The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-23
ROUMANIA TIE CUlPRll
Powers Asked to Force Her to Be more
Humane.
ADOU3LE MOTIVo LIES IN The APPEAL
The Jews Flying From Oppression in Roumahia
Land Upon Cuc Shores Robb d OF
Much That Would Make Them
Desirab1 Citiz ms,
ny the Associated Pre5s.D

p the Associated PreSs.)
Washington, Sept. 11.-With th2 double
purpose OF protecting the long suffering
Jews OF the Balkan States and Of avert
ing the very present peril OF lmmlgra-
ton into the United States of a horde
of paurers, Secretary Hay has adopted
the unusual course of appealing TO the
powers OF Europe to force one or their
children to observe the obligation OF hu-
manitv in the case OF the Jews. The
appeal takes the form OF a State paper,
remarkable in several respects, which
has been dispatched in Identical form
to every ambassador and minister OF the
United States residing in one OF the
countries of Europe which We're parties to
the famous Berlin treaty of 1878. nancy,
Great Britain, France. RUSSIA,
Italy, Austria and Turkey, marking the
termination Of the Turko-Russian war,
and the creation by the direct act OF
the powers Of the Independent Balkan
states. Because the powers a:e thus
responsible for the existence of ROu-
mania, the culprit in this case, the Sec
retary of State, has directed the note to
them in the nope that they will bring
this government to q sense of its duties
towards civilization at large as we'll as
to cause it to ameliorate the frighLful
condition of the Roumanian Jews. IN a
measure this action by the Department
OF State may be traced to numerous pc
titions from Jewish societies and hu-
manitarians generally, as we'll as 70 the
growing danger of the immigration
Of degenerates.
The document. which is dated August
18th, says, in part:
.'The United States welcomes now, as
it has welcomed from the foundation of
its government, the voluntary immigra-
ton Of all aliens coming hither under
conditions fitting them to become merged
in the body polite Of this land. Our
laws provide the means tor them TO be-
ccme incorporated indistinsuishably IN
The mass Of citizens, and prescribe their
absolute equality with the native born,
guaranteeing to them equal civil rights
at home and equal protection abroad. The
voluntary character OF their coming is
essential. hence we shut out all i'm
migration assisted ny constrained, by
| foreign agencies. The purpose of our
| generous treatment OF the alien imml-
| grant is to benefit us and him alike
not to afford to another State a Held
| upon which to cast it's own objection
| able elements. 1t behoOves the State TO
scrutiniZe most jealousy the character
Of the immigration from q foreign
| land. and if it be obnoxious to
examine the causes which render 1t so.
Should those causes originate II the act
OF another sovereign State, to the detrl-
| ment Of it's ~neighbors, it is the praroga-
tive of an injured State to point out the
! evil and to make remonstrance; for with
~ or ~ individuals the social
law holds good that the right OF each
is bounded by the rights of the neigh
For.
"The condition of a large class of the
| inhabitants of Roumania has for many
wears been a source of grave concern to
| the United States. l refer to the Rou-
| manian Jews, numbering some 400, 600.
Long ago, while the Danubian principall-
ties labOred under oppressive conditions
which only war and a general action OF
the European powers Sufficed to end,
the persecution Of the indigenous Jews
under Turkish rule called forth in 1872
the strong remonstrance of the United
States. The treaty of Berlin was hailed
as a cure for the wrong, in view of the
| express provisions of it's forty-fourth ar
ticle. prescribing that in Roumania, the
differences of religious creeds and con-
LESSONS shall not be alleged against any
person as a ground for exclusion or in
capacity in matters relating to the enjoy
ment of civil and political right, admis-
sion to public e~mployments, functions
and honors. or the exercise of the vari-
Gus professions and Industries in any
locality whatsoever
with the lapse of time these conscrip-
tons have been rendered nugatory in
great part as regards the native Jews,
by the Legislation and municipal regula-
tionS of Roumania. Starting from the
arbitrary and conference.-the premise that
the native Jews of Roumania domici1ed
there for centuries are aliens, not sub
Ject TO foreign protection the ability of
the Jew 10 earn even the scanty means
OF existence that suffice for a frugal race
has been CONSTRUCTED by degrees. until
nearly every opportunity to win a livli-
hood is denied; and until the helpless
poverty OF the Jew has constrained an
exodus Of such proportions as to cause
general concern.
me political disabilities of the Jews
III roulhahla. their exclusion from the
pubic service and the learned profession,
the limitations OF their civil rights and
the imposition upon them of excentiona
taxes. involving as they do wrongs re-
pugnant to the moral sense of lhara1
mouerh peoples, are not so directly in
point Tor my present purpose as the pro
posed acts which attack inherent right ~
d man as a bread winner in the WAYS OF
osliculture and trade. The Jews are
piohlplted from owning land, or even from
oui'vdtnS II as common laborers. They
az ueoarred from residing in the rura1
olstrlcts. Many branches of petty trade
ana manual production are closed +,
.hem In the over crowded cities where
they are forced to dwell and engage
against fearful odds, in the desnerat e
struggle for existence Evon e1