BOYCOTTING THE CZAR.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 8

BOYCOTTING THE CZAR.

The Jews are a proverbially longsuffering people, but there are limits to even their endurance. They have determined to resort to the boycott in order to secure justice from the Czar of Russia. A committee has been taking measures on behalf of the Jews in that country to induce financiers, capitalists, and others, of all creeds, to give a wide berth to Russian securities and loans, and to Russian business generally. The action of the committee, as we learn from the Jewish Chronicle of 24th March, is twofold. In addition to the appeal to financiers articles exposing the financial position of the country are being published. The Chronicle says that if a wide determination to eschew Russian securities is created the Czar may find that after all it may pay to be just to his Jews. It adds that tho authorities already recognise the difficulties of the position and are raising a new loan within Russia, but it is pointed out that her great need is foreign money, and that if this is denied when asked fox* an important step will have been taken towards redressing the wrongs of the long-suffer-ing Jews. Truly we live in a wonderful age. The autocrat of all the Russias is about the last person one would have thought likely to be the subject of a boycott. The Jewish plan is at all events preferable to the methods of the Nihilists. But between them and the Jews His Majesty must have a lively time of it. Some day the strain will prove too great and then some fine morning there will be a throne to let —in other words, he will abdicate.