The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-22
SYMPATHY FOR
RUSSIAN JEWS
Mass Meeting in Washington 10 Ex-
press Sentiment on the Recent
Horrible Massacres.
STRONG SPEECHES MADE
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED AND
ADOPTED.

Washington, Jan. IA mass meet
ing OF citizens was held in Belasco's
theatre tonight to express sentiments
on the atrocities on the Jews IA Russia
The theatre was crowded. Senator
Patterson of Colorado, L.atiner of South
Carolina, Overman Of North Carolina
and Clark Of Arkansas and Represent
atives SUlzer and Bennett OF New York,
Rainey OF Illinois, HinEhaw OF NebTas-
ka, Taylor OF Alabama, Moon of Penn
sylvania ana Trimble OF Kentucky, and
Associate Justice Stafford Of the su-
preme court OF the District Of Column
bia occupied seats on the platform.
Representative William Sulzer presid-
ed. He said:
MIR. Suffers Speech.
1--WE have met tonight to protest
against wrongs and conditions and
outrages In Russia. We arraign the
government OF the cZar tonight before
the bar of civilization for great crimes
against q common humanity. The civ
ilized world is stunned and shocked
and grieved by the inhuman barbara
ties and appalling atrocities which
have been going on for the past two
years In Russia. During this short
time I am reliably informed by those
most competent to testify, more than
100000 innocent Jews, peaceable Cath
olics Poles fnoffensive Lutheran Firms
and law-abiding Christian ATmenians
helpless and defenseless men and wo-
men and children-absOlutely guilty Of
no wrong doing-have been cruelty, in
humanely, pitilessly and barbarOusly
murdered and butchered to make a
Russian holiday. There has been moth
ing like it in all the history of the
world, not during the horrors OF the
dark ages All the horrors of the In
QUESTION, all the bigoted religious per-
secutfOns of the middle ages, pale into
insignificance.
Official Russia Responsible.
What a spectacle Russia presents
at the dawn OF the twentieth CEN
fury. The barbaric work Of rapine,
plumber, outrage and assassination con-
tinues and increases. Thousands Of
helpless men, women and children are
being slaughtered before the very eyes
Of civilization and not a power lifts
its voice in protest, or raises a hand
in condemnation. Official Russia is
responsible for these awful atrocities.
I charge on my responsibility as a
member Of congress that it is sOlemnly
alleged. and not denied, and there is
a widespread and prevalent feeling
throughout the world that it is true,
that these terrible crimes Of rapine and
piIlage and devastation, that these bru-
tai atrocities, and that these monstrOus
murders Of the helpless Jews and Firms
and Poles and Armenians In Russia
are secretly connived by the Russian
government; that they have been in
cited by the Russian ruling classes, the
grand dukes-and that they are insti-
gated directly or indirectly by high
officials in Russia for religious and
political purposes.
Hopes to Be Heard.
st hope what we do here, and what
we say here, will reach the ears OF
the cringing car and his corrupt Cabal
of grand dukes. I believe that our pro-
test, our condemnation, and our denun-
citation will be heard in st. Petersburg
and that the Russian government will
see to it that the wholesale butchery
of the innOcentS is stopped.
I'VE appeal to public Opinion-to the
sober judgment of humanity-and we
know that once aroused, it rules the
destiny of the world. If Russia viii
not stop these crimes, humanity must
set face against Russia, ostracize Rus
STA from the family Of nations and
place Russia beyond the pale of it's
civilization, and then Russia and all
the iniquities Russia stands for. will
disintegrate- gradually fade
away in the morass Of governmental
oblivion
Mr.. Sulzer closed with a tribute to
President Roosevelt, especially for his
jealous and untiring efforts to ameIi-
crate the conditions Of the oppressed
and prosecuted in Roumania, Turkey
ard Russia"
Representative Henry T. Rainey of
Illinois said:
Mr.. Rainey's Address.
1.-THE opening years of this new cen
fury find America reaching out and ex-
ercising her influence for peace in the
remOtest corners of the earth. We have
saved the Russian empire from the as
saults Of the victorious Japanese-We
ought now, if we can, to save her from
herself.
Under her monotonous cruel des-
potism-under the ashes of ruined
homes; under the blood Of the muir
dered women and children which
stains the pavements of her cities. un-
der the dismantIed barricades in her
streets, there are hidden the various
forms of national development. For
the ashes of ruined homes, from the
sacrifices of splendid patriotism, from
the blood Of the martyrs a new Rus
STA is about to burst forth and contend
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