The Jewish Element in Bootlegging

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Aspects of Jewish Power
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Volume IV
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The International Jew
The World's Foremost Problem
Beitrg o Roprint of o Fourth Selection
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THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT

Bref ace
T?IS is the fourll~ vl11ui11e of reprinted stllilie~
111 the Jewish Question .ti t.hey ;lpl~eared in Tti~a
DE.%RXORN LSIJI,:PI:~~DIDNT. The articles follow tlie
i;anie ger~eral line as the previous volume in sl~ov,~ing
the variolls aliglcs of Jewish influence and achi~ve.
trient in the affairs of f.he people of ttlc TTnit~rl States,
but illt?\; rlo not by any means exhaust either the
number of the ar~glcn nor, the depth of the significance
in tlie angles traced.
rleliberatr public opinion has nl~o\vrl man?- signs
of a iiem alertness to the movement whicli was proceeding
deftly au(l ~lnrrotice~l iu (.he luiclst of dlllc1.ica,
and many checks have been p ~ in ~ operation. t
Tlle WUI'~~ of TRJ3 DE:\RBORX ~NDJ~I'~NDI:ST Was
underta1;en at a disadvantage because of the treu~cn~lo~ls
e~r~pl~:r~is of il~e Americau mind on recial
peace ai~rl because of the ease with whicl~ racial
l)ropag:inrlists call inal;c a purely eco~lomic and
political n~atter assume the aspects of a religious
controversy. Trrla ~KAILIIORN IXDEPEXDENT opened
ille Question to public gaze, and v;ts 1.herefore as-
~umed to be the ;ttf;acker. In this coantvy our sense
(IS Iairiiess always leaves the arlva~itage with tl~?
t~ttacked, aii(1 false accnsations quickly fell. The
~.o~u~lr,y has scen, liomcvc~~, tile t,rutli of the stil1.~-
111e11ts and Iiav ob~r1.~ed tlie rliild and llnprejndiced
maliner in \vhirh they were nlade: 80 that it rrliiy
now bc said that trntl~ has ma~lt: its may.
Xost gratifying are the signs which Jews them.
selves 11;ivr given that certair~ :L~IIIS~E mnst be qlliclc-
Iy siopped. A Je\visll leader has apl~e;rled for the
relnoral of the exemption wl~ich nullifies the ('011stitntior~
ol the United 8t;al.es in favor of the Jew

wiih rzference to the use of li

Contents
LXII. Haw Jcms Gained ilnlerican T.irl~,or Control
Papi.
7
1-XTTI. Gigantic Jewish 1.iilnor Truit and Its Career I9
LXIV. The Jewish Elclna-t i ;~ Eootlcgging l?vil 31
LXV. Angles oi Jcwish 111fl..lence in Amcrican Lifc 41
LXVI. The Jews' Cumplaint Against "."imcricanib~n" 54
LXVII. 'The Jewish .4ssociatr of Brnedict Arnold 67
LXVIII. Nenrrlict Arnold and Jrwiqh Aid in Shady D'zl El
I.XTX. Arnold and Tiis Jewish Aids at Wrs: Point 95
LXX. The Gentle Art of Changing Je>wish \Tames 109
LXXI. Jcivish "Ro1 Kidre" and "Eli, Eli" Explained 121
LXXII. Jcx-s as Piciv York Magistrates See 1-tlcm 132
LXXIII. Jews .4re Silent, I11r National Voice is Heard 113
LXXIV. What Jews Attempted lVherc Thry Had IJu\vrr 156
I.XXTT. The Jewish Question ill Current Testitnot~y 167
LXXVI. America's Jewish Enigma-Lo~~is hlarihail 1 i9
X I
The Fcanomic I'lans of 1~:teraational Jc:ws 193
LXXVIII. A Jciv Sccs His People As Othcrs See Them 207
LXXTX. Candid Addrcss to Jews on tllc Jnrniili Prblnn 223
LXXS. .4n Address to "Gcntilcs" on thr: Jcnish Pvoblenl 235

"linited, then, by fite .strongest fcelir$gs oj
solidouity, the JE?DS C ~ P L easil), hold titair ozvn in
this dirjoif~ted otld n~iiwchic society of owis. If
the inillions of C/~vislia,~,s by tailoln !hey nuc sayvozmded
were to sirhrtitutr the sme pl.i!zcifilc of
co-operntion for that of indiwiduol rowifictition,
the inrpof,t,once of /he Jeu' ?i.o~tld irr%nrrdiatcly be
destroyed. The Cluristiu.~., /home.ire,; %,ill not
adopt sjcciz n coirv>c, nf~d the Jaw mzist, i~te~)itohly,
I will +but say do?irii.cnlc (!he j~voi.ilc espressioii
of tlzc nniti-Selititr.~) but crvtain:. posscs.~ the odva$ita.ge
ovc~ others, and crcrci.ri. the .iztprerlmr?
againsf ;which the ontiSc+rziti,s ifwci

How Jews Gained American Liquor
Control
T O those \vho hare been sirrp~>ised a1111 confonnlled
by ihe \\riilesprearl eviilc?nce, which even the
newspaper,s l~ave been unable to suppress, that the
bulk of the orgauized bootleggiilg wllicll is being
carried on in this country is ir~ Itlle Ilal~~l*: rlf .Terns,
it would have been less of a snrlirise Ila.11 tllej- known
the liquor history of this conntry.
The claim made for the Jews, ihat 1:llq)' are a sober
people, is undo~ibtedly true, bnt that has not prevented
two facts concerning them, namely, that

R TIIE TKlkRNATTOS2\L JL\V
It i ~ i? : C~U~IIIOU
explanation of the rlill'ercnce be.
tween tlhcn, and ?tar;, that people of i.he latter period
became n1ar.e sensitive morally than their forbears,
that wl~ereas the prerioiie gcueration guzzled its
whislcy, inuoceutly obliviolis of the evil in it, the latter
generario~~ derclr~ped a stronger moral discrimination
and banned the cnstom.
The t,mt.h is this: the people did not become
I~el,ter; the .iohiskcy becanzc zrlorse. 'When the entire
story of tbc 1)rople's j~lstifiable indignation is wril.
ten, the campcteut hiatmian will trace along wit11
the people's rising disglllit, the whisky's (l

HO\\ JEWS GAINED I\.IT.RIC.IK LIQUOR CONTROL 9
lo their \r.i~~es. l'liese thyee district8 ale Glenlivet
in l3co1l:mtl, the region of U1111lin in Peland, and the
Blue-Grass region oS Iientncl~y. Why in these three
regions? Uirsl, bccause thert: \%,ere men-non-Jews,
of course-who were milling to wait tell years to proiluce
;t good article. Hect~nrl, the waters of these regions
are of a q11alil.y n~hich is beautifully adapted
t,o the nlaling of p11r.e goods. Pure whisky, it shoulcl
be relne~ul~cr,cd, is a vegetalllc pmdnct matured by
natl~r;il forces and no otl~cr.. Qr.ain, water and ti~nc
--not even artifirial heat added, nor any other thing
-coniplrf.rs tlro best whisky pr~illnct..
In ~il(lcr times ill America there were sneu who
\yere as choice ol their whiskies an of their horses or
bookn. There was then such a thing as quality. But
There \\.;IS no such thing ;~s delirium trenlens. That
(:time latei: with 1.11~ clisaypeara~icr of pure whisky.
-1 distiller ~el~lom pl-ew rich-hc was too engrossed
in mainl;~i~ling the quality of his product; and it.
co~~sns~lctl much time.
T11c1.e mere certain bl%nds known nationally becaue
of their. rnilclness and purity-puresl wine of
the choi~:cst grapes, aged in tlie best adapted cellars?
mas 110t more ~nilil or pnrc. There are names that
rrlnain uutil illis day-Pepper, Crow, Taylor, arid
others-the rt:Lmes of men wl~o took time and pains,
~vhoee n;~mcs becall~e "bmnds" whirh guaranteed
q11alit~7 and pr~rii.::. These men w-cr.e distillerfi in
rllc true sense, not mannfact~lrers nor componudcrii,
but dislil7er.s in a time \vl~en distilling \vas both a
science nntl an art, and nor a mere nanic to conceal
a gigintic fPauil on the public.
In time io cume, when tlrc people's j~lstifiable
lllooal iuilignation will p~+rmit a stllily of The steps
by which the se1111t;tl.ion of whislry came to its psescnt
Ion, ilegrce! they n-ill we how much better it
nwnl~l 11ere been, how mnch more efficacious anil
clmifying, il' Hlc aTtack ~ I\+-hisky I had i~iclrtded an
rxl~~sul-e of the Inrn who had ilsiven wliiulry out of
TIIS rn~rnl.l-\. and were ~elliilg rank poison as a suhstitute.
The s:rl~~o;i, the brewer, the man who used
strong drink were all of tlie~n made the target for

10 TIIC INTI?RKATIONAL JEW
the Jews who ilernornlizcd the whole bnsiness
we~~t on collecting their enorluous and illegitimate
11rofits withoirt so nluch as their identity being revcaled.
Whisky ceased to be whisky and heer grew less
like beer; f.he resi~lts upon humanity became appareut
nuil dcl>lorak~le. So society rai~ecl the liceuse
fee and incrcased the restrictions. To meet this, the
.Teir?ish compounders turned out still chcaper stilll,
and stdl1 more vicious mixtures. Licenses went up,
a~ld quality went down; the Jewish componnders
;~livays getting a larger margin of prolit. Aud
ttrroi~gh the long, long tight, no one, with one or two
uotalile esceptions, bad t:he sense and the courage
to point a finger at tlre solid racial phalaux lined 1111
hebind i,he whole rotten combination.
Distilling is one of the long list of hirsinesses
wl~ich has been ruined by Jewish ml)uopoly. Those
nl~o favor. Prohibition will pmbahly t11:tnk the Jew
for his v,,oi.lr in that direcf.ion. It may he that the
.Jew is clestiny~u agent to !lemoraliee the business
that n~nst pass away. But set against. that the fact
tlrat it is .Jewish illflucuce that llemoralizes Prohibilion,
toll, and hot11 "meti?'! and "clrys" have an inter-
(:sling sit~~:ttion to consider.
lu gener;tl, the Je\\-s are on the side of lic(11or ai~d
always harc been. They are tl~e ste;~~lient drinkers
of all. !Cliat ii? why they were able to sccilre exerupiio~~
fro111 the Prohibition laws; their relib' ~10118 ewe.
~l~onics reqnire t,l~enl to drink an ;rmonut wlrich tbc,
law I~ai? vonsi(levm1 lo eqnal ten gallons a year. An?
so tlre Prohibition law of the IJilited States-a part
ol tlre C>r~ir~titution of the U~~itcll Stat,cs~-is ma(le
l!:gally incffec:iive to thc extent of 1.m galtons a year
a .Tea. The arnot~nt, of conrse, is vev 1r1nc11 more;
it is al\vaye easy to get 100 gallons il~rol~gh a
10.gallon loolihole. In fact, thousanils of gallons
have come through that 10-gallon loopliole.
It mill come to many people as neu. knowleilgc
tl~:rl the liquo~ b~isine~s of the ~ orld has heen in the
Irands of Jews. Tn tlle United States the liqnor
business was ahnost exclusively in the l~auds of Jcwa

TiOW JEWS GAINED I\XERICAN 1.IQIJOIL COKTROL 11
lor 23 \-ears pre\~ious to Prohibitio~~, ~Jnring the period,
in f:ic.l.> whm

12 THE IKTERNITIOKAL JEW
For convenience in detailing this stor?., ]nost of
the observations made will center in the fitate of
I'entr~cky. Allnost every one of age knows thc
phrase "fine old Kentucky whiskies." It was once
a phrase that meant something. Kenturl~y produced,
in lier limestone regions, the kind of water that.
servc~l best with $.he grain ingredients of whisky.
The word "Rourbon? Lnown mostly as a kind of
wl~ir?ky, is really tho name of a colmty in I

HOW JEWS IGAlhLD AMllRlCAN LlQUOR CONTROL 13
less thousand8 of Amcrical~ citiaer~s, few paid any
attention to him. The public supposed that Ur.
Wilcy was discussing a technical r1oeslion which i;lterested
.American di~tillers only. It vastly more
interesierl l.he .%mericau citizen, if he had but 1inom11
it, if anyono had but had the clear vision 81111 t.hc
courage to expose the great Jewish mhislry cow
spiracy.
The dill'erence between the non-Jewish and thr
Jewish nlethod, as illustrated in the history of A~nrrican
whisky, is thus descrihed.by Dr. Wiley:
"The aging of whisky takes years of time. It is
expensive. The whisl~y lealrs out. It is allo~v.~e.l to
stand for four years at least. The o11,iect of thin i.:
to permit the oxidation of the alcohols. . . . .
Thcre is a loss of intercat on the value of the whisky
while it is aging; llence it is an expensive process.
"But the n~aunfacture of compounilei\, or ari.iticin1
whisky has for its purpose the avoirling of this long
and expensive process. The makers begin with Nie
pure article of spirits which can be made in a lew
hours. . . . To this is added eno~lgh wal:er lo
dilute it to the strength of whisky. The ULT~ atep ia
to .color it. . . . this is dollo by adding burnt
sugar and caramel. . The ilext thing is to supply the
flavors. . . . By the way I have rlescribed, ill
t\~w or three hours the compounder ran lnalie a material
which looks like, smells lilie, tastes lilre; and
analyzes like gcnuiae whisky, bnt it lias a diflerent
effect I~II the system. The people who driulc tllit;
whisky are much more liable to receive jmjnry fro111
it than those who drink the genniuc article."
All sorts of practices were rcsortetl to. Drugs and
raw "crops" of whisky were bought up end tl~c business
of "rectifying," as it was calleil! bcgan the
rrlirl of the nalnral and n~holesolrle process of distilling.
Gl~licB money, regarqllcss of what 11;tppcned
to the cnslon~er: that was the motive of the rectifging
business.
This rectifying business was mostly Jewish. Here
and there a non-.Jew was associate~l vith Jen,ish
partners, but rarely. The way hecl beeu found to

14 'I'HE IKTI~~~MI~TIOKAL JEW
trade on the reputation of the tcrm "wl~ixky" by
compollniling 8, liquid which looked and tasleil lilzc
whislry I~nt tllc rll'ect of which was 1ia.rmful. That
was the capital fraud---ilie c;i~)h~rc of the name
"~vhisky:' for a syatlretic poison. There waii a conceallrrent
of the n~eaning of "rectificrl spirits," a d!:ceptivc
llse of the word "blend," ant1 even a tuosr,
Srartdulcr~t n~isrclrresent,ation conrerning aging. If
chemical rleception could be use11 to malrc a whisky
taste as if it were nine years old, then it mas it(lver.
tised an "Nine Years ip i.he Wood?' Here is a bit of
Jewish cowt tesl.imony :
Q. Ts your make of whisky nine years old?
A. Nine years i)lrl, but I want to explain iu
that respect that thc nrhislry tnajr not have existed
nine pears before it was t into that
bottle. . , . That brantl of wllis1;y which we
brand as niue years old blended: weans that it
is mnal to r~ine-vear-old whisk^ in srnoothneus
A " ~~
ancl q~~ality.
Q. How ilid you arrivi: at the fact wldch yon
put npirn this bi~i.t.Ie that the u7hiskv war: nine
Sears bid ?
A. Because it is comparatively nine years
014.
Q. How do you arrive at that reslilt?
A. Ry sampling. You take the nrhislry that
i~: allowerl t;o remain in the original package for
niue years and compare it wil.h our nir~c) 'earold
Irlend and yon mill find them in smoothness
the same. Therefore, we class it as nine-yearold
whisky.
Let the rxeailer forrr~ his own judgment on that
type of minil. The whislcy bore a name rescrulrlin:
a time.tlonored br:lud of pure goods, and it: flauilteil
tlre na111e T

oirglily Judaized city! which became a greater heailqnarters
for the psendo-whisk.y men, the compounilers,
misers and rectifiers. Tlre liat of Cincinnati
liqnor denlcrs reads like a direclory of the WarVsaw
ghetto. In, Lonisville the Judaic complexion of the
city, as well as society, is velv noticealrle; incleell,
most of the leading Jews in the wllisliy business ;Ire
now Kentucky "Colonels."
The Je\vish character of the whisky business since
the Civil War may be visualized, by the simple experlicnt
of noting how many of the better known
brands have been at various dates urlder Jemisl~
control :
There is "Oid 66," owned by Straus, Pritz 6; Co.
"Higlilancl Rye," ourned try Freit~erg % TVorkum.
"T. W. Samnel Old Style Sour Mash," owned by
&fax Hirsch, thc Star Distilling Company.
"Rriclgcwater 8our Mash and .Rye Whiskies,"
"Eoscmoocl ant1 Westbroolr Rourl)un Whislricn." clistilled
by J. & A. Freiberg.
'IT. J. Dlonarch" and "navies County So~ir Mash
\Vhiskies," controlled by J. % .4. Freiherg.
"Lcruis Hunter 1570," "Cry~tal MTe(I~iing," ancl
"Old Jug," blendeil by .I. 6: A. Freiberg.
"Gannymede '76,:' put out by Sigmund and Sol *I.
E'reiberg.
"Jig-Saw Kentucky Corn WhisLy,:' "T,pnndal?
Whisliy," "'Brunswick Ilye and Bourbon," by Hoifheiruer
Brother8 Onrr~~;tny.
"Reil To11 Rp" and "White LIonse Clilh," hp
b'eriliuanil TTTentheimer & Sons.
"(:rcc.n River" came into the cont,rol of l3. La Montngne.
"Snnnybrook," a widely advertiseil lrranil, on
whose arlvcrtining matter a man in ;L 1-nitcil Slates
insl)uctor's uniforrrl stoorl behind as if enilovsing it.
was at tlrr~ tiriic owned by Rosentiel~l Rmtl~cr.; & Co.
"Xount Vernon,:' as from the Hailnis Distilling
Coni.pany, was at the tirne onrned hy Angelo Xeyer.
"Belle of Nelson" came into conbn~l of the Jewinl~
trnstl which u7a# bronght to legal l)irth hq. Levy
JIayer and Alf~*etl Austrian, the latter being the Chi-

cago attorney whose name will be recalled in connection
with the baseball articles in this series.
"James E. Pepper" was owned by James Wolf.
"Cedar Brook" was owned by ,lalius I

HOW JEWS CAIKED I~I\I.TRLVAV LIQIIOIt CONTROL 17
confirming the statement Lhat most of the qectilierx
and wl~olesalers and bvoBcrs in the n7hial;y tra(lc of
his city also n7crcr Jews.
Bnt it is not only the fact that the liquor business
was corllrolled by Jews that assumes imporlance.
That is a fact which no one will deny-not even the
Jewish defenders. Rnt it is the atlditional fact that,
there was spread over this cor~ntvy the machinery of
a vicious system which while it was destiued to rnin
the liquor businesn-as perhaps it deserved to he
ruined-also ruined l~nndrecls of thonsauds of citi-
%ens who trusted that "pure and unadulterated"
meant what t:he words were intended to convey. It
n7ould be a scl~arale stoq- to tell of all the manipulation
of labels, the piracy oP brand names, the conscienceless
play upon the words "pure and unarlultefitted"
of which the un-American "compounded
liquor" combine was gililty. Of course, the stuff was
"l)i.~re and unadulterated"-so is carbolio acicl-but
it was not whisky! There were law violations galore,
and it was well enough inecognined in the rcc1.ifying
bueiness as a regular practice to a.ppropriate
annirally a certaill sum to pay thp fines that were
I~rlllnrl t,o 11e assessed againfit it. A riot of adultcra.
tion and cl~ic;~nery ensued, with whisky being maill:
in many saloon cellars and the dangerous secrets
of synthetic booze.m;rlriny being peddled abroad
among the customel7s of the trust.
Presently the saloon men became aware of tile
fact that they were the goats of the garne. Seldom
was the Jew cr~g;tged in dishing out fiac-ccnt l~eers
or ten-cent whis1;ics; it ren~ained for the "boob (:en.
tile" lo do that; the Jew n7as at the nholesale unc1
wllcrc the real profits mere matlc. Rut it was the saloon
man who took the brunt of the k~laine. The
Jewish "(listillers," as the compounders and 'illenclers
of the Loi~isville and Peoria dist:ricln were called,
more sill; hats :~nrl their respectability rrras mlqoefltioned.
The saloo~l Inert rrvade an elevclith hour elfort
to save their business, but the slnff they w[?re
pouring ont hall not improved, ant1 Prohibition
came, sweel~ing the saloon anray, but, as tlrc sequel

IS THE IUTERNATIOKIT. lE\\
will show, not depriving ther Jewish compoun(ier of
his profits.
How much of the liquor business of the TJuiir(l
8tal:es was in whisky and hom much in rectifier1
spirits?
The Twelftt~ Census of the Cnitecl States, 1900,
said: "5Iost of the distilled Ziqzcors cr~?r,~mn~etl (LS a
bet:erccge by t7m B?rrelricn,?r people pcrss throzcgh vectifllil~g
TLO?.LS~S. The different classes of rectilieil
spirits range from the cheapest concoctio~~s of nentral
spirits and dn~gs to tlre sirnple blending of
young and old whisky.''
Twenty years ago statistics sho\~,ed that YO per
cent of the so-called whisky put up in the Unitecl
States mas imitation mliisky. Chief Chemist Wiley,
whose concern was not wirh the quantity b11t with
the qnality, gave it as liis inf~~r~nation "that over
half the whisky in thi~ country was coinponnded
whisky. Less than half mas gennine; an11 ~vVilc they
usually mix a lit,tle old whisky wit11 it, thc!y often
sell it purely and simply as it is, whisky which has
no claini to be called wliisky nnclcr the real meaning
of that tern."
Rlit all that was only a beginning. The time came
when the vision of a great liq~lor combination rose in
certain minds in this conntry. It was planned to
sweep the good bran& and the had brariils alike into
one comnlon ~iianage~nent-whose coutrnl the reader
will by this tiuie suspect-and ~IIUS not only capitalize
the reput,ation which the old-time Atnerican
distillers had made throngh years of honest rli~tilling,
but nsc the trade narnf:s of pure goods 51s a luasB
for a (leluge oC the dishonefit l;inO of liquor x-liich
lcft a trail of suicide, insanity, crin~e an11 social
wreckage in its path.
Thin, with inclepen(lemt testimony as to the Jewish
rlireetion of it all, will form the subject matter of a
~eparate stol~,

