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Problems of Poverty

CHAPTER V
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Independence and mastery are conditions which have a market value for all men, but especially for the timid and often down- trodden Jew.

Most men will contentedly receive less as master than as servant, but especially the Jew.

We saw that the immigrant Jew, by his capacities and inclinations, was induced to make special efforts to substitute work of management for manual labour, and to become a profit- maker instead of a wage-earner.

The Jew craves the position of a sweating-master, because that is the lowest step in a ladder which may lead to a life of magnificence, supported out of usury.

The Jewish Board of Guardians in London, though its philanthropic action is on the whole more enlightened than that of most wealthy public bodies, has been responsible in no small measure for this artificial multiplication of small masters.


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