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of the Jews the physical guardianship, cries, circumscribing an arid plot of
of these shrines of Islam, Is to imag- • ground which their ancestors of 2,-
ine something very foreign to the 000 years ago conquered from its ab-
practical political sense of the most original inhabitants and occupied for
politically practical race on earth. a brief, if glorious, period before they
new
They know too well how deeply they in turn, were driven onward by a
—
would offend their myriad Moham- conqueror. To them, Zion is a region
(Continued from page 2.)
of the soul. To them it is an inner
medan subjects to the East. ,
break of the World War, was the
light, twit upon the hill of personal
Dislike for Jews.
movement of 10,000 Jews from other
F:xactly the same political issue of consciousness, inspiring them as in-
lands to the soil of Palestine. In the religious fanaticism applies to the dividuals to fight, each for himself,
same period, 1,500,000 Jews have nii- question of Christian sensibilities. the battle of life where he meets it;
grated to Americas
1914, I demanding in virture for his own
,Anyone who has seen, as in
Soil Is Lean.
saw at Eastertide, the tens of thou- worth the respect of those about him;
The truth is that Palstine cannot • sands of devout Roman Catholics winning through to the dignty and
supports large population in pros-
to which his native gifts and
.
from Poland ' Italy and Spain, ' and, his
,
parity. It has a lean and niggard other tens of
thousands of devout , s self-developed character entitle
soil. It is a land of rocky hills, on Greek Catholics from Russia and the, him. This is the only true Zion. All
which, fur ninny centuries, a hardy East, who yearly frequent the shrines other definitons of it ore Unreal.
people have survived only with ditli-
The Proudest Boast.
of C h r ' i s t a n i t y in Palstine
' anti who
'
nutty by cultivating a few patches thus consummate
a lifetime pilgrim- ,
The proudest boast of all these non
of soil here and there, with the grape:
olive, age undertaken at, to them, stagger-
Mg expense and physical privation; and my proudest boast, is: "I am an
the fig, citrus fruits, and the
or have barely sustained their flocks and who has observed, as I have iili-, American'" None of us would deny
the suppressed hatred of them our race or faith. We arc Jews by
on the sparse native vegetation. The
serve d,
streams are
small,
entirely all for both the Jew and the klussul. blood. We are Jews, though of vari-
for few.
the and
great
irrigationr
as for me
nsullicient
man: and who has noted, furthur•, ous sects, by religion. Ilut
b y I am sure I speak for a
be necessary fo
th at would
system
the
general
cultivation id the land. the bitter jealousies between even (coot
here
of Jews in the United
1
c
Protestant and Cat holly, betweenn va s'
The underground sources of water Teek Catholic and Roman—suc h ol ,.tates), if I were pressed to define
devedoped
ht
nt a a re 13,- i !server, I say, can entertain no i - isYself llY sop single appellation, I
only be expense.
can capital
There
ens
000,000 Jew's in the world: the ZiOn- lesions that the placing of these sem- word
would
unhesitatingly
select 1 the
Neither
or one
the
American.
civil shrines of Christian traditii
ist organization itslf only claims fur in the hands of the Jews would be humblest worshipper in the most or-
thodox congregation can hype fur
Palestine a maximum possible 7
g ht ene
t d d
The most en li but
iia: tolerated.
the anything from Zionism that is not
action of 5,000,000. Even this .
Christians might endure it
is on the face of it an extravagant 1 grint mass of Christian worshippers already em's in virtue of our partici-
study of Europe would rebel. They regari
over-estimate.
After careful
a l pation in the freedom of America.
