The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-31
The CZAR'S
PERSECUTION.
Russia Opposes Relief for the
Hebrews.
Baron HlFSCh'S Humane Measures Of No
AYall-TheiF Final Expulsion From
Russia Determined Upon.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.


New YORK, May 30.-Smalley's cable
gram to the Tribune from London says:
Baron Hirsch, whose efforts in behalf of
his fellow-Jews deserve all praise. has ex-
pressed the belief that all efforts to mOder-
ate the Russian policy are useless. He
seems likely to find that his own efforts to
soften the severity Of their fate are equally
useless in Russia itself. His vast schemes
of Jew colonization really coincide with the
Russian policy, and would facilitate the ex-
ecution Of the Russian desrees, but VI. Po-
biednostzef, the PrOcurator of the Holy
Synod, refused even to see Hirsch's agent,
the well-known Englishman, Arnold White,
who went to st. Petersburg in aid of his
benevolent scheme, Hirsch seems to have
IN his possession mass Of testimony touch
ing the treatment Of the Jews in Russia,
which, if he is well advised, he Will publish.
He speaks of people accused Of no crime,
against whom there was no reproach,
dragged cut Of their beds at night, driven
with whips from their dwellings, loaded
with chains and plunged from comfort into
the deepest misery. women, young girls
and children OF both sexes subjected to in
dignities. Be accepts, because he cannot
help it,, the expulsion of his race from
country where they have as good a right as
anybody to live. His one ain is to prevent
needless cruelty, and to provide new homes
for those whom the Cars ukase makes
homeless. Even to this the Gar will not
listen. His hand viii not be lifted TIL the
jew, whom h9 drives out Of his dominion,
has reached and crossed the Russian frontier
and has set foot on Christian soil.
Stories of collisions between the English
and Portuguese in Africa have eeen COM
ing in all the week, but nobody knows
what has really happened. There has been
q conflict, but where, when, or with what
result, is doubtful. Ihe kilograms from the
Cape and from Lisbon disagree on every
point; nor has the Government any better
news than the press. 1t does, however,
seem probable that the English III christian
lzlng South Africa by company, 10 use Lord
SaliSbury's phrase, have made up their
minds 10 so ahead, Portuguese or no POrtu-
guese. They take no stock in SaliSbuTy's
solicitude about Portugal as an ancient ally
OF England and an integral part of a set
tied European system.
The stock they care about is the stock Of
the South Africa Campauy. Mr.. Rhodes is
a masteTful person. II Portugal ratifes
llP NCM n5i tulcilts Itc duu US iciloN DCutu
Africans viii doubtless abide by it; but he
IS clearly In position to force Salisbury's
hand should the Portuguese on tie
PUugwe themselves decline to be bound by
orders from home. If they continue to be
Troublesome it would not much surprise the
English public here TO learn some morning
that the Portuguese Of the PungWe River
had been driven into t.
Hamilton Aide writes In the "Nin eteenth
Century" " for June on tile social Aspects
Of American Life" Aide was one OF Stan
ley'S party, and his wifs's cousin. He is
well known in London society and is known
also as a writer Of novels and plays. He
took notes of his Journey, and this article is
a digest Of them, kindly in tone, agreeable
In style, with the laudabls ain Of removing
the pTejudices on both sides. Aide has seen
q good DEAL even If he has not cared to look
deep. Boston pleased him. Says Aide:
'NeyeT butin London have l heard such con-
veTsatiOn in our own tongue, without any
sense Of labor or self-cOnS nSciOuSness, as
l have listened to in Boston. In this
respect no other city in the United States
can approach it. You Nill hear, perhaps,
with surprise, that New York has its con-
spicuous orators, its wise lawyers, its
charming wits, but they do not form part
Of its societies." He praises American hos
pitalty and good breeding, notes the ieal-
Ousy Of French and the exclusion of English
pictures; misses in American parlors the
hOme-like air Of the English draWing-rOOms
was disappointed with the American
theaters; remembers the interviewer with a
shuddeT, and finally likens the republic to
young Samson, justly charged with many of
the faults of passionate immatuTity, but full
Of promise and interest