The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-12
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The Great Movement Among the Jews to
Establish a Nation.

One of the few beliefs that have al
ways been held by all Christians and
Jews alike, is that there would come a
time when the Jews would 60 back TO
Palestine, says an exchange. The Bible
has several dozen prophecies which de.
clare that this shall be so. What can be
palmer, for instance, than the famous
promise in the book OF Jeremiah, Il will
cause the people of Israel TO return 10
the land that gave to their futhers
and they shall possess it. And out of
their city shall proceed thanksgiving and
the voice OF them that make merry; and
| will multiply them so that they shall
not be few; and | viii glorify them, 50
that they shall not be small"
Again and again, since the Jewish ma
tion was torn up by the roots, there have
come leaders who tried TO put it back.
But until these days of railroads, steam
ships, newspapers and cheap postage, it
was impossible to unite and organize q
race that had been scattered to the four
corners of thee arth. The Jews were
poor, too. and despised and pushed into
holes and corners. Every mans HAND
was against them. They were shut of
in Ghettos" and it was a matter OF
common surprise for centuries that the
sun would eondescend to shine upon such
thing as Jew.
But to-day the Jews are in vastly
different position, says Herbert n. Cas-
SON in striking article in the December
issue Of Hampton's Broadway Magazine.
There Is still prejudice. of course, plenty
Of it. There is still poverty, for four
out of five. But the Jews are now so
numerous nearly twice as many as lived
in the days of solomon; they have so
many millionaires--llJ in New York
City alone they have 50 many states
men--there have been twenty-five jews
in Congress and forty in the British
Parliament that the task of getting
back Palestine from the Turks would be
8 comparatively small matter. 1t would
be positively a trife IN comparison with
the building Of the Panama canal,
Look at the facts in the case. Pales-
tine Is tiny scrap Of country, It would
take ten palestines to make one Arizona
Roughly speaking, it is only 1913 miles
long and ~ miles wide. 1t has no good
harbors, no gold mines, no great natural
resources. 1t is incredible to think that
little proposition like the purchase of
Palestine could not be handled by the
great Jewish bankers who control so
largely the financial destinies Of the civ
ilized world.
In its present desolate and neglected
condition. check for five million dol
lars would be big price to pay for Pal
estinian independence. To buy it bit by
bit from it's present owners would likely
require more than ten times that amount,
and what is fifty millions to the piled
up billions of the jews?
There is one Hebrew in New York
Daniel Guggenheim by name, who is the |
foremost smelter in the world. His com |
pany, when business ii good, produces
enough gold silver and copper in three |
months to buy Palestine. even at a price |
OF fifty millions. And he is not the only I
American jew who could attend to this /
Palestine matter, if he chose, with very /
little outside assistance Jacob H. Schiff,
the banker, could do so. and seems at the
present time to be the one who Is most
inclined to try. There is Nathan Straus,
too, and Joseph Fels and Henry Segel
and James ]. Speyer and Isaac N Selg-
man, each 70 whom is unquestionably !
able to make the Bible prophecies come
true.
The whole Jewish people, Of course,
could not concentrate in so small land
as Palestine They would pack it like a
sardine- box il they did, with a thousand
people in every square mile. But they
are now so strong so rich, when consid1
cred as a whole, that they can afford to
buy Palestine as sacred antique. They
can wall it off from the Turkish en-
pire as place OF refuge for their perse
cuted l5insmen, and as a winter resort
and rendezvous for all Jews and friendly
Christians, who revere it as the one holt A
nst spot on this earth.
When the Jews lost their country, two
thousand years ago, they were a small,
weak, moneyless nation in the midst Of
armies of barbarians, but to-day there
are, man for man. more Jews in the
world than Turks. They arc the bankers
IF kings. They are scientists, judges,
artists, engineers. Five times Jew
has been lord mayor Of London; and the
present mayor of Rome is member OF
he tribe of Nathan. In certain districts
Il Russia. half Of the commerce and nine
.enths OF the newspapers are in the
hands of Jews. In this country they con
.rol the trade in clothing. smelling, jew
Try, and cigars. besides owning most of
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