The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-10
THE WORST NOT PAST
DAvITT WRITES OF PERsEcU.
 TON OF JEWa
Russian Laws Are Such That Con- ficts are Bound t. Occur. Zionism the Remedy for
 the Evils.

New York, Oct. 9.-Fresh from a visit to the great centers of Jewish popula- ton in Russia, Michael Davitt has writ ten his estimate of the conditions and future of those people in a volume enti- ! tied. Within the Pale.' which will be | issued tomorrow. The Jew as he is ruled and oppressed by Russian officials is a far greater danger to RussSn autocracy than anti semitism is to the Israelites of the pale, :" declares MT. Davitt in the preface to his 1 work.
 l MT. Davitt sees further catastrophe ] ahead because of unnatural economic and | social conditions. ''The facts of the econ ! omic and social conditions within the 1 pale of settlement" he writes, "are so objective that the warning they give | of a coming catastrophe cannot be ig- nored. It would be like leaving an cpl | demic of smallpox to cure itself by neg lect. This condition of things Is fully explained and expressed by the term unnatural. It is analogous to a situa- 1 tion which would result from a Federal | law compelling every European born | artisan and laborer within the whole l United States to reside inside of Penn | sylvania and to be forbidden to seek em- ployment outside the cities and towns of that State.
 
 and traders and as these are out of all proportion to the producers and consum- CTS of an agricultural country. they nec- essarily become more destitute and wretched as their numbers increase. They are too poor to emigrate. They are prohibited from migrating, and they are not permitted to engage in several occupations"
 Mir Davitt asserts that the Czar can a tch fnr thn T>r l,, Lt domain by destroying the legend of the blood atonement. M. Depleheve and the Tear" he ayers, ''can accomplish one good and blessed work, If so minded by destroying in Russia the atrocious legend about the annual killing of Christian children by Jews as an alleged part of the blood atonement in Hebrew pas- chal rights. In this humane and Chris tian task he Is entitled to the co-opera- tion of the Emperor of Austria. the K<g of Roumania, and the heads of the other Balkan states, wnere this story of rit- ual murder is constantly circulated and not tnfrequently as a part of political propaganda. There ought to be a truly Christian crusade waged against this in famous product of ancient, insensate, sectarian hate"
 MT. Davitt calls attention to the strik- ing economic growth of Russia in the following sentences:
 The wide and sure and extraordinary progress that Is being made in the econ- omic development of a great Empire as self-contained in its measureless natural resources as the United States and with an assured domestic market for most of her manufactured products in a popula- tion of fully 40,000,Vvv-growing at a rate of upwards of 100000 annually out of a natural increase-ought to be a subject of infinitely greater concern to the pub lie thought of commercial rivals like Great Britain and the United States than what Russian policy may or may not mean in its diplomatic trend in the far East"
 Returning to the subject of the Jew and discussing the amelioration of his condition, Mir. Davitt says: T have come from journey through the Jewish pale, convinced believer In the remedy of Zionism. It is a necessity of the actual situation and favors the growing perils of the Russian Jew with a courag geous plan of repatriation Hope for a partial ultimate emancipation in Russia there is none. Other countries cannot be ex- pected to relieve Russia of the unhappy victims of oppression and poverty. Where then, are they to go?"