The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-07-17
JEWS OF RouMANIA
WILL CONTINUE AS
SERFS OF BALKAN
Liberation From Turkish Rule
Means Only Change Of
Masters.
cLEMENsEAU ENTERS PLEA
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Monstrous State of Affairs Exists In
Balkan Kingdom, He Says
Victims Foreigners In
Own Land.
cLEMENsEAU ENTERS PLEA

Paris-Special: Ex-Premier Glenn
ceau has just Published a stirring ar
ticle on the condition of the Rouman-
ian Jews, the last serfs still existing in
Europe" as they were recently called
by an Italian writer.
Although he says they have scaped.
from Turkish bondage, racial prejudice
is so strong in the Balkans that the
advantage of not being regularly
slaughtered in the future is the prin-.
cipal benefit they reap from the change
which in every way is a change OF
masters only.
Among Roumanians, whose high
sense of civilization in other respects
cannotsbe doubted, says M. Clemenceau
the anti Semitic feeling has now
reached the last degree of intensity.
The country has cheated her Jewish
population out of the civil and politi-
cal emancipation which she promised
the great powers at the Berlin congress
of 1878 to give them as the price of her
establishment as an independent ma
ton.
One clause in the treaty of Berlin.
h writer recalls, expressly states that
In Roumania differences in religion
shall not be a reason for exclusion from
civil and political rights, public enjoy
ments and posts of honor. TO this
clause Roumania subscribed only af-
ter the rest of Europe. had absolutely
Insisted upon it.
Fol eight months nothing of a prac-
teal nature was done to keep the
promise to the powers and then a new
law was passed permitting foreigners
meaning, of courses, Jews, thousands
Of families of whom had been in Rou-
mania for centuries-to become natur-
allied by a special act of parliament
in each case.
vt length, after urgent complaints of
the powers, the clause in the Berlin
treaty was made a law and Roumania
became a separate kingdom.
"Nevertheless," says M. Clemenceau,
"in the last 40 years less than 200 Jews
have been admitted to citizenship.
They are today foreigners in the
try in which they We're born-foreign-
ers, although their establishment in the
municipalities of the Danube is proved
oy the records of the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth centuries and despite the
fact that they share all the public bur
dens, including the heaviest of all, mil
ltary service.
'They are foreigners, although they
belong to no other nation and can
claim no protection from any other
power, thus forming an international
monstrosity by having no country.
The Jewish Rounanian soldier who
sheds his blood on the field of battle is
not allowed to enter a workshop be-
cause he is a foreigner. His children
are not admitted to school because they
are foreigners"
Only Jews of Dubroudja, annexed by
Roumania in 1878. and of Silistria, re-
Gently coded by Bulgaria, are citizens
in consequence of a special treaty.
"This,' continues M. Clemenceau, SIS
despite the fact that the 1sraelite in
habitants of Roumania have always
shown themselves perfectly loyal and
the development of the country's re-
sources is largely due to their efforts y
The writer concludes by saying that
he has the original text of the laws
bringing about this monstrous state OF
affairs and will publish them if any
denial of his statements appears in the
press.