NEW MEASURES OF OPPRESSION AND PUBLIC PROTESTS 1.

THE DESPAIR OF RUSSIAN JEWRY The civil New Year of 1882 found the Jews of Russia in a depressed state of mind: they were under the fresh impression of the excesses at Warsaw and were harassed by rumors of new measures of oppression.

The sufferings of the Jewish people, far from stilling the anti-Jewish fury of the Government, had merely helped to fan it.

"You are maltreated, _ergo_ you are guilty"-- such was the logic of the ruling spheres of Russia.

The official historian of that period is honest enough to confess that "the enforced role of a defender of the Jews against the Russian population [by suppressing the riots] weighed heavily upon the the Government." Upon reading the report of the governor-general of Warsaw for the year 1882, in which reference was made to the suppression of the anti-Jewish excesses by military force, Alexander III.