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rents, and if this be so, why does not any one know anything about his race or nationality, outside of his assumed name of Italian extraction?
 Yes, the position of the Jew was hitherto the most anomalous of all things within creation. The lack of permanent home has made bugbear out of the Jew; has robbed him of his own culture, his own personality, his own flesh and bodily form; and it has just left of him a hollow apparition- a mere wandering Jew"
 While the Jew has truly benefited all else by his untiring labors in all the walks of life, he has hardly ever benefited himself; for whatever he pos sesses of name and fame and human dignity, 1t is not his own; it Is sold for the mere privilege of being per mitted to live amongst his neighb ors (most of whom are irreconcilably cruel, and they will always throw back to him his faults, whilst hiding all of his virtues from view). While he aided In securing the liberties and rights of practically all the states in civilization he himself is today as ever the man without country.
 It Is a happy fact, however, that in the Turkish revolution, as In the pre- vious struggles for liberty everywher in the world, the Jew has acquitted himself honorably and the home wh ich the Jew claims as his own was thus purchased by his own blood. There is every reason now to believe that the hour of Jewish emancipation has struck, and the land of Israel is once more to become the legal possession of the children of Israel. Not only was the Jew necessary in Turkey during it's recent political transformation, but he is still more necessary now for what remains yet to be accomplished In the way of enlivening and developing the land, in awakening the latent fertility oI In, ai a
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land has taught the world lesson worth learning. In the year 1880 Parnell and Davitt addressed a meeting of shivering and starving peasantry in the County Mayo. At that meeting the cornerstone of the Land league was laid. and right then and there was unfolded to the breeze a banner with the strange device,' The Land for the People. The device was ridiculed, the banner was caricatured and the men who unfolded 1t branded as fools or anarchists, but today, 30 years after, the very same government has snatched the banner into its own hands and bears it to the front in spite of threats and op- position, and the names of the men who unfolded it are written among those or England's greatest statesmen.
 The great change in the condition of Ireland which has been effected in those 30 years was not done at the strok- of a magieian's wand. It has been the re- suit of hard and persistent advocacy of the right of the people to live in Ireland and to own the land on which they lived. That right was embodied in the phrase, s',rhe Land for the People, and the ban ner on which those words were inscribed has been held aloft in storm and sun
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shine, by day and by night in English parliament and on Irish platform until today when nearly three-fourths of the land has found its way back into the possession of a peasantry who are putting forth every effort to make their holdings not only profitable, but beautiful. h. stead of the starving. shivering serfs of 30 years ago, the Irish farmers are today the most happy and contented people on earth. The voices of the men who pro- claimed the battle-cry are silent: the cold hand of death has clasped the hands of the men who first raised the standard, but the army still advances, led on by new leaders and conquering as it goes.
 It seems but as yesterday since Par nell addressed a meeting of his followers in the Land League rooms in OConnell street, in Dublin, when in the course of his remarks he said: You must not leave the fate of Ireland and the Irish people on my shoulders alone. You must organize and maintain political party, so that if I fall or the leader falls or any member or number of members fall, the cause will not fall There has been the mistake in all previous movements. When the leader fell the cause fell. When
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source of Irelands misfortune. Parnell said landlordism must go That was the bastile that must be demolished, and against 1t was directed every weapon known in constitutional revolutionary warfare. It was a battle in which one side must go down and go down for ever It was a fight to the death, the landlord to hold his land, the tenant to obtain it.
 In Ireland land was power. The man who could raise or reduce rents could almost say whether people should live or die. He was a brave man, if not foolish one, who would dare to defy his landlord. Rents could be raised beyond the possibility of payment and non-pay- ment meant eviction. Military and con stabulary were at the service of the landlord if the tenant resisted and many and many a poor man and his family were turned out on the roadside in the depth of winter, while the evictor ac- companied by a crow-bar brigade, fired the roof and leveled the walls of the humble cottage that had sheltered him and his ancestors. Woe to the charitable neighbor who opened his door to the vic tlm he soon found himself in similar
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called for this serious problem. And it will be of interest to note that the an- nouncement was made by pr. Maxim Bey, chairman of the previous convention of the Young Turks at Salonica, that at tho next assembly which is to take up the matter of the various nationalities in Turkey-not a Turk. but Jew by tho name of H. Witalis, will be called to pre- side.
