Herzl Jewish State

Theodor Herzl, Jewish writer, talks about the Jewish State

Expresses the Jewish people's struggle for assimilation

• "Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us"
• Prejudices against jews still lie deep within society and people's perceptions
• "Their equality before the law..has become practically a dead letter

Jewish people are prosecuted daily and has grown in proportions

• attacks in Parliaments and assemblies
• persecutions vary among countries
• "I do not intend to arouse sympathetic emotions on behalf...I shall content myself with putting the following questions to jews:"
• Is it not true, that in countries where we live in perceptible numbers, the position of Jewish lawyers, doctors, technicians, teachers, and employees of all descriptions become daily more intolerable

Questions where they should go and what they should do

• "Can we hope for better days, can we possess our souls in patience, can we wait in pious resignation"

Accepts the role cast on Jews

• "thus, whether we like it or not, we are now and shall henceforth remain, a historic group with unmistakable characteristics common to us all."

Hope to build a new state, a new start

• creation of a state is possible and they ahve the power
• Palestine is their historic home

"This guard of honor would be the great symbol of the solution of the jewish question after eighteen centuries of Jewish suffering"

Wright: The Unexpurgated Case Against Women Suffrage

Wright argues that allowing females to succeed with the womens’ suffrage movement would put them on equal terms with men and have a great negative impact on society.

Women do not represent the physical force in society

If women were permitted to rule over men in society, society would lose its military spirit and plunge into losing battles with other countries

Women have intellectual defects

Women have a very unreal picture of the real world

Women have all sorts of misconceptions about themselves

Women are morally defective

“One would not be far from the truth if they alleged that there are no good women, but only women who have lived under the influence of good men.”

Excess population of females in England: 3 million

There may be sexual complications when women begin to work alongside men

Woman’s position would be compromised

Men would no longer feel an obligation to care for their women economically

Loss of chivalry

William Booth: "Darkest England"

William Booth compares England to Henry Stanley’s description of the the brutality, slavery, and disease in “Darkest Africa”

Darkest England

Mirrors Henry Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.”

Booth compares Africa’s jungles to England’s cities

He sees as many terrors down the street in London as in equatorial Africa

Even equates the horrors in London to an attack of slave traders on an African Village

Compares the violation of women in the factories to violation of the captured slave women

Compares sweat system to the slave system and the bourgeoise capitalists in the House of Lords to slave traders

Compares malaria in africa to “defects” in the sanitary system in London that cause so many illnesses and deaths every year

Compares miseries that arise in Africa due to slave traders to the miseries in London that arise due to drink

Submerged Tenth

Booth claims he is advocating for those who 1) have no income of their own and 2) those who are unable to get the proper amount of food despite their utmost efforts to work hard

States it is impossible to attain the bare necessities for every Englishman

Claims that even horses have all the necessities that these humans are clambering for

NB: William Booth started the Salvation Army