Daily globe., 1882-01-29
THE PERSECUTION OF rHE JEWS.

tific men affirm, is thirty per cent. larger
than that of the savage. Admitting this
to be true, the historical fact yet remains
that the size of the brain is not the true
standard of the civilization of a nation.
From the days Of Herod down to the
present time, comprehendiug the extreme
epochs of the Christian era, the annals
of history furnish no instance of whole
sale slaughter, or the perpetration of
crimes which make humanity shudder,
that have not been committed in the
name of liberty and executed by Christ
ian armies IN obedience to authority de-
rived from governments having in hoe
sign0 oi,scss emblazoned on their coat of
arms. When Gascoigne four hun
dred years ago declared that
"enough is good as feast,'' he over
looked the practical refutations of his
theory illustrated in the history of man
during the fourteen centuries preceding
the one in which he lived. Mans thirst
for gain and power has been alternately
quenched by the blood and treasures of
Christian and Pagan, in every age of the
worlds history. That happy state of
mind in which we can say II have
enough" is the highest attainment of hu-
man thought or action, and has never
yet been fully realized by any people in
any age.
The race conflicts which have taken
place in Russia during the past year, is
only history repeating itself. They Illus
trate in what respect the civilization
of the Englishman differs from that
of the Russian. They illustrate how
a race capable and worthy of enjoy
ing the highest honors of the civil
lied England, becomes fit subject to be
denied the protection of his person and
property under the civilization of Russia.
For cold blooded barbarity, the dreadful
scenes of pillage, carnage aud heartless
violence which have characterized the
war on the Jews in Russia, the memories
of the Taileries, Barere and Robespierre
only furnish parallel in the history of
crime. The reports of these prosecutions,
published in the English press, are too
horrible to recount.
To murders and confscations, in which
neither age nor sex were spared, was add
ed the crime of denying protection to
virtue. 1t is appalling toknow that such
atrocities could take place in a civilized
country in the nineteenth century. A
correspondent writing from Russia to the
London Times In regard to these out
RACES in the south and west of Russia
since last March, says:
During the past eight months a tract OF
country equal in area to the British isles and
France combined, stretching from the Baltic
to the Black sea, has been the scene of horrors
that have hitherto only been perpetrated in
medieval days during times of war. Men
ruthlessly murdered, tender infants dashed to
death, or roasted alive in their own homes,
married women the prey of a brutal lust that
has often caused their death, and young girls
violated in the sight OF their relatives by sol
diers who should have been the guardians of
their houor-these have been the deeds with
which the population of southern Russia has
been stained since last April. In the face of
these horrors loss of property is of little mo-
ment, yet they have been accompanied by the
razing of whole streets inhabited by Jews, by
the systematic firing Of the Jewish quarters Of
towns in western Russia, and by the pillage of
all the property on which thousands of jew
lsh families were dependent for existence.
The riot commenced at Elizabethgrod
on the 9th day of April, 1881, and lasted
two days. During that time five hundred
houses and one hundred shops were de-
stroyed, and the Jewesses outraged by the
Russian soldiery One week later two
thousand Jews were burnt out of house
and home at Kief, and number of men
murdered and females outraged. The next
day, in the Province of Cherson, a
mob rushed in on the Jews during service
in the Synagogue, seized the females and
outraged them, and then fired the Syna-
gogue and houses belonging to the Jews.
During this time it is said no effort was
made by the government to prevent these
outrages.
The same correspondent gives the fol-
lowing rending details of what
took place during the month of May on
the banks of the Dnieper;
Up to this time the riots had chiefly arisen
among the urban populations, but they now
spread into the rural districts and reached ev-
cry little village where even a single jew re-
sided. A jew was murdered at Rasdory, a
few miles southeast of Orjechow, and at
Znsmenka, near Nikopol, on the Dneiper, a
Jewish innkeeper named Resser was mur-
dered and his wife dshonOred, after which
both were cast into the river.
a. Balsa, also on the bank of the
Dnieper, there was only one Jew, AIlowiez by
name. band of ruffians went to his house
on May II, and, finding him absent, they vlo-
lated his wife, and to conceal the crime set fire
to the house while the poor woman lay help
less within it. Ali this was witnessed by her
little daughter, crouched in ditch hard by
On the preceding day another tragedy had oc-
CURED al KitZkis, where the house of one
preskoff was set on fire, and he with two lit
tie children left to roast in it, while the wife
and mother looked on, vainly appealing for
mercy to the rutfianly perpetrators of the
crime At Gregorievk a Jewish inn keeper
named Ruffmann was cOoped in one of his own
barrels and cast into the Dpeiper. Again, at
Kanzeropol, man named Enman was mur-
dered bratally and his wife violated aod after
wards killed.
The only excuse urged in palliation
of these crimes is that the Jews monopo-
lie the liquor, peddling and money
lending business of Russia; that