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.
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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
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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.
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Maude—I should say so. He mar-
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