Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-06
RUSSIAN JEWS
FACE MASSACRE
LEON ALBRUM SAYS CHAOS IS
NEAR IN CARBON
Great Cries in the Empire Now Are,
Land for the Peasants" and
Protection for the
Jews"

who formerly owned the Jewish Weekl!
Of san Francisco and later was edito
of the Emmanuel, of which DR.. Yer
shayer is owner. is at the Nadeau.
Mr. Album has only been i'm thi
country for four years, but he has al
ready become known through hi
poems. His own experience in Russli
has given the tinge of reality to hi
impassioned appeals for the Russian
Jews
Mr.. Album says:
There are two great cries in Russis
now, that of the peasant for more lane
and the jew for protection.
1.-THE peasants compose so per cent Of
the population, and once fully aroused
they will overpower everything ir
their way by brute strength. They car
barely make enough to live on from
day to day, and the only help their un-
educated minds can see is land. more
land.
"The three great parties in Russia
the Constitutional Democrats, the Toll
ers and the Socialists, each have a
theory as to the way this land shall be
given, and the peasants turn weakly
from one to another
Demand All Land Free
dJust now they favor the Socialists.
who demand that ali lands be expro-
priated and given to the PEASANTS with
out any money return.
''This great class is bending all ener-
gies to this result. and should they
suddenly see the advantage of con-
centrated action, as they are bound to
do soon, despite all their Ignorance,
they will carry all before them.
Until that time comes the country
is comparatively safe.
None of the higher officials in Russia
seem to realize the great peril from the
low classes. for they expect them to
always show the servility and humble
ness to uniform that has formerly
been prevalent among them. The peas
ants are going to the other extreme of
savagery however, and nothing but
having their wishes complied with will
suit them.
"These people once in power. Russia
will retrace the feeble steps she has
taken toward civilization, and nothing
but chaos will reign.
Want Nothing Modern
"They will have none of the modern
farming implements, nor will they
adopt any modern methods. They work
from sixteen to eighteen hours day
with the smallest possible returns from
fertile
Mr.. Album is particularly gloomy
concerning the Jews, for while the
peasants have only their land to lose
the Jews have home, life and country
to lose. He says:
'It is true that the ukase does not
abolish the douma, for a new parlia-
ment is to rise. phoenix-like, from the
ashes of the old.
1.-THE resurrection is postponed, how
ever. for eight months, and in the mean
while every effort will be used to ham,
string the popular movement, and IL a
new douma is elected 1t will make a
plant instrument in the hands of the
old regime.
"The leaders of the people are quick
to recognize this, and the czar. in his
efforts to anticipate them, has brought
the country back at a stroke to the
abominable days of repression. Arrests
and imprisonment are the order of the
day
Censorship Prevails
1.-The censorship is once more in full
swing. Troops are swarming in the
capital. Political clubs are closed, and
generally the furnaces of bureaucratic
tyranny are in full blast.
'All this action is taken in reliance
upon the fidelity of the army. But the
nutiny of the guards shows that the
adherence of the troops is at least open
to doubt
spread to the favorite regiment of the
czar, what progress must it have made
In the humber military ranks?
Meanwhile, the members of the late
douma have responded to the challenge
of the czar with a shrill note of defiance.
"They have issued a manifesto call
ing upon the people to refuse military
be- Il ant,f 10
This is n dangerous proposal, for
II 1t Is not carried out, and it is very
difficult of execution, then it will be
declared that the people refuse to obey
the lead of the douma, and the popular
movement will be proportionately dis
credited and weakened.
''To prevent this disastrous consum-
nation the lead will be surrendered into
the hands of the extreme parties, and
then the battle will be Joined in real
earnest.
consistent to the end, the vacilla-
tion of the czar has played into the
hands of the mountain" For the
sequel we may have to wait some time,
but the majestic tragedy marches
surely. if slowly, to its appointed de-
nouement
Dark for Jews
Meanwhile. the czar's ukase has
darkened the already gloomy outlook
for the Jews.
"The douma. as the interesting inter-
views with its delegates to the peace
conference show, was fully prepared
to do Justice to the Jews But now no
one can tell what fortune, good or ILL.,
may emerge to the Jewish interests
out of the welter into which Russian
politics are sinking, and if the loyalty
of the troops or the divisions among
{, the popular parties should give the VIC
tory to the present regime, then we
may bid good-by to Jewish emancipa-
tion for many long day.
'The immediate physical danger is
great Events In Warsaw are shaping
along the lines traced out Bielostok:
Cossacks are engaged in reprisals
against Jews individuals among whom
are being constantly assassinated by
these half civilized retainers of tyr
annlcal government, and according to
letter which has reached my office
that a general campaign OF murder is
in preparation against the Jewish popu-
latlon.
IN presence Of this appalling drama
the Jews would stand today absolutely
helpless.
'rhe massacre OF their race is being
Manned under the eyes Of Chriatendoro