"Putting together the facts now plainly brought home to this Government during the past few years, that many of the inhabitants of Roumania are being forced, by artificially adverse discriminations, to quit their native country; that the hospitable asylum offered by this country is almost the only refuge left to them; that they come hither unfitted, by the conditions of their exile, to take part in the new life of this land under circumstances either profitable to themselves or beneficial to the community; and that they are objects of charity from the outset and for a long time--the right of remonstrance against the acts of the Roumanian Government is clearly established in favor of this Government. Whether consciously and of purpose or not, these helpless people, burdened and spurned by their native land, are forced by the sovereign power of Roumania upon the charity of the United States. This Government cannot be a tacit party to such an international wrong. It is constrained to protest against the treatment to which the Jews of Roumania are subjected, not alone because it has unimpeachable ground to remonstrate against the resultant injury to itself, but in the name of humanity. The United States may not authoritatively appeal to the stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin to which it was not and cannot become a signatory, but it does earnestly appeal to the principles consigned therein because they are the principles of international law and eternal justice, advocating the broad toleration which that solemn compact enjoins and standing ready to lend its moral support to the fulfilment thereof by its co-signatories, for the act of Roumania itself has effectively joined the United States to them as an interested party in this regard. "You will take an early occasion to read this instruction to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, should he request it, leave with him a copy. "I have the honor to be, "Your obedient servant, "JOHN HAY". BIBLIOGRAPHY (All works referred to in the text are given below. A number of other works that have been found useful are also included.) Alexinsky, Gregor. _Modern Russia._ New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. _Alliance Israelite Universelle_, 1870 to 1900. _The American Jewish Year Book._ Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1900-1913. ---- 1913. Jewish Immigration to the United States, pp. 283-4. Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants of Philadelphia. _Annual Reports_, 1885 to 1910. Balch, Emily Greene. _Our Slavic Fellow-Citizens._ New York Charities Publication Committee, 1910. Bluntschli. Dr. _Roumania and the Legal Status of the Jews in Roumania._ London, Anglo-Jewish Association, 1879.