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The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Saturday, January 3, 1891. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

-■= Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The refusal of the Czar to grant an ] interview to a deputation from England, entering a protest against the treatment • accorded to the Jews, could not have been unanticipated. Intercessions of that kind are not tolerated in a country like Russia, where all men must bow to an order of things that is inconceivably rotten. Nothing, however, was to be lost by making the attempt, which will at least serve to let the few persons lesponsible for the horrible cruelty know that the world is crying Shame. Able writers are still making the pulse of other nations beat fast by laying bare most cruel facts concerning the treatment of Jews in Russia. In a late number of the Fortnightly Review Mr E. B. Lanin has a powerful article on the subject under notice. He gives details which can only be read with a feeling of pain. This is how he sums up, after alluding to the brutal treatment of a young Jewess: — “ Yes, everybody does the same, and the lives of six million people whose instincts, apitudes, and moral Sense place them on a much higher level than their Christian fellow subjects, are thus made literally unendurable. Scoffed at, terrorised, and robbed by every petty official with that certain impunity which invites crime; insulted, beaten, and kept in constant fear of violence by a vile rabble whom they dare not irritate by even a slight success in business or trade, held up to scorn and indignation of all Russia by the Governmental press as the authors of every calamity, avoidable and unavoidable ; education and instruction denied them, the learned professions and higher branch of the profession of arms closed to them ; trade and commerce rendered very difficult by intolerable taxes and endless restrictions, and wholly impossible without bribery and fraud ; their personal liberty now at last completely taken away from them; their religion proscribed, and their very souls killed by the perjury with which they are forced to blacken it, Russian Jews may well defy their persecutors to frame any further laws calculated to make their position any worse than it is.” A writer in Blackwood’s Magazine also deals with the subject in very strong terms, going so far as to assert that a traveller through Russia, if obliged to accept the services of any Russian of higher rank than a peasant, would leave the country more ignorant than when he went to it. He brands all officials as liars, without exception There can be no rest in the minds of men not dead to all sense of shame while such cruelty is practised in a country which claims to be Christian. The Czar may refuse to be interviewed on the subject, and may have no desire to learn more of the truth than he can avoid, but the tyranny exercised may one day have its recoil.

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 552, 3 January 1891, Page 2

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The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, January 3, 1891. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 552, 3 January 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, January 3, 1891. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 552, 3 January 1891, Page 2

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