The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-28
BIG INDIGNATION MEETING,
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 are challenged, and when their hatred of oppression is aroused, are not afraid to speak; and in such circumstances, it is not their habit to smother or eau tiously soften their words.
 Every American humane sentiment has been aroused by late attack on the Jews in Russia, an attack mur- derous, atrocious, and in every way re- volting. As members of the family of mankind and as citizens of free na- ton, we are here to give voice to the feeling that should stir every true man and every American worthy Of the name. There is something intense ly horrible III the wholesale murdering of defenceless men, women and chil- dren, who have been tacitly if not ex- pressly asssured of safety, safety un-
 der the protection of a professedly civ ilized government. Such things give
 rise to a distressing fear that even the enlightenment of the twentieth cen
 tury has neither destroyed nor subdued the barbarity of human nature, nor
 wholly redeemed the civilized world from mans inhumanity to man.
 We, and all our countrymen, pro- test in the strongest language at our command and with the moral force
 which our American citizenship gives
 us, against those murders and out rages; and we insist that swift and
 condign punishment ought to be vis- ited upon their barbarous perpetra- tors. Nor is this all. We will, in a
 fashion quite American, and with an
 open handedness always displayed when human distress appeals to us,
 assist the families made headless and
 robbed of support by murder, and
 those who, wounded, and terrorized,
 and in hunger and want, have been driven from their hofnes
 CT know how easily our indignation
 prompts US to the use of strong ian- guage: and I know how naturally we
 are tempted to indulge in over-strong statements and extravagant demands on such occasions as this; and am sure taht in our characterization of the crimes we here contemplate, and in ex-
 pressing our detestation of the crimi-
 nals, we cannot go too far. I desire to
 avoid sounding g. discordant note; but yet I cannot refrain from the sugges-
 tion that the moral effect of our protest
 and the usefulness of this demonstra- tion will not be Iessened if we require indubitable proof before we accuse the government of RussiaEwith guilty com plicity in the crimes committed within her borders: and it seems to be we may
 well consider the proper relationship between nations, before we demand the pronounced interference on the part of
 our government. do not say that the Russian government may not. by sins of omission or commission. be justly
 deserving of our condemnation; but we
 should not be swift to assume this, when we remember that we ourselves have | found it impossible to prevent mob vio- l lence and murderous assaults in Wyo-
 ming and the Italians in Louisiana. I
 am distinctly and unequivocally 4n fa-
 vor of informing our government in un- mistakable terms of our indignant and deep condemnation of the late outrages upon the Jews in Russia: but hope
 that in obedience to the dictates of { American conservatism and modera-
 tion which are never long obscured, we
 may be even now just and fair and that
 we will be content to forego perplexing | and extreme demands upon our govern i ment sor violent action. Our public servants should hear us speak, but we l only ought to be justified in trusting the care of our national honor and duty in the premises. and the enforcement of the humane instincts of our people so l far as this may be within governmental action. to those charged with the re- sponsibility of managing our public af- fairs. In the meantime let the people of the United States, gathered together 1 in such assemblages as this, in every
 part of the land. fearlessly speak to the civilized world, protesting against every l pretense Of civilization that permits I medieval persecution. against every bigotted creed that forbids religious tol- eration and freedom of conscience, against all false enlightenment that per- mits hatred and cruelty towards any