Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — LEADER OF ZIONISM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LEADER OF ZIONISM.

Dr. Theodore Herzl, leader of the great Zion movement, who may come to the United Sates to collect money for the establishmment of a Jewish republic in Palestine, has devoted his whole life to this labor, and is now on the way to beholding its final success. Dr. Herzl’s personality is powerfully magnetic, and how well he has used it in his work may be gathered from the fact that the Zionist company now

DR. THEODORE HERZL.

lacks but 15,000,000 to secure its charter and begin Its actual operation isl the historic land of the prophets and the Savior. His zeal carries all before it. He is, as a clevy writer in London described him, a Moses with modern ideas. His purpose is to secure from the sultan the privilege of slowly acquiring tjje Holy Land by purchase, and by then parceling out the country in farms on long time payments.