Remember how the Czar was always sending us commands,--you shall not do this and you shall not do that, until there was little left that we might honestly do, except pay tribute and die.

There he had us cooped up, thousands of us where only hundreds could live, and every means of living taxed to the utmost.
When there are too many wolves in the prairie, they begin to prey upon each other.

We starving captives of the Pale--we did as do the hungry brutes.

But our humanity showed in our discrimination between our victims.

Whenever we could, we spared our own kind, directing against our racial foes the cunning wiles which our bitter need invented.