El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-06
JEWS EAGER TO BUY PALESTINE.
The Zionist Congress Unanimously Adopts
Dr. Herbs Scheme.

DIR. HerZfs Scheme.
The delegates to the Zionist congress
at isle, Swtizela 1d, last week uuaol-
mously adopted with great enthusiasm
the programme for re-estaolishing the
Hebrews in Palestine. with publicly
recognized rights. A dispatch was
sent to the Sultan of Turkey, thanking
his masiesty for the privileges enjoyed
| by the Hebrews in his empire.
| DR.. Theodore Herzl, the sO-ca ed
| New Mcses,'' is the originator of Tue
scheme to purchase paestH ieI has r bsen
elected nresidons ard DR.. Max Nordau
vice-n-os1dent of the congress.
1--WE shall first send out an explOr-
ing expedition, 'Dr. Herzl said recently,
equipped with all the modern re-
sources of science, which will thor
oughly overhaul the land from one end
to the other, before it is colOuiz5d, and
establish teleponic and telegraphic
communication with the base as it ad-
vances. The old methods of colonial
ton will not do there.
"It was in Paris, three years ago,
while l was the correspondent of a
Vienna paper that | first hit on the
idea. l ba1 no hopes then of ever real
liz ng it. but on my return to Austria
was very much like the man with the
Anaconda in box, who was surpris7 d
to ind that it had grown out of all pro-
port on to its surroundings.
my plan is simple enough. We
must OBJ tain the sovereignty over Pa
lestine-our never-t1-be- forgotten, his
torical home. AT the head OF the
movement will be two great and pow
erful agents-the Society of Jews and
The Jews Company. The first named
will be a political organization and
spread the Jews propaganda. The lat
I hi 1,t1-
under English laws, having its head
quart ,rs in London, and a capital, of,
say, a milliard of marks. Its task will
be to discharge all the financial oblig
at ;Ons of the retiring Jews. and regu-
ate the economic conditions in the
new country.
sat first we shall send only unskill-
ed labor-that is, the very poorest,
who will make the land arabic. They
will lay out streets, build bridges and
railroads, regulate rivers and lay down
telegrapbs according 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 voluntarily, at his or her own
risk, but ever under the watchful eye
and prot of the organization.
81 think we shall find Palestine at
Last year l went 10 Consta iuOple and
had two long conferences with the
Grand Vlzier, to whom 1 pO' nted out
that the key to the preservation of
Turkey lay in the solution of the Jewish
question. That the Sultan has taken
no unfavorable view of my proposal is
proved by his having decorated me.
Turkeys finances are disorganized,
aud she will never get penny from
Greece. She is in a state of constitu-
tional decomposition and Threatens the
health of the whole of Europe. Either
sanitary remedies must be applied or
she must be removed.
THE Jews, in exchange for Pa'es-
tine, would regulate the Sultan's IL
uances and prevent disintegration,
while for Europe we should form new
outpost against Asiatic barbarism and
guard of honor to hold intact the
-acred shrines of the Christians. We
can afford TO play a waiting game, and
either take over Palestine from the
European congre SIS called together to
divide the spOils of disintegrated
Turkey or look out for another land,
such as Arg antina, and say, Your
Zion is there
II am rot in favor Of anything SAVIOR
ing of the Utopian element and the So
cialist's dream. Personally L incline |
IOWdiO uCuOCTdtlC sduu
very much of what is best in the Eng
lish institutions. But the Jews in their
new country will know nothing of the |
misery of their European surround
ings."
1t is the sentiment of the delegates
hat the Hebrews the world over, with |
their present tremendous financial
prestige and the strong backing of the
will easily be able ito
accomplish what they have started out
to do, and they produce the p-opb ecies,
of Izai h and Ezekiel in
support of their belief that t. e time of
Israel's restoration is at hand. Never
has there been with ssed such
Genes of enthusiasm as occurred on the
opening of this congress Learned
'avants, prominent fnanciers and spe-
;ula tors, and wise looking rabbis
ostled against and EN- raced each
other with copies of the sacred scrip
lures ard prophecies of the Hebrew
'aith, and shouted with joy at the new
igf they seemed to believe they saw
n these books.