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country, the causes which constrain it
and the consequences so far as they ad-
versely affect the United States.
1t has seemed TO the President lap
propriate that these considerations, re-
lating as they do to the obligations en-
tered into by the signatories of the
treaty Of Berlin of July 13. 1873, should
be brought to the attention of the gov
ernments concerned and commended to
their consideration in the hope that,
If they are SO fortunate as to meet the
approval of the severa! powers, such
measures as to them may seem wise
may be taken to persuade the govern
ment of Roumania to reconsider the
subject of the grievances in question.
America Welcomes immigrants.
The United States welcomes now, as
IL has welcomed from the foundation of
its Government, the voluntary immi-
grafton of all aliens coming hither un-
! der conditions fitting them to become
merged in the body polite of this land
Our laws provide the means for them
| TO become incorporated indistinguish-
ably in the mass of citizens, and pre-
scribe their absolute equality with the
native born. guaranteeing to them equal
civil rights at home and equal protec-
! ton abroad. The conditions are few.
looking to their coming as free agents,
so circumstanced physically and moral
ly as to supply the healttful and intel
iigent material of free ciiizenhood. The
pauper. the criminal, the contagiously
or incurably diseased are excluded from
the benfts OF immigration only when
they are likely to become source of
danger or burden upon the communi-
ty. The voluntary character of their
coming is essential; hence we shut out
all immigration assisted or constrained
by foreign agencies. The purpose of
our generous treatment of the alien i'm
migrant is to benefit us and him alike
not to afford to another state field
upon which to cast its own objection
able elements The alien coming hith-
er voluntarily and prepared TO take
Upon himself the preparatory and in
due course the defnitive obligations of
citizenship, retains thereafter, in do
nestle and international relations. the
initial character of a free agency, in
the full enjoyment OF which it is in
cumbent upon his adoative State to
protect him.
Must Scratinize Future Citizens.
The foregoing considerations. whilst |
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pose and scope of a naturalization |
treaty, have a larger aim. 1t behooves
the state to scrutinize most jealousy |
the character of the immigration from |
a foreign land. and, if it be obnoxious |
to objection. to examine the causes
which render it so. Should those |
causes originate in the act of another |
sovereign state, to the detriment of its /
neighIors, 1t is the prerogative OF an |
injured state to point out the evil and |
to make remonstrance; for with ma
tions. as with individuals. the social
law holds good that the right of each
is bounded by the right of the neighbor
THE condition of large class of
the inhabitants OF Roumania has for
many years been a source of grave con
Germ TO the United States. / refer to
the Roumanian Jews, numbering some
100000. Long ago, while the Danubian
labored under oppressive
conditions which only war and a gen
eral action of the European powers suf-
iced to end, the persecution of the in
iigenous Jews under Turkish rule
allied forth in 1872 the strong remon-
STRANGE of the United States. The
.reaty of Berlin was hailed as a cure
or stf..
provisions of its forty-fourth article,
Prescribing that in Roumania, the diff
erence of religious creeds and con-
essions shall not be alleged against
my person as ground for exclusion
II incapacity In matters relating to the
njoyment of civil and political rights.
omission to public employments, func-
ions, and honors, or the exercise of the
arious professions and industries in
ny locality whatsoever and stipulat-
ng freedom in the exercise of all forms
4 worship TO Roumanian dependents
nd foreigners alike. as well as guar
nteeing that all foreigners In Rou-
lania shall be treated, without dis
inction of creed. on a footing of per-
ect equality.
Plight of Hebrew in Roumania.
With the lapse of time these just
have been rendered nuga-
Dry in great part, as regards the ma :
We Jews, by the legislation and munich {
al regulations of Roumania. Starting I
'om the arbitrary and controvertible !
remise that the native Jews of ROu . .
Iania domiciled there for centuries
re aliens not subject TO foreign pro- ! !
,ction the ability of the Jew to earn
ven the scanty means of existence that 4,
lffice for a frugal race has been con-
-ricted by degrees. until. nearly every !,
oportuDity to win a livelihood is de-
led; and until the helpless poverty of
lie Jew has constrained an exodus of
ich proportions as to cause general {
)ncern. l
THE political disabilities of the Jews
Roumania, their exclusion from the I
iblic service and the learned profess !
ons, the Limitations of their civil IL
ghts and the imposition upon them
exceptional taxes. involving as they