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World’s Foremost Problem

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November, 1921.

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THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENTPreface

‘THE present volume, third in the series, is com-

piled for the same purpdse as its predecessors—
to enable new readers of THr DeaRBoRN INDEPENDENT
to commence their reading with the earlier articles
in the series of studies in The Jewish Question.

It was inevitable that the publication first to open
the discussion of this Question should be compelled
to meet the degrading charge of “anti-semitism” and
kindred falsehoods; but it was also inevitable that
if the work of such a publication should prove to be
valid, the way would be cleared for discussion by
other publications which had not and need not bring
upon themselves the charge of racial hatred.

This is precisely what has occurred. An _ un-
dreamed of publicity for the essentials of the Jewish
Question has been achieved in this country. It is
noteworthy that whether the publicity be in agree-
ment with or against THe Drarsporn INDEPENDENT,
the essential facts are the same, and these facts were
first set forth in this paper.

That, indeed, constitutes the strength of the arti-
cles. The facts are provable; they are not disproya-
ble. 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 de-
fenders 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 Jew-
ish 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. APREFACE

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 Nine-
teenth 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 reli-
gious press, aS represented by publications like the
Christian Standard, the Christian Century, The
Woody 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 INDE-
PENDENT now. They will be gathered into future
volumes as may be required.

 

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The Jews and the “Religious
Persecution’’ Cry

EK CHEERFULLY give the Jews of the United
States credit for knowing when they are get-
ting 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 hol-
low 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 Ques-
tion is a religious question and that THe DearBorN
INDEPENDENT’S investigation of that question con-
stituted “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 curi-
ous how the cry of “religious persecution” is used
to evoke the spirit of persecution against alleged
persecutors.

Tur Drarsorn INDEPENDENT this week goes out
of its course to squelch once and for all this cry
of religious persecutions.8 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Three statements are sufficient to outline the
situation:

First. neither directly nor by implication has
Tin DEARBORN INDEPENDENT held that the Jewish
Question is a religious question. On the contrary,
supported by the hichest 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
“Phe Internationa] Jew.’ )

Second. there is no religious perst cution 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 Massachu-
setts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ant-
mals has published a valuable study of the Jewish
hee of slaughtering animals for food, in which

< adduced much scientific evidence to support the
cont clusion that the Jewish method is “needlessly
cruel.” But even this can only with difficulty be
eetehed ‘nto an interference with “the religion of
the Jews.” The Jewish method of slaughter as
now practiced is not commanded in the Old Testa-
ment but in the Talmud, and is, therefore, not re-
ligious 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
paver 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 Protes-
tants, but these are not to be compared with the
steady, relentless, alert, anti-Christian activity ofTHE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 9

the Jewish organizations. There are doctrinal dis-
putes 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 manifesta-
tions.”

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 con-
sidered 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 ‘Chris-
tian.” Various governors of American states, hav-
ing 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. E[very-
thing 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 apolo-
gies they have extorted from public officials for
“having inadvertently used the term ‘Christian,’ ” it
is desirable that this charge of “religious persecu-
tion” should be placed where it belongs. In the
Daily American Tribune, a Catholic daily published
at Dubuque, Iowa, appeared a recent headline whichTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

   

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 charg-

Ing

that the study of the Jewish Question consti-

tutes “religious persecution,’ and none has been

found.

That
fronts” for use among Christians.

ry has

been

reserved for

“Gentile
All the attacks

from the Jewish camp are against the doctrines and
They have carried
on an insistent and successful persecution, and the
details of it have filled the Jewish press for years

institutions

past.

of

the Christians.

Upon reading the following selections, the re-
mark of Dean Swift will probably come to mind:
“We are fully convinced that we shall always tol-

erate them, but not that they will tolerate us.
Red Cross is objectionable to the Jew.

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Lissauer, in The Jewish Times, proposed that the

Magen

the Red Cross Society badges worn by Jews.
“We should not let our sensitiveness to charges
of intolerance overcome our conscientious religious

objections

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says Mr. Lissauer.

David be substituted for “the red cross” on

The

editor of The Jewish Independent thinks the sug-

ceshon

‘is worthy of serious consideration.”
The Gideons are objectionable to the Jew.

The

Gideons is the name given to the Christian Com-

mercial

Travelers’

Association

of America,

whose

efforts are responsible for the Bibles which are to
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rooms.

Cleveland Jeaisi. Independent:

“Tt 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 travelingTHE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 11

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 in-
vitation 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 be-
lief ?”

“Tf 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. OC. A. Many thousands of printed lines
expressed the fury with which they regarded at-
tempts to “Christianize the Army and Navy” dur-
ing 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 chal-
lenge 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. TheTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

boast of how “the Jew cares for his own” is given a
jolt by the dire need which has called Christian wel-
fare work into Jewish settlements.

This hatred overrode good judgment so com-
pletely that in 1911 Assemblyman Heyman intro-
duced into the New York State legislature a bill
making it an offense punishable by fine or imprison-
ment 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 need-
‘ost 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 own-
ing 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
ouaranteed under the constitution of Missouri.”
The referee was, of course, coached by Jews. In
the name of religious freedom these Jews opposed
civing an association freedom enough to preach the
gospel.

In Toronto the Jewish leaders issued a proclama-
tion 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 con-
verting 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. TheTHE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 13

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 Chi-
cago Gospel Mission was principal of a Chicago
public school. The Jews raised a great outcry
against him, denounced him as unfit to teach chil-
dren, and guilty of “the moral turpitude of eating
food provided by taxes of which a large share is re-
ceived 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
cshetto. If this school teacher were Christian enough
to have a conscience, he would resign, said the Jew-
ish thunderers, and with that never-failing tinge of
dark-mindedness they added: “What is done jn
secret in these haunts can, of course, only be guessed
av?

Talk about bigotry! This from a people who en-
courage the cry that Tap Dearsorn 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 good-
ness of their hearts, engage.

A book of 500 pages could be filled with the un-
reasonable 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. TheTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

literature of attack against this institution is volu-
minous and the arguments extreme. Sunday is Chris-
tian, 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 exploi-
tation. 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 crim-
inal 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 in-
tegrity of Sunday—pooh! pooh! “Don’t the Chris-
tians know that Sunday perpetuates the silliest su-
perstition, 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.’

““T stand or fall by the Christian Sabbath in theTHE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 15

next campaign,’ the governor is reported to have
Said-s.;

“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 nomina-
tion for United States Senatorship. The Israelite
will take great pleasure about the time the leaves be-
gin to turn in reminding Governor Cox of his state-
ment that he ‘will stand or fall bya Christian Sab-
bath’ in the coming campaign.””—A merican Israelite.

The literature of Jewish thought toward Sunday
presents complete evidence of the leaders’ antagon-
ism 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 in-
vasions of the Sunday spirit which are mostly
aligned with Jewish commercial interests. In Great
Britain and her colonies where the Jew is not per:
mitted to usurp a superior place as chief censor of
morals and religion and education, Sunday is decent-
ly 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 pro-
gram 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 popula-
tion bothered one one-hundred-thousandth part as
much about Jewish religion as the Jews bother about
Christian observances, the whole fabric of Talmudi-
cal teaching would be consumed in the bright lightTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 under-
taken by fifty men, would compel the Jewish people
by their own decision to abandon the darkness which
holds them now. Jewish Talmudism owes its exist-
ence today to the indifference with which it is re-
carded. This is the far opposite extreme of “reli-
ious 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 ordi-
nary 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 inaugu-
rated, 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 para-
dox. A Jewish authority says: “The Jew is a para:
dox. He is at once an idealist and a materialist.
He is parsimonious and extravagant. He is cou-

rageous and cowardly. He is modest and vulgar.
He is persistent and yielding. He is peaceful and
warlike’”——and so on. And though the Jew op-

poses 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 an-
swer. It is time the Churches began to learn whatTHE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 17

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 them-
selves considered how long the boast will stand the
usage they are giving it.

In any case the literature which the Jews wrong-
fully 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 pen-
men 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 pro-
nouncements 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
excnsing the children all on account of the tyranny
of reading the Christian Bible in the schools—re-18 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

gardless of the fact, which every publie school teach-
er 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 conyince the secularists that every.thing public
should be secularized down to the last notch of athe-
istic 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 cruel-
ty upon Jewish school pupils, we said, without in-
vestigation, “Out goes the Merchant, then!” We dis-
covered later that the Jewish children liked and ap-
preciated 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

sible!” And i 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 eradi-
cate from Christian civilization all that is Christian
in it.

In the meantime what transpires? Having in-
duced “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 institu-
tions 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 de-
livered by Jewish rabbis—the lectures delivered in
the colleges themselves—prop agandizing the youth
of the non-Jews with Judaistic religion, ethics, and
economics. That is what the so-called Jewish “Chau-THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY. 719

tauqua” exists for. It is not a Jewish “Chautau-
qua”; 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 wiil 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 pa-
triotism. It is the only well-organized, active and
successful form of religious prejudice in the country
because they have succeeded in pulling off the gi-
gantic 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 ex-
perience 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 im-THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

20

mediately 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 perse-
cution,” 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 eriers as either too ignorant or too vicious

for consideration.

Issue of June 4, 1921.XLIV.

Are the Jews Victims or
Persecutors?

“Half of Christendom worships a Jew; the
other half worships a Jewess.’’— Jewish edito-
rial.

“Tf the gospel story is correct, Judas was a
pretty decent sort of a fellow. It was only ajter
he had become a convert to Christianity that he
became that which has made his memory an ac-
cursed thing for nineteen hundred years.”—Jew-
ish 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 him-
self in 1892. But the statement is clearly false
....Uhis is not a Christian nation. In inspira-
tion, at least, it is a Hebrew nation, for the Con-
stitution which we now enjoy traces back to the
Hebrew Commonwealth.”—Jewish editorial.

(From the minutes of a meeting of the Com-
mittee 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 inevit-
able consequence of that is that her legitimate
children are always thereafter pointed out.”

Miss Sophie Irene Loeb: “As far as name-
less children are concerned, Christ himself was
a nameless child. -Let us get away from name-
less 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 cor-
rupting the morals of those legitimate children22 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

by permitting them to remain in such surround-
ings.”

Miss Loeb: “I say to you that this com-
mittee, 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. hur-
ried 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 Sen-
ate 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 jus-
tice, not pity.’ This is sound Jewish doctrine
as laid down by Moses and the Prophets in con-ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 23

tradistinction to the doctrine of love, as attri-
buted 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 edi-
torial.

“President Wilson at his inaugural gave an-
other instance of the well-known fact that in
solemn moments when they need comfort and in-
Spiration, 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 cen-
tury from that date (1899) there would be prac-
tically nothing left in Protestant Christianity of
a belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ or the dis-
tinctive 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 sup-
posed divine origin, die but slowly, but that they
are dying is nevertheless apparent.”—Jewish
editorial.

HE subject of this article is “Religious Preju-
dice and Persecution—Are the Jews Victims or
Persecutors?” A study of history and of contempo-
rary Jewish journalism shows that Jewish prejudice
and persecution is a continuous phenomenon wher-
ever the Jews have attained power, and that inTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 neverthe-
less 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 den‘ed 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 “re-
gious 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

1a

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. Tur Drarsorn INpE-
PENDENT 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 festi-
vals, whose preservation is due to the Catholic cus-
tom 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 establishmentARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 2

vl

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 undi-
vided 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 Pas-
sion Play,’ Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., of Phila-
delphia, 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 in26

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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 Ghurch runs throughout Jewish litera-

ture.
editorial

in
1920. as follows:

the Jewish

The Jewish attitude was summed up in an

Sentinel of November 26,

“Our only great historical enemy,

our most dangerous enemy, is Rome in all its shapes
and forms, and in all its ramifications.

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will not be

tribute such a criticism to the spirit of
tolerance which Rabbi Wise so zealously counsels

The Episcopal Church also has felt the attack of
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.

the Jews.

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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
naturally turns to when

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aroused.

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wish

mind
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 Gen-ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 27

tiles 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 Tal-
mudical 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 Chau-
tauqua.” In the third place, let there be produced
one Jewish missionary, who has ever received any-
thing but a considerate reception wherever he has
appeared.

The Jews are bitter against all Christian denomi-
nations because of the conversion of numerous Jews
to them. A large number of Jews have become Cath-
olics; 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 male-
diction 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 pecu-
liar 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, litera-
ture and newspapers, they see everywhere traces of
“Christological manifestations” and cry them down./ THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

No public man has ever given public evidence of
his Christian faith without rebuke from the Jews.
Mr. Bryan, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Tait, 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 ‘idolator,”
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 “Chris-
tian,” which were particularly offensive to the Jew-
ish press because they had advertised far and wide
during the Taft campaign that Mr. Taft was practi-
cally 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,ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 29

was predominantly Jewish. Asa 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 usu-
ally 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 cer-
tainly nothing in my thoughts that would dis-
criminate 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 yvurs,
Woodrow Wilson.”

The heading given this notice in the Jewish
press was, “He Did Not Mean ie?

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 viru-
lent character than among the Jews? Read these
items selected at random from Jewish papers:THE INTERNAT:iONAL JEW

“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 or-
der Jews who join the Christian Science Church. The
body after earnest discussion decided that the por-
tals 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 Jew-
ish 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 chil-
dren 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 treat-
ment than is usually accorded to people of that
kind.”

When a bishop of the Episcopal Church said,
“We must make the United States indisputably
Christian nation,’ the Jewish press retorted that
such a thing could not be done until the Constitu-
tion 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 opposi-
tion to Christmas, Easter and certain patriotic songs
shows that.

