The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
SYMPATHY FOR jews
EXPRESSED,
Mr.. Cleveland Advises That Mass
Meetings Be Held in Every
City Of the United States,
but Also Advises
Moderation.

New York, May N.-There was great
and representative gathering at Carnegie
hall tonight, called to protest against the
massacre of Hebrews at Kishinef. Inc
announcement that former President
Grover Cleveland would speak, lent addi-
tionaI interest to the gathering.
While Mayor Low was delivering the
opening address, expressive OF the nope
that l. ssa would give more l@erty TO
her Jewish subjects, Mr.. Cleveland en-
tered and was greeted with a tumult Of
cheers.
William II Baldwin. Jr., read the reso-
lutions. which were received with great
applause and adopted. They denounced
The massacre. urged the claim of the
Jews in Russia to just treatment ana
protection. and declared that the people
of the United States should exercise such
influence with the government of Russia
as the ancient and unbroken friendship
between the two nations may JUSTIFY 10
prevent the recurrence of outbreaks SUCH
as have amazed the civilized worio.
Mr. Cleveland said:
Il have only a word to say, pul Vs. 81
to be counted among those VINO az n =.
hearty sympathy with the purpose % t'
m1Atlng.
called us together tonight grow Out %
o1Ir recognition of the promptiIiSS ~
christian civilization. and our dutllua
devotion to the deepest ana psse e " ,,.t "a
rational characteristics. TINS demons 'i.s a.
tion furnishes cheering ana feasSul Ins
evidence that our American svnpd NY
for the oppressed and abused "nei eVoa
thav may he, our American humanity our
attachment to justice ana lishe ae
active and unimpalred. INV,
."rhere is something intensely horIlpie
in the Wholesale murder Oh uhpilenuIns,'
defenscess men, women anu cliIi -
who have been facility. II not eApiea .,c,,
,csrred of safety under the proteclio,i
~ nrofessed civilized government ouci
thinps give rise to a distressing fear iha a,
even the enlightenment OF the wen, r,t,
century has neither destroyed nor SUI
oncd the barbarity of human NATURE iiol
wholly redeemed the c1VlllIeu WI
mans inhumanlty to man .s, IN
we and all our country1heii' ~ ,a
the strongest language at our cohi.nallu'
and with the moral force Whlch our tAi,iol
49,, citizenship gives us against these
murders and outrageS, and we llSi5t .h.'e
swift and condign punishment ought "
hn visited upon their barbarous peipe-
traitors 5,ro a dfscordant
,,o+a. MT vet | cannot refrain from llie
Succession that the moral erect OF out
protest and the usefulness or inns uea i,,iro
stration Will not be lessened II we 49, ~, :
iT6nhlt46lp
+n1arnuent of Russia with guilty com
Tlicitv i'm the crimes committed "lthln iiei
borders; and 1t seems to me we may W. w.
consider the proper relationship pel"eci,
nations. before we demand 700 pi 80
interference on the part of our own gov
eminent | do not say that the RUSSIAN
government may not by reasons OF o1lIs-
sion or commission be justly deSerVlns
Of our condemnation, but we shoulo n.y.
he swift to assume this. when we reHieii-
her that we ourselves have found IL I'm
possible to prevent violence ana nuroer-
GUS assaults III Wyoming ana on the l.ai-
ians in Louisiana. l am distlhcty VII
en11ivocally in favor of informing our gov
eminent in unmistakable terms of our IN
dignaent and deep condemnation or late
outrages on the Jews In Russia: but
hone that in obedience to the dictates OF
American conservatism and moderation,
which are now long obscured, we may
be even now just and fair and that we
will be content to forego perplexing and
extreme demands upon our government
for violent action.
IN the meantime let the people OF the
United States gathered together In such
mblages as this In every part OF the
| land, fearlessly speak to the CIVILIZED
| world, protesting against every pretense
of civilization that permits medieval per
secution against every bigoted creed tina,
! forbids religious liberation and freedom
! of conscience. and against all enlighten-
ment that excuses hatred and cruelty to-
/
! spurious forms of government protection
/ that withhold from any human being the
right to live In safety and toll In peace"
Spikes Driven Through Head.
New York May 27.-Mandel Scbuelmeis-
ter. 20 years old, and native of
| Kishnef, was among the steerage pas
| sengers landed at Ellis island today from
! the North German Lloyd liner Grosser
l.
after the massacre and says Russia never
saw anything to equal the outrage Cues
toned through an interpreter, he said:
ION the Jewish passover there was
much rioting. The houses of Jews were
stoned and threats made to kill them.
The next day when the Christians came
out of their church the crowds, armed
! with stones and iron bars, attacked the
Jews in the streets and began to sack
| the houses, killing men, women and chill
dren.
II saw the mob enter the yard Of the
house next to ours, where they stoned a
shoemaker to death. While l was hidden
in the cellar with my family, / heard
the mob enter our house and break its
furniture and smash the windows.
We were released from the cellar by
our landlord The next day the chief OF
police announced that the rioting must
stop and that we would be- safe in the
streets. | saw In the cemetery nifty
bodies OF men and women waiting to be
buried. These were badly mutilated.
some with crushed heads and some with
large holes through the head from cal
to ear. made by spikes that We're driver
through them"
Schuemeister said that he left Kishine
where IAN agent" helped him TO get tt
Bremen.