Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-12
PALESTINE THEIR GOAL
Jewish People Look Tow11n
Fulhllment Of Prophecy.
EXPECT TO RAISE s2o,0o1000

OF Leaders to RenattOnaltze Je~s
In the Holy Land.
Poverty, privation. persecution ant
hardship cannot weaken or SKATER 1ht
belief Of the Jewish people in the OLE
prophecy that they will be reunited il
a land Of their own, says the ChicAgt
Post. When this idea took taDgibis
shape in the Zionistic congress whlMl
convened at Basel, Switzerland, II
1897, the men interested were scoffee
at and called Missionaries. Max Nor
deau and Theodore HerZl were tbs
prime movers and organizers, although
the idea dates back to the time st4
Jews as nation became scatter,-l
Today there are Zion organizations
throughout the world to the number ~
about 1900, and the very comfortable
sum of $1,7oO,OOO has not only b-aa
subscribed to the cause, but paid
When 1t is said that this money h2s
been paid in more often than not IL
amounts of S. from one individual, tbs
progress of the work sseaks for itself
Over In the ghetto district there are
tenements housing dozen families Of
this nationality In almost as many
rooms. Yet in the midst Of this penurE
and often suffering the desire for re-
united nation burns strong. Families
making barely enough to keep body
and soul together point to gildeG
frame which surrounds certit1cnrs
showing that money has been paid for
a share in the great work. They ar
not too poor to support the movement
though too poor to indulge in the coDgr
monest pleasures. 1t is this spirit which
has fed the fame first started in Swift
zerland and which the leaders assert
will in another ten years accomplish
what was first thought to be the Idea
Of dreamers.
Next October delegates from all Oven
the world will gather at tie inferno.
tional convention Of Zionists in Lon
don. 1t will be the fifth congress. Af-
ready the Jews in Chicago are plan
them. BY that time it is hoped tbs
fund will have reached the $2,OO0.LsI
mark. Last June the American Feies-
alton of Zionists met in Philadelphia,
Plans have now been completed to hoE
the next gathering in Boston. Wont
from eastern headquarters has benz
sent to the societies in the Inltes
States that monthly paper will sss
started in the fall in the interest Of
American Zionists.
knights Of Zion is the sobriquet Of
the society which is represented in tis
middle western states. Headquarters
are in Chicago, and Leon ZolotkofT. ::
itor Of The Jewish Call, Is grand Lii
ter. This district has lodges In Wis
consin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa am
Michigan, and organizers are working
as far west as Colorado. Through Nh.
Zolotkoff 1900 shares have been sent II
headquarters in London.
Many more have been purchased in
this district [Chicago], but not thronEE
Mr.. Zolotkotf. Two years ago the TT
lonial Trust bank was Incorporated In
London, with capital stock Of $lD,-
100000. The bank will not be operatsa,
until the entire sum Is raised. Then Ii
is the plan of the leaders to purchasa
from the sultan of Turkey the rights
to rcnatonaliZe the Jews in Palestine
The total cost of the venture is eG-ss-
mated as high as $2O00-, 300 but yf*:
work is so huge that nothing nearvs
than approximate figures can be ma.le.
With the rapid growth of the Zh,r-
istic movement in the last year it is 1s'-
lieved by many of the Jews that Thr
fultllment OF the prophecy that the1
will again occupy Palestine, the homs3
of their forcfatliers, will be brousa&
about in another five years.
For twenty years colonies Of Isrssa
ties have been settling in Palestine VII
til today there are about thirty slif
settlements. The children ore taugG.
Hebrew and converse In this tong0a
The Mosaic laws have been changed
to meet present conditions, and tbesf
bodies of Jews are looked upon by tAf
Zionists as the nucleus Of the new Ia
estine They engage in agriculture
and manufacturing. and already their
wares are beginning to have reputa
ton in the commercial world.
In speaking of the movement Mr.
Zolotkoff said: when first started
many people looked upon the whole
idea as visionary and an attempt to es-
tablish a tribal clannishness. TbN$a
who thought of the scheme in all its
lights pronounced it the only ratiolia
solution for the preservation Of 3hs
Jews. In countries like Russia, wiare
the race is subject to persecution, then
individuality is fast killed off, as d
We're. In other countries, like tbs
United States, for example. where theY
are treated literally, the tendency ia
also to do away with Individuality, bus
through assimilation. 1t would be i'm
possible to keep the identity of tls
Jews as a race much longer und1
present conditions unless some such
scheme were worked out.
ut Is not the idea to transport AZ
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