The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-01-23
Vermont Man Spoke at Mass
Meeting in Washington, D. c.
WITH FOUR CONGRESSMAN
Protesting Against Recent Masascres Of
the Jews in Russia--Judge Stafford's
Speech in Full Is Here
Given.

At a mass meeting held in Washing
ton, D. G., on Sunday night to protest
against the recent massacre Of Jews in
Russia, Judge Wendell r. Stafford Of
| Vermont, now justice Of the supreme
court Of the District Of Columbia, was
one Of the speakers, with Senators Tell
er and Patterson OF Colorado and Rep
resentatiyes Mccall Of Massachusetts
and Littlctied Of Maine Judge STAFF
ford's speech was as follows.
The events which have called up to.
gether stand by themselves. There is
nothing to equal them in the records Of
the race. 10 find anything worthy of
comparison you must pass by st. Bar
tholomew and the inquisition and 90
back to the dispersion, the captivity or
the bondage in Egypt. They constitute
lone Of the highest mountain peaks Of
human wicSedness. When We have lain
in our graves thousand years 1t viii
still loom dark against the horizon. The
eye that gazes across the centuries will
be arrested by it as the colossal crime
in human history. We are standing in
its hadow. and we are awed by its
very magnitude as If we stood in the
presence Of a malignity that knows no
bounds.
The world is used TO slaughter. It
has grown callous TO carnage. 1t can
even eXult in battle, where man meets
man and fights to finish But it has
never grown used to murder, and the
blood Of hundred thousand murders
turns II pale.
Cities have been sacked before; child
hood has been trodden under heel, won.
lanhood has been violated, and homes
have been laid desolate, before These
terrors follow in the train Of glorious
war;" and nations have learned to ex.
pect them as a part or the great price
that must be paid for victory and peace
But Russia's six hundred desolatea wis
lagos and towns were not in the track
OF war. They were at peace. They were
under the protection OF the civil power
There Is nothing new in riots and in
mobs. But eye-witnesses declare--the
world is compelled to believe--that these
mobs did their work under the eye of
Cossaek and police. The guns OF the
state were trained not on the rioters,
but on their victims
Russia is in revolution. An empire
struggling to keep its seat cannot be
expected TO maintain the order OF tran
gull times. But, for the most part,
these towns and cities we're never in
revolt. The murderer thousands were
unoifending and defenseless, Neither
slayer nor slain had lifted hand against
the men in powcg. The great body Of
Russian Hebrews did indeed long to be
free; they had made known their de-
sire for a free constitution. That was
their only crime-that and the fact that
they were jews
| Race hatred is al old as the race
But why this sudden and unexampled
fury against a helpless peoplel Why
this uprising, as if at a signal, in a
hundred communities at oneei There is
only one possible answer. The spite
| and vengeance OF discredited autoeraey
is being visited upon them because they
alone among the lovers Of freedom are
powerless to resist. Upon them il is
| cay TO turn the tide Of old prejudice
and superstitious hate. Let the rapae-
/ ity Of the people be glutted out of their
/ own substance IL may forget to
turn against the powers that be. Des.
| perate diseases demand desperate rem.
edies. Russian typranny driven TO the
wall is striving to drown the revolution
in deluge of Hebrew blood In Odessa,
where eight thousand Jews were muir
dered, Baron KauIbars was in command
/ of sixty THOUSAND troops and refused
to interfere. A thousand students armed
| themselves for the defense of the Jews.
Then the garrison did interfere yes, sur.
| rounded the students and held them pris-
oners until the massacre was over.
Race hatred A Russian to hate a
jew Out of the wall Of his vast ca.
thedral he carves the figures of his
twelve apostles--and everyone Jew. He
enters aud prostrates himself before the
picture Of a Hebrew child in the arms
Of Hebrew mother. He mutters
creed that declares jew to be the
Son of God the Savior Of the world
then goes out and kills the first jew he
meets because he Is a jew II is irony
to move the daughters Of devils and
the tears of the Just The Hebrew race
deserves the admiration Of the world
for great and peculiar virtues; but II it
were black as prejudice can paint it,
its SORROWS would deserve our sympathy
today.
In southern Russia and Just across
her borders six million Jews have made
their homes, one-half Of all that dwell
upon the globe. Were those who have
died already offenders above the rest,
or is tho massacre 10 20 on till all shall
perish or be scattered TO the windsY
Are the rulers Of Russia responsible
for these outTaResi Shall we shut our
eyes to all the past quarter Of cen.
tury has brought 10 liehtg This charge
is not made against the shepherds OF
free people II is made against
despotism that dreams II can impose
upon the twentieth century the forms
and letters Of the twelfth--against
caste that gives up nothing Of its feu.
dal claims except in obedience TO the
dagger OF the bomb--a land that puts
its rifians in Office and its heroes in
prisona land that sends the flower OF
its young manhood TO grow gray in ST.
berian dungeons for cherishing those
opinions which every man in this audi.
ence would die to maintain, and hogs
women naked in the public square II
they bctray sympathy with their broth.
ers by whispered word
Such are the governors TO whom Israel
must look for protection. That is the
upper milestone. Underneath lies the
dull upd heavy mass Of Russia peasan.
Try, blind, british, superstitiuus- do.
based and degraded by O thousand years
Of oppression--the ninety millions whose
awakened fury mhy yet sweep car and