Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-09
He Writes of the Great Centera
 of Jewish Population
SEES CATASTROPHE AHEAI

Unnatural Economic Social Condition Like Leaving an Epidemic Q Smallpox to Take Care Of Itself, Hs Says-Too Many Artisans ant ] Traders for the Amount of Work t Be Done.
 New York, Oct 0.--EFom visit ts the great centers of Jewish population in Russia, Michael Davitt has writer his estimate of the conditions and fu ture of those people in volume entt tied Within the Pale" which will bs issued tomorrow from the presses oi A. 5. Barnes SS Go. sThe Jew. as hs is ruled and oppressed by Russian ofn | clals, is a far greater danger to Rus sian autocraey than anti-semitism is ts the Israelites of the pale," declares Nil Davitt in the preface to his work 'sThe danger,'' he continues, was can didly ayowed by all representative Russians from whom solicited lighl ! and information.'
 MT Davitt sees further catastrophs l ahead because of unnatural economic and social conditions. s"The facts 6, the economic and social conditions within the pale Of settlement, hs writes, ''are so objective that the warn ing they give of coming catastrophe cannot be ignored. It would be liks leaving an epidemic Of smallpox to cure itself by neglect This condition of things is fully explained and ex pressed by the term unnatural. II il analogous to situation which would result from a federal law compeIlips every European born artisan and la borer within the whole United States to reside in Pennsylvania and be for bidden to seek employment outside tilt cities and towns of that state. The murderous competition for employ ment, the deadly rivalry for existence the bad blood between opposing races the poverty and social wretchedness which such condition of things would create, apart from the operation Of coercive laws, can readily be imagined by the American reader But this ia no overdrawn picture of the economic J anarchy prevailing within the Rus i sian pale of Jewish settlement.
 "The towns are crowded with anti. sans and traders and as these are ont of all proportion to the producers and consumers of an agricultural country they necessarily became more destitute andwretchedas their numbers increase. They are too poor to efnigrate. They are prohibited from migrating They cannot seek work on Land They lsare mot permitted to engage in several occupations"
 MT Dewitt asserts that tine czar can accomplish much for the Jews in his domain by destroy ing the legend of the HI blood a@onernent M de Plehve and the czar," he ayers. "can accomplish 1 one good and blessed work, if so mind. ed, without altering a single antl-se- anitic Russian law. The emperor can. destroy in Russia the atrocious legend about the annual killing of Christian I children by Jews as an alleged part of the blood atonement in Hebrew pas chal rites Tn this humane and Christian task he Is entitled to the c0- I operation of the emperor of Austria the king of Roumania, and the heads 1 of the other Balkan states, where this ] story of ritual murder is constantly cir ' culated, and not infrequently as a part of political propaganda. There ought to be truly Christian crusade waged against this infamous product of am cinet, insensate. sectarian hate. z l Mr Davitt calls attention to the won
 1erful economic growth of Russia in the following striking sentences:
 .sWlhat Russia is accused of coveting in Manchuria or devising in Persia not what she is strenuously and rap idly achieving In the sphere of her vast domestic activity. exercises the critical attention of west European and Amer ican journalism. And yet the wide and sure and extraordinary progress that.is being made in the economic de- velopment of great empire, as self contained i'm it's rneasureless neutral resources as the United States, and with an assured domestic market for most of her manufactured products in !. a population of fully LAO. .Oo0. .000s grow ing at rate upwards of 1000 0o0 an- nually out of a natural increase, ought to be subject of infinitely greater concern to the public though the com mercial rivals like Great Britain and the United States -as 1t usually Is to the keener sense of German competi- ton than what Russian policy may or may not mean in it's diplomatic trend in the far east"
 Returning to f1ne subject of the Jew and discussing the amelioration of his condition, Mir Davitt says:
 1T have come from journey through the Jewish pale, a convinced believer in the remedy of Zionism. I failed to see amy other that can offer an equal hope of success It is 8 ne- cesstiy of the actual situation and faces the growing perils of the Rus sian Jew with courageous plan Of repatriation. Hope for partial or ul-
 
 none. Other countries cannot be ex- peced to relieve Russia of the un- happy victims of oppression and pow erty. Where, then. are they to go?''
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