Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

at least two thousand Russian Jews in
the universities and various schools.
But the outrages and the laws did
have this effect-they turned the thoughts
of the Russian Jew Americanward for
the first time. On my way to this country
at that time l passed through a large part
of the belt of outrages, confined to the
southern part of the empire. Everywhere
the Jew standing in the streets. trying
to sell the few household goods of which
he had not been pllaged. The well-ngh
universal supplication was, Buy my cook
ing pot Buy my chair, buy, buy, buy
l am going to America. And when l
crossed over the border into -Galicia and
reached the town of Brody | found there
ten thousand victims camping while wait
ing to be sent to the Land of new hopes
and new life.
Easy boys; easy cautioned the gov
ernor of Kieff province, as he drove through
the streets and beheld the outrages. Per-
haps the authorities did not think it neces-
sary, in order to stamp out the revolution
airy feeling, to let the Jew-haters indulge IN
wholesale murder in 1881 and 1872. Al any
rate the great bloodshed that has marked
the riots of latter years was not present
The purposes in all the places where at
tacks were made was to pilage the males
and outrage as many women as possible
with the secondary object, apparently, OF
driving as many Jews as possible out OF
the country. Indeed, when Jews made
complaints after the outrages to the district
attorneys, their stereotyped reply was,
We'll. if you don't like your treatment here
and the laws we have put you under why
don't you go to American
Charge Against Won Plehve.
'sIt is an undisSutea historical fact that
until just befope the revolving Kishinef
massacre The revolutionary feeling that
was rampant in 1881 and 1882 was compar-
atively quiescent. Hence, the comparative
immunity of the Jews from attacks during
that period. But just before kishineff. the
labor movement became decidedly revolu-
tionary and the government found itself
hedged in by revolutionary sentiment
The notorious Won Plehve, who had been
Ignatieffs right hand in 1881 and 1882,
was now himself minister of the interior.
He recalled how the revolutionary move
ment had been checked before by official
license to take it out on the Jews. Then
came his sinister remark that he would
make quick work of stamping out the new
revolutionary movement adding that all
he wanted was six months time
''Von Piehve then set 20 work and organ
ICED the Kishineff massacre. One of the
two heads of the massacre was an army
officer of the name of krushevan, editor
of anti-Semitic paper subsidized by Won
Plehve. The other head was the vice gov
ernor of the province himself. a trusted
subordinate of Won Plehve. II 1t is still
doubted that Won PlehVe organized the
massacre, it is only necessary to point to
the testimony brought out-inadvertently,
no doubt-at the trial, not few persons
declaring that they were furnished with
money to go to the scene of the massacre
and were tacitIy told by the authorities
what to do when they got there. Again,
it has proved beyond the shadow of n
doubt that bicycle men were sent around
to give the word to start the massacring.
ut was diabolical scheme, carefully
concocted and put into execution. And
wholesale killing was permitted because the
revolutionary movement decidedly
stronger than twas in 1881 and 1882, and
mere pillaging and the outraging of women
in the streets before the eyes of their pow
erlesS kinsmen would not have been a sufff-
Gent outlet for the pentup revolutionary
feelings.
Later Brutalities.
'But revolving as was the Kishineff mas
sacre, its brutality seems delicate when
compared with the scenes enacted lately
in eighty-three different localities in the
empire.
Unlike the former outbreaks against the
Jews these have occurred, not altogether In
the south. but all over Russia, since the
revolutionary movement has spread
throughout Russia, and is stronger and
more insistent than ever before in the his
tory of the nation.
There Is no doubt in my mind. and that
OF every right-minded man who knows the !
real situation that these massacres were |
organized with government connivance |
also. Why, in ten of the cities where mas
sacres took place the thirsters for Jewish |
blood appeared at about the same hour, !
and In every case each man was armed +,
with q great club of the same size and !
make as those carried by the rest. This |
could not be a mere coincidence, when the |
bands were frequently from 500, to- 2 COO |
strong. Then, few days before the first |
ma ssacre 1t was almost Impossible to buy !
in any of the usual places the long knives |
that the Russians delight to carry about |
with them In their top boots But when |
the massacres began the poor Jews heheid |
the men who had been stirred up to destroy
them coming against them armed not only