The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-24
PERSECUTION OF
JEWS IN RUSSIA
Rabbi Reynolds Delivers Inter
eSting Lecture.
ATTITUDE OF CAR is UNJUST
REVOLVING DEEDS CAUSE OF IN
TERNATIoNAL COMMENT.
ATTITUDE OF CAR is UNJUST

The persecuticrl Of the Jews in Rus
STA. the anti-Jewish riots, the insults
heaPed upon the Jewish money lend
ers, who are really the friends of the
peasants, and the massacres Of the
Jews were the theme of an exception
ally brilliant and interesting lecture
given last Friday evening by the Rev.
Louis g. Reynolds, a Temple B'Nai
Isreal
There was an exceptionally large at
tendance upon the lecture, which at
tracted unusual attention, owing to the
interest III the prosecutions by the Rus
slams, and the bearing Of the subject
upon the attitude Of that nation as re-
CARDS encrOachmentss upon Manchuria-
The rabbi spoke in part as follows:
Discourse of Rey. Reynolds.
Deeply revolving as is this scene of
brutal carnage, and calling as it does
LOT the most vehement expressions of IN
ulgnatiOn and sorrow. there is still some
thlng more important for us to do: We
must expose the malicious and Internal
nature Of the shameless lies which the
Russian ambassador puts forward in eX-
tenuatiOn of the heartrending massacre.
II cidiIls tndt the RUSSIAN Jews 90
not engage IN agriculture, that their sole
occupation IS money lending and that
lnelT failure 10 perform productive labor
riots To raa1i1e +,o fo,,15,ees. 80 ~
perfidy of this lie it is only necessary
10 acqualnt oneself with the real facts
OF the matter. At the close of 1852.
which marked the abatement of the ter
rlble riots against the Jews Ignatieff
proposed and. with the approval of the
ministers. carried out the celebrated May
laws. the first and second clauses Of
which are as follows:
Prosecutions of Ignatieff.
i. To forbid the Jews henceforth to set
tie outside the towns and tOwnleJs. the
only exceptions admitted being in those
Jewish colonies that have existed before,
lists
- To suspend the completion of in
struments of purchase of real property
mortgag es in the names of Jews. also
the registration of Jews as lessees of
landed estates or even the issue of pow
erS OF attorney TO enable them TO manage
and dispose of such property.
III these very laws the government
COnfesses the existence and Importance of
agriculture among the Jews. 1t inreu-
uonally fails to define the terms towns
and "tOWnletS so as TO leave a loop
hole for arbitrary officials and oppressive
magistrates Indeed IN the month OF DC
tOber, 1892, many towns and even cities.
were technically changed into villages by
an ordinance of the minister OF iute-
riOr. Jews who have been settled there
since the year 1872 were obliged to Sacrl-
flee everything in order to transport
themselves to some other place, within
given period. which did not. as a rule,
exceed six weeks.
Successful Agricultural Colonies.
Notwithstanding these unfavorabIe con-
ditiOns. there are successful Jewish agri-
cultural colonies established wherever
these laws did not reach out c. We're
NOT Vigorously enforced IN the very
province of ReSsa IA bia- where the recent
massacre occurred. there were. in 1888.
several thousands OF jewish farm Ia
bOrers employed OF the landed estates
OF the Russians. The Russian journal.
Odessi1y Listok. which contained this in
ion
mediately lessened or brought to a stand
still. and remarks in closing
so true is it that it suffices the poor
Jew 10 be enabled TO earn his daily
bread, to deprive him Of all thought Of
quitting Russia
From 1901 to 1910 and from 1922 to 1873.
under more liberal laws, thousands of
Jews were transferred to the desert
crown lands in kherSOn. and from 1913
TO 1880 TO those of Ekaterinosav- Many
OF them died of hunger and cold in the
midst of the steppes- Count DemidOff.
Russian statistician. claims that within
four or five years 5000 out of a total of
10000 persisted from exposure; vet their
heroic tenacity. answering courage and
Ceaseless labor won the day Mr. Claus,
the Russian government inspector, says,
in his official report of 1863:
THE Jewish cOlonists give a picture Of
true peasant life, and are in comparative
i easy circumstances as contrasted with
other Russian cOlonists.
Victim Of Christian Usurers.
2 baser lie than the foregoing In 1872
the peasants of Bessarabia, of which
lGishiheff is the capital, entreated the
governor to sanction the return of the
Jews 10 the rural districts as without
them il would be impossible TO secure a
remuneratiVe result from the harvest
In 1898 the council of the empire formally
acknowledged before enacing the new
law on usury, that usury developed in
most alarming proportions IN the rural
districts since the time that the Jews
were turned out of them
The most anti Semetic Russian paper,
the NOvoe Nrcmya. OF oct ) le'z' re-
marks aneut the Jewish expulsion
The peasants are not at an pleased
at their departure, for they have fallen
In the hands of Christian usurers, who
squeeze and ruin them with a harSLlIle7S
which the Jews never displayed
Jews Salvation Of Peasant.
The few Jews who had the means 20
lend money to the Russian peasant IN
stead of being his detrimeut- were his
salvation: for at a very reasonable rate
of interest paid in products mOsty) they
lnade fl possible for him to bridge over
sdifficuls times. The kOulak. q Russian
money broker. on the other hand. nay,
even the village priests and their wives
according TO official reports eXacted an
interest of 100 to $50 per cent per annuul.
lie further CIaims that no dlscrlminat-
ing laws were ever passed 10y the Russian
government against the Jews as such.
that an the horrible massaCres and blood
curdlinC murders may be summed up IN
one phrase; The peasant against the
jew,
What about the imperial laws of 1856,
which shut up all the schools against the
lew: which deprived him Of all means OF
culture and education. and which only
failed in their intended results because of
The hospitadie liberality. which the high
or schools and universities of foreisn
lands extended TO the prosecuted eNilesz
World Should Enter Protest.
1T is the duty of the civilized nations of
the world 10 raise their voices in defense
of these Door. innocent victims. TO let
Russia know that she cannot always OUT
RAGE the higher conscience of humanity,
and what more. 10 do all in their power
TO cut short it's invasion of and abToFat t.
its influence in the many countries of the
Orient which hold the least intercourse
with culture and civilization