The speech is accompanied by an elaborate tabulated statement of the pogroms and a map of the area in which they had taken place.] Is it said that the Russian peasantry, and not the Government, are responsible, I answer: If the peasantry of Russia are too ignorant or debased to understand the nature of this cruel persecution, they have warrant for their conduct in the customs and laws of Russia to which I have referred.

These discriminate against the Jews.

They have reference to their isolation, their separation from Russian protection, their expulsion from certain parts of the Empire, and their religion.

When a peasant observes such forceful movements and authoritative discriminations in a Government against a race, it arouses his ignorance, and inflames his fanatical zealotry.

Adding this to the jealousy of the Jews as middlemen and business-men, and you may account for, but not justify, these horrors.