Jewish journals of the country.
We suggest to you the evident desirability of instituting collections at the conference at Tannersville in the interest of the Agrarian Fund, the necessity of which has been thoroughly treated in the report.
So far as the activity of our Commission up to the present is concerned, we do not desire to anticipate the general report to the Congress on the same subject. The most important points, however, have been covered by the undersigned in the accompanying paper.
It will please us to learn that the propositions contained therein have met with the approval of our American comrades in the cause. We shall hope that you, along with the other respected leaders of the Federation, will take occasion of the Convention to work earnestly for the Herslwald and the Pflansungs- verein. We lack only 4,000 marks more for the Palestine Industrial Syndicate. Perhaps you may be able to find a few additional stockholders at Tannersville.
On the occasion of this year's Convention we send our comrades in the cause on the other side of the Ocean our best wishes, and await with pleasure your cheering report of the result of your deliberations.
Very respectfully yours, COMMISSION FOR INVESTIGATING PALESTINE, O. Warburg.
FROM DR. MOSES GASTER.
TO THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS:
I have just returned from my journey to the Holy Land. I find here your kind letter of the 8th of May asking me to send a few words to your Convention in Tannersville, N. Y., held from the 28th of June to July 3d. I will hope that I am still in time, if only to add a few words to the concluding speech with which your President will sum up the excellent work done by the Zjonists on that occasion. With a better knowledge of land and people, with a keener insight into the problems of immediate profitable work in Palestine, with the eyes directed toward the realization of national aims in the Holy Land,
I say: Full speed ahead! Difficulties no doubt there are in the way, but none that could not be overcome; and these difhiculties will grow from day to day, if we neglect our opportunities and waste our enegies in idle talk or in spinning out finely drawn abstract theories. The land is there and the work is there, and the men are to be brought there or those: utilized who are on the spot. There is no danger whatsoever, nothing to fear, nothing to doubt, nothing to hesitate about. But of course there is no room for wild schemes, nor can everything be undertaken simultan- eousliy. A plan must be drawn up and to this we must adhere rigidiy. Work must be undertaken on many converging lines in accordance with that plan. We must endeavor to strengthen our moral claim upon the land even more than our material claim. National work must be taken in haud, in which every Jew must feel interested, and there is ample room for such work to be done. But the opportunities are fast slipping away, and we must haste to peg out our claims and to obtain hostages for the future. With the Turkish Government and not in any way against. in strict accord with the laws of the land and not against, we are more likely to obtain our ends than working differentiy.. Discretion, steadfastness, tenacity of purpose, patience and determination, together with the formation of one plan of action harmonizing all the prevailing tendencies and focussing all the prevailing efforts, will bring us much more quickly to the realization of our aims than many a man dreams or believes. /t can be done, and it must be done, is the result of the investigations which I have carried out in Palestine, and, it is, therefore, for us now to be #p and doing. .
Hoping to meet you strong in numbers and strong in spirit at the next Congress,
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
M. GASTER.
FROM CLARENCE I. DE SOLA.
TO THE TENTH CONVENTION OF THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS:
It affords me very great pleasure to send