The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-10
JEW 4 MENACE ID RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY Michael Oavitt Returns from a Visit to Populous CenterS SEES CATASTROPHE AHEAD He Asserts That the czar Can Accom- pIish Much for the Jews By De-
 stroying Legend of Blood
 Atonement.
SEES CATAS TROPHE AHEAD

New York, october 9.-Fresh from a vist to the great centers of Jewish popu- lation in Russia, Michael Davitt has writ
 ten his estimate of the conditions and fu-
 ture of those people in a volume entitled,
 "Within the Pale" which will be issued tomorrow.
 "grhe Jew as he is ruled and oppressed
 by Russian officials is a far greater dan ger to Russian autocracy than antisemit-
 ism is to the Israeites of the pale,' de-
 clares Mr Dayitt in the preface of his
 work.
 Mir. Davtt sees further catastrophes
 ahead because of unnatural economic and social conditions. "The facts of the eco- homie and social conditions within the pale of settlement" he writes, "are so objective that the warning they give of a coming catastrophe cannot be ignored It would be like leaving an epidemic of
 smallpox to cure itself by neglect. This
 condition of things is fully explained and expressed by the term unnatural IL is
 analogous to a situation which would re-
 suit from a Federal law compelling every l European born artisan and laborer witnln l the whole United States to reside inside l of Pennsylvania and to be forbidden to l seek employment outside the cities and l towns of that state.
 Crowded With Traders. "The towns are crowded with artisans and traders and as these are out of all
 proportion to the producers and consum-
 CTS of an agricultural country they neces- l sarily become more destitute and wretch | i,,a, l too poor to emigrate. They are prohib-
 tied from migrating, and they are not per- mtted to engage in several occupations" Mir Davitt asserts that the Czar can l accomplish much for the Jews in his do- main by destroying the legend of the l blood atonement. M. Depleheve and the l the Czar," he ayers, "can accomplish one
 good and blessed work, if so minded by ] destroying in Russia the atrocious legend about the annual killing of Christian children by Jews as an alleged part of the l blood atonement in Hebrew paschal l rights. In this humane and Christian l task he is entitled to the cooperation of i, the emperor of Austria, the king of Rou- mania, and the heads of the other Balkan
 states where this story of ritual murder i is constantly circulated and not infre- , quently as part of political propaganda. ] There ought to be a truly Christian cru 1 sade waged against this infamous product 1 of ancient, insensate, sectarian hate" Striking Economic Growth. 1 MT. Davitt calls attention to the strk-
 ing economic growth of Russia in the fol- /, lowing sentences:
 1 '',rhe wide and sure and extraordinary 1 progress that is being made in the eco- 1 homie development of great empire as 1 seIf-contained in it's measureless natural
 resources as the United States and With | an assured domestic market for most O. 1 her manufactured products in popua- ] ton of fully 40, ,000, 000-growing at a rate i, of upwards of 100000 annually out of I natural increase-ought to be a suaject | of infinitely greater concern to the public thought of commercial rivals like Great Britain and the United States than what Russian policy may or may not mean in it's diplomatic trend in the far east" Returning to the subject of the Jew and discussing the amelioratien of his condi- ] ton. Mir Davitt says: q have come from a journey through the Jewish pale, a convinced believer in the remedy of Zion ism. It Is a necessity of the actual situ- ation and favors the growing perils of the Russian Jew with a courageous plan of repatriation. Hope for a partial uIti- mate emancipation in Russia there is none. Other countries cannot be expected to relieve Russia of the unhappy victims of oppression and poverty. Where, then, are they to go?'