Show THE JEWISH QUESTION WB have received from a hebrew of this city a copy of a rather interesting circular which emanates from the holy land it is int hebrew and english the latter being a somewhat defective translation the reason assigned for leaving a copy of this document at this office was that the latter day saints take a special cial interest in the welfare of the jews this is quite correct and it is anticipated further that the future of the two peoples will in course of time be more or less closely interwoven appearances to the contrary notwithstanding the fact that some of the jews of this territory have been among the most bitter and unscrupulous enemies of the saints does not in the least affect the faith of the latter regarding the future of thip race events now oo 00 burring strengthen it the preparatory conditions precursory to the t he gathering of the jews as a people to asia minor are making their appearance thick and fast this little incident of the leaving at this office of the circular in ia question Is small of itself but it points to a time when there will be a universal recognition of the fact that the latter day saints 9 are more friendly disposed to all of the remnants of the ancient people of god glod than any other community the jews will doubtless be the recipients of evidences evidence of good will from some of the nations but these will in the developments ahead be abruptly supplanted by demonstrations of hostility the interest in israel entertained by the saints will on the contrary never be suspended the circular referred to conveys in formation to the effect that the oppression hardships and persecution to which the jews are being subjected in some of the nations have caused large numbers of hebrew refugees to flock of late to the land of their fathers many of them have reached that part of the world in a state of destitution being without the means of living they are without clothing food or shelter hence this appeal to jews throughout the world for assistance to enable the committee having the matter in hand to purchase land erect small houses and give these them poor people a start that will enable them to become self supporting the document is signed by a number of gentlemen residing in jerusalem who are the wardens and trustees trustee of the central committee of the united charities of the in the holy city jerusalem the jews have of late years been thrown conspicuously before the notice of the whole world their situation is now a question with which the leading nations will evidently be forced to deal it is evident that the czar of russia proposes to exterminate them from his empire they are more numerous there than in any part of the globe the autocrat auto cratis is enforcing decrees that will naturally lead to death or exodus of the russian jews the efforts by england and america to induce the emperor to soften his bin policy toward the remnants have only served to render him more determined the other way whither shall the great maw mass of afflicted people go we expect the answer to be reverberated around the earth one of these days let them go home As an indication in that direction we reproduced a short time ago from a leading paper of this country an alk article which asserted that a citizen of the united states prominent in social life had forwarded to president Pre aident har rison a carefully worded petition upon this quee question tion it baked asked the president to take the necessary steps to request an international conference of all the great powers for the sole hole object of adopting measures that would lead to the re establishment of the jews in theland the land of f their fathers although this stop step in america may not lead to such a gathering to consider this problem it is not improbable that such a conclave will some time be called and convened and the subject be in that way considered and to some extent at least disposed of in any event the time seems to be not far distant when a large stream of jewish immigration will be heading beading toward the holy land |