There is a principle, seldom expressed among the Jews, but always acted
on, that Jews should not have public attention called to them except by
themselves or their chosen spokesmen. This is unfortunate, because any
establishment of the Jews as an accepted and trusted part of the general
citizenry must include their being known as such. In this country the
Jew should not only welcome the widest knowledge (unless he has
something he fears to have known) but should himself undertake the
exposure of those things which will eventually bring a shadow on the
name of his race. The Jew has never done this. When exposure could no
longer be suppressed, the Jewish attitude has always been one of
defense, regardless of the merits of the case. “The Jew can do no wrong”
is the principle acted upon. Never must a “Gentile” charge be admitted,
however true it may be. Never must a “Gentile” reform be assisted, no
matter how much needed.
Now, that principle may do for other countries, but not for the United
States. If the Jew is wise, he ought speedily to take warning that in
this country the old line of action will not succeed. If Jews continue
to show a disposition to defend the malefactors of their race against
the just expostulations of the rest of the people, they must not be
surprised if the public begins to view them as all one crowd—an inner
nation set against the outer nation.
2. “_What you say is true, but your conclusion is wrong: it is not for
the Jew to change to your standards, it is for you to change to the
Jew’s standards._”
This is the fighting view. It admits that there are two ideas in
conflict in the United States, what it unfairly terms the “Puritanic”
idea, opposed by what it calls the Jewish Universal idea.
This view would command respect if it represented a superior morality in
conflict with a lesser morality, if it represented a higher civilization
against a lower civilization. Will any Jew contend that it does? Will
any Jew deny that the influence of the Jewish idea in this generation is
to break down such morality as we had? Will any Jew deny that the
civilization of the United States before the advent of the Jews thither
was superior to the highest civilization ever achieved by the Jews
anywhere at any period of their history?
There are _two_ ideas in conflict—that is certain. The Jewish idea has a
tremendous infiltrating force and a serious degenerative power. It is a
powerfully disintegrating influence. It eats the substance out of the
civilization which it attacks, destroys its moral virility, throws down
its reverence, saps its respect for authority, casts a shadow on every
basic principle.
That is the way the Jewish idea works in American civilization. Moral
gravitation being, like physical gravitation, downward, it is not
difficult to seduce human nature to lower levels, but it is a massive
task to lift it to higher levels of morality and reverence and sober
justice. And this latter task, organized Jewish effort has never
attempted. The campaign in the United States is a campaign for the
breakdown of the ideas that now obtain, not a lifting of them to a
higher degree of nobility.
If it were an attempt to substitute the austerity of the Mosaic law—the
law given _to_ Moses, not the ordinances decreed _by_ Moses—for the
half-hearted Christian idealism of the day, even that would be a task in
which all right-hearted men could join. But _Moses condemns the modern
Jews_ more severely than anyone else could. They have rejected the
Mosaic law. They have built their international power upon the exact
opposite of the Mosaic law. Moses was given a law of human society which
would have saved civilization its greatest tragedies. Moses has a social
program, obedience to which for one day would completely wreck the
Jewish international power. Moses is their judge, and when the Law is
established Moses will be their destroyer.
Let the Jews think seriously what is this idea which they set up to
follow. Let them penetrate the mists and seek out where this idea
originated. Let them think forward and visualize the effect if this idea
should become regnant. It will not become regnant here; there are
safeguards here which the true Israelite will understand; but it is as
certain as day that the idea will in the end destroy, utterly destroy,
all who trust in it.
This much is gained, however, from the attitude we are now discussing:
we have gained clarity of understanding as to just what it is that is in
collision; it is _two ideas_, and one of them is the idea of disruption,
fostered by the false and delusive hope that disruption will spare the
disruptor.
3. “_What you say is true, and we Jews could change it if we only would.
The trouble is, we don’t want to seem to be driven to it. But I don’t
see how otherwise we are to do it._”
Many Jews will recognize this sentiment as their own, but they will be
readier to express it to a non-Jew than a Jew. Why? Because prophets
must be prepared to suffer in Judah. “Well, if you insist on playing
Christ, you must expect to be crucified,” said Lilienthal to Isaac Wise.
