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A Wonderful Exodus.

we have not yet obtained from Rus.
sia the full official details of the great
scheme recently laid before the Car by
Baron de Hirsch. for the organized
exodus of the whole body of his Jew
lsh subjects, numbering more than
3,5OO,OOO. There have been several
semi-official reports printed in St.
Petersburg, that the scheme has been
approved by the Car, and that it will
be executed in a systematic way under
orders promulgated through his au-
tnorlty. Its execution is to be COM
menced as soon as the necessary ar
rangements are made, and will extend
over 20 years. 1t is said that the ex-
dus of this year will be limited to 90
oOO souls, that it will be greatly in
creased next year, after the business of
transportation and settlement has been
regulated, and it will be enlarged each
successive year until all the Jews in
Russia are removed therefrom. 1t is
further reported that this unpreceden-
ted exodus will be under the direction
OF the Ministry of the Interior and a
Jewish Committee chosen by Baron de
Hirsch; that the Government will not
incur any pecuniary responsibility on
account of the exodus, and that the
jewish Committee must keep 100000
roubles always on deposit in the Rus
sian treasury, to cover any expense to
which the imperial officials NAV be
subjected in its behalf.
The project is one of SURPRISING
magnitude and of an extraordinary
character. 1t is of Importance not
only to Russia but to other countries.
The exodus of the Jewish people from
Russia will be of larger proportions
than the exodus Of the same race from
Egypt $500 years ago. 1t will be
Jewish migration greater than that
which took place in the early part of
the Christian era, and far greater than
that which took place 400 years ago,
when the Jews were expelled from
Spain.
In the eyes of the Jews the Car of
Russia is the modern Pharaoh and the
millionaire Baron de Hirsch is the
coming Moses.
About one-half of all the Jews in the
world are under the government of the
Car, and they are compelled to reside
In certain specified regions of the ter
rltory over which he rules; a large
proportion of them have dweltfor ages
in Poland. By some Russian statistic
ians the number of Jews under the
Car IS put as high as 100000. or
even higher; but perhaps if we take
into account the number that have
been expelled within recent years. the
whole body now left there NAV be
under 100000.
We are not informed whether Baron
de Hirsch, who has carried on the me-
gotiations with Russia for the exodus
and who is reported to have declared
his willingness to contribute S1OOOOO.-
OOO for the benefit of his Russian co.
religionists, has yet completed his ar
engagements for their settlement in
other countries. From the fact. how
ever, that he has purchased broad |
tracts OF land in the Argentine Repub-
lie and other tracts in South Africa.
and has disbursed great sums of money
Tor the service of Jewish immigrants to /
the United States, it may be presumed
that his purpose is not to concentrate
the whole body of Russian Jews in anv
one country, but to divide them among
several widely separated countries of
the world, directing them especially to
those countries in which they will be
hospitality received, and in which thev
have the assurance that they will pos
sess those rights and secure that sue
cess of which they are especially de-
srous.
The organized exodus of 3,5OO,OOO
Jews from Russia to foreign lands, is
to be begun this very year, if we can
give credit to the semi-oficial publica- I
tions of the press of st. Petersburg.
1t will be Jewish migration unlike {
that from Egypt, unlike any other
Jewish migration since the time of I
Abraham, who migrated from Ur to {
Canaan. G
Baron de Hirsch is man of organ !
zing genius, a man of prodigious :
wealt' and philanthrOphist. In con- ;
junction with the Gar, who does not
oppose this exodus as Pharaoh opposed s
he Mosaic exodus, he may yet do f
great things for the unhappy Jews of t
Russia. -NetO York Sun. t