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the men and women who, under free
western skies, gave literary or more
practical form to this yearning. There
was Warder Cresson, the first Ameri-
can Consul near Jerusalem, whose in
terest in Jewish aspirations carried him
so far as to adopt Judaism as his re-
lgion. In 1850 he established Jewish
agricultural colony in Jerusalem, en-
listing the support Of the Rev. Isaac
Lesser, of Philadelphia, and others. On
March 5. 1891, William e. Blackstone,
Of Oak Park, Ill.,, presented a memorial
to President Harrison, appealing for
the good Offices Of the United States in
securing the consent Of the powers to
restore Palestine to the Jews. This
document bore the signatures Of several
thousand prominent editors, publishers,
clergymcn and other citizens of note
throughout the country.
Among eminent representatives of
the Jewish race in America who early
advocated the revival of the Jewish
nationality was Emma Lazarus, the
noted poetess and essayist and perhaps
the most distinguished Jewish figure
in American letters, whose sonnet,
"The New Colossus" voicing the credo
Of American democracy, adorns the
Statue Of Liberty. "An Epistle to the
Hebrews" published by her in 1883,
stirred the Jews In America to higher
realization Of the destiny of the race,
and her stirring poem, "The Banner of
the jew" continues to be the battle
cry Of the struggle for national self
assertion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

ed that Prussia adopt the universal,
equal. direct and secret ballot by which
the Reichstag is elected. Later Deputy
Fuhrmann gained more knowledge and
most cnergetically defended the Prus-
sian electoral system, only to attack it
in April, 1917, and to ask, since that
time, a system comforting a plurality OF
votes on each member Of the favored
classes. A metamorphosis, which took
ten years in time of peace, may be eff
fected, under the world wars influence,
within ten weeks, and even ten days.
And no loyal man may impugn the mo-
tives of the present Vice Premier, DR..
Friedberg, who is fighting what he used
20 advocate"
Dr.. Friedberg was one Of the bitter
est opponents to equal and universal
suffrage up to the time Of his recent
appointment as Nice-Premicr OF Prus-
STA, when he suddenly became an adj
vocate OF the electoral system by which
tho members of the Reichstag are
chosen. He did so because the "crown"
needed some men TO defeat the Kaiser's
bill, which is designed to show the sin
cerc liberalism of William II but not to
be enacted.
If it was not the purpose of the bill
to deceive the people Count Hertling
would not have been made Chancellor
and Prussian Premier. For Hertling
WAS one of the most consistent reac-
tionaries while he was member of the
Reichs stag and Bavarian Premier He
never would have accepted the position
of Chancellor and Prussian Minister
if he had not obtained secret guarantees
that the electoral reform will be badly
beaten.
Two days after the King of Prussia,
who is also the German Kaiser. had an
nounced his alleged intention of grant
ing equal and dire suffrage, he offered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
By Gustav Miller

ID Event Indications from Germany
IN show that the bill introduced in
the Prussian Diet to adopt the
electoral system to the Reichstag, with
lew insignificant amendments, in
russia, will either be rejected or
amended to such an extent that no real
reform will be left.
io'h the outset It was certain that
'"e conservatives and Free Conserva-
.'eS' controlling 203 of the 443 votes
~ 'he House of Representatives, we're
opposed to enfranchsing the great
majority Of the citizens of moderate
1sahs. Only the ten Social Demo
Na''e' forty Progressive, twelve Polish
TWO Danish Deputies pledged
~'"seiVes to vote for the universal,
s'"'' d'rect and secret ballot. The
:, ,"'' decision depends on the stand by
~c seventythrce National Liberals
NV. '"c lo5 Centrists. If these two
- YES were not q unit in favorinc
=, ,ae adoption of the electoral system
VIC Reichstag the bill was doomed.
f. a'd 1t is doomed, as may be seen
x,s, 'he statements made by the
peakers of the different parties dur
S ~ 'ne first reading of the reform
vi December and 6 last.
H.. .' National Liberals and the Cen
te. s' always advocated in their plat
esnN, ana on the stump the universal
sb.' direct and secret ballot. They
,.,, w their liberal "face" for deco
purposes and to catch votes. But
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
axes Determine
Number of Votes