Gigantic Jewish Liquor Trust and
Its Career
'1 11:~s Ilren sll!~wn hnm the Auiei.ican whisliy husi-
1,em 11cc:ame Je\vish. The distillers of pure whisky
which reqnired years lo make, were driven out by
the ~17~~1lz!Jact7~rels of drugged ant1 cheluicalizcd
liquors nliich colilil be made in tliree or fou' Ilours.
Tlin latte~, l~eing elleaper and Inore intoxicating, F;n
completely nanrpeil the ma~ket that the public nevw
knen~ tliat it n7as not whisBy. It had stolen ihe
ns~ne of \\,hisky, an!l under that llama the rightenus
ill(1ignation !IS rlle people prohibited it; and nn(1er
that rlame still it is beiug sold I127 bootleggers at ;III
ailvance of 1:000 per ccnt. The use of tire frau!h~lent
labcl in not new, it is not a prodncf: of I'lnl~ibition
liars; it l~egan mi1.h the a~lveilt of Jewish capital
into the litlnor busiiiess. Whisliy, carefully an6
scientitie:rlly made, purifir(l by Iring yeais of repose
ill the warehouse, \\-as an A~nerican product; L'l'ed
eye," ''lort? rnll stuff," "Bnoc% 'em dead" a116 "squirrel
%-hisky" ~l~ixr!l and strld the salue dar, -.ere Jew.
is11 pl.o!111cts.
The Pnre Food ],an7 came iuto the fight to protect
tllr Ameri!.au indust.rs, bat it was floui.etl at ecer7t11r.u.
B ~ liquor I waii11 BLICII a rieey state oi l,nblic
(liugrace that tlie people paiil little attention to Chief
C:lle~rrist 7T'ilr:::'s efi'ortc;. They tllollght nllen he said
"n11ink.v" he 111i:ant the stuff that they Bncw as
(inbj,l. .?_ . >I and tl~q* ~linregt~r!lr~l him. The degcneracy
of i,ll!i licinor bnsinexs bccanin deeper a11d !Leeper.,
111 1.111, x~ni~e!?ru?nt of 110th its fr.ie~i(ls and its Soes.
aad 110 mle ball

.iewish con~l)onu~lerrt wese fai. i'rolu satistied. 'l'hrre
i,er~~aiued a few hi~iericau brauds n~llose names, by
reason of their del~endabilily, lopped the liat. Their
very quality, tlioirgh of limited q~~antity, mas a consc;~nt
challenge to rhc vicious misturcs of which the
vcctifierl; l~roilnced millions of gallolls a year.
Eom to remove those standard America11 hran~ls,
with their honest lah~+ls, Iroill the inarkrt:'-tl~at
wtrs the problem which tllc leaders of the .Te~ish
compo~incling business tacl:led. The first resort \\,as,
characteristicelly, t;o triclcer?.. Shiljments of purt:
goods nruuld be si

at; all tiu~es be ~Sistingniiihe

22 THE 1NTERKATTOYAL JEW
liquor, l~o~v\;ever> hut hecai~se the hiuerican peoplr:
had been tlrrned from pure whisky to "re~l eye" ; and
Mr. hlaycr's smooth statenlent that this depression
was "on account of the discovd which has existed
among the distillers of Boirrbon whinlry" needs revisiun
to "the fight betwccr~ i,he non-Jemisl~ makers
of real whisky and the Jewish inalters of cu~uponnded
liquor.''
In the story of thr combine a great ~1e;iL is heard
I)< lfr. >layer and Alfred Austrian. &per is a Chicago
.T~TT~ who is worth a st017 by himself. He is
one of those Jclvs with whom cnnilidstes for the
American presidency-n~ostly those candidates who
:Ire in debt-feel it necessary t:o star, whcr~ he in^
vites thenl. 31r. Al~strian is slifTicieutly well lillovn
hy his coni~ection with (,he baseball scanilal. He mag
attorney for Rothstcin, the gambler, whose ]lam(:
figl11.ed so pronlii~ently in that scandal, and who is
credited with doiug things to the gr;tn(l jury testi-
I~IIJII~ in a way that lualres a pretty tale. Al~stlian
also appeared for two 81.. Louis Jew gamblers, implicated
in the bascbttll scandal, n~ho v7crc aftevn~ard
indicted. Austri:tn is al~o credited with being the
author of the so-called "1,asl;cr Plan" of baseball
~ra~~~g~~n~~t,ioi~.
The services of Maycr and Austrian
1.0 the liqnnr inlrrrsts of Chicago and Cook County,
met- aud arc important.
There were Jewish uamcs previo~~sly appearing.
Ahout 188:) Nathair Roffllei~r~er had t,ried ti) hrillg
all the Iientncky mliisl;y I~iisines: nndel. OIII: head,
on,l litter &for.ri.i Gi.cc,ilt~airn~ tried it. It will probably
he conceded thar 110th these men arc Jews, all11
it is l~rovable by the ~ ~ ~ othat n l they s \iwe endeavoring
to consolidate the \vhisky business. Bunt the
big slunt was really pullerl ufl unrlcr, the guidance
of lhe lwo Chicago Jews, 3Iayer and Austrian.
"Tlle various companies lonning tllc Tnrst are:
",I~i~,eri~am Spirits ,Vu~i,ti.facturing Coln~ra~r.y, $35,-
000,000; ICent~iciry Distilling and Warel~o~rse ARBOcia.tio11,
$32000 000 ; The Rye TT'l~irlq Distillern .issocit~tio~l~
$:10:000,000; t.l~e Stan~lalYl 1)istilliny (>ow.

GIGAXTIC JEWISH LIQUOR TRUST AXD ITS CARlllilt 23
pany, $28,000,000; and the Spirits Distributing Company,
$7,500,000.
"!llhe forerunot.er of the gigantic combinwliw~~. oj
the m71,lbky i~~terests of tl~e cw~~try ~ U U S th.e organixation
of the A,~~ericun Spirits Mnn~.jaclurim,q Conr-
puq tipon the r,nins of the old whisky trust which
was controlled and directed by Joseph Greenhut.
. . .
"Attorn,cy 1,etii ilfu:ynr, crf Clzicc~go, wlbo has hcea
Zegc1.1 adviser of th zahisk.?y people jrom the inccpt+orb
of Ll~e Anre~-ici~n Spirits ilfanuf(cctzcriiz,q Association,
wax c;tlle,l t;o New York Saturday last to confer over
the legal form of tl~e charter and the clo~ing of the
negotiations."
The italicized portions indicate t,he connection,
and it, was a connection nlaintainetl to the end, and
111ay indeal he cont,inur.cl yet.
Then, in the current accounts of t,llis merger ol
the liquor business under Jewish contrul, another
name appears. On Jlarch 15, 1899:
"Ailge1.lo Meyer, a llig whisky buyer of New York,
is in Louisville trying to i~ny :L big lot OF whiskiex."
It appearx that &lr. Meyers put on a poor month and
told how hard it was to buy urhislry in hig lots.
i\ntl tl~en on 3Iarcl1 17, two deyri laler, this appeared
: "Mr. .ingel0 Meycr, the wealthy Philadelphia
whisky man, has been appointed one of the gel]era1
managers of {.he -:mines8 of the I

24 THE IXTERKIWIONAL JE\17
trian a1111 Angelo >Icycx2 appear most lrequerltly in
the reports.
"Alfred Austrian, who is Levy Mayer'o legal representative,
says th;tt all the distilleries now negotiated
for will be absorbed in three weeks more."
"In un interview tod;ty Mr. hngclo Xeyer snid,
'I believe cilnIidm~tly that in the next five ycars a
business calling for 10,000,000 gallons of whisky a
year will be built up.: "
In April, 1899, another Jewish movement i~ppeared:
".Tosel)h Wolf, the Chicago whisky dealer,
ml~o is said to own more Kentucky wliisky, independ.
el~t of the Iient~~rky Dintillerie: and Wn.rc

1;ICANTIC JE\VISH LIQUOR TIIIIST AX13 ITS Ct\RlClSI< 25
and presentation to illen with capital. . . . TI.
is said that the capita1in:tl;ion of the i ~ whisky e trust
mill be $60,000,000, and the collibiiiecl capit;~lization
of the five companies will aniount lo about 8176,000,-
000. . . . Levy JIayer, of Chicago, Alfred Aus-
i.rian, of Chicago, and C. H. Stoll, of New York, a1.c
tlie attor~leys for the three trluts, Xr. JIayer being
the chief coimael."
And still lal.er, a statement by J ~vy bIayer:
"The new rye dintiller?. combinaiio~~ will be the
largest individual whi~k?i amalgamation ill the
world. It is controlled and is being financcd by the
same people a1111 l.hn xallie trust coii~yranies of Kew
York and Philadclphi;~ now controlling and firrducing
tllc 1ieut:icL.y Uistillcries ant1 Warehonse Cornpany,
wliosc capil.al is $32,000,000; tllc St:andard
Distilling and Dintrit~i~ting Coiul~any, milh a capital
of $26,000,000; the. America11 Spirits ~1anuf;lct.nring
Comp:tny, with a capital of $:35,000,000; and tlre
Spirits .Diatrihnting Co.mpany, will1 :L capitalization
of $16,000,000.
'LRumor has it," aucl Mr. )layer sniilc~l as he
patter1 a, big bundle of legal dovnmeilts, ('that after
the rye cor~solirlation has been pkrfected all the scparate
companies will be merged into one central co111pany,
which n~ill haw ;~II aggregate capital close tr,
$200,000,000. A whisky corrthiliatio~i of that size
ill ccr,tair~ly l~olil foremost place among the worlcl's
liquor trusts and organizations."
Another clispatch: "Alfred Austrian today ret,urned
to Louisville from Nc\v York, where he asflisled
in forn~ing the cambiiie of tlic Ainerican Spirits
Alanufacturing Oompaliy (and the three o1,her companies).
"IIr. Austrian leaves tonight for Chicago, nrllal,(:
he expects to close the deal with Elias Rloch & Solis
to pnrchaue tlre .DarTir~g riialillery in Carroll County,
:tnrl with Freiberg and JT'orl

26 THE 1KTERNATION.IL JE\V
known to themselves but concealed from ,the public,
building np a colossal structure which public opin.
ion was to hurl down in two liecailes. Uut two dec-
:tdes were enough for enorlnous revmlies to be derived
fi.on1 the cri~r~i~lal debasenlent of all Idnds oL
liquor, which became more apparent from the tirne
ol'

GIGANTIC JE\VIbH LIQUOR TRUST AKD ITS CAREER 27
peculiarly vile beverage which >ir:ts compounded to
act upon the Xegro in a lnost vicious manner. Will
Irwin spoke of lhis gin as "the king iniquity in the
degenerated liquor traffic of these United States."
This author and Collier's started a new fashion in
giving publicity not only to the names of certain
brancls of liquors, but also the nanles 01 the ilren
who made them. It turned out that the maker of
a braild of "nigger gin" \\rhich had spurred certain
Segroes on to the nameless crime, was one Lee Levy.
Mr. lrivin wrote :
"Rccause the South is not thn)ugh with Lee Levy,
ai~rl because its citiaens may at least drive him out of
I?usiness-if they cannot get him behind the bars-
one declaratiou of the Coinmercial. Appeal is wortllx
ol reply. That paper raises a question of fad-it
c:h;jrgcn that T,evy?s gin, Drcyfunn, Weil Rr Company's
gin, Bluthei~tllal & Blickert's gin, the Old Spriug
Distilling Con~pany's gin, ilo not exist; OF that, if
they exist, their sales are insig.nificant. Let me prc-
sent my o\t7n evi~lenco on that poirlt."
111.. Irwin tl~cn details some of his experiences.
The pill which he was discussing u-as provocalive of
~~eculiar lan.lessness, its labels bore lascivio~~n suggest.ions
and NCI.~ decorated with highly indeceut
]~ort.raitn~.e of white women. "I bolight, for cvi.
~lnllcc, many other branils, some: cm:~nat.ing from thc
big liquor cities am1 some put. up by local people;
but I coulil always gct T,evy7s. I never saw il.in ally
saloon w11icll irars the Xegro.
"I11 (+a.lvcston, which prirles itself on its clcal~
goverlllrlcnt, some brand or ~rl,her, was for sale irl
~('i~rly all the corner groccr>y 'drtims.'
"In a Negw strect of New Orleans I saw five saloon
shop nindon7s in one bloclc n7hich displayed
either Lcc? Levy's or Dreyfusw, Weil & Conrpany'a.
This latter firm is Jirore clever in its ~ork than the
others, much rnore delicate aud subtle in its labeling
policy. 11; takes one who understanilx thc ir'egr6
and hir: slang to appreciate the enig~ua of their wording;
it all comes ill ii 'caution label' on the obverse
of the bo1,tli~s.

'' , . . Such gins were sol(1 cv1:t'yn~here in Birn~ingl~a~rt
. . . . abr~t,t,leof thestnff; half enlp-
ty, hall been talre~l from a Pickens County Negro
just aftcr his arvest for the uan~eless crinle.
"Levy-so the gossip ol' Ihe liquor trade has it-
grew rich throl~gh this department of his business.
Ureyfnes, \Veil $ Cumpany advertise everywhere that
rhei1.s is (the most widely 8old brand in the South.'
Ancl Inore a1111 rrlore one hears of tragedies that lie
at the end of this course.'?
That is a sample:-an expurgated sample-of whal.
went on in every part of the coimtry. Kewspal~er n:-
porters will i.ememher how the police used to won-
11i.r about the chauge that came over certain foreign
communities. "They come here nice people," the es-
yeriencerl police captain n.o~lld my, "but in a short
tirric? Il~cp are giving us all sorts of trouble. They
ilon't do that in fheir own count.q.:'
"It's the

tiIGr\ATIC Jb>\VISFI LIQUOR TRUS'L AXIi II'S CAREER ZY
ion as a preparation to the kind of union which Jemixh
leaders want. Jewish influenre was strong for
(lisuuir~n in the Civil War. .Tewish inflnence is di.
rcctly behind the present attitude of the Xegro toward
the white rnan-look at the ~o-called "Negro
welfare silcietics" with their hor~les of Jewish of^
licials and patrons! Jewish influence in the Fol~tll
is today active in kecpjng up the memory of the old
divisions. And, ~4th reference 111 tl~c Negro questiou,
"nigger gin," the product of Jewish poisorir~l
liquor factories, mas its most 13rovocative elernel11
Trace the app1:arance of this gin as to date, a1id
yon find the period when Negro outbursts auil 1~ncll
iny hecame serious. Trace the localities wl~ero this
gin was most widely sold and you will find the placcri
where these disorders prevailed.
It is exlremcly simple, so simple that it has beell
overlookecl. The public is being constantly deccired
hy an apl~earance of coml>lexity, wllcre the1.e is none.
17'hen you and the fever-bearing mosquito! yellow
fever is no longer a mystery.
The same policy of "Divide-Conquer-ncstroy" tell^
the ~ toq of the liqnor traffic. .!cwish infloell(:e divided
between (listilling all11 i:omponndiug, (lrovc ont
distilling, and in the end destroyed the traffic as a
legalize11 entity.
11: nerds to be said, however, that the destruction
is not part of the Jewisll intention. "Divide and
Conquer" is the forn~ula as the ,Jew-is11 leaders conceive
it, as, indeed, it; is stated in tllc Paotocols. The
"destroy" comes a# Kemesis i~pon Jewish achicre-
111enl.s. Russia was divided and conqurre~l, but just
as the .Jews had conq~~errd it, the canker worm of
fate began to consu~~~e their conquest. The story is
repeated wherever Jewish intrigue 112s succeeded.
Whatever the .Jews can succeed in making .Jewisl~,
fall8 !
It may be fate. It may be Desting's way to the
survival of the fit,test. That which succumbs to complete
Judaization, as .Jewish lea~lcrs conceive it, mayrlescrre
to fall. The jnntilic:il;ion of its destruction
nlay appcav in the possil~ilitr. of its Ju(l:tizal.ion.

.\nylhing that cctrb be Jiwlaiaed is to tllat ext~!nt sentci~ccd
to oblivion.
'l'hc story ol' Jewish coutrol of li~ji~or lias now 11~:i:ll
carried thri~r~gli two stages, the "Divi~le alrd Cnn-
111rer" "ages. 'I'llc tl~iril st.age folloms ~vit.ll slYift
;nl11 rclrutlexs steps. Blind tlbol~gl~ the count,ry w;ls
to tlrc Je~vislr

The Jewish Element in Bootlegging
Evil
A States is left n,ondcriilg, uol. hat Pi.ohibition
STTIDEST of tllc liq~~or 11isto1,y of Ihc Lnitecl
cainc, lrut tl~at: l.he authorities ever allowe(i matters
to go so far as to compel the people to talrc tllc issue
into their own hands. That is the point where those
who believe in "personal liberty" an11 those n~ho bclicvo
in "pnlllic safety" ought to meet each otllei'.
It cannot be contei~(lell that every believer in Prol~ihition
is a crank, nor call it be coi~ten~letl that
every believer in "personal liberty?' is a clrulllrard
or a liquor gneelcr; each of theu stands for a princtple
that is a principle of right. Rut the Prohihitlonist
has been able to commaud victol>~ over the
"personal liberty ailvocatc because the stuff that
the Prohibifii)i~i~t iv ilpainst olig11,t 1iot 10 be sold
nor used under any circonlstances, whereas the stuff
the L*persoual liberty" arlvocate tl~i~iks he favors is
not the atnlI he thir~ks it is a,t all.
If the elel~~cr~t in question were poisoned tooth
paste, or opium, or any other concaderlly (langerons
substance, both the Pro11il)itionist and the "pers~nal
liberty" advocate would agree. What the honest
"personal libnty" aclvocate needs to learn is that
the liqllos which cansecl the adoption of Prohil~itiou
was iriost clangerous to the i1111irillunl and socicty.
irllr qncstion nras not rJne of "liberty" hut of safety.
It is scarcely to i~e lropc>rl that all t.ll(? "l)ersn~~al
lil~ci:t~' groups will c0111e to agree \\?it11 this, becanfie
most of then1 arc formed oP the ~e17 lncn who lira(1e
and profited by the dn~gged and chemicalinc(1 substauccs
which were sold over ilre bar. ancl in bottles.
I~iquor Inen thelnselves rnust agree with lhc f8r.t.s.
Even Bonl'rirt's Wine and 8pirits Circu1:ir admitted
Years ago that "tie iii111< of spirits solcl today in glass
lllliler well-l:non,n i,i.ands is not what it is represeoted
1.0 be." "Tllc truth of tine matter is (we dislike

to say it) the wine and s1~iri.L trade ol this (!ount,ry
ir, honeycombed wii.11 fraud, and the most radical
rrleasure slloulil be alq)liecl awl a;tpylied vigorously.''
'L&Iany a dealel prominent socially, morally, religiously
a1111 in phi1anlhrol)ic circles n'ill take a lot of
ueutral sl~i~its, onl?, a Sew clays old, flavor then1 with
a little heav!-b~)(lir.d n-hislry-: and bland the111 on the
label 01. glass wit:? {.he name of any slate or county
desireil, ant1 with aiiy ;ige, and this he ill do with
all smiles and glee ant1 ir~:r.ard delight that is aai~l
to oharacteri7,e the bold buccaneer when he cuts a
throat an11 scuttles a, ship."
'Phese ozcerpts show hov ncar the official pnbli.
cations of the liquor tratle coi~lrl conle to describiug
the p~aclice and indicating tlii. .Ten,. Tl~e last quotation
was a di?ect liit :ti. Louisville liquor Jews, onc
of which corr~po~~nde~s fnnlii;hecl a room at the Y.
31. C. A. of that city, another ol %,horn allorned the
tonrn with public gills, all of wholu am Kentucky
"Coloncln?' ; though tlieir ancestly is not exactly Ken.
tucltiaa? 1101. even Amc,ri~:;in.
The vine colupanies of Ohio, whose vineyards on
ICelleys Jslanil and elscwlrere had built up a stanllard
husinco.~i., joined in the protest. They poiute.tl
out that conuterfeit mines were ilo\r.ing out of facto~.ies
in Cleveland ;111(1 Cincinnati, while the legitimate
wine clir;ti.icl.ti of Aandusky and Put-iu-Bay
mere being sail(lle(1 with tlic stigma of poisoned
goods. As all ilte eounte~feit Business was in the
hands of Jews, the stat,mnenl is imavoidable that:
the whole movement of the (legradatior~ of liquor was
Jewish.
Then came Prohibit,ion. The Constitution of the
rnitcd Slates %-us amended! the ameudment king
ratified by 45 states. The issue had been actively
before the nation longer than anj other issue except
the slavery question, so that the l~eople's action on
it must be regardcrl as delibm.;ile. And the liquor
busincss n7as legally ended. RTTT-
What was the Jcl\rish attitude toward Prohibition
while it was being argued bcforc the nation? What

lias heell t,hr Jrwisl~ attitude Lowartl Prohibition
t;incc it 11;ls been ;i~lopl.~+il ?
Both qiicstions c;rn l~c! a~~swcrcd the sanle way.
There are; of course, iienrucliians and others who
have coi~viuceil tlieinselrea that tlir .lewinh conipouutlers
ii)rrs~tw I'rohil~itio~~ :in11 \\~el~:omecl it,, 1)e-

3: THC lKTERX1TIONAL JEW
#ome "Gentile fronts" may feel obligcd to rush to
the ilefci~sc of 1111: .Tews by ilmying it, but their I\-orli
is nnncccssary. .Jews tl~(:~rilizlvrtl lr~alre no belle.
about it. They did not favor Pl~ohibition,' but tlicy
dill not fear it.; they Lneiv ilial, they ~\~o~i!~l 11n elnupi-,
tl~cy kncm tlittt it WIIUIIJ Iring certain ill(:giiii~lare
conniiercial advantages; they \vonld b~!
wiuners eiilier way. Jewish hick!
IL is no1 s~~rprising, I.her~?fore) I.h~,t ~iolation itilll
evasio~~ of the P~.r~l~ibiriol~ la\r has had a dcc11 J~:wi?l~
coml~lcxion froin the very beginning. THE UEAIIEOIIN
INDEPESDEKT n~oulrl be giail to be esc~lsell from ma1:ing
tlie paw sIat~luel11. Ihai. I~ootleggi~~g is a 95 per
cent. 1.1111tn11lc(l Jewisli iiidust~y in vhich a cc~.l.aili
class of ilabbis liave been active; we: therefore, avail
onl~xelres of the reporl of an n111lr1+ss of Kalli~i T.r:o
M. l.'r;rllklin, 01' Dctrriit,, i,rcsi(lcnt of the (Iellt~~til
(:n~~fcre~~cc! of ~\merican Rabbis, as giicu bcfon!
tlliit body at lVa.?hington in April, 1921, confirming
the general fact:
"In inalciiig the ircoi~i~llcndat~,ion 1 gave rou in my
nleasage in reg;rr(l to tl~is matter,, anil in goii~g to
the exl.rl-nlc in suggesting that n7e appeal to tlie gov-
(5r11rncnt to rescind that part of the l'roliihitio~~ Ian,
wliich gives rabbis periuisuion ro issnc ponnits for
tlie purcliase an11 is1iI11i11 of nine for ritual
p~~rposes: I (lid SO after vt'1.y mattire consideration.
I aln Mnru that after (his snccesso~i shtill llsru i~een
in tl1c cllail of the conference for any length of time,
11e will come to exactly the sauie conclusions as I
did.
"YOU geutlm~+n, ~nc~r~bu~s of tlie coafe~.ence, who
liave dealt vit,h this situation as a local qllestion
have h:1(1, 1icl.e and there, some ~lr~all qnesti~ln to
solve; but uVhen yo11 k~e~:ornc president of the conference
aiiil have 1cl.tcrs frvm every part of lhc ~~LIIItry,
almost (Iaj by day, asking yo11 as president of
ille confc~.ence to give the uecrssary anthur~ity to all
sorts of nlen in all sorts of conditions, to purchase
and distril~i~lc wine for ritual purposes, then yon
nrill Ialx a different angle on this ~liole situation.
''I l~~illted ollt to OIIC of my colleagues, nest to

