Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1902 — DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR JEWS. [ARTICLE]

DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR JEWS.

Hay Sends Note Protestin* Against Roumanian Oppression. Secretary Hay, in a note to United States ambassadors In Europe, has entered protest against oppression of Jews in Roumania. Secretary Hay has taken the step with the double purpose of protecting the long-suffering Jews of the Balkan states and of averting the present peril of the immigration into the United States es a horde of paupers.

The action takes the form of a state paper, remarkable in several respects, which has been dispatched in identical form to every ambassador and minister of the United States residing in one of the countries of Europe, which wire parties to the treaty of Berlin of 1878— namely: Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey, narking the termination of the Turke-Russian war and the creation by direct act es the powers of the independent Balkan states. Because the powers are thus responsible for the existence of Roumania, ths culprit-in this case, the Secretary of State has directed the note to them in the hope that they will bring the Roumanian government to a sense of its duties toward civilisation at large, as well as ts cause it to ameliorate the frightfuTcondition of the Roumanian Jews. The Euterpeaa Ladies* Chorus of Columbus, Ohio, which participated in the Welsh Eisteddfod at Colwynbsy, Wales, was awarded second prise in competition with tea other choruses.