Under the present law the members
of the House Of Representatives OF
the Prussan Diet are elected by Land
tag districts. each of which is COM
posed of number of election dis
tricts, the voters of each election dis
trict being divided in three classes. ac-
cordng to the amount of taxes they
pay, the largest taxpayers, who, to-
gether. pay one-third of the taxes,
forming the first class: the next big
gcst taxpayers, who, together, pay an,
other third, constituting the second
class, and the remaining taxpayers
forming the third class of voters.
Each class elects in every election
district the same number Of electors.
The electors of Landtag district as
semble and elect the representative or
the representatives, as the case may
be.
The electoral reform bill proposes
to do away with this reactionary sys-
tenn and to substitute manhood suf-
fragc.
When the Centrists of Bavaria and
Baden allied themselves with the So
clal Democrats to secure the universal!
and direct ballot. which was opposed
by the Bavarian and Badish Liberals,
TO their respective Diets, they quoted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

Even those most stcadfast (Unent-
wcgtcn) among the prussian National
Liberals, who were dissatisfied with the
soft pillow furnished by the Magdeburg
resolutions Cpassed by the Prussian Ma
tional Liberal Convention held at
Magdeburg) because they (the rcsolu
tions) seemed insufficient to alay their
scruples against the secret and direct
ballot, and made much fuss over the
inoffcNsive reference TO electoral re-
forms contained in the speech from the
throne delivered in January, 1916, OBJ
serve g discreet silence.
Nobody shall be allowed 10 criticse
Deputy Furhmann because he attacked,
with youthful aggressiveness, the mis-
cradle, disreputabc, even idiotc bloed-
sinnige) three-class electoral system III
the money-ruled state of Prussia when
he made his memorable speech Mt STEM
day about ten years ago-and demand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

the years of Madison. A Hebrew of
rurcst strain, Noah was of the Tribe
of Judah and the House Of David. and
the wiseacrcs Of his race told his
lineage, and that he was descended Of
David in a right line and would be a
present King Of the Jews were it not
mat the latter owned neither country
nor throne. Noah was Of culture and
quiet penetration, withal cunning and
fertile to degree. Also | found his
courage to be the steadicst.- He would
fight with slight reason and had in n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

Their speaker. Deputy DR.. Lohmann,
cast aside their Liberal platform and
stated in the Diet:
"The great majority of the National
Liberal Deputies doubt very much that
equal suffrage will prove beneficial to
the state. We insist upon guarantees
that the wealthy and educated enjoy
a greater influence than the mass OF
the voters
In other words, the National Lib
erals, or at least the great majority
Of them, reject any proposition de-
signed to deprive the wealthy of the
privilege to elect practically all of the
Deputies
Even one of their foremost leaders
Deputy Dr. Wilhelm Rlankenburg, can
not help deriding their inconsistency
by saying in an article, which appeared
in the "Berlincr Tageblatt" of Deem
Der 4, 1917:
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He Was First
American Zionist

But it IS to Mordecai Manuel Noah,
soldier. lawyer, playwright, editor,
diplomat and philanthropist, "a leader
in Israel and loyal and true Ameri
can" that belongs the title of the first
American Zionist. Distinguished in
life, celebrated in history and immor-
talized IN fiction by at least two emf
nent novelists, he remains the most
striking figure in the annals of Ameri
can Jcwry and one Of the most pictu
rescue personalities in the long roll Of
honor who sought to restore the fallen
glory of the Jew. The remarkable ca
reer of Major Noah had long attracted
the attention of various writers and
has inspired one of the most fascinat-
ing OF Israel Zangwill's stories, "Noah's
Ark based upon the hero's premature
and disastrous attempt to found, in
1926, colonial asylum for the OPP
pressed in Israel on Grand Island
New York, a settlement which, as the
proposed East African colony favored
by Herzl, was to serve as a halfway
house to Zion.
Again he figures as one of the lead
ing characters in peggy ONeil," by
Alfred Henry Lewis, tale woven
around President Andrew Jackson and
the social life in Washington during
his administration. Lewis, through
the medium Of an unlettered partisan
of the general, who tells the story
in photographed form, introduces
Major Noah as writer of plays and
as an editor "Moreovcr," says the
narrator of the story, che was
gentleman Of substance and celehra-
ton in New York City. where his
paper did stout service for the gen
eral. Noah had also been Americas
envoy to the Barbary States during
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Working to Thwart
The Amendment

