The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23
BARON MAURICE de HIRSCH
 AND HOW HE GAINED FAME
Even Before His Death He Became Legendary Personagc---Blackballed by Paris Club, He
 Fired the Members Out.

Hirsch trustees cover up their failure n colonizers. their incompetence to carry out the provisions of the testAtor's wi1l. For their undertakings comprise 10 1en than l92. few of which have any dirVcS connection with colonization Whi1o ths articles require them to make colonies supplied with every element of sxistenoes these trustees scarcely ever rise to apy- thing beyond schools. The articles aay "Tound colonies and then put schoelD in them for the colonists." Tho 0ups tees build schools--in Roumania, etc.. and forget altogether about tho co1unteA It is aa if somebody had left money Tor a railway. provided with every roqu1pltes and the money was spent in huildtng stationmasters' cottages. but hardly svsR a line. station or . train.
 The articles indeed prescribed railwayh and even Notifications. No one who ts thinking principally of scnools taIk Of Notifications. Beyond question 1axpn Hirsch had in his mind the acquisition of a large tract of unoccupied territery which might become the future hone of the millions of Russian and other JeWa who were unable or unwilling to ss.lni. late with the western world But 11 what a miserable boz has the oroat scheme ended!
 Most of the trustees responsible ter nal& responsible) for this heartrending reauIt are unknown to fame-for fancy xegd Rothschild and Sir Ernest Cassel haye long ceased to have any active ccuuec- ton with the work-and In the obscurtty which enveiops the trustees all Duojto knowledge of their failure is aliks ob- scured. In arrogant obscurity they meet and muddle. They refuse even to pub fish a balance sheet Not that they do not mean well, but they have no general scheme. And without plan even uail- lions are but as water thrown into 2 leaky bucket. This muddle and failure are bad enough in themselves: they are accentuated, however. by the fact that. scheme does exist, a plan has been form be employed fruitfully and could help tc end forever the eightesn-hundred-year- old tragedy of the wandering Jew. This plan Is known as Zionism.
 The Meaning of Zionism.
 It's object Is to colonize Palestine moi artifcially. but through the natural inflow of the Jewish refugees from lands of per- secution. In the last twenty years at least 100000 Jews--a majority craftsmen, a minority agriculturists-have wandered out of Russia and Roumania to seek for bread and freer atmosphere. With what result? Many have only added to 
 as New York, Chicago and our own Lon don Here in the East End we have 1.-the problem of the displacement of the British native, not so much in labor as in lodging.
 While 1t would be against the noble policy of England to interfere with the immigrant who seeks in her warm bosom a refuge from tyranny and despair 1t could be wished that England should not suffer even in the remotest degree by her generosity, and it therefore behooves all truly patriotic English Jews to try and relieve the mother land even of her slightest burden. This stream of i'm migration which Is always tending to- ward our shores and to those of America could easily be turned to Palestine, for it is Palestine which would offer the real attraction, give the real sense of home to these homeless Israelites
 Tribes of the wandering foot and weary
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 The Future of Palestine
 By a strange Providence Palestine is largely untenansed. To put the people without country into the country with out a people is a solution at once simple and sublime. That Palestine has gone to ruin in many parts is a sad fact, but II it had not been ruined 1t would already have been snatched up by the eager ccxa-
 
 cannot remain much longer waiting for the Jews. This is the age of steam and electricity. Once 1t was, as everybody knows, "a land flowing with milk and honey" And it can be so again for the ruin Is but superficial and when the stones are cleared away and the hili ter races planted again with olives and vines and the old wells dug up and the old reservoirs and conduits repaired and the oil axf multiplied and harbor built at Jana it will be difficult to put limit to the pros perity of Palestine.
 With the inflow of only 5oo.0oo Jews and the expenditure of a national capital sunk in the land, even as English mit- lions have been sunk in the boer war. Palestine would. within few decades, become & hive of industry. Nor would this threaten the religious sentiment of the place, for the holy sites, which. be it remembered, belong not to a pastoral period but to a civilized and populated period of Palestine's history. would be zealously guarded and would be visited by A greater throng of pilgrims than ever before
 One of the great chances of Palestine lies in its geographical position. for 1t is practically the center of the old world. round which Europe, Asia and Africa group themselves. Its position as the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and its proximity to the Persian gulf make it a strategical center whose importance in the near future cannot be overrated.
 England's Interest in Palestine.
 Twenty years ago Laurence Oiiphant warned Britain of the danger of allowing so important a sphere of influence to slip entirely under other influences. and his warning Is even more seasonable today.
 If England took the lead in promoting the Zionist movement she would not only solve her own little problem of alien im- migration in East London, but she would also lay up a treasure of influence in the future Jewish state.
 An even mightier power in the Zionist world Is pr. Herzl the originator of Zion ism as a modern political movement. He has plowed his way through series of. 'Impossibllities. Although only poor Journalist of Vienna, he has assembled congresses, founded national bank. talked with the German Emperor and been formly received by the Sultan, the ruler of Palestine.
 Stranger things have happened than that this sweet-tempered. magnetic per sonality, who Is able to hold the most jar ring factions together. should find him self president of the newest and oldest state on earth. By a curious coincidence Baron Hirsch died in the very year Dr. Herzl began hls mission. Had he lived there is no doubt his missions would