Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-27

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A sIxGULAR COLONY THAT Has BrEN BOUNDED
IN souTHKRS OREGON.
From the London Globe.
The Russian Jews are the aptest dsscip,es Of
the socialist ideas. Everywhere remarkabl
for acuteness OF intellect and an extraordinary
aptitude for the requirement OF riches, the Jew
In Russia develops characteristics OF great So
caai sentamentality. There Is In history moth
ing else which approaches the sentiment OF the
Setnnon on the Mount In which the heart OF
Sesus puisates It's love FOR every human being
friend or foe-and Jesus was n Jew. There WAS
then, In the Jewish organization n latent ca
pacity FOR depths OF feeling. which it only Ne
ousred The proper circumstances to make alive.
ana Al least a similar feeling, a passion Tor tie
happiness OF Others, has undoubtedly among
ne younger generation OF Jews in Russia met
Win the peculiar condition necessary 10 de-
velop IL Into an active energy. IL is not meant
~ an n Jews IN hussia are humanitariansi
The Jews I'm Russia are humanitartans hut
tnat, comparing the Jews with the native Rus
slams and with the Germans in the empire. tie
jews present In proportion 10 population a
much greater number OF individuals who feel
the stimulation OF humanitarian sen iiment as
expressed IN the sociallstlc doctrines anJ ara
ready ID risk fortune and lie in the service OF
purely hutnanitarian ends. In a word. a very
Russia Is Jewish.
Three years ago band OF such Jews nearly
IL saa Oh snem residents In Odessa. resolved IL
home where they would be free from the laNcS
ana military service Of despotism and the hrt-
tAAity OF CHRISTIAN fanaticism which thew had
seen more than once plumber their own ho,nrs
The band numbered about one huudrsi ali
young people, the average age being 81 Nearly
AL the band were unmarried youths but there
we're few young girls aud several married
couples Their hopes We're vague but passion-
ate; their means in money 80 small that Imu,,.
diately on their arrival IN New York they wer,
compelled 10 hire out laoorers TIL some rax
should open 10 them 10 unite their numbers ia
q common colony or home. IL Is unnecessary
~ rectte the particulars OF their movements
and iabors, but two years ago "A portion of ne
band. about one-third Of ais original number
had resolved Itself INTO society. adopting Ih,,
system OF com mon property, aud bOns Z A farm
OF 500 acres in southern Oregon with the l,ur-
pose OF founding a social llie VERY much iike
thai which existed among the earliest Chris
uans, when, after the day OF Pentecost they
were nlled with the Holy Spirit. and wer., of
one mind and one heart, and no man sand that
suyht that he had was ms own.
This Is the Russian colony at Glendale Orr
gon, known a. the New odessa community
lie Industrial ia1ors Of this society have been.
tor many reasons, very Tuoe and inefficient.
The Improvements which they have added Ia
the place as they bought il are OF the nost linn
lied character, aud their farms and buildin.os
are only noticeaoie Tor their unthrifty aud un-
tidy appearance. Their present interest a. "A 40
ciety Is 10 be found entirely in the singularity
OF heir social life. They have no religion. tb,.y
nave hardly a political Organization for the
management oil their anaIrs; they have no de-
nued code OF morals, unless IL II TO be good
One OF their young women once replied 10 me
says u writer In the Overland NOafhgU when
demonstrated with her tor some unusual act Of
Courtesy, exelaining: You too good"
why, we cannot be too good" They apnear
however, TO be entirely free from those extra
ordinary eccentricltIes OF behavior WHICH char
acterize many OF the so-called American re-
tormers OF a parallel line of purpose and thos-
Russian comeouters who are not VI Jewish de-
scent