THE Jti\VLSH I-ITIIIRVT IN BOOTLEG

'(Sow ~1111 say there have been just small scandal8
here and t11cl.e. A mine coinpan). in Yen, York
\\,as raided last nc~+k and a quarter of a rnillio~~
ilollars' n~orth of wine mas taken away by the author.ities>
supposed to be for rit,l~al purposes. Don't
forget that r:rl)l)i after rabbi last week in New York,
a lew of whoin T 11;rppeir to know, and in Rocl~ester,
Billi'alo, I'lint, !,fichigan, and Port Huron, Michigan
--ill ally unmbei. of sniall tumns throughout thu
coirntry, if you have read your papers carefnlly, you
mill find that Rabbi So-and-So has been arrested as
a Booil~.ggrr."
Thc ~liscnssion of this snbiect bv the othcr rabbis
"
present was rev interesting. ~Cere mas a request
that "~ersonal esperiences be del~arred," but some
~.rrpl; in. Hahhi Cohen, for esample, was quite explicit.
"Rcing one of ihose who opposed tl~c whole
Prohibition Ian7, I an1 not, in sympathy with the
whole Prohibition law. . . . It seems to me that
\vc ral)l)is orrght not: to stand in the way of 011s omn
inemhc~s in their legitimate ways of getting wine
for their homes. . . . IS a nlember wants the
wine, I nould like to be in a positioi~ that he may
]lave the wine, even though he nlay not absolutely
11ar.e to have it.''
Rabbi Cohen pronouncetl thc typical .Tewish view.
If the fool Gentiles want to prohibit thei~lselves
from having liquor, let the~n do it, but jf there is a
loophole for i;he .Taws snch as the rabbinical permit
ofcrs, it slronlcl be n~e~l generoilsly for any "momber,"
"even though he m:q not al~solutely have to
liave it."
Tlre prt~Prtrl~i1~itiou .Tewisli liquor business is also
thc pnst-Prol~il~ition Jewisl~ liquor business. That
fact is establishecl by mountainous evidence. This
rlors not mrau, of course, that eve17 bootlegger yon
~ncct is a Jew, nor that yon mill ever meet a Jey
serving as an itinerant bootlegger. Ullless you live
in Clricag~~. &-em I'ork or r~tllcr 1:irge cities, all actual
mccting with the Sew in this minor capacity will not
be fiTequent. The Jew is the possessor of the wliolesale
~t.orlis; Ile is thc dilvector of tllc underyroun~l

'THE JEWISH ELEMEXT 1N BOOTLE\;(;IN

38 THE IiVTEI~NA'l'IOKAl. JK\Y
were to enjoy under the Prohihition law: were very
active in buying 11p the srrlaller stocks and storing
them awa,y-. Of course, no one could prevent them.
J3 as it not "ritual mine"?-even though it was ally
kind of liquol:, it went under ~ l "r:ovrr ~ e 11a1ne" of
"rituai mine," an11 cif co~ir~c, as cverybildy knows,
great scau(la1 resulted. Protests like that of Rabbi
l'ranklin indicate that a part of .Ten,ish pnl)lic opiuiou
resents the policy ol ese~u~ting Jews i'n)~il the
Prohibition law, t,i~t this ii; ~ninrnity opinion. What
the Centpal Co:lfcrence of American Rabbis may
think is of little consequence to ihr IE;I~R ol' Jews in
Ameri(,a. The people lo srr~iiiiliec with recard to
this are not the Kal~l~i Franklins, who are nmenal?lc
to the signilicancc of American opinion, but those
Jews who do not consult mith d~ueriranized rttl~l~is,
but rnn the political end of Jewry as they choose.
Tl~cru is no reason why the Jews should be exenipt
from the opr:mtion of the Constitntiou of the
TTniterl States :it all, get the Coustit~ition is sns.
ended iu their favor when the Ten.Callon Pcrniit
is given.
Unt it would lie a great lllistake to slippose that
there is or coulil he ;~ny objection to lbe Jews' ritualistic
use of wine, or that the 1)n:scilt scanrlal with
regard to lam riolation rises fr~im that. It is not a
religious q~ierition at all. It is purcly a caumercial
question. Tlle people wlio are b~.eaking tllc Prohibition
la\\, are the s;jlrle people who l~rolrc the Pure
Food law with rrgartl to the illgrel1ient.s of whisky.
They are esseniiullg a 1aivbre;tlring class.
The "Gentile boobs:' ud~n parronize bootleggers today
are being sold a liqiu~r which is ile~?~ what it is
represented to be, in spite of ualncs blown i r the ~
bottle^, in spite of seils and in spite of labels. The
most conscieuceless fra~ul is being perpetr,ated. on
gullible people at an illcrease in profit of from 400
to 1;000 per cent. The stuff brought Prom Bavana
is Jew whisky shipped there, "~l~ctore~l" still more
and shipped hack at increased prices-the"(fe111:ile
boobs" f>iParlcying the? are gett.ing. something extra
special "just hro~lght
in from Havana." . . . , . ,