Therefore, Deputy DR.. Porsch, speak
ing for the Centrst party. said in the
Prussian Diet: zone part Of my
friends favors equal suffrage" and
added: "The other part reserves it's
decision" meaning that they don't
care to state from the outset their
opposition to any real electoral re-
form.
Those who are rendering perfume
tory lip service to equal suffrage repre-
sent predominantly urban districts,
and will, if one may draw conclusions
from preccdents, absent themselves
when the final vote is taken. They
are resorting to the same old tactics
they so successfully employed in 1911
TO prevent any amendment of The
prussian electoral law.
Still less may be expected from the
National Liberals, who change their
political face as often as the chame
leon changes it's colors. and are justly
known as the Party " ather Vane.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

for he played his part with an integ-
rity as fine as his intelligence, while
his own modesty, coupled with that
vulgar dislike of Jews by one who
otherwise might have named him in
the annals fsthat day, has operated
to obscure his name"
Mr.. Zangwill's story. "Noah's Ark"
as the author notes in the preface,
rests on "thc frmer Ararat Of his
tory" "my invention being confined to
the figure Of Peloni" (thc Hebrew
word for "nobody"O. Peloni alone of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13


statements by their leaders, Baron
Kettelcr and DR.. Windthorst, to justify
their alliance with the Social Demo
Gratis, these bittercst enemies Of
throne and altar to prove that equal
rights to all citizens are more essen
tial than any other consideration.
The true cause Of the Contrasts
"radicalism" in the two southern Ger
man states may be found in the fact
that they expected a more numerous
representation in the lawmaking
bodies from universal, equal, direct
and secret suffrage than from the
previous electoral systems. But they
have nothing to win by such Il reform
in Prussia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
The First American Zionist
BY Bernard C. Richards
author of The Discoveries of Kedansky Literary Editor Of Tb
Magazine" and Executive Secretarr - H. " -"
American Jewish Congress Committee
,rDNGLAND. mighty England.
free England, with its world

uHNGLAND, mighty England,
free England. with its world
embracing outlook, will un-
serstand us and our aspirations. With
England as starting point. we may
~ sure that the Zionist idea will soar
fsr.her and higher than ever before"
1t was Dr. Theodore Herzl who spoke
thesc words and they formed part of
The memorable address he delivered at
The Fourth Zionist Congress-, held in
London. August IS. 1900. Seventeen
Years later the Right Hon. Arthur J.
galfour, Secretary Of State for FOREIGN
Affairs OF the British government,
wrote to Lord Walter Lionel Roth
schild, declaring in behalf Of the Eng
lish Cabinet, that CHS majesty's gov
eminent view with favor the establish
ment in Palestine of national home
Tor the Jewish people and will use
he;r best endcavors to facilitate the
achievement Of this object"
1t was on November ?, 1917, that
this statement was transmitted to the
Zionist Federation Of England, and the
day has already been recorded by a
host Of Jewish writers as the most
significant in thousand years of
Jewish history-for on that day, "the
Magma Charta Of Jewish national res
Grafton was promulgated and the
declaration now made in behalf of her
Allies and herself by the great Empire
70 which Herzl looked for the most
effective encouragement, at once lent
70 the vision of the poet and play
wright the colors Of reality. 1t is
worthy Of note that in England the
founder of modern Zionism first pub
lcly propounded his project for
Jewish state and that England in 1903
offered to the Zionist organization a
territory for Jewish settlement in
British East Africa, territory which
vas to serve as stepping stone,
place Of preparation, for the ultimate
rehabilitation of the Jewish PEOPLE.
Tie aspiration for national rcestab-
lishmeat cherished by the ~Jewish peo-
pie from the beginning OF the exile, has
'Ound expression in concrete projects
IN various lands and under differen.
circumstances, but nowhere as among
the English, the people stepped in Bib
lcal knowledge and permeated with
Hebraic ideals, did so many proposals
.or the Jewish rehabilitation in Palcs.
Inc flourish and arouse the imagina.
ton OF the cultured clements of the
population.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

platforms being realized they changed
their front and most vehemently
fought their previous Categorical" de-
mands in Prussia. They are out-and-
out opportunists. A significant illus
tration may be found in the debates
on the Prussian electoral reform bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

