“To kill the Jews,” he made answer.
“But why do you want to kill the Jews?”
“Oh, because the Jews are a bad people! They are against the Czar, and they spit on the Russian flag.”
“And you kill them for those reasons?”
“Yes, certainly. They must all leave Russia, or they will be killed.”
Just then the “manager” of the rooms came up, and as I had overheard something said about revolvers, I asked him if the members of the organization carried arms.
“Oh, yes,” he replied. “We have fifty men who always carry arms. We have to here in Odessa—there are so many Jews here.” He then showed me his own revolver, which was a regular army weapon. These arms, he said, were given them by the police.
A circular was handed to me setting forth certain aims of the organization. It began with the sentence:
“All nationalities are equal except Jews,” and then went on:
Jews, during several past years, and especially of late, have showed themselves irreconcilable enemies to Russia and to all Russians, through their impossible, man-hating spirit, their complete estrangement from other nationalities, their own Jewish mind, which understands only those neighbors who are Jewish. Toward Christians they allow all manner of violence, killing included, as it is known, and as Jews have said more than once in their manifestos, that the present disturbances and revolutionary movement in Russia with daily killing of honest servants of the Czar who have remained true to their oath—all is nearly exclusively done by Jewish hands, urged on by Jewish money.