St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-30
CRUEL TO The JEWS.
Russian Persecution Of This
Unhappy Race Greater
Than Ever. fsi
In Moscow the Authorities
Are Especially Cruel and
Severe. eds
Old Soldiers With Medals
Treated With No Mercy or
Consideration. ~

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LONDON, Dee. 29-The latest adyices
from ST. Petersburg and other parts OF
Russia show that the persecution Of the
Jews and the inhumanity Of the czar's
officials toward that unhappy race are
greater than ever before. Six edlctS
have been issued aiming to disperSe the
Jewish subjects of Russia, weaken their
position at trading centers and crush
out their religion These edicts are
enforced with the utmost rig0r i'll many
parts Of the empire and with severity
everywhere.
The Moscow papers boast that since
the beginning of 1891 10000 Jews have
been converted to orthodoxy. The uIl-
happy converts, who nave been driven
to a pretended denial of their religious
faith in order to escape intolerabie per-
secution, have been deported to the DIS
trlct OF TcherkeSovo, about five miles
from Moscow. There they are rigor-
ously governed by priests of the Rus
sian orthodox church. who require them
to attend the services Of that church
and to comply with it's various rules,
watching narrowly for any sign Of eva
sion or repentance. These priests have
entire supervision of
The Syretched Colony
and the alleged converts from judaism
aye only allowed leave tn return to
Moscow upon certificate from the
nriaCtS npPtifyjnt, Tho tho hold
.1g such certificate is assured in the
falSh Of the orthodox church. When
thus released from the TcherkesOve
their troubles are not over. The police
and police spies keep careful watch
over them. and if they fail in attention
to their religious obligation as members
Of the orthodox church they are report
ed as recantlng to the Jewish faith.
Should the charge Of recantation be es-
tabliShed the usual punishment is de-
portation to Siberia.
In Moscow, Wnere the anti-JewiSh
crusade received great impulse
through the zeal of the Grand Duke
Sergius. brother of the cZar and gov
ernor OF Moscow, against the Jewish
race and religion, persecution continues
with uhabated severity. Jews who are
not natives Of Moscow have been given
twenty-four hours to return to their ma
tive towns. A Jew who has conducted
an important mercantile establishment
for thirty years near the central post
office has been compelled to close UP his
business and leave OH twenty -four
hours notice.
No mercy is shown to any Jews, no
matter how meritoriOuS. who can be
brought within the scope of the cruel
edictS. Thousands of Jewish work ing
people have been driven from their ein-
pioyinent to become beggarS and wan
derers. Old soldiers who wear medals
for faithful and gallant service in Rus
Sia'S army are treated with as
Little Mercy az
as other Jews. No recognition what
ever is given to their claims upon tile
country. Merchants of the best stand
ing are driven out like the poorest la
borer, and not only deprived of their
business, but robbed of the .mOney'that
is owing to theiii. for their debtors. Ell
conraged to injustice by the unjust
course oftho authorities. refuse to pay
the debts. well aware that their jewish
creditors are virtually without remedy.
Summariiy deported to their birth
districts" merchants who were recently
in affiuence fud themselves helpless
and impoverished in localities with
which they may have been long un
familiar. They may not sven have 4
single tie there, anu may have been alb
sent longer period than an average
human lifetime, but that makes no diff
ference to the Russian officials. The
old man of seventy or eighty who left
his native place when a child must go
back there. and be torn from the arms
of his children and his children's chill
dren unless they choose to accompany
him. The scenes witnessed in conSe-
quence are pitiful, and would move,
one would think, even the heart OF the
Grand Duke SergiuS.
Moscow has lost, in consequence of
the persecution there, multitude Of its
most valued residents. Many Of the
Jewish tradeSmen and artisans who
have been driven from Moscow have
gone to LOdZ, place few hours by
rail from Warsaw, and which has rap
idly risen TO a population OF 125,000,
most of them Jews. Under the in-
pulse of
Jewish Skill and Industry
LODI is fast becoming an important
manufacturing center, the factories
there being busy night and day, and
the manufacturers having orders for
three months ahead. Trade in Moscow
is, OH the other hand, collapsing through
the loss of Jewish capital and labor.
which had no small share in building
up and maintaining the industry and
prosperity of the place
While in Moscow, nnder the barbaric
administration of the Grand Duke Ser
giuS, the persecution of the Jews is as
fierce as ever, in Poland the oppression
OF the Jews is being somewhat relaxed,
and throughout Russia generally the
treatment of Jews is quite as harsh as
in Moscow, and it is almost jntoierable
everywhere. The regulations especially
universally enforced throughout Russia
are those limiting the residence OF Jews
within certain fixed localities, the pro-
hibition of Jewish artisans from work
ing in places beyond the control of Off
cial boards of trade and the restriction
as to unauthorized synagogues, it being
forbidden to Jews to worship in any but
an authorized synagogue. The condi7
tion of the Jews, except in LOdZ and a
few other places, is becoming steadily
worse, particularly in the case of these
who have no means to bribe the Rus
sian officers. ls9
LOST HIS MOTHERS MONEY.