New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-21


inexplicable, but il is fact, neverthe-
less. And it is not natures work. but
the product of common environment.
Russian and Jew Both Oppressed
The Russian and the Jew have suf
fercd alike for centuries. Oppression
has welded their souls together. Suf-
fering has taught them to feel and
think and hope along similar lines
This is why the Russian intellectual
and the Jew understand each other so
we'll. Ard this is why the Jew, old or
Young. longs for the land where his
blood but recently streamed in rivers.
The Jew is essentially dreamer. So
is the Russian. The Jew is essentially
religious. So is the Russian. The Jew
il essentially a philosopher. SO is the
Russian.
If the Jew has suffered and bled IN
Russia it was not the Russian peoples
fault For the Russian people them
selves have suffered and bled from the
same cause-Czarism. The jew always
feit that as soon as the Russian him
self is liberated he would also become
free This is why the Jew has been
ono Of the chief elements Of revolution
in Russia. And this is why the Cars
Government prosecuted the Jews with
such savagery and bloodthirstiness.
Since the SOS of the last century
when Nicholas | attempted to cnange
forcibly the traditional Jewish customs
and laws, the lot of the Jew IN Russia
has been miserable. Crowded INTO tne
pale of Settlement, which comprises
onIv fraction of the vast empire, and
Sarred even there from the rural com
Quantities. the Jew was condemned 10 an
urban life, away from the SOIL ana
nature.
Now the Pale is abolished for good.
Petrograd. Moscow and Kief are open
20 the Jew, as well as any village IN
Tho Urals or any hamlet IN the eau
casus. The Jew is free to go 70 lne
Pacific as we'll as to the Arctic Ocean,
"a tho Rlack as we'll as 10 the Baltic
Sea a land Of opportunity, land OF
;romeasurable latent wealth, IS beckon-
ING 10 him in reward for his sacrifices.
Jew Denied Education
The Jew has been denied in the old
Russia the privilege of education. Inc
Car kent the people of his own race IN
ignorance. And the Jew was allowed TO
get only from TO 10 per cent Of the
small amount Of education allotted 70
the Russianl Annually hundreds OF
thousands of young Jews Knocked az
the doors Of the country's high schools
and universities, and knocked in VAN.
To-day all the educational resources
Of the empire are at the disposal OF the
Jews. The thousands of restrictions and
limitations which bound them are aoro-
GATED. One Of the first acts OF the ne"
Government was to admit the Jews "a
tho Russian bar on equal terms with
their Slavic colleagues. Equality and
fraternity are being put into practice
. by the new Russia.
| The nightmare OF Jewish existence
in Russia-thc massacres and pogroms
seems to-day thing OF the past
For thirty-fvc years the Russian Jews
Q lived under the spectre OF the govern
mcnt-incited pogroms. In the early
[ sG'o Of the nineteenth century series
D. az such outbreaks first occurred IN Rus
O. eia Under the protection OF the gov
e,n,oent troops and the police, drunken
/ nobe pillagcd and slaughtered Jews
10 be third year of the present century
/ Inc Kiqhinef massacre, which HORNED
I tho entire world. occurred. And dur
/ no tho following years of revolution
| tbc lows have become the Cars Ia
vorite scapegoat for all Of his mis-
eafety. freedom, opportunity these
words cmbody the things granted 70
| Tho lou bv the new Russia. VIII the
fe,,, ntilize those for the advancement
/ Of the new order? There can be no
doubt Of that. Great Britain. Germany
III inc United states bear eloquent
| 'l,,,.ao,y "a what the Jow can do for
iis adopied land II given fun rights
re- rVVv Of the spiritual kinship between
ihc Pussisn slay and the jew there ca. can
le "a doubt that tho lattor's activities
J ~ ~ ...,rstcd with tremendous