The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-07-01
Dr. ADLER ON CASSlNl
Noted Jew Answers the Am
bassador's Statements.
RUssIAs POLICY OF SUPPRESSION

jews Are Prevented, He says, From
Living In Agricultural communi-
ties, Then blamed Tor Not Being
Farmers-Restrietio That Are
Placed Upon Them.
DR.. Cyrus Adler of tie Smithsonian
institution, secretary Of the Interna
tiorral Jewish association and editor Of
the Jewish Year Book, in the course Of |
conversation the other day on the mas
sacre Of jews in Russia, reviewed the
statements Of Count cassini. the Rus
sian ambassador, in a recent interview
given ont by him, which Or. Adler
treated as an. authoritative utterance,
says d Washington special dispatch to
tAe New York Times Quoting the dec
laratlon of the ambassador that the
unfriendly attitude toward the Jews is
due to the fact that they win not work
IN the field or engage in agriculture
DR.. Adler said:
in 1890 there were more than 100-
600 Jews IN RHssia engaged in agrlcui-
ture, the larger portion Of them being
in southern Russia. It is true that the
tendency toward agriculture on the
part Of the Jews in Russia has been ar
rested, but this has not been since 1891,
when the May laws Of 1882 put stop
to the migration Of the Jewish inhabit-
ants Of towns into the villages. 1t is
not generous for a country TO prevent
Jews from living in an agricultural
] community and then blame them for
not being farmers.
Count Cassini next charges the Jews
] in Russia with being bankers and mon
/ ey brokers' and taking advantage of
/ the Russian peasants in this way. He
will probably not be inclined to assert
that any really large percentage Of the
more than 100000 Jews In Russia are
i bankers and brokers. Moreover, the i'll
| feeling which he describes as existing
between them and the peasants does
not apply to this particular incident at
issue. KishineG is a town Of about
| 1900 inhabitants, so that the ques-
ton Of the fury Of the villagers would
| hardly come into tie discussion.
"Sinee the ambassador makes a great
point Of the unwiliingness of the Jews
| to engage IN agricultural pursuits, and
since he proclaims the failure Of the
agricultural colonies, 1t might be I'M
teresting for him TO know that in 1886
there were 2TS Jewish agricultural
colonies in Russia, In which were en-
ployed SO, 223 people.
rThe ambassador states that the
Jewish genius is appreciated in Rus
sia and the Jewish artist honored. The
May laws, to which reference has beer
made, restricts the number Of Jewisl
students at the universities and gym
nasiums. carrying these restrictions
even to private technical schools estab
llshed By the Jews themselves jew
were forbidden to be army doctors. TIL
college for veterinary surgeons wa
closed to them, they were preventes
from acting as engineers, excluded
from the civil service and only all0we'
to become members Of the legal pro
fession upon a special permit from th
minister Of justice.
cone of the reasons mentioned b,
the ambassador for the hostility O
the part Of the Russians IS the IN
willingness Of the jews to assimilate
one single incident indicating wher
the fault Hes may be mentioned Th
last figures available to me for th
| recruits in the Russian army ere thos
for 1896. which show that during tina
! year 1881 were drafted III the Rus
: sian army. yet none Of them upon an
account IS allowed to become CON
missioned officer The Russian JeV
i has, however, the privilege Of bein
! killed in defense Of his country. 1t
thus shown from hasty examinatio
/, Of the interview of the ambassadC
that he has IN no case given an a
curate statement Of the causes produ'
ing the riot at Kishineff under discus
sion. and one is led to the painful col
clusion that he either is unacquainte
with affairs in his own country or tbs
he wiIlfully intended to mislead th
American people.
at might not be without interest 4
the public to know how the particulf
massacre was brought about. A fe
days before the Passover a Russia
disappeared in DubossarL The RUM
5 spread that he had been killed by Il
Jews for ritual purposes. His boz
I was examined and the conclusiC
Z reached that his death could not ha'
= been eneompassed for the purpose
I securing his blood Notwithstandin
4 a Russian paper published at Kishine
z called the Bessarabyetz, published
! fiammatoEy articles against the Jew
! and especially one just before the RI
e sian Easter Sunday, and It was up
this day. and largely after leaving t
y church, that the Russians began to
of tack the Jews. There seems, therefor
II to be 4 much closer connection betwe
= religious hatred and those riots tn
y between them and the economic caus
which the ambassador threw out
1T mny not be amiss in this come
" ton = say. what is no doubt fresh
at the minds 81 many American citizel
IS that no foreign jew may enter
Russian empire for purposes Of ira
wltaout subjecting himself TO extra
! f1.4nt az