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keepers of brandy-shops, are the degenerate descendants 

 of the great Semitic race. If the Jews but obeyed the ten 

 commandments of their Lawgiver, there would be but 

 little objection to them in Russia. But as even Moses 

 found his Jews more than he could manage when his back 

 was turned, it is perhaps not surprising that Russians 

 have much difficulty in managing a people in whose ears 

 the thunders of Sinai have long since grown faint. 



'The Pall Mall Gazette recently, in a fit of noble 

 indignation, delivered a very long lecture on the cruelties 

 of Jew-baiting in Russia. It might have had some 

 weight if the writer had not been as inaccurate as he was 

 prejudiced. For instance, Russians were solemnly 

 upbraided for confining the chosen people to " the most 

 ignoble occupations." No doubt. But considering the 

 number of Jewish journalists in Russia, the editor of the 

 Pall Mall Gazette does not seem to think much of the 

 dignity of his profession. But Jews are not only 

 journalists with us ; they also follow the equally " ignoble" 

 occupations of professors, teachers, authors, lawyers, 

 barristers, doctors, bankers, merchants, to say nothing of 

 those who occupy positions in the Government service ! 



' An intelligent diplomatist, who has lived a long time 

 in Russia, said to me the other day, when we were 

 discussing this question, " The forbearance of the Russians 

 is wonderful. No one can imagine how much they have 

 suffered at the hands of these Jews. It is strange that 

 these outbreaks have never occurred before." But it is 

 by no means only Russians who find it difficult to love 

 the Jews. 



' There is one " ignoble occupation," however, to which 

 the Jews are very much devoted. The Jewish papers 

 declare that no fewer than one hundred thousand Jewish 

 families will be ruined if the Jews are not permitted to 

 keep open these infamous drink-shops which are the 



