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An undreamed of publicity for the +essentials of the Jewish Question has been achieved in this country. It +is noteworthy that whether the publicity be in agreement with or against +THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, the essential facts are the same, and these +facts were first set forth in this paper. + +That, indeed, constitutes the strength of the articles. The facts are +provable; they are not disprovable. The reader can confirm the facts +from his own observation. With regard to the matters discussed in these +volumes, there are too many observers of the Jew to permit misstatements +to pass. This also constitutes the dilemma of the self-appointed +defenders of the Jews: they may abuse THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, but they +cannot disprove the facts. They do not make even an impressive denial of +them. The whole situation would be much clarified if Jewish spokesmen +would use frankness, instead of a fusillade of cheap and irrelevant +abuse. + +The year has witnessed much notable discussion of The Jewish Question in +magazines of quality. A few have descended to white-washing, fewer still +to sheer pro-Jewish propaganda; but such articles as those in the +September _Century_; those in the _Atlantic_ for February, May and July; +_The Nineteenth Century and After_ for April; the true and admirable +accounts by Lieut. Commander Hugo W. Koehler, of the U. S. Navy, in the +_World’s Work_ for July, August, September and October—these testify to +the reality of the matter. The more serious religious press, as +represented by publications like the _Christian Standard_, the +_Christian Century_, _The Moody Monthly_ which is published by The Moody +Bible Institute, Chicago, have also added materially to the literature +of the question. In editorial vision and liberty of discussion, the +religious press has shown itself to be freer of control than has the +secular press. + +This volume contains information dealing with the influence of the +Jewish idea on American life. The departments of life here studied do +not by any means exhaust the list. The studies are more and more +centering on the actual operations of the Jewish program upon the +American people, and the effect of Jewish conceptions on our common +life. These studies are appearing in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT now. They +will be gathered into future volumes as may be required. + + November, 1921. + + + + + Contents + + + Page + XLIII. The Jews and the “Religious Persecution” Cry 7 + XLIV. Are the Jews Victims or Persecutors? 21 + XLV. Jewish Gamblers Corrupt American Baseball 37 + XLVI. Jewish Degradation of American Baseball 51 + XLVII. Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music 64 + XLVIII. How the Jewish Song Trust Makes You Sing 75 + XLIX. Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism in the U. S. 88 + L. Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries 102 + LI. Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon? 114 + LII. How the Jews Use Power—By an Eyewitness 128 + LIII. How Jews Ruled and Ruined Tammany Hall 141 + LIV. Jew Wires Direct Tammany’s Gentile Puppets 155 + LV. B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the Jews 167 + LVI. Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People’s Error 179 + LVII. Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs 191 + LVIII. Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve Plan 205 + LIX. Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America 218 + LX. How Jewish International Finance Functions 230 + LXI. Jewish Power and America’s Money Famine 243 + + + + + _The Writer of the Following Letter Is a Jew:_ + + + _“Gentlemen:_ + + _“‘Because you believe in a good cause,’ said Dr. Johnson, ‘is no + reason why you should feel called upon to defend it, for by your + manner of defense you may do your cause much harm.’_ + + _“The above applying to me I will only say that I have received the + books you sent me and read both with much interest._ + + _“You are rendering the Jews a very great service, that of saving + them from themselves._ + + _“It takes courage, and nerve, and intelligence to do and pursue + such a work, and I admire you for it.”_ + + + + + XLIII. + The Jews and the “Religious Persecution” Cry + + +We cheerfully give the Jews of the United States credit for knowing when +they are getting their money’s worth. In the defense that has been set +up for them they know that they have not had their money’s worth, +neither from Jewish money collectors nor from the “Gentile fronts” to +whom the money has been paid. The Louis Marshall line of defense has +broken down. The boycott has dribbled into nothingness. Speeches in +Congress and editorials in newspapers have sounded too hollow to carry +conviction. The Question has proved itself far too big for those who +have entered the defense for gain, to satisfy personal grudges, or to +win what they feel to be the favor of the stronger side. The Jews long +ago quit the course which some of the “Gentile fronts” still continue; +the Jews recognized the futility of it. + +No intelligent Jew in the United States ever was asinine enough to +declare that the Jewish Question is a religious question and that THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT’S investigation of that question constituted +“religious persecution.” No Jew known beyond the next street has ever +ventured such a silly charge. But it is apparently all that remains for +the “Gentile fronts” to shout about. From what can be learned of them +they are for the most part men of no religion themselves and they use +the term “religious persecution” as a red rag which they think will stir +people into action. It is rather curious how the cry of “religious +persecution” is used to evoke the spirit of persecution against alleged +persecutors. + +THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT this week goes out of its course to squelch +once and for all this cry of religious persecutions. + +Three statements are sufficient to outline the situation: + +First, neither directly nor by implication has THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT +held that the Jewish Question is a religious question. On the contrary, +supported by the highest Jewish authority, this paper has held that the +Jewish Question is one of race and nationality. (See issues of October 9 +and 16, 1920; reprinted in the new book, volume two of “The +International Jew.”) + +Second, there is no religious persecution of the Jew in the United +States, unless the agitation of various humane societies for the +abolition of “kosher killing” may be considered such. The Massachusetts +Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has published a +valuable study of the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for food, in +which is adduced much scientific evidence to support the conclusion that +the Jewish method is “needlessly cruel.” But even this can only with +difficulty be stretched into an interference with “the religion of the +Jews.” The Jewish method of slaughter as now practiced is not commanded +in the Old Testament but in the Talmud, and is, therefore, not religious +in the authoritative sense, but traditional. Moreover, there is positive +evidence that modern methods achieve the Jewish purpose (the disposal of +the blood of the carcass) much better than does the Jewish method. This +is the only instance where even remotely the religion of the Jews has +been touched. + +Third, the fact is that while there is no “religious persecution” of the +Jews, there is very much real religious persecution _by_ the Jews. That +is one of the outstanding characteristics of organized Jewish life in +the United States, its active, unceasing, powerful and virulent attacks +upon any and all forms of Christianity which may chance to come to +public notice. Now and again we hear of outbreaks of sectarian bigotry +between Catholics and Protestants, but these are not to be compared with +the steady, relentless, alert, anti-Christian activity of the Jewish +organizations. There are doctrinal disputes within the Christian +churches, but none that challenge the basis of Christianity itself; +organized Judaism, however, is not content with doctrinal disputation, +but enlists its vast commercial and political power against everything +that it regards as, in its own words, “Christological manifestations.” + +Now, these are facts, and being facts, they are important, and they +ought to be publicly known. + +No President of the United States has yet dared to take his inaugural +oath on the open pages of the New Testament—the Jews would denounce him. +When General Pershing announced that he considered the morale of the +American soldier due to the interest of the Christian men and women at +home, the Jews had him cut out the word “Christian.” Various governors +of American states, having used the word “Christian” in their +Thanksgiving proclamations, have been obliged to excise it on demand of +the Jews. The word “Christian” was compelled to be cut out of the +officers’ training manual at the Plattsburg training camp. Everything +that would remind the child in school that he is living in the midst of +a Christian civilization, in a nation declared by its Supreme Court to +be founded on Christian principles, has been ordered out of the public +schools on Jewish demand. + +People sometimes ask why 3,000,000 Jews can control the affairs of +100,000,000 Americans. In the same way that ten Jewish students can +abolish the mention of Christmas and Easter out of schools containing +3,000 Christian pupils. + +In a nation and at a time when a minority of Jews can print every year a +record of the apologies they have extorted from public officials for +“having inadvertently used the term ‘Christian,’” it is desirable that +this charge of “religious persecution” should be placed where it +belongs. In the _Daily American Tribune_, a Catholic daily published at +Dubuque, Iowa, appeared a recent headline which said a great deal—_Not +Persecution of The Jews, But Protection of The Christians_. + +It is now proposed to let the Jews speak for themselves on this +question. The Jewish press has been searched for an authoritative +expression charging that the study of the Jewish Question constitutes +“religious persecution,” and none has been found. That cry has been +reserved for “Gentile fronts” for use among Christians. All the attacks +from the Jewish camp are against the doctrines and institutions of the +Christians. They have carried on an insistent and successful +persecution, and the details of it have filled the Jewish press for +years past. + +Upon reading the following selections, the remark of Dean Swift will +probably come to mind: “We are fully convinced that we shall always +tolerate them, but not that they will tolerate us.” + +_The Red Cross is objectionable to the Jew._ H. Lissauer, in _The Jewish +Times_, proposed that the Magen David be substituted for “the red cross” +on the Red Cross Society badges worn by Jews. + +“We should not let our sensitiveness to charges of intolerance overcome +our conscientious religious objections to the cross,” says Mr. Lissauer. +The editor of _The Jewish Independent_ thinks the suggestion “is worthy +of serious consideration.” + +_The Gideons are objectionable to the Jew._ The Gideons is the name +given to the Christian Commercial Travelers’ Association of America, +whose efforts are responsible for the Bibles which are to be found in +most hotel rooms. This is from the Cleveland _Jewish Independent_: + +“It is quite evident that the Gideons do not know a typically Jewish +name when they see or hear one. The Gideons’ object, according to their +letterheads, is ‘winning commercial traveling men for Christ’ and the +way this is done is by placing a Christian Bible in each guest room of +every hotel. + +“The Gideons have been at it a long time, long enough to know better, +but the other day they sent a letter to Max Cohen of this city, who is a +traveling man but the kind the Gideons have no right to ask for funds, +and the person who selected him for an ‘easy mark’ certainly should have +had better sense. + +“Mr. Cohen utterly failed to ‘fall’ for the invitation and instead of +sending his little donation he wrote a letter to the secretary, C. A. +Johnson, in which he bluntly said: ‘Don’t you think you ought to use +better judgment than to ask me to contribute to a strictly religious +work opposite to my own belief?’ + +“If the Gideons insist upon filling up hotels with Bibles that have no +business there they should go to the right persons for contributions.” + +_The Jews do not like the Salvation Army nor the Y. M. C. A._ Many +thousands of printed lines expressed the fury with which they regarded +attempts to “Christianize the Army and Navy” during the war, and the +wild arguments with which they sought to make “Y” work and Salvation +Army work appear to be a violation of the principle of no union of +Church and State. The same objection was made to religious welfare work +during the building of the Panama Canal. If there is any challenge of +this on the part of uninformed “Gentile fronts” (the Jews themselves +will not challenge it) the evidence can be produced. It is only a matter +of space. + +_The Jews did not like Theodore Roosevelt’s choice_ of a hymn for the +Progressive party: + +“With Hon. Oscar S. Strauss as the nominee for the governorship of New +York on the Progressive ticket, this question rises: Will the voters on +the East Side of New York march to the Progressive battle hymn, ‘Onward, +Christian Soldiers,’ or will the song have to be changed to fit the +candidate?”—_American Israelite._ + +_The Jews hate with a malice beyond expression what they call “mission +holes,”_ that is, a place of instruction maintained by Christian +churches where inquiring Jews may learn what Christianity is and, in +many instances, where destitute and neglected Jews may receive +assistance and counsel. The boast of how “the Jew cares for his own” is +given a jolt by the dire need which has called Christian welfare work +into Jewish settlements. + +This hatred overrode good judgment so completely that in 1911 +Assemblyman Heyman introduced into the New York State legislature a bill +making it an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to entice or +tempt a minor under sixteen years of age into a religious mission, +Sunday school or church without the written consent of the parents or +guardian of the minor! The language indicates a part of the contempt in +which the welfare work undertaken by Christian institutions for the +neediest class of children in America is held by the leaders among the +Jews; not by the masses of the Jews themselves, however, except when +they are terrified by their leaders. + +In St. Louis, application for a charter of the Jewish Christian +Association was opposed. The converted Jews wanted an association of +their own. They represented that they had been ostracized by the Jews +and were desirous of organizing and owning their own meeting place. A +referee advised against the charter on the ground that “it would be +contrary to the broad spirit of religious freedom guaranteed under the +constitution of Missouri.” The referee was, of course, coached by Jews. +In the name of religious freedom these Jews opposed giving an +association freedom enough to preach the gospel. + +In Toronto the Jewish leaders issued a proclamation throughout all +Toronto Jewry forbidding the use of reading rooms, baths, dispensaries, +motion picture shows or anything else which they described as “the petty +bribery of conversionist tricksters who seek for their wealthy donators +to open the gates of heaven and find salvation for their sins by +converting a weak-minded Jew.” + +By the way, all converted Jews are weak-minded or criminal, if we are to +believe the hundreds of statements to that effect in the Jewish papers. +The Jews are, without exception, superior people until they become +Christians; _then_ learn what they are from the Jewish leaders! + +Among the nice names for this welfare work are “Jesus holes,” “mission +traps,” “Jew-snatchers,” “child stealers.” + +It happened that one of the helpers in the Chicago Gospel Mission was +principal of a Chicago public school. The Jews raised a great outcry +against him, denounced him as unfit to teach children, and guilty of +“the moral turpitude of eating food provided by taxes of which a large +share is received from Jews, whose children they seek to entice from +their parental religion and whose men and women they are seeking to +degrade into liars and hypocrites.” All because a competent man was +willing to meet Jewish inquirers, or perhaps bring a few of the benefits +of civilization into the neglected ghetto. If this school teacher were +Christian enough to have a conscience, he would resign, said the Jewish +thunderers, and with that never-failing tinge of dark-mindedness they +added: “What is done in secret in these haunts can, of course, only be +guessed at.” + +Talk about bigotry! This from a people who encourage the cry that THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is engaged in “religious persecution,” though THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has not yet carried even one of the scores of +sensational and important stories which show the Federal Government +discovering synagogues and rabbis as agents of the illicit liquor +traffic. “These _haunts_” and hints of the things that may go on there, +is the only way the _American Israelite_ can find to refer to welfare +works in which some of the best people, from no motive but the goodness +of their hearts, engage. + +A book of 500 pages could be filled with the unreasonable and in many +cases positively vicious statements of leading Jews on any of the +subjects touched here. + +_The Jews do not like the Christian Sabbath._ The literature of attack +against this institution is voluminous and the arguments extreme. Sunday +is Christian, therefore to the Jew it is taboo. Court records in every +state bear testimony to the fight of the Jews against Sunday. Few +legislatures have escaped being pestered with bills on the subject. The +latest fight has been the strongest yet waged, to destroy Sunday by +throwing it wide open to Jewish exploitation. Yet the Jews are most +chary of their own Sabbath. When recent college examinations fell on +Jewish holy days, the Jews had the examinations changed. When primary +elections last year fell on Jewish days, every power was moved to change +them. There are Jewish records of a western governor being remonstrated +with because a condemned criminal was sentenced to be hanged on +Saturday—did the governor mean to “offend 3,000,000 Jews”? The St. Louis +Charity Fair in 1908 planned to remain open on Friday evening; a great +outcry; did the managers of that fair mean to insult the Jews; didn’t +they know that the Jewish Sabbath began on Friday night? + +But when it is a question of maintaining the integrity of Sunday—pooh! +pooh! “Don’t the Christians know that Sunday perpetuates the silliest +superstition, that their god Jesus rose from the dead?” When certain +people aid the post office employes in an attempt to close the post +offices on Sunday, the Jews regard it as a step back toward the dark +ages. + +Here is a Jewish editorial relating to Governor Cox. It appears that +Governor Cox in 1914 stood for a decent Sunday and liquor law +enforcement, and this is the threat held out to him: + +“At the 59th Jackson Day banquet of the Wayne County (Ohio) Democracy, +which was held at Wooster, Governor Cox made the principal address in +which he defended laws passed at his instigation. The governor laid +particular stress on the fact that for the first time in her history, +Ohio now enjoys a ‘Christian Sabbath.’ + +“‘I stand or fall by the Christian Sabbath in the next campaign,’ the +governor is reported to have said.... + +“There are many who construe the declaration to mean that Governor Cox +has bid defiance to the liberal element of the state and will rely upon +the religious and class prejudices which he is arousing and keeping +alive in the rural districts, to re-elect him to his present office, or, +what is clearly plain from his entire attitude, boost him into the +nomination for United States Senatorship. The _Israelite_ will take +great pleasure about the time the leaves begin to turn in reminding +Governor Cox of his statement that he ‘will stand or fall by a Christian +Sabbath’ in the coming campaign.”—_American Israelite._ + +The literature of Jewish thought toward Sunday presents complete +evidence of the leaders’ antagonism to this distinctly Christian and +Anglo-Saxon institution. Sunday has never been regarded as set apart, in +those countries where the Jewish idea has most infiltrated. The decline +of Sunday in the United States is directly along the line of those +invasions of the Sunday spirit which are mostly aligned with Jewish +commercial interests. In Great Britain and her colonies where the Jew is +not permitted to usurp a superior place as chief censor of morals and +religion and education, Sunday is decently observed. The situation in +this country is that, instead of enjoying its liberty, the Jewish +leaders have taken liberties. The student who wishes to know how deep +and hard-set is the anti-Sunday program will find all the material he +wants in Jewish sources. + +The theme of this article is “religious prejudice.” You will not find it +anywhere within the whole range of the Jewish Question, except on the +Jewish side. There is, in the United States, a religious prejudice, but +it is strictly Yiddish. If the Christian population bothered one +one-hundred-thousandth part as much about Jewish religion as the Jews +bother about Christian observances, the whole fabric of Talmudical +teaching would be consumed in the bright light to which general +attention would bring it, the bright light from which it has always been +concealed. Sheer analysis in the interest of mental health, if +undertaken by fifty men, would compel the Jewish people by their own +decision to abandon the darkness which holds them now. Jewish Talmudism +owes its existence today to the indifference with which it is regarded. +This is the far opposite extreme of “religious persecution.” + +The list of headlines describing the various angles of Jewish +anti-Christian religious prejudice is not, however, exhausted. + +_The Jew is prejudiced against the Bible._ When he uses that term, he +does not mean what the ordinary person means. Therefore, he does what he +can to destroy public honor of the Book, unless it be an occasion where +a President has been inaugurated, when it will run through the Jewish +press like a strong breeze that once more has a Christian statesman +ignored the Christian Bible and turned to the Jewish Bible. It is rather +a trifling matter to mention; its significance comes solely from the +light it throws on the Jewish attitude. It is not a trifling thing in +Jewry, as the country will probably be made aware if any future +President should be sworn in with, say, the Sermon on the Mount open +before him. + +And yet, even here, we observe a strange paradox. A Jewish authority +says: “The Jew is a paradox. He is at once an idealist and a +materialist. He is parsimonious and extravagant. He is courageous and +cowardly. He is modest and vulgar. He is persistent and yielding. He is +peaceful and warlike”——and so on. And though the Jew opposes the Bible +in the schools, he never misses a chance to put it there, with the +Jewish trade-mark. He quotes the Psalms—“We wrote them.” He quotes +Isaiah—“We Jews did that.” + +Most people sit open-mouthed at these glorious authors of Scripture and +do not know how to answer. It is time the Churches began to learn what +to say to the Jewish taunts—“We gave you your god;” “We gave you your +bible;” “We gave you your savior.” Perhaps it is also time that the Jews +themselves considered how long the boast will stand the usage they are +giving it. + +In any case the literature which the Jews wrongfully claim as their own +production, is rather far distant in time to justify its being used as a +mantle of glory for the political rabbis, the discredited theatrical and +movie magnates, and the violent penmen of the Jewish press. Rather too +distant in time! We, the race that confronts the Jews, have done +somewhat more recent work; for example, the Declaration of Independence +and the Emancipation Proclamation, not to mention the psalms and +pronouncements of the great American prophets that have lifted up the +world. + +So, the Jew is very willing that the Bible should be in the schools, +provided it is not what he calls “the Christian Bible.” Listen to this: + + “Hebrew is to be taught in the Chicago high schools. Students who + include this language in their course are to receive the credit now + allowed for the study of other classical languages. Of infinite + value in the training of the mind are the wonderful narratives of + Genesis, and boys and girls will find the history of Israel under + the Judges much more appealing than Caesar’s bridge over the Rhine.” + +The people of New Jersey thought so, too; they believed that a reading +from this ancient book every day would mean much to the general culture +of the pupils. But what did the paper just quoted say about it? It +called the cultivated Bible appreciators of New Jersey “soul-snatching +enthusiasts” and raised a mighty yell about “the forcible conversion of +Jewish children,” although it was provided that Jewish or any other +children should be excused from the reading if desired. Another mighty +yell about excusing the children all on account of the tyranny of +reading the Christian Bible in the schools—regardless of the fact, which +every public school teacher knows, that no class of children is oftener +out of school for religious reasons than are the Jews. + +Truly, these people are a paradox. They are not fair. They are +constituted so that they cannot see the other side of anything. For a +time they actually do convince the secularists that everything public +should be secularized down to the last notch of atheistic demand. +Non-Jews are fair. They are willing to see the other people’s point of +view. When it was said to us that the “Merchant of Venice” was a cruelty +upon Jewish school pupils, we said, without investigation, “Out goes the +Merchant, then!” We discovered later that the Jewish children liked and +appreciated that play better than any other group. Brander Matthews +helped us discover that. + +And so when they said, “Reading the Bible is sheer proselytizing; it +isn’t fair,” the non-Jew, who wanted to prove that he is fair and +unprejudiced above all things else (a weakness the Jews know how to +manipulate), said, “Well, then, out goes the Bible!” And it went out. +Very well! What next? “You must abolish Christmas, too.” “You must not +keep Easter—the Jews don’t like it.” “It is anti-Semitic to observe Good +Friday.” In other words, to please the sensitive Jewish natures we must +eradicate from Christian civilization all that is Christian in it. + +In the meantime what transpires? Having induced “fair-minded” non-Jews +to do all these things—and every one above enumerated has been done over +and over again at Jewish demand—the Jews then proceeded to sow Judaism +on the fields thus denuded of Christianity. “No religion in the +institutions of the State”—yet in every state university last year there +were, and in every state university this year there probably will be, +courses of lectures delivered by Jewish rabbis—the lectures delivered in +the colleges themselves—propagandizing the youth of the non-Jews with +Judaistic religion, ethics, and economics. That is what the so-called +Jewish “Chautauqua” exists for. It is not a Jewish “Chautauqua”; it is +Jewish propaganda in public educational institutions. + +That is the repayment the Jews have made for our “fair-mindedness.” +Their demand for complete secularization is merely their preparation of +the soil for their carefully organized sowing of the seed of Judaism. +And non-Jews permit it to continue, for there is nothing they fear so +much as that their opposition will be regarded as “religious prejudice.” + +The Jew glories in religious prejudice, as the American glories in +patriotism. Religious prejudice _is_ the Jews’ chief expression of their +own true patriotism. It is the only well-organized, active and +successful form of religious prejudice in the country because they have +succeeded in pulling off the gigantic trick of making not their own +attitude, but any opposition to it, bear the stigma of “prejudice” and +“persecution.” That is why the Jew uses these terms so frequently. He +wants to label the other fellow first. That is why any investigation of +the Jewish Question is so quickly advertised as anti-Semitism—the Jew +knows the advantage of labeling the other man; wrong labels are most +useful. + +This does not by any means exhaust the list of headlines describing the +various avenues in which the expression of virulent Jewish religious +prejudice and persecution is found. But it exhausts the space allotted +to these articles each week. Therefore, the subject will be concluded +next week. + +It is not a pleasant subject. Religious prejudice is just as unpleasant +to write about as it is to experience in any other way. It is totally +contrary to the genius of the American and the Anglo-Saxon. We have +always regarded religion as a matter of conscience. To believe as he +will is part of every man’s fundamental liberty. To interfere with force +to change anyone’s belief is exceedingly stupid. + +Holding these hereditary principles, one chooses to study that active +stream of influence in American life which is known as the Jewish +stream, and immediately upon doing so, one finds himself classed with +the bigots and torturers of other times. + +It is now time to show that the cry of “bigot!” is raised mostly by +bigots. There _is_ a religious prejudice in this country, there _is_, +indeed, a religious persecution, there _is_ a forcible shoving aside of +the religious liberties of a majority of the people, and this prejudice +and persecution and use of force is Jewish and nothing but Jewish. + +This is the answer to the cry of “religious persecution,” and we shall +make it so complete and definite that a repetition of the cry against +students of the Jewish Question will automatically mark the criers as +either too ignorant or too vicious for consideration. + + + + + XLIV. + Are the Jews Victims or Persecutors? + + + “Half of Christendom worships a Jew; the other half worships a + Jewess.”—Jewish editorial. + + “If the gospel story is correct, Judas was a pretty decent sort of a + fellow. It was only _after he had become a convert to Christianity + that he became that which has made his memory an accursed thing for + nineteen hundred years_.”—Jewish editorial. + + “Our land is frequently called a Christian nation. No doubt the + majority of our citizens believe this. No less an authority than + Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court so expressed himself in 1892. + But the statement is clearly false.... _This is not a Christian + nation. In inspiration, at least, it is a Hebrew nation_, for the + Constitution which we now enjoy traces back to the Hebrew + Commonwealth.”—Jewish editorial. + + (From the minutes of a meeting of the Committee on Families of the + New York Board of Child Welfare.) + + Mr. Hebbard: “That is one of the things I have in mind, that a widow + brings deliberately into her home a nameless child and the + inevitable consequence of that is that her legitimate children are + always thereafter pointed out.” + + Miss Sophie Irene Loeb: “As far as nameless children are concerned, + _Christ himself was a nameless child_. Let us get away from nameless + children.” + + Dr. Dirvoch: “I think where there are three or four children in a + home and a little stranger enters that home without a father, you + are corrupting the morals of those legitimate children by permitting + them to remain in such surroundings.” + + Miss Loeb: “I say to you that this committee, if it takes such an + attitude as that, is one hundred years behind the times.” + + Mr. Cunnion: “Anything against purity is immoral.” + + Miss Loeb: “_What has that to do with the question of purity? Was + the mother of Christ pure?_” + + Mr. Cunnion: “_Certainly._” + + Miss Loeb: “_He had no name!_” + + Mr. Cunnion: “_You can’t bring that in here. We believe he was + conceived without sin._” + + Mr. Menehan (to Miss Loeb): “_That is very wrong to make that + statement._”—Cited in letter of complaint to Mayor Hylan. + + “The intimate relation of church and state in the great + non-sectarian United States of America received direct demonstration + on August 12 (1913), when a deputy sergeant-at-arms of the Senate + was hurriedly sent out to get a preacher of any old denomination to + open the Senate with prayer. The session opening an hour earlier + than usual, the regular chaplain was not at hand, but with still two + minutes to spare the deputy returned in an automobile, hurried to + the Vice President’s office and introduced the Rev. Dr. C. Albert + Homas, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, to Mr. Marshall just in time for + the Vice President to lead the way into the Senate chamber to open + the session at 11 o’clock, and once again the Union was saved. We + shudder to think what might have happened if no preacher had been + captured in time to open the session with prayer!”—Jewish editorial. + + “President Wilson in his inaugural address said: ‘The firm basis of + the Government is justice, not pity.’ This is sound Jewish doctrine + as laid down by Moses and the Prophets in contradistinction to the + doctrine of love, as attributed to Jesus. This coming from so good a + churchman as President Wilson might be a little surprising were it + not that it is a well-known fact that whenever our Christian + brethren want to talk to reasoning men they go to the Old Testament + for their inspiration.”—Jewish editorial. + + “President Wilson at his inaugural gave another instance of the + well-known fact that in solemn moments when they need comfort and + inspiration, Christians turn to the Old Testament and not to the + New. So President Wilson, when he kissed the bible after taking the + inaugural oath, selected the passage, Psalm 46.”—Jewish editorial. + + “Reference has frequently been made in these columns to a number + of addresses made by the late Isaac M. Wise at the celebration in + honor of his 80th birthday anniversary in the course of which he + predicted _that in a quarter of a century from that date (1899) + there would be practically nothing left in Protestant Christianity + of a belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ_ or the distinctive + dogmas of Christianity, and that all Protestant Christians by + whatever name they called themselves, _would be substantially Jews + in belief_. To any one who notes the signs of the times it is + apparent that this prophecy is being rapidly fulfilled.... _The + Jesus superstition_ and the _fantastic dogmas built upon his + supposed divine origin_, die but slowly, but that they are dying + is nevertheless apparent.”—Jewish editorial. + +The subject of this article is “Religious Prejudice and Persecution—Are +the Jews Victims or Persecutors?” A study of history and of contemporary +Jewish journalism shows that Jewish prejudice and persecution is a +continuous phenomenon wherever the Jews have attained power, and that in +neither action nor word has any disability placed upon the Jew equaled +the disabilities he has placed and still contemplates placing upon +non-Jews. It is a rather startling reversal of all that we have learned +from our Judaized histories, but nevertheless it seems to be the truth. + +Attention is once more called to the fact that the Jews themselves are +not raising the cry of “religious persecution” here or elsewhere, but +they are allowing their “Gentile fronts” to do it for them—just as they +have not denied the statements made in this series (among themselves +they freely admit most of them) but let “Gentile fronts” do it for them. +The Jews would not be averse to raising the cry of “religious +persecution” perhaps, (provided they could make it stand) were they not +afraid that it would call attention to their own persecuting activities. +But their “Gentile fronts” have brought that upon them. + +There is no Christian church that the Jews have not repeatedly attacked. + +_They have attacked the Catholic Church._ This is of special interest +just now when Jewish agents are doing their utmost to arouse Catholic +sentiment in their favor by circulating charges which these agents +personally know to be false. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has perfect +confidence in the information which Catholic leaders may have on the +Jewish Question. On this subject the Catholic priesthood is not misled. + +Examples of this attack are numerous. “Half of Christendom worships a +Jewess,” is not a statement but a slur, flung by Jewish men who say in +the ritual of morning prayer: “Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of +the Universe, _who hast not made me a woman_.” The Talmudists’ +discussions of the Virgin Mother are often vile. The Christian +festivals, whose preservation is due to the Catholic custom and +conscience, are all attacked by Jews. + +_The American Israelite_, whose great prestige in American Jewry is due +to its having been founded by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, _opposed the +establishment of Columbus Day_ and berated Governor Hughes for signing +the law making it a holiday in New York. The act that established it +deserved “the contempt of thinking men.” Why? Is not the discovery of +America a memorable event? Yes, but Columbus was a Catholic! However, in +recent months the Jews are proving him to have been a Jew, so we may +expect some day to see Columbus Day insisted upon with Jewish rites. + +The _Catholic Columbian_ made editorial reference to the increasing +Jewish influence on the American press, in these words: “Jewry is +getting its grip on the news of this country as it is on Reuter’s and +the Havas agency in Europe.”—A perfectly polite and true observation. + +But the Jewish editorial thunderer came back—“The _Columbian_, in its +sneaking Jesuitical way, does not mention the fact that these (the +Jewish) papers are the very cleanest in the country. The _Columbian_ +cannot point to a single daily owned by one of its co-religionists that +begins to compare with the above papers.” + +The sweet spirit here evidenced is very significant today when an appeal +is being made to create a strong pro-Jewish Catholic sentiment. + +If there is in the world any extra-ecclesiastical undertaking by +Catholics which has won the undivided approval of the Christian world as +_the Passion Play of Oberammergau_ has done, the present writer does not +know what it is. Yet in a volume entitled “_A Rabbi’s Impressions of the +Oberammergau Passion Play_,” Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., of +Philadelphia, has stigmatized that notable production as reeking with +falsehoods and vicious anti-Semitism. In the rabbi’s eyes, of course, it +is, for to him the entire Christian tradition is a poisonous lie. The +whole fabric of Christian truth, especially as it concerns the person of +Christ, are “the hallucinations of emotional men and hysterical women.” + +“Thus,” says the rabbi (p. 127) “was invented that cruel story, that has +caused more misery, more innocent suffering, than any other work of +fiction in the range of the whole world’s literature.” And thus the +simple peasants of Oberammergau, presenting the Catholic faith in +reverent pageant, are labeled anti-Semites. + +These are not isolated instances. Antagonism to the Catholic Church rung +throughout Jewish literature. The Jewish attitude was summed up in an +editorial in the _Jewish Sentinel_ of November 26, 1920, as follows: +“_Our only great historical enemy, our most dangerous enemy, is Rome in +all its shapes and forms, and in all its ramifications. Whenever the sun +of Rome begins to set, that of Jerusalem rises._” These, however, are +matters well known to Catholic leaders. + +In their turn the other Christian denominations have been attacked. When +the _Methodist Church_ put on the great pageant entitled “_The +Wayfarer_,” Rabbi Stephen S. Wise played critic and made the solemn and +silly statement that had he been a South Sea Islander (instead of the +itinerant platform performer which he is) his first impulse, after +seeing “The Wayfarer,” would have been to rush out into the street and +kill at least three Jews. It says a great deal, perhaps, for the channel +in which Rabbi Wise’s impulses run, but the tens of thousands of +Methodists who saw “The Wayfarer” will not be inclined to attribute such +a criticism to the spirit of tolerance which Rabbi Wise so zealously +counsels the Christians to observe. + +_The Episcopal Church also_ has felt the attack of the Jews. Recently +the Jewish press raised a clamor that the Episcopal Church was not +competent to teach Americanism in our cities because it held that +Christianity and good citizenship were synonymous. And when the +Episcopal Church made provision for mission work among the Jews, the +torrent of abuse that was poured out gave a very vivid picture of what +the Jewish mind naturally turns to when aroused. This abuse is not +reproduced here because of its excessive violence and disrespect. It is +similar to that which is heaped upon all attempts to explain +Christianity to the Jews. “What would the Gentiles do if we sent Jewish +missionaries to them?” ask the violent editors. Any Gentile can answer +that—nay, even the Jews themselves can answer that. In the first place, +the Jews do not want to teach their religion to Gentiles because there +is a Talmudical restriction against it; Talmudically the Gentiles are +not good enough to mingle with the religious matters of the Jews. In the +second place, the Jews do send missionaries everywhere, not to spread +Jewish religious principles, but propaganda favoring the Jews as a race +and people, as is done in our colleges through the so-called “Jewish +Chautauqua.” In the third place, let there be produced one Jewish +missionary, who has ever received anything but a considerate reception +wherever he has appeared. + +The Jews are bitter against all Christian denominations because of the +conversion of numerous Jews to them. A large number of Jews have become +Catholics; one of the _Knights of Columbus’_ most useful lecturers +against the menace of radical socialism is a converted Jew. It is so +also with the _Presbyterian Church_ which has been the most recent +victim of Jewish vituperation. But only upon the Catholic Church has the +Jew poured more wrath and malediction than he has poured upon _Christian +Science_. The Christian Science church has attracted large numbers of +Jewish converts. Some of them have become very active, devoted members +of that form of faith. Scores of columns and pages have been devoted to +their denunciation in Jewish newspapers, magazines and books. Christian +Science is a peculiar anathema to the Jew. + +Where then is the religious prejudice? Search through the publications +of all the churches named, and you cannot find in all their history so +much of the spirit of prejudice and persecution as you can find +expressed in the Jewish press in one single day. Jewry reeks with such +prejudice. In politics, education, social functions, public holidays, +literature and newspapers, they see everywhere traces of “Christological +manifestations” and cry them down. + +_No public man has ever given public evidence of his Christian faith +without rebuke from the Jews._ Mr. Bryan, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Taft, Mr. +Wilson, two of them Presidents, one of them Vice President, and the +other Secretary of State, have all been called to task from time to time +for their sins in this respect. Mr. Marshall is a devout man, whose +faith is real to him, and he speaks very naturally about it at times. He +has, therefore, been attacked oftener in the Jewish press than has any +other public man of recent times. Nothing is more ludicrous to the +Jewish press than a Vice President of the United States openly +confessing that he is an “idolater,” that is, a worshipper of the dead +Jewish imposter whom the Christians ignorantly call “Christ.” To Mr. +Marshall’s honor, be it said, he never apologized, he never begged to +withdraw his public statements. Neither did William J. Bryan, whose +lecture “The Prince of Peace” contained statements in honor of Christ +which brought him into conflict with Jewish spokesmen everywhere, and +whose remarks about missions after a trip around the world were savagely +attacked by Jews. Mr. Bryan did not apologize either. Mr. Taft was +promptly called down on several occasions for using forms of the word +“Christian,” which were particularly offensive to the Jewish press +because they had advertised far and wide during the Taft campaign that +Mr. Taft was practically a Jew in his belief in that he had abandoned +all the distinctive Christian doctrines pertaining to Christ. After his +lapses in which he used the term “Christian” approvingly, it was +explained on his behalf (1) that he was accommodating himself to the +audience, and (2) that he used the term as a synonym for civilization! +But isn’t it significant that the name of Christ should be an integral +part of the very name of the highest civilization? Mr. Taft was a true +liberal, liberal enough to tolerate Christian orthodoxy. And that was a +rather weak spot, as far as the Jews’ estimate of him went. + +Mr. Wilson, while President, was very close to the Jews. His +administration, as everyone knows, was predominantly Jewish. As a +Presbyterian elder, Mr. Wilson had occasional lapses into the Christian +mode of thought during his public utterances, and was always checked up +tight by his Jewish censors. In 1914, speaking before the American +University at Washington, he said: + + “That is the reason why scholarship has usually been most fruitful + when associated with religion, and _scholarship has never been, so + far as I can at this moment recall, associated with any religion + except the religion of Jesus Christ_.” + +That was terrible. So terrible that Herman Bernstein was chosen to +administer the castigation. + +And Mr. Wilson made proper reparation: + + “My dear Mr. Bernstein: I am sorry that there should have been any + unfair implication in what I said at the opening of the American + University. You may be sure that there was nothing of the kind in my + mind, or very certainly nothing in my thoughts that would + discriminate in the important matter you speak of against Judaism. I + find that one of the risks and penalties of extemporaneous speaking + is that you do not stop to consider the whole field, but address + yourself merely to the matter in hand. With sincere respects and + appreciation, + + Cordially yours, + Woodrow Wilson.” + +The heading given this notice in the Jewish press was, “He Did Not Mean +It.” + +All of the President’s offending took place in 1914. The second offense +he gave was by taking the position of honorary chairman of the +International Lord’s Day Congress, which was to be held the next year in +connection with the Panama Exposition. It was, however, the Christian +Sunday which received the bulk of the abuse on that occasion. + +The subject is “religious prejudice.” Where does it exist in this +country in more continuous and virulent character than among the Jews? +Read these items selected at random from Jewish papers: + +“District Grand Lodge No. 4, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, voted at +the annual election held in San Francisco, March 2 (1911) to exclude +from the order Jews who join _the Christian Science Church_. The body +after earnest discussion decided that the portals of the order shall be +closed against the Christian Scientist Jews on the ground that such Jews +have abjured Judaism. The vote upon the question was almost unanimous.” + +“The Jewish Community at Philadelphia has found it necessary to publish +a warning to the Jewish people against _the Daily Vacation Bible +Schools_ which are being established in various parts of the city, also +against certain missions and settlement houses, all of which are _traps +into which Jewish children are decoyed for the purpose of seducing them +from the religion of their parents_. These institutions belong to that +class of conversionist agencies which wage a campaign for the seeking of +converts through _workers ... (who) are a class of criminals that keep +just within the law and deserve no better treatment than is usually +accorded to people of that kind_.” + +When a bishop of the Episcopal Church said, “We must make the United +States indisputably a Christian nation,” the Jewish press retorted that +such a thing could not be done until the Constitution of the United +States had been “abolished.” “Christian America” is a persecuting term +according to the professional Jewish spokesmen, and the most laborious +efforts have been put forth by them to prove on paper that the United +States is not and cannot be Christian. + +Not only do the Jews _disagree_ with Christian teaching—which is their +perfect right, and no one dare question it—but they seek to _interfere_ +with it. It is not religious tolerance in the midst of religious +difference, but religious attack that they preach and practice. The +whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas, Easter and certain +patriotic songs shows that. + +When Cleveland and Lakewood arranged for a community Christmas, the +Cleveland Jewish press said: “The writer of this has no idea how many +Jews there are in Lakewood, but if there is only one, there should be no +community Christmas, no community religion of any kind.” That is not a +counsel of tolerance, it is a counsel of attack. The Christmas +literature of American Judaism is fiercer than the flames of the +Inquisition. In the month of January, the Jewish press has urged its +readers to begin an early campaign against Christmas celebrations the +next Christmas—“Only three hundred and sixty days before Christmas. So +let us do our Christmas arguing early and take plenty of time to do it.” + +If anything, Easter is attacked yet more bitterly. But we refrain, for +good reasons, from repeating what Jews commonly say on such occasions. +The strange inconsistency of it all is to see the great department +stores of the Levys and the Isaacs and the Goldsteins and the Silvermans +filled with brilliant Christmas cheer and at Easter with the goods +appropriate to the time. The festivals of the “heathen” are very +profitable. Jewish merchants have been chided for this—not +over-severely—by certain rabbis. But on the whole the rabbis had better +remain content, for there are no forces more rapidly secularizing the +two festival days than are the merchandising and profiteering forces. + +Even religious intolerance has its gleesome moments, and the Jews’ come +whenever the signs appear of the greater secularization of the church. +One parallel between the Protocols and the real hopes of the Jews is +written in _the common Jewish prophecy that Christianity is doomed to +perish_. It will perish by becoming, to all intents and purposes, +Judaism. And it will become Judaism, first, by ousting all the doctrines +pertaining to the person of Christ, excising from the Gospels the great +“I Ams” which are His distinctive teachings concerning Himself; and, +second, by devitalizing Christianity of all the spiritual content which +flows from a union by faith with a Person believed to be divine. That is +the only way it can be done. There may be a union of all the churches of +the Christian faith because the fundamentals are the same; no union of +Christianity and Judaism can occur unless Judaism takes in Jesus as the +Messiah, or unless Christianity ejects Him as the Messiah. Judaism sees +the union coming by the ejection of the Lord as the Messiah, and +rejoices at every sign of it. + +Dr. Charles F. Aked, who has since blossomed out as a Jewish spokesman, +delivered a sermon in which he cast aside all the “supernatural” +elements in the life of Christ, from His birth, to the significance of +His death, and was hailed by the Jewish press as “_the fulfillment of +the prophecy that within fifty years the religion of all the American +people, outside the Catholic Church, would be Judaism in principle even +though not in name_.” + +“No Jew,” says the _American Israelite_, “will conceal his gratification +when he finds Christians virtually admitting that liberal Christianity +is practically an acceptance of the doctrine of liberal Judaism.” + +Unfortunately, this is true. Liberal Christianity and Liberal Judaism +meet, but only by the surrender of all that is distinctively Christian +in doctrine. A liberal Christian is more Jewish than Christian. The +statement may sound harsh and arouse resentment, but it is a very simple +matter for any liberal Christian to convince himself of this by reading +the volume of liberal Jewish doctrine put out by Kaufman Kohler, +president of the Hebrew Union College. Liberalism is the funnel by which +Christianity is expected to run into Judaism, just as liberalism +so-called in other departments of life is expected to bring about +certain other Jewish aims. + +“Liberalism” in Jewish thought means a wideopen country in every way. +Judaism has opposed every significant reform that has come to the +country; prohibition, Sunday decency, movie and stage regeneration, and +community reverence for sacred things. Judaism has been the prop of the +liquor traffic, Sunday desecration, movie and stage excesses, and public +contempt for the sacred things of the prevailing religion; and it is all +too evident that the Jewish propaganda has made serious inroads +everywhere. + +A Congregational Church in New Jersey decided to abandon the Bible in +some of its classes and substitute sociology, politics, municipal +government and kindred subjects for study, and the Jewish press hailed +it as another sign that the church was “in a fair way to adopt what is +in substance American Judaism.” In St. Louis a clergyman, instead of +preaching sermons, began to act out moralistic dramas which he himself +had written, and the Jewish press again hailed it as a sign of the +dissatisfaction of the Christian with his church. Everything done in +every branch of the Christian church has been closely watched, and +wherever a departure occurred from the distinctly Christian position it +was extravagantly applauded; and wherever loyalty to the landmarks +appeared, it was just as extravagantly condemned. Judaism does not wish +the Christian church to remain Christian. This accounts for destructive +Higher Criticism being almost exclusively the work of Jews, although the +world has long known them under the guise of “German critics.” + +Jewish intolerance today, yesterday and in every age of history where +Jews were able to exert influence or power, is indisputable except among +people who do not know the record. Jewish intolerance in the past is a +matter of history; for the future it is a matter of Jewish prophecy. One +of the strongest causes militating against the full Americanization of +several millions of Jews in this country is their belief—instilled in +them by their religious authorities—that they are “chosen,” that this +land is theirs, that the inhabitants are idolators, that the day is +coming when the Jews will be supreme. How can they otherwise act than in +agreement with such declarations? You can see what is meant if you read +Jewish articles describing the shoving aside of the New England people +by the Jews; the supercilious attitude adopted toward the stock that +made America is merely a foreshadowing of what would be the complete +attitude if power and influence made it possible. Bolshevism, which +began with the destruction of the class that contained all the promise +of a better Russia, is an exact parallel for the attitude that is +adopted in this country regarding the original stock. + +We are not permitted by the Jews to sing the “Battle Hymn of the +Republic” in our schools because one of the stanzas has a Christian +flavor. The Jews claim that the presence of one Jewish child in an +assembly of children ought in “fairness” to prevent the singing of that +historic song. + +Norman Hapgood, writing in a Jewish publication, said: “I need hardly +explain that I do not think Jews ought to insist overmuch on their +rights or nationality in a negative sense. They ought to be as much Jews +as they can, but ought to be as little as possible of what is merely +anti-Christian. For the Jews to try to get a song out of the public +schools because it praises Jesus is perhaps natural but hardly wise.” +Mr. Hapgood received a lot of abuse for his well-conceived counsel. + +Again we come to the end of our space with the record hardly scratched. +Sufficient has been presented to show the strong, unceasing +anti-Christian activity of the Jews in the United States. Had the Jewish +press been read extensively by non-Jews during the past 15 years, this +present series of articles would have been unnecessary—the people would +have known the facts. It is to present some of the facts that are +illustrated in the Jewish press along the line of religious intolerance +that these two articles have been written. + +Jewish spokesmen plead for suppression of facts in the name of +“religious tolerance,” and they denounce exposure of the facts as being +“religious persecution.” Read the whole non-Jewish religious and secular +publications and you will not find one one-hundred-thousandth part of +the animosity against the Jewish religion which is found in the Jewish +press—continuously found week after week for long years—against the +Christian religion. The present writer has never seen nor heard of an +article attacking the Jews’ religion. + +So, once for all, in spiking the cry of “religious persecution,” we show +that it exists in quantity and strength among the Jews—nowhere else. No +one imbued with the American spirit would or could condemn, hinder, or +even remonstrate with any person on account of the faith he holds. + +As to “religious prejudice” or “persecution” entering into the present +series of articles—there they are, reprinted in booklet form for +permanent examination: where is the prejudice or persecution? _Cite the +page!_ + +Jewish spokesmen would use their energy to better advantage, and more to +the honor of the Jewish people, if they would address themselves to +_what is in the articles_, rather than to what is not in them. The +statements made by THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT have been voluminously +_discussed_; but they are still awaiting an _answer_. + + +—— + +Issue of June 11, 1921. _“This clannishness would eventually break down +were it not for the deliberate efforts of Jewish leaders who are +determined that Israel shall remain an imperium in imperio. If the Jews +persist in maintaining a distinct ethnic consciousness and an exclusive +community life, anti-Semitism will thrive in America as it has thrived +in Europe. The American nation, itself the result of fusion, will not +tolerate without protest a foreign element in it.”