The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27

Protest About Treatment Of
 Jews In Russia
Mass Meeting of Bridgeport Hebrews Adopts Resolutions Calling For AbrogatiOn of Treaty

Resolutions denouncing the action of
 the Russian government in refusing to
 recognize passports issued to Ameri-
 can citizens of the Jewish faith, were
 passed at a mass meeting held in
 Warner hall, yesterday, under the aus
 pices of Bridgeport lodge. Independent
 Order of Brith Abraham. The meet
 ing is said to have been the largest
 gathering of Hebrews ever held in
 Bridgeport.
 The following resolutions which had been previously passed at a meeting of the lodge were spresented and unan- imously adopted and Charles H. Sha- piro and Theodore E. Steiber were ap- pointed committee to see that they were placed in the hands of Senators Brandegee and Mclean and Congress
 man Hill:
 Whereas, For more than a genera
 tion passports issued by our govern
 ment to American citizens have been
 openly and continually disregarded
 and discredited by Russia in violation of its treaty obligations and the usage of civilized nations.
 During all that time administration after administration, irrespective of party, has protested against this in suit and humiliation, and Congress has on repeated occasions given emphatic  1 stain imposed upon our national honor. Diplomacy has exhausted Itself in in- effectual effort to bring relief, for | which a new generation is impatient ly waiting.
 CANNOT BE TOLERATED. ''The citizenship of every American | who loves his country has in conse-
 quence been subjected to degradation, i and it has become a matter of such l serious import to the people of the l United States, as an entirety, that this condition can no longer be tolerated. ''Be it therefore resolved, That 1t l is the sense of the above lodge of the l speaking not as a representative of Jews, but as body of citizens having
 at heart the preservation of the honor | of the nation, joining in generous
 emulation with all other citizens to
 elevate Its moral and political stand l ards and to stimulate an abiding con- ! sciousness of its ideal mission among | the nations of the earth, that the
 President of the United States, the | Department of State, and Congress be respectfully and earnestly urged to
 take immediate measures, in conform l ity with the express terms of the 1 treaties now existing between Russia,
 and in accordance with the law of na- | tions, to terminate such treaties, to l the end that if treaty relations are to 1 exist between the two nations, it shall be upon such conditions and guaran- | tees only, as shall be consonant with the dignity of the American people,.
 "Be it further resolved, That copy | of this resolution be forwarded to the
 Congresmen of our respective districts and the Senators of our States
 "In witness whereof we, it's officers have hereunto set it's hand and seal l this 18th day of November, 1911. (Signed) SAMUEL CLARK, l President. (Signed) 4eLOUIS JUNT, Secretary" | Judge Leon Saunders of New York, | grand master of the Independent Or der of Brith Abraham, was the prin- | cipa1 speaker at the meeting. Ad- | dresses were also made by former AL I derman Horace H. Jackson, Rabbi M. | Wittenstein, M. Rosenthal and Attor-
 neys Charles H. Shapiro and Theodore
 E. Steiber.
 Following the meeting a banquet
 was held at the Little Hungary res- taurant, at which covers were laid for I 200