 Some weeks ago a spurious report found It's way into several newspapers at Con stantinople. which was to the effect that the Jews do not mean well with Turkey, and that the Zionist movement is posi- tive menace to the Turkish government The answer given by the government was the appointment of an Investigating conl- mittee, consisting of all the four Jewish members of parliament in conjunction with two Turkish deputies. The result of the committee's findings may be learned from the fact that the Turkish government Is now even more earnest in soliciting Jewish immigration, and more anxiously awaiting the spread of Jewish industries and activity in the land, whils the Jewish nationalists are today more than ever sanguine in their hopes for a realization of the Zionist ideal.
 In reply to the perhdious charges and calumnies which put Zionism in such false light, the following declaration was is sued also from Zionist headquarters viz.: 1. The aims and purposes of Zionism are in perfect harmony with the Idea f Tur- key as a united commonwealth. J. Tur- key is today constitutional government and her will Is expressed only through parliament, or the trusted ministers, not through sheer interviews published in newspapers. 8. The Jews are grateful and loyal to Turkey and ready to as- sist her 4. The liberal statesmen of the new Turkey cannot but recognize the vast advantages that Jews may bring to Tur- key when settled in Palestine.
 Zlonism has nothing to hide of its plans and expectations. The Jewish people are ready to aid in the upbuflding and up-
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plight Such was landlordism in Ireland 30 years ago and such it's power. It was an institution centuries old, deep-rooted and entrenched behind the police and mil itary power of an empire upon which the sun never sets. Yet 1t has fallen, fallen to rise no more.
 Out of the wreck and ruin of centuries of oppression has sprung up a new Ire land. Never was there a greener green on the trees and fields, never was there a bluer blue in the skies, or such frag- rance and freshness in the breeze. From Queenstown to Dublin the country re- sembles an enchanted land. Whether the scene be pastoral or agricultural. noun tain or valley, its beauty surpasses de- serption. Every shade of color from the verdant green of the after-grass in the meadows to the rich yellow of the ripen- ing fields of oats and barley. Instead of rail or wire fences the fields are divided by hedge-rows running In the most irreg- ular directions and forming fields of such a variety of shapes and sizes that. taken with the various colors, there is pro- duced a perfect piece of terrestial mosaic.
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had been compiled with in the vote of censure, and Benton was resolved that so far as concerned that transaction there should be no Journal" of that days proceedings Here Is passage from Leigh's speech 'Mr. President. in that catechism which I learned at my mothers knee, I was taught to keep-to keep-to keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking" The effect was terrific. It pierced even the rhinocerocian hide of Thomas H. Benton, who thought, as ev- cry other nearer did, that Leigh had ref erence to the money, the cravat and Chapel Hill episodes in the early career of Benton: but Leigh disavowed 1t with the declaration that when he insuited man, it would not be by innuendo.
 In 1ss6 Tennessee, Jackson's own state, voted for Hugh Lawson White for pres ident, as did Georgia, and for John Tyler for vice-president. as did Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. Afterward the legislature of Tennessee, in 1889. instructed White to vote for the sub-treasury. He refused and resigned, and thus left public life, one of the ablest, the purest and wisest men who ever participated In public affairs in our country.
 
 senator in 1899. It was the work of Hen ry Clay, who preferred Tyler to Rives, but thought he could attach the latter to his train and thus carry Virginia. It was in the cards to nominate Tyler for vice-president with Clay in 1S40 but they reckoned without Thurlow Weed. the most expert and astute practical pol itician of that, or any other day, who en- gineered the convention and nominated To " vice presidency when Webster refused 1t. Weed turned the same trick in 1s4s when he nominated Taylor over Clay. In his autobiography he tells all about 1t. Clay was furious and then it was he ex- claimed, By -, if there were two Henry Claws in this country one of them would make the other president of tho United States!"
 The whig party was patchwork, made up of all sorts of discordant clements states rights men and consoldationists, pro-slavery men and anti-savery men, free traders and protectionists The only coherence of thought the only unity of action, was anti-Jackson. On that they were all agreed. and on nothing else was there concord or unity.
