For the purposes of this report it has been deemed advisable to select,
from the mass of material available upon the present status of the Jews
in Russia, only evidence based upon:
1. Official and semi-official reports of the Russian government
published in its official daily newspaper, “Pravitelstvenny Viestnik,”
in its semi-official organ, “Novoe Vremya,” or in its several military
organs.
2. Debates and Proceedings in the Imperial Duma and in the Council of
the Empire, particularly evidence furnished by non-Jewish deputies or
evidence of Jewish deputies that has passed unchallenged or has been
challenged unsuccessfully by the Right benches.
3. Statements in the Liberal Russian press and the Jewish press
published in Russia, all of which have been rigorously censored.
4. Protests and manifestoes of non-Jewish organizations, parties
and leaders against the anti-Jewish policy of the government. These
protests have been made publicly and have passed unchallenged by the
Russian Government.
In brief, the present report is based exclusively upon evidence
furnished by the Russian government itself, officially in its own
press, or countenanced by reason of the revision applied, through its
military and civil censorship, to the opposition press, or in public
speeches and declarations that have passed the government benches in
the imperial legislative chambers unchallenged.