Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-16

The sAmerican Israelite" OF Cincinnati
saws the popular story recently repeated,
that the Jews are purchasing Palestine, is
not true. The Jews themselves have never
heard Of it. Nothing has been published
in a Jewish journal ~warrantipg the story.
The 'Israelite" says it is mot very likely
that one would purchase all the bruises,
Arabs, Bedouins, thieves and robbers OF
Palestine on q speculation.
The Jewish millionaires OF Europe, the
"Israelite'' says. occasionally spend a few
thousand dollars in charity or religious in
situations, which are well reported in the
newspapers" and 1--WE never had much use
for our manifold millionaires."
sAll the manifold millionaires Of Europe
do not spend a million of dollars per an
nun on charity. You may count every
penny they spend in Jewish affairs, it will
never amount to that. All the Jewish
scholastic institutions in the world, from
the Hebrew Union College Of Cincinnati,
or the Buda-Pesth Rabbinica Seminary, up
to the oldest institution of that descrip-
ton, none has a legacy from the very rich
to show"
And suppose Palestine is purchased, who
is to go there? The American Jews are
A~mericans-the English Jews Englishmen,
the French Jews Frenchmen-who are to
give up their country to go TO Palestine
The "lsraelite" asks:
Has the Jew Isaac Moses less Of q country
than the Gentle John Peter ? Does France
belong more to Pierre than to Noise :?
What a horrible piece OF nonsense Are
the Catholics or the Methodists less scat
tered than the Jews? Is any race in the
world in possession Of any country? Now,
we say the Methodists nave no king and
no country. They are scattered all over
this continent, England and q large por-
ton Of the Eastern continent; they will
surely purchase Utah and Wyoming and
move there. The ancient Romans, Greeks,
| Teutons, Cloths and Celts, poor men ! have
no king and no country; they are all mixed
up among other people and now want to
| 20 back to their old countries in Scandi-
navia or Tartary or northern India.
You take away the Jews from Russia,
| Hungary, Austria, Germany, or even Rou-
mania, with their capital, enterprise, skill
and industry, and those countries are the
next day as ruined as Spain was in the year
1892, when no physician could be found
| for the sick, no mechanics n no trade for
the healthy fanatics.
But will not the religious belief do it?
| And it is well known that the religious be.
| lief works miracles. Do you not believe
III Tie DlDlc, anu QOto hob IL JUN pEtuiCb
the return of the Jews to Palestine? As
regards miracles, of course, we have moth
ing to say, except that in our humble opin-
ion, from and after the year 1879, no
miracles will be wrought. Sober people
expect none. and the Jew is q very sober
man. Whatever the belief Of the Jews may
be in regard to Palestine and the Messiah,
it will hardly have more influence on them
practically than the second advent belief
has on Christians.
lou remove to-day the Jews out of Chris
tendon, and in a few years the whole thing
is bankrupt with one-sided bigotry or
atheism. The Jew is the pike in the tsh-
pond to chase the fat carps, or else they
would rot in their fat. Oh, no, the Jew
must not go back to Palestine, or else the
narrow prejudices of races, creeds and
country limits would in a few years be as
intolerable as they were centuries ago.
Among the wild goose speculations OF
Bohemians, we think that of purchasing
Palestine is one of the most ludicrous Carl
eatures. One point is already forgotten,
viz: After Mecca, Jerusalem is the most
holy city OF the Islam. As little as the
Mohammedans will give up Mecca they
will give up Jerusalem, and the the Islam
has more thar one hundred million be-
levers. The Sultan might as well be
charged with the intention of selling Mecca
with the prophets grave as he would Jeru-
salem with the Mosque nf Omer, or the
Pope sell the cathedral of Rome.