The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-28
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1.-THE Zionist Congress, held at Basic, has re.
solved by 295 to 1T votes, to send committee
to East Africa to make investigation as to the
suitability Of territory formally offered by
Lord Lansdowne on behalf OF the British gov
for Jewish with
motion the Russian delegates, who were opposed
to the scheme, left the hall as a protest.
1t Is nearly a decade ago since an
uneXpectant world was startled by the
latest phase Of the seemingly eternal
Jewish question. This time a pamphlet.
Its theme, the virulence Of anti Semitism;
its message, the rehabilitation Of Zion.%
In a word, Zionism. THE Jewish State
which was the title of the pamphlet IN
question-in its wealth of poetic detail left
nothing unconsidered.
The exiles OF Jacob, grooming in their
millions In Russia, in Rumania, reduced
to "a condition compared with which the
builders of Pithim and Raneses enjoyed an
enYiable ease, were Observation-Disclosures
question asked-to Palestine, which was
again to flow with milk and honey. The
banner Of repatriated Israel was carefully
planned out and embroidered: there was
the crescent, proclaiming the over lordshtp
Of the sultan. and seven gold stars upon
a ground of white, to symbolic the work
a-day week and the Sabbath peace. The
| thousand Handsome problems that rise in
and center round the east were solved by
the return Of the Jews to Palestine; Kurd
and Armenian would live in amity, and
the volcanic states in the Balkans become
quiescent. Is
Jerusalem, Jerusaem!
At a first reading Of the pamphlet it
provoked the criticism passed upon the
man who, seeing a vacant plot sof land
| suitable for building, rushed off to the
nearest locksmith and procured keys for
| the doors Of the structure he had-in
mind. The structures passed upon Dr..
MI VA
| letonist and jurist, the author Of 1.-THE
Jewish State,'' were Of T.. monotonous
sameness; visionary invariably, idealist al
ways.
But criticism, however, puerile, pro-
vokes attention and creates faction.
Zionism brought the seeds Of dissension
| into Jewry. The solid square of Jewish
| was broken up, and gave place toIa throb-
bling, palpitating triangle, the sides Of
which were in disagreement with each
other and the base with both. Jewry
was, and indeed Is, divided into three OPP
posing camps. The ra-orthodox Jew
| on the one hand, governed by prophecy,
awaits the return to Palestine by Divine
interposition, mot by force, nor by might,
| but by My spirit" The intellectual" on
] the other hand, with notions of his i'm
| pOrtance as missionary to the nations,
| sees in Zionismz an ok upon the rafson
d'etre Of the Jew, and a thrust directed
against his nationality as a "Frenchman,
| German or Englishman Of the Jewish
! faith. He repudiates racial Judaism.
The protagonist masses, however, an ola
| podrida, composed Of q sprinkling Of
orthodox and heterodox, of all and sundry
| who have felt the thongs Of anti-Sem-
itism in all its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In Rus
STA crouching between the walls Of its
Jey's pale, or in Rumania by law aliens
1oS, To-
every form Of professional or business call
| ing; by law made an artisan and by law
denied work-these look to DR.. Herzl as tc
a modern Moses, with whom is saliva ton
The Light Of Zion.
| Zionism is a counsel of despair. Leader!
and followers alike have felt the lash
ztonism must not be taken to be a mod
ern manifestation, nor its formula mod
ern dispensation.. How could It be7 fWhel
Is per cent of the Jewish people fteratt
thrice daily, and have done SO for cen
turtles, at the same moment In every par
I OF, the globe, out of the same prayer book
I IN the same tongue, 20, let our eyes be
2 hold. Thy return to Zion!''
For some Jews the prayer is piou
aspiration to see Zion enthroned as tn
1 center of a world religion-Jerusalem t
the nations what the City of the Sever
Hills is to Catholicism; for others, "a limi
| to an unbearable, condition imposed b.
intolerant states, who make their Jewisl
citizens the subjects Of their legislativ
activities and the objects of every repres
sive measure. Hence, Zionism has ex
listed, in one form or another, thru al
the time and thru all the lands Of TIL
Daispora. But modern <Zionism is ex
ceptional;a 1t employs modern weapons
it will have no commerce with praye
with folded hands; its fists are doubled
up; and it demands "a legally guarantee
home in Palestine
! There are many waste tracts rlanguish
Il ing for population, which could be &C