The times., 1898-09-05
THE PILGRIMAGE TO zion
Congress of Jewish People at
Basle Is Closed.
ISRAEL NOW HAS A FLAG
Remarkable Progress I'm the Move
ment tO Re-establish What Re-
mains of the Hebrew Tribes as an
Actual Nation in Palestine - Max
Nordau Makes Thrilling Speech.

Basic. Sept 4.-The supreme signifi-
canoe developed by the Second Zionist
Congress last week in the great move
ment to re-establish the Jewish people as
an actual nation in Palestine, from
whence they were led as eaptives by I'll
tus, seventy years after the beginning
of the Christian era, is that the great
powers of Europe have begun to show
a friendly interest in the work.
The final session of the congress. which
lasted for nearly twenty-four hours. end
ed at dawn Wednesday. and as DR.. Her
eel. with tear dimmed eyes, spoke the
closing words: ''The old wandering of
Jews has come 10 an end, and in it's place
let US begin the spiritual pilgrimage to
Zion and hope that a new and better day
has begun the first ray of daybreak
shone prophetically upon his glorified
face.
1t is fact that tine German emperor
was unofficially represented in the con-
g,'ess by a trusted representative. charged
With the duty of reporting to him minute
ly the plans and purposes of the whole
Undertaking. The emperor has also al
lowed II TO be known to the members of
the congress that, when he reaches the
Holy Land, he proposes to spend one
night in the Jewish colony at Jaffa, the
seaport of Jerusalem. founded through
the munificence of Baron Edmund Roth
schild
The Sultan's Good VIII.
But the one man in the whole world
who has it in his power to re-estabIish
Jndea on her ancient soil, with the CO.
operation of the great powers, is the Sui
tan of Turkey. There was something
thriliingiy suggestive in the fact that in a
reply to message of congratuIation. sent
by DR.. Theodore Herzl, president of the
congress. to the Yildez Kiosk, the COM
mander of the faithful, sent a telegram
of hearty thanks and a most cordial mes
sage of good will
These two facts alone stand out clearly
as signs of the unmistakable progress of
Israel back TO the scene of her ancient
spiritual splendor. The fact that this
work IS not the fruit of idle dreaming is
shown by the practical manner in which
this second congress has promptly au-
thoriZed the estab ishment or bank with
preliminary capitalization of $40. .0Jo. 900.
and that of this sum s. 000. 900 has already
been subscribed without any definite plan
being made known 10 the subscribers,
and 50 per cent Of the million dollars
was taken in individual subscriptions of
s.. showing total of not far from I00. 900
subscribers. They are principally poor
Jews, who are looking forward from the
ends of the earth to Zionism and Zion.
In addition to this, the congress demon
strated that the enrolled number of Zion
/ lists has increased seven-fold within a
year; that the number OF delegates has
been doubled and that the Christian
friends of the ZiOuists have multiplied in
the same proportion. The congress itself
was an extraordinary and powerfully re-
preventative body The great area OF
faces. curiously enough, would not sug-
gest Judea to man not familiar with
the Jewish physiognomy Of Western Eu-
rope. The general type was neither Semi
tic nor Oriental