institutions which, even after his death, are carried on in his spirit. We do all we can. But you can do more, as you are living on the spot. You must work stoutly and manfully, but do not ask us to do the impossible. Even if succeed in getting permission for you freely to enter the ports of Palestine, it is for you to earn those rights by being useful and kyal to this country. Hebrew is very nice, but Arabic is more necessary, as by its knowledge you may gain the friendship and goodwill of your neighbors. Jews never suffered persecution here, and I trust they never will, because this is a country of Semites. By acknowledging this and by being grateful for it you will be abie to do much by yvur own exertions. Having seen whilst I was in South Africa how strong and widespread Zionism is there, I thought to myself how flourishing our movement would have been had Russia been free. But still you can make it flourish if you will be more fully alive to your responsibilitiess. Palestine will ultimately be our home, and you must not delay it. You must know that the eyes of all your brethren are lifted up towards you from the lands of their captivity.”
After various speeches, the meeting closed with the singing of Zionist hymns.
"Mendele's" Greetings
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, which was noticed in last month's MACCABAEAN, Mendele Mocher Seforim sent the following letter of greetings to the Jewish people:
"DEARLY BELOVED JEWISH CHILDREN,
I am doubly indebted to you for the honor which you have paid me, and also because you have not forgotten my holiday in such a heavy, troublesome time. May God give you health and let me live to see happiness among you: Amen."
Many thanks for Tire MaccaBABAN sent to me, but I still have not the oe June number of 1906. I enclose ten cents that it be sent to me. I read them with great interest. Mrs. Aupy A. Darum.
Professor Max Margolis a Zionist
Open Letter Defining his Position, and Offering his active Co-operation
Dr. Harry Friedenwald, President of the Federation of American Zionists, has received a letter, which he has made public in the Baltimore Jewish Comment, from Prof. Max Margolis, of the Hebrew Union College, in which the writer announces his adhesion to the Zionist movement, and sets forth his reasons. The letter is dated January 11, and reads as follows:
"My dear Dr. Friedenwald:
"In a conversation with you a few weeks ago, I announced to you my adhesion to the movement of which you are the head in this country. You asked me to prepare a statement setting forth my reasons. Although a talk recently delivered in this city and sent on to THE MACCABAEAN for publication is virtually a statement, I nevertheless deem it proper to comply with your wish in a more direct manner.
"I am ready a hozer bi-teshubah. I was a Zionist during my student days at Columbia (1889-92), as two papers, "For the Sake of Zion," and "Peter Smolenskin" which I contributed to the American Hebrew, will testify. Influences which, in the interval between 1892 and 1905, had a powerful effect on me, and the centrifugal tendencies of which became manifest to me only at the end of that period, will explain my hesitation to join a movement which, as men prominent in your organization with whom I discussed the subject, will remember, I understood with a greater depth than was discernable in the utterances of official spokesmen. I was averse to the movement also for the reason that I believed that American Zionists were actuated by what I considered an ignoble motive, namely, the desire of diverting immigration to this country from Eastern Europe. I also believed that Zionism was the child of anti-Semitism, and that it meant an acceptance of anti-Semitic doctrine. I further identified Zionism with