Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Notification Of Prophecy.

Palestine. Ever since the Crimean
war, the Jews from all parts of
Europe have been steadily vending
their way to the cherished land of
their fathers. Within the last five
wears. the stream of emigration has
been like food-tlde and is still in
creasing. While these people are
not making a great ado about it
themselves, the movement is having
significant effect upon the financial
concerns of many of the great CONT
mental powers. While Rothschild
was living, he was the acknowledged
money king of the Old World, and
now that he is dead, there is little
abatement in the influence of this
prince]y firm. 1t is pretty we'll I'M
derstood by the principal European
bankers, that the Rothschild family
had long held what amounted to a
mortgage On the City of Jerusalem,
and so much of Western Syria as is
comprised by the Holy Land. The
consideration of this security, which
amounts to some millions of dollars,
was nothing less than hard money
borrowed by Turkey to carry on her
wars with Russia. A pretty good
evidence that q grand foreclosure is
near at hand, is the significant fact
of which We have spoken, the present
unprecedented focking of Jews into
Jerusalem and other principal cities
of Palestine.
Thousands of the poor Israelltes
are, at the present time, actually
subsisting upon the donations OF
their Weather brethren, sent thither
for that purpose. The reserve capt.
tai now in the hands of a few Jewish
bankers, would suffice to buy and
sell Palestine and all it possesses
dozen times, and it appears to have
been only on account of political
reasons that the ransom was not
made years ago. But it is evident
that something has turned up to give
a definite current to events. A let
ter writer in Jerusalem says the
poorer class of Israelites are coming
by thousands from all parts of Eu-
rope, into Jerusalem, Beirut and
Damascus, and he regards this as
but the inception of some great
politico-religious event in the near
future that will startle the civilized
world. Those who profess to dis
Germ the signs of the times, and can
see little further ahead than their
neighbors, regard these things as
but the fulfillment of prophecy.
1t is certain that science, backed by
plenty of money and political wis.,
dom, can go a great way towards
retaining the barren wastes of
Palestine and making them subservi-
ent to the wants of millions of in
habitants.
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Mrs. Peckham addressed large
audience Saturday evening in Taco
ma Hall, a still larger one Sunday
afternoon at the same place, and
vast congregation in the evening at
the Methodist Church. Her topics
all related to temperance reform, a
subject in which the speakers whole
heart appears to he enlisted. She is
an earnest, and at times eloquent,
advocate of the cause of humanity.
1t is with her q work of duty. and
that it is conscientiously performed
nobody will for a moment doubt who
listens to her impassioncd utterances.
She is one of the greatest aids to the
cause who has yet mounted the ros-
trum, and deserves and receives the
heartfelt blessings Of oil who are &C
tuated By the impulses of true phi
lanthropy. She left last Tuesday
for Oregon, to fill appointments at
East Portland and Vancouver; thence
she will proceed to Mcllinvillo and
the interior towns to Roseburg.
Her subsequent movements are not
yet defined, but her field of labor
will probably be in California this
Fall. May success crown her efforts!
The managers of the Oregon State
Fair are discussing the question as
to how they can best do away with