| Show I The Jewish Massacres and Regeneration lit A Bureaucratic Trick to Postpone the inevitable HK II E most revolting page pallO In the history of ot mod modern modern modera ern era times the ono onu lP I eI 5 that will be read by b ba U t a generation gen now un on unborn unborn born with mingled skepticism sk anti and hor horror Is II tho story of ot treatment of or ortho tho the Jews JewL Until the tha present time the Infamous massacre of ot HI lit Bartholo mews has been tho the premier example of ot the virulence Inspired by racial and amid re me religious lous hatred Tho The recent slaughter daughter of Jews Jens at Odessa Odes a and anti other points tn In the tho Russian nu Is III far ai ghastlier The massacre ot ut St 51 wan wall the sanguinary ot of a long and bitter controversy the climax of a u war of extermination It was wan as regarded at atthe atthe the th time na as 11 un inn almost natural conse consequence quence of ot the relations which existed between tho the political factions of 0 France It U was time the outcome ot of a civil cl vII war In which the iho religious Instability cf rr the moment became a 1 prominent factor but It was waa primal lly the s tins tinsel el gb Ie e for tor or a 0 crown Time The horror Inspired by th this the of ot St 81 has hM been ben cumulative There Thon is It no evi evidence evidence dence to show that It was waa followed by b ban any an widespread and Immediate senci of ot public indignation The dominant md anil nj victorious party lart found In It U a 0 cause cau e etor for tor rejoicing Except In Iri Iz carnage carnag there thero Is ii little parallel between St and the recent criminal and aud wholly Irra Irrational Irrational daughter slaughter of ot the Russian Jews Jow Even ren In tn that thaI respect the tha comparison Salters for tar the victims of ot this twentieth twentieth twentieth century outrage greatly outnumber ber the Huguenots who fell on that fatal faUl night Since the tho Initial crime crimI of I which was ns followed by the fearful retribution of ot the Japanese war var atrocities clUes against the Jewish CultS Ih of 0 the empire havo 1110 been no so fro frou pleat u nt that the public sense of horror lias become dulled almost deadened to It Is U a II fact that In Its present attitude toward the Jews Is about whom was wast In tho the thirteenth century In tho the ancient hal bal ballads lads latis of that thaI period the Jew was wall always Io pictured as ns the villain the creature cre ture to tobe tobe tobe be hated Iii treated Iret d and deprived of o tile his rights It Is rather less than thon three cen con centuries centuries tories the British nation die dis discovered covered that tho Jew was a 0 being sue OilS of at becoming u it good citizen un on der fair treatment Russia has made the tile first step toward a similar I enlightenment I t There has bias been a great difference of ot opinion among outsiders ns as to tho the I actual feeling of the tho Russian peasant for or his fellow countryman the Russian Jew As Am a matter of fact act the Russian han hall nn no Inborn and amid very ery decided prejudice against time the Jew It U is tho 0 growth of centuries of ot like prejudice on th tile part pait of ot hid tui ancestors and Is I to so I rooted roo led that It seems to be proc practically practically Ineradicable much of It will wilt be necessary to overcome this tide In III Ingrained tm grained antipathy Hut It need not be predicated from flom this that tU tilt ti dislIke Is of oC euch a Il character that the peasant Is animated perpetually with a it desire to 10 IQ bOut about slaying his Ms harmless neigh hors bors or avert cen burning thou their houses hou e Hs lie may mIl live lIe with them In for years has lion done Ione so 10 and amId will continuo continua to do doso 1 so and then th n unscrupulous mid crafty leader will play pIa upon his hla hi Intent latent prejudices and a the mob spirit once aroused will carry corry him on to the climax of ot criminal excess I Time will prove that the Russian bureaucracy alone Is responsible for w F IF I S 1 T iT Vj p J j jI I 1 fr I J I z 1 i P Boons UAL IMA JEWISH EU the present unprecedented onslaught tho the In Iii Ill 1113 rage anti and HU No over oer the spread of liberal Ideas it iditH hUI sought to 10 divert the tho attention of the he nation by u a 1 bloody demonstration against the tho popular scapegoat t Its Us own hated cause menaced