When Cleveland and Lakewood arranged for aARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 31

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 tol-
erance, it is a counsel of attack. The Christmas lit-
erature 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, Kaster 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 de-
partment stores of the Levys and the Isaacs and the
Goldsteins and the Silvermans filled with brilliant
Christmas cheer and at Easter with the goods appro-
priate 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 con-
tent, for there are no forces more rapidly seculariz-
ing the two festival days than are the merchandiz-
ing and profiteering forces.

Even religious intolerance has its gleesome mo-
ments, and the Jews’ come whenever the signs ap-
pear 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 proph-
ecy 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 Him-
self; 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 unionTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 com-
ing 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 Israc lite, “will con-
ceal his gratification when he finds Christians vir-
tually admitting that liberal Christianity is practi-
cally an acceptance of the doctrine of liberal Juda-
ism.”

Unfortunately, this is true. Liberal Christianity
and Liberal Judaism meet, but only by the surren-
der of all that is distinctively Christian in doctrine.
A liberal Christian is more Jewish than Christian.
The statement may sound harsh and arouse resent-
ment, 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 Kauf-
man Kohler, president of the Hebrew Union College.
Liberalism is the funnel by which Christianity is ex-
pected 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 wide-
open 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 thingsARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 33

of the prevailing religion; and it is all too evident
that the Jewish propaganda has made serious in-
roads 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 Jew-
ish press again hailed it as a sign of the dissatis-
faction 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 extrav-
agantly 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 influ-
ence 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 author-
ities—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 super-
cilious attitude adopted toward the stock that made34 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

America is merely a foreshadowing of what would
be the complete attitude if power and influence made
it possible. 3olshevism, 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 regard-
ing 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 publica-
tion, 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 pre-
sented 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 de-
nounce 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 weekul

ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 3

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 per-
son 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
wvhat is in the articles, rather than to what is not In
them. The statements made by THp DEARBORN INDE-
PENDENT have been voluminously discussed; but they
are still awaiting an answer,

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Jewish Gamblers Corrupt
American Baseball

HERE 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 base-
ball 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 base-
ball was curiously notable for its Jewish character.

Yet only lesser Jews were indicted. Inevitably
the names of other Jews appeared in the press ac-
counts, and people wondered who they were. A
Jewish judge presided. Jewish lawyers were promi-
nent 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 hap-
pened 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 evi-
dent 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 as38 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 dis-
criminating Jews unhesitatingly acknowledge.
Whether this is due to their physical lethargy, their
dislike of unnecessary physical action, or their seri-
ous 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 col-
legiate 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 occa-
sion of remark.

And yet, the bane of American sports today is
the presence of a certain type of Jew, not as a par-
ficipant 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 cor-
rupting of a sport is more illogical and even unex-
plainable than the mind of the man who partici-
pates in it.

There will be a very full case made out in justifi-
cation 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. Wres-
thng is so completely ruled by Jews as to have be-
come 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 at-
mosphere of this sport has been tinged with dis-
honesty. The horses remain almost the only well-
bred creatures connected with it. Yet why ‘shouldJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 39

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 Jew-
ish Idea in sport, instead of being preservative, is
corruptive. The Jew saw money where the sports-
man saw fun and skill. The Jew set out to capital-
ize 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 scan-
dal follows scandal it would seem to be high time
that organized Jewry should undertake to control
or repudiate those Jews who have been most instru-
mental 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 headquar-
ters, 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 at-
tendance 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 attend-
ance 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 whis-
pering gallery wherein were heard mysterious ru-
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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—
lone after the trail grew cold, long after the prin-
cipal 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 man-
agement that several “well-known” Jews were bet-
ting 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 plung-
ers attracted attention. At the same time it was
observed that money began rolling into the pool
rooms on 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. Hen-
dryx having been chosen for that day; neither was
Alexander in tr aining 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 gam-
blers, he failed.

Then came the big scandal. A Cook County
grand jury was called. into session at Chicago andJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 41

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 Rep-
logle, the attorney representing the prosecution,
said there were enough men indicted without Zork
and Franklin. These two St. Louis Jews were rep-
resented 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 di:
rected 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 narra-
tive 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
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For the first name let us take Albert D. Lasker.
He is a member of the American Jewish Committee,
was recently appointe .d by President Harding to be
chairman of the United States Shipping Board, and
iS = own as the author of the “Lasker Plan,” a
videly heralded plan for the reorganization of base-
sali ee 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 adver-
tising agency which became famous under the Gen-
tile 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, SP OnE oh 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 claim-
ing what is not true. Until he makes the claim, the
term “Lasker Plan’ must remain merely a designa-
tion, 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 demand-
ed redress.

Mr. Austrian’s further activities will appearJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 43

when the narrative of the investigation and trial
is resumed.

Then there is Arnold Rothstein, a Jew, who de-
scribes 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 inter-
ested 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 disap-
peared 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 of-
fered, 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 pro-
tector 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
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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, foot-
ball fields and every place else where sport is pro-
moted. 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 Roth-
stein 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 be-
yond 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 ex:
cepting 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 exclu-
sive 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 to-
day of a good Irishman being entirely eclipsed by
a Jew. Comiskey was one of the staunchest support-
ers 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 theJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 45

Jew behind him who is Harry Grabiner. With Co-
miskey 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 Comis-
key 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 visit-
ing 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 turn-46 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

stile count, and making the reeord. 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 objection-
able to pro-Jewish persons to mention the Jewish
management with these methods—but there are the

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
. 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
0 some men more than sound and satisfying achieve-
ment does. Think of a world-famous baseball club
allowing a system that cheated the gcuest club of a
few hundred admission fees!

Then next in this gallery of notables in the back-
ground of baseball is the Jew gambler, Abe Attell,
whose connection with sports has been of a question-
able 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” hisJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 47

own fights, now feigning to be beaten when it in-
volved gambling bets and easily winning when the
same reasons prompted. Attell is of such a charac:
ter 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 Roth-
stein named Attell as the “fixer.” It seemed unan-
imous—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 propo-
sition to raise a pool to bribe the players to “throw
the games,” but Rothstein declined. And yet Ma-
harg, another Jew, whose name spelled backward
is “Graham,” says that a telegram came through
signed “A. R.” which promised $20,000. The “A. Rh.”
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 rat
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 indiscre-
tions 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 Jer-48 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

sey, which Abe Attell attended. Chicago officers
were in attendance, too, with extradition papers
signed by the governor of New Jersey. They intend-
ed to take Attell back with them, though without
passing through New York. Attell attended the
ficht, 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 an-
other 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 dis-
qualification 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 isJEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 49

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 de-
classed low-downs—should all be involved in a base-
ball 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-con-
trolled 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 machin-
ery organized and operated for the purpose of sep-
arating “Gentile boobs” from their money.

If there were no “Gentile boobs,” or if the “Gen-
tile 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 re-
lationship doubted.

When you contrast the grand stands full of Amer-THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

icans 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 play-
ers 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 snug-
vling 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 play-
ers 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

VERY 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 coung 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
en that has afflicted baseball, especially in the
East. is all of Jewish origin—the razzing oi umpires,
haline of bottles, ceaseless shouting of profane in-
sults; in spite of the fact that the loyalty of players
had to be constant a euarded because of the tendency
of individual Jewish gamblers to snuggle up to
individual i 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 f

’

fans have been looking ronnd.
The fans know. ee managers only knew how much
the fans have observed, they might feel more cer
tain of support in the event of a move toward a
clean-up.

Ail that a Jew needs to make him eligible tv
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
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are not sportsmen enough to gamble; they are “sure
thine” 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 sup-
plies clerks and delivery boys.

Lately the Jews have been endeavoring to prove
that they are sports. Venial sport editors are some-
times 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
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 sana-
torium. 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 gzood
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 andJEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 53

the race is only a sham. The Jewish controllers of
wrestling will not permit a real wrestler to appear
—jndeed, 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”
erew 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 sensa-
tional 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 vaude-
ville 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, wit-
nesses, lawyers and judge—than the mere trial of
baseball players accused of unlawfully taking money.

The players were the “Gentile boobs.” The play-
ers were not a whit different than a candidate for
the United States Senate who plays the game ac-
cording 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 indictedTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 hav-
ing been mixed up in whatever shady work there
may have been. The “Gentile boobs” had no wit-
nesses; the Jews had all of them.

This is not a whitewash for the players. They
deserved all they got for mixing up 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 proposi-
tion. The players are Jewish dupes. To be such
a dupe is punishment enough.

It would be erroneous, however, to hold the opin-
ion that corruption in baseball began with the mat-
ter 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 fan-
tastic 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 ke was convineed that something
was wrong; he exhausted every available method toJEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 55

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 prac-
tically “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 base-
hall: “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 can-
not 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 i 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 base-
ball, 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 commit-
tee, 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
erow great, he wanted it kept clean. In his efforts56

 

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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 con-
cerned, they did “get” him. But so far as his pres-
tige is concerned, so far as his character and reputa-
tion 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 crooked-
ness 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 im-
partiality 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. sarney 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 through-
out American baseball looked at Johnson and they
looked at Judge Landis. .

Then the great idea broke! If at one stroke theyJEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL § 57

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 con-
scilously so—and it would be desir: rble 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 Com-
mittee, 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 prosecu-
tion of its inquiry, and before which Alfred S. Aus-
trian 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 im “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 heTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 commis-
sion 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

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other than Judge Landis, who can be trusted to see
through a trick as far as any other living man.

f 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

phey troop | 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.
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[his 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 de-
vote 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—notJEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 59

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 con-
tract. He is free to be absolutely fearless and fair.
What his accession means to baseball will be anx-
iously 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 con-
sulting all the other owners. The name of a prospec-
tive purchaser was to be snbmitted 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 Ameri-
can club. It is very simply explained: the agree-
ment was not observed in Boston’s case, and thus
another club was placed under the smothering in-
fluences 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 Wil-
lard at Havana. Curley has been the principal in-60 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

fluence 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 in-
volve the sum of $35,000, if he would “lay down”
before Jess Willard. And thus Jess Willard, “prob-
ably the worst fighter that ever held a title,” was
made world champion. Frazee and Curley then ex-
hibited 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 Fraze
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 pub-
lie.

sut 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 pro-
posal of Frazee’s name to the American League
would result in disapproval, or whether Frazee him-
self, 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 Le eague woke
up one morning to find the little burlesque managerJEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 61

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 im-
mediately. Ban Johnson was unalterably opposed
to the Frazee idea of sport, and Frazee set out to
“vet” 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 re
making 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 toTHE INTERNATIONAL J EW

drive the peril away from the ownership and fringes
of baseball? It is probably not his field, but it per-
tains 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 de-
voted 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 waist-
line of the spectators nor add anything to chest
measurement,” says the Tribune; “the majority of
spectators get only eye and mouth exercise.” “Jour-
nalism 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 aboli-
tion of the Jew-controlled baseball pool. Gambling
has grown up round the “cleanest game” to the ex-
tent 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 fra-JEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 63

ternity as are booze-running and horse-racing. The
baseball pool runs more openly than the “books” be-
cause 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 agen-
cies for the national and international Jewish gam-
bling 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 de-
cide 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 tl
who seriously doubt it ever can be restored, the rem-
edy 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 ex-
ploiters, 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.

LOSe

Issue of September 10, 1921.XLVII.

Jewish Jazz Becomes Our
National Music

the following article appeared

BOUT a year ago
™ A 1 the New York Vimes, a newspaper that has
ne n accused of anti-Semitism, and whose
1) rl is one of the best-known Jews in the
United § S:
' ¢ 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 eq ity suit begun yester-
eons day in the Federal District Court by the United
States Government. The defe ndants, it was al-

9 ontrolled 80 per cent of the available
copyrighted songs used by manufacturers of
phonographs, player piano rolls and other musi-

' eal reproducing instruments, and fixed prices
i$ at which the records or rolls were to be sold to
the p

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 For-
tieth street; T. 'B. Harms, Francis, Day and
Hunter, Inc., 62 West Forty-fifth street; Sha-
piro, Bernstein & Company, 218 West Forty-
seventh street; Watterson, Berlin & Snyder
sroadway, and M. Witmark & Sons,
Inc., 144 West Thirty-seventh street.

“The agreement which the government seeks
to dissolve is alleged to provide that the de-

tan cant — iA : F i
fendants would make contracts only through

the Consolidated Music Corporation which they
had organized Sh aivielatares

Many people have wondered whence come the
waves upon waves of musical slush that invade de-
cent parlors and set the young people of this genera-JEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC 65

tion 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 dis-
closed 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 con-
trolled 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 influ-
ence 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 na-
tional 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-mind-
edness with every suggestion of lewdness—again
Jews.

The Jewish influence on American music is, with-66 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

out doubt, regarded as serious by those who know
anything about it. Not only is there a growing pro-
test against the Judaization of our few great or-
chestras, but there is a strong reaction from the
racial collusion which fills the concert stage and
popular platform with Jewish artists to the exclu-
sion of all others.

The American people have been urged and chid-
ed and shamed into the beginning of a rather gener-
ous popular support of music in this country, and
the first thing they see for their money is that Jew-
ish artists supplant the non-Jewish artists, and use
the prestige of their membership in symphony or-
chestras 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 some-
thing 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 Jew-
ish, infection in our musie, seemingly less wide-
spread than the German was or the French is.
may prove even more virulent. Those not tem-
peramentally immune to it catch it less severe-
ly, 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. per-
manently anemic.

“The insidiousness of the Jewish menace to
our artistic integrity is due partly to the spe-
ciousness, the superficial charm and persuasive-
ness 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 strainJEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL. MUSI 67

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 de-
scended 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 Jew-
ish domination of our music, even more than
the Teutonic and the Gallic, threatens to sub-
merge 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 arti-
cle 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 com
mercialism, 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 TH 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
musie which is styled “Jewish Jazz.” Of the busi-
ness details, however, more later.

