Show THE FUTURE OF THE JEWS THE annei annexed fed extra extracts 18 from an article published in the spectator english appear in the april ath issue of the mal star owing to the sign significance fleance of the facts stated as a sign of the times they are reported here in a quiet way and without at tr trading acting the least attention in this country the western half of asia minor has bas become in the course con me of a single gone generation ration the objective i poi nt of two immigration movements that thai can hardly baldly fan fail to exercise ex arcise a inai maikut ked upon the future of that rf rtin of the turkish do dominions minious in the north the greeks are rapidly colonizing the historical region 13 fiig hig to the south of the son sa f marmora the moslem as rapidly receding from them ithem and 1 in n ta the it auth the are steadily gaining a footing in the syrian villa yit t and what is more noteworthy are arc in increasing numbers devoting to the cultivation of the soil of bourse tae influx of thew these people in asiatic turkey is not on anything like the big scale to which the western world has become accustomed still the movements referred to notably that of the greeks have attained larger dimensions than to is generally supposed or believed here and as apart from tire line historic interest attached to them both have a present and practical significance a few facts relating to the be greek settlements in the north together with a few figures showing the progress of the jewish colonies to in the south gathered in the course of a personal visit to them may not be without value just now after giving facts and figures relating to the greek settlements ments the article continues the immigration of the jews in the syrian vIlla villaret yet has been numerically much smaller though relatively fkr far more rapid than that of abo tb greeks in ia the north of asiatic turkey they are at present over in number in the ten cities for which figures are available jerusalem japhet Tib biberias erias jaffa hebron haifa arco sieben or usand gaza but this includes the multitude forming isolated and small communities muni ties all aff over the country now as a well as of the jewish colonies of whom more presently tho the to total including these will certainly exceed ce ed it will indeed be likely to approach but even the former figure shows a notable growth in ia a single generation for it depre a fourfold four fold increase since the number of jews in palestine was certainly not more than or haeo twenty wenty five years rs ago and this is likely to go on oa in the future at a constantly augmenting rate but the mere increase of jewish settlers in southern syria would in our opinion opt nion hardly be worth noticing great as it comparatively iv hi the significant and note worthy fact Is that the jews aft re beginning to cultivate the soll the jewish colonies there have long passed the tentative state and are an established success the men shw capable farmers farmere fai mers mere their own field work sini anil their produce for lafit year was such as to beat kny anything thing grown by the picked german settlers located near jami jaffa A list of these colonies which are all the he creation of the last ton ten jears years taken la ia corej conjunction unction with the figures before given showing the increase in the number of jewish immigrants grante ants will enable people to fortas form a fair idea of df the proportions portions pio the movement is assuming always remembering that it is only the growth growt li prat speaking of the hist decade derf tile and that up to recently the turkish government did all it could to hunter the formation of jewish s in the south of ayria aria while w libie wt w stern jews hilve have also ohi them as much as they could the rhe first anti and largest of the jewish colonies is that known as pet hack cvek abe be agate aate of aal aol 1 it comprises persons settled on donuts of laud land each is ia about square metres they include actual field laborers have about head of cattle ana ana a suitable proportion of horses hud and other live stock aock they own awit vineyards planted with nearly vines at present and olive gardens containing about 1600 trebe besides fruit trees ot c other kinds the he next important colony is the Zi chron ljacobs LJ acob memorial of jacob near samaria it comprises Ido numal of land un on it ft are souls of whom aria are field hands they have head bead of cattle and have planted up to date vines next comes the rishon bishon dzion first of zion a colony that is going in for viniculture on a very big scale and with great success the eulear here are only in number but they have a greater proportion of adults and nearly all are actual laborers their vineyards contain over vines in bearing no now wi besides nurseries nura wies of young canes for extending the plantations they have olive ohve trees and the same number of almond altri ond trees rind and over a hundred head bead of cattle the jews iu is this colony have given evidence of first rate capacity as vine growers and farmers M the althe next colony in point of site ofte is that known as barthal Metti IMera orial of the housep house near eckron its extent is about donuts the number of settlers they go in rather ither extensively for malberry growing with an eye it may be presumed to silk culture cultum they have already plantations containing trees and the number is stead steadily I 1 ly bel being n I 1 increased wor eased and they have head of cattle then follows the settlement of calash pinah the athe chief corner stone stoned l with an aa area of sand and colonists these devote themselves rather largely to vine growing but also to other branches of mixed husbandry bo that while they possess nearly vines olive trees 2600 2500 fruit trees and citrons citrona cit rons they own likewise head of cattle 69 60 sheep rather aft talog here her and goats 11 the next Jar largest hargest gest colony is that of badera Ga dera 1 about donuts in extent and 82 32 settlers they have only mide made a start and have recently begun planting and field wo itis therefore too ea early aly to twive give any further details of their air condition and project after this we have the settlement of maales Ma Mal aleh of about 2400 donuts with 81 31 colonists who have only just Eucce succeeded eded in mg themselves and the more moire important colony mahalath Naha lath Re ulten the inheritance of beu ben 1 this is also one of the jewish agricultural centris which shows signs of marked progress and capacity on theeart the part of the people located there it covers an area of 1500 donuts 1 but the he manner in which every inch of ground is being turned to account by the colonists there argues well for the prosperity ity of thase jewish farmers they go to la for vine culture but most largely for fruit growing the they had planted up to last yaa year 30 wiles vines and over fruit trebe ibe the last hist df the jewish vol 01 obies is the email settlement dehu dieh 1 where about 60 persons have located themselves on some 1600 land they ard aft working on a small scale dale but bat hat had more than ii year ar ago already planted 2000 vines aneg and some fig trees frees these ure are so far the principal settlements of the children of I 1 lara sra lel leli ep I to itt the land of their fathi rs ra but individual farmers may also be ifould in dwir numbers throughout PO palestine estime where wot mot twenty years ago the adea of a jewish agriculturist or farmer would wound have provoked nothing but laughter slid and lit may bo be pointed out that these colonies owe their existence to no charity for excepting we believe in one case the settlers have ret received elved no help of any kind they ate are the spontaneous outcome of the relt felt ly by large numbers of jews in iki eastern europe to return once obee more to the land of or thelt their ance ancestors bUlt in the capacity of dt husband husbandmen meu the he only dapa capacity elty in which as they understand der den stand tand they ean aa ever take root iu in the soll they are the men of the better dass class of jew the were of deva I 1 tint 1 themselves to agricultural work shows ate are pair far di Verent to lo the peddling huckster who in the eyes of many balink people in emern western europe passes for the typical jew they axe are of the tough and hard bard shell type to which judaism owes such mch strength and as it lifts has over ever possessed pons pow essed Ossed the kind of he brew having put PIA his fate band to the plow will riot not leave leav tt it again 1 the spectacle of the jew after au ati absence of two thousand years ploughing sloughing hing again the soil of pales alue is like the return of the greek to th the rt region glon of the five rivers in asia alaor full fuh of bf historic suggest ivaness on which it boum oum be easy to dilate but aut out our object has been to draw attention to docte wind and figures re relating lokting to two wowe movements ments la im asiatic turkey which lik itt our opinion are not without mach Int lerest and ana future signi significance fleance 11 |