The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-18
THE RUSSIAN JEWS.
An Eloquent and Timely Appeal for Amer
lean Intervention in Their Behalf.

An Eloauent and Timely Appeal for Amer
lean Intervention in Their Behalf.
From the jewish Tribune.
If there Is a question that now disturbs the
Jewish mind more than any other, if American
israelites ever were united upon one theme to
the exclusion SO to say, of all others. 1t is this:
'.What shall we do with the Russian jewish
exiles 7" This question is OF the greatest I'M
port. Our country is again to be made the iu-
ture home of the oppressed of Europe. !iu-
mainly is shocked by mans inhumanity. Eu-
rope, civilized and intelligent Europe, is again
the theatre of the most horrible outrages OF
modern times. The barbarism of the Dark
Ages is being repeated before our eyes, and
thousands of our kindred are driven from de-
vastated homes to seek shelter upon our hos
pitable shores. Thousands of Jews are again
made to feel that to worship the God of Abra-
ham is a crime that can be wiped out by perse-
cution alone. Thousands of our fellowmen
are now fleeing from their burning homes, pen
niless and powerless to help themselves.
These exiles are coming to America IN count
less numbers, invoking our aid TO protect them
against the elements, and asking Tor food to
keep starvation from their doors. Is this
question that concerns the Jew only? Are
American Israelites equal to the emergency
Can they alone dispose of it?
We say, no!
If all we read be true, Russia will SO deal
with her Jewish ubjects that all who can leave
will run for their lives We would be untrue
to ourselves, untrue to the cause of outraged
humanity, were we to permit these disgracetul
prosecutions to continue without calling upon
our Christign iellow-citizens to aid us in res
cuing our fellow-men, and by their united
voices to condemn this renewal of medieval
los cta, oft he
age. The cry Of the outraged maiden, the
tears of the disconsolate widow, the heartrend-
ing means of the fatherless, the cold hearths
of desolate homes, all appeal to us for sym
patty and aid. Will America sit with folded
arms, unaffected and Indifferent? We cannot
believe it
When Ireland called for bread, Americans,
Christian and Jew, provided food for the
starving. When Poland and Hungary were
stricken down in their liberties, America
opened its arms and gave them succor. When
Russia is Strengthening our felow-men, be-
cause they believe it right to worship the God
of Israel, will America permit this without a
word of protest?
The people of the United States have claims
upon Russia such few other nations have.
Their voice in the interest OF humanity, OF
civil and religious liberty, will have great eff
feet upon the future course OF tne Russian gov
erAment. Here and now is the time for
America to assert the rights of oppressed hu-
mainly, and to declare before Heaven that her
free sons look upon religious persecution as
disgrace to the age. Americans, you cannot
now remain silent without deserving the sacred
flag of civil and religious liberty for which
your fathers risked their lives on the fields of
battle, and the perseverance of which they be-
queathed to you as sacred heirlorm. Will
Americans in the west permit our English
cousins to protest single-handed, our will our
revered Bishop in St. Louis, our liberal and
unitarian friends, join Cardinal Manning, the
archbishop Of Canterbury, and England's and
New York's highest political celebrities in de-
nouncing the enormous cruelties heaped upon
the Russian Jews2
In the name of liberty, let it not be said that |
the head of persecution is permitted to strike |
down our fellow-men without a voice being
raised by the sons of freedom to stay it. This |
is not the cause of Judaism or of Christianity; |
it is the cause of weeping humanity appealing |
to free and prosperous nation in the name |
of that humanity which is vaster than human |
creeds and mighter than human barriers.
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