Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-03-27 | Page 2 | Why Russia Persecutes the Jews

why russia the jew the principal grounds upon which the russian justifies the persecution of his hebrew brother are as follows he asserts first that the jews are too rapacious and too successful in getting money and property away from the surrounding christians second that alicy hold themselves as a class apart from the rest of the community third that they furnish many of the leading nihil ests and mischief makers fourth that they evade service in the army and do not become patriotic russians the first accusation may be ignored as it amounts simply to saying that the jew is shrader and more intelligent than lus neighbors of other races As to the jews refusal to mingle more freely with his neighbors of different creeds or in other words to assimilate with the population it cannot be said that he has aft yet received any very warm invitation to do anything of the kind he has been chased like a beast of prey for centuries and now he is asked why he does not like his persecutors the charge of nihilism is perfectly true to the extent that alie jews naturally furnish their proportionate quota to ane malcontents who have the courage to act but that the jegg among the nim lists exceed their proper proportion to the whole population is denied by joany trustworthy writers the charge that the jew evades army service is dis by official statistics P G hubert jr in Forum