Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-21
EYILED JEWS.
From Odessa, Russia, to Mineral
Point. Wisconsin.

AND CITIZENS OF MINERAL POINT We will call
upon YOU to contribute portion of your valued
| time and services TO an object which will Ger
tainly recommend itself 10 your charitable sym
pathy. We received last week without any pre-
yious warning three hundred and fifty Russian
refugees. Our resources having already been
severely taxed by being compelled TO provide for
about eighty refugees before the arrival of the
three hundred and ffly. We think il the duty
of every American citizen without reference to
creed nationality to extend helping hand to
these unfortunate beings. We only ask You to
provide for the persons whose names are APP
pended by finding suitable employment for the
adults, and school facilities for the children.
thus enabling them to become good and useful
citizens.
We enclose draft for $500, payable TO your
order, for immediate expenses. We hope that
your efforts in this noble work will be crowned
with success, and if it is not asking too much
would request you to report to us from time to
time how your proteges are getting along.
We remain very respectfully yours,
PHILIP CARPELS.
CHAs. l.. COLBY,
DAVID ADLER.
Committee on Employment. Emigrant Relief
Association.
The persons sent you are:
Fishel Rosenberg
Samuel Brossolawski wife and child.
In reply to the above letter Mr..
Deller telegraphed to the committee
not to send the refugees, as he feared
that he could not find employment
for them, but would cheerfully do
his part towards sending money for
their relief He then addressed a
letter to the committee setting forth
more fully his views in regard to the
matter.
In response to Mr.. Dellers tele-
gram, Philip Carpets, chairman, of
the committee on employment. tel
egraphed back as follows:
MILWAUKEE, Wis, July IA, 1SS2.-To JOSEPH
DELLER Mineral Point:-Money we don't need:
shelter and work is what you must get for these
poor refugees. Your city is big enough to pro
vide for one family. Help us for Gods sake.
PHILIP CARPETS.
Mr.. Deller afterwards received the
following reply to his letter to the
committee on employment:
MILWAUKEE. July. u. 1ss2.-MR. Jos. DELLER,
Mineral Point, Wis, Dear Sir:-Yours Of the 18th
inst, just at hand, and in answer of same, have
this tosay for the whole committee that the Refu-
gee question has nothing do with religion, and
also we have 10 say, if Mineral Point citizens
cannot shelter and provide work for one family
of refugees, we want to know it.
We have sent to smaller towns than yours, and
they have been only too glad TO receive them.
Money we do not need; but what do want is
men to look after the people.
Yours truly,
COMMITTEE OF EMPLOYMENT, %
The four refugees sent here from
Milwaukee, arrived on Friday nights
train, and were taken to the Mineral
Point hotel (Wm. Walkers where
they were well provided for until
Monday, when apartments were
secured for them in stone dwell
ing house on Hoard street. Here a
representative of The Democrat, with
Mr.. Max Myer of this city, as in
terpreter, called upon them and OBJ
tanned the following information:
The refugees are natives of Odessa,
Russia. and the two men were by
occupation hardware merchants, and
in prosperous circumstances.
Nearly three months ago these
Russian Jews, in company with hun
dreds of others, were banished from
Odessa.
At Odessa, the persecution of the
Jews by the other Russian inhab-
itants was most cruel.
If the prosecuted Jews protested
against or resisted the treatment to
which they were subjected they
were treated in the most barbarous
manner possible, many of them be-
ing put to death, and for no better
reason than that they were Jews.
The government extends no protec-
ton to them, leaving them at the
mercy of the more than barbaroEs
Russians.
The refugees now in this city in
formed the The Democrat reporter
that they with four hundred Jewish
families were driven out of Odessa,
and compelled to leave all their
goods, monies and other effects be
hind them.
Some of these exiled families went
from Odessa TO Prody, Austria,
where there are at the present time
seventeen thousand exiled Jews.
From Brody they went to Ham
burg, Germany, from which port
they sailel for New York city, and
arrived there about month ago. and
from whence they were forwarded
with a number of other Jewish
families to Milwaukee by the New
York Relief Association.
There being already three hun
dred and fifty Russian refugees in
Milwaukee, the relief committee of
that city were compelled to seek
homes for many of them in the
smaller cities and towns throughout
the state.
Mr.. Deller and others rented
rooms for the refugees which arrived
here, and provided for their imme-
diate wants, and the surroundings
on the evening on which the reporter
called indicated thrift and clean
illness on the part of the family.
The two men applied for and
seeurad work of the officers of tho