Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-18
RussIA.s HORDE OF JEWS.
The Descendants of Abraham in the Land

 The Descendants of Abraham in the Land
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 Russia has more than a third of all the Jews in the world and sue is doing her best to reduce this number. Official statistics are not quite reliable on this subject, but it is assumed by the best informed that Russia must have close to 3. 3.000,000 of the Hebrew race The United States and England are shocked by the measures which the ear is talk ing against these people, and charge him with reviving religious perseeu- tion. The czar replies U this by point ing out that the United States deliber- ately closed its doors against emigra- ton from China, whose subjects were represented in America to the extent of only about 100, 900 souls, mostly upon the Pacific coast In this matter, more over, the czar moves in harmony with the overwhelming majority of his peo- pie, high and low; and were his people tomorrow to proclaim a republic, one of the few laws which it would not re- peal would be that which excludes the Jew from Holy Russia. The Russian knows his Jew better than we know
 
 to legislate on the subject
 Tn England Jews are met in every walk of life-in the army, the diplo- matie service the cabinet, the house of lords and amongst the boon compan- ions of England's future king. As with Us, they have east off every dis tinguishing badge of their race, and it is frequently only by accident that we learn the nature of their religious creed. In Russia, however, it is totally different There theeJew is as distinct a type as is with us the negro or the Chinaman. You can distinguish him as far as you can see, not merely by the face and form, so graphically drawn by MT. Pennell in his work the Jew al Home, but iu certain peculiarities o1 dress, to which lie elings as pertina- ciously as does the Apache to his blanket or the Mexican to his ombrero The Jew of Kovno Warsaw, Kiev and wherever else 1 have run across him ia Russia, wears a curious curl that hangs down in front of each ear. sometimes to his chin. His cap of black alpaca or cloth sits far back on his head, close to his ears, with 6 visor as large as those once fashionable amongst our brake men and conductors. His coat of black cloth or alpaca is modelled after that in which Dundreary is usually portrayed, reaching down to his ankles, and assisting to give him the long, lean hungry look of the Shylock type On his feet are boots worn out side of his trousers, in one hand an uIn- blelIa in the other q ValiSn. for fha Jew in Russia is usually moving from place to place on business, unless he is so poor as to be forced into menial oc- cupation.
 Russia has limited the territory in which Jews are allowed to live to narrow strip, beginning in the Baltic provinces near Riga and ending at the Black sea, following, roughly, the western frontier of the empire, along the borders of Prassia, Austria Han- gary and Roumania. These four coun- tries=-or rather three. if we regard Austria and Hungary as one-know more of the Jews by actual contact than any other people; for, according to the last census on the subject, there were in AustroH Hungary l,643 70S; Ger man empire, 567, ss4 Roumania, 4e0,- 900.
 The same census gave for Great | Britain and Ireland only 46, 000 Jews; l France, 40, 439; Norway, only S4: Spain, 4ns. In fact, as compared with Russia's neighbors, the number of Jews in other countries is hardly worth mentioning. -Poultney Bigelow, in Harper's Nigga l