Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24
THE HEBREW INVASION
OF ENGLAND is CAUSING A VERY
UNEASY FEELING THERE.

Labor Unions and Many Other People De-
mand an immigration Law Similar to
This Countrywide Advance Guard of
Russia's Innocent Victims Arrives.
tBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATcH.l
LONDON, May 23.-The advance guard of
the dreaded invasion of Russian Hebrews
has at length reached London from Ham,
burg. The immigrants presented most
wretched appearance, and some of them
have already been the recipients of
charity. English Hebrews and for
eigners long settled in London have
formed society called "Hebrews for
Lovers of zion," the object of which is
to divert the stream of Hebrew immigration
to Palestine, where the Sultan is to be
asked to allow them to settle on lands pro-
vided by the State. The members of the
society bind themselves to strive for new
home, where they will be free from the
odium which attaches itself to the Hebrew
name even in the most civilized countries.
The society held public meeting in the
East End this evening, at which the speak
ers all deplored the unrestricted immigration
of their destitute coreligionists, but no one
was prepared to suggest practical remedy.
The Tory EUeTing NeaOs to-day publishes the
chief clauses of the United States law re-
lating to destitute aliens, and urges the
Government to enact similar rules before
the full tide of Russian immigration reaches
these shores.
The question of the immigration of pau
pers has been burning one in England
ever since they were barred out in America.
but the recent influx of Hebrews from Rus
sia, inspite of the statement that this is the
only halting place on the way to the United
States, and the efforts made by Baron
Hirsch for the bettering Of the condition of
his coreligionists, have increased the
force with which the matter is now
discussed. It is pointed out that no
fewer than 334 of these paupers arrived here
during last month; and with our own large
population of very poor people, it is argued
that it is little short of criminal to permit
the settlement of these strangers in the dis
tricts which are already excessively over
crowded, and in which the conditions of life
are often menace to health, as well as q
blur on the civilization of which everyone
seems to be fond of descanting.
Among these people who have lately ar
rived we're many Russian Hebrews, who, on
crossing the frontier, had all been robbed of
the few effects which they were able to call
IuelE OWL lut TtpOIbS WHICH, nave IedcneU
here from America of the influx of people
without means were, before pauper i'm
migration was stopped, regarded as
something which partook of the nature of
exaggeration, but many people who are in
terested in the question have been visiting
the docks and express themselves in unmis-
taxable terms on the subject of the woe-be-
gone appearance and awful destitption of
these people.
Although with the generosity, which is,
one of the distinguishing features of the
Hebrews, especially in regard to their
poorer brethren, the rich members of the
community have done much to alleviate the
suferings of the strangers, it is feared in
many quarters that these may in time be on
the hands of the authorities and become a
burden to the rate payers. It is for this
reason that the labor societies have started
the agitation of the passage of some law
similar'to that which obtains in America,
in order to exclude these unfortunate SUBJ
jects of barbarous prosecutor.