The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1905. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7978, 15 November 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1905. THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

'1 hat ink-use indignation should have iiei n aroused at the horrible cruelties, tortures, ami massacres which Hie Jews jiavo experienced at the bands of savage Russian mobs is only natural. It seems hardly possible that in the year of grace 11)0,") such atrocities could have been' perI.etratid -on men, women, and chit-

dren. but it must be borne "in- milrd that the lower orders, in Russia are still uneducated, uncivilised, and devoid of Ihe elements of any good feeling. Two things alone do they dw»U upon in the general way. One is the

Memory of their last vodka debauch. i in- other -lioiuK the prospect of the next. They still ivlain Hi.- savag/ instincts "l' maiiv generations hack, ■ml nothing Iml the ?.! i-cniiii->,t re. luvssion rowed them into peaeel'u. \ a.vs. 'l'hi' primitive characteristics nan:, an.l. given such an opportilti- ,;\ lis I lie present, wore bound to :.r, ak lorlh like demons whose fel- '■.■;■> an- hnk.n. They arc no longer ~r,'s. it is true, but that fuel makes • ili.- situation worse, for the.v have no | roteelors from 111.- pangs of hunger ; „ .ha. when provisions are short \ i!,,.v ivsoii to robbery, piling', ancl n■nnler lo satisfy their crnvI .n>. Such are the beings that oner ' ili'ir halretl is, aroused are relenti e s in their cruelty. Wciding- to I Me lines' St Petersburg- com spoil | r.rllv line lo the leadlines of M j i'aiiv,- ami M. P.tl.i. ,1 stefT that all .kus and Liberals Here Ihe en ! .-mil's of llnss.a This ma> I.- s, . ' l.iil what ,i« more prohable is that j li.e vv ill has gore r.iiind that it i; ill,. .1,-as who are l-eepiie. the (/a, '■ -.,,1 his u,,v,-rum- u. fi om r -edii,. I „s 1,:,, regarded null considerable I inmioslM. ami at Die pi',-.-lit .HUH' [ tnie the III,,:, e\ide||tl.V WillH 'll t. i '-.'.ak th-'ir vengeance on si,:,,e nlijeet ! M.i llniolllilin'.h ttle ,1,-ws h l\e hii' ! .1, siilVer. N.-w Zealand. Canada, 'jlntain. S,.,nh Africa, and olhe, (~.ni,lUes 1,,,Ve |-i,is,,l their voices IV -iimst 111- outrages and urgvd Ci'eiil Iti-ilain, and the 'other Powers to •v.cisc I heir iidliu'iice to pivveid a (onliiiiMiii Hie atrocities. Th. d.w's themselves are taking! (light r St. Peters), lire, and other llu*sian towns to savi) their lives. Sat--rde-urg llic-ir lucrative businesses ra-ni.-r i han i heir | lives. What can ihe I'ovveu do? Nothing- hut stnnglv press the matter on the at enticn of the Kussian (jov eminent. Ilul it is the police and officials oi Ut.ssia who are enconragiii'g- thmull, probably on the ground thai while engage* in torturing and murdering; the .lews the revolutionists will spend' their fury and foi'giet the overthrow of nuiocniry. It is a iyr-

t-iI >I»- .slut..' (if a Hairs In i-mit..-inplitl<■. ami II arouses ill the hearts of uli i-.iviliwil |),M>plr llu- )inifi-,iiiiilcM liornir at tlii.- (HiilircaM c< ii|>l.\l willi Miupalliv lor till 1 victims »I Ihe '■.■CII/i.T| mill.-. II is ||Ol Hi..- lirst liini' in recent years I hat' the .I.'ivs hair suirvi-i4 inie] Ipes'secuuon in Knssia. hut we iriisl jtliat some <■(- i.rlive measures may hr laken lo i..'l-miiiiiii: ail' cities in whirh th, world ma.\ mil slaml aghast. ON TIIK I'tll Hill I'.UJr'S. 'Hi.' Story lull.-l