The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-23
Those Who Enigrate to 4,
Face Siberia if Tbsv |.
Return Homs. /
RELATIVES ARE pur,
Baron Gle Hirsch's Monsy /,
cally Embezzled by Pm.
tor of the Holy syuod

Special Cable 20 The Trihuns
ST. PETERSBURG. April u
gates from the Emigration j..
held at Kiev tell stories, with.
the public prints. OF intense H.
tercst regarding the desperate
Jews are now Obliged to take y
wish TO leave Russia.
The government. though host,t
residence III certain parts Of N.
is making more stringent sFc,1
ever to prevent Jewish rsfo,.
leaving Russia for good. n
The heaviest burden Of al h
those left behind. Under q e.
certliicatlon, the bureaucracy h
touch with every jew. partlco,.I
the boys. 40 as TO enforct ~ h
compulsory military service
When n boy cannot be fou,s
OF $i50 is levied on hid parents I
est relatives. The collection oI a.
atty, a comparatively recent h.
is attended with the utmoxt l.
This has been increased by
just issued by the minister 4
terror forbiddlng the. IssuIur
ports for foreign travel 10 any
10 pay the fine on behalf oi
thus cyading military seVIcr
ously. this is directed toward n.
nent separation Of Jewish far7'
have sent their children In n
Siberia His Portion
The only way they can unIl>'
short OF breaking the law. h
boy to return TO Russia. Bni j|
caught here he will be sent IN
heria for evadlng military seryil1
The amazing thing about thIs b
is that the fact that the youl<
American citizen would NOT 81
slightest difference either In NJ +
ton of the fine or The rick Of l'
Russian he was born, and Ru~
remains in the eyes OF the czaYs
Gratis, II he rose to be mayor
York he would be held in Russia .
ing but a law breaker over who,
the Russian government had full b
rights.
But life is stronger than law,
one way of cscape from RuszII
Cling across the frontier withoUl
port. is rapidly becoming a fine 4
OF the Jewish emigrants from Il.
try come 10 America by that I'd
The German and Austrian pod1
guarded strictly, but many Of ths
guards accept bril1es.
There are fcw more lucrative 4
a Russian CRATER than 20 be a.
along the emigration. frontier.
danger zone Is not a thin lln<
Russian side: II is q broad h
miles wide. In any section o2
unwary refugee may be arrest3 /
for a term in Jail This AREA Of {
Is full OF reminders OF what q r
One constantly sees wretched 2
men. women and children belnE 4
from place to place under mnita1|
Holy Synod ccrTuyk
An astonishing case OF corIupl||
er up in connection with Jewia1
tion has also lately become
property here This time Il
Holy Synod which accepted q
and no less a person than the T.
de Hirsch. the well-knowD .JeH
cier, offered It, The nstter
ont through the publication q
Synod's books for the first .
parliamentary paper,
The 100000 was given the ~
not as a bribe. but to aid Jew
in public hospitals. 1t was tak'
synod. however. expressly
and never spent on hospitals e
procurator sent letters 10 en
vincial governors which mad
of the Jewish Colonization soe
BILE, and regarded this, appare
verys proper reward.
The baron then capitalaed
movement with s50.000,000 ana
over to the procurator In tne
trust fund. Nothing was done
and il has just come out ~
terest on the baron's fund Is
orthodox church schools.