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Show H TilE JUWI-.ll ATT11 IDE. BBBB The uews from Russia to the BBBB eQect tint the government of the BBBB Czar is rigorously applying proscr!i- HJBJBJE live measures to the Jewl.-h rt-si- BflBH; dents of that country, is presumed BHBBl t '11Te shocked the civilized world. BBBJB At least there is a jxtssing profession BBBB of it having done so. There is so BBBB much hypocritical cant aud mock BBBB phllantrophy abroad that tlie genu- BBBBj ineness of the pretended sentiment BBBBj of sorrow is open to question. a- BJBJBJJ I tlons claiming the highest aJvance- BJBJBB I ment in civilization have conditions flJBJBE within their own borders that en- H ' tall human suffering at least equal Bt to that iutlicted upsn the hipless BJBB Ilusslan Jews, although tlie misery HK A u not perhaps of a similar cbarac- BJflJBJJ M ler. It seems, however, that thu H Mi . , latest anti-Jewish freak will render " thousands of Hebrew families home- HP & e33j anj probably drive them out of B' t tha empire This Is a situation BH that ought to excite real sym-uthy, BJBJBB r. , z)itt iBBBBBBBBBBBfl but that feeling outsldo of the ranks of people who belong to the tame race as those who arc so barbarously treated will bo neither very deep nor very widespread, as a rule. Indeed there Is no nation on earth which dots not share the general antipathy with -which the Jews are regarded. To ho so treated treat-ed has been their lot from Die time of their dispersion to the present. ven this nation is not free from the anti-semitic feeling. 1 1 is not as yet exhibited in proscriptlve legal enactments, but Is manifested In social circles aud in literature, uum-bersof uum-bersof books having evidently been written for the express purpose of creating prejudice njr.tinst them. They have, In consequence of Uiis almost universal feeling of aversion, been excluded from numbers of the leading hotels in America. The adverse sentiment against the Hebrews exists to some extent in Utah. The fact is well known among themselves, tlie question of ostracising them from a well known I social organization in this eity I naving been debated some time ago. I There is only one class of people who may be said to be entirely free from this unjust bias against tlie Hebrews as a wee the Latter-day Saints. It has always teen an anomaly to us how so many of the Jews residing in this part of the country could take jail in a crusade tliat has to a Urge extent brought similar injustice upan another jieople to that of which they liave good reasou to complain as having been applied to thoso of their own race. When this treatment Is directed di-rected toward the only community that is entirely free from the prejudice preju-dice under which the Jews have had to suffer for centuries, the attitude atti-tude of numbers of Hebrews in this art of the country, m Juluins in an antI-"Mormiu" conspiracy, conspir-acy, is all the more suqirisiug. One would suiipose that they would be ready to condemn such a crusade, whose main ol-jects are robbery and expulsion, directed against the Latter-day Saints under the leadership lead-ership of a number of active iwliti-cians. Tlie "Mormon" community have I never regarded the Jews as au inferior infe-rior race, but the contrary, notwithstanding notwith-standing that many of those who have drifted out this way have given unmistakable evidences of inferiority, in-feriority, by the couise they have taken toward a people among whom they have become fattened aud enriched. en-riched. However, it would be unjust un-just to condemn a whole jieoplo ou account of the dastardly conduct of a few of their number. The Hebrews, He-brews, aside from the contemptible conductof many of those located in this part of tho country, are a great people, by whom gnat things will Jet be accomplished in connection with developments of the future. It would be a point in their favorif those who have joined iu the anti-'Mormon" crusaie should be some time struck with a streak of consistency and refrain from joining in a crusade that would, if successful, bring upon the "Mormons" similar disasters to those which Iiavo befallen their co-religlonL-ts In Russia. |