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group of “song shops,” is populated by the “Abies”
and “Izzies” and “Moes” who make up the compos-
ing 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 collec-
tions of folk songs, and if you stop to analyze some
of the biggest “hits” of the Yiddish song manufac-
turers, you will find they are woven on the motif and
the melody of the clean songs of the last genera-
tion; the music jazzed a little, the sentiment sensual-
ized very much, and set upon their smutty road,
across the country.

secause of absolute Jewish control of the song
market, both in publishing and in theatrical per-
formance, 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 busi-
ness and the so-called “song hits” all bear Jewish
names.

A typical incident occurred in New York recent-
ly. A non-Jewish song composer had produced work
of such commanding merit that musical sentiment
demanded its public rendition. Jewish manager af-
ter Jewish manager was approached, but the com-
bination was unbreakable. ‘inally, one New Yorker
talked out and said something about “Jewish com-
bine,” which had its effect. A Jewish manager pro-
tested that he would be glad to give the work to the
public. Rehearsals were held and the night of pres-
entation arrived. The first number was a solo and
a Jew appeared to sing it. He could not pronounce
Knglish 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,FEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC 69

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 over-
did it. It needed just that to bring non-Jewish mu-
sical consciousness to the surface and to explode the
advertised and money-bought notion that the Jew
has predominant artistic genius. Say that he pre-
dominates in music—yes; he has paid for and or-
ganized that predominance; do not, however, say
anything about his predomiuance 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 commercial-
ize 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 be-
come 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 Isa-
dore Baline, is one of the most successful of these70 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Jewish song controllers. He was born in Russia and
early became a singer and entertainer. With the
rise of “rag-time,”’ which was the predecessor of
“Jazz,” he found a new field for his nimble talents,
and his first big success was “Alexander’s Rag-Time
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 “rag-time” popularity, and even-
tually displaced the “rag-time.”

Berlin has steadily gone the road from mere in-
terestingness 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, “1
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.
“IT Like It” deals with a girl, “Mary ¢
teen,” whose mother reproves her for
the boys. (In the Writing of this paragraph it was
debated whether Tur DrarBorn INDEPENDENT should
print what Mary replies to her mother. [t was ar-
gued that printing the words might give a salutary
shock to skeptical readers. It was also argued that
une 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

mreen, seven-
flirting withJEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC 71

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 prac-
tice 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 pe-
culiarly 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
erades 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, grow-
ing worse and worse, to the degradation of the non-72 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Jewish public and the increase of Jewish fortunes.

If Tur DearsporN 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 in-
cluded these titles: “T’ll\Say She Does”; “You Can-
not 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, deliber-
ate, 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 peo-
ple are what they are made. Give the liquor busi-
ness full sway and you have a population that drinks
and carouses. After preaching abstinence to the
victims for a century, the country turned its atten-
tion to the victimizers and the abuse was ereatly
curtailed. The traffic is still illicitly carried on, but“J
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JEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC

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 in
volved 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 manu-
facturers 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 ma-
jority 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 repeti-
tion 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

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is the Yiddish moron wmusic 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
‘“nopular” 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 accept-
ableness, that they die overnight, unregretted. Di-
rectly 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 be-
cause 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 Yid-
dish 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 Yid-
dish 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 coun-
try, 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 ap-
pear in another article.

 

Issuc of August 6, 192].XLVIII.

How the Jewish Song Trust
Makes You Sing

J EWS did not create the popular song; they de

based 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 deciine. 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 anathema-
tize 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 in-
dustry, 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 Tur DEAr-
BORN INDEPENDENT. If they were printed here, “Gen-
tile 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 fac-
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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 pub-
licity 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 cen-
tury to do a good job.

In other days the people sang as they do now, but
not in such doped fashion nor with such bewilder-
ing continuity. They sang songs nonsensical, senti-
mental and heroic, but the “shady” songs were out-
lawed. If sung at all, the “shady” songs were kept
far from the society of decent people. Like the styles
of the demimonde that for merly were seen only in the

abandoned sections of cities, the songs of smut had
Pea 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 qu: lity was such that they do not
die. The _ popular song of last month—who knows
its name? But there are songs of long age 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 ac-
ceptance 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 g7 = “The gale zeHOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YO SIN‘ 77

Dell”; “When You and I Were Young, Maggie”
“Silver Threads Among the Gold.’ What margin
did these songs leave for the suggestive, for the un-
wholesomely emotional?

In those days the people sang; they sang to-
gether; they sang wherever they met; it was the days
of that now extinct institution known as “the sing-
ing school.” People could sing together. The songs
were common property, known to everybody, proper
to everybody.

Is there such singing today? Hardly. At a re-
cent 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 in-
decency. There was not this uneasiness before the
days of Jewish jazz.

In course of time the fashion of public song un-
derwent 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 preced-
ing fashion in songs, but just as clean, and also giv-
ing a true touch to life.

Sentiment was not lacking, but it was the unob-
jectionable 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 Dres-
ser; “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
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ou 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 Span-
ish-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. Se-
ductive 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 de-
cline in the popular song supply. Sentiment has
been turned into sensuous Suggestion. Romance has
been turned into eroticism. The popular lilt slid
ito 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-

ce DBRS, and that is exactly what has been done.
1e

modern popular song is a whited sepulcher,HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 79

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 pic-
ture 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 impor
tant 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 pop-
ular 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-Defama-
tion 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 Dearsorn INpDsE-
PENDENT to give in this article a sample of the man-80 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

ner in which Jewish jazz is written in three classes
—No. 1 for general consumption; No. 2 for stage con-
sumption; No. 3 for the lowest resorts. On search-
ing through the songs for the least offensive ex-
ample it is found that even the least offensive can-
not 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 infor-
mation 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 pur-
poses being camouflaged by a name, such as Geo-
logical 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 pepular
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 resem-
blance ; 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
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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 sac-
rificed 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 avail-
able 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 artis-
tic merit, nor musical ingenuity, nor poetic worth—
no: the answer is simple salesmanship. The public
doesn’t choose, the public simply takes what is per-
sistently 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 “‘serv-
ice” with reference to popular songs or motion pic-
tures? Motion pictures in their higher reaches
might have some claim on those terms—not the6

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typical Jewish pictures, however; but the modern
crop of popular songs, never! The terms “produc-
tion” 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 “‘fa-
miliarity,” that’s all. The theory is that a song need
not possess merit as regards words or music to be
successful. Jt can be “popularized” artificially by
constant repetition, until it becomes familiarized to
the public ear, and thus familiarized it becomes “sue-
cessful.”

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
lor 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 alfairs. 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 hum-
ming it. You go home, and your daughter is “prac-
ticing 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
oceurs from 30 to 50 times a year.

That is the principle— repeat it until it becomes
familiar; that gives it the veneer of popularity.

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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 famil-
larization.

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 “familiariza-
tion” 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” be-
cause 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 “pop-
ular” music.

Having the principle, then, that any song can bi
popularized by constant repetition, the Yiddish
music purveyors go about their business very sys-
tematically.

The song is procured—by what means, it is not al-
ways 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 com-
edies and vaudeville teams. <A study of the vaude-
ville 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 pub-
lisher makes an arrangement with the Jewish man-
ager of the musical comedy show. This arrangementTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

provides that one or more of the song publisher’s
songs should be sung several times at every perform-
ance, 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. Moreapplause. Apparently
the song is a “hit.” As the audience files out the
lobby is echoing with the cries of Yiddish song ven-
dors 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 ealled
“song pluggers” are engaged. The arrangement
with them is that they will sing a particular song
exclusively—give no other song a chance. The pub-
lic 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 com-
pany, 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 an-
other, offering amusement to the guests. This 1s a
class of entertainers known only to the rich, but nu-
merous enough. For instance, when the Prince of
Wales toured America he was accompanied by a
young man nicknamed “Rosie,” of whose racial or-
igin 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 andHOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING ._85

they are, of course, regularly utilized for that pur-
pose.

Orchestras, especially those of restaurants and
dance halls, are worked in the same way.

Get as many people singing and playing intro-
ductory 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 uncon-
sciously 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 Pub-
lishers’ Association was organized by “Sime” Silber-
man and Maurice Goodman, and now all the Jewish
song manufacturers are included in it. The organ-
ization has not changed any of the methods before
ised 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 perform-
ers 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 Billpoard, the leading vaudeville publication, toTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

refuse to print advertisements calling for song-
poems. Perhaps the reader has seen such advertise-
ments, 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 condi-
tions are changed, the Billboard will not accept
any more Song Poem advertising from any con-
cern Or person ....”

Everywhere the “popular song” has been attacked
by keen observers of social tendencies—but the at-
tack 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 ob-
jectionable movies, the throngs who indulge in in-
decent 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 fin-
gers would be pointed toward them in identification
and denunciation.

Because these men are Jews
go free.

You will stop these abuses whe
the Jewish group behind them!

People sometimes Say, “Well, if you went after
any other nationality, you could find just as mueh
fault as with the Jews.” Is there any other nation-
ality on which you can fasten the responsibility for
vile movies? Is there any other on which you can
¥

, they are allowed to

n you point outHOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 8%

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 state-
ments 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 pre-
dominance in any line recognized by moralists to-
day as dangerously menacing the public welfare?

The question is too big to be explained by prej-
udice. 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 musie 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.Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism
in the U. S.

 

OLSHEVISM is working in the United States

through precisely the same channels it used in
Russia and through the same agents—Reyvolution-
ary and Predatory Unionism, as distinct from Busi-
ness and Uplift Unionism, and Jewish agitators.
When Martens, the so-called Soviet ambassador.
“left” the United States after being deported, he ap-
pointed 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 ip New York, some of the
labor leaders throughout the country, and occa-
sionally of one or two American government officials
known to be henchmen of Jewish aspirations in the
United States and sympathizers with predatory rad-
icalism.

The situation in New York is important because
from that center lines of authority and action ra-
diate 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 experi-
ence 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 excite-
ment 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 JewishJEWISH HOT-BEDS Ol BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. 35. 89

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 rev-
olution 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 through-
out the United States as typifying American sub-
stance and good taste.

But presently, Americans who thought they were
secure in their own city, were aware of an advanc-
ing shadow. A subtle atmosphere of deterioration
became evident. In the top lofts of buildings, sweat-
shops 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 app xaled 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
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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 when-
ever 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 unsophis-
ticated 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 in-
tense longing to be American, their love of our peo-
ple 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 limita-
tions 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 in-
fluence 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 asa 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
free-for-all opportunity to m
one of the most distinctiv
ings. If it be provinci

yet, that it is only a
ake it what you will, is
e of Jewish political teach-
alism to insist that our alienJEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S 91

guests become American and cease their endeayors
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 col-
ony in the world, that of New York.

The lofty buildings in this district are filled
with clothing ‘workshops, of which the Jew has a mo-
nopoly in the United States. Coatmakers, pant-
makers, 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 direc-
tion. New York is the great training school in
which the newly arrived immigrant receives his in-92 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

structions as to the method of handling the Amer-
ican goyim.

Thus, preferring any kind of a life in the city,
and mot 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 com-
mercial 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, dem-
onstrations, restaurant debates and radical author-
ship. No other class of working people can get the
time; other people work pretty steadily. The ex-
planation is at hand: extreme Socialism and Bol-
Shevism 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 ex-
clusively 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 intoJEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S. 93

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 govern-
ment 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 tyr-
anny. 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 INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 clath
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 Amer-
ican public paid.

If, however, these statements were merely an at-
tempt to arouse indignation that for once the work-
ers 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
Ww arburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Gug-
genheims. — These play the game with the aid of
the financial resources of the non-Jews. The other
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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 inter-
necine quarrels regarding the division of the profits
and eager publicists may zealously call attention to
these quarrels as evidence of the iack of unity among
the Jews, but in the Kehillah and elsewhere they
understand each other pretty well, and cn the ques-
tion of Jew vs. “goy” they are indivisibly one.

3etween 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 Wanamaket’s, a non-Jewish
house. In fact there was no reduction of prices
among Jewish manufacturers and merchants gener-
ally, 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 re-
ductions. 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 proph-
ecies 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 been96 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 gov-
ernments, is today the heart and center of a move-
ment 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 con-
cerning 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 manufac-
turers; 600 Jewish skirt manufacturers; 600 manu-
facturing 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 Manu-
facturers. ;

Children’s Dress Manufacturers’ Association.

Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Pro-
tective Association.

Cotton Garment Manufacturers of New York.

Dress and Waist Manufacturers’ Association.

East Side Retail Clothing Manufacturers’
Association.

Ladies’ Hat Manufacturers’ Protective As-
sociation.

Mineral Water Dealers’ Protective Asso-
ciation.

National Association of Separate Skirt
Manufacturers,JEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S 97

National Society of Men’s Neckwear Manu-
facturers.

New York Association of House Dress & K1i-
mono Manufacturers.

New Y ork Tailors’ Verein.

Shirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association.

Among the employed Jews, the unions are nu
merous but all gathered up into one central organiza
tion. For example, the International Fur Workers’
Union of the United States and Canada, is made up
of the following:

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eather Boa Makers’ Union.
‘ur Cap Makers’ Union.
ur Cutters’ Union.

ur Dressers’ Union.

‘ur Dyers’ Union.
‘ur Floor Walkers’ Union.
‘ur Hatters’ Union.

‘ur Head and Tail Makers’ Union.

Fur Lined Coat Finishers’ Union.

‘ur Nailers’ Union.

‘ur Operators’ Union.

‘ur Pluckers’ Union.

Muff Bed Workers’ Union.

In the garment industry, the organizations In-
clude 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 Amalga-
mated 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.

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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
sillion 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 reqular LaborTEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. 5S. 99

Union Movement, as we know it in the United States.

