Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-18

they endure. Even were the fields of
lSeducauon. OF civil employment, and OF
commerce open to them as to RoumanIan
t{citizens.' their penury would prevent their
rising by Individual effort. Human beings
so circumstanced have virtually no alter
| native but submissive suffering or fight
| to some land less unfavorable to them.
Removal under such conditions is not and
cannot be the healthy. intelligent emigra-
ton of a free and self-reliant being. It
must be, In most cases, the mere trans
plantation OF an artificial1y produced dis
eased growth to new place.
The Outcast q Burden.
.Granting that, In better and more
healthful surroundings, the morbid COM
dltions will eventually change for good
ones. such emigration is necessarily for q
time. burden to the community upon
which the fugitive may be cast Self-re-
lance and the knowledge and ability that
evolve the power of seIf-support must be
developed. and, at the same time, ave-
nues of employment must be opened In
quarters where competition is already
keen and opportunities are scarce.
The teachings of history and the ex-
perience OF our own nation show that the
Jews possess in a high degree the mental
and moral qualifications of conscientious
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 oppression
in their native land, and thrown upon the
long suffering generosity of a more favor
ed community, their migration lacks the
essential conditions which make alien
immigration either acceptable or bene-
fetal. So well is this appreciated on the
Continent. that. even in the countries
where anti-semitism has no foothold. it
is difficult for these fleeing Jews to obtain
any lodgment. America is their only
goal.
'.rhe United States offers an asylum to
the oppressed of all lands. But it's SYM
pathy with them in nowise fmpairs its
just liberty and right to weigh the acts
Of the oppressor in the light of their eff
fects upon the country, and to judge ac--
cordingly.
Right of Remonstrnnce Clear.
Putting together the facts now pain
fully brought home to this government
during the past few years, that many of
the inha bftants of Roumania are being
forced, by artif1cially adverse discrimina-
tions, to quit their native country: that
the hospitable asylum offered by this
country is almost the only refuge left
to them: that they come hither untitled
by the conditions of their exile, to take
part in the new life of the land under cir
cumstances either profitable to themselves
of beneficial to the community; and that
they are objects Of charity from the out
set and for a long time, the right OF re-
monstrance against the arts of the Rou-
manian 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 powers of Roumania upon
the charity of the United States. This
government cannot be a tacit party to
an international wrong. 1t is constrained
to protest against the treatment to which
the Jews of Roumania are subjected.
not alone because it is unimpeachabIe
ground to demonstrate against the re-
sultant injury to itself. but in the name
of humanity The United States may not
authoritatively appeal to the stipulations
of the treaty of Berlin, to which it was
not and cannot become signatory. but it
does earnestly appeal to the principles
contained. because they are the principles
of international law and eternal Justice.
advocating the broad tolerance which that
solemn compact enjoi1s. and standing
ready to lend it's moral support to the
fulfilment thereof by its co-signatories.
for the act of Roumania itself has eff
fectively joined the United States to
them as an interested party in this re-
gard