Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-21
TROOPS HOLD THE
LID ON Il WARSAW
" TAKES $4,000 TO KEEP
"0RDER" IN THE CITY
Reign Of Terror Everywhere-oovern-
nnent Fears Jews More Than II
Does the Poles--eood Move
Made at Odessa
NY ApELnrRr THOMAS


WARSAW, Oct. 2O.--The famous re-
port of Muravieff, the Butcher Of
warsaw" to the czar, "L'ordre regne
a Varsovie," is no longer true. lie
disordre regne O. Varsovie," it would
hardly be exaggeration TO say that
anarchy prevails. The population Isl
being held down by force of some-
thing like $4,000 troops, which keep up
a reign of terror in the Polish capital.
The government fears the Jews more
than they do the Poles, for the Jews
are of superior intelligence. Every
Jew can read and write and 80 per
cent OF them speak German in addl-
ton to Polish and Russian. They can,
therefore, more easily communicate
with foreign countries. AS they are all
engaged In commercial pursuits 1t is
they who carry out all the smuggling
of arms and propagandist literature.
For years past the necessities of their
condition drove them to combine for
mutual protection. They have been
forced by the oppression to which they
were subj -cted to reduce the art of
bribing functionaries to fine art. They
knew the price of every man in author
ity and how he was to be reached. The
obtaining of passports and government
permits of all kinds was with a Sec
ton of them regular business.
Their knowledge Of the workings of
the official machine and the influence
they possess In various ways made
them most dangerous conspirators The
only falling Is that they are not en-
tfrely trusted by their Polish co-work-
ers. The Jewish aims and those of the
Poles are not the same. The Jews want
to remove the disabilities under which
they live, and these once granted they
I'D DnlieI, n nd - q no
pirations with equal Indifference. 1t
will therefore always be possible for
the government to detach great pro-
portion Of the Jews from the p. p. s.
by giving concessions to them which
would be of no value to their Polish
allies. Fortunately for the Polish
Jewish alliance, the government has
shown no intelligence in it's dealing
with either party, and relies on a
policy of brute force, which, of course,
only increases the existing exaspera-
tion.
Good Move Made
A good impression has been caused
throughout Russia by an order issued
to the effect that all Jewish candidates.
for admission as students to Odessa
university shall be received, whatever
their number NJ. Stolypin has pre-
pared q whole series of reforms, which
will be drafted, sanctioned and realized
before the elections, and among those
will be the abolition, once for all, of
the Pale of Settlement, beyond which
the Jews were, with some insignificant
exceptions, forbidden to reside.
After the promulgation of the new
measure which Is not yet definitely
drafted, the Jews will be free to move
about without let or hindrance, and
will be emancipated from several other 1
disabilities now weighing heavily upon
them. -
The firm hope is entertained that this
abolition of the mediaeval state of
things will be welcomed by the czar's
Hebrew subjects, and will induce many
of those among them now fighting in
the ranks of the revolutionists to re-
turn to their allegiance and devote
themselves to the arts of peace 1t is
further believed that when this pro-
ject has become law of the empire
foreign members of the Hebrew COM
munity who have during the past
couple of years been contributing gen.
erously and continuously to those or
ganizations which seemed best calcu-
lated to benefit their Russian co-relig-
ionists will endeavor to persuade the
Jews in this country to abandon revo-
tuition for evolution and useful COM
petition with their Christian fellow
subjects. Whether these hopes are
ure which is engendering them will
prove the most momentous reform uu-
dertaken by the crown since the pro-
mitigation of the October charter The
restrictions now enforced against for
eign Jews deSirous of travelling in Rus
sia will be also removed, and these
visitors will be treated in the same way
as the Christian subjects of foreign
states.
One Jew Slain
Details OF a recent execution show
that the terrorist executed was a Jew
named Tarle- He was 22 years of age.
He killed policeman who was en-
deavoring to arrest him. He fled, and
fired on his pursuers killing a dvornik
and wounding two more policemen. He
himself received five shots in the body,
and was arrested and put in prison.
The field court martial, composed of
six high OFFICERS, whose names have
not been divulged, sat at the prison.
and after short deliberation sentenced
the prisoner to death. Tarle, whose
condition was hopeless owing to loss
OF blood. was put into a litter, carried
to the prison yard and tied to a post
His last words We're, dying, I send
you, my assassins, my contempt and
curse. You piteous, blind fools, you
fancy that you have shot down the
whole of young Russia with your pog-
roms and field court martial; but be
sure that there are bombs and revoI-
Vers enough to deliver our unfortunate
country from your bloodstained hands
Now, fire."
The soldiers fired three volleys, and
Tarle fell dead.
A young man approac ched a police
ofticeT ON duty in the street here the
other day and, after some conversation,
Offered him pear. The officer ate the
pear, and Immediately afterward fell
He was taken to the hospital, where he |
was found to have been poisoned
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