The morning call., 1893-05-07
THE NEW EXODUS.
Jews Ordered to Leave
Poland.
RUSSIA'S BRUTAL TYRANNY.
No Decree So Sweeping Has Ever
Been Passed Against This Most
Unfortunate Race.
Special to The MORNING CALI

New YORK. May 6.-Harold Frederic
cables the Times from London: Though
the newspapers of Western Europe are just
now busy with more than the ordinary sup
ply OF topics calling for big type and double
leads l take it that Americas interests
must be nearly touched by something
which Is happening over across the line
which separates civilization from barbarism
IN mid-Europe, no hint of which has here
tofore got into type.
Any part Of the facts which am able to-
day to make public are known 10 only three
men in London, and perhaps ten or dozen
others in Paris. Berlin ana Vienna.
The greatest possible pains have been
taken during the past fortnight to verify
these facts before yenturing upon the state
ment.
They are supported by lot of detailed
documentary evidence. some of the orig
nals of which are here in London, and
which have seen. These show that the
wholesale expulsion of the Jews has been
begun in the kingdom of Poland Itself. and
this means a forced dispersion of the
people, compared with which the recent
exodus from Russia proper is relatively in
significant
There are at the present moment some
thing like 1900, 600 Jews in Poland, or about
four times the number affected by the
Passover edicts in Russia. They are of a
somewhat better class as Whole than the
Russian Jews, at least from an economic
point of view. because they contain much
larger proportion of artisans and skilled
workmen.
When this new Polish exodus gets fairly
into nation the resources and patience of
Cbristendom will be taxed as never before.
incredible as it nay seem at first, these
DEGREES Of expulsion were promulgated as
far back as the 2Sth of last February. YET
they were only heard of outside of Russia
a bare fortnight ago. This alone gives a
vivid notion of the hopeless obscurity en-
veloping everything east of the Vistula.
When the tidings did at last sift westward
the leaders of the Jewish community dis
credited them, and not until actual proofs
were obtained were they able TO realize this
hideous addition to their ealamltous bur-
den. Inquiry has developed the fact that
already many thousands of Jewish families
in the villages and open country ali over
Poland have been served with these sum
mary orders TO move at once into the Towns.
The most detailed information at hand
here refers to The Province of Radon, but
there seems TO be no doubt that the same
machinery is at work in the other nine
gubernla OF the kingdom.
In the solitary communal district Of Rudo
GuZovska, which is forty vers Is from War
saw. on the railroad leading TO Vienna, $50
families, engaged in trade and possessed of
immoyable property, have heen served with
those orders TO leave. In the village of
Sucedniov. the seat of administration for
the Government iron mines, go families re-
ceived similar notices.
In the communal district of RliZen out of
40 Jewish families in the place 15S have
been ordered out. or these latter 76 fami-
lies have been settled there for generations,
If not centuries. and contain among their
adult males 10 tailOrs, 10 bakers, IS COM
n'ercial travellers, I commission agent', 3
bookmakers. carpenters, contractors, Q
coachmen. 3 dealers in crockery. butchers,
fOTemen in the iron works and porter
| give the list 10 show the sweeping char
acter of the expulsions. 1t may be added
that the list includes fourteen heads of
families who have served a tenn in the
army.
In the adjoining district of Ruda Mali
neizka eigty-two families are expelled,
among them thirtY-oae workingmen 10 the
big foundry there.
The original is here of an order dated on
the 18th of February, old style, ordering
into exile Glouskine, clever young Jew
WHO served in the army with distinction,
rising to be an under-officer. which is the
highest post possible to his race. He then
became manager Of important iron works
in the village Of Kamienrj.
lie is ordered 10 get out within eight days,
together with his wife and servants, other
wise measures will be taken to send him
out The decree directs him to 20 10 a town
which lie may himself select.
This clause is Russia's familiar device by
which she pretends that she is merely re-
arranging the domestic population and ex-
peling nobody.
We have seen in recent years the entire
falsity of this pretense Families thus
violently torn up by the roots can find no
place in the already oyercrowded towns.
They have no alternative but to leave the
country, and that very soon.
This new and huge Polish Jew wave will
be swinging westward by every available
outlet. You may be sure that the European
states will agree upon nothing else so cor
daily as on the desrahity Of shunting off
this stream straight to America, but if that
refuge be refused them or made exception
ally difficult there may be some hope of con-
certed remonstrance with Russia.