New-York tribune., 1902-10-13
TIE STATrS oF THE LFm

Rumania's persistent refusal 10 recognize
| Jews as citizens suggests the query, To what
| land do those people belOngt In the United
| States and Great Britain there Is of course. no
hesitation as 10 the answer. hut in nearly every
country of Continental Europe the question Is
pertinent and the answer is not obvious II IS
true that almost sll those countries save Ru-
mania admit Jews 10 al lesst some limited
measure of citizenship. But in most of them
there is strong popular movement against so
doing and IN favor OF regarding the Jews as
aliens, devoid of ordinary civil rights There
is. too. much resentful protest against the Jews
Identification of themselves with the countries
in which they live A representative Rumanian
speaks Of il as "a most important fact" that a
Jew calls himself an American or (absurd as
IT may SEEM German. or a Frenchman. or a
Dane, according 10 the country In which he
was born. / know" adds this Rumapian
writer. "one American Jew who-hideousIv pre-
''posterous as It may seem-calls himself Ru-
manian. So all over Europe, they have no
business to call themselves Frenchmen or
Germans. or Hungarians,' cry the anti Sem
ites' tney are Jews" Curiously enough, II you
ask the anti-Semites the ground OF their hatred
OF TIE Jews they unhesitatingly reply that II Is
because the Jews are aud remain "a peculiar
N
those among whom they live, but remain dis
tnct and separate. Such is the fine logic OF tho
Jewhaiter, 10 require the Jew to remain dis
unct and aloof and then to curse him and
persecute him for so doing, Is it not written
that we shall give dog a bad pamA ana +ho1
hang him?
The fact is that there is nothing "absurdp ~
"hideously preposterous" in Jews calm.
himself by the name Of the country in which
ne ana his fathers were born or noArel, .,
"hlch ne lives. Men OF all .other races do co
ana Why not he Of one OF the Oldest and most
lauous OF races: The Jews, having no Ioncar
d country or their own. are not a nation hut no
lohg 70 Whatever nation or country they hannAr
10 o"el IN We have in the United Ststae
great numbers OF Irishmen, Germans Italians
ana men or many other races. They are -,
IonseF aliens, but Americans The same fs +rro
III european lands Each nation is con,no.t,o
nc ID 'tlsh are SaXon and Norman and Dane,
put all are British citizens. France nnn,otn.
DIelohs and Normans and Gascons and Proven
eais' but all are regarded as Frenchnoon =.
"eI many you viii ind Germans of msnv tribas
ana beside them Poles and Danes ana Co,
anu "ehus, out all are equal as subjects ~ tbo
anu all are set down as Germans FOR
eNh purposes. Austria Hungary is q ,-ori,ohI.
eohglomerate Of Teutonic Slayonic ,na d.
manic manic peoples, but they are all one before tho
Emperor and King. In Rumania there are pu-
n1In' niahiahs' zinzars, Germans. Bulgars Msrvar~
!aN+l russians and osmanli. To say that in snch a
parliament Of man" the Jew alone shan no
a oSISci]ed into perpetual alienship is as unrea-
sonaole as 1t is unjust History has shown
through many generations that no man hecomas
Hlo'e luily and ioyally naturaIized and nore
eohpie'eiy identified with the institutions ~
ms. n,s ADOPTED country than the jew. To daov
MN nm tne right to do so is illogical and ineonit-
aoie ana Is likely to prove TO any nation as m
prontaoie and indeed as disastrous as ~ ala %
Adoiuonal force is given to this feature ~ the
case oy the fact that if the Jews are not 3 ma
ui0n tney are not. either. remnant of a ma
uon. Ths race is not dying out in numbers or