Show FINLAND AND THE JEWS Position of the Semitic Race Worse in a Legal Sense Than in Russia An antiSemitic movement which so far cannot bo traced to the Russian government appears to be absorbing Finland 1 he Jewish World In commenting com-menting on this circumstance declares that the manner In which the civilized world gave unstinted sympathy to thf Finns out of the area Is expelled the country They are restricted for a livelihood to selling old clothes watches cigarettes etc Jews who marry have to leave the country and those who go out of It to serve their I military term may not return i No wonder a deputy once declared I that a Jew In Finland Is worse oft I than a criminal In Siberia I Their struggle with the overwhelmIng overwhelm-ing forces of Russian despotism might have led one to believe that this Interesting Inter-esting little people would show a certain cer-tain fairness to the oppressed Uusslan Jews among them There are about 1000 Jews all told Ir Finland and It Is enough to say that their position Is legally worse than IE Russia Itself Although there was always al-ways a large measure of selfgovern ment In Finland there has never been any protest against the barbarous treatment to which Jews are subjected I there They are at best allowed to live in the towns of Helsingfors Abo and Wibors newcomers can settle by special spe-cial permission of the governor gen era which has to be renewed every six months Any Jew caught without such permission Is transported back tc Russia In chains |