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
This is a candid address to the Jews of the United States. Without
subterfuge, without flattery, wholly without fear of all that they may
threaten or can do, this attempt is made to set before them the Jewish
Question as _their_ question, theirs to acknowledge, theirs to consider,
theirs to solve.
It is not a question of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT at all. This paper has
merely become the vehicle of unwelcome facts which have finally thrust
themselves up for final disposal in this country.
Damning this paper, compelling cheap city politicians to interfere with
its sale, indulging a ribald humor concerning it, will not affect the
facts at all. What THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT says is true or it is
untrue. If true, it ought to be considered. If untrue, it ought to be
disproved. The present policy of Jewish leaders is to do neither, but to
indulge in antics which go a long way toward illustrating what this
paper has said.
What THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT says is true, and tens of thousands of
Jews know it is true.
No representative Jew has ever approached us with a denial of the truth
of what has been stated in this paper. Neither has any unrepresentative
Jew.
The chief objection made against the publication of the facts is always
stated in this form: “What you say is true. Certain Jews are guilty of
the things you charge. But why do you say ‘Jew’? Why do you not say Al
Wood, Morris Gest, Louis Marshall, Samuel Untermyer, ‘Wolf’ Lamar,
Edward Lauterbach, Felix Warburg—why not let it go with these men’s
names, why say ‘Jew’? When you say ‘Jew,’ it sounds as if you blamed all
the Jews.”
This objection has been seriously and courteously made by a number of
Jews who have conferred with THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT on this series of
articles, and has been as seriously and courteously considered.
What is the answer? First, that these men _are_ Jews. Second, that being
Jews these men constitute a problem for the Jews themselves. Third, it
is time for some one to call attention to the necessity of cleaning up
on that problem. There has been too much mincing of words. There has
been too much concealment of names and relationship. The method which
Jews were taking in this country with regard to concealment was heading
them swiftly toward the same conditions which have menaced their race in
Europe, and THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT would count no labor lost that
would rouse the Jews to a sense of the responsibility which rests on
them to solve the Jewish Question in this country, possibly the only
country where it can be solved.
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