 And it was of that party that John Tyler became the titular head on April 1. 1sH. Clay, the haughtiest tyrant our politics has produced, was the real head of the party He knew if Tyler's ad- ministrat tion was successful Tyler would succeed himself, and hence he set about to wreck. the administration of which his rival Webster. was premier He passed the bank bill. Tyler vetoed it. He passed the fiscal corporation biil. Tyler vetoed that, too. He passed tariff bill with distribution of the public lands sales. Tyler vetoed that.
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TyHERE are about 100000 Jews in
 Turkey today. Not one-half of
 x them, however, are Turkish citi- zens as the majority of those who immi- grated to Palestine in recent years had sought to protect themselves under the flag of any of the existing powers abroad, since the situation in Turkey was never safe. Yet even before the constitution was proclaimed the Jews throughout the empire had enjoyed their religious liberty in the broadest sense of the term, and in all things they were recognized as re- ligious national entity. There was never a Jewish question: in Turkey and to all likelihood there never will be one. IT the Jews in the Ottoman empire had suf- fered in any degree it was never as Jews that they suffered, but merely as men, owing to economic depression and the mis- rule of government which involved all sections of the community
 The only incident of a serious charac- ter recorded in the annals of the Jews in Turkey, like a solitary spot on clear horizon, is the famous 'blood accusa- tion' of 1S40. But even behind that par ticular tragedy was a European It was instigated and carried on by the then we'll known Jew-baiter, Ratti Menton, the French consul in Damascus. And while the regrettable Damascan affair was merely an exceptional case, that most criminal falsehood on earth, the "blood accusation" Mephisto-like, is still ram pant amidst the Aryan peoples. European nations have never yet ceased to be agi- tated by the belief that the Jews employ Christian blood for ritual purposes; so even to this day the Passover season is too often made an occasion for Jewish massacres and outrages of all kinds. Thus started the horrors in Kishineff, and thus were brought about most all of the fright ful brutalities perpetrated upon the Jews by civilized barbarans' in Europe.
 The successful revolution in Turkey proves to be a revolution also in the
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IGNORANCE loves to sheer, and big
 otry loves to malign, when confronted ! with the purity, the simplicity, the patriotism and the capacity of the tenth President of the United States. There was nothing spectacular about him; had he gone to the wars he would have scorn- ed to pose the hero of the battle he was not in. There was nothing of the dogma ic. or the turbulent in lMs makeup He was not quarrelsome, but loved the peace that 'tinkles on the shepherds bells and sings with the reapers." Yet he was firm as rock in the views he held and abdi- cated office and suffered calumny and contumely rather than violate one jot or little of them He is the one President to veto a tariff bill, knowing that the act would, as it did, make him the mark of all sorts of coarse islander and cruel des traction.
 He was cultivated man, a thinker, an orator, a statesman, a patriot, sage, and yet in public esteem he lives a weak ling or worse, simply because of that Harvard school of self-alleged historians, to read whom one should summon his memory to protect his credulty and order his moderation to relieve his disgust. An Episcopal clergyman of New England once remarked to me that had the Aposv tie Paul been born in Commonwealth avenue, sported as child on Boston Common, been educated at Harvard and lectured in Fanueil Hall, he would have been, in the estimation of Boston, nearly as good a preacher as Theodore Parker but not so respectable a man. He knew Boston, though a resident of the south and rebel of 1861.
 John Tyler was born March 2s, 179o, on the Virginia peninsu1ar, near Charles City Courthouse. of iflustrious parentage, paternal mad maternal. On the dstaff side he was an Armistead, soldier race. For numbers no other family of all America can show more valor displayed, or more blood shed on the feild of battle than the Armisteads. An Armistead held Fort McTIenry while Francis Scott Kew was composing ''The Star Spangled Banner, An Armistead carried the Con- federate flag to Thigh water mark" at Gettvsburg: but to enumerate all the deeds of the Armisteads in time of war would be a tedious work, and volumi- nous. as well. The Tylers were fit mates for inc Arnnisteads Masons, Lees and seldens. all had Armfstead blood cours- ing through their veins, Robert E. Lee among them.