_ + +_—Herbert Adams Gibbons in the Century, September. Page 789_. + + + + + XLV. + Jewish Gamblers Corrupt American Baseball + + +There are men in the United States who say that baseball has received +its death wound and is slowly dying out of the list of respectable +sports. There are other men who say that American baseball can be saved +if a clean sweep is made of the Jewish influence which has just dragged +it through a period of bitter shame and demoralization. + +Whether baseball as a first class sport is killed and will survive only +as a cheap-jack entertainment; or whether baseball possesses sufficient +intrinsic character to rise in righteous wrath and cast out the danger +that menaces it, will remain a matter of various opinion. But there is +one certainty, namely, that the last and most dangerous blow dealt +baseball was curiously notable for its Jewish character. + +Yet only lesser Jews were indicted. Inevitably the names of other Jews +appeared in the press accounts, and people wondered who they were. A +Jewish judge presided. Jewish lawyers were prominent on both sides of +the cases. Numerous strange things occurred. + +But strangest of all is the fact that although American fans felt that +something epochal had happened in baseball, few really know what it is. + +There has been time enough for others to tell the truth if they were so +disposed. Many sport editors have come as near telling it as their +newspapers would permit them. But it becomes daily more evident that if +the whole matter is to be laid bare, so that Americans may know where to +look for danger, THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT will have to do it. + +And this is not of our own choosing. Baseball is a trivial matter +compared with some of the facts that are awaiting publication. Yet it is +possible to see the operation of the Jewish Idea in baseball as clearly +as in any other field. The process is the same, whether in war or +politics, in finance or in sports. + +To begin with, Jews are not sportsmen. This is not set down in complaint +against them, but merely as analysis. It may be a defect in their +character, or it may not; it is nevertheless a fact which discriminating +Jews unhesitatingly acknowledge. Whether this is due to their physical +lethargy, their dislike of unnecessary physical action, or their serious +cast of mind, others may decide; the Jew is not naturally an out-of-door +sportsman; if he takes up golf it is because his station in society +calls for it, not that he really likes it; and if he goes in for +collegiate athletics, as some of the younger Jews are doing, it is +because so much attention has been called to their neglect of the sports +that the younger generation thinks it necessary to remove that occasion +of remark. + +And yet, the bane of American sports today is the presence of a certain +type of Jew, not as a participant but as an exploiter and corrupter. If +he had been a sportsman for the love of sport he might have been saved +from becoming an exploiter and corrupter, for there is no mind to which +the corrupting of a sport is more illogical and even unexplainable than +the mind of the man who participates in it. + +There will be a very full case made out in justification of the use of +the above terms “exploiter” and “corrupter” with regard to baseball. But +it would be just as easy to make out the same sort of case with regard +to wrestling and horse-racing. Wrestling is so completely ruled by Jews +as to have become an outlawed sport. The story of wrestling is not only +the story of the demoralization of a sport, but also the story of the +wholesale bunkoing of the public. + +The same is true of horse-racing. The whole atmosphere of this sport has +been tinged with dishonesty. The horses remain almost the only wellbred +creatures connected with it. Yet why should the art of breeding and +training and testing fine horses be debasing? Only because a certain +class saw in it a chance to play upon the weaknesses of men for the sake +of gain. + +That, indeed, explains the presence of the Jew in modern sports and it +also explains why the Jewish Idea in sport, instead of being +preservative, is corruptive. The Jew saw money where the sportsman saw +fun and skill. The Jew set out to capitalize rivalry and to +commercialize contestant zeal. + +This is not necessarily the only course the Jew could have taken with +regard to sports, but it is the course that he most notably has taken, +and as scandal follows scandal it would seem to be high time that +organized Jewry should undertake to control or repudiate those Jews who +have been most instrumental in corrupting and nearly destroying our +cleanest, most manly public sports. + +It is worth noting that in Chicago, where the Jewish Anti-Defamation +League has its headquarters, there was not a word of reproof sent out +from Jews to the Jewish culprits, chiding them for their activities. Not +a word. But at the same time the pressure of the Anti-Defamation League +was heavy on the whole American newspaper press to prevent the public +statement that the whole baseball scandal was a Jewish performance from +end to end. + +Baseball had a close call for its life back in 1875. Rowdyism, gambling, +drinking and general disorderliness on the baseball fields brought the +sport very low in public estimation, so low that attendance at the games +fell heavily. + +In this year 1921 there is another public rebuke being administered +baseball by the same means—a very heavy reduction of public support in +attendance at the games. + +The storm began to be heard as far back as 1919. The Cincinnati +Nationals had defeated the Chicago Americans in the World Series of that +year, and immediately thereafter the country became a whispering gallery +wherein were heard mysterious rumors of crooked dealing. The names of +Jews were heard then, but it meant nothing to the average man. The +rumors dealt with shady financial gains for a number of Jew gamblers of +decidedly shady reputation. + +But “they got away with it,” in the parlance of the field. There was not +enough public indignation to force a show-down, and too many interests +were involved to prevent baseball being given a black eye in full view +of an adoring public. + +However, not everyone forgot the incident. Some who had the interest of +honest sport at heart, and a regard for facts as well, kept on the +trail—long after the trail grew cold, long after the principal +wrongdoers forgot their early caution. Where money had once been taken +successfully, the gang would be sure to return. + +Time went on until the 1920 season began to wane. One day when the +Chicago and Philadelphia National League teams were engaged in a series +at Chicago, strange messages began to reach the office of the Chicago +club. The messages were dated from Detroit and informed the Chicago club +and management that several “well-known” Jews were betting heavily on +Philadelphia. The bets involved large sums of money, and as the contest +was only the ordinary run of daily game, not an important contest at +all, the unusual interest of Jewish plungers attracted attention. At the +same time it was observed that money began rolling into the pool rooms +of Philadelphia. + +Chicago club officials called a hasty conference on receipt of the +messages. They called in Grover Cleveland Alexander, explained the +situation to him, and told him it was up to him to save the game. It was +not Alexander’s turn to pitch, Claude R. Hendryx having been chosen for +that day; neither was Alexander in training to pitch that day. However, +he did go to the box, and although he hurled his heart out to beat +Philadelphia and thwart the Jew gamblers, he failed. + +Then came the big scandal. A Cook County grand jury was called into +session at Chicago and asked to investigate. When this grand jury had +completed its labors, eight members of the Chicago American League team +were under indictment for throwing the World Series of 1919, the +previous year, to the Cincinnati Reds. And all along the line of the +investigation the names of Jews were plentifully sprinkled. + +It was discovered that the indictments brought by the first grand jury +were faulty; a second one was called and it was under the second group +of indictments that the famous trial at Chicago was held. + +One difference in the work of the two grand juries was that the second +indicted five Jews who had escaped the first one. Two of these men were +Carl Zork and Benny Franklin, who were just as much implicated at the +time of the first grand jury as the second, but the prosecutor’s office +did not try to secure their indictment. Why? Because Replogle, the +attorney representing the prosecution, said there were enough men +indicted without Zork and Franklin. These two St. Louis Jews were +represented by Alfred S. Austrian, a Jewish lawyer, of Chicago. + +This second grand jury also indicted Ben and Louis Levi and their +brother-in-law, D. A. Zelser, gamblers from Des Moines. Their indictment +was not secured at the first grand jury investigation directed by +Replogle, assistant to Hoyne, who was then acting for the state of +Illinois. Between the first and second grand juries a political change +had occurred, and the public interests in the second grand jury were in +the care of a new prosecuting attorney, Robert Crowe, a former judge. + +It becomes necessary at this point in the narrative to give a brief +“Who’s Who” of the baseball scandal, omitting from the list the names of +the baseball players, who are sufficiently known to the public. This +list will comprise only those who have been in the background of +baseball and whom it is necessary to know in order to understand what +has been happening behind the scenes in recent years. + +For the first name let us take Albert D. Lasker. He is a member of the +American Jewish Committee, was recently appointed by President Harding +to be chairman of the United States Shipping Board, and is known as the +author of the “Lasker Plan,” a widely heralded plan for the +reorganization of baseball, which practically took the sport out of +non-Jewish control. He is reputed to be the second richest Jew in +Chicago and was head of the advertising agency which became famous under +the Gentile names of Lord & Thomas. Moreover he is a heavy stockholder +in the Chicago Cubs—the Chicago Nationals. + +The so-called “Lasker Plan” has been attributed to Mr. Lasker, although +it is not here intimated that he has specifically claimed to be its +originator. The intimation is not made for the reason that to do so +might be putting Mr. Lasker in the position of claiming what is not +true. Until he makes the claim, the term “Lasker Plan” must remain +merely a designation, and not a description of its origin. + +This matter brings us to the name of Alfred S. Austrian, a Jewish lawyer +of Chicago, who is a warm friend both of Mr. Lasker and of the Replogle +aforementioned. It is said that Mr. Austrian was really the originator +of the “Lasker Plan” which for certain reasons was handed to Mr. Lasker, +who was not averse to publicity and who knew the art of +self-advertising. Now, it appears that Austrian was also the legal +representative of Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago Americans, +and that he was also, if he is not now, the legal adviser of William +Veeck, president of the Chicago National League Club, in which it has +just been said that Lasker is a heavy stockholder. It was this club +which was touched by the questionable game of August, 1920, and which +afterward released Hendryx, the pitcher chosen for and withdrawn from +that game. The Chicago National League Club has never explained why it +released Hendryx and he has never demanded redress. + +Mr. Austrian’s further activities will appear when the narrative of the +investigation and trial is resumed. + +Then there is Arnold Rothstein, a Jew, who describes himself as being in +the real estate business but who is known to be a wealthy gambler, owner +of a notorious gambling house at Saratoga, a race track owner, and is +reputed to be financially interested in the New York National League +Club. + +Rothstein was usually referred to during the baseball scandal as “the +man higher up.” It is stated that in some manner unknown he received the +secret testimony given before the grand jury and offered it to a New +York newspaper. However, the fact is this: the grand jury testimony +disappeared from the prosecuting attorney’s safe-keeping. It is stated +that, when Rothstein found out it did not incriminate him, he then +offered it for publicity purposes. The price which it is said to have +cost is also stated. It is further stated that the New York paper to +whom the secret stolen testimony was offered, in turn offered its use +for a larger sum to a Chicago newspaper, and that the Chicago newspaper, +to protect itself, called up Robert Crowe, the new prosecutor, who +advised that, in printing it, the newspaper would incur an unpleasant +risk. Other Chicago editors were warned, and the testimony was not +printed. Even the New York newspaper thought better of it, and did not +print it. + +In this connection, Rothstein threatened suit against Ban Johnson, of +the National Commission, the big-bodied, big-minded, honest director and +protector of straight baseball—but the suit, like others of the kind, +has not been brought. + +Rothstein is known on Broadway as “a slick Jew.” That he is powerful +with the authorities has been often demonstrated. His operations on the +turf have led to suggestions that he be ruled off. + +Alfred S. Austrian, hereinbefore mentioned, was the legal adviser of +Rothstein during the baseball scandal. + +Hugh S. Fullerton, the able sport writer of the New York _Evening Mail_, +writing on July 28, 1921, made a plea that “a person guilty of crooked +work on a race track should be expelled not only from the race track but +from ball parks, tennis courts, football fields and every place else +where sport is promoted. These sport spoilers must be barred from every +sport.” + +And in the same paper, referring specifically to Rothstein, Mr. +Fullerton writes: + +“There is in New York a gambler named Rothstein who is much feared and +much accused. His name has been used in connection with almost every big +thieving, crooked deal on the race track, and he is openly named in this +baseball scandal. There has been no legal proof advanced against him +beyond the fact that he is the only man in the entire crowd who had +money enough to handle such a deal. At least $200,000 was used in actual +cash, and no one concerned could command that much money excepting +Rothstein, who is either the vilest crook or the most abused man in +America. + +“Rothstein sits in the box with the owner of the New York Giants. He has +the entrée to the exclusive clubhouses on race tracks; he is prominent +at fights.” + +Then, after naming Abe Attell and Bennie Kauff, who also enjoy +exceptional privileges around the New York club, Mr. Fullerton makes his +plea for the exclusion of “sport spoilers” from every ground where sport +is promoted. + +Then there is Charles A. Comiskey, who is one of the most impressive +examples in the country today of a good Irishman being entirely eclipsed +by a Jew. Comiskey was one of the staunchest supporters of honest +baseball in this country and he gave great assistance in erecting the +major league game to the position it occupied just before the scandal. +He used his best endeavors, also, to get the truth about the “throwing” +of the World Series by his men. But his efforts were thwarted and even +he, perhaps, has not the ghost of a suspicion how it was done. + +So that, instead of Mr. Comiskey, we look at the Jew behind him who is +Harry Grabiner. With Comiskey in failing health, Grabiner is in charge +at Comiskey Park. More than that, he appears to be in charge of Comiskey +himself, preventing him from making public statements and otherwise +dictating to him—pushing himself forward in a manner that has indelibly +and unpleasantly impressed nearly every sport writer in America. + +Chicago’s support of the White Sox began to slump even before the +scandal and it was helped on by the unpopularity of Grabiner’s methods +which were wholly characteristic of what the Americanized Jew calls the +“kikes.” As secretary of the club, Grabiner has grabbed the headship, +and if Comiskey had power enough to unseat him he would do more than the +courts have done to purge the White Sox from its most serious remaining +blemish. + +There are shady spots at Chicago that neither the grand jury nor the +court trial brought out, one of which is now related: + +At all ball parks in the American League, and in the National, for that +matter, officials of the “home club”—that is, of the club in whose home +city the game is being played—“take the gate.” To “take the gate” is to +collect the tickets and render a report of the attendance. Tickets are +designed and numbered for the different gates—box gate, pass gate, grand +stand gate, bleacher gate, and the rest. The accounts are made up +showing the number of people who passed through each gate. When all the +reports are in, it can be seen at a glance what the paid attendance is, +and the shares of the contesting clubs. + +In former times it was the custom for the visiting club to assign a +secretary to watch the gates and thus insure an honest count, but years +ago the “honor system” was adopted, leaving the entire accounting to the +“home club,” and this “honor system” was strictly observed. No one +suspected cheating. The count was made during the sixth and seventh +innings of each day’s game, the officials of the home club visiting all +the gates, taking the turnstile count, and making the record. Three +slips were then prepared showing the home club’s share, the visiting +club’s share and the grand total. + +Under Grabiner’s régime the “honor system” as practiced at the Chicago +park began to be suspected. It began to be mysteriously suggested that +visiting teams were not getting their full share. Through a system of +false accounting, it was said, money was being held out. Naturally, with +all the other secret investigations that were proceeding in baseball, +this clue was not left untouched. Detectives were hired. Watchers were +stationed. Secret counts were made. Not only one club nor only two clubs +adopted secret methods of finding out what was occurring under +Grabiner’s secretaryship. They discovered that the “honor system” was +not in vogue at that park. Their suspicions were confirmed, the +mysterious rumors were verified. It would probably be highly +objectionable to pro-Jewish persons to mention the Jewish management +with these methods—but there are the facts. + +The White Sox of Comiskey’s palmy days have certainly ridden to a sorry +finish under the Jewish control that has been foisted upon it. And it is +typical; for there is no surer clue by which to trace a certain type of +Jew than by the near certainty that even with honest money rolling in +upon him, he will try to increase the flow by petty dishonesty which, +once discovered, declasses him forever. It is typical. There is a lure +in trickery that appeals to some men more than sound and satisfying +achievement does. Think of a world-famous baseball club allowing a +system that cheated the guest club of a few hundred admission fees! + +Then next in this gallery of notables in the background of baseball is +the Jew gambler, Abe Attell, whose connection with sports has been of a +questionable character ever since his dethronement from his pugilistic +pedestal. Attell is known as the “king bee” of the scheme to “throw the +games” in the World Series. He knows all about underhanded “throwing” of +contests, because he has “thrown” his own fights, now feigning to be +beaten when it involved gambling bets and easily winning when the same +reasons prompted. Attell is of such a character that he ought to be +barred from the grounds of any sport, as Mr. Fullerton suggests. He is +the Morris Gest of sport, without Gest’s success. All the players named +Attell as the “fixer.” Even Rothstein named Attell as the “fixer.” It +seemed unanimous—with perhaps Attell’s own consent—that he should be +regarded as the “fixer”: it made it so much more comfortable for others. +Attell went so far as to say that he approached Rothstein with the +proposition to raise a pool to bribe the players to “throw the games,” +but Rothstein declined. And yet Maharg, another Jew, whose name spelled +backward is “Graham,” says that a telegram came through signed “A. R.” +which promised $20,000. The “A. R.” was supposed by some to mean Arnold +Rothstein, but others say he is too shrewd even to sign his initials. +However, it was asserted that 10 gamblers, all Jews, cleaned up $250,000 +on the games and that nearly as much money was used to manage it. + +Attell was the “goat,” the unanimity being rather startling. It has been +known, of course, that men have been so deep in sin that they have been +chosen to bear the sins also of their friends on promise that +“influence” would be exerted, or on threat that if they didn’t stand as +“goat” certain past indiscretions would be advertised. Whatever Attell’s +case might have been, he stood the gaff. + +Attell told the ball players that Rothstein was putting up the money. + +And Attell was never brought to book. It was even testified that Abe +Attell was not Abe Attell at all. Certain moneys lost in a bet had been +repaid and the expected testimony in a certain matter turned out to be +other than was expected. Attell was held in New York for an extradition +hearing. Sammy Pass, a Jew, was one of the witnesses. So was Johnny +Seys. The hearing resulted in New York refusing the extradition of Abe +Attell. + +Then came the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, in Jersey, which Abe Attell +attended. Chicago officers were in attendance, too, with extradition +papers signed by the governor of New Jersey. They intended to take +Attell back with them, though without passing through New York. Attell +attended the fight, but the underground wires, so active in this entire +case, were working, and Attell eluded the western officers. + +The next name in the roster will be that of Barney Dreyfuss, a Jew, +owner of the Pittsburgh National League Club. Mr. Dreyfuss appeared in +the public eye during the conduct of the grand jury inquiry into the +shady games, with an insistent demand that the National Commission, the +ruling body in baseball, of which Ban B. Johnson is the acknowledged +leader, should be abolished, and another plan, the “Lasker Plan,” +substituted. It was intended to discredit the National Commission under +cover of the rottenness that had been discovered between the Jew +gamblers and the venial Chicago players. It was primarily an +anti-Johnson move and nothing else, and it was led by a Jew whose +principal followers were the rapidly increasing group of Jewish +controllers of American baseball. What they have against Ban B. Johnson, +impartial investigators have been unable to discover. Mr. Johnson’s +chief characteristic, with reference to the Jewish side, has been his +implacable enmity to crookedness of any kind. That ought not to be a +disqualification if baseball is to be saved. Yet the Jew-conceived, +Jew-named and Jew-advocated “Lasker Plan” won out. + +Carl Zork, the St. Louis Jew who was indicted, is variously described as +a shirt-maker and a silk-broker. There are no variations, however, in +his description as a gambler. He is part of the Jewish national net of +gamblers which acts nationally and makes “killings” on a national scale. + +It should be observed that the principal Jewish abuses are nation-wide. +This was shown in the United States Government’s investigation of the +white slave traffic; the bootlegging business is nation-wide; so is race +track gambling; baseball pools also are a national network for the +catching of “suckers.” There is, therefore, nothing unusual that a +shirt-maker from St. Louis and a horse-trader from East St. Louis, and a +bootlegger from Albany—together with clever high-ups and hopelessly +declassed low-downs—should all be involved in a baseball scandal that +breaks in Chicago. They are all really part of a national group. + +Carl Zork, for example, staged the fight between Attell and a +third-class boxer in which Attell welched in the sixth round in order to +“throw” the fight, because his friends had all bet on the third-rate +man, getting tremendous odds. His friends would never have made the bet, +or having made it could never have won it, without Attell’s deliberate +quitting and feigned whimpering. It was one of the rawest of many raw +deals witnessed in Jew-controlled sports, but Attell is that kind of +man. He is a servant for that kind of scheme. It was not by accident +that Zork, the silk-broker, and Attell, an ex-prize fighter, should be +linked together in the baseball scandal. They had been linked in crooked +work before. They are part of the national machinery organized and +operated for the purpose of separating “Gentile boobs” from their money. + +If there were no “Gentile boobs,” or if the “Gentile boob” would only +take a square look at the man behind the nation-wide spider web, the +gamblers and the Jewish sport purveyors would be in another kind of +business, with perhaps less money to flaunt in the faces of honest +people. + +If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball, they have it in +three words—too much Jew. Gentiles may rant out their parrot-like +pro-Jewish propaganda, the fact is that a sport is clean and helpful +until it begins to attract Jewish investors and exploiters and then it +goes bad. The two facts have occurred in pairs too frequently and under +too many dissimilar circumstances to have their relationship doubted. + +When you contrast the grand stands full of Americans supposing they are +witnessing “the only clean sport,” with the sinister groups playing with +the players and the managers to introduce a serpent’s trail of +unnecessary crookedness, you get a contrast that is rather startling. +And the sinister influence is Jewish. So patent was this that even +newspapers could not cover the facts this time. + +Years before this public scandal broke, involving a whole team, it was +noticed that certain Jewish gamblers formed the habit of rooming with +certain baseball players. It worried the managers. The fact that the +gamblers coddled in among the players was fraught with a suggestion of +disturbing unusualness. Managers tried the experiment of trading such +players—getting them out of their teams as quickly as possible. However, +the snuggling game was continued until it honey-combed the whole of +baseball, with the result that it was with no trepidation at all that +the Jewish gamblers could walk up and suggest to players that a game be +thrown for a price. The occurrence which formed the basis of the +investigation was not the first of the kind—far from it; the approach of +the gamblers was too easy, the reception given them by the players was +too casual, to warrant that view. Nor were the men whose names were +given to the public the only men involved. + +The only fact of value brought out of all the trouble is that American +baseball has passed into the hands of the Jews. If it is to be saved, it +must be taken out of their hands until they have shown themselves +capable of promoting sports for sports’ sake. If it is not taken out of +their hands, let it be widely announced that baseball is another Jewish +monopoly, and that its patrons may know what to expect. + + +—— + +Issue of September 3, 1921. + + + + + XLVI. + Jewish Degradation of American Baseball + + +Every non-Jewish baseball manager in the United States lives between two +fears, and they are both describable in the Biblical term “the fear of +the Jews.” The first fear concerns what the Jews are doing to baseball; +the second fear concerns what the Jew would do to the manager if he +complained about it. Hence, in spite of the fact that the rowdyism that +has afflicted baseball, especially in the East, is all of Jewish +origin—the razzing of umpires, hurling of bottles, ceaseless shouting of +profane insults; in spite of the fact that the loyalty of players had to +be constantly guarded because of the tendency of individual Jewish +gamblers to snuggle up to individual players; in spite of the evidence +that even the gate receipts have been tampered with—the managers and +secretaries of baseball clubs have been obliged to keep their mouths +closed. Through fear they have not dared say what they know. As one +manager said, “Good God, man, they’d boycott my park if I told you!” + +This in free America, and in the “cleanest game”! It is time for +baseball fans to begin to look round. + +Incidentally, the fans have been looking round. The fans _know_. If +managers only knew how much the fans have observed, they might feel more +certain of support in the event of a move toward a clean up. + +All that a Jew needs to make him eligible to baseball or any other sport +on the same terms with other people, is to develop a sportsman’s spirit. +The Jew has crowded into all the lucrative sports, but only on the +commercial side of them, seldom if ever in sympathy with the sport as a +real sportsman. The Jews referred to as gamblers in these articles are +not really gamblers: they take no chances; they are not sportsmen enough +to gamble; they are “sure thing” men. The “Gentile boobs” who walk into +their traps are the people who provide the money. Even in the field of +money, the Jew is not a sport—he is a gangster, ringing a gang of his +ilk around his victims with as much system as a storekeeper supplies +clerks and delivery boys. + +Lately the Jews have been endeavoring to prove that they are sports. +Venial sport editors are sometimes induced to write certain laudatory +articles along that line, and frequently the name of Benny Leonard is +used—Benny Leonard, the light-weight fighter. Benny forms an instructive +illustration just along this line. Benny declares that he went into the +ring without a scar and that he will leave the ring without a scar. Why? +Because he will let no one hit him. He will go a long way to avoid pain. + +The true wrestler risks and often suffers physical pain. So does the +true ring fighter. But it is a Jewish characteristic to avoid, if +possible, the pain of contest, just as it is a characteristic to avoid +unnecessary effort. + +Look at the other light-weight champions and fighters. Kid Lavinge +carries scars; his hearing is affected by the blows he took. Battling +Nelson was so badly shattered by his fights that operations were +necessary. Ad Wolgast, as a result of the honest straight fighting he +endured, went into a sanatorium. Imagine Willie Ritchie and Freddie +Welsh boasting that they never took a blow! But Benny Leonard is still +unscarred. It may be boxing, but it is not fighting. + +Wrestling is so tightly controlled by Jewish managers, that a real +wrestler is absolutely barred out, for fear he will be able to show that +the handful of wrestlers hired by the Jewish trust are not wrestlers at +all, but only impositions on the good nature of the public. In order +that the statement just made may not be misunderstood, it is repeated: +the wrestling game at present is like the chariot race in a circus—the +performers are hired men and the race is only a sham. The Jewish +controllers of wrestling will not permit a real wrestler to +appear—indeed, they go to infinite pains to bar him out—because a real +wrestler would immediately show up the game. Wrestling is as much a +Jewish _business_, controlled in its every part, as the manufacture of +clothing, and its hirelings are mostly Gentiles. + +That is what baseball was coming to. The whole sport was getting down to +an “exhibition game” status. The overtone of “money, money, money” grew +louder and louder. The sport aspect of the game was beginning to give +way to the “show” aspect. There were numerous signs that an attempt was +being made to “star” certain persons, to run “headliners,” and to pull +off a game with a sensational ending—just like a ballet is staged, or a +pageant. Thrills were being offered—not as the give and take of the +game, the accident of tensest action, but as practiced acting. + +That is, baseball was slowly being brought under the level of the +box-office idea. + +There were forces against this metamorphosis of the game. Certain men +saw what was coming. There were also forces favoring the change, and +wanting it to come. Curiously enough, the forces that favored turning +baseball into afternoon vaudeville were Jews, and those who favored +keeping the game as part of American outdoor sports were non-Jews. + +There was more involved in that Chicago trial—that curious medley of +Jewish defendants, witnesses, lawyers and judge—than the mere trial of +baseball players accused of unlawfully taking money. + +The players were the “Gentile boobs.” The players were not a whit +different than a candidate for the United States Senate who plays the +game according to the Jewish method. Every player on trial was there +because he had listened to the suggestions of a Jew. The Jews who made +the suggestions were not on trial. Some of them were not even indicted. +Some who were called before the grand jury were not required to testify. +Others who were indicted were acquitted. The spotlight of the whole +scandal was centered on the non-Jewish players who were pushed out in +front to do the job and who were known to any number of Jewish witnesses +as having been mixed up in whatever shady work there may have been. The +“Gentile boobs” had no witnesses; the Jews had all of them. + +This is not a whitewash for the players. They deserved all they got for +mixing op with the low hangers-on; but they did not deserve it alone. +Had they been half men there would have been a few Jewish gamblers cured +for life of the little habit of approaching ball players with a shady +proposition. The players are Jewish dupes. To be such a dupe is +punishment enough. + +It would be erroneous, however, to hold the opinion that corruption in +baseball began with the matter which was aired in court. Reference was +made at the beginning of this article to the fear which the managers +feel. This fear is of long standing. The managers had observed certain +manifestations of evil years before. They had heard rumors which they +did not repeat to their closest friends. They had started quiet +investigations, the results of which they did not reveal even to their +partners in the clubs. Everybody acquainted with the true situation, +lived in deathly fear of emitting a whisper that might give a clue to +the truth. But the truth is stronger than walls and doors and steel +vaults—the truth was known at every stage of the game, by somebody. + +Fans may recall that several years ago one of the eastern teams began to +get rid of most of its men. It was a strange proceeding and occasioned +much discussion. The sport pages speculated about it and the “wise” ones +doped out plausible or fantastic explanations. The true explanation has +never yet been given, and it is this: the manager of that club had seen +certain things in the World Series of that year which turned him cold. +He knew that he saw them; morally he was convinced that something was +wrong; he exhausted every available method to get at the truth, and +failed; so, unable to bring the men to public punishment, he simply got +rid of them one by one, and the next season he had practically “rebuilt” +his team. That was not more than ten and not less than five years before +the 1919 World Series which formed the basis of the Chicago scandal. + +It may be stated also that this which follows is the consensus of Jewish +opinion as regards baseball: “You can’t kill baseball as a _business_. +It will always draw a gang on an afternoon, particularly a Sunday +afternoon. It can be ‘pepped’ up and ‘jazzed’ up in a way that will make +it quite a show.” + +The Jews are probably right, that baseball cannot be killed as a +business. But it can be killed as a sport. And the American baseball +fans who value the game as a sport should wish its utter destruction +rather than consent that it become a rendezvous for the gangs that now +fill the Jew-controlled burlesque houses. Baseball as a business will +become a danger in American life, a mob-center, a hang-out of the +disorderly and criminal classes. + +There is another peculiar Jewish story regarding baseball which has not +been told and it necessarily brings in the name of Judge Landis, of +Chicago, an upright man with a wise head, whom the Jews would better not +try to fool. + +When the story is told, however, even the Jews will agree that Judge +Landis is too shrewd for them. + +Before the baseball scandal the situation was this: Ban Johnson was the +head of organized baseball, through the National Commission. He had +brought the sport from a minor place to its position as the national +game. Ban Johnson was something of an autocrat, as all leaders must be, +because as old General Booth of the Salvation Army said: “If the +Children of Israel had been managed by a committee, they never could +have crossed the Red Sea.” Autocracy has its uses, especially in +striking out new lines. Ban Johnson used his power for baseball, not for +personal aggrandizement. He saw the game grow great, he wanted it kept +clean. In his efforts to keep it clean, he made certain enemies. One of +those enemies, the Jewish owner of a baseball club, threatened to “get +Johnson.” As far as the National Commission as the head of organized +baseball is concerned, they did “get” him. But so far as his prestige is +concerned, so far as his character and reputation are concerned, they +did not “get” him. + +Judge Landis was a fan. That is, he was a fan, besides being a learned +and rather strict judge. Judge Landis was one of the few judges who did +not quail before Chicago meat packers and Jewish bootleggers. Judge +Landis always went the limit on the numerous cases of Jewish business +crookedness that came before him—“blue sky” investment companies, and +the like. He was at least one judge who tried Jew and Gentile alike and +whose impartiality and fearless righteousness no one doubted. + +Judge Landis was a rather uncomfortable man to have on the bench in +Chicago. + +Moreover he was a comparatively poor man. The United States pays its +judges only $7,500 a year. That is less than $150 a week, comparatively +little on which to live as a Federal judge must live. Yet Judge Landis +lived in a modest house and within his income. And no one ever dared +tamper with him. An honest judge on the bench, a frugal man outside. + +And he was a fan! + +Now, while Ban Johnson was doing his best for baseball, and while Judge +Landis was seeing a game as often as his duties permitted, certain +others were viewing the situation. One of them was Alfred S. Austrian, +the Jewish lawyer referred to in the last article, attorney for several +ball clubs, friend of Replogle and Lasker, attorney for Rothstein the +gambler and several others. Barney Dreyfuss, the Jewish owner of the +Pittsburgh Club, was on the trail of Johnson, on persistent enmity. The +Jewish coterie in Chicago and the Jewish influence throughout American +baseball looked at Johnson and they looked at Judge Landis. + +Then the great idea broke! If at one stroke they could rid baseball of +Johnson and rid the bench of Landis, what a good job that would be. + +Both these men were dangerous to Jews—not that they intended to be, not +that they were consciously so—and it would be desirable to remove both +from the spheres of their activity. + +Then it was that the Jew lawyer, Austrian, came forth with the “Lasker +Plan,” named for his Jewish friend Lasker, member of the American Jewish +Committee, head of Lord & Thomas (Gentile names) and Chairman of the +United States Shipping Board. + +The “Lasker Plan” proposed that the National Commission with Ban Johnson +be superseded by a one man government, that one man to be selected from +outside both leagues. + +The proposal was not an immediate success. Even the National League was +in no hurry to obey this suggestion against Johnson. Indeed, there was +so much hesitancy on the part of the Nationals in which the Jewish +colleagues expected to find their best support, that the trump card was +played. + +What was that trump card? It is said to be the secret testimony of the +grand jury before which Ban Johnson was glad to appear as a witness to +tell the jury everything it would need for a proper prosecution of its +inquiry, and before which Alfred S. Austrian also appeared to save some +of his clients from the consequences of such testimony. The report is +that Austrian was able to reproduce at the National League meeting the +secret testimony which Ban Johnson had given before the grand jury, and +by that means swing the Nationals against Johnson and in favor of the +“Lasker Plan,” because in the grand jury room Johnson told the truth +about certain elements in baseball, which was held to reflect on +National League members. What those elements are may be gathered from a +survey of the people who were interested in “getting” Johnson. Johnson +is anything but anti-Semitic. He probably has never stopped to think +about such a thing. He has never been known to attack Jews as Jews. But +he has stood for straight baseball, and for so standing he has won the +enmity of the Jews in baseball. These facts are sufficient to justify a +conclusion. + +So, with Johnson left to head only the American League and not both +leagues, the next task was to select the new autocrat of baseball. Not a +commission this time, but one man! With all his power, Johnson was never +more than one of a commission; but the “Lasker Plan” disposes of such +safeguards and leaves the whole authority in one man’s hands. It will be +interesting to see who becomes the second incumbent of that office, if +indeed the “Lasker Plan” lasts long enough to warrant a second autocrat. + +Gentle reader, do you suppose for a moment that the Jews who opposed +Johnson did not know who the new leader would be? Ah, well they knew! He +was to be a man outside both leagues. And he was to be a man whom the +Jews would just as soon have off the bench as on it. He was, indeed, +none other than Judge Landis, who can be trusted to see through a trick +as far as any other living man. + +Of course, he would accept a $42,500 job, he who was receiving only +$7,500 a year! And, of course, he would resign from the bench!—thus the +coterie reasoned. + +They trooped over to the court to interview the judge. They made so much +commotion on their entry that the gavel was banged for order. The +interview was held. Judge Landis agreed to accept. This news was widely +heralded. The judge tied them down to a seven-year contract. It was +assumed in all the interviews in all the newspapers that the judge would +resign. It was assumed he would devote the rest of his life to baseball. + +The baseball magnates signed up under the “Lasker Plan” put across by +Austrian. + +Judge Landis also signed. + +And then he remained on the bench! + +The reader no doubt remembers how quickly enthusiasm for Judge Landis +died down in certain quarters; remembers, too, no doubt, that _a fight +was started immediately afterward in the United States Congress to force +Judge Landis off the bench_—not to make him give up the dictatorship of +baseball, but to make him quit the bench. + +And be this said: in spite of all the collusion and conspiracy and +trickery, of which Judge Landis was the unconscious object, baseball +fell into the hands of a man who will be just as jealous for its good +name as Ban Johnson was. The Austrian-Lasker-Dreyfuss plan has so far +failed. And Judge Landis has rendered several decisions which show that +on the bench or off the bench he has the same shrewd eye for the +detection of a fallacy. + +Judge Landis is safeguarded by a seven-year contract. He is free to be +absolutely fearless and fair. What his accession means to baseball will +be anxiously awaited. + +Judge Landis is probably not empowered to stop the steady falling of +baseball clubs into Jewish hands, and if this cannot be stopped, his +position as supreme dictator becomes little better than that of a police +court judge settling disputes relating to the rules and offenses against +them. The peril of baseball goes deeper than that. + +A few years ago the owners of the American League entered into a +gentleman’s agreement not to sell their holdings at any time without +first consulting all the other owners. The name of a prospective +purchaser was to be submitted and considered, and the deal was to wait +upon the approval of all the owners in the league. + +In the face of that fact many people wonder how Harry Frazee became +owner of the Boston American club. It is very simply explained: the +agreement was not observed in Boston’s case, and thus another club was +placed under the smothering influences of the “chosen race.” The story +is worth telling: + +Frazee, like so many of his kind, was in the “show business,” a manager +of burlesque companies. Then he saw a chance in sport. In partnership +with Jack Curley, another Jew, he put on the notoriously crooked fight +between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard at Havana. Curley has been the +principal influence in killing wrestling, by precisely the kind of +Jewish policy here described. + +Jack Johnson, the Negro, was a fugitive from justice, yet he was +champion prize fighter of the world. He was spending money like a wild +sailor, and his funds were running low. He was getting into precisely +the condition where Jews like to find a man, to use him. Unable to fight +in the United States, but still possessing the championship, he was in +need of a way out. At this time Frazee and Curley made a proposition to +Johnson, said to involve the sum of $35,000, if he would “lay down” +before Jess Willard. And thus Jess Willard, “probably the worst fighter +that ever held a title,” was made world champion. Frazee and Curley then +exhibited Willard on the stage and in circuses, and drew rich dividends. +The crooked fight at Havana did not involve Willard, he was too poor a +fighter to need “fixing.” Only Johnson had to be “fixed” not to knock +Willard out, which he could easily have done. But between the time when +Curley and Frazee gave Willard the title, and the time when Dempsey took +it away from him, the Jewish syndicate made a very rich killing out of +the gullible American public. + +But Curley is not the subject here, he deserves a separate story. Frazee +concerns this article because he became owner of the Boston baseball +team. He bought a new show—the Boston club, in the best baseball city of +the American League. John J. Lannin, former owner, was a real baseball +man, so much so indeed that the excitement of the games told on his +health and it became necessary for him to relieve himself of the strain. +Frazee was waiting to cut in, and whether Lannin feared that the +proposal of Frazee’s name to the American League would result in +disapproval, or whether Frazee himself, knowing it, contrived to make it +worth while that the agreement between the American League owners should +be ignored, remains an open question. + +However that may be, the American League woke up one morning to find the +little burlesque manager and promoter of a crooked prize fight in their +midst. It was a sad shock to the dignity of “the cleanest sport.” + +What could they do about it? Nothing. Frazee had bought and paid for +what he held. + +Baseball was about as much of a sport to Frazee as selling tickets to a +merry-go-round would be. He wanted to put his team across as if they +were May Watson’s girly girly burlesquers. Baseball was to be “promoted” +as Jewish managers promote Coney Island. + +The American League owners rebelled, but let them rebel! What could they +do about it? + +Frazee began his next inside work almost immediately. Ban Johnson was +unalterably opposed to the Frazee idea of sport, and Frazee set out to +“get” Johnson. A split occurred in the American League, with Frazee, Til +Huston and Jake Ruppert of the New York Club, and Charles A. Comiskey +and Grabiner, of the Chicago Club, on one side against Johnson, and the +other American owners comprising the other party supporting Johnson. + +Frazee got money out of Chicago—the home of Lasker, Austrian, Replogle +and Grabiner—to put through his Boston deal. A bank loaned him a quarter +of a million dollars—one of Frazee’s friends was a director of the bank. +Frazee’s friend died and Frazee had difficulty with the bank about +remaking the notes. He finally was enabled to pay $125,000. Frazee +secured this money from the New York American Club by selling “Babe” +Ruth. Thus the New York and the Boston clubs have become financially +interwoven. Boston is referred to as “New York’s farm” in baseball +circles. + +In the meantime, the fans of Boston feel toward Frazee as the fans of +Chicago feel toward Grabiner. The “class” of Boston no longer flows +through the gates. The attendance at Boston park is smaller than at any +other time in the last 15 years. + +Now, it is unlikely that Judge Landis could tackle that question. Has he +power, or lacking power, has he daring enough to assume power to drive +the peril away from the ownership and fringes of baseball? It is +probably not his field, but it pertains to the future character of +baseball. + +The Chicago American League Club is the most recent to attract the +desire of Jewish capital. The Ascher brothers of that city have offered +$1,500,000 for the club franchise. The Ascher brothers comprise a Jewish +family, Max, Nathan and Harry, who conduct a string of motion picture +theaters in Chicago. They have erected their own theatrical circuit. +Like Frazee, they wish to add baseball to their string of “show +businesses,” and are willing to pay the price. At the time of this +writing, their offer has not been turned down. + +But a significant development—and in Chicago also—is the announcements +made by the Chicago _Tribune_ that it will curtail the space heretofore +devoted to baseball on its sport pages. This, more than anything which +has occurred, indicates the new scrutiny with which the game is being +viewed. For a long time many observers have wondered where the “sport” +was found in sitting on a bleacher watching a few men earn their +salaries. Hours thus spent in a ball park “do not take anything off the +waistline of the spectators nor add anything to chest measurement,” says +the _Tribune_; “the majority of spectators get only eye and mouth +exercise.” “Journalism has overfed it with space,” the _Tribune_ rightly +says, referring to professional baseball. In ruining baseball and +securing control, the Jews may be just in time to take a loss. Better no +baseball than every park an afternoon midway filled with the alien and +Red elements of the country. + +There is, however, a baseball duty devolving upon the police of every +city, and that is the abolition of the Jew-controlled baseball pool. +Gambling has grown up round the “cleanest game” to the extent of +$20,000,000 a year. It flourishes in 150 cities in the country, and in +many small towns. The “boobs,” of course, are mostly non-Jews, the +owners and profit-takers are Jews. It is as much a part of the national +network of the Jewish gambling fraternity as are booze-running and +horse-racing. The baseball pool runs more openly than the “books” +because the very name “baseball” has seemed to give it the protection of +“the cleanest sport.” However, it has turned cigar-stores, barber shops, +pool rooms, near-beer saloons, and newspaper stands into agencies for +the national and international Jewish gambling forces. The bettor is +entirely at the mercy of the managers of these pools. + +These dishonest money-collecting devices are in violation of the law +everywhere. The police could put them out of business easily if they +should decide to give their attention to it. And thereby they would be +taking the hands of a most undesirable alien class out of the pockets of +the American people. + +If baseball is to be saved, and there are those who seriously doubt it +ever can be restored, the remedy is plain. The disease is caused by the +Jewish characteristic which spoils everything by ruthless commercial +exploitation. The disease may be too far gone for any cure. There are +those who, like the Chicago _Tribune_, deny that professional baseball +ever was a sport, and who are glad that Jewish exploiters, like +scavengers, have come along to reduce it to garbage. But there is no +doubt anywhere, among either friends or critics of baseball, that the +root cause of the present condition is due to Jewish influence. + + +—— + +Issue of September 10, 1921. + + + + + XLVII. + Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music + + +About a year ago the following article appeared in the New York _Times_, +a newspaper that has never been accused of anti-Semitism, and whose +proprietor is one of the best-known Jews in the United States: + + “Irving Berlin, Leo Feist and other officers of seven music + publishing corporations in this city were charged with violating the + Sherman anti-trust law in an equity suit begun yesterday in the + Federal District Court by the United States Government. The + defendants, it was alleged, controlled 80 per cent of the available + copyrighted songs used by manufacturers of phonographs, player piano + rolls and other musical reproducing instruments, and fixed prices at + which the records or rolls were to be sold to the public.... + + “The corporations involved in the action were the Consolidated Music + Corporation, 144 West Thirty-seventh street; Irving Berlin, Inc., + 1567 Broadway; Leo Feist, Inc., 231 West Fortieth street; T. B. + Harms, Francis, Day and Hunter, Inc., 62 West Forty-fifth street; + Shapiro, Bernstein & Company, 218 West Forty-seventh street; + Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc., 1571 Broadway, and M. Witmark & + Sons, Inc., 144 West Thirty-seventh street. + + “The agreement which the government seeks to dissolve is alleged to + provide that the defendants would make contracts only through the + Consolidated Music Corporation which they had organized....” + +Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical +slush that invade decent parlors and set the young people of this +generation imitating the drivel of morons. A clue to the answer is in +the above clipping. _Popular Music is a Jewish monopoly._ Jazz is a +Jewish creation. The mush, the slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned +sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin. + +Monkey talk, jungle squeals, grunts and squeaks and gasps suggestive of +cave love are camouflaged by a few feverish notes and admitted to homes +where the thing itself, unaided by the piano, would be stamped out in +horror. Girls and boys a little while ago were inquiring who paid Mrs. +Rip Van Winkle’s rent while Mr. Rip Van Winkle was away. In decent +parlors the fluttering music sheets disclosed expressions taken directly +from the cesspools of modern capitals, to be made the daily slang, the +thoughtlessly hummed remarks of high school boys and girls. + +The United States Government alleged, in the above complaint, that 80 +per cent of these popular songs was under the control of the seven +Jewish houses named above; and the other 20 per cent controlled by other +Jewish music houses not included in that special group. + +It is rather surprising, is it not, that whichever way you turn to trace +the harmful streams of influence that flow through society, you come +upon a group of Jews? In baseball corruption—a group of Jews. In +exploitative finance—a group of Jews. In theatrical degeneracy—a group +of Jews. In liquor propaganda—a group of Jews. In control of national +war policies—a group of Jews. Absolutely dominating the wireless +communications of the world—a group of Jews. In the menace of the +Movies—a group of Jews. In control of the Press through business and +financial pressure—a group of Jews. War profiteers, 80 per cent of +them—Jews. Organizers of active opposition to Christian laws and +customs—Jews. And now, in this miasma of so-called popular music, which +combines weak-mindedness with every suggestion of lewdness—again Jews. + +The Jewish influence on American music is, without doubt, regarded as +serious by those who know anything about it. Not only is there a growing +protest against the Judaization of our few great orchestras, but there +is a strong reaction from the racial collusion which fills the concert +stage and popular platform with Jewish artists to the exclusion of all +others. + +The American people have been urged and chided and shamed into the +beginning of a rather generous popular support of music in this country, +and the first thing they see for their money is that Jewish artists +supplant the non-Jewish artists, and use the prestige of their +membership in symphony orchestras to work various small business schemes +of their own. If they were superior artists, nothing against it could be +said, but they are not superior artists; they are only better known and +racially favored in Jewish musical circles. + +That, however, is a big subject. It will receive attention in its turn. +Just now it is the “popular song” that is being considered. However, as +something which true lovers and knowers of music may meditate upon in +view of future studies of Jewish influence in music, this observation is +offered (the italics are ours): + + “_Meanwhile the Oriental, especially the Jewish, injection in our + music_, seemingly less widespread than the German was or the French + is, _may prove even more virulent_. Those not temperamentally immune + to it catch it less severely, like Mr. Leo Ornstein; and if they + ever throw it off, as he has given some signs of doing, seem to be + left devoid of energy and, as it were, permanently anemic. + + “_The insidiousness of the Jewish menace to our artistic integrity_ + is due partly to the speciousness, the superficial charm and + persuasiveness of Hebrew art, its brilliance, its violently + juxtaposed extremes of passion, its poignant eroticism and + pessimism, and partly to the fact that the strain in us which might + make head against it, the deepest, most fundamental strain perhaps + in our mixed nature, is diluted and confused by a hundred other + tendencies. + + “The _Anglo-Saxon group of qualities_, the Anglo-Saxon point of + view, even though they are so thoroughly disguised, in a people + descended from every race, that we easily forget them, and it is not + safe to predicate them of any individual American, _are nevertheless + the vital nucleus of the American temper_. _And the Jewish + domination of our music_, even more than the Teutonic and the + Gallic, _threatens to submerge and stultify them at every point_.” + +“Let me make a nation’s songs and I care not who makes the laws,” said +one; in this country the Jews have had a very large hand in making both. + +It is the purpose of this and the succeeding article to put Americans in +full possession of the truth concerning the moron music which they +habitually hum and sing and shout day by day, and if possible to help +them to see the invisible Jewish baton which is waved above them for +financial and propaganda purposes. + +Just as the American stage and the American motion picture have fallen +under the influence and control of the Jews and their art-destroying +commercialism, so the business of handling “popular songs” has become a +Yiddish industry. + +Its leaders are for the most part Russian-born Jews, some of whom have +personal pasts which are just as unsavory as THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT +has shown the pasts of certain Jewish theatrical and movie leaders to +be. + +The country does not sing what it likes, but what the vaudeville “song +pluggers” popularize by repeated renditions on the stage, until the +flabby mind of the “ten-twent’-thirt’” audiences begin to repeat it on +the streets. These “song pluggers” are the paid agents of the Yiddish +song agencies. Money, and not merit, dominates the spread of the moron +music which is styled “Jewish Jazz.” Of the business details, however, +more