Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-02
THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN
RUSSIA.


RUSSIA.
The cruel persecution of the Jews
n the Russian Empire is beginning
10 attract the attention of the civil
lied world. A meeting was held at
Cbickering Hall, in New York city,
last night, to express sympathy for
these prosecuted people and TO
protest against the cruelty permit
ted if not encouraged by the
Russian government. Although the
renorts which have reached this
country, of riots and massacres IN
the southwestern part OF Russia are
meagre, enough is known to sean
outburst of public Indignation and to
make humanity revolt at the atroel-
ties practiced. DR.. Herman Adler
of New York, has recently made q
statement of the state OF affairs III
Russia, which is summar-
lied in an editorial in the
New York Sun, from which
we make an extract as showing some
thing of the character OF the atroci~
ties complained of:
Bv. citing in detail places, dates,
and figures, DR.. Adler seeks to give
US an adequate idea of the barbara
ties which, during the last year, have
been inflicted in number Of Russian
towns by Infatuated mobs upon the
unofending Israelite inhabitants.
We learn, for instance, that at Smlela
no less than twelve men were killed
and twenty-five wounded. In kletf,
TWENTY-FIVE married women and
three maidens were dishonored by
gangs of ruf1ians; ten OF the women
died from the effects of outrage,
and four men were killed. In Ellza-
bethgrad whole streets of houses IN
the Jewish quarter were literally
RACED to the ground, all the houses
being sacked, and al. the shops
plundered. These scenes were
repeated, we are told, throughout &
great part of those towns of South
ern Russia, in which Hebrews are
permitted to reside. In every in
stance the sole cause of otfense
given by the victi1ss' 3 rapine and
murder was that a oocqng Jews.
these pf, i miami ssrocities cannot be
regarded ass ogly local outbreaks
The Hebrews living in western Rus
sia have also, it appears, suffered
grievously from the wholesale burn
ing of their houses and property. L
is only lew weeks since q fQrmfda
bile outbreak of race hatred took Pla!Gl
in Warsaw In Minsk nearly s,Oo'
Jews have lost their ALL In koret
thirty Israelites persisted in the flames
and 800 families were rendered home
less. In single Austrian town
Brody-not far from the RUSSIA
frontier, not less than 10000 JEWS
refugees have sought shelter during
the present winter. Strenuous e.
a forts were made by their Austria
: coreligioniSts to succor them an
!. assist some of them to emigrat'
:, About 500 of these Brody refugee
lately arrived in Liverpool on the1
way to the United States, and it wa
s found on investigation that not On
S of them had pursued the calling OF
y money lender. The majority of thel
!; were Elacksmiths, bricklayers, mason
plumbers, house painters, tinker
. locksmiths, saddlers, shoemaker
d tailors, and agricultural laborer
t. Some thirty per cent. were trader
# and merchants, who had been robbie
:, of everything. These facts dspoi
= Of the charge that the Jewish res
- dents i'll Russia have rendered ther
Il selves odious to their fellow subjec
h jects by oppressive usury. 9th
!, striking data on the same head a
~ furnished by Dr. Adler. Near Gull
y pal there is an agricultural color
composed exclusively Of Jews, al
comprising some 500 familie
e, they certainly could not
D. taxed with living by usurious e
Of tortion, yet they suffered wi
u the rest of their coreligionists
3 the neighborhood. How, aga
m if the talk about Hebrew aversion
es mechanical callings is well foundt
Of can we account for the hourishll
-, condition of the Israehte trade scho
- at Kischinew, the chief town
IT Bessarabia, where Jewish lads a
es trained to be carpenters, blac
s. smiths, machinists and cabine
va makers? Still another test may
- applied to the assertions of sol
" Russian newspapers that the Je
en- ply trades injurious to the comm
ar nifty. Lei us compare the state
ut things in those provinces of cent
NJ. Russia where Jews are not allow
:. to settle with the condition of the
L. districts where they are numerol
nd DR.. Adler points out that among
,ct peasants in the province of Sarato
to where out of nearly two million
PC habitants only GA are Jews, there
~ no less dram drinking and power
III than in the provinces of Grodno a
ss Mohilew. where the Jews form II
ne pectively ID and 15 per cent. of
whole population.
There are more than three mill