Count Hertling, then Bavarian Premier,
the CHARACTERISTIC and the Prussian
Premiership. Hertling refused, mani
testify because he disapproved such u
course, and DR.. Michaelis was appointed
successor to Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, who had resigned.
But the bureaucrat Michacls was not
the man to deceive the Prussian and
German peoples. The Kaiser looked for
another person to do the trick. Mchaelis
was, from the outset. universally re-
garded as stopgap. He had to fill the
position until the fright man" was
found. Finally. Hertling consented to
accept the offer of June IS, which was
made a second time, after matters had
been arranged in such a manner that
the electoral reform bin would be de-
feated in spite of the 'neroic front" to
be shown by the members OF the Prus-
sian Cabinet, who already stated that
the government is willing to accept
amendments to the bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Herzl Had
Many + orerunners

Herzls forerunners were many. and
ne and they are the heroes of the one
romance of Jewish history, alike celc-
brated in literature and sanctifed III
prayer-the yearning of Israel for Zion.
The eternal wanderer also carried the
dream to the New World, which,
through the wisdom and generosity CT
the American government, the far
reaching Influence Of enlightened pub
lie opinion, the devotion to an ancient
and sacred ideal of American Jewry, is.
as an almost miraculous link in chain
Of marvellous events, now in position
10 render such effective aid as to make
prophecy come true speedily and in
eur own day"
American readers following the trend
the story Of the unparalleled pas
son Of a people for a homeland will
De pleased TO learn at the outset Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Reforms Certain
o Be Defeated

The speakers of the Conservatives
and Free Conservatives, Deputies Won
Heydebrand, Won der Osten and Baron
Zedlitz, openly opposed universal, equal
and direct suffrage. That settles the
matter. The Conservatives and Free
Conservatives are stif-neckcd "Real-
politiker" VINO never sacrifice" one OF
their privileges. Among their parlia-
mentarlana was not one statesman.
since the late Prussan Deputy Won
Meyer-Arnswaide withdrew to private
life.
Both Conservative parties together
have POP out Of 443 votes They can be
defeated only if all other parties are
united against them. But the majority
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Wrote of Jews
In BaYbary States

While holding the post OF United
States Consul to the Kingdom of Tunis
Major Noah came into close touch with
the Jews Of the various settlements in
the Barbary States. His observations
and experience among them he subse-
quently recounted in "Travels in Eng
land, France, Spain and the Barbary
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thoroughly competent, wishes Woff In sv1a1AGA
Address Box TIA. Star Office.
ACCOUNTANT AND EXDCUTIvE|UnivseslfS
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now employed. desires 10 become tdant1asl wfkA
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where isittafays.. abalitI n 1e6iell
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Ks
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THREE OFFICE CLERKS at
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THREE WOMEN Of unquestionabie culture and
e e
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TWO salesladies. Apply Hnyier's. 18th and r
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Two l.aJ .svsIs: e we,k On sinEeE sewing
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WANTED-several women for dish washing and
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WANTED-Woman for kitchen work in small
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WHITE GIRL to learn business; will teach the
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1879 14th ST. NV 22s
WOMAN to sew on meas work. Apply at once
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Address Box at. Star of1ce.
YOUNG LADIES. two, wanted to work in CON
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WANTED-A business man to associate with
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WANTED-I2 laborers; prevail
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good salary. Address Box 2So-T,
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YOUNG LADY, assistant bookkeeper; must
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Apply at once, Chas. s. Willis, Ink Pencil Dem
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YOUNG LADY BOOKKEEPER- Apply 746 9th
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YOUNG LADY wanted at once, ta take charIe
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WANTEDATwo housemen. Apply At once
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( SHOPPING GIRL-Permanent
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w A Mt ED-CYLINDER R
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TARN ToR1llAN. No e Vif6scf f11ii1:
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