Connecticut western news., 1882-02-15
THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.
Why the Russian Peasant Hates the
 Jew.

Jew.
 It does not excuse the outrages com mitted upon Jews in Russia, but it does make them more ineligible, it is un- derstood that they do not spring from religious fanaticism, but from commer- cial jealousy and from resentment at the usurious practices os the people perse- cuted. The Russian peasant hates the Jew not so much because he is 8 Jew, as because he is very shrewd and hard in his business a money lender who exacts his dues vigorously. Add to the natural antagonism of poor and rich this feeling of people who are steadily growing poorer toward class which is Incoming prosperous by means of their ruin, and add to this the tempting al- lurements which the accumulated wealth of this class holds out to plunderers, and we have the conditions ready for riot and rapine, only waiting a favorable opportunity for outbreak. When these conditions arc further favored by the apathy of the authorities, by the inac- tivity of police and soldiers, and per haps by the whispers of secret agitators that to mob the Jews is to do the Czar service, such bloody disturbances as those which have disgraced Elizabeth. grad, Odessa, Warsaw and other large cities as we'll as smaller villages and towns become almost matter of course The extent of the cruelties perpetrated upon the Jews in Russia is not ade- quately realized. The riot at Warsaw was but the latest of series of out breaks which had occurred, during eight months previous, over large districts of Southern and Southwestern Russia. Through the whole region between the Dnieper and the frontier, and 1n the provinces immediately to the east of that river, there are few towns of any im- portance in which outrages on larger or smaller scale have not been com mitted. In Odessa the loss of property is estimated at three million roubIes ; ln Kiev, where during the riots in May two thousand Jews took refuge in the citadel, the loss was estimated by the police at more than one million roubles; and at Elizabethgrad, Minsk, Koretz and other places, the destruction has been on corresponding scale. At Warsaw the official report shows that 2,011 families were ruined, numbering about ten thousand souls. A large pro- portion of these were publicans, tobac- conists, shop keepers and eating-house keepers <; and during the riots there were demolished 292 liquor shops, 603 eating houses, warehouses and syna- gogues, and 303 private houses, all the property of Jews. The following ex- tract from an account given by an eye witness of scenes in the town of Smilla, in the province of Goborno, illustrates the temper and work of these anti-J Jewish mobs:
 ''The outbursts of terrorism occurred chiefly at the monthly fairs, when large numbers of farmors and peasants as- sem bled in the town, and townspeople melted the farmers to attack other Jews. The drinking houses were thrown open, and drink was freely given to the fanatical populace. Large numbers o the townspeople went round with the mob, and pointed out the quarters where the Jews lived. The public drinking houses kept by Jews were frs broken into, and the casks rolled into the streets, and some of them were smashed, and the people drank the raw spirits out of the streets. These act. were followed by the breaking open o1 the warehouses and places of bushes. kept by Jews, which were wrecked goods of all kinds being thrown intt the streets and trampled upon in tn. mad orgie which ensued. Furniture and cupboard were broken into and ran sacked, and in one warehouse alone kept by a man named Berkowich spirits to the value of 50,000 rouble' were emptied into the street, excepting such quantities as were carried off O. consumed by the mob"
 Numerous and pitiful cases of mur der and outrage are reported at differ ent points, but the mob seemed chief, hent upon plunder and destruction rather than personal violence. Tn Government deals with the riots in half-hearted way which does not repres the riotous spirit among the people and the harsh restrictions which i places upon the Jews serve to make then further objects of odium. Demonstra tions of popular sympathy with tn victims, in England, are likely to d more harm than good, and it is doubt ful whether such meetings held at NeN York can accomplish much. Russia a country which has no recognized pub lic>opinion of its own, and is by n means prompt to respond to the de mands of public opinion elsewhere Boston Journal.
 SIMPLE, SINCERE people seldom spea much of thelr piety 1t shows itself i sts rather than in words, and has nor Influence than homilies or protestations 
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