Show JEWISH ENDURANCE i THE HERALDS columns have contained the announcement that CHARLES EMORY SMITH the American minister to Russia has sailed for his embassy after a pretty long vacation at home in Pennsylvania Mr SMITH has been accused of a rather too obsequious deportment towards his majesty maj-esty the Czars government and it is to be hoped that the references thereto which he has seen during his stay will have a salutary salu-tary effect upon his future behavior in that regard He must not hereafter crowd into his diplomatic correspondence so much taffy relative to the Muscovites nor conceal as he has heretofore done the extent ex-tent of Russias treatment of the Jews For we read that tho persecution which has called forth the indignation of the civilized civ-ilized world is being continued and its atrocities even increased A recent English letter declares that this antiSemitic policy has of late been made exceptionally rigorous rigor-ous Tho Jews are required to live i within a certain pale and forbidden to appear ap-pear within fifty versts of the frontier they ate excluded from the universities except on condition of renouncing their religion re-ligion and embracing Christianity they are required to pay special taxes for the support of intitutions whose benefits they are not permitted to share they are taxed on every animal and fowl killed for food ccording to the Jewish rites and they pay I another tax when the fowls and animals are exposed for sale They ore made to pay a caudle tax for the support of denominational schools they are taxed on their rents and gross incomes from the sale of wine in public houses and from those of distilleries breweries glassworks glass-works tallow establishments and similar I simi-lar factories although from this system of I exactions Christians are exempt They i cannot move from place to place nor perform per-form the simplest formal act under the law without submitting to annoying processes and charges A recent edict forbids them from bathing in the sea at places frequented fre-quented by Christians Truly sufferance is the badge of all the Jewish tribe Three centuries ago the Russian policy would hardly have attracted at-tracted attention much less indeed the sympathy of Christendom for all Christendom Christen-dom strange to say had been engaged in a similar policj The conviction prevailed that one of the highest duties of religion was the persecution of the brethren of its founder Nor has the world outgrown this hostile feeling yet Still have the Jews maintained their social characteristics habits and even physiognomy through forty centuries Scattered through all peoples of the world without a home without a leader without a capital without with-out a flag they have retained a nationality for 1SOO years Speaking all languages and holding fast to their own perpetuating perpetu-ating their ancient worship contributing to the worlds knowledge of science philosophy phil-osophy literature finance and commerce they are wanderers on the face of the earth awaiting the Almightys revelatiOn I endured ofthe purpose for which so much has been |