The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-16
UNITED STATES NOT TO ACT
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 of justice and power of self-restraint.
 | The government os the United States
 must exhibit the same qualities. l
 know VOL do not doubt the sentiments
 of the president. No one hates more en-
 practically than he does such acts of
 cruelty and injustice as those we de-
 pIore. But he must carefully consider
 1 all the circumstances and then decide whether any official action can be taken | in addition to impressive and most eff fective expressions of public opinion in this country during the last month. You will have observed that no civilized government in the world has yet taken official action-this consideration alone would bid us to proceed with care. The emperor of Russia is entitled to our re- soect, not merely as the ruler of a great and friendly nation, but as a man whose personal character is even more elevated than his exalted station. We should not be justified in assuming that this enlightened sovereign. who has given so many proofs of his devotion to peace and religious tolerance, has not done and is not doing all that lies in his power to put stop to these atroci- ties, to punish the guilty, whether they belong to the ignorant populace, or to high official circles, and to prevent the recurrence of the outrages which have so shocked humanity. In fact, all we know of the state of things in Russia tends to justify the hope that even out of the present terrible situation some good results may come: that he who watches over Israel does not slumber, and that the wrath Of man, now as so often in the past. shall be made to praise Him."
 The call on the president at the White house followed, and there President Roosevelt after the memorandum was laid before him said:
 MT. Chairman: I need not dwell upon fact so potent as the widespread indignation with which the American people heard of the dreadful outrages upon the Jews in Kishineff. I have never in my experience in this country know of a more immense or deeper eX- pression of sympathy for the victims and of horror over the appalling calam- ! ity that has occurred. It is natural that while the whole civilized world should express such feeling, it should yet be most intense and widespread in the United States, for of all, the great powers think may say that the Unit ed States is that country in which from the beginning of it's national career most probable done in the way of ack- nowledging the debt due to the Jewish race; and of endeavoring to do justice to those American citizens who are of Jewish ancestry and faith. One of the most touching poems of our great poet, Longfellow, is that on the Jewish cem- etery in Newport and any one who goes through any of the old cemeteries of the cities which preserve the records of colonial times will see the name of many an American of Jewish race who in war or in peace did his full share in the founding of this nation. From that day to this. from the day when the Jews of Charleston, of Philadelphia, of New York, supported the patriot cause and helped in every way, not only by money but by arms, Washington and his colleagues who were founding this from that day to the present we have had no struggle, military or civil, in which there have not been citizens of Jewish faith who played an eminent l part for the poor and the credit of the nation.
 I remember once General Howard mentioning to me the fact that two of his brigadier commanders upon whom | he had placed reliance were Jews. Among the meetings of the Grand Army ! which I have attended one stands out ! with peculiar vividness-a meeting held | under the auspices of the men of the Grand Army of Jewish creed in the | temple in Forty-fourth street, Temple 1 Emanuel, to welcome the return of vet l erans of the Spanish American war of
 | Jewish faith.
 When in Santiago I was myself in | the army. one os the best colonels among the regular regiments who did so well on the day and who fought beside me was Jew One of the commanders
 ! of the ships which in the blockade of
 ! the Cuban coast did so well was Jew.
 In my own regiment promoted five