Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-04-10 | Page 3 | Why Russia Persecutes the Jews

chy hussla persecutes the jews 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 sur rounding christiana second that they hold themselves as a class apart from the rest of the community third that they famish many of the leading ahil bats and mischief makers fourth that they evade service in the army and do not become patriotic russians the first accusation may be ignored ss it amounts simply to saying that the jew is shrewder and more intelligent than his 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 as yet received any very warm invitation to do anything of the land 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 nihilism of is perfectly true to the extent that the jews naturally furnish their proportionate quota to the malcontents who have the courage to act but that the jews among the nihilisms nihilists lists exceed their proper proportion to the whole population is denied by many trustworthy writers the charge that the jew evades army service is disproved by official statistics P Q hubert jr in forum