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Show GOV CUTLER SENDS LETTER OF SYMPATHY 'in response to a request from J. P. Solomon, Sol-omon, editor of the Hebrew Standard. New York, for an expression of his opinion opin-ion of the massacre of Jews in Russia. Gov. Cutler has snt th following letter: "M.v Dear Sir: In reply to yours 'of the 14th Inst.. I take pleasure In brtefly expressing ex-pressing my views retarding the persecution persecu-tion to which the 3ews are being subjected subject-ed in Russia. 1 have always regarded religious re-ligious persecution as useless and cruai. Ita Justification is never to be found, .except .ex-cept In the inflamed Imagination of the pt-rsecutor; and, it Involves in its consequences conse-quences the innocent and unoffending for many, generations. Murder, outrage and rapine, directed in the name of religion by one party agalasl an6iher. cannot be Jiistlfled by any code of ethics, or by results. re-sults. 1 believe God will not fall to visit the Iniquity of such deeds on the heads of their perpetrators. And, further, it seems fitting that such a protest as you suggest should go up from every community against the infliction of this cruelly on an unoffending people. I say emphatically that your people have my unqualified sympathy in their afflictions. And If a unanimous protest from all paras of the civilised world can accomplish the object of staying the hand of persecution. I am more than willing to Join in it. It is too late, at the beginning cf the twentieth century.. fr religlou Iereciitlon to go unheeded and uncoil-demned. uncoil-demned. The soul of every true-hearted man and woman revolts against It, and to the suffering Jews the unlveixal heart of mankind goes out In deepest sympathy. "Much more could he said on so timely and important a subject, but the expression expres-sion of my opinion Is all. you ask for. You are at liberty to make whatever use you wish of this communication. With the hope that a day of liberty and enfran- , chisement will soon arise for your afflicted afflict-ed people, believe me. yours moI sincerely. sin-cerely. JOHN C. CUTLER." 1 |