The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-19
JEWS
Do NOT PRODUCE
Earn Their Living by Lending
Money to Peasants.
INTEREST EATS LATTER up
THEN THE TROUBLE BEGINS,
SAYS COUNT CASSINI

w ASHINGTON. May 1S.-Count Cas-
wv SIM. the Russian ambassador, in
a conversation today with a rep
.resentative Of the Associated Press
relative to the Jewish troubles in Rus
STA, said:
There is in Russia, as in Germany
and Austria, a feeling against certain
Of the Jews. The reason for this IN
friendly attitude is found in the fact
that the Jews viii not work in the field
or engage in agriculture They prefer
to be mOney-lenders. Give a Jew a
couple OF dollars and he becomes a
banker and money broker In this ca
pacity he takes advantage of the Rus
sian peasant. whom he soon has in his
power and ultimately destroys. It is
when the patience of the peasant is ex-
hausted that q conflict between peas
ants and Jews occurs Ordinarily, the
Russian is a very patient person, but
ii is only natural that he should enter
tain a feeling of resentment for the one
who has wrought his ruin.
Fruitless Effort.
Emperor Nicholas I sought to help
the Jew by ordering the establishment
of agricultural colonies in southern
Russia, hoping to induce the Jews to
engage in agricultural pursuits instead
of money lending, but the effort was
useless, nor have other projects estab-
fishing Jewish states been successful,
The situation in Russia so far as the
Jews are concerned is this: 1t is the
peasant against the money lender, and
not the Russians against the Jews.
There is no feeling against the Jew IN
Russia because Of religion. 1t is, as
have said the Jews ruin the peasants
With the result that conflicts occur
when the latter have left all their
worldly possessions and have nothing
to live upon.
There are many good Jews in Russia
and they are respected Jewish genius
is appreciated in Russia and the Jewish
artist is hOnored. Jews also appear in
the financial world in Russia.
Will Not Head Warning.
THE Russian government affords the
same protection TO the Jews that it does
TO any other of its citizens. and when
riot occurs and Jews are attacked the
officials Immediately take steps to ap-
prehend those who begun the riot and
visit severe punishment upon them. In
the past Russians have been punished
severely for attacks upon Jews. But,
Notwithstanding these conflicts, the
Jews continue to do the very things
which have been responsible for the
troubles which involve them"
continuing the cOnNerSdLO the am
bassadOr said: The Russian readily
assimiIates with the people of all other
races. and if he cannot assimilate with
the Jew it is apparent that the fault
must lie with the Jew and not with the
Russian
The ambassadors attention was
called to the statement contained IN
press dispatches from st. Petersburg
today to the effect that a ministerial
decree had been issued forbidding the
Jews TO arm themselves for their own
protection
Il have received no information re
garding the nature of the decree" he
said, but / know that when the facts
are made known it VIII appear differ
emily and viii be shown that the de-
cree does not discriminate against the
Jews. The fact that Lieutenant Gen
eral Raaben, the governor Of Bess-
arabia. has been called to St Peters
burg shows conclusively that the i'm
perial authorities are seriously regard
ing the Kishinef affair and are taking
prompt measures to punish the guilty
and to prevent repetitiOns of these dis
turbances."