The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-18

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/ ing freedom In the exercise of all forms
/ of worship 10 Roumanian dependents
/ and foreigners alike. as well as guaran-
| teeing that all foreigners in ROumania
shall he treated without distinction of
creed on a footing Of perfect equality
Cruelty to the Jews.
with the lapse Of time these just
| prescriptions have been rendered nuga-
| tory in great part. as regards the ma
! tive Jews. by the legislation and mu-
nicipal regulations of Roumania. Start
ing from the arbitrary and controverti-
bic premise that the native Jews of
Roumania, domiciled there for centu-
ries, are aliens, not subject 10 foreign
protection the ability of the Jew 10
earn even the seanty means OF exist
ence that suffice for a frugal race has
been CONSTRUCTED by degrees until near
ly every opportunity 10 win a livelihood
is denied; and until the hapless poverty
, of the Jew has constrained an exodus
of such proportions as 10 cause general
concern.
The political disabilities of the Jews
Of Roumania, their exclusion from the
public service and the learned profess
sions. the limitations of their civil
rights and the imposition on them of
exceptional taxes, involving as they do
wrongs repugnant to the moral sense
OF liberal modern peoples. are not so
directly in point for my present purpose
as the public acts which attack the in
herent right OF a man as a bread win
ner in the ways of agriculture and
trade.
Cannot Own Land.
''The Jews are prohibited from own
ing land or even from cultivating il as
common labOrers. They are debarred
from residing In the rural districts.
Many branches of petty trade and
manual production are closed 10 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 labofers they may
only find employment in the proper
ton OF one unprotected allen 10 two
'Roumanians' under any one employer.
In short. BY the cumulative 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-sup-
port which is open 10 the poor OF other
lands and ground down by poverty as
the natural result of their discrimina-
tory treatment they are rendered in
capable Of lifting themselves from the
enforced degradation they endure.
| Even were the fields of education. or
/ civil employment and of commerce
/ open 10 them as to 'Roumanian citi-
] Zens' their penury would prevent their
| rising by individual effort. Human be-
/ ings so circumstanced have virtually
/ no alternative. but submissive suffer-
/ ing or flight to some land less unfa-
vOrable to them. Removal under such
] conditions is not and cannot be
| healthy. intelligent emigration of a
] free and self-reliant being. II must be.
! in most cases, the mere transplanta-
/ ton Of an artidcially produced dis
! eased growth TO a new place.
Burden Upon Foreign Lands.
Granting that in better and more
healthful surroundings the morbid
conditions 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-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 opportu-
mites 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-
tons Of conscientious citizenship. No
class of immigrants Is more welcome
10 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 serv-
ice 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 OPP
preston In their native land, and
thrown upon the long suffering gen.
erosity 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
semitlsm has no foothold, il is difficult
for these fleeing Jews to obtain any
Judgment. America is their only goal.
"The United States offers an asylum
20 the oppressed OF all lands. but it's
sympathy with them in no wise impairs
its just liberty and right to weigh the
acts Of the oppressOr In the light OF
the effects upon this country, and &c
judge accordingly.
United States Protests.
Putting together the facts now
painfully brought home to this gov
eminent during the past few years.
that many of the inhabitants of Rou-
mania are being forced by artificially
adverse determinations 10 quit their
native country; that the hOsptable
asylum offered by this country is al
most the only refuge left TO them: that
they come hither untitled 10 meet
the conditions OF their exile to take
part in the new life of this land un-
der circumstances neither profitable to
themselves nor beneficial tOthe cOmmu@
nifty, and that they are objects Of
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