And when his ministers set up the claim that our Government also "excludes undesirables" they endeavor to confuse the issue. I do not recall that our Government has ever denied admission to a traveler from a foreign land who came to our shores with a passport from his home government. It is inconceivable that any Jew would want to emigrate from this land of freedom and opportunity. where he can worship the God of his fathers without fear of persecution. where he enjoys all the privileges of American citizenship and receives the full protection of the laws of the land. to make his future home in Russia. Michael Davitt. in his "Within the Pale." has painted the picture of the life of the Russian Jew in the dominion of the Czar most admirably. He says: lie is under the obligations of citizenship. military and otherwise. without its privileges or full protection.
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