The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-10
REMEDY OF ZIONISM
ONLY HOPE OF RUSSIAN JEWS.
SAYS MICHAEL DAVITT.
IN BOOK "WITHIN THE PALE"
IRISH LEADER TELLS OF TRIP TO
CZAR'S DOMAINS.

Oppressed Russian Jew Great Dam
ger to Russian AutOcracy-EcO-
monte and Social Conditions Give
Warming of Coming Catastrophe.
Authorities Could Helm Much nv
Simply Destroying Legend That
Jews Murder Christian Children
as Port of Their Ritual CeremOn-
les - Balkan States Should Do
Same Thing.
New York. Oct 9.--Fresh from a visit
to the great centers of Jewish popu-
lation in Russia, Michael Davitt has
written his estimate of the conditions
and future of those people in a vol
ume entitled Within the Pale" which
will be issued tomorrow from the
presses of A. S. Barnes & Co.
THE Jew, as he is ruled and oppress-
ed by Russian officials, is a far greater
danger to Russian autocracy than anti
Semitism is to the Israelites of the
pale" declares Mr.. Davitt in the pref
ace of his work. The danger" he
continues. was actually avowed by all
representative Russians from whom l
solicited light and information
Mr.. Davitt sees further catastrophe
ahead because of unnatural economic
and social conditions. The facts of
the economic and social conditions
within the pale of settlement" he
writes, ARE so objective that the warn
ing they give of coming catastrophe
cannot iprv1nPaH
leaving an epidemic of smallpox to
cure itself by neglect
This condition of things is fully
explained and expressed by the term
unnatural. 1t is analogous to a situa-
ton which would arise from a federal
law compelling every European born
artisan and laborer within the whole
United States to reside inside of Penn
sylvania and to be forbidden to seek
employment outside the cities and
towns of that state.
THE murderous competition for en-
ployment, the deadly rivalry for ex-
istence, the bad blood between opnos-,
ing races. the poverty and social
Wretchedness which such a condition
OF things would create-apart from the
operation of coercive laws--can readi-
. ly be imagined by the American read
er. But this is no overdrawn picture
OF the economic anarchy prevailing
within the Russian pale of Jewish set
Element"
CSnr Can Help Matters.
Mr., Davitt asserts that the Car can,
accomplish much for the Jews in the
domain by destroying the legend of the
blood atonement. m. De Plehwe and
the Car" he AYERS, "can accomplish
one good and blessed work, If so mind
ed, without altering a single anti-Ser1
itic Russian law. The Emperor can
destroy in Russia the atrocious legend
ABOUT the annual killing of Christian
children by Jews as an alleged part OF
the blood atonement in Hebrew PaschaI
rites.
In this humane and Christian task he
is entitled to the cooperation of the
Emperor of Austria, the King of Rou-
mania and the heads of the other Bal
kan states, where this story of ritual
murder is constantly circulated and
not infrequently as a part of political
propaganda. There ought to be a truly
Christian crusade waged against this
infamous product of ancient, insensate.
sectarian hate
Discussing the amelioration of the
Jews condition, Mr.. Davitt says: 'I
have come from journey through the
Jewish pale, a convinced believer Of
Zionism. l fail to see any other that
can offer an equal hope of success. It
is a necessity of the actual situation,
and faces the growing perils of the
Russian Jew with a courageous plan
of repatriation. Hope for partial or ul-
innate 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 CO."