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Show Jews Going; to Palestine. A convention of delegates representing the largest Jewish colonies in thirty-six different cities of Russia met ten months ago, and after a long discussion they gave a unanimous vote for Palestine as their future home. The change that such an emigration would produce on the Holy Land cannot can-not be overestimated. One million new workers would turn the barren hills of Judea into terraced vineyards. The olive trees of the past would again spring forth, and the whole land would blossom like the red poppies that cover the plains of Sharon. It would mean the adding of 150 per cent, to the population of the land occupied by ancient Palestine, Pales-tine, and it would make Jerusalem a city of more than 100,000 people. The Holy City has been growing with almost American rapidity within the past few years, and an exodus of the Jews from all parts of the world to it is slowly but 'surely going on. Frank G. Carpenter in National Tribune. |