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
We say the Gentile public is the victim of this stimulated trade in
useless luxuries. Did you ever see Jewish people so victimized? They
might wear very noticeable clothing, but its price and its quality
agree. They might wear rather large diamonds, but they are diamonds. The
Jew is not the victim of the Jew, the craze for luxuries is just like
the "coney island" crowd to him; he knows what attracts them and the
worthlessness of it.
And it is not so much the financial loss that is to be mourned, nor yet
the atrocities committed upon good taste, but the fact that the silly
Gentile crowds walk into the net willingly, even gaily, supposing the
change of the fashion to be as inevitable as the coming of spring,
supposing the new demand on their earnings to be as necessary and as
natural as taxes. The crowds think that somehow they have part in it,
when their only part is to pay, and then pay again for the new
extravagance when the present one palls. There are men in this country
who know two years ahead what the frivolities and extravagances of the
people will be, because they decree what they shall be. These things are
strictly business, demoralizing to the Gentile majority, enriching to
the Jewish minority.
Look at the Sixth Protocol for a sidelight on all this:
This is an excerpt from a longer passage dealing with the plans by which
the people's interest could be swung from political to industrial
questions, how industry could be made insecure and unfair by the
introduction of speculation into its management, and finally how against
this condition the people could be rendered restless and helpless.
Luxury was to be the instrument:
"To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this
speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for
luxuries--all enticing luxuries."
And in the First Protocol:
"Surely we cannot allow our own people to come to this. The people of
the Gentiles are stupefied with spirituous liquors * * *"
--incidentally, the profits of spirituous liquors flow in large amounts
to Jewish pockets. The history of the whiskey ring in this country will
show this. Historically, the whole prohibition movement may be described
as a contest between Gentile and Jewish capital, and in this instance,
thanks to the Gentile majority, the Gentiles won.
The amusement, gambling, jazz song, scarlet fiction, side show,
cheap-dear fashions, flashy jewelry, and every other activity that lived
by reason of an invisible pressure upon the people, and that exchanged
the most useless of commodities for the prices that would just exhaust
the people's money surplus and no more--every such activity has been
under the mastery of the Jews.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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