The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-30
ZIONIST CONGRESS.
Dr.. Herzrs Stock Company to
Found anew Hebrew
State.
TO cOLONIZE PALESTINE
Reprisals from Turkey Not Ex-
pscted-"A Jewish Rho
desia.
TO C0LONIZE PALESTINE
by Gable to The Associated Pres. I


A despatch was sent to the Sultan of
Turkey. thanking His Majesty for the
privileges enjoyed by the Hebrews in his
empire.
The Zionist Congress opened at Basls
yesterday with two hundred delegates in
attendance from various parts of Europe.
DR.. Theodor Hersl, the so-called New
Moses and originator of the scheme to
purchase Palestine and re-settle the He
brews there was elected president, and
DR.. Max Nordau was elected vice presi-
dent of the Congress-
DR.. Herzl has only recently come into
prominence. He seeks to float a limited
liability company in London for the pur-
pose of acquiring Palestine from the
Sultan of Turkey, and thoroughly organ
izing it for resettlement by the Hebrews.
He has, it is said, already won converts
to the Zionistic movement in all parts
of the world.
In appearance DR.. Herzl Is tall and
handsome and is described as very cour-
teous. He is a well known literary man
in Austria and has of late devoted him
self almost entirely to the founding of
the new Hebrew State, which he has
remarked might be styled Jewish
Rhodesia, but with this difference, that
within a year or SO Of Palestine being
acquired from the Turk I shall have q
million colonists in the country"
When asked TO outline his plans, DR..
Herzl said:-
1--WE shall first send out an exploring
expedition, equipped with all the modern
resources of science, which will thorough
ly overhaul the land from one end to the
other, before it is colonized. and establish
telephone communication with the base
as 1t advances. The old methods OF
colonization will not do here. 1t was in
Paris. three years ago. while was the
first hit on the idea. l had no hopes
then of ever realizing 1t, but on my re-
turn to Austria was very much like the
man with the Anaconda In q box who
was surprised to find that it had grown
cut of all proportion to it's surroundings.
Il do not lay claim to any inspiration,
Der revealing my plans, about two years
ago, to a well known Berlin banker and
the Chief Rabbi of Vienna. The latter,
having m heard my story spread out his
niflcant that this same Rabbi has since
written a brochure against me and my
work.
But the movement is bound to sue
coed. Our organization is established
throughout the world, and every day I
get reports giving particulars of people
See here continued DR.. Herzl, show
ing the interviewer a good sized book;
this is one of the four books which con-
log books of the Mayfiower," he added
with a smile. That one watchword, the
Jewish State has been sufficient to
in the remotest corners of the earth,
though there are those forming the So
called philanthropic party who predict
that the watchword will provoke reprisals
from Turkey. Inquiries in Constantine
pie and Palestine show that nothing is
further from the truth Moreover, the
Turkish Ambassador IN Vienna has CIV
en- me full authority to f1atly contradict
such a statement
My plan is simple enough. We must
obtain the sovereignty over Palestine
At the head of the movement will be two
great and powerful agents, the Society OF
Jews and the Jewish Company. The first
named will be a political organization and
spread the Jewish propaganda. The lat
ter will be a limited liability company,
under English laws, having it's headQuar-
tiers in London, and capital Of, say.
q milliard of marks. Its task will be to
discharge all the financial obligations of
the retiring Jews and regulate the econ
omic conditions in the new country. At
first we shall send only unsktlled labor
that is the very poorest, who Will make
build bridges and railroads, regulate riv-
ers and lay down telegraphs according to
plans prepared at headquarters Their
work will bring trade, their trade the mar
ket, and the markets will cause new set
tiers to flock to the country. Everyone
will go there voluntarily, at his or her
own risk; but, ever under the wafehfui
eve and protection of the organization
81 think we shall find Palestine at our
disposal sooner than we expected. Last
year I went to Constantinople and had
Vizier, to whom 1 pointed out that the
kew to the preservation of Turkey lay
in the solution of the Jewish question.
able view of my proposals is proved by
his having decorated me. Turkeys
finances are disorganized and she Will
in a state Of constitutional decomposi-
ton, and threatens the health or the
whole of Europe. Either sanitary rems-
moved. The maintainance of order in this
corner of the Orient is a sine qua non II
Christians are to live unmolested there.
to ~ do That that The great fauk Of the Turks
is their inability to keep, pace with M
ropean civilization and advancement, ana
England placed the first nail in her conn
new era of progress
prevent disintegration, while for Europe
we should form new outpost against
Asiatic barbarism and a guard OF honor
to hold intact the sacred shrines OK the
I'VE can afford to play waiting game,
and either take over Palestine from the
Ft1rOD6an congress Called lCS6lAofi " Ill
vide the spoils of disintegrated Turkey,
or look out for another land, such as
Argentina, and say Your Zion Is there!
at is to confer over this point that the
Congress was arranged for at Basle.
II am told that among the Bulgarian
Jews there is a belief that on the date OF
the opening of the Congress, August 29,
Messiah will arrive but, whatever may
happen. there is no doubt that the con-
gress will be the Redeemer OF the Jews.
The Immediate results of the Zionistic
has been to unite the most an
tagonistic Jewish elements and to bring
into actual life a new school OF Jewish
literature"
When DR.. Herzi was asked whether he
relied upon the Hebrews making good
colonists, he remarked
II am sure of it, and that they are even
better colonists than Englishmen. There
are already colonies of Jews in Palestine,
and I have on my table excellent Bor-
deaux. Sauterne and Cognac grown in
that country. 1t is well known that in
Galicia and the Balkans the Jews per-
form the roughest kind of manual labor,
There the wealth they bring Is not their
money, but themselves
Questioned as to how he proposed TO
solve the social problems in the New
State DR. Herzl said
Il am not in favor of anything Sav0r-
ing of the Utopian element and the So
cialist's dream. Personally, incline to-
monarchy and very much of
what is best in English Institutions. But
the Jews in their new country will know
nothing Of the misery Of their European
surroundings.