THE RITUAL MURDER TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 11

THE RITUAL MURDER TRIAL.

The amazing lengths to which facial hatred and religions animosity will carry men in a semi-civilised community have- rarely bceufnare luridly illustrated thaii in the Kioff ritual murder trial, remarks all English exchange. Hero wo havo a monstrous legemi gravely supported by priests only a degree loss ignorant than tho nwujik in tlio street, and even a converted Rabbi turned monk, whoso o\i(Jo.nco consists of extracts fraui a grotesque erimoiro of a character familiar eoiough to students of black maj;ic. And millions <if people are profoundly convinced of the truth of these ravings! The fact is that Russia is still a mediaeval country, Relieving what we ourselves believed in tho fifteenth century, and hugging superstitions of a typo always dear to peopla wlw cannot read } and penetrated by terror of tho supernatural. There is sanything strangely pathetic in these revelations of abysmal credulity amid all the mnchinery of a modern law court —it is as though a witch of Elisabeth's day Were being, tried' at tho Old iJailey, or as though somo Titus Oatea in a cassock were once, more swearing away the lives of innocent men wi tit rork-Biul-hull stories which a London street arab would dispose of with the ronsh wit of the pavement.