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lutionary leaders nearly all belong to the 

 Jewish race and the most effective revo- 

 lutionary agency is the Jewish Bund, 

 which has its headquarters at Bialystok, 

 where the massacre occurred last June. 

 The government has suffered more from 

 that race than from all of its other sub- 

 jects combined. Whenever a desperate 

 deed is committed it is always done by a 

 Jew, and there is scarcely one loyal mem- 

 ber of that race in the entire Empire. The 

 great strike which paralyzed the Empire 

 and compelled the Czar to grant a con- 

 stitution and a parliament was ordered 

 and managed by a Jew named Krustaleff, 

 president of the workingmen's council, a 

 young man only thirty years old. He was 

 sent to the penitentiary for life, and had 

 not been behind the bars more than three 

 weeks when he organized and conducted 

 a successful strike of the prison em- 

 ployees. 



Maxim, who organized and conducted 

 the revolution in the Baltic provinces, is 

 a Jew of marvelous ability. Last fall 

 he came over here lecturing and collect- 

 ing money to carry on the revolutionary 

 campaign, but for some reason has van- 

 ished and nobody seems to know what 

 has become of him. 



Gerschunin, the most resourceful leader 

 of the terrorists, who was condemned to 

 life imprisonment in the silver mines on 

 the Mongolian frontier, has recently es- 

 caped in a water cask, and is supposed 

 to be in San Francisco. He is a Polish 

 Jew only twenty-seven years old. T 

 might enumerate a hundred other revolu- 

 tionary leaders and every one of them 

 would be a Jew. Wherever you read of 

 an assassination or of the explosion of a 

 bomb you will notice in the newspaper 

 dispatches that the man was a Jew. The 

 most sensational and dramatic episode 

 that has occurred since the mutinies was 

 on October 27, when, in the very center 

 of Saint Petersburg, at the entrance of 

 Kazan Cathedral, four Jews held up a 

 treasury wagon and captured $270,000. 

 They passed the package to a woman, 

 who instantly vanished, and no trace of 

 her has eve-r been found ; but thev were 



all arrested and were promptly punished. 

 On the 8th of November a few Jewish 

 revolutionaries entered a treasury car 

 near Ragow, in Poland, got $850,000. and 

 disappeared. 



Every deed of that kind is done by 

 Jews, and the massacres that have 

 shocked the universe, and occurred so 

 frequently that the name "pogrom" was 

 invented to describe them, were organized 

 and managed by the exasperated police 

 authorities in retaliation for crimes com- 

 mitted by the Jewish revolutionists. 



M.«iNY RlvFORMS AI.RICADV INS'L'ITUTED BY 

 PREMIER STOrA'l'IX 



But Mr Stol_\'pin has evidently ar- 

 ranged a truce. He has crushed out the 

 conspirators in the police department who 

 organized and directed the "pogroms" 

 and has given the Jews more liberty and 

 more justice than they ever enjoyed be- 

 fore. He has appointed a commission to 

 prepare a law placing them upon the 

 same footing as Protestants, Roman 

 Catholics, and members of other religious 

 faiths. 



Mr Stolypin is an able, honest, and 

 grave man, of broad horizon and liberal 

 views and a high sense of justice. He 

 has already done wonders. Every week 

 some important reform is ordered, some 

 tyrannical regulation revoked, some liberty 

 conferred, some concession granted. He 

 has emancipated the heretical sect of the 

 Orthodox Greek Church known as the 

 "Old Believers," who have been perse- 

 cuted almost as cruelly as the Jews. They 

 are now allowed to own property and 

 build schools and publish books contain- 

 ing their doctrines ; they are allowed to 

 marry without the sanction of the Ortho- 

 dox Church ; their sons are admitted into 

 the military schools and are eligible to 

 positions in the civil service. 



Stolypin has also removed the ban 

 which prevented peasants from entering 

 the civil service, which is one of the most 

 striking departures from the traditional 

 regulations of the autocratic regime. He 

 has removed all distinctions concerning 

 appointments under the state. 