 Tyler was an F. F. V. in the true sense of the word. "Noblesse oblise' was coined for such as he and the men sucn as ruled Virginia for above two hundred years Beniamin Watkins Leigh was prepared for college by famous old Scotch tutor, Needler Robinson, and John Tyler. who was to be the colleague or the brilliant Leigh in the United States Senate in after years, was prepared TOT college by scarcely less competent tu- tor, another Scotchman, McMurds. Both Tyler and Leigh went te William and
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K I ATURALLY the first question an
 M Irishman asks on returning to his native country after an absence of many years is, How is dear old Ireland, and how does she stand?' There was time when the answer would have been: "Shes the most distressed country that ever yet was seen" But, thank God, that day Is gone, gone forever as is also the cause of the distress and today the an- swer would be that Ireland is the most delightful country in the world, fin her sun, in her soil, in her people thrice blest" Ireland stands today upon the very threshold of being what Moore wished her to be:
 Great, glorious and free,
 First flower of the earth, first gem of the
 sea.
 In order to appreciate fully the present condition of Ireland and the Irish people it is necessary to know what the condi- tions were 30 years ago, for it has been during that time that revolution has taken place, not such a revolution as crimsons the page of history, but a rev olution worked out by constitutional and continual agitation. In this respect Ire
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example will not be dangerous. You have more to fear from a nations favorite, from him whose path has been one of glory, who has won your gratitude and confidence; against his errors you have to guard lest they should grow into precedents, and become in the end the law of the land"
 Four score and ten years ago that was warning. Every day of the twentieth century has approved 1t g. prophecy
 Here is another prophecy from the
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speaker of that body. In Congress, Tyler opposed the conduct of General Jackson in Florida. I wish I had the industry, the patience and the space to quote copi- ously from that great speech. Here is a passage:
 "A republic should act as in the case of the Roman Manllus, and disapprove the act of her dearest son, If that son has erred From what quarter do you expect your liberties to be invaded? Not from the man whom you despisei against him you are always on your guard; his
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JOHN TYLER,

ing Virginia's senators in Congress to vote against the re-charter of the United States bank The senators disregarded the act of the legislature and voted for the charter, whereupon Tyler offered the resolution of censure of thier conduct.
 In 1916, Tyler was elected to Congress, defeating Andrew Stevenson then speak CT of the Virginia house of delegates, and subsequently, four times. consecu- lively, chosen speaker of Congress, g. rec ord equaled by Joseph G. Cannon only, though Henry Clay was seven times
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12
Los Angeles Markets
/ AeeoiaI Disoaich 10 The Call

los ANGELES. Dec I.-Hesvy receipts OF
eggs threatened Go sag the market today. but
prices remained urn- The incoming product TO-
sailed Jos cases
light
Receipts Of produce in Los Angeles today were:
t-egs- los cases: butter. 1s.394 pounds; cheese.
tA9 pounds; potatoes. 39TS sacks; onions 6l5
sacks; beans. 4 sack; sweet potatoes, "a sacks;
appieS 100 boxes
Eggs-Extra select %: local ranch. candled,
hrsf- Soc. case count. 46c; eastern fresh, 35c;
storage packed extras. 26c; seconds. 26e.
Cheese-NoTS Shern fresh. PIC: northern storage,
lN N-am2Jc, castern singles. I9c: eastern twins,
lsn tac; eastern cheddsfs l9c: eastern long
aelns. 2oc; eastern daisy, zoe; swiss imported,
nc; swiss. domestic. 23c; brick cream 20c; linn
burger. 2OM2lc: imported Edam, SSd9. case Of
- Oregon daisy, 19c.
5utter-Creamery extra. zoe; creamery first.
~ lee; eastern creamery extras. 67izc; cooking
butter 2Gc.
Beans No. pink. s. 4oG4. No. l Itmas,
S4.aoe1 =a0- LADY Wsshngt0ns. s.. "A SO;
small whites. $500 $50; hlackeyes. s4.75: Gar
vauazs. $3.50: lentils. 81
botaroes-Ss linas 81 5OM Go: Highlands
- '14 %; NatsonFille. s1-50ql.65; Oregons.
Ni-4't9 lao- oregon early rose, -; sweets vel
low. Sl.35a1.GO
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port had so reduced the fuel supply
that it would not have been safe TO
have remained out longer.
