The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
THE JEWS.


NnCcE hus<40h Gu1Cs
A. B. august Belmons) writes as follows
to a New York journal:
When we turn to the posi-
ton which the Jews occupy in the Christian
countries adjacent to Turkey how great is
the contrast Here they at once find them
selves people despised, trampled upon and
subjected to the most odious prosecutions.
In Roumania their condition is deplora-
BILE that il has been made the subject of
frequent representations in the British
house of commons. From time to time
there are uprisings of the population
against them in Bucharest, Jassy and other
towns, their warehouses are plundered,
their goods and money stolen, they are
themselves scourged, driven out of house
and home with their beggared wives and
families, thankful to escape with their lives.
When, as occasionally happens, they fall
victims to the blind fury of the pOpulace,
and murders take place, the assassins are
never punished-it suffices that the MUIR
dered man is Jew to excuse the murderer.
There is no use in appealing to the law, for
there is no justice for the hated race; they
enjoy no civil rights and are denied many
commercial privileges possessed by the
Christians, on the ground that they would
become too rich If they were permitted to
have them. This is indeed their sole fault.
They are peaceable, industrious traders
harmiDg no one, and only desiring to be al
lowed to pursue their avocations in peace;
but no sooner are they suspected OF amassing
| too much wealth than they are brutality and
violently robbed. Your excellent consul
general at Bucharest, M. Peixotto, can con-
firm the truth of this statement. for he,
on several occasions, made energetic
representations on the subject. The only
effect was that the Roumanian govern
ment demanded his recall. Sir Moses Mon
tefore. the Messrs. Rothschild, Sergeant 81.
tLar
| with the Jewish alliance, constantly
working for an ameioration OF their lot, and
! the result has been that the governments of
| England, France, Austria and Italy have oc-
casionally demonstrated automatically, but
| i'm vain, for the secret power at the back of
| these prosecuting governments is Russia,
| which also denies / Jews all civil rights
places them under commercial disabilities
| and loses no opportunity of tyrannizing over
/ and depressing them. As proof of this /
would instance the late negotiation between
Servia and the porte. when the latter
| put forward one of the conditions of peace
! liberation for the Jews and their admission
to the enjoyment of civil rights. This was
peremptorily refused by Servia at the in
stance of Russia, for she would never have
| dared TO refuse il otherwise, and the porte,
| for the sake of peace reluctantly abandoned
the point fear, sir. have already tres
passed upon your space at too great length.
otherwise I could multiply special instances
! in proof of what say. I refrain from doing
so, however, in the hope that 1 have said
enough to induce the American people to
| pause before pouring out so much of their
generous sympathy in behalf of a government
which does not deserve it, which Is
the greatest enemy to liberty in Europe,
and whose rule wherever it is extended is
synonymous with all that is corrupt cruel
and intolerant. = am glad to see that some
influential journals have already shown a
| tendency to resist the mistaken sentiment
in regard to Russia which find so prevalent
| in America and / can only assure my
friends here that IL they know what the tin
sci civilization of that country was worth
as well as / do. they would not be so elo-
quent in extolling its advantages.