TV-enty yc:rrs ago .Jewish liqiror dealers of Chi.
cago were i~siug gt:r~liin(? .lames C. Pepper hottleu
refille(1 with rile ingi.edicnts cor~~~~o~inilerl in back
rnoms. T\vpl~l,y years ago there were collllterfeit
whiskies sold in tl~c Unil.e!l States hearing Porged
Canadian Government stamps. The forgers of the
lst~els were .Tewisll liquor 11011ses. Twenty years ago
t11cr.o was unliiniictl fakil~g of liqoor labels, a Cliicago
printing housc furnisl~ing Je\\,islr liquor hooses
with clerei. imitations of any repultrblc label in use,
lo he placed on hoitles contailling doped goocls.
Forcig~:, Arr~erir;tn aud C;;in;~(li;ln lal~els were nnscrupulously
ndoptcd and. branenly advertised everywhere.
These ahnses itid not; wait for Yrohil>ition; they
\\.ere daily .Te!\-ish prsc.l.ices twcnl>i years ago.
The only 11ilF1:rcncc ilolv is that the stuff which
js sold is still worse.
Tho enforcemellt of the Prohibition law onght to
he rigidly complete, for the saln!: reasor1 1.l1a1. (.he tan.
foreenlent ol the I'rlre Fuod law sholild have been
coniplete years ago--it is nccasravy to pnerent the
wllolesalr 11;Irrning of an ignoral~t l~uhlic.
The r~~t~intenance of thc idc~z o/ (Iril~k in 1.11~ 111inds
of tile people is due to .Je\\ish 1)ropaganda. Tllere is
not a dialog un the st;lgc torlay tlrnt cluer: not drill
~vitl~ wlrisky patter. As all tlre plays making much
noise this :;ear ;~,rc not only .Jewwritten, Jew-
~~~'oi~uced ant1 Jcm-controlled, 11nt also .Tew-playe!l
(the stage s\v--;Lm1s with Je\visl~ co~~~~lcl~;tllccs this
year), the drip of n~l~isky p;rtlc.r is constant. If
theaiergocl.s were at all obscrv;lnt tbey woul(1 set:
tlial n~ofit of their l~lolley goes to support pro-Je\\,ish
pro!);lgan

monolog~re "panning" the United States, defaming
Lil1ert,yl 11caping contelupt upon the iJilyrirns, ;tnd
,pen17 pvaising a violati011 of ;I portion of the Con-
,titutiou of the ilnite~i Rtatcs-ancl when choruses
sing this trort of thing, and slap-stick artists takc it
t~p, and it bccon~es evident i.hat t,l~c i:~runlly is being
ringed aronii~l every \\-eel< by rcpcated attacks upon
what the people l~asc cstablishcd-it is certain not
to be very long i~cfmc n heavy hand will he laid. 011
the whole busi~ress.
'Phr Dcp;~rtment of .I lice r;li~~uld pay some ottenlion
to the treason nigl~tl>- spontetl 011 the legiti-
Inate stage hzioro Anicricans wlro pay iis Iligh as $7
each in s1111povt of the propagan~la.
First anrl last, the illivit liilur~r buhilless ill ell its
ph;isetr, 110th before a1111 after Prohibition, has al.
nrays been .lon.irh. Ref111.e Prohihition it was mor.
all!; illicir, aftel. Prohibirior~ it i~ecame h0l.h n~orally
alld legall>- illirit.
hnrl it is not a callst: frn. sllame among the majority
of the Jews, sad to sag: it is rather a c,alltic for
11o;tst. The l'iclclish ncmspwl~ers an3 Sr~iitful of jot.
111il1. refereilces to the fact, and they even carry
large wine cornpan? admriisrment.3 week after week.
As beiorc Prohibiti~lr~ llle key to the steady degeneration
of the liquor i~~~siness was the fact of Jewish
doruination, ao now rhe Ber lo 1 hc organized and lawless
rebellion ttgainst a rr

Angles of Jewish Influence in
American Life
HE Jewislr Question cxists wherever Jews np
pear, says Theodor Herzl, because (.!icy bring it
with them. It is not their numbers that create Ihe
Qncstion, for there is in alnlost every couritry a
larger numbel. of other aliens than of Jewe. It: is
not their much-bo:itited ahility, for it is now eolning
to be untlersr~~od that, give the Jew an equal start
and huld him $0 the rule8 onf tlie game, and he it; not
siua~*ter tlran anpoue elsc; indeed, in onc gl.eat class
of Jews the zeal is quenched when opportunity for
int,~,igue is rcmovecl.
The Jewish (Jiiestioil is not in the r~llrr~bc~ of
JP\~ mho here reside: not in the Anie1,ican's jealousy
of the Jew's Nuccess, (:crtninly no1 in anp
objed.ion to the Jew's entirely nnohje~~tionsble
Mosaic religion: it is in ~omething elsc, and that
~omethii~g else is i,he fact of .Jewish inflnence or1 thr
life of

seating snlrcrciliousness througholit. :it1 their
polelnic l~~~l~lir.:rtions-,lot a single onn ,if these
vlnims beillg L?.rte-tlicy n~ust iiot grow ilnpatient
:i11(1 pn)fnnc nllile me coiuplete the list of tl~c real
iliflnencce tllcy have set at worli iu Alr~m~ican life.
It is not the Jen~isl~ peolile hrlt II(f< Jefcish idet~,
and the people only as vehic:les of the idea, that is
rhe point at is~~~e. As il; was Prussianism and not
the German people t,ll;t,t n-as thc objective in the receut
\rra.r, no in this investigation of the Jellrir;li
(>limtion, it is Jewish influence and

ASliLES OF JE\I21,?H 1hFI.TEiiCE 1K A1IT:RTCi\ii LIFE 4.1
hiill. The "maker" is always thus in!l~~enccrl by his
liking.
Yo1 so the "getter." It doesn't iunl ter what he
docs, so long as 1.11~ incoine is s:tt,isfactory. He 118s
no illnsious, sc~ltiluenls or affections on tho side of
n,ork. It is the 'igeld" tliat COIIII~S. He has no at-
tachment for tl~c things he makes; for In doesn't
male :tuy; he deal; in the things which othcr lnen
in;~l

nn THE I.UTE~

look for. i.rar:(?n of Jewish infl~lence in in tllc (:hristian
church, xet if Ite [ail jo look tliere he will miss
mucl~. If i,he libraries of our l.heologica1 sc~ilinaries
were eqiripped with c(~ln])li.le files of Jewish 1iterar.reffort
51 the ilniled States during the past 15 years,
;lnd if theological st~l~rlrnls were rcrlnirrd to read
these Jc\\~isli utterances, tllcr.e. would be less silly
talk and fcwr "easy marl;sV for Jrwisl~ propaga~l(la
in the Aluerican l~nlpil.. For the nest 25 years eve]'?
theological seniinaq. shoulrl slipport a chair for the
study of Moclcnl .Tewish influence aurl t.11e k'rotocols.
Tlle fictiou, that the Jcvrs are an Olcl Tcsl.a~nent peo-
~ ~ faiti~fnl l c to the Mosaic Law, ~vonld thcri l~e ex-
ploded, ancl tiiiii(1 Chi'istianx wol~itl 111) longer 811per.
sfil.ioualy hesitate to speak the truth about them
bcc:~nse of that saclly ~nisini.erpreted text: "I will
bless tlterrl (.hat bless thee, and curse him that curs-
eth thee."
There is a mipsion for the pulpit to liberate the
(2h11rch honi what the Ucw Tesinnl~nt Scriptilres
call "tlie fear of the .]ewe."
The pulpit has tilso the luission of liberating the
Church Proni the error tllttt .Tudah and Isr~acl are
synonyrilonfi. The reading of tl~c Ficiipl~ires whiclr
confuse the tribe of .Jnrlah \vith Israel, anrl whic11
in1,rrpret every mention of Tsraol as iiignifying the
Jews, is :it tlie mol; oI lnore than olle~lralf the con-
fusion and division traceable in Christian doctrinal
statements.
The Jews are ?zot "Thc (:l~ost+n k'eople," though
practically the entire Clrr~r,cll hzs succurnbed to the
propaganda which declares thmn ti1 he so.
The .Jewish tinge of thougllt 1i:ts of lat,e years
ovcr,spre:r(l inany Christian staten~ents, an11 the uninstructed
clergy hare prored lnorc :111rl more amen:,lile
ixi .leaisll s~(ggestion.
The flaccid co11~1itio11 of the Church, so nulclr
ileplored hy spokesmen wlto ha11 regard for her
iuner life, was brr111ght allout not by L'science." not:
by "~cholnrship," not by the "increase of light and
1eai~ning"-for none of tltesc tl~i~igs are antagonistic

eve11 to iucoinplete statmnrn1.ti of tr~ilh-but -by
Jcwislb-Ge~-i~run 71jighei. criticisnc.
The defentlers of rllc t';iil;h have lollght long and
valiantly against the ir~roads made by the so-called
Higher (!riticism, but :vcrc sallly incapacitated in
their defcnne, because they dill not; see that its origin
and yurposc were .Iemish. St u7ati not Christian;
it was not Gcnnan; it wan Jewish. It i~
allnost wllolly cliscouiiteil loilay in tlre practical
lile of the church, but it still aill~eres to the daTI:cr
curilers of tlle cullcges, almig wit11 tllr :ed Bolslicvism
which is talriiig root there unller .Jewish
infl~leuces.
Let tho Christian n~iiiister vr11o n-islies t~r kno\r
the source of Je~ish influence in lhr church looB
over the names of the nlore not,orio~~s "Gcvman"
Higher Critics of the Rible, ailil consiiler ihei' race.
Add to tliern one Frenchsua~~, an atheist a~lil a Jew,
and Ton have ulodeFn "liberal" sources very conk
y~eteY
Wellhausen R~lrhne
Strauss Hi tzig
Emald Rcr~an
It is perfectly in k~~ping with the Jeaish Worlcl
Prograin Lllat this rlcstn~c~ive i11flucuc.e alioiild bc
sent out unller Jen7ish auspices, and it is l~erlectly in
keeping wit11 uon-Jewislr trusll~~liress to accept the
lhiug without 101)lring at its sonrre. A glwt inany
so-called "lil-jeraln" played the Je~vish ga111c for a
tirue: the7 are now romiilg haclr to the old cit,:i(lel
which stood in its o\vn strength ant1 w7itliout their
patronage while the lever of thc Higher Criticism
raged.
Tl~c cl~urch is uom victim _of a secoud nltaclc
against her, in the rampant Aocialism an11 Rovietislr~
l,hat have heen thrust lipon ber in tl~c rlanle of
flabb?. and r~~nmoral tl~eorieri of L'br.othcrhood" and
in an appeal to llcr "f;~irr~eas." The cl~nr(.h has been
made to believe tllal she is a forum for discussion
and not a high place for annuncialion. She 11as
bee11 turned from a \Toice into an echo of jangli~~g
cries. Jems have actually invailcil, in person and in
,

AKGLES OF JtlYIhH IXFLCEKCE IK .4>IERICAU LIFE 47
program, hundreds of Arnevican churches, with their
subversive and impossible social ideals, and at last
became so ~0Cksul.e of their domination of tlre sitnalioir
f.hal. l.hey were met with the inevitable clierk
(:lergjnle~~ o~lghl, 1.0 lino\v \;,hat: sevell-righll~s of
the econ!n~~jc inns11 th(!y sp(::tlr fri~~n tl~c pulpit is
prepared h?~ Juwial~ lj~.ofcssu~.s of ])olitical economy
aud revolutionary 1cadcl.s. They should be inforlrla~l
that economic thought has been so completely
.J~lilaizeil hg means of a ileliherale ;mil masterly
11lan of c:tn~oufiage~l ir1ig;.111a, tll:lt the illaflsthought
nf tl~c cr.orn11 (~vl~icl~ js tl~c tl~ougl~t 1;1,1stlj
echoed in "popular': pulpits ant1 eilitorials) is mor!x
Jewish than Jewry itself holcls.
The .Tenr 11as got hold of the chnrcli in doctriu~,.
ill liberalism, no-called: arid in the Iev(?risI~ al~cl
fcel~le so(~io1ngicel ~livrrsiolis of rrrally pnlpits :LII~I
adult classcs.
If there is any place wlici~e a straight study of the
Jewish Questioll should be made, with the Bible
always in hand as tlie authoritative testbook, it is
in the modern church which is unconsciously giving
allegiance to a mass of .Jewish propaganda.
It is 1101: reaction ihat is ~OIIIIS!:~LY~ 11e1.e; it is
~ ~ O ~ I . P H R
~loilg i,i~~~str~ictir'e l~i~tl~s, tlie paths of our
foref;~tl~crfl, t11c rlngl!~-S;~s!~ns, mlio have to this day
been the TVoi4d-Ruilders, the PIaliers of cities sill1
colnmerce and continents; and not the Jews wl~v
have never been builders or l~ioneers, who have ncvcr
peopled the n-ilder~~ess, but wlio move ill np(~n tllc
labors of other men. They are nill: to 11e blamed for
not being Bnilders and Pioneers, perhaps; tl~cy are
to be blamed for claiming all the rights of pio11ccl.s:
but even tllcn, perhaps, their blanle onght uot to
lie so great :is tlie blame that rests upnu the sons
of the -~11g10-~;110118 for ilejectillg the straightfi)~..
wart1 Bili1,ling of their fatlici.s, and taking up rv-it11
thedo~ihll~rl iileas of Juil;~l~.
Colleges are 1)ciug c(~rtstan,tly invaded by thc
Jewish Iilea. The ROIIS of,thc hnglo-Raxon are bcing
attackell ill tl~cir rcr,y heredity. Tile sol~r* (~f the
'Builders, the Xakc~s, are being snl,vert.crl tu the

48 'THl.: INTERNATIONAT. J1:bV
philosopl~y or tile (1estr.oyc~s. Tnnng rneu ill the
lirst exhilara1,ing mouths of i11t~ller111al Sreedoln are
IIning seized wii.11 promissory docti~in(:s, Lhe source
an11 collfitvlllences of ml~icl~ they do nor see. There is
a natur;rl ~~cl~rlliousness of youtl~, ~vhich proruiscs
Ijrogress; thcrc is a natural vcnt~urenomeitess to
play lree with ancici~l. laitlls; both of which are
cl~lillil.ions of the spirit i~ll11 sigllilica11t of dit\~llillg
1ncnt:il virility. It is dni'ing tilo periods wllcn these
ailoleticei~r cspa~~sio~is are in pn~cegs that the i.ont11
ii; captnred by inRi~encl~s which tleliberately lie ill
\\.nit for him in tlie colli

AN(:l.l?S OF JEWISH INFI.UENCi? IN AMERICAN LIFE ,I9
Fil~st, .Tewish higher criticialrl in the destruction ol
yonug 11ic11's sense of respect for the ancient founrlatious;
secol~d, Jewish revolutionary social doctrines.
l'he two always go together. They c:rn~~rrt lire apart.
Tl~ey ;ire the fulfillrncnt of the Protocol's program
In split non-Jewish society by means of irleas.
Jt is idle to attack the "anbelief?' of college
btndenls, i(lle to attack their "radicalism"-these
are always tho rlnalilies of immaturity. But it is
llot idle to sh!ln. tlltrt social radicalism ('Lradicalisln"
I!niug a very good wort1 very sadly misnswl) and
anl;igr)nism to the religious n;inctions of the moral
law, botl~ conle fro~n the same soilrce. Over the
Fountain of Revr~lnliouisn~ and Anti-(Xristian beliet
place the descr.iptirc and ilefinitive term ".rewish,"
aurl let ihe soils of the Anglo-Saxons learn from
~vllat waters they are drinlring. That source is not
Nosaic. I~ut Jewish-there is a morld oE difference
betwee; thcln.
The centl%l crour)s of lied nhilosonhcrs in everv
u L
~mirersit?, is a Jc~vit-iR group, with often enough a
"Gentile front" in tl~c shape oP a delnderl profc~aor.
So~rte oJ these p,ofcssors ore in ll~c pay oj outsidr:
Rril o,.gfrnicntio)zs. There arc Intercollegiate Socialist
Societies, swarming with Jews and Jewish in.
fluenccs, anil tot,ing .Jewish professors aronnd the
country, addressing medics and lits and ever1 the
Divinity schools: under the patronage of the best
civic and university anspices: Student lecture
courses are fine pasture for this propaganda. Intercollegiate
Liberal Leagues are established ererywllr!re:
the purpose eiriclently being to give students
the lllrill of believing that t,hey are talring part in
the beginning of a grrs.at new moYement, compar~l~l~!
lo the vinning of lnrlependence or the Abolition of
slavery. -4s stcin parties gradually cease as n college
diversion: ILeil coilferences will come in; it is
I)a~,t of l.11e ell'er\.escence of youth.
The reroluiionary forces which hcarl up in Jewrs
rely rery heavily on the respectability which in
Xiven their movenlerlt by the allhenion of studer~ts
and a few professors. It was so in Russia-every.

one knows what tlre uaulr "sI.nrlentv cventuallr came
to signify in that co~l~ll.r)-. r\n(l as a result, wllih:
Sovielisls ;we g101.ifgiiig tlie "SIICC~SS" of tlie H~volution,
men lilic i n Gorlcy are srll~liny I~IIT
appeals for food to prevent the inielligi

a liyelihi~ori to every people all11 su iilcal to every
ccritnr~y. They got lleitl~er thrir Cot1 nor their religion
from Jiidah: nor jet. their sl~ccch nor their ereative
geniun-tl1e.j arc rl~e Ruling People, Chosen
throughout Lhe centuvics to Master the \\-orld, 1~y
Bi~il~lirlg it CVCI. better and better an11 not I J break- ~
ing it down.
Into the can111 of illis ].ace, aniong the son-; of
the rulers, colncs a people that. has no civiliza~iolr
to point lo, no aspiring religion, no inliversal speech,
no great ncllievelnetit in any rrslrt~ but the realm
of "get,?' cast out of every ltmll that gave them hospitality,
and thepe peolile cndcnvol. to tell the soils
of the Sasnlls wh:rt is necdcd to make the. world
what it onglit to be.
If our sons in college foll(~w this cour~sel of dark
rebellion and destn~ciir~n? it is 1)ecause they (lo not
know whose sons they we, of wllat race hey arc
the scions.
Let 1:llc:l.c be free speech to i lw limit in our nni,
vrrsirics and free inter~coi~rse of iilc:rs, but let Jew.
ish t,l~uught be labeled Jewish, ant1 let our sons know
tl~u racial secret.
The ~~arning h:rn already golle out t,l~r,o~igl~ the
collegex. The sgstcn~ of procedure is already fully
linon,n. An11 11ow simple it is:
fi'irst, you secularize the pi1l)lic schools-"secu
larizc" is tile precise word the .TI:KR use for ih~: ~'occss.
You pvel)a?e the nlin(1 of the pnbli,: school
child by enforcing tllc r,rilc that no nuentiim shall
ever be lnacle to iiulicatc that ccallrtre 11r piztriotisin
is in any uay connecred with the ileol)cr principles
of the Anglo-Saxon religio~. Iiecl) it out, every
sight IIIIII sr~nnd of it! ICecp out also every 11-ord
that will air1 any child to iilctltif~ the Jewish mce.
Then, wllcn yon hare tl111s prcl)a~.ecl the soil: you
can go in.l.i~ tllc: ~uiiversities and colleges and enter
upon the

i.llc:e c;tn go ; I~nt Jewish iuflneuce is allowed to run
r;lu~l:a.ut in tllc Iliglier i~~tititnlii~us where the corn-
IIIIJII 11~0l)le's il~flll~llcc C~IIIIO~ go.
Beculari7,e the public sclrools, and you can the11
Jndalze the ~~ni~~ersitiex,
This is the "liberalism" which Jewish spokesmell
so ml~rh applaud. In lal>nr uuious) in churcl~~ in
~ll~i\.ersiIy, it has tinct,urctl tllc prin!:iplcs of work:
faith an!l nocidly. This will not be denied, bccallsc
the pn~of of it is too thiclily written over Jewish
activities and utterances. Indeed, it ix in exerting
these very iuflueuces that .Jewry convince:; itsclf
it is fnllilliug ils "ruissinn" to the ~(~rltl. The eapitvlism
ntl.acket1 iri non-Jewish capitalism; the orthodoxy
;ittacIccd is Chl.istian orthodox>,; the society
attnckctl is the .Znglo-Saxon for111 of society, all of
mlricli by their destruction would redor~nd to tl~c
glory of Judaism.
The list coril(l i ~c extc~~tlctl-the influeace of the
Jewish iclea, ou Angl!)-Basr~n sports and pleasure,
on the Xuglo-Hasr~~~Celtic itlcn of patriotiurn, on the
Anglo-Raxou.Oelric conceptio~~ of the learueil profrssi(~ns;
rl~c ilifluence of the Jewish idea rnns down
ihrouglr cvcry department of lil'e.
"Well," one ye17 badly rlclutlecl Auglo.Sasr~n
editor, wrapped 11p ir~ .Tewinl~ advertising contracts,
was heard to say, "if tllc Je\~rs can get away with it,
theu they hitvc ;I right to." It is a \rariant of the
"ans\ver" ni Jewish ovigin, which rlirts thus: "llow
(:;ru ;t l~irltry 3,000,000 run the 100,DD0,000 of the rest
of us? Nonsense!"
Yes, let it be agreed; if the Jewish iclca is the
stronger. if the Jewirih ability is the grcater, let,
them conquer; let A~~glo-Snxon principles and .%nnylo.
Saxon powel* go do\rrn in ruins belore the Tribe ol'
Judah. Bzit first lsl the two iclet~s xl~?&ggle z~?L~ZCI.
I,hc%r o?rn ba~v~rcrs; let it be a j'rrir slr?rggle. It i~
lot a fair fight n.11c11 in the movir:s, in the piihlic
xcho~~ls, in the Ji~du.ized churcl~es, ill tlie ~univcrsities,
the Anglo-Baxon illen is kept aw;rp from Aliglr,.
sax!Jns on the plezt that it is "sect;iriann or "clannish"
or. "obsolete" or something else. 11: is not a

AXGLES OF JEWISJJ IUI:J..'TEUCE IY AhIERICAU LIFli 53
fair figl~t when Jewish Lleas are offered as Anglo-
Baxon ideas, because offcrixl under Anglo.% , 1XOIL
auspices. Let the heritagc of our Anglo-Bason.
Celtic Lathers liave free course among tl~t?ir B11glo-
Saxon-Caltic sollr;, and the .Tewish idca Carl III:VI?~
t,rinmph over it, in university forum or in the rllnrt,ti
of trade. The Jewish iclea never triulnphs until
first the people over whum it triumphs are denied
the nurture of their native culture.
.Tl~dah has hegun the struggle. Jurlah has 11111rle
thc i~lvasion. Lrl. ii conle. Let no nian fear it. [

The Jews' Complaint Against
"Americanism' '
ROM the earlie~t record of {.he JRR's' contact
with other nations, no long period of gears has
cver 11;tc;r;ed without tlie charge ai.ising tl~at the
Jews const,itutc "it lieople u~ithin a people, a ilatioll
within a nation." TTThcn Illis charge is xilade today
ii is vehemently denied by men who p ~se as the defen(1erc;
of tl~vir pr!o~le, a d the deuial is more or
less countenancctl 11y ell thc .Jews of ever7 class.
And yet there is nothing more clrarly stated in
.Jen~ish teaching: nor more clearly indicated in Jewisli
life, than that the charge is true. But rtilret71,er
thc twlh slaoulri 718 ?rsed rcqni~~st the Jews is quite
anothcl. qucstion. Tf thc Jews art: a nation, their
nationality founded upon tlie doul~lc gro~ruil of race
and religion, it is certainly outside the bounds or
reason that they shonld be aslied or expected to rlcr
c i a i ile-nationalize and de-religionize them.
sclvr!s; but ncit,l~cr id it to l)e expected that they
shoulrl bitterly denounce tliosc wl111 state as q'uiie f1111y ill~~sl,s;~i;ed ill

i~ecumii~g a super-naciou. It is only those appoint-
(:(I to ;i!lllr.css tlic (:entilcs ml;!r deny this: the real
r;ilrl)i~l;~te of Tsracl does not deny.
Kov: in any investigation of the Jewish Question,
the student is st'i~cli ore? and over again by
the Eact that what the .Jews nlost complain of, they
theniselves began. They ci)~nlrlain ol what they call
anti-Srn:i!isrn; hut it lnlipt t~c :~pp:i.rcnt to the d1111rsi
nlilld t11ilt Tlicre could nevel' hare bccn such a
lhiug ;IS anti-Henritism were there not first such a
tl~ir~g as Semitiam.
I then take the i:on~pl;iil~f: alinllt the .Tenrs
haring to live i11 ghcttos. The ghetto is a Jewish
invention. In the beginning of the invasion of
European and America11 cities the Jews always
liver1 by tl~eiilselves bcc:~nno 1.hrg wanted to, because
they believed the prescnc~c of (3enliles coiitsniiriated
tl~cln. Jea~ish writers, writing for Jews, Src!i+ly admit
thin; I~irl. in writing for Gentiles, tlrry rcfcr to
the glicttrr as a sllrviving illustration of Gentile
cruelty. Tl~c icle;~' rif conl.an~ination originated with
the Jews; it sprcacl thy suggr:t;i:ion 1.0 lhe Oentiles.
And so with this fact of the ncpar;~tc "nal.ion";
it was the Jews who first recognixcd it? first insistell
ilpou it and hare alwa~s sought to realize that scpa;
~.i~teue'is both in thol~ght and action.
Xay, more, the true aid norlnal type of Jew t,oclay
hclicves that the infl~mnre ol Arnwicanism, or
of ;LII?~ rivilizcd Gentile state, is har111Ci11 to .Jllrrlt,ile assertion will be s.!rflicient to confirlu it. Inilecd,
it is such a statclncr~t as l.he .(+e~~t.ilc i~!ind
roulcl ilol: have evolved, because tlic rrcncl of Gcntile
