Truly pitiful has become the position of these assimilators, who but yesterday were the champions of national self-effacement.

Life demands self-determination.

To sit between two stools has now become an impossibility.

The logic of events has placed them before the alternative: either to declare themselves openly as renegades, or to take their proper share in the sufferings of their people.
Another representative of the Jewish _intelligenzia_ writes in the following strain to the editor of a Russian-Jewish periodical: When I remember what has been done to us, how we have been taught to love Russia and Russian speech, how we have been induced and compelled to introduce the Russian language and everything Russian, into our families so that our children know no other language but Russian, and how we are now repulsed and persecuted, then our hearts are filled with sickening despair from which there seems to be no escape.

This terrible insult gnaws at my vitals.