They are not Jews who have gone into the Amer-
ican 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 Amer-
ican 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 them-
selves 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 them-
selves.

Now, this Hebrew wnion movement is a part of
the New York Kehillah. Jewish leaders have sought
to counteract THe Drarsporn 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 Amer-
ica 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 Haxecutive Committee, con-
stitutes The American Jewish Committee.

Is the American Jewish Committee a nonentity?
Ask any President of the United States, any, Sena-;
tor or Governor. ,

The American Jewish Committee heaAs“up <n’
District No. 12—New York City—and the @ommittee
for District No 12 is also the Executive Committees
of the Kehillah. \\.

The men who represent before the Wdérld. the

: : 8»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 dis-
satisfaction 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 impor-
tant man? Yes; and an important place, in spite of
lying Jewish spokesmen.

Who are the others? Eugene Meyer, Jr., former-
ly 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 com-
mittee 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 rela-
tion 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. Cer-EWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S 101

tainly 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 1s con-
servative. Besides these there are associated with
the Kehillah the members of 1,000 other Jewish or-
ganizations, such as synagogues, charitable societies
and educational bodies, and 100,000 individual mem-
bers who belong on their own account,

Link this organization with the powerful Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, and at once the protest of
the editors and the spokesmen that the Kehillah is
a weak, unimportant body becomes a deliberate false-
hood.

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 flourishing charitable society (bad team-
work 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.Jew Trades Link With World
Revolutionaries

HERE are more Bolsheviks in the United States
than there are in Soviet Russia. Their aim is
the same and their rae character is the same. If
they are not ee » do here what they have done
there, it is because of the greater dissemination of in-
formation, the Bienes 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, ad-
here to a Bolshevik program for their respective in-
dustries 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 pre-
dominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situa-
tion 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 necessit y of
bearing sole responsibility for it. Russian Bols he-
vism came out of the East Side of New York where
it was fostered by the encourage ment—the religious,
moral and financial encouragement—of Jewish lead-

-ers. Leon Trotsk y (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 Com-
mittee were interested in the w ork he set out to do,
namely, the overthrow of an established government,
one of the allies of the United States jn the recent
war. Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objee-RADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 103

tive 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 com-
plaints that the Bolshevik Jews are making.

Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the Inter-
national Garment Workers’ Union, whose member-
ship 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 cond1-
tions 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 / ‘orward of April 3. Schlessinger com-
plains 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 besaid that “all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injune-

tions become a Jewish alt:

‘We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehiilah 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

“But only we may say this. And I understand
Schlessinger oe) culessi oe explains it this Way
Several reasons are given why judges nie (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

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claims, t evists.

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 comm nity, it is presumed, is not so
easily impressed. The Kehillah is appare nitty trying
to call in its kites but they have apparently flown
too high in the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism.

Another b 2 union which makes part of the New
York Kehillah is the Toe eae C lothing: ean
ers of Rica: whose membership is about 260,000.
[It is officered by Russian Jews whose areata
Bolshevik utterances have been widely reported in
the Jewish press of New York, until plain and un-
privileged 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 st ee eguiar type of Ameri-
can labor union is “a scab uw 110N. The purpose of
the American labor union is stated to be the im-
provement of the workers’ condition in industry and
the establishment of their industrial rights, whereas
the object of Hillman’s union is the overthrow otJEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES

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

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1

Schlossberg, also born in Russia. Schlossberg has
a very free oitt 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 go-
ing 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 Rus-
sia have found it out, God bless them!

“Tf 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 fac-
tory.’

“Everybody knows it is war. We are going
to control the industry.”

Always the omission, of course, that the fac-
tories 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 it106 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

—all in the United States, and all apparently in
perfect consistency with its membership in the
Kehillah and under the officership of the high gentle-
men of the American Jewish Committee. The Amal-
gamated actually does run the industry which has
muleted 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, inde-
pendent 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 with-
out 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
Trotsky to the East Side.
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, de-
veloped into such an outrageously anti-American.
pro-Soviet demonstration, that prudence intervened
to prevent a vote. Recently when pro-Jewish Ger-
mans 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

of the endowment of
He did great missionaryJEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 1

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 citi-
zens uncovering these facts and helping other Amer-
ican citizens to become aware of them; the Jewish
Question inheres in the facts themselves and in
Jewish responsibility for the facts. If it is “antt-
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 Amer-
ica stands for. They are not here to become Ameri-
canized, but to change America to their own model.
In this they have the articulated support of most 01
the Jewish rabbis who have been very keen to ex-
plain that Americanization does not at all mean
what the American means by it.

America will have become Ww hat 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 ds
B. Salutsky, who is also a Russian Jew and “Na-
tional 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 inter-
esting 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.108 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 syna-
gogues to trade unions.

How far they have been Americanized, or wish
to be, can only be judged by the policies and activl-
ties 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 at-
tempt 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
1t were not the fact that the unions and the Com-
munists are so inextricably interlocked as to make
distinctions unnecessary.

That this is not a judgment dictated by mere ad-JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 109

verse attitude may be seen from the following facts:

The Workmen’s Circle has 800 branches through-
out 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 inter-
locking directorate so commonly found among Jew-
ish organizations, a system which finally heads up
in the executive committee of the Kehillah which also
composes the leaders of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, 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 be-
half 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 Cloth-
ing 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 Amal-
camated, 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: Commun.-
ism 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 only110 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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
Unites! 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 econom-
ic failure of the Soviet governmental experiment
has been the Jewish Soviet leaders’ neglect of their
proper work to follow this fetish of World Revolu-
tion. 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 to-
day 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 rela-
tions 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 1s 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 head-JEW TRADES LINA WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES

quarters whence proceeds much of the Russian Bol-
shevik 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 am-
bassadorial 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 syna-
gogue, an extreme extremist, a master of the lan-
guage of agitation, and pro-Bolshevist in his in-
fluence 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 educa-
tional 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 1in-
spectors from Ellis Island—all Jews, of course;
occasionally a courier from Russia who has slipped
into the country for a secret purpose; occasionallyTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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

W. W. branches in New York.

In close touch with these Jewish radicals are a
number of revolutionists of other countries, repre-
senting various violent programs against the estab-
lished order.

It is through the office of Charles Recht that pass-
ports, issued by the State Department of the govern-
ment 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 writ-
ing, and there is no reason to believe it has since
been altered. Ambassador Recht. or Acting Ambas-
sador 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 Schl ssberg and Schlessinger are
merely liaison officers Beton n 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 “olgantic, 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 gai ing its ends.

This is not the whole story by any means. Schles-
singer and Schlossberg and Hillman and the rest
are leaders, but they are not the higher- “Ups. ee
connections run straight up to the lofty heights «JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES

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 argu-
mentative 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.Will Jewish Zionism Bring
Armageddon?

V THEN 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 Pro-
tocolists 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 infiu-
ence upon world events than the average man re-
alizes. 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 sched-
uled to ensue.

Because of this admixture of the religious senti-
ment, 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 suecumbed
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 worldWILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? Ds

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 polit-
ical fact, every first class government 1s now com-
pelled to have something to do. It is a bigger ques-
tion than the German indemnities or American im-
migration, because it lies back of both, and is rapid-
ly 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 ex-
tolled.

At the time the war was declared in 1914, the
Inner Actions Committee was spread about in vari-
ous 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 ‘Ber-
lin, he remained in the United States and became
recognized as the leader of the leaders of Zionism,
until the great Jewish shift to Vérsailles. 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 Copen-
hagen, Denmark, where in a neutral country he
could be of practical usefulness to the Zionists by
iransmitting information and funds.” (Guide to
Zionism, page 80.) In fact, the entire Inner Actions116 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 appar-
ently 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.
rermany gladly pledged the land of Palestine to
the Jews, but the Jews had already seen what Wil-
helm had done in that ancient state when he en-
throned 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 Jew-
ish 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 Brit-
ish 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 thatWILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 117

nothing shall be done which may prejudice the
civil and religious rights of non-Jewish commun-
ities in Palestine, or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

Zionism is of particular interest, not merely be
cause 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 cap-
italistic, 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 Kast—the
Mongolian Jews—who are rampaging against order-
ly 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
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 Hastern type of Jew knows of a situa-
tion in which money is the most useless thing in

 

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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 cen-
tury 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 revolu-
tionary party for the financial party, and as even
more strongly evidenced by the fear of the revolu-
tionary party by the financial party, is being brought
about by the insincerity of the Western Jew’s Zion-
ism. 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 1s
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 illus-
trations of it. More to the present point is Palestine.
It will be very difficult for the most irresponsibleSH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON?

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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 Pal-
estine which we receive in America comes to us
through the Jewish Telegraph Service (which is the
Associated Press of world-wide Jewry) and the Zion-
ist 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 contin-
ues indicates that something besides facts is neces-
sary to keep the scheme going.

In Jerusalem, as this is being written, martial
law is proclaimed. There has been a struggle be-
tween 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 what-
ever weapons they could find on the spot; the con-
clusion of all impartial observers under the circum-
stances 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 perse-
cutor, 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 ex:THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

pressed in words—namely, that the lawful inhab-
itants 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 Brit-
ish 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 Perici 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 Jude s who do not give the
Jews a shade the better of the proc eedings 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 depart-
ments 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 BARDORE that if the Congress of the United
States should adopt them the ery 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 Bol-
Shevik 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
sovernment waiting in this country for service
wherever necessary.

The methods being adopted to get the land areWILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON: 121

such as will fill the world with indignation once the
world fully undé Pstands’ what is being done. And
that it is done with the wledge and approval

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the Zionist Commissioner is indicated by the fact
hat he suspended the activities of the British officer
who endeavored to stop the abuse. It was the old
eame of lending money at an exorbitant rate ofl
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 ar-
rangements with a British bank to lend them money
at 61% per cent, with five years to pay. If payment
‘ailed, the land was to go to the government for
redistribution, not to the Zionist bank. This was the
humane plan which the Zionist Commissioner for-
hade, whereupon the British officer resigne “1. 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 con-
done theft. The only schools that have been estab
lished in Jerusalem have been built and manned by
the so-called “Gentiles,” although the Jews of Jeru

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salem 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
erowing up 1n LO pensioners too. But Christians, with
a warm regard for the Holy City, set about to im-
prove the miserable condition of the Jewish inhabit-
ants, and thus it came that at the time of the Zion-
ist invasion a considerable number of Jewish chu-
dren 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{99 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 sub-
scribers 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 bene-
fits 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 gen-
eration. 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 tem-
perament—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 Commis-
Sion) did not include many respectable English
Jews; but they did include a great number of Rus-
Slans, Poles and Rumaniang, many of them thor-

oughly Bolshevik in their attitude to the sovern-
ment.”WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRIN ARMAGEDDON:

If this spirit obtains at the beginning of a move-
ment 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 un-
questioned rule

Observing and weighing the events and tendencies
of Jewish rule thus far in Palestine, it is not diffi-
cult to see the purpose in it all. The Jews still dis-
trust their ability to make a State. They do not dis-
trust 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 man ae? power may be now, it is doubtful
how long that patience will hold out under the blun-
ders and brutalities that will be inseparable from
Zionist rule, if any deductions can be drawn from
the facts at he und. 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 com-
plicate 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 national-
ism will develop along the line of enmity to the rest
of the world. Already the dangerous proposal has
been made 1 0 organize a Jewish army for the pro-
tection of the Suez Canal. Instead of thinking of
roads and farmsteads, of vineyards and oil presses,
of schools and sanitary villages, the Jews are think-
ing of elevating themselves into the military power
that shall stand between East and West on that
most strategic strip of ground in the world. The124 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 situa-

tion as it exists today: the overwhelmingly predom-
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inant 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 in-
struction 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 blas-
phemy and treason, and May Day this year was
devoted to the exaltation of anarchy.

This fact will be of interest to students of proph-
ecy. 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 unimagin-
able 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 Jeru-

salem.”

Judah also! It is a thought to make a Jew be-
think himself where the lawlessness of the East andWILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON?

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 adja-
cent 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 de-
partment 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 Jeru-
salem 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 Sienifi
cance of a Jewish State.” All this might be expected
‘f 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 alestine 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 notPHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 Bethlehem-
ites 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 ex-
pect 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 SanWILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 127

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 kilo-
meters. 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 geograph-
ical caldron,

Issue of May 28, 192).How the Jews Use Power—By an
Eyewitness

HE Jewish Question continues to mount the
scale of public attention, attracting ever a
higher type of mind to the discussion of its signifi-
cance. When Tur DEARBORN INDEPENDENT first be-
gan 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 Dearsorn INDE-
PENDENT 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 gradu-
ally a new response from another class began to be
heard, which by this time has attained massive pro-
portions. 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 thought-
ful 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 Septem-
her, which contains an article by Herbert Adams
Gibbons which clearly intends to be fair and is cer-
tainly able, in spite of a difference of opinion that
might exist with regard to some of the author’s con-
clusions. Mr. Gibbons states some matters more
plainly than they have been stated outside the pages
of Tae Drarnorn 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 JewishHOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 129

Question has come out of the University of the
South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. It is entitled “Zion-
ism and the Jewish Problem,” the author being the
Rey. Dr. John P. Peters, formerly canon residen-
tiary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Morn-
ingside Heights, New OR 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 re-
printed 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 exclu-
siveness, and the religious which made for inclu-
siveness, and he describes the domination of the lat-
ter by the former with the coming of modern Zion-
ism 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 re-
ligious 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 Hee 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 be-
ing selected because it deals with Dr. Peters’ testi-
mony as an eyewitness of certain conditions in Pal-
estine: (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. ThereTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

were no houses without. Jewish colonization, eco-
nomic 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, unsuc-
cessful 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, Mos-
lem 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 un-
worthy of any man of intelligence or capacity ; sec-
ondly, because they brought Moslem, Christian and
Jew together on a plane of common work and com-
mon worth, the most valuable agent for the break-
ing down of those ancient prejudices, religious, ra-
cial and social, which have been the curse and bane
of the land.