on
the spot in Palestine,
I prophesy
And neither of us need make the smal-
HENRY MORGENTHAU
DECLARES ZIONIST
AIM IS SURRENDER
that it will not support more than the rival
Jew faith,
not merely
as a man
member
but as the
whose of an- lest compromise with any conviction
1,000,1100 additional inhabitants. castors rejected their fellow Jew, the that we hold dear. I have found it
fa- more convenient (as well as quite
Palestine is in and
area about
equal to
. Christ,
crucified
Him. Their
at
the state of Massachusetts; and th
li t i cal f act o f g i gan ti c within the approval of what I regard
is !laicism is a po
(as Palestine ro
w England state,
Ne
t if ul water, ample Proportions. A Jewish state in l'al- as my som to east off the other sym-
ind ) with plen
)
ndant forestation, estine would inevitably arouse their "'science
b ati fai th, such as the
ols of
t he Ilere
water-powers, abo
and a good soil, ports only about passion. Instead of such a state at b Kosher o bserv a ncehe
s, t untouched
f
beard and the dstinctive dress; but
4,000,009 people. This bald compari- dingnew dignity and consideratiq
son, however, does not begin to tell o the position of the Jew the world , there are thousands of Russian Jews
the story. Massachusetts is an in- o'er Ins the Zionists claims it would in the United States today who re-
d that it would ty, ,
fain
these excrescences of antiquity,
,
tegral part of a tremendously pros- du) ' nit convinced
only a small inconvenience that
perous nation of 100,000,000 souls. concentrate, multiply ono give new
to
the
hatred
which he already is certainly very far short of persecu-
a venent
She enjoys all the advantages of
d. endures in Poland and Russia, the tom. Fro
an
m t bservati on and ex p
ity,
highl y industrializd communterc
that these s ame
of est ablished commercial inourse, very lands in which most of the Jews ence I know full well
orthodox
devotees
will themselves be-
with the rest of the most progressive, maw dwell, and where their oppres-
come enlightened—if not they, then
nations in th world. If Massachu- mons are the worst.
setts were situated as Palestine is sit-
The
pretensions
Zion- (..e, rtainly their children—and will per-
ism
are political
fantastic.
I think the of forego-
ive, as I and others have perceived,
noted, remote from the great currents ing paragraphs have demonstrated
(that the Mosaic admonitions were
of modern economic life; without even
this. .
one of those absolutely indispensible
temporal
devices, expellent
Purely
lual
ual will-o'-the- truly for
Zionism a spirit
Is 9Zi
the age in when they were
cial success
rerequisit es to a commerwithout
of
ith all the vigor
assert, with
, wisp?
,
promulgated,
useful until modern
I
its
natural
ports;
namely
convictions,
mln, that snnitation and modern education did
pr i i oun,el i conyie
n
may most ass
network of railways, bringing to it
cheaply the raw' materials, for its it is. Its profes..ei spiritual aim and
la (her work, but now become empty of
those first values.
manufactures, and carrying from it the reassertion of the chgnty
ffi
Ilere lies the crux of my affirmative
if.
cheaply and quickly to rich markets • worth of the Jew.
It .is a mechanism
designed to res t ore t o him his se
Its manufactured articles, M assachu- ms p act of others. The w an , by argument against Zionism. We anti-
Zimlist
Jews
of
America
have
fogml
setts would support a populaton for which t i proposes to accomplish this
p it., that the spiritual life, after whatever
less than its present numbers.
n described above. How
h ave b ee
formula
of
faith,
in
modern
times
can
Palestine's Condition.
' means are has
dully
lly inadequat e these
be most fully enjoyed by those peo-
Thu is the condition of Palestine;
ple
who
accept
the
beneficient
pro-
not only must agriculture be pursued been demonstrated.
Solution h Found.
gress which the world at large has
under the greatest possible handl-
¶51w of soil and water, but it is sub- The effort of the Jews to attain made in science, industry, and the art
jest to the direct com etition of far their legitimate spiritual ambitions p a government. We have learned the
more favored lands in the very ago- by means of a political mechanism folly of persisting in the sanitary
cultural products fur which it is dis- needs hardly further to be controver- regulations taugiht by Moses, in this
tinctive. These are the citrus fruits ted in the negative, or destructive age when all civilized peoples have the
almonds, figs and dates, grapes and sense. I prefer to meet this issue On benefit of the more advancd sanitary
grounds. knowledge of Lister, Pasteur, Metch-
wine. How can little Palestine corn- positive and constructive
pete in these products with Italy, My answer to the spiritual preten- nikoff and Flexner. We have learned
France and Spain, and their North sions of Zionism is the positive ans- the folly of persisting in a distinctive
African colonies, whose richer soil wee that the solution has already . style of clothing, beard and locks (im-
lies in the direct line of the great been discovered—the way out has posed on the Jews extraneously as a
march of commerce? been found. The courageous Jew, badge of slavery and oppression),
A great industrial Palestine is the intellectually honest Jew, the for- and of ascribing a spiritual signifi.
equally unthinkable. It lacks the raw ward-looking Jew, the Jew who has canoe to such a costume in this age
materials of coal and iron; it lacks been willing to fight for his rights when saints like klontefiore and Bar-
the skill in technical Processes and the on the spot where they were infring- on Edmond de Rothschild, the great
experience in the arts; and, above all, ed, has won his battle and has found patron of Palestine, find sanctity not
it is not in the path of modern trade all the glorious freedom which Zion- incompatible with the ordinary dress
currents. What hope is there for ism so impractically describes. The of those about them. We have come
Palestine, as an industrial nation, in bravo Jews of England did not sur- to see that the worship of the God of
competition with America, Great render their cause. They did not seek Israel, the acceptable obedience to
Britain and Germany, with their pro- a moral opiate in an Oriental dine- Ills will is not contingent on the
digious resources, their highly organ- dream of retreat to a cloud-land Lion, clothes one wears, on the meat one
ized factories, their great mass-pro- pictured by fancy on the arid hills of eats. His kingdom is the soul of man.
