The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-29
GROVER SPEAKSI
FOR The JEWS
New Workers Condemn Re-
cent Russian 0utrageS.
3 G MEETING LAST NIGH
MayOr Low Presided and Mr.. Cleveland Vas
the Principal Speaker ---InVOkes Cau'ion IN
Charging Russian Government
With Completely.
lBy the Associated Press.)

/
New York, May 27.-There was great
and representative gathering at Carnegie
Hall tonight, called to protest against
the massacre of Hebrews at Kishineff The
announcement that former President Gro
yer Cleveland would speak, lent additional
interest to the gathering
While Mayor Low was delivering the
opening address, on the hope that Rus
STA would give more liberty to her Jew
ish subjects, Mr.. Cleveland entered and
was greeted with a tumult of cheers.
| When H Baldwin, Jr., read the reso-
buttons which were received with great
applause and adopted. They denounced
the massacre, urged -e claim of the
Jews in Russia to just treatment and
protection, and declared that the peo-
pie of the United States should exer-
else such influence with the government
of Russia as the ancient and unbroken
| friendship between the two nations may
Justify to prevent the recurrence of out
breaks such as have amazed the civilized
world"
Mr.. Cleveland said:
Il have only a word to say; but / wish
to be counted among those who are in
hearty sympathy Win the purpose of this
meeting. The influences of the prompt
ings of Christian civilization, and our
dutiful devotion to the best and deepest
of our national characteristics. This dem
onstration furnishes cheering and reassur-
ing evidence that our American sympa-
thy for the oppressed and abused where
ever they may be, our American love of
humanity and our attachment to Justice
and right, are stIl active aid unImpaired.
'.Inere is something intensely horrible
in til wholesale murder of unoffending,
defenseless men, women and children, who
have been tacitly, if not expressly, as
sured of safety under the protection Of
professcd civilized government. Such
things give rise to distressing fear that
even the enlightenment of the twentieth
century has neither destroyed nor sub
dued the barbarity Of human nature, nor
wholly redeemed the civilized world from
mans inhumanity to man.
1--WE, 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
lHdG SWIM punishment OhSub W LN FioAbCu
upon the barbarous perpetrators.
81 desire to avoid sounding discordant
note, and yet / cannot refrain from the
suggestion that the moral effect of our
protest and the usefulness of this demon
stration viii not be lessened if we re-
quire indubitable proof, before we accuse
the government of Russia with guilty COM
plicity in the crimes committed within
her borders; and it seems to me we may
well consider the proper relationship be
tween nations, before we demand to 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 dc
serving of our condemnation; but we
should not be swift to assume this. when
we remember that we ourselves have found
it impossible to prevent mob violence and
murderous assaults in Wyoming and on
the italians in Louisiana. / am distinctly
and unequivocally in favor of informing
our government in unmistakable terms of
our indignant and deep condemnation Of
the late outrages upon the Jews in Rus
STA; but / hope that in obedience to the
dictates of American conservatism and
moderation, which are never long OBJ
scured, We may De now just anu Idlf, ana
that we viii be content to forego perplex-
ing and extreme demands upon our gov
eminent for violent action.
"In the meantime let the people of the
United States, gathered together in such
.assemblages as this IN every part of the
land fearlessly speak to the civilized world
protesting against every pretense OF civil
lization that permits medieval persecu.
ton, against every bigoted creed that
forbids religious liberation and freedom
of conscience, against all false enlighten-
ment that excuses hatred and cruelty to-
wards any race of men, and against al
spurious forms of government protection
that withhold from any human being the
right to live IN safety and toll in peace"
NEGRO SHOOTS DEPUTY SHERIFF.