Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-09

- ECRETARY HAYS appeal in be-
half of Roumania Jews has created
favorable comment by the press in
this country and abroad.
The average reader here knows little
| about Roumania. some having never
heard of that country before.
The writer having been resident OF
/ Roumania Is enabled to furnish the fol-
| lowing facts.
The geographical situation of Roumania
is between Russia and Hungary. Being
bounded on the northwest by AUSTRIA
Hungaria and northeast by Russia, south
by Bulgaria and southwest by Servia ana
| Turkey.
navigable waters.
The climate is the best on the European
continent, being high and dry and bor-
dered by the Carpathian mountains. Inc
scenery Is most picturesque especially
those states lying in the mountain regions:
It's fertile products are cereals ana al
| fruits excepting tropical.
The country is divided into two states
Muntenia and Moldavia-and thirty-two
districts.
Roumhnia, although monarchy, Is con-
| stitutioral having senate to enact laws.
| The population barely reaches 5,OOO,OOO IN
/ habitants. Bucarest is the capital. Here
| is a country having dEIlCulluA ACoChA
equal to any in Europe; a government
| where the citizens is allowed to vote the
same as in this country; yet they are
eliminating the best citizens from their
midst. and It is fair to foresee the natural
| decline that must come to this nation, and
Il will undergo as other nations have be-
! fore it.
Anv alien may become a citizen, but
| the Jew who is born and bred there is
denied this privilege. The Jew has always
proven the best citizen of Roumania. as
/ he has Of any other country that hath
become his birthright, yet he is denied
| his very existence.
He is forced to serve in the army three
years and no matter how efficient he has
proven himself, Is not allowed to advance
| further than sergeant and when dis
| charged from the army is denied his cit
izenship. He Is not allowed to sell to-
| bacco or liquors. and is prohibited from
| living in the country being compelled to
| seek the cities for livelihood. He can
not buy land and therefore agriculture is
denied him.
| The peasants are very friendly to Jews.
| Twenty years ago the Hebrew carried on
| business with farmers the same as mer-
| chants in our country. Advancing money
| on Forthcoming crops. Very often
the crops would prove a failure and the
Jews gratuitously allowed their patrons
/ yearly extension.
| The government has closed this help to
/ peasants by inaugurating agricultural
banks in rural districts. being very strict
| on them. and refusing any extension in
/ the event of a failure Of crops.
The majority of employees of the govern
1 ment are underpaid, receiving less salary
| than is essential for their maintenance Of
the necessities of life. AS the winter sea-
son is one of hardship. the Jew would
advance money to the employees until f.
nancially relieved. Now the government
| does not consider such loan legal and robs
its own employees Of the only advantage.
Queen Elizabeth, known to the literary
/ world as Carmen Silva, Is very favorable
to Jews, also employing Barochiner,
Jew. for her secretary. The question nat
| urally arises. why are the Jews being per-
/ secuted in Roumania, and the echo an
swers back, why are the Jews being
| prosecuted everywhere in continental Eu-
! roper"
They are hated and prosecuted partly
| through bigotry and partly because it is
desired TO get their money from them-a
| task not very easy.
We hate what we fear. Jews have been
hated for various reasons. but mainly be-
cause they have been feared in the money
| making competition of the world
They have been especially conspicuous
I'm money-malking. not because Jews are
more attached to money than are other
1 races out because IN ali Otner uelQS or
endeavor opportunity was closed to them
Today, when all fields are open, we can
| see Jewish blood successful in every field
/ of citizenship-in great statesmen, in
/ Disraeli, the great conservative, and in
/ Gambetta, the great democrat. We see
| Jewish blood in great actresses-Sarah
Bernhardt; in great musicians-Mendels-
| sohn and De Reske. For intellectually
| Karl Marx and Lassale have proven the
| development of the Jewish brain.
Look at our schools and colleges. Who
receive the prizes? Jewish children!
How different from the old days!
When Jews. half naked were forced to
run races through the streets of Rome to
amuse a carnival crowd
When the inquisition ingeniously applied
the thirty-odd tests for the detection of
secret Hebrews" bringing them to the
rack on innumerable trivialities. from re-
fusal to drink milk after meat to purchas-
| ing of bitter herbs
The Jew was driven into trade and
money changing by the edicts of Christian