The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.
Saturday, August 2, 1890. TREATMENT OF THE JEWS.
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends then aim’at at be thy country’?, Thy God’s, and truth’s. □
Late cablegrams give further information of the persecution of Jews in Russia. News by the last Home mail gave the assurance that nothing would be done at least until twelve months’ hence, but by the cablegrams it appears that the original resolution has been revoked, or a compromise made by which the authorities will be at liberty to use the most vigorous measures against the Jews. Writing from St. Petersburg, a correspondent remarked^: — “ The Russian Jews have some measure of liberty, but their foreign co-religionists may not reside without authorisation in Russian territory, and are not allowed to engage in any trade there. A spirit hostile to the Jews has manifested itself for a long time among the upper classes. It is known that M. Pobiedonoszeff, ex- 1 Minister of the Interior, Count Ignatieff, and several other members of the Council of the Empire, are quite disposed to make still more rigorous the laws against the Israelites. There has even been drawn up an elaborate project of 42 articles, which aims at making the situation of the people almost as bad as it was in the middle ages. The projectors of this measure would forbid Jews to live in the frontier districts, and would assign them in the towns special quarters, whence they would not be able to move their goods. They would also prevent in each town a too great output of textile fabrics, jewellery, and liquor, in which goods the Jews very largely deal. Only those Jewish children who should have been baptised would be considered as Russian subjects. At a sitting of the council the present Minister of the Interior, M. Dournowo, protested against the project, and thereupon found himself in full conflict with the Minister of Justice. The Grand Duke Michael Nicolajevitch, who presided, rose and said that he would never consent to such a law. The Grand Duke represented the matter strongly to the Czar, and the project is practically abandoned, the Czar having adjourned the discussion on it for a year." It is plain enough from the above that the Czar had taken heed of the wise protests raised by the Grand Duke, but a few months’ lapse of time has banished the resolution, which at least offered some hope, and now we are told that ten thousand Jews have already been expelled from their homes, with the likelihood that the number will be increased to a million. The object is said to be to drive the Jews into the large towns, where they will be decimated by starvation and disease. Some exaggeration may be allowed for, but when every redeeming feature is considered, the inhumanity is appalling, and every true Christian must feel deeply for these miserable outcasts, robbed of what they have justly earned, and denied the right to earn a decent living in the land of their birth.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 488, 2 August 1890, Page 2
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518The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, August 2, 1890. TREATMENT OF THE JEWS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 488, 2 August 1890, Page 2
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