The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-11-24
PROBLEM OF THE RUSSIAN JEW
Rabbi PhiIo Concludes That the Hope Of the Rus
sian Jew is Neither in "zionsm' nor Whole
sale Emigration America. Land Of Promise
for the Hebrew, in His Opinion.

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most gigantic, the most awful, The
most dreadful revolution, that the
world ever witnessed, from taking
place. The Commune of France will
be as a farce beside the tragedy which
the people Of Russia are about to en-
act France shed rivers Of blood, Rus
sia will cause seas of blood to soak
its lands. France killed it's thousands
Russia will slay. its tens of thousands
and then, God knows--I fear even
| then, the result,
! The first act Of this awful tragedy
has begun. Jewish, blood has been
spilled. But 1t is only the prologue.
to- save themselves from attacks of
the savage hyenas, the hunted Mu-
zick-have thrown them oewlsh flesh
But 1t is only temporary restraint.
Their appetites have been whetted
and they will soon thirst for blood
Of different kind and character. Six
millions Of Jews are but tiny
morsel for 400,000,000 OF starving
beasts. The beastialized people of Rus
sia hunger and thirst for the blood and
flesh Of their gutocratic tormentors; !;
and their craving hunger will be satia-
ted only after they will have eaten
and drank ad nauseum, and It may
take centuries to. appease their abnor-
NAL cravings. First the Jews-in
keeping with an old time precedent;
and then the aristocrats and finally
one another. The tragedy will end
with the establishment of republic
built upon the graves of the innocent
Jews, the guilty autocrats and those
OF their own children, wives, sons and
daughters and comrades.
The prospect is horrible. It causes
the blood to run cold within our VEINS
but come It must as sure as wicked
hess, under the eternal law of right,
must eventually reap the whirlwind it
has sown. The people of Russia are
not ripe for republic, will not be
ready to enjoy the benefits of a re.
public for century to come and long
er. But the die Is cast. No human
power can ever change the natural
result Of the unnatural conditions
which have for centuries been work.
irg toward this end. Too late has
Russia employed it's Whites. Witte
cannot undo what centuries of studied
vice have perpetrated. 1t Is too late
for Witte; for vice and corruption
have spoken. Russia must be free.
The people of Russia have spoken
THE voice of the people is the voice
OF Cod" and while the people of Rus
sia employ the methods of the devil,
Gods wisdom and justice will eventu-
ally be vindicated. The hands are
the hands of Esau" the atrocious deeds
are the deeds of the hunters and the
hunted" "but the voice is the voice
OF Jacob" the voice of Russia's
people. the voice OF divine justice
which is trying to make itself heard
above the blood and carnage and pill.
age that prevails.
In the face of present conditions
in Russia and in the anticipation of
their probable outcome as / see and
believe 1t, what is the destiny of the
Russian Jew? Which, IL any of the
many schemes that have recently
been set afoot by our people will, If
not solved, at least, ameliorate their
sad and deplorable state? Zionism
invites those phases, commands our
most serious consideration for no 9TH
er reasons than the large number of
earnest and intelligent men in all
xxyalE Ec nf lifn ~ hau NJ ~
furtherance of its propaganda.
careful study of Zionism has convinc-
ed me that not only Is It impractical
BILE, but wholly at variance with the
genius of Jewish history. IL is not
a panacea for the ills that oppress
the Russian Jew. 1t is a noble, but
a misguided effort on the part Of
hose who have the best interests or
our Russian-Jewish brethren al neart.
Zionism Is a noble exponent Of the
Jewish heart but a poor expression of
the Jewish mind. Let us first CON
slider natural Zionism. The advocates
of the propaganda, believing In the
liberal Interpretation OF Bible prophe-
cies-would have the Jews of Russia
migrate tor Palestine, secure posses
sion Of the holy land by purchase
(Which is impossible) or grant or 9TH
erwise, and re-establish the Jewish
nation which God saw fit to disinte-
CRATE at the destruction of the sec
ond Temple. OF all the schemes of
Zionism this one is not only the most
impracticable, but also the most un-
Jewish one Of them all Palestine
could never be made fertile enough
to support half of the Jews of Russia.
economically, socially
and religious 1t presents insurmount.
able barriers to the successful con-
of this scheme. Second,
II is diametrically In opposition to the
genius and to the philosophy of Jewish
history. Israel was ordained the first
people of humanity; as the religious
teacher of mankind was he conse-
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