“T was asked to put this down in writing be-
cause, I was told, great pressure was being exerted
—I regret to say, especially from America—to pre-
vent the management from continuing this particu-

lar work of teaching Jew, Christian and Moslem on

the same plane, the demand being that the Jew
Should not be br

Moslem and the
be trained, that

ought into such contact with the
Christian, and that he alone should
he might not be infected, as it were,HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 131

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.

“T 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 occu-
pied 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 ex-
hibition in peace and prosperity of what religious
Judaism at its best may be.

“In Jerusalem one found the extremes of in-
tensely narrow and bitter orthodoxy, and unbelief
with extreme Bolshevik radicalism. Here, too, ag-
gressive 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 He-
brew press contained angry diatribes against the ex-
istence of Christian schools and missions. The atti-
tude taken by these Zionists at first alarmed, then
aroused and irritated enormously, the native popu-
lation, 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 andTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

friendly terms with leaders in all camps, albeit I
was unable, through language difficulties, to com-
municate with the rank and file as freely as I
should like to have done. I myself felt the annoy-
ance and in some places the danger of the animosity
aroused. Under government order I was not per-
mitted to visit certain sections of the country on
account of the raids or uprisings of the Arabs, part-
ly 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 be-
lieved 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 of-
ficers 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 Jeru-
salem 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 meritHOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 133

for themselves and those who contributed to their
support by study of the law, prayer and pious ob-
servances. St. Paul carried over the same practice
into the Christian Church, causing alms to be col-
lected in the different congregations to be trans-
ferred to Jerusalem for the benefit and support of
the Christians living there. To this day annual col-
lections 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 pos-
sessed 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 chil-
dren to go to any school except those under the con-
trol 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 teach-
ing, and it is demanded that they shall be with-
drawn from those schools and placed in schools
where they shall be taught the Hebrew language,
customs and traditions, and kept separate from con-
tamination 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 con-
tamination by the outside world which results from
education with the Gentiles. It is admitted in this
article, in answer to protests, that the opportunities134 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 busti-
ness or securing employment; that there is greater
diligence in instructing; and better hours and bet-
ter care of pupils. Nevertheless, parents are in-
formed 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 ef 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 dis-
posal. Upon a monument of shame we will put
their names for a reproach and blaming for-
ever, 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 per-
secuted, 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 persecu-
tion 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 rul-
ers of the synagogues, to hospitals, to those whoHOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 135

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 or-
der 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 sanc-
tioned ; 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 ma-
licious renegades, there can be no connecting
link between them and us. Again, the society
of young men and girls of Jerusalem must ac-
cept it as a principle to expel from their soci-
eties 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 under-
stand 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 forth-
with 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 threatenedTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 vio-
lence would ensue. Easter is a time of great ex-
citement 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 sea-
son which vents itself in curses of each against the
others, is always likely to produce physical out-
bursts if the cursers come into contact with one
another. The Turks wisely segregated at that timc
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 before-
hand 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 Mos-
lems of Hebron arrived at the Jaffa gate with their
sacred banner, singing their songs of religious intol-
erance. 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
suns 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. MoslemHOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 137

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 Jeru-
salem. 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 out-
break on them. The major sentences were equally
divided between Jews and Moslems, but of the crim-
inals 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 Zion-
ist 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 prophe-
sied 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, and138 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

their utterances in many cases were extraordinarily
frank. Some of the most prominent and best-trained
sought transfers to other posts because of their feel-
ings on the matter, and some resigned.

“Tt has since that time been extremely difficult
to obtain reliable information of prevailing condli-
tions. It would seem, however, from all the infor-
mation 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 organiza-
tions to dictate or assume to dictate unfair policies.
When I left Palestine, Jews were leaving in consid-
erable numbers, cspecially 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 en-
gaged 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.

“Tt 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 Pales-
tine 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 oppor-
tunity for violence offered. This has been illustrated
again by the recent bloody riot in Jaffa which com-HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 139

pelled the expedition of a British warship to that
pert; and the order issued holding up all immigra-
tion shows that not Jaffa only but the whole coun-
try is unsafe. The Jews in Palestine are now pro-
tected only by force of British arms. Were the
British troops withdrawn, the Jews would be ex-
terminated by the angry natives, of whom the Mos-
lems alone outnumber them in the ratio of more than
ten to one; and with such action the neighboring
countries would sympathize, yielding ready assist-
ance 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 in-
cluded 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 economical,
ly, the Jew has the same opportunity as everyone
else. The Jewish problem here has been merely a
matter of social prejudice, resulting from the ex-
tremely difficult task of amalgamating with great
rapidity an enormous population, alien in race, cul-
ture, custom and habit. In 1880 there were, accord-
ing to Jewish statistics, 250,000 Jews in this coun-
try. 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 un-
intentionally they help one another to resist the
process of Americanization. This enormously in-
creases 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 institu-
tions. their traditions and their habits. The Zionist
movement, with its intentional development of race
consciousness and race peculiarity on the part of theTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 Chris-
tian 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 learn-
ing, 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 feel-
ing on his side.”

 

Issue of September 17, 1921.LIT.

How Jews Ruled and Ruined
Tammany Hall

ITHIN the memory even of young men, Tam-

many Hall has been the synonym of all polit-
ical 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 pos-
sible 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 T’am-
many 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 organiza-
tion? No, the Tammany tiger has not changed its
stripes. Then, perhaps, this change is due to pub-
lic 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 Harpers 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 eertain 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 Tam-
many and to keep a volunteer vigil on its activities;
these groups have succumbed to Jewish contribu-
tions and officership and no longer stand guard.14- LTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

The outcry against Tammany seemed to be
hushed the moment that Tammany patronage fell
into the hands of New York Jews, where it now re-
poses, the Kehillah being the real political center,
and Tammany but a distributing station—a sort
of organizational “Gentile front” for the more power-
ful Kehillah. A few Tammany leaders are per-
mitted to strut out in front, but everyone knows
that from the Wigwam chiefs the power has de-
parted, 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 2 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 polit-
ical organizations ever seen in the United States,
potent not only in municipal and state politics,
but often exercising a decisive influence on national
aifairs. 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
3elmont to represent the interests of the Roths-
childs, his keen eye at once took in the situation
and at once he began to court the favor of Tam-
many. 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 trac-
tions were and to a great extent still are, as in
all American cities, at the mercy of the local Tam-HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 143

many 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 noto-
rious leader’s intimate friend, business partner and
political associate was a Jew—-Andrew Freedman.
Freedman and Croker lived together at the Demo-
cratic 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 particu-
larly good humor with Tammany these days, be-
cause of the recent defeat of his son, Irving Unter-
meyer, 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 misman-
agement 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 sup-
porters. Nathan Straus, one of the owners of R.THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 impli-
cated in a number of interesting matters which illus-
trate the completeness of the Jewish network of
control in New York City.

One might mention also M. L. Erlanger and War-
ley 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 Guggen-
heimer, Untermeyer and Marshail—Untermeyer be-
ing the aforesaid grand inquisitor of Gentile activ-
ities generally and Marshall being head of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee and the Kehillah.

It was doubtless necessary for a Jewry that con-
templated 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 polities. 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.HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 145

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 com-
missioner, but that fire commissioner was Richard
Croker. And Levy was solidly backed by the In
dependent 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 some-
times go further than the Jew in office can, with-
out 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 campaignTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 “investi-
gations” 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 cam-
paign practices that compromise him.

It has been commonly known that Jewish ma-

nipulation of campaign matters has been so skill-
fully 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 immediate-
ly the first Jewish political hound emits its warning
bay.
_ Amazing as is the technique of the Jewish polit-
ileal process, the readiness with which the American
people can be counted on to do their part in for-
warding 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 investiga-
tion,” 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.HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 147

Governor Sulzer, of New York, was the choice of
the Jews. They subscribed money for his cam-
paign, 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 polit-
ical, financial and social worlds had contrived to
“nut away” for a périod 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 Dxarsorn In-
DEPENDENT, 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 there-
fore 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 de-
cisions as head of the American Jewish Committee.
Untermeyer is the arch-inquisitor for Jewry. Ran-
dolph 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 MarshallTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

is a “staunch” Republican and a member of the Re-
publican 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 Re-
publican 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 an-
other 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 Tam-
many leaders have always been alertly aware of the
fact that their power depended upon an uninter-
rupted 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 principleHOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 149

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 assem-
blage 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 representa-
tion. 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 Tam-
many Hall. The great wave was composed of Rus-
sian, Austria nand 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 Jew-
ish 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 cementedTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 de-
scribed. A Clinton street lawyer named Scheuster,
whose practices were quite characteristic, made him-
self 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, com-
mercialized, 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 mat-
ters 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 onlyHOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 151

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 fu-
neral of Sam Engel, brother of Martin Engel, Tam-
many 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 East-
man’s gang grew strong in the Russian Jewish Dis-
trict 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 boot-
leggers 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 peo-
ple 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 Sul-
livan 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 oceasional political upheavals; Tammany be-
lieved that they who profited by political spoilsTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Should divide with the Wigwam’s treasury ; but with
Such traffic as seduction and barter in women, Tam-
many 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 im-
mediate 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 Sulli-
van played safe and helped the Jews to get recogni-
tion—Martin Engel was made leader of the oldHOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALI

Eighth. But Sullivan had previously gone to Tam
many—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 under
standing, Sullivan’s power began to wane, princi
pally 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 over
crowded and saturated with Yiddish neweomers, 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 Sulli-
van 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 infiltra-
tion. There were other occurrences and other down
falls, all.of which are a part of the real story of
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Puppets

HE 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 sepa-
rated 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 1s,
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, Jew-
ish 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 com-
pletely 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 mat-
ter 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-Jew-
ish, is really Jewish, as any New York administra-THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

tion 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 Hirsch-
field.

This is a rather peculiar situation to those who
do not understand how the Jewish leaders work.
Directly you say the Hylan administration is Jew-
ish, it is objected: “But it is the arch-Jewish inquis-
itor, 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 mate the center of a political
deadlock—up through the deadlock pops a Jew as
a compromise candidate for all sections. A _ suffi-
cient 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 turn-
ings 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 nameJEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 157

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, liti-
gation is almost overwhelmingly Jewish, and the
consequences to the reputation of the courts of jus-
tice and the profession of the law are well under-
stood. 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
ldnguage 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 him-
self 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.THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

So, politically, the New York Jew has the advan-
tage. 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 pro-
tection. He insists on a double standard of edu-
cation. 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 be-
longs twice, while all non-Jews belong but once,
and it can easily be perceived that this is an advan-
tage.

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 com-
munity 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 burnedJEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 159

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 eannot 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 pas-
sion is deliberately cultivated and impulse stimu-
lated. 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 stimu-
late 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 merchan-
dising 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 re-
sumed at the earliest possible moment. And so,
though the investigations of 1894 were successful
and the exposure duly made, it was not to be ex-160 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

pected 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 ler 1gth 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 polit-
ical connections—but he did not mention the key-
word 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 pro-
tection.

It was at this time that Richard Croker “abdi-
cated.” He was arich 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 sue-
cessor, 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.JEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 161

Lewis Nixon was the convenient and perhaps
unconscious “Gentile front.” The real ruler of Tam-
many 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 Jew-
ish 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.THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Presently even Nixon was relegated to the back-
ground 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 pup-
pet, but even puppets must be accorded their proper
dignity. Nixon was tendered a great reception in
1902, but the influential men on the reception com-
mittee 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 Unter-
meyer, 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 resolu-
tions 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
“Hiohting Eighth” district, Martin Engel was leader.
His chief aid was “Manny” EHichner, chairman of
the Isidor Cohn Association and of the Young
Men’s Democratic Association. His other assist-
ants, 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.JEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 163

Edward Mandell was the active Jewish Tam-
many 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 Gas-
house 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 recur-
ring 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 ob-
served the recurrent periods of protest against Jew-
ish presumption and bumptiousness and have ex-
plained 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 propa-
gandist 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 Semit-
ism, 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, fromTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 posi-
tion 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 se-
rious purpose and respectable character. He dis-
covered 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 men-
tioned, Nixon resigned as leader of Tammany Hall.
Doubtless the reception that was tendered him was
for the purpose of inducing him to love the exal-
tation of his position so much that he would sacri-
fice 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 Tam-JEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 165

many, 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 commit-
tees 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 news-
papers 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 INTERNATIONAL JEW

The city marshals are mostly Jewish. Jews pre-
dominate in the College of the City of New York.
Jews control the municipal courts, the city mag-
istrates’ 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 dis-
tricts 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 Seven-
teenth, 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 al-
most alien soil, but even that watchfulness on the
part of the national government is relaxed as Jew-
ish 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 invul-
nerable 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,

 

ssue of October 1, 1921.LV.

B’ nai B’rith Leader Discusses the
Jews

O 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 some-
thing 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 centu-
ries 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 con-
stant counsel of prudence in his selection of mate-
rial, 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 discover-
ies 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 under-
stand, 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 American168 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

  

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 state-
ments. ‘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 De
of the international Jewish order, B’nai B'rith,
1900. He took part in the international notes
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 there-
fore no question of their Jewishness.

