Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
THE JEWs, HARpLor.

THE JEWS HARD LOT.
 Russian Ofacials Ordered te Rigor,
 0usly Administer the Anti.Semetis | Laws-British SympathyAggravate
 the Czar-The Unfortunate Hebreysa | Treated Worse Than Animals. LONDON, Feb. 1O.-The St. Petersburgh
 correspondent of the Daily Telegraph oi
 this city telegraphs from St. Petersburgh important facts in connection with the | possible result of the return by the czar,
 without comment, of the Guildhall memo
 rial in favor of the unfortunate suffering
 Hebrews of Russia. The correspondent wires:
 British sympathy has aggravated the Jews' hard lot, which was already so
 wretched that it seemed impossible for it
 to be worse. Yet the provincial governors
 have redoubled the severity of the laws.
 Where the statutes were inapplicable the governors have issued circulars and ukases
 to replace them. The Jews bitterly regret
 the British well-meant but injudicious zeal, which has exasperated instead of soothed the Russian bear. The daily sever ities practiced against the families of un- offending men, women and children are incredible and wanton. Russia's reply to the lord mayors respectful petition con sists of secret circulars ordering her off cials to vigorously administer the anti Semetic laws, and to supply the legal de- ficiency by their own decisions harmonious with the governments intolerant spirit. The Poles, after the rebellion of 1864, were less cruelty and less inhumanly treated than the Jews after the London indigna- tion meeting.
 General Gurko, governor of Warsaw, has issued circular regulating how Jewish re- cruits are to be brought for medical in spection. The Jews, through the wretch cally degenerate, and become a most striking embodiment of human life, con- tinuing in spite of gradual decay of the vital functions. The majority of the Jew ish recruits are found to be unfit for ser vice. In the event of Christians being found unfit to perform the duties of soldier, they are sent home and are finally released from military service. The Jew ish recruits, on the other hand, are wor- ried to death. They are sent home and are subject during period of three years to be recalled at any moment on the sus- picion of malingering. The recruit, consequently, returns to his home, hundreds of miles away, resumes his occupation and month later is suddenly ordered to re-appear for medi- cal examination. This process is repeated at intervals of few months during three years. General Gurko considers this method to be insufficient, as it leaves the lewis conscript the option of transporting himself to the town where the medical committee sits and gives him a dangerous liberty and opportunity to simulate illness. The result is that henceforth the police are ordered to convey the Jews, on foot, to the town where the committee sits. The police are to arrest and imprison recruits until the convict gang arrives with which they are to proceed to the next prison, in company with murderers and the dregs of society, until they reach their destination.
 A strange anomaly is Prince Dolgorou- kof, governor of Moscow, the czar's inti mate confidential friend, whose conduct is in flat contradiction with the anti-Jewish current, the explanation whereof is very sad Prince Dolgoroukoff has always represented the czar, with pomp and pageantry, giving balls and dinners, re- quiring Fortunatus' purse. Moscow has always treated the Jews better than any Dolgoroukoff turned for monetary suceor and the Jews embodied their gratitude in roubles. Free gifts were succeeded by loans, and it has now transpired that the vice-regal court of Moscow is over whelmed with debt to wealthy Jews. Instead of exercising severity Prince Dolgoroukoff allowed the Jews to con- struct bath near the cathedral. The czar's indignation at this was boundless. Englishmen are prone to believe that the czar does not know the enormities per petrated in his name. The truth is that the czar knows enough to convince him that the Jews are more cruelty treated than horses, kine or swine, which are cared for as the gifts of God.
 A number of eminent Russian literary men recently addressed a declaration to the public and to journalists, asking them to remember that the Jews were human beings. The government refused to allow the declaration to be published. There upon people exclaimed that if the czar knew it he would rescind the order. A personal friend of the czar recently laid the document before him, with humble letter from the authors asking for permis sion to publish it. The czar read both papers and then flung them away.