The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07
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! clings TO the s'do Of Mount Moriah. on
whose crown the Mosque of Omar rises
above the Holy, of HOLES of the long
vanished Temple Of Solomon.
1t was a Friday afternoon, the eve
of the Jewish Sabbath. and 4 few
score men with their cherished side
huge stone blocks of the old wall and
( lifting up their voices in lamentation
over the fall of Jerusalem. for the
place that lies desolate." for the tenn
jesty that is departed" Nor did they
only mourn for the past. They i'm
dren of Jerusalem" and prayed May
the kingdom soon return to Zion"
Through many centuries the tears
of the faithful have been falling in
that stony place. But after long aCi-
tation and much organization. there
are less than 100000 Jews living in all
the land of their ancestors: If tho
whole 100000 of the worlds Jew
fish population should return 20 Pal
estine. they would find Themselves
pressed together in p country as small
as Belgium and far less fertile.
ZiOniSm appeals more to the dream
Prs than to the practical minds of Is
rael. Partisan Jew expressed In
an cpiCram the general feeling of the
Zionists should succeed in establishing
4 nation in Palestine. should Ike to
he its amba ssador in Paris" The rah-
his of the church in America said IN"
same thing from their point Of view
when they declared in conference that
America ia the Jews Jerusalem and
Washington is its Zion"
After the War.
Perhaps to no idle purpose was it
written in the book Of the races dcs-
tiny that more than half of the Jews
should be gathered in the theater OF
the great war Of the nations and
that their other great settlement
should be in the foremost neutral ma
ton of the world.
In the general war of century ago
Napoleon found them crowded across
his path through Germany and Po-
land and they gained more from him
than from all other rulers together
in three centuries. He convoked their
leaders in the famous sanhedrim OF
1907. and his celebrated Madrid de
cree still is 4 charter of rights for
formed his empire. For the first time
since Titus destroyed Jerusalem they
received the privileges and protection
of the law.
At the outbreak of the present war,
fair promises for the Jews were Is
sued by Russia. Apparently these
have not yet taken form in any dOCu-
ment and are still in the air. But
when the war is over the Jews can
not be left out OF tho account. Victor
and vanquished alike will have to so
to then them f., for M NONE SISd,,. .r.s Laura
were the bankers of monarchs and
held crowns in pawn. Afterward.
Cromwell had to turn to them and
they financed the English Common
wealth. The war of the Spanish sue
cession was fought with their money.
Louis NV. in his vanity. boosted that
Il am the State" but the Jewish
banker of the grand monarch. il was
said supported the State as the rope
does a hanged man.
All that was in the distant past In
the immediate present. the power OF
the Jews in the worlds finance is i'm
measurably greater. How they have
quietly Contrived to shut the CzaF
within pale of their own devisinE
we would know if we could but learn
the secrets of Russian loans.
with all her wealth. Russia has
been unable in recent years TO borrow
money in the open market Whenever
she has appeared. she has been check
mated by Jewish influences, demand
ing that she modify her Jewish pol
Jcy Only France has saved her from
that worldwide boycott. And France
will have little money At the end of
this war for the rehabilitation of for
eign lands.
accounting which will take place on
the day of reckoning. There is 4
moral element even more potent. For
the moment the guns arc silent. the
public opinion of the world. after n
long. enforced suspension, will begin
to thunder as never before. Nowhere
will its voice rise in greater volume
and force than here in America and
from the free threats of the one-time
jewellers within the Pale.
Copyright, 1915, BY James Morgan.)