A significant observation upon the economic character of the
Polish-Jewish struggle was made by the well known Russian journalist,
Madam A. E. Kuskova.
“I found red-hot anti-Semitism everywhere in Poland. We have
anti-Semitism in Russia, but of a different kind.... Anti-Semitic
papers like ‘Dva Grosha’ accused all Jews of all sorts of crimes,
without protest from the Progressive press, and succeeded in arousing
the Polish people. In Pyasechna, a ruined place near Warsaw, where
ten-day battles took place, I spoke to many peasants who accused the
Jews of many of their troubles, but could never explain what they
really blamed them for. We Russians held a meeting to try to find the
causes of this feeling.... =We came to the conclusion that ... the
Polish-Jewish question is really a Russian-Polish-Jewish question, and
touches us as much as the Poles. They have not room enough to live,=
and more and more Jews are coming there. Even democratic organizations
are compelled to take cognizance of this. One peasant organization
expresses through its organ the idea that it is true that the Jews are
a burden to Poland, but it warns the peasants against anti-Semitism
nevertheless.”[17]