feeling is all in the opposite direction, namely, that
dmericani~atirin is a good thing for the Jew. It is
fro111 autlrori1;ative Jewitil~' srnlrien that. we leiin
this fact, that. what IYI? cailciviliaing influences are
1ool;ed upon as i~

56 THE INTERNATIOXAI. JEW
against A~~~r:rii:;lnism, not the An~ericau who in-
'eighs agaiusr Judaism.
As this article is one with the last, the sa~uc
method of impassive preser~t,;rtiou of the l,est,imon?
will hc followed. Readers uf this study of the Jewis11
Question should linow that neither 1.11cturic noT
enlotion will contril~ntc a single alenlrnt to the sohc
lion of the Question. We prefer t,(~ leave rhetoric
and emotion to 1110 anti-Remilk?s ml~o call names and
to the pro-Semites who are allpnrently redl~ced to
the stinle necessitous level.
Kow, the first thing to linow is Illis: that thol~gl~
Americanie;m is y1:t unfinished; Judaipll~ ho.s 1)oen
complete lor cenrnries; and ~vl~ile no .&~~el.ici~n
noill(1 t,l~inli of pointing ti) any part 111' tlic c,luntl.g
or to any group as reprc~cnting the t,~.ile and final
type of .imericanism, the Jews qiiitc ilnl~esitatiugly
point to prt.s nf the worlcl a1111 to ccrtain gro~lps
as reprrsirnting the true hype of Jiidaisni.
Where is the type to 11e found fvhich .Te~irisll mriters
recognize as the true one?
Thc Jew of the gllctto is held I I ill ~ Jewish trnu~
tises as the norin of Jndaisui.
The visitor in Sen7 Voi*li has prrhaps seen on
Central Park I-est the massive synagogue of tl~c
Bpanish and P~~rt,uguese Jews. Trs famous r;lbhi
was the Rev. Dr. D. de Rola Pool. He is the author
of the fnllowing words:
"In the ghetto the ohservance of .Tn(l;~ism was
natiiral and almost inevitable. The regiulrn of Jenish
life was the atmosphere that n-.as i~reathed " *
Not only did public opinion make it possible for
lilen to go bearded, to keep tllc brad covered at, all
times, to can?. the palm branch in the public street,
or to walk the street in stockinged fec,t on fast (lags,
but public opinion made it almost impossible Eoy a
Jew to profane the Sabbath or t,he Passover regi~lalions,
or openly to transgress any of the n~aiu 011serrances"-anrl,
as we sl~all later see, the lealved
rahbi considers these conditions more preservative
of .Judaism than are American conditions.
Rev. Dr. DI. 8. Hegal expresses the view that

THE JI?brS' CO>IPLAlNT AGIIPYST ".kMERICANIS>Is' 17
Jewry in tho more moclern portions of Europe and
America was really kept alive by -the infnsions ol
immigrants from Poland and Lithnania. Asserting,
in agreement with othcr Jewish leaders, that the
Jewish center of the vorld has hecn, until now, in
Russia ancl Poland, Dr. Segal says:
"The war has destroyed the last traces of
the declini~~g Jewi~h society which hall dragged
out its feeble existence in the semi-medieval
ghettos of Poland and Lith11;tnia. With all
their growing feebleness, these. co~imunities
Were yet the last refuge of Jnrlaisrn in the Dispersion.
In them there hat1 st.ill ~urvived some.
thing of the old Jewish life, some of the old
.Ie~vish institntions, practices and traditions.
T71~ese co,n,tl!ulrities nlso supptid dsll~7~ 1:itnlity
ns thcy could a.fo,.d to the attenqlnted aicd ntrophied
Judrrisna in the cotnmt~raities of the more
,t~rode~~~ .stntes of h'lcrope vnd Anzcrica."
The irlca is not at all imcommon-that large infurionti
of "real .Jews1' from the Old World ghettos
are desirable and necessary in orrles' to Beep Juda.
ism alive iu countries like the United States.
Israel Fricdlaender, whose name just at present
is held in peculiar honor by the Jews, and justly so,
mas a man of most enlightened intellect, and he too
recognized the service of the ghetto stream to Judaism.
In Xis lecture, "The Problem of .Tnrlaism in
America," he speaks about the rle-Judaizing tendency
of absolute freedom, snch as the Jew has alway8
enjoyed in the United States. This tendency,
he says, is corrected in t,wo ways-by anti-Semitic
influences and "hg the large ~trea~n of Jewish emigration,
on the other hand, which, proceeding frou~
the lands of oppression t,o the land* of freedom.
carries ?r,ith it, on or vfldcr the s!rrfa,ce, khe preserving
aizd revi~in~g ii~.flucnces of t7~e g7zetto."
The same authority, in an article entitled "The
Americanization of t,he Jewish Immigrant," frankly
prefers the Jew fresh from the ghetto to tlre Jew
who has been influenced by American life.
He says that he ('prefers the kaftan-clad, old-

58 THE IKTERSZTBTIONAI. IF\>
fashioned Jenr, with his unatrr:tcl;ivc a.ppedrance
and lulgaiuly manners, ~vhose vi.liolc life is do~l~inat-
etl by the ideals au(1 ruaildatex of an ancient religion
and civilination " " " to that uodefnized, am-
phibious creature, the gaudily st,t,irr:il, sl;tng.lrsi~lg,
gum-chewing, movie-visiting, dollar-hunting, vulgar
aud nncultnreil, q~~asi-Americauizec 'dzentlernan.' "
The "1;;tftan-clarl, olll-fasl~io~~r~l .Jewn of vhom
Mr. Prictllacnder writes, is the Polish Jew, 250,000
of whonr m.e coming to t11eCnited States ;IN "a, pre-
serr~ing and reviving influence" npon Jurlaism in the
United States.
Xot in use more sp:ice, llrrii:cvcr, on the identity
I I ~ tl~c normal type of Jew as ]?~.eciscly stale11 by
those who have expressed tLemselves on this subject>
it is pos~ible to preserve the idea and acld its
logical complement, 11)- qnoting. soule testinlong. on
the .le~\;ish vie\\, ol' An~eric;luizal;iou.
What: r~ow folloas is of sl~ccial intcrmt because
it in so generally stated and received throl~ghont
Jevish circles, that the center of .Je~vrr has shifted
to America. That is the for111 iu wl~icll .li?wish
spokesme~l make tlie siateu~eot :.they say "Au~erir:a,"
not the Uniteil States.
h little ~tory-;t trvc one-may be worth while
here. It rnay tl~row a sidelight on tlic use of the
word "Alnurican'? ;IS used in the testimony. A crr-
tail1 crlito~ of an American ne\rriipaper gave a irifling
hit of publicity to this se~*ies:of articles. Jemislr
;~(l\~ertisi~~g 1 ~ wirl~(lr.an~n
3 ~ fro111 11in colnmns by tllc
chairman of the An1.i-Defamation Coarmittee of the
local Lodge of B'nai BJrilll, ml~icl~ ellairman was
also a11 advertising agent who h;r,u,lled all tl~c Jewish
atlverl.ising in that city. The editort. not being
a~nrise Irlan, yielded to the h~lll(loei~~g ~ncthods used
ny011.~ him, nil4 in a. ll;ilf-hca~~ted bit. of editorial
praise for tllr Jc1r-s used rhe word '"Xuericanin~n,"
The advrrl.isi11g agmt toyed ~iih t,he wort1 in the
luanuer of olle who, 4avirrg a. \veal< Gcrltile in his
pm\.er, would.mal

THE JXWS' CO>Il'LATNT AGAIXST "AhlEKICANIS>I" 59
The editor to this (la)- thinks it %-as a hit of captiousness.
It was not. Thcrc is meaning in it.
To L'Americanize" means, in our ordinary
speech, to bring into sympathy with the traditions
and illslil~llions 41' the United States, but the Jews
(10 not mean o111y the llniieii States when they say
"America.': Tl~c:- nican :ilsrl Honth and Central
America-n,he~,e so inan:, rcr~iluti~~iis 11:i~c oc(:nrre~l.
There are large numbers of Jews in j\rgentina, and
many are ionnd in other countries. The nest place
to be extensively rr~l(~nize

00 THE JNTKI

ch;tra~,l.c:risl.ically .Tc:wislr and 1111-American, ;1111l has
tl~ci.cb~ created an alnlost non-sectaritin Jn~ltiism
housed iu ;in alluost non-sectarian Tr!~riplc."
11: will l)c rioliced lhal. I.l~e 1c:irncd doctor uses
tlic word "American'? as our a~:cnstoiiicd to quite
another atinosphere. A inrtlser illustration is foulid
ill this :
"Keglc

Mr. Urie(llarn,ler eve11 \vent so i'ar as to sap that
pogi~oms against the .Jews n7ere "fortunate" in that
tlie- (Irore tlic Jcv~r hact to their Jur1;~ism-"Portrc-
?~olel!/, hoverer? Rn3siaii Jewry mas halted on its
dou,nward rush towa~cl national self-annihilation.
The process of assinlilacion was cut short by the
pogroms, anil ever since

lisl~meiit of Jews as a nation wonl(l rncan the recreation
of the ghetto. I arn frankly prepared to
ahit the 1orc.e of the criticism, but with an important
qualification dependent on the interpretation
of tllc word 'ghetto.'
"In so far as the l~atioual center,will insure the
cxistcnce of this .Jen~ish environment, Jewish atmosphere,
and .rewin11 cnlturc, there toill be a re.
creation of the ghetto." (The italics are Mr.
Levy's. j
"The conlinrlance of .l'llilaisn~, then_ is (lepl+ndent
on the exintence of :in area ~vitl~ an ;iggrcg;~tion of
Jews living in a Jcnrisl~ cnvii~onnicnt, III-eathiug a
.Jc.wish atmosphere and fostering a .Jewish culture,
an11 these factors must predominate over all other
influences."
It is therelorc pl:rir~ that, hiiwevcr. startling and
irnprobal~le tllc statcincnt may sccm when made by
:t Ocntilc, the Jews themselves regard the inflnences
of modern lands a8 inimical to .Jitdaistn.
But there is still a further consideration, which
is distinctly set forth in .1emish writings, nwnmly,
that the trend of the moilern Sl.atc is h;~rlnfnl to all
that Judaism holils t.o be essential to its moral and
spiritnal mellare.
Tllr rlloilrro State is changing, and Jewish ohscrvcrs
srrlsr the fact inore readily than ilo ll~c rest
of the pcople, heca~we .Jews see in thc cll:lngo hot11
an qpportunity anil :I inru:icr. If tllc State con-
tinucs to change accordiilg to the trenrl of the gen-
eral mind of The worlil, Jewish ideas of supremacy
will find less and less opportunity to be realiseil-
that is the menace. If the change, or the spirit i~f
change, can be seizecl and tn~istetl lo .Tewinl~ 11111.
poNca, as nras doue in Rnssia, anit a Jenish type of
Stare errd.eil i ~m tl~r n~ins of thc old-that is the
ol~po~tunity. H~:ttlers of thcne articles how that
stimulation of "the spirit: of chttngc" is one of the
cloarcst planlrs in the World Program.
As Cyril &f. Picciotto points nut in his "Conrcp.
tir~ns of the State and the Jewish Question." tl~cre
is a tcntlcilcy to "increase lhe control of the State

6.1 THE IiY'~III?NATIOl\'r\l. ,IE\V
over the incIiri~ln;rl." Tlris, ol course, has nowhere
I)erll done no thorougllly as in Itussia under tlre
Jewish-BolsheviI; rkgimc, but it is not of this that
Nr. I'icciotto spcalrs, it is of the tencleucy observed
in the (:entile states; and he aslrs: "ln the face of
of sncl~ ;I tenrlency in political development (wliiclr
it is not raslr 1.1) assume will be move pronounced
in the future than in tlie past) 7~0% does llbe Jew]
8twnd Y''
.He arl~ls: "The timc is not far distant when the
developmciit of the State will continue OII organic
and collectivist lilrrs. The emrtral authority will
enlbrace an eve1 wi(l~:r area, and will make SLICII a
peiietratiou into the recesses of individual Ireedom
as moulrl have been thought irlco~~ceivable thirty or
forty years ago. Compulsol?. military service, compulsory
education, compulsory irrslrralrce are but
~rlilestones.on the road which logically leads to the
:111option of a State morality, a State creed, all~l of a
collrirlon may of life. To say this is illerely to indicate
the probable trend, not to approve it.:'
"Horn, then, if: the State of tlic iiltare going to
deal with a people in its midst u~liich largely prcserves
its f:eparatciicss of blood, which iir its fasts,
its fest.i\~alx, its day of rent, its dietary laws, its
mal~iage ceremony, suggests a. distinct historic
entit??"
The qllestion is a 11istul.bing one to Jews, as is
sl111wn by Ralrbi Segal's words in "Tlre Future of
Jn,laism." He even says that "the mc(lieva1 State,
wit11 all its tyranny and olisc~~antism'' was Inore
favorable to the .Jews than the 111oder11 type of
State. "Its defective organi%ition permittell both
inlliriduals and whole classes to live thcir liIe in
their own way. IIence the r~redieval State euabled
the Jcws lo orguni~e tl~cmselres on senri.nationtal
lines. and, tm far ax circumstances permitted, to
vrrate afresli in their tlispersion the 1i;itional institnril~ns
and practices of their ancient commonwealth."
They ilid this, of course, by establishing the
ghetto.

"Uur this 1138 brcoi~~r rob ~~.bso%%tln i?iipon.sibilil!j
iib t7~e rirodr.r.~r S/ol,c," r:ont,imi(:s the i.at~l~i. 'Tl~c
rii;~: of rloii~~~rl.;~cy arirl the tr;~l~nfvr.cnce of the ul1.iinate
ljonci of govc~.~~nlent Prom the oligarchy to the
n~njority involves the practical suppression of nrealc
~niuovities. The iilentilication of the Stale wi1.h ihe
culture aurl aspiration of a p;trl,ic~llar nati~~r~;rlily
leads ineviial~ly to l,l~u cripplillg r~f anrl g~,aclnal cs-
&iuctio~~ of rl~osc r.l;lsscs rnhn do not .share t71cit pnl'
licti.lrrr. r:ull~rrc rrnd those nspirntiolzs. The State,
rrio~.cor~cr, cnforces a sytem of education which is
~)urposely desi?;necl to fashioil and to mold all !.he
illllabitallts t * 'i li also rnaiutai~ls a t;lio~~ougl~going
orgai~izsl.ior~ wliic11 elrtbr;iccs all the depart-
1nen1.s of I.llc public,and ~wivate life of all its inhabitants,
irrcspcctive of clah8, race or traditioi~. 'I'lbnr,r<
%s tl~us no irooii~ %,I& th.c NIO~CT?L Stfflc /or Jc.liois7b
cultur~c, fol. Jcrr-ish natio~lal life, or for a specifically
Jewish society, with its O\VII spc(:ific inntitnrions,
customs aurl l)rii~l.i(:~~ li *
"Tl~erelorr, .In

autl similar ~geuci~s, and by nealer~ing tlic appeal
ol' (1isi.inctirel: C,hristian religir~n. A b~,z;~liclon~n of
Gcntilc scl.iousness is tk? oppr~rtuni'cy of the Jew.
-4. colossal Tar is also 11is opportunity, as witness
his seizure of ilie Unitecl Etates

The Jewish Associates of Benedict
Arnold
At? the Jewish propagandists in the United Statcs
cannot be trusted to give the peolih all the
facts-even tl~ongh ihese propagandists have {;he
facts in their possession--it devolves 11po11 some irw
partial agency to do so. The Jcn7ish propagandists
are accorllcd the ntmost freedom of the newspapers
of the Unitccl States-11y reason of .Jewish advertin-
iug being inore than 73 per cent of all the advcrtis-
i11g done in l.his count^-and thus a vide wel~ of
Ialse impressions js conslanlly lleing x70r7en amnnrl
the .Ien-ish Question. The most rccent is the widc.
spread publicalion of a new 'Lexposnre" ol the origin
of the Protocols. This nlal

The fir#(. 811l)j(:ct WII~CII mill he treatwl ill this
scvics is th.u pwt of JCZC.~ in t h /~J~~?uso~~
~ of lieneclio1.
.Ir.~zolkt.
Beneilicl Brllol~l, the must corl::picuoiis tvaitor in
Alnt~,ri~:an Ilist~~v, has hcen tlie subject of consideral)l(:
col~rrnent of late. Anlong tlie commentators
have been American Jews who have Bailed LII 111aLe
Bnomn to the Alrlcrican public the infomiation which
ulay be fonriil in Jewish avcl~ircs concerning Bcnc-
~lict Arnold and his associates.
To begin with, tlie prol~ensity of t11r .Jews t,o ellgage
in the bi~sineni; of suyrplyir~g the needs of ar~mics
and lo avail tl~cn~selres as far as possible of mar
coui.l.;tci.s, is of long standing and notice.
An authority on this inalter, Werncr Snmlrart,
says in his "Jerr.8 an11 lfo(lern Capitalism" (pp. E0-
,531 :
"The .Texvs tl~~.oughout the sixteenth, ~eventeeutll
an11 i!ightce~rtli centuries nren+ most infli~~:nl.ial an
;irul!.-pur17eyors ailil a8 ll~e rn~)nr:yeil mcn to whom
the princes looheil for financial baclring . . . we call-
not attempt, t,n inention every possible example. We
call only pliint the may; it mill be lor s~ibserluent re
iiear~.:] to fi)llow.
".Althongh there are nulncruns cases on record ol'
Jews nctiug in the i:apar:itp of army- contractor^ in
Spain previo~ls to 1192, I shall ~iot rel'er to this
period, l)oc;luse it lies outside t.hc scope of oui- pl,er;len1
ronsiilerations. \\'e shall confine ourselref! tu
l.llr 1.c11Turicn that lolloer~l, and bcgin with England.
.'Tn tlie. iiere~ltrrrrll~ and eighreentil centilries (.he
Jews hnd alreally :iellieverl renown as :trmy-pnrv(?yors.
Under The (liiinrnonmealtl~ illc most farnoas army
con1,r;cctoi' was ,intonio Fernanrlc7, Cal.rrajal; 'the
gimt Jew; who caiili: to T.onilon soille liiiit: I~etwren
1630 and 16:35, ;in11 was rcry soon acvonnli!d among
the v~osl &i~.on~inent trnilem in t!lc land. I11 1649
he was one of the five Lonilon mei~chauts iutnlstecl
by the council oi slatc with the asmy conl:ra.ct for
corn. It is sail1 that hc ananally i~nportc!d illto Eng-
lalid silv(:r Lo the ralue of f 100,000. In the period
lhs l ensned; espzci.a.lly ill the mai-s ol LVillia~r~ Ill,

THE JEUrISII AS,?OI:IATES OF BEKiTDlCT .\RIIUl.I) 69
Sir Solomon PIe11inn. ('the Jew 4Teclina:) m;ts 'the
great i:outractor:' and for his services he was Bltiglitid,
being the first professing "Jew 1.0 receive that
honor.
"It wax the same in the wars of the Spanish Sue.
cession; here, too, Jews were the principal army-contractors.
In 1716 the Jews of Sirassburg recall the
services they rendered the aruries of Lollis SIV hg
fiiri~ishi~lg informati~~l~ anll snpplying provisions. In-
~leell, Louis XIY's a~rny-co~~iraetoi--in-chief was a
,few, Jacob 7Vo1ms I I name; ~ an:l in t.he eigltteellfli
ceninry Jews gmclually took a nrol'e and more prominent
part in this work. In 1727 (.he Jews of Wet6
brought into thc cil. ill the space of six weeks, 2,000
horses for food and more Chan 5,000 for rcn?olutts.
Ficlil Alarshal Maurice, of Hax~)sly, the victor of Fontenoy,
exprcssml the opil~ion that his armies werc
never better scr~crl with supplies than wl~en ihe
.Jews were the contractors. One oL the best-lz~~nn~n
of tIie army-contractors in the tinle of the last tn-0
T.ouises was Cerl ,Beer, in who~e palyunt of ~lat~lralizatioa
it is rccoi~1ir.11 rhal '. . . in the mars n.hic11
raged in Alsace in lii0 an

70 THE IXTEI

Soml~art'~ record ceases there. He does not. go on
to mention "the Jewish conl.r;~ctors nrho provisioi~ccl
the iimelican troops in tl~c Revolutionarj- and Civil
wars." That lasli i.l~all be THE I)EARIIUKZI IKDEPEN-
DENT'S 11.0111 time to time in the future.
It is in the study of .Jenrisb money-making out of
war that the clues arc found to most: of the great
abuses oP whit.11 Jcws have been gnilty. In the present
inel.ancr?, it was in the rnattcr of profiteering in
war goods, that the .Te\vic;l~ connections of Renerlid:
Arnold were discovered.
"Wars are the Jews' harve~ts" is an ancient saying.
Their l>redileciion for the quartermaster's de.
partment has heen observed anciently and modernly:
Their interest being mostly in profits and not in
national issues; their traditional loyalty being to the
dcwish nation, 'ather tl~an to any other nation; it
is only nati~r:~l that they shonld 11c fol~llcl to he the
incrchants of goods and information in times ol' w;tr
-that is, the war profiteers and the spies. As f.he
unbroken program is traced through thr lievolutionary
War, t.hro11g11 .the American Civil War, and
throngh the C.1.eat TVar of recent occurrence, the
only challyc ohsei~vable is the increasing power and
profit of the .Je\r,s.
Alt.hongh the nuluber of Jews resident in the
iimerican colonies was very small, there were
enongh to make a m3rli on the Revolntio~lary War;
and while there wan 110 wholesale 1egisl;ttion against
.Tc\i-s as there was in the Civil TVai-? there were
actions against iu~livi~luals for the same carlses
wliicl~ in 1861-5 ol~tained more extensively.
The .Tolrmals of the Continental Congress contain
numerous cntrie~ of 1);iyincuts made to Jews, as \\;ell
as the records of various dealings with thein on other
scores. For drums, for blankets, for rifles, for provisions,
lor clothing-l.l~etie are the 11sual cr~tlies.
Must of tl~c Jcivisb commissars were Irlclian trader8
(the extent to n7hich the .TenVs rlealt n~irh the American
Iudiaas has not as yet heen made a si~hject of
research it rleservesj. The Gratz family of Pennsylvnuia
carrid on a very exfen~ive Indian trade

and amassed a rast fortirrle out of it. A most curious
lot of inforrualiol~ concerning the (lealings of
the Colonies with the Jews is obtaiualrle by a search
through tho old records.
The Jews of Coionial Xem York were both loyal.
isti: anrl r~el~cls, as ihe 1.ide tnrneil. Thcy profited
undcr loyalism by the cont~.acts which thcy secured,
and by buying in the confiscated property of lllose
who were loyal to thc American came. It is interesting
to noto that some of thc purchasers of the extcrlsive
Delancey properties were Jews. 1)elancey
was a. patriot whom New YorL City alter\vanl honol*ed
by giving his name to an important thi~ronghfare.
That same Sew York has recently by atticia1
action separated the name of ilelancey from that
thoroughfare, and ~nl~~tituted the nallic of Jacob R.
SchiG, a .le\v, native of Frankfort-on-the-%in.
We enlcr jin~nediately into the limit^ ol the BeneclIct
Arrtoltl lnar~ati~.e hy making irl(?niiorl of the
Fritnlcs family of Philadelphia, of xrhich familv several
members will claim our attcntinn.
The Fi-auls were Jewa from Englan(1 who scttleil
in America, retaining their Knglisl~ collnections.
They were in ihr h11sine8s of p~lblic co~ltracts, priucipally
army contracts. They were holders of the
BlSitish army conrracts for the French and lndian
n7ars, and for thc succeeding Wevolntionarp Wan.
To get the picture, conr:eivc it thus, aa it is taken
from Jcwish ourcefi:
1Wose.s E'i-ni1,76s lircd in England, rloing bnq' i ~ ~css
with the Britinl~ Goverliiuent (lirrei. He had the
cont1,act for supplying all Ihe Rriiish fo!:ces in .herica
before military 1,rrml)lc bctn~cen the Colonies
and the Dome Govcrnrncnt was rlrougl~t of. Ec was
the prin

TTll? JE~VISII hSSOCI.\TES OF BEUEDICT .4RUOLD 73
In phi lad el phi;^ was D~~vi.d FI.u?E~s, son of Jacob,
uf New Ilorlr. David was the Pranks' agent for the
state or cololly of Pennsylvania. He was at the seat
of the colonial government, the center of American
politics. Ile was hand in glove with many of the
fathers of the Anlerican Government. He u7as an
immensely rich man (although but an agent) and
carried a high hand at Philadelphia.
4t Montreal was another Vranks-David Soleslitiry
Frf~l~l;s--also in the bnsines8 of army conlracto.
He was a gay young man, described as "a
blooded buck," who knew all the arts of i~~rning an
honest penny out of the needs of arrrlies and the distress
