Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent — John Shaqi
Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
There will be a very full case made out in justification 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. Wrestling is so completely ruled by Jews
as to have become 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 atmosphere of this sport has
been tinged with dishonesty. The horses remain almost the only wellbred
creatures connected with it. Yet why should 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 Jewish Idea in sport, instead of being
preservative, is corruptive. The Jew saw money where the sportsman saw
fun and skill. The Jew set out to capitalize 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 scandal follows scandal it would seem to be high time that
organized Jewry should undertake to control or repudiate those Jews who
have been most instrumental 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 headquarters, 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 attendance 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
attendance 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 whispering gallery
wherein were heard mysterious rumors of crooked dealing. The names of
Jews were 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.
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