Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31

ni6cant members of it occasionally commit
inhuman acts Of cruelty and abuse theiI
authority? Who wants to abolish the police
force OF New York because every now and
then innocent citizens are brutally clubbed ?
Nobody but cranks and criminals.
"The policeman's club is the insignia OF
peace and the practical guarantee Of law
and order. 1t is personal liberty and ma
tional freedom. Those who cry out against
1t In this country are the same people who
cry out against the governmental system OF
Russia system of law and order, and a
system which protects the hdmblest indi-
vidual. 1t is system detested by crimi-
nails. This testimony from Siberia is the
same testimony heard from every scaffold
in America-T am innocent.
The Persecution of Hebrews.
"What of Russia and the Hebrews? I'll
tell you. In the first place the people of
the United States do not generally under
stand the economic and financial condition
| of Russia They allow themselves to be
misled by reports that are sent from Europe
through interested motives. Most of the
newspapers of England, Germany, France
and Holland are in the hands Of the He
brews or controlled by them.
| ut is no reflection upon the race to say
that life to them is largely question Of
dollars and cents. Russia has outstanding
in Europe, mainly in England, Ger
many, France and Holland, perhaps a
00,00O00O of bonds and these bonds
and mostly dealt in in the cities of Frank
ford, Paris and Amsterdam, and in the
hands of Hebrews. They are the principal
dealers in these securities. They can invent
tales of the attempted assassination of the
Emperor or spread abroad stories of antici-
pated national disturbances, and down these
securities go. Then they buy them in.
These canards are exploded. Up the Sc
curities 60 1t is stock-jobbing operation
constantly repeated and Wall street opera
tions of this nature greatly aggravated max
ing the Government sort Of
Shuttlecock for Individual Gain.
The persecution of the Hebrews is merely
the attempt to suppress such operations,
which react upon the masses of innocent
people just as they do here. The hostility
of the Government toward these bankers
and stock jobbers has nothing to do with re-
Hgious belief, only so far as the latter sus-
tains and encourages such conduct"
"Then why are the poorer Hebrews rum
ming away, or being forced out of the coun-
try?" was asked.
GAS to that" replied the Colonel, ri am
willing to pledge myself to give so much
money to anybody who can prove that they
have been sent out of the country for relig-
ious belief. If religious belief impels men
to commit offenses against the laws of the
land, and such men were punished, would
you admit they were punished because of
their religious belief? Are the Mormons in
the United States persecuted because of
their religious belief, or is it because they
violate the laws?
The Case of the Mormons.
They have been driven from one section
of the country time and time again and yet
the Government sought them out in their
seclusion and treated them with rigorous
laws enacted especially against them. The
Mormons also call this persecution. We
know better. They were bounded down by
the civil processes and military forces Of
the United States because their so-called
religious practices were inimical to the well
being of society and subversive of the laws
of the land. We have nothing against q
Mormon because he is a Mormon, but a
Mormon must not violate the laws any
more than anybody else. Russia has moth
ing against the Hebrew because he is He
brew, and there has been no act of the Rus
sian Government leveled at his class more
arbitrary, laws more specially stringent, or
that SAVIOR more of persecution, than this
Government has visited upon the Mormons.
Now, the Russian Hebrew is not the kind
of man we know commonly as a Hebrew in
this country. Not by any means You can
easily understand that by visiting certain
quarters in New York.
Misled by the Rogues.
'It is the unscrupulous intriguantes and
rogues who, under the garb of religion, in
duce these unfortunate people to sell out
their small holdings in Russia and to leave
their homes and associations for the purpose
of bettering their condition in America.
You'll find in Russia to-day hundreds of
these sharpers, Hebrews from England and
Germany, going among these ignorant He
brews, telling them about the riches that
can be found in the Americas. They sell
them Hheir railroad tickets and steamship
tickets and make money. The Government
of Russia has nothing to do with it. 1t
simply enforces the laws relative to He
brews that time and practical experience in
Russia have demonstrated as necessary to
regulate and restrain people whose racial
characteristics would otherwise be stand
ing menace to the masses of the Russian
people and to the Government itself. These
laws are wise and beneficial If they seem
to be harsh in some respects it is because
those who so consider them have little idea
of the necessity for them. The attempted
amelioration of the conditions of these peo-
pie invariably results in return to the
enforcement of the laws. These periodical
are the so-called 'edicts'
against the Hebrews. These laws have been
in existence since Peter the Great"
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.