Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-31
JERUSALEM ZOE THE Jews.


The Jews to-day, as at the time of Christ,
have their different schools of opinion.
Some modern ideas repudiate a personal
Messiah, and oppose the expectation of
literal return of the chosen people TO Jeru
salem. Still, the great body, Sephardim and
Ashkemain alike, look for the coming of the
deliverer, and at one of their annual OBJ
servances they break up with the exclama-
ton on their lips, Next year at Jerusalem"
an utterance they believe will, on some COM
ing year, be fulfilled. Its without surprise,
therefore, that we read of many of those
whom bitter persecution has driven from
Russia expressing desire to go to the Holy
Land. A Lemberg, Germany, telegram
stated a mouth ago: "The assembly of Polish
Jews has pronounced in favor of emigration
to Palestine. Seven thousand families have
applied to the Emigration Committee at
Jaffa for assistance TO enable them to settle
in Palestine" Accordingly we find that
sympathizers in England intend to have an
agent there, to reside in Jerusalem, to pro-
tect the immigrants, and to select settlements
for them. A European correspondent states
that two years ago Mr.. Oliphant proposed
a scheme of Jewish emigration to the Porte
which political complications prevented from
being accomplished. Another effort recently
made has resulted in the purchase of land
near Palestine. These capitalists have a
fund of $4,000, 900, and already have agents
in all the provinces of Turkey. The Israel
lite Alliance is sending boys from nine to
fifteen years of age from the prosecuted dis
tricts of Russia to Jaffa. Companies of
these children will be sent frequently from
Odessa, Knew and Elizabethgrad to learn
agriculture in the Holy Land, and grow up
The emigration of Jews to the East begins
to engage the attention Of the local press
there. The principal Greek journal pub
fishes long article on the inconvenience
and dangers which would result from the
settling of large numbers of Jews in the
provinces of Turkey. The writer, after hav-
ing explained the habits of the Jews and
their peculiar tendencies, calls the attention
of the government to the subject, and
exhorts it to prevent their emigration.
These councils appear to have had their
intended effect, for we find that the London
correspondent of the New York World, in its
issue OF Sunday last, writes that news comes
there from Constantinople that the sultan is
refusing Russian and Roumanian Jews per-
mission TO settle in Palestine in large num-
bers, and passports are denied applicants at
Odessa and Bucharest by the Turkish con-
suls. The correspondent says that Mr.. Law
renee Oliphant was striving to stop the tide
of emigration until the distractions could be
removed, but English influences are not very
powerful in Constantinople under the present
aspect of things in Egypt. This refusal OF
a refuge to victims flying from inhuman cru
city is lamentable addition to their suffer
ing4-it is horrible and revolving specimen
OF cruel inhospitality. Some parties think
that Turkey is influenced by Russia in
this proceeding. 1t is more likely that the
sultan, knowing the influence the leading
Jews of the commercial world exercise in the
cabinets of various European governments.
fears that if the Jews settle in large numbers
in the land of their fathers, cultivate it, win
it from the desolation the Turks have in
licted upon it, and make it once more "blos-
som as the rose" they will in the end claim |
the land they have redeemed, and also that
the christian world will favor their claim |
against those who reduced it to sterility. 1t |
is something TO find the Jews getting 30 near |
to jerusalem as to arouse the fears of those |
who have held it and abused their power |
there so long.