Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-09
JEWS LOOK TO AMERICA
only Hope Oppressed People of Rus
sis Have for Their Future
Happiness.

PITTSBURG. June s-The consideration
OF the amended constitution OF the Fedora
tion OF American zionists occupied nearly
all of today's first session. Greetings from
eminent Jews on the world were received
and read to the convention.
This telegram from Vienna was sent by
DR.. HerHl:
To the Zionist Convention, Pittsburg: The
situation OF our Russian brethren Is very
serious and calls for our most earnest
attention. A great emigration movement
from Russia is to be extended, We shall
bring to the Basel congress a petition which,
lions greetings, HERzL.
From Barrits came these words OF DIR.
Max Nordau:
power to the honor of American Jews and
to the beneft Of the Jewish people. whose
position in the world is more appalling than
century. The name of Kishineff, written
with letters Of blood and FIRE in the other
and ever new martyrology OF Israel, Is
suflcient by itself to bear out this state
mant
1t shows that for our people thcre is no
has not moved onward by one step for the
last 800 years. We are still in the fearful
period Of the crusades when the pious
to their heroic work by the wholesale
slaughter of Jews. 1t shows also that
ziopism is the only way to lead our mis-
out of their present hell. / would despair
OF Judaism, and of humanity as well, II
to turn a deaf ear to the bloodcurdling
tale Of Kishinem.
Israel zangwill sent the following mes
sage;
Greetings to the Pittsburg Convention:
The Kishineff massacre has brought home
TO the blindest the need of a publicly and
legally safeguarded home for our unhappy
race. When you come to consider where
ngr fra tvhA al ka ynOT will
find no place as practicable as Palestine
or, at least for start, It's neighborhood
In which you meet inspire you to build
great bridge over which Israel shall pass
to his ancient home and his glorious future
With the election today of officers the
result Of the campaign waged for giving
the younger men part in the affairs of
the association win be known. DR.. r.
Gottheil. president and Jacob DeHaas, sec
retary, are likely to be reelected. Cleve-
land was chosen for next years convention.
The greater portion OF this afternoons
session was given over to papers and dis
cussions on Jewish education.
PEORIA, Ill, June s.-Joseph B. Green
hut, former president of the Whisky trust,
| and wife, left for Europe this morning. He
will make an official investigation in the
| recent outrages of the Russians on the Jews
| for the committee on National and Civil
| Rights of the Union of Jewish Congrega-
| tions of America, of which he is the mem
Der from Illinois. He will return in Sep
tember and report to the committee.
NEW YORK, June S-Solomon Handler
man, young Jew, who was in Kishineff
during the massacres, is being detained at
! the Ellis island immigration station until
relatives living in St. Joseph, Mo, can be
heard from. The young man is without
money.
Solomon repeats in detail the horrifying
| story of the massacres, tells OF the stonng
to death Of an uncle in his own yard. His
| grandfather was also killed Solomon and
| his aunt escaped to the house of Chris
tian, who sheltered them for several days
before Solomon started for America.
BERLIN, June s.-According to a dis
patch from Lemberg, the papers in that
town publish an account of the renewal
OF the Jewish batting at Boresteezko.
Russia, near Brody, Galicia. Twenty
thousand peasants assembled at The an
nual fair threatened to massacre the Jews,
who, panic stricken. closed their houses
and stores and telegraphed to the COVER
nor for protection. a hundred Of the Jews
fed to Usyn, on the Austrian border