The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-28
PERSECUTION OF
THE RUSSIAN JEW
Speaking From Experience, This Inmate
Tells Of Customs, Laws and Appalling
Prosecutions Of Subjects in the Land Of
the Czar.
HORRORS OF PRISONS
BIZ II. B.-4Is2

In Russia the word government
does not mean an established form
of law, but it means the power oi
tyranny.
There is a city in the western part
of Russia called the City of "Kess-
noff" the population of which is
sixty thousand, Fifty thousand in
habitants are members of Greek
Catholic church, and ten thousand
are members of the Jewish syna-
gogue. In the year 1902; there
arose a wild cry from unknown
voices with these words: Kill the
Jews" Human brutes with swords
and clubs attacked the Jewish set
Element of that city. They robbed
and murdered them without mercy
in most barbarous manner. They
took young children by their legs
and tore them apart, they cut their
hands and legs off and let them die
in the most excruciating agony.
After numbering and robbing half
of the Jewish settlement, large
body of ignorant Russian peasants
armed with swords and clubs march
ed to the Jewish Rabbits residence
and in the presence of the grey
haired old Rabbi, they murdered
his wife and children. and by his old
grey hair they dragged him out side
of the city and offered him his choice
liberty or death. If he would ac-
cept the Christian faith they would
spare him. The broken-bearted old
man facing the frenzied crowd
murmured these words: God for
give you for what you have done. ]
cannot accept the Christian faith.
for I was born Jew and l will die
a Jew-my ways are not your ways.
/ am ready to die!'' He was MUIR
dered there and then in the most
brutal manner.
No Police Interference
The police of that city stood aside
and never offered to stop the terrible
outrage. In their own hearts they
were glad to see Jew killed, for a
Jew in Russia is not considered a
human being.
The Jew is compelled to serve
five years in the army, he is made to
pay taxes. also prohibited from liv-
ing in certain cities. There are six
ty states III Russia. and Jew may
reside or travel in ten per cent. Of
those states, and there is also a gov
ernment law which prevents the
Jewish people from getting an edu-
cation. The law in Russia requires
that in public schools, high schools
or colleges there shall not be less
than ninety per cent. Gentiles. and
not more than ten per cent. Jewish,
and even at these figures the major
ity of professors and doctors are
Jews.
The Russian government also has
law to the effect that in the Jewish
synagogues the Rabbi must offer a
prayer for for the health of the Gar
and Czarina, and also, for the well
fare of the government; but the Jew
on his own hearth prays, that the
Gar and Czarina and his govern
ment may go to hi. Can you
blame them for hating that country?
Must Vacate
AS soon as a Jew is settled down
in comfortable circumstances, he is
given, by the police, twenty-fours
hours to leave the state for good, for
no other cause, than that of being a
Jew, cannot settle his business af-
fairs up in twenty-four hours, so he
must leave it in the hands of the po-
lice, and the police do the rest.
They sell the business, give one
tenth to the victim and put the re-
mainder in their own pockets.
Now l am sure you are wondering
why Jew Is disliked in Russia lin
fact all over the world. I am pre-
pared to answer that question. The
Jew as you know does not believe
in hard labor, he was born with q
talent to make money by using his
brains not his hands. and her GER
tainly does the business in Russis
In Russia when a farmer wants to
borrow money to improve his farm
he must go to the Jew 10 get it. for
the government will not lend money
to the farmer without heavy security,
but Jew will take on a smaller
amount of security. The Jews in
Russia own ninety per cent. of the
clothing manufactures, seventy per
cent of the farm machinery and six