The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-19
Ole QateIliqe,tters.
Prospects ola Heavy Immigration From
KoUmanIa TO this Country.

OPPKEssEp JEWS.
Prospects ola Heavy Immigration From
IsoumanIa TO this Country.
Phrads'phIa Times.
The announcement, yesterday, over the
cable wires, that an emigration movement
was on foot among the Jews Of Roumauia
and that three thousand native Jews were
about to start for this country, was read by
prominent Hebrews in this city with nc
little interest. It seems to be the frat in
timation that anyone in this city had re-
ceived OF the step. Advices have moi
come from ary OF the large societies in
New York that they had been apprised oil
the movement, and William B. Hacken.
burg said that be was certain that no In.
formation OF the kind had as yet been re.
ceived in that city. 1t was thought that
so lnge a number Of poor emigrants
would not come to this country without
first acquainting their own people on this
side oil the water, 90 that they could be
cared for on their arrival. Suggestions
were made that the intelligence was per.
haps premature, and was based upon In.
formation mailed 70 the societies here
which had not yet Tesched It's destination,
and ell united in sying that there was no
cause for surpIise should such move take
place, for It was natural for the Jews 10 de.
sire TO escape the oppression they suffered
at nome.
During last spring and summer meetings
were held by lsraelites here al d In New
York 10 consider the advisabilily OF in.
ducing immigration among the Russisn,
Polish aud R0umsnian Jews, with q view
OF forming colony Of these people In the
far West, but no definite action was taken
at the time. The Rev. Snbalo Morals
lhsught there was ample foundation for
the ejaculation Of such report, which In
the end may turn out to be more than a
mere rumor, as 1t was now characterized.
The dispatch said the immigrants were
coming by the way OF Bremen, so that
they will enter either the port OF New
York or Baltimore. II 1t be true that that
number is on the way or is about to start
for the free shores Of America, they will
without doubt be taken ut once 10 the in
terror and scattered over the broad western
prairie or colonized in come place designed
for that purpose.
when the treaty II Berlin was ratified
in the summer OF 1876. 1t was hoped by
the Jews all over the world that better
time was coming for the long oppressed
and continually maltieated Roumanian
Jews. Il was one OF the conditions of
that treaty, and one, by the way, that be-
got more controversy and created more
trouble than any other, that were Rou
mania freeded from her subjuga,ion aud
tribnte to the Sultan, she should giant to
all her citizsus equality and freedom and
the franchise Of the ballot. There has,
however, been little change In the condit-
ion Of the race In that country, and the
Hebrews claim that Roumania's action
toward them Is in open violation Of the
Berlin treaty.
During the six years that Benjamiu F.
Peixot,o, himself a Hebrew, was United
States Consul, under Grant, to Rnumsnis,
the outrages and open violence against the
Jews we're in mealnre checked, aud
even now the vigilance of the powers pre-.
vents any open outbursts of rage or vic,
iepce against their persons, such as
marked the history OF the country not
many years ego, when tho Jews were
often murdered because II wgs charged
that they drank the blood OF Christian
children. Nevertheless, the condition OF
the Jews there Is degraded. They form
about half the Formulation OF the country
and number 275 GOO aonls, but they
arc loaded with disabilities and trod'
den under the feet OF oppression and co.
ciaI ostrsclsm. They are PERMITTED 10 have
their synsgogueB. but religious freedom ia
merely tolerated. They are declared
from the professions and from holding
public Office and by enactment CT quaIit.
cation laws they are, with few exceptions.
deprived OF the elective franchise. Prince
Charles, OF the houte Of Iioherzollern,
processes to take liberal attitude towards
the Hebrews, hut he is compelled to fight
both parliament ard the populace In their
prosciiptive enactments and Unborn hatred
Of the race in his endeavors. Tho jewish
population Is made up Of many Of the
old Spanish Jews. who went ca Z
ward after the expulsion iromSpain In l403,
while the majority are Poles and Russians.
One OF the arguments Of the Roumsnian
government against them ia that they are
aliens, inplpdirg in this term families who
nave lVeu IuE CEutuINH AZ tuo IHpb'
It is but few who have, In
spite OF oppression, attained wealth
and distinction that any eon6ltera-
ion is given. The masses are poor, and
their purtnits lowly. Many are merchantee,
some are ag,icnliurlsis, and few are arti-
sans. In culture and refinement they
claim that even among the masses the Is.
raelites have kept ahead oil theiE only par.
tally enlightened fellow counttymen.
They have their own schools, and both
the biblical and post biblical literature 10
taught to high grade.
There Is belief among Hebrews here
'hat in the event OF such an inpour'
ing into this country as Is now an'
nouced, the immigrants will oil be Of the
poorer clasa, and they say that they have
enough poor to care for now. Though the
Jews are 10 character migratory, there are
seldom such large emIgratlpg moves no.
ticed amorg them as this promises to be.