The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-07

powers; but entirely as home for
the regathering of the Hebrew race,
and their installation as rulers
and residents of the land of their
fathers. 1t is claimed that the
exigencies of the Sultan's financial af-
fairs are such that an equitable pur-
chase OF Palestine, including of course
a total surrender of all his rights and
claims of sovereignty over it, could now
be effected. With his Empire convulsed,
his throne trembling, his dynasty de-
moralized, in the midst of bloody wars,
with all Europe threatening him, his
army impaired, his credit ruined, and
his Treasury bankrupt, it is, not unreas-
onably, presumed that the Turkish mon
arch would yield his province of Pales-
tine to the touch of gold. And this is
the predicate of the present idea looking
to its peaceful restoration to the hands
of the Jews.
That the money which its purchase
would require could be obtained with
out difficulty or delay, is unquestiona-
BILE. 1t is a fact, known to all Christen-
dom, that there are accumulated fortunes
now in the hands of but few indlYidu-
ais OF the Hebrew race more than sutii.
cient to buy Judea from its Mosem
owners. 1t would be, indeed, one more
marvel in the history of that marvellous
race, If the orderings of Gods proyi-
dence should be found TO have been
gathering up imperial wealth within the
vaults of such men as the Rothschilds, +,
through generations of accumulation, to
make possible thereby The restoration
OF Judea to the Jews. And the Roth
schilds are by no means the only ones OF
that race whose wealth has become fab
lulous. Nor would the aid of those oil
the Christian races be lacking, il
needed, for this great purpose.
1t has often been stated heretofore
that those Hebrew bankers Of Europe
have actually taken "mortgages on Jeru.
salem," for loans made to its Turkish
masters, to an amount sufficient to cover
the cost of its purchase. Whether this
be true, or not, the Turk must now have
money. The loan markets of the worlU
are closed against him by reason of de
fault Of payment, and reputation Of in
terest. He has no alternative but tt
sell outright some portion of his terri
tory. The pride of the Monarch woult
certainly resist its being taken by force
but the interests of the Merchant woult
consent to its transfer by treaty.
: 1t is well known that schemes OF
similar kind have been broached on va
rious occasions in times past; and al
have resulted in failure. And so tol
may this. But we know of none predl
Gated on Il plan so liberal as this, and Sc
free from mere religious or tanaticaI i'm
pulse. The others were crusades, be
gotten in bigotry and resulting in disas
ter This, if it means anything, simply
means business.
TO redeem the land which Abraham
colonIzed, and which Joshua conquered
The land for which Moses legislated, ant
where David and Solomon reigned; the
land where Isaiah wrete and where
CHRIST lived and died, TO redeem tha
land from the dominion of its presen
most ignoble masters, without war
without strife or the shedding of blood
and handing it over once more to thu
long scattered and prosecuted descend
ants of the great patriarch of their race
> would be an event in every way worth,
Of the civilization of the age, and com
memorative Of the great historic era il
which we live.