Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23
DESPOTISM.
Some Facts of the Jewish Persecution
That Is Going On in Russia.
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| lSopyriRu 1851 Oy the tn1ted Press.
| The assertion by DR.. Adler, the lead
ing Jewish preacher of London and soon
| to be indicted as chief rabbi, that the
| present persecution of the Jews in Russia
| is the greatest trial of the race since the
! days of Esther, has evoked much sur
prise among those who have not given
| attention TO the vGst tragedy now being
! enacted IN the domIuions of the car,
| men we remember that the persecution
| by AEtiochus, and the destruction of
Jerusalem by Titus, as well as the cruel
| defamation of the Hebrew race in Spain
| under Ferdinand and Isabella, were all
subsequent 10 the peril from which Nor.
| decai, with the aid of Esther, delivered
his kindred. DIR. Adler's statement
seems too awful 10 be credible, and vet
l1Ae facts appear TO justify it. These
}fets are that in Russia to-day, under a
system OF laws devised with an ingenuity
tzfhat would have won the admiration of
FA Nero, 5000. 200 of PEOPLE are slowly,
but none the less surely, being crushed
out of existence. Russian laws do not
Danish the Jew; they do not condemn
him AS Jew to death; but they practi-
cally prohibit him from making Il living.
Although these laws are spoken of As
obsolete, they are not very old, They
were framed in 1882 and are known as
the lgnntief code. In brief, they con-
fine the Jews to the southern provirces
OF Russia: they debar them from agricui-
thre: prohibit them from living outside
OF Towns and villages; prohibit them
from holding real estate or foreclosing
any mort cages which they may hold on
rsnl and
times subject TO to the will and whims of
subordinate officials who may at aay time
order the Jews out of their jurisdiction,
and exercise
THE MOST COMPLETE CONTROL
over their lives and possessions.
Unfortunately the Jews have no Esther
TO plead in their behalf. The present
ear is Jew Halter. The first, or one of
the first, acts of his administration was
the dismissal from his post in the Cauoa-
sus OF the Baron Oble' sky, member of
one of the noblest families of Russia,
whose wife although a Christian was of
Jewish origin. The case of the countess
Is one or the sa0desL in the history of an
empire which has witnessed many tragic
and gloomy episodes. Her father was a
successful merchant in Odessa and owing
10 the prescription against the Jews in
the hlsher society sent his family to live
III Paris. His daughter, Leah, there at
tfacted marked attention by her beauty
ana brightness and was q favorite in the
test circles of the English ana American
COLONIES. Ii was there that she met and
Was loved by the Baron Oblensky who
married her in defiance of ostrarism and
OF his family Indignation. The rage of
the Prince Obienskv, the head of
the mouse Is said to have been fearful,
lie ordered the name of his nephew,
Inc baron, TO be eXpunged from the
family record, and solicited the late
emperor to dissolve the marriage But |
the ear who liberated the serfs was not |
Y na narrow minded man, and but for his |
Abtinely and terrible death he would |
Also in all probability have done another |
memorable service to his EN- )ire and hu- |
mainly by enfranchising the Jews. He |
refused TO interfere with the Baron |
Oulehsky's marriage, and although in |
reference 10 aristocrutio prejudicps, he
would not have the baron near his court,
he appointed him 10 an important COM
nand III The Caucasus. The baron re-
manned there, living happily with his
VIE, until the accession OF the present
emperor, who promptly removed him
from his post, and ordered him into viz
fual exile at Archansel. Baron OBJ
Iensky, under the stress of imperial dis
pleasure and family Influences and the
prospect of gloomy life amid the SHOWS
'f Russia s most dreary European pro-
vince, yielded and
SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE,
enulng her and two children 20 her
h'her's home in Odessa. He was there