The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-21
HEBREW WRITER
ATTACKS WHITE
Jews viii Lend No More to
Russia
CONFERENCE WAS A lRICk
Isdore Singer Wants to See All Jews
Leave Russia and Come
to This Country of
Freedom.
CONFERENCE WAS A TRICK

Chicago. August 2O.-(specia1.)-A spe-
cial to the Record Herald from New York
says:
The American Hebrew in its issue today
contains the following presentation of tho
case of the Jews in Russia, written as an
open letter by Isidore Singer, Phi d. the
protector and managing editor OF the
Jewish Encyclopedia, addressed to M.
White, the Russian plenipotentiary:
"Parlons peu, parlons bien.
AN open letter to his excellency, Ser
gius de Witte
Your Portsmouth press bureau has GER
tainly translated for your private use
Mr.. Mandelkern's de yisu description III
this mornings Times of darkest Russia
This mastery, because genius, taoleau
of the true state of things in your own
and the fatherland of about 6OOO'VW Oh
my core-ligionists, togther with the con-
ference you had yesterday with fve prom
inent Jewish gentlemen, suggested 10 mo
the thought of having little neart u
heart talk with your excellency, not IN
the secrecy of your reception room, put
with thousands of American citizens as
witnesses.
Sees a Clever Trick.
cit was very clever on your part to IN
duce men of the sterling value and social
standing of Jacob H. Schiff, Isaac N.
Seligman, Oscar 8. Straus, Adolph u
Lewisohn and Adolf Kraus to call on
you, apparently to discuss the Jewish
problem in Russia, but really In order
to catch the sympathy of the Rothschilds
and the Rothschild group in Europe you
know best that your government mas
not the slightest idea of ameliorating the
unhappy lot of it's Jewish subjects. MI
Schiff's melancholc statement that the
discussion at Portsmouth cannot lead 10
any practical result, although, indirectly,
the mutual frank exchange OF views may
finally be of beneficial consequences, JUS
titles on the part of those who took the
trouble to study the Russian problem the
question whether, after all, the none
spokesmen of the Jews of Russia nave
not been the victims of the Russian
species of the ill-famed fides Punica
There is strong party among us Oh
the opinion that the time OF begging ZOE
favors and privileges on behalf Of the
5000, OOo Jewish subjects of your father
land, whose free and relatively prosper
GUS Polish ancestors were, 1873 years ago,
against their will annexed by Cath
crime H., is over, and over forever.
Sees Signs of Freedom.
mo more petitions, no more audiences.
The Russian Jews have thrown In their
lot with that of their other fellow suf-
ferers, the 100000 Poles and Firms and
Germans and other non Russian national-
ties which are still kept under the heels
of mutinous soldiery and a corrupt police.
But how long will 1t be before the
sounds of the Russian bell of liberty will
ring out from the top of the holy krem-
Ina few feet from the historic spot
where Sergius. the Jew batter, was torn
to pieces by a Greek orthodox bomb?
Does your excellency know that the
entire Jewish press of this country pub
l.shed a few weeks ago an urgent appeal
to all Jewish bankers not to participate
in any Russian loan unless an ameliora-
ton of the position of our Jewish fellow
citizens-if this expression be not ironic-
| be granted by our imperial master, his
mother and the grand ducal coterie-
grant, not promised? Knowing as | do
Messrs. Schiff and Seligman, can assure
you that not one penny will leave their
| vaults to patch up the Russian exche-
quer. Then, der liebe muehe ist umsonst
at least this time, for Japs and Jews
men of your stamp, for they have studied
the method of the Kulak more thorough
ly than the Tchin itself.
Would Seek Another Land.
And now. does your excelency wish
that reveal to you my innermost
| thoughts enent the fate of nv coreligion-
lists in your fatherland? / have studied
the latters political, agricultural, social
| ana religious status because, according
to my idea, the only question of impor-
| lance before the contemporary house of
Israel is the Judeo-Russian problem.
| Well, since | love my brethren, | would
| ii | had the means to take them out of
their present living hell and transfer
them either over your one-track Trans
Siberian railway to Manchuria, which
now has been torn from your clutches by
Togo and Oyama, or over land and sea TO
some happy island in new world. For
| how deep must be the misery Of the
( down-trodden Jewish outlaw If the $1,000,
600 Greek orthodox sovereign slaves are
slowly starving to death for the higher
benefit of a greedy bureaucracy?
You know better than anyone else
that the somber tableau of the Russian
PEASANTS life, drawn by men like Simcho-
witch, Schwanebach and Lokhtn cor
rectly represent the truth. My pity goes
out indeed, not only to the Hebrew
dweiler of the pale, but also to the poor
moujil< in the mir earning or 10 cents
day, seeing meat on his table twice a
year and living in hovels compared with
which even the cabins Of the miserable
cotter In Western Ireland seems like
palaces.
Condition Worse Than Africa.
why should l not feel deep sorrow
with the 160000000 human beings who are
| shamefully exploited by n vile camar-