later. + +Tin Pan Alley, so-called because it constitutes a group of “song shops,” +is populated by the “Abies” and “Izzies” and “Moes” who make up the +composing staffs of the various institutions. + +In this business of making the people’s songs, the Jews have shown, as +usual, no originality but very much adaptability—which is a charitable +term used to cover plagiarism, which in its turn politely covers the +crime of mental pocket-picking. The Jews do not create; they take what +others have done, give it a clever twist, and exploit it. They have +bought up all the old hymn books, opera scores and collections of folk +songs, and if you stop to analyze some of the biggest “hits” of the +Yiddish song manufacturers, you will find they are woven on the motif +and the melody of the clean songs of the last generation; the music +jazzed a little, the sentiment sensualized very much, and set upon their +smutty road, across the country. + +Because of absolute Jewish control of the song market, both in +publishing and in theatrical performance, it is next to impossible for +anything but a Jewish song to be published in the United States or, if +published, to get a hearing. The proof of this is in the fact that the +Yiddish trust owns the business and the so-called “song hits” all bear +Jewish names. + +A typical incident occurred in New York recently. A non-Jewish song +composer had produced work of such commanding merit that musical +sentiment demanded its public rendition. Jewish manager after Jewish +manager was approached, but the combination was unbreakable. Finally, +one New Yorker talked out and said something about “Jewish combine,” +which had its effect. A Jewish manager protested that he would be glad +to give the work to the public. Rehearsals were held and the night of +presentation arrived. The first number was a solo and a Jew appeared to +sing it. He could not pronounce English words. He sang through his nose. +He was most Yiddish in appearance, the long nose, with narrow, sloping +forehead, curly hair. The second number was a duet, and behold two Jews +appeared, whose pronunciations differed between themselves. The +performance was a most hilarious tragedy. The purpose was to kill a +non-Jewish product by a poor Jewish rendition. But—the Jewish manager +overdid it. It needed just that to bring non-Jewish musical +consciousness to the surface and to explode the advertised and +money-bought notion that the Jew has predominant artistic genius. Say +that he predominates in music—yes; he has paid for and organized that +predominance; do not, however, say anything about his predominance in +musical genius or art. + +Non-Jewish music has been stigmatized as “high brow.” It is purveyable +only in expensively good society. The people, the masses, are fed from +day to day on the moron suggestiveness that flows in a hurtful flood out +of Tin Pan Alley. + +Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the region in Twenty-eighth street, +between Broadway and Sixth avenue, where the first Yiddish song +manufacturers began business. Flocks of young girls who thought they +could sing, and others who thought they could write song poems, came to +the neighborhood allured by dishonest advertisements that promised more +than the budding Yiddish exploiters were able to fulfill. Needless to +say, scandal became rampant, as it always does where so-called “Gentile” +girls are reduced to the necessity of seeking favors from the eastern +type of Jew. It was the constant shouting of voices, the hilarity of +“parties,” the banging of pianos and the blatting of trombones that gave +the district the name of Tin Pan Alley. + +The first attempt to popularize and commercialize the so-called +“popular” type of music was made by Julius Witmark, who had been a +ballad singer on the minstrel stage. He ceased performing to become a +publisher, and was soon followed by East Side Jews, many of whom have +become wealthy through their success in pandering to a public taste +which they first debased. + +Irving Berlin, whose real name is Ignatz or Isadore Baline, is one of +the most successful of these Jewish song controllers. He was born in +Russia and early became a singer and entertainer. With the rise of +“ragtime,” which was the predecessor of “jazz,” he found a new field for +his nimble talents, and his first big success was “Alexander’s ragtime +Band”—a popular piece which by comparison with what has followed it, is +a blushing, modest thing. + +It was worth noting, in view of the organized eagerness of the Jew to +make an alliance with the Negro, that it was Jewish “jazz” that rode in +upon the wave of Negro “ragtime” popularity, and eventually displaced +the “ragtime.” + +Berlin has steadily gone the road from mere interestingness to unashamed +erotic suggestion. He is the “headliner” in homes as well as in the +not-too-particular music halls, but his stuff without its music +sometimes savors of vile suggestion. + +The motif of this business can be clearly seen in the “Berlin Big Hits.” +There are the so-called “vamp” songs, such as “Harem Life,” and “You +Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea.” + +Among the “successes” is the song entitled, “I Like It.” It is a “vamp” +song which has been sung everywhere, even by myriads of children who +could not appreciate the full suggestion of the words, but were +hypnotized by the atmosphere which the words created when sung; and by +older folks who would not under any circumstances _speak_ the words of +the song, but who are victims of the modern delusion that a little +flashy music covers a multitude of sins. “I Like It” deals with a girl, +“Mary Green, seventeen,” whose mother reproves her for flirting with the +boys. (In the writing of this paragraph it was debated whether THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT should print what Mary replies to her mother. It +was argued that printing the words might give a salutary shock to +skeptical readers. It was also argued that the pages of this paper never +yet had been defiled by obscenity. Mary’s words, sung broadcast through +the country, are therefore not given here.) + +Readers should reserve comment until they search the piles of moron +music rubbish in their own parlors. Readers have listened to much worse +stuff than Mary’s words, but covered by Yiddish “jazz.” It takes cold +type to show what a song really is. A good test for a song is to try to +read it aloud. Few normal people can. + +“O-Hi-O,” as sung by Yiddish comedians, has a stench of its own. It may +be commented on more extensively later as an example of the Yiddish +practice of having three grades of the same song, to suit different +degrees of degenerate appetites. + +Such songs are not the worst, by any means. Jewish purveyors to +degenerate appetites have a peculiarly devilish system of presenting the +same song in two or three grades. There will be the song as it is sold +at the music store to addle-pated young men and women who fill their +leisure with hearing or humming this syncopated senility—young men and +women who pitiably imagine they are keeping up with the times. The songs +thus sold and sung are rotten enough. But there is the same song, Class +2. The theme and the melody are the same, but it goes “a little +further.” There is a line or two in each stanza which dips below even +the low standard which Jewish “jazz” has permitted in some of our +parlors. And then there is Class 3—same theme, same melody—but “going +the limit.” + +Young men about town usually know Class 2 and Class 3. The instance has +been known that young women have become acquainted with these lower +grades also. Forgetfulness by young men while singing at the piano +evenings has given hints of the filthier version. And even where version +1 has been strictly adhered to, the mutual knowledge, politely +concealed, has created an atmosphere far from wholesome. + +The diabolical cunning with which an unclean atmosphere is created and +sustained through all classes of society and by the same influence, will +not be overlooked by any observer. There is something Satanic about it, +something calculated with demonic shrewdness. And the stream flows on +and on, growing worse and worse, to the degradation of the non-Jewish +public and the increase of Jewish fortunes. + +If THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT were to print on this page the bare words of +the popular songs that are to be found in the parlors of the most +respectable section of every city, the reader’s sense of decency would +cry out against it. The same words when drawn out by numerous hyphens +and covered up with nervous music, insinuate their way into the hummed +tones of age and into the lilts of innocent childhood. Between the +movies and the popular songs the Jewish groups dictate the intellectual +life of the masses. + +Among the latest Jewish “song hits” may be included these titles: “I’ll +Say She Does”; “You Cannot Shake That Shimmy Here”; “Sugar Baby”; “In +Room 202”; “Can You Tame Wild Wimmen?” and an almost endless list of the +same nature, some of which titles are too suggestive for print. Yet they +have free course everywhere—as everything Jewish does, in this country. + +Ministers, educators, reformers, parents, citizens who are amazed at the +growth of looseness among the people, rail at the evil results. They see +the evil product and they attack the product. They rail at the young +people who go in for all this eroticism and suggestiveness. + +But all this has a source! Why not attack the source? When a population +is bathed in sights, sounds and ideas of a certain character, drenched +in them and drowned in them, by systematic, deliberate, organized +intent, the point of attack should be the cause, not the effect. Yet, +that is precisely where the point of attack has not been made, +presumably because of lack of knowledge. + +It is of little use blaming the people. The people are what they are +made. Give the liquor business full sway and you have a population that +drinks and carouses. After preaching abstinence to the victims for a +century, the country turned its attention to the victimizers and the +abuse was greatly curtailed. The traffic is still illicitly carried on, +but even so, the best way to abolish the illicit traffic is to identify +the groups that carry it on. + +The entire population of the United States could be turned into narcotic +addicts if the same freedom was given the illicit narcotic ring as is +now given the Yiddish popular song manufacturers. But in such a +condition it would be stupid to attack the addicts; common sense would +urge the exposure of the panderers. + +A dreadful narcotizing of moral modesty and the application of powerful +aphrodisiacs have been involved in the present craze for popular songs—a +stimulated craze. The victims are everywhere. But ministers, educators, +reformers, parents, and public-spirited citizens are beginning to see +the futility of scolding the young people thus diseased. Common sense +dictates a cleaning out of the source of disease. The source is in the +Yiddish group of song manufacturers who control the whole output and who +are responsible for the whole matter from poetry to profits. + +Next to the moral indictment against the so-called “popular” song is the +indictment that _it is not popular_. Everybody hears it, perhaps the +majority sing it; it makes its way from coast to coast; it is flung into +the people’s minds at every movie and from every stage; it is advertised +in flaring posters; phonograph records shriek it forth day and night, +dance orchestras seem enamored of it, player pianos roll it out by the +yard. And by sheer dint of repetition and suggestion the song catches +on—as a burr thistle catches on; until it is displaced by another. There +is no spontaneous popularity. + +It is a mere mechanical drumming on the minds of the public. There is +often not a single atom of sentiment or spiritual appeal in the whole +loudly trumpeted “success”; men and women, boys and girls have simply +taken to humming words and tunes which they cannot escape, night or day. + +The deadly anxiety of “keeping up with the times” drives the army of +piano-owners to the music stores to see what is “going” now, and of +course it is the Yiddish moron music that is going, and so another home +and eventually another neighborhood is inoculated. + +But there is no _popularity_. Take any moron music addict you know and +ask him what was the “popular” song three weeks ago, and he will not be +able to tell. These songs are so lacking in all that the term “popular” +means as regards their acceptableness, that they die overnight, +unregretted. Directly the Yiddish manufacturers have another “hit” to +make (it is always the public that is “hit”) a new song is crammed down +the public gullet, and because it is the “latest,” and because the +Yiddish advertisements say that it is a “hit,” and because the hired +“pluggers” say that everybody is singing it, that song too becomes +“popular” for its brief period, and so on through the year. It is the +old game of “changing the styles” to speed up business and make the +people buy. Nothing lasts in the Yiddish game—styles of clothing, movies +nor songs; it is always something new, to stimulate the flow of money +from the popular pocket into the moron music makers’ coffers. + +There hasn’t been a real “popular” song of Yiddish origin since the +Jewish whistlers and back-alley songsters of New York’s East Side +undertook to handle musical America—not one, unless we except in genuine +gratitude George Cohan’s “Over There”, a song which came out of a period +of strain and went straight to the people’s heart. + +Two facts about the “popular song” are known to all: first, that for the +most part it is indecent and the most active agent of moral miasma in +the country, or if not the most active, then neck and neck with the +“movies”; second, that the “popular song” industry is an exclusively +Jewish industry. But the inside story of the operation of this control +of the people’s music presents other facts which the people ought to +know, and these additional facts will appear in another article. + + +—— + +Issue of August 6, 1921. + + + + + XLVIII. + How the Jewish Song Trust Makes You Sing + + +Jews did not create the popular song; they debased it. The time of the +entry of Jews into control of the popular song is the exact time when +the morality of popular songs began to decline. It is not a pleasant +statement to make, but it is a fact. It would seem to be a fact of which +American Jews ought to take solemn cognizance, not to anathematize those +who do service by exposing the fact, but to curb that group of Jews who, +in this instance, as do other groups of Jews in other instances, bring a +stain upon the Jewish name. + +The “popular” song, before it became a Jewish industry, was really +popular. The people sang it and had no reason to conceal it. The popular +song of today is often so questionable a composition that performers +with a vestige of delicacy must appraise their audience before they +sing. There are songs and choruses that can be purchased in any +reputable music store and found in many reputable parlors which cannot +be printed in this column of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT. If they were +printed here, “Gentile fronts” would be the first to complain that this +paper was using obscenity to give interest to these articles. Yet, if +those songs were printed, this paper would be doing nothing more than +following its policy of going to Jewish sources for its material. + +Americans of adult age will remember the stages through which the +popular song has passed during the past three or four decades. War songs +persisted after the Civil War and were gradually intermingled with songs +of a later time, picturesque, romantic, clean. + +These latter were not the product of song factories, but the creation of +individuals whose gifts were given natural expression. These individuals +did not work for publishers but for the satisfaction of their work. +There were no great fortunes made out of songs, but there were many +satisfactions in having pleased the public taste. + +The public taste, like every other taste, craves what is given it most +to feed upon. Public taste is public habit. The public is blind to the +source of that upon which it lives, and it adjusts itself to the supply. +Public taste is raised or lowered as the quality of its pabulum improves +or degenerates. In a quarter of a century, given all the avenues of +publicity like theater, movie, popular song, saloon and newspaper—in the +meantime having thrown the mantle of contempt over all counteractive +moral agencies—you can turn out nearly the kind of public you want. It +takes just about a quarter of a century to do a good job. + +In other days the people sang as they do now, but not in such doped +fashion nor with such bewildering continuity. They sang songs +nonsensical, sentimental and heroic, but the “shady” songs were +outlawed. If sung at all, the “shady” songs were kept far from the +society of decent people. Like the styles of the demimonde that formerly +were seen only in the abandoned sections of cities, the songs of smut +had their geographical confinement, but like the fashions of the +demimonde they broke out of their confines to spread among polite +society. + +The old songs come readily back to memory. Though years have intervened +since they were the fashion, yet their quality was such that they do not +die. The popular song of last month—who knows its name? But there are +songs of long ago whose titles are familiar even to those who have not +sung them. + +Recall their names—“Listen to the Mocking Bird”—what song today has been +boosted to general acceptance on such a simple theme? The only “birds” +the people are encouraged to sing about today are “flappers” and +“chickens.” + +And there were “Ben Bolt”; “Nellie Gray”; “Juanita”; “The Old Folks at +Home”; “The Hazel Dell”; “When You and I Were Young, Maggie”; “Silver +Threads Among the Gold.” What margin did these songs leave for the +suggestive, for the unwholesomely emotional? + +In those days the people sang; they sang together; they sang wherever +they met; it was the days of that now extinct institution known as “the +singing school.” People could sing together. The songs were common +property, known to everybody, proper to everybody. + +Is there such singing today? Hardly. At a recent meeting of young men in +a church the chorus, “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here” was called for, +and the chairman in agreeing called out “Mustn’t say the naughty word!” +With that warning the chorus was given. In calling for public singing +there is an immediate uneasiness about possible indecency. There was not +this uneasiness before the days of Jewish jazz. + +In course of time the fashion of public song underwent a change. An +entirely new crop of titles appeared, dealing with an entirely different +series of subjects than the songs they displaced. + +It was the period of “Annie Rooney”; “Down Went McGinty to the Bottom of +the Sea”; “She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”; “After the Ball is +Over”—all of them clean, lighter than the preceding fashion in songs, +but just as clean, and also giving a true touch to life. + +Sentiment was not lacking, but it was the unobjectionable sentiment of +“My Wild Irish Rose” or “In the Baggage Coach Ahead.” + +The non-Jewish period was marked by songs like these: “On the Banks of +the Wabash,” by Paul Dresser; “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”; +“When the Sunset Turns the Ocean’s Blue to Gold”; “Down by the Old Mill +Stream”; “My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon,” by Jim Thornton; “The +Sidewalks of New York,” by Charles Lawlor. + +There was also the “western” and “Indian” strain of songs, represented +by “Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Hop on My Pony”; “Arawanna”; “Trail of the +Lonesome Pine.” + +Then came the African period, being the entrance of the jungle motif, +the so-called “Congo” stuff into popular pieces. “High Up in the +Cocoanut Tree,” “Under the Bamboo Tree,” and other compositions which +swiftly degenerated into a rather more bestial type than the beasts +themselves arrive at. + +Running alongside all this was the “ragtime” style of music which was a +legitimate development of Negro minstrelsy. Lyrics practically +disappeared before the numerous “cake walk” songs that deluged the +public ear. “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”—the +marching song of the Spanish-American War, belongs to that period. The +“black and tan” resorts of the South began to reign over the nation’s +music both North and South. Seductive syncopation captured the public +ear. The term, “ma baby,” brought in on the flood of Negro melody has +remained in uncultivated musical speech ever since. Minstrelsy took on +new life. “Piano acts” made their appearance. “Jazz bands” were the +rage. + +By insensible gradations, now easily traceable through the litter of +songs with which recent decades are strewn, we have been able to see the +gradual decline in the popular song supply. Sentiment has been turned +into sensuous suggestion. Romance has been turned into eroticism. The +popular lilt slid into ragtime, and ragtime has been superseded by jazz. +Song topics became lower and lower until at last they were dredges of +the slimy bottom of the underworld. + +The first self-styled “King of Jazz” was a Jew named “Frisco.” The +general directors of the whole downward trend have been Jews. It needed +just their touch of cleverness to camouflage the moral filth and raise +it half a degree above that natural stage where it begets nothing but +disgust. They cannot gild the lily, but they can veil the skunk-cabbage, +and that is exactly what has been done. The modern popular song is a +whited sepulcher, sparkling without, but within full of the dead bones +of all the old disgusting indecencies. Plain print returns them to their +rightful status of disgust. + +We are now in the period of “The Vamp”—that great modern goddess upon +whom tens of thousands of silly girls are modeling themselves—“The +Vamp.” The original “vamp” is to be found in a forbidden French novel +upon which Morris Gest founded his grossly immoral spectacle called +“Aphrodite.” In the Jewish popular song and the Jewish motion picture +film a unity has at last been reached in “The Vamp.” The vamp heroine +and the harem scene—a fitting climax! + +There is work here for the Anti-Defamation League. That league knows how +to put the screws on anyone who disparages the Jews. From important New +York publishers, down to inconsequential country newspapers, the +Anti-Defamation League makes its power felt. There is work for it in the +movies and the popular song industry. Why does not the league put the +screws on those Jews who have degenerated the movies and debauched the +popular song movement and thus brought shame upon the racial name? Why +not? Is it possible that only the non-Jews are to be controlled, and +Jews let to run loose? Is it possible that “Gentiles” can be curbed as +by bridle and bit and that Jews cannot? + +It is repeated: there is work for the Anti-Defamation League among the +Jews. + +More than that: there are Jews who have begged the Anti-Defamation +League to purge the name of Jewry of the shame the liquor Jews, the +movie Jews, the popular song Jews, the theatrical Jews, and the others +are bringing on that name, and the Anti-Defamation League has not done +so. It dare not. + +American Jewry is desperately afraid of opening a single seam in its +armor by means of a single investigation or reform. They are afraid of +how far the fire of self-correction may spread. + +It was the intention of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT to give in this article +a sample of the manner in which Jewish jazz is written in three +classes—No. 1 for general consumption; No. 2 for stage consumption; No. +3 for the lowest resorts. On searching through the songs for the least +offensive example it is found that even the least offensive cannot be +printed here. The fact is greatly regretted, for certainly some method +must be found by which the public can be put into possession of full +information as to what is transpiring in this hideous traffic. + +The Jewish art of “camouflage” (the reader may not be aware that wartime +camouflage was a Jewish invention) has always been operative. “Cover +names”, “cover nationalities” (these are Jewish terms) have long been +known. It is quite common for Jews of the higher type to band themselves +together into societies for political and racial purposes, the purposes +being camouflaged by a name, such as Geological Society, or Scientific +Society, or something of the sort. And thus in the vilest versification, +which only a few years ago would have been refused the mails, they have +flung broadcast among the youth of the world dangerous ideas under the +camouflage of catchy tunes. + +The tunes themselves carry a tale with them. There have been cases in +the courts dealing with the “adaptation,” or stealing, of tunes for +“popular song” purposes. If you observe carefully you will catch +reminiscent strains in many of the popular songs which you sing. If you +sing, “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” and then sing, “I’m Always +Chasing Rainbows,” you will notice a basic resemblance; but that does +not prove that “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” is itself original, +its melody was originally taken from an Opus of Chopin. This is a +practice which has been greatly extended of recent years. + +The reason for the spread of this peculiar kind of dishonesty is to be +found in the Jewish policy of “speeding up business.” Ordinarily one +play a week, and one or two new songs a season, was the limit of +indulgence. But with the coming of the movies the “one play a week” plan +has been smashed to smithereens. To get the people to pay their money +every day, the programs are changed every day; and to get new plays +every day, something must be cheapened. So with songs. The output is +rushed to increase the income of money, and quality is sacrificed all +round. There are not enough good songs in the world to supply a new one +every week; not enough good plays in the world to supply a new movie +every day; and so, what the songs and plays lack in worth, they make up +in nastiness. In brief, nastiness is the constant quality on which the +producers depend to “put across” mediocre songs and otherwise pointless +plays. Nastiness is the condiment that goes with cheapness in songs and +movies. + +Plagiarism is the result of mediocre artists being spurred on by +non-artistic promoters to produce something that can be dressed up with +sufficient attractiveness to draw the public’s money. But even +plagiarism requires a little brains mixed with it, and when the rush of +demand overwhelms the available brains, the lack is covered up by an +elaborate covering of sensualism. + +Men who are on the inside of the popular song business, and certain +court records, all testify to the exact truth of these statements. + +“But how do the Jews do it?” is a question often asked. The answer is, +not public demand, nor artistic merit, nor musical ingenuity, nor poetic +worth—no; the answer is simple salesmanship. The public doesn’t choose, +the public simply takes what is persistently thrust upon it. It is a +system impossible to any other race but the Jews, for there is no other +race that centers its whole interest on the sale. There is no other race +that makes so startling a choice in favor of “getting” money to the +exclusion of “making” money. Who for a moment would think seriously of +using the terms “production” and “service” with reference to popular +songs or motion pictures? Motion pictures in their higher reaches might +have some claim on those terms—not the typical Jewish pictures, however; +but the modern crop of popular songs, never! The terms “production” and +“service” do not belong to the popular song industry at all, but the +term “salesmanship” does, as the reader will presently see. It is well +to remember that where there is only “salesmanship” without the other +two qualities, the public is always the sufferer. + +“Popularity,” when interpreted by the Jews who manufacture jazz for the +United States, means “familiarity,” that’s all. The theory is that a +song need not possess merit as regards words or music to be successful. +_It can be “popularized” artificially by constant repetition_, until it +becomes familiarized to the public ear, and thus familiarized it becomes +“successful.” + +The principle is expressed in the words of the song, “Everybody’s Doin’ +It.” You go to the theater and hear a song. Next day at lunch the café +singer is singing the same song. Blaring phonographs used for +advertising purposes blat out the same song at you as you pass on the +street. You walk past an afternoon band concert in the park—the band is +playing the same song. If you are a normal person you have a feeling +that perhaps something has been going on in the world while you were +engaged with your own affairs. The song—you say to yourself frankly—is +silly and the music trivial; but you keep your opinion a secret, +because, after all, “everybody’s singin’ it.” Not long after you find +yourself humming it. You go home, and your daughter is “practicing up” +on the piece. It yells its way through your home and through your +neighborhood and through your city and through your state until in sheer +disgust, and in one day, the people pitch it bodily out-of-doors. But, +behold, another song is waiting to take its place—a song fresh from +Yiddish Tin Pan Alley. And the agony is repeated. _This occurs from 30 +to 50 times a year._ + +That is the principle—repeat it until it becomes familiar; that gives it +the veneer of popularity. + +Now, there is a method by which all this is done. Nothing “happens.” It +is like the “mob risings” which have been practiced in some of our +cities—there is always a well-organized center that knows the technology +of riot and knows exactly what it is doing. There is a way of making +“revolution” as common and as familiar a thought as the movies and +popular songs have made “vamps” and “harems” and “hooch” and “Hula +Hula.” The principle is the same—constant repetition for the purpose of +familiarization. + +More than one tune has been deliberately rejected by the public, has not +been “liked,” but the song-tinkers did not allow that little fact to +intimidate them; they simply hammered it into the ears and memories of +the public, knowing that “familiarization” was obtainable some time. +“Whispering,” for example, did not catch on for a long time. Long ago it +used to be known as “Johnnie’s Melody” because John Schoenberger wrote +it—but finally it was driven home to its present popularity. There is +this to say about it, it is far more deserving of its popularity than is +98 per cent of the so-called “popular” music. + +Having the principle, then, that _any song can be popularized by +constant repetition_, the Yiddish music purveyors go about their +business very systematically. + +The song is procured—by what means, it is not always possible to say. +Perhaps one of the “staff” originates a catchy tune, or a girl who plays +the church organ in a distant village sends in a pretty little melody. +The girl’s melody is, of course, sent back as unsuitable, but if it +really had a heart of melody in it, a copy is kept and “adapted.” In +such ways are “ideas” procured. + +Then there are plenty of Jewish musical comedies and vaudeville teams. A +study of the vaudeville and musical comedy business will show it to be +as distinctively Yiddish as are the movies and the popular song +industry. So, the Jewish song publisher makes an arrangement with the +Jewish manager of the musical comedy show. This arrangement provides +that one or more of the song publisher’s songs should be sung several +times at every performance, in response to the applause and encores of a +professional song boosters’ claque which is always on hand for such +purposes. This claque is paid for just as any other service might be +paid for. + +The night comes. The song is sung. Persistent applause. Sung again. More +applause. Apparently the song is a “hit.” As the audience files out the +lobby is echoing with the cries of Yiddish song vendors proclaiming the +song of the evening to be “the big hit of the season,” hundreds of +copies being sold in the meanwhile. + +That is the usual Broadway introduction. + +The next step is to capture the “provinces”—the musical comedies and +vaudeville acts playing within 100 miles of the metropolitan centers. +Actors called “song pluggers” are engaged. The arrangement with them is +that they will sing a particular song exclusively—give no other song a +chance. The public pays to hear the actor sing; the manager pays to have +him sing; the song publisher pays him to sing a certain song. + +From theater to theater, from company to company, from artist to artist, +the publishers’ agents wend their way, making what terms they can to +single artists, vaudeville teams or comedy companies for boosting a new +song by giving it prominent place in the program. + +There are also the “stag entertainers,” the young men who go about to +“parties” of one kind or another, offering amusement to the guests. This +is a class of entertainers known only to the rich, but numerous enough. +For instance, when the Prince of Wales toured America he was accompanied +by a young man nicknamed “Rosie,” of whose racial origin there need be +no doubt. “Rosie” played the piano and by songs and antics beguiled the +tedium of the royal journey. Well, young men of “Rosie’s” sort are quite +useful in advertising to select circles the latest product of the +Yiddish song factories and they are, of course, regularly utilized for +that purpose. + +Orchestras, especially those of restaurants and dance halls, are worked +in the same way. + +Get as many people singing and playing introductory renditions as you +can: that is the method of gaining an _artificial popularity by constant +repetition_. + +The chances are that the song you are humming today is being hummed by +you simply because you have perforce heard it so often that it beats +unconsciously within your brain. + +These methods are subject to variation, of course. There was a great +deal of “cutting” until the right Hebrew group survived, and then there +was a great deal of “trust” method adopted. The Music Publishers’ +Association was organized by “Sime” Silberman and Maurice Goodman, and +now all the Jewish song manufacturers are included in it. The +organization has not changed any of the methods before used but has +curtailed the expense. Moreover, it has served to relieve the public to +this extent, that, instead of clinging to the one song paid for until +the public positively gags on it, the vaudeville or movie performers now +sing impartially the various songs of the various publishers forming the +trust. More variety has been introduced, that is all. The same old +commercialization continues. + +As readers of the studies of Jewish theatrical control, which appeared +in this paper, will readily understand, the Jewish control of the +popular song field means that all non-Jews are barred out. It would be +next to impossible for the song of a non-Jew, however meritorious, to +reach the public by the usual channels. The musical magazines, the +musical critics, the musical managers, the music publishers, the +music-hall owners, the majority of the performers are not only all Jews, +but are Jews consciously banded together to keep out all others. + +The dishonest methods practiced by the Yiddish controllers of this field +have been such as to move the _Billboard_, the leading vaudeville +publication, to refuse to print advertisements calling for song poems. +Perhaps the reader has seen such advertisements, suggesting that someone +has a tune or a song-poem that will probably make a fortune if only sent +to an address on Broadway or in the region of Tin Pan Alley. The +_Billboard_ says: + + “No More Song Poem Ads Accepted. + + “After investigating the business methods practiced by some Song + Poem advertisers, the _Billboard_ believes it to be to the best + interest of its readers to eliminate the heading, ‘Music and Words’ + under which Song Poem advertisements appeared, and hereafter, or + until existing conditions are changed, the _Billboard_ will not + accept any more Song Poem advertising from any concern or + person....” + +Everywhere the “popular song” has been attacked by keen observers of +social tendencies—but the attack has not been made intelligently. No +public menace like this can be abolished without showing the public the +source of it. Newspapers are now beginning to attack “jazz,” “the +vicious movies,” “the disgraceful dance.” Others attack the young folk +who sing jazz, the people who patronize the objectionable movies, the +throngs who indulge in indecent dancing. But all the time a small group +of men are deliberately and systematically forcing jazz and movies and +dances upon the country, spending hundreds of thousands in the effort +and reaping millions of profits. + +If these men were non-Jews, a multitude of fingers would be pointed +toward them in identification and denunciation. + +Because these men are Jews, they are allowed to go free. + +You will stop these abuses when you point out the Jewish group behind +them! + +People sometimes say, “Well, if you went after any other nationality, +you could find just as much fault as with the Jews.” Is there any other +nationality on which you can fasten the responsibility for vile movies? +Is there any other on which you can fasten the responsibility for the +illicit liquor traffic? Has any other nationality control of the +theater? In the beginning action against the popular song trust, could +the United States find anyone to indict besides Jewish song publishers, +and could the United States Government lay less than 80 per cent of song +control to one New York group alone? + +If these things were not strictly Jewish in their origin, method and +purpose, how could such statements be made? + +Jews say, “Clean up among the Gentiles first, and then turn attention to +us.” Will the Jews charge Gentile control of movies, popular songs, +horse-racing, baseball gambling, theaters, the illicit liquor +traffic—will the Jews charge Gentile predominance in any line recognized +by moralists today as dangerously menacing the public welfare? + +The question is too big to be explained by prejudice. The facts are too +challenging to be thrust aside as universal. It is a Jewish question, +made such by a series of Jewish facts. + +Not content with hedging life about on every side, from the gold that is +used in business to the grain that is used in bread, Jewish influence +enters your parlor and determines what you shall sing at your piano or +hear upon your music reproducing machine. If you could put a tag marked +“Jewish” on every part of your life that is Jew-controlled, you would be +astonished at the showing. + + +—— + +Issue of August 13, 1921. + + + + + XLIX. + Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism in the U.S. + + +Bolshevism is working in the United States through precisely the same +channels it used in Russia and through the same agents—Revolutionary and +Predatory Unionism, as distinct from Business and Uplift Unionism, and +Jewish agitators. When Martens, the so-called Soviet ambassador, “left” +the United States after being deported, he appointed as the +representative of Bolshevik sovietism in the United States one Charles +Recht, a Jew, a lawyer by profession, who maintained an office in New +York. This office is the rendezvous of all the Jewish union leaders in +New York, some of the labor leaders throughout the country, and +occasionally of one or two American government officials known to be +henchmen of Jewish aspirations in the United States and sympathizers +with predatory radicalism. + +The situation in New York is important because from that center lines of +authority and action radiate to all the cities of the United States. New +York is the laboratory in which the emissaries of the revolution learn +their lesson, and their knowledge is being daily increased by the +counsel and experience of traveling delegates straight out of Russia. + +The American does not realize that all the public disturbances of which +he reads are not mere sudden outbreaks, but the deliberately planned +movements of leaders who know exactly what they are doing. Mobs are +methodical; there is always an intelligent core which gets done under +the appearance of excitement what had been planned beforehand. Up +through the German revolution, up through the French revolution, up +through the Russian revolution came the previously chosen men, and to +this day in all three countries the groups thus raised to power have not +lessened their hold—and they are Jewish groups, Russia is not more +Jew-controlled than is France; and Germany, with all her so-called +anti-Semitism, tries in vain to loosen the grip of Judah from her +throat. + +It is this fact of prepared disorder which makes the New York situation +of interest today, because its lines of influence and authority reach +everywhere throughout the country. + +For that reason, and before showing how the Jewish organizations advance +Bolshevism and revolution in the United States, the first step will be +to describe the condition and extent of the Hebrew labor movement. + +Most New Yorkers remember the “Save Fifth Avenue” movement. That avenue, +from Fourteenth to Thirty-fourth street, with sections of Broadway, is +historic ground. It is wrought into the history of America in a +peculiarly intimate way. A little more than 15 years ago it contained +the homes of the older families, the establishments of famous +publishers, the stores of art dealers, and the famous shopping center. +It was a district known throughout the United States as typifying +American substance and good taste. + +But presently, Americans who thought they were secure in their own city, +were aware of an advancing shadow. A subtle atmosphere of deterioration +became evident. In the top lofts of buildings, sweatshops had been +installed, which noon and night poured into the streets an alien +stream—not a glad, hopeful-eyed immigrant rejoicing to be in America and +at work, but something darker. + +It was the Russian and Polish Jew. He swarmed into this district, the +most typically American of any outside of Boston and Philadelphia, from +the first. Nowhere else would the sweatshops go except in the very heart +of Goy respectability. There were protests and organizations; Jews were +appealed to in the name of the city; they smiled and promised, but like +a tide coming in, the invasion swept farther and stronger every week. +New Yorkers hesitated to go down into the district to trade, and +merchants lost their business. Real estate values dropped in +consequence, the Jews bought valuable properties at low figures. + +Today, at noontime, Fifth Avenue is packed from wall to curb with dark, +squat figures in masses of thousands. They parade in dense throngs and +make the street impassable. They make a strange, un-American atmosphere, +Slavonic with some Oriental admixture. Their tongue is alien, their +attitude is one of sullenness mingled with a sense of power. You leave +the New York of American meaning whenever you approach that alien +throng. They have taken over the district as completely as if they had +invaded it with the bayonet. + +All this would be very hopeful, of course, if we could take and sustain +the attitude of the unsophisticated young reader of fiction, and regard +these people as “new Americans.” There is a mass of moving stories +(mostly written by Jews, by the way) pretending to describe the glowing +hearts with which these throngs look out upon America, their intense +longing to be American, their love of our people and our institutions. +Most unfortunately, the actions of these people and the utterances of +their leaders give the lie to this fair picture which, as Americans, we +would fain believe. The resistance offered to Americanization, +consisting in the limitations put upon the Americanization program, has +been sufficient to convince all observers that, so far as the Jewish +invasion is concerned, it is not their desire to go the way America is +going, but to influence America to go the way they are going. They talk +a great deal of what they bring to America, hardly anything at all of +what they found here. America is presented to them as a big piece of +putty to be molded as they desire, not as a benign mother who is able +and willing to make these aliens to be like her own children. The +doctrine that the United States is nothing definite as yet, that it is +only a free-for-all opportunity to make it what you will, is one of the +most distinctive of Jewish political teachings. If it be provincialism +to insist that our alien guests become American and cease their +endeavors to make America something alien, then there are hundreds of +thousands of Americans to plead guilty to provincialism. + +“The Melting Pot,” a term to which Mr. Zangwill gave currency, is not a +very dignified name for our Republic, but aside from that, it is being +more and more challenged as descriptive of the process that goes on +here. There are some substances in the pot that will not melt. But more +significant still, there are rapidly increasing interests _who want to +melt the pot_. + +So far as Fifth Avenue was concerned, it was the pot that melted. At +least, not the most intrepid Jewish leader will shout much about the +American characteristics of the most conspicuous Jewish colony in the +world, that of New York. + +The lofty buildings in this district are filled with clothing workshops, +of which the Jew has a monopoly in the United States. Coatmakers, +pantmakers, buttonhole workers, ladies’ garment workers, these men are +engaged in the “needle trades” in which adult men of no other race +participate. + +Why the tendency of the Jew to the “needle trades”? It is explained by +his aversion to manual labor, his abhorrence of agricultural life, and +his desire to arrange his own affairs. Arriving in the city of his +destination, the Jew would rather not leave it except for other cities. +There is one Hebrew society whose charter would indicate that its work +is the placing of Jews in the rural districts, but it does next to +nothing in this respect. On the other hand, there is testimony that city +colonization goes on apace. Widespread Jewish associations are on the +lookout for likely towns in which to settle a few Jews, who in time +become a larger colony, and in a little longer time run the place. There +is nothing haphazard about it. The Jew is not an adventurer, he does not +cut himself off from his base, but all his movements are made under +consultation and direction. New York is the great training school in +which the newly arrived immigrant receives his instructions as to the +method of handling the American goyim. + +Thus, preferring any kind of a life in the city, and not taking to the +trades which involve much bodily effort, the Jew gravitates to the +needle, not in the capacity of a creative artist, as is the commercial +tailor, but in the production of quantities of ready-to-wear goods. + +Aside from the “white collar quality of the job,” the “needle trades” +appeal to the Jew because at such work he can practically arrange his +own hours. For this reason, the Jew generally prefers piece work to day +work, domestic industries to factories—he can arrange his own time. Many +people wonder how the Jews of New York have so much time for +revolutionary consultation, parades, meetings, demonstrations, +restaurant debates and radical authorship. No other class of working +people can get the time; other people work pretty steadily. The +explanation is at hand: extreme Socialism and Bolshevism have a great +deal of “time off.” + +Trotsky, the present head of Russia, lived that way in New York. His +main arrangement was for leisure to work up his scheme. All the East +Side leaders knew that Trotsky was to “take the Czar’s job,” even though +he never had an extra dollar to spend. There was nothing haphazard about +it. It was prearranged, and the appointed men went directly to their +preappointed places. The East Side has other rulers ready now, and they +live in the midst of the revolutionary “needle trades.” + +One point that should not be overlooked in all this, of course, is that +the “needle trades” being exclusively Jewish, all their abuses are +Jewish too. This is said for the benefit of those apologists for Russian +Bolshevism who explain that the reason for it all is the way the poor +“Russian” was treated in America. If Americans will ever learn to +remember that the Russian is not a Jew, and that Bolshevism is not +Russian but Jewish, and if in addition to that the American will ever +learn to remember that every Russian-Jewish laborer in New York comes +into contact with a Russian-Jewish employer, and every Russian Jew +tenant pays his exorbitant rent to a Russian Jew landlord, it will then +be clear that once more has the United States been made to bear a +slander that does not belong to it. + +It may be well to remember also that it was on account of these Russian +and Polish Jews, while they yet resided in Russia, that the United +States broke off her trade treaty with that country—broke off with the +Russia that was a country and a government before America was +discovered; and, having by that act contributed to the Jewish throttle +on Russia through Germany, it is now proposed that the United States, on +account of these same Jews, enter into trade agreements with the present +Russian tyranny. Verily, the diplomacy of Judah has come very near +determining our foreign policy. If they were strong enough, in spite of +President Taft’s refusal, to make us break with Russia, they may also be +strong enough to make us shake hands with Bolshevism. + +The Jewish trade union is exclusively Jewish for the reason that the +trades affected are exclusively Jewish. That is, the Jewish trade union +is not an American trade union, it is not a mixed trade union, it is +Jewish. Like all other Jewish activities the purpose of the trade union +is to advance Jewish interests alone. These unions are one aspect of +United Israel. + +This should be borne in mind with reference to the widespread strikes in +the clothing trade and the rapid increase in the price of clothing to +the 99,000,000 non-Jews in the United States. In spite of all the +strikes, the profits advanced enormously; it may be said that the +strikes were essential to the advance of profits; and the country as a +whole paid. + +Look at some of the figures of the “needle trades” before the war. In +the entire United States, the men’s and women’s clothing manufactured in +1914 had a value of $932,099,000. In New York alone, $542,685,000 was +produced. The rest was produced by the Jewish clothing centers in +Chicago, Cleveland, New Jersey and Philadelphia. + +The figures for the period of the war and since will be staggering. +Clothing in the regular trade began to mount in price, until at the end +of the war in 1918, it had attained an increase of 200 per cent and 300 +per cent. Until well into 1920 the monopoly held up the price. This was +done in face of the declaration by the manufacturers of _cloth_ that the +whole profiteering persistence was due to the manufacturers of +_clothing_. Russian-Polish Jews, in this country only a few months, drew +$50 to $80 a week. Threats of strike were used to get a five per cent +increase in wages, which was met by a 20 per cent increase in the cost +of clothing. The American public paid. + +If, however, these statements were merely an attempt to arouse +indignation that for once the workers got more than they earned, the +attempt would be a failure. It is pretty hard to find anyone to regret +the workers getting hold of a bonanza. The high wages weren’t of much +use, as it proved, but people at least had the satisfaction of handling +them. + +These statements are made to show that during the war the Jewish unions +waxed fat, a fact which has a bearing on their Bolshevik attitude today. +Not all the wage was the gain of the man who earned it—there was the +union to pay. Girls in the fur trade in New York earned $55 a week, of +which they paid in $27.50 a week to the unions. Other workers paid in +like proportion. There was great talk of what would be done. In Russia, +of course, they had the government’s gold vaults immediately upon the +success of the revolution, but in the United States the preliminary +funds would have to be supplied by themselves. A great revolutionary +stroke was planned of which the written evidence still remains. + +There are two divisions of Jewish wealth and power centering in New +York. The first is German Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the +Speyers, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims. +These play the game with the aid of the financial resources of the +non-Jews. The other division is composed of the Russian and Polish Jews +who monopolize the hat, cap, fur, garment and toy trades. (By the way—it +is the Russian and Polish Jew who controls the American stage and movies +also.) Between them their grip and influence is far from negligible. +They may sometimes have internecine quarrels regarding the division of +the profits and eager publicists may zealously call attention to these +quarrels as evidence of the lack of unity among the Jews, but in the +Kehillah and elsewhere they understand each other pretty well, and on +the question of Jew vs. “goy” they are indivisibly one. + +Between these two forces the attempt to hold up prices was continued +until late in 1920. The heads of the Jewish clothing associations +announced that the price of clothing would not be lowered. Solidly +behind them were the associated Hebrew labor unions, so-called, which +threatened dire things if the prices came down. The first great store to +reduce prices in New York was Wanamaker’s, a non-Jewish house. In fact +there was no reduction of prices among Jewish manufacturers and +merchants, generally, until in the month of November less than a dozen +Jews were called into the presence of a non-Jewish financier, after +which a belated effort was made to save the buying market by sensational +reductions. The Jewish controllers of the clothing business had just +previously stated that not only would prices not go down, but the 1921 +prices would go still higher. + +There is a distinction between what the Jewish coalition _would_ do and +what it _could_ do, but its will and its power never so closely +correspond as when the non-Jewish element is asleep, and never are +Jewish will and power so widely divorced as when the non-Jewish mind is +alert. When the non-Jewish financial mind made itself felt in November, +1920, the bottom dropped out of Jewish trade prophecies and policies. +The only thing to fear is not the alert Jew, but the consequences of +sleepiness among the Christians. _The Jewish Program is checked the +moment it is perceived and identified._ + +Ordinary people who for five years have been paying high tribute to the +clothing trust are entitled to know who comprise that trust. But that is +a trifling affair compared with the political uses to which the clothing +trust has been put in this country. The clothing trust, being composed +exclusively of Jews, most of whom have formed the ax-head of Jewry in +the fight against certain Old-World governments, is today the heart and +center of a movement which, if successful, would leave not a shred of +the Republic, its institutions, nor even the liberty, which is every +American’s by inheritance. + +What is the strength of these people? How are they banded together? What +are the facts concerning them? + +In New York City alone there are 2,760 Jewish cloak and suit +manufacturing concerns; 1,200 Jewish clothing manufacturers; 2,880 +Jewish fur manufacturers; 600 Jewish skirt manufacturers; 600 +manufacturing tailoring establishments; 800 Jewish merchant tailoring +concerns. + +These employers have organized themselves into associations such as the +following: + + Associated Boys’ Clothing Manufacturers of Greater New York. + Associated Fur Manufacturers. + Associated Shirt Manufacturers. + Association of Embroidery and Lace Manufacturers. + Children’s Dress Manufacturers’ Association. + Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association. + Cotton Garment Manufacturers of New York. + Dress and Waist Manufacturers’ Association. + East Side Retail Clothing Manufacturers’ Association. + Ladies’ Hat Manufacturers’ Protective Association. + Mineral Water Dealers’ Protective Association. + National Association of Separate Skirt Manufacturers. + National Society of Men’s Neckwear Manufacturers. + New York Association of House Dress & Kimono Manufacturers. + New York Tailors’ Verein. + Shirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association. + +Among the employed Jews, the unions are numerous but all gathered up +into one central organization. For example, the International Fur +Workers’ Union of the United States and Canada, is made up of the +following: + + Feather Boa Makers’ Union. + Fur Cap Makers’ Union. + Fur Cutters’ Union. + Fur Dressers’ Union. + Fur Dyers’ Union. + Fur Floor Walkers’ Union. + Fur Hatters’ Union. + Fur Head and Tail Makers’ Union. + Fur Lined Coat Finishers’ Union. + Fur Nailers’ Union. + Fur Operators’ Union. + Fur Pluckers’ Union. + Muff Bed Workers’ Union. + +In the garment industry, the organizations include every operation in +the process of making clothes. There are separate unions for buttonhole +makers, vest makers, pants makers, coat cutters, coat operators, coat +pressers, coat tailors, coat basters, lapel makers, knee pants makers, +clothing turners, overall workers, palm beach workers, shirt makers, +vest pressers, and even a washable sailor suit union. These together +comprise the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. + +In children’s clothing we have another complete organization: + + Children’s Jacket Makers (three unions). + Children’s Jacket Pressers. + Children’s Sailor Jacket Makers’ Union. + Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union. + Children’s Dressmakers’ Union. + +In women’s wear, there are unions organized around every garment known +to the wardrobe, some of which are: + + Amalgamated Ladies’ Garment Cutters’ Union. + Bonnaz, Singer and Hand Embroiderers’ Union. + Buttonhole Makers and Button Sewers Union. + Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union. + Cloak and Suit Tailors’ Union. + Cloak and Suit Piece Tailors and Sample Makers’ Union. + Cloak Examiners, Squarers and Bushelers’ Union. + Cloak Makers’ Union. + Cloak Operators’ Union. + Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’ Union. + Ladies’ and Misses’ Cloak Operators’ Union. + Ladies’ Tailors Alteration & Special Order Union. + Ladies’ Waist and Dressmakers’ Union. + Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers’ Union. + Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union. + White Goods Workers’ Union. + Wrapper, Kimono, House Dress and Bath Robe Makers’ Union. + +These unions comprise the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. + +The reader will have an idea, after reading these lists, that the +employes represented in these unions are women. The majority are men. It +may require something of an effort to remember that, but it is +essential. These organizations control an essential business which +_before the war_ produced over One Billion Dollars’ worth of goods a +year, and since the war has probably received for its products each