The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-26
HAY APPEALS
TO THE POWERS

| WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-With the
double purpose of protecting the long
suffering Jews of the Balkan States and
of averting the ever-present peril of
the immigration into the United States
of a horde of paupers, Secretary Hay
pealing to the powers of Europe to
force one of their children to observe
the obligations of humanity in case of
| the Jews. The appeal takes the form
of a state paper remarkable in several
respects, which has been dispatched in
/ Identical form to every ambassador
and Minister of the United States resid-
ing in one of the countries which were
parties to the famous treaty, at Berlin
| of 1878, namely, Great Britain, France,
| Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and
Turkey marking the termination of the
Turko- Russian war and the creation by
the direct act of the powers of the in
dependent Balkan States.
| LONDON, Sept. 19.-Secretary Hay S
| note to the powers which We're signato-
| ries of the Berlin treaty of 1873 on the
] subject of the treatment of the Jews in
Roumania, which was received in Lon
| don about a fortnight ago, was well
| coined in British official circles The
| tone of the formal acknowledgment of
| the receipt of the note here indicates
| British approval of American initiative
| in this matter and confirms the idea
| that Great Britain welcomes the con-
/ tinued intervention of the affairs in
which Europe is more directly concern
ed, in the belief that such intervention
tends 10 Indirectly strengthen the
hands OF the British government. Apart
| from this the question of exclusion of
pauper aliens from Great Britain is
| growing more acute and antf-immigra-
| ton laws are demanded in many infiil-
entail quarters. So the government is
in sympathy with Mr.. Hays protest in
| the hope that the wholesale export of
undesirable immigrants from Eastern
| Europe may be checked.
The newspapers here continue to
comment on the United States note.
| The st. James Gazette, in mi-hu-
morous reference to it, says:
1.-THE European governments to whom
it was addressed must have been dis
| agreeably surprised, for the note fur
| nished fresh evidence of the growing
disposition of the United States to take
a seat in the orchestra of the European
concert, which some other performers
view with uneasiness."
After declaring that it is difficult to
understand what President Roosevelt
hopes to gain by the appeal to the sig
natories of the Berlin treaty, the St
James Gazette concludes that the chief
American motive is humanity and
says:
This indicates spirit of knight-er-
rantry which, however creditable to a
great civilized power, is likely to give
the Americans plenty of occupation
without increasing their popularity
with the governments of the old
world
Mr.. Hays contrast of the enlightened
system of America and the intolerant
tyranny of tn surveying principalities
of Europe is referred to by the ST.
James Gazette as mot devoid of self
complacency," and as intended for the
edification of mankind. The paper re-
fers to Mr.. Hay as an american Ham
let who says:
Look on this picture ard then on
that and say whether old Mother Eu-
rope should not be ashamed of her
self"
The st. James Gazette suggests that
South Africa would welcome the Rou-
manian Jews, for whom the American
government is so solicitous and vet so
unwilling to welcome