All of the liberal elements of Russia protested against this campaign
of extermination, but were powerless in the face of the military
Government. Hundreds of municipal bodies, trade and professional
organizations, writers, publicists and priests, petitioned the civil
government to admit the Jews to human equality or at least to suspend
its policy of persecution. These memorials, together with the speeches
delivered in the Duma, constitute a body of evidence from non-Jewish
sources, which must condemn the Russian Government in the eyes of the
world. (See pages 70–83; 117–120.)