The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-10

Overshadovved by One of SeIfishness-
Diplomatic Sugar-coattng of a Very
Bitter PfII-FaiIure for United States
and Disappointment for RoumaniAn
Jews Prophesied.
Philadelphia, Nov. 9.-Joseph Kraus-
kopff, D. D., of the Reform Congrega-
tional Keneseth Israel. leading He
brew of this city, and one of the best
known Hebrew clergymen in the east
to-day delivered a sermon entitled:
Secretary Hay and the Roumanian
Jew in which he criticised the note
sent by the secretary to the European
powers on the question of the Rouma-
nian Jews. DR.. Krauskopff said three
months have passed since the note was
issued and the results that were antici-
pated have not yet come to pass.
Continuing, he said, in part: MY
want of faith in the success of the lau-
dable and well intentioned effort on the
part of our honored secretary was
oa5CA ul1 kIlC 1tOIS IlSEIl. mere are SELL
tences in that note that fill me with
pride as an American citizen, that
sound to me like messages from the hal
lowed tonbs of those heroes and mar
tyrs who fled the tyranny and persecu-
tion of the old world to find home and
liberty in the new and who consecrated
and bequeathed these treasures to the
oppressed and prosecuted of all times
and of all peoples.
This part I call the humanitarian
but there is another part, and by far
the larger part, which I call the self
protective, which felt from the out
start impaired the good of the first and
invited failure for the United States
and disappointment for the Roumanian
Jews. 1t is the second part that throws
the humanitarian phase into question
able form that makes it appear as but
a diplomatic sugar-coating of very
bitter pill. We read it second and a
third time, and we find the same tone
and bitterness remaining. We detect
the purpose of the note and we become
disappointed"
TIL secretary, DIR. Krauskopff said,
would have written the name of the
United States immortal on the immortal
history of mankind had he spoken of
to the Jewish refugees come We heavy
laden and ye sorely tried, be at rest as
you come hither so have. our pilgrim
fathers come and so have come thou
sands of others"
Continuing the doctor said: "And Sec
retary Hay might have written the
name Of the United States larger still
upon the moral history of mankind,
had he turned to Christian Roumania
and said: ''We, the American people, re-
spectfully but earnestly entreat you to
put an end to these irreligious persecu-
tions that shame even the dark ages.
Had these words been spoke" he
said lit would have shown our interest
to be one of humanity and not of self
1T is the self-protective spirit of the
note that irnpairs its effectiveness. 1t
is this that explains why little or no no.
tive has been taken of it by the gov
ernments concerned. But not only in
violable sanctity of treaties not only
the humanitarian obligations of great
and strong nation towards wronged
and unprotected people but also prece-
dent would amply justify Secretary Hay
bidding in the name Of the United
States a halt to Roumania'sa outrages
against it's Jews. When Russia could
enter into war with Turkey because
of the latter's prosecutions of Chris
tians, when nearly all of the great
Christian nations could engage in war
with China because of wrongs to Chris
ton. missionaries, when the United
States could sacrifice thousands of lives
and millions of dollars in the liberation
of Catholic Cuba from Spanish mis-rule,
let no one say that Christian nations
have not the right nor the power to
emancipate $4,000 Jewish souls in a lit
tie dependent country of some 10000
square miles and some5, 100000 inhabit-
ants. If the Jew has no mother coun-
try to life the sword in his behalf, let
him at least have his daughter religions
to appeal to for protection of rights
which all, Jew. Christian and Moham-
edan hold as sacred and inviolable."