The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-06-15
TO BUILD a JEWISH EMPIRE
Plan on Foot to Have One Started i,
Paieostine.

| Paie0stine.
Chicago, June 14.-W. E. Curtis fu
| Washington, writes to the Record:
There Is a movementon foot among
the Jews for an international conference
at Munich this summer for the purpose
| OF taking Steps to re-establish the Jew
ish empire az Palestine. Meeting one OF
the most prominent Jews in the United
States yesterday. 1 asked him what the
| movement amounted 10. He replied:
II do no, know I have been told in
some quarters that it amounts TO moth
ing, AMI have been told in others that
II means great deal. The men who
are engaged in it may be divided into
| two classes. The former are the enthu-
| siasts who compose the original advance
guard. They are pious people who as
pire TO live and die on sacred soil. DR..
Herzl and Mr.. Nordeau thinks il is i'm
possible 10 solve what is called the Jew
ish question In Europe, and believe il
| wise TO take advantage OF this entllu-
siasm for the refunding OF the Jewish
empire. They will have conference at
Munich this summer. They are getting
But people of importance in this country
whether iaynJer or clergymen, are hold
ing aloof from IL. l have not learned
that anybody OF consequence has gone
into l.. / think they are waiting to see
what IL Is sciDg TO amount TO. I believe
they know thai X cannot amount TO very
much. The Jews may colonize in Pales-
tine. but they cannot colonize in large
numbers. Palestine cannot support a
great number OF people II you can
coicnize 1000 people a year in Palestine
you are doing very well. I do not know
that the soil is exhausted, but the re-
sources are limited. The real truth is
there arel OTIS OF reasons why Il IL mad
visahie - &c the thing rapidly. II is o.
toman soil: Il belongs TO the Ottoman
empire. l. is no, wise to stir the Turks
up 10 the notion tha; there is 70 be an
Invasion Then. again. all churches ex-
cept the Protestant church believes that
If Jerusalem is ever 10 be taken from the
Turks i, is 20 be done by them. do
not think il 4 wise or practical move
ment."
What is the presen. population OF
Pales;ine?"
Il do not know. There are about
y $50 900 in the world. and Palestine
could only supper. a few millions.
More .haa half the Jews in me world |
live IN Russia" said he. "Mos; O, them |
are artisans snd are w-etcAedly poor. |
o. he Jevs 0, tie east there are twenty /
artisans ~ one merchant. The mercan- |
tile devei0p1-en: ~ the Jews Is limited /
p.ac.ically &c Germany. Austria. France.
4 gland and 4 nsrics. !; is no. univer-
sal BY any means. SaIonica is the mos. /
exclusively Jewish city IN the world. /: 4
IS in Turkey. not far from Cons,s.fino-
pleI; is the place which TIE Greeks
threatened 70 lombard and could have
5omoa-ded. Two-.hi-is 0. the popuIs-
ton are Spanish Pews. You will find
TIA. iae Jevs in Turkey al speak Span
ish- They are the descendants Of the
jeSs that we're driven OF: Of Spain n !
1872 The Spanish Jews. when expelled
from Spain. went % Turkey. and tire
Mona II -leiz-s received them cordially. !
principally teca-ss :he Christians had
,a!aei them oa- These Spanish Jews
are n0~ living ia communities around
the Ne5i i.e-ransen- Some are Il I.aly
AMI are considered the real re9reze;a-
lives o. the znelea. Czstisssa to,rue
.Shen George Ba-r3Es wens 20 Spain II
so ae SlsiI1s - have re. Jews who
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