Photograph by E. M. Newman 



A VILLAGE STREET IX ROUMANIA 



The day of "tap water" in every house in Roumanian cities is still a long time in the future, 

 and such water-carriers as these are a common sight 



The Congress of Berlin, which over- 

 turned the Russo-Turkish treaty of San 

 Stefano, did not interfere with Russia's 

 determination to force Roumania to ac- 

 cept Dobrudja in exchange for Bessa- 

 rabia, and Roumania came out with less 

 than she had when she went in. All she 

 could do was to console herself with 

 Lord Beaconsfield's remark to her. that 

 "in politics the best services are often re- 

 warded with ingratitude." 



In 1881 the Roumanians decided that 

 they were entitled to the rank of a full- 

 fledged kingdom, and proclaimed their 

 country the Kingdom of Roumania. 

 crowning their sovereign king with a 

 crown of steel made from cannon cap- 

 tured by their ruler himself in the bloody 

 battle of Plevna. 



Although any one who comes to study 

 Roumania, her people, and their brave 

 history will be almost certain to sympa- 

 thize with the wrongs she has endured in 



years gone by, at the same time he will 

 not escape the feeling that she, too, has 

 contributed something to the injustices 

 of history. Always bitterly resentful of 

 ill-treatment toward any of her race by 

 other countries, she has forgotten to 

 show that charity toward others under 

 her power that she asks for her people 

 from other nations. Her treatment of 

 the Jew has been almost as harsh as that 

 patient race has experienced at the hand 

 of any oppressor. 



THE PERSECUTED BECOMES THE 

 PERSECUTOR 



It is hard to conceive in our own great 

 land of liberty and equality how any na- 

 tion could make such proscriptions 

 against a race as Roumania has made 

 against the Jew. Xo one is allowed to 

 employ a Jew who does not also employ 

 two Roumanians, and that means non- 

 employment for the sons of Israel. Jews 



