Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-11-25
10 PROTEST AT
 MASS MEETING SENATOR'S CLARKE AND DAVIS AND CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON TO BE INVITED TO ATTEND.
ACT AGAINST RUSSIA
Rabbi FriSch In Sermon Urges Jews
 and Christians, To Trge Con t...
 gress to Abrogate Treaty.

! In the course of his sermon on s'Russia's s Insult 10 America de .livered at the Sabbath eve services at the Temple last night, Rabbi Ephraim Frisch urged the Christian citizens of Pine Bluff to join their Jewish friends in denouncing Rus- sia's violation or the existing treaty with America in it's refusal to honor American passports when borne by Jews. Catholic priests land Protes- tant missionaries and requesting Congress to abrogate fhe treaty with Russia.
 Rabbi Frisch insisted that this was a'' American question, not Jewish one Though the/ Jewish inhabitants felt the insult most, it was a blot on the American /escutcheou to permi, the great se91 Of the United States t> be ignored thus
 The present treaty, the speaker pointed ont, was made in 1892. The first article of that treaty guaran- |: ed the right to travel, on business O. on pleasure, in either country to the citizens. of the other country The United States, on it's side, has ob- served the treaty faithfully. Russia did too until 1879 when it began it's oppressive measures against it's own Jews. 1t then began to refuse to honor passports borne by Ameri- cans if they professed the Jewish faith. Notwithstanding protests, i; continues to violate its treaty obli- gations. Jewish citizens, howevsl distinguished they may be, however great may be their service to Ameri- ca, are denied admission into Rus sia, CT when treated as exceptions are let in under humiliating terms Catholic priests and Protestant mis- 1 sionaries are treated in the same i way. On American soil the Russian ambassador and consuls have the offrontery to cross examine Ameri- cans desiring to go to Russian on their religious utilization, something the United States government itsslf refrains from doing. "If'' Dr. Jacobi, the dean of the medical profe ssion ih America; if Dr. Simon Flexner, di- rector of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Resea!ch; if Professor AL bert Nicholson, the winner of the Nobel prize, or Prof. Boas, the greatest anthropologist in America; if Judge Julian Mack, of the Con- merce Court, or Louis Brandeis, the distinguished lawyer: if David Belas- co, the noted playwright, or David Warfield, the celebrated actor, asked for passport to travel in Russia, they would have to submit to the in- quisitorial process of the Russian agents here and then be told they could not enter Russia because they were Jews, unless indeed special cases were made of them and they were given permission to enter mot withs.anding they were members of the Jewish persuasion,' as was writ ten in the passport granted Oscar Straus, which the latter manfully re- fused
 Rabbi Frisch reviewed the remon st1ances of our State Department with Russia on this important ma ter. He recalled Secretary of State James c. Blaine's strong protest to the Russian foreign minister az inst this discrimination in 1881 and John Hays powerful note through Ambas. sador Mccormick in 1904. He noted tat Congress had passed elevn rsso- 'lu;ions between 1882 and 1909, call ing upon our State Department to do the utmost to put an end to this in- 'vidious condition. "Rat Russia, 7 said Rabbi Frisch, has hoodwinked and deceived the American govern mept from the day of President I'ays to the days of President Taft. For more than 30 years she has esaded the issue by pretending to appoint commission to saonssder tre natter, referring it to t'e Zen ta or puma or son'e other body, eith k Lon-existent or mere figurehead. The ordinary channels of diplomatic
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