The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-19
PUTS 1T ON JEWS
COUNT CASSINI SAYS THEY ARE
MONEY LENDERS.
PEASANTS ATTACK JEWS
AFTER THEIR OWN RUIN HAS
BEEN WROUGHT.

Russian Ambassador Is Interviewed
Relative to the Cruelties Perpe-
trated Upon the Jews-Feeling
Against Them Because They viii
Not Work in the Field, but Are
Lenders of MOney-Russinns Mo-
Testing Jews Are Punished-State
Department Cannot Act.
Washington, May 1S.-None of the
many resolutions relative to the Kis-
cheneff outbreak adopted yesterday at
various places in the United States, has
reached the State Department, and the
officials have nothing new before them
upon which to proceed.
1t is not known whether further in
structions have been sent to our en-
bassy at ST. Petersburg. So far, the
department has before it only newspa-
per clippings, describing the Kischeneff
massacre, and it scarcely feels author
lied to move upon that basis, even if it
had the power to do so.
The brief cablegrams from st. Pc
tersburg might open the way for diplo-
matte action on the part of the United
States in this matter. That statement
said the Russian government had for
hidden the Jews to arm or defend
of forcing them to immigrate to the
United States, for nowhere in Europe
could they find refuge. Such action
would be similar to that taken by the
Roumanian government. upon which
the State Department laid down the
doctrine that the dumping of hordes of
immigrants likely to prove paupers
upon our shores, was obnoxious to the
United States.
What Cnssini Says.
Count Cassini the Russian ambassa-
dor, in conversation to-day with a rep
resentative of the Associated Press rel
alive to the Jewish troubles in Russia,
said:
There is in Russia, as in Germany
and Austria, a feeling against certain
of the Jews. The reason for this I'M
friendly attitude is found in the fact
that the Jews will 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
capacity he takes advantage of the
Russian peasant, whom he soon has
in his power and ultimately destroys.
1T is when the patience of the peas
ant is exhausted that a conflict be-
tween peasants and Jews occurs Or
dinarily the Russian is a very patient
person, but it is only natural that he
should entertain a feeling of resent
ment for the one who has wrought his
ruin
Peasant Against the Money Lender.
1.-The situation in Russia, so far as
the Jews are concerned, is just this
1t is the peasant against the money
lender, and not the Russians against
the Jews. There is no feeling against
the Jews 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 lost all
their worldly possessions and have
nothing to live upon.
There are many good Jews in Rus
STA, and they are respected. Jewish
genius is appreciated in Russia, and the
Jewish artist is honored. Jews also
appear in the financial world in Rus
STA.
1.-THE Russian government affords the
same protection to the Jews that it
does to any other of it's citizens, and
when a riot occurs and Jews are at
tackled, the officials Immediately take
steps to apprehend those who began
the riot, and visit severe punishment
upon them. In the past Russians have
been punished severely for attacks up
on the Jews.
But Notwithstanding these conflicts.
the Jews continue to do the very
things which have been responsible for
the troubles which involve them"