The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-05

allowed 10 leak out To those who appreciate
the fact that a partnership in snti-Semitism was
virtually involved in the Franco Russian alliance,
II will be obvious that French persecution and the
apprehension Of compulsory Jewish exodus
from France necessarily throws Israelite influence.
interest and sympathy on the side Of England
aud the United States
v.
After reporting the evidence Of his own eyes
and ears with regard To the intolerabie condi ton
of the Jews in the fifteen Russian provinces con.
shutting the Pate Of Settlement 10 which and TO
Poland they are restricted Mr White undertakes
10 state the case for Russian ant Semiusm-
The reasons why Mr.. PobedonosteI and other
Russian Minister'S tcrs~cute Jews are not
generally understood. IL seems, in England or in
the United Stsb, Critics Of Russian policy
rarely attempt - place themselves at the stand.
point of those they condemn. Our author AYERS
that, looked at through Russian spoctacles, the
confinement Of the Jews in the fifteen provinces
Of western Russia known a. the Pale and in the
provinces Of Poland Is not only an act Of reason
able craftsmanship. but no other policy is oompau
bic with the development Of Holy Russia on nation.
al lines The Polish Jews ore prolific beyond
PARALLEL For hundred years they have multi
piled as no PEOPLE on earth have multiplied. II they
have no; waxed mighty they are increasing at
four times the rate Of the Russians who themselves.
are the most prolific nation In Christendom.
Russian statesmen Of today. when rejecting on
this fact are relied 10 regard themselves rus
tees for r-asaniry numbering 100 900 600 souls
who are Intellectually undeveopod and as back
ward In Ct vihLAuon were the English OF the sev-
entecnih century. Education has not To uched them
with her finger TIP. Supersuuous as West An.
can negroes the Russian peasant especially in
his cups, falls an easy prey 10 the astute and
temperate Oriental race, which exploits his voes
and plays with case upon his supersuuons and
his prc!udlces for the purpose Of gain II must
Be rememb ered. moreover. that the peasants.
although ignorant and creduious are industrious,
faithful and devoted 70 their Emperor The
Jews on the other hand. In the eyes Of Museovite
Ministers are cosmopolitan: Russian neither
In blcrd religion nor instinct Thus the
presented 10 RUSSIAN statesmen Is by no means
- simple as IL seems 10 slapdash Western phil.
an'hropists
There is still another element which the rulers
Of Russia are constrained 70 take into consdera-
ton The Intellect Of the jew Is mAsteriuL
His assLdui;y. his iron resolve 10 get on. his self
denial and ambition surmount all natural OBJ
stacles II IL. according 10 our author. q sober
statement Of fact that II all careers In the Russian
Enpre were thrown open IN the Jews no, decade
tauon from Port Arthur TO Riga and from Arch.
angel to Mcrv. would pass into lsTaeiite hands
The Russian nature Is >eIiindulsent impulSve
generous and passionate. Russians would have
no chance Of survival IN a struggle with the Jews
on equal terms What Car In his Senses asks
Mr. White. what sane Russian Minister would
PERMIT his country To commit suicide by oodng
the civil administrator 10 = Jewish minority.
England does not invest the Bengal with power
IN India because he passes difficult examinations
With the greatest easc. Yet this is precisely
what Is involved in the anudoes Of education
and elusLty - cLbly prescribed by AnElo-Saxou
tocutna!rcs who condemn Russia without under.
standing the difficulties with which she has 70
deal, but who do not treat ,her own racial prob
lens on abstract principles"
Mr. White insists that the rich Paris bankers
who took the Russian loan are largely responsible
for the fact tha, the Russians now deny on the
one h md the existence Of any serious grievances
the part Of the Israelites in Russia and asser,
on the other hand, L.ai the administrative r,gu.
lauons which are put in force are no more Than
Russian from the descendants 81 The enemies az
Christ III a tiihe 81 the unanswered charges
made against the Russian Government, in respect
Of their anti Semitic policy were true the attitude
of the great Jewish banking huuSc in their fnan.
ciaI dealings with Russia would be incompre-
hensihle. No one could have conceived il possible
ihas in 1894. not long after the time Of he Guild
hall m'eiiug and Of the appearance OF Ddrkra
RHsHG The richer Hebrew banks Of the West
race with funds partiy 10 b employed in paving wing
The administrator that humiliates, dcbases and
knew the. calami,ous extent Of jewish suffering
IN the Pale, Il wss taken for granted that the mo.
menl OF russia pecuniary, extremity would
ouer the Opportunity for the richer jews TO inter.
yclc ON behalf ot their prosecuted brethren The
Jewish bankers oi Paris before Lending money
y Russia, miehi have imposed upon The Cars
g.
The Jews ~ the Pale some immunity from need.
leSy hostile trca,mcn, al the hands q the officials
pcaSan,ry, Nothing Of he lind was done ON
ihe, conrary, in lSa1 when NE RUSS IN Minister
and applied Tor ii 10 israel,e bankers. he did No.,
appy IN vain. That was lsrael's psvC biological
hour 4, that iunciure, Hebrew capitalists held
insisted upon the Holy Synod mendns It's ways
aas STgn the ThsS ss 5 nS,h and
u Tie kind The Hebrew capitalists resisted The
almost oycrpowe'rS temptation 10 come 10 the
II is alleged by way Of apology thai the profits
derived from lending money 60 Russia on tat
was NOT The motive Win induced iRe JeSiSh
bankers o. Paris TO enter into The affair The
by Jewish capitalists, and Nj While was told al
s. Petersburg by authoritative pcrSons in the
adminislianye sphere that no private conditions
thc wrrtched Jewish population herded in thc
stun tiics Of the Pale NJ jewish voice ~ weight
Is known 10 have been rnisNi TO beserch Israeli,e
milliunairrs IN the name of humanity 10 desisi
from lending money 20 the assassin Of their race
The rch Jews IN western Europe and in the [ nit.
cd States were dumb, and. when a protest in the
name a. the suffering millions Of the Pale was
Th!sed by non Jew, the defence 81 the great
lsra.i,e money lynders was undertaken by, the
jewish press SlnCr then The word has been
passed around that the grievances Of the Russian
Jews have been, " a considerable extent abated
\ cnDrfing 10 MI White, the condition Of the
Russi-n Jews W day is what IL was in 1891 with
NE additional cause pi prysuon and hardship
maj ulr fr"unditv Of the Jews exceeds that OF ali
other human beings They are wore on today
b@cEus" ifcir numbers are greater The golden
opportunity MAS lost never W return.
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