The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-26

connection with each other in such
branches of business as they are al
lowed to pursue.
"This is now even more the case than
ever before, since recent regulations
have swept the IsraeliteS living in many
rural districts into the towns.
"The restrictions are by no means
confined to residence; they extend into
every field of activity. Even in the
parts of the empire where the Israel
ties are most free they are not allowed
to hold property i'm land, or to take
a mortgage on land, or to farm land,
and of late they have even been, to
u large extent prevented from living
on farms, and have been thrown back
into the cities and villages.
Perhaps the most painful of the re-
strictions upon them is in regard to
the education of their children. The
world over, as is well known, Israel
ties will make sacrifices to educate
their sons and daughters, such as are
not made, save in exceptional cases,
by any other people. They are, as IS
universally recognized, a very gifted
race, but no matter how gifted a young
Israelite may be his chances of re-
ceiving an education are small.
In regions where they are most
numerous, only 10 per cent. of the
scholars in high schools and univer-
sites are allowed to be Jews, but in
many cases the number allowed them
is but per cent, and in ST Peters
burg and Moscow only 3 per cent.
out of seventy-five young Israelites
who applied for admission to the Uni
versity of Dorpat in 1857, only seven
were allowed to enter.
"A few days since the case was
brought to my notice of well-to-do
Israelte who wished to educate his
son, whom he considered especially
gifted but who could not obtain per-
mission to educate him in st. Peters
burg and was obliged to be satisfied
with the permission to enter him at
one of the small provincial universities
remote from the capital.
ITO account for this particular re-
stricton it is urged that if freely al
lowed to receive an advanced educa-
ton they would swarm in the high
schools, universities and learned pro-
LESSONS; and as a proof of this, the
fact is mentioned that some time since,
in the absence of restrictions, at Odes-
sa from so to 20 per cent. of the schol-
airs in sundry Russian colleges We're
Jews"
A statement was recently made by
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor in Washington, that much of the
resentment of the Russian peasants
against the Jews was due to the fact
that they were crushed by Jewish
money lenders. Upon this subject DR..
White had something to say in his re-
port.
In justification of all these restric-
tons" he wrote, various claims are
made. First Of all it is claimed that
the Jews lend money to peasants and
others at enormous rates of interest.
But it is pointed out, in answer to this,
that sundry bankers and individuals
in parts of Russia where no Jews are
permitted have made loans at a much
higher rate than Jews have ever ven
tured to do; while it is allowed that
100 per cent. a year has not unfre-
quently been taken by the Israelites
There seems to be no doubt of the fact
that from 300 to 800 per cent, and
even more, sometimes, has been taken
by Christians.
This statement seems incredible, but
it is unimpeachable. In a general way
it is supported by the recent report of
a Russian official to Mr.. Sagonof; and
a leading journal of st. Petersburg
published under strict censorship, has
recently given cases with names and
dates, where a rate higher than the
ilB nest dUONe udlileQ was pdlu Dy
Russian peasants to Christian money
lenders"
DR.. White refers to the assertion that
the Jews will not work at agriculture
and that they viii do no sort of man
ual labor which they can avoid. This
has been supported by the statement
of Mckenzie Wallace and other travel
lers that the Jewish agricultural colo
MES founded by Alexander / in 1910.
Nv ATfnha1ge L -,
done well.
but in answer" says DR.. White. "it
may be stated as simple matter Of
history that, having been originally an
agricultural people, they have been
made what they are by ages of perse-
cution which have driven them into the
occupations to which they are now So
generally devoted; that in Russia they
have for generations been incapacitated
for agricultural work by such restric-
tons as those above referred to: that
even If they are allowed here and there
to till the land, they are not allowed
in the parts of the empire which rhev
most inhabit, to buy it or even to farm
IT, and that thus the greatest incen-
tive to labor is taken away"
As to the branches of manual labor.
DIR. White asserts that there are very
large. bodies Of Jewish artisans in Pol
and, numbering in the aggregate about
the entire adult male Israellte
population.
AZ stone magOns," he adds "thev
have an especially high reputation.
and it is generally conceded that In
sobriety, capacity and attention To
work they fully equal their Christian
rivals"
Or. White praises the patriotism. So
briefly, industry and regard for law Of |
the Jews.
"fhe whole present condition ~
things. he remarks. "is rather the out |
come ~ "a great complicated mass of 4
aiseF. involving racial HntipHthies. re- /
membranes NJ financial aervitude. |
vague inherited preJudices nlth myths /
ana legends Ike those Of the Middle l
Ases'