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Show THE ZIONISTS AND TURKEY. Tho Zionist movement has run up nsralnst the snns that It might havo lookid for with certainty from the llrst The Sultan tefuses to grant tho inncesslons considered necessary by the promote) s of the movement Those concessions Inevltnblj ale such that the beneficiaries of them would enjoy a seml.lndepfndfnce thT tho I'ortc would Unci Intolerably restrictive of Its vo raclty Hut without them, none but n lunatic would counsel the Investment, tho movement of people nnd the foundation foun-dation of settlements tlm the Zionists have In Mew. The Government of Turkey Tur-key Is willful, dlshoneit, erratic and brutal. It does not admit nny private lights, either of person or of property; so that If any ono Is left In security nnd his property not tnken. it Is became be-came on the whole the robbers In authority au-thority do not consider It worth while; If the household Is not Invaded and the maidens kidnaped, It Is because they havo not "found fnvor' In tho eies of somo pett despot and scoundrel. Hut tho letders of tho Zionist movement nre used to a settled and peaceful or-gnulzitlon or-gnulzitlon nnd order of society, vvhero the family, the Individual nnd tho tights nf pioperty nro respected, and tho wanton Invndcr of either Is pun-Ishid pun-Ishid It Is not surprising, therefore, knoivlrg ns they do tho atrocious lack of all leRiilatlnim and the foredoomed failure of all efforts at ledress In case of violence or outiage, under tho Turkish Tur-kish sjstcm, that the leaders of tho Zionists stipulate for guarantees of teasonnblo Immunity from such Invasions Inva-sions nnd outrages Hut their purpose H dlrcctli ant itonlstlo to the Turkish Idea 'Ihey want to sittle Iho Jews In Palestine, under a secuio and peaceful peace-ful order of society; where tho I tws will pioteet them and rnnwetint tribunals ensure. Justhe and redress of crlcv-nnies. crlcv-nnies. On the other hand, tho Inducement Induce-ment that would lead the Sultan tn agree to tint colonization would bo dl-teclly dl-teclly the reverse, tint the colonists would bo unpiotcctcd flom his lobbers; tint tho money put up by tho rldi Jews nil niei the world to plant nnd maintain those colonics would bo his prey whenever he chose to sclzo It. 'Iho concessions he will grant aie everything ev-erything short of the esseutlil lequlro-ment lequlro-ment of sifety nnd protection, and he might even grunt these nominally, It the KlonUt did not Insist upon sub-statillil sub-statillil guirautees that Iho pinmlso would bo ke:it |