| Show THE HEBREWS IN RUSSIA LONDON sept 26 in darkest russia points point sout out that baron hirsch hirsohn Hirs s scheme if can only provide for about three per cent centon of the russian jews A letter which appeared in anti jacobin 9 and which was signed an israelite wanderer PA has been published in the newspapers and is attracting considerable attention it strongly defends russia ruesta and declares that the laws relating to the jews are by no means so as imagined Re ferrii ferrit g to the domicile law this leatter says that it has never been altered but has been operated with so little rigor that one third of the jews reside today in the governments from which they were excluded a generation ago this he says is a sign of the gradual improvement which is least to be expected from a semi civi lazed country like russia continuing the writer says that jews reside in st petersburg and a similar number in moscow the expulsions be adds are entirely due to jewish violations of the law mechanics mechanical certificates have been forged fraudulent permits printed and a regular trade in them prosecuted for years certificates have also been used long after the original grantee was dead and thousands of jews with neither means nor a trade have settled in russia where they had no more right than a pauper emigrant has to land in new york numbers of mechanics have also forsaken their regular occupation and have taken to peddling thus violating the conditions under which they were allowed to settle between and jews now reside in russia in open violation of the law owing to fraudulent permits or by buying offid officials als being undisturbed they have become more confident and invested money in houses which to is against the law and then when orders are received to enforce the domicile law the outside world hears of wholesale expulsions accompanied by brutality but every jew so expelled courted his fate they all know what they are doing when they pass pan the pale of their domicile cile the poor jews suffer most from the rigor of the law being as peddlers porters and such like at the mercy of every petty official by whom they are hounded bounded from pillar to post poet if baron ao Hirs herbcha cbs schedule includes these poor jews it takes up the most moot ing material it is possible to deal with they have neither the physique for field work nor resource of any kind they rhey and their families must be sup ported from the moment they have left russia until an indefinite date when 11 they can maintain themselves us unaided I 1 the government will not allow the I 1 capable sturdy better class clag who are all military reservist to leave the cou country ly |
