Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-02-21

! remove from one town to another NJ.
a Jew is not even permitted to walk a IA
| outside the town limits unless he frst ~ -
cures passport, for which, Of eo,trse /
must pay round sum And In The 80
he Is compelled by law to be a noenbs, :.
some guild or trade association. b1f ~ "
master and vice master Of the rnild ~.
I be Christians, and those officers bava 81
/ lutte authority over the members IN e.
expel them at will. The result is tbat :; !,
all industrial pursuits the Jews sniru-
Just as odlons discrimination as in np6E'
life. ''''
To 90 further still into private Ek,
of the Jew, it is to be observed thai IN , sc
school are there allowed to be more tba ~
ten per cent. of Jewish pupils. In msT-
towns the Jews form fifty per cent Of tbs
population, and so the majority Of IT,.
children are denied school privileges NJ
relief can be obtained by sending tbs;.
children to school in other places wbo.-
the number of resident Jews does nj
come up to the ten per cent limit. beca1so
the law expressly declares that Children ~
Jewish parents are allowed 10 attend
school only in the place where their rgr
ents live. In brief, This is compulsory
non-attendance at school. Moreover tLs
higher sc.Einaries, music and art school.
etc, are found only in three or foul of Ill.,
chief cities
Such thing as sending Jewish child
from the province to study music or art
at st. Petersburg is absolutely prohibited
! In domestic affairs if a wife or husband
Is converted to Christianity. she or he /,
| by that fact, divorced from the other who
remains Jew; and the convert may mar.
ry again but the Jew must remain single
Il one parent be converted all the children
of the same sex must also be baptised I'd
Christians. Moreover, u reward from $40
$50 Is offered to any one who will repounca
Judaism for Christianity. and MANY
dissentions naturally follow. AS 10 re-.
hg1ous worship, 1t is 5solutely forbidden
IN private houses, except by special per
mission. That is, every Jew must secure
a license to hold family prayers, or even to
pray = private in his own bed chamber
Public worship in a synagogue is only per-
United III places having eighty or more
Jewish houses. So, in places with less
than eighty Jewish houses, religious wor.
ship By Jews is totally foi hidden.
But are these laws actually enforced
lertalny, 10 the very letter, and more.
1t Is an every day occurance for Jews to be
arrested lined and Imprisoned for praying
without licenses. Children of wavward
habits are bribel to profess Christianity
and then to betray their parents in their
religious observdncps Moreover, the farm.
ing out Of the tax gatheringing works
great hardships. For instan {. a ''box-
tax of $4,000 is levied on the Jews by
the provincial governor The local tax
gatherer thereupon increases it to SIS 900
in order to pull SIS, 900 in his own pocket.
The soubordinate collectors in the various
wards Of the town follow his example, IN
order to FLA their own pockets. The re-
suit is that the original lew is about
doubled. 1t is now rumored that more
stringent laws still are to be promulgated;
and that the only question seems to be-
how far will it be possible for unbridled
and brutal tyranny to go?