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Show TDK Kl'NMAK JEWS. Continued persecutions of the Jews in Russia render it probable that a considerable con-siderable percentage of the 5,0!K),000 unfortunates un-fortunates will leave that country, and as the cable informs us, the majority of them will seek refuge in the promised land of modern times, that is tho United Slates. Sympathize as we do in this country with tho people of every oppressed race, and willing as we may be to extend ex-tend to all a helping hand, we do not believe a wholesale immigration of Russian Rus-sian Jews should be encouraged, it being be-ing contrary to the best interests of bolh sides concerned. The enlightened Hebrews are among the worthiest citizens of the Union. They are enterprising, they aro progressive, pro-gressive, they aro loyal, they are law-abiding, law-abiding, and above all things they are charitable to an extraordinary degree. In public spirit Miey rival the best men and women in the land. Tho Russian Jews aro not enlightened. enlighten-ed. Due to a tyrannical government that has crushed in them every Incentive Incen-tive to nobler aims they are ignorant and bigoted. Fnw if any of them know a trade. It is a pity that without fault of their own these people should be so reduced to a state of degradation, but as this country is not a reformatory we can but eommisserate them. At this very moment the authorities in New York aro puzzled at the discovery of a rabbinical system of divorce obtaining among the Russian Jews which enables many, for a small fee, to contract new marriages as often as they please. This state of things was brought to tho notice of the authorities by the ministers of other Hebrew congregations who confess con-fess that the improvement of the Russian Rus-sian Jew? who speak nothing but an unintelligible jargon is a hopeless task and that any effort in that direction must lie directed at their children. If their co religionists stand aghast at tho prospect, what can the people at large do Wo wish the government to exercise its utmost in tl 11 en oe in behalf of these poor people whose lot is so wretched as to excite the indignation of the civilized world; wo also wish private philanthropy philan-thropy to exhaust its resources in tho amniclioration of their sufferings, but to unload them en masse upon this country would be an evil that we could ill bear. Better they bo distributed abroad nearer their traditional past. This, too, would be more to their owu liking. |