The Washington times., 1902-01-12
NEW ZION IN
OLD JERUSALEM.
A Movement to RenatiOn-
aliZe Jews Of Palestine.
MIR. ISRAEL zANGWLL'S VIEWS.
Nothing Impracticable in the
scheme, He experimenting Value
of Exports and ImpOrts-Industries
In Operation and Projected
Shaking OF the Slumher of Ages.

He that owns no land is no rnan-The Talnud.
new movement has been born in the
world of which the badge is yellow rose.
The yellow badge imposed by the church
on the medieval Jew is to be changed to
a flower.
This national movement. whose object
is to acquire for the Jew legally assured
home in Palestine. was initiated by DR..
Theodore Herzl, of Vienna
DIR. Herzl's movement is a movement for
the integration of the scattered forces of
Israel. and the expression of this unity by
a national politically guaranteed home in
Palestine that may serve as shelter for
the homeless and oppressed. and beacon
for those prosperously sheltered else
where.
Like so many other agents in this fate
full epical drama, DR.. Herzl started with
no partially for Palestine. His book. Der
Judenstaat," published in 1887, which was
intended to be his sole contribution to the
national migration it preached, is willing
to accept the Argentine equally.
Awakening to New Life.
But he, too, has been set on the road to
Ziar, even as he has been transformed
willy-nilly from a writer into a man of ac-
tion of the first order. 1t is the best sign
OF the progress of his cause that his book
is already obsolete.
brief review of the present position
of Palestine will show that there is moth
ing cnimerical in the scheme of making
her habitable by the Jews. On every
hand there are signs that she is shaking
of the slumbers of ages.
The exports for 1900 were of the value
of & 264 $50, the wine figuring at f21, $40;
the imports cost e3S2, iO5. Besides wine.
Palestine exports maize. olive oil, sesame,
soap, wool, oranges, cOlocynth, beans, lu-
pines, bones. watermelons, etc.
The official statistics neglect the OBJ
1ects literally ''of bigotry and virtue
the flowers pressed cruciform. the carven
mother-of-pearl shells, the rosaries the
pictorial paper cutters taken away by the
3.O0o tourists and the $500 pious pilgrims
whose entertainment must form a consid-
cradle source of profit. and together with
the flowing streams of charity account for
the difference between imports and ex-
ports. Salt farming could be carried on
at the Dead Sea.
Fairly Even Climate.
Good hotels and tea gardens for Amer
leans may make Palestine as popular a.
resort as Egypt. Already people are be-
ginning to tire of Cairo and there are
sulphur baths at Tiberias. The hot sea-
son may doubtless be tropical and the
cold season frigid, yet the mean OF the
hottest points registered at Jerusalem for
fifteen years is 81 degrees Fahrenheit, and
OF the coolest 4i.4 degrees. The rainfall
OF twenty inches is distributed over about
fifty days.
Eight hundred and fifty-fve vessels en-
tered and cleared at the port OF Jaffa last
year. and Germany, which is the only ma
tion that makes serious efforts to push its
commerce in Zion, increased its Imports
and quintupled its shipping.
An Italian comnany has placed line of
steamers between Italy and Palestine, but
the German line is doing better because
OF the freight of Jewish wine to Germany
Among other symptoms of the creeping
on of Germany are the German wine
growing colony of Sarona. near Iaffa. and
the new and successful German bank in
the same town. But the German engines,
imported for the irrigation of the orange
groves. bid fair to be supplanted by an
English engine more simply worked
Good Wines Made.
THE Jewish colonies" says the British
Consul have brought about a remark
able change in the aspect of the country"
He is evidently unaware of the internal
difficulties. but his optimism is significant
of the local feeling.
The Rishon-le-Zion wine he describes as
resembling good claret and an excellent
sauterne. 'Ekron" is a model fruit
growing colony. and exports to Europe
preserved apricots and peaches.
But Palestine is not destined to be
simply pastoral country. The suburbs
OF Jerusalem and Jaffa are increasing at
such rate that one almost foresees the
time when Jerry building will be traced
to Jericho.
The bulk of the Jews live in towns-in
Jerusalem. in Tiberias, in Safed. and for
these Jews, urban industries must be ere
ated; olivewood carving. embroidery,
ready-made clothing straw plating, bas-
ketmaking. soap and glass manufacture.
jam -making-all were suggested at a re-
cent conference of the Colonization Socie-
ties, now at last awake to the actualities
of the problem.
New Water supply.
The /. C. A. has set up weaving room
in Jerusalem. the wool and silk of which
are placed in Palestine and Egypt. A dye
ing factory and lace factory are in
preparation.
Meantime the Turkish Government it
self starts a work which the Baroness
Eurdett-Coutts could not carry through at
her own expense. The terribly inadequate
water supply of Jerusalem is to be i'm
proved.
The aqueduct from the Sealed Foun-
tain" at the Pools of Solomon is being re-
paired, iron pipes replacing the earthen.
In the presence of the Mohammedan
mobiles, two sheep were slaughtered, so
that their blood flowed to the point
whence the water will gush forth.
Under more Jewish auspices part of the
lower pool of Gihon is simultaneously be-
ing turned into cistern to receive water
brought by railway from Bettir. The only
fountain which Jerusalem possesses-the
Virgins Fount-has just been made to
spurt forth perennially by the villagers of
Sloan.
Railroad Building.
Assuredly the waters OF life are quick
ening Jerusalem.
Ten years ago there were practically no
roads in Palestine. The Jerusalem to He