The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26

pire. No sooner had the autocracy
regained its power than one reform
after another was revoked. and the
Russian Constitution became. in the
term Of the late Count White. a corpse
There is no law in Russia with re-
gard TO the Jews that does not con-
tain the word except" Thus the new
concession contains the clause "ex-
cept the capitals n localities be-
longing to the Cossack settlements
And besides. according to Premier
Goremykine's statement. the Jews will
be permitted TO abide in cities out OF
the lines OF their general settlement"
which means that they will not he
permitted to settle in villa ges, that
they will be prohibited from acquiring
land and tilling the soil. These dis
ordinations and exceptions make the
new concession OF but slight import
ance.
In fact. he, Noroye .Tremyu, the
semi official organ Of the Government.
has FASTENED to assure its readers
hat this concession should. no be re-
garded as a change in the course Of
Russia's policies toward the Jews.
bul TIE btT~Nt TiUu ' fuOVtDSIt cur
rectly comments on this subject:
I'VE must not swcrve. We must not
turn away from the only practical
solution of the question, which cannot
be solved by half measures. We mus
do the duty Of our conscience and
reason-abolish the Pale of Settlement
once for all, without any humiliating
exceptions for the country and for
the Jews. No other solution is pos
sible."
What the Russian Government and
the military authorities have done to
the Jews during the war, how Jewish
communities, have been %uprooted, how
hundreds of thousands of men, women
and children have been driven from
their homes and left TO shift for them
selves under the open sky and then
driven away again is recorded in the
following account which is based upon
records gathered from Russian news
papers, authenticated 10y the Russian
censor. and which therefore gives only
a pale picture OF the horrors.
The material has been carefully
gathered from the legal Russian
press by the General Jewish Working
mems Union in Lithuapia. Poland and
Russia.
Last ear the Foreign Committee OF
he Bund tthe union of workingmen's
organizations)i appealed to the public
opinion Of the civilized world and
called attention To the medieval bar
barism OF the. Russian Government
which had undertaken a crusade OF
annihilation against millions Of Jews.
II pointed out that, aside from the ira
d%itional pogrpms, the Government
commenced to resort TO wholesale ex-
pulsions of Jewish communities from
various regions, which do not stir the
imagination as pogroms and the viola
ton OF women and the mutilation OF
bodies, but which are worse even than
pogroms because, OF their, ruinous and
destructive consequences.
Since that timei eight months have
! ella psed. The explosions OF Jews have
not only not been stopped, but have
become ordinary everyday occur
rences. That which had seemed i'm
possible even in Russia, justly styled
the land Of Unlimited possibilities. has
now become a sad actually; the
wholesale explosions OF Jews have as
SuIIltu COlOSSdl PiOpoii iOh anu IL n
tended beyond the boundaries of
Poland to Lithuania and the Baltic
provinces.
The Pale OF Settlement" the prov
inces set aside for Jewish dOmicile,
has become. the arena of migrations of
hundreds OF, thousands Of people
driven from place to place by the
caprice of, the. authorities. The au-
thorities. who were unable to wage
war against the enemy are manifest
ing amazing ingenuity and energy In
the organization of a a against
their own unarmed population. In the
course of a few hours or at the very
best In the course, Of a few days they
drive the Jewish population out OF
cities or regions, they ruin the life of
these cities or regions and with the
methods OF experienced pogrom max
ers turn into a desert the enor-
nous provinces which are bound by
thousands OF threads to the economic
life OF the rest Of Russia.
The explosions OF Jews were re-
newed in the Polish provinces with
unprecedented energy last January.
The correspondent of the Reich wrote:
"A wave, a gigantic wave. OF thou
sands OF people rose like a high wall
and rushed toward Warsaw after
January 20. The Jews were compelled
to leave within twelve hours the
places which were indicated, ION
January 25." resumed the correspond
ent, II was in Grodzisk and saw how
/ the police knocked on the windows OF
Jewish houses.'thus giving the signals