“O Jerusalem, that stonest them that are sent to thee!”
Yet there is need of prophets in Judah today, men who will rise among
the people and tell them plainly. The rabbinate is utterly bankrupt of
the prophetic spirit. It has fallen into the blindness of the old
priesthood. Here and there a literary man attempts to speak, but Jewish
“art” has so accustomed the Jews to make-believe that the writing is
looked upon as a performance, nothing more.
No one with a sense for such things—and there are believers still left
in Judah—will doubt that the times are ripe for a great change
respecting the Jews. So strong is the feeling among the remnant of
believing Jews that it is interpreted as forewarnings of the Messianic
period. Among the Judaized Christian sects, other interpretations are
given to the times, most of which are used to support political Zionism
which represents the materialism and unbelief of present-day Judaism and
which will undoubtedly fail as a national restorative and as a political
program. But however misinterpretative these sectarian and Jewish
conclusions may be, they indicate a sense of imminent change. A greater
change is indicated than migration to Palestine would be—for that would
not mean any change at all in the world, and certainly no change for the
better in the fortunes of the Jews. Christians—misguided Christians, one
must say—who see God’s alleged will of universal Jewish dominion
fulfilled by means of the Jews’ defiance and despite of the Law given to
Moses, ought to re-examine their ground for so strange and immoral a
conclusion. The break up of this civilization, this age of civilization,
will occur because of the collapse of this system by which the Jew has
obtained his hold on the nations. The system that gives him his hold is
doomed, is passing, and the fallacy of Jewish tribal destiny to rule the
world will pass with it.
With this change already on the threshold, prophets should be expected
to arise in Judah to recall their people to the Law whose previous
denial meant their overthrow. These prophets will not be of the “Reform
school” which denies the God of Israel as a divine Person, nor will they
be of the ultra-orthodox school which makes much of fringes and
cookery—they will be of the race of the ancient prophets who spake
boldly against Judah’s violation of the fundamental law.
Our confidence is that a sufficient number of Jews will see the truth,
and act upon it.
What would be the greatest overturn the present Jewish idea, the
disruptive Jewish idea, could possibly have? This: _a knowledge that the
way they are going is the way their own Law foredooms to failure_, and
that _the people they hope to triumph over are the people their own
Scriptures say they are not to triumph over_.
The first is beyond dispute: there is no success for the Jew, no
establishment of him in the world except upon the basic law given to
Moses. In any other attempt he must fall when the structure collapses.
The second is in dispute, but is by no means beyond consideration,
especially by Jews. In these matters the Jews are much wiser than the
so-called Christians. There is among the Jews “the law of the brother”
and “the law of the stranger.” The “law of the stranger” permits several
important things which the “law of the brother” prohibits. The Jews have
been treating the rest of the world, often intentionally, sometimes as a
matter of course, according to the “law of the stranger.” This is one of
the influences which has helped to solidify Jewry against the rest of
the world.
Suppose it should be shown that the people in whose lands the Jews have
never been persecuted, the people of those lands to which the Jews have
never been “driven” but to which they have hopefully and joyfully come,
are not “strangers” and are not to be treated as “strangers” and, so far
from being “strangers,” are really the leaders and rulers of that
ethical stream of influence of which the Jews, but for their disloyalty
to their destiny, might have been an important part!
Suppose it should be shown that Judah, the “driven” part of Israel, has
been blindly attacking the “led” part of Israel. Suppose it should be
shown that Judah is not the Israel upon whom great destiny is to come,
but a small part of that Israel and not even a participating part, until
it “returns, returns, returns.”
If these things should once take hold of the intensified consciousness
of Judah, as facts, there would be such a change in human society in
general, such a change in the Jewish situation in particular, as would
make a return to Palestine a mere summer excursion in comparison.
