Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-07

meaning OF the Brutal Edict Rus
sin VIII EufoTce-NIost Tyrannicni
Oppression-Ehetr DETERMINATION
Arrived AT.
LONDON, July 30.-Olvilgzed Europe
shocked at the receipt of the full
details of the Russian persecution
OF Jews. The Russian edictH ar
OF the most cruel character. The first
edict says: "No Jew is any longer psr-
mitted to own or even farm landsn All
jewish landowners, farmers and agri-
cultural laborers are thus expelled from
their village homog. Unless they have
saved means enough for their sustenanot
they Will be reduced to boggary. TO
intensity the severity of this edict, the
government officials have included hun
dreda of small towns in the category o,
country villages, and expelled Jews from
them by tens OF thousands, who will
thus be rendered homeless. These laws
known ~ tile May laws, werO promul
gated liz 1852, but never enforced unit
now.
Ths second edict provides that MI
Jews, nun bering many thousand FAINT
lies, settled outside tho l6 specified couu
ties shall be expelled. An equally large
number OF the artisan class will be reu.
dered homeless by the endorsement. Tho
third ediot N!thdraws permission foS
them to reside ontsids these l6 countins.
All Jews are precluded by the fourth
edict from holding miriug shsres OF CON.
Meeting themselves in any way with the
mining industry, and the d tn still fur
ther restricts their participating in TIL
educational advantages. The JewisL
scholars in the past were not allowed {
exceed pnr cent among the students q,
the universities, and this proportion i.
now turtner reduced, the result bein7
their wholesale expulsion from the high,
institutions.
Tho sixth edict imposes upon thu
JEWS students another disability clos
ing the legal profession against them,
while the seventh ediot excludes them
from the engineering, naval aud medical
professions aud from all government
oflic q.
The cruel part Of these prohibitions i
that M enormous proportion of the jew
ish population are skilled agriculturists
artisans and professional men, vino were
all adding largely TO this wealth of the
empire. all thsHe will now be ruinei.
1t in estimated that nearly a million
people WILL be expelled from their
homes under these most tyrannicsl and
new laws.
The consequent migration cauaes a
congesti IA among the starving fugitiyes
in the cities where the Jews are still al
lowed to dwell, which il dangerous aud
may possibly result in pestileoc5. but only
one object can be contemplated by the |
lnstigators OF the porsecution-namely,
the total determination OF the four nit
hon Jews in Russia.
The troubles which afflicted the Jews |
IN Hussta seven years ago arose from |
breaches OF the law. A certain number |
of perpetrators were brought to Justice
and punished. In the present case the |
government legelizes the persecution.
The Jews have always been subject to OK.
'eptionai laws, which, however, did not
render their living impossible.
They, in fact, increased in numbers,
wealth and intelligence; were industrious,
thrifty, law-abiding and sober, md W re, |
as merchants, traders, artisans
md sgriculturlsts. A few were permitted
o enter universities and later became
distinguished as LAWYERS, physicians and
men OF science.
All this ia now changed. Such pessecu-
ion involves refinement OF cruelty for
which history furnishes no parallel. II is
rmored that the victims of this Russian
.ppressoa will, as In 1882, break through
he Gordon on the Austrian and Prussian
rontiers and find an asylum in free Eng
and, to the injury Of its overstocked
Abor market.