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
Let the men and women of the country learn how to buy, let them learn
how to test quality in fabric and food, instead of being dependent on
price tags. The merchandising practices of this country, in the hands of
ruthless exploiters, have all but ruined honest merchants. Let any
dweller in a great city recall the last twenty years, how the Christian
merchants have been growing fewer and fewer. Why? Is it because the
owners of Jewish department stores are better business men? No! The
Jewish merchants began the practice of filling their store windows with
goods that looked like the goods in reputable merchants’ windows, and
sold them for a much lower price. The helpless public, no longer able to
determine the quality of goods, and guided solely by price tags, flocked
to the Jews’ store. The result is that one hears everywhere in ordinary
conversation the complaint that “everything is shoddy.” Of course it is,
and it will remain so, until we educate people in the art of buying.
That of itself will break down three-fourths of the abuses practiced in
the commercial world today.
Another contribution that can be made to the defeat of Jewish subversive
influence is the examination of so-called “liberal” ideas, their source,
their effect, their whole tendency. Men are thinking ideas today that
poison them morally, socially and economically. These ideas are as
deliberately shot into society as poison gas was shot into ranks of
soldiers in France. Our mental hospitality has been grossly abused, the
public mind has been made a sewer. The time has come for a custom
barrier to be raised for the examination of imported ideas. Unrestricted
immigration of ideas has been as bad for the American mentality as
unrestricted immigration of people has been for American society.
We have taken our amusements without thought of what was behind them in
the way of deliberate intent to make us common and careless and coarse.
We have read our newspapers, wholly innocent of the propaganda mixed
with the news. We have even taken our religion in a Judaized form,
without troubling to inquire whether it squared with the Bible, the
textbook of religion. We have read our novels and have failed to see
what serum the author was injecting along with his story. And all this
has been possible because we have been asleep, enjoying, as we thought,
a life which was swiftly being taken from us, and dreaming that the old
principles still held sway.
It is perfectly obvious that the cure for all this is to become awake,
alert, to challenge the foreign influence, and to seek out again the
principles which gave us our greatness.
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