Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14
Jerusalem Restored.

If vas the dream of the late Sir Mo
 ses Montefore to fulfill the Jewish tra ditlon by gathering all the Jews of tho
 world m Jerusalem. and SO realizing q the
 predictions of the prophets. Sir Moses
 spent great deal of money and con.
 ducted variety of negotiations with
 Kings and statesman in the hope of
 oarrylDg out this purpose But when
 ne dIed his scheme was seemingly as
 Tar as ever from being realized. IL has
 now been taken up by Chicago doctor
 named SIvsrths, who feels that he WAS
 created for the restoration Of Palestine
 to its place among the nations.
 Dr 5IvarthR's plan IS very simple.
 He proposes to inSuce several millions
 of American and EnglIshman to emi- Rrate to Palestine. He does DO. e1-
 pect them:to be all Jews: on the con
 trsry, he expects tive-siTths of then. to
 b5 of other faiths. When ke has sot them fairly planted in the holy land he proposes that they should ttroa of the The yoke of Turkey and clam recosn'- ton by the United StG,es and Great
 Britain; this granted and tte,uuspeAk- able Turk disposed of. be dec ares that he will establish a nation which shall conn and the respect of tho world.
 lt is always pleasing Co observe enter prises undertaken for the benefit of hu- manIty. and the more dlfticultthey seem the more admirable is the courage of their authors. IF Dr. SiyaTa.hA can ec- e0mplish the object he has ID view be VIII add vastly tO the httEacticna O, a region which must always be iuteresi- ing to persons Of cur faith. A p0pu- lous Palestine, with 0 netTop!ian city Of Jerusalem, supplied with water, gas, telephones, cable cars and all otEef mo- dern Improvements, would b. the Mecca of travellers from sll parts of the world. But such transformation really seems Co require tie intervention of tRIry.
 To take 6 country about half the sLe ot Maryland, mountainous, rugged and in parts arid and doomed to remain q volcanic desert forever, and convert 1t into home for people of one race, IS indeed prodigious undertaking. It was only tO weary travellers who had plodded through the sands of the dssert for weeks that the valleys of the Jordan seemed to be flowing with milk Gpd honey; there IS honey.there still, but the milk IS rather scarce, and it can hardly have been more plentiful iu past ages. There are it Is supposed some GOO. 900 people in.Pslestino ell told, and half of these would starve but for the money brought into the country by pIOus pilgrims. II is to be feared that If the good doctor succeeded in inducing Q million or two of his friends to move to Palestine he would have to contract for regular supply cf Ar mOur's canned beef and Minneapolis flour 10 keep them alive after they got there. If, indeed they did find here snd there a valley in which they could grow food they would have to eatit on ihe farm. for there are no good rosdP over which it could be transported to mar ket.
 If the Chicago doctor was In earnest in bis purpose to reverse the law which declares that the nigrations of man klnd shall be from esst to west he can can find field for hIs entergiss in a country not very far distant from Palss- tine, but possessed of far greater ca bili,ies That if the country which the Greeks knew by the name of Mesopo- tEmia, and which those mighty mcmu- ments of human power, Babylon, and Seneveh, once hOurished. There the soil, if carefully cultivated, will yield forty bushels of wheat to the acre, and with restoration of the old irrigatlng dItches which distributed the waters of the .Euphrstes and TIgris, will grow fruits ss fine as csn be raised in this State. A great sea port is groVIng up Bt the mouth of the Strst ell Arab and IiDes of well-appoinied steamers run up the river ss high as Bagdad. Land eau be had for nothing snd the Government is, on the whole tolerable. The cOun- try has the advantage over India that the Indian wheat has to stand an enor- nous stretch of railroad travel, while inc Mesopotamis wheat can be loaded into bGrges on the edge ot the wheat geld. How populOus this region must once have hes1 :he ancient monuments reveal; there IS no rrssCn why is should not again become a human hive, But 'ge hardly think Americans are as yet prepared to 90 there en masss.-S- E. Call.