The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920Ford, Henry
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The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Every influence that leads to lightness and looseness in Gentile youth
today heads up in a Jewish source. Did the young people of the world
devise the "sport clothes" which have had so deleterious an effect on
the youth of the times that every publicist has thought it worthy of
mention? Those styles come out of Jewish clothing concerns, where
certainly art is not the rule nor moral influence the main
consideration. The moving picture is an interesting development of
photography allied with the show business, but whose is the
responsibility for its development along such lines as make it a menace
to the minds of millions--so serious a menace that it has not escaped
observation and condemnation everywhere? Who are the masters of musical
jazz in the world? Who direct all the cheap jewelry houses, the
bridge-head show parks, the "coney islands," the centers of nervous
thrills and looseness? It is possible to take the showy young man and
woman of trivial outlook and loose sense of responsibility, and tag them
outwardly and inwardly from their clothing and ornaments to their hectic
ideas and hopes, with the same tag, "Made, introduced and exploited by a
Jew."
There is, therefore, something most sinister in the light which events
cast upon that paragraph:
"We have misled, stupefied, and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us but
which we have inspired."
"Principles and theories" do not necessarily imply lofty or even modest
intellectual qualities. The youngster who spends his noon hours and
evenings at the movies is getting his "principles and theories" just as
the more intellectual youngster from a higher grade of society who
listens to a Jewish "liberal" expound "sex liberty" and the "control of
population" is getting his. The looseness which inheres in these
"principles and theories" does not emanate from the Gentile home, or the
Gentile church, or from any line of money-making which is filled
principally with Gentiles, but from theories, movements and lines of
money-making mostly fancied by Jews. This line of accusation could be
run much deeper, but it is preferred to restrict it to what is
observable by decent eyes everywhere.
And that "the youth of the Gentiles" are the principal victims, and not
the youth of the Jews, is also observable. While a certain percentage of
Jewish youth itself is overcome by this social poison, the percentage is
almost nothing compared with the results among the youth of the
Gentiles. It is a significant fact that Jews who link this process of
enervation of Gentiles with large profits are not themselves, nor are
their sons and daughters, the victims of this enervation. Jewish youth
comes through more proudly and more cleanly than the mass of Gentile
youth.
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