Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13

the unjust, inhuman treatment of the He
6reWs IN hussia. Well, this is very easy 70
DO Tor one who lives in delightful home IN
TN TINS count county ~ and who from al appearances
has never had occasion to feel the iron manu-
OF despottc government partial and pre-
JUDGED, or else he would not be such
placiu dreamer and sweet theorizer bub
ior tne majority of us now in this free coun-
tryl WIN al the suffering. abuse ana inulg
mites we endured in our native LAND stlil
fresh IN our minds, and in the face oi the
contents OF the hundreds of letters full OF
o1 %oe and misery we daily IN
dlnerent parts of the land of their and tneiI
ancestors nativity, not to believe them is
not mott 10 pc beneve when we hear the despetriafs91 ptif11
moaning of the starved or the heartrendlng
sobb1ng OF those suffering excruciat1ng pain.
The colonel also tells the world that an,
or the greatest majority of the Hebrews wn9
leave Russia do so because they are deluded
and m1sled by steamship agents and others.
Only superficial Observers not familiar wltn
the facts can make themselves believe sucn
to De POS possible But how different tne reat ana
that OF the Hebrew in particular is familiaI
with the peculiarly striking characteTissio
OF our race that despite our cosmopolitan
tendencles, we do faithfully
Love the Land of Our Adoption
where we are permitted to make our homes,
especially to the country where we were
born and raised,in which our ances-
tors have lived and loved centuries
before the rude, semi-barbaric ances-
tors of the Romanoffs dreamed Of their
descendants ever being absolute masters
thereon. Therefore no Hebrew would ever
leave his home for new country, the Ian.
guage, mode of life, customs and habits or
matter what defusive hopes and induce
ments any one may hold out, so long as
there Is fighting chance for his living az
home. 1t is only when he realizes that he 1s
bound to share the heavy burdens of taxa
tion equally, if not more so, with his neigh
bors; that he must fulfil his duties, no matter
how arduous, by the State just as well as any
other man, although the Governments ne
helps to support and serves faithfully passes
the most restrictive laws against him, pens
and hens him on all sides by permitting MIN
to ply his various honest trades and peace
full vocations in only one-fourth OF the
vast territory of Russia; when even In
these virtual "ghettoes" he is treated
as an outcast; when his children, no matter
how intelligent and able, are virtually
barred from the higher institutions of learn
ing and have their youthful hopes blightedi
when all of sudden he is made "scape-
goat" of OF practically thrown to the hum
grv, overtaxed mob-it is only then when
the Hebrew, in despair, leaves everything
behind and endeavOrs to find refuge,
new home 1t is only then he is fully con-
vinced that by leaving home he has abso-
lutely nothing to lose but much, very much,
to gain.
This being the true state of affairs-which
If needs can be corrohorated by thousands,
nay, by tens of thousands of the sufferers
themselves, and by many impartial eye wit
nesses-I ask is it right, is it just is it Chris
tian or human to deceive people, to conceal
from the world that the despotic ruler of
powerful nation Of over 100, ,O6O, 600 people, oc-
cupying the rich lands of the whole eastern
part of Europe and the North of Asia, tight
ems his "bear' clutches firmer and frmer
every day around the neck of O long suffer-
ing people, 80 per cent of whom live from
hand to mouth and who hardly constitute
one-thirty-flfth OF the whole popplationf
Why should the civilized world be kept in
ignorance of these facts, and the unfortunate
Hebrews deprived of sympathy and encour-
agement, and the Cars Government escape
its fully deserved condemnation And those
our side, may they at least be gentlemen
enough not to jump ON the fallen, not to
kick the under dog in fight. II. G.
PITTsBURG, June IL