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Show I.:rzl, Kcrdau and Izzz will Sec3 tlcssrcs to the Zionist Convention .at fittsliirjj.v . ; I of publicly and legally safeguarfllrg the borne for our unhappy race. TVb.ert yon come to consider where this centralized home ahould be you will find no place as practicable aa Palestine, or, at least, for a start. Its neighbor. "May the strenuous town of fire and steel In which you meet Inspire you to build a great bridge over which Israel shall pass to his ancient home and his glorious future." . PITTSEUIIG, June 8. The coneldera- . t:on of the amended constitution of the American Federation of Zionists occu- f led nearly all of today's first session. Creetlngt from eminent Jews of the . world were received and read at the convention. This telegram from Vienna was sent by Dr. iterri: ""To the Zionist Convention, Pltts-burg: Pltts-burg: The situatlonof our Russian brethren Is very serious and calls for ur moat earnest attention. A great emigration movement from Russia Is to r be extended. We shall bring to the liasle cor. )r re 81 a programme which, we believe, will help our people. With Zion- ' 1st greetings. HERZL." !. Prom Barrltt came these words from , Dr. Max Nordau: "I trust you will continue to develop into a power to the honor of American a- Jewry and to the benefit of the Jewish ( people, whose position In the world Is more appalling than it. has been at any ) moment lni the last century. The name of Klshlneff. written with letters of blood and fire In the other, and every new martyroiogy of Israel, is sufficient by Itself to bear out this statement. It shows that for our people there Is no such thing aa progress. For us history has not moved onward by one step for the last 800 years. We are still In the fearful period of the crusader, when the pious warriors of the cross trained themselves to their heiioc work by the wholesale slaughter of Jems and the looting of defenseless Ghettos. It shows also -that Zionism Is the only way to lead our miserable brethren in Russia and elsewhere out of their present helL I would despair of Jadalsm and of hu-,manlty hu-,manlty as well If the free and happy Jews of America were to turn a deaf ear to the blood-curdling tale of Kishineff." . - Israel Zangwill sent the following message: . "Greetings to ' the kPlttsburg convention. conven-tion. The Klshlneff massacre has brought home to the blindest the need |