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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, October 06, 1913, Image 4

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district, acting on an order from the
minister of public instruction, dis
missed officials signing a protest
against the charge of ritual murder!
(5.) Examining Magistrate Ma
skevitch, sitting at Kiev, examined
witnesses during eight hours of each
day, telegraphing results to the de
partment of justice at St. Petersburg
every night!
It was known that the minister of
justice, -who is chief prosecutor for
the Russian state, is a rabid anti
Semite, but even His Excellency Ivan
Schtskegzawitoff's fixed superstition
failed to explain a program sweeping
toward persecution.
The sordid murder of a little child
atithe confines of the empire had be
come a NATIONAL AFFAIR!
- It grew daily more evident that the
government was determined to press
the blood libel.
And the government in Russia is
the Czar!
Little Andrusha Yustschinsky was
six months in his grave, yet the vast
judicial machinery of Southern Rus
sia had failed to find his murderers.
Then, in September, 1911, the czar,
"Nicholas II., decided to come to Kiev
for the unveiling of his grandfather's
monument.
An instinct of self-preservation
quickened the local detective depart
ment. Obviously some show of suc
cess in a notorious case must be
made.
Two days before the emperor's ar
rival one Mendel Beilis, a Jewish
watchman at the brickyards, living
with his family in a pobr home on
the crest of the hill 500 yards above
the clay-pit, was, without warning,
arrested!
Neither evidence nor charges were
offered!
No communication with his family
was allowed!
Two days later the czar, resting at
Kiev, inquired the outcome of the
Yustschinsky process.
"Sire," answered the Jew-hating I
minister of justice, "the perpetrator 1
is discovered it is a blood ritual,
case!" f
Autocrat seldom received shrewder
answer, for the czar, an anti-Semitic
as all his POLICIES PROVE, was
himself a victim of the blood accusa
tion. In 1891 a Japanese fanatic,
convinced that "ritual murder" ob
tains in the Greek orthodox church,
inflicted on Nicholas, the future pontiff-Caesar,
a frontal blow from
which he has never actually recov
ered. For a minister of state to he to his
sovereign constitutes treason. His
Excellency Ivan Schtskegzo,witoff
made these two grave assertions
without apparent shadow of evidence
or hint of proof. A retraction would
precipitate his fall -to hopeless dis
grace. All the power, then-, at his
command has, for two bitter years,
been apparently directed to substan
tiate his statement
'As a first step, Mendel Beilis, a Jew,
poor, unlettered, practically friend
less, has been indicted for having tor
tured and murdered Andrusha
Yustschinsky "for some unknown
end," together with two men un
named. The specific charges of the indict
ment are noteworthy:
"Tortured and murdered
"For some unknown end,
"Together with two men unnamed."
WHAT THE "PALE" IS
The Pale in Russia constitutes
the sections of the country inr
which the Jews are allowed to
live. It contains a list of certain
towns; the Jews may not reside in
any other towns or villages or in
the country side. And in these
"allowed towns" only the ghettos
are permitted them.
There is a prize of $20,000 offered
in France for the'discovery of a cure
for Asiatic cholera.
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