The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28
Psnned Up Like Cattle. They Are
Permitted to Follow Only the
Most Menial Occupations
Soon All Will Be Sent
to Siberia.

- r. all the European countries today
there Is none in which bigotry and
fanaticism flourishes more lux
uriantly than In Russia. With the
intelligence and power to unity ana
nationalize her vast empire, she crushes
whatever people that refuse to conform TO
the state religion. be they Jews or Gentiies.
Eundists or Mennonites, Catholics or
Iutherans As the Jew refuses to relin-
uuish his faith or to die . premature
death. he is the chief victim Of Muscovite
uarrowness
Siberia, Siberian night and Siberian hor-
rore have been frequently pictured by
thrilling writers. but cablegram recently
published brought the news that from q
locality where the punishment melted out
70 transgressors has ever been fiercer than
practiced in Siberia. the Jews are to be.
deported to Siberia. The Russian must
be specialist In the art of cruelty and
painiess murder. and to him the nations
must turn to take lessons In the manner
and mode OF furnishing criminals.
The reader may have read OF the horrors
of the Crusades and of the tragedies en-
acted prior to the Reformation, but per-
haps he is not yet aware of the cruel and
gradual death to which the Jew IL put In
the domain of the czar today--at the dawn
Of the twentieth century.
Penned mp Like Cattle.
The lot OF the Russian Jew Is pltiable
up like cattle in a territory known as the
pale Of Jewish settlement. This settle
6aent comprises about nine provinces, or
1-27th OF the empire. Within the precincts
of this district nearly 5000.000 human be-
tngs are forced to live. and permitted to
follow only those callings that are mean
and mental If the Jew leaves this pre-
scribed territory and sets foot upon ad-
Joining ground, he Is liable to immediate
deportation to Siberia. (No more to Tsa-
chain islandD He is not permitted to
move from town to town or to locate in
city. He may not take up his abode at
a place less than nifty versts from the
frontier. Exception to this law 10 made
In the case OF members OF the first guild,
who are permitted to move freely through
the land on condition that they pay an
uuaIly the sum OF 1000 rubles to the gov-
eminent. in addition to q certain percent
age from the profits OF their business.
Naturally, the number In a position to pay
this price is very small. Jews cannot en-
ter the navy. They are not permitted to
engage in mining or mining pursuits; they
are prohibited from employing Christian
apprentices unless the foreman Is Chris
tian, and they are forbidden to purchase
landed property from land owners or peas
antry in certain provinces All Jews must
serve in the army, but Jewish recruits may
not be employed In guarding frontier.
They are not permitted to be attendants
upon officers. Jewish soldiers and nom
commissioned officers sare not Allowed to
enter schools for the training Of officers
IL non-Jew evades the fulnllment OF his
military duty the liability to punishment,
according to Russian law, lies upon him
personally; but II q Jew evades the fulfill
ment OF his military duties his family Is
liable to fine of 300 rubles. over and above
his own personal responsibility.
May Not Build Churches.
Tor,s xpt,o aro u,,i1fv ~ h,,t1dtpc svnA-
rogues or houses Of prayer without per-
mission, or who have built such within a
distance of 100 sajen from Christian
church, are liable to fine not exceeding
200 rubles There must be at least eighty
families in a town where a synagogue Is
erected. The robbery of synagogue Is
not held by the law to be a sacrilege. No
Jew can hold divine service in his house
without special permission from the au-
thorities. Any Jew inheriting property In
Russia must sell the same within six
months.
Every foreigner. on producing his pass
port will be required to declare to which
religious denomination hes belongs.
Now, a few words about the restriction
of Jews in the Russian schools. The pas
sion for learning existing among the Jews
need not be elaborated upon. What mother
did not take pride in having her son edu-
Gated in the law? What father did not
desire to train his Oldest to become min
lister? Physical privations were not con-
eidered, IL only the Intellectual appetite
could DO appeased. Russia does not be-
lieve in the weil-known dictum that ma
tions strength lies in her educated men
and women. She has practically closed
the doors of the higher schools to her
Jewish subjects. The proportion Of jew
fish scholars. at the universities and gym
nasia has been reduced to 10 per cent. In
the pale, per cent, in other parts OF the
empire and per cent. in Moscow and st.
Petersburg.
At the University of Odessa only per