Santa Rosa Sails for the South
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
panys steamer Santa Rosa sailed yes
terday for southern California ports
with $50 passengers. Among them
We're:
E. L. Bachman and J. W. Threfall and
]. Green c. j. Johnson, wife
G. A. Harris and wife aud daughter
Miss S. \ oo r. dlsn Isean mn Mrs Mrs. n '. Millar
Miss Blanche Birchard Miss c. Lentz
l. H. Carver and Wife G. A. Miller and wife
Miss Tessie Tag Gus Moore and wife
Miss Clara Tag I. Phillips
Captain II. c. Cook w. r. Soady
Loses Tow in Heavy Blow
The tanker W. S. Porter, bound from
Astoria for this port with the oil oil
schooner Monterey in tow. reported by
wireless that at $50 o'clock yesterday
morning, off Yaquina head; the mon
sail bent and and a crew on board
sufficient to handle the vessel under
canvas, but the Porter expected 10
get another line to the Monterey at
daybreak The line parted during a
heavy southeast gale. The WIND AT the
time was blowing with a velocity Oh
60 miles an hour.
Saved from Drowning by Engineer
Chief Engineer Hanson of the steam
er Helene jumped into the Ice cold
waters of the bay yesterday afternoon
and saved Thomas Mclean from deatn
by drowning. Mclean, who IS employed
as scraper at the Seawau oil dock,
fell from the wharf into the bay. he
was unable to swim and had gone down
twice when Hanson jumped oVerboard
from the rail of the Helene and swan
to his assistance. Hanson toWed the
half drowned man to the wharf, Where
help was waiting to drag them Doth
from the water
Ashore in Columbia River
The steamer Kansas City of the San
Francisco and Portland steamship
company was reported ashore yester-
miles below Portland. The steamer,
which is bound from Portland for thls
port was said to be in no danger, had
sustained no damage and would be
fioated at the rise of the tide.
Pats Back for Repairs
The steamer Santa Clara, winch
sailed. yesterday for Astoria, put PACK
to port on account of blowing out the
piston rod packing. Repairs We're Ell
fected and the steamer resumed It's
voyage last night.
Water Front Notes
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 277, 900 feet.
Sandberg, left Yokohama YESTERDAY
homeward bound by way of Honoluiu. m
The army transport Thomas Will be
due Tuesday from Manila -,
The German steamer Erna VIII De
due tomorrow from Salina Cruz. The
Erna's twin sister Ella Is also due To-
morrow from Puget sound.
The Pacific Mail liner Peru, Captain
MhcKinnon. will sail tomorrow nor
Panama and way ports.
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Liner Sierra to Be Placed on the Honolu1u Run


which was crossed Oct 16 in latitude 30 so south
thence TO the equator, which was crossed Nov
10 in longitude 151 10 west. had fine weather
through Sc and NE trades Nov "a. in latitude
20 q north. longitude $50 "A west, sighted )
masted schooner bound north: Dec 4. latitude
81 30 north longitude 130 - west sighted bark
entine bound south: Dec 8. latitude IS 20 north.
longitude 124 4S west. had strong Sc gale and
high sea; Dec s. latitude 3s 90 north, longitude
l23 80 west. had strong Sc gale and high sea
ship hove. to under storm sails: IL a.. M. ship
away fore topmasts, head and foretop gallant
mast; had run ship before the wind to clear the
wreckage from thence to port had light vari-
BILE winds
Per stmr Nebrasksn-Had strong Sc and S
SW gales
Per stmr Brooklyn. from Hardy creek Dec IL
Arrived at Hardy creek from San Pedro Dec 3;
had strong Sc gales off the coast for six days
had to lay off and loading portion of the
moderated: on Dec 10. being short of fuel, re-
turned to San Francisco
PORTLAND. Dec 1I-Stmr Kansas City. bound
to San Francisco via Astoria, aground 20
miles below here; will be foated this afternoon;
no damage.
SEATTLE. Dec 11-No foundation whrteyer
for rurnor originating from Victoria that the Ger
stmr Ella is ashore: Stmr Col. E. l.. Drake re-
ports passing a large steamer carrying range
lights of Tatoosh bound south at II O'Clock mid
night Friday which was undoubtedly the Ella.
BANDON, Dec 11-Stmr Elizabeth which ar
rived in today from San Francisco, has been lying
outside for theslast four days account Of rough
bar.
PORTLAND, Dec 11-Stmr Kansas City, be-
fore reported aground below here, was ioated at
O'Clock this afternoon; damage.