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No. 29. — Vienna, 17 July 1903 — 22 Thamuz 5663. — 7th Year

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The Price of Our Lodging.

Round about Easter the Jews' rent falls due. Every year our landlords make use of this season to go collecting in the Jewish quarter, after the old custom, with cudgel and sack. A list of the places visited by such promenades in the current year would make a goodly piece of geography. Whether the belated revolver shots of Hochfelden mark the end of this year's especially brisk high season is uncertain. It is midsummer; by a fine tradition we should have, from this time until next spring, the right to property and to die of old age. Only, certain reports cast doubt on whether the Galician peasants intend to use their farm implements exclusively for work in the fields.

When doubts of this kind arise we always wish, and wish again to-day, that the non-Zionist papers were written by true prophets. For always, and this time too, they paint the future in cheerful colours; all their leading articles are written with oil from the palm of peace, and no signal of distress rises into the political sky. If only the main sheet would agree with the supplement! In the main sheet, year in, year out, the seven fat years stand announced. But in the supplement, year in, year out, stand the lean figures of the collections, which became necessary because the fat promises were not fulfilled.

The newspaper statements of these collections are the receipts for our contribution to those of our unhappy brethren who have just paid their rent to the mob. The Triple Alliance of Jew-hatred, Russia, Roumania and Galicia, lets its lodgings very dear, to judge by these receipts. The latest sensational performances of antisemitism in those parts gathered, in the collecting-bags of Jewish relief societies, sums running altogether to seven figures. Never has one heard that more than the first misery was relieved thereby. They are respectable sums with which the Jews who were spared discharge the claims of their honour and their hearts; but they never pay in full for what a brutish fury flung upon the pavement, into the fire, into the gutter.

With the cost of the modern crusades, however, our rent is only paid in the smallest part. For we have to answer not only for the Jew-hatred of the peoples, but also for the hostility of the States towards the Jews. The laws which are obeyed by the police cost us more than the laws which the mob transgresses. In Roumania they lay the hands of the strong Jewish workman idle in his lap; in Russia they shut up our brethren in those districts of misery where the kopeck is so rare and famine typhus so frequent.

It is the house rules of our lodgings that make our tribute heaviest. The more workshops and stalls are closed, the more charitable institutions must open. The hotter the noble contest of the nations for the last place in humanity rages, the more the cashiers have to do — the cashiers of the Ica, of the two Alliances, of the Bnei Brith, of the relief societies, of the societies for transmigrants and emigrants, and of an endless host besides of organisations for the protection of harassed Jewish life. Only with the sum of these few great and countless smaller items is the statistical picture complete of a budget of millions borne by the Jewish people — a budget which statistics will doubtless place not far from many an existing State budget.

The reckoning pencil of statistics is called upon to give the answer to the favourite objection against Zionism. People speak often and at length of the utopia of the