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PAUPER IMMIGRATION SUGGESTS NOTE
President Wished Something DsAs to Check
Influx Of Poor.
HUMANITARIANs, ALSO, ARE INTERESTED
Unusual Course is Prompted by Both
Charitable and Business Consid-
eratIons-Letter IL to BE Dis
tributed Abroad.

WASHINGTON, Sept. H-With the
double purpose Of protecting the Jews OF
the Balkan states and preventing the over
throw from the Balkan to the United States
Of a horde Of paupers, Secretary Hay has
adopted the course Of appealing to the pow
ers OF Europe to force one OF their cRil-
dren to observe the obligations OF humanity
IN the case Of the Jews.
The appeal takes the form Of a 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 were parties to the famous
treaty at Berlin Of 1878, namely: Great
Britain, France, Germany Russia, Italy,
Austria and Turkey marking the termina-
tion OF the Turko- Russia war and the ere
alton, by the direct act of the powers. Of
the independent Balkan states. Because
the powers are thus responsible for the ex-
istence OF Roumania, the culprit in this
case, the secretary OF state has directed
the note to them in the hope that they
will bring this government to a sense of
its duties to ameliorate the frightful con-
dition OF the Roumanlan Jews.
In a measure this action by the Depart
ment OF State may be traced to numerous
petitions from Jewish societies and hu-
mRnitarians generally. as we'll as to the.
warnings Of publiclsts respecting the grow
ing danger OF the immigration Of degen-
crates.
what the President Wishes.
The text Of the document is as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHING
TON. Sept. IL, 1902.-Sir: In the course OF
OF an instruction recently sent to the min
lister accredited to the government of Rou-
mania regarding the bases of negotiation be-
gun with that government looking to a con-
vention OF naturalization between the United
States and Roumania, certain consideration
were set forth for the minister's guidance
concerning the character of the emigration
from that country, the causes which con-
strain it and the consequences SO far as they
adversely affect the United States.
sit has seemed to the president appro-
pirate that these considerations. relating
as they do to the obligations entered into by
she signatories Of the treaty Of Berlin Of
July 13, 1878, should be brought TO the at
tention Of the governments concerned and
commended to their consideration, In the
hope that II they are fortunate as to
meet the approval Of the several powers
such measures as to them may seem wise
may be taken to persuade the government
OF the grievances in question.
Arms Stiu Open for Right Kind.
''The United States welcome now. as 1t has
welcomed from the foundation Of It's gov
ernment, the voluntary immigration Of all
aliens coming hither under conditions ht-
ting them to become merged in the body pol
itic OF this land. Our laws provide the
means for them to become incorporated in
eft ahahi N ha m nf pitiZanR and
prescribes their absolute equality with the
native born, guaranteeing to them equal
civil rights at home and equal protection
abroad. The conditions are few, looking to
their coming as free agents, so circum-
stanced physically and morally as to supply
the healthful and intelligent material of
free citizenship. The pauper, the criminal,
the contagiously or ineurably diseased are
excluded from the benefits Of immigration
only when they are likely to become a source
of danger or a burden upon the community.
The voluntary character Of their coming is
essential, hence we shut out all immigra-
tion assisted or constrained by foreign
agencies. The purpose OF our generous
treatment Of the alien immigrant is to ben
eft us and him alike-not to AFFORD to an
other state a field upon which to cast its
own Objectionable elements. The alien com
ing hither voluntarily and prepared to take
upon himself the preparatory and. in due
course, the dehnitlve obligations OF citizen
ship, retains thereafter in domestic and in
ternational relations the initial character
OF free agency, In the full enjoyment OF
which IL is incumbent upon his adoptive
state TO protect him.
should he Careful.
"'The foregoing considerations. whilst
pertinent to the examination Of the pur-
pose and scope Of a naturalization treaty
have a larger aim. II behooves the state
to scrutinZe most zealously the character
OF immigration from a foreign land. and
n Il be obnoxious TO examine the causes
which render II so. Should those causes
originate in the act OF another sovereign
state to the detriment of its neighbors IT il
the prerogative Of an injured state to point
out the evil and to make remonstrances;
for, with nations as with individuals, thC
social law holds good that the right Of
each is bounded by the right OF the neigh
Dor.
'"The condition OF a large class OF the In,
habitants OF Roumsnia has for many years
been a source OF grave concern to the
United States. l refer to the RoumaniaT
Jews. numbering some 400 OOOs Long ago
while the Danuhian principalities lab rec
under oppressive conditions which only wal
and a general action OF the Europen pow
ers suficed to end, the persecution OF the
indigenous Jews under Turkish rule eallet
forth, In 1872, the strong remonstranee o.
the United States The treaty Of BerliI
was hailed as a cure for the wrong, In view
OF the express provisions OF its forty-fourtl
article, prescribing that in Roumania tn,
difference OF religious creed and confes
sion shall not be alleged against any per
son as a ground for exclusion or incapaeit!
on matters relating to the enjoyment o
civil and political rights admission to pub
lie employments, functions and honors, o.
the exercise OF the various professions an,