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Show Russia's Mistake THE continued banishment of Jews from Russia Rus-sia is noted from day to day in the dispatches. dispatch-es. Nearly a. million have come to the United States in the past decade. For justification Russia urges that this race does not give to the Russian government full allegiance. In the Russian Rus-sian sense that is true, for in Russia the Czar claims to be the head of both the state and the church, and hence, no matter how good a citizen a Jew may be, when it comeg to his faith he is still what his fathers were one hundred generations genera-tions ago. Then as the foundation stock of Russia Rus-sia were Asians, there still linger many of the ancient antipathies which have kept the tribes of sAsia fighting since before th days of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchad-nezzar, and ft is with Impatience and hate that those in authority in Russia hear men in their midst, humble and poor, still proclaiming that their people were spreading enlightenment upon a darkened earth when the original Russians had but little emerged from the barbarism of the stone age, and fail to note the full significance of the fact that while other nations have arisen and flourished and passed away; this one people have held their way in the world, even as does a special current in the sea, unchanged in volume or quality qual-ity no matter through what climates it may pass; that it was this people that began the civilization of men; that wrote the first books, that dictated the first lasting laws to men; that invented poetry and eloquence and left specimens speci-mens of both to men which have never been ox-celled, ox-celled, which all the breaking waves of time can neither erode or wash away. And now, after all the cruel years have done their worst, wherever this race Is given equal privilege with every other race, where the opportunities of a country are open to them, they are found to be the peers of the best as scholars, as artists, as men of affairs, af-fairs, as masters of the learned professions everywhere. As one of their brightest statesmen and writers and &cholars wrote: "The monarch whose reign has ceased for three thousand years, but whose wisdom is a proverb, in all nations of the earth; the lawgiver of the time of the Pharaohs, whose lawsi are still obeyed; the teacher teach-er whose doctrines have moulded civilized Europe; Eu-rope; the greatest of legislators, the greatest of administrators and the greatest of reformers; what race, extinct or living can produce three such men? Russia cannot claim tha't the race has deteriorated deterior-ated in the least intellectually; it is as virile as it was under Sinai, or on the.Red Sea's shore; misfortune mis-fortune cannot daunt it; persecution cannot bieak its spirit; the circling centuries have no effect upon it, nor break Its Indomitable heart. Were the authorities of Russia wise they would say to these people: "Worship what God you please; hold to whatever faith you please, but do not leave Russia; help leclafm its lands; help extend ex-tend the schools;' help the state while you are helping yourselves! Let us all work for a greater Russia! If they had the wisdom and strength and clearness clear-ness of vision ta say that and act upon it, in two score years Russia would bo the foremost power of the old world; the arbiter of war and of peace in Asia, and intellectually perhaps the superior power of this old world, for Russia has not yet attained the strength of the middle age of a nation; na-tion; indeed, her real expansion has hardly yet begun. It is a grievous spectacle to see her driving H from her support a vital factor of intellectual strength and financial power. H |