Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — TOSSES EGGS AT AHLWARDT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOSSES EGGS AT AHLWARDT.

Jew Baiter’s First Lecture in America Punctuated with Odorous Missiles. An educated bigot landed on our shores last week and will make frantic efforts to turn the people of the United States against the Hebrew race. His name is Herman Ahlwardt. He is a member of the German Reichstag and is known the world over as the Jew-baiter. He is the leader of the anti-Semitic party in Germany and has served three terms in prison for talking too freely. He is 50 years old—old enough to know better than to come to this country to set in motion an organized movement of persecution. He says he comes here on the invitation of prominent men in Milwaukee and New lork, but he will not give their names because he thinks it would hurt their business. He insists that he is not a villain. His first tirade against the Jews was delivered in Cooper Union, New York City. There were 150 auditors. It became evident before he had spoken 100 werds, that there were more Jews than Christians present. It also became evident that the Jews were greatly excited. While in the middle of a senteifte in whidli he hurled invectives against the Jews a little man sprang to his feet and squeaked - some thing in Hebrew at the rate of 1,000 words a minute. Before the police knew what the little fellow was about he had thrown two eggs at the foreigner, who dodged them neatly. The little disturber of the peace was terrified by his own audacity, and crushed a third egg in his hand just as five gigantic policemen fell over each other in their anxiety to grapple with him. “I come to this country,” he said, in an interview, “for the purpose of uniting the working classes of this country against the Jews. The Jews do not produce anything by their own hibor; it is their sole desire to acquire the results of the labor of others by trick and by fraud. I hold that the Jewish spirit is corrupting the

Gentiles. Labor is oppressed by the Jews, and its fruits are being absorbed by them. I will explain all this more fully in my lecturel I hope that I will be able to'arouse the anti-Semitic feeling in this country, which I am told is vigorous, but only in its infancy. I shall deliver twen-ty-one lectures and remain in America three months. My desire is to put a stop to the rise of Jews in politics and literature. We must enact laws stopping the progress of the Jews. In Berlin to-day the Jews own 47 per cent, of the real estate and on the othe.T 53 per cent, they hdd mortgages.”

HERMAN AHLWARDT.