year +the amount of a big fat Liberty Loan; and these unions have received 30 +to 40 per cent of that for wages and propaganda funds. + +_Now, let it be said at once that these Jewish unions are not to be +confused with the regular Labor Union Movement, as we know it in the +United States._ + +They are not Jews who have gone into the American trades unions. They +have started unions of their own which are Jewish in membership, control +and purpose. It is true, of course, that the regular trades union +movement which heads up in the American Federation of Labor is under the +presidency of a Jew, Samuel Gompers, but the membership is mixed, the +large majority being non-Jews, and the purpose is not racial. + +These Jewish unions comprise a body by themselves and are to be reckoned +with, not only as labor union groups, but as racial and political groups +whose purposes can be determined by the character and utterances of +their leaders, as well as by the actions authorized and approved by the +unions themselves. + +Now, _this Hebrew union movement is a part of the New York Kehillah._ +Jewish leaders have sought to counteract THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT’s +account of Kehillah activities by saying that the Kehillah is such a +little weak thing. Admittedly, however, the Jewish clothing trust and +the Jewish garment workers’ unions are among the biggest and most +powerful aggregations in the country. Not even a Jewish leader would +have the temerity to deny that. Well, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers +of America and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are +affiliated with the Kehillah. + +More than that: this Kehillah, which Jewish spokesmen with cool contempt +for truth would have the public believe was weak and unimportant—_this +same Kehillah, in its Executive Committee, constitutes The American +Jewish Committee_. + +Is the American Jewish Committee a nonentity? Ask any President of the +United States, any Senator or Governor. + +The American Jewish Committee heads up in District No. 12—New York +City—and the Committee for District No 12 is also the Executive +Committee of the Kehillah. + +The men who represent before the world the combined organizations +mentioned in this article _are_ the Kehillah, and they _are_ the +American Jewish Committee, and besides, they are the men whose failure +in candor has left such an impression of dissatisfaction throughout the +masses of the Jewish people. + +Who are they? Who are these men with whom the Kehillah is said to be +such a puling thing? + +Louis Marshall, of the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and +Marshall. Mr. Marshall is not only head of District No. 12, but he is +also head of the American Jewish Committee. His headship of the A. J. C. +makes him Jewish leader of the United States. His headship of District +No. 12 makes him head of the New York Kehillah. Quite an important man? +Yes; and an important place, in spite of lying Jewish spokesmen. + +Who are the others? Eugene Meyer, Jr., formerly of the Capital Issues +Committee of the United States war government. + +Who else? Judah L. Magnes. Judah L. Magnes is the organizer and active +leader of the New York Kehillah. The two bodies are linked up again. +They are linked up by the Kehillah’s constitution which is able to +decree that its executive committee shall be the American Jewish +Committee as far as District No. 12 (New York City) is concerned. + +There are other names on the American Jewish Committee which also +constitutes the executive committee as the Kehillah—Adolph Lewisohn, +Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Felix Warburg, and so on, 36 in all. + +In the current annual report of the American Jewish Committee this +relation with the Kehillah is acknowledged in a note at the foot of page +123, just as in the constitution of the Kehillah its relation with the +A. J. C. is acknowledged and explained. + +Now to recapitulate. + +The Hebrew labor unions, both of employes and employers, which are in +complete control of the garment industry of the United States, represent +one wing of Jewish aggression in the realm of political revolutionism. +It is not a small wing in itself. Certainly it does not become smaller +by its connection with the Kehillah nor the Kehillah by its gain of +these workers. The two unions mentioned above number over 337,000 +members. That figure is conservative. Besides these there are associated +with the Kehillah the members of 1,000 other Jewish organizations, such +as synagogues, charitable societies and educational bodies, and 100,000 +individual members who belong on their own account. + +Link this organization with the powerful American Jewish Committee, and +at once the protest of the editors and the spokesmen that the Kehillah +is a weak, unimportant body becomes a deliberate falsehood. + +And as for those “Gentile fronts” who are ready victims of Jewish +propaganda, and who, without personal knowledge, are describing the +Kehillah as a large and nourishing charitable society (bad teamwork +there!) let them read in the next article what some of the Kehillah +leaders are trying to do to the United States. + + +—— + +Issue of April 16, 1921. + + + + + L. + Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries + + +There are more Bolsheviks in the United States than there are in Soviet +Russia. Their aim is the same and their racial character is the same. If +they are not able to do here what they have done there, it is because of +the greater dissemination of information, the higher degree of +intelligence and the wider diffusion of the agencies of governmental +authority, than obtains in unhappy Russia. + +The power house of Bolshevik influence and propaganda in the United +States is in the Jewish trade unions which, almost without exception, +adhere to a Bolshevik program for their respective industries and for +the country as a whole. + +This fact is proving most embarrassing to the Jewish leaders at the +present moment. It is bad enough that Russian Bolshevism should be so +predominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situation in the United +States, is a double burden of which Jewish leaders do not know how to +dispose. + +Yet it is difficult to see how the International Jew can be absolved +either from the necessity of being confronted with it, or from the +necessity of bearing sole responsibility for it. Russian Bolshevism came +out of the East Side of New York where it was fostered by the +encouragement—the religious, moral and financial encouragement—of Jewish +leaders. Leon Trotsky (Braunstein) was an East Sider. Whether he was a +member of the New York Kehillah is not known. But the forces which +fostered what he stood for centered in the Kehillah, and both the +Kehillah and its associated American Jewish Committee were interested in +the work he set out to do, namely, the overthrow of an established +government, one of the allies of the United States in the recent war. +Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objective by Jewish gold from the +United States. And now that it is found to be numerically much stronger +in the United States than it is in Russia, the fact causes no little +embarrassment. + +Denial is useless, for the thing is too blatant and has advertised +itself too long. What amazes the student of the Jewish Question in the +United States is the stupidity which permitted Jewish Bolshevism to +flaunt itself so openly during the past few years. The only explanation +that seems at all adequate is that the Jews never dreamed that the +American people would become sufficiently awake to challenge them. The +present widespread exposure of Jewish tactics in the United States has +doubtless come as a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and this cannot be +accounted for otherwise than that they thought they had gained too +strong a grip on the American mind to make a challenge possible. + +It remains to be seen whether the Jewish leaders shall be able to +control the Frankenstein that their false policies have created. + +Following exactly the program which the Jewish leaders approved for +Russia, the organized Jews of New York are exhibiting a zeal and a +directness which Jewish leaders would like to curb for the present, if +we are to judge from some of the complaints that the Bolshevik Jews are +making. + +Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the International Garment Workers’ +Union, whose membership numbers 150,000, and which is a part of the New +York Kehillah, is one of the complainants. His union, of course, is not +the regular American labor union formed for the betterment of working +conditions and wages; it is a revolutionary union for the complete +change of the social system, involving also a change of government. In +an interview printed in the _Jewish Forward_ of April 8, Schlessinger +complains against the manner in which Jewish judges have recently come +to interfere with Jewish strikes: + +“‘And Jewish judges come to their assistance. They issue injunctions; +and it is said that they do it to save the Jewish name, so that it shall +not be said that “all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injunctions become a +Jewish affair....’ + +“‘We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehillah in New York. In all corners, +Jews! All over, what you see and what you hear—Jews. And, of course, +also dress; politicians and greater ones.’ + +“But only _we_ may say this. And I understand Schlessinger.... +Schlessinger explains it this way: Several reasons are given why judges +like (here a Jewish judge is named) twist the law.... The real purpose +is to break our strike.... But, then, after all, there is a reason, a +Jewish reason. He wants to demonstrate to the American community, he +claims, that not all Jews are Bolshevists.” + +This excerpt shows several things: that only “we” may say certain +things; that Jewish authority is trying to cover the blemish of +Bolshevism; and that this is done in order to demonstrate to “the +American community” a certain desirable thing. The Jewish community, it +is presumed, is not so easily impressed. The Kehillah is apparently +trying to call in its kites but they have apparently flown too high in +the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism. + +Another big union which makes part of the New York Kehillah is the +Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, whose membership is about +200,000. It is officered by Russian Jews whose pronounced Bolshevik +utterances have been widely reported in the Jewish press of New York, +until plain and unprivileged Americans have wondered how far treason to +the United States Government could go on our own soil. + +Sidney Hillman, the president, is one of the most radical Socialists in +the United States—so radical that he would probably spurn the name of +Socialist as ordinarily used. He is a Sovietist. He is so far “advanced” +that to him the regular type of American labor union is “a scab union.” +The purpose of the American labor union is stated to be the improvement +of the workers’ condition in industry and the establishment of their +industrial rights, whereas the object of Hillman’s union is the +overthrow of industry and its communization in the hands of the radical +element. That is to say, Russia over again. Hillman was born in Russia. +He personally knows most of the Bolshevik Jews now ruining that great +land. + +The secretary of the Amalgamated is Joseph Schlossberg, also born in +Russia. Schlossberg has a very free gift of words. One of his promises +to his Jewish followers, publicly made at Madison Square Garden, is +this: + +“The clothing industry is ours. We are not going to permit the employer +to determine where his factory shall be, or how many hours we shall +work.” + +Abraham Shiplacoff, a Socialist member of the New York board of +aldermen, and next to Sidney Hillman in command of the Amalgamated, is +also a free speaker, as the following excerpt will show: + + “We are going to move heaven and earth to educate our people that + they and they alone are the owners of industry. The workers of + Russia have found it out, God bless them! + + “If I knew old Sammy Gompers knew as much as that, I would tell you + to go and do what the workers did in Turine. Ten thousand of them + marched to the factory with music and a flag, and they opened the + doors and went to work and said, ‘To hell with the owners of the + factory.’ + + “Everybody knows it is war. We are going to control the industry.” + +Always the omission, of course, that the factories so spectacularly +captured, cease to run soon after. The Hillmans and the Schlossbergs and +the Shiplacoffs are heroic figures on the platform, but in manufacturing +the common commodities of life and making both ends meet so that the +consumer may be served and the producer rewarded, they have been the +most tragic failures. “The workers of Russia have found it out, God help +them!” + +As a matter of fact, besides the I. W. W., the Amalgamated is the only +organization which not only preaches Bolshevism but actually practices +it—all in the United States, and all apparently in perfect consistency +with its membership in the Kehillah and under the officership of the +high gentlemen of the American Jewish Committee. The Amalgamated +actually does run the industry which has mulcted such a heavy tax from +the American public since 1914. + +They tell the factory manager where the factory is to be located. + +They have a minimum wage of $12 a day, independent of skill or +production. + +They enforce that rule, that an employe who has worked for two weeks has +thereafter a job for life. + +No improved machinery can be introduced without the union’s permission. + +The employer cannot hire even a cartage firm that the union has not +first approved. + +The employer cannot withdraw from business unless he goes into +bankruptcy, else the whole force of the union and its allies will be +marshaled against him and his. He must inform the union of all his plans +in advance. + +This, of course, is part of the endowment of Trotsky to the East Side. +He did great missionary work there while waiting to go across and take +the Czar’s place. Even to this day in the Jew-controlled theaters that +crowd Broadway, the picture of Trotsky brings wild delirious cheering, +while the portrait of the President of the United States is hissed. A +favorite stage scene is the Star of David high over all flags. The +recent debate between Senators King and France, said to have been +organized with the assistance of two rabbis, developed into such an +outrageously anti-American pro-Soviet demonstration, that prudence +intervened to prevent a vote. Recently when pro-Jewish Germans +endeavored to stir up trouble by holding a great mass meeting to protest +the alleged “Black horror on the Rhine,” the audience was packed with +Jews. Not that they love Germany more, but they love any regular +government less. While a few days later, at a great American meeting, +the Jews of New York, according to the testimony of incredulous +observers, were most conspicuous by their absence. + +Now, the Jewish leaders must admit that the Jewish Question does not +consist in American citizens uncovering these facts and helping other +American citizens to become aware of them; the Jewish Question inheres +in the facts themselves and in Jewish responsibility for the facts. If +it is “anti-Semitism” to say that Bolshevism in the United States is +Jewish, so be it; but to unprejudiced minds it will look very like +Americanism. + +There is not a single, solitary American-born citizen serving as officer +or director of those great unions which form part of the New York +Kehillah. These men have not the faintest idea of what America stands +for. They are not here to become Americanized, but to change America to +their own model. In this they have the articulated support of most of +the Jewish rabbis who have been very keen to explain that +_Americanization does not at all mean what the American means by it_. + +America will have become what these people want it to be when America is +sovietized with Jewish radicals in control, and that is the objective +toward which they are working now. + +The other officers of the Amalgamated are Jacob Petowsky, secretary, who +is a Russian Jew, and J. B. Salutsky, who is also a Russian Jew and +“National Director of the Educational Department,” which means that he +is the propagandist of the union in the United States. + +Regarding the assertion that the great radical unions are not officered +by native-born citizens (the statement has been made that Russian Jews +do not usually complete their citizenship but stop short at the +“declaration of intention”), there is some interesting material in a +study of 2,000 presidents of Jewish organizations in New York City. + +Of this number, 1,054 were born in Russia, 536 in Austro-Hungary, 90 in +Rumania, 64 in Germany and four in Palestine. These countries produced +89.1 per cent of Jewish leaders in New York. + +Of this number, 531 entered the country between the ages of 14 and 21, +and 977 entered over the age of 21. + +Of this number, 1,270 are still under 50 years of age. + +These figures include all organizations from synagogues to trade unions. + +How far they have been Americanized, or wish to be, can only be judged +by the policies and activities of the organizations which they direct. + +The big Jewish labor organizations are the direct offspring of the +Jewish Socialist Bund of Russia. It is due to the propaganda of the Bund +in the United States that the united Hebrew trades have gone over to the +ranks of radicalism. Bundists swarmed to the United States after the +abortive revolution of 1905 at which time they failed to put Bolshevism +over in Russia, and these Bundists gave their time to the Bolshevizing +of the Hebrew Trade Unions in this country. An Agitation Bureau was +formed which propagated radical Socialism through the medium of the +Yiddish language, which is one of the official languages of the New York +Kehillah, made so by the demands of the Kehillah’s overwhelming radical +constituency. + +The Bundists incorporated in 1905 in New York an organization known as +“The Workmen’s Circle” and “swelled the ranks of the Jewish trade +unions,” to quote the Kehillah’s Register. After a brief attempt to +propagate Socialism without reference to the Jewish Question, it was +given up, and in 1913 a resolution was adopted declaring that the whole +purpose of the work was Jewish. This is attributed, in the Kehillah +record, to the spread of “the idea of Jewish nationalism.” + +Now, care would have to be exercised to avoid confusion between the +Hebrew labor unions, radical as they are, and the avowed communistic +bodies, if it were not the fact that the unions and the Communists are +so inextricably interlocked as to make distinctions unnecessary. + +That this is not a judgment dictated by mere adverse attitude may be +seen from the following facts: + +The Workmen’s Circle has 800 branches throughout the United States and +is officered by Jews throughout. The membership is 98 per cent +foreign-born and is Jewish in like proportion. + +Among the higher officers of this organization are Joseph Schlessinger, +Sydney Hillman, Benjamin Schlossberg, Sam Feinstein and J. B. Salutsky. +The names will probably have become familiar to the reader by this time. +They form part of the interlocking directorate so commonly found among +Jewish organizations, a system which finally heads up in the executive +committee of the Kehillah which also composes the leaders of the +American Jewish Committee, of which the great public lights of Jewry are +members. + +Schlessinger is president of the Union of Ladies’ Garment Workers, and +made a trip to Russia in behalf of communism in the United States, to +finance which the members of the Communist party were assessed $1.50 +each. + +Hillman is president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. + +Schlossberg is secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. + +Feinstein is secretary of the United Hebrew Trades. + +Salutsky is food commissar to the striking Amalgamated, and is national +director of Bolshevik propaganda carried on by his crowd. + +They are, of course, all Jews. + +The line-up is this: Hebrew trade union leaders are also members of the +Workmen’s Circle and of the Communist party, and the majority of their +trade union followers go with them into the other associations. The +reverse process is this: Communism and radical Bolshevism then find +their way to the consciousness of the American public by the Bolshevik +demands of the so-called trade unions of Jewry. + +An extreme defense of all this activity might be that these Jewish +leaders and workers are only enamored of the _idea_ of Bolshevism, are +playing with it academically, and are not to be considered as actively +the proponents of a form of government contrary to the Constitution of +the United States and to be established by “direct action.” + +This defense, however, appears insufficient when confronted by another +set of facts in which these same union leaders and Communists are shown +to be in communication with the Soviet government in the United +States—and the Soviet government in the United States is not a mere +_idea_, it is a _program_. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the purpose +of the Lenin-Trotsky government has been World Revolution. And one +reason for the colossal economic failure of the Soviet governmental +experiment has been the Jewish Soviet leaders’ neglect of their proper +work to follow this fetish of World Revolution. If one-tenth the effort +had been made to govern and feed Russia that has been made to sow +Bolshevik ideas in other countries, Russia might today have been in a +less unhappy plight. Propaganda is the sole art which the Bolsheviks +have mastered. + +This Soviet government in the United States, therefore, must be regarded +as an advance post of World Revolution. It is so regarded by those who +know anything about it. It is so regarded by those who ordered the +deportation of L. C. A. K. Martens, the “Soviet Ambassador.” Martens was +announced to be here for the purpose of opening up trade relations with +the United States. He had a vast fund of gold—indeed, it was to explain +his gold hoard that he used the story about trade relations. The +Government of the United States judged, however, that his purpose here +was World Revolution—and the government was right. + +Martens has departed but the Soviet Embassy remains. As stated in a +former article, Martens’ successor is Charles Recht, who is a Russian +Jew about 36 years of age. In the same building with Recht is Isaac A. +Hourwich, another Russian Jew and attorney, whose office is supposed to +be the headquarters whence proceeds much of the Russian Bolshevik +propaganda. + +Now, the people who go to the offices of Recht and Hourwich are the same +people whose names we have been tracing all through this interlocker, +with some notable additions. Into the sanctum of ambassadorial +Bolshevism in the United States, come, of course, Recht the +representative and Hourwich the attorney for Lenin and Trotsky in this +country. + +Another caller is Judah L. Magnes, head of the New York Kehillah. He is +a rabbi without a synagogue, an extreme extremist, a master of the +language of agitation, and pro-Bolshevist in his influence and +associations. He is credited with being the mediator between rich Jews +and radicals when the latter are in need of funds. This is the Judah L. +Magnes, head of the Kehillah, who tried to tell New York newspaper +reporters what a weak and innocent foundling the New York Kehillah is; +the same Judah L. Magnes whom the _American Hebrew_ tried to picture as +a diaphanous idealist broken-hearted because the ghetto doesn’t fall in +with his educational schemes. The Kehillah is _not_ an educational +institution; it is _not_ a welfare institution in the charitable sense; +it is a nerve-center of Jewish power; in Rabbi Magnes’ own words, “a +clearing house”; and if it amounted to nothing politically and +nationally, the men who are now prominent in it would soon desert it. +Kehillah is just what the word signifies—the whole Jewish community. + +Then, of course, there are Benjamin Schlessinger again, president of the +Ladies’ Garment Workers, and Sydney Hillman, president of the +Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Joseph Schlossberg, another +Amalgamated official whose Bolshevik utterances were quoted earlier in +this article, and others of the Hebrew trades crowd whose radical +relationships have been shown. + +In addition, there are certain immigration inspectors from Ellis +Island—all Jews, of course; occasionally a courier from Russia who has +slipped into the country for a secret purpose; occasionally also a +courier to Russia bearing messages from Recht and Hourwich. + +Then I. W. W. leaders—Jews. Among them Baletin, secretary of the I. W. +W. Metal Machinery Workers’ Branch, and Peltner, joint secretary of the +I. W. W. branches in New York. + +In close touch with these Jewish radicals are a number of revolutionists +of other countries, representing various violent programs against the +established order. + +It is through the office of Charles Recht that passports, issued by the +State Department of the government of the United States, are being +viséed. This statement refers to a regular practice known to have been +followed until a few days preceding this writing, and there is no reason +to believe it has since been altered. Ambassador Recht, or Acting +Ambassador Recht, or whatever he may be called, is in close touch with +Soviet authorities and has full notice of all their intentions regarding +American affairs. + +A frequent subject of conferences in Recht’s office is the Soviet +propaganda in America. Men like Hillman and Schlossberg and Schlessinger +are merely liaison officers between the Soviets and the Hebrew trades +unions. The orders received from Moscow are thus transmitted to the Jews +in America, and are obeyed along perfectly defined lines. + +Of course, Rabbi Magnes, head of the New York Kehillah, could hardly be +expected to remain in ignorance of what the whole Kehillah knows. And +that Magnes is temperamentally a radical, any two-minute perusal of his +speeches will show. He is head of what Schlessinger calls the “gigantic, +wide-branched Kehillah,” the foremost political racial organization in +this country, a close community of a single racial type which has its +own code and its own customs and its own method of gaining its ends. + +This is not the whole story by any means. Schlessinger and Schlossberg +and Hillman and the rest are leaders, but they are not the higher-ups. +The connections run straight up to the lofty heights of those who dwell +in palaces and sway the finances of the nation, and to those who play +large parts in the government of the United States. The Jews who finance +radical publications—good conservative Jews who form the standing +illustration in the argumentative question, “What possible gain can they +hope from Bolshevism?” Jews who pull official wires to gain immunity and +privilege for known traitors and revolutionists. Jews who replenish the +coffers of dangerous elements. It is a long story, and all of it does +not require telling, for the point to be gained is not that everyone +should be told, but that the involved persons should be aware that it is +known, proved, safely put away, in hope that the occasion to use it may +never come. However, it is due the public to tell at least a part of it. + +The Jewish leaders never played so stupid a card as when they endeavored +to minimize the Kehillah and the place it fills. Nor did their Gentile +echoes ever fall for so miserable an imposition. + + +—— + +Issue of April 23, 1921. + + + + + LI. + Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon? + + +When the British Army passed into Jerusalem in the memorable capture of +the city in 1917, the Protocols went in with it. A symbolic circle was +thus closed, though not in the way the Protocolists had hoped. The man +who carried the Protocols knew what they signified, and they were +carried not in triumph but as the plans of the enemies of world liberty. + +Zionism is the best advertised of all present Jewish activities and has +exerted a greater influence upon world events than the average man +realizes. In its more romantic aspects it makes an appeal to Christian +as well as to Jew, because there are certain prophecies which are held +to concern the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. When this return takes +place, certain great events are scheduled to ensue. + +Because of this admixture of the religious sentiment, it will be rather +difficult for a certain class of people to scrutinize modern Political +Zionism; they have been too well propagandized into believing that +political Zionism and the “return” promised by the prophets are the same +thing. Having succumbed to the initial confusion of mistaking Judah for +Israel they have entirely mistaken the ancient writings that relate to +these two, and have made the single tribe of Judah (whence comes the +name of Jew) the hub around which all history and humanity swing. Judah +was the tribe with which Israel could not live in peace over two +thousand years ago, and which has the fateful gift of stirring up the +same kind of dissension today. And yet no one ever thought of charging +the Ten Tribes of Israel with “anti-Semitism.” + +Zionism is challenging the attention of the world today because it is +creating a situation out of which many believe the next war will come. +To adopt a phraseology familiar to students of prophecy, it is believed +by many students of world affairs that Armageddon will be the direct +result of what is now beginning to be manifested in Palestine. + +For these, if for no other reasons, the subject becomes important. + +With Zionism as a dream of pious Jews this article has nothing to do. +With Zionism as a political fact, every first class government is now +compelled to have something to do. It is a bigger question than the +German indemnities or American immigration, because it lies back of +both, and is rapidly proceeding under cover of both. + +It is worthy of note, if only in passing, that Zionism in the active +modern political sense took its rise racially and geographically where +Bolshevism arose, namely, in Russia, and that its center, the seat of +its Inner Actions Committee, was at Berlin. There was always a close +relationship between the Zionists of Russia and the New York Kehillah, +as is evidenced by public utterances made in Russia after the Revolution +in which the Kehillah is extolled. + +At the time the war was declared in 1914, the Inner Actions Committee +was spread about in various countries. For example: Dr. Schmarya Levin, +of Berlin, was in the United States and remained here. He was Russian +rabbi, German scholar, and cosmopolitan. Although his headquarters were +Berlin, he remained in the United States and became recognized as the +leader of the leaders of Zionism, until the great Jewish shift to +Versailles. Another member of the Inner Actions Committee was one +Jacobson, who was in Constantinople. “When he saw that Constantinople +could no longer be the center of Zionist politics, he left and went to +Copenhagen, Denmark, where in a neutral country he could be of practical +usefulness to the Zionists _by transmitting information and funds_.” +(Guide to Zionism, page 80.) In fact, the entire Inner Actions +Committee, with headquarters at Berlin, moved freely through a +war-locked world, the only two exceptions being Warburg and Hantke—and +there was no need for the Berlin Warburg to move about, for there were +others who represented him. + +Dr. Levin gave his sanction for the shifting of the center of Jewish +gravity from Berlin to America, and “as early as August 30, 1914, a +month after the outbreak of war, an extraordinary conference of American +Zionists was called in New York.” + +What this change of seat meant, has formed the subject of much +discussion. In 1914 the Jews apparently knew more about the probable +duration of the war than did the principals. It was not to be a mere +excursion through Belgium, as some fancied. There was time to dicker, +time to show the value of certain Jewish support to the governments. +Germany gladly pledged the land of Palestine to the Jews, but the Jews +had already seen what Wilhelm had done in that ancient state when he +enthroned himself on the Mount of Olives. Evidently the Allies won in +the contest of making promises, for on November 2, 1917, when General +Allenby was pushing up through Palestine with his British Army, Arthur +James Balfour, the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, +issued the famous declaration approving Palestine as a national home for +the Jewish people. + +“The wording of it came from the British foreign office, but the text +had been revised in the Zionist offices in America as well as in +England. The British declaration was made in the form in which the +Zionists desired it, and _the last clauses were added_ in order to +appease a certain section of timid anti-Zionist opinion.” (Guide to +Zionism, pages 85–86.) + +Now please read the declaration and note the italicized clauses just +referred to: + + “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in + Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use + their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, + _it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may + prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities + in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in + any other country._” + +Zionism is of particular interest, not merely because of the quarrels +which have arisen among the leaders over money—it is the war of +“interest” against “capital”—but also because of the light it throws on +the two great armies of Jews in the world, the way in which they use +their power where they can, and the trouble that always embroils the +nations which become Jewish tools. + +People sometimes ask why Jewry, which is capitalistic, should favor +Bolshevism, which is the announced enemy of capital. It is an +interesting question. Why should a New York Jewish financier, an officer +of the government of the United States, help finance a “Red” publication +which even our tolerant government cannot stomach? In addition to the +fact that it is only “Gentile capital” that is attacked, the answer is +that the Jew who has fallen for the worship of the Golden Calf is +anxious to keep in the good graces of the Jew of the East—the Mongolian +Jews—who are rampaging against orderly systems of society. It is quite +useful when there is a revolution in Paris to have the 600 houses which +you may own spared by the incendiary mobs—as were Rothschild’s houses. +Zionism has been one of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern Jew +can unite. Indeed, it was the Eastern Jew that compelled the Western Jew +to take a favorable stand on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who are +receiving the freedom of our cities today in their various aspects as +“German” and “British” scientists are Eastern Jews. They have come to a +contest with the Jews of America on the question of Money. The Jews of +America have smothered some very ugly charges. The Jews of the East, +more recently of Germany or England, are not likely to be browbeaten by +the moneybags of Jewish New York, for _the Eastern type of Jew knows of +a situation in which money is the most useless thing in the world_—and +that is why he is feared and favored by Western Jewry of the Golden +Calf. + +The Jewish defenders are just now capitalizing the “split” in Jewry. The +real split in Jewry will come when Jews of vision begin to support the +attempts which have been made to liberate the Jews from their leaders. +This internal squabble means nothing but a squabble of leaders; but when +the Jews themselves divide, one side for twentieth century light and the +destruction of the class power of selfish leaders, then may we look up +hopefully. When the Jew recognizes the honesty of his critics and the +righteousness of what they charge, then will there be a “split,” but not +before. The division in Jewry as evidenced by the contempt of the +revolutionary party for the financial party, and as even more strongly +evidenced by the fear of the revolutionary party by the financial party, +is being brought about by the insincerity of the Western Jew’s Zionism. +The Western Jew says that the United States is the Promised Land, +profits and interest are the “milk and honey” and New York is Jerusalem; +the Jew of Russia has another view. + +A knowledge of Political Zionism is worth while also as an authoritative +illustration of what the Jew does when he is in power. Heretofore there +has been Russia to illustrate this, but now there is Palestine. With +every fact against them, with every traveler and observer giving them +the lie direct, there are still Jewish spokesmen and poor befuddled +“Gentile fronts” who insist that Bolshevism is not Jewish and that +Russia is not now governed by Jews. It is just this constant denial of +facts, this failure to use their opportunity to be honest, that is going +to be the judgment of Jewish leaders. Bolshevism all over the world, not +in Russia only, but in New York, in Chicago, in New Orleans, in San +Francisco, is Jewish. + +However, there is no need further to insist upon that, except +occasionally to add confirmatory illustrations of it. More to the +present point is Palestine. It will be very difficult for the most +irresponsible Jewish spokesman to deny that Palestine is Jewish. The +government is Jewish, the plan of procedure is Jewish, the methods used +are Jewish. Does anyone rise to deny that? Scarcely. + +Very well, Palestine will do to illustrate the genius of the Jew when he +comes to power. + +Professor Albert T. Clay, in the _Atlantic Monthly_ (will anyone declare +that this long-established and thoroughly respectable Boston publication +is “anti-Semitic”?) warns us that the information about Palestine which +we receive in America comes to us through the Jewish Telegraph Service +(which is the Associated Press of world-wide Jewry) and the Zionist +propaganda. “The latter,” he says, “with its harrowing stories of +pogroms in Europe, and its misrepresentations of the situation in the +Near East, has been able to awaken not a little sympathy for the Zionist +propaganda.” + +This propaganda of pogroms—“thousands upon thousands of Jews +killed”—amounts to nothing except as it illustrates the gullibility of +the press. No one believes this propaganda, and governments regularly +disprove it. But the fact that it continues indicates that something +besides facts is necessary to keep the scheme going. + +In Jerusalem, as this is being written, martial law is proclaimed. There +has been a struggle between the native inhabitants, whom the Balfour +declaration sought to protect, and the new-come Jews. As in the famous +Easter disorders of last year, the wounded in the hospitals show that +the Jews were armed and the natives fought with whatever weapons they +could find on the spot; the conclusion of all impartial observers under +the circumstances being that the Jews prepared for and sought the fight +with unprepared natives. + +The mark of disorder perpetrated by the Jews is all over the place, the +“persecuted” turned persecutor, and lest this should be charged to the +general wildness of the people in Palestine let it be said that the +rioters were only expressing in deeds what cultivated American and +English Jews have expressed in words—namely, that the lawful inhabitants +of the land ought to be driven out, in spite of governmental promises to +the contrary. One of the first Easter rioters, Jabotinsky, whom the +British authorities sentenced to 15 years in prison, was released +immediately upon the arrival of Sir Herbert Samuel, and is now traveling +in state, and is talked of as a possible successor to Sir Herbert, +although he is originally one of the Russian Bolsheviki come down to +practice the gentle arts of that tribe in Palestine. + +The government is Jewish. Sir Herbert Samuel is High Commissioner, +representing the power of the British Government, which holds the +mandate over Palestine. The head of the judicial department, who +appoints the judges of Palestine, is a Jew. Christian or Moslem judges +who do not give the Jews a shade the better of the proceedings are +ousted—a condition not unknown in New York. Chaim Weizmann is head of +the department of works—he is a Jew, now traveling in this country and +having the polite lie passed to him occasionally by Judge Julian W. +Mack. In fact, at the heads of all departments are Jews, a former New +York Jew being head of the department of immigration, who has made +splendid rules for the protection of Palestine from an undesirable class +of Jews, rules so well adapted for the purpose that if the Congress of +the United States should adopt them the cry of “persecution” would +girdle the world. + +It is to be noted that the Jewish government of Palestine is very much +like that of Russia—mostly foreign. Trotsky came from the East Side of +New York. A gentleman recently released from Bolshevik custody told the +writer that the governor of his prison was an ordinary Jew who formerly +lived on Fourteenth street, Detroit. Practically every big American city +is represented in the Bolshevik government of Russia. There is another +full-fledged government waiting in this country for service wherever +necessary. + +The methods being adopted to get the land are such as will fill the +world with indignation once the world fully understands what is being +done. And that it is done with the knowledge and approval of the Zionist +Commissioner is indicated by the fact that he suspended the activities +of the British officer who endeavored to stop the abuse. It was the old +game of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest to people hard +pressed by war and crop failure, and then seizing their land when they +could not pay. The bank that did this was the Anglo-Palestine Bank, a +Zionist concern. This British officer, to save the people and the land, +made arrangements with a British bank to lend them money at 6½ per cent, +with five years to pay. If payment failed, the land was to go to the +government for redistribution; not to the Zionist bank. This was the +humane plan which the Zionist Commissioner forbade, whereupon the +British officer resigned. Some effort was afterward made to redress the +terrible act, but there it stands as the well-considered action of Jewry +in power. + +Then follows what is described by every impartial observer as an +“arrogant” attempt to expropriate everything in sight. In Russia it +could have been done very easily under the plea of “nationalization,” +but there was Great Britain whose laws do not condone theft. The only +schools that have been established in Jerusalem have been built and +manned by the so-called “Gentiles,” although the Jews of Jerusalem have +been the pensioners of world-wide Jewry for centuries. As long ago as +1842 Dr. Murray M’Cheyne noted that the Jerusalem Jews cared noth’ing +for schools because their children were only growing up into pensioners +too. But Christians, with a warm regard for the Holy City, set about to +improve the miserable condition of the Jewish inhabitants, and thus it +came that at the time of the Zionist invasion a considerable number of +Jewish children were in attendance at the schools. The new-come Zionist +leaders demanded that the best of the schools be given up to them. Of +course, this was refused. + +“The Council of Jerusalem Jews” then caused it to be published in the +Hebrew daily that parents who did not withdraw their children from the +schools would be punished. And now look at the typical punishments +threatened: + +If any parent refused whose name was on the list of the American Relief +Fund, the relief would be withdrawn. An interesting bit of news to +subscribers to that fund. + +Doctors would be forbidden to visit the families that had children +attending the enlightened schools. + +Their names would be sent to the blacklist at the places where +circumcision was performed, so that new-born descendants of the +recalcitrants might be refused the rite of Moses. + +They would be denied all share in Zionist benefits or funds. + +If they were in business, they would be boycotted. + +If they were workmen, they could get no work. + +“Anyone who refused, let him know that it was forbidden for him to be +called by the name of Jew. They will be fought by all lawful means. +Their names will be put upon a monument of shame and their deeds made to +reproach them to the last generation. If they are supported, their +support will cease. If they are rabbis, they will be moved far from +their office. They shall be put under the ban and persecuted, and all +the world will know that in this justice there has been no mercy.” + +It is the Jewish Bolshevist spirit all over again, that spirit which so +many people have been vainly endeavoring to reconcile with the Russian +temperament—because it is so un-Russian. + +It is tyranny, and not the tyranny of strength, but of meanness and +darkness. It is now perfectly clear what was meant by Dr. McInnis, who +is Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, when he said: “The emigrants so far +brought in (to Palestine, under the Commission) did not include many +respectable English Jews; but they did include a great number of +Russians, Poles and Rumanians, many of them thoroughly Bolshevik in +their attitude to the government.” + +If this spirit obtains at the beginning of a movement which the +Christian world has been taught by propaganda to regard as a profoundly +religious and respectable exodus, it burdens the imagination to forecast +what will be done in a period of full and unquestioned rule. + +Observing and weighing the events and tendencies of Jewish rule thus far +in Palestine, it is not difficult to see the purpose in it all. The Jews +still distrust their ability to make a State. They do not distrust the +world’s willingness to let them have a State; indeed, it is amazing how +naturally the Jews place confidence in that portion of the world they +have always affected to despise. But deep-seated in the Jew is a +distrust of himself. He doesn’t know how his people will contrive to +live together. He doesn’t know how they will contrive to drop the +principles and practices which are so destructive of social comity +elsewhere. And he feels that, patient as the mandatory power may be now, +it is doubtful how long that patience will hold out under the blunders +and brutalities that will be inseparable from Zionist rule, if any +deductions can be drawn from the facts at hand. Therefore, feeling that +the time may be short, he is endeavoring by such actions as interference +with the cultural question, with the racial rights of the natives, and +by such schemes as the land-grabbing device described above, to get so +strong a hold on the situation as will seriously complicate it whenever +Great Britain shall feel it to be her duty to the world to step in and +attempt to bring some kind of order out of the chaos. + +It begins to be very clear that Jewish nationalism will develop along +the line of enmity to the rest of the world. Already the dangerous +proposal has been made to organize a Jewish army for the protection of +the Suez Canal. Instead of thinking of roads and farmsteads, of +vineyards and oil presses, of schools and sanitary villages, the Jews +are thinking of elevating themselves into the military power that shall +stand between East and West on that most strategic strip of ground in +the world. The whole situation is fraught with danger, and men who wish +well to the Jews are alarmed and saddened by the prospect. + +There are three elements of danger in the situation as it exists today: +the overwhelmingly predominant Bolshevik element that is being poured +into Palestine; the intense, egotistic and challenging nationalism that +Zionists exhibit even before they get a potato patch—the taste for world +politics and world power; and the racial confusion which now exists in +Palestine. + +These combined are dynamite. The first is more vital than many realize. +Already the Jews who have gone to Palestine at great sacrifice and for +pious reasons are complaining that instead of the Psalms of David the +people are singing songs of the Red Revolution, and instead of meeting +for instruction and prayer there are riotous gatherings extolling +Trotsky as Messiah and the Soviet as the kingdom of heaven. On the third +anniversary of the Jewish Revolution in Russia, the streets of Jerusalem +were placarded with sentiments of blasphemy and treason, and May Day +this year was devoted to the exaltation of anarchy. + +This fact will be of interest to students of prophecy. It is as certain +as any human forecast can be that this sort of thing will not be +permitted to go forward in the face of the world. It is unimaginable +that the nations responsible to humanity for the conduct of that +important strip of territory will remain supine while Bolshevism spreads +under the false pretense of a religious movement favored by Christendom. +An attempt will be made to stop it. The Jews of Palestine will turn on +their sponsor nation. The Jews of Russia will come down to help. Great +Britain and perhaps the United States will defend the old pure vision of +a Jerusalem redeemed. Then will come to pass the prophecy of Zachariah: + +“_And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem._” + +Judah also! It is a thought to make a Jew bethink himself where the +lawlessness of the East and the materialism of the West will lead him. +Against Jerusalem! What a terrible ending of Judah’s present mad +delusion. + +Palestine has been called the center of the earth. It is. The power that +controls Palestine controls the world. Although exercising no +sovereignty over the land itself, Great Britain’s control of adjacent +waters and of Egypt and Persia and India, forms the key of her power. +The white race has thus far been the Chosen People to whom the dominion +of the earth has been given. Palestine is the key to world military +strategy and trade. In question 12 of the Questions and Answers +published by the department of education, Zionist Organization of +America, this occurs: + + 12. What are the commercial possibilities of Palestine? + + The location of Palestine _between the three continents_ favors + foreign trade. + +All this lends itself to dreams of future glory, and many Christian +friends of the Jew have pleased themselves by conceiving an universal +Hague at Jerusalem and a new social order going out to bless the nations +from Zion. It is the idea conveyed by men like A. A. Berle in books like +“The World Significance of a Jewish State.” All this might be expected +if the Jews of today were Old Testament people, anxious to re-establish +the social laws of Moses, which are conceded to be the best safeguards +ever devised against pauperism on the one hand and plutocracy on the +other. But Palestine has not fallen into the hands of that sort of Jews. +Before the dream can be fulfilled Judah must come to himself, as he has +not yet, for from of old the Word is— + +“And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem.” + +The racial situation in Palestine just now is very delicate. Americans +do not understand it. The Zionist propaganda has always been accepted on +the assumption that Palestine is the Jews’ land and that they only need +help to go back. It is an historical and political fact that Palestine +has not been the Jews’ land for more than 2,000 years. There are in +Palestine 500,000 Moslems, 105,000 Christians and 65,000 Jews. The +industry of the land is agriculture. Engaged in this are 69 per cent of +the Moslems, 46 per cent of the Christians and 19 per cent of the Jews. +Neither numerically nor industrially have they held the land. Yet, as +the result of a war bargain, it is handed over to them as regardless of +the native inhabitants as if Belgium had been handed over to Mexico. +Many of the natives are Semites, like the Jews, but they do not want the +Jews among them. + +That is a strange fact for those who use the term “anti-Semitism”; why +do real Semites also dislike the Jews? Surely Semites are not victims of +“anti-Semitism.” + +The Balfour Declaration, as well as the terms of the Mandate adopted at +San Remo, recognized the rights of the native races. Indeed, everyone +who knows about the people who have been native to Palestine for 2,000 +years recognizes their rights, everybody except the Jews. Bethlehem was +a Christian town, as befits the birthplace of Christ. Yet the Jews have +contrived that 2,000 Bethlehemites leave Palestine rather than submit to +what they see coming. The other races are not so placid about it, hence +the trouble. It is now that the last clauses, added as the Zionist +historian declares, “in order to appease a certain section of +anti-Zionist opinion,” begin to get a meaning for the reader. “Was the +purpose only to quiet disturbing questions until all the arrangements +were made? Evidently. It was then a dishonest appeasement! Such may have +been the Zionists’ intention, but no one need expect perjury on the part +of the responsible nations. The end of the matter will see those last +clauses redeemed by honest application of their terms to the people +involved. + +General Allenby promised those native races of Palestine that their +rights would be respected. So did the Balfour Declaration. So did the +San Remo Conference. So also did President Wilson in the twelfth of his +Fourteen Points. + +But Judah says, “Let them get out!” “The last clauses were added in +order to appease a certain section of timid anti-Zionist opinion.” + +“Let them get out!” says Israel Zangwill. “We must gently persuade them +to ‘trek.’ After all, they have all Arabia with its million square +miles, and Israel has not a square inch. There is no particular reason +for the Arabs to cling to those few kilometers. To fold their tents and +silently to steal away is their proverbial habit; let them exemplify it +now.” Aside from the falsity of using the term “Arab,” there is the +delightful Jewishness of it—let them give it up to us, we want it! +Americans have been in their land less than 150 years as a nation, and +there is China and Arabia or Siberia for us to go to if we should want +to, but we prefer our own country, and so do the native races of +Palestine, who have dwelt there for 2,000 years. + +The watchmen on the towers of the world are alarmed at what seems +brewing in Judah’s geographical caldron. + + +—— + +Issue of May 28, 1921. + + + + + LII. + How the Jews Use Power—By an Eyewitness + + +The Jewish Question continues to mount the scale of public attention, +attracting ever a higher type of mind to the discussion of its +significance. When THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT first began to print some of +the results of its research into the Question, the initial response was +largely from those who disliked the Jew because he was a Jew. This class +expected to find in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT a spokesman for all their +coarse humor and abuse. + +The method that was followed by this paper, however, was not abusive +enough, nor bitter enough to satisfy Jew-baiters and Jew-haters, and +gradually a new response from another class began to be heard, which by +this time has attained massive proportions. The better class of people, +seeing that racial and religious prejudice had no part in the work, +began to consider the Question with relation to our American life and +the future of this nation as a Christian people. + +Upon this ascent of the discussion to its proper plane, the better +periodicals began to give thoughtful attention to the matter. These +publications have been referred to in previous articles. There is to be +added to the list the _Century Magazine_ for September, which contains +an article by Herbert Adams Gibbons which clearly intends to be fair and +is certainly able, in spite of a difference of opinion that might exist +with regard to some of the author’s conclusions. Mr. Gibbons states some +matters more plainly than they have been stated outside the pages of THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, and some matters he states just as plainly; and he +will be justified by the unprejudiced reader. + +One of the most notable studies of the Jewish Question has come out of +the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. It is entitled +“Zionism and the Jewish Problem,” the author being the Rev. Dr. John P. +Peters, formerly canon residentiary of the Cathedral of St. John the +Divine, Morningside Heights, New York, also rector emeritus of St. +Michael’s Church, New York, and professor of New Testament Languages and +Literature in the University of the South. The article has been +reprinted from the Sewanee _Review_ and makes a brochure of 29 pages. + +Dr. Peters begins with an historical sketch of the development of the +two lines of thought among the Jews, the nationalistic which made for +exclusiveness, and the religions which made for inclusiveness, and he +describes the domination of the latter by the former with the coming of +modern Zionism which he finds to be racial and not religious. He says +“the dominant control of the Zionist party is at present in the hands of +those who are not religious but merely racial Jews.” He believes that +the development of race consciousness along these lines “must be +inevitably in the end to make the Jews bad citizens of the United States +or of any other country and to keep alive and increase the hostility to +the Jews....” + +This monograph by Dr. Peters will repay study. By permission, THE +DEARBORN INDEPENDENT reprints the article from page 20 to the end, this +portion being selected because it deals with Dr. Peters’ testimony as an +eyewitness of certain conditions in Palestine: (The italics are ours, +there being none in the university reprint.) + +“The experiment of the Zionist homeland is now being tried. It is too +early to determine fully how it will work, but it is at least of +interest to consider its manifestations so far. My earliest contact with +Zionism and Zionistic influences in Palestine dates from 1902. When I +first visited Palestine, in 1890, the Jews in Jerusalem were almost +exclusively of old oriental Sephardic families. Jerusalem was then still +the old Jerusalem within the walls. There were no houses without. Jewish +colonization, economic and philanthropic in character, had just then +begun on the Sharon plain, but what little there was in the way of +colonization was a feeble, unsuccessful exotic—an attempt to replace the +persecuted Jews of Russia on the land, where, however, the Jew, unused +to manual and especially farm labor, sat under an umbrella to protect +himself from the sun and engaged native Syrians to do the work. + +“On my next visit, in 1902, more colonies had been planted, and a +serious effort was being made to turn the Jewish colonists into farmers. +The majority of the Jews who had come to Palestine, however, were +settled about Jerusalem, and the new Jerusalem without the walls was +larger, in space at least, than the old Jerusalem within. The Alliance +Israelite had developed there splendid schools to teach agriculture, and +manual and industrial arts. I was urgently solicited by the management +to visit and inspect these schools. Here I found Jew, Moslem and +Christian working side by side without prejudice. This was, in my +judgment, the best work of any sort being done in Palestine, for two +reasons: first, these schools were teaching the dignity and the worth of +manual labor, which the oriental of all sorts had theretofore despised, +regarding it as unworthy of any man of intelligence or capacity; +secondly, because they brought Moslem, Christian and Jew together on a +plane of common work and common worth, the most valuable agent for the +breaking down of those ancient prejudices, religious, racial and social, +which have been the curse and bane of the land. + +“I was asked to put this down in writing because, I was told, _great +pressure was being exerted—I regret to say, especially from America—to +prevent the management from continuing this particular work_ of teaching +Jew, Christian and Moslem on the same plane, the demand being that the +Jew should not be brought into such contact with the Moslem and the +Christian, and that he alone should be trained, that he might not be +infected, as it were, by the others, _and that they might not be +prepared to compete with him for possession of the land. This spirit I +met in a more thoroughly organized and offensive form on my latest visit +in 1919 and 1920_. + +“I found immense progress in the development of agricultural colonies. +There was still difficulty in persuading the Jew, except only the +African or Arabian Jew, to do the actual work of the colony, but +colonies were prospering, and fruit-culture, vine-culture and especially +the manufacture of wine and liquors on a grand and most scientific +scale, had progressed wonderfully. In general, the land occupied by +those colonies was not in a proper sense ancient Jewish land. They were +on the Sharon and Esdraelon plains and in the extreme upper end of the +Jordan Valley; but those regions were being enriched, and the country at +large benefited by the colonists. The great bulk of the Jews were still +gathered in Jerusalem as heretofore, and there were on one hand the +intellectuals and on the other the parasitic or pauperized Jew, what +would ordinarily be regarded as the very best and the very worst. Life +in the colonies was often very sweet and very lovely, a wholesome, +normal family life, and an exhibition in peace and prosperity of what +religious Judaism at its best may be. + +“In Jerusalem one found the extremes of intensely narrow and bitter +orthodoxy, and unbelief with extreme Bolshevik radicalism. Here, too, +aggressive Zionism manifested itself in an attitude of bumptiousness and +aggressiveness. The country was for the Jew. It belonged to him and he +would shortly take possession. One was made to feel that one’s presence +in the land was objected to. The Hebrew press contained angry diatribes +against the existence of Christian schools and missions. The attitude +taken by these Zionists at first alarmed, then aroused and irritated +enormously, the native population, both Christian and Moslem, making the +Jew an object of dread and hatred as he had never been before. I had +opportunities to talk on intimate and friendly terms with leaders in all +camps, albeit I was unable, through language difficulties, to +communicate with the rank and file as freely as I should like to have +done. I myself felt the annoyance and in some places the danger of the +animosity aroused. Under government order I was not permitted to visit +certain sections of the country on account of the raids or uprisings of +the Arabs, partly due to animosity roused by their apprehension of the +Jewish invasion, and partly due to banditry, which took advantage of +that as an occasion. In other parts it was difficult to travel, because +any stranger, unless he could prove the contrary, was suspected of being +an agent of the Zionists, spying out the land for possession by the +Jews. It was difficult to obtain lodgings or food, and there were +sometimes unpleasantly hostile demonstrations on account of these +suspicions. Everywhere it was believed that the Jew by unfair means was +seeking to oust the true owners and to take possession of their land. + +“In Jerusalem it was asserted that the Zionist funds, or the Jewish +funds which the Zionists could influence or control, were used to +subsidize Jewish artisans or merchants to underbid Christians and +Moslems and thus oust them by unfair competition, and that similar means +were being used to acquire lands or titles to lands. It was even +believed by many that the English authorities were unduly favoring and +helping the Jews in these endeavors, as is shown by a letter from a +Christian in Jaffa published in the _Atlantic Monthly_:— + + “‘We are already feeling that we have a government within a + government. British officers cannot stand on the right side because + they are afraid of being removed from their posts or ticked off.’ + +“From time immemorial the Jews the world over have contributed for the +help of pious Jews in Jerusalem and the other sacred cities, Hebron, +Tiberias and Safed, the so-called _halukha_ or dole, in return for which +the Jews in those cities were to win merit for themselves and those who +contributed to their support by study of the law, prayer and pious +observances. St. Paul carried over the same practice into the Christian +Church, causing alms to be collected in the different congregations to +be transferred to Jerusalem for the benefit and support of the +Christians living there. To this day annual collections are taken in the +Roman Catholic churches throughout the world which go to the Franciscans +for the same use in Jerusalem. The Greeks and Armenians have like +customs. In the past there had been no prejudice with regard to these +doles, but now, it was claimed, the Zionist committees were using the +moneys thus collected or contributed to organize and help their people +in a systematized attempt to gain the upper hand in the land. + +“Perhaps the attitude of the extremists who possessed the dominating +power in the community can best be shown by the utterances of one of +their own organs, written in Hebrew. (It should be stated that _the +English edition of this journal was, as a rule, quite different in its +contents from the Hebrew edition_.) One article, entitled ‘Malignant +Leprosy,’ is a denunciation of parents who allow their children to go to +any school except those under the control of Jews and conforming to the +demands of the local Zionist Committee. Parents are notified that a list +has been made by the Zionist Committee of all children who are attending +foreign schools, even though they are not subjected to any religious +teaching, and it is demanded that they shall be withdrawn from those +schools and placed in schools where they shall be taught the Hebrew +language, customs and traditions, and kept separate from contamination +by the Gentile, with his different ways and customs. Those teaching in +foreign schools, or schools not complying with the conditions laid down +by this committee, are ordered to withdraw from their positions. The +‘malignant leprosy’ is the contamination by the outside world which +results from education with the Gentiles. It is admitted in this +article, in answer to protests, that the opportunities in some of the +non-Jewish schools, are better than in the Jewish schools—for example, +in the teaching of foreign languages, so important for conducting +business or securing employment; that there is greater diligence in +instructing; and better hours and better care of pupils. Nevertheless, +parents are informed that they must sacrifice for the sake of their race +those chances for their children, doing their best meanwhile to raise +their own schools to the higher level. Those who are failing to live up +to these ideals are designated as ‘traitors’ and by other opprobrious +names, and the article ends with this threat of persecution to any who +do not obey the orders of the Zionist Committee thus conveyed: + + “‘Let him know at least that it is forbidden him to be called by the + name of Jew and there is to him no portion or inheritance with his + brethren, and if after a time they will not try to reform, let them + know that we will fight against them by all lawful means at our + disposal. Upon a monument of shame we will put their names for a + reproach and blaming forever, and unto the last generation shall + their deeds be written. If they are supported, their support will + cease, and if they are merchants, with a finger men will shoot at + them, and if they are Rabbis, they will be moved far from their + office, and with the ban shall they be persecuted, and all the + people of the world shall know that there is no mercy in judgment.’ + +“This was followed about a month later by a second article, also in +Hebrew, entitled ‘Fight and Win,’ which announced that the threatened +persecution would now be carried out: + + “‘The names of the traitorous parents and of the boys and girls who + have not taken notice of the warnings ought to be published at once + and without delay, in the papers and on public notices, placarded at + the entrance of every street. The list of these names should be sent + to the heads of every institution and to the rulers of the + synagogues, to hospitals, to those who arrange and solemnize + marriages, and to the directors of the American Jewish Relief Fund, + and so on. It should be the title of “Black List” and “Traitors to + Their People.” An order should go forth to all, and if one of these + men has a son, he shall not be circumcised; in case of death the + body is not to be buried among Israelites; religious marriages will + not be sanctioned; Jewish doctors will not visit their sick; relief + will not be given to them when they are in need, if they are on the + list of the American relief fund—in short, we must hunt them down + until they are annihilated. Men will cry to them: “Out of the way, + unclean, unclean!” Because these people will be considered as + malicious renegades, there can be no connecting link between them + and us. Again, the society of young men and girls of Jerusalem must + accept it as a principle to expel from their societies all those who + visit these schools; to point the finger of scorn at them; and to + make them see that they are put out of the camp. These traitor + scholars, boys and girls, must understand themselves that they are + sinners and transgressors, who are isolated, driven from all + society, separated from the Jewish community, after they have once + despised Israel and its holiness, and it will be interdicted to all + sons of Israel to come near them.... War against the traitors among + our people. War by all means legal. War without pity or mercy; that + the traitors may know that they must not trifle with the sentiment + of a people. Fight and win.’ + +“The Zionist Committee, _of whom one was an American_, followed this by +a printed announcement that the time of grace had passed and that +forthwith the names of those who were still refractory would be posted +publicly on street-corners, and the boycott begin. Miss Landau, a devout +Jewess, the head of the best and highest Jewish school for girls in the +city, the Eva Rothschild School, one of those, however, whose pupils and +teachers were threatened under these rulings because they would not +follow the dictates of the Zionist Committee, appealed to the civil +authorities. The committee was haled into court and the threatened +boycott enjoined. + +“With such an attitude on the part of Zionist leaders in Jerusalem it +might be expected that violence would ensue. Easter is a time of great +excitement and unrest in Jerusalem for Christians, Jews and Moslems +alike, for with Easter coincide the Jewish Passover and the Moslem +pilgrim feast of Nebi Musa, when Moslems gather from all over Palestine +to hear sermons in the Haram Esh-Sherif, and then march to the so-called +tomb of Moses near the Dead Sea. The religious excitement of that season +which vents itself in curses of each against the others, is always +likely to produce physical outbursts if the cursers come into contact +with one another. The Turks wisely segregated at that time each religion +in its own quarter. This, in spite of warnings and requests from the +Moslem religious leaders, the English failed to do, either through +ultra-confidence in the _pax anglicana_, or because of objections from +Jewish representatives against such segregation as applied to them. For +days beforehand hot-heads among the Jews and Moslems were inciting to +riot, and in their quarter Jewish trained bands were preparing for the +conflict, a preparation of which Moslems from long wont probably had no +need. On Easter morning, 1920, the fanatical Moslems of Hebron arrived +at the Jaffa gate with their sacred banner, singing their songs of +religions intolerance. There numerous Jews were waiting to greet them. +The English Tommies with their officers were all in church. Whose +insults were the worst and who struck the first blow is not clear. +Battle was speedily joined. _The Jews were better armed_, with guns +against the Moslem knives; but the Moslems were the better fighters. The +city within the walls was speedily in their hands. The Jews living there +were the old-time Sephardic families, dwelling close-packed in miserable +slums, with no sympathy with Zionism, peaceful and quite unprepared. +Moslem fury vented itself on these poor wretches. Without the walls the +Jews were in the vast majority. All told, by official count there were +at that time 28,000 Jews, 16,000 Christians and 14,500 Moslems in +Jerusalem. What the Moslem did within the walls the Jew endeavored to do +without the walls. Before my eyes an Arab camp just below the great +Jewish quarters was set upon, burned and plundered, the poor inhabitants +fleeing for their lives while guns popped from the Jewish quarter. Two +men were killed there. When the troops reached the scene the great bulk +of rioters whom they rounded up were Jews. The subsequent court +proceedings also seemed to place the chief responsibility for the +outbreak on them. The major sentences were equally divided between Jews +and Moslems, but of _the criminals who received lighter sentences the +majority were Jews_. For a week we lived in a state of siege, not +allowed to pass in or out of the city gates, or to show ourselves on +roof or balcony after sundown, and for months there were guards at every +turn, assemblies were prohibited and there was continual danger of a new +outbreak. + +“The appointment of Sir Herbert Samuel, a Jew, as governor of the new +protectorate under the Zionist Mandate, greatly increased the +excitement. In Moslem towns like Nablus it was openly said in my +presence that no Jew might enter the place and live. The Christians, who +had taken no part in the riots, were nevertheless to a man in sympathy +with the Moslems, and one saw the curious spectacle of Cross and +Crescent making common cause. It was prophesied that should Sir Herbert +come as governor, he would never enter Jerusalem alive. In point of +fact, he landed at Jaffa and came up to Jerusalem under strong guard, +_with machine-guns before and behind_, and the following week made a +visit to Nablus and Haifa in the same manner. That was the situation +when I left Palestine. Sir Herbert had at that time just issued his +declaration and his interpretation of the mandate. _English officers and +officials almost to a man were against the Zionist Mandate_, and their +utterances in many cases were extraordinarily frank. Some of the most +prominent and best-trained sought transfers to other posts because of +their feelings on the matter, and some resigned. + +“It has since that time been extremely difficult to obtain reliable +information of prevailing conditions. It would seem, however, from all +the information I have been able to gather, that Sir Herbert, who is, I +believe, not himself a Zionist, has acted with singular tact and +discretion. He has shown great fairness and indicated his intention to +govern with impartiality, granting no special favors to any, nor +allowing outside committees or local organizations to dictate or assume +to dictate unfair policies. When I left Palestine, Jews were leaving in +considerable numbers, especially those claiming American citizenship, so +that the outgo was larger than the income. Since then, if I may judge by +reports, Jews have been coming in, chiefly from eastern European +countries, some parasitic and objectionable, others of a higher type. +Some of the latter, graduates of universities, both men and women, may +be seen engaged in hard manual labor, I am told, building roads and the +like, not despising to do such work in order to secure their Palestinian +home and fulfill their aspirations. + +“It is too soon to judge the future of the Zionist experiment in +Palestine. If the English authorities will give fair play to all, and if +the Jews will pursue the old policy of the Alliance Israelite and its +schools of seeking to benefit all dwellers of the land alike, to break +down, not to build up, religious, racial and social prejudices, then the +Jew may perhaps overcome the present prejudice against him, and his +invasion of Palestine may prove to be a blessing both to himself and to +the land. The methods of those in control of the Zionist movement in +Palestine while I was there were, however, aimed in the opposite +direction and tended to make the Jew an object of hatred and violence +wherever the opportunity for violence offered. This has been illustrated +again by the recent bloody riot in Jaffa which compelled the expedition +of a British warship to that port; and the order issued holding up all +immigration shows that not Jaffa only but the whole country is unsafe. +_The Jews in Palestine are now protected only by force of British arms. +Were the British troops withdrawn, the Jews would be exterminated by the +angry natives, of whom the Moslems alone outnumber them in the ratio of +more than ten to one; and with such action the neighboring countries +would sympathize, yielding ready assistance if any were required. +Mesopotamia and Egypt are seething with disaffection against British +rule, and racial-religious ferment, and Palestine is to them and to the +Arabs of Arabia a holy land included in the heritage of Islam. Moslem +India also feels this keenly, and the British have been obliged to +withdraw Moslem Indian troops from Palestine, because they will not +fight fellow-Moslems._ + +“In this country the Jewish problem which we have hitherto had to face +is not a result of religious antipathy. Religiously, politically and +economically, the Jew has the same opportunity as everyone else. The +Jewish problem here has been merely a matter of social prejudice, +resulting from the extremely difficult task of amalgamating with great +rapidity an enormous population, alien in race, culture, custom and +habit. In 1880 there were, according to Jewish statistics, 250,000 Jews +in this country. The Jews now claim 3,500,000, for the most part an +undistributed mass huddled together in a few of the great +cities—one-third of them in New York. Coming in such great numbers in so +short a time and herding together thus, intentionally or unintentionally +they help one another to resist the process of Americanization. This +enormously increases the incidence of social prejudice. Those who have +no conscious prejudice either of religion or of race are in danger of +imbibing or developing such prejudice as a method of protection of their +institutions, their traditions and their habits. The Zionist movement, +with its intentional development of race consciousness and race +peculiarity on the part of the Jew, is an additional obstacle against +the efforts of those Jews and those Christians who are seeking to break +down prejudice and to bring Jew and Christian together within a common +recognition of the Golden Rule: that each should treat the other as he, +in like instance, would wish to be treated by him. One of the greatest +of English Jews, honored and respected by Jew and Christian alike for +his learning, his philanthropy and his godly piety, says of this +racial-political Zionism that it has broken his heart, and set the clock +backward for his people a hundred years. The Christian lover of his +country and his fellow-men may well express a similar feeling on his +side.” + + +—— + +Issue of September 17, 1921. + + + + + LIII. + How Jews Ruled and Ruined Tammany Hall + + +Within the memory even of young men, Tammany Hall has been the synonym +of all political trickery, in the vocabulary of popular criticism. +Tammany Hall was held up as the worst example of boss rule and political +corruption that it was possible to find in either of the parties. Its +very name became a stigma. + +But even the most unobservant newspaper reader must have observed the +gradual fading out of Tammany Hall from public comment, the cessation of +the bitter criticism, the entire absence of headlines bristling with +ugly charges, and the calling of the hosts of good citizenship to do +battle against the grim bossism that maintained its headquarters at the +Wigwam. + +Why this change? Is it due to the dying out of Tammany Hall as a +political force? No, Tammany is still there, as any New York politician +will tell you. Is it due, then, to a reform of that organization? No, +the Tammany tiger has not changed its stripes. Then, perhaps, this +change is due to public sentiment? Not at all. The explanation is to be +found along other lines. + +There was a time when fearless publications told the truth about +Tammany, but _Harper’s Weekly_ and others which waged fierce war against +the Tiger, have either gone out of existence or have fallen under +control of the Jews. The silence which has shrouded certain matters must +not be noted and set aside without reference to the changed control of +the press. There was a time when public bodies like the Citizens’ Union +organized to oppose Tammany and to keep a volunteer vigil on its +activities: these groups have succumbed to Jewish contributions and +officership and no longer stand guard. + +The outcry against Tammany seemed to be hushed the moment that Tammany +patronage fell into the hands of New York Jews, where it now reposes, +the Kehillah being the real political center, and Tammany but a +distributing station—a sort of organizational “Gentile front” for the +more powerful Kehillah. A few Tammany leaders are permitted to strut out +in front, but everyone knows that from the Wigwam chiefs the power has +departed, it is now to be found in Jewish conferences. Murphy is still +the titular head of Tammany, but like a Samson shorn, he is not feared +and obeyed as of yore. In fact, the Judaization of Tammany Hall is now +complete. Once in a while the Irish—always a match for the Jews—rear +their heads and show battle, but for the most part Jewish money rules +and the Tiger lies down. + +Tammany Hall was one of the strongest political organizations ever seen +in the United States, potent not only in municipal and state politics, +but often exercising a decisive influence on national affairs. It was, +without exaggeration, _powerful_. + +If there is one quality that attracts Jews, it is power. Wherever the +seat of power may be, thither they swarm obsequiously. As Tammany was +power and the gate of power, it was natural that the Jews of the biggest +Jewish city in the world should court it. Doubtless, they were also +affected by the incongruity of the fact that in the biggest Jewish city, +the most solid political power was non-Jewish. That was a condition +which called for correction. + +When the German Jewish banker, Schoenberg, came to this country under +the name of August Belmont to represent the interests of the +Rothschilds, his keen eye at once took in the situation and at once he +began to court the favor of Tammany. He became a member and a supporter. +It was good business for this Jewish banker, because the funds of the +Rothschilds were heavily invested in New York tractions. The properties +of city tractions were and to a great extent still are, as in all +American cities, at the mercy of the local Tammany power, by whatever +name it may be known. Belmont was insinuating himself under the wing of +power to protect the investments for which he was responsible. + +August Belmont eventually attained the coveted eminence of Grand Sachem +of the Tammany Society. The Belmont family for a time represented the +sole Jewish banking support of Tammany Hall, but that honor is now +divided among many. + +In Richard Croker’s day, when corruption went hand in hand with power, +and power apparently was none the weaker for it, we find that this +notorious leader’s intimate friend, business partner and political +associate was a Jew—Andrew Freedman. Freedman and Croker lived together +at the Democratic Club in Fifth Avenue, Tammany politicians even then +having become rich enough to despise Fourteenth Avenue. Freedman held +the purse strings of the organization, as head of the Committee on +Finance, and he was Croker’s representative and mouthpiece when the +chief went into exile on an over-sea estate. + +The most recent Jewish power in Tammany Hall, and one of the most +liberal contributors to Tammany campaign funds, is the lawyer, Samuel +Untermeyer, whose specialty of recent years seems to be to serve as the +battering ram of the Jewish power against interests which it wants +destroyed, and whose efforts are usually camouflaged under exaggerated +journalistic advertisements as being wholly in the public interest. Mr. +Untermeyer is not in particularly good humor with Tammany these days, +because of the recent defeat of his son, Irving Untermeyer, for a +judgeship. There was somewhere a slip. The Jews deserted the Wilson ship +anyway, apparently seeing what was coming in the way of retribution for +the colossal and amazing mismanagement of war business which was +principally in their hands; and in the ensuing mix-up, a scion of the +house of Untermeyer tasted defeat. + +Tammany numbers other Jews among its supporters. Nathan Straus, one of +the owners of R. H. Macy & Company, has been for years an active member +of the organization and one of the rulers of its inner councils. + +A Jewish ghetto politician, Henry M. Goldfogle, has represented the +Jewish interests in Congress for a number of years, and expected to +continue, but he slipped in the election and has recently been “taken +care of” by a city appointment. + +There is also Judge Rosalsky who has been implicated in a number of +interesting matters which illustrate the completeness of the Jewish +network of control in New York City. + +One might mention also M. L. Erlanger and Warley Platzek, justices of +the supreme court of the state of New York, but if one began a list of +the Jewish judiciary of that city, where would one end? + +Another Tammanyite is Randolph Guggenheimer, founder of the corporation +law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and Marshall—Untermeyer being the +aforesaid grand inquisitor of Gentile activities generally and Marshall +being head of the American Jewish Committee and the Kehillah. + +It was doubtless necessary for a Jewry that contemplated control of the +judiciary as well as special protection for certain powerful Jewish +enterprises that are near enough the borderline of the law to merit +question—it was necessary to obtain control of the supreme political +engine through which favors were disbursed in local politics. And +control of such organizations can always be had by money. + +Not that the Jews threw themselves entirely into Tammany. The Jew’s +natural political home seems to be in the Republican party, for thither +he returns after venture elsewhere. But his predilection for the +Republican party does not move the Jew to make the mistake of being +exclusively the partisan of one group. It is better, as he knows, to +control both groups. + +As a matter of political fact, strong as is the Jewish element in +Tammany, it is still stronger in the ranks of the Republican party, +while New York Socialism is completely headed and manned by Jews. This +renders it extremely easy for the Jews to swing support in whichever +direction they choose, and for Kehillah to fulfill any threat it may +make. It also insures that any Jewish candidate on any ticket will be +elected. The fluke in the case of young Untermeyer is perhaps not to be +entirely explained politically; other causes were doubtless working in +that matter. + +It is a long time since Ferdinand Levy bore the distinction of being the +first Jew in New York to hold a political job. He was only a coroner, +and the man who appointed him was only a fire commissioner, but that +fire commissioner was Richard Croker. And Levy was solidly backed by the +Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, whose success in this matter laid the +foundation for more ambitious demands later. + +But at the beginning, the Kehillah Jews adopted the ancient policy, not +of putting forward their own people, but non-Jews who could be useful to +Judah. The difference between pro-Jewish politicians who are not +themselves Jews, and politicians of the Jewish race, is that the former +in office can sometimes go further than the Jew in office can, without +detection. This has been true at least up to this time, but it will +probably not be true very long, now that the people’s eyes are being +opened. The Jewish officeholder is only standing up for his race, but +the “Gentile front” has betrayed the people for the pottage of Jewish +favor. + +Thus, in the early days of Tammany, indeed until comparatively recent +years, we see the “Gentile front” in Tammany offices and basking in the +glory of Tammany publicity, but in the background there is always his +“Jewish control.” This also is a formula for citizens who wish to know +the meaning of things otherwise unexplainable—“look for the ‘Jewish +control.’” + +To this end, therefore, the Jews have been strong in all parties, so +that whichever way the election went, the Jews would win. In New York it +is always the Jewish party that wins. The campaign is staged as an +entertainment, a diversion for the people; they are permitted to think +and act as if they were really making their own government, but it is +always the Jews that win. + +And if after having elected their man or a group, obedience is not +rendered to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear of “scandals” and +“investigations” and “impeachments,” for the removal of the disobedient +official. Usually a man with a “past” proves the most obedient +instrument, but even a good man can often be tangled up in campaign +practices that compromise him. + +It has been commonly known that Jewish manipulation of campaign matters +has been so skillfully handled, that no matter which candidate was +elected, there was ready made a sufficient amount of evidence to +discredit him in case his Jewish masters needed to discredit him. To +arrange this is part of the thoroughness of Jewish control. And, of +course, the American people have been sufficiently trained to roar +against the public official immediately the first Jewish political hound +emits its warning bay. + +Amazing as is the technique of the Jewish political process, the +readiness with which the American people can be counted on to do their +part in forwarding the game is still more amazing. + +What Mr. Hylan, the present mayor of New York has done to merit +chastisement, is scarcely clear to a non-partisan investigator. But the +fact that the Jews have set out to “get” him for something, is evident +on every side. + +In the Untermeyer so-called “housing investigation,” the people hauled +up were non-Jews, and the result of the whole business has been a +stronger Jewish hold than ever on the housing affairs of New York. Jews +are exempt from such inquisitions. The choice prey are non-Jewish +business houses whose secrets may be forced and whose good name may be +stained under cover of a legal procedure. There is such a thing as +blackmail so entirely respectable as to be unsuspected. + +Governor Sulzer, of New York, was the choice of the Jews. They +subscribed money for his campaign, forced it on him, and kept careful +account of it. Finally, under pressure of a compelling sense of justice, +Sulzer pardoned a non-Jewish valet of an important Jewish New York +family, a young man whom a coterie of Jews very prominent in the +political, financial and social worlds had contrived to “put away” for a +period of 30 years. Sulzer had no option but to pardon young Brandt. But +he paid the penalty. He was impeached. The Jews who supported him +testified against him and their checks were used to assist his +dismissal. + +The story of young Brandt hangs heavily over the heads of some of the +proudest Jewish names in New York. + +Playing on both sides of the political fence, and always retaining a +string on the men they elect to office, are two Jewish characteristics +which should not fail to be reckoned with. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, in +its recent articles showing the hand of Paul Warburg in the Federal +Reserve System, was able to prove by Mr. Warburg’s own words that his +firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, during the three-cornered fight between +Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, supported all three. The Jewish owners of R. +H. Macy & Company, New York, illustrate the same principle; while Nathan +Straus looked after affairs at Tammany Hall, his brother and partner, +Isador Straus, was one of the most active opponents of Tammany. Were the +interests of the two men therefore different? Not at all. + +Take the firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and Marshall. This is a +notable firm for the part it plays in the people’s business. Every +community in America has been affected by Louis Marshall’s decisions as +head of the American Jewish Committee. Untermeyer is the arch-inquisitor +for Jewry. Randolph Guggenheimer, the founder of the firm, achieved the +foremost influence of any except the Chief in the old Wigwam, and was a +power to be reckoned with in all matters. But Louis Marshall is a +“staunch” Republican and a member of the Republican Club. Here again is +the favorite method of including all parties under the capacious wing of +the Jewish program. + +Hence the popularity of “Fusion” in New York City elections. It has +become the fad, but its most notable purpose is to insure the election +of a Jew whatever his politics may be. In some Assembly Districts it is +impossible to find anyone but a Jew to vote for. When Otto A. Rosalsky, +a jurist who was implicated in the Brandt scandal, was re-elected Judge +of General Sessions in 1920, he was the “Fusion” candidate on both the +Democratic and Republican tickets. It was perhaps fortunate for his +candidacy that he was. The point just now is that whenever a candidate +may be vulnerable, it is very desirable to forestall a fight upon him by +eliminating all opposition before the election. “Fusion” is another +matter that should be carefully scrutinized in behalf of American rule +of American cities. + +By the way things are going in New York, these inter-party and “fusion” +expedients may soon be unnecessary, because in any event it will be most +difficult to avoid electing a Jew. Of the candidates of all parties for +the offices of justice of the supreme court of New York, numbering 26, +14 were Jews. Of the Democratic presidential electors, 13 were Jews. Of +the Republican presidential electors, 14 were Jews. Of the Socialist +presidential electors, 22 were Jews. + +The strength of Tammany had exactly the same source as the strength of +the Kehillah, namely, in the foreign population; the difference being +that the Kehillah had a more compact foreign mass to draw upon. But both +the Jewish leaders and the Tammany leaders have always been alertly +aware of the fact that their power depended upon an uninterrupted flow +of immigration, to supply the losses sustained by the Americanization of +the people. It is always the un-Americanized foreigner that makes the +best material for the Kehillah’s and Tammany’s purposes. The Kehillah is +based upon the principle of recognizing racial minorities, and Tammany +has made a specialty of giving representation of racial minorities in +its councils. This was a liberal policy, and was thoroughly American in +its original intent (as Tammany was a thoroughly American assemblage at +its inception) but it was soon seized upon by the Jews and used to their +own ends, and to the eventual ruin of all except Jewish representation. +Thus all through the history of immigration activity, Tammany has been +on the side of the wide open gate without any restrictions. The lower +the type of immigrant, the more easily amenable it is to the ward boss’s +orders. + +Tammany of recent years has been the able seconder of the Kehillah in +all efforts to frustrate control of immigration. + +The third great influx of immigration into the United States occurred in +1884 and was really the cause of the beginning of the degeneration of +Tammany Hall. The great wave was composed of Russian, Austrian and +Hungarian Jews, whose arrival was followed by a memorable period of +crime, the marks of which remain to this day. Indeed, the downfall of +Richard Croker was a direct result. + +At that time the police department and the police courts before which +all criminal cases in the city were first brought, were in the hands of +Tammany Hall. The result was a partnership between local government and +crime which has not been duplicated outside of Semitic countries. + +Immigrant Jews of the shadier type organized an association called The +Max Hochstim Association, which was known during the Lexow Investigation +as “The Essex Market Court Gang.” One of its chief rulers was Martin +Engel, Tammany leader of the Eighth Assembly District. The “king” of +this Jewish district was a man named Solomon who had changed his name to +the less revealing one of “Smith,” and who became known as “Silver +Dollar Smith” because of the fact that he ruled his little empire from +the Silver Dollar Saloon, which gained its name from the silver dollars +that were cemented into the floor of his place of business. This saloon +was just opposite the Essex Market Court, which was thronged daily by +hordes of Yiddish criminals, the bondsmen, false witnesses and lawyers. + +Let not the fastidious reader deem it unnecessary to linger longer round +the old police court at Essex Market, for out therefrom came a word +which has fixed itself in common English speech—the term “shyster,” by +which a certain type of lawyer is described. A Clinton street lawyer +named Scheuster, whose practices were quite characteristic, made himself +very obnoxious to Justice Osborne. Whenever another Yiddish lawyer +attempted a shady trick, the judge would openly denounce it as +“Scheuster practice,” and so it came that the first men in the +profession to bear the name “shyster” were the Yiddish lawyers of Essex +Market Court. + +To make a nasty story brief, the Max Hochstim Association became the +first organized White Slaver group in America, and the revelations made +by the Lexow Committee are shuddering glimpses into that lowest form of +depravity—a coolly conducted, commercialized, consolidated traffic in +women. The traffic was made to yield dividends to politicians, to +Tammany Jews in particular. The Ghetto became the Red Light District of +New York. The first man to undertake the export trade in women with +foreign countries, especially South America, was a man who later became +a Tammany notable. + +The surprising fact is that, although these matters are written in +official documents, and although the same matters have been written into +the record of every similar investigation which has been made, Jewish +leaders persist in denying that the leaders in this particular form of +depravity are Jews. When the United States Government made a nation-wide +investigation, it found and recorded the same facts. The New York +Kehillah came into existence as a defense organization at a time when +the exposure of the Jewish White Slave traffic threatened to overwhelm +the New York ghetto. + +The Max Hochstim Association was not the only organization of its kind. +The other was the New York Independent Benevolent Association, which was +organized in 1896 by a party of Jewish white slave dealers as they were +returning from the funeral of Sam Engel, brother of Martin Engel, +Tammany leader of the red light district. + +The gangs that formed the backbone of Tammany power in the slum +districts were made up of “cadets.” Their principal field of operation +was the cheap dance halls. Paul Kelly’s gang originated in the halls +about lower Broadway. Monk Eastman’s gang grew strong in the +Russian-Jewish District below Delancey street. And Kid Twist’s gang +developed close to a dance hall for Galician Jews on the far East Side. +All of these three were Jewish gang leaders. They were slavers as their +forbears were in the days of Rome’s decline; they were bootleggers +before the days of prohibition; and they constituted a strong support of +the international narcotic ring which to this day has defied the law by +corrupting the officers of the law. + +It was to associations like these that the lights of Tammany lent their +names. Tim Sullivan was a vice president of the Max Hochstim +Association. The name of the Honorable Henry M. Goldfogle also appeared +on the picnic announcements. + +The exposure which resulted when the white people of New York finally +succeeded in getting the forces of the law to function impartially for a +little while, caused many of the implicated Jews to change their names. +These names are now representative of some of the best Jewish families, +whose concealed bar sinister is the fact that the foundation of the +family fortune was laid in the red light district. Society, sliced down +to its seeds, is a queer growth. + +It is due in justice to say that men like Tim Sullivan were not the +originators of the Jewish abuses referred to, nor willing participants +in the gains therefrom. Tammany would do favors for its friends, at the +police court or elsewhere; Tammany had its occasional political +upheavals; Tammany believed that they who profited by political spoils +should divide with the Wigwam’s treasury; but with such traffic as +seduction and barter in women, Tammany had never been compromised until +the Yiddish invasion of New York and the Judaization of the Wigwam. This +much must be said for the Irish and American leaders. + +The situation is the same in Boston. An Irish city, its chief political +control is in the hands of Jews. The old-time Irish leaders are still +permitted to be out in front, but the inner power has departed from +them. One Boston ward, where once none but Irish lived, now contains +only Jews, but the old-time Irish boss retains his seat. This is by +favor of the Jews and nothing else. + +The same state of facts accounts in large degree for the connection +between a man like Tim Sullivan and the Jews. “Tim,” as everyone knew +him, was leader of a district inhabited by Irish and Germans. Then the +Jews came in. And then began the Jews’ practice of profiting by the +people’s dislike of them. + +Foreign Jews well know that they are disliked. It is one of their assets +which never fails to produce dividends. They choose the part of the city +where they desire to live, and a few move in. Their immediate neighbors +move out. More Jews move in—more of the others move out. The property +nearest the Jews always goes down in value. People will sell at a loss +rather than live engulfed in a ghetto. + +It was so in Tim Sullivan’s district. As the Jews swarmed in, the Irish +and Germans fled north. Sullivan stood his ground. It was his old +territory, he would not leave it, nor remove his family. He cultivated +the new arrivals and made a partnership with the ex-kosher chicken +butcher, Martin Engel. + +The Jews lived under Sullivan’s rule for a time, awaiting the moment +when they should know what to do for themselves. The Yiddish flood +increased until the district was crowded, and then the Jews demanded +representation for themselves. With a premonition that a new force had +arisen, Tim Sullivan played safe and helped the Jews to get +recognition—Martin Engel was made leader of the old Eighth. But Sullivan +had previously gone to Tammany—or to what remained of the old non-Jewish +Tammany—and exacted an understanding that his rule should be left +unchanged below Fourteenth street. + +From that time forward, in spite of the understanding, Sullivan’s power +began to wane, principally because he continued to get in deeper and +deeper with the Jews. He went into Jewish lines of business. He formed a +theatrical partnership with George Kraus, among his enterprises being +the Imperial Music Hall, the Dewey Theater, and the traveling Eagle +Burlesque Company. Still the old district continued to become crowded +and overcrowded and saturated with Yiddish newcomers, for whom neither +the name Sullivan nor the traditions of the district had any meaning. + +In his closing years, scarcely more than a hanger-on around the former +scene of his power, Tim Sullivan bitterly lamented the ease with which +he was led into associations that undermined his power. + +Croker was destroyed in public confidence by the terrific shock of the +exposure attending the Jewish “cadet” activities. Sullivan, equally +picturesque, was the slowly shoved-out victim of Jewish infiltration. +There were other occurrences and other downfalls, all of which are a +part of the real story of Tammany. + + +—— + +Issue of September 24, 1921. + +_“I need hardly explain that I do not think Jews ought to insist +overmuch on their rights or nationality in a negative sense. They ought +to be as much Jews as they can, but ought to be as little as possible of +what is merely anti-Christian. For the Jews to try to get a song out of +the public schools because it praises Jesus is natural but perhaps +hardly wise. I admit that question, however, is an extremely complex and +baffling one. Again, the Jews have naturally taken a great interest in +this war, but in that case also they ought to choose as far as possible +the more tolerant view. Too much hostility to Russia was shown, it seems +to me, when some of their spokesmen were fighting over the wording of +the Immigration Act. They seemed to be fighting not for a real gain, but +simply to rub their political power in America into the Russian mind.”_ + + —_Norman Hapgood._ + + + + + LIV. + Jew Wires Direct Tammany’s Gentile Puppets + + +The proposal that non-Jews emigrate from New York City, 500,000 in the +first exodus, and 500,000 in the second, to hasten the event which is +held to be certain of occurrence, namely, that New York shall become an +all-Jewish city, may be a joke; but it is no joke that the Jews +themselves discuss and have proposed that the City of New York be +separated from the state of New York, and made both a state and city in +itself. This would entail three governments—state, county and +municipal—whose offices the Jews could parcel out as they pleased. +Besides, it would rid them of Albany. It is a most amazing fact that the +state capital, bad as it is, has always been able to defeat the New York +Jew in his most ardently pursued quests, as notably, his insistent +appeal to abrogate the Sunday law. + +Of course, if the non-Jews emigrated from New York, the Jews would soon +follow. They are not self-sufficient. If New York could be isolated, +Jewish initiative would not suffice to provide enough potatoes for the +inhabitants. + +It is too trite to say that New York is already in the hands of the +Jews. But it would be most startling to give a schedule illustrating how +completely this is so. The New Yorker himself can scarcely comprehend +the extent of his vassalage to the Jew. The average intelligent New +Yorker does not know what the Kehillah is, nor yet how it works. Like +the child born within sound of Niagara Falls, the New Yorker takes +Jewish supremacy as a matter of course, as the way things should be, and +as the way they probably are elsewhere. The New Yorker is thus like a +native of the Balkans. + +The Hylan administration, ostensibly non-Jewish, is really Jewish, as +any New York administration must necessarily be, except there should +arise a man whose ambition would be to prove that New York could be +better governed if the Jews should be excluded from the government. +Well-informed New Yorkers say that the power of Hylan is Hirschfield. + +This is a rather peculiar situation to those who do not understand how +the Jewish leaders work. Directly you say the Hylan administration is +Jewish, it is objected: “But it is the arch-Jewish inquisitor, +Untermeyer, who is trying to break down the Hylan administration!” +Exactly. That is the game. It’s inside and outside that does it. There +is power gained in making them and there is power gained in breaking +them, and often it is profitable to try both ways with the same man. +That is the way Russia went: there were Jews plentifully sprinkled +throughout the government of Russia (in spite of the “persecution”) and +there were Jews outside. Between the two, they got Russia. It is the +same in a Texas city today. Four non-Jewish candidates for postmaster +were made the center of a political deadlock—up through the deadlock +pops a Jew as a compromise candidate for all sections. A sufficient +number of Jews were available in that city to keep all the non-Jewish +candidates in a deadlock until their own man was trotted out. The +“Gentile mind,” of course, does not easily realize these turnings and +twistings of group conspiracy. And that is why the Jews feel safe, as a +rule: they rely on what they call “Gentile stupidity.” The Gentile says, +“incredible!” And the traditional Jewish game is incredible, until by +mountainous proofs and centuries of illustration the actuality of it is +forced home to the mind. + +But to return to the New York City government: The police department has +its Jewish streak in the higher offices—a Jewish police commissioner who +has fortunately escaped thus far the full story of his career. The +department of health, where it actually touches the people, is Jewish, +although occasionally a distinguished non-Jewish name meets the eye in +the roster of the higher officials. The public health is becoming more +and more a Jewish monopoly in all our cities. The department of +accounts, the board of child welfare, the board of inebriety, the +municipal service commission, the board of taxes and assessments, are +all under the leadership and domination of Jews. + +The judiciary becomes increasingly Jewish, litigation is almost +overwhelmingly Jewish, and the consequences to the reputation of the +courts of justice and the profession of the law are well understood. +Real estate exploitation and speculation is strictly Jewish, the +profiteers treating even their own co-nationalists with the utmost +cruelty. + +In short, New York’s most influential press (within New York) is the +Yiddish press; New York’s real government is the Yiddish Kehillah; New +York’s real administration of the law is the Yiddish administration; New +York’s real politics is Jewish. A little more, and New York’s official +language would be the Yiddish dialect. + +In all this Tammany Hall is little more than a name; it is one of the +rallying centers which the Jews have left the non-Jew who still +interests himself in New York politics. There must be rallying places +for the non-Jews, and one or two do not hurt. The Jew has the double +advantage in such a matter, for while he claims equality with all, he +denies equality with any. That is, any Jew proclaims his right to join +any fraternity, or any club, or any society, or any party whose members +are chiefly non-Jewish, but where is the Jewish fraternity, or club, or +society that admits non-Jewish members? The newspapers carried the +report, after a certain occurrence, that hundreds of Jews had offered to +join the Knights of Columbus! It was very typical of Jewish character. +But let any non-Jew attempt to join the B’nai B’rith or the Hebrew Young +Men’s Association, or the Menorah Society, or any of the others: he will +see how far the principle of equality operates. “We want to be part of +yours, but we want our own for ourselves,” is the Jewish attitude. + +So, politically, the New York Jew has the advantage. He belongs, +together with the non-Jew, to organizations like Tammany or the +Republican Club—but the non-Jew cannot with him belong to the Kehillah. + +It is all so very familiar: the Jew insists on double everywhere. In the +Balkans he insists on a double citizenship. He insists on a double +protection. He insists on a double standard of education. He insists on +all his own religious rights as strenuously as he insists that all +Christian majority rights shall be stamped out in this country. He +insists that he shall have his Sabbath and that you shall not have +yours. He wants his own social rights and yours too—but he wants you to +have only your own and not his with it. It casts serious doubts on +Jewish intelligence that this course should be so seriously pursued, as +if on the one hand the humor of the “nerve,” and on the other hand the +disgusting impudence of it, had never appeared to his consciousness. + +In New York, therefore, the Jew politically belongs twice, while all +non-Jews belong but once, and it can easily be perceived that this is an +advantage. + +In the previous article it was rehearsed how Tammany besmirched its name +by association with Jews who used the organization as a protection for +their traffic in vice. This was in 1894. The revelations were so +terrible that in any other community they would have led to a complete +abolition of any possible chance of recovery, but as it was never made +plain to the people that the traffic in vice was not a sudden appearance +of rottenness among Americans, but was the normal activity of an alien +racial strain, the moral power of exposure was dissipated. The people +were left staggered by what they were allowed to believe about the +origin of the horror. People said it was Tammany because the press said +it was Tammany, and yet people could not understand how it could be +Tammany, and so in the midst of hesitancy the fire of reform burned out. +It was exactly like these days when we are told that “American business +men” abroad are doing terrible things; yet even while the press declares +them to be “American” we cannot understand how Americans could do such +things—and we never get the key to the matter, nor see the solution, +until we stumble on to the fact that these so-called “Americans” are not +Americans at all, but alien Jews. Over in Canada the name “American” is +becoming a stigma because it is borne by men who are not Americans. What +Canadians point out in the United States as definitely “American” is +mostly Jewish, but how are the Canadians to know? The national name +suffers. The whole cause of evil is camouflaged and a nation pays the +price of a racial group’s misdeeds. There should be some method of +protecting this forging of national names. + +Thus Tammany became a synonym for what was not characteristically +Tammany at all, but what was characteristically Jewish. + +The exposure of 1894 disclosed that vice was really a thing of cold +blood. Evil that springs from passion and impulse really amounts to far +less than is commonly supposed. It is when passion is deliberately +cultivated and impulse stimulated, that the great bulk of the world’s +social evil occurs. And this stimulation is undertaken in cold blood by +those who make profit out of providing the means of gratification—like +the old-fashioned bar keepers who served very salty free lunches to +stimulate the sale of beer. + +This kind of vice is not a thing to be shamed by exposure as can be done +with involuntary vice, as it might be called. This cold-blooded +merchandising of human weakness was merely a matter of profits, and if +business had been interfered with by a Lexow Committee it was rather +unfortunate, but good business required that operations be resumed at +the earliest possible moment. And so, though the investigations of 1894 +were successful and the exposure duly made, it was not to be expected +that mere oratory and printer’s ink would suffice to keep the serpent +down. + +It was only seven years before scandal flamed again throughout the +length and breadth of New York, and strangely enough—strange enough in +all conscience for “Gentile fronts” of this day and generation to +heed!