Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
If in this country there is apprehension over the Jewish Problem, the
activities of Louis Marshall have been the most powerful agents to evoke
it. His propagandas have occasioned great resentment in many sections of
the United States. His opposition to salutary immigration laws, his
dictation to book and periodical publishers, as in the recent case of G.
P. Putnam’s Sons, who modified their publishing program on his order;
his campaign against the use of “Christological expressions” by Federal,
State and municipal officers; all have resulted in alarming the native
population and harming the very cause he so indiscreetly advocates.
That this defender of “Jewish rights,” and restless advocate of the
Jewish religious propaganda, should make himself the leader in attacking
the religion of the dominant race in this country, in ridiculing Sunday
laws and heading an anti-Christianity campaign, seems, to say the least,
inconsistent.
Mr. Marshall, who is regarded by the Jews as their greatest
“constitutional” lawyer, since the decline of Edward Lauterbach (and
that is a tale!) originated, in a series of legal arguments, the
contention that “this is not a Christian country nor a Christian
government.” This argument he has expounded in many writings. He has
built up a large host of followers among contentious Jews, who have
elaborated on this theme in a variety of ways. It is one of the main
arguments of those who are endeavoring to build up a “United Israel” in
the United States.
Mr. Marshall maintains that the opening of deliberative assemblies and
conventions with prayer is a “hollow mockery”; he ridicules “the absurd
phrase ‘In the name of God, Amen,’” as used in the beginning of wills.
He opposes Sunday observance legislation as being “the cloak of
hypocrisy.” He advocates “crushing out every agitation which tends to
introduce into the body politic the virus of religious controversy.”
But Mr. Marshall himself has spent the last twenty years of his life in
the “virus of religious controversy.” A few of his more impertinent
interferences have been noted above. These are, in the Jewish phrase,
“religious activities” with a decidedly political tinge.
The following extracts are quoted from the contentions of Mr. Marshall,
published in the _Menorah Journal_, the official organ of the Jewish
Chautauqua, that the United States is not a Christian country:
_IS OURS A CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT?_
BY LOUIS MARSHALL
When, in 1892, Mr. Justice Brewer, in rendering the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Church of the
Holy Trinity against the United States (144 U. S. 457), which
involved an interpretation of the Alien Labor Law, indulged in the
obiter remark that “this is a Christian nation,” a subject was
presented for the consideration of thoughtful minds which is of no
ordinary importance.
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