The sun., 1902-11-14
JEWS APPEAL TO FRANCE.
Ask Her TO Join With is In Demanding
Justice for Them In ROumRnta.

The American Hebrer will print to-day
| petition which the Central Committee OF
the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris
has addressed TO the French Government
as a direct result OF Secretary Hays note
to the signatories Of the Berlin congress
In behalf Of the Roumanian Jews.
The petition, which IL sent TO NJ Del
casse. the French Minister Of Foreign Az
fairs. appeals to him to see that Article ~
Of the Berlin Treaty Of 1878. demanding that
the Jews in Roumania have the rights OF
citizenship, Is enforced. This clause. which
France inserted. has beon violated ever
since the treaty was signed, says the pet-
tion Of the alliance.
The new law arranged for the naturaliza-
| tion Of foreigners. which was 10 DE secured
by a special decree In each individual case
and that only Roumanians. born or natir-
| allied, should hold real estate. This be-
| came law Oct i3 t25,. 1879, and " as followed
| by the naturalization by Parliament OF n
| small number of Jews who had taken paTt
| in the war Of lS11-1s
The petition recalls the fact that the
action of Roumania was objected TO by
| France in 1850 as only an imperfect and
| barren application Of Article ~, and then re-
| la'es how unjust TO the Jews the law
| requiring them to seek naturalization as IN
dividuals has been. Not more than eighty
Jews have secured nat uraliZation in twenty
| two years, and In each case the applicant
was subjected to danger and Illuminating
treatment. Practically all the. appica-
tions for naturalization received from Jews
are ignored by the Roumanian Govern
ment
The petitioners then say:
Roumanian Jews are thus TO -dav still
foreigners ia the land in which they are born.
burdens, especially that OF military service
Loyalty fulfilled on many battleilrds Rou-
mania has devised special Legislation against
them. seeking their physical and moral ruin
Laws have been framed to exclude them
from trade and industries. from publ g service,
from following the fine arts, excluding them
from schools, from the communities, and
even driving them from the kouinahlah
territory:
UP q subsCription with the results of which
i established public kitchens for the organ
izcd relief Of th" un!ortunat" For nearly
these thousa nds of unfortnnates with the
very ,nccessaries OF lie, Those who were
s6e st the cogn The sod doTin2se satr
In 1902 more than 10, 900 Roumanian Jews
left their native land IL may be @ safely ely
souls, fully three-fourths can find no other
relief but in emigration.
The Repubc of the United states hns
not only extended to them noble hospitality.
but has dTawn the attention of the European
Powers to the infraction Of the Berlin Treaty.
The French Republic took an important
the emancipation of the peoples OF the Balkan
peninsula. DO YOU not think, sir, that Is
to live up to these traditions and see TO the
carrying out o! tho provisions and stipula-
tions TO which IT appended its orcial sigma
We are firmly convinced, sir. that we may
reckon upon your feelings OF hnnnnty;
justice, in the dotcnc' Of an industrious and
law-ab ding population which hns been made
the victim Of most cruel persecution