The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-05-18
.zlAGW|ll SEES JEWISH
DREAM cOM|hG TRUE
By LOWELL MELLETT

The RNpupiie vi suue" -
hubble OF Israel, honie-ruied ma
ltson the profectorate OF the
Tinted States of America. Site
1.-The land OF their fathers. Palestine,
lcapital, Jerusalem.
The world war. in the view OF
many. sens about TO bring true the
dream that has persisted through the
centuries that the Jew has wandered
| the earth. He is about to nave MS
own home back again to live there
1 or visit In security. That THIS Sc
,cnrity should be maintained by
America is the idea OF Israel Fang
will.
such a protectorate, he said,
would be expected. of course, TO
fendure only SO long as was neces-
sary to see the Jewish nation firmly
established among the nations OF the
earth
This statement TO the United
fifSS DA tHf SAsdt tNAaSA " ~ t
opinion is significant for its indiea-
ton of a meeting point between the
efforts he has led and the efforts of
the ZIonists. of whom Louis ID. Bran
dejs has been the most prominent
in America. The Zienists have made
Palestine their sole objective Gang
willis organization has urged that II
is more important that the Jews
should colombo somewhere at the
earliest possible time than that they
should return 70 their own ancient
land. Admitting the strength of the
idea that binds them to Palestine. he
has urged that If this IS not feasible
they should settle elsewhere, He has
in the past sought the British gov
ernment.s aid for a proposed settle
ment in South Africa, Canada or
Australia.
Now be agrees, Palestine Itself
seems within reach
The eyes of thirteen million Jews,
scattered throughout the world. are
on General Mutray's army now seek
Ing 10 drive the Turks out Of the
country fhat the jews once had
From this tllrteen million. perhaps.
should he excluded the six hundred
thousand Jews Who are fighting in
the various armies; they, by fates
irony, viii BE- last to know that the
war may mean something for their
race,
There is strong beilef in Eng
land that restoration Of Palestine 10
the Jews would be profitable po-
litieal undertaking for the British.
1t is not expected" said Mr.. Fang
WILL that all the Jews of the world
would flock there TO make their
homes. 1t is my belief that the Jew
ish agrieultarists who find living diff
fieult elsewhere should be aided to
return and that they should form the
basis OF the new nation. Jerusa-
lem's location might make II the site
for great commercial or trading
city, but the important thing is not
70 draw there those who have pros
Bered in other corners Of the globe.
but to care for the great numbers OF
oppressed in other lands.
With Jewish nation established,
the Jews everywhere would feel they
have a home again, whether or not
circumstances permitted them to live
there themselves.
zangwiil Won the support of Jos
eph Chamberlain and Winston
Churchill TO his colonization scheme
before the war, but South Africa
Canada and Australia opposed it in
turn. A Jewish nation in Palestine
is another matter.
The menace which Turkish posses.
sion OF Palestine offers Egynf and
the trade route TO India must be re-
moved. British statesmen agree
Even before the war many consid.
erod the recreation of the Jewish
state the best solution opipton
changed, however, during the war.
largely because OF the sympathy
k'any Jews OF German origin in
America admitted for Germany. II
vas feared that nation sympathetic
toward Germany would be danger.
Gus one to have SO close to this stra-
teeic link in the British empire.
The Russian revolution has chang
cd this Jewish sympathy. alienat-
ed by the treatment OF the Jews in
Russia under the old regime has
been won back by the new regime
Jacob seihff's declaration for tho AL
mes. Following the announcement of
The provisional government OF eonal
rights for the Jews IN Russia was
not the only cae e. tone l., -. -
teption Of the British government
Jewish state in Palestine now would
he ffiend!y-~-egen gratef,il--sfat.