The Holly chieftain., 1900-05-25
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DR.. HERzL TALKS OF PALESTINE
Originator of the Scheme to Colouiks the
Holy Land Says Money In Plenty Is
Pledged and He Expects Results Soon.

\ cablesram from London to the
Chicago Record says:
Dr. Theodore Herzl. originator of the
scheme TO establish a Jewish state in
Palestine, is now in London, perfect
ing the details of his great movement.
DR. Hcrzl is a tall, broad man. with a
heavy black beard, black hair, finely
cut features and luminous brown eyes.
He Is full of his subject, which he dis
CU,sCS luCidly. earnestly and eloquent
ly. He is apparently inspired with a
real and vivid expectation of seeing the
Jewish race, in the non-distant future
redeemed from homelessness and per
sccution and firmly planted on soil Of
It's own.
Or. Herzl took time from his multi
farious duties TO say TO the Record
correspondent to-day: Although
have practically inexhaustlble means
at my command to apply TO the colon
izing Of Jews in Palestine, some men
still declare that the project is dream
80 II Is, perhaps, but only recently Ger
man unity was a dream, and so today
Is British imperial federation a dream,
yet it is not impossible of accomplish
mcnt.
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Of the world TO their ancestral home
hinges, not upon surrounding inherent
difference, but merely upon the willing
ness of the Sultan TO grant such a
charter as we require. When he
grants that, In the course of time, in
my opinion. will this colonlzing move.
ment begin. The Sultan may not ex-
actly be in love with the idea; but he
does love money, and we are prepared
10 pay what he wants"
Concerning the character and pur-
pose of the movement, Or. Herzl said:
he Jews are without a government,
without national independence. with
ont home. Their political, social and
economic condition in many countries.
including Russia, ROumania and Aus
una, Is most unfortunate. They can
not escape from these degrading dis
ordinations. because they have no
place TO go. Even the United States
would not welcome an extraordinary
influx Of poor Jews from eastern Eu-
rope, Africa and the East The social
conditions Of the great cities of the
earth are aggravated by the presence
OF large numbers of Jewish people
smOnS whom standards of living are
low. The supreme demand to which
this situation gives rise is for n place
to which these people may go to live in
peace
The scheme l -colonizing
them in the Holy Band-is not wholly
cgotistic. | will admit that primarily
II is for the benefit Of the unhappy
members of a prosecuted race. but
secOndarily, it Will confer a blessing
on the human family. without distinc-
tion Of creed, color of country. The
governments Of the world would get
rid Of the dangerous passion of anti
Semitism, and that would help them
internally. The large centcrs of pop
ulatlon, would find themselves freed
from a considerable proportion of the
evils OF the sweating system.
These would be of the nature of
negative boOns, but what of the posi-
tive benediction n Jewish state in Pal
cstine would confer on the world:
AT. present, Palestine is a dead
country completely barren. in the
modern idea. The Jews would breathe
into 1t the breath of life. They would
teach the ignorant and backward
Turk, they would build harbors and
railways, and would rapidly construct
the material elements of a splendid civ
ilization. Palestine now is closed 10
the world and nobody can get the land
without war. The Jews would neu-
tralize the land and open 1t on equal
terms to all races Of men. They would
immensely shorten the distance be-
tween Europe and Asia by building
railway from the bay of Acre to the
Persian gulf. over this all peoples
could pass. Nobody would be Jealous
or fearful of the Jews, a weak people,
without government, desirous only
of winning happiness and prosperity
for themselves and of promoting the
general progress of mankind.
''The holy places would remain the
common property of the world. We
should eXtraterritorialize them and
treat them as sacred places. Emperor
William told me as we stood together
near the gates of jerusalem: .Pales-
tine is the country of the future
thing he spoke as prophet.
DIR. Hirsch thought that the fertile
plains of Argentina would be better for
Jewish colonies than the more barren
land of Palestine. | told him he was
wrong, and time has proved him So
The Jewish colonies in Argentina are
now in bad way while those in Pal
esdne are fiourishing That the Holy
Land is the Jews country is written
not only in the Bible but In the hearts
of the Jewish race"
Eliza, statistics show that nearly all
gardeners die of consumption"
They must have been bachelors who