The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-07
[Copyrighted, lspl, by tho United Press. |

LONDON, Juno G.-[SpecialI- "What
will the pulplts say tomorrow" is the
question that everybody is asking.
There is no doubt as to the respectful
silence of tho Established Church upon
any subject involving tho misconduct of
royalty. But the Methodists of Wales
have already voiced the non-conformist
sentiment and it is likely to be re-
echoed in many Dissenting chapels on
Sunday.
Shrewd politicians of both political
parties have freely said within the last
week, since tho evidence of the Prince
of Wales, that Sir William Gordon Cum
ming did, or offered to, royalty no small
service when he signed that document
in order to prevent Il scandal, for the
scandal will probably have far-reaching
effect.
Lord Salisbury has for the last three
or four days worn q mos. thoughtful
air, as if something was heavy on his
mind and even the subject of gossip is
whether the Prince of Wales has been a
loser by the baccarat habit. In the
Marlborough Club, where they ought to
know, it is said, that he has not been;
that the profits have in some wears
mounted up in the thousands and that,
Notwithstanding the extraordinary luck
OF Gordon Cumming, tho Prince was
ahead about 300 pounds in the two
nights at Tranby Croft yet, as the Prince
Will use the winnings next day perhaps
In some act of generosity or extrava-
gence, 1t is not alleged that he CANDLES
for the sordid profit of the thing. 1t is
also said to his credit that he prefers
baccarat because tho game is so purely
one of chance that nobody can lose for
his benefit as matter of courtesy,
which some wealthy hosts would not
hesitate to do.
While royalty is planning excursions
and enjoyments and showing its inner
existence in the baccarat trial, Berlin
is witnessing misery not equaled in
many years. This is partly due TO tho
and greatly also to the high price of tho
necessities Of life. The municipal au-
thorities are hardly able to meet the
demands Of their local distress without
giving aid to the unhappy exiles from
Russian bararity. Private charity is in
adequate to deal with the exigency, al
though public appeals to the benevo-
lence of the Berliners are made almost
daily. The misery of the expelled Jews
is Understandable. Most of them are
anxious to go to South America, espe-
cially Brazil, for which country it is
said they have free tickets, but they
have no idea of the state of things there
and are almost destitute.
singular feature of the arrivals
lately has been the flight from Russia
NJ m 1Nn- Of H,%l
with tho Jews. The Roman Catholics
are mostly Poles. They report that the
persecution of tho Jews has been ac-
companied in Russia by severely op-
presive measures against the Roman
Catholics, whose pastors have in several
instances boon imprisoned on frivolous
charges, and that churches are arbitrar-
lily closed and tempting inducements
are held out for conversion to orthor-
doxy. decree is under consideration
by the Russian council of state which
will practically stamp out tho Jewish
religion in Russia SO far as any open
profession is concerned The decree is
drawn up by M. Pobiedonosthef, the
procurator of the Holy Synod and per.
sonal adviser of the Gear in his crusade
against the Jews.
1t provides, as new ecclestical ordin-
observe the Hebrew Sabbath by closing
their shops, or other commercial estab-
llshments or manufactures, on Satur-
days, and ordering them on the other
hand to close their places of business on
Sundays and other religious festivals Of
the orthodox faith. Jewish employees in
shops and offices and other establish
ments, moreover, are under the new
ordinance to be compelled to work on
Saturdays and observe Sundny as a day
of rest. This means that the Jews must
leave Russia or be subjected to an end
less maltrcatment, and, unlike former
DEGREES, it strikes at the highest class
of Jews as we'll as the lowest. That the
whole crusade is under the personal
direction of the cZar is now universally
acknowledged, and British philanthro-
pists would have saved themselves a
good deal OF trouble if they had received
the fact some time ago.
so strong is the cars anti-Jewish
feeling that 1T now proves that his de-
lay in visiting the French exhibition at
Moscow was owing to the report that
two Jewish capitalists, GIunwald and
Poliako, were getting the management
of the exhibition into their hands as
creditors. Had they succeeded in this
the car would have abandoned his visit
to Moscow altogether in order to avoid
giving offense to France by going to
Moscow without visiting the exhibition,
which he would net do if it became an
exclusively Jewish enterprise. lie
would in that case have delegated the
Grand Duke Vladimir to take his place
at tho unwilling OF tho monument to the
Emperor Alexandria.
The difficulty was satisfactorily ar