The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-11-10
Tae Jews and faleftlge.

mat most distinguished Ct jew
ism AnericaE philosophers, Rabbi
Wise, does not Welcome the new
paIcst!nian movement. ia ~ fer as t
involves the rrpeopling Of tn- Holy
Land By the Jews nov scattered over
the world, including those in the
United States. He holds that the
jews who are now here shonld stay
here, instead Of going to the coun-
try once held by their race and try
ing 10 set up there Z Jewish State
like that which existed before the
| Christian era. The Jews have mul-
| tirlied in the United States till they
number over million; they enjoy
privileges here such Us they cannot
obtain i'll Asia; they are constantly
becoming more powerful; and they
are accommodating wealth more
rapidly than the people of uny other
race III the country. Though in their
synagogues they are perpetually
praying for the restoration of Jeru-
saf,ln, in the opinion of Rabbi Wise,
who considers New York far pre-
ferable To Jerusalem us Il place OF
abode, they could not be made to 90
there
We are assured that the great ma
jority of the thousand rabbis in the
United States hold views like those
held by Rabbi Wise upon this subject
and that only the Russian and Pol
ish rabbis who have recently come
here take any other view, or believe
that the prophecies of restoration are
to be literally construed.
The recent discussion Of the new
Palestlnlan movement III The Sun
has called out many expressions Of
opinion thereon from oar Jewish
contemporaries; and We have beer
struck with the fact that al Of them
which have fallen under cur notice
are Of one accord. ~ do not know
of a JeHish-American paper thal
| fayors the migration to paiestin: Of
the Jews in the United States. We
quote here but couple of brief e1-
tracts from two OF these papers as
specimens Of many that might pe
quoted from other papers. The
Jewixh TTdinqs of last Friday s&vs:
"The conditions i'll this country
will have to change nightly before
the Jews will forsake it for the land
of the prophets. As for the Jews
of the United States, It can be said
that Palestine has 10 Inducements
for them"
The Jeuish Messenger of tie same
date gives its judgment in an elabo-
rate article:
THE uttcrance of the Rev. Or.
keit of the Episcopal Church, that
Palestine will soon lie rcady for the
Jewish race, has absolutely 40 seight
unless be can show that the jewish
race is ready for Palestine. jewish
public opinion on this subject is not
difficult to ascertain. The great
majority of Israelites who share the
civilization of the day and are ac--
corded civil and religious equality;
give no thought of returning TO Pal
estine. If the traditional view OF
the final .ingathering and the rebuild
ing of the Temple Is still repeated
i'll the prayers, it is held as a theory
like that Of the millennium among
our Protestant brethren, who are il
10 hurry, however, to abandon Wall
street, the Standard Oil Company
and Western mortgages in conse-
quence. So Israel is not returning
aid does not want to return. II
looks no longer backward, but ahead
and around"
Though the Jews of this country
are thus nearly unanimous in declar.
ing that they will never go to Pales-
tine as settlers, 1t is certain that a
good many OF the Jews of Eastern
Europe are gong there. AS VI
styled a few days ago, the Jewish
population of Palestine las more
than doubled within a short time
and those of the Russian and Polish
Jews who have been prevented from
coming to this country are turning
their ewes toward Jerusalem. If The
Car continues to maintain his anti
Jewish policy, millions of his Jewish
subjects will be compelled to fine
homes somewhere outside of Russia
and there is no doubt that since tht
| Turkish Sultan now fayors theil
settlement in Palestine, they vii
make homes for themselves there.
| While,the Jews who a:-e in thi.
country will stay in it, there ar,
enough Jews in Russia alone to Civ
i Palestine "a larger population than i