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No. 22. — Vienna, 27 May 1904 — 13 Sivan 5664. — 8th Year.

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Our Work.

The success of a movement rests upon the continuity of its work being preserved from disturbance, and upon that work remaining directed always towards one and the same goal. In the Zionist movement, at least, this has proved true. Neither attacks from without nor misunderstandings within the movement have ever been able to turn us from our path, because, heedless of every obstacle, we have always carried our work forward. Hence it is that the prophecies of the prophets of misfortune have remained unfulfilled, and that we are able again and again to report the spread and strengthening of Zionism.

We are in the midst of our work, and it is not easy for us to survey the whole of it. But the reports that reach us from every side plainly show a gratifying advance of our cause. After the great Italian national conference, the first national conference in Argentina; then the delegates' conference of the German Zionists, the party conference of the Zionist workmen and commercial employees of Austria, the Shekel Day in England and Bulgaria, in South Africa and North America, and so forth; for the list is far from ended, and in the coming months it will receive an addition which will not merely not fall short of the data recorded so far, but will even surpass them.

It would not be without interest to analyse the progress of the work in the several countries and to compare the several national federations with respect to their activity. The figures read out at the Zionist Congresses, however, afford sufficient material for those who take an interest in such matters. At several Congresses charts were to be seen on which an attempt had been made to represent graphically, by means of curves, the growth of the Zionist movement in the several countries. Even from this survey, in which the details naturally could not be taken in so quickly, there appeared not only, in the steep ascent of the curves, the rapid growth in the individual countries, but also, in the breadth of the area bounded by the lines, the mighty expansion over every quarter of the globe. We wish here, therefore, only to point out that, contrary to opinions often heard, the work in the countries of the West is carried on with quite exceptional zeal, and that, in the Zionist movement at least, the Jews who are well off by no means forget their unfortunate brethren, but take up their cause with all the greater zeal. One must have seen how the well-situated Jews of various places were otherwise wont to conduct themselves towards poor Jewish emigrants — one need only recall the Roumanian emigrants — to feel grateful for this attitude. To be sure, we Zionists see in the fellow Jew who is compelled to emigrate no stranger, as so many co-religionists of the Mosaic confession do, but a brother, to whom that happens to-day which to-morrow may perhaps befall us in like manner, and to whom we feel ourselves bound in joy and in sorrow, wherever and in whatever circumstances he may live.

One thing, however, we would emphasise. That is the great progress which our endeavours have to record in Argentina, and especially in the colonies of the Ika. Not on account of the piquancy that lies in the fact that it is precisely on this soil that the Zionist idea is spreading so vigorously, but