Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — English Colonies in Palestine. [ARTICLE]

English Colonies in Palestine.

Although Lord Salisbury’s attempt, made just before the fall of the Disraeli government, to have Palestine and Asia Minor colonlzed uhder. British ausnicea has failed, but the project, aside from its evident political motive, was one ■ot the most sensible that the late Foreign Office suggested. An exceedingly fertile country on the Meditterenean does not produce a tenth part of what it might if it were propiriy tilled, but the ablest of the native farmers know by years of sad experience that whatever surplus they may have after reserving* miserable subsistence for themselves will be stolen by that most rapacious class of Oriental thieves known as tax gatherers, consequently famines are frequent in a land that once Was fertile tad happy. Were English formers upon the ground their government would see

that they were secured in the pnwton of their own, while the Turkish treasury would receive more from them in the wav of taxes than it now obtains from whau ever estates these men might cultivate. The enterprise has enough of philanthropic tad reform possibilities in it to deserve the attention of the Gladstone govsrnment—Jfew Yorit Herald ' The Lake View malt house of Michael Cl ai Buffalo, together with 30,000 barrojrofwriey burned. Lore, |BO/)00 ;

RENSSELAER' REPUBLICAN. M. BITTERS. Editor. Friday liomnno. Jretell , 1880-