The Penn's Grove record., 1903-06-19
PROTESTS FOR THE JEWS
President Expresses Indignation
Over Massacre at Kishinef
At washinxton Representatives OF B'nai
Birth Learn That Diplomatic Inter-
vention with Russia - Impossible.

Washington, D. C.-President Roose>
welt by authorizing the publication Of
the views exchanged by him and Sec
rotary Hay with the Executive Conn
mittee Of the B'nai Birth OH the treat
ment Sc the Jews In Russia has done
all that he could toward helping them,
In addition to bringing the sentiment
Of this country to the notice Of the Rus
sian Ambassador, Count Cassini, when
he called on the President the other
day:
The expressions of sympathy made
by the President and Secretary Hay to
the representative Jews who called
upon them were given official signif-
canoe, and were intended to have that
effect abroad as well as at home.
The President was speaking not only
to the half Dozen men who we're intro
duced by the Secretary, but to the
Jews of the world and to the rulers OF
the countries in which they live. What
he said to them was said directly, in
response to what they said to him,
their desire to have the Gear Informed
| Of American sentiment, and in view of
tkC dQRCdtS COAu1AS AlO1u q
| ings Of Christians and others all over
the United States.
The Russian Government will! hear
from Count Cassini, and may hear
later from Ambassador Mccormick as
to the sentiment Of this country on the
subject.
At the same time Secretary Hay,
during his conference with the repre-
sentatives of the B'nai Birth in the
| Ambassadors room at the State De-
partment, and the President, in a sum-
mary of it at the forty-minute White
House interview afterward. showed
them that no direct Intervention by di-
plomacy raj practicable under the
practice of nations and ou W prece-
dents.
The statement presented the Presi-
dent consisted Of a memorandum on
the massacre in April, and a tentative
draft Of 4 petition to the Gar, which
1t was desired the Government should
unoficially or semi-oficially assist in
delivering to the Gear and procuring a
reply thereto.
President Roosevelt, after the memo
randum was laid before him, said in
substance:
II need not dwell upon a fact so pat
emit as the widespread indignation with
which the American people heard OF
the dreadful outrages upon the Jews in
Kishineff. / have never in my exper-
niece m this country known Of a more
immediate or deeper expression of sym:
pathy for the victims. The United
States is that country in which, from
the beginning Of it's national career,
most has been done in the way of ac-
knowledging the debt due to the jew
ish race and Of ~endeavoring to do JUS
tice to those American citizens who are
Of Jewish ancestry and faith.
ANY one who goes through any OF
the old cemeteries Of the cities which
preserve the records of Colonial times
will see the names of many an Ameri.
can of Jewish race, who. in wal or in
peace did his full share in the found.
Ing Of this nation. From that day when
the Jews of Charleston, of Philadel-
phia, Of New York, supported Wash
ington and his colleagues who were
founding this Republication that day
to the present we have had no strug
gle, military or civil, In which there
have not been citizens Of Jewish faith
who played an eminent part for the
honor and the credit Of the nation"