The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.
A RUSSIAN STATESMAN on THEIR
REAL SITUATION.
weakness OF the Jews the Cause OF Their
Persecution -- BENEFITS They Render
TO Populations About Them Many
Statistics as to Their Condition.

The United States having entered the
front ranks Of the world powers since the
battle OF Manila. 1t has become the duty
OF our citizens to acquaint themselves more
closely than heretofore with the politica
chessboard Of the other continents,
These reflections suggested themselves
to me on reading in your paper OF yesterday
the special cable despatch Of your London
correspondent, with the striking heading
Jews in Russia to Feel the Iron Hand.
Permit me, therefore, to offer to your read
ers few authentic facts in regard to the
true situation Of these millions Of victims
OF semi-Aslatic barbarity
Prof. A. S. Subotin, the wel-known
Russian scholar and writer, was appointed
in 1885 by the Russian Government mem
Der Of the well-known Pahlen Commission
for the study Of the Jewish question. He
has since that time closely investigated
Jewish affairs, having at his disposal not
only the voluminous statistical material
officially collected by the said commission,
but also the works of State Councillor Ivan
Stanislovitch Bloch, the famous apostle
Of peace and father OF The Hague Peace
Conference OF 1909, who died on Dec. Is,
1901. This influential counsellor Of Car
Nicholas III. gave much time to the study
OF Jewish statistics, summing up the re-
suits Of his investigation In large work
Of five volumes, with 40 tables and $50
maps. The entire edition of this valuable
work, with the exception Of few COPIES
unfortunately persisted during a fire while
in the process Of printing, and the statistical
material gathered together therein would
have been lost to Judaism had not
Prof. Subotin made it accessible to
the public through his book, "The
Jewish Question in Its True Light
(St Petersburg, 1903), which Is based on
Bloch's "Stravnenie Materialnavoi- and
Nravstvennavo Blagosostoyaniya Guberni
Zapadnykh, Veliko Rossskikh | Privis-
lynskikh.' Every unprecedented Christian
may now gain an insight into the Judeo-
Russian question from thoughtful scien-
tific work instead of the superficial, hostile
articles OF an anti-Semitic press. quote
below some passages from this work, in
the hope that a Jewish Macenas will arise
TO have the entire work translated into
English.
l. Cause Of the Persecution of the Jews.
Councillor Bloch has with acute insight
stated the true cause Of the persecution OF
the Jews in modern times to be- not re-
lgious prejudice, or racial hstred, nor the
eordid fear OF competition. nor, least Of
all, the alleged vileness of the Jews, but
solely their weakness Whoever is weak
and helpless, unable to protect himself
and dependent on the protection of others
is In danger Of the oowardly attacks of
those who do not dare to approach the
strong. The ringleaders In the great Jewish
disturbances In Russia at the beginning Of
the sos OF the last century were not the
terribly f1eeced' peasants Of the localities
In question, but foreign lahorers from
Greater Russia, who had never before seen
a jew, and therefore had never been in
jured by one. The disturbances, more
over, broke out in the larger cities, while
the towns and villages where the 4Aeeced"
peasants were living at first remained
passive. They took place. not because
the Jews were accused of having preyed
upon the population, but because the people
had been excited to murder and plumber
by number Of jew baiters, who persuaded
the mob that the Government would not
protect the Jews any longer, and that the
Gar had delivered them up to the mercy of
his beloved. faithful Russians" Order
was restored as soon as the Government
mterfered II is noteworthy, moreover,
that there were no disturbances whatever
In the military district of wilma, where
Count Totleben announced that any at
'e.ip Ti az no. "ouid pe loTcloly suppressed
,eia ne Tvs anu INC russian feasant.
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tne,i;sn' l.; ,o' 'iIe oews. me "ouoe premyd
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nu Vic ~ SaIio r,rai 70 i've III territory
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r, W ~, O ~ uoul sa'''S ana villages set
aieGd t ~ h Ie purpose iney are not al
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c,,ried h,, tha p ,a. ,,''' aue'al space oc-
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.ha "s aL '4 Enn rIaiI,e, Is smaller than
Ssts nnt an ;nch to. hn n aIu uitentL olnce
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ent;ro Dr. r'rI n,, -n otl'lea Inc
r,etres Il ~ /, =, ~ ~ Squale H Hlo
metres u: e.. the l-2S OF the Russian En-
pre- dna ".Iinp1einR w 1917! is4,636
;rh ws III to'di p1p,'iat,or OF E;o.b;'ao
as.se 10 ultpiTu lllto n,le lollowlnS
nt.eIn soVe, n ii wilma MlIensk' Grod-
p d., Io'np, Mi,.sk MyLnileH, vol1yrla' htev'
roi.ot,, "a. huue' nIe ' rania,
an Ia,.s vi MT, any
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a. ~ ,ouo,,, i,o.ii NY onlv 70 not prey
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.reg,, -. on me CON
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