created a new and large business, and
Jewish emigration would be forgotten.

The notion of raising money in this way is not by any means
impracticable. The experiment of collecting Christian money to form an
opposing force to the big banks has already been tried; that one could
also oppose them with Jewish money has not been thought of until now.

But these financial conflicts would bring about all sorts of crises;
the countries in which they occurred would suffer, and Anti-Semitism
would become rampant.

This method is therefore not to be recommended. I have merely
suggested it, because it comes up in the course of the logical
development of the idea.

I also do not know whether smaller private banks would be willing to
adopt it.

In any case, even the refusal of moderately rich Jews would not put an
end to the scheme. On the contrary, it would then have to be taken up
in real earnest.

The Society of Jews, whose members are not business men, might try to
found the Company on a national subscription.

The Company's capital might be raised, without the intermediary of a
syndicate, by means of direct subscription on the part of the public.
Not only poor Jews, but also Christians who wanted to get rid of them,
would subscribe a small amount to this fund. A new and peculiar form
of the plebiscite would thus be established, whereby each man who
voted for this solution of the Jewish Question would express his
opinion by subscribing a stipulated amount. This stipulation would
produce security. The funds subscribed would only be paid in if their
sum total reached the required amount, otherwise the initial payments
would be returned.

But if the whole of the required sum is raised by popular
subscription, then each little amount would be secured by the great
numbers of other small amounts.

All this would, of course, need the express and definite assistance of
interested Governments.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] The practice of paying the workman's wages in goods instead of
money.

_IV. Local Groups_

OUR TRANSMIGRATION

Previous chapters explained only how the emigration scheme might be
carried out without creating any economic disturbance. But so great a
movement cannot take place without inevitably rousing many deep and
powerful feelings. There are old customs, old memories that attach us
to our homes. We have cradles, we have graves, and we alone know how
Jewish hearts cling to the graves. Our cradles we