The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-18
Hay Appeals i'm Behalf of
Jews.
Continued from First Page.)

burden to the community upon which
the fugitives may be cast. Self reliance
and the knowledge and ability that
evolve the policy of self-support, must
be developed and, at the same time,
avenues of employment must be opened
in quarters where competition is already
keen and opportunities scarce. The
teachings of history and the experience
of our nation show that the Jews possess
in high degree the mental and moral
qualifications of conscientious citizen
hood. No class of immigrants is more
welcome to our shores, when coming
equipped in mind and body for entrance
upon the struggle for bread, and inspired
with the high purpose to give the best
service of heart and brain to the land
they adopt of their own free will. But
when they come as outcasts, made doub-
ly paupers by physical and moral OPP
preston in their native land, and thrown
upon the long suffering generosity of a
more favored community, their migration
lacks the essential conditions which
make alien immigration either accept
able or beneficial. So well is this APP
preciated on the continent, that even in
the countries where antiSemitism has
no foothold it is difficult for these flee
ing Jews to obtain Judgment. America
is their only goal.
.'The United States offers asylum to
the oppressed of all lands. But its SYM
pathy with them in no wise impairs its
just liberty and. right to weigh the acts
of the oppressor in the light of their eff
forts upon this country and to judge ac-
cordingly.
Putting together the facts now pain
fully brought home to this government
during the past few years, that many of
the inhabitants of Roumania are being
forced by artificially adverse discrimi
nations, to quit their native country;
that the hospitablc asylum offered by
this country is almost the only refuge
left to them; that they come hither un-
fitted by the conditions of their exile, to
take part in the new life of the land un.
der circumstances either profitable to
themselves, or beneficial to the COM
munity; and that they are objects of
charity from the outset, and for q long
time the right of remonstrance against
the acts of the Roumanian government
Is clearly eSldDlISueu I'll ldNOl VI lHiS
government. Whether consciously and
of purpose or not, these helpless people.
burdened and spurned by their native
land, arc forced by the sovereign power
of Roumania upon the charity of the
United States. This government cannot
be at tacit party to such an international
wrong. 1t is constrained to protest
against the treatment to which the Jews
of Roumania are subjected, not alone
because it has unimpeachable ground to
demonstrate against the resultant injury
to itself, but in the name of humanity.
The United States may not authoritative
ly appeal to the stipulations of the treaty
of Berlin. to which it was not and can
not became a signatory, but 1T does
earnestly appeal to the principles con-
tanned therein because they are the
principles of international law
and international justice, advocating
the broad liberation which that solemn
compact enjoins and standing ready to
lend it's moral support to the fulfillment
thereof by it's co-signatories for the act
of Roumania itself has effectively Joined
the United States to them as an inter-
ested party in this regard