| Show AN OUTRAGE UPON HEBREWS TUB latter day saints have suffered buffered much persecution during their brief history and are now undergoing a severe trial but with all the daiv ings and dobbings mob bings they have endured the loss of property the murder of their prophet and patriarch the hardships and toils which they have passed their lot has been an easy one compared wilh that of the jews in same me parts ol of europe the tribulations or the 46 chosen people since the days wien when their fathers cried out concerning berning the holy one let his bis blood be on 3 us and on our children would fill many volumes of bloody history the atrocities perpetrated upon them thein either I 1 I 1 he die dark were not confined to a ages aes es 11 modern times have been in shocking instances of awful brutality towards the descendants of judah and these have been the me shameful work of so culled called christians the latest instance of barbarity toward the jews becu occurred iu in russia A number of the despised race had bad beau long ions established in the cities of bostow and Tagan rog these by a new regulation were annexed to a military district in which jews were forbidden to locate lobate the difficulty which arose in reference to the hebrew inhabitants already settled in those cities was referred to a commission that body decided thai only jews of the first guild of merchants owning real estate could be permitted ermit ted to remain in the district this his decision enables about to retain their homes and business while of the poorer class who are least able to bear the burden of banishment must no go forth homeless and helpless upon the path of exile upon which the tae feet of their ancestors have left the imprints of sorrow and distress in most of the outrages which have been inflicted upon the he jews in europe some pretext ol 01 overt act on their part inciting the outbreaks have been cited or invented by way of excuse but in this instance there has been no do disturbance tur bance of any kind no uprising of the jews nu no riot of tue Gen gentiles no popular demand for the their r expulsion no charge tr or complaint against them the only reason advanced for this thia inhuman anu ana relentless rr edict is ia that the cities where they have dwelt have been attached t cached to a military district in wh which ich jews are not permitted to sojourn it if there is any influence that taut can be brought to bear by other nations upon the government of the czar to prevent the consummation of this outrage it ought certainly to be exerted exerted eyer ted the expatriation ot of 1600 people because of their race and religion is a spectacle that ought not to d disgrace is the nineteenth ventury that any nation professing tu to be christian can take part in such an atrocity is almost beyond belief but the fact that intolerance and bigotry are still rampant in the earth and that much of the christianity of modern times isa vain pretence predence pre tence his has been demonstrated in both hemispheres and in the history of the lai ter day faints as well as of the people with whom the christians savior was connected by blood and extended lineage it is said that misery loves company but it is certainly no cons to just people that others are called to suffer tor for principle as well as they we have plenty of room tor sympathy with the afflicted jews jewa |
