The AntiSemites gained in numbers, though not in reputation.
Once antisemites portrayed us as sexual libertines and perverts to undermine our moral authority.
In the same year a similar enactment was passed in Saxony, and the subject is a favourite one with antiSemites, who have enlisted on their side some scientific authorities, though the bulk of expert opinion is in favor of Shehitah (see Dembo, Das Schlachten,1894).