The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-28
The Jews and Palestine.

The American Brdeiite, Of Cincinnati,
says the popular story that the Jews are
engaged in purchasing Palestine, is not
true. The Jews themselves never heard
Of 1t. Nothing has been published il a
Jewish journal warranting the atory
Tho Lsrdeiite says, sit is not very likely
that one would purchase all Tho bruises
Arabs, Beduoins, thieves and robbers of
Palestine on a speculation"
The Jewish millionaires of Europe, the
I~sraelte says, occasionally spend a few
thousand dollars in charity or in relig.
ious institutions, which is well reported
in the newspapers"
"All the manifold ~millionaires of Eu.
rope do not spend a million of dollars per
annum on charity. You may count eve
r. 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 Rab.
bilical seminary, up to the oldest insti.
tuition of that description, none has a
legacy from the very rich to show.
"And suppose Palestine is purchased
who is to go there? The American Jews
are Americans-the English Jews Eng
hshmen, the French Jews Frenchmen /;
who are to give up their country to go to
Palestine :"
The Israehte continues: "Has the Jew
Isaac Moses less of a country than the
Gentle John Peter? Does France be-
long more to Pierre than to Noise?
What q horrible piece of nonsense Are
the Catholics orthe Methodists less seat
tered than the Jews2 Is any race il the
world in possession of any country?
Now, we say the methodists have no
king and no country. They are scattered
all over this continent, England, and a
large portion of the Eastern continent.
They will surely purchase Utah and Wy
oming and move thereI The ancien
Romans, Greeks, Teutons, Goths and
country; they are all mixed up among
other people, and now want to go back
to their old countries in Scandinavia or
Tartary, or northern India.
"You take away the Jews from Russia,
Hungary, Austria, Germany, or even
Roumania-the Jews, with their capital,
enterprise, skill and industry, and those
countries are the next day as ruined a.
Spain was in the year 1892, when nc
physician could be found for the sick, no
mechanics and no trade for the health,
fanatics.
But will not the religious belief do it !?
And it is well known that the religious
belief works miracles. Do you believe
in the Bible. and does rot that book pre-
dict the return OF the Jews to Palestinef
As regards miracles, of course, we have
nothing 70 say, except that in our hum
BILE opinion, from and after the year 1879,
no miracles will be wrought. Sober
people expect none, and the Jew is a
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.
you remove, to-day, the Jews out of
C~hristendom, and in a few years the
whole concern is bankrupt with me-
sided bigotry or atheism. Tho Jew is
the pike in the fish 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 preju-
dices of races, creeds and country limits
would in a few years be as intolerable as
they were centuries aI,o.
Among all the wild-goose speculations
OF Bohemians, we think that of purchas-
ing Palestine is one of the most ludic-
-ous carricatures. One pont is always
forgotten, viz: After Mecca, Jerusalem
is the most holy city of the Islam. Az
little as the Mohammedans viii, give up
Mecca they viii Give up Jerusalem, and
the Islam has more than one hundred
millions of believers. The sultan might
as well be charged with tho intention
of selling Mecca with the prophet grave
as he would Jerusalem with the Mosque
of Omer, or the pope would sell the
cathedral Of Rome"