Jews are thinking about these very matters now. They are thinking from
within. They are seeking a reason (the thoughtful among them) for the
sense of unfitness which they feel when they adopt the traditional
attitude of enmity toward the “others,” the “others” in this case being
the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The reason for this sense of impropriety is
that here, in this land, the Jew will have to change his attitude of
antagonism and dwell in peace as in a land prepared for him. Not as lord
of it, by any means, but as a grateful wanderer at last come home. Not
as ruler, but as adding his bit to the righteousness, prosperity and
peace of the people.
It is not a question of religion. Let the Jew get back his Mosaic
religion—it is the most perfect social system ever devised and directly
contrary to the practical modern Jew’s idea of things.
It is not a question of intermarriage. Let the Jew keep as long as he
pleases his idea that he is racially different. The suggestion of
intermarriage is a crude one and always indicates a lack of grasp of the
Jewish Question.
Let the Jew keep all his traditions. They are not objectionable in any
way; the slightest regard for them can only hold them as romantic.
But let him shed his false notion of “the Jew against the world!”
Let him shed his false program of breaking down Christendom by the
infiltration of Orientalism into business, art, entertainment and the
professions.
Let him abolish the false ideal that it is an honor to Jewry to save a
guilty Jew from the common law, and a disgrace to Jewry to see a guilty
Jew punished by the common law.
Let him draw up notice on all the Jews of the United States who by hook
or crook are sowing vile seed in society, that the Jewish community
charges itself with their misbehavior and will use methods well known to
Jews to bring that misbehavior to an end.
Let the Jew end forever the disgrace of an anti-defamation committee
which grows frantic over innocent remarks on the part of “Gentiles,” and
is absolutely indifferent to the misdeeds of thousands of Jews who do
more damage to the Jewish name than all the “Gentile” critics and
newspapers could do in twenty years. No one can give the Jews a bad
reputation but the Jews themselves.
Most Jews who have given this matter a thought will agree. A good deal
of bad temper exists among them, no doubt, and it will be hard for them
to admit that anything THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT may contend for is
right, but the idea here expressed, when divorced from this paper, does
command respect from many Jews.
The question remains: When will they start on the program here
suggested?
Human nature being what it is, they will hate to start at all if it will
seem that the present agitation has compelled them. But would they have
started without the agitation ?
It is possible for an additional number of Jews to catch the thought
that this series of articles cannot be so easily explained away—we are
not referring to the contents now, but to the fact that these articles
exist at all—as being the creation of prejudice, or hatred or
vindictiveness or ignorance?
Suppose these articles should be truly a sign of the times for American
Jewry! Suppose they offer a warning word, however unwelcome, and a
light, however undesired, which it would be most unwise for Jews to
ignore.
Suppose these articles were conceived in a spirit far different than the
average pro-Jewish spouter is competent to understand. Suppose the
ultimate benefit will be mostly Judah’s. Suppose the set time has now
come for the Jews to quit their attitude of attacking everyone who shows
them the truth, and to profit by this report of the poor figure they cut
in American life today. Suppose these people who are moved to search and
report the truth about Judah are truly the shophar calling the people to
a new day—is it wise to let stubbornness counsel? Is it wise to let
pride close the ear?
The enemies of the Jews are those who defend them for the pay of hire or
praise or votes. The enemies of the Jews are those who bespeak them fair
to their faces, and express quite different thoughts behind their backs.
The writer of this personally knows that two of the principal “Gentile”
defenders of the Jews, men who have shouted and ranted through the Press
on the Jews’ behalf, are men who privately hold and express thoughts
about the Jews which are sheer hatred and enmity and—fear. Mostly fear!
The enemies of the Jews are those who encourage them to take an attitude
that they cannot hold in America—not as affecting their personal liberty
at all, but their social attitude and the Public Right. These are the
enemies of the Jews, and yet these are the ones whom Judah counts his
friends. They are hired friends, false friends, incapable of realizing
for a moment what this whole Question means. Judah’s friends today are
those who will speak the surgical truth to him, braving his fury in the
knowledge that the future will justify the word.
