The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-18
AN OUTRAGE ON CIVILIZATION.
Cruelties Heaped Upon the Helpless Jews
in Russia.

LONDON, Feb. 11.-The st Peters
burg correspondent Of the Daily Tele-
graph telegraphs important facts in con-
nection with the possible result of the
return by the Car, without comment,
of the Guild Hall memorial IN favor of
the unfortunate suffering Hebrews of
Russia. He says:
british sympathy has aggravated the
Jews hard lot, which was already so
wretched that it seemed impossible for
it to be worse. Yet provincial govern
ors have redoubled the severity Of the
laws. Where the statutes were inappll-
cable the governors have issued circu-
lars and ukases to replace them. The
Jews bitterly repent the British we'll
meaning but injudicious zeal which has
exasperated instead Of soothing the Rus
sian Bear. The daily severity prac-
ticed against the families Of unottendlng
men, women and children are incredible
and wanton.
'sRussia's reply to the Lord Mayors
respectful petition consists Of secret cir
culars ordering her officials to vigorously
administer the anti-semitic laws and to
supply legal deficiency by their own de-
cisions harmonious with the Govern
ment's intolerant spirit. The Poles, al
ter the rebellion Of 1864, were less cru
ely and less inhumanly treated than the
Jews after the London indignation meet
ing.
''Gen Gurko, Governor Of Warsaw,
has issued circular regulating how
Jewish recruits are to be brought ior
medical inspection. The Jews, through
the wretched lives they are forced to
lead, are physically degenerate and be-
come the most striking embodiment OF
human life continuing IN spite Of the
gradual decay of the vital functions:
The majority OF Jewish recruits are found
to be unfit for service. In the event OF
Christians being found unfit to perform
the duties Of a soldier they are sent home
and are finally released from military
service. Jewish recruits, on the other
hand, are worried to death. They are
sent home and are subject during a per-
iod of three years to be recalled at any
moment on suspicion ofmalingering. A
recruit consequently returns to his home.
hundreds of miles away, resumes his
occupation and month later is sudden
lv ordered to reappear for medical ex-
animation. This process is repeated at
intervals of a few months during three
years. Gen Gurko considers this meth
cd to be insufficient, as it leaves the Jew
ish conscript the option Of transporting
himself, on foot or otherwise, to the towp
where the medical committee sits, and
gives him dangerous liberty and oppor-
tunity to simulate illness. The result
is that thenceforth the police are order
ed 10 convey the Jews on foot to the
town where the committee sits. The
police are to arrest and imprison the
recruits until convict gang arrives,
with which they are to proceed to the
next prison in company with murderers
and the dregs of society until they reach
their destination.
Young meR beginning life are SUBJ
ject to arepetitlon Of this process during
three years, until the youth wishes HIM
selfa soldier, serf or gally slave to save
himself from the society ofmurdererS and
thieves, who, while Jewish recruits are
IN their gang, have the power of lite or
death over them, can blackmail them,
whip them, MAIN them, even kill them
with impunity. The victims are ire
quently in delicate health and include
consumptive patients whom Russian
doctors declare are unable to bear the
hardships Of military service"