The Hebrew is never a beggar; he has always kept the law--life by toil--often under severe and oppressive restrictions.

It is also true that no race, sect, or class has more fully cared for its own than the Hebrew race.

But the sudden transfer of such a multitude under conditions that tend to strip them of their small accumulations and to depress their energies and courage is neither good for them nor for us.
The banishment, whether by direct decree or by not less certain indirect methods, of so large a number of men and women is not a local question.

A decree to leave one country is in the nature of things an order to enter another--some other.

This consideration, as well as the suggestion of humanity, furnishes ample ground for the remonstrances which we have presented to Russia; while our historic friendship for that Government cannot fail to give assurance that our representations are those of a sincere well-wisher.[1] [Footnote 1: Third Annual Message to Congress by President Harrison, December 9, 1891, _Messages and Papers of the Presidents_, Vol.