Non-Jewish defenders of the Jewish program
have pretended to much indignation because of ref-
erences that have been made to the Oriental charac-
ter of certain Jewish manifestations. The references
in these articles have been two in number, once
regarding Oriental sensuality as it has been intro-B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES

   

B’NAI

   

THE JEWS 169

duced 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. In-
stead, 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 character-
istically 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 boot-
licking 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:

“Tf 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 persist-
ently 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 socialrecognition

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the whole range of his conduct is a

lecitimate 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 com-
Since then it has dawned on
the world that we are witnessing another exodus
which promises soon to change the habitat of the

manding importance.

Jews to the Western Hemisphere.”

(Page 59)

“The Jewish Question cannot be solved by toler-
ance. There are thousands of well-meaning people
who take to themselves great credit for exhibiting
a spirit of tolerance toward the Jews.”

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

(Page 98)

How far

present Jewish leadership has departed from that
frank and broad view taken by Mr. Levi, is every-

where 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.

siveness.

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 exclu-

In this connection it may be interesting to see
how strongly Mr. Levi supports the contention of
Jewish leaders (as outlined in THr DRarRorn INDE-
PENDENT 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 speciallyB’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 171

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.

“Tt 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 tem-
poral government and who owned a country up to
the time of the destruction of the second common-
wealth.

“That great event took away from the Jews their
country and their temporal government; it scat-
tered 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.”THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

“Who shall say, then, that the Jews are no long-
er 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.”

“Tf 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 peo-
ple. 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 sta-
tion, 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 civili-
zation 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 indi-
cate the Jewish view of the case. He continues:
“It seems clear to me that Jews should avoidB’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 173

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 sec-
tions 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 break-
ing 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 edu-
cation be made compulsory, it does not follow that
government schools must be attended....As a citi-
zen 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 fre-
quent 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 our174 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

young people will be weaned from our people if
allowed indiscriminately to associate with the Gen-
tiles.” (Page 255)

Discussing the possibility of Jews losing their
erudeness, 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:

“Tf gentlemen were willing to meet all Jews on
a parity because they are Jews, we should doubt-
less derive much benefit from such association. But,
while it is true that no gentleman refuses associa-
tion 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 admit-
ted as a class into good society. So, better keep
by ourselves,” concludes Mr. Levi. (Page 260)

That is, Mr. Levi admits the willingness of soci-
ety 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 rigid-
ly 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 com-
munity 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 stud-
ies on the Jewish Question have made the assertion
that Tar Drarsorn Inpeppnpent has declared
cowardice to be a Jewish trait. That the statement
is false as regards this paper does not change theB’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 175

fact that the subject has been generally discussed in
and out of army circles. If it ever becomes neces-
sary 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 differ-
ence 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 virture 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 as176 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

“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 there-
from in Tun DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Of December
18, 1920. With reference to the German Revolution
of 1848, Disraeli wrote—before it had taken place:
“Vou never observe a great intellectual move-
ment in Europe in which the Jews do not great-
ly 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 en-
entirely developing under the auspices of Jews.”

It is interesting, therefore, to hear Mr. Levi con-
firming 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 finan-
cial 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 JewishB’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 177

Question to exist. He knew that the Jewish Ques-
tion 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, more-
over. 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. There-
fore, he threw his whole influence on the side of the
Jews remaining separate, maintaining their tradt-
tion 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 post-
tion by Brel racial appeals. He looked cer-
tain facts in the face, made his report, and chose his
side. Several times in the course of his argument,
a very logic led him up to the point where, logical-

he would have to cast aside his Jewish idea of
eee ce, 3ut with great calmness he discarded
the logic and clung to the Jewish tradition. Yor
example:

“The better to facilitate such happiness in every
country and in every age, various kinds of organiza-
tions 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 ex-
clude a worthy person because he does not happen
to be a Jew; but on the other hand, where are you
to draw the line?”THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

This is frankness to a fault. Of course, it is
wrong, but the right is impractical! Logie 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 agree-
ment 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 ma-
terial sense. Jewry is an international nation. It
is this, and nothing else, which gives significance to
its financial, educational, propagandist, revolution-
ary and immigration programs,

Issue of May 14, 1921.Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People’s
Error

A? EW of standing, Dr. Oscar Levy, well known in
English literary circles and a lover of his peo-
ple, has had the honesty and the wisdom to meet the
Jewish Question with truth and candor. His re-
marks 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 Signifi-
eance 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
Tim 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 here-
with 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 Jew-
ish, 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 wncon-
sciously, worked for and promoted an international
economic, material despotism which, with Puritan-180 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

ism 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 Rus-
sian 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 ex-
ceeded their orders; that is disconcerting, but 1t 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 him-
self 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 eman-
cipation for the Jews in Western Europe. Was it a
Jew who inspired Rousseau with the eighteenth cen-
tury idea of the sameness of man according to na-
ture? Dr. Kallen, a Zionist author, writes: “Suffer-
ing for 1,000 years from the assertion of their differ-
ence from the rest of mankind, they accepted eagerly
the escape from suffering which the eighteenth cen-
tury assertion of the sameness of all men opened to
them .... They threw themselves with passion into
the republican emancipating movements of their fel-ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 181

 

DR. LEVY, A JEW,

low subjects of other stocks.” It was a Jew, Ricardo,
who gave us the nineteenth century ideal of the same-
ness 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 repub-
lican uprising in Germany of ’48. Even more con-
spicuous 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 doc-
trine 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 interna-
tional creed, but it implies the abnegation of real
property, especially property in land, and Jews, be-
ing international, have never acquired a taste for
real property; they prefer money. Money is an in-
strument 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 bécome 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.THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 signifi-
eance 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-con-
flagration, hidden as it was at first by the fire and
smoke of national enthusiasms and patriotic antag-
onisms.

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 fail-
ure, or what is nearly the same, in ephemeral suc-
cess. 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 im-
mediate 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 conélusion
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 adver-
saries. For we are confronted with two questions
which need answering and which, in my opinion,
you have answered in your pamphlet. These ques-
tions are: (1) How has the Soviet Government,
admittedly the gove¥nment of an. insignificant
mimority, succeeded not only in maintaining but inDR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR

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
ranquish 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 lis
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 1s,
however complex the subject as well as the indi-
viduals 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 someTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

evidence, some prima facie evidence of this antago-
nistic 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 immense-
ly rich international Finance—the Democracy of
cash values, as you call it—and the international
Collectivism of Karl Marx and Trotsky—the De-
mocracy 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 ab-
stain from joining the chorus of condemnation! TI
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 noth-
ing 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 Kestasy and Fi-
nancial 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. Tt 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 Ger-
man Reformation; the German Reformation was
based upon a crude Christianity ; this kind of Chris-DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 185

tianity 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 evil-
doers.

I am glad to see that this is not an original ob-
servation 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 know-
ing you personally, if I were not strongly aware of
your passionate desire for light and your intense
loathing of unfairness, this sentence, and this sen-
tence alone, which tells the truth, will absolve you
in my eyes from the odious charge of being a vulgar
anti-Semite.THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

No, you are not a vulgar, you are a very en-
lightened, critic of our Race. For there is an antt-
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 Sem-
itic 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 Com-
munism 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 per-
fectly 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 mys-
terious force—that force which you no doubt con-
demn, but which you had to admire even in the Bol-
Shevists. 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 clean-
liness 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 ofDR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR

the Jewish Race: Haase, Levine, Luxemburg, Lan-
dauer, Kurt Eisner, the Prime Minister of Bavaria.
From Moses to Marx, from Isaiah to Eisner, in prac-
tice 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.
__. .“LLook 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 recom-
mend 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 dis-
astrously 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 noth-
ing 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 im-
eendiaries, its executioners .... We who have prom-
ised to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finallyTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 pro-
hibited 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 con-
flagration, 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 hasDR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 189

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 7f 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 peo-
ple, and that it was their “Good,” their “Love,” their
“Tdeal,” 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 hew re-
ligion. And when that great day has broken, when
the values of death and decay are put into the melt-190 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   

ing-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.Jewish Idea in American Monetary
Affairs

ME. BRISBANE says that Jewish bankers exer-
cise 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 reassur-
ing as it sounds.

The great Jewish banking houses of the United
States are foreign importations, as perhaps every-
one 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 re-
tention of oversea connections. It is this inter-
national quality of the Jewish banking group which
largely accounts for Jewish finé uncial 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
Sen 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 of192 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

the Rothschilds in whose offices he had been raised.
His birthplace was that great center of Jewish inter-
national 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 man-
agement 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 pro-
nounced 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 rail-
roads, 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 polities with a
Jewish angle, and was perhaps the moving force in
the campaign which forced Congress and the Presi-
dent 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 JapanIDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY

JEWISH

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 gen
tlemen mentioned above and is more constantly en
gaged in dabbling in mysterious matters of an in
ternational nature. This characteristic may be ac
counted for, however, by his experience of many
eountries. 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
his American citizenship by a protest against his
being permitted to cast his vote last year and by
the announced cause being physical in

that was recently cast upon

his failure
disposition—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 Kuropean
War. when efforts were being made, which after-
ward succeeded, to put Paul M. Warburg, a mem
ber of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, on the
Mederal Reserve Board, Mr. Warburg testified that
at that time Mr. Kahn was not a citizen of the
United States.

Senator Bristew—‘How many of these
partners are American citizens, or are they all
American citizens athe.

Mr. Warburg—“They are all American citi-
zens except Mr. Kahn.”—(P. 7, Senate Hear-
ings, August 1, 1914.)

Senator Bristow—‘Now, the members of194 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

your firm, are they all American citizens ex-
cept, Mir 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 Kurope, and that was when
the question arose of his Standing for Parlia-
ment; 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 Par-

liament, 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 dis-
puted, then he has been a citizen of three countries,
Germany and Great Britain being the other two.

Mr. Kahn, by the way, 1S one of
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 js not called a “renegade
Jew” nor any of the other hasty 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 unde-
harge of it.

those Jews

sirable to put the junior Schiff in full eJEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 195

Doubtless it was Mr. Kahn’s desire, just at the
time Jacob Schiff made his wishes known, to go to
England and stand for -arliament.

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 authori-
tative decisions, though just whose decisions it is
not always possible to say. In Paris particularly,
and at points east thereof, Mr. Kahn has been estab-
lished 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 usu-
ally unheralded, but their results richly repay obser-
vation.

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 War-
burg, 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 en-
gaged in the mere work of money-making which is
better described as “money-getting,” without refer-
ence 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 mend-
ed, remodeled or supplanted altogether. Paul War-196 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

burg, scion of a long line of German Jewish bank-
ers, 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 Com-
mittee on Banking and Currency of the United
States Senate in executive session, there was some
dispute as to whether the proceedings should be re-
corded by the stenographer. It was finally agreed
that notes should be made but should not be di-
vulged. 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 occu-
pying 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, study-
ing 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—“Tt is the Russian bank for for-
eign 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,

ind went back to Hamburg, and then became a

partner of the firm in Hamburg

The Chairma He long were you in Ham-
bure then in the banking business?”

Mr. Warburg—“Until 1902 . . . . And then I
moved over here to this country to become a partner

ot Kuh 1. Lo ib & Col ipany.”

“T 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 iio it a desire on

the part ot the family LO bring me over nere.: 22."
I ought to say that I got married in this country in
1895 and that | have been 1n 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 mar-
ried 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. Schifi’s SWCRLHER

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

ther behind the times

He conceived the ambition—the very daring am-
bition—of taking hold of the United States’ mone-
tary system and making it what he thought it ought
to be.

This alone would make him a remarkab le man.
[t illustrates very well that detached point of v1
which the Jew is more fitted to take than any Adie: T°
He sees countries and systems with

man perhaps.
from intimate bias with which

the same freedom
another man wong view assorted fish upon a mar:
ket stall. Most of the world is engaged in doing its
work and eae its national, racial, domestic
and social affections and inclinations; a small min-198 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

ority stands in the background and watches the en-
tire 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 pos-
sess 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 doubt-
less it has also contributed to the selfish manipula-
tion 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 peri-
ods 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.

“TY 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 con-
ditions arose again, and when one newspaper
wanted for an issue at the end of the year an
article dealing with the conditions in our coun-
try.

“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 Sys-
BOM A, ;

“That was, however, the first time that I

know of that the question of the discount sys-

tem and the concentration of reset
brought out;

rves was really

and I got a great many encourag-ing 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.

“JT cannot discuss the affairs of my firm nor
my partners,” he said, “nor be a$ked to criti-

+

cise acts of my partners, either to approve

]
1,
As

them or in any other way,” but eventually he
did tell a number of things which students of

American finan lal atfairs have considered in-

teresting 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. Warbure—‘1911. Did I not answer
that?”

Pens Bristow —‘Perhaps so. Did you in-
tend becol citizen when you came to the
United St s in 1902?” 7

Mr. Warburg—“I had no definite intentions
then. heean 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

Senator Bristow—‘When did you decide to
hecdme 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. Warburge—“Yes.”

Senator Bristow—‘You made your declara-
tion in 1908; that is when you decided to be-
come an American citizen?”

Mr. Warbure—“Yes.”

Senator Bristow—‘Why did you wait as
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before deciding to become a citizen of this coun-
My’

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 posi-
tion 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 national-
ity 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 coun-
try and work here, and become a part and par-
cel 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 ihe motive which induced
you to become an American citizen was, then,
as I understand it, largely with a view of labor-
ing to bring about a reform of the American
monetary system ?”

Mr. Warburg—“Well, you put it nearly ex-
clusively 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 tome... . Moreover,
[ had been long enough in this country then toJEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 201

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 menetary re-
forms in the United States?”

Mr. Warburg—“1906.”

Senator Bristow—‘What was your method
of promoting your ideas with regard to mone-
tary 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 Commis-
Sion in any way?”

Mr. Warburg—“Yes, Senator Aldrich con-
sulted 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 con-
nection with the commission, were you consulit-
ed in regard to that?”

Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”

Senator Bristow—“‘What part did you have
in the preparation of that bill, directly or in-
directly ?”

