The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
FEVER JEWS FROM RUSSIA.
Tide OF Emigration Checked by the Hope
OF Better Things Here.

VI Ahihbo AhthVs
sYou would think from the great hue
and cry in regard to the Jewish refugee"
said Mr.. White Of the Hebrew Society at
Ellis Island, that The exodus from Russia
of late far exceeded preceding records, but
this is not at all true. In these times Of
terrible massacres we have had exactly
IS per cent. Of the number OF refugees that
we had the previous year.
THE Jews nave been called a race without
a country. They have been declared to
be unpatriotic. This year has proved the
contrary. 1t has proved their patriotism.
Last week when the Pennsylvania came
into port there was so much talk Of the
Jewish refugee you would have thought
that most Of her 400 passengers were
Jews. / made it my business to find out
exactly how many Jews she had brought
over. There were six hundred.
you see, the Jew Is tenacious. He Is
not willing to give up something he is ac-
quainted with for something he isn't, even
if the well known is accomplished by danger.
The ways Of Russia are not the ways Of the
United States Particularly the business
WAYS. A Jew who has been brought up to
trade in Russia is often stranded when he
comes here.
L OF instance, VIC L S1AIlo ~ ANS" Ioth
a good while ago I was an ostrich feather
DIVER, Each employee Of the firm dyed
from $50 to 300 feathers a day. We ran out
OF workers and sem to Russia for a few.
When they arrived they were so appalled,
at the number OF feathers they were ex-
pected to dye that they went back homa.
1T is not thus alone in trades. 1t Is
the same in business. The Jew who comes
to New York must begin the business he
has conducted all his life in Russia at the
very beginning. He must learn it all over
ssThat makes him melancholy to start
with The holy days when all the members
~ the family are collected together make
him more so, part Of his family here, part
in Russia.
is his only home.
get me tell you a case OF deporta ton
which occurred not long ago that proved
II. A Young fellow came here very Ill
with tuberculosis. We allowed him to go
TO the hospital for q time, but the authcri-
ties decided at length that he must be sent
back. We were to send him via South
Don't let them put me of at S~outhamp-
tom he begged, let them take me home to
Russia This, notwithstanding the fact
that he was apt the moment he landed in
Russia to be shot. .
The other night I attended a meeting Of
a society of Jews called the 'Judea.' A
recently arrived Russian Jew was present:
he spoke of the hone the Russian Jew bad
in the present condition existing in Russia.
Thev saw in the terror Of the situation a ray
OF hope, and most of them, backed by this
hope, were willing to stay it out.
aHe cited the instance Of a father who
two years ago left his son and his family
TO come here. The son was indignant that
the father should leave him.
To-day, he said, the son refuses to
follow his father to this country. He has
the firm belief that the condition of the
Russian Jew must soon be bettered, and
that he is not alone in this belief the small
percentage Of Jewish immigrants this year
goes a long way to prove