Show UNCLE SAM FORTIFIED Secretary Hay Verified All Complaints Com-plaints Made Respecting Harshness Harsh-ness of Roumanian Laws n1ess I Washington Sept 20ln view of the disposition shown In some quarters In Europe to question the propriety of the interference of the United States In behalf of Roumanian Jews and in having in mind a statement from Rou manian authorities to the effect that these Jews had declined agricultural work It may be of Interest to note the fact that the State department was particularly careful to verify all the complaints that had reached here from various sources respecting the harshness harsh-ness of Roumanian laws While the treaty of Berlin explicitly forbade dlHcrlmlnation against any person per-son In the Balkan states on account of religion the Roumanian Government sought to evade the clear provision by decreeing that the 400000 Jews living In the country were not citizens and consequently that their protection was not contemplated by the treaty Therefore There-fore without naming the Jews as the direct object of hostile legislation the Roumanian Government proceeded to enact certain laws which the Slate department de-partment icgardcd as In deliberate violation vio-lation of the spirit of the treaty For Instance one law provided that no Jew should live In the agricultural sictloiis of the country Another prohibited pro-hibited Jews from engaging In agricultural agricul-tural t labor Another forbade the Jews to own farm lands Finally a law declared de-clared that anyone who employed a Jew should 1 also employ no less than two Roumanians and this restriction was prohibitive of Jewish labor in the small establishments Altogether the working 1 of these laws an recited In Secretary Hays circular note was to deprive the Jews in Rou nnlnla of nearly all opportunity to earn an honest living and find honorable employment em-ployment These facts will doubtless be enlarged en-larged upon If I the Roumanian Government Govern-ment undertaken to Impeach the statements state-ments contained In the Jewish note |