Mr. Warburg—‘Well, only that I gave the
best advice that I could give.”

Most readers will recall that the name of “Ald-
rich” 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 any-
thing else to disabuse the popular mind of the notion
that such men were mere ‘tools of the money inter-
est,” 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 otherTHE INTERNATIONAL J EW

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 de-
sirous of the prosperity of the country, but that
prosperity was written in banking balances. Fit-
teen 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 coun-
try’s.

It was such a man, then, that came to Mr. War-

burg for advice. The labors of Senator Aldrich com-
prise 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. Warbureg’s counsel was not forced upon the Al-
drich committee by the New York money interests.
_ 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. War-
burg and Senator Aldrich took place on an isolated
island off the coast of Georgia—Jekyl Island. In-
cluded 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

t hs L Sarr TYG TEY
in his testimony,JEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS

lest the servitors learn their identity and dis-
close 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 rail-

road had received orders to draw up at an un-

s

frequented 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 coun-
try, the order was given to prepare to disem-
bark.

“Stepping from the car when the station had

been well cleared of travelers, the members of
the expedition embarked in a small boat. S1-
lence reigned, for the boatmen must not find
out how distinguished were their passengers.

“Tn due time they qarey ip al another cle-
serted 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.
o to fool them?’ asked an-

The problem was

“<What can we d
other member of the group.
discussed.

“<‘T have it” cried one. ‘Let’s all call each
other by our first names. Don’t ever let us men-
tion our last names.’

“Tt 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 rest204

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of the world, until they had evolved and com-
piled 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 idiomatie English with
perfect freedom and without an accent, an alien
not naturalized.”

Mr. Forbes also wrote—“Here is a German-Amer-

ican, 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.

Yawn

e of Tune 18, 1921.Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve
Plan

TS K} 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 mobi-
lization 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 al-
ways 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.

T momentous trips in our recent history, both

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iWO I206 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

of them signalized and given their principal mean-
ing 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 busi-
ness. 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 be-
cause 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 them-
selves. 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 negotia-
tions over the German indemnities. These gentle-
men 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 sol-
diers of the empire; their Jewishness always So ap-
parent. 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 mat-
ters, if we are to judge from the war administra-
tions—those that have passed off the stage and thosethat 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 con-
fronted with a crucial question, retorted bitterly—
with what? With the old outworn Jewish propa-
gandist 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
vould give a good deal for a true psalm from Sir
Alfred Mond, Mr. Montagu, or even Sir Philip Sas-

soon, who is soon to become the premier’s son-in-law.

il

tur
’

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 Pal
estin¢ 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

Vr. Warburg, being of somewhat finer erain,
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
YPARRORN INDEPENDENT undertake to make it for

him lest the ery of “anti-Semitism” wax wrathful
again: but fortunately the fact is amply attested by
a Jew whose knowledge of the matter is unques-
tionable.

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 be-
come confused.

Professor E. R. A. Seligman, of Columbia Uni-
versity, 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)

“Tt is in a general way known to the public thatSes Ce gee Th eet
3 ae rate

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Mr. Warburg was in some way connected with the
passage of the Federal Reserve Act, and his appoint-
ment to his present responsible position on the Fed-
eral 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 ts
the indebtedness of the United States to Mr. War-
burg. For it may be stated without fear of contra-
diction 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 introduc-
tion, a mistake ; for it will probably, to some extent
at least, weaken the good results which would oth-
erwise have f followed. On the other hand, the ex-
istence of a Federal Reserve Board creates, in every-
thing but in name, a real central bank; and it de
pends largely upon the wisdom with which the board
exercises its great pore 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 F ederal Re-
serve Act differs from the. Aldrich Bill; but in the
two fundamentals of combined reserves and of a dis-
count policy, the Federal Reserve Act has f cankly
accepted the principles of the Aldrich Bill; and
these principles, as has been stated, were the crea-
tion of Mr. Warburg and of Mr. Warburg alone.

“, . « « It must not be forgotten that Mr. War-
burg had a practical object in view. In formulating
his plans and in advancing slightly varying sugges-
tions 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 toJEWISH IDEA MOLDED FEDERAL RESERVE PLAN 209

break down prejudices and remove suspicions. His
plans therefore contain all sorts of elaborate sug-
gestions designed to guard the public against fan-
cied 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 sug-
gestion, for educational purposes.

“As it was my privilege to say to President Wil-
son when originally urging the appointment of Mr.
Warburg on the Federal Reserve Board, at a time
when the political prejudice against New York bank-
ers ran very high, England also, three-quarters of a
century ago, had a practical banker who was virtu-
ally responsible for the idea contained in Peel’s
Bank Act of 1840. Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd was
10nored 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 Acad-
emy of Political Science, Columbia University).

It surely cannot be considered invidious for Tun
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT thus to introduce to the
people of the United States a gentleman whose in-
fluence 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 mo-INTERNATIONAL JEW

tive is, or your reason for making that sacri-
fice?”

Mr. Warburg—‘My motive is that I have, as
you know, taken a keen interest in this mone-
tary reform since I have been in this country.

“J have had the success which comes to few
people, of starting an idea and starting ww so
that the whole country has taken it wp 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 eas-
ily be removed when the public shall have become
accustomed to Mr. Warburg and the Federal Re-
serve Board; but Mr. Warburg adds another hint,
to the effect that you can do some things by admin-
istration 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 bank-
ers 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 finan-
cial 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 sys-
tem 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 ad-
ministrative way; and in that respect I freely
criticized the bill before it was passed.”

There is evidently, then, a method of administra-
tion for which severe critics might even use the word
“manipulation,” by which the plain provisions of aJEWISH IDEA MOLDED FEDERAL RESERVE PLAN 211

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 ad-
dress on “bank acceptances” delivered in 1919:

“Tn 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
suecessor. ‘Please show me how it works,’ said
the newcomer. ‘J will show you how it works,
said the other, ‘but I wont show you how to
work 1. ”

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 par-
ties so that certain interests may be the winners
regardless of which party is defeated.

Senator Pomerene—‘What are your poli-
1eS\227

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 be-
fore the Senate.”

Senator Reed—“I will say why I should like
to know.”

Senator Pomerene—“‘Well, I have no objec-
tion 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 statementTHE INTERNATIONAL JEW

made that the entire board was Democratic, and
[ had understood that Mr. Warburg was a Re
publican, or had been, in his affiliations.”

Mr. Warburg—“Well, so I was; and my sym-
pathies 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 sat

Senator Reed—‘Well, you would count
yourself a Republican, generally speaking?”

Mr. Warbure—“‘I would.”

Senator Bristow—“It has been variously re-
ported in the newspapers that you and your
partners directly and indirectly contributed
ery 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 presi-
dential 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 extray-
agant 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 under:
stood 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 ?”JEWISH IDEA MOLDED FEDERAL RESERVE PLAN 413

Mr. Warburg—“I did not make any contri-
bution; no.”

Senator Bristow—“Did any members of your
firm make contributions to Mr. Wilson’s cam-
paign ?”

Mr. Warburg—“‘I think that is a matter of
record. Mr. Schiff contributed. I would not
otherwise discuss the contributions of my part-
ners, if it was not a matter of record. I think
Mr. Schiff was the only one who contributed in

Senator Bristow—‘And you stated that your
brother had contributed to Mr. Taft’s campaign,

t <

as I understand it?
Mr. Warburg—“I did. But again, I do not
want to go into a discussion of my partners’ af-
fairs. and I shall stick to that pretty strictly, or

we will never get through.”

senator Bristow—‘‘] 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. Warbure—“ Yes.”

Senator Bristow—“‘And I was interested to
know whether any member of your firm sup-
ported Mr. Roosevelt.”

Mr. Warburg—“It is a matter of record that
there are.” ;

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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 cam
paign?”

Mr. Warburge—‘No, sir; I shall have to ZO
on the principle that I cannot disclose the busi-
ness 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 impor-
tant 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. War-
burg.

“IT cannot discuss the affairs of the firm nor my
Partners, nor be asked to criticize acts of my part-
ners, either to approve them or in any other way.
[ 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. Warbure—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“Does +]

iat not go to show
your general views

and practices as a financier
and as a citizen and as a business man?”JEWISH IDEA MOLDED FEDERAI RESERVE

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 respon-
sible position—have I not a right to know what
your attitude 1 in regard to that transaction
which your firm performed ?”

Mr. Warburg—‘Well, inasmuch as my an-
swer there might be a criticism of my firm, I
would beg to be excused, and I would leave it to
the committee
In examining Mr. Warburg about the handling

it

to draw its own conclusions...

of S100.000.000 Southern Pacifie securities, the same
difficulty was experienced ; Mr. Warburg objected,

again into the transactions

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my firm!”

To which Senator Bristo
yf your business life?”

Mr. Warburg Certainly it is a part of my
is no reason why I should

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business life, and there

not be proud of it. But as a matter of principle
{ 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 what-
ever my firm did I got my profits—my share in
the profits.”

 

w retorted—‘Ah! but

when you participated in the pr fits of the transac-THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Senator Bristow—‘Your share in the prof-
its. 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 testi-
mony 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 partici-
pated 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 mar-
keting 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 be-
cause of his purpose and connections he would be-
come a dominating factor), were very great, espe
cially 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
umportant functions of the board is to quard the
gold supply of the country, and it has been thoughtJEWISH IDEA MOLDED FEDERAL RESERVE PLAN 217

that wt 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 or-
ganization of this board is of great national impor-
tance.”

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,

 

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for America

CCORDING to his own statements and the facts,

Paul M. reetnte set out to reform the mone-
tary 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 Dee Jewish financial firm here, and
immediately loating certain banking ideas which
have been pus shed and manipulated and variously
adapted antilid hey have eventuated in what is known
as the federal

When Professor Seligman wrote in the Proceed-
ings 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 bank-
er 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 un-
derstand 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 Re-
serve 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 Re-
serve 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 compe-
tent to write for the public on this question. Take
up the standard encyclopedias, and while you will

Reserve System.JEWISH IDEA OF CENTRAT BANK FOR AMERI(

find no misstatements of fact in them, you will find
no direct statement that the I'ederal Reserve Sys-
tem is a private banking system; the impression car-
ried away by the lay reader is that it is a part of
the Government.

The Federal Reserve System is a system of pri-
vate 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 con
ditions created by war—useful, that is, for a Gov-
ernment 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 sys-
tem in practice, and though he was full of ideas
then as to how banking could be assisted, he is dis-
appointingly 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 discus-
sion 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 cre
ated 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 consid-
erations, as Professor Seligman tells us, twelve were
decided upon. An examination of Mr. Warburg’s
printed discussions of the subject shows that he atate,

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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 im-
pression 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 exam-
ined 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 ex-
istence 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, usableJEWISH IDEA OF CENTRAL BANK FOR AMERICA

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 gov-
ernmentalized 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 dif-
ferent 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 mon-
ey is obtainable; it is not obtainable now) is a ques-
tion 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 dis-
cuss 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 sald:

Mr. Warburo— “stars. earch cLnk: thatpaper.

 

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this present law has the advantage of dealing
with the entire country and giving them differ-
ent rates of discount, whereas, as Senator Ald-
rich’s bill was drawn, it would have been very
difficult to do that, as it provided for one uni-
form 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. War-
burg, 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 altogeth-
er; 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. War-
burg has the style, the pedagogical patience, the
erasp of the subject which would make him an ad-

mirable 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.
wrought important improvements.

Doubtless in some respects he has
But he had al-

ways the banking house in mind, and he dealt with

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 tojustify 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 Euro
pean experience he saw that all the central banks
were private affairs.

In his essay on “American and European Bank
ing Methods and Bank Legislation Compared,” Mr
Warburg says: (the italics are ours)

or may also be interesting to note that, contrary
to a widespread idea, the central banks of Burop
are,as a rule, not owned by the governments. Asa
matter of fact, neither the English, French, nor Ge1
man Government owns any stock in the central bank
of its ¢ uNtry. The Bank ot England is run entirely
as @ pi ivate corporati n, 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 German)
the government appoints the president and a super
VISOrYy 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 man-
agement 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 gov-
ernment should be kept owt 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 corpora-
lions, are semi-governmental organs inasmuch as
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particularly where there are elastic note issues, as
in almost all countries except England—and inas-
much as they are the custodians of practically the
entire metallic reserves of the country and the keep-
ers of the government funds. Moreover in questions
of national policy the government must rely on the
willing and loyal co-operation of these central or-
gans.”

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 govern-
ment 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 under-
standing that they constitute the fact.

It is specially notable that in paragraph (d) it
is a fair deduction.that in questions of national pol-
icy, 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 organiza-
tions. That is a fair interpretation: questions of
national policy are, by this method, rendered de-
pendent upon the financial corporations.

Let that point be elear, 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 con-JEWISH IDEA OF CENTRAL BANK FOR AMERICA

trol, 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 pro-
vided for. and the establishment of a number of Fed-
eral 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 psychol,
ogy of America. In this respect he reminds one oi
the reports of Mr. von Bernstortt and Captain Boy-
Ed of what the Americans were likely to do or not
to do. In the Political Science Quarterly of Decem-
ber, 1920, Mr. Warburg tells how, on a then recent
visit to Europe, he was asked by men of all coun-
tries 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 mone-
tary system on the Americans, he said:

“JT asked them to be patient with us until after
the election, and J cited to them our experiences
with monetary reform. I reminded them how the
Aldrich plan had failed because, at that time, a Re-
publican 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 under-226 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

took 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 Amer-
icans it is possible to get what you want if you just
play the game skillfully. His experience with mone-
tary 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; bank-
ing 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 wasJEWISH IDEA OF CENTRAL BANK FOR AMERICA

to say in his next war note—the famous “leak” in-
vestigation, as it was called; one of the several in-
vestigations in which Mr. Baruch was closely ques-
tioned.

