Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23

average huSsldu en0uiO De tempted to
take advantage of q system which gives
him arbitrary authority over the prop
erty. the honor and the very lives OF a
considerable portion of the community is
not to be wondered at, and if half the
stories brought from Russia by the
wretched Jewish emierants are true, the
debasing features Of baronial rule in the
middle ages ars more than paralleled in
the empire of the Romanoffs. The in
vestigation now going on into the con-
duet Of the project, Grodsky, at Kieff.
has brought to light some significant and
astonishing evidence of the conditions
under which the Jews are permitted to
exist, which might and doubtless would
have remained IN Oblivion but for Grod-
sky's negligence in failing to detect
Nlnllist plot which nearly resulted fatally
to the life OF Gen. Dragomirof, Que of
the chief com manders in the recent
maneuvers in Folkhyuia, and an officer
VINO possesses in q peculiar degree
tue confidence and esteem of the Rus
sian autorrat. 1be Jews had nothing to
DO with the conspiracy to assassinate the
general. but the inquiry going on re-
garding the plot aud its origin has at
tracted attention to the career and
methods OF the infamous Grodsky, who
for years has been noted AZ Jew-haiter
and Jew-hater. 1t appears that the
notorious tool of desp0tism has made his
zeal in the persecution Of the Jews a
cover for wicked wrongs perpetrated
upon that unhappy race, and that only
the apprehension of punishment, or even
harsher punishment, prevented Jewish
families from revealing the story of their
d s5onor and his infamy. One of these
victims had been driven by madness to
the insane asylum: another had drowned
herself OF desDnir, and the father of yet
another had vaiuly sought the life of his |
daughter DESTROYER, and been arrested !
and
TRANSPORTED AS A NIHILIST.
Even in the face of this evidence which a |
rigid censorship endeavor to suppress, |
but which exiles have published in the |
western world, Grodsky remains the |
officer under cloud, it is true, but
cloud that win pass away If anything is
to be judged from the past history of |
Russia. The case of Grodsky is prob
ably not singular one, although shame
as well rs fear initiate against the ex-
posture OF the sort of crimes of which he
has been guilty.
The kidnapping of the daughter of
uuoh iAosFuo'dtt, oeTinHu jew, resi-.
dent in Titiis, where he conducted mer-
rantile business, has always been a mys-
terry; but there is much reason to suspect
that the colonel of the Russian regiment
stationed for some time in that town was
i party to the crime and that a we'll
known official of the cars court who
visited 1itils about the time that the girl
disappeared was the person in whose be-
half the kidnapping was done. Th off,
;ial met the Jewish maiden when under
ier mothers escort to the synagogue
md made remark in admiration of her
beauty. She, of course, took no no.
ice of the familiarity. Rosenblatt
vas man of too good standing to be
iealt with ID rouEh-shod sort of way
Besides, although long, long resident of
russia, he might have appealed for
'erman protection. BY remarkable
coincidence Rosenblatt and his family
we're summoned to the prefecture to give
estimony in regard to suspicious
alleged to have been seen in
'ifis. The daughter was not sum-
noned, but during the absence of the
PARENTS, two persons, in official uni
orm, called at the house with notice |
hat she was also wanted at the prefec-
ure. She went in their company, and
as never since been seen. The dis
racted father offered large reward for
er recovery, but ne was never able to
race her. The police pretended to be
nxious about the matter, SO far as talk
'as concerned, but showed singular
pathy in conduct. Mr.. Rosenblatt.
nable to bear up under the ordeal of his
aughter's loss, removed from TitIis.
here he had been conducting pros
erous trade. and settled in Pomerauia,
is former home. In his own mind he
as we'll satisfied that the officials of
ltiis could have given him a clew to his ,
aughter's whereabouts. Until he re-
irned to Germany, however, he never
lred to breathe this suspicion to auy
he. In Pomerania his case aroused both ,
CONVERSATION AND INDIGNATION.
though many of the Jewish refugees in I
lat province could relate experiences as ! I
aintul and pitiful. .
Barbnrous superstition has much to do {