Donor, Yada. Bellefonte, Pa., April 12,1912. The Awaking of the Older Nations. | Young Turks Hait Zionism—Decree That Attempts to Secure Holy Land | by Jews Must Be Thwarted—Jews | Undismayed—Glimpse of Palestine. SI By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Jerusalem.—Of all the nationalistic stirrings within the breasts of men today, the most romantic is the long- ing of devout Jews to get back for themselves the land of Abraham and David. All Christendom is interested in this project. Some schools of Jhristian theology stake vast prophetic issues upon it. Statesmen of Europe are interested in it as one solution of the question of what to do with the Jew, who has been made unwelcome in all their lands. Whatever be the reason for the well-nigh universal sympathy with the Zionistic aspira- tion, the news has doubtless been re- ceived with regret that the Young Turks have formally and officially an- nounced that the immigration of Jews into Palestine must cease. Moreover, it is intimated that those already here must go. That is the latest development in Zionism; but it must be remembered that Zionism is part and parcel of all high politics, and the end is not yet. It is not at all impossible that the reason for this recent adverse pro- nouncement is nothing less than the failure of the French loan to Turkey. Let nobody think that the Zionists are merely a company of pious Jewish expatriates, sighing for the land of their fathers. They are the bankers of Europe and the men who often say the deciding word in affairs of na- tions. 1 have reason to believe that Zionism has been an important factor in the recent hidden politics of the Turkish Empire. Some of the leaders of the Committee of Union and Prog- ress are Jews, and Salonika, the head: quarters of the Young Turk party, is the home of an influential body of Jews who, several generations ago, embraced the Moslem faith, although they are commonly regarded as being better Jews than Moslems. In most unexpected places the Zionist cause hag allies, and one trained observer of events at Constantinople said to me, “You will never get hold of the true inwardness of this Turkish situation | until you unravel the relation of Zion. ism to it.” Zionism and Abdul Hamid. For the present, the Jews have lost. Whatever their influence with the Young Turk leaders, they have, on the whole, preferred the regime of Abdul Hamid. A member of the central Zionist committee told me in Berlin that Zionists would rather have the old order than the new. His was the first downright defence of the deposed monarch I had ever heard. The rea- | sons given were, first, that the Turks have ever been kindlier to the Jews than have the Christians; and, sec- ondly, that Abdul Hamid permitted the Jews to settle in Palestine, aml to acquire land. Legally, no Jew is permitted to live in Palestine longer than three months. Upon entering * the country he is obliged to surrender his passport, and receive a temporary red passport. As for acquiring property, that also is and long has been interdicted. But one well-informed Jewish leader at Jaffa merely shrugged his shoulders when I brought up this subject, and said, “We have a golden key that can unlock any door in Turkey. Practical ly, we have found no difference be- tween the old days and the new. In either case we have to get what we want by ‘backsheesh.’” Theoretically, there are no Jews in Turkey; practically, there are more than a hundred thousand in the Prom- ised Land. In the past five years the number has increased fifty per cent. When the constitutional party came into power, with its avowals of com- plete religious and racial liberty, the hearts of devout Jews and their friends everywhere leaped with exul- tation; this meant the advent of the long-expected day when the Children of Israel should be free once more to settle in the land of their fathers. Zionism's heralded day had dawned. Now these hopes have once more been dashed. As of yore, every Jew who enters Palestine must do so by bribery and stealth. Those without passports must buy them; and com- mon report has it that there used to be a lively trafic in American pass- ports in this country. That has been almost, if not altogether, broken up by the vigilance of the consuls, and the requirement that every American citizen securing a red passport shall deposit the original one at the con- sulate. Each nation must look after its own nationals in Turkey, and, un- fortunately, there is no one nation to stand back of the Jews, as France stands back of the Roman Catholics, Russia back of the Greek church, and America and Great Britain back of the Protestants. Will Jews Be Driven Out? In spite of the late vigorous pro- nouncement from Constantinople, there is little likelihood that the Jews now in Palestine will be driven out. Their consuls will protect them in their property rights. However these rights may have been obtained, their present legality cannot be questioned. It will be strange to all who know Turkey, and the common methods of brin~'ng things 'oc pass here, if the number of lewish colonists does not | the stones of the old wall of the temple. Successful Jewish Colonies. =) Both the Zionist movement and the {| Jewish Colonization Society have es- | tablished colonies in various parts of ; ‘Palestine. Their contention that some- what of the ancient fertility and pros- | perity of the land may be restored is | doubtless correct. Better government. : | and better agricultural methods will | | revolutionize conditions here, as else- where throughout Turkey. But thus ‘far there has been no conspicuous success attending the purely agricul- tural colonies. The Jew has been too long away from the sofl for that. In the best of the farm settlements, near Jaffa, the colonists make use of Arab | labor. Their own aptitude is for trade. At Zamarine, in Galilee, one of the old Jewish settlements, which has been in existence for more than twen- ty years, the people, mostly Rouman- fans, are on a basis of self-support, except for some slight assistance for the school. Their industry is wine- making. They have quite an Euro- * pean community in the midst of Syria. The order and cleanliness is in sharp contrast with the conditions in Ti- berias. However, the latter is deeply religious, whereas one old Hebrew told me that the Zamarine colonists have no religion. Surely, though, there was nothing less than a relig- fous motive back of the words of the village druggist as he told me that .the people made a modest living; “not ‘80 good as we could make in America, but then, we are in the Promised Land, you know.” There are now about two-score of Jewish colonies Im Palestine, not to mention those in adjacent