The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-24
rEEsEcUrIos OF JEWS II xUss1A.
Abstract Of tho Repressfse Laws Abeut
to BE Enforcesl.

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First--Jews throughout Russia land h
Guiding Russian Poland) nlnsr hencefozth
reside In towns only. and not in the coun@
try. No Jew viii any longer be permitted|
TO own land. or even 10 farm land. All
Jewish landowners. farmers anu agricuIt-
ural laborers viii Tins be expelled from
their village homes. and. unless they hsvc
saved the means Of subsistence, will b ~
duced to beggary. To intensity the sever
ity of this edict and widen It's scope. ~
government officials have included many
hundreds of small towns in the category
OF country villages, and expelled the Jews
from these towns. In this manner tha
number OF sufferers from tine edict is great
ly augmented. Tens of thousands OF souls
will be thus rendered homeless. These
laws. known as the May laws. were pro-
muIgated in 1882. but were never put into:
force until the present year.
Secon d--Jews have furthermore ben
allowed by law to reside in only sixteen q
The counties (gubernia) OF Russia. But the
law has not been enforced against jewish
merchants in many important commercial;
centers outside those provinces, such A.
Riga. Tibau, Rostoff. etc. for, by m1nirs
terial circular Of 1850. Jewsiong establishes
there unmolested. The law is now 10 ~
strictly enforced, and, BY a recent minis.
teriai order. all Jews, numbering many
thousands Of families. settled outside Tic
sixteen counties are to be expelled.
Thlrd-Jewish artisans who in like man
ner had. under the law of 1855, been per-
mitted in places outside OF the sixteen
counties are now TO be expelled ifometne9e
places Tens OF thousands OF artisans Win
their families, will, IL is saiG. be affected By
this edict and rendered homeless.
Fourth--Jews are no longer to be alloWo4
TO be in any way connected with mines ~
mining industry. nor even 70 mold shaSee
III any mine.
Fifta-The Jews will henceforth Be pre-
tically debarred from partaklng OF any -
ueational advantages, whether IN scnoqo4
gvmnasia or universities Hitherto the1
have been allowed admission subject 20 -
Limitation that their number should not
exceed 5 per cent. OF the total numbeF q
students. Secret instructions have already
been sent requiring the PRODUCTION Of this
small percentage to still lower limits. -
from many OF the higher educational inssls
tutions all Jewish students have been o.
PEELED. -
heretofore a large number Of Jews In kqSes
sic have achieved great success. will ~
ture he closed 70 Jewish Students. ~ IN
has already been put in force requiring ~
snecial sanction OF the minister Of the -
terror before Jew, qualified by exam!n~
ton. may practice. since the premu,l
ton of the law not single SANCTION -
been given. and 1t is understood that No.
will be given. - !
Seyenth-Jews are henceforth pfohl9le4
from following the professions OF enGine
or army doctor, or from filing any got11
ment most. however subordinate.
In the DAYS OF the Emperor Nic1oae
was subject of reproach 10 the Ane1
Jews that they were all traders a1q
producers. That reproach has Nnee
wiped awav. and now an snormQM
nortion have become skilled artisan.
ruItnrists and professional men. ~ 1911
largely to the wealth OF the emplf
under the new repressive laws "a 49, - H.:
munai progress is to be reverseo--s.s1 - -
san. The farmer and the profes91opm 3 81 (
are ALI to be ruined, and those VINO s1x ~ A.
the persecution must become frn0efsn
overcrowded towns. 80 ....k.. y
n Is estimated that the tot4 nnnu
persons who viii be expciiea Ikv.i ~ 4
homes under the new law VII nos II 81 ~
from i. O00OO0. The consequeat HNes
ard the congestion Of the So III ~, ~
tives in those cities where jaw Nns 49, 49, u 3
alIowed 10 dwell will be 20 dan6eEyI wv. -
POSSIBLY so pesliential II ~ 1880 49, - -
only one object can Be confeIn p.. $500
insfieators OF these psrssc9 - Z sco ~
the total determination e
Jews OF Russia.