The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-17
JEWS OF ROUMANIA
WILL CONTINUE AS
SERFS OF BALKAN
Liberation From Turkish Rule
Means Only Change Of
Masters.
CLEMENsEAU ENTERS PLEA.
Monstrous State Of Affairs Exists In
Balkan Kingdom, He Says
Victims Foreigners In.
Own Land. NJ

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. .I@t LII
Although he SAYS they have escaped
from Turkish bondage, racial prejudice
is 50 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. s|I
Among Roumanians, whose high
sense Of civilization In other respects
cannot be doubted, says M. Clemenceau
the anti Semitic 1 feeling a now
reached the last degree Of intensity.
The country has cheated her Jewish
population out of the civil n polite
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. .G.,, =.
one clause in the treaty Of Berlin,
the writer recalls, expressly states that
in Roumania differences in religion
shall not be q reason for exclusion from
civil and political rights, public enjoy
clause Roumania subscribed only at
ter the rest Of Europe had absolutely
insisted upon IL. ~.'r
For eight months nothing of a prac-
tical nature was done to keep the
promise to the powers, n 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. IS. - ~ ~
AT length, after urgent complaints OF
the powers, the clause in the Berlin
treaty was made a law and Roumania
became a separate kingdom.
Nevertheless" say M. Clemenceau,
''in the last 40 years less than 200 Jews
have been admitted to citizenship.
They are today foreigners in the coun-
try In which they were born-foreign-
ers, although their establishment in the
2rincipalities of the Danube Is proved
oy the records Of the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth centuries and despite tho
fact that they share all the public bur-
dens, including the heaviest OF all, mil
itary service. 81.
'"They are foreigners, although they
belong to no other nation and a
claim no protection from any other
power, thus forming an international
m~onstrosity by having no country.
. The Jewish Roumanian soldier who
sheds his blood on the field OF battle is
not allowed to enter q workshop be-
cause he is a foreigner. His children
are not admitted to school because they
are foreigners" vi s.
Only Jews of Dubroudja, annexed by
Roumania in 1873, and of Silistria. re-
Gently ceded by Bulgaria, are citizens
in consequence Of a special treaty!
This" continues M. C~lemenceau, sis
despite the fact that the Israelite 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"
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 n
denial of his statements appears in the
press.