In the name of their human dignity, they have no right to remain there where they are held in abhorrence.
Under these circumstances it seemed quite natural that the tendency toward emigration, which had called forth a number of emigration societies as far back as the beginning of 1882 [1], took an ever stronger hold upon the Jewish population of Russia.

The disastrous consequences of the resolution adopted by the conference of notables in St.Petersburg [2] were now manifest.

By rejecting the formation of a central agency for regulating the emigration, the conference had abandoned the movement to the blind elemental forces, and a catastrophe was bound to follow.

The pogrom at Balta called forth a new outburst of the emigration panic, and in the summer of 1882 some twenty thousand Jewish refugees were again huddled together in the Galician border-town of Brody.

They were without means for continuing their journey to America, having come to Brody in the hope of receiving help from the Jewish societies of Western Europe.