Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-28

found If impossible to prevent it, and
the act, having thus become a dead
letter it was repealed in lfoz ana q
lower duty substituted. :.
ireland, as usual, mad to wait Tor
repeal. with the result that althougn
in one year 100000 gallons We're sou,
only 1900 900 paid duty, indicating tnar
z 900 600 gallons were smuggled. IL
licit distillation became SO extensive
that the lives of excisemen were no
longer worth living, and as the people
were on the side of the smugglers, the
country was in chronic rebellion. a
curious result was that in 1924 the DUTY
was actually made lower in ireland
and Scotland than in England, priVi-
lege that lasted until Mr.. Gladstone
eoualized the tax by making it $3.50
a gallon. What glorious times for
the whisky drinker must those nave
been in the reign of Charles IL, when
only 8 cents a gallon represented the
thirsty mans burden for few days
at least.
To Colonize Hebrews
In his recent speech announcing the
scheme of the Jewish Territorial or
ganization for a settlement in Mesopo-
tamia, Israel Zangwill said he had
ascertained that if the project proved
practicable, it would have the sym
pathy of the leaders of the Jewish
people. The Zionists, he continued,
were the only section he had not
| thought it necessary to sound, since
he had taken 1t for granted that tney
would not refuse their cooperation
in a territory that belongs to their
program. So far, the real leaders or
the Zionist movement have not public
ly expressed their views On the mat
ter, but, if the attitude of some or the
| leading Jewish Zionists may be taken
as a criterion, Mr. zaugwill may tind
that he has taken too much for
| granted.
The extreme nationalist" wing of
the movement, for instance. will have
no dealings with the Ito or its schemes.
fearing that, If once they allow their
attention to be diverted from the aim
| of building up a Jewish nation IN
Palestine, their cause, which takes no
account of the calls of philanthropy,
will inevitably suffer. Territorialtsm,
which aspires to found land of refuge
| for prosecuted Jews in any part or the
world, they regard as their deadly
| enemy 1t is, however, not only the
extreme nationalists who will refuse TO
cooperate in the Mesopotamia scheme.
L. j. Greenberg, vice president of the
English Zionist federation, who has
often been accused by some of his
| Zionist friends of leaning toward ter
ritorialism, advised the members OF
/
bother for the present with the Mesopo-
tamian scheme" which had yet to be
| proved practical. 1t may, therefore,
be regarded doubtful whether the
Zionists will give any considerable
measure OF support to the proposal,
and whether what support they do
give will be or more than lukeWarm
! temperature.
one of the most important ques-
! tions that will arise with regard TO
| Mesopotamia will be the source from
which the money required for the un-
dertaking is to be derived. Sir William
Willcocks, who a few months ago
surveyed that country at the invita-
ton of the sultan of Turkey, stated
in his report to the Turkish govern
ment that, by means of irrigation, for
an expenditure of less than $37 100000
more than three million acres of land
can be made available for settlement
and to produce a revenue of nearly
| S. O0O 900 a year. Mr.. Zangwill evil
IDENTIFY things there should be little
difficulty in getting the money. "A
benevolent Jewish banker" he in
formed his audience the other day,
"asked me how / proposed to get
$40, 900 900 from the Jewish philanthro-
pists when it was impossible even to
raise enough money for our board of
guardians. 1 replied. BY going to
them not as Jews nor as philanthro-
pists, but as men of business The
value of the land, after the $40, 000,-
600 should be spent on it, was calcu-
lated at $3.50, 100000. and 1 did not see
why Jewish financiers should refuse a
profit of $110,000,0O0, even if the
scheme did benefit their people,"