The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-18

dwell and engage, against iear1ul ouus' in the desperate struggle for existence Even as ordinary artisans or hired la borers they may only find employment in the proportion of one unprotected alien to two 'Roumanians' under any one em- rloyer.
 Reduced to Wretched Misery.
 Tn short, by the cumulative effect of successive restrictions the Jews of Rou- mania have become reduced to state of wretched misery. Shut out from nearly every avenue of self-support which is opened to the poor of other lands, and ground down by poverty as the national result of their discriminatory treatment they are rendered incapable of lifting themselves from the enforced degrada- tion they endure. Even were the fields of education, of civil employment, and Of commerce open to them as to Roumanian citizens their penury would prevent their rising by individual effort. Human beings in such circumstances have virtually no alternatives but the submissive sufferngs or flight to some lands less unfavorable to them. Removal under such conditions is not and cannot be the healthy, intel ligent emigration of a free and self-re- liant being 1t must be, In most cases, the mere transplantation of any artihcially produced diseased growth to new place.
 Granting that in better and more healthful surroundings the morbid condi- tions will eventually change for good, such emigration is necessarily for a time a burden to the community upon which the fugitives may be cast. Self-relance and the knowledge and ability that evolve the power of self-support must be de- veloped and at the same tune 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 own na- tion show that the Jews possess in high degree the mental and moral qualifica- tions of conscientious citizenbood
 Are Welcomed In the United States.
 No class of immigrants is more wei come 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 double paupers by physical and moral oppression in their native land and thrown upon the long-suffering generosity of more fa- vored community their migration lacks the essential conditions which make alien immigration either acceptable or beneficial So well is this appreciated on the continent that even in the coun- tries where antl-semitism has no foot hold 1t Is difficult for these fleeing Jews to obtain any Judgement. America i: | their only goal. The United States offers asylum to the oppressed of all lands, but | its sympathy with them in no wise i'm pairs its just liberty and right to weigf the acts of oppressor in the light of theii effects upon this country to judge ac' | cordingly.
 Putting together the facts now pain. fully brought home to this government during the past few years. that many oi the inhabitants of Roumania are being forced by artlfclally adverse dscrimina | tions to quit their native countries; that the hospltable asylum offered by this i country is almost the only refugee Jeff to them; that they come hitherto unfttec l by the conditions of their exile to take | part in the new life of this land under circumstances either profitable to them selves or beneficial to the community and that they are objects of charity from the outset and for a long time the right of remonstrance against the acts of the Roumanian government is cleary estab- lished in favor of this government Whether consciously and of purpose or not, these people. burdened and spurned by their native land. are forced by the sovereign power of Roumania upon the l charity of the United States. This gov ernment cannot be a tacit party to such an international wrong. It Is constrained to protest against the treatment to which the Jews of Roumania are subjected, moi alone because it has unimpeachablt ground to remonstrate against the result ant Injury to itself, but in the name oi humanity.
 "The United States may not authorita. lively appeal to the stipulations of tho treaty of Berlin, to which 1t was not ant cannot become a signatory, but it does earnestly appeal to the principles con signed therein because they are the prin ciples of International law and eterna | justice, advocating the broad federation which that solemn compact enjoins anC stand ready to lend it's moral support t' the fulfllment thereof by it's co-signa tories for the act of Roumana itself hal effectively joined the United States t them as an interested party in this re gard
 "Yoh will take an early occasion t' read this instruction to the minister fol foreign affairs. and should he reques 1t. leave with him a copy.
 "I have the honor to be your obedien servant, JOHN HAY"