Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-29
RUSSIAN jews.
Baron Hirsch's Scheme Will
Provide but for 8 Per Cent.
Thousands Remaining in Open
Violation of the Law.

Fraudulent Perm Its obe>tned by bribery.
'An Israolite ygapdOreT." In Ths Anti
Jacobin, of Lsadlon. ss:, Essry dew
Expelled Courted Sis % vn Fare. and
That the Poor and ESl sac Suhsr Most.
The Reverse Side of Great QaostioD Of
Which We Have Heard So MuOb.
LONDON, Sept. 29.--"In Darkest Rus
sia" points out that Baron Eirsch's
scheme, if successful, can only provide
for about 8 per cent. Of the Russian
Jews.
A letter which first appeared ia The
Anti-Jacobin, and which was signed
"An Israelite Wanderer," has besn re-
published in the afternoon newspapers
and is attracting considerable attention.
1t strongly defends Russia, and declares
that the laws relating to the Jews are
by no means so inequitable as imagined.
Referring to the domicile law this letter
says it has never been altered, but that
1t has operated with so little rigor that
one-third Of the Jews reside today in
governments from which they were ex-
cluded generation ago. This, he says,
Is sign Of gradual improvement, which
is the best to be expected from a semi
civilized country like Russia. ColGnu-
ing, the writer of the letter mentioned
says that 10000 Jews reside ia st.
Petersburg and that similar number
reside in Moscow.
"Expulsions," he adds, "are entirely
due to Jewish violations of the law.
Ever since Russia opened her cities to
Jewish traders they have been recog-
nized by the guilds of professional mor
and mechanics. It has been the aim of
the Hebrews who are excluded from
that privilege to obtain a settlement in
the central provinces. The Guild Of
Mechanics certificates have been forged,
fraudulent police permits have been
printed, and regular trade in them has
been prosecuted for years. Certificates
have also been used long after the orig
inal grantee was dead, and thus thous-
ands of Jews without means or trade
have settled in Russia, where they had
no more right to be than pauper eini-
grant has to land in New York. Mum
bers of mechanics also have forsalen
their regular occupation and have taken
to peddling, thus violating the condi-
tions under which they were allowed to
settle. Others left the town where they
ought to have remained. Between $780,
900 and 200, 900 Jews now reside in Rus
sia in open violation of the law, owing
to fraudulent permits or by bribing Off
cials.
being undisturbed they have become
more confident and have invested money
in houses, which is against the law, and
then when orders are received to enforce
the domicile law the outside world hears
of wholesale expulsions, often accom-.
panied by brutality, But every Jew SO
expelled courted his own fate They all
know what they are doing when they
pass the pale of their domicile.
Poor Jews suffer the most from the
rigor Of the law, being as peddlers, por-
ters and such like, at the mercy of every
petty official, by whom they are hounded
from pillar to post.
"If Baron Hirch's scheme includes
these poor Jews it takes up the most
material it is possible to
deal with. They have neither physique
for field work or resource of any kind.
They and their families must be support
cd from the moment they leave Russia
until an indefinite date, when they can
maintain themselves unaided. The
government will not allow the capable,
sturdy, better class, who are all military
reservists, to leave the country"