The middle classes will involuntarily be drawn into the outgoing
current, for their sons will be officials of the Society or employees
of the Company "over there." Lawyers, doctors, technicians of every
description, young business people--in fact, all Jews who are in
search of opportunities, who now escape from oppression in their
native country to earn a living in foreign lands--will assemble on a
soil so full of fair promise. The daughters of the middle classes will
marry these ambitious men. One of them will send for his wife or
fiancee to come out to him, another for his parents, brothers and
sisters. Members of a new civilization marry young. This will promote
general morality and ensure sturdiness in the new generation; and thus
we shall have no delicate offspring of late marriages, children of
fathers who spent their strength in the struggle for life.
Every middle-class emigrant will draw more of his kind after him.
The bravest will naturally get the best out of the new world.
But there we seem undoubtedly to have touched on the crucial
difficulty of my plan.
Even if we succeeded in opening a world discussion on the Jewish
Question in a serious manner--
Even if this debate led us to a positive conclusion that the Jewish
State were necessary to the world--
Even if the Powers assisted us in acquiring the sovereignty over a
strip of territory--
How are we to transport masses of Jews without undue compulsion from
their present homes to this new country?
Their emigration is surely intended to be voluntary.