The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-06
kiShenef-WhO is Responsible :

article we print elsewhere from
the New York Outlook, com
menting on the Kishenef mas
sacre. The Outlook lucidly
points out that it is the Russian
government that is both directly
and Indirectly responsible for
the wholesale slaughter of Jews
in Bessarabia. BY the cruelest
possible legislative discrimina-
ton against the Jews, the gov
eminent at ST. Petersburg has
oppressed members of that race
as few races have ever been Op-
pressed in human history. It
has denied them benefits equal
with those of other citizens. 1t
has imposed upon them burdens
heavier than are those borne by
Russian citizens of other races.
Mark The Outlook summary
of the situation:
eff Jew wishes to give his son an edu-
cation that will fit him for professional
career, he finds himself stopped by a law re-
s'rieting the admission of Jews to the uni
versities. If he desires to become a farmer
or to bring his son up a farmer, he runs
against law forbiddipg him to buy or rent
land from either peasants or landed proprie-
tors If an estate happens TO come to him
S
months. If he wishes to enter the govern
ment service In any capacity whatever. he
hndS the door closed against him by leps-
Iatlve enactment If he succeeds in getting
stacles thrown in his way by repressive
legislation, he is stopped on the threshold
OF his professional career by Il law restrict
ing the number of Jews that shall be adj
n'tted to the bar or that shall be allowed to
practice medicine. If he is drawn as a con.
script and goes into the army, neither ex-
cePtional ability nor distinguished gallan,ry
IN action will entitle him to a higher position
than that of non-commissioned officer. He
has to pay taxes from which all other citi- |
zens are exempt; he is denied the privilege
which other citizens have of choosing his |
own place of residences; he is cramped and |
harrassed by all sorts of exceptional DEGREES
and regulations; and, finally, in ecclesiasti-
cal circulars as we'll as in official documents
and speeches, he is contemp,uousy referred
to as 'zheed' 'sheenv.' -
And that isn't all. The per-
secution directed by the govern
ment is supplemented by insen-
safe religious hate. The hierar-
chy of the Russian Church have
studiously inflamed the senti-
ment of orthodox Russians
with hostility toward the Jews.
in authority have
taught their congregations to
believe that the Russian peasants ,
nave been reduced to poverty,
n the fullest sense of the word.
~ the Jews" and that the Jews {
have taken into their own
lands little markets, all the
rade and industry of the prov <
nee, and, in fact, almost the
lou ses of the original Russian
in town or country,
nd have crowded the orthodox
'easantry into out-of- the-way
faces, starving or running them
ompletely. Allied with the
russian clergy and the Russian
is the Russian
ress. Censored, as it is, by
he government, the press is
eally one of the governments
gents, and it's influence is pre-
isely what the government de-
Tres it to be. It's seditious and
tone has been marked,
lciting the orthodox" Rus
ANS to beat, to rob and even to
lassacre the Jewish population.
IF the Russian government
ays The Outlook, will show
s people an example of justice
I'd humanity by abolishing it's
ass laws and dealing with Jews
it deals with it's other citivens
ere will be no more Kishenef
- Precisely so! THE
mem Der from Oldham
id Macaulay in the British
use of COmmonsin 1888, tells
the Jews are naturally a
ean race, a sordid race,a money
ting race; that they are averse
all honorable callings; that
~ neither SOW nor reap; that OF
ey have neither focks nor -,
rds; that usury is the only '''
rsuit for which they are fit; We
1t they are destitute of all
waited and amiable sentiments. VI
UGH. sir,'' added Macaulay, -,
as in every age been the rea- e"
ling of bigots. They never m
to plead in justification of
'secutiOn the vices which per- M
'utiOn has engendered. Eng
d has been to the Jews less ~
n half a country, and we re- tn
them because they do not
for England more than a
patriotism. We treat them "a
and wonder that they wv
not regard us as brethren.
drive them to mean occupa-