Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-22

barities that were being committed in Rus
STA, and that he could assure the members
of his faith be they in any country of the
world, that the cry of the oppressed and
the suffering would never be raised in vain
so long as this country could lift an arm
In protest and In their defense. He was
cheered repeatedly throughout his speech
and warmly congratulated when at its
close the meeting broke up.
Chairman Downey, in opening the meet
ing said that he knew what oppression
meant and knew how his people had suf-
fered from it in Ireland for centuries past.
He compared the course of events in Russia
with those in Ireland where the formation
of the United Irish League, he said had
opened the prison doors, freed innumerable
patriots and had swept the tory govern
nient from power and changed the whole
complexion of parliament. The same
events. be hoped, would follow in Russia
and the united opinion of the world would
finally force the autocratc government TO
yield the people at least a modcum of the
liberties enjoyed In other lands and stop
the atrocities that were now shocking the
civilized world
Representative Sulzer
Representative Sulzer was then introduced
and said that he had always stood for the
under dog in the fight He was little be-
lever in creed and hoped he was no bigot.
But he did believe in the brotherhood of man.
The meeting for which he stood was ready
to indict the autoeratic government of Rus
STA at the bar of common humanity. A
crime against any race, he said, was the
concern of every race. The crime of Russia
against the Jews would form the greatest
bloodwet blot the page of history and
the time had come when If Russia did not
stop the massacre of the Jews, then the
nations of the world should step In and do
1t for her. He said further:
THE civilized world is stunned and
shocked and grieved by the inhuman bar
baritieS and appalling atrocities which
have been going on for the past two years
in Russia. During this short time, 1 am
reliably informed by those most competent
to testify. more than 100000 innocent Jews,
peaceable Catholic Poles, inoffensive Lu-
theran Firms and law-abding Christian
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and defenseless men,
women and children-absolutely guilty of no
wrong-have been cruelty, inhumanly, pitt
lessly and barbarously murdered and
butchered to make Russian holiday. There
has been nothing like it in all the history
of the world, or even during the horrors
of the dark ages: and humanity today
stands aghast, mortified and Mortified.
Whole communities have been destroyd by
fire and sword. All the horrors of the
inqusition, all the bigoted religious per-
secutions of the middle ages, pale into in
significance. The facts-all the facts-are
at present understandable. Russia suppresses
them.
What spectacle Russia presents at
the dawn of the twentieth century. A
vertable reign of terror exists. The bar
barrie work of rapne plumber, outrage and
assassination continues and increases.
Thousands and 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 raises
a hand in condemnation.
Official Russia is responsible for these
awful atrocities. l charge on my respon-
siblity a member OF Congress that it Is
soemnly alleged, and not denied, and there
G yFidpSpreaI prevalent feeling
throughout the world that 1t is true, that
these terrible crimes of rapine and pillage
and devastation, that these brutal astroci-
ties, and that these monstrous murders
of the helpless Jews and Firms and Poles
and Armenians dn Russia are secretly con-
nived at by the Russian government; that
they have been melted by the Russian rul-
ing classes-the grand dukes-and that they
are instigated, directly indirectly, by
high officials In Russia for religious and
political purposes.
Russia cannot avoid the awful and ire
mendous responsibility. 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. 1 believe that our
protest, our condemnation and our denun-
citation will be heard in ST. Petersburg, and
that the Russian government will see to II
that the wholesale butchery OF the limo
cents is stopped.
''The voice of christendom Numbered
against the unspeakable Turk, and Greece
was free. Civilization hurled it's demands
to the prosecuted Armenians. America
sympathized with Ireand's grlevous
wrongs and patriotic aspirations and home
rule followed The allied armies of the
great powers stamped out the massacres In
fanatical China. The stars and stripes
drove the yellow flag of Spain from the
fairest island in the Antilles. What has
been done can again be DONE
1--WE appeal to public opnion-to the
sober Judgment of humanity-and We know
that once reused 1t rules the destiny of the
world If Russia will not stop these crimes
humanity must set its face against Russia,
ostracize Russia in the family of nations
and place Russia beyond the pale of It's
civilization, and then Russia and all the IN
iquities Russia stands for will disintegrate
cease, and gradually fade away In the
morass of government oblivion"
Mr.. Sulzer closed with a tribute to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, especially for his Jealous
and untirng efforts to adneliorate the con-
ditions of the oppressed and prosecuted in
Roumania. Turkey and Russia.
Judge stafford's Address.
/. Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford made one
of the most impressive addresses Of the
evening. He said that the present situa-
ton in Russia outelassed the terrors OF |
the inouisition or the blood-spattered car |
nival of st. Bartholomew. You had to go, |
he said, back to the Babylonian captivity, |
or to the days of bondage In Egypt to find |
a parallel The world had been caloused |
TO slaughter on the field Of battle, but not |
to murder in cold blood. The present situ- |
alton, he said, marked the highest noun |
tain peak Of crime on the horizon of his |
tory. 1t was the vengeance and the spite /
of discredited aristocracy venting itself |
on the only race within the Russian en-