In conclusion, he branded the petition of the Balta community for a commutation of the death sentence passed upon the rioters as an act of hypocrisy, adding impressively that "these persons have been pardoned irrespective of the requests of the Jews." The speech of the bureaucratic Jew-baiter, whose proper place was in the dock, side by side with the convicted murderers, produced a terrible panic in the whole region of Kiev.

The militant organ of the Jewish press, the _Voskhod_, properly remarked: After the speech of General-Adjutant Drenteln, our confidence in the impossibility of a repetition of the pogroms has been decidedly shaken.

Of what avail can ministerial circulars be when the highest administrators on the spot paralyze their actions in public by the living word?
The apprehensions voiced by the Jewish organ were fortunately unfounded.
True, the Minister Tolstoi was not able to punish the criminal harangue of the savage governor-general who had powerful connections at the Russian court.

But the firm resolution of the central Government to hold the heads of the administration to account for their connivance at pogroms had the desired effect.

All that the snarling dogs could do was to bark.
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