The Antisemitic German Social Party has as its goal the reversal of Jewish emancipation and the subjection of Jews to the aliens law in Germany. Implementation of this measure would ultimately have the following effect on the Jews: Jews living in Germany are not allowed to become judges, teachers, civil servants in state or communal administration or the technical field, or lawyers or physicians in an official capacity. Jews have no right to vote, nor may they stand for election at the state or local level. Jews may only be sworn in as court witnesses according to the strict ritual Jewish oath before a rabbi. Jews may not sit as jurors or lay assessors or hold other German honorary posts. The Jews are excluded from service in the German army, in lieu of which they pay a poll tax to be collected by the respective Jewish community. The Jews will be protected by the state in the practice of their religion and religious customs, as far as these do not cause public nuisance or violate the law of the land, as, for instance, through cruelty to animals in the form of kosher butchering. The Jews continue to be allowed to pursue any industrial occupations, artisanal labor [Handwerk], factory work, self-employed practice of agriculture, and of commerce, with the exception of peddling. Even though these far-reaching measures must always be kept in sight, in the short run the following regulations must also be gratefully accepted as necessary: the expulsion of non-naturalized Jews, a ban on Jewish immigration from the East, and restrictions on Jews seeking admission to official positions, etc.
8. The Antisemitic German Social Party does not, however, limit its program merely to the struggle against Jewry; rather, it wishes to collaborate creatively in the reorganization of our nation and state in economic and intellectual fields. The focus of the “social question” is the conflict between power over property and dependence upon property, or “capital and labor.” This conflict has so far remained legally unregulated, persistently misjudged, and fatally ignored. Accordingly, any social reform promoting “internal peace” has to be welcomed and supported. We demand restriction of all those liberties that favor parasitic Jewry or do serious harm to the productive German performing honest work.
All practical proposals for eliminating or alleviating this conflict will find our ready support, regardless of where they originate. The dictates of justice and political necessity require that the demands of Social Democracy be examined more impartially than they have been until now. The antisocialist laws have proven relatively ineffective against the spread of Social Democracy, and because we believe that improved legislation offers adequate means to handle any excesses, we favor the abolition of these laws. The political and economic conflict between employers and employees can only be resolved or adequately mediated through a mutually agreed-upon regulation and determination of all employment relationships and employment contracts for workers, and of the minimum compensation, salaries, and wages that employers shall grant and workers shall demand.
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