The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-12-28
Members of the Woman's Club
Spend an Interesting Afternoon
Discussing Rule Of Romanoff
INTERESTING LETTER is READ
Splendid Address Given by Mrs. w. r..
Cheever is supplemented With
Letter From the Father of
Jacob Gott1ieb

The members of the Kenosha
Woman's club held very interesting
meeting at their rooms in the Sim
mons Library on Wednesday after
noon, and the discussions for the day
were exceedingly timely in that they
] took up theSquestion of the rise and
the development of Russia The
| Iron purposes of the House of Roman
off, was the subject Of a very in
| teresting address delivered by Mrs.
Alice M. Cheever. In her address
i Mrs. Cheever ktraced the rise and
| history Of the famous ruling power Of
| the Russians, and showed that the
! policy of territorial expansion and
| internal development had long been
one of tAescharacteristic of the rule
/ of the Romanoff's. She touched on
/ the character of the men who had
held the scepter in Russia, and showed
that their. persona1ityss had largely
1 been responsible for the great ex-
pansion of Russia as a world power.
Following the address there was an
interesting discussion led by Mrs. E.
C. Meers. During the discussion an
/ interesting letter written by the father
4 of Jacob Gott1ieb, who is now in
Miroslav was read. The.1etter shows
an interesting personal view of the
conditions in Russia and especially
as applied to the great Jewish
! population. 9 Portions Of the letter
/ follow:
Miroslav, Russia, sDec. IL, '05.
"As,sthings stand now, we are in
constant dread Of beinglsplundered
and massacred. The country is in the
hands of the, tough element, the mob
and the rabb1e, the Cars manifesto
has brought woe, sorrow and death,
instead of liberty, as intended. The
| Russianspeop1e, beingss11iterate, have
mistaken liberty for 01icense, and
the malefactors interpret the mani
| festo to suit their own'se1fsh motives.
i Some of the agitators tell the pc Du-
lace as the lmanifestoreads, it grants
| suffragei only to the Eeducated and
those that possess property, and
therefore the voting power of the
country willEbe mainly in the hands of
the Jews, as they possess the educa-
ton required2for voting, Iand bye and
bye thesJew will::proclaimEtheir own
king, andsthey swi1l place sthe rest of
the Russians insservitude.
But not the JewssSalone are mo-
Tested, ssbut also the influential Ger
mans are being murdered,sand driven
out of the country.
The Jews, not having a country or
fatherland that they can really call
their own, wil1ss fare iworse than the
Germanssor other nationalities.
The Jews, having.been instrumental
in gainingSfor the. RussianSspeop1e re-
forms, libertyland asconstitution. have
| also aroused the wrath of the off Gals
| and thes' 'bureaucrats, as, if the gov
eminent should carry out its plans for
/ reform, theses off Gals will lose their
| positions7'and influence. Therefore,
the "bureaucrats'sare doing all they
can tosincites thel rabble against the
intellectua1s and the Jews.
/ Since you left the country, the Jews
have made wonderful strides, not
withstanding the restrictions placed
upon them. They have contributed a
great dea1sto the progress and welfare
of Russia, and the ignorant class are
jealous of them. They are at the
head of commerce and manufa ctur-
ing, theyihave givensthe best doctors,
! lawyers ands literary men of hig h
Ie%r H. o1- 4s-4ea 0f =
wide fame.
/ It is most singular that after the
Jews have been expelled from the
high schoolssand universities in order
to check their faculties, their think
ing capacity and the broadening of
their mindssso as to avoid and abro-
gate the spreading of the gospel of
ghtment isandAfr they sue
ceededIsonly lin making the Jews the
more anxious htossmstudy and learn.
They tried to take away their oppor-
tunitiesI andstheirlproperty, but they
today, after having been limited to
two MISUNDERSTANDING in the uni
versities and other institutions of
learning, they have nearly monopoly
on education and professions in
Russia.
But after all it is human nature,
and dare say if there is an influential
man in your own town, standing at
the headsof Industry, commerce, and
a patron Of art and education, /
would wager he is the most hated
man in town, and the same is true of
the Jews.ins Russia.
/ You ask again, why do we insist on
staying inssnch a'country? 1t is easy
for you, young man, to say so, but it
is a very difficult task to leave
country where your forefathers have
/ been born, reared and died, where we
are under the impression that the
sky above us. the ground we tread up
on, the stars above us, the trees, the
meadows, the surroundings are part
of us. It is just as logical to say to a
man, "Yous have ten fingers, you
could spare one, yon still have nine. y