New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

pillow because the authori,i.. A..
selves forgot to register the dear ~
young boy or registered a eirl ~;, VA
boys name, and then claimed .'. e 4
the dead boy or the girl with N. v,ae
name for military service. Evan ;o'ys
lawful pursuits in the Ghetto q, III ne
was a victim of the corrupt nol;s.. 'es
exacted every year millions ot sn
in bribery. fso'es
As a rule, the poor Jew xo,,,
wait until the policeman carr. nu
to make trouble. but he arranged . an
the policeman to pay him So s,s s'e
much money every month or eyerv ~ 70
TO De LETT In peace. Thus il h,n,,.sr
that a Russia pristow. with ,,,.a
of 40 rubles month, spent RAJ.
rabies year and lived like ~"
Upon the arrival Of new police .l,
or new governor the repressn,.. a'e'
Of the community knew that, 10 ~.
vent mischief and trouble, IN s,'
thing TO do was TO greet the vVaV
reaucrat with full hand. n. W.
given to him varying from 100 ia saa
rubles. The Russian Jews. .rn,. .ye
cally the poorest in the world 49,
from 30,000,o0o to 10000 .O0e ~, ~,
annually in this way. And gh,s ~
roms were organized BY N, sp,sI
Hundred" these same police in "A. -.
Of settlement. who had squest.S a.
blood Of Russian Jewry like yrnss'
were the very first to partieirss
the plumber and the murder Of H..
and Jewesses.
Forced to Bribe Police
Under the old regime the Rus.,..
Jew could not take one stem /, IA
without bribing the police, n,
wanted to send his boy 10 school ,y,,
20 the ordinary public school. Ne has,.
bride the schoolmaster. II he var,.S
to open store he had 70 bride The =.
lice. II he wanted TO repair his Mons.
he had 10 bride the police. Nh.
wanted 70 travel and take a passpor. \.
had TO bride the police. And often y
he wanted to be buried. his chilS,.,
lad TO bribe the police. While The ma
lice were squeezing and torturiug him
the politicians in 81. Petersburg eo,'
stantly planned and promulgated nev
exceptional laws and new Oppressive,
measures which were oil on the 6ss a,
corrupt bureaucracy. The Jews had
none Of the rights of citizen. Of moy,,
ment and Of trade. or to education. Nm,
they had more duties than the ordinuv
citizen. The Jewish military Quartz
was larger than the non-Jewish, and /,
addition TO the ordinary tayes the Jew.
had to pay special Jewish taxes, which
were used by the bureaucracy for nor.
Jewish purposes. From the Jeyt,h
taxes the Russian bureaucracy buiI,
Russian churches and Russian elenol
institutions, while the Jewish cam.
munity had no means with which Ia
build or TO improve its hospital or o..
phan asylum.
The result Of this barbarc pole,
was that within few geseratior,
more than three million Jews emigra,.d
TO Western Europe and America And
applied their energies TO parteips
tion in the economic, political and in.
tellectual development OF these coun.
tries. Within the last thirty years no,
less than fifty thousand young Russian.
Jewish intellectuals studied in Western
European universities, and the most
able of them did not return 10 Rus
STA, but remained in Western Europ,
and became a blessing to their adopted
fatherlands. The French philosopher
H. ,r,ln II
culture, is a Russian Polish Jew. Tn,
mathematician Shapiro, OF Heidelberg
was a Russian jew. The two wonder.
savants" Minkovsky. IN Germany. III.
one mathematician Of highest rank
and the other one Of the most esteemed
physicians in Germany. were Russian
Jews. The number of French, German.
English, Italian and American scholars
savants, artists and captains Of indus.
try who have won fame and recognition
for their achievements and who wer,
Russian Jews is so great that il is i'm,
possible TO enumerate even TIE most
important or them
New Light Shines
II Russia to-day is Intellectually and
scientifically not all that il could be. u
is due chiefly to the oppressive poliey
Of the old Russian regime against the
Jews. IL not for these oppressive meas
ures, Israel Zangwill, for instance, sug
iish poet and writer Of Worldwide fsm'
would to-day be a Russian poet ana
writer, because he rs the son oil hu'
sian Jew. Far more than the old hp''
sian regime has done irreparsble hsrr
to Russian Jewry, by crushing II eso'
nomically and by humlistlng II pohu
cally and morally and By sttempuns~
kill il intellectually. has II done ns'n
TO Russia Itself; the Jews, as iren''
and opponents of the Jews alike asle
are able people, with tull ln'elle'ss"
traditions. and are participating even
where in the development oil eNl'"
ton and modern culture. n,
There was only one people ID hss..
that had full intellectual trao,.l0n,'
had they not been so bsrbsricslp W
pressed Russia would to-day oe "St a.
culturally for every other nation.
crushing the Jews the old regime v.
ciallv retarded the deye!opmen, W
only of the Russian Jews, but sI.0
the Russian people. Now that tne =,
oppressive laws against me 49, .,;,;,e,
we'll as against other ethnie renf..,
peoples or the Russian Lmpl!n' ~.
been abolished. a new Ugh, VIII ~" 80
in RUSSIA The Russian jews =
c 30 will participate fully
spreading this light to 'De k.x ,y
New Russia and to their own sIV'"
Copyright. 1917 ots ;. wow
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