I was obliged to admit that one of the anti-semitic papers, the Deutsche Volksblatt, behaved with more decency in connection with the same subject.
The nauseating manner in which the more influential Press toadied to France was also on my nerves. One had to be ashamed to be a German when observing those dulcet hymns in praise of the “great culturenation”. The wretched pandering to France more than once made me throw dowm those “world-journals”. I would then turn to the Volksblatt, which seemed to me to take a somewhat cleaner, if smaller, view of these matters. I did not agree with its sharply anti-semitic tone, but I now and again read in it arguments which caused me some reflection.
In any case, I learned slowly from such suggestions about the man and the Movement which then decided the fate of Vienna : Dr. Karl Lueger and the ChristianSocialist Party.
When I arrived in Vienna I was hostile to both. In my eyes the man and