The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-16
ANOTHER BCTCHERY POSSIBLE

If press dispatches are to be believed
Russia is on the eve of another bloody
upheaval in which the Jews will be
the innocent victims.
The sympathy of the world has
momentarily gone out to the Russian
peasants seeking to free themselves
from medieval tyranny, and then in
the twinkling of an eye this sympathy
has been dashed to the ground by the
cold blooded murder of innocent men,
women and children in manner that
would bring the blush OF shame to the
most savage nation of the world
1t may not be the fault of the Rus
sian peasantry, for they are the re-
suit of their environment, but they
POSSESS in a remarkable degree the
weakness that allows their religion
to become frenzied passion which is
visited upon those whose only crime
is the fact that they are faithful ad-
herents to religion in which they
have been taught to believe for thous-
ands of years.
When the Russian rabble became
loudest in their demands for liberty,
the bureaucracy by simple twist of
the wrist, give them a hint that the
killing of Jews and the looting of their
premises will be winked at by the
government, and the pent up passion
that could justly have been vented
against the government is turned
against the Jews. and the blood of
innocent people cries aloud to heaven
for redress
The scenes that follows these out
breaks of insane passion beggars
description. Men who have committed
no crime are assaulted, beaten and
killed while the officers of the govern
ment stand by and encourage the acts.
Fathers thrust the dagger into the
heart of wife and daughter rather
than they SHOULD suffer a degradation
more damnable than hell itself,
than death in it's most brutal form at
the hands of their outragers. Chill
dren are haunted like wild animals
where they hide in childish terror and
are torn limb from limb.
The heart sickens at the recital. But
it is such work as this to which the
mobs must be turned to vent the pas
sion that has been aroused by their
hatred of the ruling classes.
And what have the Jews of Russia
done to lay the foundation for this
hatred? They are the learning class
in Russia. This is the simple ex-
planatson. Their frugality, their econ
omy and their business energy has
enabled them to accumulate property
even in a country as tax ridden as
Russia.
When the surfs were freed they
were destitute. 1t was necessary that
they have money to get started in
their new condition The Jews loaned
them this, and then when the lenders
asked for the return of principal and
interest, these ignorant people con-
sidered them oppressors, and then
began the race war that has so often
Mortified the world.
1t is to be hoped that some reason
can be found for some civilized nation
to interfere and stop the butcheries
in the name of mercy and humanity
as did the Americans in Cuba.
AS usual the attempted editorial ut
terances in last evenings issue of the
Plaindealer resulted in a veritable
flood Of words with woeful barren
ness Of intelligent ideas. Small Won
der that the now owner, Mayor Duis,
is making frantic efforts to secure
the services of man possessed of
modicum of common sense as we'll as
some slight qualification as an editor.
The next legislature. If it heeds the
commands of Statesman Winship, will
have nothing left for it to do but to
carry out the plans which he is thus
early engaged in outlining. Unfortun-
ately for the would be governor North
Dakota legislatures have contracted
the habit of doing exactly the opposite
of what he would have them A clear
case of greatness unrecognized, surely.