The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-18
With other Citizens.

rural districts. Many branches of
petty trade and manual production are
closed to them in the overcrowded
cities, where they are forced to dwell
and engage, against fearful odds, 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 one
employer. In short, by the cubulatiye
effect of successive restrictions,
the Jews of Roumania have
become reduced to a state of wretched
misery. Shut out from nearly every
avenue of self-support which is open to
the poor of other lands, and ground
down by poverty as the natural result
of their discriminatory treatment they
rendered incapable of lifting them
selves from the enforced degradation
they endure. Even were the fields of
education, of civil employment and of
commerce open to them as to 'Rou-
manian citizens their penury would
prevent their rising by Individual eff
fort. Human beings so circumstanced
have virtually no alternative, but sub
missive suffering or fight to some land
less unfavorable to them. Removal
under such conditions is not and can
not be the healthy, intelligent immi-
grafton of a free and self-reliant be-
ing. 1t must be. in most cases, the
mere Transportation of an artif1cially
produced diseased growth to a new
place.
The Effect Upon This Country.
Granting that in better and more
healthfuI surroundings the morbid con-
ditions will eventually change for good,
such emigration is necessarily for
time burden to the community upon
which the fugitives may be cast. Self
reliance and the knowledge and ability
that evolve the power of self
support must be developed and, at the
same time, avenues of employment
must be opened in quarters where COM
petition is already keen and opportun-
tiles scarce. The teachings of history
and the experience of our own nation
show that the Jews possess in a high
degree the mental and moral qualifica-
lions of console ntious citizenhood. 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
doubly paupers by physical and moral
OPPl III lItelI ndllNG sdIlO. ana
thrown upon the long suffering gener-
osity of a more favored community.
their migration lacks the essential con-
ditions which make alien Immigration
either acceptable or beneficial. So we'll
is this appreciated on the continent
that even in the countries where anti
Semetism has no foot-hold it is difficult
for these fleeing Jews to obtain any
lcdgment. America is their only goal.
1.-THE United States offers asylum to
the oppressed of all lands. But it's
sympathy with them in nowise impairs
it's just liberty and right to weigh the
acts of the oppressor in the light of
their effects upon this country and to
judge accordingly.
Forced to Seek This Refuge.
Putting together the facts now
painfully brought home to this govern
ment during the past few years, that
many of the inhabitants of Roumania
are being forced, by artifcially adj
verse determinations. to quit their
native country; that the hospitable
asylum offered by this country is al
most the only refuge left to them; that
they come hither untitled by the con-
ditions of their exile, to take part in
the new life of this land under cir
cumstances either profitable to them
selves or De0e1ClaI TO the community,
and that they are objects of charity
from the outset, and for long time
the right of remonstrance against the
acts of the Roumanian government is
clearly established in favor of this
government. Whether consciously and
of purpose or not, these helpless people,
burdened and spurned by their native
land, are forced by the sovereign pow
err of Roumania upon the charity of
the United States. This government
cannot be a tacit party to such an in
ternational wrong. 1t is constrained
to protest against the treatment to
which the Jews of Roumania are sub
jected, not alone because it has I'M
Improbable ground to demonstrate
against the resultant injury to itself
but in the name of humanity. The Uni
ted States may not authoritatively APP
peal to the stipulations of the
treaty of Berlin. to which 1t was not
and cannot become a signatory, but it
does earnestly appeal to the principles
consigned therein. because they are the
principles of international law and
eternal justice. advocating the broad
liberties which that solemn compact
enjoins and standing ready to lend its
moral support to the fulfilment thereof
by it's co-signatories. for the act of
Roumania itself has effectively enjoin-
ed the United States TO them as an In
terested party in this regard"