Judah’s leaders have betrayed him in this country—they do not know they
have crossed the Jordan. The Jews are as sheep without shepherds in this
land. And the chief objection which the Jewish leaders have to THE
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is that _the Jews may read it and learn how
shepherdless they are_, the Jewish leaders’ opposition to THE DEARBORN
INDEPENDENT rises mostly from _the fear that the Jews may read it_! The
Jews have read it, and they have not found hatred, they have not found
abuse and calumny, they have not found ignorance and malice; they have
found statements of fact calmly set forth, not to arouse hatred among
the non-Jews, but to arouse a sense of social responsibility among the
Jews.
These are significant times. The emergence of the Jewish Question is a
part of the culmination of destiny that has come upon us, not for harm
but for good. The Jews must uncover their eyes and unstop their ears,
and they will see the beginning of the end of their travail, and they
will hear that to which they have been too long heedless.
The justification of a discussion of the Jewish Question is the good of
the Jews, and the greatest present obstacle to that good is the Jews
themselves. The time is here when they shall see it.
——
Issue of January 7, 1922.
“_Everywhere they wanted to remain Jews, and everywhere they
were granted the privilege of establishing a State within a
State. By virtue of these privileges and exemptions, and
immunity from taxes, they would soon rise above the general
condition of the citizens of the municipalities where they
resided; they had better opportunities for trade and
accumulation of wealth, whereby they excited jealousy and
hatred._”
—_Lazare._
LXXX.
An Address to “Gentiles” on the Jewish Problem
The heading of this article presents difficulties. The correct use of
the term “Gentile” is in question. It is a name that has been given us,
not by ourselves, but by Jews, and it is by no means certain that it is
accurately given. A very great chance exists that it is not. That,
however, is a matter which “gentiles” do not bother to understand; they
think, of course, that if one is not a Jew one must be a gentile. This
is only another instance of the Jewish view being “put over” without the
“gentile” understanding or even questioning it.
There is another difficulty: how shall one address “gentiles”
collectively? When one addresses Jews he knows that the Jew is always a
Jew; that every Jew acknowledges every other Jew; that Jews understand
each other and are loyal to each other as against “outsiders”; that they
think together and act together; that they stand together for Jewish
defense, no matter how just the charge brought against them. When you
address Jews you address a unit, and when you discuss Jews you get a
united reaction from them.
This cannot be said of gentiles. They are of many races, many
nationalities, many religions, many tongues. They never think of
themselves as being united under the name “gentiles.” They are not race
or class conscious; certainly they do not think of themselves as a unit
with reference to the Jews as an opposite unit. “Gentiles” cannot be
organized into one group nationally, let alone internationally, as Jews
can. Jews of every shade of opinion, of every degree of religion and of
unreligion, can unite all round the world, and do unite, having their
own news service, their own telegraph service, their own “foreign
department” (as they themselves describe it), by which they keep
themselves united and informed for mass action. There is nothing even
remotely approaching that among “gentiles.”
Not that this fact can be urged against the “gentiles” as a fault. There
are reasons why the “gentiles” never can be united. And one reason is
that among the so-called “gentiles” there is a regnant superior strain
that is not “gentile” at all; no more is it Jewish. There are racial and
moral strains among the non-Jewish section of the world which never can
be brought into agreement. And, outside this superior strain, among the
gentiles proper, the very basis for enduring union is lacking.
So that the only union that can be expected is a union of the superior
strain, which physically and morally is unconquerable, and whose task it
is to liberate the lesser peoples who easily fall victims to subversion
and have no reactive power to rescue themselves.
It is to this human Gulf Stream that flows through the ocean of
humanity, blessing it, that this address is offered. As to the identity
of this section of humanity—“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
The others will not, because they cannot. There are many genuine
gentiles mixed up in our common population, but it is not to them that
these words are offered.
