The evening times., 1899-08-21
ZIONIST HOPB, FAR away
Ten Years Yet Before a New Jeru-
salem Can Be Reached.
Views Of Noted Men Of the Race at
the Recent Basic 'Congress--Jeyvs
From America Suggest Cyprus
Rather Than Palestine as a Haven
From Oppression for the Israelite.

| New York, Aug. 21.-The Journals"
correspondent at Basic says:
| The capital assembly of the Jews, the
Congress Of Zionists, came to an end in
serene Switzerland just at the time that
| the seathing nsighborland, France, was in
| greatest agitation over the cause in which
| the prejudice against the Jew is expressed
| in concrete form-the affaire Dreyfus.
The men of this congress conducted their
| debates in calm attention to the subject
| that brought them together. not because OF
| reconsideration of events of current hap
penings but because of the starlike single
ness OF purpose that keeps them ever look
| ing to Jerusalem.
Only once was there a passionate out
burst. That came when two American dele
gates suggested that the modern Zion be
| the island of Cyprus instead of the Holy
| City of Palestine Yet, Notwithstanding the
! peaceful conduct of its proceedings, the con-
| gress is not constituted of men who run
ever in the same path. For instance, the
| congress has practically pledged Zionism to
! the orthodox wing OF Judaism though the
! reformed faction has some prominent men
among its leaders.
| This was really an extraordinary gath
ering with an extraordinary purpose. The
| ideaiists of a race came together soberly
| 10 plan its rejuvenescence and TO make
practical arrangements for the reunltmg
| into strong, cohesive whole Of the appar-
+, entity unassimilative parts.
| For two thousand years this race mas
| l- coaf sod
| over all the globe Today there is no
wider difference between the men o. diff
! ferent nations than exists between the va
rious kinds of Jews. The antipathies ex-
! listing between the French and the Ger
| mans are mild compared with the pfelu-
dices which separate the Spanish and the
| German Jews from their brethren OF Rus
sia, Poland, and Lithuania- There is
hardly bond of sympathy, either. be-
tween the cultured Jews OF America and
the downtrodden dwellers in the Rouma-
nian ghettos. and certainly the physical
emblance can hardly be traced between
| the pale-faced, stopping dwarfs OF kar-
| pathian seclusion and the healthy, vlgor-
Gus members OF Temple Emanu-Ei.
! II the Jews OF England, France, Ger
| many and America still take interest in
the lot of Jews of anti-Semitic Russia,
Roumania, and Algeria, ii is not because
| they feel that they are members OF one
| race so much as that they are of one re-
| ljgiou. and the attitude OF the former to-
ward the latter is that OF the benevolent
phiianthropist and the unfortunate. Yet
! the leaders of the movement to make the
! Jews again into a nation are most en-
phatic in their declaration that their aims
are political only, and that the religion
/ or ncn-religion of their supporters does
not concern them or the success OF their
undertaking.
/ Notwithstanding this declaration, the
! orthodox Jews made this congress give
pledge of its adherence TO ancient forms
and the faith of the prophets. Herein
seems a contradiction. The congress ran
away from Herzl and Nordau, its fathers,
/ neither of whom follows the religion O.
! Israel 4 strange lot it was that the hery
enthusiasm OF HerZl and the dexterous
logic Of Nordau had drawn together, and
it will be more than a marvel II the ex-
traordinary project contemplated by them
is brought to a success through these
agencies.
Every kind OF Jew was seen here, from
the Lithvak with gaberdine and curls, to
the high hated. froek-coated. smooth
shayen Englishman All alike, however,
present only the imaginative side OF Jew
ish nature-the poetic quality that enabled
Israel tc forget in ideal dreams OF the fu-
j
ton.
So. whether a Jewish nation is born
again or not. the congress at Basle of 1899.
like it's predecessor OF 1898, was full OF in
terest and color and pathos. for these
strange pale faced delegates from the east
OF Europe, whose every glance bespeaks IL
midity and fear, have a feverish hope that
the Zionists will achieve some practical
! good in relieving them from the oppress-
ion and suffering which are gradually solv
ing the Jewish problem, so far as they are
concerned by determination
The conclusions of the leaders now an
nounced that it will take al least ten years
to reach the point aimed at-the revival
of the Jewish nation-are bitter food for
these unfortunates, relieved only slightly
by the assurance that colonization upon
large scale can begin soon.
One result Of the Zionistic agitation can
be plainly foreseen. The opposition of the
Rothschilds. the Simons, the reformed rab
bis, and those who are supposed to repre-
sent the Jews of Europe officially has de-
velCped an intense bitterness upon the part
CT the Zionists, which will emphasize the
gradually widening chasm which separates
the poor and orthodox Jews of the world
from the wealthy and reformed. The ac-
tion at this congress shows the purpose OF
the orthodox to stand firmly together.
Nordau says the reformed are anxious
to leave Jewdom, and will not grieve if
they are rid Of the worshippers of the Tai
mud The Rothschilds and others reply
through their inspired organs that Nor
dau, the agnostic is not fitted to Judge of
their devotion to Jewish principles. The
bitterest kind of warfare is being waged
by the Jewish press representing the re-
form rabbis and wealthy Jews against
Nordau especially, but he is quite capable
of defending himself, and his satire was
never keener than in his replies to his as
sailants.
Nordau and Herzl both appear satisfied
of ultimate success.
Buying Horses for the Government.
Staunton, Va, Aug. 21-TLieutenant Phil