The Jewish problem exists wherever Jews dwell in appreciable numbers. Jewish immigrats introduce it where it was absent. We naturally migrate to places where we are not persecuted, but our appearance there sets off new persecutions. This is true and will remain so until the Jewish problem is resolved politically. It will spring up even in developed countries, France being a case in point. Impoverished Jews bring antisemitism to England and they have already taken it to America (p. 29).
Nobody will deny the misery that burdens the life of the Jews. They are persecuted in all countries where they reside in appreciable numbers. Although equality of rights exists on paper, it is nullified in practice almost everywhere. Jews can not hope to reach mid-level ranks in the army, government or private-sector jobs (p. 37).1
There are even attempts to drive them out of the marketplace, "Do not buy from the Jews!" (p. 37).2
Jewish villages in Russia are plundered; Jewish individuals are murdered in Romania; in Germany they are occasionally beaten; in Austria the antisemites terrorize entire segments of public life; preachers in favour of our expulsion crop up in Algeria; the so-called high society of Paris turns inward and excludes Jews from its circles. The nuances are innumerable (p. 37).
Everywhere the malaise can be reduced to the classical phrase of the Berliner, "Out with the Jews!" (p. 38).
All the peoples who harbor Jews are without exception antisemites, ashamed or unashamed (p. 38).
All educated Jews without financial means espouse socialism. Hence the class struggle is waged on our backs because we occupy the most vulnerable spots in the capitalist and socialist camps (p. 38).
Our commoners become proletarian enemies of the ruling order and join the revolutionary parties while the awesome power of money climbs in our affluent classes (p. 42).
Features
The Jewish Company is partially patterned after the big colony companies; it is a chartered Jewish company, if you will. But it doesn't just watch over the exercise of sovereignty rights or pursue colonization ends only.
Like any other company the Jewish Company is founded upon an initial public offering compliant with British legislation and under the protection of England. Its headquarters shall be in London. I can not set down the amount of startup capital now. Our many financiers will fix it. But I will assume a startup capital of a thousand million German marks, in round figures. The fraction dedicated to investments at startup will depend on the manner of procuring the money; this question will be examined later.
The Jewish Company is a transitional institution. It is strictly a commercial venture that must always be at arm's length from the Society of Jews ["advisory and probative body of experts"].
The primary goal of the Jewish Company is to liquidate the real estate, houses or landholdings, and other assets belonging to the departing Jews and to cede the customer base of their local shops to the new owners. The procedure forestalls crises, ensures that everybody gets what is his, and facilitates the internal transfer of Christian citizens to the places of work and properties vacated by the departing Jews (p. 49).
Social welfare institutions
The question of social welfare institutions is for us very important because we have many panhandlers. Those of weak character lapse easily into begging because the external pressure discourages them and the indulgent charity of the wealthy spoils them.
The Society of Jews with the help of local units will pay the greatest heed to educating the people in this regard, creating fertile ground for many associations that wither unnecessarily. Whoever simply demonstrates goodwill shall be conveniently employed. Panhandlers will not be tolerated. Whoever refuses to work shall do it in the reformatory.
But we are against sending the elderly to retirement homes.
The retirement home is one of the crueller boons that our kindness has articulated. An old person feels ashamed there and humiliated until his death. To be truthful, he is already interred. But as for us we wish to preserve their illusion of usefulness until the end, even for those who stand on the lowermost rungs of the intellect. Those unable to do physical work must be handed easier tasks. We must deal with the intellectually-challenged poor of a generation already wilting. But the up-and-coming generations must be educated differently: in liberty and for the sake of liberty.
We shall endeavour to mete the moral happiness that comes from toil to all ages and orders of life. Thereby our people will retrieve their vigor in the country where a workday will be seven hours long (p. 74).
Steward of the Jews
The Society of Jews is the central office of the incipient Jewish movement. It pursues scientific and political objectives. The foundation of the Jewish State, as I describe it, rests on a modern and scientific outlook. The Society of Jews is the modern Moses of the Jews.
If we were to emigrate today from Egypt we could not do it in the same naive way of yore. Previously we will assess our numbers and our strength. The undertaking of the ancient and great steward of the Jews is, compared to ours, what an admirable and ancient musical comedy is to modern opera. We stage the same melody with many many more violins, flutes, harps, violonchelos, double basses, and we employ electric lighting, props, choirs, magnificent stage machinery and lead singers (p. 86).
Languages
Perhaps someone ponders the inconvenience of having more than one official language, but we can not speak Hebrew among ourselves. Who among us would use it to purchase a train ticket? No one can do it. Withal the matter is very simple. Everyone keeps his own language, the beloved fatherland of his intellect. Switzerland exemplifies the possibility of linguistic federalism conclusively. We will stay in the new country as we are now; we will never stop loving with melancholy our fatherlands from which we were expelled.
We will leave behind the wilted and useless dialects, the ghetto slang, the covert argot of captives. Our teachers will see to it. The language most often used in everyday life will become the principal one, without violence. The unity of our people is unique. Truly we recognize ourselves as members of the same people exclusively by the faith of our parents (p. 91).
Flag
We don't have a flag. We need one. In order to lead many men one must raise some emblem on high.
I contemplate a white ensign with seven golden stars. The white field symbolizes the purity of the new life; the stars represent the seven golden hours of our workday since Jews will head to their new country under the banner of labour (p. 92).
I suppose that the Jews will have enemies enough—as any other nation does—but they will not be scattered across the entire world once they settle down in their own territory. The Diaspora can not recur as long as the world's culture remains upstanding. And only an imbecile could fear its collapse. The present culture has enough resources to defend itself (p. 96).