The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-30
Grand and Poetic Scheme Witch
MdU Yet be Realised.

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GSt. Louis Globe Democrat
A rumor of curious import comes from
Europe. Stripped of unnecessary ver-
biage, it is simply to the effect that a
project is on foot for the occupation of
Palestine by the Russian troops, thus
confning Turkey to Asia Minor. This
conquered territory is thereupon to be
colonized by long-exiled children of
Abraham, who are to come from the
North and from the South, from the
East and from the West, and to sit down
in the land of their fathers. The "lost
tribes" which, according to some au-
thorities, are to be found in the heart of
Armenia, and whose descendants are
supposed TO be HISTORIANS, are to be
brought from their hiding-place to be
reinstated in the land of their ancestors,
and the chosen people" are again to
inhabit the Holy Land as nation, un-
der the protection of a company COM
posed of the Jewish bankers of the
world.
This is the report, and though it is a
wild vagary of Imagination which few
will listen to and none credit, it is
worthy of moments attention, since
it gives expression to what was once the
dearest hope of the Jewish heart. For
ages after the triple wall of Zion had
been leveled, her towers and palaces
destroyed, and of her Temple not one
stone left upon another, the longings OF
the exiled Jew we're for return to the
city of David; and when he prayed, no
matter in what corner of the earth he
was, with reverence his face was turned
toward that spot where the gorgeous
temple of Solomon once glittered in the
sun, and his supplication was fashioned
according to the model of his great
King, in the hope that the Almighty
would indeed "hear in heaven, His
lofty habitation, and, hearing, forgive
For many centuries, and indeed
throughout the Middle Ages, it was the
bounden duty of each Jew to make al
least one journey to Jerusalem, and there
sitting down in dust and ashes beneath
the great wall that once offered a stub
born barrier to the mailed hosts of Titus
but now guards the magnificent mosque
of Omar, to bewail his own exile and
the sad fate lf his people. And, indeed
those were days in which Israel might
we'll mourn. Scattered, poor and torn
was the nation. None was so mean as
to do reverence to a Jew, none was. SC
humble as to outrank the child of Ju.
dab. Every mans hand was against
him. He was driven from city to city,
and each in turn cast him out. His
brethren died by torture, by fire, by
sword, in massacre by maddened pop
ulace, and on the scaffold by form Of
legal execution. History fails to furnish
another instance of 80 continued, viru.
lent and unrelenting persecution.
The last century, however, has seen
this state of things pass away, and new
conditions succeed. The Jew has
emerged from his poverty and become
wealthy. He has emerged from de.
spised obscurity to an honored place oi
wealth and power. To-day the Jewish
bankers of Europe possess more infu'
ence in the Old World than the kings
If he chose, Rothschild could bring
about war or command peace. 1t is fal
more pleasant, under circumstances Of
so much honor, to reign in London OIL
Paris than in Jerusalem. 1t is possible
that the moneyed influence of the Jew
ish bankers might be able to secure the
end in the report alluded to, but there
is not the slightest probability of the
occurrence of the event predicted. Is
raelites have become citizens of othel
countries; have formed local attach
ments like other people, and though 6
few might be found willing to 60 bach
and possess the land " flowing with milb
and honey" the great majority will al
ways remain where their influence upor
the world can be more directly felt.