The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-02
The Jews in Russia.


Vienna Correspondence London Telegraph
A gentleman who passed through Vienns
yesterday on his way home from the far east
via Bsku, Tifis and Charkof assured me
that the agitation against the Jews in south
Russia has assumed proportions Of which
western Europe is not yet aware. lie reach,
cd Elisabethgrsd during the recent disturb.
ances, and gathered the particulars he gave
me from residents ofthat town and neighbor'
hood. He accounts for the scarcity of news
from that part of Russia by the fact
that the telegraph officials will not
accept messages in any foreign language
while those written in Russian are revised by
the censor prior to transmission. The post
is scarcely safe means of communication,
there being at present regulsr system Of
letter opening for foreign postal service. My
fir ends Intormants told him the anti-Jeaish
movement in Russia is entirely the work of
the revolutionista They understand that it
would be of no avail to appeal to an ignorant
and. bigotedly lnysl pessaDtry on grounds
of political emancipation. Ivan lvsnovltch
knows little and 10 careless about
constitutions and administrative re-
form. 1t would be worse than useless TO
TALK to him OF such subjects. The rev., ..
tionists have, consequently, touched another
chord, and he - I'D ~ religious fansli-
citm. They have replesels,l the Jews as q
source of all the evi s with which Russia is
afflicted. They are held up to popular
reprobation as the asssssins Of the late czar,
sad Jessie HelfmsnD, the Jewess, who was
implicated in the conspiracy against his li'",
is designated as having been the sou
the whole plot. The czsr's asssssinativn
happened on day that is kept up les-
lively by the Jews in Russia, and
after the event they were charged with hav.
ing made merry In anticipation of what was
going to happen. The object of the revolu-
tonists is to create a popular rising, in which
the troops might be called upon to defend
the Jews against the Christians. They an
ticipate that either the troops would, under
such circumstances, refuse duty or tn at
the people would be so Infatuated that
q general rising would ensue. The
officers themselves appEehond tho former
contingency; but Ia either case the OPP
portunity would be favorable for the revolu-
tionlsts, and they would know how to turn II
&C. 90 sccount. The atrocities committed at
Elisabeth my informant, must
have been fearful 10 wines, as sn officer
who travelled a short distance with him and
who was present at the time, said he had
seen things that had sickened him to think
Of Neither women nor children were
spared, and had not many of tho Jews been
armed wholesale massacre would have
taken place. At first il was proposed 10
burn the Jews house,; but 1t 50 happened
that at Elzahethprad they do not live in q
distinct quarter of the town. Tbsis houses
are not separated from the Christians, so the
latter would have suffered from conlsgra-
ton. II appears that, ats small locality
nsmed Galta, massacre Of the jews was
actually on the point of commencing when
the inhabitants Of neighboring village,
called 0lviopol, came 10 the rescue and de-
Tended the Jews against the ageressors. Ac-
cording TO an evening telegram, there hAi
also been excuses against the Jews In The
government Of Kiev.