The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-16
In Behalf of Russian Jews.

In Behalf Of Russian Jews.
The interview of the executive council
Of the great Jewish organization B'Nai
BIRTH, which stands for Jewish sentiment
In this country, with the president and
secretary Of state, yesterday, at Washing
ton, with reference to Intervention In be-
half of the Russian Jews by our govern
ment, was, as might be supposed fruitless
In such results as the American Jews de-
sire.
Tho president and Secretary Hay re-
ceived the deputation most cordially and
made very sympathetic speeches, the
president citing examples Of the effective
ness Of the Jewish policemen in New York.
as known to him thru his experience when
one of the police commissioners Of that
city. Both gentlemen explained that moth
ing could be done at present, and that our
government could not assume that the
car Is not doing all that is in his power,
as "a lover Of peace and religious toler-
ance" ((secretary Hay). to put a stop to
such atrocities as the Kishenef massacre
and punish the guilty.
The president told the delegation Of the
visit Of Count Cassini, the Russian am
bassador, to the White House, where he
declared that the czar had already re-
moved the governor Of Kishinef and had
ordered the arrest of several hundred Of
the participants in the outrages. Mr.
Hay commended the harried Russian Jews
to God and said 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." This
is well and piously said, but the B'Nai
B'Rith geneltmen would rather have the
sympathy with some aggression in it.
Not Jew in the delegation believed that
Count Cassini spoke the truth, or Is
often capable of speaking otherwise than
in strictly diplomatic language, which a
mastery diplomat once said was language
intended to conceal the truth. Cassinis
statement Of alleged fact does not seem
to have any currency in Russia. The
counts deliverances on the subject of
Manchuria have proven so contradictory,
even when made to our government in an
official way, that dubiety must attach to
any other statement he may make. The
BsNal Birth deputation desired our gov
eminent to promote unofficially or semi
officially, a petition to the czar in be-
half Of the amelioration Of the present in
tolerable condition of the Russian Jews, as
MS own subjects, or to issue a circular
note to the civilized powers embodyins an
Invitation to attend an International con-
ference to consider prosecutions and OBJ
pressions growing out of religious pre-
JUDGES and hatred, and adopt means for
international concord preventing such
prosecutions. The president has promised
to take these suggestions into consider
alton.
The experience Of our government in
making the mildest kind Of suggestions
TO Russia and Roumania. the chief Jew
batting nations OF Europe since Germany
fierce anti-Senitic fury cooled down.
is not encouraging for further action. Ru-
ANNA has not paid the slightest attention
to Secretary Hays request that there be
an abatement Of Jew batting on the
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this country kind of immigration not
desired. Russia has officially suggested
In plain words that her internal troubles
are within her own province, and that
she would not tolerate outside interference
with these domestic affairs. The head
OF the Russian police department go stated
OFFICIALLY the other day. AS the European
powers declined to interfere with the
turkish amusement Of Strengthening Ar
menian Christians by the tens of thous-
ands without lifting finger to stop the
deadly work. 1t IS not likely that thew
| would promote an International congress-
designed for unity Of interference in tho
interest of the Jews. But such occur
renee as the Kishinef massacres have
startled the civilized world and invoked a
most serious contemplation of the iniouitv
OF religious and racial hatred and into1er.
ance IN an age boasting Of its higher intel
hgence and humane spirit, and which i
more and more coming under the influence
OF the highest Christian and philosophic
teachings as to the brotherhood of the
human race and rejecting the medieval
theory of the mental and moral inferfor;t,
OF the Jew. Even Russia can be reached
in these latter days by the pressure Of a
well-defined public opinion against such
blind and cruel prejudices as the Kishine4
massacre suggests, expressed thru the o,t
side civilized world.
The street railway company really ought
to take up the suggestion Of the real
estate men, that regular observation