Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-08
UNHEEDE0 SUFFERING.
The Cruelties Imposed on the Jews
by the Russians.

The Cruelties Imposed on the Jews
by the Russians.
Kansas City journal.
No people on earth are suffering the
indignities and the cruelties that are
now being imposed on the Jews by the
Russian people, and yet so intent are
other governments on providing for
their own national interests that all
the scenes of cruelty in Russia seem to
attract no active attention, Long be-
fore civilization had reached any es
pecial development atrocities such as
are practiced in Russia would have
been a cause for war on the part of
the surrounding countries. In Russia
both the government and the people
are bent on the destruction of the jew
ish people, and yet the world stands by
and witnesses the result with only a
feeble protest from time to time. AT
the present time the Russian govern.
ment is engaged in driving these mis-,
cradle, unhappy people into the power
of their enemies. AT st. Petersburg,
the Hebrew ap)theciries have been
commanded to sell out their business
at forced sale. Recently the car has
published decree forbidding the Jews
to live outside the towns and villages.
These people have been abused for not
giving more attention to agriculture
and less to trade. and now in the only
country where they have become farm,
ers extensively they are prohibited from
exercising their calling. While they
must live in the towns they are not
allowed to reside in ST. Petersburg.
1t has also been decreed that the
Jews shall not do business on Sun.
days or any of the saints days.
1t is said that Russians are de.
termined that the Jews shall not
be permitted to do business on more
days than the Christians on account of
competition in trade. The Russians
have over 800 saints days, and as they
religiously abstain from work Oh those
days it gives the Jews quite an advan.
tage in the race for wealth. We
should not be surprised to hear Of a de-
cree compelling the Jews to adopt
some Of the vices of the Russians IN
order to keep them from ever getting
that advantage.
The Hebrews are escaping from the
country as fast as possible, and have
sought homes and refuge in Pales.
tine, but they are refused passports by
the Turkish cOnsuls. 1t is said that
two hundred families are now held in
COnstantinople and are at the starving
point. England and Ireland are in a
ferment over the payment of land rent
Ireland is unhappy because her people
can not have the concessions they ask
1t would be well for some of the Euro
pean nations to leave their own quar-
rels long enough to compare their
troubles with a people who are COM
PEELED to pass through such trials as
the following:
An Austrian physician who has
visited the Jewish hospital at Odessa
gives the following account of what
he saw there. "ln the Jews hospital
at Odessa 125 mutilated persons have
been received within few days, and a
still greater number are still in the ruins
of their homes in Ho2Olo, Balta and
smaller places in the neigEborhood.
Most Of the wounds are of very
dangerous character, the aggressors
having been cruel enough to pour
spirits and petroleum into them. If
the Jews resented this treatment the
Russians cut arms and legs off the
badly used bodies, and carried them to
the woods to throw them to the wolves
Very few Of the victims in the hospital
are liable to recover, and the accounts
they give of their sufferings and the
treatment they experienced at the
hands of their OppressOrs would ap
pear exaggerated did their bodies moi
prove the truth of what they say
There is one young woman of little
more than Is years whose breast was
cut off with a sword, while her ont
|, year baby, which is lying on the bee
near her, has had its eyes put out will
|, a red hot iron. She told the physician
that her husband had house anC
: shop in HozOlO, and that she hat
always been on the best terms will
: the Russians of that town. On Eastel
I. Eve, as she was making preparations
for the Passover feast, wild hordu
i broke open her door, took her baby
], and threatened not to return with i
i until she had given up all the montv
Z and valuables in the house. The chill
; was screaming wildly, so size fetched
b all she had. When the Child was re
y turned to her its eyes had been alread,
/ put out. In her despair she threv
herself upon those who had done tn
;, horrible deed, but they flung her +
e the ground, treated her in the mos
It horrible fashion imaginable, and whe
t, her husband returned and drew rt
It volver, he was thrown to the groun
o also, bound with cords, and forced
look on while the monsters cut hi
)" wife's breast clean away. She wa
r. left lying there with her baby, but th
It man was carried off, and she has neve
10 heard of him since.
This cruel way Of exterminatio
q has. been going on for months, an
n Russia laughs at protests. Englan
l. seems to have lost all influence in I'll
Y east, and the Turks will now be allowe
~ to complete what the Russians have s
: vigorously commenced, In the Unite
:. States = great clamor is raised againS
~ " minister to England because he doe
= = not run the risk of war on account &
20 men who may not be citizens Of tn
country and WIN where simply in
prisoned on suspicion, yet the murdt
Of thousands of people in Russ
II hardly creates ripple of excitemen
% These facts demonstrate that there
|: considerable inconsistency even in Il
"a civilization of the nineteenth centur