Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-01
Russia. aLADsrosg AND THE JEWS.

the Russian Jews without losing repn-
tation as an honest man. At present he
has laid himself open to very serious sus-
picions of hypocrisy and demagogism,
and the more closely the case is examined |
the harder it is to put dignifed ex-
PLANTATION on his conduct. All the world
remembers with what ferceness he at
tackled the Turks at the time of the
bulgarian atrocities" He literally ragged
about the country, denouncing "the un.
"speakable Turk = writing furious letters
to the Times; making red-hot speeches
declaring that England ought to be the
ally of Russia in the war against the
Porte and in short conducting himself in
most sensational and vehement way.
All the world remembers this, and all the
world now knews that in the case of the
treatment by Russia of her Jewish sub
jects asecond Bulgarian atrocities" exists
and that Mr.. Gladstone, whose sympa-
thies gushed out SO freely and copiously
towards the subjects of the Sultan, has
actually refused to take the first step
towards demonstrating with the Gar
against the cruel treatment Of these poor
people. Mr. Gladstone is very super
subtle casuist, and perhaps he has been
able to discover some difference between
the cases of the Bulgarians and the Russian
Jews. But the civilized world recognizes
no such distinction, and it will say of Mr..
Gladstone's attitude that it shows his
prejudices and his political cunning to
be more potent factors in his conduct
than humanity or honesty.
He has indeed involved himself in
very discreditable way. The man who
went into Mysteries over the Bulgarians;
who was so moved for them that he could
not stop to disentangle truth from false
hood even, but gave his adhesion to the
most monstrous fictions who was for driv-
ing the Turks out of Europe, bag and bag
gage; who was ready to embrace the
Russians with absolutely Gallo efusion it
is this man who now coldly turns his back
on the sufferings of the Russian Jews, and
though he now possesses all the power
which he lacked then, refuses to move
finger in their behalf. But in order fully
to appreciate the shamefulness of Mr.
Gladstone's action we must know what it
is that humane and liberty. loving people
are exclaiming and protesting against in
this connection. It must therefore be
stated that the Russian Jews have during
period of nine months been exposed to
far worse treatment than the Bulgarian
Christians ever underwent, and that the
Russian Government has done nothing to
protect them, or to punish their persecu-
which after long delays have at length
found their way into some of the London
journals, are horrible All over Russia
in towns as well as villages, there have
been the most savage and cruel attacks
upon the Jews. Murder, rape, mutilation,
torture, robbery, starvation, fogging,
drowning, burning alive, all this inter-
mingled with every possible indignity and
insult; this is what has been visited upon
the Jews by the brutal Russian populace,
while the soldiers and police have been
looking on and laughing at tie fun.
The narratives told by some of the suf
ferers are pitiful beyond all conception,
but there has been no pity for them in
their own country, and Mr.. Gladstone,
whose tears fell SO freely over the Bulgari-
ans, exhibits no emotion whatever over the
Jews. Nay, he is SO stolid and apathetic
that though he is the head of the Govern
ment he will not even countenance a
modest and most courteous appeal to the
humanity of the Gar, made by such men
as the Rothschilds and the Archbishop OF
Canterbury together. He is not willing to
countenance even that unobtrusive and
non. committal document. He proposes to
do nothing at all. Although in the case of
Turkey he held that all the world had a
perfect right to interfere, in the case of
Russia he considers that it is question of
domestic policy, and that no one has any
business to intrude. Circumstances alter
complete and SO brazen a metamorphosis as
this is seen, and especially in the case of
statesman who prides himself upon the
morality of his politics. We venture to
predict that Mr.. Gladstone will ruin his
reputation and render his name by-word
and reproach if he does not reconsider his
course in this case. No man can SO defy
the opinion of the world with IMMUNITY.
And as for Russia, what can be said of her
cynical savagism? Here is the Govern.
ment which felt itself called upon to go to
war with Turkey on behalf of the Bull
garians, whose sufferings it could not
tolerate and now it is standing by with
folded arms while its own subjects Guido
the worst of the Bulgarian atrocities
within its own dominions. The response
bility of the Government is unfortunately
but too clear. Specific instances are al
legged IN which the protection of the troops
was distinctly refused, and in which they
were actually so drawn up as to prevent
the Jewish victims from defending them
selves. Indeed nothing more is needed
than the Government propositions for the
future disposition of the question to prove
the malignity which is felt in high quarters
towards these people. Of course the ex-
PLANTATION is plain. The Jews have been
offered as sop to the mob, in the hope
That Nihilism would exhaust its fury upon
them. It has been piece of coBardly
policy from the first, but the country that
has been guilty of the infamy must not
again be spoken of as fit to rank with civ
| ilized powers. Russia is not civilized
power. Her mobiles are half barbarians,
her Government is savage, her populacs is
untsmed. And the English ruler who has
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