The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-05
THE PROSECUTED JEWS
WHY lsRAELlrEs ARe PRoscRIssp,
Tho ksodut from Russla rerstcution No, OF
a Religious Charaetsr-rhs Hebrew, Nade
sosuffsr for Al the Attempts on the
g. Cars Llts-lmerlrA Their Refuge.

NEW ionE, May IA reporter had a
dialogue to-day with two Jews in Castle
Garden. Ono OF them was Russian jew,
u graduate Of IN agricultural college, who
had Just arrived in this country, and the
other was III American Jew, Il resident OF
this city.
"We arc told" the reporter said 10 The
Russian jew, "that in the an.i.Jcwish
movement under the Gar, Christian in.
tolerance plays the chief part."
THAT Is utterly taise." the Russian re.
piled. "rhc educated Russians don't care
about any religion, aud tho Russian pca,.
antry are the most tolerant people In Ii q
world, while Russian law Is most liberal N
regard to religion" "And the law" c, n.
tinued the Jewish agrica.urist, "is not q
dead letter either, ut least so fur us Il O
Hebrews nrc concerned"
What Is, then, the troube?' asked the
reporter.
That is a curious thing" said the Il, =.
sian Jew, "and to make long story sbo,t.
will say this: Russia is already in h
state Of revolution, and this revolution IL Il
political as well us an economical or social
one. In such state OF things the m;,idI,..
men, who serve the ruling classes us tc o!
lor depressing the people, are usually first
10 suffer from the wrath OF the oppressed.
unhappiIy. our people in the Cars
counuy-that is, the great majority Of
them-are the middlemen. Please mari;
this we'll: While the cdncated Russian
irevolutionists deal deadly blows Mt the
head OF the Cz4r's government, ut the
same time the revolutionary pcasan.ry
strike their blows at another part of tie
government, namely, the middemcn, wht
happen, as l have said, in this ease to be
Jews. A Car is killed and the Jews are
forced to hy. Thus tive impor.an, s,e,,s
are won, and two revolutionary extremes,
the Sjhilists and the peasants, are brought
nearer to each other. When thev have
united in their work, and that time is near
Mt hand, then a revolution will be nc.
complishcd in Russia"
AND IN order 10 escape the horrors 0f
revolution your people fly from Russia?r
inquired the reporter.
Il would be wrong il gave n swccpir.
Affirmative answer" said the Russian r,ut.
grant I'VE, the educated Russian Jews,
have taken an active part in the reyoIr.
tlonary movement, and you mus. be aware
tflat among the NihIis!s who have been
hanged or who are dyin: i'll the Siberian
mlnes. sand in the Cars political prisons,
there Isl good proportion OF Jews. Dut
now we iirs not needed by the Nihiiists for
TINS reason. Their cause OF course is n
political one. and the fac, that there were
Jews among them, they fear, might divert
1t into race struggle, which IS exactly
what Minister lgnatietT is trying his bcs.
to DO. VI course we could no. s,ay idle in
kussia, waiting perhaps to he hobbed, anu
so the majority Of our people have no
choice but to elnigratc."
Are there many Jews in Russia ready
to emisrate to this country
There are in Russia about 100000
Jews, that is nearly half of all the Jews
now in the world, and the word America
IS oitener on the tongue OF every one OF
them than even the word 'rouble.' America,
IN their opinion, is the veritable land OF
promise, full of mama AMI dollars, in
which everybody but the lazy can have
plenty, and the Russian Jews are not law.
| have heard that there is scheme TO
bring here this year about 100000 Russian
Jews. Indeed. the only question is how 10
raise money for the expense OF the yoy.
age"
"What about the Jewish agricultural
colonies here?" the reporter asked.
Now you strike the main point" inter-
posed the American Jew. "That is Il
funny story. Here is my friend Who,
though graduate OF the Imperial Asri-
cultural College never held in his handsa
rake, hay fork or scythe, and probably
never gaw plough in actual usc.''
!, "ies, on the college ia,m," answered
the agriculturalist.
"Well, that is queer boss for Jewisl,
agricultural colony to be established among
the Yankee farmers in the West. And
who is he TO drill in the flaming evolu.ions?
Why, the medical students, druggists, book
keepers, clerks, drummers, pcddlins Traders
and the like-in short, everybody except
farmers. Think Of a horse race bctweena
man born and grown up on the deck OF
vessel and Il Cossack, born and almost
grown up on horseback. Yet, my friends,
The dreaming ugriculturists are going to
some such job. They intend to
beat our Yankee farmers, and, besides, to
reform Our life on some Russian socialistic-
plan, and thus to open new
era in the history Of the people OF Israel.
Plans Of 4 child, nothing else"