duction and their superb means of Palestine. They stayed in England: In that boundless temple He receives
transportation? The notion is pre- they fought on Englsh soil for their the priceless sacrifices of the true be-
posterous, rights as men. Their courage enlist- Bever. That time and place and
I claim that the foregoing analysis ail the admiration of the nobler spirits mode are most acceptable to Him in
demolishes the economic foundation amongst the English, and it allied to which the human spirit brings its
of Zionism. them such Britons as Macaulay and richest offerings.
Refuse to Segregate.
What of its political foundations? George Bentinck, whose splendid elo•
Is Zionism a politcal fantasy? I quince and political acumen assisted It follows then, that the Jew every-.
assert most emphatcallY that it is.' in the repeal of the Jewish Disabili- where (in Poland and America) can
The present liritish Mandate over ties in 1115a. This epochal legislation acceptably serve the God of his lath-
Palestine is a recognition, by the gave the Jews every right in ers and still enter fully into the life
great powers of the world, of the su- Britain enjoyed by the Christians. It about him. We in America refuse to
prime political interest of Great Brit- made possible the splendid political set ourselves apart in a voluntary
sin in that region. It was no mere career of Beaconsfield (for many ghetto for the sake of old traditional
acddent that it was a British army yea rs prime minister of Great licit- observances.
I have often used a figure of
which verdured Jerusalem from the sin) and the brilliant experience of.
(now Earl Reading) speech—it was brought to my mind
Turks in the late woe. The life-and- Sir Rufus Isaacs
death importance of the Suez Canal who has progrssed through the high- by a meeting with a rug pinker in
to the integrity of the British Em- est political honors of the nation as Turkey—as follows: The Jew has
pire has for more than half a ten- Lord Chief Justice, Ambassador to twin content, in most lands and down
Viceroy of India. the ages to be the fringe of the car-
tury made the destiny of Palestine as America and
IM not forget that in this victor- pct, the loose end over which every
well as of Egypt a vital concern of
British statesmanship. So long as the boos struggle the Jew made no coin- foot has stumbled, where every heel
in control, the 13rtish had Promise whatever with his conscience. has left its injuring impression on the
Turk was
no cause to fear what that impotent Ile did not abandon his racial, relig- disconnected individual strands. What
the Jew should do is to become a part
and backward neighbor might do to ious or cultural heritage.
The courageous and wise Jews of of the carpet itself; weave himself
interrupt the life current that flows
through the jugular vein connecting France and Italy have fought this into the very warp and woof of the
But same battle to this same victorious main fabric of humanity; and gain
India with the British Isles.
the strength which conies from a en-
now that the Turk is in process of be- conclusion.
But this article will lie read chie
chiefly'ordinated and orderly relation to the
ing dispossessed of sovereignty, and
the future disposition of his territor- by Americans: such influence as it other strands of human society. His
, m- peculiar beauties this peculiar tal-
ins in doubt, British statesmen can may wield will be particularly on A
hold but one ouinion concerning erican minds. Nee.1,1 elaborate the etas), which in the fringe are soiled
either Egypt or Palestine, and this argument in its American setting? and hidden, take on new value when
opinion is, that no matter what else The facts lie on the surface for the they become part of the main carpet;
may befall, British influence must be dullest eyes to see them. Nowhere in and they find their glory in lending
omnipotent on both sides of the Suez the world has so glorious an °Tr• to the pattern a unique splendor and
en- a special luster.
Canal. It may be politic for them tunity been offered to the Jew.
I for one, will not forego this vision
for the moment to coddle the aspire- emus America has thrown wide the
The of the destiny of the Jews. I do not
tiono of a numerically negligible race doors of opportunity to him.
like the Jews. But the notion that Jew possesses no talents of the mind presume to say to my co-religionists
Great Britain would for one instant or spirit that can not find here a free of Europe that they shall accept my
allow any form of government in Pal_ field for its most complete expres- program. Rut neither do I intend to
allow them to impose their prograni
estine, under any name whatever, that sion,
May Choose Freely.
on me. They m ay continue, if the y
was not, in fact, an appanage of the
Does
he
seek
political
office?
