie. Nobody will believe that something like this is even possible! - A lot has been written about it, but it is still not the whole story. Deceptions and lies that have not been uncovered yet are still present. Who knows how long it will take to uncover the whole truth. All of the general staff, a lot of foreign officers, ambassadors, envoys, and attachées (foreign representatives at the French government) intermeddled in the Dreyfus-affair. Men in high and important positions, who call the shots in all important matters of the land, the most important issues in politics, in war and in peace - those men were not ashamed to contribute in the prosecution of a single man, a Jewish officer. Nobody knew him, nobody was interested in him, he could have lived a hundred years and nobody would have taken notice of him. - that is how great the power of deception is; of lies, of violence, of persecution and of antisemitism. However, the truth, justice has come out on top. The truth shall spring out of the earth. Neither the efforts of French generals, nor those of the ministers or the people have helped - poor Dreyfus who was prisoned on the Devil’s Island for five years

cut off of the whole world overseen and policed like a dangerous criminal - that Jew Dreyfus has not let the world adjourn. Like a dead person of every world, he appeared in dreams, woke up his friends and scared them. The greatest men of France, like the writers Zola, Reinach, Lazare, the vice president of the senate Scheurer-Kestner, the famous advocate Labori, the general Picquart and others looked after the persecuted Jew. They called out a movement in France, they excited every soul, they worked as long as it was necessary to convince the French people that Dreyfus is innocent. They demanded to bring him back from Devil’s island.

The French people, the parliament, the senate, the supreme court thought that Dreyfus was innocent, but the antisemitic generals did not want to drop off, they did not want to admit the truth. Dreyfus came back, he was put on trial a second time. Publically, in front of the whole world, he defended himself, proved that he was innocent. The military court however did not want to relent and convicted him again. By then, the government could not stay quiet anymore, it could not stand aside anymore. The French president Loubet pardoned and released him.

Dreyfus and his companions were not content with that. Pardoned - that means: he is indeed guilty, but he was remitted the penalty. He wants to prove that he is not guilty, he does not need to be pardoned. He demands justice. It took a long time until he achieved this because according to the law, a new fact which the previous court did not know about, had to be detected. Therefore, a new trial had to commence, but in the end not one, but several more facts were found. It was found out that general Paty de Clam, who led the trial against Dreyfus, kept all documents which proved Dreyfus’ innocence and did not show them to the court. And so, the Supreme court took matters into its hands, initiated a lengthy investigation and finally decided that the whole Dreyfus trial needs to be revised.

To prevent a military court from further obscuring the whole matter and convicting Dreyfus again, the court ordered that it is forbidden to try him to another military court. Solely the Supreme Court is allowed to carry out the lawsuit. This investigation will last several more months. Every lie, every contortion will be exposed and in the end, Dreyfus will be acquitted. He can join the military again, without a doubt he can achieve a higher rank than before and the Dreyfus affair will come to an end.

We as Jews are particularly interested in the Dreyfus affair because of two things. First, Dreyfus is a Jew and was prosecuted because of it, because he is a Jew - and second, his story resembles that of the Jewry, which is also persecuted because it is Jewish. - And if we can observe how justice and truth has come out victorious, we are joyous with hope that there is justice for the Jewish people. The earth will flourish anew, and justice will descend from heaven.

Recent anti-Jewish violence in Chișinău

It has been a long tradition in Russia, that in order to calm the Russian nation which is fierce against the government, to chevy the Jews. It was like this in 1881, after the nihilistic revolutions when pogroms were happening in every major city. The government achieved two things with these policies: first, the rabble hates the Jews, not the government; second, the government can satisfy the commotions, introduce martial law and oppress the people once again. - That is also the root for the Kishinev pogrom. The government saw that the nation had been discontent for some years and the working class was strongly agitated - the government sic the people against the nation immediately.

Again, the Russian nation is disturbed. News about the Russian defeat in the war amplified the unrest. The government resorts to old remedies and stirs up hatred against the Jews. It is widely known that the Russian laws are very strict; every minute political crime is punished severely. If the government wanted to, it could suppress any movement immediately, but instead whenever the mob rises and the government does nothing, it signals its agreement with the persecution and even helps to foster it.

