The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-19
The Land Of Promise for the Jews.

ID estimated ny l1e amer itaii &c WISH i'"'
Book at about ten millions, of whom more
than one-half are in Russia. OF the
remainder, about two-thirds are in the
United States and Austria-Hungary. In
all Germany, in spite Of its anti-Semltlc
agitation, there are not so many Jews
rs there are in the city of New York alone.
In the whole British Empire there are
not one-half US many.
In the period since 1852 the Jewish
population of the United States. and OF
New York more particularly, has been
more than doubled by immigration,
chiefly from Russia, because of the policy
of prescription against the Jews then
introduced in that country, Another
very great source of this immigration
has been Austria-Hungary, and from
both it is now coming in larger volume
than ever. Undoubtedly, too, the kishl-
neff outrages will tend to increase this
flood both from Russia and from Eastern
Europe generally, SO that the United
States, already second only to that em-
pire in the number of its Jewish popula-
ton, promises rapidly to attain to the
first place. Already the greatest Jew
sh community in the world, the greatest
ever gathered together since the disper-
sion. is now in New York-more than
600, 200.
DR.. PARKHURsT said on Sunday that he
looked forward, after some genera
tons, to the complete mixing of Jews
with Gentiles in this country, 30 that
in the ages to come they will all form
one undivided people, one race type.
MIR. EDWARD LAUTERBACH. however, de-
clared before the Young Mems Hebrew
Association, on the same day, that be-
cause Of discrimination against Jews
here, by clubs, for example, they must
stand together. 1t does not seem to
have been necessary for him to give that
counsel, for never in the history Of this
country have the Jews shown more de-
termination to keep together than they
are exhibiting now. As their numbers
increase actually and relatively they are
the prouder in their self-sufficiency as a
race. The mixture Of Jews and Gentiles
to which DR.. PARKHURsr looks forward
~ IOlSluuy Lltto Dtcl IctdluGu IdIIlST
than accelerated, even in his own opinion,
by this great and rapid increase for how
ever strong may be the prejudice against
the race mixture on the Gentle side, it
is, for the present, at least, even stronger
on the side Of the Jews, and more espe-
cially the strictly orthodox Jews, Of
whom the great immigration of the race
ID now made up almost exclusively.
The lesson of the massacres at Kishi-
neif which have Mortified the civilized
world is, therefore, in the opinion Of Mr..
ISRAEL ZANowILL, that the only hope Of
the Jews is in the Zionite movement,
Accordingly, London meeting at which
he spoke on Saturday adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that the only practical solu-
ton OF the Jewish question would be
found in legally assured home In Pales-
tine. Prof. GoTTHEIL of Columbia Uni
versity, the president Of the Federation
Of American Zionists, has published a
letter in which he expresses the same
opinion:
"a free people In a secure homei-for that We
Zlonlsts have been working: for that we hope to
work successfully under Divine guidance In tho
future. The blood Of these innocent Klshnef
martyrs will not have been shed in vain II Is nclse
Us to such noble effort"
Practically, however, the land Of
promise for the prosecuted Russian Jews
is America, in the opinion Of many OF our
most intelligent and influential Jews.
The only thing left for the Jews in Russia
is to emigrate, said Mr.. JACOB H. ScHIFr,
on Sunday, and inferentially, he meant
to fly to our shores. Mr.. ZANGwILL had
said in London, the day before, that such
emigration is really the end for which
Russia is working. Russia does not
want the Jews he declared So far
from wanting them, Russia would pay
10 shtllings head to get rid of them. "
But, obviously, as Mr.. LEO n. LEVI, presi-
dent Of the B'nai Birth, told the Jews of
New Haven, the wholesale emigration
OF the Jews from Russia is impossible.
All OF them cannot emigrate forthwith,
and those who remain, or the vast major
ity Of the six millions in the Empire, must
look for protection to the Russian Gov
eminent, aroused to enlightenment and
to humanity by the sentiment of the civ
ilized world. Undoubtedly, DR.. DAVID
BLAUsTRIN has good reason to expect
that as a consequence Of the Kishineff
atrocities we shall have during the next
six months the greatest Jewish immi-
grafton Of our history" but large as it
may be, it will be Of only very small
part Of the millions Of Jews in Russia.
The ties binding them to their homes
there cannot readily be broken and their
only hope for the present is in the devel-
opment Of sense of justice in the Gov
eminent.
1t Is likely-it may be said to be inevi-
table-that the stream OF immigration to
this country will continue to be large, but
twill be many years before it will amount
to enough in the aggregate to furnish a
solution Of the question which is acitat-
ing the world-the question of the neces-
sary destiny of the Jewish race if it is to
preserve itself. In ~pite OF the Zionite
appeals of MIR. zANGwiLL and Prof. Corr
HE'LL, there is no present indication that
that solution is to be the congrec alton of
the Jews OF eastern Europe in Palestine,
Inc indicatlo ms seems to be rather that