The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28

the Gentiles another. A Jew Is taxed for
every tree he owns; he is taxed every
time he drives, If he has horses; and
one-tenth of his crop is taken by the
government. Outside one of the gates Of
Jerusalem the Rothschilds and other
wealthy European Jews have built about
500 substantial stone houses and these are
rented for a nominal sum. 1t is really
charity on large scale. More and
more Jews are flocking to Jerusalem.
Wealthy Jews all over the world are en-
couraging this Zionistic movement, as it
is called. 1t is the hope Of the Jews to
form a great commonwealth with Jeru-
salem as the capital, but the Turkish
government will fight such an attempt as
long as there is a sultan on the throne.
Not long ago Baron RethSchild sent a
message to the sultan offering to pur-
chase sixty miles of land in the valley
of the Jordan, improve 1t and settle it
with Jews. A munificent price was offer
ed but the sultan refused.
VERY CORRUPT CITY.
Probably there is no more corrupt city
in the world than Jerusalem and GER
tainly there is no more corrupt govern
ment than Turkey Twenty years ago
the only postoff1ce in Jerusalem was the
Turkish one. All mail passed through
this Office ana no one who sent a letter
its destination. Since then England, Rus
STA and France have demanded and OBJ
tanned the right of having their own pos
tai system and this has made it very
much better for foreigners But all tele-
grams pass through the hands of cen
sor. The sultan lives in daily terror of
a revolution and he looks upon the tele-
graph as one of the chief agents of such
a calamity.
''An amusing, although somewhat an
noying incident happened, when I was
in Jerusalem. An Englishman who was
putting in a small machinery plant had
some correspondence with London firm.
Finally he sent telegram containing
the description of a wheel he required
and the words forty revolutions" were
included. The telegram was forwarded
to the sultan. His advisers read the
words forty revolutions" Forty revo-
buttons! One was bad enough, but forty
that telegram was destroyed.
"A reform party has sprung up in Tur-
key, that is in favor of progression in
every way and this party the sultan and
his advisers especially fear.
A SMALL UPRISING
took place in Constantinople recently and
the ringleaders were arrested. They dis
appeared and word was given out that
they were banished. Shortly afterwards
Of the Bosphorus and the men employed
were compelled to go down to the bottom
in divers suits. When they came up they
struck. Asked what the trouble was they
said that the bottom of the harbor was
covered with corpses with weights at
tached to their feet. They recognized
the ringleaders In the recent rebellion anG
the corpses of women and children be-
sides. The whole bottom of the harbor
was covered with bodies.
Russia and Germany are both fighting
for Jerusalem. Russia has more colleges
and churches in the city than any other
nation, but Germany is apparently on bet
ter terms with the sultan. Recently the
sultan decided a piece of land to Ger
many for the erection of church.
SULTAN TAINTED.
''I saw the sultan one day III Copstan-
tinople. He was on his way to the mosque
to pray. This is the only time it Is said
that he leaves his palace and he is at
tended on these expeditions by a guard
of 10000 soldiers. He is a f1eshy, but we'll
built man, with rather powerful features
He wore the red fez but otherwise wore
plain citizens clothes. Twenty of his
wives accompanied him to the mosque
although they did not go inside. The
sultan rode in a coach drawn by six
beautiful horses Returning he drove
those horses himself, but he was sur
rounded by his guard of 10000 soldiers.
A ludicrous incident happened on one Of
those expeditions to the mosque. A party
of Germans cheeredr the Turkish ruler and
he promptly tainted away, fearing the
cheers were the signal for a revolution
"Of course, it is only the will OF the
powers that keeps the sultan on his
throne. Amy minute there may be revo-
luton. There is corruption within and
corruption without, but into whosever
hand Turkey falls the fate of the Jews
and even the Turks themselves cannot
possibly be worse than it is now"