The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-13
WITHIN THE PALE
FUTURE OF THE JEWISH POPU-
LATION IN RUSSIA.
mates of the Condition of the
Jewish PeopIe-The Gar Can Ac-
Much for the Jews.

New York, October 9.-Fresh from
a visit to the greater centers of Jew
ish population in Russia, Michael Da-
witt has written his estimate of the
conditions and future of those people
in a volume entitled within the
Pale which will be issued tomorrow
from the presses of a. S. Barnes and
Company. THE Jew as he is ruled
n oppressed by Russian officials, is
a far greater danger to Russian aris-
tocracy than anti-Semitism is to the
1sraelites of the Pale" declared Mr..
Davitt in the preface to his work.
The danger" he continues, was IAN
didly avowed by all representative
Russians from whom [ solicited light
and information"
Mr.. Davitt sees further catastrophe
ahead because OF unnatural economic
n social conditions. The facts of
the economic and social conditions
writes. ARE so objective that the
warning they give Of a coming catas-
trophe cannot be ignored. 1t would
be like leaving an epidemic of small
pOX to cure itself by neglect. This
condition of things is fully explained
and expressed by the term unnatural.
1t is analogous to a situation which
would result from a federal law COM
pelllng every European born artisan
and labOrer within the whole United
States to reside inside of Pennsyl-
vania and to be forbidden to seek en-
plOyment outside the cities and towns
of that state. The murderous COM
petition for employment, the deadly
rivalry for existence, the bad blood be-
fU-pp1 nnnnCinr tlo D,-,- ~~1
social ~wretchedness which such a con-
dition of things would create-apart
from the operations of cOercive laws
cal, readily be imagined by the Amer
lean reader. But this is no overdrawn
picture of the economic anarchy pre-
va1ling within the Russian pale of
Jewish settlement"
Mr.. Davitt asserts that the Car can
accomplish much for the Jews in his
domain by destroying the legend Of
the blood atonenent. IN. de Plehwe
n the Tsar," he AYERS, can accom-
plish n good and blessed work. If
so minded, without altering a single
anti-Semitic Russian law. The en-
peror car destroy in Russia the afro
cious legend about the annual killing
of Christian children by Jews, as an
alleged part of the blood otonement
in Hebrew PasChal rates. In his hu-
name and Christian task he is entitled
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 circulated. and not infre-
quently as a part Of political proga-
ganda. There ought to be a truly
Christian crusade waged against this
infamous product of ancient, insen-
safe, sectarian hate"
Discussing the amelioration of the
Jew condition. Mr.. Davitt says:
I have come from a Journey
through the Jewish pale, a convince
believer In the remedy of ZiOnism, I
failed to see any other that can offer
an equal hope of success. It is a ne
cessity Of the actual situation and
faces the growing perils of the Rus
sian Jew with a courageous plan of
repatriation. Hope for partial or ulti-
mate emancipation in Russia. there is
none. Other countries annOt be eX-
pected to relieve Russia of the I'M
happy victims Of oppression and pow
erty. Where then. are they to go