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
Not so the “getter.” It doesn’t matter what he does, so long as the
income is satisfactory. He has no illusions, sentiments or affections on
the side of work. It is the “geld” that counts. He has no attachment for
the things he makes, for he doesn’t make any; he deals in the things
which other men make and regards them solely on the side of their
money-drawing value. “The joy of creative labor” is nothing to him, not
even an intelligible saying.
Now, previous to the advent of Jewish socialistic and subversive ideas,
the predominant thought in the labor world was to “make” things and thus
“make” money. There was a pride among mechanics. Men who made things
were a sturdy, honest race because they dealt with ideas of skill and
quality, and their very characters were formed by the satisfaction of
having performed useful functions in society. They were the Makers. And
society was solid as long as they were solid. Men made shoes as
exhibitions of their skill. Farmers raised crops for the inherent love
of crops, not with reference to far-off money-markets. Everywhere The
Job was the main thing and the rest was incidental.
The only way to break down this strong safeguard of society—a laboring
class of sturdy character—was to sow other ideas among it; and the most
dangerous of all the ideas sown was that which substituted “get” for
“make.” With the required manipulation of the money and food markets,
enough pressure could be brought to bear on the ultimate consumers to
give point to the idea of “get,” and it was not long before the internal
relations of American business were totally upset, with Jews at the head
of the banking system, and Jews at the head of both the conservative and
radical elements of the Labor Movement, AND, most potent of all, the
Jewish Idea sowed through the minds of workingmen. What Idea? The old
idea of “get” instead of “make.”
The idea of “get” is a vicious, anti-social and destructive idea _when
held alone;_ but when held in company with “make” and as second in
importance, it is legitimate and constructive. As soon as a man or a
class is inoculated with the strictly Jewish Idea of “getting”—(“getting
mine;” “getting while the getting is good;” “honestly if you can,
dishonestly if you must—but _get_ it”—all of which are notes of this
treasonable philosophy), the very cement of society loses its
adhesiveness and begins to crumble. The great myth and fiction of Money
has been forced into the place of real things, and the second step of
the drama can thus be opened up.
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