RUSSIAN JEWS. 13 



assures us and we believe ; but the least ac- 

 quaintance "vrith the Jew of to-day will show 

 that he is the least warlike of men. As ao-ri- 

 culturists they are even worse. Take the 

 Talmudical Jews of the Crimea, for example. 

 These men are descendants of Jews deported 

 from the Polish provinces by the Russian Gro- 

 vernment, 'in order' (I quote here from Rev. 

 J. Milner's ' Crimea ') 'to weed them {i.e. the 

 Polish provinces) from a race of unscrupulous 

 dealers, and reclaim the migrants to honest 

 industry by agricultural employment. 



' Holding every class of manual labour in 

 abomination, and never taking to field work 

 wherever there is a chance of driving a trade, 

 the children of Abraham have gradually slunk 

 off from the rural localities and crept into the 

 towns, hanging themselves on to the better 

 class of inhabitants, until a subsistence can be 

 gained by traffic in all sorts of trifles.' 



Naturally, then, Russia and Russians do 



