We should greatly like to know why all German journals
and the Berlin correspondent of the Times are making such a fuss about the anti-Semitic orator Ahlwardt. He keeps on threatening to produce documents showing the corruption of Dr. Miguel, the Finance Minister, and the German military authorities ; but when at last brought to book by the Parlia- mentary Committee of Inquiry, he on Thursday had nothing to produce except two old pamphlets and a letter from the President of the Roumanian Senate, which he himself admits may be a forgery. Dr. Miguel had no difficulty in disproving his accusations, which, indeed, are ridiculous; but we rather fancy that some of the bitterness manifested against him is due to the great strength of the Jewish element both in the House and in the Press. He is probably an exceedingly credulous person who has heard a quantity of malignant gossip, and, as such men do, has believed it all without evidence. He is of absolutely no importance, but position is given him by Jewish hate, which, though quite natural, is impolitic.
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