St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-10
RUSSIAN REFUGEE JEWS.
Where Shall They Go?-Why Not
Million of Them to Palestine?

Million of Them to Palestine?
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald has had an important in
terview with Baron Hirsch, the opulent
and benevolent Austrian Jew who rec
emily established fund of S2.500,000 to
enable the Jewish refugees from Rus
STA to go to some part of America. This
fund is large enough to pay the passage
of tens of thousands of people across the
Atlantic and to assist them afterWard.
In February last the Baron put this
fund III charge of a board of trustees in
this city, and q portion of it has been
distributed every week in aiding the
Jewish immigration to this port.
1t was announced Tuesday last by the
Pail Mall Gazette that Baron Hirsch
had established a still greater fund,
amounting to S15.0O0,000, for the pro-
motion of his project, and that the
ROthschilds and other wealthy Jews
would furnish yet more capital for the
work. According to the Pail Mall
Gazette, the main fund, which is sep
arate from the special fund now held in
New York, is TO be used in purchasing
Lands for Jewish settlers in some coun-
try of North or South America. There
was a report here not long ago that a
suitable tract of land had been found in
the state of Pennsylvania, and it is
known that agents of the baron have
been looking for desirable territory in
various states of the West and South
however, by the London paper that the
bodies Of Jewish refugees would not be
welcomed in any part of the United
States.
In further replying to the inquiries
of the Herald correspondent Baron
Hirsch said;
II have investigated in regard to the
Argentine Republic, and 1 have decided
to establish the first colony there; but
later on, as the movement develOpes, |
shall send coloniSts to Brazil, La Plata
and other South American countries"
why the Argentine Republic?"
Because the commission have re-
ported that there is excellent ag-
ricultural lands there. want none but
the very best farming soil, and we can
get any quantity Of it in the Argentine
Republic. Already we have 400 families
established there, and they are doing
very we'll"
How are they occupied?'
ION the land. The colonization
scheme is entirely agricultural. No
money is given f. trade"
hOW many Will you SeHu!
The first year we shall send 1,000.t the
next year 1000, the third year 5000, and
so on up to 10000. They will receive
assistance at first, but, of course every
attempt will be made that the colonies
should become self-supporting as soon
as possible"
This is assuredly very large and i'm
pOrtant project, and abundant funds for
carrying it out are provided.
The Jewish exodus from Russia will
be memorable event in the modern
histary of the race. The Jewish advent
into Argentine will be remarkable
thing for the people of that country.
Through the execution of the baron'S
project there will probably be decrease
of the Jewish immigration to the United
States.
The late Lord Shaftesbury submitted
to the British government in 1910 par
tial solution of the Jewish question. That
philanthrOpic nobleman, who, by the
way, was a distinguished member of the
peace society, proposed that the Turks
should be turned out OF Palestine and
Syria, by persuasion if possible, by force
if need be, to make room for the Jews,
who were to be settled on the lands of
their forefathers, and formed into a
commonwealth protected from external
influences in general, and the azores aid
Turks in particular, by the EurOp can
powers. Lord Palmerston, who was
foreign minister in the British cabinet
in 1910, made light of the great sche me,
and, it is believed, did not submit it to
his colleagues. Baron Hirsch's millions,
if he be prepared to spend them, may
advance his project to the experimental
stage, but beyond that, in the opinion of
all practical men on this side OF the At
lantic, it is not likely to 90.