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Show RVSSIAX CaCCLTT. TTieJenarrreruIrlanil Forbidden To Own or Farm La nil I. 1aSDOX, July 3l. ClvlIlTed Ktj. rora bhock"i a llie receipt of the rjH tlSills of Itussbn jitreecutiou of the Jews. The cdieU are ot a moot cruel character. The firt edict says: "Xo Jew Is any longer permitted to own or even farm lands." All Jewih land owners, farmers aud agricultural laborers arc thus expelled from their village homes. Unless they have raved means enough for their sustenance itioy would bo reduced to lit-R&irj-. To Intensify the tcverity of this edict, the government officials have Included hundreds of (-mall towns lu the category of country villages, and expelled Jews from them by tens of thousands, who will thus be rendered ren-dered homeless. These laws, known as the "May laws,'' wsre promulgated promul-gated !n !SS2, but never enforced until now. The cruel jiart of these prohibitions prohibi-tions Is that an enormous proportion propor-tion of the Jewish pojKilatlou are Allied agriculturists, ariians and professional men, who were all adding add-ing largely to the EAI.Tlt ov TltF. lll'llll'. All of llitse will now be reined. It is estimated that nearly a million Ieoih!WlIl Va feipelled from their homes under these most tyrannical and reactionary laws. Duty one o! ject can be contemplated by the instigatorsof the persecution, namely, name-ly, the total exttnnlnation cf the four million Jews in Itussla. The troubles which allllcted tho Jews in Russia seven J cars ago arose from breaches 111 the law. A certain number of the jierjittri'tcrs were brought to justice and un-islif un-islif J. In the jirvtent case the government gov-ernment legalizes the (erfccutlnn. Tho Jews have always been subject to exceptional laws, which, however, how-ever, did not render their living Impossible. They, In fact,lucrebsed in numbers, wealth and intelligence; intelli-gence; wire ludustrious, thrifty, law-abiding and sober; and were ucc-eml as merchants, trader;, ar titans and agriciiltnrits- A lew w ere permltt-l ta nler 'the uuivcr-Bitlesand uuivcr-Bitlesand bicarae dbliuguilie.i as lawyers, physicians and men of science. sci-ence. All tills Is now changed. Such persecution involves a retiue-meut retiue-meut of cruelty for which history furnishes no jorallel. It is rumored that the victims of this Itawiau oppression will, as in 152, break through the cordon on the Austrian and rrusian frontiers and find an asylum in free Kngland, to the injury in-jury o! its overstocked labor market. |