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No. 24.

Vienna, 14 June 1901.

5th Year

Our paper appears late this time, since we had to await the express dispatches from London. Our readers will kindly excuse the delay.

Dr. Herzl among the Maccabaeans in London.

(Original telegram of the "Welt".)

Dr. Herzl had been invited as a guest for Tuesday by the "Maccabaeans' Club" in London, the most distinguished Jewish association. In Dr. Herzl's honour the Maccabaeans arranged a banquet in St. James's Hall, at which Dr. Herzl was the object of enthusiastic ovations. We receive the following telegraphic report upon it:

The dinner of the "Maccabaeans" in honour of Dr. Herzl enjoyed an excellent attendance. Eminent guests took part in it, among them: Professor Vambery, Sir Francis Montefiore, Dr. Gaster, Navon Bey. The famous poet of the Ghetto, Israel Zangwill, acted as chairman. He opened the evening with a toast to Dr. Herzl which was acclaimed with tumult. Then Dr. Herzl spoke. His speech was enthusiastically received. Elkan Adler, a brother of the Chief Rabbi, welcomed the guests. Vambery and Montefiore further proposed toasts. Dr. Gaster spoke the closing toast, which contained a vote of thanks to the chairman, whereupon Zangwill returned thanks in a vein at once serious and humorous.

The comments of the journals upon this banquet are favourable and promise successes for the Zionist cause. The banquet has everywhere made the most brilliant impression.

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The Speeches of Zangwill and of Dr. Herzl.

We are in a position to offer our readers this very day the speeches of Zangwill and of Dr. Herzl. We give both speeches in literal translation from the English.

The Toast of J. Zangwill.

Brethren, "Maccabaeans" and guests! It fills me with pride to be permitted to propose a toast to the man who is here as one of ourselves and as a guest, in whose honour we have assembled here to-day — to Dr. Theodor Herzl. It was in this same place that, five years ago, Dr. Herzl made us feel the enthralling magic of his personality and set his bold idea before us, his astonished hearers. We have since followed his further career with warm sympathy or with admiring opposition. Something of the feeling which the keenest Imperialist has for De Wet, the most embittered anti-Zionist has for Dr. Herzl. All his opponents — those who are certain that his idea is impracticable, as well as those who dread the fulfilment of his plan — must concede that he has waged a wonderful fight for a hope which is (in their opinion) lost. What has he not accomplished in these short five years! Inaugurated a movement, created a party, founded the Bank, conducted the annual Congresses, spoken with the German Emperor, and even penetrated the protecting ranks of Janissaries that surround the Sultan's throne — all this in a space of time in which he had still to be active as a man of letters. Some of my Maccabaean brethren would to-day celebrate Dr. Herzl only in this latter capacity; but my view is that we may leave that to Christian societies as well. We "Maccabaeans" must not pass over what Dr. Herzl means to us Jews. We must welcome him as a foremost man in Israel, who feels his people's misery as Moses felt the Egyptian bondage, and who seeks to bring the Jews back into the Promised Land. In the long centuries of the Golus the Jewish nation has brought forth a series of great men — from Maimonides down to Meyer Rothschild — yet Dr. Herzl is the first Jewish statesman since the destruction of Jerusalem. Statesmen enough we Jews have given to other nations — I recall Gambetta, Lassalle, Disraeli — yet Dr. Herzl is the first Jewish politician who has placed his life wholly in the service of the Jewish people. He has had forerunners — political philanthropists who are worthy to be held in everlasting remembrance. But Baron Hirsch chose a soil bare of all power of attraction, and Baron Edmund v. Rothschild built his work of redemption upon charity instead of upon self-help. These men had the millions, but not the political genius. Dr. Herzl has the political