Show 7 HEBREW immigrants r august I 1 secretary ater 1 r today jay addressed addres sei i a letter to simon aou said lewis abraham abraks president secretary respectively of the union V if american hebrew congregations in reference to overtures made to the department for the release from detention of russian hebrew aioo migrants immigrants hold held at now new york and boyton as bisted immigrants whose landing 10 by law itt in their letter to the secretary agre wolf and abraham stated that the hebrew societies of the united states while they deplored this kind of immigration and had advised their brethren in foreign countries to pro pre tent 00 it were willing to stand the ex mm of caring for the immigrants wd were ready to give the govern meat a satisfactory bond guaranteeing that tha dome of these refugees should be ome public charges within the mean IUS of the A merican american ia law W in ill his answer to the communication foster says in part 1 I fully bar tn in your estimate of the m ig g nude allude of the present calamity which ahe befallen so many of your race as well ell as in your hope that an early or cessation of current Otea auree of expulsion may render un beo essary any general migration of hebrews to america or else vere vare unquestionably A a great and woden influx of destitute aliens of any nee would be a great misfortune to aw country and the american hebrews act patriotically and humanely when they advise the jewish wageeh against coming hither but at the be some same time to endeavor to render self supporting those who finally come obviously the support of numbers of dependent persons is ia a tax upon the resources s of f t the country even though private funds and qu to te as plainly industrial conditions here might be seriously disturbed by the arrival and enforced competition of multitudes of needy poor benoe it is ia important to the last de W ik Q 16 gree that the volume of this refugee immigration be not excessive or threatening and that with the entire certainty thatis that it shall be promptly and widely distributed so as am to supply a real want in scattered communities and interfere as little as aa possible with the existing and normal industrial conditions dit ions rho abe apparent scope and thorough ness of your plans for securing this ibis immediate and wide distribution of expected refugees refu kees are most gratifying and ayou the success of your association in carrying out these plans will largely depend the possibility of the government meeting your views in other respects while the immigration laws of the united states must and will be enforced I 1 agree aggee with you that those laws were never enacted lu iu abrogation of the plainest requirements me me of humanity and no worthy immigrant who in all other respects meets the demand of our statutes should be excluded from the country because through the actions of others he is for the time being homeless and without property shall rely upon your voluntary assurance that you will actively urge upon your brethren in fu europe the attitude of our laws toward utia unassisted misted immigration I 1 also beg to remind vou that any tendency abroad to deflect toward this country a movement of destitute refugees or to stimulate their migration hither would be distinctly hostile to the spirit manifested in your letter and to the spirit in which the government of the united states scales desires to treat this difficult and delicate problem |