In accordance with the same law, a Jew had no right to offer shelter to his widowed mother or to his infirm parents who lived in another village.

Furthermore, a Jew was barred from taking over a commercial or industrial establishment bequeathed to him by his father, if the latter had lived in another village.

He was not even allowed to take charge of a house bequeathed to him by his parents, if they had resided in another village, though situated within the confines of the Pale.
While this network of disabilities was ruining the Jews, it yielded a plentiful harvest for the police, from the highest to the lowest officials.

"Graft," the Russian _habeas Corpus_ Act, shielded the persecuted Jew against the caprice and Violence of the authorities in the application of the restrictive laws, and Russian officialdom held on tightly to Jewish rightlessness as their own special benefice.

Hatred of the Jews has at all times gone hand in hand with love of Jewish money.
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