New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
MEETING At ACADEMY.
Taude5iUe Performance-W.
Brezcer 4ppeaLs for Protest.

A mass meeting and vaudeville performance,
the proceeds of the latter being devoted to the
relief of the Kishineff sufferers was held last
night al the Academy of Music. a large gather
ing listening to the speakers, the chief of whom
was William J. Brewer, president Of the Albert
f. Hall Company. He said, in part:
In teh sickening rays of the villains torch,
the Peace Conference at The Hague, suggested by
erv r and the Bible which he processes to hold as
his guide of faith and morals like book of blood
No speaker add to the strength Of the protest
this meeting sends forth TO the world against those
atrocities ordained in high places He can only be
the mouthpiece giving expression to the feeHngs OF
shame and sorrow that are bursting Tor utteTance &c
those far off suffering people would still appeal TO
us were their present condition caused by the
rat1raI nbenomena. but the well of sympathy
within the heart is sounded to the very depth when
those who should be their protectors: :, 80
may yfical Ge ID fatth aR we NAV not knee at the
same altar of worship, but creed of politics. no
code of ethics no religious sentiments keep
human hearts apart in the face of such a catas-
trophe as that of Kishineff. which has brought un-
The Jews are more numerous in Russia than in
any country in the world and strange to say that
than anywhere else on the globe. They are op-
iisbed by special laws that work untold hardship
upon them. Long since have they been excluded
from a4ssa PT0per IhcS in Itself is hardship
that on this land of the free can but feebly
They are excluded from many vocat tons. but in
spite of it they prospered, and wherever they
have been brought into competition on anything
like an equal footing with others in Russia, either
in the arts. sciences professions, they have
shown superiority that has made them the object
of envy. - L..
win the sons of the Puritan turn deaf ear to
their cry? MOI Did famine stricken India call 10
you in vain? No, Then will not Kishinef,s ap-
neal go unheeded. Your assistance TO the sufferers
will also act as great moral force upon Russia.
The moral effect of American intervention and
sympathy is of small moment. One of our edl-
tors we'll spoke when he said:
When CubanS suffered from Spanish atrocities
the United States drove Spain out of Cuba When
Christians are massacred in Turkey the powers
can threaten to drive Turks out of Europe, and
if they are in earnest they can make good their
threat
But when horrors worse than the Inquisition and
as awful anything that ever emanated from the
perverted soul of bashibazouk are perpetrated
pected to say to the world. What you going TO
DO about it2' "
1t is with a sckening sense of impotence that
humanity looks at the huge, impregnable mass OF
/ harbarism that stretches across the Old World.
and of whose black bulk the civilized nations of
Europe form only little fringe of light The
+ methods that could bring Spaniards and Turks 70
order are useless against Russia. No foreign army
can police those vast nhospitable wastes, in which
/ Napoleon engulfed.
But Russia is not proof against the moral force
of publicity She can suppress or censor her own
/ newspapers. but not those of the world. she can
defy the military power Of the nations. but not the
I contempt and detestation of mankind