The Jewish Question has existed for a long time, as the Jew knows and
admits, and is a consequence of certain un-Jewish, or rather
un-Israelitish ideas held by Jewish persons of power. The disability
under which the Jew labors is that he is _not_ a Jew, properly speaking,
and does not desire to be. Just at that point is the soil and the root
of the Jewish Question.
Tackling the Jewish Question is not congenial work. The Race which this
article now addresses has always shrunk from tackling it. Our Race has
little disposition to chastise any portion of humanity, to arouse
feeling or resist it. We have little taste for this surgical work which
becomes absolutely necessary when certain corrupt influences deeply
dislocate and seriously injure the common life. Nothing but a clear
vision of the danger, nothing but an imperative sense of duty would
impel any one of us to embark on a course which is subject to
misunderstanding and which must, in the nature of things, wait long for
its complete justification. Our Race is too fair, and has always been
too fair, to enter hastily into judgment—and upon this fairness and
long-suffering the offending groups have often seriously trespassed.
Regarded by itself, as a separate entity, the Jewish Power is most
impressive. International Jews today occupy literally every controlling
lever of power. Building up for centuries, perfecting their teamwork
from generation to generation, from country to country, they have
practically reached the summit. Nothing but the Christian religion
remains unvanquished by them, though through false “liberalism” even
that has felt the Jewish assault. So great is this power that the very
knowledge of it kills hope that any movement can ever dislodge it.
Earnest, honest men have walked round it, surveyed it, measured its
strength, and have given up the dream of changing it. In Russia they
tried to segregate it, but while segregation went on from one side,
infiltration proceeded from the other, and even the “anti-Semitic”
Russian Government was honeycombed with Jews, as the end showed. In
Germany they endeavored to vote the Jewish power out of politics, only
to find the root deep set in finance—and no country has yet attacked the
sacred image of gold. In England the policy of absorption was adopted,
and the result is that wherever a Jew was put in power the British
Empire has reaped trouble, in Ireland, in India, in Palestine, the
present vice-regents of all these possessions being Jews. Other little
countries, exasperated beyond endurance, tried violence, and failed just
as miserably as the others.
Why? Because every one of these methods is precisely the method that the
Jew prefers to have people try. He knows their futility first; they find
it out later. He knows how these methods positively help him; they
discover that later. The knowledge thus won would be pure gain, were it
not that it also seems to discourage the hope of men who know how
seriously wrong the situation is.
Besides this massive array of power, immovable as it appears, there is
the veil cast over the Christian mind as to the supposedly peculiar
destiny of “God’s chosen people.” The Christian cannot read his Bible
except through Jewish spectacles, and, therefore, reads it wrong. The
idea of “the chosen people” is one of the two great Biblical ideas, but
that the Jews constitute this Chosen People is entirely opposed to the
statement of the Bible—even of the Bible which the Jews acknowledge, the
Old Testament of the Christians. The blessings of world possession,
world rule, superior population, commercial greatness, military power,
constituted governments, “a great nation and a company of nations”—all
of these as means by which to spread light and healing among the
nations—were truly promised to one people, to Israel, not to Judah.
Judah’s destiny was to be quite different. Very few Bible readers ever
note the distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah,
yet this distinction was marked from the time of Jacob; the prophets
absolutely insist upon it. Israel seceded from Judah, being unable to
live with that people any longer. Israel’s destiny took them out into
the world, and if the Bible be true, then Israel’s destiny of greatness
is being fulfilled in Israel and not in Judah. The two Houses are
distinct to this day, although a future reunion, a spiritual reunion, is
prophesied to come.
Yet the false idea that the Jews constitute All Israel has penetrated
the Christian consciousness to an alarming extent, so that when the
Jewish press insists, as it does every week, “We gave you your God, we
gave you your Bible, we gave you your Christ,” even Christian ministers
cannot find an answer. The answer is that the Old Testament is
nine-tenths an Israelitish book, and not a Jewish book. Abraham was not
a Jew; Isaac was not a Jew; Jacob was not a Jew; Moses was not a Jew;
Joshua was not a Jew; Gideon was not a Jew; Samuel was not a Jew; even
Esther and Mordecai were not Jews, but Benjaminites; the majority of the
prophets were not Jews, but Israelites. Upon the coming of Judah into
power, in the persons of David and Solomon, the misrule was so great
that Israel seceded, and the secession was sanctioned by the prophets.
