Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-06
THE GEAR OF RUSSIA.

hence there is constant antagOniSm, the material differences In racial and religious character coming to the verge of frenzy at the least possible occasion.
 "The strained relations existing be- tween the Russians and Jews of Bes- sarabia were made worse by the fact of finding in an outlying village a mur- dered Christian boy. The murder was attributed by the population to the Jewish ritual habits. Official denials of the ritual murder were not given credit by the peasants, who attributed other murders of Christians in the towns of KieR and Kishineff likewise to the Jews.
 ''On Easter day in the market place of KishinefR the workers, while holiday making, saw the Jewish proprietor of a carousing machine strike a Chris tian woman, who fell to the ground, letting go her infant baby. This incl dent was the immediate cause of an outburst. The workers began breaking windows and pulling down Jewish stores as a sign of protest The police, who always leave much to be desired in provincial towns, failed to make ef- fcacious intervention, and many thou sands of the mass of onIookers and hol- 1day makers approved the riot and him dered the policemen's actions.
 After demonstrators came plunder- CTS, the outbreak lasting from 5 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening and leaving nine Jewish bodies on the place. Night brought the disturbances to an end
 What goes far to prove the nomen- tous character of the outbreak in let ting loose the popular passions with the strength of natural forces is that on Monday morning the Jews, wishing to intimidate and infiict punishment on the Christian workers, began assem- bling on the market place in groups armed with sticks and other weapons. The Jews, being the more numerous, had the best of 1t in the two first en- counters, and Christian was seen to fall, receiving bullet wound. This called forth the popular passion in all its abject force and abomination, the Russian peasants when driven to fren- zy and excited by race and religious hatred and under the influence of alco-
 
 who lynch negroes.
 "Unfortunately the governor of Bes- sarab1a did not make his appearance in person on Easter Sunday, and on Monday he gave over the command to military men, which he had no right to do, as he in consequence laid the police aside and. on the other hand, left the military forces without actual guid- ance. Troops can take towns by as- sault, but cannot carry out police du- ties without special instructions
 "In the end, the town having been divided into districts, with special military command in each, the dis turbances ceased on Monday evening" By this time the minister of the inte- rior had ordered by wire the proclama- tion of martial law and Gan unprece- dented facD had sent the director of the police department to investigate as to the responsibilities of the local off, cials. In consequence the governor the chief of the police and some other officials were dismissed outright. Many hundreds of rioters are in prison, and hard work in the Siberian mines awaits them. The minister of the in- terior has issued a circular to govern ors all over Russia authorizing them to make immediate use of firearms in cases of anti-Jewish disturbances The Russian government is the first to disappIove of &1ch horrid acts of vio- lence, but it cannot, in compliance with the requests of a radical and rev. olutonary press, give the Jews new rights of citizenship, as this would be sure to drive the Russian population to new excesses against the Jews, who are hated by the peasants with such extraordinary force.
 "LOPOUKHINE
 "Director of Police Department"