Intolerance of Church and State.
Belated news comes to us of massacres of hundreds of Jews in Kiev, Russia, and the vicinity. Persons from surrounding towns, it is said, gathered in the city of Kiev, where they invaded the Ghetto and committed the most terrible atrocities. The Jews appealed to the governor-general for protection, but he ignored them. Women and children suffered death and injury with men until the last of the Jews had either been killed or had fled. It is supposed the work was done by consent or under the supervision of the officials. The expulsion of twenty-five hundred families it is said took place. All this is the result of church-and-state government. It is not to be believed that the Russians at heart are worse than the Jews at heart; but the evil principles of uniting religion with the state in any form will invariably, if allowed to develop, work out just such results as witnessed in Russia. Americans ought to heed the lesson manifest through the Dark Ages and still seen in occasional outbreaks in the countries of the Old World.