New-York tribune., 1911-01-09
JEWS DENOUNCE RUSSIA
Rabbi Harris Says Pharaoh'S
Brutality Is ExCeIIed There.
PLEADS FOR INTERVENTION
Calls Oh United States to Erase
Blot on the Escutcheon of
the Goth Century"

Apologize. but persistent IN endeavorins
TO register his point, a large, cultured man
at Cooper Union last night made himself
unpopular with the mass meeting Of Jews
gathered TO hear Rabbi Maurice II. Harris
on the Russian persecution Of the race. He
became interrogative at the close Of Rabbi
Harriss powerful appeal
/ The large, cultured man wished 10 know
whether there was not some economic ten
( dency inherent in the ra e that might well
/ be expected to account for It's persecution in
! Russia and early lead 10 restricted immi-
/ grafton laws here. He referred-always
apologetically, parenthetically alleging with
! fervor that Jews were his best friends-to
| lower Broadway, where he said, the race
might be noted without spectacles or sur
cease from Nth street 10 the Battery
! DR.. George William Knox. chairman Of
the meeting, held under the auspices of the
/ Peoples Institute. requested of Rabbi Har-
ris permission TO reply. DR.. Knox vehe-
mently maintained that for this country TO
/ discriminate against any people on the
ground of its inherent economic tendency
{ dience applauded itself tired, and the gentle
/ inquirer subsided.
/ Rabbi Harris declared that there was a
! persecution OF the Jews going on in Russia
! to-day that not the plan OF Pharaoh ex-
! celled in brutality and hard heartedness.
! In a comparatively short time more than
! thirty thousand Jews had been driven from
| their homes.
/ They have been refused at some COM
nercial schools which they practically sup
port" said Dr.. Harris. The Minister Of
/ Education has ordered the closing Of jew
ish elementary schools and refuses perms-
I sion TO open secondary schools. Many ma
/ circulated students are prevented from en-
tering the universities.
/ The governor Of Kshnen has declared
/ II his ambition to make life into.erable for
! the Jews. Many Jewish inyalids have been
expelled from the Caucasus. while the Smo-
/ lensk hospital refuses attendance on Jews
not granted right OF residence The Real
| Russian Students Union forced Jewish
business houses TO purchase lottery tickets,
| the proceeds to be used against them.
| Are you surprised that under this process
| OF badgering there IS an alarming increase
J in lunacy among Russian Jews? The Real
/ Russian organization has declared its pro-
grdmme was to exclude all Jews from
| schools, professions guilds the army from
editing papers and owning houses
! Or. Harris closed with an appeal to the
| United States to intervene. he said Amer
| lea would have the right 10 intervene be-
cause those persecuted in Russia were com
| ing here as refugees. He mentioned the
| project now before the Legislature 20 re-
strict immigration, which he said was
making active propaganda. The order OF
/ United American Mechanics is spending. he
said, $4,000 to carry on the fight for such
restriction.
But 10 restrict at this end without using
/ preventive measures AT the Russian end IS
/ both Impractical and brutal" said DR.. Har-
ris "Our late Secretary OF State Hay
/ himself created a precedent OF quas-inter-
vention at the time when Rumanian perse
cution was driving Jews here In shoals"
! The applause that greeted his impas-
/ stoned reference % "our beloved country
the land Of jefferson and Lincoln" was
deafenlng. He said:
we appeal to the United States. that
stopped Spanish persecution in Cuba, to
stop the Muscovite's persecution OF the
Israelite We appeal TO this land that is
nearly a hundred million strong, and as
brave as il is strong, that has the power
| to do all that it wills, 10 erase this blot on
| the escutcheon Of the twentieth century
TO declare to the tyrant Russian, This shall
not be-"
I II was resolved TO send suitable resolu-
/ t,ons to President Taft Mr.. Knox Secre-
tary of State, and Congress, setting forth
the sense OF the meeting. A suggestion 70
include Governor Dix was received for later
action.