Show THE SCATTERED SCATTER ED REMNANTS ahm and express of new york has a very instructive article on jewish facts and figures it deate deals principally with the jews in russia but bat glances incidentally at the ram race all the world over it appears that within the russian pale of jewish settlement which includes western russia little little I 1 russia and south russia there are jews theise thebe figures are taken from the report of the publeo commission it professes to give the actual population but the merit mag thinks it fails to do so go by 80 per cent out side the pale jews live in russian poland there are jews this makes an aggregate of of jews under russian dominion the total number of israelites in the whole world is in estimated at ot of these about live in europe next to russia austro hungary has the largest contin contingent genk the number being germany has haa england prance france holland italy switzerland belgium denmark norway and sweden have but ft a few thousands each spain and portugal have only 1600 1500 and most of these theae live at gibraltar under the british rag flag in eastern europe the jews are am stronger numerically in proportion to christians than in the west has turkey and bulgaria in asia it is estimated that about exist in australia and the islands of the pacific there are jews and in america about these figures show that there are more jews in russia than in all the other countries of the world combined there tire are only three countries in the world where legal disabilities against jews prevail these are russia spain and portugal in 1791 the french lawmakers of the revolution enfranchised the jews at that time a jew on entering a market town had to pay a to toll just as was paid for a hog or ox the last political disability was not removed from jews in england until 1858 it is only within the present generation that denmark austria germany and other countries removed the jewish disabilities russia spain and portugal are the only countries which have legal discriminations crimi nations against jews the two latter countries contain but a small number however as an there is nothing said add about persecution there it to is possible that the laws against them are not enforced russia of all the countries in the world maintains her middle aged penal code against hebrews alexander 11 II liberated the russian serfs and acquired for himself imperishable honor why not alexander III follow in the footsteps of his famous predecessor and liberate the jews this stop step would throw his country forward hundreds of years in humanity and civilization it would add more to his bis count rys 19 glory than the acquisition of stamboul or of british india |