The Burton Holmes lectures; . e accuses ofinjustice. The right to buildthese shelters in thecemetery was grant-ed by the Sultan tothe poor, when theovercrowding of theMellah proper be-came a menace tothe public , nopoor man is permit-ted to take up hisabode among thesecast-out members of the tribe until he has paid certainfees to the headmen of the quarter. He says that the op-pression of Jew by Jew is harder to bear than the much-talked-of oppression to which the children of Israel havebeen subjected by the Sons of Ishmael. The statements ofour pauper guide surprised us, bu
The Burton Holmes lectures; . e accuses ofinjustice. The right to buildthese shelters in thecemetery was grant-ed by the Sultan tothe poor, when theovercrowding of theMellah proper be-came a menace tothe public , nopoor man is permit-ted to take up hisabode among thesecast-out members of the tribe until he has paid certainfees to the headmen of the quarter. He says that the op-pression of Jew by Jew is harder to bear than the much-talked-of oppression to which the children of Israel havebeen subjected by the Sons of Ishmael. The statements ofour pauper guide surprised us, but what he said was con-firmed by every poor Jew with whom we talked. They alldeclared that the rich elders and the rabbis of their own tribewere their hardest masters. A wealthy man, with whom wediscussed the question later, assured us that his class hadalmost impoverished itself with charities, that the cause of allthe evil lay in the decrease of commerce and the rapidincrease of the Jewish population. The poor, undoubtedly,. THK WALLS l)F THE 198 FEZ are very poor ; and though the rich live inapparent hixury and comfort, it cannot betrue that Fez is the only city in the worldwhere the rich Jews abandon their ownpeople to starvation and distress. Thenoble Jewish charities throughout the worldargue the contrary, and even in bez thephilanthropy of European Jews is manifestin the excellent school established here inthis very Mellah by the French branch ofthe Israelite Alliance. We can assure all those who have givenpecuniary support to the /Vlliance that themoney is here spent conscientiously, andthat the work now doing among the Moor-ish Jews is nobly done and worthy the sym-pathy and encouragement of every lover a ko,rteen-vkar-old motherof humanity. I^ut in spite of the educational and civilizing
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