Deplorable intelligence comes by cable of a violent rising having taken place in Poland against the Jews, Scenes of out rage, wanton massacre, and robbery, with destruction of their property by fire and otherwise, have been enacted against the members of this race similar to those recently perpetrated, with the tacit per mission of the Russian authorities, civil and military, in various parts of Russia proper. It [is incredible that such brutal outrages are the outcome of feel ings entertained by the Polish people, who have themselves memories of the tyranny under which they suffered at the hands of Russia, which aided in destroy ing their nationality, subverted their laws, abolished their language, and subjected them to a despotism that has lasted for more than a century, and against which the patriotic spirit of the Poles strove so often in vain. There is reason to believe that Russian intrigue is at the bottom of this melancholy story, for the officials, who are mainly Russian, are stated to have looked on and made no effort to suppress the attacks on the in nocent Jews and their households. It would not be surprising if Germany made these outrages a cause of war. She has many German subjects in Prussian Poland who are Jews, and not a few who are resi dents in Russian Poland; and a rising of this nature, close to German territory, and by which many German subjects must be sufferers, may well cause dissatisfaction at the Court of Berlin. Germany owes something to the Jews, not only in trade and commerce, but also in military ex ploit, for in the Franco-Prussian war a Jewish legion, numbering many thou sands of soldiers, fought and bled for their country on the well-fought fields of the campaign which culminated at Sedan.
