Failure to Halt Attacks on Jews Blamed on Some Cabinet Officials’ Sympathy for Peasants

The sympathy of some members of the present Roumanian government with the aims of the anti-Semitic peasant movement is blamed for the impotency of the Roumanian government in putting an end once and for all to the anti-Semitic disturbances by Deputy Pistiner, a Socialist member of the Roumanian parliament, writing in the Vienna “Arbeiter Zeitung”, the organ of the Austrian Social Democrats.

Deputy Pistiner says that while some members of the Roumanian government are friendly to the peasant movement others are lukewarm to the suppression of the movement because they desire to maintain the peasants’ friendship for the government at whose head is the chieftain of the Peasants’ Party.

Pointing out that while at the moment everything is quiet because of the stringent military measures that have been taken in Bukowina and Bessarabia, Deputy Pistiner declares that the social and economic reasons which are the basis for the anti-Semitic peasant movement must have further consequences. These further consequences will result, he prophesies, because the followers of the anti-Semitic chieftain, Professor Cuza, as well as the nationalistic Archangel League are impressing the desperate and debt-burdened peasantry with the fallacious belief that anti-Semitism will benefit the peasants, thus strengthening the anti-Jewish agitation.