The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-29

Jewish Editor Blames PObedonOse"
zeR, Some of the Higher Bureau
Gratis and Undergraduates Present
Outbreak VIII Last a year-Perse-
cutions of the Black Hundred-The
Pale of Settlement.
Probably no man in America knows
more about the status of the Jew in
Russia than Herman Rosenthal, chief
Of the Slavonic department of the New
York Public library and one of the ed
itors of the Jewish Encyclopedia. The
other night he said to New York
Times reporter:
In a nutshell, the situation is this:
Russia in its attitude to Jews is just
about where England was in the thir-
teenth century. You have read ballads
of old England in which the Jew was
always pictured as the villain, the man
to be hated, despised and i'll treated.
Some three centuries ago the Anglo
Saxons decided that the Jew was hu-
man being, like themselves, and they
began to treat him so. Some day, Of
course. the same Transformation will
take place in Russia, but it will not
come suddenly. 1t will be the result
of q gradual change, as it has been
with other nations.
"A great deal has been said and writ
ten about the feeling of the Russian
peasant toward his fellow countryman,
the Jew. You hear one man declare
that the peasants hate the Jews with
deadly hatred, and another says: The
peasant has no i'll feeling toward the
Jew at all. He is only the ignorant
tool of despotic and cruel leaders, who
tncite him to rioting and bloodshed.'
Neither Of these views is exactly cor
rect.
Gas a matter of fact, the Russian
peasant has a very decided prejudice
against Jews. He is born with tit is
the growth of centuries of prejudice on
the part of his ancestors. Such pref
udice, born in a man as it Is and al
most part of his flesh and blood, is not
TO be destroyed in day. Years, and
M of them, are necessary to end it,
but even with this prejudice the peas
ant is not a man who wants to be go
ing around killing Jews and burning
their homes all the time. He may live
with them peacefully for years-then
INSCRIPTIONS leaders will infame his
latent prejudice and the mob spirit
carries him along
"Afterward, very often, he is very
contrite Once, after the riot in Kiev,
in 1881, Russian peasants came to me
weeping about what they had done and
asking themselves how they had ever
come to such acts of violence. 1t hap
pened that there was no killing in that
riot, only a great deal of property was
destroyed. l asked these peasants how
It was they hadn't thought Of these
wrongs beforehand but they didn't
know themselves.
Undoubtedly PobedOnOstzef and
some of the higher bureaucrats are re-
sponsible for the present outbreak
throughout Russia. OF course that has
not come out officially yet, but it will
be proved to be the truth. PObe-
donostzeff and some Of the bishops who
stand for the old order of things and
want to see the cause of liberty killed
before it grows any stronger have s0wn
the seeds of riot and bloodshed. When
the Kishineff massacres sent thrill of
horror around the world l said then
that De Plehve, who has since been
killed, was at the bottom Of the trouble.
By many was laughed at. They said
it could not be. When the smoke clear
ed away and the facts came out 1t was
proved beyond doubt that he was re-
sponsible.
The faction that does such injury to
the Jews works through an Organiza-
ton known as the ChOrnaya Sotnya-
In English this means the Black Hun
dred. 1t is a secret and very powerful
organization and has its members in
all the large cities Its object, to put
1t briefly, is to kin the cause of liberty.
Wherever it finds an opportunity the
Black Hundred perSecutes or kills the
liberals. Jews are not the only vic
tins, but they are the easiest because
of the already full grown prejudice
possessed by the peasants. The high
church dignitaries, like these bishops,
cause to be gathered together mob
and then stir it up with all sorts OF
accusations. With the mob spirit once
aroused nothing meets such ready
response as the cry, Kill the Jews!
THE Black Hundred is hated by all
the lovers of liberty. In Poland when
ever the people discover a man to be a
member of it they pour kerosene on
him and set him afire. That shows
what hate this cruel organization has
inspired AS far as possible the names
of its members are kept secret.