Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-20 | Page 2 | Jewish Rabbi Takes Issues with Cassini

JEWISH RABBI TAKES ISSUE WITH CASSINI. PORTLAND, Or.. May 20.-B.ev. Dr. N. Mosessohn, a well-known Jewish rabbi of this city, speaking of the talk made by Count Casslnl. the Russian Embassador to Washington, on the Jews In Klshlneff, said: "As a native of Russia I was an eyewitness eye-witness of fully twenty-live of these massacres mas-sacres and riots, and had never yet seen measures taken by the authorities to quell the riots until the Jews were plundered, killed, and their wives and daughters outraged out-raged before their very eyes. The fact is that it is not the Jews who ruin the peasant, but the- taxes the severe means by which these taxes are extracted from the peasants by the Government, as also the silent taxes (bribes) paid to Russian petty officers and other similar impositions. imposi-tions. "The assertion that the Jews will not engage in agriculture is rebuked by the fact that there are many Jewish agricultural agricul-tural colleges at Cherson, Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, Wilna. Crodno, Minsk, Pinsk, and other governments In Russia. Further, Fur-ther, the Jew cannot be a producer to as large an extent as he wishes on account' of the . Russian law forbidding him to own or to till the soil anywhere In th empire with the exception of the colonies mentioned."