Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-04-13
The Jews in Russia.

The Jews in Russia.
The attitude of the Jews in Russia to-
ward the government and the attitude
of Russia toward the Jews has recently
been matter Of much concern to some
people. the responsibility of which may
be difficult to locate. The Jews have
an idea that they still have right 10
live and do business; others have no
tolerance for that race. With no dis
paraSing thought for any people. it is
well-known that the ignorant and SUI
perstitious in any land may cause or
bring disaster upon themselves or upon
the country which shelters them These
ignorant or superstitious people may
be of the prosecutors or the prosecuted.
Remembering this. note the tone Of one
friendly and love breathing document
said to have been spread broadcast in
southern Russia:
Satan. who has assumed the form OF
the Jew. has disturbed our home. our
ii'iS iSt''i'i. tilt' Jews, out
foes at home stand numerous Jews
abroad in alliance with unbelievers. the
English. Americans and Japanese.
Goddess England and uslrious America
threaten us ana wish Japan to tear us
down. but danger lies at home. The
peril lies with the Jews. who drink our
chiidr"n's blood. poison our youths with
foul ana pernicious ideas, and over
throw the pillars of Ou: holy state and
faith. Against this hundred headed
hydra. this venomous reptile. we must
battle. Death to the Jews,
God made man and man has been at
work for some years making himself
what he is. The sample is understood
to have been Adam. He made a mis-
take. so have others. The mistakes
| seem to have been following each other
for some years with alarming but un-
| ceasing regularity.
Looking at it il that light, which
| may or may not be Il correct view, who
has the right 20 say what, who. when
or where" to any race or creed? Have
you?
| a western exchange says:
| W nat can government do with
such people as this? Russia stands
today on this question of Jewish perse =
! cution about where the western church
did four or five hundred years ago.
| The English and American .unbeliev-
ers" can look out for themselves. and
| Goddess England and usurious Amer
i'a are in no great danger But Rus
sia herself to SLY nothing of the un-
fortunate Jews, is all the while in dan
| ger from this narrow, SuDerstitious
ana prosecuting spirit.
| 1T will take centuries of education
10 exercise the foul spirit that makes
| such violence possibility. To get a
| parallel we have to go back to the mid =
die ages when the Jews were accused
of all sorts Of horrid and unholv prac-
| tees. or to China where the people are
| taught that the missionaries use the
eyes of Chinese children for the purpose
| OF making medicine We talk much of
our various problems. ana they are
many ana serious. But the biggest
problem in the world today is Russia
| ''i''t oi''iit fiill'l1t, lllleI win ignorance
ana superstition. swayed by the will of
one man, and apparently untouched by
any modern influence. A land of bar
barIc splendor and grinding poverty.
ot anarchist plOttingS. of tyranny and
| oppression, land in which the effect
OF education is to set the people against
the government. and whose very relig-
ION is superstition-Such is Russia in
the twentieth century. And there are
lIo,6oo.OOO of people inhabiting her
vast territory. Those who believe in
| 'he law OF progress must believe that
IT operates even i'm Russia. The whole
world is interested in the working ont
OF inns great problem, because with the
closer contact between peoples an M
tiohS are affected by bad conditions
| prevailing IN any one of them SO thr
problem is world problem, although
II IS one that the Russian poople viii
| nave to solve for themselves. To stir
up discontent would almost certainly
| DflAS on revolution. Yet without tbe
hisc"ntent which the spirit of liberty
develops how can there be much homo
or substantial prOsress?"