New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-13

| atmosphere Of the accursed Pale, the gigantic
| ghetto 81 Russia. held there imprisoned for no
[ other crime than their mental and moral SUI
| periority their surroundings; or they were
| wandering from land to land in search OF
| Mace where they might build a home and earn
| a living; or they were chased and hooted at
| through cities and villages OF Christian par
barians until the brotherly hands OF the Zionists
| helped them to reach the home OF their ances-
! tors and the Promised Land became tneir
Land OF FuI6lment' Think Of It. Hebrew
! songs filling again the air OF Palestine-no' ere
! cies walled over ruins and sepulchres and waste
| places but cheerful tunes from the lips Oh 'he
poughman. the gardener. the harvesters: not
/ dirges and night songs from bosoms weie"eu
down with grief at the lost glories. but happy
morning hymns greeting with JOY the new day
! that IS dawning for the Palestine 1t Is the re-
awakening Of David's harp and the birth time OF
a now Hebrew Psalter. II is two thousand years
, since the echoes OF the old psalms died away
| and although the world has done its worst 10
kill all song in the Jewish heart root anu
branch It lives still. and under the cofhp'"eu
RAYS Of freedom labor and old traditions 1t BUDS
and blossoms again as In the days OF ora,
I "u do not envy the Jew to whom this thought
does not bring a thrill OF joyful pride ana p''S
hin, who can answer this glad tidings with
sneer or n crude taunt. But must IL not prove
MISC wonderful In the eyes OF the thougntL''
| Christian-that Christian / mean. to whom the
Jew IL something better than an opJe"l ior co'i-
version -rnongers, to he prayed for ana Pa'd Jul
| IN tho came breath with Tong negroes and
Maoris? That Christian. | mean, VINO KNOWS
that TO speak OF bringing the light Of the Cos
no, 70 the poor Jews Is n cruel mockery, TOT
that light was the torch that set helfres abiaze
appeared a
gates OF heaven. The congress AT basic IS no"
n fact OF history; all the prophets OF evil-anu
their number was Ieglon-have proved raise
nronhets Some went so far as 70 predict with
the utmost confidence that II would never meet
at all The two hundred delegates, among
them no small number of university men ana
men OF recognized station In various fields nave
met and have deliberated and pledged the'F
honor ard the honor OF their manufactures 'ha'
this great problem shall be solved, ana so'eu
In the only manner In which the m'serles Oh 'he
| Jewish question can be made TO cease me ca"h'
dgnfaed and resolute character or the discus
slons has attracted the attention or much "ider
circles than those OF the Jews. and once more
the eyes OF the nations are turned toward Jeru-
salem where. II God prospers the WORK OF our
hands n triumph OF peace shall ne "it"eSS'u
such az has not often blessed the hearts OF men.
their reward and thereby give new sanction ana
deeper meaning to the most blessed things tha'
came to the earth in ali preceding Laws ana
Gospels and Korans"
what will be the consequence" was asked.
"ir after purchasing the territory and estab-
fishing n government the Jews should be at
tackled by the Turks? Suppose the Sultan. after
a fo,y wears concludes to take by force what he
sold 10 the Jews?
..Thon nm army 81 Jews will resist" But
whore the army will come from and how II shall
I've maintained were questions which the learned
rabbi was unable to answer.
VIEWS OF DIR. r. p. MENDES.
The Rev. Or H. Percira Mendes minister Of
the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Seven
tIo,h-st. and Central Park West. has long been
an advocate of the establishment Of the Jewish
state He said:
The Zionist conference at Basic, which has
ust concluded It's Iabors IL an event OF extreme
significance
From an Idea the new Italy. the new Ger
many. the new Greece were born. From idea
the present remarkable Jewish movement orgi
mates There was "A time when Italians. Ger
mans and Greeks saw no human hope Of real!za-
ton ~ their dreams. To-day the Jewish ques-
tlon is forcing Itself by the logic Of events into
prominence. We do not mean Anti Semltlsm.
That is not the Jewish question. That IS an In
suit TO the Founder OF Christianity and 10 the
apostles and lrst teachers. who were themselves
Jews. We mean the re-establishment Of the
Jewish state This is the new Jewish question.
This is the essence II what IL called Zionsm.
In favor ~ Il are TO be urged the following
points: The new Jewish State need not be a puny
Greece. II may just as well be vigorous Ger
many. vigorous not from a military point Of
view for the Hebrews proclaim loudly for ar
btration as the rational solution OF war. con-
scription and taxation for army and navy bud
gets but vigorous In commercial development
such as has raised Germany to the position OF
second or third In the world to-day.
THE new Jewish State will offer nm asylum 10
Jewish ,aborers from countries like Russia
whore their treatment Is u disgrace 10 Chris
tianty. The n w Jewish State will be- natural
solution Of the coming question. What Is to be-
done with Palestlne?' when the partition OF
Turkey occurs That partition viii come
The Great Powers mutually Jealous
Many desire Palestine. and would object to any
power holding II other than their own The
great religions. Protestant. Catholic and Greek
Church. are intensely jealous as to the custody
Of the holy places. The Jewish State
erected by the Powers, would answer political
and religious jealousies. and would be in accord
with the Bible teachings which Christians as
well Jews revere.
The new Jewish state would have and could
have no temporal aspirations. II would know
and could know. no colonial entanglements; no
Monroe doctrine; no Alsace: no Cuba: no Boer
or Afridi friction, because Its boundaries would
be the Bible boundaries and those boundaries
only-from tho Euphrates to the River OF
Egypt. from Lebanon the north to the
desert line on the south.
The new Jewish State would be committed
to the Bible Ideal Of arbitration In place OF war
Its courts. with without jurists OF other