lands. The most successful of all is in the Island of Cyprus. The leaders are giving more and more attention to the crea- tion of self-supporting bodies, in an effort to restrict the hurtful effects of indiscriminate charity. These leaders are too powerful to have all that they | steadily increase. As one said to me, rather cynically, “There is as much bribery as ever im Turkey, only the prices come higher.” This I hasten to explain, at least in part, on the ground that the Young Turks are obliged to work with the tools that they find ready to their hands. The natural increase of the Jewish population of Palestine must be com- paratively small, as so large a percen- tage of the colonists are old people who have come here to end their days. These are the more religious element, and they are largely Spanish and Rus- | The number | sian and German Jews. of old persons to be seen in Jerusalem is a sight full of significance and pathos. Jewish “Portions” and Paupers. That religious zeal is a prime factor in the Jvuaizing of Palestine is evi- dent at a glance. The men wear a dis- tinctive garb, of which the round felt kat, worn in the hottest weather, with a white cap underneath, is the most characteristic feature. This is also worn by the boys. Even more strik- ing is the curl in front of the ear, which is in compliance with a rabbi- nical teaching against trimming the hair. It must be confessed that this gives a decidedly other-worldly ap- pearance to the male Jews, especially since they generally affect the long cloak or gaberdine. Most of these persons depend upon aid from outside of Palestine for their maintenance. It is a very small al- lowance, and so most of them live In very meager style. The statement has been repeatedly made to me in the Holy Land that Zionism has pauper- ized the Jews. Certainly their phy- siognomy does not reveal the traits of alertness and aggressiveness which characterize the American Jew. If it be true, as commonly stated, that ev- ery Jew here receives his “portion,” from abroad, the effect has been mani- festly deleterious. Able to subsist on a pittance, the incentive to indepen- dent labor is removed, with the result Ep { 8t. Stephens Gate, Jerusalem. that nowhere in Palestine, outside of exclusively Jewish colonies, are the leading business men Jews. There is mora successful business enterprises among Hebrews of any one of a hun- dred streets in New York than in all of Palestine, One reason for the bitter complaints Jews is that the latter are not depen- hood, and are also able to exist on a very low scale, and so are able greatly to undersell the natives in their little shops. Ghettoes in Jerusalem, + The crowding of the colonists into ghettoes outside of Jerusalem is an in- teresting example of the force of habit. There is no need here for over- crowded quarters; each family could have its own vine and fig tree by ex- tending the Jewish quarter a little further outside the city. Generations of congested living in the ghettoes of Europe, together with the necessity for crowding close together for mutual protection, are hard to escape. So the Holy Land today contains a state of affairs such as it never before wit- nessed in its long history. Nor are the Jewish quarters of the cities of Palestine such as would in- cline one to optimism concerning a Jewish state. Tiberias, for example, is predominantly Jewish, yet it is one of the dirtiest and leas! attractive towns in all the land. This is not a racial fact, but rather an illustration of the statement that it is the eccles- fastically earnest, and the aged and the sorely stricken, who have fled to the haven of the Promised Land. In Galilee 1 heard the lament that the most ambitious of the young men are leaving Palestine to go to Amer- ica, that other Promised Land of all the world. The younger generation, I was also told, have not the interest of their fathers in religion. The most representative Jew I have met here, from the American standpoint, was a traveler from New York City. At Jaffa he ran across an old woman who was having trouble with her transpor- tation. He took her in hand, with gen- tle insistence, saw her aboard her beat, changed her third-class ticket for a first, and had her put in a cabin alongside his own, in all re- spects caring for her as tenderly as a wealthy son could do. Yet she was of a different land, race and religion from himself. I prefer to regard him as typical of the future of his race, rather than the ill-fed, strangely-clad zealots whom one may see any Friday of the Syrians at the presence of the ' dent upon their labors for a liveli- ! | stition that to engage in the task of - afternoon at the “wailing place,” by have gained thus far sacrificed to Tur- kish politics. The Jew is in Palestine to stay, even though the present re- sults of Zionism have not fully justi- filed all hopes. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Pseudonyms of Women Writers. The preference of many women writers for a male pseudonym is doubtless a survival of the old super- authorship was “unwomanly.” The Bronte sisters set the fashion in ap- pearing as Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell respectively. Their example was followed by George Eliot. But George is a name to which the distressed lady novelist files as to a city of refuge. We have had George Egerton, George Fleming, George Pasion and a host of others. Then, too, there have been John Oliver Hobbes, Ralp Iron, Frank Hamel and Frank Danby. On the other hand Mr. Oliver Madox Hueffer shares with the late William Sharp the distinction of a feminine disguise, for he was known to the novel reading public until quite re- cently as Jane Wardle. The Bright Side. “But we must always look on the bright side,” said Mayor Grice of Fort Wayne, discussing a party setback. “We must all take a lesson from Hiram Husk. “Hi Husk, you know, visited Long Island last week, and had his pocket picked at a side show. “‘I should think,” his wife sneered, on his return home, ‘that you'd have a purty poor opinion of Coney arter bein’ robbed of your purse like that!’ “ ‘Yes, that's right,’ said Husk; ‘but I come ont bhetter'n some folks did. Why, Maria, the old banker's ward in the piece, beautiful Thais, had all her jools swiped, and the banker's wife throwed vitrol in his face durin’ the same act I had my wallet stolen.’” An Intimate Acquaintance. Mabel—I am sure he must have loved her very dearly. Maude—I should say so. He mar- ried her in spite of the fact that he had been out in the rain with her all one afternoon, was seasick with her, and saw her unexpectedly at home the morning after a dance.—Puck. Seizing the Opportunity. 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