Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17
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Terrtorias London Discuss the Subect-Meetng of the
British Federation Of the Ito-Striking Speech
by Israel Zangwdl.

which. II they were to arise. could not be
settled by any paper constitution that might
be adoDted.
The chairman eaid that the reason why the
expression was inserted was entirely 20 brine
adherents, They found out that the great
er part of the English Jews whom ii wa
necessary to win over IL they were going TO
| be successful thought that they were going
to found a Ghetto state from which all non
| Jews were to be excluded and that they
were going TO set up machinery for gov
eminent whether anybody was there or not
| They. therefore. wished to insert the words
predominant majority" In order to allsy
those fears. The word ''attainable" was
inserted because 1t was impossible to ne
| gotiate with the British government TO
obtain an already autonomous colony There
was only one way to get an autonomous
! territory under the British flag and tina
was to wrest territory from a savage chic
or induce a native chief to give II to then
and then place II under British protection
However. he did not know of any friendly
native chiefs willing to make them a pres
ect of territory.
After a lengthy discussion in which many
more objections were raised against the
watering down" OF the idea OF autonomy
implied In the words I'm which autonomy
shall be attainable." the constitution was
adopted in the main Is proposed and with
only some slight changes In regard TO the
organization of branches and other details.
II Will be remembered that the conxtitu-
ton OF the Ito makes this declaration OF
principles:
| The object of the organization is to pro
cure territory upon an autonomous basis
for those Jews who cannot OF viii not re-
main In the lands In which they at presenl
live To achieve this end the organization
proposes: (a) To unite all who are In agree
ment with this object: (b) to enter into re-
lations with governments and public and
private bodies: tc) to create financial lnsti-
tutions. labor agencies and other instru-
ments that may be found necessary. The
expression autonomous basis means and
implies that the territory shall be one IN
which autonomy shall be attainable and In
which the predominant majority Of the pop
ulation shall be jewish
So
In the evening a public meeting was hello
in the Pavilion Theater Mile End road.
Mr.. Israel Zangwill presided and delivered
one OF his characteristic speeches charac-
terIstic for cleverness and brilliant cpl
grams. some OF them coined at the expense
of logic.
Mr.. Zangwill who was received with en-
thustasrn said In part.
This gathering Ia a milestone on our tri-
umphant path Just think! Ten months
ago there was practically only one terri
torialist In England-Mr. Greenberg. To-
day there Is a worldwide organization with
branches in Europe. Asia, Africa, America
and Australia. One of the strongest OF
these branches Is In Palestine. A branch Is
even about to be formed In East Africa
For an infant of only ten months. the ITO
is fine child. unbeschrieen. And not only
has the British government now formally
expressed its willingness to treat with thu
ITO. but Mr.. Chamberlain has empowered
me to say that, so far as his parliamentary
influence goes, the opposition will cordially
support whatever his majesty's government
may decide to do for the Jewish people At
the time when both political parties are in
violent opposition, one thing alone is able -
a. ..w-tk IL L.. 49,
happy fate OF our people. But there is an
other opposition. alas II Is that which
comes from the Jews. And these nothing
seems to be able to soften or unite. The
Jewish people reminds one of the French
man in the story who fell into the water
and cried out In his imperfect English: 1
will drown. nobody shall save met Two
hundred and fifty years ago Manasseh ben
Israel came to England to plead for the
admission OF the Jews His mission was
successful. Why? Because there were no
Jews in England to stop him. The action
of the English Zionists In sending resolu-
lions against us to the British government
can only be called a chillful hashem a pro-
fanation of the holy name of Zion. DO you
wonder IL Russian Jews, meeting in their
synagogue have denounced II as treason to
the Jewish people? To say that our hearts
desire Is to form a state in Palestine is to
say a noble thing: to say that nowhere else
can we form state Is to tell an ignoble
lie. Why the Zionsts' own organ recorded
last week that forty Russian Jews have ac-
ouired a small territory In the Argentine at
a cost of 100000. And what forty Jews
can do. 400 can do better, and 4.oO0O0O best
of all. II we cannot get the Holy Land we
can mako another land holy-holy by our
lives in 1t. holy by our superiority to other
states. by our superiority In virtue and JUS
tice and our inferiorty In misery and crime.
This is our true national ideal-the ideal or
our greatest prophets and teachers. The
passion for Palestine must not blind us to
the truth of things"