In the New Testament, Jesus Christ found his disciples in Galilee, far
out of Judea, and of them there was but one, Judas, whose name indicates
that he was a Jew. St. Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin, “the light
tribe,” which was left with Judah “for a light.”
But there is a constant patter of preaching (the Russellites make it the
great theme) that “the Jews are to rule the world because it is so
prophesied.” The amazing blindness with which Christians have regarded
the open pages of their Bible is the only explanation of this one-sided
teaching which is confusing to the Christians and exceedingly dangerous
to the Jews. In the Bible, Israel is the Chosen People of Blessing, and
the time is announced when Judah shall walk to Israel and recognize them
and become one with them. There is a chosen racial breed, a select seed,
a superior strain of blood and soul in the world, but it is not Judah.
One thing, therefore, that Christians can do, as a contribution to the
solution of the Jewish Question, is to read their Bibles carefully.
The Jewish Question will be solved, and its solution will begin in the
United States. But that does not mean that it will come as the result of
a popular movement. Great changes do not occur that way. It makes little
difference whether the mass of the people see this Question or not; the
mass of the people are not always called into such matters. Their work
is to hold the world steady while the change takes place. But a
sufficient number of qualified persons have seen the Question to insure
that now the era of solution has set in. The timid, the soft literary
men in pulpits (with whose ilk Jeremiah had a keen acquaintance), the
false preachers of “Peace, peace,” the hush brothers and sisters of
every name, the shallow shouters for “fairness,” and all who are afraid
of the truth in its surgical forms—these have no place in the healing of
the hurt of these times; they are wedded to their softness. Nothing has
been more shameful in the last two years than the spectacle of men
bidding for the applause of bootleggers, and gamblers, and the lecherous
masters of the modern stage, and the sinister Kehillah, and the
anti-Christian American Jewish Committee, because, forsooth, some one
has fulfilled the duty to tell the truth. However, these things must
always be, and the evil influences among the Jews have learned just what
kind of help they may expect and from what kind of men.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has not been making a fight but fulfilling a
duty to shed light on a matter crying for light. THE DEARBORN
INDEPENDENT, therefore, has never urged any individual or organization
to join it in this work. Nor has it charged with cowardice those who for
prudential or other reasons have kept silent. Editors especially have
been absolved; not one of them was asked to lend his aid, although the
files of this office hold thousands of written assurances from newspaper
men all over the land, and from all parts of the world, testifying to
the truth of our statements. Organizations have been proposed, for
various purposes; strong organizations have offered themselves as
vehicles for the carrying out of any plan THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT might
propose. But all such undertakings have been avoided, our belief being
that simply to state the truth, and let it work its own right will, was
sufficient at this time. And to that belief and policy we have adhered.
“But what shall we do?” is the constant question; “How shall we balk
this system which surrounds us and infects so much of our common life?”
Observe it, identify it, eschew it—that is more powerful than active
opposition. The clear eye of the man who sees and understands is
something that even the evil powers of Jewry cannot endure.
But the most potent action any awakened person can take is this: to
erect again our own moral landmarks, which the Oriental Jewish invasion
has broken down. This would spell sheer doom to the whole evil system
sponsored by Jews. And this is the course which has never been tried. To
go back to the principles which made our race great, the principles to
which we have been recreant and therefore have fallen an easy prey—this
is the only invincible course. It is an opposition which evil Jews
cannot understand and cannot defeat.
In place of the way of doing business which Jewish dealers have
introduced, let the business men of the country adopt the old way of the
white man, when a man’s word was as good as his bond, and when business
was service and not exploitation.
