The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-28
TUMULT OF
CHEERS FOR
CLEVELAND.
Given an ovation at Car
negie Hall Meeting.
MASSACRE OF
THE HEBREWS
Resolutions DenOunCing KiShi-
neff Outrage Adopted.
SAGE OF PRINCETON
ONE OF THE SPEAKERS
He sympathized With, Object of the
Meeting, But Said That lndisputa-
BILE Proof Should be Required
That The Government Was
Implicated Before De-
manding Action.
SAGE OF PRINCETON
ONE OF THE SPEAKERS
m, Associated pres..)

NEW YORK, May e.-There was
great and representative gathering at
Carnegie Hall tonight, called protest
against the massacre OF Hebrews at
Kishinefr The announcement that former
President Grover Cleveland would speak
lent additional interest to the gathering.
While Mayor Low was delivering the
opening address. expressive OF hope that
Russia would give more liberty to her
Jewish subjects. Mr.. Cleveland entered
and was greeted with a tumult OF cheers.
William II. Baldwin. Jr., read the reso-
lutions, which were received with great
applause and adopted. Ihey oenouhceo
the massacre: urged the claim OF the
Jews in Russia to Just treatment and pro-
lection, and declared that the people OF
tho United States should exercise such IN
flucnce with the government OF Russia
as the ancient and unbroken friendship
between the two nations may justify to
prevent the recurrence OF outbreaks such
as have amazed the civilized world.
MR.. CLEVELAND's SPEECH.
Mr.. Cleveland said:s"I have only a word
10 say; but, wish to be counted among
those who are then In hearty sympathy
with the purpose OF this meeting. The
Influences which have called US together
tonight grow out OF our recognition OF
the promptings Of Christian civilization.
and our dutiful devotion to the best and
deepest of our national charactertics. This
demonstration furnishes cheering and re-
assuring evidence that our American
sympathy for the oppressed and abused
wherever they may be. our American
love OF humanity. and our attachment to
Justice and right are still active and
unimpaired.
''There is something intensely horrible
in the wholesale murder OF unoffending,
defenseess men. women and children,
who have been tacitly, II not expressly,
assured of safety under the protection OF
a professed civilized government. Such
things give rise to distressing fear that
even the enlightenment OF the twenueth
century has neither destroyed nor SUBJ
dued the barbarity of human nature nor
wholly redeemed the civilized world from
Mans inhumanity to man..
Eve and all our countrymen protest
in the strongest language at our COM
mand and with the moral force which
our American citizenship gives US against
the murders and outrages. and we insist
that swift and condign punishment ought
to be visited upon their barbarous perpe-
traitors.
REQUIRE PROOF.
"I desire to avoid sounding discordant
note, but yet l cannot refrain from the
suggestion that the moral effect of our
protest and the usefulness OF this demon-
stration will not be lessened II we require
tindubitable proof before we accuse the
government OF Russia with guilty COM
plicity in the crimes committed WITHIN
her borders. and 1t seems to me we may
we'll consider the proper relationship be-
tween nations before we demand too pro-
nounced interference on the part OF our
own government. / do not say that the
Russian Government may not by reasons
OF omission or commission be justly de-
serving ,of our condemnation; but we
should not be swift to assume this when
we remember that we ourselves have
found 1t impossible to prevent mob vio-
lence and murderous assaults In Wyo-
ming and on the Italians In Louisiana.
I am distinctly and unequivocally In favor
of informing our government In unmis-
taxable terms of our deep condemnation
of the late outrages on the Jews In Rus
sa. but hope In obedience to the die
tates OF American conservatism and mod
Grafton, which are never long obscured,
we may be even now just and fair. and
that we will be content to forego per-
picking and extreme demands upon our
government for violent action.
I3IGOTED CREEDS
I'm the meantime let the people of the
United States, gathered together In such
assembages as this, In every part of the
land, fearlessly speak to the civilized
world protesting against every pretense
of civilization that permits mediaeval per-
secution against every blgoted creed that
forbids religious toleratoin and freedom
OF conscience, against qll false enlighten-
ment that excuses hatred and cruelty to-
wards any race OF men, and against all
spurious forms of government protection
that withholds from any human being
tho right to live in safety and toll in
peace"