Show THE HEARTLESS RUSSIAN The following story of the condition of affairs in Russia reads like a talc of some horrible dream to the people of the United States whose every man is free to worship God according to his belief when the method employed is not a direct di-rect violation of law The American Hebrew the organ of the Hebrews in the r United States published in New York I City has the following Not long ago the cities of llostow and rnKanroc wow annexed to a military 3a I I trictin which Jews were forbidden to dwell As usual a Senatorial Commission pointed to consider the contingency was Si effect this body has rendered its decision to and the that the Jews should not or could not bo permitted to remain in permitted the newly created district with thA ntoo1 the 2 exception 0 of merchants of uu uau KUIIU aim luoso wno have secured real estate This will enable some 4000 wealthy Jews to remain in possession of their homes while about 10003 poor helpless Jews will have to go forth upon the olden wellworn road of exile There may however yet remain that that direful act ma be a hope may averted if the voice of civilized humanity may be heard in reprobation of the dastardly not In long and terrible annals of political the cutions and racial oppressions there perse is not another instance of coldblooded and wil fully atrocious an outrage as this There is not any pretence of an accusation against i these 16000 outcasts not any intimation of a popular desire for their expulsion not any semblance of an uprising among the rabble I I njjninsl the Jew not n whisper of charges or complaints against them simply and solely for the topographical reason that the two cities are to be classed into u certain military district where Jews are forbidden and those 16000 are to be driven forth to seek homes wheresoever they may We appeal therefore to the journalists of America to utter a brave word in behalf of these 16000 who are threatened with expa triation We appeal therefore to the mm I isters of America who preach with word I und I act the gospel of peace and brotherly love and universal charity to lift up their 1 I voices in eloquent and persuasive I against this threatened desecration protest i i I of all I that religion teaches Press pulpit and j platform should speak the heart of America j in reprobation of this heartless godless deed |