Let the men and women of the country learn how to buy, let them learn
how to test quality in fabric and food, instead of being dependent on
price tags. The merchandising practices of this country, in the hands of
ruthless exploiters, have all but ruined honest merchants. Let any
dweller in a great city recall the last twenty years, how the Christian
merchants have been growing fewer and fewer. Why? Is it because the
owners of Jewish department stores are better business men? No! The
Jewish merchants began the practice of filling their store windows with
goods that looked like the goods in reputable merchants’ windows, and
sold them for a much lower price. The helpless public, no longer able to
determine the quality of goods, and guided solely by price tags, flocked
to the Jews’ store. The result is that one hears everywhere in ordinary
conversation the complaint that “everything is shoddy.” Of course it is,
and it will remain so, until we educate people in the art of buying.
That of itself will break down three-fourths of the abuses practiced in
the commercial world today.
Another contribution that can be made to the defeat of Jewish subversive
influence is the examination of so-called “liberal” ideas, their source,
their effect, their whole tendency. Men are thinking ideas today that
poison them morally, socially and economically. These ideas are as
deliberately shot into society as poison gas was shot into ranks of
soldiers in France. Our mental hospitality has been grossly abused, the
public mind has been made a sewer. The time has come for a custom
barrier to be raised for the examination of imported ideas. Unrestricted
immigration of ideas has been as bad for the American mentality as
unrestricted immigration of people has been for American society.
We have taken our amusements without thought of what was behind them in
the way of deliberate intent to make us common and careless and coarse.
We have read our newspapers, wholly innocent of the propaganda mixed
with the news. We have even taken our religion in a Judaized form,
without troubling to inquire whether it squared with the Bible, the
textbook of religion. We have read our novels and have failed to see
what serum the author was injecting along with his story. And all this
has been possible because we have been asleep, enjoying, as we thought,
a life which was swiftly being taken from us, and dreaming that the old
principles still held sway.
It is perfectly obvious that the cure for all this is to become awake,
alert, to challenge the foreign influence, and to seek out again the
principles which gave us our greatness.
We have been weaned away from our natural leaders. We have been taught
to look to those who cannot even speak our language and who do not hold
our institutions dear. A people that turns from its own leaders, or a
people whose leaders have been turned from the sacred responsibilities
of the high office of leading, is in a precarious position, and becomes
an easy victim to confusion of soul. There is a dearth of voices in the
land today, the prophets are dumb, or are reading beautiful essays to
the people. Suspicion has been sowed like darnel seed between classes of
the same race, the people have been broken up, and the subversive Jewish
influence supports the oligarchy of unserviceable wealth at one end of
the social scale, while it stimulates the baser elements of industrial
unrest at the other end. And the race thus rent asunder to its own
undoing, does not see this—capital does not see, and labor does not
see—that the leaders of chaos are alien in blood and soul.
To keep American and Christian the school, the church, the legislature,
the jury room and the Government, is the most potent resistance that can
be made to the evil influences which have been upon us and which this
series of articles has partly uncovered. The strength of all subversive
influence is in proportion as we cease to be what we ought to be. The
evil influences surrounding this people can succeed only as they change
this people into something less than it ought to be. Therefore, to go
back to the old landmarks, whereby we made all the progress we ever
made, is not only the part of wisdom, but the need of the hour. The
school must be cleansed. The jury box must be kept inviolate—trial by
jury has almost disappeared in Jewish New York. The church must be
un-Judaized and Christianized. The Government must be Americanized. Let
there be the utmost freedom of thought and speech, but let there be also
with it a discrimination which will prevent the people being victimized
by every spurious idea, every “gold brick” economic proposal which comes
along. It needs only that men be awake to their better interests and to
leave no place in their scheme of life for the practices which destroy
the very foundations of confidence.
Surely it must be understood by this time that the Jews rule, not by
reason of their brilliance or their money, but by ideas which are not
even properly Jewish, but Babylonian. They have captured the castle from
within. They have been able to do so only because of our ignorance of
the lineage and dignity of the stock of ideas upon which our
civilization has been founded. Our people needs to engraft itself again
on the parent tree and draw again the sustenance which made it great and
fruitful.
