Show American Jews Badly Treated in Russia have believed cd for fol TS of world economics STUDE STUDENTS several years veal's that the time would come and that ri right light ht speedily I when I the he lie civili cd nations notions of the earth would be forced to take Russia Rusia in hand band and put an nn end to the atrocities committed there against the Jews Uncle Sam has been interested in the tho question lather Ie ply because of the restrictions p placed pl upon Jewish citizens ens of this country with reference to domiciliary liar rights right while residing tern tem t ly in ill Russia Rusia Memorial after memorial has been sent scat to the czar the they prove pro of no effect upon upun J the cold COll Russian belief that it its internal affairs arc are not the concern of America or Ot any allY other othel nation and its intention to manage e them to suit snit it itself without I explanation or apology It is the tho cheerful habit of the notorious Rus Rus- Russian Russian sian third section whenever internal dissatisfaction S I with the little father has smoldered until it is IS ISS IS'S S 'S just ready rendy to burst hurst into flame to divert that spirit of lawlessness against ag t the e Jews irrespective of whether the they are citizens of other countries protected protect protect- ed cd by treaty obligations or are arc merely subjects of the czar who c can n be he murdered with th impunity AI A A- AJr po pogrom m is a definite Russian institution the re reI reI result re- re Jr I suit sult of the spirit of Muscovite usco devilishness which I I the inhabitants of that unhappy country have inherited inherited inherited from Tartar and Cossack ancestors The powers of the world have bave permitted this sort of thing to go on unchecked partly because of Russia's Russia's Rus his sias sia's strength and partly because of that innate distaste distaste distaste dis dis- dis- dis taste inherent in ill nations as ns well as ind individuals id for interference in the purely domestic affairs of another When c citizens of America or of England England England Eng Eng- land or of France are arc wantonly done one to death in in n some weaker country there is a great eat to to-do about it the singular unanimity with which the leading powers powers pow pow- ers ens grasped China Chinn by the throat when m missionaries s were in danger during the Boxer shows uprising the capacity of the great nations nation to act together when there is nothing nothing- to be bc lost by so doing Other demonstrations of that sort which the history of the past twenty years jears records impel one to the thc belief belief belief be be- lief that it is Russia's great power pOYer that protects her rather than any delicacy of feeling on the part of the other powers Citizens of America are amply protected while sojourning within the borders of friendly nations and there seems no good reason why protection should not be bc exercised in behalf of American Jews TC in Ru Russia si It is charged and has never ne been successfully suc sue contradicted that a protest against maltreatment mal ma- treatment of Jews in iii Russia by hy an outside power merely angers the czars czar's government go and find inspires S fresh excesses It is curiously true that any strong l manifestation of indignation in iii England or Americ America Amer Amer- ic ica over uprisings against the Jews in Russia Russin if that manifestation takes the thc form of a n remonstrance from official sources is immediately followed by a pogrom more notable in the tle number of its victims 1 t than thou that against which complaint was made Russia is no more civilized than China The czar f is a n weak-minded weak fanatic in whose muddled brain f fear of assassination dr drives cs out all other thoughts his Ms subjects with the h exception of t tim the e. e sm small I cu cal cul- f hired ruling class are illiterate vengeful and doubtful doubtful doubt count ful of sanity Their hatred of the Jew Tew arises from the exercise of the well-known well business busine acumen of the latter the Russian Hussian peasant is always in debt without hope of freeing himself from his incumbrance incumbrance brance and his creditor is usually a Jew The rhe bright idea of canceling his obligation by murdering I 11 his s creditor springs eternal in the heart of the theus Muscovite Mus us usi i covite itc and he acts upon it whenever general lawlessness lawlessness lawlessness law law- p makes it comparatively safe The Thc Christian nations of which Russia is decidedly decidedly decidedly edly not one will ill send an expedition into Russia some day similar to that which cowed the Chinese t Forbearance ceases to be a virtue with nations as aswell If f f well as individuals when it is too much traded upon would to have ha been reached That point seem f Jf JI t. t Jl I I |