Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-22
RUSSIAN ORDER
FAVORS THE JEWS
Special cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
WARSAW. October 22-The famous re-
port of Muraviefr. the Butcher of War
saw to the car. "L'ordre regne a Var
sovie." Is no longer true. lie disordre
regne Varsov:e." It would hardly be ex-
aggeration to say that anarchy prevails.
The population Is being held down by q
force of something like $1,000 troops. which
keep UP q reign of terror in the Polish CAPT.
tai
The government fears the Jews more than
they do the Poles. for the Jews are of a SUI
perior intelligence, Every Jew can read
and write and so per cent Of them speak
German in addition to Polish and Russ an
They can. therefore. more easily communi-
cate with foreign countries. As they are all
engaged In commercial pursuits, 1t is they
who carry out all the smuggling of arms
and propaganda 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 subjected to reduce the
art of bribing funct.onaries to a fine art
They knew the price of every man in au-
thority and how he was to be reached.
The obtaining Of passports and govern
ment 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 pos
sess In various ways made them most dam
gerouS conspirators The only ling is
that they are not entirely trusted by their
Polish coworkers. 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 regard Polish and Russian national
aspirations with equal Indifference. 1t will.
therefore, always be possible for the gov
eminent to detach great proportion of
the Jews from the P. P. S. by giving con-
cessions to them which would be of no
value to their Polish allies. Fortunately
for the Polish-Jewish alliance. the govern
ment has shown no intelligence in it's deal
Ing with either party. and relies on a pol
icy of brute force. which. of course, only
increases the existing evaporation.
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
M. Stolypin has prepared a whole series of
reforms. which VIII be drafted, sanctioned
and real zed 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 ex-
ceptions. forbidden to reside.
After the promulgat ton of the new meas
ure which is not yet definitely drafted, the
Jews will be free to move about without let
or hndrance and will be emancipated from
several other liabilities now Weighing
heavily upon them.
A firm hope is entertained that this abo-
lItton of medieval state of things will be
welcomed by the cars Hebrew subjects
and will induce many Of those among them
now fighting In the ranks of the revolution
lists to return to their allegiance and devote
themselves to the arts of peace. 1t Is fur
ther believed that when this project has be-
come law of the empire, foreign members
of the Hebrew community who have DURING
the past couple OF years been contributing
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CARNATIONS when seemed best calculated
to benefit their Russian coreigionists viii!
endeavor to persuade the Jews in this coun-
try to abandon revolution for evolution and
useful competition with their Christian
fellow-subjects. Whether these hopes are
grounded or not the projected measure
which Is engendering them will prove the
most momentous reform undertaken by the
crown since the PRONUNCIATION of the Octo-
Der charter. The restrictions now enforce
against foreign Jews DESTROYS Of travelling
N Russia will be also removed and these
| visitors will be treated in the same way as
the Christian subjects of foreign states.
Details of a recent execution show that
| the terrorist executed was a Jew named
Tarle He was twenty-five years of age
He killed a policeman who was endeayor
ing to arrest him. He fled. and fired on his
pursuers, killing a dvornik and woundng
two more policemen. He himself received
five shots in the body and was arrested
and put in prison
high officers. whose names have not been
divulged. sat at the prison. and after a
short elaboration sentenced the prisoner to
death. Tarle. whose condition was hope
less owing to loss of blood. was put into a
litter, carried to the prison yard and tied to
| post. His last words were: Dying
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 pogroms and field
court-martial. but be sure that there are
bombs and revolvers enough to deliver our
unfortunate country from your blood
stained hands Now fire."
The soldiers fired three volleys. and Tarle
fell dead
A young man approached a police officer
on duty in the street here the other day,
and, after some conversation. offered him
a pear. The officer ate the pear, and i'm
mediately afterward fell to the ground in
a state Of collapse. He was taken to the
hospital. where he was found to have been
poisoned