The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-18

in the ways of agriculture and trade.
The Jews are prohibited from owning
common 1aborers. They are debarred
from residing in the rural districts
Many branches of petty trade and man
ual production are closed to them in the
forced to dwell and engage, against
fearful Odds In the desperate struggle
for existence Even as ordinary artisans
or hired laborers they may only ma
. unprotected alien to two .Roumanians
under any one employer. In short, by
the cumulative effect of successive re-
strictions the Jews of Roumanla nave
become reduced to a state of wretcne0
misery. Shut out from nearly every
avenue of self-support which is open to
the poor of other lands, and ground
down by poverty as the natural result
of their discriminatory treatment, they
are rendered incapable of lifting them
selves from the enforced degradation
they endure. Even were the fields OF
education, or civil employment, and or
commerce open to them as to Rouma.
MAN citizens their penury would pre-
vent their rising by individual effort
Human beings SO circumStanced nave
virtually no alternatives but submissive
suffering or flight to some land less un.
favOrab bic to them. Removal under SucE
conditions is not and can not be the
healthy, intelligent emigration of
free and se1f-reliant being. 1t must be,
in most cases, the mere transportation
of an artifieially produced diseased
growth to a new place.
Granting that in better and more
healthful surroundings the morbid con-
ditions will eventually change for good,
such emigration Is necessarily for
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 competition
is already keen and opportunities
scarce. The teachings of history and
the experience of our own nation show
that the Jews possess in high degree
the mental and moral qualifications OF
conscientious citizenhood. No class of
emigrantS is more welcome to our shore
when coming equipped in mind and
body for entrance upon the struggle for
bread, and inspired with the high pur-
| pose 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 mental oppression IN
| their land and thrown upon the long suf-
| fering generosity of a more favored
community their migration lacks the es-
| sentia1 conditions which make alien i'm
| migration either acceptable or benefit
| cial. So well is this appreciated on the
| continent that. even in the countries
where antisemitism has no foothold 1T
I
| tain any Judgement. America is their
| only goal
"The United States offer asylum to
| the oppressed of all lands. but its sym
| just liberty and right to weigh the acts
| of the oppressor in the light of their
| effects upon this country and to Judge
| accordingly.
Putting together the facts now pain
| fully brought home to this government
| during the past few wears. that many
of the inha bitants of Roumania are be-
| ing forced by artificially adverse dis
| ordinations to quit their native coun-
| tries; that the hospitable asylum offered
by this country is almost the only re-
| fuge left to them; that they come hither
| untitled by the conditions of their exile,
| to take part in the new life of this land
i under circumstances either profitable to
themselves or beneficial to the COM
munity and that thew are objects of
| charity from the outset and for a long
| time-the right of remonStrance against
the acts of the Roumanian 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 power
of Roumania upon the charity Of the
| United States. This government can
| not be a tacft party to such an inter-
| national wrong. 1t is constrained tc
protest against the treatment to which
| the Jews OF ROumanla are subjected
| not alone because 1t has unimDeachable
| 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 stipu-
| lations of the treaty of Berlin to which
it was not and can not become a sigma
tory, but it does earnestly appeal to the
principles contained therein. because
| they are the PRINCIPLES of international
law and eternal justice. advocating the
broad tolerat ton which that solemn COM
pact enjoins, and standing ready to
lend its moral support to the fulfillment
thereof by it's co-signatories. for the act
| of Roumania itself has effectively join
ed the United States to them as an in
terested party in this regard.
You will take an early occasion tC
read this instruction TO the minister fol
foreign affairs, and should he request il
leave with him COPY"
APPROVED IN LONDON.
London Sept. 1S.-The United States
initiative in protesting to the countries
which are parties to the treaty of Ber-
lin of 1878, against the treatment OF
Jews in ROumania, meets with approval
here. The Globe, however, the only
afternoon newspaper which comments
on Secretary Hays note on the subject
sees nothing in Mr.. Hays action but
self-interest. The Globe, nevertheless
hopes that it will lead to a check being
placed on the wholesale expectation OF
undesirable. persons from eastern Eu.
rope to Great Britain and America
Cresceus Fails Again.