Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-02-16
AnKRIcAN sYnPArnY FOE THE
RUSsIAN JEWB.

In these days OF the electric Telegraph
civilized nations form Q kind Of tribunal
before which tho events Of the day. We
might say Of the hour. are discussed and
according to their merits approved or
condemned. The world 10 one village.
and u We are not 70 near that We can
look into the windows Of out neishbor
and see when he beats his wife. w have
got u sossips, the newspapers. that
will take care that the whole village
knows everything worth telling.
wifs-bestipg i~nvoluntarily reminds
mi Of the way the Russians treat their
Jewish fsllow-citizsns. They are weak
in numbers and in strength, having been
slaves and outcasts for . long time.
They are patient and enduring; they are
industrious and thrifty; they have the
moral courage to hold to their faith and
their customs. and they have the bad
luck to descend from ancestors who. a.
Christians believe. hsvs killed their
Saviour. Now, when . brute comes
homo. Allied with liquor. unable to sxsr-
else his authority BY speaking this
tongue being too heavy. he can do moth.
ing but beat his ~hard-working wife, who
perhaps sat up waiting fer him. and
when. on being asked the next day why
he did such . covsrdly thing. says : ut
10 true she il . good woman and sxsm-
plary wife. but her sreat.grandfsther
killed mins would wsnot ~sympsthizs
with the poor woman. and would We not
dstest such . man
Therefore It Is not 10 be wondered at
that the American people. who have
such large hearts. extend their sympathy
to the unhappy Jews In Russia. At q
meeting held in New York February I'd.
sx.secrstary Evarts spoke in q mastery
manner on the question. One striking
example Of the brutalities committed on
the Jews. and OF the position Of the Rus
sian government may be cited. Mr..
Evarts said: ''Ths greatest outrage was
on Christmas. OF Warsaw, when 800
houses and 600 shops were pluudsrsd in
tha, city. and . garrison Of 10000 sol.
disrs we're kept In their barracks and
gave NO aid. This was q Christmas cell
sbration Of Christmas day upon the per.
sons and property Of their fellow men,"
No wonder men and women in this
Republic are shocked and Mortified.
Christmas. when the soft influences Of
"reminiscences OF childhood should pre-.
vail; when all the good qualities Of men
ought to shine In their brightest light;
Christmas. . day upon which the Chris.
tian world celebrate an event 50 dear to
their hearts and 20 cherished In their
minds; that this day should. after more
than eighteen centuries. be the occasion
Of plundsring and o~utragins the very
people but for whose existence and up
holding Of The standard OF monotheism.
these warlike Christians Of Warsaw
might bs naked hssthsus yet! 1t takes
centuries to soften the innate brutality
Of men, and Christianity in Russia has
but half done Its work. 1t has not
taught the Russian people yet to love
their neighbors.
There Is no doubt that these perss-
cutsd people are very different from NJ
in education. customs and ideas. There
Is no doubt that We have . right to con-
sider ourselves superior to them in
almost everything. But. on the other
hand, there ID NO doubt that they stand
In the same relation to the people among
whom they live as w to them. The
prosecuted Jews are their supsriors In
education. refinement. wealth and morals.
Yet a discontinued and fanatisal popu-
lace in . blind rage plumber and hunt
down the moro intelligent part OF their
own community.
1t IL ct least eonsolins. even II attend.
cd with NO practical results. that the
Americans especially and the world at
large sympathizs with and extend .
helping hand to wrongcd races, not be-
cause they are Mohamnsdsns. Jews or
hssthsns, but because they are men aud
women w