The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-03
A WONDERFUL EXODUS.
The Jews are Leaving Russia In Larger
Numbers than from Egypt $500
Years ago.

The Jews are AeaEluS 4AoSs46 ~ A<1A nS~
Numbers than from Egypt $500
Years Ago.
New York Sun.
we have not yet obtained from Rus
sia the full official details of the very
great scheme recently laid before the
Car by Baron de Hirseh for the organ
lied exodus of the whole body OF his
Jewish subjects, numbering more than
S,5o0,OOO. There have been seml-oih-
ciat reports printed in st. Petersburg
that the scheme has received the ap-
proyal of the Gar, and that it will be
be executed in a systematic way, ac-
co,ding to orders promulgated under
his authority. Its execution IS TO De
commenced SIS soon as the necessary
arrangements therefore are made, and
is to extend over a period oftwenty-hve
years. It is said that the exodus OF this
year will be limited to q. 900 souls, that
it will be greatly increased next year,
after the business of transportation and
settlement has been regulated, and that
it will be enlarged each successive year
until all the Jews in Russia are re-
moved therefrom. tits further reported
that this unprecedented exodus will be
under the direction of the Ministry OF
the Interior and Jewish Committee
chosen by Baron de Hirsch; that the
Government will not incur any pecu-
mary responsibility on account of the
exodus, and that the Jewish Commit
tee must keep 10000 roubles always on
deposit in the Russian treasury to cover
any expenses to which the imperial
officials may be subjected in its De-
half.
The project is one of surprising mag
nitude and Of an extraordinary charac-
ter. Tits of importance not only to
Russia, but to other countries.
Theexodus 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 a
Jewish migration greater than that
which took place in the. early period 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 mordeln Pharoah and the
millionaire Baron de Hirsch is the
coming Moses.
About one-half of all the Jews IN
the world are under he government OF
the Gar, and they are compelled to re-
side in certain specified regions of the
territory over which be rules; a large
proportion of them have dwelt for ages
in Poland. BY some Russian statis-
ticians, the number of Jews under the
Car is put as high as 5000, 900, or even
higher; but perhaps, if we take into ac-
coupt the number that have been ex-
PEELED within recent years, the whole
body now left there may be under 4
o0o,o0o.
We are not Informed whether Baron
de .Hirsch, who has carried on the ne
gotiations with Russia for the exodus,
and who is reported to have declared
his willingness to expend 100000 for
the benefit of his Russian co-religion-
lists, has yet completed his arrange
ments for their settlement in other
countries. From the fact, however,
that he has purchased broad tracts oi
South Africa, and has disbursed great
sums of money for the service OF Jew
ish immigrants to the United States, it
may be presumed that his purpose is
not to concentrate the whole body OF
Russian Jews in any one country, but
to divide them among several widely
separated countries of the world, direct
ing them especially to those countries
in which they will be Hospitality re.
ceiyed, and in which they have the
best assurance that they will possess
those rights and secure that success
which they are especially desirous OF.
The organized exodus of 3,5OO,0O
Jews from Russia to foreign lands is to
be begun this very year, if we can give
credit to the semi-ofhcial publications
in the press of st. Petersburg. It will
be an exodus unlike that from Egypt,
unlike any other Jewish migration
since the time of Abraham, who mi
grated from Ur to Canaan.
Baron de Hirsch is man of organi.
izing genius,a man of prodigious wealth,
and philanthropist. In conjunction
with the Gar, who does not oppose
this exodus as Pharoah opposed the
Mosaic exodus, he may yet do great
things for the unhappy Jews of Rus
sia.
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria
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