oI nations. This young man was a grandson
or grand nephew of the Moses Franks of England,
as he was a nephew of the David Franks of Philadelphia.
Here and there were othcr Franks, all intent on
husine~s with the non-Jewish government, but the
four here mentioned carry along the main pa~ts of
the tale.
A moment'c: digre~sion will give us at once a viem
of the loo~l:ness of tlie liberalism of some of the
Fathcrs of the Conntry, and a view of the ctluanimity
nit11 n~liich David Franks, of Pl~iladelphia, could
pms from one rble to another-a facility which coet
him dearly when war came on.
John Trnmbull, an artist of considerable note at
tlie time, whose paintings still adorn the
Capitol, was invited to dine at Thomas .Jefferson's
home, among the girests being Senator Giles, from
Virginia. Trnml~nll tells the story:
"I was scarcelv seated when (files began to rally
me on the Puritanical ancestry and character of
Kew England. I saw therc was no other person from
New England present, and, therefore, although consciolls

71 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
on the other, was to be brought formard as promising
a~r~~rsen~e~it to a rather free-thinking dinner
party, I will not presnme to say, but it hacl that appearance,
and &Mr. Gilcs pnshed hi8 raillery, to my
no small annoyance, if not to my (liaconrtitirre, until
dinner was announced.
'

TIIE JEWISH ASSOCIATES OF BENEDICT ABNO1.U 75
the E~nyire, another thing to desert it. Here is
~vllerc the people of the bolonics split.
Mr. Jacob Franks in royg~list and loyalist New
Yorli, was, of course, royalist and loyalist. As armycontractor
for the British Government, he had no
choice.
Mr. David Franks, down in Philarlelphia, was a
little nearer the heart of the ncw dnierican senti.
ment, and coulil not he so royal and loyal as mas his
kinsman north. In fact, David Franks 1.ried to do
what is niorlernly called "the stratldle," attempting
to sirlo with tbe Empire and -4th the Colonies, too.
It was natural. His business was in Philadelphia.
He may also have wished to remain as long as possible
in the position of a spy, u~lrl send information
of the state of public feeling to the royalists. Aforeorcr,
he was received in good society and his repntation
for wealth and shrewdness Iron hin~ attentions
he could not otherwise have commandea.
811, in 1T6S we find him joining the merchants of
Pl~iladelphia in the pact not to import articles from
England while the hated Stamp Act was in force. In
1775 he favors the continuance of the colonial currency.
He was enjoying his accustomed life in the cityand
his acquaintance with the Shippen family int,u
which the dashing ~onng Benedict Arnold m:rnieil.
There is a strange intermingling of all the tragic
figures of the play: Beuedict Arnold marries the
girl lor whom JIajor Antlr& wrote a parlor play.
Unjor ~lnd~k, dnring his period of capti!' it^ ,, as ar~
American prisoner of war and before his cncl~ange,
was often at t,l~e home of David Franlrs. And David
Soleshliq Franks, at hi8 post as agent of the Franks
syndicate at Xontreal, is placed by a stra~~gc turn
of the wheel of destiny in the military family of
Benedict Arnold for a consirlerable period preceding
anrl including the great t,rcason.
So, for the qommt let us leave the Jewich family
of Franks-all of them still stationed as we first described
them : Moses in England, Jacob at New York,
,David at Philadelphia, David S, a.t Montreal-and

76 THE IXTER\TATIONAI. JEW
lot us sc~stinize the yoimg.American officer, Benedict
Anlolil.
These facts t\roald most of thein he lost, had they
uot been prenerveil in the Jewisll archives, by the
American Jcrisll Historical Gociety. Yon will read
any history of Rcneilict Arnold without perceiving
thc .Je\vs arollnd him. The anthors of the accepted
histories were blind.
The principal defect in Renedict Arnold's character
was his love of money. All of the troillrle which
1~11 np to the sitnal.ion in which he fnund l~imself
with relerence to tlie American Government ancl 81'my,
was dne to the suspicion which hung like a
cloud over many of his business transactions. Therc
h;~e been attempt8 lo paint Arnold as a dashing
martyr, as one who was discouraged by the unrner.
ited tilights of the Contincrll;al Congrens, as a vicl.irn
of tlie je:lloirsy of lesser mcn, as one from whom confidence
wa8 urljllstly withheld. Nolhing could be
further from the fact. IIe was a man to whom rrlen
were instinctively (lram lir he generous, but so gencral
mas the knowledge of his looseness in money
mattcr,s that, while admiTing him, his brother offi.
rers acted upon t,he protective instinct ancl l~eld
aloof from him.' He was tainted bq a low form of
rlishone8fy Irefore he was tainterl with treason, ani!
the chief explanation of his treason was in t.he hard
lrargain he drove as to the amount of moncg lie was
to receive for his guilty aet.
Arnold's own record makcs this clear. Let us then
take np his career at a certain point anil see honr
the Franks stranrl and the lnoney stranrl \\reare themselves
throupll it like colored tl~~cads.
Extraordinary efforts have been made in rwent
years t,o extenuate hmolil:s treason by the recital
af his daring scruices. These services need not he
minimized. Indeed, it was his great achievement of
the winter march to Xontreal and Qnel~ec in 1775-6
that seems to hegin the chapter of his troub!us. To
rehearse this lent of conrage and endnrance n ~~nld
he to tell a tale that has thrilled tbc An~elican
nchoolboy.

THE ]Ii\ll.ili .15501'1:Y1E3 II1~I:I)ICT .illTOT.S) 77
It was at Xontreal rhal Beueilicl: Arnol~l ~.amo
into coutact with il~e yo~~ng .Trw, David Soh.sbnry
li'ranlcs, the Uan;t(li;tn ;tgrnt r~f tllc Pranks ariny~purveying
syndicate. And the nest thing li~lovvii about
yoling Fra111is i3 that he retklrns to kllc ~-illleri(;;lu
Colonies in lhr train of Brn(:(lict Arnold as an oficel.
nl tl~e Amcric;ur Arm;.
Horn this clinnge was effected is not esplained in
any of the records. There is a niolnent ol ilarliiless,
as it were, in which the "qllick chauye" watl mallr,
nrhich trallsl~~rme!l t;h(: )-ouug iVIontrcal Jew from an
army-conrractot. for the British into au officer of
Bencdict i\rnolcVs staff.
But as it is impossible for every fact to bc suppressed,
there aye 11~rc arid there indications of what
, might hare 1)cen. what indewl moot probably was, ihe
liasia of the atrraction and relation between 1h1: Iwo.
It was very probably-almost cerlainly--l.l~c op1)ortunities
for graft n,hi(:l~ con111 be csl>italized by a
combiuation ol' (:(+nersl ,21~nolcl's authoritj and
yocng Franks' al~ility in the handling oP goosls.
Prorr~ thc day they met in Ifoutreal ~lnl.il tl~c honr
when Ocnei.al .Lnlold fled, a l.r;iit(,r, from the fort
on tl~c Iludson, young Uavill fiolcsbury Pranks nras
his colill~a~liou.
In oue of 1.h1: numerous court-marti;ils wl~icli tried
C+eneral Anlo111 for questionable iletrliugs in n1attei.s
pertainiug t,o army supplies, l.'r;tnl;s, n~ho was aidde-ramp
to .\n,~~old, and hy lank of majol', testified
th11s:
"I had, by being irk the aluly, iiijlirctl 111y priviil.~?
affairs veyy conui~lurablg; anri irl!:ant to leave it, if a
~~'oper opporl.il~~ity of elitering into business sl10111il
hal3pe11. 1 had several cor~vo~satious on thc s~ibjevt
with (3cneral Arnolrl, \vl~o pro~llisi~l me all tlle as-
8ist:~nce in !lis power; ibc trrrs to linrticipate I,! lhlr
profits oj llre busiiicss I ,was to cxtcr irr."
This t.crti~uoaj- w:rs given hy JIafor Franks in
1779; the tnro lllcn liacl nirl: irl the militer ol 1775-
1770, but, as the recoril~ will sl~ow, Jlajor FranIin
was always (::enera1 Arnold's reliau(,e 011 petting olit
of srrapi:s callseil 11)- r~uestionablc bnsineas ~ricthods

ill which :Irnoltl's ulilitarg anthority was usccl quite
R,ccly. Xajor Vranlcs admits that lle n.as to L.nl,er
bnsinesx an11 (:enera1 ~\rnold Ivas to s1ia1.c the prr~fits.
On what basis tl~is arl.nngernenl could exisl:, is
anotl~ci point not 1;n11wn. Arnold Iia11 no capit~il.
lle had no cr(+ilit. IIe was a spendthrift, a borromci.,
i~oloriour;, fol' lli~ co~lstallt i1e~11 of ilioncy. The only
r.rc.~lil)le induecli~mrl. lor Franks t,o accept a ptirh~erslrip
\\ril.h liim mas on the ~mde~sraniiing that hl'l~olil
~llould IIS~ his military an~hoiity to tlrrow business
'i) I'ranBx. Or, 1;o state it more l)lnntly, thc "prof-
its" which IJe~ledict Arnold was to receive were P;L~nkerlts
for his iiiis~lse of a~llliority for his own gain.
A coniplctc op~ning of thc rrcorclx will show this
to l)e the most reasonable view of tile case.
It I-as at JIo1itre;~l that Uellcdict Arnold's nam~:
first be~.;lnlr attainte~l with rumors of ellady (lealing
in pr,ivale and public propert>?. Gcncr;tl George
IVashington lia~l laid down thc no st explicit ins1.nl1:tio~ls
on these matters, with a vicw t,~) having tllc
(:ana~liaus treated as fe110n.-A4nre~~ic;ilis a.nil not as
cncn~ics. General ~~'asliinglon had casliicrccl ~~fficers
and mliipp~.rl soldiers who 11:lrl previously dis~~l~eyed
tlre order^ agt~insi: looting and tllcfl..
General Arnold l~ed seized large qrrantities of
gooils at Xontreal an11 lied hurried them away witli-
0111. luaking proper account of Lhem. This he arl~ilils
in his 11.1 trr to General Hcliuyler: "Our hurry an11
confi~si~nl \\.as so great when the goorls were rcccivc~l.
i~ was iri~l)oi;sil)lt: to take a pnrticnltlr account of
ther~l." Tliis mcuns only that ,\z*ni~ld sei.i8n1l ihc
goods without giving t,lle (7anailian citizens proper
receipts for them, so that 11e ha(l irl his hancls a large
:rnlolint of rrealtli fol- which hc mt~s nll~ler no co~npnlsior~
1.0 ai~~.r)~l~ll to auyboilr. Thin maNs of goods he
se11t to ;L (:o11111(4 Hazen a1 Chambleg, auil Colonel
Yazen, evidently aw;rve of the collditions unrler
~llir.11 ill(: g0ods \\'el'e talcen: refused to r.eceive them.
This disoheilicncc of (:olonel Hazen to his snperiov
oficer, especially in a qun*ition relating to g011(ls,
made it; uecessary lor Arnolil to take some self-pro.
tective action, wliicl~ he ilia in his lett.cr to (:enera1

lil: TIIE INTISICIUATIONBL JEW
alsu t11c Jew whoin he associ1iir.11 with l~ii~~ticlf at the
1;ilne of that Brst exposure.
The story of this Jew's relations with Be~:ne(Iict
hrnolcl all through the perioll ending with the great
tocauou, may now Ijc talceu up with greater CO~ISPCII-
tiveness, for now their fonut-rly ~cyarntc courncs 1.~11
toget:her. 111 another article this relationship and
zll that it meant will bc illustrated frolrl the goverurent
recoi*ds.

Benedict Arnold and Jewish Aid in
Shady Ded
HILE Benedict Arnold was in Canada and
Slavid Holasl,ury Frank,!, rhe Jew of Montreal
and a British subject, was serviiig as qnartermaskr
to the Aulrrican troops, Dilvid Franhg, of I'hiladelphia,
a ilieniljer of rhe same Jewi;?h falriily ancl of the
Ram@ Jewish synclicatc of army-contractors, u7as also
engaged in an iuteresting busiiiesii.
It has alrcatlg heen shown that this Davicl Franks,
Ithe l'hiladelphia Jew, Ilad golse! llari: way vith tllr?
cololiists iri (,heir lirotests agaiiist 13ritisl1 colonial
rule. That tl~is ~\-;ss iiot sincerit?- on his parl:, lhis
s~~bse(~nent nctioiln pi'ovcd. He iir..il. colrles into the
l ~ u ~ of ~ Lhie i c llarrative ~ in l7i5, the year in which
Uenedict A\inol(l ileriorluecl tlle relt~aaknble feat of
ll~arching into Cantlela, whence he was se~~cling back
i11f.o the col~nies il~~rnerous Caiia~lian l~~.isoiiers.
Tl~cse l~rifio~if:rs \\.ere kept in the Xew Eiiglaud coloilies
for a t,iine, hilt we1.e later collected into Pennsylvania,
sorue of them being clnarierecl in ihe city
nl Philadell~hia.
Ho~v isispired it is ilnpossihle nonr to tell, but prcsniltly
a corn~nittee of the Continental Col~gress proposes
that Mr. L)avid Fmnlis be colilr~iissionctl to
feed and otlre1,wise care for these British prisr~ners,
;ln~l be allolr-ed to sell his bills for as illuch illoney as
nlay be necessary for the purl~osc. Of course, in accepting
this proposal, Franks was oilly pnrauiiig the
course for wliicli lic u11r1 his n111uerons relatives had
come to America. He was rctrlly rloing bllsiness with
and for &Ioscs Franks, the head of the family synilicnte
in London. Sllortly aft,erwar(l we reail of David
under Ihe lnouth-fillillg title of "Age~it to tlic (:ontractors
for Victualing the Troops of the I

82 'Till1 TYTEI

nTIUEDICT .hRNOLD ASD IE!VISII AID IK SEI:\DY 1li:AI. 83
ii~ldi~~gs of tlie Congressional Comrriittce thereon,
Daricl Franks smiles pleasantly and goes Cree: It
was a time, of course, whm lnnclr money \?--as lent
by Jevs to 1111blic ~lfficials. The Jelv, Ravm Salo-
111011. WBII credited n7ith having ulost of tbe "fathers"
ori 11is l~ool;s, bnt he did not charge tlrcm interest nor
principal. IIe grew ilumc?nscly n~ealthy: Iiowerei;
and n7a.i the recipivnt:, in lieu of interest and reparn~ent)
(if n~i~iiy official favors. David Franks, likewise
;I wcaltlry man, charged with treason, h;is his
casc tranufer~red and lir~ally dismissed. 11- is a tr,ick
not unl~nown to~lay.
The .Trwi~h rocor.ds give uuch rrcxlit to Ms. FrariLs
for-not king daunted by this experience. Wllctlier he
is entitled to pariic~ilt~r cl,edit for his courage when
he was masln. of no much influenve, is a matter for
the rc:a(lol, to decide, but that he wan undaunted his
sul~s'(lncnl actions show. He is very so1111 on the
rccorils again with an appeal for perl~~ission for his
becretary lo go again to Xen, York within the British
lil~m. Rc appeals lo tllc Conncil of Pennsyl-
I The Council refers him lo C!ongress. Congress
eaz-s it ha.; uo objection, if ilic secretary will be
gc~re~iled I I (:meral ~ George W;~shington's orders in
lie ~ ~ TTa~Iii~~glon's
t c aid-de-camp gives permission,
and the src:retary gives ~uUicient bonds and
sets ont for Sew \'ol.l;.
Arrived in Kern York, the secretary discoverx that
Mr. Fra~lks' prrsrnc~+ is licccssary and has made all
arrangements for his master to go i.o I\-t$w York. hsving
even secnrecl British permission to pass the lines.
I I \\,as made very easy lor Congress, ic had only to
in? !.es. Rnt thin time Congl-e.?~ s;licl "no." The
former escape of Franks rnatle pcople arrrarc of an
ULI-Am~ric;:n iufl~lcncc at work. After his first arrest
11c watj regarded as ilangerous to tlie American
mnsr. LLe appnrc-clitly sncceeds in liviug well in
Plliladelphin in spite of liis (lifficullies, living even
gayly ~ 4th Ilir xociely of the city.
TTp to this time, David Franks had come into contact
with the two principal fig~~res in hrnold'x tmason.
Ax PIII.Y~~O~ to the captured troops, Franks

hail met and entc~.taine!l, ill 1 Xi;, the yormg and nlr-
pa~iag Major AndrP, wlio in 1780 wtis to becolllc the
tmgic riclim of ilrnold's perfidy. .\nd in 1778
P'mnks h;trl been ibc subject of an order of arrest
gireu to General Rcnedice An~cld. Jacob JIorilccai
"incntions that it was at Mr. l'r;~nlili: house that
Iic met Xajiir ILi~dri., then a paroled l)risonc~.. who
was passilig his idle l~iiurs anil cxcrcixing. his talents
in the uiost agrrm~ble Nays by taking ;L miniatllm
likeness of the ileautifnl Miss Franks." !Alueri!vin
Jewinl~ Historical Sociri.y, Vol. 6, page :ell.)
In the mcaniinle, :Bonedict hrnr~ld m7as pursuing
his career: a calxer strangi!ly checkncd wit11 11rilliarrt
hrarery aircl c~nl~ilc liaavery, a career ~ustainerl
by the coufidrr~cc of nol~le fricnds who believeil iri
Arnold even ;&gainst hiinself. Escept for this
strange power of holdilly friends in spite ol n~llat
thej knew of him; Arnolil's caFeer woulil have ter-
~ninated before il. 11id. 'Chat psychic gift of his, aucl
rile desperate ur!c!l of the Co~~tinental cause for niilitary
leadt:rs, held him on until his moral 111rpitlicI~
nietl~rcrl for rile linal collapse, As helore stated,
there is 110 iotenlion to minimize .krnolil's nervicee
to hi.: couutl.)-: IIII~ there is a determinatioil in draw
what vere his acso?ialions during the peri!id of his
moral de!:liile, slid Itllus fill in the gaps r~f history
and a,cc+)uat for tli,e distrnst with which the Au1ei.ican
(:r~ngress r~garded tl~c young general.
David Solrsb~ll:,. Franks, the 1fi)ntl.eal .Tern: who
mas an agrnl. of the Franks arn~~coutrar:tor syndicate
ill (la11;111a, came sol~ilt to the Ailcricau colonirs
wirlr .\~.nolrl \rllen the ~Lmerican Brllry Yetleilted.
In hic: 0n.n account: of himself, written in
1780-eigh:. yc;rl.s after llle treason-lie malies 811
little of 11is association with Aynolcl that were it. not
for the reports of cel.taiu rourts~luartial it woulil 11e
iu~pomiI~le to deterniinc Iran, close i11c two men had
ht:en. Tn his rr?~)rrl of himself, as preserved in the
tentli vohuilo of the An~~:~.ican Jewiall Historical Ho~
cieij-'s 1~u'ulicatioilt?, he adn1i1.8 leaving Canada mil11
tl~c ,i~nerica.ils in 1776 an11 r,cmaining ai1;rclied lo ihc
American ;\my rtui.il the surmiidcr of K~i~p!~ylle,

which occrl'red lat,e in 1777. He tberi lightly passes
over an important period which saw tlic cornman11
of Philadelphia i~estonecl on Genera! Arnold. He
mentiunn i;irnply that he was "i:l .?nlolrl's military
Samily at West Point until his deserrioil," wllich yas
in 1'780. Xefcrence to tlrc Grst cc~url-martial of Arnold,
in which Colonel Davit1 Holesbu?y Wranl-s was
~\rnold's chiel' witness, ~vill show, however; lhat
Franks and Arnold nerr more closely associal.ed
1.hau thc Sor111er mntild carc to admit after 5rnolrl'~
11alne had herome anathema. Trlileed: as the Jewish
IIistorical Socicly's note correctly ~li)serr.u.i> f.he account
of this court-martial "is of much interest, as
it bcsrs direcl,ly upon the relations of General .kr.
nold a~itl his aicl, Major D;tvi,L 8. Fr:~vit(li~il~e~:. I WO."
There were in all eight charges preferred against
Arnold, the secon~l onc being-"In having shnt up
l:he shops and stores on his arrival in the city
(Philatlelpliia?, so as e\ren to prevciit otIicel.s of tlie
army lroln pl~rchasing, \\~hilc lie privately lirade consiclerablc
pllrchares for his n ~ bcnelit, ~ n as is allcged
;incl belic~c~l."
B'ollows a slrpporting affidavit, prinleil in the st@
of the original, with ein1)hatic italics atliled:
"On lhe sevcntk day of Xay, A. U. 1779, before
me, Plunket P1eeso11, Esq.: one of tlie justices, etc.,
for the city of Pl!ila(lelpbia, comes colonel John
Pit~gerald, Lilt: aid rle camp lo his excellcnc>r
general Washington, auil being 111117 sworn accurding
1.0 lam, cleposeth and saith: Tl~at on thr?
evening of the day oil which tllc I3riti.h forccs left
Phil~lrlelphia, 11e and Major David S. Franks, aid rlr
camp to major Arnold, rent to the hootic of miss
Urackcnberry, and lo~lged tliere that night; and the
,%ezt inori~in;!/, mf~fojor I"r1111ks hooing gon>r? dotan
slnirs, liie dcpnirei?l going 'iirto the jrwst raonz oj t7ce
sclid hwt~sr:, to view colonel JacSson9s rcgirnent: then
marching into the city, auto lgirbg ive tile ztiindozc 1100
open papers; tlrat on casting his cgc on onc of them,
he vas surprircd II co~iiciisiid i~rntrtrolioas to $he
suld ~aj~). 1,7,ru.((~.li~ to f).wfcil.as~ Eu.ropca?c and Zust

BEKEDICT ARNOLD AKD JEWISTI AID IN SHADY DEAL 87
delphia, do you l

keen legal mind to shorn its \\~eakness. If tllc onler
mas counterniandctl scrwal cl:~ysbefol.e they elitered
Lhe city, what was it doing in Xiss B~.ackenhcri~'s
house in Pl~ila~lelphia on the lire1 ~norniug 01' Arnolil's
coluluand and the first iiiori~ing (if the opefir.
tion of his order to close the stoves? And why di,l
Franks co~nc in scarcli of it? 1)iscariled orde~s are
not thus carried around and preserveil.
Prollal)ly no l?urchases mel-e niailc. i'robnbly the
order was not c;~rrie

And then Franlis revealed the whole secret of hit;
relalions with ;\rn~rlrl. They n7ere in close associa-
tion in profiteering ln;tll.ers. "I had several con-
vel*sationo. on the subject wil.li general Arnold . . . .
he was topartici11;rte in the profit,s of the. business
T watl lo enter into." Arrlolrl was to remain a general
in the army; his aide was to get out of the army
and work wit11 tlilu privately, sharing (.he ~ 1~61~.
Eirl what had all this to do vith tile orders to
close the stores at Pliilad~lphia'! What had this
to do with the papers found i~y Colonel Firzgeral~l?
For after all, this was the "eircn~nstance" which
4Iajor FranBs had set out to explain. At last he
reaches it: "At that time, 17~eviaos to our going
into Philadelphia, 1 had several lrarticular convur%;tt,iolrs
with him , . . . I received at that time,
or. about that time, the paper mentionc(1 in Colonel
Fitzgcralrl's deposition which was not signed, as
well as the other."
The paper. ai~torizeil Ilim t,!~ get the lilost mer-
~.l~antable goods 0111. of the cli>scd stores. It followed
11pon "several part,i!:illnr co~~rc~~sations" :ibolrt
the business of which Arnol~l was lo "participate in
the profits." Bnt, apparently, the (leal dill llot 211
Ihrough. Colonel Pitzgerald's ~~nti~nely ;Ippearancc,
;rlul the careless~~css of some one in Icttving fhr: pa-
Ixrs about, we1.c il~ost nufavorable to tl~c Arnohl-
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BENEnTCT ARNOLD AXD JEWISH AID IN SHADY DEAL 91
their lines run aloug toperher-Franks always being
re~ier.1 r~pr~n 1.1y i\rnold as the credible witneafi who
estricat.es him1 fr.om his scrapes, and Pl,anks lrxilally
cluing it wirb a sort of cl~imsy success, as in the ine1:;tncc
just cited.
The reader may rcfcr now to the rcfcrcnce lnade
above to Franks' record of himself in which be nlentiolis
1l;rriug jrrinect Co~111l d'Estning, th?, Freucl~
:11iinir;11, at Sandy Hook. Tl~is was just, a month
;liter, Arnold took comrnar~d at Philadelphia, just a
mouth after ihe events on which tl~c above charg.e
was baseil. Eyidcntly Franks got out of to\+-n for
a i t 1 1 1 i 1 He wonlil notice the coolnclis of his
fcllow oficers among whom repor1.s of Colouel L'itzgerald's
discovery must have circulated. There
\vould be no pr~

92 THE INT~I

IlI?YEDICT AKKOLU ASll JT\\'ISII AID IK SIlAI>Y Ill

guarded and tempcratc in your deportment tcward
