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
_The Jews do not like the Christian Sabbath._ The literature of attack
against this institution is voluminous and the arguments extreme. Sunday
is Christian, therefore to the Jew it is taboo. Court records in every
state bear testimony to the fight of the Jews against Sunday. Few
legislatures have escaped being pestered with bills on the subject. The
latest fight has been the strongest yet waged, to destroy Sunday by
throwing it wide open to Jewish exploitation. Yet the Jews are most
chary of their own Sabbath. When recent college examinations fell on
Jewish holy days, the Jews had the examinations changed. When primary
elections last year fell on Jewish days, every power was moved to change
them. There are Jewish records of a western governor being remonstrated
with because a condemned criminal was sentenced to be hanged on
Saturday—did the governor mean to “offend 3,000,000 Jews”? The St. Louis
Charity Fair in 1908 planned to remain open on Friday evening; a great
outcry; did the managers of that fair mean to insult the Jews; didn’t
they know that the Jewish Sabbath began on Friday night?
But when it is a question of maintaining the integrity of Sunday—pooh!
pooh! “Don’t the Christians know that Sunday perpetuates the silliest
superstition, that their god Jesus rose from the dead?” When certain
people aid the post office employes in an attempt to close the post
offices on Sunday, the Jews regard it as a step back toward the dark
ages.
Here is a Jewish editorial relating to Governor Cox. It appears that
Governor Cox in 1914 stood for a decent Sunday and liquor law
enforcement, and this is the threat held out to him:
“At the 59th Jackson Day banquet of the Wayne County (Ohio) Democracy,
which was held at Wooster, Governor Cox made the principal address in
which he defended laws passed at his instigation. The governor laid
particular stress on the fact that for the first time in her history,
Ohio now enjoys a ‘Christian Sabbath.’
“‘I stand or fall by the Christian Sabbath in the next campaign,’ the
governor is reported to have said....
“There are many who construe the declaration to mean that Governor Cox
has bid defiance to the liberal element of the state and will rely upon
the religious and class prejudices which he is arousing and keeping
alive in the rural districts, to re-elect him to his present office, or,
what is clearly plain from his entire attitude, boost him into the
nomination for United States Senatorship. The _Israelite_ will take
great pleasure about the time the leaves begin to turn in reminding
Governor Cox of his statement that he ‘will stand or fall by a Christian
Sabbath’ in the coming campaign.”—_American Israelite._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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