types of houses will be erected, and, of course, repeated.
These beautiful types will form part of our propaganda. The soundness
of their construction will be guaranteed by the Company, which will,
indeed, gain nothing by selling them to settlers at a fixed sum. And
where will these houses be situated? That will be shown in the section
dealing with Local Groups.
Seeing that the Company does not wish to earn anything on the building
works but only on the land, it will desire as many architects as
possible to build by private contract. This system will increase the
value of landed property, and it will introduce luxury, which serves
many purposes. Luxury encourages arts and industries, paving the way
to a future subdivision of large properties.
Rich Jews who are now obliged carefully to secrete their valuables,
and to hold their dreary banquets behind lowered curtains, will be
able to enjoy their possessions in peace, "over there." If they
cooperate in carrying out this emigration scheme, their capital will
be rehabilitated and will have served to promote an unexampled
undertaking. If in the new settlement rich Jews begin to rebuild their
mansions which are stared at in Europe with such envious eyes, it will
soon become fashionable to live over there in beautiful modern houses.
SOME FORMS OF LIQUIDATION
The Jewish Company is intended to be the receiver and administrator of
the non-transferable goods of the Jews.
Its methods of procedure can be easily imagined in the case of houses
and estates, but what methods will it adopt in the transfer of
businesses?
Here numberless processes may be found practicable, which cannot all
be enlarged on in this outline. But none of them will present any
great difficulties, for in each case the business proprietor, when he
voluntarily decides to emigrate, will settle with the Company's
officers in his district on the most advantageous form of
liquidation.
This will most easily be arranged in the case of small employers, in
whose trades the personal activity of the proprietor is of chief
importance, while goods and organization are a secondary
consideration. The Company will provide a certain field of operation
for the emigrant's personal activity, and will substitute a piece of
ground, with loan of machinery, for his goods. Jews are known to adapt
themselves with remarkable ease to any form of earning a livelihood,
and they will quickly learn to carry on a new industry. I
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