Show THE SPIRIT OF intolerance ACCORDING to our dispatches there is a very general feeling of in dig nation in europe over the alleged renewal in russia of tion against the jews the report hm baa been denied but it appears that that the tee edicts of 1882 against the jews I 1 ia russia have been revived and aar now enforced s by the terms of these edi edicta B brews are prohibited from living outside of certain provinces pro vincee may not be so cruel as J from the country but cannot tw work inexpressible hardship as aa lia Is for many virtual banishment home and utter ruin for some 5 r A it is id estimated that there are anve millions of jews in russia and sa that at least a million will be more for or less affected by these harsh measures for which there seems to be neither right nor reason this anti semitic spirit which fc 7 breaks forth at intervals in certain places caces is similar in some respects to J the anti ai mormon virus that H without real cause animates not p only the ignorant masses but people who ought to know better and should be free from those bitter prejudices and intense animosities winch which figure in all religious remigius reli gius perse unions ut ions K As in the case c of the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons some slight incident Dt in itself harmless either to individuals or society is magnified and distorted by designing persons until it appears to be a gigantic evil the false alse side of the story is widely published dished and generally accepted the hi truth ardth when told is seldom repeated j B y the press and thus the public 1 2 receive only the malicious and de cestive report and remain in the dark aicra as to the facts ft the expulsion of the jews from g apala pain toward the close of the afif sc century was consequent upon popular fury aroused by faise falsehood hood T lt it to is now regarded as not only a big I 1 blunder which has worked evil to 1 ast s that country but as one of the black spots in history and an evidence of ahe intolerance and brutality of the r bines tj in relation to the effort in progress to induce the wealthy hebrews of z burcope 4 to join in a boycott against russia by way of retaliation and as ft means of inducing a relaxation of dyff fy ff raid upon the russian jews this I 1 4 has baa been tried before but failed it if h z at daae ata money lending house closed its at ta doffe doffers against the czar another olied open its pockets and thus the ke refusing fusing firm lost in business and the oppressed jews gained nothing ai rf it would seem that the better way 7 crould fould fou be to help forward an exodus b the oppressed to 6 some more favor aible i ble ible land lad if america is too far arkey key is more liberal than russia and is near at hand A nation that 1 tu 11 treat the jews as russia does is hy af their presence their bents ts and their thrift it should be 6 to suffer the loss which would 6 c consequent 0 upon their entire re iovan val from its cities and its soil stations will have to reap the har bar ot their own planting as do indi 9 the seeds of Iti injustice justice and krohg bring forth fruit in their id d and come back to vex the sow the oppressors of the jew and oppressors of the mormon will each have to take the results of their acts and the nations and people of these times of theoretic liberty and ideal tolerance are more guilty when they do violence to the principles of freedom and equal rights than their prototypes of the dark ages and will therefore reap a bitterer recompense both russia in its treatment of the jews and america in its treatment of the mormons cormons Mor mons would do well to note these truths enunciated by the courier journal there is no more im important t lesson fo for r nations to learn than that religious intolerance is ia an expensive luxury the spirit that prompts it is irreconcilably opposed to the spirit of progress its vigorous exercise is therefore an ominous symptom in any country and even if it does not mark the decadence of the nation it is always prophetic of future trouble and arrested development the policy most consonant with reason and justice is always the best in the long run with nations as with individuals |