The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-29

| interest in the welfare of their father
land prevent them from doing their duty
! to their adopted country? is the German
! American considered less of an American
because he cultivates the German Ian.
guage? Is the lrish-Amsricau less OF Al
American because he gathers money to
help his struggling brethren in the Green
Isle? is the Scandinavian American less
worthy of the title of American because
he considers precious the hand which
! binds him to the land OF his birth? Nay!
1t would seem TO me that those who are
SO afraid that our action will be misin-
| terpreted should be among the creates.
workers in the Zonistc cause
| The freedom for which our fathers
strove and suffered has given us who arc
emancipated the right to raise our voices
for the prosecuted Of our race, as th~r
oppression has cast on us the obligato1
to identify ourselves with their cause. To
do all and dare all, that our compatriots
in the various countries of ouu dispcr-
sion would do and dare for men of their
race and religion, however scattered, in
the like case
At the beginning of zonism it was ro-
ceiyed with a smile and even an amount
of scorn. AS it rapidly made its way it
was looked upon with surprise. At the
showing made by the third Basic congress-
this surprise turned into respectful at
tention.
AS zionism has made plain its objects,
many have declared for It, rather than
stunt the growth of Judaism, but those
who have not seen fit to take sides with
1t are lost forever to the Jewish faith
How like lightning fash is that
glimpse into the remote past; and how
everything seems to be reproduced as
41,.,
be our new Maccabaeans? The enthusi-
asm is not now that of single dreamers,
but Of a whole people, people who, as
has been well said, have made their name
great in history by this one thing. What
We desire is not for ourselves alone, but
for all mankind. and the necessity Is
dlyinely forced upon us Of marching for
ward toward the fulhllment of our mis-
sion.
In looking toward land and polity, our
dispersed people in all the ends OF the
earth may share the dignity of a national
life which has voice among the people Of
the East and West-which viii plant the
wisdom and skill of our race so that 1t may
be as of old, medium of transmission
ana understanding. Let that come to pass
and the living warmth win spread 20 the
weak eXtromities of Israel. and suparsti-
ton Will vanish. not in the lawiessness
uf the renegade. but in the illumination
OF great facts which widen feeling and
MAN all knowledge alive as the young
offspring of beloved memories.
IL we look back to the history of efforts
which have maIle great changes. It u
astonishing how many OF them seemed
hopeless to those who looked on in the
beginning Take what we have all heard
and seen something of--thc effort after tle
unity OF Italy, which we are sure soon 20
see accomplished to the last boundary.
Look into Mazzini's account OF his ilrst
yearning when he was a boy, after re-
stored greatness and a new freedom to
Italy, and of his first efforts 10 rouse the
same feeling In other young men. 10 get
them to work for a united nationality.
As long as there Is remnant OF nation
al conscience, / suppose nobody Ntll deny
that there may be a new stirring OF memo-
ries and hopes which may inspire ardu
GUS action.
There can and ought to be no division In
Israel on such practical movement of onr
minimum requirements as there H. Tho
rest we shall leave with all humanity ana
trusttulness TO thu Divine Worker who mas
planted the love os->Zion In our hearts
II is In His hands TO make the little one
into thousand. and the small migh.v
nation.
There is In the city OF Houston a Zion-
istie society. recently organized and which
IL a branch OF the many others organized