Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-15
RUSSIAN N JEW.

A student OF international af-
fairs fayors The Optic with the fol-
lowing article on the kisineff Jews
and the extraordinary position re-
garding them taken BY Count Cassini:
Doubtless, Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador al Washington, with
sublime egoism awoke one morning
and thought himself famous. He had
revealed the fundamental principle Of
Christianity versus Judaism in Rus.
sia, and, by way OF d prop, flung In the
sentiments Of Germany and Austria.
Tho gist Of his "edict" Is that the
Jews prefer to be money lenders;
that they even embark in the business
with the munlficent sum of "A couple
of dollars; that their victim peasants
whose patience has been goaded re-
sent their demands and kill. He says.
1T Is the peasant against the money
lender-not the Russian against the
jew
Since, as he states, the Russian Jew
will not work in the field nor engage
In agriculture or manual labor. will
the noble count stand up and explain
10 the class this difficult problem Of
two and two? But we begin TO see
light through the cobwebs Of our
brains and find the answer-he steals
this muniiicent sum with which he al
once embarks as a banker. And the
peasant, not to be outdonc In human
cunning, and finding that the glorious
returns Of the soil are not as prolific
as In the United States, for example.
dreams his last dream OF returning
his loan, in Visions OF murder.
One individuals griets or wrongs
may be Of little account TO others.
but when the gravcst public interests
are imperilled through personal at.
lacks and the coarsest imputatious,
the assailed. however humble. owes
duties to others which cannot be dis
regarded. | propose here to refute
| years of persistent defamation by the
statements of Messrs. Weber and
Kempster, who investigated the con.
ditions In Russia for the United States
government in 1892. The commission
ers described the superiority of the
Jewish workman in w~ood-earving. ma
sonry and other trades.
Leroy Beaulieu describes the mason
ry OF the west OF Russia as the handi-
work Of Jews. that among the 600
Jews who were rendered homeless at
Kicr, there were 13i tailors. forty car
men, twenty-five l%aborers. twenty-one
filters, twenty-seven joiners and
whcelwrights. without mentioning the
less numerous representatives Of va
rious other trades.
Minister Andrew y. White. while al
81. Petersburg, wrote homo MS follows.
Even in the heart Of The empire.
where lsraolites are most free, thes
are not allowed 20 hold property ii
land nor TO take a mortgage on land
nor to farm land. or late they have
even been prevented from living on
farms, but have been thrown bach
into villages and cities The treatment
of the Israeilics, whether good or evil
IS not based entirely upon one ukas,
or statute. There are said 10 be IL
the vast jungle o. The laws Of TIT
empire more than one thousand de
crees and statutes relating to them
besides Innumerable circulars, opel
or secret regulations. restrictions. a
tensions and temporary arrangements
general, special or local, forming sucl
a tangled growth that probably no In
man being can say what the law al
q whole is--least or an can d jew Il
any province have any certain knowl
edge Of his rights"