Show THE JEWS IN ROUMANIA The Kansas City platform left out one Important plank I cried Its eyes out In a plank of sympathy for the Boers but there was a case nearer home that ought to have had n bigger call upon thorn For Instance the treaty which gave Roumnnla a separate sepa-rate Government drew around certain protection to nil classes of citizens hut the Government Is ignoring all that There arc 200000 Jewn In Rou mania most of them descended from those who have been settled there for 1 I generations but of the whole only 900 I I arc citizens because the Government i contrary to the treaiy has practically I denied citizenship to the Jews They I f thus being aliens In thy eye of the law are den lit free education There are 120000 rhildrcn of their race who arc I entitled to It but only by paying fees i I I arc 2000 of them able to obtain educational I educa-tional advantages which lire free to I Ronmanlnns The hltcr schoois ore I clO cd t9 d t11c jmCW1 I RJ ln establishing sclieqls 1 of beirnWn I I I No Jew is permitted to hold a Government i Govern-ment ofllce or 0 position In u hospital or on n railway No Jew may be an architect n veterinary surgeon a dispensing dis-pensing chemist or a lawyer No Jew can be employed tho national bank or SaO In the Chamber Commerce or hold a commission In the army vA Jew cannot sell tobacco or salt and by 0 special act against peddlers 20000 of them havo been brought to the verge I of starvation They have been expelled ex-pelled from the country and heavy obstacles ob-stacles have been placed In tho way of their obtaining a i living In the town Tho result is they arc being forced away by thousands and tens pC thousands thou-sands to seek out more generous countries coun-tries In which to make a livelihood There Is presented n case which the Democratic platform might well have taken cognizance of and It 18 strange 1 that It did not because there are a I glut many Jewish voters In the United 1 States The Boer resolution was made for the benefit of the Germanborn and Irishborn citizens l is strange they left out the Jews |