—it was found again that the traffic in evil and its ramifications +all over the land, and even to foreign countries, was in the hands of +Jews. There was no doubt about it. There was even no accident about it. +The fact was as continuous as it was colossal. + +William Travers Jerome, then Justice of the Court of Special Sessions, +made in 1901 a ringing indictment of conditions in the city and used the +full power of his court to punish wrongdoers; he even went so far as to +specify individuals and political connections—but he did not mention the +keyword of it all, which was “Jew.” It was doubtless wise for him that +he did not, else he could not have enjoyed the subsequent political +career which came to him. + +Tammany was defeated in the election of 1901. The defeat was due to the +same cause—the stigma of Jew-controlled vice traffic under political +protection. + +It was at this time that Richard Croker “abdicated.” He was a rich man. +He sailed for Ireland, where he became a country squire on his Wantage +estate. + +Public curiosity was fed the statement that Croker had selected Lewis +Nixon to be his successor, but this turn in Tammany’s career is too +important to be thus misstated. The truth is that _when Croker left he +surrendered Tammany to the Jews_. + +Croker could confirm this if he would talk, if he should be permitted to +talk. It is, however, not well to have garrulous old men spilling the +secrets of other days. Croker in his age took a bride who is said to be +of “Indian descent,” and he has not been much in touch with his family +nor the public since. + +Lewis Nixon was the convenient and perhaps unconscious “Gentile front.” +The real ruler of Tammany in Croker’s stead was Andrew Freedman, +mentioned in the former article as Croker’s friend and house mate. + +(Judging from the habit of individual Jews to room with baseball players +before the baseball scandal, and the result of another Jew’s living with +Croker, it might be just as well to keep an eye on those other men who +are in positions to do favors or influence legislation, whose close +cronies happen to be Jews. Some of these friendships may indeed be +perfectly conceived; but there are numerous instances where the plans of +the “Jewish friend” are very completely matured through the agency of +the “Gentile chum.”) + +So, upon the departure of Croker from these shores, we find Tammany +under the dictatorship of a Jew who was Croker’s chief influence, if not +his absolute master. + +But by the time this occurred, it was useless for Tammany to rebel. +Tammany men who had noticed the infiltration of Jews and were alarmed by +it had consoled themselves with the thought that, at least, the higher +offices were immune from Jewish occupation. This consolation served only +to permit the filling of the lower offices by Jews, with less protest +from the membership. By the time the Jews were ready to permit Croker to +“abdicate,” they had permeated every part of the Wigwam and the +assumption of supreme control was thus made a simple matter. Croker +stepped aside; instantly into his place stepped the Jew, Freedman, +operating through Nixon. + +It was too late for Tammany to remonstrate. Tammany could not protest +against the Wigwam _becoming_ Jewish, because the Wigwam already _was_ +Jewish. To remonstrate then was to ruin Tammany. Becoming reconciled to +what seemed to be inevitable, Tammany leaders saw that their only hope +of survival came through preserving Jewish support. + +Presently even Nixon was relegated to the background and Freedman issued +his orders directly. The Jews, however, with great astuteness continued +to make much of Nixon, because he was the last thin veil which concealed +the change which had come over Tammany, and he was valuable to that +extent. He was, unwillingly, perhaps, their puppet, but even puppets +must be accorded their proper dignity. Nixon was tendered a great +reception in 1902, but the influential men on the reception committee +were mostly Jews: Andrew Freedman was chairman; then followed the names +of Oliver H. P. Belmont, Max F. Ihmson, Samuel Untermeyer, Nathan +Straus, Randolph Guggenheimer, Henry M. Goldfogle, Herman Joseph, and +others. + +On the executive committee of Tammany Hall at this time were Randolph +Guggenheimer, Isaac Fromme, Nathan Straus, Henry M. Goldfogle, O. H. P. +Belmont, and other Jews. + +On the committee on law were Samuel Untermeyer, M. Warlet Platzek, +Abraham Levy, Henry W. Unger, Morris Cukor and Fred B. House. + +Andrew Freedman had complete control of the committee on finance that +was nominally headed by Lewis Nixon. + +Randolph Guggenheimer was president of the municipal council. + +Ferdinand Levy was on the committee on resolutions and correspondence. + +Jews had so spread themselves as to constitute a controlling group in +all the assembly districts that were under tribute to Tammany. In the +“Fighting Eighth” district, Martin Engel was leader. His chief aid was +“Manny” Eichner, chairman of the Isidor Cohn Association and of the +Young Men’s Democratic Association. His other assistants, Max J. Porges, +Max Levein, and Moe Levy were floor managers of the dances and balls of +the Florence Sullivan Association. + +In the Tenth district, Simon Steingutt, “Mayor of Second Avenue,” was +one of the hardest workers in Tammany affairs. + +Edward Mandell was the active Jewish Tammany man in the Twelfth +district. + +In the Eighteenth district, Maurice Blumenthal was one of the principal +workers. He devoted his career chiefly to the training of Jewish +speakers for the Wigwam. + +The Eighteenth district was known as “the Gashouse district,” notorious +for the Gashouse scandals over padded pay rolls, and here Charley Murphy +ruled, his aides being Julius Simon, Edward E. Slumasky, Joseph +Schlesinger, Leopold Worms, Hugo Siegel, Alfred B. Marx, Nathan +Fernbacher, and other Jews. + +And so on through the list. Among the Sachems of the Tammany Society +there were to be found the wealthier and more socially exalted Jews. + +However, the Jews made their cyclically recurring mistakes: they carried +things with too high a hand, and rebellion broke out. It is this Jewish +tendency to boast and overdo that has always given the game away. +Superficial observers and writers like John Spargo and Norman Hapgood +have observed the recurrent periods of protest against Jewish +presumption and bumptiousness and have explained them as being recurrent +spasms of a vile poison which is supposed to reside in the blood of the +Gentiles—the vile poison of anti-Semitism. That, of course, is the +conventional Jewish propagandist explanation, and Spargo and Hapgood are +merely retailing it. They say it always breaks out after wars. Why after +wars? Because in wars the world sees more clearly than at other times +the real purpose and personality of the Jew. Thus, it is not +anti-Semitism that breaks out—it is Semitism, gross and exaggerated +Semitism; and the serum that forms in the social body to encist and +control the germ of Semitism, comes in the form of public exposure and +protest. That serum is working now—the serum of publicity, and the +Jewish program cannot endure it. Study the history of all things +whatsoever into which Jews inject themselves, from summer resorts to +empires, and you see the same cycle appearing. + +Thus it happened in Tammany Hall—“too much Jew” engendered revolt. Lewis +Nixon became aware of his position. As a gentleman of standing and +responsibility he could not continue in a position whose falsity had +become clear to him. When he accepted the leadership of Tammany Hall, it +was not with a purpose to continue the old order. His understanding was +that he was to be left free to restore Tammany to the plane of its +former serious purpose and respectable character. He discovered that he +was being used as the “respectable Gentile front” behind whose name the +Jews expected to carry on the old game. Therefore, in May, 1902, three +months after the great reception above mentioned, Nixon resigned as +leader of Tammany Hall. Doubtless the reception that was tendered him +was for the purpose of inducing him to love the exaltation of his +position so much that he would sacrifice its moral obligations. + +Nixon accompanied his resignation with a speech in which he protested +that ever since he had accepted the leadership of Tammany he had been +hampered in his every action by a group headed by Andrew Freedman; they +dictated the names that were to be placed on the list of Sachems: “When +I rebelled, I found that at every turn I would be opposed by this +coterie of interferers; I found that all my important acts had to be +viséed before they could become effective.” He said he could no longer +retain his position and his self-respect; he had to give up one or the +other. + +With this Mr. Nixon vanished from the scene of Tammany politics. + +The resignation of Mr. Nixon had a bad effect on the reputation of +Tammany with the public. The plan had been to allow him to serve as long +as ordinarily and then replace him with a Jew by means of the usual +process of selection. But the resignation and the explanation that +accompanied it, showing as it did the Jewish influence in Tammany, made +it seem inadvisable to follow with a Jewish leader. So the district +leaders were obliged to find another “Gentile front,” only this time one +who would prove sufficiently docile. There was enough rankling disfavor +against the Jews in the old organization to warrant this observance of +appearances, at least. + +The dictatorship of Freedman was seen to be a failure, much as the +dictatorship of Trotzky is seen to be a failure. A rearrangement of +committees automatically eliminated him from control, at the same time +the name of Croker was dropped. A triumvirate of leaders was chosen, of +whom Charles F. Murphy became and remains the chief. “Boss Murphy” he is +called. Mr. Murphy has been an ideal “front,” not attempting to do +anything, not attempting to interfere with the Jews doing anything, +keeping wisely silent and thereby gaining a reputation for silent +wisdom. Mr. Murphy is a millionaire. Those who do the higher Jewish +leaders’ bidding get their reward that way; there is no other reward +they can hope for; certainly they never have the reward of public +confidence and the people’s gratitude. + +That is the status of Tammany Hall at the present time. A few of the Old +Guard are left at their posts, but they are officers in name only. +Tammany is no longer denounced by the public press, but the Jewish +leaders of Tammany live daily to a chorus of praise in the +Jewish-controlled newspapers of New York. Samuel Untermeyer, for +example, receives more publicity in New York than does the President of +the United States, but it is not discriminating publicity; it does not +penetrate to the inner purposes and consequences of his actions. + +Those who were the lesser Jewish lieutenants of Tammany a few years ago +have now arrived at posts of influence and affluence. Morris Cukor was +made president of the municipal service commission, to be succeeded by +former State Senator Abraham Kaplan. Fred B. House rose to be a city +magistrate. The city marshals are mostly Jewish. Jews predominate in the +College of the City of New York. Jews control the municipal courts, the +city magistrates’ courts, the city court, the New York state court of +appeals, the New York state supreme court. They rule in the departments +enumerated in the fore part of this article. The New York judiciary has +a distinctly Semitic complexion. + +The leadership of the Tammany-controlled districts tells the same story. +In the second, the leader is M. S. Levine; in the Sixth, David Lazarus; +in the Eighth, S. Goldenkranz, F. Bauman and S. Salinger; in the Ninth, +Mrs. P. Lau, in the Seventeenth, Nathan Burkan—and so on. + +The Jewish conquest of Tammany, however, is only one phase of the +conquest of New York. The Jewish objective is more than political. +Merely to strive that the lucrative and powerful officers of the city +shall fall to their people, is not the end in view. New York has been +turned into the Red Center of America. There most of the alien treason +carried on against the government of the United States has its source. +The United States Government has been compelled at times to regard New +York as almost alien soil, but even that watchfulness on the part of the +national government is relaxed as Jewish influence becomes more potent +at Washington. Tammany is a convenient cover for ostensible political +activity as the Kehillah is for the more radical racial and +anti-American racial activity. The United States Government could not do +better than to investigate—through a committee of invulnerable +Americans—the Jewish activities of that center. And that there is much +to investigate is indicated by the rush of Jews to Washington when it +was recently proposed in the United States Senate that such a thing be +done. + + +—— + +Issue of October 1, 1921. + + + + + LV. + B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the Jews + + +To the pro-Jewish spokesmen who have filled the air with cries of “lies” +and “slander,” to those self-appointed guardians of “American ideals” +who rule out with rare finality all those who would dare suggest that +possibly there is a hidden side of the Jewish Question, it must come as +something of a jolt to be reminded that in this series there is scarcely +a line that is without high Jewish authority. + +The Protocols themselves are written for centuries in Jewish +authoritative teachings and records. All the plans that have been +described from time to time in these articles are written in the +fundamental laws of the Jews. And all that the ancients have taught, the +modern Jews have reaffirmed. + +The writer of these articles has had to take constant counsel of +prudence in his selection of material, for the Jews have always counted +confidently on the fact that if the whole truth were told in one +comprehensive utterance, no one would believe it. Thus, bigots and minds +bursting with the discoveries they have made, have never been feared by +the Jews. They counted on the incapacity of the non-Jews to believe or +receive certain knowledge. They know that facts are not accepted on +proof, but only on understanding. Non-Jews cannot understand why human +beings should lend themselves to certain courses. They are, however, +beginning to understand, and the proof is therefore becoming more +significant. + +There are yet more important revelations to be made, always following +closely the best Jewish sources, and when these revelations are made, it +will be impossible for the Jewish leaders to keep silent or to deny. The +time is coming for American Jewry to slough off the leadership which has +led it and left it in the bog. Leadership knows that. Indeed, it is +amazing to discover the number of indications that the attempts made to +suppress THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT have been made principally _to prevent +the Jews reading it_. The leaders do not care how many non-Jews read +these articles; but they do not desire their own people to read them. +The Jewish leaders do not desire their people’s eyes to be opened. + +Why? Because, just now, only Jews can truly know whether the statements +made in these articles are true or not. Non-Jews may know here and +there, as their observations may confirm the printed statements. But +informed Jews really _know_. And large numbers of the masses of the Jews +really know. When they see the truth in all its relationships in these +articles, the hitherto “led” Jew may not be so tractable. Hence the +effort to keep the non-Jewish point of view away from him. + +In support of the statements that these articles have been based on +Jewish authority, we quote today a series of declarations by one of the +most able of the presidents of the B’nai B’rith, Leo N. Levi. Mr. Levi +was American-born and died in 1904. He was a lawyer of distinction and +attained the presidency of the international Jewish order, B’nai B’rith, +in 1900. He took part in the international politics of his people and is +credited with collaborating with Secretary of State John Hay on several +important matters. The utterances here quoted were for the most made +while he was president of B’nai B’rith, but all of them were published +the year after his death under B’nai B’rith auspices. There is therefore +no question of their Jewishness. + +Non-Jewish defenders of the Jewish program have pretended to much +indignation because of references that have been made to the Oriental +character of certain Jewish manifestations. The references in these +articles have been two in number, once regarding Oriental sensuality as +it has been introduced to the American stage by Jewish theatrical +panderers, and again in quoting Disraeli, the Jew who became premier of +Britain, to the effect that the Jews—his people—were “Mosaic Arabs.” + +But it never seemed to have occurred to Leo N. Levi to deny the Oriental +character of his race. Instead, he asserted it. On page 104 of the B’nai +B’rith memorial, he excuses certain social crudities of the Jew on the +ground “that hailing originally from the Orient and having been +compelled for twenty centuries to live in a society of his own, he has +preserved in his tastes much that is characteristically Oriental.” Again +on page 116, he excused the multiplicity of religious rites as being due +to the fact that the Jew “drew upon his Oriental imagination for a +symbolism that appealed to his ideal emotions.” On page 312, he speaks +of the Jews’ “Oriental devotion to their parents.” This easy recognition +of the fact is commended to those bootlicking editors who, out of the +vastness of their ignorance of the Jewish Question, have seen in the +reference to Orientalism an “insult” to the Jews and an unfailing +indication of anti-Semitism. + +The Jewish Question! Ah, that is another point which pro-Jewish +spokesmen hasten to deny, but they will be somewhat disturbed by the +candor with which true Jewish spokesmen admit the Question. + +In a strong passage on page 101, Mr. Levi says: + +“If I have dwelt so long upon this subject, it is because I recognize +that if the Jew has been denied so much that is rightfully his, he often +claims more than is his due. One of these claims, most persistently +urged, is that there is no Jewish Question; that a Jew is a citizen like +any other citizen and that as long as he abides by the law and does not +subject himself to criminal prosecution or civil action, his doings are +beyond legitimate inquiry by the public at large. + +“This contention on his part would certainly be well based if he claimed +nothing further than the right to live in peace, but when he demands +social recognition the whole range of his conduct is a legitimate +subject of inquiry against which no technical demurrers can be +interposed ... nor must the Jew be over-sensitive about the inquiry. + +“The inconsistencies and the unwisdom exhibited in the consideration of +the Jewish Question are not to be found altogether on the side of those +who are hostile to the Jews.” + +“Since then the refugees from Russia, Galicia and Rumania have raised +the Jewish Question to commanding importance. Since then it has dawned +on the world that _we are witnessing another exodus which promises soon +to change the habitat of the Jews to the Western Hemisphere_.” (Page 59) + +“The Jewish Question cannot be solved by tolerance. There are thousands +of well-meaning people who take to themselves great credit for +exhibiting a spirit of tolerance toward the Jews.” (Page 98) + +Mr. Levi also lays down rules for “the study of the Jewish Question,” +and he says that if they were followed the result “would be startling at +once to the Jews and the general public.” (Page 93) How far present +Jewish leadership has departed from that frank and broad view taken by +Mr. Levi, is everywhere evident. + +Not that Mr. Levi was a critic of his people, but he was a lawyer who +was accustomed to weighing facts, and he saw facts that weighed against +his people. But he was pro-Jewish even in his most severe observations. +He could make an attack on the rabbis, taunting them with the saying +that “many of you are ‘rabbis for revenue only,’” but he could also +insist on Jewish solidarity and exclusiveness. + +In this connection it may be interesting to see how strongly Mr. Levi +supports the contention of Jewish leaders (as outlined in THE DEARBORN +INDEPENDENT of October 9 and 16, 1920) that the Jews are a _race_ and +not merely a _religion_, a nation and not merely a church, and that the +term “Jew” is biological rather than theological. This is specially +commended to the attention of those dim-minded shouters of “religious +prejudice,” who come into action whenever the Jewish Question is +mentioned. (Of “religious prejudice” there are many examples to give in +future articles.) + +“Certain it is that thus far the race and the religion have been so +fused, as it were, that none can say just where the one begins and the +other leaves off.” (Page 116) + +Attacking the contention of the “liberals” or “reformed Jews” to the +effect that “Jew” is the name of a member of religious denomination, and +not of a member of a certain race, Mr. Levi says: + +“Nothing to my mind is more pregnant with error than this postulate of +unreason. (Page 185) It is not true that the Jews are only Jews because +of their religion.” (Page 189) + +“The Jews are not simply an indiscriminate lot of people who hold to a +common belief.” (Page 190) + +“A native Eskimo, an American Indian might conscientiously adopt every +tenet of the Jewish church, might practice every form and ceremony +imposed by the Jewish laws and the Jewish ritual, and as far as the +religion is concerned, be a Jew, but yet, no one who will reflect for a +moment would class them with the Jews as a people. If the truth were +known, a very large percentage of so-called Christians would be found to +be believers in the essentials of the Jewish religion, and yet, they are +not Jews. + +“It requires not only that men should believe in Judaism, but that they +should be the descendants in a direct line of that people who enjoyed a +temporal government and who owned a country up to the time of the +destruction of the second commonwealth. + +“That great event took away from the Jews their country and their +temporal government; it scattered them over the face of the earth, _but +it did not destroy the national and race idea_ which was a part of their +nature and of their religion.” + +“Who shall say, then, that the Jews are no longer a race?... Blood is +the basis and sub-stratum of the race idea, and no people on the face of +the globe can lay claim with so much right to purity of blood, and unity +of blood, as the Jews.” + +“If I have reasoned to any purpose, the inquiry of rights in the +premises is not to be limited to Jews as exponents of a particular +creed, but _to the Jews as a race_.” (Pages 190–191) + +“The religion alone does not constitute the people. As I have already +maintained, a believer in the Jewish faith does not by reason of that +fact become a Jew. On the other hand, however, _a Jew by birth remains a +Jew, even though he abjures his religion_.” (Page 200) + +This is the view of such men as Justice Brandeis, the Jew who sits on +the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Brandeis says, “Let us +all recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality _of which every +Jew, whatever his country, his station, his shade of belief, is +necessarily a member_.” + +Believing all this, Mr. Levi subscribes to the Jewish law and practice +of exclusiveness. + +Describing the state of the Jews, Mr. Levi says (page 92): “The Jews +have not materially increased or diminished in numbers for 2,000 years. +They have made no proselytes to their religion.... They have imbibed the +arts, the literature and the civilization of successive generations, but +have abstained very generally from intermixture of blood.... They have +infused their blood into that of other peoples but have taken little of +other peoples into their own.” + +As to intermarriage between the Jew and non-Jew, Mr. Levi calls it +miscegenation. “In remote countries, sparsely populated, the choice may +lie between such marriages and a worse relation.” Those are his words on +page 249. He does not advise the worse relation, but he has said quite +enough to indicate the Jewish view of the case. He continues: + +“It seems clear to me that Jews should avoid marriages with Gentiles and +Gentiles with Jews, _upon the same principle that we avoid marrying the +insane, the consumptive, the scrofulitic or the Negro_.” (Page 249) + +This exclusiveness goes down through all human relations. The Jew has +one counsel for non-Jews and another for himself in these matters. Of +the non-Jew he demands as a right what he looks down upon as shady +privilege. He uses the Ghetto as a club with which to bludgeon the +non-Jew for his “bigotry,” when as a fact he chooses the Ghetto for +well-defined racial reasons. He condemns the non-Jew for the exclusion +of the Jew from certain sections of society, when as a Jew his whole +care is to keep himself unspotted from that very society to which he +seeks entrance. The Jew insists on breaking down non-Jewish +exclusiveness while keeping his own. The non-Jewish world is to be +public and common, the Jewish world is to be kept sacrosanct. Read the +teachings of this enlightened leader of Jewry as published by the B’nai +B’rith. + +He favors the public school for non-Jewish children, not for Jewish +children; they are to be kept separate; they are the choice stock of the +earth: + +“Because the government tenders free education, it does not follow that +it must be accepted; if education be made compulsory, it does not follow +that government schools must be attended.... As a citizen I favor free +schools, because the education they afford, imperfect as it is, is +better than none, and society is benefited thereby; but as an individual +I prefer to pay to support free schools and send my children to more +select places.” (Page 253) He speaks of the fact that “all classes of +children frequent the public schools” as an argument against Jewish +children going there. + +“In my judgment, Jewish children should be educated in Jewish schools.” +(page 254) “Not only is it a positive and direct advantage to educate +our children as Jews, but it is absolutely necessary to our +preservation. Experience has shown that our young people will be weaned +from our people if allowed indiscriminately to associate with the +Gentiles.” (Page 255) + +Discussing the possibility of Jews losing their crudeness, Mr. Levi +asks, “How shall we best accomplish that end?” Then he quotes the +frequent answer: “Since the exemplars of gentility most abound among the +Gentiles, we should associate with them as much as possible, in order to +wear our own rudeness away.” He meets the suggestion this way: + +“If gentlemen were willing to meet all Jews on a parity because they are +Jews, we should doubtless derive much benefit from such association. +But, while it is true that no gentleman refuses association with another +because that other is a Jew, he will not, as a rule, associate with a +Jew unless he be a gentleman. As we are far from being all gentlemen, we +cannot reasonably expect to be admitted as a class into good society. +So, better keep by ourselves,” concludes Mr. Levi. (Page 260) + +That is, Mr. Levi admits the willingness of society to meet Jews on +equal terms, as with all others, but not on unequal terms. And this +being so, Mr. Levi holds they had better meet as little as possible, +they had better keep apart; in the formative years, certainly, Jewish +young people should be kept rigidly apart from non-Jews. The +exclusiveness of which the Jews complain is their own. The Ghetto is not +a corner into which the non-Jews have herded the Semites; the Ghetto is +a spot carved out of the community and consecrated to the Chosen People +and is therefore the best section of the city in Jewish eyes, the rest +being “the Christian quarter,” the area of the heathen. Mr. Levi himself +admits on page 220 that there is no prejudice against the Jew in this +country. + +Certain wild-eyed objectors to the series of studies on the Jewish +Question have made the assertion that THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has +declared cowardice to be a Jewish trait. That the statement is false as +regards this paper does not change the fact that the subject has been +generally discussed in and out of army circles. If it ever becomes +necessary to discuss it in these studies, the facts will be set forth as +far as they are obtainable. But the point just now is that Mr. Levi has +had somewhat to say which may repay reading: + +“Physical courage has always been an incident, not an element, of Jewish +character. It has no independent existence in their make-up, and always +depended on something else. With some exceptions this may be said of all +Oriental people. The sense and fear of danger is highly developed in +them, and there is no cultivation of that indifference to it which has +distinguished the great nations of Western Europe.” (Page 205) + +Were a non-Jew to call attention to this difference between the Jews and +others, he would be met with the cry of “anti-Semitism” and he would be +twitted with the fact that all his relatives may not have served in the +war. Loudest to twit him would be those who served in what our soldiers +called “the Jewish infantry,” the quartermaster’s corps in the late +National Army. + +It is to this aversion to danger, however, that Mr. Levi attributes the +Jews’ greatness among the nations. Other nations can fight, the Jews can +endure, and that, he says, is greater. Note his words (the italics are +his own): + +“Other nations may boast conquests and triumphs born of aggression, but +though the fruits of victory have been manifold, they have not been +enduring; and it may be truly said that the nation whose greatness grows +out of valor passes through the stages of discord and degeneracy to +decay.... In the virtue of endurance I believe the Jews have a safeguard +against the decay that has marked the history of all other peoples.” + +It appears, therefore, that the draft-dodger, if he can _endure_ long +enough, may yet come to own the country. + +Jewish leaders have lately tried to minimize as “wild words” the +disclosures made by Disraeli with reference to the Jews’ participation +in European revolutions. What Disraeli said can be found in his +“Coningsby,” or in the quotations made therefrom in THE DEARBORN +INDEPENDENT of December 18, 1920. With reference to the German +Revolution of 1848, Disraeli wrote—before it had taken place: + + “You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which + the Jews do not greatly participate.... That mysterious Russian + Diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is organized and + principally carried on by Jews. That mighty revolution, which is at + this moment preparing in Germany, and which will be, in fact, a + second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is yet known + in England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews.” + +It is interesting, therefore, to hear Mr. Levi confirming from the +American side those significant statements made by Disraeli. + +“The revolution of 1848 in Germany, however, influenced a great many +highly educated Jews to come to America.” (Page 181) “It is unnecessary +to review the events of 1848; suffice it to say, that not a few among +the revolutionists were Jews, and that a considerable number of those +who were proscribed by the government at home, fled to the United States +for safety.” (Page 182) These German Jews are now the arch-financiers of +the United States. They found here complete liberty to exploit peoples +and nations to the full extent of their powers. They still maintain +their connections with Frankfort-on-the-Main, the world capital of +International financial Jewry. + +With these quotations from the speeches and writings of Leo N. Levi, a +famous president of the B’nai B’rith, it would seem to be a fair +question as to the reason for the denial and denunciation which have +followed the making of these statements in the course of this series of +studies. Leo N. Levi studied the Jewish Question because he knew a +Jewish Question to exist. He knew that the Jewish Question was not a +non-Jewish creation but appeared wherever Jews began to appear in +numbers. They brought it with them. He knew the justice of many of the +charges laid against the Jews. He knew the impossibility of disproving +them, the futility of shrieking “anti-Semitism” at them. He knew, +moreover, that for the Jews to solve the Jewish Question by departing +from the peculiar racial traditions of superiority, would be to cease to +be Jews. Therefore, he threw his whole influence on the side of the Jews +remaining separate, maintaining their tradition of The Chosen Race, +looking upon themselves as the coming rulers of the nations, and there +he left the Question just about where he found it. + +But in the course of his studies he gave other investigators the benefit +of his frank statements. He did not put lies into the mouths of his +people. He was not endeavoring to maintain himself in position by +prejudiced racial appeals. He looked certain facts in the face, made his +report, and chose his side. Several times in the course of his argument, +his very logic led him up to the point where, logically, he would have +to cast aside his Jewish idea of separateness. But with great calmness +he discarded the logic and clung to the Jewish tradition. For example: + +“The better to facilitate such happiness in every country and in every +age, various kinds of organizations have existed as they exist today. +The Jews have theirs. + +“For many reasons they are exclusive. In theory they should not be so. +In our social organizations we should, in deference to the argument +which I have already named, admit any congenial and worthy Gentile who +honors us with his application. But what may be theoretically correct +may be found practically wrong. It certainly is a wrong to exclude a +worthy person because he does not happen to be a Jew; but on the other +hand, where are you to draw the line?” + +This is frankness to a fault. Of course, it is wrong, but the right is +impractical! Logic goes by the boards in the face of something stronger. +Mr. Levi is not to be blamed for having gone to his tribe. Every man’s +place is with his tribe. The criticism belongs to the lick-spittle +Gentile Fronts who have no tribe and become hangers-on around the +outskirts of Judah, racial mongrels who would be better off if they had +one-thousandth of the racial sense which the Jew possesses. + +This brief survey of the philosophy which Mr. Levi both lived and +taught, and which is shared by the leaders of American Jewry, is in +strict agreement with Jewish principles all down the centuries. In his +published addresses Mr. Levi does not touch upon all the implications of +the separateness which he enjoins upon his nation. Why do they keep by +themselves? What is it that keeps them distinct? Is it their religion? +Very well; let us regard them as a sect of religious recluses and wish +them well in their endeavors to keep themselves unspotted of the world. +Is it their race? So their leaders teach. Race and nationality are +strictly claimed. If this is so, there must be a political outlook. What +is it? Palestine? Not that any one can notice. A great deal may be read +about it in the newspapers, the newspapers in turn being supplied +through the Associated Press with the Jewish Telegraph Agency’s +propaganda dispatches; but no one in Palestine notices the Land becoming +more Jewish. Jewry’s political outlook is world rule in the material +sense. Jewry is an international nation. It is this, and nothing else, +which gives significance to its financial, educational, propagandist, +revolutionary and immigration programs. + + +—— + +Issue of May 14, 1921. + + + + + LVI. + Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People’s Error + + +A Jew of standing, Dr. Oscar Levy, well known in English literary +circles and lover of his people, has had the honesty and the wisdom to +meet the Jewish Question with truth and candor. His remarks are printed +in this article as an example of the methods by which Jewry can be saved +in the estimation of Twentieth Century Civilization. + +The circumstances were these: George Pitt-Rivers, of Worcester College, +Oxford, wrote a most illuminating brochure entitled, “The World +Significance of the Russian Revolution,” which is published and sold for +two shillings by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. The book is the result of +unprejudiced observation and study and agrees with the statements made +in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT about the personnel of Bolshevism. The +manuscript was sent to Dr. Oscar Levy, as a representative Jew, and Dr. +Levy’s letter was subsequently published as a preface to the book. + +That the reader may understand the tenor of Mr. Pitt-Rivers’s book, +section XVI, pp. 39–41, is herewith given in full, and is followed by +Dr. Levy’s comments. The italics throughout are intended to remind the +reader of remarks on similar lines made in this series: + +It is not unnaturally claimed by Western Jews that Russian Jewry, as a +whole, is most bitterly opposed to Bolshevism. Now although there is a +great measure of truth in this claim, since the prominent Bolsheviks, +who are preponderantly Jewish, do not belong to the orthodox Jewish +Church, it is yet possible, without laying oneself open to the charge of +anti-Semitism, to point to the obvious fact that Jewry, _as a whole_, +has, consciously or _unconsciously_, worked for and promoted an +international economic, material despotism which, with Puritanism as an +ally, has tended in an ever-increasing degree to crush national and +spiritual values out of existence and substitute the ugly and deadening +machinery of finance and factory. It is also a fact that Jewry, as a +whole, strove every nerve to secure and heartily approved of the +overthrow of the Russian monarchy, which they regarded as their most +formidable obstacle in the path of their ambitions and business +pursuits. All this may be admitted, as well as the plea that, +individually or collectively, most Jews may heartily detest the +Bolshevik régime, yet it is still true that the whole weight of Jewry +was in the revolutionary scales against the czar’s government. It is +true their apostate brethren, who are now riding in the seat of power, +may have exceeded their orders; that is disconcerting, but it does not +alter the fact. It may be that the Jews, often the victims of their own +idealism, have always been instrumental in bringing about the events +they most heartily disapprove of; that perhaps is the curse of the +Wandering Jew. + +Certainly it is from the Jews themselves that we learn most about the +Jews. It is possible that only a Jew can understand a Jew. Nay, more, it +may be that only a Jew can save us from the Jews, a Jew who is great +enough, strong enough—for greater racial purity is a source of strength +in the rare and the great—and inspired enough to overcome in himself the +life-destructive vices of his own race. It was a Jew who said, “Wars are +the Jews’ harvest”; but no harvest so rich as civil wars. A Jew reminds +us that the French Revolution brought civil emancipation for the Jews in +Western Europe. Was it a _Jew_ who inspired Rousseau with the eighteenth +century idea of the sameness of man according to nature? Dr. Kallen, a +Zionist author, writes: “Suffering for 1,000 years from the assertion of +their difference from the rest of mankind, they accepted eagerly the +escape from suffering which the eighteenth century assertion of the +sameness of all men opened to them.... They threw themselves with +passion into the republican emancipating movements of their fellow +subjects of other stocks.” It was a Jew, Ricardo, who gave us the +nineteenth century ideal of the sameness of man according to machinery. +And without the Ricardian gospel of international capitalism, we could +not have had the international gospel of Karl Marx. Moses Hess and +Disraeli remind us of the particularly conspicuous part played by Jews +in the Polish and Hungarian rebellions, and in the republican uprising +in Germany of ’48. Even more conspicuous were they in the new +internationalism logically deducible from the philosophy of Socialism. +This we were taught by the Jew Marx, and the Jew Ferdinand Lasalle, and +they but developed the doctrine of the Jew David Ricardo. + +It was Weininger, a Jew—and also a Jew hater—who explained why so many +Jews are naturally Communists. Communism is not only an international +creed, but it implies the abnegation of real property, especially +property in land, and Jews, being international, have never acquired a +taste for real property; they prefer money. Money is an instrument of +power, though eventually, of course, Communists claim that they will do +away with money—when their power is sufficiently established to enable +them to command goods, and exercise despotic sway without it. Thus the +same motives prompt the Jew Communist and his apparent enemy, the +financial Jew. When owners of real property in times of economic +depression feel the pinch of straightened circumstances, it is the +Jewish usurers who become most affluent and who, out of goodness of +their hearts, come to their assistance—at a price. + +To these and other statements, Dr. Levy, as a Jew, made this reply: + + Dear Mr. Pitt-Rivers: + +When you first handed me your MS. on _The World Significance of the +Russian Revolution_, you expressed a doubt about the propriety of its +title. After a perusal of your work, I can assure you, with the best of +consciences, that your misgivings were entirely without foundation. + +No better title than _The World Significance of the Russian Revolution_ +could have been chosen, for no event in any age will finally have more +significance for our world than this one. We are still too near to see +clearly this Revolution, this portentous event, _which was certainly one +of the most intimate and therefore least obvious, aims of the +world-conflagration, hidden as it was at first by the fire and smoke of +national enthusiasms and patriotic antagonisms_. + +It was certainly very plucky of you to try and throw some light upon an +event which necessarily must still be enveloped in mist and mystery, and +I was even somewhat anxious, lest your audacity in treating such a +dangerous subject would end in failure, or what is nearly the same, in +ephemeral success. No age is so voracious of its printed offspring as +ours. There was thus some reason to fear lest you had offered to this +modern Kronos only another mouthful of his accustomed nourishment for +his immediate consumption. + +I was, I am glad to report, agreeably surprised—surprised, though not by +the many new facts which you give, and which must surprise all those who +take an interest in current events—facts, I believe, which you have +carefully and personally collected and selected, not only from books, +but from the lips and letters of Russian eye-witnesses and sufferers, +from foes as well as from friends of the great Revolution. + +What I appreciate more than this new light thrown on a dark subject, +more than the conclusion drawn by you from this wealth of facts, is the +psychological insight which you display in _detecting the reasons why a +movement so extraordinarily bestial and so violently crazy as the +Revolution was able to succeed and finally to overcome its adversaries_. +For we are confronted with two questions which need answering and which, +in my opinion, you have answered in your pamphlet. These questions are: +(1) How has the Soviet Government, _admittedly the government of an +insignificant minority_, succeeded not only in maintaining but in +strengthening its position in Russia after two and a half years of +power? and (2) Why has the Soviet Government, in spite of its outward +bestiality and brutal tyranny, succeeded in gaining the sympathies of an +increasing number of people in this country?... + +You rightly recognize that there is an ideology behind it and you +clearly diagnose it as an ancient ideology. There is nothing new under +the Sun, _it is even nothing new that this Sun rises in the East_.... + +For Bolshevism is a religion and a faith. How could these half-converted +believers ever dream to vanquish the “Truthful” and the “Faithful” of +their own creed, these holy crusaders, who had gathered round the Red +Standard of the Prophet Karl Marx, and who fought under the daring +guidance of _these experienced officers of all latter-day +revolutions—the Jews_? + +I am touching here on a subject which, to judge from your own pamphlet, +is perhaps more interesting to you than any other. In this you are +right. _There is no race in the world more enigmatic, more fatal, and +therefore more interesting than the Jews._ + +_Every writer, who, like yourself, is oppressed by the aspect of the +present and embarrassed by his anxiety for the future, MUST try to +elucidate the Jewish Question and its bearing upon our Age._ + +_For the question of the Jews and their influence on the world past and +present, cuts to the root of all things, and should be discussed by +every honest thinker, however bristling with difficulties it is, however +complex the subject as well as the individuals of this Race may be._ + +For the Jews, as you are aware, are a sensitive Community, and thus very +suspicious of any Gentile who tries to approach them with a critical +mind. They are always inclined—and that on account of their terrible +experiences—to denounce anyone who is not with them as against them, as +tainted with “medieval” prejudice, as an intolerant Antagonist of their +Faith and of their Race. + +Nor could or would I deny that there is some evidence, some prima facie +evidence of this antagonistic attitude in your pamphlet. You point out, +and with fine indignation, _the great danger that springs from the +prevalence of Jews in finance and industry, and from the preponderance +of Jews in rebellion and revolution_. You reveal, and with great fervor, +_the connection between the Collectivism of the immensely rich +international Finance_—the Democracy of cash values, as you call it—_and +the international Collectivism of Karl Marx and Trotsky_—the Democracy +of and by decoy-cries.... And all this evil and misery, the economic as +well as the political, you trace back to one source, to one “_fons et +origo malorum_”—the Jews. + +Now other Jews may vilify and crucify you for these outspoken views of +yours; I myself shall abstain from joining the chorus of condemnation! I +shall try to understand your opinions and your feelings, and having once +understood them—as I think I have—I can defend you from the unjust +attacks of my often too impetuous Race. But first of all, I have to say +this: _There is scarcely an event in modern Europe that cannot be traced +back to the Jews. Take the Great War that appears to have come to an +end, ask yourself what were its causes and its reasons: you will find +them in nationalism. You will at once answer that nationalism has +nothing to do with the Jews, who, as you have just proved to us, are the +inventors of the international idea._ But no less than Bolshevist +Ecstasy and Financial Tyranny can National Bigotry (if I may call it so) +_be finally followed back to a Jewish source_—are not they the inventors +of the Chosen People Myth, and is not this obsession part and parcel of +the political credo of every modern nation, _however small and +insignificant it may be_? And then think of the history of nationalism. +It started in our time and as a reaction against Napoleon; Napoleon was +the antagonist of the French Revolution; the French Revolution was the +consequence of the German Reformation; the German Reformation was based +upon a crude Christianity; this kind of Christianity was invented, +preached and propagated by the Jews; THEREFORE the Jews have made this +war!... Please do not think this a joke; it only seems a joke, and +behind it there lurks a gigantic truth, and it is this, _that all +latter-day ideas and movements have originally sprung from a Jewish +source_, for the simple reason, that the Semitic idea has finally +conquered and entirely subdued this _only apparently irreligious +universe of ours_. + + ... There is no doubt that the Jews regularly go one better or worse +than the Gentile in whatever they do, there is no further doubt that +_their influence today justifies a very careful scrutiny, and cannot +possibly be viewed without serious alarm_. The great question, however, +is whether the Jews are conscious or unconscious malefactors; I myself +am firmly convinced that they are unconscious ones, but please do not +think that I wish to exonerate them on that account.... A conscious +evildoer has my respect, for he knows at least what is good; an +unconscious one—well, he needs the charity of Christ—a charity which is +not mine—to be forgiven for not knowing what he is doing. But there is +in my firm conviction not the slightest doubt that these revolutionary +Jews do not know what they are doing; that they are more unconscious +sinners than voluntary evildoers. + +I am glad to see that this is not an original observation of mine, but +that you yourself have a very strong foreboding about the Jews being the +victims of their own theories and principles. On page 39 of your +pamphlet you write: “It may be that the Jews have always been +instrumental in bringing about the events that they most heartily +disapprove of; that maybe is the curse of the Wandering Jew.” If I had +not the honor, as well as the pleasure, of knowing you personally, if I +were not strongly aware of your passionate desire for light and your +intense loathing of unfairness, this sentence, and this sentence alone, +which tells the truth, will absolve you in my eyes from the odious +charge of being a vulgar anti-Semite. + +No, you are not a vulgar, you are a very enlightened, critic of our +Race. _For there is an anti-Semitism, I hope and trust, which does the +Jews more justice than any blind philo-Semitism_, than does that merely +sentimental “Let-them-all-come Liberalism” which in itself is nothing +but the Semitic Ideology over again. _And thus you can be just to the +Jews, without being “romantic” about them._ + +You have noticed with alarm that the _Jewish elements provide the +driving forces for both Communism and capitalism_, for the material as +well as the spiritual ruin of this world. But then you have at the same +time the profound suspicion that the reason of all this extraordinary +behavior may be the intense Idealism of the Jew. In this you are +perfectly right. The Jew, if caught by an idea, never thinks any more in +watertight compartments, as do the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon peoples, whose +right cerebral hemisphere never seems to know what its left twin brother +is doing; he, the Jew, like the Russian, at once begins to practice what +he preaches, he draws the logical conclusion from his tenets, he +invariably acts upon his accepted principles. It is from this quality, +no doubt, that springs his mysterious force—that force which you no +doubt condemn, but which you had to admire even in the Bolshevists. And +we must admire it, whether we are Jews or whether we are Christians, for +have not these modern Jews remained true to type, is there no parallel +for them in history, do they not go to the bitter end even in our +day?... + +Who stirred up the people during the late war in Germany? Who pretended +to have again the truth, _that_ truth about which Pontius Pilate once +shrugged his shoulders? Who pleaded for honesty and cleanliness in +Politics, _that_ honesty which brings a smile to the lips of any +experienced Pro-consul of today? Writers, who were mostly Jews: Fried, +Fernau, Latzko, Richard Grelling—the author of “J’accuse.” Who was +killed and allowed himself to be killed for these very ideas and +principles? Men and women of the Jewish Race: Haase, Levine, Luxemburg, +Landauer, Kurt Eisner, the Prime Minister of Bavaria. From Moses to +Marx, from Isaiah to Eisner, in practice and in theory, in idealism and +in materialism, in philosophy and in politics, they are today what they +have always been: passionately devoted to their aims and to their +purposes, and ready, nay, eager, to shed their last drop of blood for +the realization of their visions. + +“But these visions are all wrong,” will you reply.... “Look where they +have led the world to. Think, that they have now had a fair trial of +3,000 years’ standing. How much longer are you going to recommend them +to us and to inflict them upon us? And how do you propose to get us out +of the morass into which you have launched us, if you do not change the +path upon which you have led the world so disastrously astray?” + +To this question I have only one answer to give, and it is this: “You +are right.” This reproach of yours, which—I feel it for certain—is at +the bottom of your anti-Semitism, is only too well justified, and upon +this common ground I am quite willing to shake hands with you and defend +you against any accusation of promoting Race Hatred: _If you are +anti-Semite, I, the Semite, am an anti-Semite too, and a much more +fervent one than even you are.... We (Jews) have erred, my friend, we +have most grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 3,000, +2,000, nay, 100 years ago, there is now nothing but falseness and +madness, a madness that will produce an even greater misery and an even +wider anarchy. I confess it to you, openly and sincerely, and with a +sorrow, whose depth and pain an ancient Psalmist, and only he, could +moan into this burning universe of ours.... We who have posed as the +saviours of the world, we who have even boasted of having given it “the” +Saviour, we are today nothing else but the world’s seducers, its +destroyers, its incendiaries, its executioners...._ We who have promised +to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finally succeeded in landing you +into a new Hell.... There has been no progress, least of all moral +progress.... And it is just our Morality, which has prohibited all real +progress, and—what is worse—which even stands in the way of every future +and natural reconstruction in this ruined world of ours.... I look at +this world, and I shudder at its ghastliness; I shudder all the more as +I know the spiritual authors of all this ghastliness.... + +But its authors themselves, unconscious in this as in all they are +doing, know nothing yet of this startling revelation. _While Europe is +aflame, while its victims scream, while its dogs howl in the +conflagration, and while its very smoke descends in darker and even +darker shades upon our Continent, the Jews, or at least a part of them +and by no means the most unworthy ones, endeavor to escape from the +burning building, and wish to retire from Europe into Asia, from the +somber scene of our disaster into the sunny corner of their Palestine. +Their eyes are closed to the miseries, their ears are deaf to the +moanings, their heart is hardened to the anarchy of Europe: they only +feel their own sorrows, they only bewail their own fate, they only sigh +under their own burdens...._ They know nothing of their duty to Europe, +which looks around in vain for help and guidance, they know nothing even +of their own great ancestor to whose heart the appeal of pity was never +made in vain: they have become too poor in love, too sick at heart, too +tired of battle, and lo! these sons of those who were once the bravest +of soldiers are now trying to retire from the trenches to the rear, are +now eager to exchange the grim music of the whistling shells with that +of the cow-bells and vintage songs in the happy plain of Sharon.... + +And yet we are not all Financiers, we are not all Bolshevists, we have +not all become Zionists. And yet there is hope, great hope, that this +same race which has provided the Evil will likewise succeed in supplying +its antidote, its remedy—the Good. It has always been so in the past—was +not that fatal Liberalism, which has finally led to Bolshevism—in the +very midst of that dark nineteenth century, most strenuously opposed by +two enlightened Jews—Friedrich Stahl, the founder of the Conservative +Party in Germany, and by Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the Tory Party +in England? _And if these two eminent men had no suspicion yet that +their own race and its holy message were at the bottom of that +unfortunate upheaval, with which their age was confronted_: how eager, +how determined, how passionate will be the opposition of the Disraelis +of the future, once they have clearly recognized that they are really +fighting the tenets of their own people, and that it was their “Good,” +their “Love,” their “Ideal,” that had launched the world into this Hell +of Evil and Hatred. A new “Good” as new Love, a true Love, an +intelligent Love, a Love that calms and heals and sweetens, will then +spring up among the Great in Israel and overcome that sickly Love, that +insipid Love, that romantic Love, which has hitherto poisoned all the +Strength and all the Nobility of this world. For Hatred is never +overcome by Hatred: it is only overcome by Love, and it wants a new and +a gigantic Love to subdue that old and devilish Hatred of today. That is +our task for the future—a task which will, I am sure, not be shirked by +Israel, by that same Israel which has never shirked a task, whether it +was for good or whether it was for evil.... + +Yes, there is hope, my friend, for we are still here, our last word is +not yet spoken, our last deed is not yet done, our last revolution is +not yet made. _This last Revolution, the Revolution that will crown our +revolutionaries, will be the revolution against the revolutionaries._ It +is bound to come, and it is perhaps upon us now. The great day of +reckoning is near. It will pass a judgment upon our ancient faith, and +it will lay the foundation to a new religion. And when that great day +has broken, when the values of death and decay are put into the melting +pot to be changed into those of power and beauty, then you, my dear +Pitt-Rivers, the descendant of an old and distinguished Gentile family, +may be assured to find by your side, and as your faithful ally, at least +one member of that Jewish Race, which has fought with such fatal success +upon all the spiritual battlefields of Europe. + +Yours against the Revolution and for Life ever flourishing, + + OSCAR LEVY, + ROYAL SOCIETIES CLUB, + ST. JAMES STREET, + LONDON, S. W., + JULY, 1920. + + +—— + +Issue of April 30, 1921. + + + + + LVII. + Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs + + +Mr. Brisbane says that Jewish bankers exercise their large measure of +control because they are abler than the other bankers. It was very good +of Mr. Brisbane to say so, and it adds to the sum of his weekly, almost +daily, worship at the Jewish shrine, but it is scarcely true. Jewish +bankers do not yet control the United States, and the principal reason +they do not is that they are not abler than the other bankers. Doubtless +they seek control; doubtless they have almost grasped it on several +occasions; but not yet. + +Nevertheless they form such a formidable force, and with their +international connections constitute such a political problem, that the +mere fact of their failing to top the column of control is not so +reassuring as it sounds. + +The great Jewish banking houses of the United States are foreign +importations, as perhaps everyone knows. Most of them are sufficiently +recent to be considered in their immigrant status, while the thought of +them as aliens is stimulated by their retention of over-sea connections. +It is this international quality of the Jewish banking group which +largely accounts for Jewish financial power: there is team-play, +intimate understandings, and while there is a margin of competition +among themselves (as at golf) there is also a wiping out of that margin +when it comes to a contest between Jewish and “Gentile” capital. + +Four conspicuous contemporary names in Jewish-American finance are +Belmont, Schiff, Warburg and Kahn. All of them, even the most recent, +are of foreign origin. + +August Belmont was the earliest and arrived in America in 1837 as the +American representative of the Rothschilds in whose offices he had been +raised. His birthplace was that great center of Jewish international +finance, Frankfort-on-the-Main. He became the founder of the Belmont +family in America, which has largely forgotten its Jewish origin. +Politics was a part of his concern in this country, and during the +critical time from 1860 to 1872 he was chairman of the National +Democratic Committee. His management of the Rothschild interests was +exceedingly profitable to that house, although the operations in which +he engaged were quite simple compared with the operations of the present +day. + +Jacob Schiff is another Jewish financier who was given to the world by +Frankfort-on-the-Main. He entered the United States in 1865, after +having passed his apprenticeship in the office of his father, who was +also an agent of the Rothschilds. The name Schiff runs a long way back +without change, unlike the name of Rothschild. Originally named Bauer, +this family of financiers took a new name from the red shield which +adorned their house in the Jewish section of Frankfort and thus became +“Rot-schild.” Commonly the last syllable is pronounced as if it were +“child”; it is “schild,” shield. An epoch-making family in itself, it +has trained hundreds of agents and apprentices, of whom Jacob H. Schiff +was one. He became one of the principal channels through which +German-Jewish capital flowed into American undertakings, and his agency +in these matters gave him a place in many important departments of +American business, especially railroads, banks, insurance companies and +telegraph companies. He married Theresa Loeb, and in due time came to be +head of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. + +Mr. Schiff, too, was interested in politics with a Jewish angle, and was +perhaps the moving force in the campaign which forced Congress and the +President to break off treaty relations with Russia, then a friendly +nation, on a strictly Jewish question which had been skillfully given an +American aspect. Mr. Schiff was of inestimable assistance to Japan in +the war against Russia, but is understood to have been disappointed by +Japan’s shrewdness in preventing too high a return being made for that +assistance. + +Associated with Mr. Schiff in Kuhn, Loeb & Company is Otto Herman Kahn, +who is probably more international than were either of the two gentlemen +mentioned above and is more constantly engaged in dabbling in mysterious +matters of an international nature. This characteristic may be accounted +for, however, by his experience of many countries. He was born in +Germany and is also a product of the Frankfort-on-the-Main school of +finance, having had connection with the Frankfort Jewish house of +Speyer. + +Of just how many countries Mr. Kahn has been a citizen is a question not +easy to determine here because of the doubt that was recently cast upon +his American citizenship by a protest against his being permitted to +cast his vote last year and by his failure—the announced cause being +physical indisposition—to cast his vote. If Mr. Kahn is a citizen of the +United States (a status that will be readily proclaimed upon proof that +he is), that probably increases the number of his citizenships to three. +He was a German citizen by birth, and served in the German Army. And in +1914, in August, at the time of the outbreak of the European War, when +efforts were being made, which afterward succeeded, to put Paul M. +Warburg, a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, on the Federal +Reserve Board, Mr. Warburg testified that at that time Mr. Kahn was not +a citizen of the United States. + + Senator Bristow—“How many of these partners are American citizens, + or are they all American citizens....” + + Mr. Warburg—“They are all American citizens except Mr. Kahn.”