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The financial instruments by which the practical Zionist aims are
seeking accomplishment are (1) the Jewish Colonial Trust,[21]
incorporated as a limited company in London (1899) with a capital
stock of $20,000,000 and a paid-up capital of $1,324,000; (2) the
Anglo-Palestine Company,[22] an offshoot of the Colonial Trust, with a
paid-up capital of $500,000, which finances Zionist undertakings in
Palestine, and declares annual dividends of 4 1-6 per cent.; (3) the
Anglo-Levantine Banking Company,[23] the financial institution of the
Zionists devoted to their undertakings in the remainder of Turkey,
with a capital of $125,000 declaring 6 per cent. returns; (4) the
Jewish National Fund,[24] whose object is to acquire land in Palestine
as the inalienable property of the entire Jewish people, with a
capital of $650,000 raised by individual contributions; (5) the
Palestine Land Development Company,[25] with a registered capital of
$87,500, organized for the purpose of (a) acquiring, improving, and
dividing into small holdings large Palestinian estates, (b) laying out
and cultivating intensive crops, (c) systematically settling and
training agricultural laborers in Palestine.
Of late the Jewish Colonization Association, which is backed by the
forty-million dollar fund of Baron de Hirsch, is co-operating with the
Zionists in the purchase of Palestinian land to be administered by the
Palestine Land Development Company.[26]
The actual achievements, which these instruments have been the means
of effecting, may be summarized in two classes--Palestinian and
non-Palestinian. In both fields, the several branches of Zionist aims
have borne fruit.
_What Zionism Has Accomplished in Palestine_
Palestine in 1880 contained 30,000 Jews, who studied the Law, wailed
at the Wall, and lived miserably on the alms (the Chalukah) of pious
Jewry at large. In 1911 the Jews comprised 100,000 out of a total
population of 700,000. In Jerusalem are 50,000 Jews, 7,000 at
Tiberias, 8,000 at Safed, and 10,000 at Jaffa. A large proportion, it
is true, are settlers of the Ghetto type, but the young generation is
rapidly being changed by the growing school-system.[27]
Numbering about fifty, Jewish agricultural colonies extend the length
of the Holy Land and support some 5,000 Jews in their yield of olives,
dates, wine, sugar, cotton, grain, and cattle. Broad streets, clean
homes with gardens, and orchard land characterize the standard of
living in the colonies, as machinery and agricultural school students
characterize their modern standard of gaining their livelihood.[28] A
constantly increasing number of emigrants are streaming into the Holy
Land, although the Zionists are devoting their main endeavors toward
firmly establishing the resident inhabitants and bettering their
condition. On April 3, 1914, the London _Jewish Chronicle_ reported
the emigration from the single port of Odessa as numbering 250 persons
a week.[29]
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