The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08

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These terrible charges arc making so deep an
impression upon the public opinion Of Europe
that the Spanish authorities are seeking TO of
set the effect which they have produced. The
Times printed this week a letter from "a we'll
known foreign diplomatist resident In Madrid
who, 1 learn. is the Swedish Minister at that
capital, and who has recently paid q visit to tho
Castle Montjnich, whore the alleged %cruelties
have taken place. This IL his conclusions:
AFTER all 1 saw-and 1 did not pay q flying
visit, 1 stayed nearly four hours at the castle
I must say that 1 have seldom seen a moro
healthy prison and more happy looking prison
ers. As we all know, tho Spanish people are gen.
orally a kind, Rood-hearted people, and 1 have
brought back with me the conviction that the
General commanding the castle and his officers
do not belle this opinion"
Tho reader can estimate tho value of this dis
claimer as well as 1.
Max Nordau's plan for the restoration OF Pal
estine to the Jews is explained in more compre-
hensive detail this week by DR.. Theodor Herzl,
the leader Of the movement which is to DO tho
subject Of a conference at Basic on Aug. 90.
Speaking at Vienna to n correspondent OF Tho
Pail Mall GaEette. DR.. Herzl said:
1--WE shall first send an exploring expedition,
equipped with oil the modern resources OF.
science, which will thoroughly overhaul the
land from one end TO the other. before 1t Is col
onized. and establish telephone and telegraphio
communication with the base as they advance.
The old methods OF colonization will not do hero.
1t was in Paris, three years ago. that / first hit
on the idea. I had no hopes then of ever realiz.
ing 1t, but our organization is now established
throughout the world. Tho plan Is simple
enough. We must obtain the sovereignty over
Palcstine-our be.forgotten, historical
home. 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 q political organization and
spread the Jewish propaganda. The latter will
be q limited liability company, under English
laws, having its headquarters in London, and a
capital OF, say, n milliard Of marks. Its task
will be to discharge all the financial obligations
Of tho retiring Jews and regulate the economic
conditions in the new country. At first we
shall send only unskilled labor-that is, the very
poorest, who will make tho land arabic. They
will lay out streets, build bridges and railroads,
regulate rivers, and lay down tclegraphs nc
cording to plans prepared at headquarters. Their
work will bring trade. their trade the market.
and the markets will cause new settlers to flock
to the country. Every one will go there volunta-
rily at his or her own risk, but ever under the
watchful eye and protection OF the organization.
II think we shall find Palestine at our dis
5 posal sooner than we expected. Last year l
5 went to Constantinople and had two long con-
. ltTtnCtS WIN the NlkltT, " holh L
. pointed out that the key to the preservation Of
l Turkey lay in the solution OF the Jewish qucs-
tion. That the Sultan has taken no unfavorable
n view OF my proposals Is proved by his having
0 decorated me. 1t Is to confer over this point
n that a congress has been arranged for at Basic
r on Aug. 30. I am told that among the Bull
. garian Jews there is n belief that on that dato
. a Messiah will arise; but whatever may happen,
n there is no doubt that that congress will be the
n | Dalaap,ar nf tho Inyrs Tho irmn1intn rnSn1t
OF the Zionistic movement has been to unite the
most antagonistic Jewish elements. and to bring
n into actual life a new school Of Jewish htcra-
0 ture."
!. Press censorship in Turkey is one OF the most
. peculiar and erratic institutions in the Sultan's
peculiar and erratic Government. Correspon-
dents on the Turkish aide in the recent war had
ample experience with it's various eccentricities.
They never knew which Of their dispatches or
what portion of them would reach their destina'
>, ton. Permanent correspondents OF foreign
newspapers in Constantinople are always under
= the same disability. THE Suns correspondent
= there, and others as well, send most Of their
dispatches by rail to Phillipopolis, just outside
the Sultan's dominions, and they are put upon
the wires at that point, the delay Of twelve
hours thus suffered being more than compen'
stated for by the escape from the censor's indis.
criminate pencil. Plenty OF queer stories
- might NC lOIu hDOut tnIs > pStulluI llIcS
r These arc taken from a recent budget:
An Arab paper published a short life OF
Queen Victoria, abiding to her as the Queen
OF Great Britain and Ireland and Empress Of
India The words Empress OF India were struck
out by the censor, who remarked that the Gov
a eminent Of tho Shadow Of Allah on Earth
- cannot acknowledge a Christian woman, or per
nit the papers to allude to her as Empress over
a country in which there are 80 many millioni
Of
in one OF the Syrian papers an article once
- appeared about Western Superstitions,' il
- which the writer stated that Friday was re
~ garded by some Western people as an illomeneC
day. Somehow this escaped the eagle eye OF thu
censor in the proof, but the paper was immedi
IN ately suppressed for several months for its ir
revercut reference TO Friday, that day being the
,o Mohammedan holy day. A paragraph was pub
- lisbed in an Arabic journal. referring to Nine
Adelina Patti, wherein it was stated that sh,
~ derived by her singing a yearly income of sew
~ eral thousand pounds. The blue pencil wa
~ hastily dashed across the lines; the reason ad
VI ducod being that such news would disturb tn
~ souls OF the moral and loyal female subjects O
The Finest Pearl Of the Age"
-, The censorship interferes in the most ludI
~ crous way with school books, eraslng Who'll
" pages simply because they are considered revc
~ lutionary or contrary to the teaching Of tn
70 Koran. In the history OF Turkey, for instance
=. no mention OF tho siege OF COnstantinople by tn
n Crusaders is permitted to appear. nor. indeed
Is reference to a defeat of the Turks. in any par
of the world, to BIO found in Turkish schoc
v, books. Books and vouchers are stopped at tn
~ Post Office on the most trivial ~pretexts; in man
cases simply with the object of extorting bacl
- sheesh. A gentleman connected with the Bri
" ish Embassy had a number of children's books
one OF which contained the story of 'Bluebear,
LOT -sent out from London. This book was conf
Gated. because Bluebeard was represented q
W. wearing a turban. and because his wifo wa
ers called Fatima.
=, 1.-THE Embassy, at another time. received III
~ Sultan's pressing invitation to prevail upon Ii
lay the singing Of the well.known hymn, Onward
Christian Soldiers His Majesty had been pc
Mt tionary song and that the excellent ladies ar
gentlemen who assembled In the English Churc