To read paid articles from any news site; A. right click on the article page and click "view page source" b. locate the article then copy and paste to a "Text Cleaner Tool" to remove the codes. https://codeshack.io/text-cleaner/ https://texttooling.com/text-cleaner https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1902/01/06/ CHICAGO, Jan. 5.1902—Impetus to the movement to establish the Jewish race once more in Palestine was given to-night at a mass meeting of Zionists in the Medinah Temple Theatre. Two thousand Jews, most of them supporters of the plan to open again the "promised land," crowded the hall. The meeting was in connection with the annual convention of Western Zionists, whose organization embraces ten States. The plan, as determined upon at the Basle conference, was outlined by Leon Zolotkoff, Grand Master of the Knights of Zion, who said that the idea was to create a legally assured home for the Jews and a refuge for Jews who could not be assimilated by the people among whom they had come to live. "We do not mean to take the Jews by the neck and throw them into Palestine," he said, "nor do we intend to transform the Jews over-night into an agricultural people. We want to resume the broken thread of our nation; we want to show to the world the moral strength, the intellectual power, of the Jewish people. We want a place where the race can again be centralized." Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch gave his views on the proposed movement. In view of the fact that the Zionists had considered his attitude on the question hostile to their plans, great interest was manifested in what he said. "I agree with you that the condition of 7,000,000 Jews in Russia, Roumania, and Galicia is a blot on civilization, and cries out to heaven for redress," he began. "The world is stirred by accounts of the suffering of the women in the conc