—(P. 7, + Senate Hearings, August 1, 1914.) + + Senator Bristow—“Now, the members of your firm, are they all + American citizens except Mr. Kahn?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Except Mr. Kahn, yes.” + + Senator Bristow—“Was Mr. Kahn ever an American citizen?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No.” + + Senator Bristow—“He never was?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No; he is a British subject.” + + Senator Bristow—“He is a British subject?” + + The Chairman—“He lives in England, does he not?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No. At one time he thought he would move to Europe, and + that was when the question arose of his standing for Parliament; + then he changed his mind and moved back to the United States.” + + Senator Bristow—“He was at one time a candidate, or a prospective + candidate for Parliament, was he not?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No; he was not; but there was talk about it; it had + been suggested, and he had it in his mind. Something had been + written about it in the papers.”—(P. 76, Senate Hearings, August 3, + 1914.) + +So, that if Mr. Kahn is a citizen of the United States now, which as a +matter of fact has been disputed, then he has been a citizen of three +countries, Germany and Great Britain being the other two. + +Mr. Kahn, by the way, is one of those Jews whose adoption of another +form of faith brings no denunciation whatever from the Jews themselves. +A most peculiar circumstance! But doubtless not inexplicable. Mr. Kahn +is not called a “renegade Jew” nor any of the other nasty names heaped +upon Jewish converts to Christianity, because he does not deserve them. +They would not fit him. He is not renegade. And he never was regarded +for a moment by Jacob H. Schiff as anything but a Jew, else that “Prince +of Israel” would not have chosen him to remain in America and run the +business of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, at a time when it seemed undesirable +to put the junior Schiff in full charge of it. + +Doubtless it was Mr. Kahn’s desire, just at the time Jacob Schiff made +his wishes known, to go to England and stand for Parliament. + +But from New York he fulfills, probably as well as he could from London, +those mysterious missions which frequently take him to the Continent, at +which times he makes what are regarded as certain authoritative +decisions, though just _whose_ decisions it is not always possible to +say. In Paris particularly, and at points east thereof, Mr. Kahn has +been established in the position of spokesman of the American Financial +Hierarchy, which, of course, he is not. But he undoubtedly is the +spokesman of some group, possibly the group which so ably put through +the Jewish program at the Peace Conference, the group that impressed +Eastern Europe with the feeling that the United States of America was a +very powerful Semitic empire. Mr. Kahn’s trips abroad are usually +unheralded, but their results richly repay observation. + +A fourth member of the Jewish financial group in America (which is the +form of statement which Mr. Chaim Weizmann would sanction, rather than +to say “Jewish-American financiers”) is Mr. Paul Warburg, to whose +testimony we have just alluded. + +Mr. Warburg is the most recent of all. He was born in Germany in 1868; +he came to the United States in 1902; he became an American citizen in +1911. He came to the United States for the express purpose of reforming +our financial system, and it is hardly possible to understand fully the +system in operation today without reference to Paul Warburg. He is a man +of very fine mind, a money-maker, but something more—a shrewd student of +the systems by which money is made. There are two types engaged in the +mere work of money-making which is better described as “money-getting,” +without reference to production; one type grubs away under whatever +system obtains, regarding it as fixed as the solar system; another type +is sufficiently detached to see the system as an artifice which may be +mended, remodeled or supplanted altogether. Paul Warburg, scion of a +long line of German Jewish bankers, is of the latter type. He is not +content with the fact that the cash-register fills itself with money; he +wants also to know how the cash-register works, and whether it can be +worked. He is thus a student of money and of the number of ways in which +it can be manipulated. + +Perhaps it will be best to let him tell his own story as far as he goes. +When he told it to the Committee on Banking and Currency of the United +States Senate in executive session, there was some dispute as to whether +the proceedings should be recorded by the stenographer. It was finally +agreed that notes should be made but should not be divulged. The +testimony was printed “in confidence” on August 5, 1914, and nominally +“made public” on August 12. + +The Warburgs are one of the international families whose importance was +not realized until the war, and would not have been realized then if +their internationalism had not been so apparent. It was an interesting +spectacle to see brothers occupying important places of counsel on +either side of the great struggle. + +Paul Warburg learned the rudiments of banking in his father’s bank at +Hamburg, Germany, studying the over-sea trade which is the foundation of +that city’s business. The banking house of Warburg in Hamburg dates from +1796. + +“After that I went to England, where I stayed for two years, first in +the banking and discount firm of Samuel Montague & Company, and after +that I took the opportunity of staying two months in the office of a +stockbroker in order to learn that part of the business. + +“After that I went to France, where I stayed in a French bank, so that—” + +The Chairman—“What French bank was that?” + +Mr. Warburg—“It is the Russian bank for foreign trade, which has an +agency in Paris. + +“And after that I went back to Hamburg and worked there again for a +year, I think. + +“Then I went round to India, China and Japan. + +“And then I came to this country for the first time in 1893. I stayed +here only a short time then, and went back to Hamburg, and then became a +partner of the firm in Hamburg.” + +The Chairman—“How long were you in Hamburg then in the banking +business?” + +Mr. Warburg—“Until 1902.... And then I moved over here to this country +to become a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Company.” + +“I explained in the curriculum which I gave you, Mr. Chairman, that by +marriage I am related to members of the firm, the late Mr. Loeb having +been my father-in-law, which brought about a desire on the part of the +family to bring me over here.... I ought to say that I got married in +this country in 1895 and that I have been in this country every year +since, for several months.... That is the history of my banking +education.” + +It will be recalled that Jacob H. Schiff also married a daughter of Mr. +Loeb, so that Mr. Warburg married the sister of Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff. +Felix Warburg, Paul’s brother, who is also in the firm, married Mr. +Schiff’s daughter. + +Mr. Warburg immediately cast a critical eye upon the state of financial +affairs in the United States and it is significant of the grasp he +already had on such matters that he found the country rather behind the +times. + +He conceived the ambition—the very daring ambition—of taking hold of the +United States’ monetary system and making it what he thought it ought to +be. + +This alone would make him a remarkable man. It illustrates very well +that detached point of view which the Jew is more fitted to take than +any other man perhaps. He sees countries and systems with the same +freedom from intimate bias with which another man would view assorted +fish upon a market stall. Most of the world is engaged in doing its work +and indulging its national, racial, domestic and social affections and +inclinations; a small minority stands in the background and watches the +entire mass at its unconscious maneuvers, and studies it as an observer +studies a hive of bees. The man at work has no time except for his job. +One man, standing back and studying 1,000 men at work, is able to see +how he might utilize their labor or possess himself of a first toll on +their production. Doubtless there must be men to stand at a sufficient +distance from things to get a correct idea of their interrelationship, +and doubtless such an attitude may be made of great service to the race, +but doubtless it has also contributed to the selfish manipulation of +natural and social processes. + +Mr. Warburg testified: “When I came here I was at once impressed by the +lack of system, by the old-fashioned nature of the system that prevailed +here; and I got immediately into one of those periods of high interest +rates, where call money went up to 25 and 100 per cent; and I wrote an +article on the subject then and there for my own benefit. + + “I was not here three weeks before I was trying to explain to myself + the roots of the evil. I showed the article to a few friends but I + kept it in my desk, because I did not want to be one of those who + try to inform and educate the country after they have been here for + a month or so; and I kept that article until the end of 1906, + shortly before the panic, when those conditions arose again, and + when one newspaper wanted for an issue at the end of the year an + article dealing with the conditions in our country. + + “Then I took out that article and touched it up and brought it up to + date; and that was the first article of mine that was published. It + was called, ‘Defects and Needs of Our Banking System.’... + + “That was, however, the first time that I know of that the question + of the discount system and the concentration of reserves was really + brought out; and I got a great many encouraging letters asking me to + go on and explain my ideas.” + + Mr. Warburg was perfectly willing to talk to the committee about + himself, but not about Kuhn, Loeb & Company, his firm. + + “I cannot discuss the affairs of my firm nor my partners,” he said, + “nor be asked to criticise acts of my partners, either to approve + them or in any other way,” but eventually he did tell a number of + things which students of American financial affairs have considered + interesting. Of which more later. + + On page 77 of the testimony, more personal matters appear: + + Senator Bristow—“When did you become a citizen of the United States, + Mr. Warburg?” + + Mr. Warburg—“1911. Did I not answer that?” + + Senator Bristow—“Perhaps so. Did you intend to become a citizen when + you came to the United States in 1902?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I had no definite intentions then, because some of the + reasons that brought me over here were family reasons;.... That had + a good deal to do with my first coming here; and I was not sure at + all that I would stay here when I came.” + + Senator Bristow—“When did you decide to become a citizen of the + United States?” + + Mr. Warburg—“In 1908, when I took out my papers.” + + Senator Bristow—“When you took out your first papers? You took out + your second papers, then, in 1911?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” + + Senator Bristow—“You made your declaration in 1908; that is when you + decided to become an American citizen?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” + + Senator Bristow—“Why did you wait as long as you did after you came + to this country, before deciding to become a citizen of this + country?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I think that a man that does not come here as an + immigrant; a man who has had, if you may call it such, a prominent + position in his own country, will not give up his nationality so + easily as a man who comes over here knowing that he does not care + for his own country at all. I had been a very loyal citizen of my + own country; and I think that a man who hesitates in giving up his + own nationality and taking a new one, is apt to be more loyal to his + new country when he does change his nationality than a man who gives + up his old country more lightly.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes.” + + Mr. Warburg—“I may add this: That a thing which had a great deal of + influence on my making up my mind to remain in this country and work + here, and become a part and parcel of this country, was that + monetary reform work, for I felt I had a distinct duty to perform + here; and I thought I could do that; and in fact I have been working + on it since 1906 or 1907. + + “Then I felt that it was the right thing for me to become an + American citizen and work here and throw in my lot definitely with + this country.” + + Senator Bristow—“When you became an American citizen; and the motive + which induced you to become an American citizen was, then, as I + understand it, largely with a view of laboring to bring about a + reform of the American monetary system?” + + Mr. Warburg-“Well, you put it nearly exclusively on that. I think a + man wants to feel that he is going to do some useful work in his + country; that he has a mission to perform; and that is what happened + to me.... Moreover, I had been long enough in this country then to + have thoroughly taken root and feel that I was a part and parcel of + it.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes. When did you first become active in promoting + the monetary reforms in the United States?” + + Mr. Warburg—“1906.” + + Senator Bristow—“What was your method of promoting your ideas with + regard to monetary reforms?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Mainly writing.” + + Senator Bristow—“Were you connected with the Monetary Commission?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No, not directly....” + + Senator Bristow—“Were you consulted in regard to the report of the + Monetary Commission in any way?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes, Senator Aldrich consulted with me about details, + and I gave him my advice freely.” + + Senator Bristow—“And in regard to the bill which was prepared by + Senator Aldrich in connection with the commission, were you + consulted in regard to that?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” + + Senator Bristow—“What part did you have in the preparation of that + bill, directly or indirectly?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Well, only that I gave the best advice that I could + give.” + +Most readers will recall that the name of “Aldrich” was, a few years +ago, the synonym for the money power in government. Senator Aldrich was +an able man and a tireless worker. His character for thoroughness and +industry did more than anything else to disabuse the popular mind of the +notion that such men were mere “tools of the money interest,” or engaged +in their work out of lust for gain, or out of sheer pleasure in +legislating against the interests of the people. Senator Aldrich led on +tariff and financial matters because he understood them; and he +understood them by tireless study of them; and, therefore, he was the +master of other men who had not paid the price of knowledge. But, he +understood these matters from the standpoint of the business interests +only. He was sincerely desirous of the prosperity of the country, but +that prosperity was written in banking balances. Fifteen years ago it +might not have been possible to judge him thus calmly, because then he +represented in the public mind, more than any individual does today, the +concentrated power of the financial group. Their prosperity was his +first care, possibly because he believed that their prosperity was also +the country’s. + +It was such a man, then, that came to Mr. Warburg for advice. The labors +of Senator Aldrich comprise many volumes of difficult material and +Senator Aldrich’s appeal to Mr. Warburg was a very high compliment to +the quality of the latter’s mind and financial experience—this, of +course, assuming that Mr. Warburg’s counsel was not forced upon the +Aldrich committee by the New York money interests. + +In his testimony, Mr. Warburg did not tell all. The omission, however, +was supplied by an article in _Leslie’s Weekly_ in 1916, the author +being B. C. Forbes. + +It is a story of which _Current Opinion_ said: “It reads like the +opening in a shilling shocker.” + +It appears that the conferences between Mr. Warburg and Senator Aldrich +took place on an isolated island off the coast of Georgia—Jekyl Island. +Included in the party, besides Senator Aldrich and Mr. Warburg, were two +New York bankers and the then Assistant Treasurer of the United States. +The mysteriousness of it all was well brought out by Mr. Forbes: + + “Picture a party of the nation’s greatest bankers stealing out of + New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, + stealthily hieing hundreds of miles south, embarking on a mysterious + launch, sneaking out to an island deserted by all but a few + servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the + name of not one of them was once mentioned lest the servitors learn + their identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret + episode in the history of American finance. + + “The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. The public must not glean + a hint of what was to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one to + go quietly into a private car which the railroad had received orders + to draw up at an unfrequented platform. Drawn blinds balked any + peering eyes that might be around. Off the party set. New York’s + ubiquitous reporters had been foiled. So far so good. After bowling + along the railroad hour after hour into southern country, the order + was given to prepare to disembark. + + “Stepping from the car when the station had been well cleared of + travelers, the members of the expedition embarked in a small boat. + Silence reigned, for the boatmen must not find out how distinguished + were their passengers. + + “In due time they drew up at another deserted pier. They were at + Jekyl Island, off Georgia. The island was entirely unpeopled save + for half a dozen servants. + + “‘The servants must under no circumstances learn who we are,’ + cautioned Senator Aldrich. + + “‘What can we do to fool them?’ asked another member of the group. + The problem was discussed. + + “‘I have it,’ cried one. ‘Let’s all call each other by our first + names. Don’t ever let us mention our last names.’ + + “It was so agreed. + + “The dignified veteran Senator Aldrich, king of Rhode Island and a + power second to none in the United States Senate, became just + ‘Nelson’;... and the quiet, scholarly member of the powerful + international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, became ‘Paul.’ + + “Nelson had meanwhile confided to Harry, Frank, Paul and Piatt that + he was to keep them locked up on Jekyl Island, cut off from the rest + of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific + currency system for the United States, a system that would embody + all that was best in Europe, yet so modeled that it could serve a + country measuring thousands where European countries measured only + hundreds of miles.” + +Mr. Forbes does not omit to write this further description of Mr. +Warburg’s condition at the time: + + “unable then to speak idiomatic English with perfect freedom and + without an accent, an alien not naturalized.” + +Mr. Forbes also wrote—“Here is a German-American, but the sort of one +that makes the hyphen look like a badge of honor.” + +That was in 1916. Hyphens went out of fashion, though not entirely out +of use, soon after. + +Thus far the story of Paul Warburg. + + +—— + +Issue of June 18, 1921. + + + + + LVIII. + Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve Plan + + +The last view the reader had of Paul M. Warburg in the preceding article +was as “an alien not naturalized” secretly closeted with Senator Nelson +W. Aldrich and a party of bankers on an obscure island off the +southeastern coast of the United States, all the members of the party +concealing their identity even from the servants by calling each other +by their first names. + +That conference in its ultimate results was of the utmost importance to +the United States, for then and there were formulated those fiscal +devices, those financial methods, those “monetary reforms” which have +exerted an influence on every citizen, rich and poor, of the Republic. + +Much history was made in that little trip. It irresistibly calls to +memory that other trip made in 1915—almost two years before America’s +entry into the war—by Bernard M. Baruch. As readers of THE DEARBORN +INDEPENDENT of November 27, 1920, will recall, Mr. Baruch had been +financial backer of the Plattsburg camp, and in his testimony he said he +thought that General Wood would admit this. Then—“I went off on a long +trip, and it was while on this trip that I felt there ought to be some +mobilization of the industries, and I was thinking about the scheme that +practically was put into effect and was working when I was chairman of +the board. When I came back from that trip I asked for an interview with +the President.... The President listened very attentively and graciously +as he always does.” Mr. Baruch was an authority on the President’s +demeanor, for there was a long period in 1917 and 1918 during which he +called at the White House every afternoon. + +Two momentous trips in our recent history, both of them signalized and +given their principal meaning by the presence of Jews. Not that there +should not have been Jews in either case; to insist upon their total +exclusion would be going too far. The Jew as a citizen, bearing his +part, is one matter; the Jew as a master, directing the national show, +is quite another thing. It is by no means agreed that Barney Baruch was +the only man in the United States who could have run this nation’s war +business. That is the explanation made of the high place he took—that he +was the _only_ man who could do it. Nonsense! If that be so, let us +close up the nation and hand the keys over to the New York Kehillah. Mr. +Baruch could say—“I probably had more power than any other man did in +the war; doubtless that is true,” but he had that power because he was +for the time the head and front of the Jewish group for war purposes. + +If the explanation of Jewish mastery at critical moments were “brains,” +well and good, but if it were, it would be more evident to the people; +brains do not need to be advertised, they advertise themselves. There is +another reason. + +The British public recently awoke to the fact that not Lloyd George but +Mr. Montagu and Sir Alfred Mond were in charge of the recent +negotiations over the German indemnities. These gentlemen are both Jews, +one of them of German descent. Of all the British Empire are they the +only two men to advise the premier in a great crisis? If they are, why +is it? The Montagus, we know, control the silver of the world; Sir +Alfred Mond, we know, turned the very neat trick of keeping the sign of +the Cross off the war memorials raised to the soldiers of the empire; +their Jewishness always so apparent. Both financiers; both the close +advisers of the premier; as Baruch to Wilson, so they to Lloyd George. + +Apparently there are no Anglo-Saxons on either side of the sea capable +of managing these deep matters, if we are to judge from the war +administrations—those that have passed off the stage and those that +still linger. Lloyd George, for once stung to the quick by the criticism +of the British public of his tendency to closet himself with Jews when +confronted with a crucial question, retorted bitterly—with what? With +the old outworn Jewish propagandist boast, that it ill became people who +sang Jewish psalms in church to rag the race that wrote them! A most +illuminating defense! The world would give a good deal for a true psalm +from Sir Alfred Mond, Mr. Montagu, or even Sir Philip Sassoon, who is +soon to become the premier’s son-in-law. + +In our own history, Barney Baruch boldly claims his place, he +unhesitatingly asserts that he had more power than any man in the war. +If Allenby in Palestine needed a locomotive, if the Americans in Russia +needed clothing, if the munition mills needed copper—it was Baruch who +gave or withheld the word. + +Mr. Warburg, being of somewhat finer grain, probably due to his having +less than Mr. Baruch of the rough experience of “the Street,” does not +make the claim that he is the chief factor in the present monetary +system of the United States, nor does THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT undertake +to make it for him lest the cry of “anti-Semitism” wax wrathful again; +but fortunately the fact is amply attested by a Jew whose knowledge of +the matter is unquestionable. + +Readers have doubtless become aware by this time that for a non-Jew to +say that a certain Jew is a most important factor in any field is to be +guilty of anti-Semitism, while for a Jew or a “Gentile front” to say it +is perfectly proper. It is a rather odd etiquette in which simple minds +sometimes become confused. + +Professor E. R. A. Seligman, of Columbia University, is the sponsor of +this great honor for Mr. Warburg. What Professor Seligman says is of +such importance, both as to its source and its subject, that quotation +is justified: (the italics in all cases are ours) + +“It is in a general way known to the public that Mr. Warburg was in some +way connected with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, and his +appointment to his present responsible position on the Federal Reserve +Board was acclaimed on all sides with a rare degree of approval and +congratulation; but I fancy _it is known only to a very few how great is +the indebtedness of the United States to Mr. Warburg. For it may be +stated without fear of contradiction that in its fundamental features +the Federal Reserve Act is the work of Mr. Warburg more than of any +other man in the country_.... + +“When the Aldrich commission was appointed it was not long before +Senator Aldrich—to his credit be it said—was won over by Mr. Warburg to +the adoption of these two fundamental features. The Aldrich Bill +differed in some important particulars from the present law.... _The +concession in the shape of the twelve regional banks that had to be made +for political reasons is, in the opinion of Mr. Warburg as well as of +the writer of this introduction, a mistake_; for it will probably, to +some extent at least, weaken the good results which would otherwise have +followed. On the other hand, the existence of a Federal Reserve Board +creates, in everything but in name, a real central bank; and it depends +largely upon the wisdom with which the board exercises its great powers +as to whether we shall be able to secure most of the advantages of a +central bank without any of its dangers.... + +“In many minor respects also the Federal Reserve Act differs from the +Aldrich Bill; but in the two fundamentals of combined reserves and of a +discount policy, the Federal Reserve Act has frankly accepted the +principles of the Aldrich Bill; _and these principles, as has been +stated, were the creation of Mr. Warburg and of Mr. Warburg alone._ + +_“... It must not be forgotten that Mr. Warburg had a practical object +in view. In formulating his plans and in advancing slightly varying +suggestions from time to time, it was incumbent on him to remember that +the education of the country must be gradual and that a large part of +the task was to break down prejudices and remove suspicions. His plans +therefore contain all sorts of elaborate suggestions designed to guard +the public against fancied dangers and to persuade the country that the +general scheme was at all practicable. It was the hope of Mr. Warburg +that with the lapse of time it might be possible to eliminate from the +law not a few clauses which were inserted, largely at his suggestion, +for educational purposes._ + +“As it was my privilege to say to President Wilson when originally +urging the appointment of Mr. Warburg on the Federal Reserve Board, at a +time when the political prejudice against New York bankers ran very +high, England also, three-quarters of a century ago, had a practical +banker who was virtually responsible for the idea contained in Peel’s +Bank Act of 1840. Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd was honored as a consequence by +the British Government and was made Lord Overstone. The United States +was equally fortunate in having with it a Lord Overstone.... + +“_The Federal Reserve Act will be associated in history with the name of +Paul M. Warburg...._”—(pp. 387–390, Vol. 4, No. 4, Proceedings of the +Academy of Political Science, Columbia University). + +It surely cannot be considered invidious for THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT +thus to introduce to the people of the United States a gentleman whose +influence upon the country is so vital. Just how vital can be understood +only by those who have studied the puzzle of a country filled with the +good things of life, and still unable to use them or to share them +because of a kink in the pipe line called “money.” + +But that Mr. Warburg himself is not entirely unaware of his position is +indicated on page 56 of his testimony quoted last week. Mr. Warburg had +just told the Senate Committee that he was making a heavy financial +sacrifice to accept the position on the Federal Reserve Board offered +him by President Wilson, and into the fitness of which appointment the +Senate was carefully inquiring: + + Senator Reed—“May I ask what your motive is, or your reason for + making that sacrifice?” + + Mr. Warburg—“My motive is that I have, as you know, taken a keen + interest in this monetary reform since I have been in this country. + + “_I have had the success which comes to few people, of starting an + idea and starting it so that the whole country has taken it up and + it has taken some tangible form._” + +Professor Seligman advises us of the strategy that was used to get the +whole country to take up Mr. Warburg’s idea, and of the fact that some +of the items inserted to appease the public might easily be removed when +the public shall have become accustomed to Mr. Warburg and the Federal +Reserve Board; but Mr. Warburg adds another hint, to the effect that you +can do some things by administration which you cannot do by +organization. + +For example: Mr. Warburg wanted _only one central bank_ which should be +the sole arbiter of finance in the United States. The United States +Government would have almost nothing to do save to make the money and +stand back of it; the bankers of the United States, and the people +thereof, would have nothing to do except what they were told; the one +central bank would be the real financial governing authority. + +When asked by Senator Bristow to state the fundamental difference +between the Aldrich plan and the present Federal Reserve plan, Mr. +Warburg replied: + + “Well, the Aldrich Bill brings the whole system into one unit, while + this deals with 12 units, and unites them again into the Federal + Reserve Board. It is a little bit complicated, which objection, + however, _can be overcome in an administrative way_; and in that + respect I freely criticized the bill before it was passed.” + +There is evidently, then, a method of administration for which severe +critics might even use the word “manipulation,” by which the plain +provisions of a banking law, whatever they may be, may be, if not +evaded, then somewhat adapted. + +This idea is brought to mind by a more colloquial expression of Mr. +Warburg’s to be found in his address on “bank acceptances” delivered in +1919: + + “In this connection I am reminded of a story I once heard concerning + a man belonging to a species now soon to be extinct and to be found + by our children in Webster’s dictionary only, the ‘bartender.’ A man + of this profession, in pre-historic times, was abandoning his + position and was turning over his cash-register to his successor. + ‘Please show me how it works,’ said the newcomer. ‘_I will show you + how it works_,’ said the other, ‘_but I won’t show you how to work + it_.’” + +The politics of Mr. Warburg and the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company formed +part of the inquiry, and Mr. Warburg made some interesting revelations, +which illustrate the oft-repeated statement that it is part of Jewish +policy—perhaps of large financial firms generally—to attach themselves +to both parties so that certain interests may be the winners regardless +of which party is defeated. + + Senator Pomerene—“What are your politics?” + + Senator Nelson—“No; we have not raised that before this committee.” + + Senator Reed—“It has not been raised here, but I should like to + know.” + + Senator Pomerene—“It has been raised before the Senate.” + + Senator Reed—“I will say why I should like to know.” + + Senator Pomerene—“Well, I have no objection to saying what was in my + own mind.” + + The Chairman—“I will say that I do not know what Mr. Warburg’s + politics are.” + + Senator Pomerene—“Well, I did not.” + + Senator Shafroth—“I do not know and I do not care to know.” + + Senator Pomerene—“I heard the statement made that the entire board + was Democratic, and I had understood that Mr. Warburg was a + Republican, or had been, in his affiliations.” + + Mr. Warburg—“Well, so I was; and my sympathies were entirely, in the + early campaign, for Mr. Taft against Mr. Roosevelt in the first + fight. When later on Mr. Roosevelt became President Wilson’s + opponent my sympathies went with Mr. Wilson....” + + Senator Reed—“Well, you would count yourself a Republican, generally + speaking?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I would.” + + Senator Bristow—“It has been variously reported in the newspapers + that you and your partners directly and indirectly contributed very + largely to Mr. Wilson’s campaign funds.” + + Mr. Warburg—“Well, my partners—there is a very peculiar + condition—no; I do not think any one of them contributed largely at + all; there may have been moderate contributions. My brother, for + instance, contributed to Mr. Taft’s campaign.” + + Senator Bristow—“Just what would you consider a moderate + contribution to a presidential campaign?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Well, that depends who the man is who contributes; but + I think anything below $10,000 or $5,000 would not be an extravagant + contribution, so far as that should be—” + + (Examination resumed another day.) + + Senator Bristow—“Now, Mr. Warburg, when we closed Saturday some + Senator asked you in regard to political contributions, and I + understood you to say that you contributed to Mr. Wilson’s + campaign.” + + Mr. Warburg—“No; my letter says that I offered to contribute; but it + was too late. I came back to this country only a few days before the + campaign closed.” + + Senator Bristow—“So that you did not make any contribution?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I did not make any contribution; no.” + + Senator Bristow—“Did any members of your firm make contributions to + Mr. Wilson’s campaign?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I think that is a matter of record. Mr. Schiff + contributed. I would not otherwise discuss the contributions of my + partners, if it was not a matter of record. I think Mr. Schiff was + the only one who contributed in our firm.” + + Senator Bristow—“And you stated that your brother had contributed to + Mr. Taft’s campaign, as I understand it?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I did. But again, I do not want to go into a discussion + of my partners’ affairs, and I shall stick to that pretty strictly, + or we will never get through.” + + Senator Bristow—“I understood you also to say that no members of + your firm contributed to Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign.” + + Mr. Warburg—“I did not say that.” + + Senator Bristow—“Oh! Did any members of the firm do that?” + + Mr. Warburg—“My answer would please you probably; but I shall not + answer that, but will repeat that I will not discuss my partners’ + affairs.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes. I understood you to say Saturday that you were + a Republican, but when Mr. Roosevelt became a candidate, _you then + became a sympathizer with Mr. Wilson and supported him_?” + + Mr. Warburg—“_Yes._” + + Senator Bristow—“_While your brother was supporting Mr. Taft?_” + + Mr. Warburg—“_Yes._” + + Senator Bristow—“_And I was interested to know whether any member of + your firm supported Mr. Roosevelt._” + + Mr. Warburg—“_It is a matter of record that there are._” + + Senator Bristow—“_That there are some of them who did?_” + + Mr. Warburg—“_Oh, yes._” + + Senator Bristow—“Will you please indicate—or do you care to + indicate—what members of your firm supported Mr. Roosevelt in that + campaign?” + + Mr. Warburg—“No, sir; I shall have to go on the principle that I + cannot disclose the business of a member of my firm.” + +The result was this: that in a three-cornered fight between three +candidates, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, the men who constituted the firm +of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, chief Jewish financial institution of the +United States, distributed their support among all three. Schiff for +Wilson; Felix Warburg for Taft; and an unknown for Roosevelt—was that +unknown Mr. Kahn? In any case, Wilson won, and the above examination +relates to a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company receiving an +important appointment which gave him large power over the finances of +the United States. + +The point of not discussing the affairs of Kuhn, Loeb & Company was +frequently made by Mr. Warburg. + +“I cannot discuss the affairs of the firm nor my partners, nor be asked +to criticize acts of my partners, either to approve them or in any other +way. I would like to say that before we come to the point where I would +feel that I should not answer any question,” said Mr. Warburg. + +The principle of this objection was conceded by the Senate Committee, +but that it ought to serve as a blanket injunction against a number of +pertinent inquiries was doubted. + + Senator Bristow—“But you are a partner in this firm, and have you + not had something to do with its operations and its management?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” + + Senator Bristow—“Does that not go to show your general views and + practices as a financier and as a citizen and as a business man?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes; but you have got to take them individually.... I + cannot permit my firm to be drawn into this discussion.” + + Senator Bristow—“But how can you divest yourself from your firm when + you have been one of the managers of the firm?” + + Mr. Warburg—“I shall divest myself of the firm.” + + Senator Bristow—“If the firm has done something that I might think + was improper—to illustrate, being called upon to say whether or not + I approve your nomination to this responsible position—have I not a + right to know what your attitude was in regard to that transaction + which your firm performed?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Well, inasmuch as my answer there might be a criticism + of my firm, I would beg to be excused, and I would leave it to the + committee to draw its own conclusions....” + +In examining Mr. Warburg about the handling of $100,000,000 Southern +Pacific securities, the same difficulty was experienced; Mr. Warburg +objected, “but we are getting here again into the transactions of my +firm!” + +To which Senator Bristow retorted—“Ah! but when you participated in the +profits of the transaction, is it not a part of your business life?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Certainly it is a part of my business life, and there + is no reason why I should not be proud of it. But as a matter of + principle I think we should not get into a discussion of the + business of my firm.” + + Senator Bristow—“I am discussing your business.” + + Mr. Warburg—“No, you are discussing the firm’s business.” + + Senator Bristow—“Did you get any of the profits that came from the + handling of this $100,000,000?” + + Mr. Warburg—“You may take it that whatever my firm did I got my + profits—my share in the profits.” + + Senator Bristow—“Your share in the profits. Now, without being + specific, I take it for granted that this was quite material; that + that was quite a material interest in size; that is, that you are + one of the important members of the firm.” + + Mr. Warburg—“I am one of the important members of the firm.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes, I think the testimony and the report here show + that you are the third important member—or the second, which is + it?—of the firm.” + + Mr. Warburg—“We are not numbered.” + + Senator Bristow—“You are not; all right.” + + Mr. Warburg—“There is Mr. Jacob H. Schiff who is the senior.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes.” + + Mr. Warburg—“And the others rank very much alike.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes. We may take it for granted, then, that + whatever profits accrued to your firm in the handling of this + business here since you became a member of it, you participated in + the profits as one of the partners?” + + Mr. Warburg—“Yes, sir.” + + Senator Bristow—“Yes. So I will assume then, of course, that you + participated in the marketing of $113,000,000 of Union Pacific, and + so on.” + +The responsibilities of a member of the Federal Reserve Board, +especially such a member as Paul M. Warburg would be (for it was +recognized that because of his purpose and connections he would become a +dominating factor), were very great, especially at the time when the +appointment was being considered. They are as important now, of course, +but in a different way; it is not now a question of military safety. +This thought was evidently in the mind of the senators, as the following +shows: + +Senator Hitchcock—“Mr. Warburg, _one of the important functions of the +board is to guard the gold supply of the country_, and it has been +thought that _it is very important to have men on the board who had at +heart only the interests of the United States_, and had no foreign +interests or alliances. You have said that you proposed to divest +yourself altogether of your banking connections in Germany. Have you any +other interests in Europe?” + +“No, not to speak of,” said Mr. Warburg. “I may have very unimportant +things, like everybody has; but I could dispose of those; it would not +amount to anything.” + +Senator Hitchcock—“Nothing in the line of banking?” + +Mr. Warburg—“No.” + +A few moments later the chairman, Senator Owen, said—(the date was +August 1, 1914)—“We are on the eve of a great European war, and the +organization of this board is of great national importance.” + +At this time, Mr. Warburg was a member of the Hamburg firm. He testified +(p. 7)—“I am going to leave my Hamburg firm, though the law does not +require me to do so.” + +A part of the German firm of his father and brothers, a part of the +American firm to which he and his brother were related by marital as +well as financial ties, Mr. Warburg repeatedly said he would break off +all business relationships so that he, like Caesar’s wife (to quote +himself), should be above suspicion. + + +—— + +Issue of June 25, 1921. + + + + + LIX. + Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America + + +According to his own statements and the facts, Paul M. Warburg set out +to reform the monetary system of the United States, and did so. He had +the success which comes to few men, of coming an alien to the United +States, connecting himself with the principal Jewish financial firm +here, and immediately floating certain banking ideas which have been +pushed and manipulated and variously adapted until they have eventuated +in what is known as the Federal Reserve System. + +When Professor Seligman wrote in the Proceedings of the Academy of +Political Science that “the Federal Reserve Act will be associated in +history with the name of Paul M. Warburg,” a Jewish banker from Germany, +he wrote the truth. But whether that association will be such as to +bring the measure of renown which Professor Seligman implies, the future +will reveal. + +What the people of the United States do not understand and never have +understood is that while the Federal Reserve _Act_ was governmental, the +whole Federal Reserve _System_ is private. It is an officially created +private banking system. + +Examine the first thousand persons you meet on the street, and 999 will +tell you that the Federal Reserve System is a device whereby the United +States Government went into the banking business for the benefit of the +people. They have an idea that, like the Post Office and the Custom +House, a Federal Reserve Bank is a part of the Government’s official +machinery. + +It is natural to feel that this mistaken view has been encouraged by +most of the men who are competent to write for the public on this +question. Take up the standard encyclopedias, and while you will find no +misstatements of fact in them, you will find no direct statement that +the Federal Reserve System is a private banking system; the impression +carried away by the lay reader is that it is a part of the Government. + +The Federal Reserve System is a system of private banks, the creation of +a banking aristocracy within an already existing autocracy, whereby a +great proportion of banking independence was lost, and whereby it was +made possible for speculative financiers to centralize great sums of +money for their own purposes, beneficial or not. + +That this System was useful in the artificial conditions created by +war—useful, that is, for a Government that cannot manage its own +business and finances and, like a prodigal son, is always wanting money, +and wanting it when it wants it—it has proved, either by reason of its +inherent faults or by mishandling, its inadequacy to the problems of +peace. It has sadly failed of its promise, and is now under serious +question. + +Mr. Warburg’s scheme succeeded just in time to take care of war +conditions, he was placed on the Federal Reserve Board in order to +manage his system in practice, and though he was full of ideas then as +to how banking could be assisted, he is disappointingly silent now as to +how the people can be relieved. + +However, this is not a discussion of the Federal Reserve System. General +condemnation of it would be stupid. But it is bound to come up for +discussion one day, and the discussion will become much freer when +people understand that it is a system of privately owned banks, to which +have been delegated certain extraordinary privileges, and that it has +created a class system within the banking world which constitutes a new +order. + +Mr. Warburg, it will be remembered, wanted only one central bank. But, +because of political considerations, as Professor Seligman tells us, +twelve were decided upon. An examination of Mr. Warburg’s printed +discussions of the subject shows that he at one time considered four, +then eight. Eventually, twelve were established. The reason was that one +central bank, which naturally would be set up in New York, would give a +suspicious country the impression that it was only a new scheme to keep +the nation’s money flowing to New York. As shown by Professor Seligman, +quoted in the last number, Mr. Warburg was not averse to granting +anything that would allay popular suspicion without vitiating the real +plan. + +So, while admitting to the Senators who examined him as to his fitness +for membership on the Federal Reserve Board—the Board which fixed the +policies of the banks of the Federal Reserve System and told them what +to do—that he did not like the 12 district banks idea, he said that his +objections to it could “be overcome in an administrative way.” That is, +the 12 banks could be so handled that the effect would be the same as if +there were only one central bank, presumably at New York. + +And that is about the way it has resulted, and that will be found to be +one of the reasons for the present situation of the country. + +There is no lack of money in New York today. Motion picture ventures are +being financed into the millions. A big grain selling pool, nursed into +existence and counseled by Bernard M. Baruch, has no hesitancy whatever +in planning for a $100,000,000 corporation. Loew, the Jewish theatrical +man, had no difficulty in opening 20 new theaters this year— + +_But_ go into the agricultural states, where the real wealth of the +country is in the ground and in the granaries, and you cannot find money +for the farmer. + +It is a situation which none can deny and which few can explain, because +the explanation is not to be found along natural lines. Natural +conditions are always easiest to explain. Unnatural conditions wear an +air of mystery. Here is the United States, the richest country in the +world, containing at the present hour the greatest bulk of wealth to be +found anywhere on earth—real, ready, available, usable wealth; and yet +it is tied up tight, and cannot move in its legitimate channels, because +of manipulation which is going on as regards money. + +Money is the last mystery for the popular mind to penetrate, and when it +succeeds in getting “on the inside” it will discover that the mystery is +not in money at all, but in its manipulation, the things which are done +“in an administrative way.” + +The United States has never had a President who gave evidence of +understanding this matter at all. Our Presidents have always had to take +their views from financiers. Money is the most public quantity in the +country; it is the most federalized and governmentalized thing in the +country; and yet, in the present situation, the United States Government +has hardly anything to do with it, except to use various means to get +it, just as the people have to get it, from those who control it. + +The Money Question, properly solved, is the end of the Jewish Question +and every other question of a mundane nature. + +Mr. Warburg is of the opinion that different rates of interest ought to +obtain in different parts of the country. That they have always obtained +in different parts of the same state we have always known, but the +reason for it has not been discovered. The city grocer can get money +from his bank at a lower rate than the farmer in the next county can get +it from his bank. Why the agricultural rate of interest has been higher +than any other (when money is obtainable; it is not obtainable now) is a +question to which no literary nor oratorical financier has ever publicly +addressed himself. It is like the fact of the private business nature of +the Federal Reserve System—very important, but no authority thinks it +worth while to state. The agricultural rate of interest is of great +importance, but to discuss it would involve first an admission, and that +apparently is not desirable. + +In comparing the present Federal Reserve Law with the proposed Aldrich +Bill, Mr. Warburg said: + + Mr. Warburg—“... I think that this present law has the advantage of + dealing with the entire country and giving them different rates of + discount, whereas, as Senator Aldrich’s bill was drawn, it would + have been very difficult to do that, as it provided for one uniform + rate for the whole country, which I thought was rather a mistake.” + + Senator Bristow—“That is, you can charge a higher rate of interest + in one section of the country under the present law, than you charge + in another section, while under the Aldrich plan it would have been + a uniform rate.” + + Mr. Warburg—“That is correct.” + +That is a point worth clearing up. If Mr. Warburg, having educated the +bankers, will now turn his attention to the people, and make it clear +why one class in the country can get money for business that is not +productive of real wealth, while another class engaged in the production +of real wealth is treated as outside the interest of banking altogether; +if he can make it clear also why money is sold to one class or one +section of the country at one price, while to another class and in +another section it is sold at a different price, he will be adding to +the people’s grasp of these matters. + +This suggestion is seriously intended. Mr. Warburg has the style, the +pedagogical patience, the grasp of the subject which would make him an +admirable public teacher of these matters. + +What he has already done was planned from the point of view of the +interest of the professional financier. It is readily granted that Mr. +Warburg desired to organize American finances into a more pliable +system. Doubtless in some respects he has wrought important +improvements. But he had always the banking house in mind, and he dealt +with paper. Now, if taking up a position outside those special +interests, he would address himself to the wider interests of the +people—not assuming that those interests always run through a banking +house—he would do still more than he has yet done to justify his feeling +that he really had a mission in coming to this country. + +Mr. Warburg is not at all shocked by the idea that the Federal Reserve +System is really a new kind of private banking control, because in his +European experience he saw that all the central banks were private +affairs. + +In his essay on “American and European Banking Methods and Bank +Legislation Compared,” Mr. Warburg says: (the italics are ours) + +“It may also be interesting to note that, _contrary to a widespread +idea, the central banks of Europe are, as a rule, not owned by the +governments_. As a matter of fact, neither the English, French, nor +German Government owns any stock in the central bank of its country. +_The Bank of England is run entirely as a private corporation_, the +stockholders electing the board of directors, who rotate in holding the +presidency. In France the government appoints the governor and some of +the directors. In Germany the government appoints the president and a +supervisory board of five members, while the stockholders elect the +board of directors.” + +And again, in his discussion of the Owen-Glass Bill, Mr. Warburg says: + +“The Monetary Commission’s plan proceeded on the theory of the Bank of +England, _which leaves the management entirely in the hands of business +men without giving the government any part in the management or +control_. The strong argument in favor of this theory is that central +banking, like any other banking, is based on ‘sound credit,’ that the +judging of credits is a matter of business which should be left in the +hands of business men, _and that the government should be kept out of +business_.... The Owen-Glass Bill proceeds, in this respect, more on the +lines of the Banque de France and the German Reichsbank, the presidents +and boards of which are to a certain extent appointed by the government. +_These central banks, while legally private corporations_, are +semi-governmental organs inasmuch as _they are permitted to issue the +notes of the nation_—particularly where there are elastic note issues, +as in almost all countries except England—and inasmuch as _they are the +custodians of practically the entire metallic reserves of the country +and the keepers of the government funds_. Moreover in questions of +national policy _the government must rely on the willing and loyal +co-operation of these central organs_.” + +That is a very illuminating passage. It will be well worth the reader’s +time, especially the reader who has always been puzzled by financial +matters, to turn over in his mind the facts here given by a great Jewish +financial expert about the central bank idea. Observe the phrases: + +(a) “without giving the government any part in the management or +control.” + +(b) “these central banks, while legally private corporations ... are +permitted to issue the notes of the nation.” + +(c) “they are custodians of practically the entire metallic reserves of +the nation and the keepers of the government funds.” + +(d) “in questions of national policy, the government must rely on the +willing and loyal co-operation of these central organs.” + +It is not now a question whether these things are right or wrong; it is +merely a question of understanding that they constitute the fact. + +It is specially notable that in paragraph (d) it is a fair deduction +that in questions of national policy, the government will simply have to +depend not only on the patriotism but also to an extent on the +permission and counsel of the financial organizations. That is a fair +interpretation: questions of national policy are, by this method, +rendered dependent upon the financial corporations. + +Let that point be clear, quite regardless of the question whether or not +this is the way national policies should be determined. + +Mr. Warburg said that he believed in a certain amount of government +control—but not too much. He said: “In strengthening the government +control, the Owen-Glass Bill therefore moved in the right direction; but +it went too far and fell into the other and even more dangerous +extreme.” + +The “more dangerous extreme” was, of course, the larger measure of +government supervision provided for, and the establishment of a number +of Federal Reserve Banks out in the country. + +Mr. Warburg had referred to this before; he had agreed to the larger +number only because it seemed to be an unavoidable political concession. +It has already been shown, by Professor Seligman, that Mr. Warburg was +alive to the necessity of veiling a little here and there, and “putting +on” a little yonder, for the sake of conciliating a suspicious public. +There was also the story of the bartender and the cash-register. + +Mr. Warburg thinks he understands the psychology of America. In this +respect he reminds one of the reports of Mr. von Bernstorff and Captain +Boy-Ed of what the Americans were likely to do or not to do. In the +Political Science Quarterly of December, 1920, Mr. Warburg tells how, on +a then recent visit to Europe, he was asked by men of all countries what +the United States was going to do. He assured them that America was a +little tired just then, but that she would come round all right. And +then, harking back to his efforts of placing his monetary system on the +Americans, he said: + +“I asked them to be patient with us until after the election, and _I +cited to them our experiences with monetary reform_. I reminded them how +the Aldrich plan had failed because, at that time, a Republican +President had lost control of a Congress ruled by a Democratic majority; +how the Democrats in their platform damned this plan and any central +banking system; and how, _once in full power, the National Reserve +Association was evolved, not to say camouflaged, by them into the +Federal Reserve System_.” + +Remembering this play before the public, and the play behind the scenes, +this “camouflaging,” as Mr. Warburg says, of one thing into another, he +undertook to assure his friends in Europe that regardless of what the +political platforms said, the United States would do substantially what +Europe hoped it would. Mr. Warburg’s basis for that belief was, as he +said, his experience with the way the central bank idea went through in +spite of the advertised objection of all parties. He believes that with +Americans it is possible to get what you want if you just play the game +skillfully. His experience with monetary reform seems to have fathered +that belief in him. + +Politicians may be necessary pawns to play in the game, but as members +of the government Mr. Warburg does not want them in banking. They are +not bankers, he says; they don’t understand; banking is nothing for a +government man to meddle with. He may be good enough for the Government +of the United States; he is not good enough for banking. + +“In our country,” says Mr. Warburg, referring to the United States, +“with every untrained amateur a candidate for any office, _where +friendship or help in a presidential campaign, financial or political, +has always given a claim for political preferment_, where the bids for +votes and public favor are ever present in the politician’s mind, ... _a +direct government management, that is to say, a political management, +would prove fatal_.... There can be no doubt but that, as drawn at +present (1913), with two cabinet officers members of the Federal Reserve +Board, and with the vast powers vested in the latter, the Owen-Glass +Bill would bring about direct government management.” + +And that, of course, in Mr. Warburg’s mind, is not only “dangerous,” but +“fatal.” + +Mr. Warburg had almost his whole will in the matter. And what is the +result? + +Turn to the testimony of Bernard M. Baruch, when he was examined with +reference to the charge that certain men close to President Wilson had +profited to the extent of $60,000,000 on stock market operations which +they entered into on the strength of advance information of what the +President was to say in his next war note—the famous “leak” +investigation, as it was called; one of the several investigations in +which Mr. Baruch was closely questioned. + +In that investigation Mr. Baruch was laboring to show that he had not +been in telephone communication with Washington, especially with certain +men who were supposed to have shared the profits of the deals. The time +was December, 1916. Mr. Warburg was then safely settled on the Federal +Reserve Board, which he had kept quite safe from Government intrusion. + + The Chairman—“Of course the records of the telephone company here, + the slips, will show the persons with whom you talked.” + + Mr. Baruch—“Do you wish me to say, sir? I will state who they are.” + + The Chairman—“Yes, I think you might.” + + Mr. Baruch—“I called up two persons; one, Mr. Warburg, whom I did + not get, and one, Secretary McAdoo, whom I did get—both in reference + to the same matter. Would you like to know the matter?” + + The Chairman—“Yes, I think it is fair that you should state it.” + + Mr. Baruch—“I called up the Secretary, because someone suggested to + me—_asked me to suggest an officer for the Federal Reserve Bank_, + and I called him up in reference to that, and discussed the matter + with him, I think, _two or three times_, but it was suggested to me + that I make the suggestion, and I did so.” (pp. 570–571) + + Mr. Campbell—“Mr. Baruch, who asked you for a suggestion for an + appointee for the Federal Reserve Bank here?” + + Mr. Baruch—“Mr. E. M. House.” + + Mr. Campbell—“Did Mr. House tell you to call Mr. McAdoo up and make + the recommendation?” + + Mr. Baruch—“I will tell you exactly how it occurred: _Mr. House + called me up_ and said that there was a vacancy on the Federal + Reserve Board, and he said, ‘I don’t know anything about those + fellows down there, and I would like you to make a suggestion.’ _And + I suggested the name_, which he thought was a very good one, and he + said to me, ‘I wish you would call up the Secretary and tell him.’ I + said, ‘I do not see the necessity; I will tell you.’ ‘No,’ he said, + ‘I would prefer you to call him up.’” (p. 575) + +There we have an example of the Federal Reserve “kept out of politics,” +kept away from government management which would not only be +“dangerous,” but “fatal.” + +Barney Baruch, the New York stock plunger, who never owned a bank in his +life, was called up by Colonel E. M. House, the arch-politician of the +Wilson Administration, and thus the great Federal Reserve Board was +supplied another member. + +A telephone call kept within a narrow Jewish circle and settled by a +word from one Jewish stock dealer—that, in practical operation, was Mr. +Warburg’s great monetary reform. Mr. Baruch calling up Mr. Warburg to +give the name of the next appointee of the Federal Reserve Board, and +calling up Mr. McAdoo, secretary of the United States Treasury, and set +in motion to do it by Colonel E. M. House—is it any wonder the Jewish +mystery in the American war government grows more and more amazing? + +But, as Mr. Warburg has written—“friendship or help in _a presidential +campaign_, financial or political, has always given a claim to political +preferment.” And, as Mr. Warburg urges, this is a country “with every +untrained amateur a candidate for office,” and naturally, with such men +comprising the government, they must be kept at a safe distance from +monetary affairs. + +As if to illustrate the ignorance thus charged, along comes Mr. Baruch, +who quotes Colonel House as saying, “I don’t know anything about those +fellows down there and I would like you to make a suggestion.” It is +permissible to doubt that Mr. Baruch correctly quotes Colonel House. It +is permissible to doubt that all that Colonel House confessed was his +ignorance about “those fellows.” There was a good understanding between +these two men, too good an understanding for the alleged telephone +conversation to be taken strictly at its face value. It is possibly +quite true that Mr. House is not a financier. Certainly, Mr. Wilson was +not. In the long roll of Presidents only a handful have been, and those +who have been have been regarded as most drastic in their proposals. + +But this whole matter of ignorance, as charged by Mr. Warburg, sounds +like an echo of the Protocols: + + “The administrators chosen by us from the masses _will not be + persons trained for government_, and consequently they will easily + become pawns in our game, played by _our learned and talented + counsellors, specialists educated from early childhood to administer + world affairs_.” + +In the Twentieth Protocol, wherein the great financial plan of world +subversion and control is disclosed, there is another mention of the +rulers’ ignorance of financial problems. + +It is a coincidence that, while he does not use the term “ignorance,” +Mr. Warburg is quite outspoken concerning the benighted state in which +he found this country, and he is also outspoken about the “untrained +amateurs” who are candidates for every office. These, he says, are not +fitted to take part in the control of monetary affairs. But Mr. Warburg +is. He says so. He admits that it was his ambition from the moment he +came here an alien Jewish-German banker, to change our financial affairs +more to his liking. More than that, he has succeeded; he has succeeded, +he himself says, more than most men do in a lifetime; he has succeeded, +Professor Seligman says, to such an extent that throughout history the +name of Paul M. Warburg and that of the Federal Reserve System shall be +united. + + +—— + +Issue of July 2, 1921. + + + + + LX. + How Jewish International Finance Functions + + +“_Such has been the development of international bankers that they can +no longer be regarded in their professional capacity as the nationals of +any country, entitled to do business under their own government’s +supervision exclusively. They are really world citizens, with world-wide +interests, and as such ought to be made amenable to some form of +supernational control._”—George Pattullo, in _Saturday Evening Post_. + +Not only did the Jewish financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company use +far-sighted prudence in splitting its political support—one Warburg +supporting Wilson, another Warburg supporting Taft and an unnamed member +of the firm supporting Roosevelt, all at one time, as Paul M. Warburg +testified—but it split its activities in several other ways also. + +The international interests of the Jews comprising this firm are worthy +of note. The influence which forced the United States to repudiate a +commercial treaty with Russia while Russia was a friendly country +(1911), and thus to compel all business between the United States and +Russia to pass through German-Jewish hands, was generated by Jacob H. +Schiff. Russia seems to have been the country on which he chose to focus +his activities. The full story is told in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT of +January 15, 1921, under the title, “Taft Once Tried to Resist the +Jews—and Failed,” and is reprinted in Volume II of the booklet +containing this series. + +Mr. Schiff’s activity consisted in forcing the Congress of the United +States to do a thing that was repugnant to the reason and conscience of +President Taft, and which he personally refused to do or to recommend. +Mr. Schiff left the White House in great anger with the threat, “This +means war.” It did not mean as much war as it might have, for President +Taft acquiesced gracefully in the Jewish victory and has since been +extremely laudatory of them on the public platform. + +Mr. Schiff’s firm also helped finance the Japanese war against Russia, +and in return desired Japan as a Jewish ally. The wily Japs, however, +saw the game and kept their relations with Mr. Schiff to purely business +matters. Which fact is well worth bearing in mind when reading the +widespread propaganda for war with Japan. If you will give particular +attention, you will observe that the same interests which are just now +engaged in most loudly “defending” the Jew, are most active in spreading +anti-Japanese sentiments in this country. + +The Japanese war with Russia, however, enabled Mr. Schiff to advance his +plan to undermine the Russian Empire, as it has now been accomplished by +Jewish Bolshevism. With funds provided by him, the basic principles of +what is now known as Bolshevism, were sown among the Russian prisoners +of war in Japan, who were sent back as apostles of destruction. Then +followed the horrible murder of Nicholas Romanoff, Czar of Russia, with +his wife, his crippled son, and his young daughters, the full tale of +which has now been told by the Jew who managed the crime. + +For the part he played in destroying Russia, Mr. Schiff was wildly +hailed in New York the night the news came that the Emperor had +abdicated. + +Meanwhile, the Jew who was “to take the Czar’s job” (as the common New +York ghetto phrase ran, weeks before the event) had left New York to be +in waiting. + +This Jew was passed out of the United States at the request of a very +high American personage whose subservience to the Jews was one of the +marvels of the past seven years. Halted by the British, this Jew was +released from their toils at the request of a very high American +personage. And thus, the Jewish Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the +program of which was made in America, was set in operation without a +hitch. + +This whole firm is German Jewish, its members having originated in +Germany. It had German connections. How far it maintained those +connections through all subsequent events is a separate question. + +Mr. Otto Kahn’s allotted portion of the world seems to be Great Britain +and France. Mr. Kahn is of German origin, like the rest of the firm, but +he has not publicly shown such concern for Germany as have the other +members. Mr. Schiff was once very active for the settlement of a peace +on the basis of a victorious Germany. Mr. Paul M. Warburg also had +interests, discussion of which is postponed for the present. But Mr. +Kahn succeeded, through the connivance of American authority and the +excessive repression of the newspapers, in conveying the impression that +by some species of occult separatism he was not “German-minded.” + +Therefore Mr. Kahn flits lightly everywhere—except Germany. He is +sufficiently French to be able to tell in the first column on the first +page of _Le Matin_ on what terms America will do business with Europe, +and he speaks as one having authority. He is sufficiently British to +have thought of standing for the British Parliament, when an unfortunate +event made it necessary for him to remain in the United States. Mr. Kahn +sometimes flits farther East into the more Jewish portions of Europe, +and his comings and goings are marked by certain changes with which his +name remains most ostentatiously disconnected. + +Mr. Kahn has very recently been telling France on what terms the United +States will help her. There apparently being no other spokesman, Mr. +Kahn’s word is accepted as authority. France is one of the most Judaized +countries in the world, the haunt of International Jewish Financiers who +exercise their power (thus saving France the trouble of passing laws) to +keep the emigrant Jew out of France; so that France presents the +spectacle of being Judaized by Jewish finance and not by immigrant +Semitic hordes, and is thus a fit platform from which Mr. Otto Herman +Kahn may utter his pronouncements. + +In his last declaration to France, Mr. Kahn prepares her to expect +little by stating that “America is a country of immense resources; but +the actual money which the people have at their disposal is +comparatively limited.” True enough. It was a member of Mr. Kahn’s firm +who invented a monetary system which was promised to keep _money_ in +more equal relation to _wealth_. + +But as he goes on telling what America will and will not do (the +American people knowing nothing about it meanwhile) Mr. Kahn discovers +with great enthusiasm a place where he thinks American capital can be +placed, namely, “_in the development of the vast and immensely rich +colonial empire of France_.” + +And pray where is that? Any Frenchman would tell you now, “_In Syria._” +Syria—ah!—that part of the East where the natives are loudly complaining +that the Jews are driving them out contrary to every written and moral +law. The Jewish powers have already succeeded in getting French troops +over there; bad blood has been caused between France and Great Britain; +the Jews on both sides are playing for the middle; and here is Mr. Otto +Kahn himself pledging American capital to the development of the French +colonial empire! Talk to any Syrian who knows his country’s present +status, and he will interpret Mr. Kahn’s words very vividly. + +One of the nicest bits of work Mr. Kahn has done is to denounce +“pro-German propaganda” which he says has exasperated Americans in favor +of France. Next to committing the United States to an undying admiration +for Briand, this is really his finest bit. Especially, with Partner Paul +playing the German sympathy string! It is a great international +orchestra, this Jewish financial firm; it can play The Star Spangled +Banner, Die Wacht am Rhein, the Marseillaise, and God Save the King in +one harmonious rendering, paying obsequious attention to the prejudices +of each. + +Next come the Warburgs. Their interest is, of course, in Germany. Paul +stated in his testimony given at the beginning of the World War that he +had interests in Hamburg and would dispose of them. The war came on. The +Jewish government in the United States was augmented. Mr. Warburg was no +mean figure, as previous articles have shown. + +The Warburgs are three in number. Felix M. is the other one in America. +He appears but slightly in public affairs although he is a member of the +American Jewish Committee and of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. His +retiring habit, however, does not argue lack of consequence. He was of +sufficient consequence, Jewishly, to have bestowed upon him a sort of +honorary rabbinical degree of “Haber” which entitles him to be known as +“Haber Rabbi Baruch Ben Moshe.” He is the only Jew in America upon whom +the title has ever been conferred. + +Max Warburg represents the family in its native land. Max Warburg had as +much to do with the German war government as his family and financial +colleagues in America had to do with the United States war government. +As has been recounted in the press the world over, the brother from +America and the brother from Germany both met at Paris as government +representatives in determining the peace. There were so many Jews in the +German delegation that it was known by the term “kosher,” also as “the +Warburg delegation,” and there were so many Jews in the American +delegation that the delegates from the minor countries of Europe looked +upon the United States as a Jewish country which through unheard-of +generosity had elected a non-Jew as its President. + +Max Warburg is an interesting character also as regards the +establishment of Bolshevism in Russia. The Jews had several objectives +in the war, and one of them was “get Russia.” To this end the German +Jews worked very assiduously. Because Russia was a member of the Allies, +the work of German Jews was made the easier. But the fact that Russia +was an ally made no difference with the Jews who were resident in Allied +countries. Win or lose, Russia must be destroyed. It is the testimony of +history that it was not so much the German military prowess as the +Jewish intrigue that accomplished the downfall of that empire. + +In this work Max Warburg was a factor. His bank is noted in a dispatch +published by the United States Government as being one whence funds were +forwarded to Trotzky for use in destroying Russia. Always against +Russia, not for German reasons, but for Jewish reasons, which in this +particular instance coincided. Warburg and Trotzky—against Russia! + +Poor John Spargo, who ought to know better, denies all this—while every +American who comes back from Russia, even those who went over there pro- +Bolshevik, yes, and returned Jews themselves, proclaim it. + +The crushing fact is that Bolshevism is not only Jewish in Russia, and +in America, but it is Jewish in the higher regions of Jewry where better +things ought to exist. Take Walter Rathenau, a German Jew on the plane +of the Warburgs. Rathenau was the inventor of the Bolshevik system of +centralization of industry, material and money. The Soviet Government +asked Rathenau directly for the plans, and received them directly from +him. Max Warburg’s bank held the money; Walter Rathenau’s mind held the +plans—which makes it a pertinent question: If Bolshevism can be so +Jewish outside of Russia, what hinders it being Jewish inside Russia? + +It is a most significant fact that, as in Washington, the most constant +and privileged visitors to the White House were Jews, so in Berlin the +only private telephone wire to the Kaiser was owned by Walter Rathenau. +Not even the Crown Prince could reach the Kaiser except through the +ordinary telephone connections. It was the same in London. It was the +same in Paris. It was the same in Petrograd—in Russia which so +“persecuted” the race that controlled it then and controls it now. + +Now, this sketchy outline of the internationalism of the firm of Kuhn, +Loeb & Company is not offered as the result of keen research, for the +facts are found on the very surface of the matter, for anyone to see. +What is revealed by research is this: whether Mr. Schiff’s interest in +Russia had underground features which affected the welfare of the +nations; whether Mr. Kahn’s flitting missions here and there, which he +made with great freedom daring the war, were wholly taken up with the +business announced in the public notices; and whether Mr. Warburg, whose +interest in Germany has not abated, to judge from his recent utterances, +was able to retain complete neutrality of mind during the war. These are +questions of value. Obviously, they are not easy to answer. But they can +be answered. + +It was a family enterprise, this international campaign. Jacob Schiff +swore to destroy Russia. Paul M. Warburg was his brother-in-law; Felix +Warburg was his son-in-law. Max Warburg, of Hamburg, banker of the +Bolsheviks, was thus brother-in-law to Jacob Schiff’s wife and daughter. + +Speaking of the far-sighted manner in which the house of Kuhn, Loeb & +Company disposes itself over world affairs, there is also the curious +fact that in this Jewish firm is one who goes to a Christian church—a +most heinous thing for a Jew to do. Split three ways in American +politics and as many ways as international matters require, we find this +firm split two ways with regard to religion. Mr. Kahn professes—at least +he attends—a Christian church and is accounted an adherent of it. Yet he +is not ostracized. His name is not taboo. The Jews do not curse him. He +is not denounced as a renegade. The Jews have not buried him out of +mind, as they do others who desert the faith. + +This presents a strange situation when it is considered. Not to recount +again the horror and reprehension and active antagonism with which Jews +view such a desertion, suffice it to say that there is no greater marvel +than that of Jacob H. Schiff retaining in the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & +Company a “renegade” Jew. He could not have done it; every fiber of his +intensely Jewish nature would have rebelled against it. Yet there it is! + +Without going further into this ingenious system of covering all vital +points from one center, enough has been said to show one busy Jewish +financial firm with which political matters, national and international, +is almost a profession. The family of Warburg high in the controlling +group of two countries, and enemy countries at that. The family of +Warburg high in the negotiations of world peace and the discussions of a +League of Nations. The family of Warburg now advising the world from +both sides of the earth, what to do next. It was probably with more +reason than the general public surmised that a New York paper printed +during the Peace Conference an article headed, “Watch the Warburgs!” + +The fact seems to be that, as Mr. Pattullo is quoted as saying at the +head of this article, the international financiers have been so +engrossed in world money that the sense of national responsibility +sometimes becomes blurred in their minds. They desire everything—war, +negotiations and peace—to be conducted in such a way as to react +favorably on the money market. For that is their market: money is what +they buy and sell: and because money has no fixed price, it is a market +which offers the widest opportunity for the trickster and swindler. One +cannot play such tricks with stone or corn or metals, but with money as +the commodity everything is possible. + +Mr. Warburg is already very much interested about the treatment to be +accorded foreign securities in the next war. Readers of the daily +newspapers may recall that recently a demand was made for the gold in +the Reichsbank, which was resisted on the ground that the Reichsbank, +although the central bank of Germany, was really a private concern—just +as Paul Warburg said it was and just as he has insisted that our own +Federal Reserve System should be, and which it is. There is far-sighted +wisdom in that, with a view to possible defeat in war. + +Mr. Warburg is apparently quite disapproving of the treatment accorded +alien enemy property “by some countries.” He quotes a French banker +throughout—nationality not stated—and drives home his point. The French +banker used as an illustration a possible war between England and France +(this was only last year) and said that the bankers in each country +would proceed to withdraw their mutual balances and securities, for fear +of confiscation, and that such a course would precipitate a panic. + +To which Mr. Warburg adds: “I think that our bankers ought carefully to +study this very serious question. We have nothing to gain and much to +lose by joining in a policy of disregarding the rights of private +property. We shall probably, in the course of time, become the largest +owners of foreign securities and properties, which would become +endangered in case we were drawn into war. To me, however, it is of +greater interest that nothing be done that might stand in the way of +making the United States the gold reserve country of the world....” + +Such talk passes with too little scrutiny. It bears a strong reflection +of recent events which should not be overlooked. Moreover, it presents a +grandiose vision which is supposed to command instant agreement because +of its appeal to superficial national pride and selfish ambition. + +If what Mr. Warburg says is an intimation that the International Jews +are planning to move their money market to the United States, it is safe +to say that the United States does not want it. We have the warning of +history as to what this would mean. It has meant that in turn Spain, +Venice, Great Britain or Germany received the blame and suspicion of the +world for what the Jewish financiers have done. It is a most important +consideration that most of the national animosities that exist today +arose out of resentment against what the Jewish money power did under +the camouflage of national names. “The British did this,” “the Germans +did this,” when it was the International Jew who did it, the nations +being but the marked spaces on his checker board. + +Today, around the world the blaming word is heard, “The United States +did this. If it were not for the United States the world would be in +better shape. The Americans are a sordid, greedy, cruel people.” Why? +Because the Jewish money power is largely centered here and is making +money out of both our immunity and Europe’s distress, playing one +against the other; and because so many of the so-called “American +business men” abroad today are not Americans at all—they are Jews, and +in many cases as misrepresentative of their own race as they are of the +Americans. + +The United States does not want the transfer of All-Judaan to this soil. +We do not desire to stand as a gold god above the nations. We would +serve the nations, and we would protect them, but we would do both in +the basis of real values, not in the name or under the sign of gold. + +On the one hand Mr. Warburg recites pitiful facts about Germany in order +to raise sympathy for her, and on the other hand he stimulates the gold +lust of the United States. The plight of Germany is entirely due to the +forces from which the United States has only narrowly escaped; and to +harken to international Jewish plans for the rehabilitation of Germany +is to be in danger of approving plans which will fasten Jewish +domination more strongly on that unhappy country than it is now. Germany +has paid dearly for her Jews. The Warburg voice that speaks for her +would seem indeed to be the voice of Jacob, but the hand that proposes +financial dealings is that of Esau. + +The internationalism of the Warburgs is no longer in doubt, and cannot +be denied. Felix Warburg hung on to the Hamburg connection longer than +did Paul, but the breakage of either was probably perfunctory. At the +time that Felix left the Hamburg firm of his brother, Max, a Mr. Stern +also left the Frankfort firm of Stern, and both became very active on +the Allies side, taking sides against the German nation as lustily as +anyone could. “Impossible!” say those who fancy that a German Jew is a +German. Not at all impossible; the Jew’s loyalty is to the Jewish +nation; what the Jew himself refers to as his “cover nationality” may +count or not as he himself elects. + +This statement is always met with frothing wrath by the Jews’ “gentile +fronts” in the purchased pro-Jewish press. But here is an example: Do +you remember “The Beast of Berlin,” that lurid piece of war propaganda? +You did not, perhaps, know that its producer was a German Jew, Carl +Laemmle. His German birth did not prevent him making money out of his +film, and his film does not prevent him annually going back in state to +his birthplace. This year he goes accompanied by Abe Stern, his +treasurer; Lee Kohlmar, his director; and Harry Reichenbach—a list of +names duplicable in any movie group. + +Messrs. Stern and “Warburg, of Frankfort and Hamburg, respectively, and +away from home perhaps only temporarily, were not concerned about the +fate of the “Huns,” but they were immensely concerned about the fate of +Jewish money power in Germany. + +To indicate how blind the public has been to the inter-allied Jewish +character of much of the world’s important international financial +activity, note this from the _Living Age_ earlier in the year: + + “According to the _Svensk Handelstidning_, the recent American loan + of $5,000,000 to Norway was really the outcome of an agreement + between the Hamburg firm of Warburg & Company and the New York + bankers, Kuhn and Loeb. It is regarded as a significant sign of the + times that a German firm should be responsible for an American loan + to a neutral country. The conditions subject to which this money was + borrowed, are not regarded as very favorable to Norway, and no + marked effect on the rate of exchange between the two countries has + followed.” + +Note, in the light of all the statements made about Kuhn, Loeb & +Company, and the Warburgs in particular, the assumption in the above +quotation that the transaction was really between a German and an +American firm. It was principally an arrangement between the Warburgs +themselves in family counsel. But the loan will pass in Norway as “_an +American loan_,” and the fact that the terms of the loan “_are not +regarded as very favorable to Norway_” will react upon Scandinavian +opinion of this country. It goes without saying that “_no marked effect +on the rate of exchange between the two countries has followed_,” for +that would not be the object of such a loan. The dislocation of exchange +is not unprofitable. + +It would be most interesting to know in how far Kuhn, Loeb & Company has +endeavored to readjust the rate of exchange. + +During the war, Kuhn, Loeb & Company made a loan to the city of Paris. +Considerable German comment was occasioned by this—naturally. And it is +very well worthy of record that in the city of Hamburg, where Max +Warburg does business, the chief of police issued this order: + + “Further mention in the press of loans made by the firm of Kuhn, + Loeb & Company to the city of Paris, and unfavorable comments + thereon, are forbidden.” + +The following story is vouched for as reliable, and if in one or two +minor details it does not represent the exact fact, it is a trustworthy +illustration of how certain things were done: + + “A Jewish international banking corporation bought up the mining and + other similar concessions of Jugo-Slavia, and consequently the + policy pushed at the Peace Conference was that which was most + convenient for that group. An understanding on the Fiume question + was in progress between Wilson and Nitti. Certain concessions had + been agreed upon and Wilson was willing to negotiate, when Oscar + Straus and one of the Warburgs appeared on the scene. Wilson changed + his attitude over night and afterward insisted on the Jugo-Slavia + solution of the problem. The way in which concessions had been + bought through that territory was a disgrace, and observers expected + that it would play an important part at the Peace Conference.” + +The financiers are not the only International Jews in the world. The +revolutionary Jews, of all countries and none, are international also. +They have seized upon the idea of Christian internationalism, which +means amity between nations, and have used it as a weapon with which to +weaken nationality. They know as well as anyone that there can be no +internationalism except on the basis of strong nationalism, but they +count on “cover words” to advance their plan. + +Enough transpired between the lower and higher Jewish groups of every +large center during the war to render it imperative that Jewry confess, +repent and repudiate the madness that has ruled it, or else boldly +assert and espouse it before the world. + +Certainly enough has transpired to render it desirable that the American +people look again into the purposes of those Jews who were instrumental +in reorganizing our financial system at a most critical time in the +world’s history. + +Max Warburg was apparently strong enough to suppress German discussion +of his brothers’ activity in America. The Warburgs at present resident +in America must suffer it, therefore, that American comment be made as +full as need be. + + +—— + +Issue of July 9, 1921. + + + + + LXI. + Jewish Power and America’s Money Famine + + +The international Jewish banker who has no country but plays them all +against one another, and the International Jewish proletariat that roams +from land to land in search of a peculiar type of economic opportunity, +are not figments of the imagination except to the non-Jew who prefers a +lazy laxity of mind. + +Of these classes of Jews, one or both are at the heart of the problems +that disturb the world today. The immigration problem is Jewish. The +money question is Jewish. The tie-up of world politics is Jewish. The +terms of the Peace Treaty are Jewish. The diplomacy of the world is +Jewish. The moral question in movies and theaters is Jewish. The mystery +of the illicit liquor business is Jewish. + +These facts are unfortunate as well as unpleasant for the Jew, and it is +squarely up to him to deal with the facts, and not waste time in trying +to destroy those who define the facts. These facts are interpreted by +the Jew and the anti-Semite with strange extremes of blindness. The Jew +never gets the world’s point of view at all; he always gets the +anti-Semite’s point of view; and the anti-Semite is equally at fault in +always getting the Jew’s point of view. What both need is to get +society’s point of view, which is the one being set forth in this +present series of articles. + +To say that the immigration problem is Jewish does not mean that Jews +must be prohibited entry to any country; it means that they must become +rooted to a country in loyal citizenship, as no doubt some are, and as +no doubt most are not. To say that the money question is Jewish does not +mean that Jews must get out of finance; it means that they must rid +finance of the Jewish idea which has always been to use money to get a +strangle-hold on men and business concerns, instead of using finance to +help general business. To say that the tie-up of world politics is +Jewish does not mean that Jews, as human beings, are to be denied a +voice in affairs; it means that they must give up trying to make the +world revolve around the Jewish nation as its axis. To describe the +influence of the Jew on the theater is not to demand that he leave the +theater, but it is to demand that he rid the theater of his idea that +sensualism is entertaining. + +The Jewish Question is first for the Jews to solve; if not, the world +will have to solve it for them. They may stay in business, say the +theater, for example, if they will cease spoiling the theater; if they +do not cease, the theater will be taken away from them just as certainly +as that day follows night. The world has been patient and the world will +be fair, but the world knows the limit of imposition. + +It is not the true Jewishness of the Jew, nor yet the nationalism of the +Jew that is on trial, but his anti-national internationalism. A true +Mosaic Jew—not a Talmud Jew—would be a good citizen. A nationalist Jew +would at least be logical. But an international Jew has proved an +abomination, because his internationalism is focused on his own racial +nationalism which in turn is founded on his ingrained belief that the +rest of humanity is inferior to him and by right his prey. Jewish +leaders may indulge in all the platitudes they possess, the fact which +they cannot deny is that the Jew has for centuries regarded the “goyim” +as beneath him and legitimately his spoil. + +The internationalism of the Jew is confessed everywhere by him. Listen +to a German banker: imagine the slow, oily voice in which he said: + +“We are international bankers. Germany lost the war?—what of it?—that is +an affair of the army. We are international bankers.” + +And that was the attitude of every international Jewish banker during +the war. The nations were in strife? What of it? It was like a +Dempsey-Carpentier bout in New Jersey, or a baseball game in Chicago—an +affair of the fighters—“we are international bankers.” + +A nation is being hamstrung by artificial exchange rates; another by the +sucking of money out of its channels of trade; what of it to the +international banker?—he has his own game to play. Hard times bring more +plums tumbling off the tree into the baskets of the international +bankers than does any other kind of times. Wars and panics are the +Jewish international bankers’ harvests. + +Citizens wake up with a start to find that even the white nations are +hardly allowed to see each other nowadays except through Jewish eyes. +When the United States supposedly speaks to France, through whom does +she speak? All that France sees is Otto H. Kahn! Why must a Jew +represent the United States of America to France? When France supposedly +speaks to the United States, through whom is it done? Through Viviani, +Jewish in every thought and method. Now they are talking of sending +Millerand over, another Jew. Britain sends Lord Reading. Germany sent +Dr. Dernberg. And to other countries the United States sent Morgenthau, +Strauss, Warburg, and lesser Jewlings. + +It comes with something of a shock to learn that Foch is coming to the +United States. We have not seen a Frenchman since Joffre visited us. It +is good to see men of the white race come across the sea as if to +reassure us that white men still live in those countries. The business +of the Peace Conference was done by Jews—has it come to a point where +international diplomacy is to become a Jewish monopoly also? Must the +special conversations between France, Britain and the United States be +held through Jewish interpreters, while Anglo-Saxons and true Frenchmen +do the routine embassy work—or shall it be possible for the non-Jewish +nations to see one another occasionally through non-Jewish +representatives? + +Internationalism is not a Jewish conviction, but a Jewish business +device. It is most profitable. In diplomacy and at the immigrant +station, internationalism pays. Jews interpret nation to nation in the +high rites of special conversations between governments; Jewish +interpreters swarm at the ports of every country also, where the poor +swarm in. It was stated in the House of Lords the other day that most of +the trouble in Palestine was caused by Jewish interpreters. It was +charged that the Jewish administration added an extra language to the +official list in order to make Jewish interpreters indispensable. + +Go through the government of the United States, where the income tax +secrets are kept, where the Federal Reserve secrets are kept, where the +State Department secrets are kept—and you will find Jews sitting at the +very spot where International Jewry desires them to sit, and where +nothing is kept from their knowledge. + +Go abroad and come back to your country a Jew will open the gate to let +you in, or close it to keep you out—as he chooses. + +“Will you be going to Detroit while you are here?” asked a Jewish +government agent of a gentleman entering the country on a visit a few +weeks ago. + +“I may go to Detroit,” was the reply. + +“Well, you go to the damned DEARBORN INDEPENDENT and tell them a Jew let +you into this country,” said the government agent. + +What the visitor replied is known, but had better not be quoted. The +American Jewish Committee might shriek that the people were being +incited to pogroms. + +The incident, however, is but a sample of what is occurring every day. +The truth about the Jewish Question in the United States is perhaps the +one form of truth that cannot be indiscriminately told. + +The international Jewish bankers regard themselves as in similar fashion +“letting” the nations do this or that, regarding the nations not as +fatherlands but as customers—and as customers in the Jewish sense. If an +army wins or loses, if a government succeeds or fails, what of it?—that +is their affair—“we are international bankers,” and we win, whoever +loses. + +For international Jewish bankers, the war is not over. The period of +actual hostilities and the emergencies of the nations were but the +opening of the trade. The ready cash was skimmed in then—all the cash +the world had. True, some of it had to be distributed among the people +as war wages and bonuses, in order to keep the struggle going, but this +was soon recovered through the means of high prices, artificial +scarcities and the orgy of extravagance deliberately organized and +stimulated among the people. That phase over, and money disappeared. + +Is there any more tragic joke than that diligently disseminated in this +country—“The United States has more gold than any other country in the +world”? Where is it? How long since you have seen a piece of gold? Where +is all this gold—is it locked up in the Treasury of the United States +Government? Why, that government is in debt, desperately trying to +economize, cannot pay a soldier bonus because the finances of the +country cannot stand it! Where is that gold? It may be _in_ the United +States, but it does not belong _to_ the United States. + +The American farmer, and those American industries which were not “wise” +to the tricks of international Jewish bankers, and who were nipped by +small loans, are wondering where all this money is. Furthermore, Europe, +suffering from every possible lack, is looking to us and wondering where +the money is. + +This dispatch in a London paper may throw light on the matter: (italics +are ours) + + “It is learned today that new gold shipments aggregating $2,800,000 + are consigned to Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York, making nearly + $129,000,000 imported by that firm since the movement started. In + responsible banking circles the belief is expressed that some of the + _German_ coin recently imported by the firm is _from_ _Russia, + instead of Germany_, as generally supposed.” + +This dispatch, coupled with one printed in a former article which showed +Warburg & Company of Germany arranging with Kuhn, Loeb & Company of New +York for a $5,000,000 loan to Norway, is not devoid of light on the +question—_Where is the money?_ + +The Jewish international banking system may be easily described. First, +there is the international Jewish headquarters. This was in Germany. It +had ramifications in Russia, Italy, France, Great Britain and the South +American states. (South American Jewry is very menacing.) Germany and +Russia were the two countries scheduled for punishment by the +International Jewish bankers because these two countries were most aware +of the Jew. They have been punished; that job is done. + +Jewish political headquarters, as related to the internal affairs of the +Jews, was also located in Germany, but the headquarters dealing with the +“goyim” was in France. Statements have been made that the political +center of Jewry has been transplanted to the United States. But these +statements have been made by American Jews whose wish may have been +father to the thought. During the Wilson Administration it was possible +for a Jew to think and to hope this, but affairs have slightly changed. +The ousting of American Jews from the Zionist movement at the behest of +Eastern Jews indicates that if the political center of world Jewry has +shifted to the United States, the _power_ is still in the hands of +_aliens_ resident here. The center is still in Jewry; the United States +is merely a square on Jewry’s world checker board. + +But, wherever the financial and political world centers may be, each +country is separately handled. In every country—the United States, +Mexico and the republics of South America; in France, England, Italy, +Germany, Austria—yes, and in Japan—there is an international Jewish +banking firm which stands at the head of the group for that country. +Thus, the chief Jewish firm in the United States is Kuhn, Loeb & +Company, of which one of the members is Paul M. Warburg, brother of M. +Warburg & Company, of Hamburg; and another member of which is Otto H. +Kahn, resident successively of Germany, Great Britain and the United +States, and self-appointed financial spokesman for the United States to +France and Great Britain. Great Britain and France seldom see a special +American spokesman who is not a Jew. That may be the reason why they +reciprocate by sending Jews to us, thinking perhaps that we prefer them. + +Paul M. Warburg was the inventor, perfector and director of the Federal +Reserve System of the United States. He is not the only Jew in the +Federal Reserve System, but he was the chief Jew there. His mind counted +for a great deal. There were others in the war government, of course; +Bernard M. Baruch; Eugene Meyer, Jr.; Hoover’s regiment of Jews; Felix +Frankfurter; Julius Rosenwald—hundreds of them, and everywhere; but the +financial group alone is receiving our attention just now, and they are +not so notably successful in getting the country out of financial +difficulty as they were in other lines of effort. + +The Federal Reserve System may not be a bad system, in spite of the fact +that it yields government monetary functions to private financial +corporations, but there are all sorts of testimony that it has been +badly manipulated. Mr. Warburg, the reader will remember, spoke about +certain things being “overcome in an administrative way,” showing that +there was a certain amount of “play” or loose motion in the system which +could be manipulated either way. The fact remains that the country went +swimmingly through the war by reason of the assistance of the System, +and is coming very lamely through the Peace, as the result, monetary +experts say, of the hindrance of the same System. Mr. Warburg, whose +name was so prominently connected with the advertisement of the glory of +the System, must also stand being mentioned in connection with the +criticism. + +Whatever money we are said to have as the per capita in the United +States, it is a false statement. The money _per capita_ should always be +figured on the basis of the money _in circulation_. The statistical “per +capita” is not always in circulation. Less than half of it, as a rule. +The rest is being juggled. + +Whatever the _gold_ in the country, the _wealth_ is still greater. There +is more wealth in the United States than there is gold in the world. One +year’s products of the farms of the United States exceeds in money value +all the gold in the world. + +Yet, under our present system, the burgeoning bulk of the country’s +_wealth_ must _pass through the narrow neck of Money_. And the _Money_ +must pass through the _still narrower neck of Gold_. And the controller +of the Gold, under our present system, controls the world. There is more +wealth than there is money; there is more money than there is gold; +money exists at the pleasure of gold; wealth moves at the pleasure of +money. Whoever sits at the neck of money, opening or closing as he will, +controls the movement of the world’s wealth. And the world’s prosperity +depends on the movement of that wealth. When wealth stands still and +does not pass from hand to hand, the world’s circulation has stopped; +the world becomes economically sick. + +The scarcity of cash in hand has led to Credit. Credit is a form of +barter. It is a form of dealing by which many transactions are carried +on, only the final one being cleared in money. It is a device which has +its dangers, in spite of the efforts of apologists to exploit its +advantages. But one thing the system of Credit indubitably does—it +allows the money masters to hang on to the _Cash_. When the world is +caught, _it is caught with paper_, not with Cash. The Cash is always in +the hands of those who extol the advantage of the Credit System. Who +holds money holds power, and will hold it, until real barter or _real +money_ comes in fashion again. + +In 1919–1920, according to one of the best monetary authorities in the +United States, the total shrinkage in values of the products of our +fields, mines, factories, mills and forests represented a sum greater +than the total gold supply of the world. It runs as high as the total +amount of Liberty Bonds outstanding. + +People say, “Well, the prices were too high.” Certainly they were too +high, but who and what made them too high? It was the generosity with +which money was supplied by the private Federal Reserve System. There +was plenty of money. People say, “Well, the shrinkage is only in paper +values; the real value of the product is still there.” Certainly, but +when you live under a system in which “real” value and “money” value are +so intimately intertwined that it affects your bread and butter, the +tenure of your farm, and the steadiness of your job, it is pretty hard +to separate the two. Moreover, when your prosperity was due to the +readiness of a group of men to let out money, and your adversity is due +to the unwillingness of the same group, and your own welfare and your +country’s welfare is thus see-sawed up and down without any reference to +natural law but solely upon determinations taken in committee rooms, you +naturally inquire, “Who is doing this? Where is all the money gone? Who +is holding it? Here is the wealth of the country; here is the need of +the country; where is the money to transfer the wealth to the need? +Every condition remains as it was, except money.” + +We have a Federal Reserve System which still is benefiting by the +assistance of its perfector and director, Paul M. Warburg. And what is +the condition in the United States? + +Some of the biggest industrial institutions in the country now in the +hands of creditors’ committees. + +Farmers being sold out by the hundreds, their horses bringing about $3 +each. + +Cotton and wool enough to clothe the nation, spoiling in the hands of +the men who raised it and cannot dispose of it. + +Every line of business, railroading, newspaper publishing, +store-keeping, manufacturing, agriculture, building, in depression. Why? +For lack of money. + +Where is the money? This is the country that is supposed to be the +financial center of the world—_where is the money?_ + +It is in New York. The Federal Reserve System, which Mr. Warburg desired +to head up in one central bank, has just about turned out that way. _The +money is in New York._ Here is the charge made to the governor of the +Federal Reserve Board by a responsible public official who knows: + +While there is a scarcity of money for the producing sections of the +West and Northwest, the South and Southwest, “we find that individual +banks in New York City are borrowing from the Reserve System, in a +number of cases, more than $100,000,000 each; and sometimes as much as +$145,000,000 is loaned there to a single bank—_twice as much_ as some of +the Reserve Banks have been lending recently to _all_ the member banks +in their districts.” + +One bank in New York borrowed $134,000,000, _or $20,000,000 more_ than +the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City was advancing to 1,091 member +banks in that Reserve District which covers the states of Kansas, +Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and New +Mexico. + +At the same time, another New York bank was borrowing from the Federal +Reserve Bank about $40,000,000, which was _more than the aggregate loans +which the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis was lending to its 1,000 +member banks in the_ great states of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, +Montana and part of Wisconsin. + +Another New York bank borrowed from the Federal Reserve Bank a sum which +was _greater by $30,000,000 than the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas was +lending to all the banks in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma_. + +Still another New York bank got a loan which _equaled the total loans +allowed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to the 569 member +banks_ of that very important district, which includes the whole state +of Arkansas, parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and +Mississippi, and the larger part of Missouri. + +Take the Fifth Federal Reserve District, served by the Federal Reserve +Bank at Richmond, Virginia: one New York bank was able to borrow from +the New York Reserve Bank _more_ than the Richmond Reserve Bank would +lend to all its member banks in Maryland, Virginia, North and South +Carolina and the larger part of West Virginia. + +That is the situation. The twelve regional banks, which were supposed to +make money serve all parts of the country equally, have apparently been +“overcome in an administrative way” to such an extent that the New York +Federal Reserve Bank is to all intents and purposes the Central Bank of +the United States, and serves the speculative part of the country with +millions, while the productive part of the country is permitted to wilt +with paltry thousands. + +When it can occur that four New York banks can borrow from the New York +Federal Reserve Bank as much money as the banks of 21 states were able +to borrow from the five Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Kansas City, +Minneapolis, Dallas and Richmond—there would seem to be need of +explanation somewhere. + +Where did this money loaned in New York come from? It came from those +parts of the country where money was scarcest. In May, 1920, the word +went out over telephones—“The tie-up will come on the 15th.” And it +came. Credit was stopped. Payment was pressed. A stream of money, +literally squeezed out of the producing sections of the country, began +to roll toward New York. Otherwise those giant loans just recorded would +have been impossible. It was pressure, Federal Reserve pressure, +politely known as deflation, and that is the way it worked. The banks of +the West were squeezed dry that the banks of New York might overflow. + +“_The money was withdrawn from legitimate business in various parts of +the country to be loaned at fancy rates in Wall Street_,” says the +official referred to above. + +The speculative banks, it has been discovered, were able to borrow money +at six per cent, which money they loaned at as high as 20, 25 and 30 per +cent. + +Federal Reserve deflation created a scarcity which speculative banks +utilized. The Federal Reserve policy took the money out; New York banks +borrowed the money thus taken out, and loaned it at tremendous +rates—rates which people paid to stave off the ruin caused by the +moneyless condition which the ill-measured deflation process brought on. + +And all this time the Federal Reserve System was in the best financial +condition of its whole career. In December, 1920, it had 45 per cent of +its reserves, which was a higher reserve than it had in December, 1919. +But at this writing (July, 1921) the reserve has reached 60 per cent. + +The money is in New York. Go out through the agricultural states, and +you will not find it. Go into the districts of silent factories and you +will not find it. It is in New York. The Warburg Federal Reserve has +deflated the country. A System that was intended to equalize the ups and +downs of financial weather has been used “in an administrative” way to +deplete the country of money. + +The Federal Reserve Idea was doubtless right; if it had not been, it +could not have been established. But it has been manipulated. It has not +been a “federal” reserve; it has been a private reserve. It has been +operated in the interest of bankers and not of everyone in general. +Capable of being used to carry the country gradually back to a natural +flow of business and to a natural level of prices, it was used to +bludgeon business at a critical time and to bludgeon it in such a way +that money-lenders profited when producers suffered. + +If that is the fact, there is no American banker but will say that the +method was wrong; economically wrong, logically wrong, commercially +wrong, if not criminally wrong. + +Today the Federal Reserve boasts of its own reserve as if that were a +sign of national economic health. With the country struggling to live, +the Federal Reserve ought to be low, not high. The height which the +reserve has reached is a measure of the depth of the country’s +depression. + +If the Federal Reserve would let out a part of that flood of money—a +high financial authority suggests that less than 10 per cent would do +it—it would be like an infusion of blood into the nation’s veins. + +Kuhn, Loeb & Company, the Speyers and the other Jewish money-lenders +have money for Mexico, Norway, Germany, and all sorts of commercial +companies being organized to do business overseas, and it is American +money. The Warburg Federal Reserve System has been badly misused, badly +manipulated, and the country is suffering from it. + +Still, the people know not what to do. Money is still a mystery. Banking +is still sacrosanct. What would be perfectly apparent if done in +ordinary business intercourse with a $5 bill, is exceedingly complicated +when the sum is five millions and the parties are (1) country banks, (2) +Federal Reserve banks and (3) Wall Street speculative institutions. Yet +they are only Tom, Dick and Harry with a $5 bill, after all. + +“The matter is somewhat affected by the gags that are placed on many men +competent to criticize. High officials are more or less tied up, by +campaign contributions in which all financial concerns have an interest. +Legislative officials are, too many of them, indebted to these same +interests. A schedule of the private debts of some of the men who have +aspired to the Presidency in the last eight years would be very +illuminating—almost as illuminating as a schedule of the names of Jews +at whose homes they stayed while on journeys through the country. Men +who are thus tied up with the present financial system cannot say what +in their minds they know. + +It is all illustrated in the testimony of T. Cushing Daniel before a +committee of Congress. It shows to what an extent the power of this +private corporation called the central bank can reach: + + “When going through the Bank of England I presented a letter which I + had from Secretary Hay, and the official of the bank was very + polite. He took me through the bank and when we got back to the + reception room I asked him if he would allow me to put a few leading + questions to him. He said he would, and I asked him if he would give + me a statement of the Bank of England. ‘We do not issue statements.’ + ‘Does not the House of Parliament sometimes call on you for some + statement as to the condition of the bank?’ ‘No, sir; they do not + call on us.’ ... ‘How is it that some of these revolutionists, + so-called, do not get up in the House of Commons and raise the devil + to know something about what is going on down here? That would be + the condition in our country.’ ‘_Oh, most of them are large + borrowers from the bank, and we have no difficulty with them._’ + (laughter.)” + + +—— + +Issue of July 16, 1921. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES + + + ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. + ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76612 *** |