Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-19
Forbidden to Defend themselves

which is Kishenev, has been summon
ed to st. Petersburg.
Forbidden to Defend Themselves.
A ministerial circular forbidding the
Jews to defend themselves has been
issued. 1t is expected that this step
will stimulate Jewish immigration to
America
Three thousand suits for damages
have been instituted against the state
at kishenev. The damages demanded
amount to $1,500,000.
Protest From Baltimore.
Baltimore, Md, May 49, Resolu-
tions calling upon the United States
to bring such influences to bear upon
the Russian government as may tend
to bring about cessation of the inhu-
manities and outrages against the
Jews We're adopted at a mass indig-
nation meeting held here yesterday af-
ternoon.
Among the speakers We're former
Governor William Pinkney Whyte, eX-
Congressman John " l.. Findlay, May
or Hayes, Roger w. Gull, and Leon
Greenbaum. Letters of sympathy
were read from Governor John Walter
Smith, United States Senator McCom-
as. Attorney General Isador Raynor,
Simon Wolf, and leading church di-
vines, all expressing their horror ever
the massacre at I<ishenev and the con-
viction that the United States should
use it's good offices to bring about a
suppression of such atrocities in the
future.
Cardinal Gibbons Sends Protest.
Among the letters was the following
from Cardinal Gibbons:
"Dr. Henry Friedenwald, chairman
My Dear Sir: | regret that my en-
forced absence from the city on May IL
will prevent my presence at the meet
ing you have called to give voice TO
your horror at the events that have re-
Gently taken place Kishenev.
have no hesitation, however, to eX--
press my deep adherence at the mas
sacres that have carried to their.
graves gray hair and innocent child
hood Our sense of justice revolts at
the thought of persecution for relig-
ions sake but when persecution is at
tended with murder and pillage the
brain reels and the heart sicllens, and
enormity of such crime. What blot
upon our civilization is this slaughter
of inoffensive men. women and chill
dren. Please convey to the meeting
my grief for the dead; my sympathy
for those made helpless by the murder
of their natural protectors, and my
sincere hope that this twentieth CEN
ltury will see the end of all such occur
rences, and that peace, good will and
brotherly love may prevail on earth.
James Cardinal Gibbons"
Only One Way of Protest.
Washington, D. c., May 1S.-There
appears to be only one way in which
the United States government can ven
ture any protest to the Russian gov
ernment against the outrages said to
have been perpretrated by the mohs
on the Jews in this country. Ii the
Jews, said to be thus oppressed, begin
to emigrate to the United States in
great numbers, and, on arriving here
succeed in passing the immigration in
spection, yet show that they are i'll
fitted for the struggle to exist in a
strange land, the United States might
protest against any treatment to these
people which it deemed irresponsible
for the influx OF pauperS. All the state
| department has done is to ask Ambas-
sador Mccormick to make inquiry of
| the reported atrocities from the foreign
| Office at ST. Petersburg, which replied
| that the situation is we'll controlled
and there is no need for supplies, for
which funds are now being collected
i in tha lfOital States