The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28
RUIsSlAS FANATICAL PERSECUTION OF JEWS.


higher profession of arms. closed to them:
trade and commerce rendered very dlffi-
cult by intolerable taxes and undue restric-
op. sna whcy possse now
AT last completely taken away. their. re-
lgion prescribed and their very souls KILL
forced to blacken them Russian Jews may
well defy their prosecutors to make their
position worse than II is
Will React on Russia.
What Is the remedy for these barbAric
prosecutions. this inhuman treatment OF
Russla's subjects? Does history not prove
that continued slavery degrades not only
the slaves. but also the slave-holdersg 30
this continued violation Of the rules OF
justice and humanity must react upon the
authors Russia has nothing to fear from
her Jews. Time and again IL has been
proven that despite the inhuman treat
ment. despite the most fragrant discrimina-
ton, Russia has no more patriotic sub
jects, no more warm-hearted generous,
loyal citizens than are her Jewish young
men and women. The principal remedy
lies In a gradual, complete emancipation
Of the Jews; In the tearing down OF the
barriers and bulwarks of the pale, and the
opening 'of the entire empire, Siberia IN
Guided, for economic and Industrial pur-
suits Let the other side of Siberia be
told let her vast mineral and agricuitural
resources be cultivated by the Jews; let
him become acquainted with her blessings.
He knows her curses; he has felt her Guns
and her chains.
The schools must be thrown open, the
colleges made accessible to all that wish
to enter; the pursuit of all trade all occu-
pations, must be made permissible. Jews
should be made eligible to enter the ranks
OF the navy and TO be allowed TO attain
distinction in the army.
Let Nicholas II. break the bonds OF
bureaucracy and ecclesiasticsm by which
he Is bound: let him assemble the clerical
dignitaries and provincial governors and
devise means and ways to prepare Tor
peace within.
Peace mt Home First.
II Russia intends to maintain her stand
ing among the nations let her establish
peace at home before endeavoring to per-
suade other powers to disarm. National
peace must precede universal peace. In
ternal racial warfare at home is as much
curse as hostilities abroad; II breathes
the same poison and prepares the same
disasters Salvation must come from with
in. In the meanwhile. the outside powers
and peoples should not remain apathetic
on this vexed question. Individual pro-
tests and sporadic mass meetings help lit
tie, but IL every minister would give public
expression to the horrors and barbarfties
suffered, and If in every city public
the car and demonstrating with the gov
eminent that fails to honor the passport
OF O. United States citizen, TX he Is Jew;
through such meetings 1t would be shown
that the civilized world condemns a ma
tion against whose subjects the venom OF
heathenish wrath is directed; that 1t pro-
tests against despotic church that pro-
fesses to teach self-denial love and kind
ness.
The various powers might unite In OPEN
ing diplomatic negotiations with the car;
through the combined, persistent efforts
an international court of final appeal might
be established. before which all appeals of
the Russian Jews might be amicably set
tied.
But history has shown that Russia will
and does not listen to humanitarian APP
peals. She will suffer no outside interior
ence with affairs she considers purely her
own. q .'"
f solution Is to Emigrnte.
There is only one solution left, viz, the
emigration of Russian Jews into South or
North America. In the United States the
Russian Jew could follow all legitimate oc-
cupations; he could colonize all the large
arabic districts in the Western states, and
would soon easily become an Independent
and self-supporting citizen. He deserves
our whole hearted sympathy. He is In
dustrious and temperate, energetic and as
similative, patriotic and religious. A man
that suffers the SeVereSt pr1VationS, that
makes the most heroic sacrifices for kith
and kin, that is honored and Missed by
the Russian rabble; the man to whom are
held out life and liberty, health and happi-
ness, If only he become an apostate; the
man who spurns all these remains loyal
to his religious ideals, takes his STAFF and
wanders away to a new land, rather than
become a convert-such man Is hero,
an aristocrat in the best sense of the word,
and as such deserves our best support,
| our warmest admiration. We, living In
| the land of the free and the home of the
brave should dispel whatever distrust or
contempt we may entertain concerning
| these refugees. and extend to them all the
rights and opportunities that are denied
them at home.
The Uuited States, prompted by humans
| tartan principles at all times, raises her
| voice In behalf of the downtrodden and op-
pressed. She sympathizes with Ireland in
| her struggle for freedom and deplores the
periodic Armenian outrages. She answer
| ed the pathetic appeal of the suffering Gu
| ban and expressed her Indignation at the
| Dreyfus affair in no uncertain tones. Let
| her rebel also against the actions of a
| despotic nation and extend a welcome hand
| to those immigrants and inhabitants whose
| ancestors have enriched civilization with
the most enduring principles. whose pro-
| gentors have bequeathed to humanity the
| most inestimable gifts.