The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-06-13
4 STORY OF WOE.
The Prosecutions and suffering TO Which
the Russian jews Are subject by

Tyrant Czar.
BERLIN, June 1l.-An Associated Press
correspondent today met Herr Gold
berger. the well-known Jewish financier
and director of the International bank
Of this city, member of one of the most
aristocratic clubs and consul general for
Belgium in this city, who was recently
expelled from Russia apparently IN the
most unwarranted manner.
The London Times of May - pub
lished long dispatch from its st. Pc
tersburg correspondent. giving some har-
rowing details as to the renewed perse-
cutions of the Jews in Russia and Incl
dentally referring to the fact that Herr
Goldberger had been expelled from Mos
COW, where the financier had gone in or
der TO look over the ground with the
| view of establishing a branch of his bank
| in that city. He had special pass for
two months. At st. Petersburg NJ. Wis
| chnigradsky. Russian minister Of finance.
called upon Herr Goldberger and they
subsequently dined together. Other per
sons of high standing showed the Berlin
! banker special attention. But this did
not prevent the police of st. Petersburg
from aitiXing white slip to bis pass.
upon which slip were inscribed the
words: The jew Goldbcrger is here on
liberation and under police supervision.
Herr Goldberger. who does moi under
stand Russian. thought the above was
some regular police paper. lie learned
differently when he reached Moscow. \
'.pristaw" called upon him at his hotel
the second day and told him he must
leave at once. The hotel manager SAID
he should give the "pristaw" a few rublcs
and all would be right. but the banker
rcfu ed to pay blacEmail and left at
once He lid not care TO establish any
bank in such country, where each
policeman had the power of levylng
blackmail As Herr Goldbcrger told his
story lie warmed to the subject.
Reluctant to speak as he had been at
first the recollection of what he had seen
carried him away. He described the
awful scenes of expulsion which he bad
Witnessed at Moscow during his brief
stay and the moaning and weeping OF
the cyilcd Jews. High standing. high
position. he said, all were OF no avail.
While Herr Godbcrgcr called upon the
I widow of his cXccllcncy. Won Pulicskotl.
the great Russian railway builder, her
Jewish nurse who had been with her for
twenty years was taken out Of the house
bv the police and sent into exile and
misery. Consul General Goldbcrger says
none of the accounts SO far published
about the persecution of the jews
tell the whole story. The misery
and persecution. he adds. is
simply indcscribablc. He rccounted
how Baron Won Glinzcnburg had. with
weeping and groaning, told him the
story Of Jewish prosecutions when he re-
turned to st. Petersburg on his way back
to civilization Contrary to the accepted
version, Herr Goldbcrger says the ear
is well aware of the cruel
ties being practiccd: that he always
has been an anti semitic and that ms
hatred of the Jews has increased since
F. the memorable railway accident which
happened upon the line built by the
Russian Jew-Non Policskof.
Herr Goldberger thinks Russia Will
not only suffer from commercial dlsas
|. ters sure to follow the expulsion Of the
Jews, disasters which Russia with her
. great resources. might meet with I'M
, punity. but that these measures have
brought about feeling of insecurity
, among Russian protestants and among
r the numerous foreigners residing III lius
. sia. to whose enterprise most of the com
! mercial undertakings owe their existence
) Nobody knows whose turn is to come
next. and no one cares to risk his none!
or work under the present state of bar,
barrie rage against everything foreign 81
non orthodox. and the consequence vii
/. be that Russia, with all her immense
agricultural and mineral resources. viii
sooner or later be forced into condition
e of absolute bankruptcy.