Jews
will, a practice of our common faith
British Crown, and subservient to
the paramount interests of British, in this country have been or are mein- which invites martyrdom, and which
world policy, is too fantastical for hers of every legislature, including makes the continuance of oppression
, the Senate of the United States: am- a certainty. I have found a better
serious refutation.
bassadors representing the person of way (and when I say I, it is to speak
Conflicting Aspects.
I have just said that it may be the President at foreign courts; offi- collectively as one of a great body of
politic for the British government to cers of the judiciary in every grade American Jews of like mind). I re-
coddle the aspirations of the Jews.' from justice of the Supreme Court of sent the activities of Dr. Weizmann
and his followers in this country. In
There are, however, profound rca- the United States.
Does he seek freedom of conscience? the foregoing pages I have given my
sons why this coddling will not take
the form of granting to them even Ile may freely choose his mode of reasons for opposing Zionism. They
the name and surface appearance of worship, from the strictest of ortho- make plain why I asserted in its first
a sovereign government ruling Pales- don tabernacles to the most liberal paragraphs that Zionism is not a sol-
union; that it is a surrender. It looks
tine. In the first place, Britain's hold of free synagogues.
Does he seek a field for business backward, and not forward. It would
on India is by no means no secure that
the Imperial Government at London talent? The evidence of opportunity , practically place in the hands of see-,
can afford to trifle with the fanatical in this direction is so overwhelmingly en men, steeped in a foreign tradi-
sensibilities of the millions of Moham- that it need not here be wearingly re- lion, the power to turn back the hands
medans in its Indian possessions. Re- capitulated. The progress of Adolph of time on all which I and my prede-
member that Palestine is as much the S. Ochs, from a printer's devil in censors of the same convictions have
to won for ourselves here in America.
Holy Land of the Mohammedans as Knoxville, Tenn., 50 years ago,
of the greatest newspaper in 'Ac have fought our way through to
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of the Jew, or the Holy Land of the owner
cluster there in the greatest city of the world, is liberty, equality and fraternity. We
Chrstian.
Its shrines
characteristic of dozens of like sue- have found rest for our souls. No
as thickly. They are to him as SR-
t
credly endeared. In 1914 I visited the cessful Jewish careers in this country one shall rob us of these gains. We
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famous caves of Macpelah, 20 miles and it is emblematic of hundreds of enjoy in America exactly the spirit-,
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spec.' ual liberty, the financial success and
from Jerusalem; and I shall never thousands of Jewish careers less
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We have
forget the mutterings of discontent tacular but equally momentous in the social position which
, earned. Any Jew in America who
that murmered in my ears; nor did their own degree.
Does he seek social position? Here wishes to be a saint of Zion has only
the threatening looks that confronted
my eyes, from the lips and faces of linked, his path is made more difficult. to practice the cultivation of his
the devout Mohammedans whom I But the social harriers are not insur- spiritual gifts—there is none to hin-
mountable. Where they seem so, calm der him. Any Jew in America who
there encountered. For these authen- I
tic tombs of Abraham, Isaac and Ja- ' judgment will reveal that the soc- seeks material reward has only to cut-
cob are as sacred to them, because ial environment where this irrational tivate the powers of his mind and
they are saints of Islam, as they are prejudice exists is not worthy of the character—there are no harriers be-1
to the most orthodox of my fellow entrance of the Jew. Leave the in- tween him and achievement. Any
Jews, whose direct ancestors they are, tolerant to associate with their own Jew in America who yearns for Foe-
. ial position has only to cultivate his
not only in the spiritual, but in the kind. The Jew. who has raised him- manners—there are no insurmount-
.
actual physical sense. To these Mo- self to the highest level will have put
hammedans, my presence at the tombs himself beyond the reach of prejudice able discrimination here against true
of my ancestors was as much a pro- and he will find himself welcomed in. gentlemen. The Jews of France have
I found France to be their Zion. The
fanaton of a Mohammedan Holy the highest Christian circles. America' Jews of England have found England
The enlightened Jews of
Place as if I had laid sacrilegious
to be their Zion. We Jews of Amer-
hands on the sacred relics in the mos- have found the true road to Zion. ica have found America to be our
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Slue at Mecca. To imagine that the To them Zion is no mere po
political
suf-
Zion. Therefore, I refuse to allow
British government will sanction a hanism, existing by the
scheme for a political control of Pal-1 ferance of the greatest powers. It is myself to be called a Zionist. I am
defined by geographical bound- an American.
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