Show PERSECUTION PERSE OF JEWS IN RUSSIA I r I I Rabbi Reynolds Delivers Inter Interesting Interi i esting Lecture e I ATTITUDE OF F CZAR IS UNJUST DEEDS OE oP TUT IN f ON COMMENT q r I The of the Jews in Rus Run RunEta Russia via Eta the th riots the insults heaped IH aped upon th tb tINt f Jewish J WJ money lend lenders lenders ers eis who woo are really the friends of ot o the peasants and the massacres ma a res of othe the Jews were the theme of an exception exceptionally ally brilliant and Interesting lecture given gien gi yen last laet Friday evening by the Rev Rey Louis 6 G Reynolds at Temple Isreal There was wu an exceptionally large at attendance attendance attendance upon the lecture which at attracted attracted attracted unusual attention owing to the Interest In the persecutions per ecu ons by the Rus Russians fians and the bearing of the subject upon the attitude of that nation as a re regards regards gards girds encroachments upon Manchuria The rabbi spoke in part as 8 follows Discourse of Ray Bev ne Reynolds Deeply re r revolting as a Is l I this scene of ot brutal carnage and calling as it does for tor the most vehement expressions of ot in indignation and sorrow there is still some soe something t thing h ing more important for tor us WI to do We must expose the malicious and infernal l nature of the shameless lies which the Russian ambassador ambas ador puts forward in ex cx extenuation tH He a claims fi of the that heartrending the rei Russian a massacre Jews redo do doriot riot not engage in agriculture that their sole soleo o is 8 money lending leading and that their failure to perform rm productive labor laborIs 1 Is II the cause eaLise auSE of ot all the prejudice and riots To realize real f the foulness and aDd low perfidy of this lie He it is 18 only necessary to acquaint oneself with the real facts of the matter At the close of 1882 Is which marked the abatement oft of o the ter terrible terrible terrible riots against the Jews Ignatieff proposed pr ed and with the approval of the ministers carried out oot the celebrated May Kay laws Ja Ia ws s the first and second clauses elu es of which are as follows Persecutions of Ignatieff a 1 i To forbid the Jews to set setI I lr tIp tie outside the and ets the only exceptions admitted being belD in those Jewish colonies that have existed ted before ard a 8 nd whose inhabitants are agriculturists a 2 To suspend pend the completion of in instruments instruments of purchase of ot real property mortgages mortgage in the names of Jews also ateo the th registration of Jews as lessees le eee of ot landed estates or even fen the issue of pow pew powers power ers er of attorney to enable them to manage m e and dispose of such property In I n these th very verv laws the government confesses the existence and importance of agriculture among the Jews It in Inn fails tails to define the terms towns townsand townsand townsand and so as to leave a loop 1000 hole bole for arbitrary officials and oppressive I magistrates ta Indeed in the t month m of Oc October tober teber 1892 many m towns and even cities ti I Ire were verc re technically changed into villages by byan bya byan an a n ordinance of ot the Ute minister of into inte interior nor Jews who have h ve been settled there theresi si since ice the year 1882 18 were obliged to sari sacrifice rice fice kf everything in order to transport themselves to some BOme other place within I 1 r a given gien n period which did not n as a rule rI r exceed ns six s weeks Successful Agricultural Colonies Notwithstanding these the e unfavorable con conditions conditions there a ar successful Jewish agri agricultural cultural colonies colonl established hed wherever these th se laws did not reach out or were I riot vigorously enforced In the very province 6 of ot BE S arabia where the recent massacre there were in 1898 l 1 thousands of 0 Jewish farm fann la Ia laborers borers employed ol o the tM landed estates o the Russians The Russian journal Listok which contained this in information information formation notes notts that emigration was im immediately mediately lessen I lessened n d or brought to a as stand s I tit ii and remarks in closing So true is it that it suffices the poor Jew Jw 1 w to be enabled to earn his daily 1 ead ad to 10 deprive him of aD H thought of oC quitting Russia From 7 to 1 and from to more liberal laws thousands of Jews Js were f TP transferred to the desert crown Town lands in and from 1848 M to 1 to those of av Many lany of If them died of hunger and cold rold in the mid t of the steppes f Count Coant Demidoff a n Russian statistician claims that within four or five fic years out of a total of ot 1000 perished from exposure yet their heroic tenacity unswerving courage coura e and ceaseless labor JaboT won the da day Mr Claus C Inc tn Russian government inspector says say sayin in his official report port of 1863 The Jewish colonists give ve a picture of 0 true peasant life ute and are in comparative i 1 lv easy circumstances as all contrasted with L other ether Russian colonists col y f Victim of Christian Usurers T His Ills charge of usury is If It possible eves even J p 1 a II baser haler lie than tha the foregoing In I the peasants of of ot which is the capital entreated the governor to sanction the return of the I J ws to the rural districts as ne without them it would be impossible to secure a remunerative result from the harvest haMJe t tIn In fn 1893 the council t of ot the empire formally before enacting the new lw on u usury ury that usury developed de eloped In mot root alarming proportions in the rural I districts since the time that the Jews Vier turned out of them The most mo t ant Russian upa paper r rth I th Non NOM a of Oct O t S 8 1 re ye rein remarks in narks marks anent the Jewish expulsion l n The Tho peasants are not at all pleased at their thIr departure for the they have fallen fa en J in i the hand of o Christian usurers who and ruin them th m with a harshness which the Jews Jew ne never neer er displayed Jews Salvation of Peasant The few f w Jews who had the means to lend money mono y to the Russian Kussian peasant pea ant In ln of being his detriment were his for at a very ery reasonable rate ratel l tf f inter interest st in products mostly they i mate it possible for him hm to bridge bri e ov over r difficult times The a Russian I mone broker on n the other hand nay and their wives c Hn n the thi village priests a cording to official reports ports n exacted an anIn Interest In e of nf to per cent c rt per annum ft J Jn He lie further r e C i that t no discriminating log ing n laws awa were ever ev r passed pa td by the Russian Ru s an government against a the th Jews as such t ila t all an the tho horrible ma atres and blood bloodcurdling i curdling murder ma may be bf w summed up In ono Of phrase The peasant iKa nt against a the Jew Jw I What hat about the imperial laws of f Is 1 which shut up all aU the schools a against a D t the I IJ Jew Jw J e which deprived him of all means of nod education and which only In hi their intended results because of ot I 1 hf liberality which the high 4 r schools and universities of l lan lands s extended t tr tf the persecuted exiles World Should Enter Protest It 1 t is the duty of f the civilized nations nation of the lie world worl to raise their voices in defense of If these noor onor innocent victims to let Iii lissa ja a know that she cannot always OUt oui r the higher conscience of humanity and i 11 1 what more to do all In their power to cut ut short its IUt invasion of and i its it influence ce in the many countries of j Orient rient which bleh hold the hast Beast intercourse with culture and too civilization e e t i 7 a at t a 6 6 e eC e C 4 fr ci ciet et r s Photo by Chase REV BEV G |