The Maccabaean

when, despairing of their own efforts, they may offer us their millions, and we shall refuse. You know there is another fund in existence—also for the benefit of the Jews—also amounting to millions, the funds of the Society for the Conversion of the Jews. And these millions the Jews already will not touch. And these two funds have another resemblance, for the cost of a convert and the cost of a colonist are about the same. And between these two mocking funds, the Jews of Russia and Roumania suffer and die. The missionary says “Baptize,” the Hirsch Trustees say “Beg,” and Zionism says “Work.”

For, Zionism does not propose to pauperize the people of Israel, but to redeem the land of Israel. And, therefore, I beg of you not to fritter away your money by starting businesses here and there, however profitable, for then your capital would be locked up, and not available when needed in a great sum. Use your money only to prepare a home for our wandering people. Our old home, alas, is in ruins. And yet if it had not been in ruins it would not have been empty, it would not have been waiting for us. Give no alms to Jews; give them only wages for their share in the agricultural and industrial development of the Palestine. Don't be impatient. Don't listen to those who ask what was there new in this Congress? New? Do they expect us to work miracles, to change the water into wine? In the year 68, when Titus hovered

round Jerusalem, the father of anti-Zionism,Jochanan ben Zaccai, escaped from the Holy Cityin a coffin and fled to the Roman camp. Hehad persuaded himself Jews could live without a country, by Torah alone. To-night, 1,833years later, I stand here and see the delegatesfrom all the lands of the Exile who still cry “ IfI forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right handforget its cunning.” That is miracle enough.Zionism is living and anti-Zionism again in itscoffin. What are five years in the life of anation? Five years ! When we have waitedeighteen centuries. It may be that none of us isdestined to see this great hope fulfilled, it may bethat Dr. Herzl, like Moses, will but gaze uponthe Promised Land. Yet, even so we are content. if we have helped to shape a practical policytowards the future, content if it shall be writtenof us : They found chaos and corruption, theyleft idealism and purpose.

But, though we shall be content to die and see not but the bud, we shall be more content could Dr. Herzl and all of us see the blossom. “In his day and in ours may Judah be saved and Israel dwell in safety.” And, therefore, I call upon this great Congress not to separate without protesting against the attitude of those who starve and neglect what they might nourish and foster, who take a petty view, both of their duty as Trustees of a philanthropist and as trustees of a suffering people.

A T our last Congress I had the honor of reporting at some length upon the statusof the Jews in England. That report, ifnot still fresh in the minds of the large majorityof those here present who were also with us inLondon, was reprinted, and hence is available foreasy reference. The conditions of any people inany country seldom so rapidly change as to present entirely fresh subject for presentation andobservation after the lapse of only sixteenmonths. That change is least likely to happenwith a people living in a country like England,where, as I last year remarked, perfect and utter

non-differentiation, either in point of law and Government or in respect to social and commercial advancement, obtains in respect to all its inhabitants, the Jews being but in slight particular an exception. Hence, what I say to-day must be regarded rather in the light of an addendum to the report presented to the Fourth Congress, rather than a report in itself.

During the period now under review, there have been not a few calls upon the loyalty and attachment of the people of England, and to these in common with their fellow citizens, the Jews of England have responded in no faltering