, 1882-03-15

carried away or stolen. Troops of vaga-
bonds and thieves, who followed the Wake
of the attacking party, tried to make OF
with the things scattered about, but when
detected they were beaten, and at Neglne
a Russian thief was flung into the water.
No woman was diShOnoured. There was
no murder; but in certain places the jews
tried to shoot the crowd from their win.
dOwS, when brawls enSued, In the course OF
which persons on both sides we're killed.
Butmore Christians were killed than Jews,
and in some cases the fOrme were shot
down by the troops and killed"
may be old that Mr.. Aksakoff is mis-
taken. But he is at least, moro likely to
know the truth than foreign newspapers,
who when challenged to verify their accu-
sations or name their infOrmants can do
neither. At all events, Russians are per"
fectly certain that the fact IS as MIR.
Aksakoff says it is, and you can imagine
what indignation they feel by seeing how
eagerly YOU accent calumnieS told by
anonymous Jews with even more implicit
faith than you accept the Gospel itself.
AS to the precautions we propose to
take against the recurrence OF these dIS-
orders, that is our atfa +, not yours, ana IL
our wOull-be counSellorS wish their advice
to be taken it would be as we'll II they
were to try to learn something about the
subject, and thus endeayOur to be c0nSIS-
tent. When Jews, who help to deprive
freethinkers Of their Parliamentary rights,
and Roman Cardinals, who accept the
Syllabus. lecture Russians about the SIN
Of religious intolerance, it is almost too
absurd for our gravity. The Jewish ques-
ton is not religious, but social. English
men ought to understand it, for they have
to deal very often with the same difficult
ties in India. An Anglo Indian member
Of Parliament, of great eminence as an
administrator in Bengal, was kind enough
TO lend me the other day an interesting
Blue book on the riots in the Deccan, from
which / learn hat the most Innocent agrl-
culturiSts in India, in SantallStan ana IN
the DeCcan have repeatedly attacked the
Hindoo money-lenders exactly as our
peaSantS attacked our Jews, and for
the same reason. And how did you
Teal with this difficulty Not by
increasing the ~licence, but by restricting
the opportunities 0fth0 HindOO mOneY-len-
derS, and as you do it with some success
your example can be useful indeed. In
short, you do as GeneraIIgnatief proposed
to do in his famous reScript, which you
abuse so much. You seek to remove the
cause of q he disorder by protecting the
peasants against the eXtOrtiOnate pract ceS
of the village uSurerS. If we are wrong,
is itDOt a ease of the mote and the beam
Pardon nv frankneSS, but really was
greatly amused this week in reading q
letter published bS YOU from st. Peters
burg in Which it is declared that one oftho
ORIGINATING causes of our troubles in Russia
is the extent to which the Nihilist prOpa'
eandists have enlightened the peasants as
to the = agrarian terror i'll Ireland" One
of my English friends seriously asked me
whether we were not going to hold lnuI9'
nation meetings in Russia to denounce
the Irish atrocities. We have no
taste for that kind of NEEDING
which seems to find So much favour Ill
this country, and are very we'll content TO
leave Won to deal with y 'ur own troubles
Without aggravating them either by wei
meaning but ill-inf0rmed cOunSels or by
the malicious denunciatiOnS of enemies OF
England. The la%ndlordism of which your
farmers complain is bnt a pale a OF
the cruel Servitude enforced on u pea
SAINTS by the Jews. The disorders both III
the Ukraine and in Ireland are social and
agrarian.
Every Russian regrets that the Jews
should nave been plundered; but to us IL
is as clear as day that the permanently
oppressed and the permanently p~lundered
is not the Jew but the Christian. Retalla-
tiOn is always to ba regretted, though not
always to be easily prevented. nave no III
teution, nor would you be able to spare the
snace, to expose the fallacleS OF those
critics who ave protested to reply 10 my