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No. 50. Vienna, December 13, 1901. Fifth Year

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The Economic Questions of the Fifth Zionist Congress.

By Dr. Julius Moses (Mannheim).

Under the title "The Economic Questions of the Fourth Zionist Congress" our comrade Doctor Farbstein (Zurich) published, in number 41 of this year's issues of the "Welt," an essay which, as is already apparent from the editorial note appended to it, places itself in a certain opposition to the general view of our economic work of the present. At the Fourth Congress this latter view came to light in a detailed programme which met with approval, and both the justification of that programme in principle and its particular proposals are subjected by Dr. Farbstein, in the article named, to a rejecting criticism. In view of the importance of the author, not only as a social politician but also within the Zionist movement, I held it to be my duty, as rapporteur upon the economic questions at the coming Fifth Congress, to include Farbstein's dissenting points of view within the range of my preliminary studies quite as much as that stormy demand for an action of the present which stands in contradiction to him, and which was raised not only at the Fourth Congress but before and after it in the Zionist daily literature and in Zionist assemblies. I do not hesitate to declare that I take a middle standpoint between the two ways of viewing the matter, not because I believe myself called to the part of a reconciler, but because that standpoint corresponds to the scientific conviction I have gained through several years of study and of practical labour in the field of Jewish social practice.

As regards the general questions, I refrain from going back with Farbstein into the history of the origin of Zionism; if one might perhaps hold another opinion than Farbstein upon the causes and the genesis of our movement, upon its purpose and its final aim he and I, and all advocates and opponents of a social policy of the present, are at one. I place the goal of the homestead which we have in common in the foreground of my report, and shall leave no doubt remaining that, like Farbstein, I look for the solution of the economic Jewish question only in a systematic emigration and settlement upon a soil of our own. Farbstein regards as economic questions concerning Zionism only those relating to the future homestead; I regard and accept an economic work of the present on the part of Zionism only as an act of preparation for the future destiny of our people, an act equal in value to that work of enlightenment in Palestine which is to be performed according to Farbstein's wish and according to my own as well. We have, after all, not only to prepare the land for our people, but also the people for our land. Through the economic elevation and organisation of Jewry in its present countries of sojourn — an elevation which finds its limits, fully respected by me, in the political and economic situation as well as in our own powers — there is