This time, the government chose Chișinău once again for the persecutions. Reports say that there have been demonstrations against Jews. The mob wandered through the streets in large crowds, yelled threats against the Jews and broke in the windows of several Jewish houses. Multiple Jewish shops were robbed, some Jewish people were even beat up.

History repeats itself. The situation of the Russian Jews becomes sadder day by day.

A letter to the editor!

I was plainly delighted as I received your Tuesday edition last night. Before, as it was published only once a week, I felt that I was waiting a year for every day until a paper arrives and

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between the newspapers I waited six years for another one… Still I need to indeed wait three years for the next one… but three is not six… only because of that I give you a piece of advice that you should also do so for the three fake years… that means you should publish your newspaper daily and that would provide you with three additional real years of means of support - with a daily newspaper you will gain twenty times the number of subscribers, without exaggeration - in my city Sadhora, you will gain a lot of subscribers as before other papers written in vernacular have. “Der Fraind”, a paper coming from St Petersburg, has substantial subscribers here, because it is a daily paper. If it would take three days for another paper to arrive - everybody knows the news already. But if you publish your paper daily, you will have a lot of subscribers. - I ask you to hear my request. - Your subscriber, Naftoli Salomon

The political situation in Hungary.

For more than a year already, there has been a conflict in the Hungarian parliament which cannot be resolved. The emperor has already appointed two different ministers twice already and the government has granted the opposition important concessions. As is common knowledge, Hungary has been separated from Austria and forms a peculiar country. It has its own ministry, a special parliament and completely different laws in every area which concerns the inner state affairs only. Austria and Hungary are bound with a treaty which was concluded in the Compromise and needs to be renewed every decade. According to the Compromise, both countries together constitute a joint monarchy which is called Austria-Hungary. They have a joint military, joined foreign politics which is led by a joint minister of foreign affairs, and joint tariff legislation with joint trade contracts which means that the customs for foreign merchandise is the same whether it is important in Austria or Hungary. The trade contracts with other countries are being decided together. The foreign politics being jointly executed Hungary would have to join Austria in war and vice versa. However, there is a party in Hungary which wants the only connection to Austria to be having one emperor. Other than that each country should be a country on its own. Each country should have their own military, their own tax tariffs, trade contracts and the likes of it. The majority of the current Hungarian population still stands with the government which does not want to split off Austria. Both countries profit from the mutual cohabitation: First, the monarchy is big and strong and can therefore defend its own interests like any great power; second, both countries distribute its produce in the other country. Hungary sends crops and cattle, Austria sends its factory products. Immi- and emigration is freely allowed as to why trade is very common which strengthens the populations wealth.

As the government proposed the new recruitment plan last year according to which Austria-Hungary wanted to raise the military with several thousand men, the Hungarian opposition said that it will take advantage of the opportunity and withhold approval until their demands are met. They want the language of command to be Hungarian instead of German as has been the case until now. The government denied this request with the following explanation: if Hungarian became the command language the military unity would be disrupted and split into a special Hungarian and a special Austrian military. In case of war they would not be able to understand each other and cause a disaster. If the government made several smaller concessions regarding the military, the opposition would have been easy to please. However the government (Kálmán Széll was the minister president then) explained that it cannot pander to the military demands as only the emperor has the final say in this matter and the government cannot mingle. Furthermore the opposition obstructed the recruitment law. This filibuster lasted several months during which the government watched calmly until the obstruction got tired and gave up. However the opposition never got tired, the minister president Széll resigned and Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry followed him as minister president. He granted the opposition multiple concessions. For example, Hungarian soldiers should only serve in Hungarian regiments, the inscriptions on Hungarian barracks should only be written in Hungarian and the like. The majority of the opposition was satisfied and forfeited, but a smaller part did not want to budge. As the procedural rules of the Hungarian parliament are unrestricted and not parochial, the government could not come to a conclusion with the minority of the opposition. Count Khuen-Héderváry resigned from his position and was replaced by István Tisza, the son of the previous prime minister Kálmán Tisza.