your fellow-citizens. Exhibit anen' tl~ose
noble qualities which have pl:tced 4-011 on the
list of our mo~t vitllled commitllder~. I mill myself
i'unlisli you, ati far as it may 11e in my
pon7er, with opportunities of regaining tho estee111
of your country."
11. was a lmil {lay for Rencilict Arnold when he got
into tolicl~ n-it11 the Jewish syndicate of ampcontractors.
There was hope for him even yet, if 11e
wonld cant oE the evil spell. Bnt time pressed;
events wc+re ci~lrniii;~ting; the alien, having gripped
hin~, w:~s abo~it to lnalie the best of the baleful oppnrt~inily.
The closilig chapter was about to be
~ritten in glory 01, in shame.
Issue of October IS. 1921

Arnold and His Jewish Aids at
West Point
FTER General Washington had delivered the
A repsimand to Br~lerlict Arnold, he proceeded at
once to make good the intimation which he had given
the nnhapl~y ~~fiicc'-~'I will myself furnish yon: as
fill' as luay be in my power, with npportnn~tlcs of
regaining the est:wni of your coulltry." It was late
in .July, 1780, that Cicneral Washillgton ha11 learned

Ion's words, Arnolil'n cou~iteilance fcll. Tlrc magiiani111il.y
of the First A~norican meant nothing to
him. Tlrc i~l~porlanity to retricro his good name hacl
somehow lost its valile.
So patent was Arnold's ~liral~poiutmcnt, that
\Vasl~ington asked hiu to riclc to headquarters 8.~11
await lliru there. At: headquarters Arnold disclosed
lo Washington's aid, (:olonel Tilghr11:1.11, that his desire
was not for a comrn;tnd in the army: hilt for the
comrnand of Wesl: Point. West Point was then but
a post np the Hu(lsnl~ River, far* outside the zone of
ilypootai~t. fighting, and certainly the last: place it
\\,as thought the intrepid Arnold would desire to be.
The inconaistmlcy lietmeen hr.noldls desire for action
and West Point's lark of action, stn~clc General
Washingt,i~n very forcibly. He had ofrre(1 Arnold
a chance to rehahilitatc liiri reputation ; Aluold
11?.11ig back, aslcing lor a placc where no ilistinctive
servicc c~)nlrl then be renllere~l.
Kow let the reader t:llie note of this fact: il. may
he importmrt,, it may be n~limportant; it may have
some bearing on Bcnmlict Srnol(Ys action: it mag
Lave none; hut tllc fact neve~thclass is this: The
For.;ig.e .lIastcr, tllat in, the gnarlenua,~ter at West
Point: mas Colonel Isaac T"r;~nks, a lyentbcr of the
same family which we have 11een considering in these
articles. This Colonel Isaac Franks, we aFe infornred
by the Jcnrinh records mhicl~ make a great
deal of the fact, mas once ci~nfiilcntial aide-de-carnp
to General Washington: tllough lor what reason the
relationship was dissi~lr~eil n7e are not infnr~ued.
The reader will recall that the narrative of Bene-
(lict Arnold has already includccl two melnbcrs of
the FranBs fi~rnily-David, of Philadelphia, and
David Solcslmiy Franks, who ca~r~e down £rum JIontreal.
The third Franks is uom in vie\\--Colonel. Isaac
Franks. He is in chmgc uf fi~lpplies at tile post of
Werl Poi~ct. It is to T17rsl Point that Benedict hrl~olcl
\\,ishes to go, even though C:encr:ll Washi~lgton
i;;: oil'eriug him the post of hiillor in the forwaril

1 1 . J S I J I S l 1 A ' \ ' O T 97
n~oveurnl which the Colilineutal Ar~i~y is aboilt to
mal;c. It is the I;isl il;ly of .I 111y, 1780.
On .kugust 3, General TVtisl~i~iglon gave ,~rn~!lcI his
orders and allowecl lii~lri to i?l~or(:~~d to take cr~~n~niinil
of \'\rest Point. Accompauying him, of cciIiwe; was
Colonel David Solesbury i'ranks, his aide-de-canlp.
\vho&c: 1.rsli1uo11). h;id heon iio 1lanl111 at the couri-
1111ial Tl~crc xi-ere rllcli two Fraul;~ ;I.I; \Yest
Point-Colrincl D. P. Franks, aid to tl~c COIIIIU;IIII~-
ant, il~rcl Colonel Tsaac P~~;lul:i;, in charge of sul11il.i. .. .
ins. the post.
It aunears - tbnt ,\mold 11all t~lreadv been ill (.om-
L
rnuni~~iilioll ~vith the eaeiiry and liail aslxcl fo~, Ill(?
corrilna11,l ail. \Vest l'oint, uot for any of the reasons
he all?ged to C:cllrra.l \Varhingtun, but Leewnse lle
hacl already clioscn it as 1.111: g;il~:\ia>- ilirougl! \\,hic!i
he was to let file British tllr.oi~sli into tile ~\:o;lLellc?ti
American territory. Foi* two montlis .\rl?olcl tl;r(i
I~ecli writing lo "AAnderson;" or .John An~lrC.. ;Ir3
Iha11. bccn ~~ctrching oil1 low;] r(l tllc ~u(?my Sor a Io~gel'
time tlran tliat; an11 11;iJ at le~lyl.ll rec~ir(!slc~l lliat
a nlan equal to himself be alqx~inted to ncgoiial.[!
with him. Major .John Bn~irb; ailjutant general of
lhr 1BriI.irh ;\rmy in .imerica, w;i~ ehos(:n ;w our ol'
[ra1i1< wfficiciilly Iiigl~ ro dcal nith ;\rn~~lil. Tlrey
h&cl already come illto to~iclr n7ith each orlrer lieF

\vIlii eon~pleted l.hr? negotiations tvith Arnold, aucl
lovi iris life as a sl~j,, while 3r11olrl liveil long as a
IYJ~~~II., hare been tllc object of iirlicl~ interest and
~.c.st,arcl~. His deuce116 is ol~scnre. His l~arentage
a s n o as ' \ i s - e ~ . ' 11 is tholigl~t that
Lllr llrst Andl-i: canlr into 13nglar~tl in Lhe train of a
.!1!wi~h family. .\nrlr6 lrinrself bad tlrore acconll>lisl~r~lc!nt.s
wliicl~ IY~W ~nosl: highly pi,inetl in the society
of tl~c {la?.. 111 all? event. ,I[ Je~r.ish or uon-
-1tmish desecnt;, lle \Yas a far finer elra~acter tllan
I3enedict ;i~.nol

commander of the city ol l'hilarlelphia and Uari~l
Solesbury Vranhs \v;rs o~r Arnold's stall', ant1 il' Asnold
and Fr;rnks coulcl cunctlct a scllcn~e of protitt.rr.
ing off the closecl stores of the city, it mas probrtb1:;not
beyond the111 lo see that the clller David Vranks
received favor in liis c;r~c. At lcant; as tllc rea(lrr oi
l~reviorls ari;iclcs knuws, Davicl Franks went free,
althongll cauglit in the act of communicating wit11
the cncmy.
But this time tlicre is no Denedict Arnold In 1~~11)
llim, and his neplre~v, like lli~nself, is under arrcst
because of Arnold's treason. Yet the Philarlelpl~i!~
Jew rliscloses a niarveloos facility of playing 11orse
with tile law.
Hc remained in jail until October G, alrtl tlleu,
strange to relate. he is given two weeks to get \r.itl~in
the enemy's lines. Investigation riomehow lias heen
sloppt?(l; prosecuiio~l has t~em si~letraclrerl. Ilo;
I);~virl fo1111t1 14 t1;i)-a too brief a time t!! wind up his
;~H'airs, and he petitions for an extension of' tiirie.
It is denied. Tlien when one week of the time haid
passed, l'rankn asla for a pass to Kew York lor hiinself,
daughter, illan-sr:rrant anrl tmr~ ~naiil-ser\-ants :
this is mlusril a1111 ln~sses arc autl~orineil for I~inisclf,
ila~rghter, and one inaiil-servant, "pri~vided shc be an
inilt!ntc

of what may be keeping l~in~. In his letter to the
Uonncil he says :
"Being a])llmh~:nsiue I.lla1 a regort rai~e~l and circulated
that T 11acl rleprecirrleti lUte CLIT~(+ILC!/ I,!! rli,wchasc
of specie Inay liare given rise to yrrejndice
against lne mitll tlie Hor~ornl~le Council . . . . ,,
Alr~re (.ha11 liliely this is precisely what Uaricl was
doing. Tt wats clone lsir?r hy another Jew in Alneri-
can histor?, Judali P. Rr11/;11nin, and it B:LS (lorhe
everywhere by Jew8 dnring tllc recent mar. TT7il:h
Il;tvi

lrinr notice to hc gone I)$ tl~e ~ P X L

i:olonel Variek--"\Ylien T Lirst jr~i~~rrl di.noli1's
i'aurilg . . . . .\ruolcl a1111 yoill.seli' thought
\veil of him as a man, bnl. I sooil prevailed (ln )-on to
ihink II~III a Liar and a Xascal; ant1 you ever afccr
spoke of hini in a mamev his seal eharaet,~~ luer-
ircll. . . . .
>>
Lin~old, of coilrse, knew what Smith was. A~noltl
aurl Smilh wTe1.e alreatlp partners in treason. Blll
rick (lid uot know of this pa~t,~>ership. All that
\7;r~.iek knew was tllai. both Arnold ant1 l~ranlis appeared
to hold the same opinion, that Smith was ail
right. Here hinold and I'ranlrs appear as a~,rectl
I . Varick regarded th(:rn as holding the samr
opinion. Variclc says so to Franks' face in ausn-elto
F~,anks' question. He does it, however, front a
[~~iendly purpom:. But the fact is significant t11;it
??ranks a.nd Arnold are fo~ind holiling the saw:
frolit-"Arnold and yourself lhonght well of him as
a :n;in."
Kow, Arnold 7c?rcz11 what Smith n7as, Imem el-tongh
about Wluith to hang hiin. Smit,h was one of the
tools of his long extended 1,reasoil. The questirn~ is?
(lid Franlis also know.? Was Frnnlw kept in igno1.-
:.!111.1? of ,%mold's real knox71erlgc oC Smirh, or was
1:ranks artnally deceived as rcgartl~ Smitl~? 11 may
be, but let :his be observed, that Vavick, who was
:lot at all in Arnold's confillence, ncvcrll~eless vas
~:ot tleceired alrout Bmith, hilt saw tl~rongh hi111 at
I Did no1 Vranlis see throiigh 11iu1, too? P'ntil
:lie iiluc that Varielr dared spcalr ;:boltt the n;;itter,
I'?.nnks and Arnold n7ere preserving the samc ap-
;icsrancc of opinion-they "thonght well of hiin nr
a ma^^."
'i'llcn \larick honestly spoke ol~t. Jle got Lnl(l of
rhc .Tewish Franks and told lli111 all that 11~ knew
illld s~ispected abo~lt Smii.11. 'I'lie e'vidence wai in0
~!vcrwhelnkiiig for h'raul-s tn .;,(:otT at. Bnr irIal1
s(.oiling at T7ar.icB'~ tale x7oulil liil11~~1I he unclcv FIIV~
llicion. T'auiclz was given to nncIcrnl;~u

\-sricl: tbat !rc rr~arrlcd dmitll ;IN a. ':Lixr aucl LL
Kafical."
It is pe~lnissible to alil Ins il~i~ ~~~ct,euse or rr:ality?
Il \Jarirk kuew tliiugs, \-a~~ir:li was a man 18)
hau(lle \\.isely. If \'aricl< liueu. Vlliugs: it x'oiil11 h(:
foolish to loflrl to11(.11 with llil~i ailil ll~ils lose l11c
11i:u~lit of Iclio\~i~lg l~o\v iuiic11 \VXS l~i~o\vu or hill'rilise~l
or~tside. These, of coul~se, alx? the ~~~U~llf?il!S
of susyricion. bur Lhe~- are 111a.rlr cr~ucerning tile nar9lo
.lewish otlicer W~II, on finding tl~at Colonel Fitzjiei.-
;ild hod discovered the profitcr!ring rcninre iu wllic!!
Frnnlis and A~.noSd were l~artlierr', ~vas wise enoi1g11
:o ir~forru .\rnr~lil and IIPI:III~~ lire plan to rim?[).
Xajor Franks' pre\rio:ls beIia\,iov, like Benedict Avuold's,
ar.oll8es the snnpicion. Belledict Arnold :ip-
~wared to V;rvick to regard Smith as n goor: Inall;
V~:LIII:
an11 conduct on l~is going down and rclnnining
ahnenl: the niylit ol ihe twr:niyfirxt of Scptenabe].?"
(This was t.lie niglrt of his meetiiig
Andri..)
Coloncl Varick-(answer8 that D'rarllrs, to hie
I;~~i~wledge. llever accompanier1 .%rnold I 'i8Kr~~
11-!~f!n 1 nras infi)rmed by you or Mrs. Arnold, on
the twentplirst, that 11c war; not to rctilrn tha.t
crening, 1 snggested to yo11 tlr;~t 1 supposerl lie
had giile to Hpith's, and tbat 7 corlsirlered Av.
310111'1: l.reatment of rrle ~II 1ceel)ing up his coraeztii~ri
rvilh Smith, ii~ ol~pi,sitiou to the warnin!:
I liad gir(?n him, air cel.7 ~lngenteel, and that
I \Iraq icsi~lved to quit his falr~il?.:' ililzauii~g hi,.

~taff). "We did thereul~on cor~cert t:lle plan of
I>reventing their further intimacy by alarming
Xrs. Aruold's fears . . . .
"You (lid at the same tinie inform me that
rou could not account for his connections nrilll
Smith-thai you knew him to be an avaricious
rnan :tnd susprcteil he mcaut to open trade with
soine person iu Xeri York, un(1er sanction of Ili8
cr,mmanrI, anrl by means of flags arid the unprinciplcil
rascal Sruitl~; and that you \\,ere in.
tlure(l to siispect it from tlie lettcr he wrote to
Audcrson in a conirnercial sl.~le as related to
7ou by me. We therelipon pledged to each our
word of honor that if o r suspicious should
prove to tle fol~ndcrl in fact, we noohl inst.antly
~111ii; him."
It is ihe honest Vm'ielc talking, fi'ranks qnestioniny
him. It will be observed that it: is Franks who
tells Varick of Arnold's absence and tllal: he mill not
return that night. Franks l:nc\r., but Varirk did not.
It will be observed also, that it \\.as Varick wlu~
protested and threatener1 to quit Arnold. If: was
in(lee(1 tlie seconrl time he had threatened to quit,
but the Je\vish major seen~s never to liave had a
himilap thorrght. But. ~rrost irnpor~ant to obnrvc? is
Varicli's statc~~lrnt in answer to Franks, and iu
Il'ranlrs' presence, that it was 3'mnks wllo opened ilg
with information regarding Arnold's cl~aracterthat
Arnohl was an ;ivaricions man, that Frar~lis
suspected hirrl of opening np trade ivith the rneiny
"u.nder sanction of his command" .(just as Lie
I::rtI planned to misuse his authority at Philadcl.
plii;~) and that Sii~ith V~RS to be thr? go-bct~veen.
Thcn he mentions a letter to "Anderson in a cori~.
ri~ercial ~ty1e"-tliia "Ande~son" being none other
rllau Major John Andr& of the British Army.
Here we find Uajor Fr.;lnlis iutirrlate with every
element 11f the conspirary-eve17 element of t!and
giving a certain explanation of it to Varick.
Did F~r;llili~ horn more than he told, and was he
rlilieting Variclc \\.it11 an explanation which sccmed
to cover all the facts, i~11!1 yet did not ilivnlge the

Inllll? It is a q~ieslion t11;rt occirr.;, ilirertly \rc
r : I llle close collurion of ilrnolil and Vl*axklis nC
I'l~il~~lr~l~il~i~~,
Tl?erc is nlllrr tcstiniony, that it was Tarick, not
Fvanliu, who prcrentcd .irnolil selling suljplies of
rlrc F;orernnu?ut i11r llis ow11 profit. Tirue i111d again
this occurred, brrl never wit11 Franks, 1,hr long-tiino
:lid anil coniiilarrl. ol .lrii~ld. in the r6le of ai.to~..
1:11t every lirlle Varirl: did it, Franks knew (if it,
as lie tesiifiti~l.
Won. we approacll the "Day of hin Descrtion,l'
as the recorils c;lll tlic (lay of ~irnold'x 1,reason.
Najor Fmnk~-~'iVll;it was .trnold's, ;rs well
as my couclnct and rlep~~rt~n~er~t on the Uay of
hi8 I)esertion, and hail yo11 tlic sliglltest reason
to tlliiili I had been or was party ur privy to'any
[if ltis villainous practices an11 corrcspnrl111:nce
wit.h fllc cnciny, or to his flight? l'ray rclatc
fhr \vl~l!le 1i1' OIII. ~:ontloct on that day lo your
l

se

opinion, so now he "coneorred in opini~jn" with Tarick,
although he had just violently uttered the np
lwsile opinion conceruilrg Arnobl.
1:;irirlc was charitable becallfie 1le did not harrc l.Lt~
facts. TT7as Frsnls as out~l~oken as he was brc:jiix~.
he had all tile facis'! If so, ,%,here dill he get thctn?
lYom Arnold?
How li~ilch did Franks l;now? Tll;lt ~(lleslion ?;ill
~!~.ol~;~l,ly never be answered. Tlrere is, llowever, !!hi%
additi~,ual t.estiillony of his on isecord:
"1 told yon i.h;tl: 1 IlioughL -Ln~old had earlvqonded
with ;\llrlerson or. r;onle PII~II ilaui?
I~III~P fro111 Philadelphia, ail11 Ira11 got intcliC
gcnr~e of conseqll~llce iroiu binl."
David Solcsbury 1~r;rnlis \\,as iilllilicated i r ~ eve?uiajor
crime of Uencdict Arni~ld and iu tl~c graat
Ir~:;,soil he gave evidence of knr!n.ilig ererp ~novcn~cnt
of tllc g;lillr, from its far begini~illg in I'hiladelp'li:~.
Franks nr:ls esoner;~ie~l by the court.
From his safe ictrcat on 1.111: Rriiisll rnan-~~f-r;;i r,
El~i~edict .\mold wrote ;L lctlcr in rrhich he cxc11l~
~mted Sl~iitll, T'r,;~~lks alld \rari~:li. writing that tliey
vere "totally ign~iral~i, r!f auy tr;iiisa~:tions of 111int:;
Illat. Ihry ha11 rcaxou to believe were iuji~riolls f.~! i.li~?
p~~blic."
Smith ~vas neither ignorant nor innocent. Hc I1;i11
l.i!n~d orit to tirc British sllip anil brought Andre
;~shorc fir his confarcncc will1 Arn~)ld. He had been
;I go-betmen on 111aliy shady ~nission~. Yet Arv.11111
in his letter exonerates Sluith. That fact scrioi~>:ly
i11Fccts his exoneration of 17ranl;s. 11 Arnold can iie
;111olit Siiiitli'$ innocencc, why r;lnnot hc lie ahoilt
F~anks;' iiln~wcirvc? 118 to 'r'arick, 111: is tllc oilly rinc
of tbe three \~II(! can do \vitholll: h1.110ld's exonev:~
tion: to \'ari~:l; it is an ilisi~lt 1,o Ilavc Benedict AI.-
11ol11 vnllcll for him. I"ruul;s, I~on-crcr, was alwa?s
al'lerivard inclinetl to lea11 1111 111 .\l.nolcl's letter. An
iinpartial stutly of ilie l~:stim~!ny, upon the X!ai:i,groun11
of a lnon~ledgc of Fral1l;s' I~istory, lc?:~v~!.:
grave iloubls as to tlil: ~lni~npcacl!abiliiy of his p.cia~
lion8 nil11 Uenedicf. Ar111!1il. So II;III.~I so, inrl,+ell,

tliat in the stody ol hrni~ld's treason it is a grave
ornisfiioli to pass over Franks' name.
Thc reailer who will malie a coluplete study 1'1
Frank' character as revealctl iu tlie 'ecords %fill
testify to this: tllc prescur sturly lias 1)een exceediligly
charitable to liis chirract,er; he coold casil?.
Ilaw hceu preju~licetl in tlic reatleT's mind by the
presentn tion rrf ;r series 01 facts omittc(1 herc; the 01)ject
has hen to jildge lriru solely on his acts wit11
1.elation to Rruedict Arnold.
1:iglil.ly or wrongly, Franks was nr~specte!I evt:r
nflern.ar.11. Ic \\,as the IJhiladelphie incident ?.hat
sttiruped his reputation. Tile snspieion of perjury
on tllirt occasion llcvcr left him. Frauks insistetl ori
lraving himself vindicated all round, i'nt lie was
nt.vcr s;rtisiied will1 Iris vindications, he always
w:~nled more. Jcxish propagal~diat; lia~re misnapresmtcd
his s~ibseqncnt worlr as a rliplomatisl. It mas
I I ~ [lie ilierest ri~f~ssenp.r-lioy cllaractci', ailcl 111: was
iut~~ustc~l with it ni~ly nflkr the ir~ost ol)sepuions "1)pocls.
71e petlillc(1 pctitinns reciting liis ?(:rricex ;riirl
asl;il!g for govern1111:iil favirr. Tllc :rlail wlro asscylerl
in his dcfcuse at Pllilatlcll~hia tliat Le v:rs eager
10 leare the arri~y auil cuter I'i~sincs~, 1:0111d not 1)~'
i~i,Iiiccil i.o lcavc tltr pul~lic service, luilii the allot-
11ic11t to him of 400 acres I)! lanil scenis to have cCfccl~~ally
weaned lliru born p11hlic life. Wllzrt his
cnil vas, no me npp!:irrs to liuorr. His l~rcs~:i~t-ila~
IISC. 111,\vrver. is to inrui~h Jen-is11 and pr!-~-Jr\~inli
~)ropfl::iudists \villi a peg on wlrich lo Ilitlig estmvagairt
r,r;rise of tlle Jew in iteroliitionarg times.
Tllere can be 310 objectiou w1i;tlevcr to ,Tcwisl~
l)n~l':iganrlisrt; 1nn1;ing the mo~t oP their material,
but iliere is strong ol>jrction to tlie policy of con-
ceaimcrll. and misreprese~itation. These impositii)ns
011 piil~lic contitlar~ce will he csl)osc,l aB regularly
;IS they occur.

The Gentle Art of Changing
Jewish Names
' LIE \ladansky brotlie1~s-3Ins, Solr~n~i~n, Reujamiu;
ant, Jacokhave n-ritten that thcir ns~iirs
hnir:rSorih mill be Xay. It is a plod old .Ll~glo~
Ras(111 IIP~I:, I~nt the a n k s are of huiatic
origii~.
Elnio Lincnln: a inorie actor, conics into a T.cs
Augrlen cr~iirl on the iuuiion of his wife, and it is
cliscovered that he is only Otto 1,iiiliitE~elt.
h large rirpartnient store orrlrer was born nreh the
ilame T,erq. FII: is iir~\r~ lino\\;n as Lptton. It is quite
possible he did~lot liiic 1,cvy ;is ;t narue; h~tt rr~hq died
he not cllallge it for anotl~er Je~isli name'? Or per-
11:1,1)fi il. was the Jenishness of "Lwg" that ilks.
pleased him.
A populal- teiior stav rcccntly bwnght, pnif; :rgaiilst
Iiis wile, rho married liiiii after allomii~g liiiir tc l~e~
licvc tll:it sl~c \v:rfi III Spallish origin. "I understood
Iroln her inislc:r(liilg sl.:rgn i~iiiui? that: she ~vas Hpa~lish
when I mai-ricd her. T~aior I founrl il;;~t slie \\,as
.Te\\~isii and that her real nanie mas Bcrgcnslcii~."
Oi~n of the biggest aild best knonw sto~,es ill thc
Ci~itetl Rtatcs goes nuller an hono'ed Chrktinil
name, though crc1.y one of th~: o\\-neril is .Je~~isb.
The public still cnrrics a mcnral pictnrc rlf tlit. good
old i~lerchant who established the store, wl~icl~ pic-
Illre wt~iil~l spreilily change if the public conlrl
get a glinipsc of tl~c ie:tl o\vllers.
Take the aaii~e Reln~ont, foo esatnplc, and trace its
history. Yrior to the nineteenth century the Jew
1.csit1ent ill Ccnua.~~,y ili~l noi: use family names. It
mas 'LJosepl~ the son of Jacob;' "Isanc hen hl~raham,"
llie soil being designated as tile son of hit?
I . Un1, l.he Napol?,onic era, especially i'ollon.ing
u11o11 the assembly of the C:l.cat S;inhcd?in liniler
Ijal~oleon's command, caused a distinct change in
.Jewisl~ cklsloms in E~~rope.

In IROS Sapr~leon seut out ;r decree ronn~ran~lini:
all Jcws lo wdijpl: family names. In Allfitria a list
elf xnrnan~es was asxigi~e~l to the Jews, and il a Jew
m;rs nuable to choose, the slate cl~ose for hin~. T~I:
names were ~levised fro~l~ prcrious stones, an Rnl)ensteiii
; precions ~iletals~ sucl~ ;is Goldsleiu, B?l!)eri)erg;
pla~ts, trees ~llil ar~inlals, such as iVla~l[lel.
Ira~lm, Lilienthal, Ocbs, Wnll', and Loewe.
The Cei.rnnu Jenw created surnamcs hy the silnplc
~llctiloil of nfflsing t111: syllable "son" to the fat,hrr's
name, thus ma%ing Jacr~l)son, Isa;icso~~ ; mllile othms
;~dopt~l the ~larrrrs of the localitie~ in \vlric:h they
liverl, the Jem re~i(lc?nt in Berlin becoming. Bar.lii~er.
and the Jcw resirlent in Oppnr~l~eim becornil~g Opl?eu!~c!imer.
So1x7, in the r~:yion of S(:hoenberg, iu the G~innuii
Illline c~r~~nt~?;, a, settle~ncrrt of Jcms he~l lireil for
several gcne~ations. jVhen tht! order to adopt snr~
nilmvs went! forth, Tsnar Simon, tlre head of tl1c1 set.
tlemm~t, chose the ilalnc oC Scho

for people who thi~!L that names (10 11ot lie, 10 see
jnst ~vl~at i,? trausl)ii3i~ig.
lndeecl, there in :LII). al~~oiint of ~vitlence that ill
nil~~~herless cascs tliis clr;~r~ge of names--or the adoption
of " C ~ V C na~ncs," ~ as the Jcmish descriytio~l isis
for ],url?oi;es of colicealiiient. There is an ill~lr~ensc
(litf'ereuce in the state of miud in nrhicl~ ;L coxtonrer
i~nl.t:rs the store of Isailor(+ Levy and the state of
n~inil ill whiclr 11c cntc1.s the store of illex >lay.
.Iud what would be his feeling to learu 1l1;it Isailore
Levy painted up illr uame of Alex hlay with that
statc of it~inrl in view? JT'llen ltoseublntl~ alld
Srhlesinger becoii~es '(The druericar~ 3ier1?dnlile
Cornpai~y," tliere is justilicatiou lor 1.lre fccling tlrar
the name "Arr~cri(::~u" is being used to conceal the
.Jewish character of the firm.
The tendency of Jews to change thcis 11;lmc.; dates
hack very far. There was alnl is ;t srrpcrstition that
10 pi1.n a sick person au~!lher~ name is to "change his
In~.l;," srlil wire 11in1 f~.oni the rnisfo~~tlu~ie ~Lestine(l
upon his olii Jiamc. 'I'llcre was also the Biblical example
of a change of uature being 1ollon.cd by w
cliauge of name, as when Abraln Iiec;lrni? :\l~~~tIlam
auil .lacob hecarn(: 1s1.ael.
Thcrc 1r;~ve bee11 justifiable grounds, however, for
.Terns clrangin~ tlrci~. 11a111es in Enrope. Tlr

