The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-09

mot r. matter of wondoi lhat lhe belef tof
l.rn NJ the wohd BE- onofseiioaIly pfotmiihf
AGAINST li,o continuance N those dailafdly
acts 'rho Russian government is ycy
prompt ud po#of.t iu the oyccuilon NJ the
Nlhlal4 for even 600 evil thought, but de-
darcs itself poworIos 10 protect the Jow'
II Is, ol course, on exceedingly quc.iionn-
bic policy for one nation TO interfere In the
internal affairs Of another, and Is only per.
Missile ON one or two grounds. When the
interests Of humanity are at stake such IN
reference is rot only cXcusabIc, but proper
and it IS gratifying to notice that the higher
powers are taking the correct course with
the subject, When the United states ana
Great Britain say thing shall not be done,
it isn't likely any other power Will turn
deaf ear to their uttcranccs 1t cannot be
expected it is true that in the premises
there would be an armed intervention, hut
public opinion can be moulded and handled
so us to force the degraded masses OF
Russia into consciousness of the
odious nature of their conduct. 1t is an in
suit to the humanity and progress of the
ace that such righteousness is permitted,
whether the victims be Jews, Gentiles,
Chinese or what-not, and whether it be
done in Russia or the United States.
Tyranny and superstition have 50 wound
themselves around the subjects of the Mus
coyite, and the press is so iettered and
opinion so stined that it is impossible to
witness any condemnation Of their popular
meanness but from the outside world. AT
the late meetings relative to the matter both
in London and New York, the foremost men
of the two foremost countries in the
world were present, and it is to be hoped
that the influence of their action and the
energy of their expressions will accomplish
the desired result 1t is but the praise
worthy protest Of raodcrn and civilized hui
mainly against the re-enacting OF the
bloody and disgraceful scenes which distin-
guished antiquity. At the meeting re-
ferred to as held in New York city last
week, Mr.. EvARTs closed powerful address
with the following beautiful periods worthy
of attention aud reproduction everywhere
and emitting the ex-secretary to the lasting
gratitude of the people in whose behalf
they were uttered 'It-the persecution
has prevailed from April until Christmas,
and the greatest outrage was on Christmas
at Warsaw, when 800 houses and 600 shops
were plundercd in that city, and garrison
of %, 600 soldiers were kept i'll their barracks
and gave no aid to their succor and obeycd
no authority to protect them. And this
was on the morning when, in the name OF
Christ, peace and good will was proclaimed
throughout the world to all men. This
was q Christmas celebration Of Christ
mas day upon the persons and property Of
their fellow-men. Now, it may be said, all
this is horrible indeed. And yet you have
never looked in the face Of one Of those who
were the victims, and you stand in no dread
of the british ignorance and the brutal pas
sions ever being exercised at your risk.
This is but one more of the ever recurring
forms and instances of that question asked
so early in the history of our race Am |
as,y. brothers keeper?" 1t is not that, it is
the oppression of Jews by Russia; it is that
it is the Oppression of men and women by
men and tyomen, and we are men and
vomenu ~