In that investigation Mr. Baruch was laboring
to show that he had not been in telephone communi-
cation 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 Govern-
ment 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, Sec-
retary McAdoo, whom I did get—both in refer-
ence 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, be-
cause 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 dis-
cussed 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-
O71)

Mr. Campbell—“Mr. Baruch, who asked you
for a suggestion for an appointee for the Fed-
eral Reserve ‘Bank here?”

Mr. Baruch—“Mr. E. M. House.”

Mr. Campbell—“Did Mr. House tell you to
call Mr. McAdoo up and make the recommenda-
tion ?”

Mr. Baruch—“TI will tell you exactly how it
oceurred: Mr. House called me wp and saidbh
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that there was a vacancy on the Federal Re
serve Board, and he said, ‘I don’t know any-
thing 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. bro)

There we have an example of the Federal Re-
serve “kept out of politics,” kept away from govern-
ment management which would not only be “danger-
ous,” 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 Wil-
son Administration, and thus the great Federal Re-
serve 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. War-
burg’s great monetary reform. Mr. Baruch calling
up Mr. Warburg to give the name of the next ap-
pointee 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 po-
litical, has always given a claim to political prefer-
ment.” And, as Mr. Warburg urges, this is a coun-
try “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 fel-
lows down there and I would like you to make a sug-JEWISH IDEA OF CENTRAL BANK FOR AMERICA

gestion.” 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. Cer-
tainly, 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.

3ut this whole matter of ignorance, as charged
by Mr. Warburg, sounds like an echo of the Proto-
cols:

“The administrators chosen by us from the
masses will not be persons trained for govern-
ment, 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 oreat
financial plan of world subversion and control is
disclosed, there is another mention of the rulers’ ig-
norance of financial problems.

It is a coincidence that, while he does not use the
term “ignorance,” Mr. Warburg is quite outspoken

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concerning the benighted state in which he found
this country, and he is also outspoken about the
‘antrained 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 J ewish-Ger-
man 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 coun-
try, entitled to do business under their own govern-
ment’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 Satwr-
day Evening Post.

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NJ ot only did the Jewish financial firm of Kuhn,
1 Loeb & Company use far-sighted prudence in
splitting its political support—one Warburg sup-
porting Wilson, another Warburg supporting Taft
and an unnamed member of the firm supporting
Roosevelt, all at one time, as Paul M. Warburg tes-
tified—but it split its activities in several other
ways also.

The international interests of the Jews compris-
ing this firm are worthy of note. The influence
which forced the United States to repudiate a com-
mercial treaty with Russia while Russia was a
friendly country (1911), and thus to compel all busi-
ness 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 Tur DrarBorn INDEPENDENT
of January 15, 1921, under the title, “Taft Once
Tried to Resist the Jews—and Failed;” and is re-
printed in Volume ITI of the booklet containing this
series.

Mr. Schiff’s activity consisted in forcing the Con-
gress of the United States to do a thing that was
repugnant to the reason and conscience of President

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Taft, and which he personally refused to do or to rec-
ommend. Mr. Schitf 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 propa-
ganda for war with Japan. If you will give par-
ticular attention, you will observe that the same in-
terests 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
Rnssian Empire, as it has now been accomplished
by Jewish Bolshevism. With funds provided by him,
the basic principles of what is now known as Bol-
shevism, were sown among the Russian prisoners of
war in Japan, who were sent back as apostles of de-
struction. 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 man-
aged 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 mar-
vels of the past seven years. Halted by the British,
this Jew was released from their toils at the request132 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 con-
nections. 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 ex-
cessive repression of the newspapers, in conveying
the impression that by some species of occult sepa-
ratism he was not “German-minded.”

Therefore Mr. Kahn fiits lightly everywhere—ex-
cept 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
Kast into the more Jewish portions of Europe, and
his comings and goings are marked by certain
changes with which his name remains most osten-
tatiously 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 exer-
cise their power (thus saving France the trouble of
passing laws) to keep the emigrant Jew out ofHOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 2

France; so that France presents the spectacle of be-
ing Judaized by Jewish finance and not by imm1i
erant 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 pre-
pares 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. Kalhn’s firm who invented a mone
tary 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 capt-
tal can be placed, namely, “in the development of
the vast and immensely rich colonial empire oj
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 al-
ready 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 in-
terpret 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 undy
ing admiration for Briand, this is really his finest

bit. Especially, with Partner Paul playing the Ger-
man sympathy string! It is a great international
orchestra, this Jewish financial firm; it can play The
Star Spangled Banner, Die Wacht am Rhein, the34 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

Marseillaise, and God Save the King in one har-
monious 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
viven 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, how-
ever, 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 con-
ferred.

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 dele-
gates 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 theIlIOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 235

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 testi-
mony of history that it was ng so much the Ger-
man 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, de-
nies all this—while every American who comes back
from Russia, even those who went over there pro-
Bolshevik, yes, and returned Jews themselves, pro-
claim 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 centraliza-
tion of industry, material and money. The Soviet
Government asked Rathenau directly for the plans,
and received them directly from him. Max War-
burg’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 Washing-
ton, the most constant and privileged vistors to the
White House were Jews, so in Berlin the only pri-
vate telephone wire to the Kaiser was owned by
Walter Rathenau. Not even the Crown Prince could
reach the Kaiser except through the ordinary tele
phone connections. It was the s same in London. I[t236 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

was the same in Paris. It was the same in Petro-
grad—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 oftered
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 during the war, were
wholly taken up with the business announced in the
public notices; and whether Mr. Warburg, whose in-
terest in Germany has not abated, to judge from his
recent utterances, was able to retain complete neu-
trality of mind during the war. These are ques-
tions of value. Obviously, they are not easy to an-
swer. 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 Ham-
burg, 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
churech—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 con-
sidered. Not to recount again the horror and repre-
hension and active antagonism with which JewsHOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 237

view such a desertion, suffice it to say that there is
no greater marvel than that of Jacob H. Schiff re-
taining 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 re-
belled against it. Yet there it is!

Without going further into this ingenious sys-
tem of covering all vital points from one center,
enough has been said to show one busy Jewish finan-
cial 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 quot-
ed as saying at the head of this article, the interna-
tional financiers have been so engrossed in world
money that the sense of national responsibility some-
times becomes blurred in their minds. They desire
everything—war, negotiations and peace—to be con-
ducted 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 can-
not 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 securti-
ties in the next war. Readers of the daily news-
papers 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 con-bh
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cern—just as Paul Warburg said it was and just as
he has insisted that our own Federal Reserve Sys-
tem 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 through-
out—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 securi-
ties 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 in-
stant 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 ofHOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 239

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 War-
burg hung on to the Hamburg connection longer
than did Paul, but the breakage of either was prob-
ably perfunctory. At the same time that Felix left240 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

the Hamburg firm of his brother, Max, a Mr. Stern
also left the Frankfort firm of Stern, and both be-
came 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 re-
member “The Beast of Berlin,” that lurid piece of

rar 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 treas-
urer: Lee Kohlmar, his director; and Harry Reich-
enbach—a list of names duplicable in any movie
eroup.

Messrs. Stern and Warburg, of Frankfort and

amburg, respectively, and away from home per-
haps only temporarily, were not concerned about the
fate of the “Huns,” but they were immensely con-
cerned 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 Nor-
way was really the outcome of an agreement
between the Hamburg firm of Warburg & Com-
pany 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 toHOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 241

Norway, and no marked effect on the rate of ex-

change between the two countries has followed.”

Note, in the light of all the statements made about
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, and the Warburgs in par-
ticular, the assumption in the above quotation that
the transaction was really between a German and
an American firm. It was principally an arrange-
ment 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 coun-
try. 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 un-
profitable.

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 there-
on, are forbidden.”

The following story is vouched for as reliable,
and if in one or two minor details it does not rep-
resent 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 conces-
sions 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 Wilson242 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

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 Confer-
ence.”

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 international-
ism, which means amity between nations, and have
used it as a weapon with which to weaken national-
ity. 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 de-
sirable that the American people look again into the
purposes of those Jews who were instrumental in re-
organizing 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’ activ-
ity in America. The Warburgs at present resident
in America must suffer it, therefore, that American
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HE 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 imagi-
nation 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 polities 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 de-
stroy 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 been244 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

to use money to get a strangle-hold on men and busi-
ness concerns, instead of using finance to help gen-
eral business. To say that the tie-up of world poli-
tics 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
deseribe 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 sen-
sualism 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 impo-
sition.

[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, be-
cause 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 cen-
turies 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 inJEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 245

strife? What of it? It was like a Dempsey-Carpen-
tier bout in New Jersey, or a baseball game in Chi-
cago—an affair of the fighters—“we are internation-
al bankers.”

A nation is being hamstrung by artificial ex-
change rates; another by the sucking of money out
of its channels of trade; what of it to the interna-
tional 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 Mor-
genthau, 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 in-
ternational diplomacy is to become a Jewish monop-
oly 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, but246 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

a Jewish business device. It is most profitable. In
diplomacy and at the immigrant station, interna-
tionalism pays. Jews interpret nation to nation in
the high rites of special conversations between goy-
ernments; 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 Jew-
ish interpreters. It was charged that the Jewish
administration added an extra language to the offi-
cial list in order to make Jewish interpreters in-
dispensable.

Go through the government of the United States,
where the income tax secrets are kept, where the
lederal 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, and
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 gen-
tleman entering the country on a’ visit a few weeks
ago.

“Tf may go to Detroit,’ was the reply.

“Well, you go to the damned Drarsorn Inpp-
PENDENT and tell them a Jew let you into this coun-
try,” 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 them-
selves aS in similar fashion “letting” the nations
do this or that, regarding the nations not as father-
lands but as customers—and as customers in theJEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 247

Jewish sense. If an army wins or loses, if a gov-
ernment 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 emer-
gencies 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 searcities 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 eold—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
‘t does not belong to the United States.

The American farmer, and those American in-
dustries which were not “wise” to the tricks of inter-
national 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)

“Tt 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 cir
cles the belief is expressed that some of the Ger-
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Russia, instead of Germany, as generally sup-
posed.”

This dispatch, coupled with one printed in a for-
mer 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 Ger-
many, but the headquarters dealing with the “goy-
im” was in France. Statements have been made
that the political center of Jewry has been trans-
planted 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 shift-
ed 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, Eng-
land, Italy, Germany, Austria—yes, and in Japan—
there is an international Jewish banking firm which
stands at the head of the group for that counéry.JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 249

Thus, the chief Jewish firm in the United States is
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, of which one of the mem-
bers is Paul M. Warburg, brother of M. Warburg &
Company, of Hamburg; and another member of
which is Otto H. Kahn, resident successively of Ger-
many, 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 nota 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 Unit
ed 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. Bar-
uch; 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 govern-
ment monetary functions to private financial cor-
porations, 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,” show-
ing that there was a certain amount of “play” or
loose motion in the system which could be manipu-
lated either way. The fact remains that the coun-
try 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, whcse name was so prominently con

nected with the advertisement of the clory of the250 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

System, must also stand being mentioned in con-
nection 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 statis-
tical “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 apolo-
gists 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 mone-JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 251

tary 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. Peo-
ple say, “Well, the shrinkage is only in paper val-
ues; 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 di-
rector, Paul M. Warburg. And what is the condi-
tion 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.

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publishing, store-keeping, manufacturing, agricul-
ture, 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 cen-
tral 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 re-
sponsible public official who knows:

While there is a scarcity of money for the pro-
ducing sections of the West and Northwest, the
South and Southwest, “we find that individual
banks in New York City are borrowing from the Re-
serve 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 lend-
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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 Minneap-
olis 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 Fed-
eral Reserve Bank a sum which was greater by $30,-
000,000 than the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas
was lending to ali the banks in Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma.

Still another New York bank got a loan which
equaled the total loans allowed by the Federal Re-JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 253

Serve Bank 0] St. Louis to the 569 me mber 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 2onk 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. Khe twelve regional banks,
which were supposed to make money serve all parts
of the country equally, have apparently been “over:
come 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 coun-
try 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
ean 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 explana-
tion 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. Pay-
ment was pressed. A stream of money, literally
squeezed out of the producing sections of the coun-
try, began to roll toward New York. Otherwise
those giant loans just recorded would have been im-
possible. 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 busi-254 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

ness 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 Re-
serve 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 cause@ 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 ca-
reer. 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 finan-
cial 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 prof-
ited when producers suffered.

If that is the fact, there is no American banker

but will say that the method was wrong; economi-JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 255

cally, wrong, logically wrong, commercially wrong,
if not criminally wrong.

Today the Federal Reserve boasts of its own re-
serve 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 sug-
gests 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 oth-
er Jewish money-lenders have money for Mexico,
Norway, Germany, and all sorts of commercial com-
panies being organized to do business overseas, and
it is American money. The Warburg Federal Re-
serve System has been badly misused, badly manip-
ulated, 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 bus!-
ness intercourse with a $5 bill, is exceedingly com-
plicated when the sum is five millions and the par-
ties 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 sys-
tem cannot say what in their minds they know.256 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW

It is all illustrated in the testimony of T. Cushing
Daniel before a committee of Congress. It shows tc
what an extent the power of this private corporation
called the central bank can reach:

“When going through the Bank of England

[ presented a letter which I had from Secre-
tary 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 ques-
tions 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 condi-
tion of the bank?’ ‘No, sir; they do not call on
us”... . ‘How is it that some of these revolu-
tionists, so-called, do not get up in the House
of Commons and raise the devil to know some-
thing 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, (laugk-
ter.)”

Issue of July 16, 1921.ALDERMAN LIBRARY

 

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