Brigham City Bugler | 1891-09-05 | Page 3 | The Fate of Jews in Russia

The Fata of Jew in Russln. A few days ago a Jewish physician of some intelligence, whose diplomn ; had been withdrawn from him upon the ground that he was too full of sympathy sym-pathy for some poor wrotches suspected of nihilism, assured me that the Russian Rus-sian Jews who have reached tho United States feel like singing hymns of thanksgiving. thanks-giving. Since his arrival in this country coun-try tliis physician has been visiting the tenement houses and workshops of the east side of New York city in order to gain some notion of the life of his follow fol-low countrymen here. ''Their condition condi-tion may seem miserable- to you," he said, "but it is paradise compared tc the horrors from which they have escaped." es-caped." When one realizes that in the vast area east of the Bowery populated by Russian Jews the crowding, the filth, the noise and the stenches are beyond description, and that the majority of these people work from fourteen tc eighteen hours a day, often beginning their labor at dawn and continuing il until they fall exhausted upon the piles of clothing that they make for the cheap shops, ho can see that the fate of the Russian Jew who has to stay in Russia must be hard indeed. P. Q. Hubert, Jr., in Forum.