The new minister president also started by making concessions to the opposition to appease them. As the recruitment law was not passed, the military could not be approved and the three year veterans were held back and instead the reserves were conscripted which provoked dissatisfaction in the whole country. Tisza thought that the opposition would give in easier as the reserves should go back home. But he made a mistake. The small of the opposition continued filibustering and it could not be contained.

Now, Count Tisza has lost his patience and wants to break the filibuster with force. He made a motion in parliament to change the order of business so that obstruction will not be possible anymore. A fight in the Hungarian parliament is looming. Now a big part of the deputies who have not been in the opposition

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are now against changing the order of business as they think of it as an illegality. Therefore, they have joined the filibuster. It will be a difficult battle without an indication who will win.

News.

Jewish News.

(Kyiv). The way how the Russian government treats Jewish people is illustrated by this case: A local Jewish doctor volunteered to travel to the war zone in East Asia to work as a doctor in the military hospital. After the doctor departed on a military train, the police ordered his mother and sister to leave Kyiv. They were allowed to live there with their son and brother, as he is a doctor. But now that he is gone, they are not allowed to reside there anymore. (London). Antisemitism is also present in the English parliament. Delegate Markham asked the home secretary whether he was aware that 4,000 Polish Jews who do not know English, which harms the domestic workers, work in English coal pits. And if the home secretary knew about this, what would he do to remedy the situation. - The home secretary answered that it was reported to him that 1,200 Jewish workers work there who perform their duties diligently as to why they do not harm the domestic workers at all. (South Africa). Immigration to South Africa has been complicated further. Before, every immigrant should prove that they have 5 pounds sterling (60 guilds), now they demand proof of 20 pounds (240 guilds).

Telegrams.

The Zabolotiv trial.

Kolomyia. The trial about the antisemitic excesses in Kolomyia were closed on March 5. The trial did not clarify the whole situation. Two of the main defendants, the financial supervisor Skalski and the merchant Krivitsky were accused of stirring up hatred against the Jews were acquitted of their charge. Many witnesses exonerated them and claimed that they have not been part of this whole thing. Both defendants pinned everything on the police, who were not there on time.

If only an officer would have been at the crime scene when the turmoil started, would it have calmed down immediately. It is true that as soon as the police arrived at the square, the mob ran away, but police arrived too late.

The court sentenced following defendants: Anatoly Falitshuk to five days detention, Arkady Savak to 14 days, Alyona Sammattyuk to five days, Pavel Chaban to four months rigorous imprisonment with one day fast every two weeks, Stefan Kavalerski to two months of rigorous imprisonment with fast, Theodor Butschek to two months with fast, Aleksa Roke to two months with fast, Nikola Duvnjak to two months with fast, Edvard Neuburger to two months with fast, Jan Sorokavsky to two months with fast. Nine defendants were discharged, the convicts have to pay the court fees. The demands for compensation made by the harmed Jews have to be brought to civil court.

All of the convicts accepted their verdict except for Aleksa Roke who asked for three days of respite.

The war.

Between Japan and Russia.

London. Reports from Japan state that the Japanese already arrived in Port Arthur. They want to besiege Port Arthur by land as well.

Port Arthur. The Russians bank on the Japanese to besiege Port Arthur. They also think that the Japanese will manage to conquer the fortress.

Vladivostok. In the night from Sunday to Monday, Japanese battleships bombarded the fortress. The Russian ships did not shoot back, because the Japanese ships were too far away and the Japanese cannons can shoot farther than the Russian ones. The Japanese did not do a lot of damage.

London. The Japanese started to build a light railway in Korea, which should facilitate military transport. They are said to have already reached the Manchurian borders. The Russians retreat.

Beijing. The Chinese act more and more like double agents. They claim to be neutral, and therefore impartial, but they secretly arm to war and collect a lot of military at the border. As soon as the Japanese win the ground warfare, the Chinese will join the Japanese and declare war on Russia.

Herausgeber und verantwortlicher Redact. OSIAS H. WILF recte Weinstock

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