Message of Adolf Kraus

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Excerpt from Message of Adolf Kraus: President of the Executive Committee of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith to the Constitution Grand Lodge Convention at Washington, D. C., April, 1910 To the Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, in Convention Assembled: For your worthy consideration, the following report of matters affecting the Order, and of its activities in relation thereto during the five preceding years, is respectfully submitted by the undersigned. Shortly after the last Convention of the Order adjourned, through the efforts of the President of our Country, a Peace Conference was held at Portsmouth between the representatives of the Governments of Russia and Japan. When the Russian Government selected its representative, your Executive Committee was of the opinion that, although the Kishineff petition signed by leading men of this Republic, regardless of creed, had no visible effect upon the Russian Government, another attempt should be made to bring to the notice of that government the sentiment of the American people concerning the atrocities which were being continuously committed in the land of the Czar against our unfortunate co-religionists, and that even if the effort should again be unsuccessful, it was worth while undertaking, on the theory "Steter Tropfen hoehlt den Stein." I therefore requested Baron Schlippenbach who was then the Russian Consul at Chicago, to arrange if possible, an interview with the Russian envoy, in order that we might again present through him, to the Russian Government, our grievances. The Baron kindly undertook the task, and on August 2, 1905, wired me from New York, as follows: "You and party will be received with pleasure. At your arrival will appoint time. I think Friday evening, after the return from Presidential call." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.