Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-09
DAV|TT VISITS RUSSIA
Tells of Jewish Persecution
on His Return.
M ENACE TO EMPIRE
HOW THE CAR COULD AID THE
VICTIMS.
Zionism, He Thinks, is the Only Per-
manent Remedy for the Dis
tressing Situation.
M ENACE TO EMPIRE

NEW YORK October 9.-Fresh from
visit to the great centers of Jewish popula-
ton in Russia, Michael Davitt has written
his estimate of the conditions and future of
those people in volume entitled within
the Pale" which will be issued tomorrow
from the presses of y. S. Barnes & Co.
THE Jew, as he is ruled and oppressed
by Russian officials, is a far greater danger
to Russian autocracy than anti-Semitism
is to the Israelites of the pale" declares
Mr.. Davitt in the preface to his work.
The danger" he continues was candidly
avowed by all representative Russians from
whom solicited light and information
Further Danger Ahead.
Mr.. Davitt sees further catastrophe ahead
because of unnatural economic and social
conditions.
THE facts OF the economic and social
conditions within the pale of settlement"
he writes. ''are objective that the warn
ing they give of a coming catastrophe can
not be ignored. 1t 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 un
natural. 1t is analogous to a situation
which would result from federal law COM
pellinS every European-bOrn artisan and
labOrer within the whole United States to
reside inside of Pennsylvania and to be
forbidden to seek employment outside the
cities and towns of that state. The muir
derouS competition for employment. 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 op-
GRAFTON of coercive laws-can readily be
imagined by the American reader But this
is no overdrawn picture OF the economic
anarchy prevailing within the Russian pale
OF Jewish settlement.
Towns Crowded With Consumers.
The towns are crowded with artisans
and traders and as these out of all
proportion to the producers and consum-
ers of an agricultural country they necessa-
rily become more destitute and wretched as
their numbers increase. They are too poor
to emigrate. They prohibited from mi
grating. They cannot seek work on land.
They are not permitted to engage in several
occupations"
Mr.. Davitt asserts that the czar can ac-
complish much for the Jews in his domain
by destroying the legend OF the blood
atonement- M. de Plehwe and the tsar,"
he AYERS, can accomplish one good and
blessed work. If so minded, without altering
a single anti Semitic Russian law. The en-
peror can destroy in Russia the atrocious
legend about the annual killing of Christian
children by Jews as an alleged part of the
blood atonement in Hebrew Paschal rites
In this humane and Christian task he is en-
titled TO the cooperation of the emperor of
Austria. the King of Roumania and the
heads of the other Balkan states where this
story OF ritual murder is constantly circu-
lated and not infrequently a part of
political propaganda. There ought to be a
truly Christian crusade waged against this
infamous product of ancient insensate, sec
tartan hate
Some Striking Views.
Mr.. Davitt calls attention to the striking
economic growth of Russia in the follwing
striking sentences: What Russia is ac-
cused of coveting in Manchuria or devils
ing in Persia and not what she is strenu~
ously and rapidly achieving in the sphere
of her vast domestic activities exercises
the critical attention of west European and
American Journalism. And yet the wide
and sure and extraordinary progress that
is being made in the economic DEVELOPMENT
of a great empire. as self-contained in it's
measureless natural resources as the United
States, ard with an assured domestic mar
ket for most of her manufactured products
in a population of fully 10000, U,0oo-growing
at q rate upward of 100000 annually out
of a natural increase-ought to be q subject
of infinitely greater concern to the public
thought of commercial rivals like Great
Britain and the United States-as it un-
doubtedly is TO the keener sense of Ger
man competiuon-than what Russian pol
icy may or may not mean in its diplomatic
trend in the far east"
Zionism the Remedy.
Returning to the subject of the Jew and
discussing the amelioration of his condi-
tion Mr.. Davitt says: Il have come from 4
journey through the Jewish pale. a con-
WINGED believer in the remedy of Zionism
l failed to see any other that can offer
an equal hope of success. 1t is a necessity
OF the actual situation and faces the grow
ing perils of the Russian Jew with cour-
ageous plan of repatriation. Hope for par
tial or ultimate emancipation in Russia
there is none. Other countries cannot be
expected TO relieve Russia of the unhappy
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