to tho tito verge of ot extinction It did lId not hesitate to In Interpose terpo e n a 1 distraction which meant un untold untold untold told misery miser anti absolute destruction to toso toso so 50 many man of the most ding din subjects Anything was wall prefer preferable preferable able abla to tile the triumph of 0 Liberalism and the tho further humiliation of ot the house of ot Romanoff and Its satellite satellites The an ancient cleat dUlt shIbboleth The Jews nr are tho tha enemies of the Itic Russian nation was revived and employed with terrible ef eC effectiveness foci I vene veness p phat That hat the time autocracy has struck truck Its lis final envenomed blow against Liberal Liberalism ism 1511 over ocr till the shoulders of or the peace peaceable peaceable able war detesting Jews Jows la Is no nn longer lounger a 11 matter for more mere speculation his Tha party that has done dono such a it deadly Injury to these theMo Inoffensive aliens allemis work through nn tin organisation known In Russia na an the thio th Chornaya Black Hundred H It HIs ItIs t Is a 1 secret p cret and extremely extreme powerful or and It has linus numerous mem born bora In all au large targe Russian towns town Its It II sole soc object to put It briefly Is tn In slIts Hills Ine tho the cause of ot liberty Tim The of ot the Jews JOWl from rom tho tile empire or their per her as long an liS they the remain Is II no part hart of ot their undertaking U It may even be of them that they cherish less ices enmity for the t hI Jews J elis than tho n for any OilY other people of tho empire outside their own clots They would rather havo the blood of at one une Liberal than thun that of ot a hundred Jews Jaws JI The Black Wack Hundred Is la hated and antI dreaded by every ev ry lover of ot liberty It Itha ha lisi happened more moore than once that a member r of the society caught red rod hand handed handell ed ell lisa haH been bren dipped In kerosene and amid set seton seton seton on lire 1111 The rho members names amIS arc kept as na secret as a possible slid and no man roan dares to avow himself The he upper hierarchy and the tho regular clergy are represented largely In the tho Hundred but the tha secular papa or married d priest Is not admitted lIe He Is IK not considered to be sufficiently mUy Intelligent or capable ot of keeping client Time members are ara re mc recruited reo largely from tram the bureaucrats the tile class of at Russians nus lans It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is manifestly to tho the of this title clan to da III Its utmost to Its golden opportunity from slipping from Its III grasp It tins has become Lecome cruel conscienceless In the effort to 11 retain power 0 we r Arrayed against thIs malevolent force first duet of ot all the fa so In Intellectuals These Those Include tho the uni university students student who are arc nr the true and ond ardent nt friends of ot Liberalism arid and who wiio havo have no quarrel with the Jews The Liberals havo have always stood out against the persecution of ot the tho Jows but have huv I seldom sel made a point of po politically with them Tha Liberal cle ele clement element domont ment mont has been to tu use the Rue Rus Husian olun sian artisan ns as a Ii political lever wisely avoiding the time cooperation of ot the tho Jews of at the empire whose who e natural tendency inuit have ha v been broil toward liberty and nn l reform Saddest of ot all nil It H Is becoming evident that the dastardly expedient of oC the tha bureaucrats line lins had Its effect that It has haa even Oln succeeded In a 1 measure It U la It becoming more apparent every day that thaI the massacres have postponed tho tue com cona coming ing of ot liberty Instead of ot hastening t tIt It rt M lii n a 1 realization that tho the blood of the tho thousands of ot Jews Jell sh sited shed d during tho the recent uprisings has con can contributed to the tue support of the fabric fabrio which time anti and opportunity seemed to have combined to destroy It If tho tile sacrifice could have havo thin Iho social I rehabilitation of or the tue empire and more moore especially tho the full emancipation tion of oC tit rice which has furnished martyrs to redeem tho the po political political sins sin of at tho tine world there would be some Dome recompense As It Is b there Is III nothing beyond a 11 courageous and anti In Insistent Insistent hope ALONO ALONZO HASTINGS |
