Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16

the Jews have q clear claim for having
built up a great commercial and industrial
center out OF q barren and desolate wilder
ness that, place II Bfalystok. When, In
1854. the Woyawode Branitxky Invited the
Jews to settle there the village contained
some 500 souls of ignorant Lithuanians.
To induce the Jews to come he built for
them houses and stores. and also erected
q synagogue. which is one of the curiosities
of the town to this day. From the advent
of the Jews there the material condition OF
the town was always better than in any
other town in poverty-stricken Lithuansa.
The growth OF Bialystok during the last
half century is directly traceable to the
Jews. Out of population of 10000 there
are hardly 5000 Christians. and these are
for the most part government functionaries
Its chief industry is the manufacture OF
cloth, which Is IN the hands of Jews and
Germans. The first Jewish millionaire in
Russia. Isaac Zabludovsky. lived and re-
Gently died there and more pubiic-spir-
tied citizen the Russian empire never had.
In letters also this place ranks very high.
and some of her talented sons have attained
distinction In this coutnry-M. M. Dolitzky,
the Hebrew poet. of New York. and Prof.
Leo Weiner of Harvard University are ma
tfves of Bialystok.
THE town Ia distinguished for its model
institutions-its splendid hospital IT'S home
for the aged. its sanitary abattoir. which
Is maintained by direct tax on meat; lis
loan institutions, where the poor can OBJ
tain loan on their portable belongings
worship; its factories. equipped with the
latest machinery and motive power: It's
great commercial houses and financial IN
stituticns-ali of which are under the di-
rect mana cement and control OF The Jews.
AS to ANARCHISTS.
II would like to correct just here very
widespread and false notion. IT Is gen-
orally supposed that anarchists abound in
Russia. and that the killing of government
officials IS their work. Nothing could be
further from the truth. There are fewer
anarchists in Russia with its 149, C0n,f0
of population than in any other of the
great countries of Europe, excepting Eng
land. The anarchists make figure and
have no future there. Russia Is today
Seething, red-hot and liquid mass of revo-
tuition. but the revolution is a legitimate
one What the vast body of the Russian
people want Is constitutional government
and protection for life. liberty and prop
erty, which does not now exist. In this
great movement the anarchists from the
very nature of their social doctrine, can
have no place.
Nor is it anarchists who are killing
governors and other high officials. And
just here a bit of Russian history is in
teresting and bears immediately ana di-
rectiy upon present conditions. The rule
of the Tartar Khans In Russia pure
Asiatic despotism. When the khans were
driven out and the Russians reeained con-
troll, there was change in the personnel
of the rulers but no change In the theory
and practice of government and admins
tratfon. The ASiatic despotism was con-
tinued. and has survived 20 The present
day In all It's vigor. Now, under Asatic
governments there never was II revolution
in the western sense of the xord that is,
the uprising of the people ana throwing
off an Objectionable government. In all
Asiatc despotisms the procedure is to Pin
the ruler II he becomes oppressive which
is regarded as legitimate II successful and
the conception of crime does not enter into
II.
Plea for Terrorism.
When the Russian czars took over the
empire of the khans and adopted their the
DRY of absolutism they assumed at the
same time all the appendages and one OF
these was the Asiatic method of getting
rid of a cruel tyrant. To Kill an official
who has been guilty of grieyous oppression
and crime is part of the unwritten or com
mon law of Russia, derived from Asiatc
sources. Where the law does not protect
the individual society necessarily resolves
itself into its original elements, and the in
diyidual must become law unto himself
and is justified in taking the most extreme
measures to secure his safety; for this is
the first law of mature.
If an American is justified in aVenging
an outrage done to his family a Russian
is dotlbly justified, for, in addition to aveng-
Ing his wrong, he pursues the only course
which gives him hope of security In the
future. To take the life of any government
official In the constitutional countries of
Europe and America is Justly punished with
death. but in Russia conditions are differ
ent.