One hundred years ago
THE Times' correspondent declares that so bitter has anti-Jewish feeling become in Paris, that its leaders are beginning to pay for assassinations. Indeed, an agent who had been paid £2,000 to assassinate Dr. Cornelius Herz, an American electrician, told the correspondent the story, and offered to sell him documents proving its correct- ness. The Times, however, has had enough of documents, and the offer was declined — though without raising any suspicion in the correspondent's mind. The story is grotesque. It is, of course, quite possible that a private enemy wished to assassinate Dr. Cornelius Herz; but how would that gratify anti- Semitic feeling? Dr. Herz is a Jew, but not a representative man of the race. It is, however, true in Paris, as in Vienna, that Socialists denounce the Jews, as of all capitalists, the least useful.
The Spectator, 17 May 1890
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