The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-22
JEALOUS OF THE JEWS.
Michael Davitt's Opinion As To the
Reason of the Massacre.

Reason of the Massacre.
Michael Davitt writes as follows re-
gardlng the klShneff massacre:
A few facts concerning this city OF
recent evil nOtOriety will be essential
to the right comprehension of the
causes which led up to the perpetra-
ton Of black deeds on April to II,
and to a proper understanding of its
story Of deliberately plotted political
crime.
The last census. that of 1897, gave
to kishneff a population of los .296
souls. OF these over 10000 were
males The present estimated popu-
latiOn may be put down at or about
10000. These are racially as fol-
lows:
Jews, 10000; Moldayians Christ
ians), $4,000; Russians. 5000. with the
residue comprising BuIgarians. Serbs,
Greeks, MacedOnians AIbanians and
Germans These figures and estimates
are given ME b. DR.. Kahan Bernstein.
leading physician of the city. and
are confirmed by one Of the rabbis who
holds a government position.
The Jews ale thus numerically in
excess q tha Russians. and Of all
other Christian sects combined, ex-
cepting the Ioldavians. who are
equally as s,!Cng in mum 3ars and ever
more bitter in their anti Semitic feel
ing than those Of Russian blood.
Jew Is intelligent.
The jewish artisan is far and away
more intelligent and Skilled than
his MOldayian or Russ an neighh0r of
like occupation. He is more expert in
the principal details and more am
bilious to do better and perform more
work for his employer and. poor
as he may be. he reads more newspa-
pers and is an all-round formidable
rival to workers who dislike his race
and who dread him as an increasing
and competing factor in the little in
dustrlal world of Kishneff.
These circumstances account for
the cOmplacenCy, to put it no stronger
with which merchants and dealers of
the Christian community looked on at
the plllaging of shops and the deStruc-
ton Of saloons which belonged to
their Hebrew rivals.
And they also explain why saloons
and stores of Jewish ownership were
alone the objects Of the mObs. for the
riot was not an affair of blind popular
fury, bent upon indiscriminate law
lessness. Nothing of the kind. 1t was
deliberately organized and intelligent
ly directed from start to finish by
leaders who knew what they were
about and how to discriminate be-
tween Russian and Moldavian prop
erty and Semitic belongings in the
matter Of loOting. and between Jew
ish and Christian women in other in
fernal business.
Jews Made the Town.
kishneff owes its success and pros
perity almost exclusively to the Jews
Thirty years ago it was little more
than a rough Bessarabian village
Today it ranks next to Odessa, where
there are over 100000 of the same
race in population. commercial stand
ing and wealth, and all this freely
admitted by eduCat d Russians.
There are towns in which Jewish
tradesmen and artisans are 80 per
cent of the population. They are
penned in within their places. They
cannot own land. They are too poor
TO emigrate
This is the economic side of the
question Of the Jew. The political
side is even more serious to the Rus
sian administration. and here We are
approaching the consideration of what
was the real underlying cause of the
outbreak of month ago.
Not All Poor.
All the Jews of the Pale are not
poor. Large numbers Of them are
wealthy through successful trading
All these facts, disabilities and OPP
pressive and depressing conditions,
acting upon the thoughts and ideas
of a brainy people. are producing a
powerful anti-Russian political force
along the southwestern portion of the
most vulnerable frontier, that border
ing upon the Austrian and Germanic
empires In other words the Jewish
Pale is becoming the nursery of re-
evolutionary socialist ideas and the ac-
tive center of ATTRACTIVE, autocratic
propaganda.
The riots and terrorism of April were
deliberately planned, not by robbers
or murderers, not on account of re-
ligious bigOtry, but for the reasons |
have just given-namely, the feeling
of hostility in the minds of admins
trative employees to a race believed to
be plotting against the empire, com
bined with jealousy of local artisans
and prOletarianS of the cheaper. bet
ter and pushing Hebrew