The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-04
JEWISH PERSECUTION.

JEWISH PERSECUTION.
: A Meeting was held in New York lately,
to consider the states of the Jews in Eur
ope and more especially Russia, and action
was taken and and resolution passed in ac-
cordance with that object
In referring to that meeting the World
says:
The meeting which will be held at Chick
ering Hall tonight to consider means for
relieving the suffering Jews in Russia will
do well to keep before it the fact that not
merely single communities but the entire
| Hebrew population in Russia, are in peril.
| The Christmas butchery at Warsaw which
aroused public attention was only one of
series of outrages. Jew-baiting, as it is
called. Is an organized movement for the
| expulsion of the race from Russia, and
while the case OF the Warsaw sufferers de-
mands immediate attention, provision must
| also be made for the relief of a large pro-
portion of the Russian Jews, 5000, 900 in
| number, whose lives and property are at
the mercy of the Infatuated peasants. The
Hebrew socities in England headed by the
Rethschilds and the venerable Sir Moses
Montefore, have perfected a permanent
relief organization, with the object of aid
ing the race to emigrate to this country,
and the New York philanthropists probab
ly cannot do better than join forces with
them. The task of removing thousands of
penniless persons from the Dnieper to the
Western States can only be accomplished
at an enormous cost and by aunited move
ment on the part of American and English
committees Above all, let not the Chick
ering Hall meeting waste its time in draw
ng up protests The Londod organiza-
ton prepared courteous memorial to the
Car, but the Russian Ambassador in Lon
don peremptorily declined to forward it
and the semi-official press at St. Peters
burg declared that the Government would
not receive it. Uuder such circumstances
1t is useless to demonstrate with Russia,
and nothing remains to provide fund
sufficient to enable the sufferers to flee
from country where the Executive is
either unable or unwilling to save them
from rapine and murder.
The number and extent of the outrages
that have taken place since the first butch
that it is the set purpose of the Jew-baiting
propaganda to drive every Hebrew out of
Russia. At Odessa, property to the value
of 3 900, 600 roubles was destroyed; at
Kiev the Russian authorities admitted that
o 900 Jews were rendered homeless at
Warsaw from 1900 to 5000 were plumber
ed and left in beggarys and every town
and village In Southern and Southwestern |
Russia has either been or is in imminent |
danger of becoming the scene of similar
destruction. OF the number of men and
women murdered or subjected to the last |
indignity it is difficult to form an estimate,
the military and police authorities sup
pressing all but the official" reports,
which are VIGOROUSLY garbled, but the
tales told by refugees and corroborated by
Impartial testimony rival in herror the
story of the Bulgarian atrocities in 1876
That the Russian officials connive at these
outrages is almost indisputable. At War
saw they permitted the mob 20 plumber,
burn, rob and murder unmolested for two
lays, although the riot might have been
crushed in an hour by the force on the
ground. At Odessa the authorities alleged
hat they were taken by surprise, although
rs a matter of fact the official records show
that they had been warned weeks before
that an attack would be made upon the
Jewish quarter at stated hour on a GER
ain day. A well7known Russian lady in
London, who attends to Russian interests
n the English magazines, seeks to shut off
American sympathy with the prosecuted
ace by comparing the Jews to Chinese.
But the history of all anti-Jewish move
nents, from the e arly massacres in Eng
and to the outrages now being perpertra-
ed in Russia, show that it is as easy for
he prosecutor TO libel as to murder the
If Hebrews do not make
desirable Russian subjects it is because
Russia outracizes them by unequal laws.
however, with the excuses put forward by
he Russians in extenuation of the barbara
les Americans have nothing TO do. It is |
enough for us to know that vast number i