Many so-called “gentiles” are somewhat affected by the Jews’ wails of
“persecution.” This has been sufficiently discussed in previous
articles, but “gentiles” can further contribute to the solution of the
Jewish Question by looking about them to see if they can discover any
evidence of “persecution” here—unless it be persecution of the
Christians by the organized agencies of the Jews! In this month’s
_Atlantic Monthly_ a Jewish rabbi, who undoubtedly knows better, assumes
that his race is a hated race. He rather enjoys the thought and accepts
it as a distinctive honor. Our “gentile” might also observe how untrue
this is—how, indeed, in this mixture of nations, the Jew gets off with
less even of the harmless kind of racial animosity than any other
foreign admixture.
Above all, the “gentile,” so-called, who in ninety cases out of every
one hundred is no gentile at all (as the Jews may well admit) will do
well to avoid fear. Nothing is more abject than “the fear of the Jew,”
and nothing more disastrous to the Jew than the tactics he employs to
sustain that fear. The Jewish subversive power has been powerful only
for evil and only where there was a disposition to evil. It has never
yet succeeded in bringing shame or confusion to the right.
Indeed, there is one sure way of gaining the respect of the Jew, and
that is, _Tell The Truth_. No one knows better than the Jew whether
statements made about Jews are true or not. “Gentiles” may never be
certain whether a statement made about the Jews may be relied upon, but
Jews always know. That is why prejudice, abuse, hatred, scorn, ridicule,
false charges roll off them as water off a duck. The Jews have never in
all their history feared the lies of their enemies; but they have feared
the truth. And if they only fear the truth in the ancient sense, not to
be afraid of it but to fear to violate it, and to fear to have the truth
testify against them, then the day of Judah’s return to standing has
come. The truth is Judah’s friend, and Israel’s friend, and the world’s
friend. It makes hard demands; it is sometimes not easy to speak and
harder still to hear; but the truth heals, as Judah is due to discover.
There is this to say, that among the many thousands of persons who have
written to THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT confirming out of their own
observation and experience the statements made in this series of
articles, there has been a most gratifying absence of the spirit of
violence. At the beginning a few rabid Jew-baiters made themselves known
and expressed their hope that at last a regular program of pogroms was
to be instituted. We never knew how far these advances were made with
knowledge of the Jewish leaders, but we do know that for a year and a
half in this United States the Jewish press, and Jewish thugs, and
Jewish politicians, and even some of the most respectable of the Jewish
organizations did their utmost, and in some of the strangest ways, to
compel this Study of the Jewish Question to lead into violence and
disorder. There was nothing that the Jewish leaders more desperately
desired or more tirelessly worked for.
That was their first setback. Everywhere else in the world they had
always been able to foment this sort of thing and label it
“anti-Semitism.” The label “anti-Semitism” is one of the choicest
weapons in the Jewish armory. But in the United States their plan
failed. It is their first notification that in this country the Question
is going to be solved; it is not to be given a new lease of life by
following the old mistakes.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT knows the temper of the American people on this
question, that it is cool, fair, and somewhat more determined than it
formerly was. But the Jews know this temper better than anyone else.
Hence the magnitude and superb rashness of the propaganda with which
they are literally flooding the country. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is
grateful for the flood of Jewish propaganda. It has served in hundreds
of important cases to give the confirmation to our statements which was
wanted. Jewish literature has been a powerful informer of the gravity of
the Jewish Question in the United States. The result was not what the
Jewish leaders wished, of course, but it was serviceable to the truth
just the same.
Now that the Question is open, now that the press is able to print “Jew”
when necessary, now that a bunch of keys has been provided by which the
people may unlock doors and make further inquiries, THE DEARBORN
INDEPENDENT will follow other aspects of the Question, discussing them
from time to time as circumstances may warrant.
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Issue of January 14, 1922.
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