The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-28
THE RUSSIAN JEWS
Sympathy for Them Because Of
Their Expulsion
FROM THE CzAR'S DOMAINS
Has Been Accumulated by the Attempt to
Create Sentiment in America in
Favor of Their Prosecutors.

Especial TO THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch I
NEW YORK, May 27.-Sympathy for the
Russian Hebrews because of their expuI-
sion from the Cars domains has been ac-
centuated by the assertion lately made to
enelr friends here that the prosecutors are
using every means at their command to
stem the tide of popular sentiment against
them by causing letters from subsidized
agents to appear ia the New York Herald.
Ihese letters purport to give a true account
o. the condition of the Russian Hebrews.
attempting to show they are not in as de-
plorabIe a condition as people have made
them, while on the other hand the peas
antry OF Russia are made to appear as being
absolutely under the domination of the He
oreWs, who are described as sharpers, ply
ing their uSurlouS traffic with the greed of
wolves.
The publication of letters of this charac-
Ter In the Herald aroused the indignation
OF the Hebrews here, who openly charge a
person attached to the American legation
at 81. petersburg with being the author.
asserting that he was Influenced by q desire
TO curry favor with the Cars court This
cuarge is now under investigation at Wash
lngton, and II shown to be accurate. il is
probable there will be vacancy in Minis
ter SmlVn'S diplomatic corps.
prominent among New York He
0rews whose indignation has been
aroused by the letters is Banker Seligman.
He Is trustee of the Baron de Hirsch fund.
THESE letters" said Mr.. Seligman, ''are
inspired by the Russian government. That
the DEGREES against the Hebrews in Russia
have caused untold misery there can be no
DOUBT and when the cutlery was raised
against such treatment by the civilized
world, we least expected the first effort
would be made in free America to hold the
government guiltless of such measures u
oscar ,. Strauss, minister to Turkey
during Cleveland's administration, is
deeply interested in the success OF the
Hirsch fund. He said: '"That an effort has
been made 10 arouse a feeling in favor of
Russia we are all very well aware. but
there is no justification for it. We feel
confident that public sentiment will not be
affected. am at loss to know how the
outrageous DEGREES found an advocate, I'M
less there us much more behind 1t than an
ordinary observer can detect. The suffer
lngs OF the people who have been forced to
leave their homes and their all have been
told too often to need repetition now, even
to refute SANDER"
THE Greek church and its ministers are
behind this movement, u said Mr.. Solomons,
who is in charge of the Baron de Hirsch
fund committee. ''These people would
treat Catholics or Protestants with equal
severity if they were in the way They
know the Hebrews are too firm in their re
hgious belief to pay any attention to at
tempts at conversion, and as a consequence
they hate our people. Through the instru-
mentality of men high in authority these
DEGREES Of expulsion were issued"
The following is an extract from a letter
received by gentleman in this city CON
corning the expulsion of Jews in Moscow:
Three Gays before the Passover the Car
instructed the governor OF Moscow to expel
all Hebrews, even those hitherto privfl-
eyed to reside there as mechanics, and
children Of soldiers in the service of Nicho-
las l. Within these three days 200 fam
lies were gathered in by the police and
arrested, hundreds Of prisons being filed
with them. Manufacturers and merchants
were reduced to poverty, for their money
remained In the hands Of the Russians On
the eve of the Passover multitude Of
men, women and children were put in rail-
road wagons which carried them to the pale
OF the settlement. The night of the second
day of the Passover eighty families ar
rived at Whitebsk. At the railroad station
where they stopped heartrending cries and
meanings were heard. Children were cry
ing for bread and babies crying in vain be-
cause the breasts of their mothers were
dried. 1t was terrible scene, and he who
has not witnessed it has never seen pic
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