The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-15

Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia,
- moderately and we think
from his standpoint judi
ciOusly criticizes the terms of the note
which Secretary Hay recently dis
patched to the Roumanian government
in the persecution of the Jews in that
principality. DR.. Krauskopf thinks
that the moral effect of the note was
discounted by what he styles it's self
protective spirit. The note was not d-
rectly an appeal to the Roumanian
government. from which nothing was
to be expected. 1t was a prayer to the
humanitarian sense of justice of the
European powers who could if they
We're so inclined bring pressure to bear
upon the ROumanian government to
mitigate the political discrimination
and social ostracism practiced toward
the Jews. Secretary Hay in dwelling
upon the obligations of the signatories
to the Berlin treaty pointed out that
their failure to enforce it's terms led to
the immigration of large number of
Roumanian Jews here. who, owing to
the barbarous subsection under which
they labored at home, We're not, to
assimilation into our citizenship, to
which they We're otherwise welcome
d.. Krauskopf regards this qualifica-
ton as n mistake. He believes the
note should have been broadly and un-
reservedly humanitarian. 1t might
have done some good. AS it was, he
contends that it did none.
1t certainly has had little or no prac-
tical effect. The Roumanian Jew is
still an Outlander. He is debarred from
the rights of citizenship in the coln-
try in which he and his forefathers
were born. He cannot purchase land
or live in the country. In the cities he
is restricted to the ghetto, and is dis
franchised from following any but the
meanest and more sordid occupations.
The arologists for the Roumanian gov
ernment point out that all foreigners
suffer from the same disabilities. This
is true, but the speciousness of the fact
does not obscure it's infamy. The for
eigner who is nor Il Jew is not native.
The Jew who is prescribed as for
eigner is II native and invariably the
descendant of a native.
What DIR. Krauskopf objects to as the
self-protective spirit of Secretary Hays
note is more apparent than renl. Mr..
Hay might with diplomatic propriety
have addressed IL remonstrance on hui
manitarian grounds alone, but, he was
well aware what the mental reserva-
tion implied in the formal response Civ
en- to it would be and of the cynical
reception which ii would meet in the
foreign press, as indeed it met, more
or less frankly, as it was. We would
be told that the treatment by our SOL
diers Of refractory or ncorrigible Flip
mos did not challenge the admiration
of Europe; that while negroes We're
burned at the stake in the south it
demanded no little assurance on our
part to demonstrate with an indepen-
dent government on the administration
of its domestic affairs. In coupling II
material grievance with Il remOnstrance
in the name of humanity, we may not
have fulfilled the humanitarian obiga-
tions of a great and strong nation to-
ward IA wronsed and unprotected peo-
pie" But our government did that,
which in practical view, seemed to 1t
wesest and hest
We sincerely sympathize with DR..
Krauskopf, We understand his posi-
tion. His noble appeal to the daughter
religions of the religion of Abraham,
Isaac ana Jacob will not, we hope,
prove unavailing, If the churches of
Christianity always remembered the
obligations which they owe to Judaism,
the prosecuting monomania of pigmy
satrapies like Roumania would not re-
main long unchecked.
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