The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04

What we want to do is to prevent the repetition Of massacres; but we just hope It won't happen again. ''The loss of property during the massacres was t30,Ooo.o00. Think what
 the energy that was extended ips &C., cumulating that great wealth would have meant had it been expended in planning against the occurrence of the massacre! Think what that energy could do If It were expended in plan ming against . recurrence! But we
 hope. and hope again, hoping all will be we'll. Hope Lies In the Jews.
 Tt Is this hope that has at last driven. in desperation, 100000 men to plan for the future. little group that
 now calls upon the. Jews to defend themsslves ,. Their only real hope Is in themselves. How-can we ask help of others who do not help ourselves!
 "It Is this little group. called Zion
 ists. who protest the anomalous pest of the Jews and believe our message
 will not only sink into your hearts, but into your souls
 Zionism makes no appeal to pity,
 does not come q weakiing. It comes
 With pride and self respect and de-
 mands to know how long the other
 Jews will remain without self-respect.
 "Zionism is regarded by some as a
 thtng new. The movement has exist
 ed since the first exile. When the walls
 of Jerusaem first fell. the cry arose,
 Next year in Jerusalem It was the slogan of the Jews In moments of de- spair they said 1t. when tortured on .the rack and burned at the stake 1t was their thought, when forced to wear The yellow badge in the ghettos, they were
 buoyed by the hope-next year in Je- rusalem. - ~-xo some struck 1t out. who wished to stay in America and Great Britain. But take from the Jew his hope for tomor- row and he sinkA especially where there is no today. The modern form of the movement seeks to red eem the pledge in the magic words. next wear in Jerusalem-"
 new Zionism. How Theodore Hurt zel. a Germsn Journalist and writer of comic plays. was sent to report the Dreyfus trial In France: how he saw that 1t was not an army officer that was being tried. not Dreyfus but the 5ews. The trayesty on justice made him study the situation, and book he published on his return to Germany caused him. against his will. to be- chosen the leader of the movement for the return of the Jews who wanted to g9 to Palestine. for the making of a land for the oppressed Jew.
 Dr. Fromenson spoke of the work and how 1t was progressing; the posi- tion of the nations of the earth had ta- ken in the matter: how England had offered the Jews Uganda in East Af- rica, and how the proposition had been proudly rejected. In his talk, he cited a comparatively new thought-that the Jews do not do well in .agricultura, work. He said 1t was because there was no bond between the Jews and foreign soil. they could not put their hearts in 1t for they were forever thinking of the land of their fathers, where the Jews there were making a success of agricultural work.
 He told of the plan of the govern ment and life that had been mapped out for Palestine. when the Jews re- turned there. and that they were treat ing with the Sultan of Turkey nov about Palestine and It's population by Jews; how the arid land would be re- deemed by the planting of trees and the conservatism of natural resources.
 This is not a york;" he concluded. that our childrens' children will live to see consummated, but something that you and will live to see."