112 THE INTERX'ATT~~UI~L JEW
A rolisl~ Jew 1i:luled Zuclrr~rr~~an~lle, i.uligl.at,ing to
Hlulgary, would be ;~uxion'i. to show tllnl, lie had
sln~illed off the Polish ;illegiancc \vhicb his n%rnlr proclaiii~eil:
aiiil (he only \v:ry he ci1nI11 (lo this vol~hl be
to cl~snge 11;s nallle, mliicl~ woulil \-cl.r likely brtco~ue
Zuliov, :t perfectly good Wllr~gasian sian~e. Originally
tlie Zlrkora vc1.e uol Jcws; rlow the usnal guess
\\.oi~ld bc (bat they :lye. In rl;e United fii;ltrs it
\vrl~lld be alil~ost a ccrt:liuty. RIICII a change a!: Mr.
Z~ivkerlnantllo \vonld iiial:e, horvcve~~, would not 11e
fol. tilt: pnrposc ol concealing zlie fact t,ll:ll hr. was a
.Jem, bnl. only to c~incenl tllc fncl: that lie m:ts ;I Soreign
Jew.
lu the Cniriul States it 11as been Coun~l (hat .ie\vs
cliailge their ii;lll1es for ~III.CI. reasons: lirt;l', S:rr the
salnc reason that ~ua~iy otlier fii1,eigners cl~ange their
~lanies, liitluelq: to ll~irri~uize as IIJII~:~ a8 possilile llie
"foreigsl 10oL:' and till: ~li!licuIty of i!roinli~ciatio~~
which marly ol those ii;~~r~es carry willr tl~en~; second,
for b~isil~css re it so^^, to prr\!c!~it the l:liowlc:ilg~i becr~nlilrg
curl.cul. tbat 8(1-;1r11l-So is "a Jcr: ::ton:";
tllirtl, for aoci:rl rm!:ans.
Tllc iirrire not to ~ippear ~ingul;ri- ;ru~,i~!g i~ue's
nei~!:l~ors, when sr;rl(~(l ill j118t t11cs:c n.0111,~; very
t:anilg pasr;i:s muster as Il(:ilig a 11atui.al clcsir.~. ili~i.il
you apply i?. i:il yoorself. if yiil were goilly abi.oiid
to lt.aly, C:crniilr~,y, Ilnssia, tl~

that bnsiness ;lull social rctrsons are mostly respon.
sihle for the cha~iges in Jewi~h uaiues. The desig.
nation "hlner~ican" is it,r;eli mnch coveted, as may be
~atliere(1 by its frequent nsc in firm narrlrs, the rnem-
I,

111 THE INTEl

THE C.ENTI.:' .\KT Or (:HAKCIKG JE\VI51 IAIIES 115
Lonis. It is llu? ~ I llri I mondcreil at, therefore, that
the young Inw.!-el. s11o11ld hecoruc Attorney Cohanr?
(whic:h does all tile better iC therellg certaiu Iris11
clients are attt.;~i,letl), a11d that the young IIOC~I)I.
should l~rcome n~~ctor liahn, or Ti(~llu. These arcs
some of the ruaii? forl~ns that tile priestly n;lllle of
(:ohen talces.
The pame may be s;lill with reference to I

iilisll~it,h wlii,so nalnc \Y;LS very ilecitlcdl;~ fo~eign-
Jcnrisl~. It is \vitlrl~elcl 11cl.e, because THC DEARBORN
ISDEPENI,BST prefers in thin connectiou i.0 nlenlio:~
only the liaules of those who can take c;irc r~f themst.lves.
Bul. (.he l.ivssi~il.l~ moved ~ Ia I non-Jewish scci.io11
;iuil i~pencrl :s new sl~op undcr the name of Perkin.?,
aricl his luck really did change! Lle ifi doing
\re11 and, being an inilustrious, honest worliman,
&serves his prosperity.
0l course, there ;ire lower nses of ilic name-cha~iging
prai:ti(:e, as every e~l~ploycr. of 1;1bor knows, A
ln:ir~ cont~.;lcts a debt under one name, and lo avoiil
a garnishee, quits his job, collects his pay, alid in ;I,
,la:: or two attempts to Lire 0111, iirlrlcr anntlrcl name.
Thi.; \\-an on(:(? (:ilile ;t slicccssful trick, and is not
\vholly IIII~I~~IT~II ni~w.
'l'licre ir; also mucli complaint among I.lii: sl.~icler

1111~1e~liatcly 11pon ti~c! ;qjpeal,aul,c ol the .Jc!>~isi~
(.)nesti~~~i in the Ur~itril fitales illr .le\vs rerrrteii llilr-
1lral1y to tlirir habir (IS u~islabcling. The) n.cl.1:
ping lo fool the pcoplt: once ruol~ with a pat phrilse.
They a1.c i;i.ill heel;in:: for ihnt ph~axc. Hlon-ly tli~,?.
arc: 1.ecng1lizing lhal they i~rc up against 1111: 'i:i.ntli,
i~ll~i iv~lth is ~icitli~r a jazzy jade rlor a moric ~~lotfo,
\\.l~icll call be recostu~lle(1 aud clr;tngr

iuischievurln Iliilig: otuiill a mosl ,l;r~rgc-.rous
:hing, a,? .several go\-(+r~il~ielits cnrilil confidrntiall?.
.~eIl .Toll,
liut it is all a, 11a1.t of tlre Je\iisil pl'actice of setr
i i i ~ 1111 a 1al)el 1~rctendiiig oue M~iug. while q~!ito alirirlier
lllii~g 1,eally erisls.
'P:;kc anti-Seiui~isnl. '?hat is ;I liil~el which the
.I(.\\-s hare i11,luatriously paste11 111) cv1.1'ywhere. If
r.1.c.t. it ?\.as all ctfectire 1a.bel ils l!srs :?re over lion-.
Illr.ali anything. .\~iti~Se~uitisu~ (lees !lot
?r doea~~'l:
tsii.1, since the thiug so nawe~l is found ;immlg 1:he
Sxiliitca, too. Scmitea car~ilol. 11e anti-Eeiniric.
:Vheu the \\r(n.ld holds 111) a w:irnillg linger ag:liust n
race that is the illos~ing spirit of the cor'~q)li\~~; subv:>rsiro
aud cleatnlclive ii~fneuces ;rl~roail iu tlic
\rol.ld today, that mce cnniiut ii~?llii'y rbe wavning i~y
~1,lcl;iag up a f;ilse label of '~Ai~liLReu~itistu," :In)-
1ni11.e thau if; call jnstify 1111: sign of gold OIL n $1.50
I\-atch or tile sign of "pnro ~vool" oil ;I $11.50 suit of
clothes.
So wit11 the n~l~olc g1.oup ol' lai~els which the ,Jews
h:ive trotrecl 0111; like talisiur~r to xolQ solur iusgir
q)eIl upon il~e al.oused uiiud of .\!iifl'i(.a. Tl11:y a1.c
iies. ~!.rul \\.llcn oue lie failri, how i!~iic~l:ly they biicll
TIleir hopes to auol.l~e~.. If "Al~ii-Smmitisi~i" [ails,
tile11 11.y "hnti-C~tl1olic'~-thi11~ 111ifi1lc do ~oul(+I.hiug.
11 lhnt fails, irx "L\uti-h~i~r~ir,;l~~"-ge~ 1.h: I~iggt'si
t:ilellt that call i~e hired for a nigllr on the R'nai
1"' lit11 . 11lailorr11 to shoul ii. .\nd \\r-hei~ that fail.:.
;IS it has-?
Thc Aulcrican Jewish Coiu~uittte is itself a
uonier. The co~uinil.lce is lloi ex(:lnuivcl:ly hmeric:iii.
and its wol-1~ is iiot to dmeric,al~izt. rlie .lews nor evel~
to elicowage r~:~l. An~erica:lizalio~l among thein. Xi.
is a co~u~uii.ice cour~~osr~l of Jew re1~1,cnentiug i11i11.
class nllioh profits lno~ t is!. I

T I I T L E t i 0 1 . S l ; I A 1,')
.\III,+L,~~~II .It?wish (:l1111111ittcc 1\7o11l~l c11;111gc ils uallie
I,, tliis: "The .Je~risl~ C:

"CVhot !ire ..li;iwicn;; .i~:i, 19.r-ds to ,I~~~elo~
i t I j ! i I! tirc s)o/~I.~.~II!PI:
of ~ C L V Je~t*isl: fir~pIr :l,o,ilt: C~EVO!~- oytr-hill: ::ie
energy they froin ~.rpei!rl iii :i?i.s?rf

Jewish "Kol Nidre" and "Eli, Eli"
Explained
'.I liiivc looln Jewiih iv1,iters (Lescribe the ;I.~;LP EGSl as
file Yenr ol' (:l~aos, it is an rnlco~~rcii~us ndiuission

that tho Jex~ish people are ripening for a change of
attitude. Tl~e ~'cl~;ios" is :ILLIOII~ 1111? leaders; it ilirolvcs
tl~e
slll~lptions. 'I'IIc, .T~~\vish 11co11ic :]re xv;iiting for 1(.:11l
crx NII~ C:III elllancipate tiii.111 ~I.IIIII Lhe tli~al1d~'ill ti?
their sell-seeking illasters ill Tlie ~vligions eu(l yolitical
fi~$l~ls. 'She encniics oI tile ~~~ial~cipatio~t of .TII~
llali arc those rho priitir try .Inclal~'s b~~mlage, nil
these are tile groups that folio\\- (.he American .Tenish
Comniittcc :rn(l the political r;ll~i)is. Wheil zi
tl.uc .lr\vish l~rophct ;~riss-ai~il lie sl~ould arist, ill
the Unital States-thcre \\-ill l~o a great sncel~iul;
;i,\iray of thc selfish, schemin~, 11~~1rt:l~ss ,Te~'ish !eiliicrs,
a general deser.tir~n ell tile .Jewish idea

to ilo and pnr?ue s~icli a wol.li, awl I admire yo3.]
lor it."
Thc letter was accompanic(1 112. a cheek which ur~
(lereil Trrr: L)c~~nox~ J~na~z~ml)~r.~ sent to the 311~
llress of anol.her wl~o bears n iiislitictively ,len.isli
name.
It is very cienr that 1111ity is 1101 to be won 1)y the
trur.l-laller soft-pedaling or ~11plilies8ilig 11is trnlll,
11or by t:llc 1.nith-hearer sti,cnuni~rl)- (lenying that rlle
t~uth is t1~1e, 1,111 by both tr~gctlic~~ Iiol~oring lhe trntl~
in telling and in a(:Iinon~ledging it. TT'hen tlie .Te\vs
:;v

er %all: in wan? citirxs. To siw it is nieani~~gless is
lo use wortls lightly.
Tl~e '.l

wept, as exiles do at the sound of the songs of the
homeland.
I11 that incident tlie rcadrr wiil see that (hard an
it is lor the non-Jew to urlrlcrrlan(1 it!) tllcrc is a
deep-rooted, sentimental regard for the "Tiol Nid1.e''
wbici~ tunles it one of the most sacred of possessions
to the Jcw. Indzl'eusibly irnmoral as the "l

Irith Christial~ "l~j-~i~~

!!looiltl~irnty Cllrislia~~s wt)lllll I'orce the puor iIr\v'
to take C>hristiall vi~rvs~ the JEIVH
~luuucetl to (iorl rllat all the pronlist:~ Lller \voultl
nlake on tl~;~c score rvoultl lbe lies. 'l!lrr!y woill

I1:om Yom liil~li~iriu~ lo Yom 1Cippurirt1 mili ~~cturn
lo 11s voilI.'J , . ."
The foriu of the prayer in tlic inat.l.cr r ~ f its age
may bc in rlisplite; bot hack in tlie artcieiit and rni~il.
ern Taliiiu

JL\\'ISB "I

ctl ll~e Yiddish hymn to American use. .1n11 itS el.
iect is that of an il~c;tntation.
In translation it is as folloms:
' 3 - I I I h h i iho~i fursalreu me?
TYitll fire :1n11 Aan~e they have bt~rnt [is,
Everywhere they liavc sl1;11ncr1 ;rut1 tleriiled us,
1-et none amongst r?s has dare11 (!rpart
I.'rom our Holy Scriptures, from our Lan.
':&IJ- Co11; 111y Gntl; \rhy hast tho11 fors;rlie~~ me?
ny (lap ant1 night I or11)- yearn and prsy,
Allxioilsly keeping our Hull- Scriptlircs
Aritl praying, Karr 11s~ save us once iigaiu!
I'ur tllc sake of our fathers and our f:liller's fatl~erx!
nI '.t el1 to 111y l~myer and to rul- lalilenting.
1'or8 orllg Tho11 canst hell), Thou, Coil, alone,
l?cjr it is s;~itl, 'Hear, 0 Israel, the Lol.cl is 0l1r Ui~l.
Tllc Lord is Oi~c!' "
The \vorcls of tlie hymn are st) rllrich resembling a
1a1ne11t tll;~t HIP:: strangeu contrast with the spirit.
vltich tlle Ily11111 itsell' seelns to artnlse; its monrnfu1
~;~elotly innl)ires a very ilixerent spirit alllong t.he
.Ic\risl~ hearers tl~a~i tile s;l1ne sort of u~elotly n70i~ltl
inspi1.e amoug other people. Those who liare licarti
its pi~blic rcn~litii)n cau better un~lerstand how a
liy~nn of such nttcrlg quiet ant1 resignctl tilne coulrl
Ile the rvild rage

it becomes a rallyiug c~y. "Thej" are all wrong;
are all right.
It is poiisibla, of course, that rigllt..~l~iuded Jen.~
(lo uot zlpprure all ihir. tile^ may

,Iews as New York itaagistrates
See Them
HE l)cn~:~;or;u ISTII~'IIXI)EN.I. has heen in~rli~i?~~lly
crinir ~,eco~,rl in Sew Y~rlc ;III~ OT~~CP cilieh; b ~ lip t
I,, tliis ti111e has chosen i;11t to do go. The uiatei*ial
i I I I O I I E ~ ~ U am1 ~ I I the facts are la~~aiug, b111.
'I'TIE I)~:.\I:I;IJI~K I~i~~ar~.:so~;s~r will (,onlinnc to ~SSIIIII~
rhat tile majority of the Jewisli l~eople r10 not. ;rpprove
01 criluillal acts, even against lion-.Tr.u-is11 lift:
zii~(l 111~111crty. 'rl~is ]IIL~I(?~ 11refc;rs t ,~ ~:r~i~fii~e Ltx attention
to rliose 1iiatTcl~s which aye plaiuly rvitl~i~l
;he pnrpose and al~~roval of The .Jenish leailer.;.
'i'lieve i8 a cleci(1ed criii~iual elenleut. ill Ill(, .Te!visI~
Q~lf~stioll. ;lllrl 110 fl111aIl 1113rl: of Illr: (~rillli11;~liTy flllll~s
i,ll~-
ever)- StaTe in tlie Llliion lhere is totlily a c~leil3'iltl~l
case iviierr sor~lo .Jew, th1.ongl1 molley or iufllienrc,
is pl;ryiuy 1101.sc ~vith ;Imericau law. It is locally
i~irowl~. 11111 not gene~ally, except in l.~vo or l,hret!
illht;lnceb. Tl~e local pres&-lieriving 80 per cent of
its snpport i'ron~ .lewisl~ a~lvrrrising--is nsnally vl!?
~liscr

JE\VS A: SC\\- YORK AIACISTILUES SEE THEY 133
.Te~~~iah Question of toilag is turning about in the
rlirrcfiou of the Jewish Questioll of tomo~~rom-
~vl~icl~ is, Whr.11 are the .lewish Leaders going to adniit
that tl~rir g;rlllr: is ;t losilig ~lne? Thcy see it
now: but they inut odnllt it ancl yuit it. '\lid it
~vill not be ,surprising if a mans movenient of the
.Iewish people conlpels them to do so.
"The .Trwish race," said one of the rn~tgistrates.
"scnns t1cliberal.ely 11linrl 111 its own f;nills. Soirlr
tnclre $cars ago Cci~cral Ringl~~ini, tl~en police CIJUI-
~liissiouer, found it ncccssaiy to call attention to
certain criminal tendencies of the Cast Siilr. .Jews.
Llis crilicisn~rr \\.ere bitte~:lg resented. I venture to
hi~y, ~II)\vc~c~., tl~at there are few men vh0 ~~re~irii'
in our inferior conrts who will riot rearlil? in~l

.I la\\.:-ev, OIIIY~ liigl~ly ~ , ~ ~ ~ I I I ~ Iill I ? I.le!~i#l~ I ~ . ci1,cl~~s
l~,:r~, beca111c i11\-01ve,I in a bl;~cl

h siolaiion of thc foreguing prohibition is
Sabl~nill breaking.
'.Sahhatli i~realring is a mis~lemcanl~r, 1111nisl~ahlc
liy a fine 01. by in~priso~l~ueut in a coun1.y jail, tind
n-l~cre thc offense is ;~ggr;~\~:ttt?cl by a previr~us collvictiun,
Ilrr< liue and jail se~lleu~:c ;Ire ilouhled. Ycr
the varir~us arts s1)ecified as H;rlll~;itl~ Ilrealiiug are
yiolated opcnly a~lll with illsolent ilolnn~ity by t11o11.
s;to~ls of Jews cr?~,j- H11ut1a) in Sew Yooli. Their
I,;I~I.: 11as lunch to say al~o~~f; its 11n.11 religious liberty,
I~ut it, ll~iulrs nothing of outragillg I.111? 1.eligious lib.
crties of other races. If any seri~lus al.lclnpt were
111ade to enforce thin vlat~lte iu tlre Jewish dist~.icfs,
tl~e police woul~l be con1~1(?111:11 lo arrest the large]'
])art of Ihe population.
"Tlrcse .Te~vs arc deteriuiued to tsade and traffic
;III~ to 1;eep tllvir f;ii:torirs ;tn thnillgl~ si1i:ut
rrsistancn ;III~ lh~: sheer force of IIIIIU~CPS.
,'The Jews of TVII~III I 81u speaI

lambrealiers. "Rut there is no question of i,clig

1 llionght this n7as going ;L liI.11c too Par, alnl 1 callccl
the ;itlendion of several of thc proiecl.ir.c ;issor~i;~liuus
IO the methods 11racticeil by this firm. '1'11~ sig!~~
silolv :ifl.rrwarcl disnl)pcarr+rl. Ilowever, sucl~ t;icrli
ure conrinunlly Ljeing attcml)le~l 11y Jewish JIII:~~
r~liiinis and ma~lnfactnrers in tl~c! Brons and on tlic
n'cst Siile of tlre cit,y, in an eff111.t to gain ;L business
:~ilvant:ig

l.

flrny: oflrcr~cisc Ill,, poal:o.lj'ice rr:orr/~l bc s~ranrpecl
ccith. ~rrcril."
;Lnuthcr phase of (;his .le~isl~ iusisteuce upon sl~ocia1
right: \v;rs (mphanize~l by onc of (.he mag is^
lrates. ('1 hi~\-e often ol~se~,red," 11e suiil, '.th;~t tlie1.e is
yencrnlly a gool.(l~.ess scr\red upon a Jcm OII Satur~lay.
Lle is equally gnilty if 111: dal'cs lo serw a l)l*ecrss
11.11ic11 is ulade ~~~rlnrnablc 011 Satur~lay. It is a. notorions
fa1.t. that ;L large 11errentage of .Jews i11,Lih-
cralely altcl. lheiv II:IIII~'S in order to co11(.eaI tli(!ir
race:. Yet if a 1na11 shoul(1 i~lclnce his law ye^ to pro-
cure a civil actioll to ir.hic11 sll1.11 a Jew is a pal'!^. 1"
I I adjou1.11c11
~ lo Satunlay for tl.isl, in ipl~orallce (ri'
ill? fact that 1111: borron~c~l Americau ,lame conceal?
a Je\Yl ihar man ri~nclers lii~usell' lial111: 1.0 Iinv 01.
in~]~risorr~neut.
"Tl~is is S(>rtioil 21.50 ,IS the l'x;11,1
\vorcling is as Eolluws:

3[alicionsly srrrillg pl'ocess on SRI:u~day on
1,erson who 1iecl)n Hatnrday as hol~ timr-\trhoever
inali(~ir,usly procure8 any pi.ocess in :u civil
action t,o be ser~eil or1 Salurday, npou any person
who Beeps S:ill1r,lag as holy liilic, and does
not labor on ll~at clay, or ier\,t.s upon him ~LIIJlwoces
relrul~able ou tha~ (ltig, or iiialicionrl?lirocums
auy civil actiou to vhich stlcli 11ror.
".lclrn~iiage nTas tal:on of this stattlre by ;1 Jew ill
llic citr of itor:hcster to eva~le tile payment of goods
wliich ha(l been cIeli~en:~l to hini. The su~uruous
vhich li:rcl'been serve11 upou hiul n7as iiiade reiurn~
ablv II~~III a) Raliirili~y, a~icl ril~on tlie retrirn day tbr
.Jen-i.ik defe~lllaut, evicleutly at the instigiltiun of his
.Icn.ish la\vyer, appearell in the acriou for tlie sol?
purpose of objecting 10 the juristlivti~~n of the coilri
1112ou SI!.VEI'~~ groiinds; lmt ~IOY(: i3sp~cia1ly fr~r ~IIP
Iwason that the clcfcnclanr was a Jew, :rnel that ax
rirv11 he unilorrnlr- obserrctl S;~tui.dav of eacli weel<
:IS '11ol~ tinrc!
"Tlli?

TI

circ~~rn~erihecl liiilits of their ghetto. "\Vl~c~i 1 u.ns
ill T,oni!nn several years ago," hc couiilhuecl. .'I was
shown one of Hhe Jewish SIIIII~~?' 1l1ar~1rel.s iir Sihll
wing. Opposite it xns ;in Engiisli chlflch. Rllr
tradc was confine11 to the I'idclisl~ district.
'

Jews Are Silent, the National Voice
Is Heard
1' order uC Louis 3la1.shal1, the hurericali Jewisll
Committee ail11 the H'nai B'rilll, American
Jc1v-1.y 1111s illililled tlle calcnli~te~l fllrii~so :IIII~ ~ZIV(: clrcry cvi~li.~~c(~ of

panic. Therealter their safest collrse mas silrncc.
Sot that 1,liey are inactive. Icc;tri~rg a er~dilen
in~eriligalion by the authorities, the Sew Yrlrk Kehili;lh
11i1s gi.ornn extren~elg busy and has donbled
the gni~i,ds all roin~~l. Why?
Tile reason is Iliat t7icre is n vesoltition in t71e
C9i:itc.d States iS,:liu,te tahich poi~lla rli~ectl~ nf. the
A7ero Pork I

Jli\? 5 .\lil; SILLST. TIIE X.ITIOSIL YOICE IS JlT:\ill> 148
call .II!\\-ish Connilittee a~iil n.oi~l,l rill ilie Jen~ish
l)i~tgi~iliii ill !lie Cnited States clean oIwn to the
I a iro!!r~,sll!j coiiiltrctcd.
Xext to stopping tlle iuv~?siigatio~~, tile Jen-s will
ivy In control it. 'rl~at is ~e;~llg the greater danger.
'l'lic coiintry does not nccd tlie iu\-esiig;~ii~!~i 10 get
tl~c i';lv~s. Moat of the facts cii11 1~: pivc~11.111~\~. Tlie
cou~iti.y IIOI>S need an iilrestigatir~n rl~;it >\-ill girc tlin
facts a g

We are tol(1 t11;it 6,000,000 .Trvs in Rnssia are
in danger of vinlv~~cc. It is ir11c. hluch trnzr than
the. miles ol telcp~~apllic lies \\:l~ich have bee11 printed
rtbont, allegeil "l>ogroms" in Russia an(l a(l?act?~~t
couul;rics. TI~E L)EAKI:ORN IX~EPENIIIGNT
~IIONS that
in Eastern Enmpe tile Jew ha# not hcc.~l perseenterl,
Ilnt l~as cousi~1e1111~~ acted as l)ri.s(v~t~t~v. 'I'lie lroof
of it is in the Jcn-s' ability to flcc; they have tn%cn
all the \\realt.li of the people uf tl~ose co~inrrirs. Puler;
cannot: fiec, Ru~uaniaus cannot flee. Rnssians cannot
fiee; but after haviug squeezed the life o~it of those
nations the .Tews see ?he dark clo~~rla rrf justice rollirig
toward tlleln, an11 lhzy arc able to flee, lilling
the ships of the sea wiili their hosts. 1x1 facr, tl~cir
dexertiijn of tile .le\\~-s~v~ilctl countries of Enrope is
as prrcjpitate as W;LS tlleit' desertion of TJ'nodrow
Wilson and the Dc~nocratic party last autumn-
B;trncy Dar11c11 ostcntationsly st,aying behind to
covey, if possilrle, the sliamel'~~l~~ess of it. TJ'hen th?
Jew Ilas Iriml rlre fat a ~ s1ci1111ncrl ~ d the creanl, lie's
off. Gra.iitutle aurl llo?ally Ineau llotllii~g 10 11is
people. They are pel-sec111.or.s in Polanil. Tl~cy are
~~e?tlecntol~s in 1t11ssi:r. They are persrcntnrs in Paletltine.
They \rrr:ra the arcli religio~xs 1rc.rsecotors of
Ilislory, as the best lriptorialls iesiifp. The? will be
persecutors 11c.r~ as soon as 1.llt:y tl~inli they car1 start
it. It is possible: howeoer, illat in the TJnilr(1 Skates
their anti-social career \\rill ire rolled bark upoil
itself.
American ~l~agazir~(rs l~ave begun to pap atte~ltior~
to the ,lowish C-it~esiir~n. It i8 a gooil sign. Even
magazines cannot long ignore what all the peopl(3
Iino~v. H is ;i girotl sign of the rlcgree of ireetlonr
111o Press still enjoys.
Tt is trne, of course, that this freetlom is not
wry grc;~t; indeed, xlot so grcat as it was a few
yc.;im ago. Rut in so far as tllc Press is Alnerica~l
it: is inipossil~lc fu~ Americans to thin!< it will conseut
to he permanently gagged cvcu by t.he Jcms.
There ha^^ l)pr!11, it i:i trur, sollie ral;l~ci. sad iusta~~ccs
of eiliforial weal;~lc.?s. 77'e lcnon- that of two oldest
p~il~li~l~i~lg tirr~ls, both of Kew l'ork, one of tl~ern puh-

lislled a 111oi;t sctrrrilons .Tenis11 drfcnse LIT a nun-
Jerrish socialist who, if he has not deliberately lied.
has r;l~o\v~l too dark an ignorance of i'acls Lo I:

148 TNL Ih'~I;RNATIOU.\L JE\V
This is llol ;t ilrfellsc of "The Cause ni \Vorld
TJurest." 111 ll~c main the hoolt is 1rlle. Hut it is
nol. file ~csult of original 1.ese~arr:h. 11 (loea not
nl;ll;c iliose s~uall h~rl: inll>orti~nt disci~iniinations 011
which the Jen,~: alv.egs rely to lead the people astray.
It too ofteii li~~lcs in tlie downfall oS .le\vry those
tlrings n.hir:ll shall staucl iindeperlilel~lly and glori-
'~uslj nzhell freed of their liresrnl; insi~lious Jewish
conuecl.ions. On the rrltole, ltnvcvcr, it lnailltaills a
correct view of worl(1 iallnirs. Bnt it mas iiot a book
nu wl~ich the k'lllnalns conlcl feel olilig~~l In rilnlrc ;L
lin;ll stand: excrpt as regards their rigl~t to psilit it.
However, it prol)eia ~liijI~!r~~rnnilii~ of the book
called for tlre I'rotocols, to which the book rna~le
rreql~ent reference. So, like serviceable p~ll)lisl~crs,
~lle Pntnanls anlio~lnced that the Proiocolii \vo111

S A S S T T I . \ T l O l \'11:1 1 I .
(~'entury Rericn," can l)ublisI~ ;irlicles on the .Jewish
Question without regard to dictal:orial Jervisli atterupts
at control of the I'ress. Tn this counrr,y,
Ilo\ve\.rr? the *pies of Jewry are on the alevt for
~ ~ v ~rintt!{l ~ ~ r y 11,i 11:r eucl ssgllable, and attempt to
rli;~l;r! editors feel unc~~loiori.alile, as if they mere the
instijiaro1.s of paogrorus, wllenerer they present an
illtelligcnt riew of tllc ~~ucstiorl. Yet editors have
1101 been able entirely to ignol,c if:.
'i'lle reader is rather impressed with ollc ilnalitg
VOIIIII?~II lo all t.lle articles tliat have heen w~.it:t~:n,
iit~iiirly, t,lre facts nse11 are always those that liare
Ixcn given in T~rn .DI::\RI~~I~ luu~r~~iw~s~. !Sot
rliat they neces~arily have heel1 c~~pie

lood of tbe r~tlrl!r I.;LCPS, that the liiolne~it tBcy see
a Jew they hate ltilrr, ~;iii~l~t be ilefended. Most,
non..lews cdu testify that it; is nul.n~r of thenr. Unt
it is ;I illost; amazing conclitir~n iP evert a inniliou of
Jcws arousca 1.Iiis feeling. Why should itC!
Hoeevet,, tllc slaleu~ent is of donbtful f;tcl.-valrre.
'I'he .Tern hi~uself slroul

J 1 1 L H i o : \
I I t i ' 151
Doston n~ag~aninc co~~tajlleti ail a1,ticle relating to
tlie Jeivisli Qi~eslion. The Inrf; that the article vas
n.ritI,eu ijy a .~I!I\V (III(!s i~ot ll~ilitt~l~? ag;~,i~isI; it, Ltiit.
ralhrr sllds to its i7aluc. It 1~1inl;tillcd v;llll;lblc sugystiol~s
which tl~c New Yoi*lr liel~ill;~l~ aid tlie Aincrican
.Jewish Coiui~iittee 111igIlt \\.ell devote tlie ven~aining
pears of their activity to clinsc~ni~ratiilg a~iil
actnaliziug alnong the .J~?r\:s of this coimtrg. IGven
today its couiisel \%~1ill11 s;~vc l,l~ain l'ronl 1i1111.11 of
the folly wl~icli iltill.lcs tl~eil. attc~npts to ~oir~l~at n7\Yl~ilt
they call "~~crscciitinii," aud n.hic11 is notliiiip hilt
i.i~thcl. plain awl charitable trnth-telling.
This year the AllfrirLic 11;~s conlni~icrl t11rc.c ;ri.ti.
cles of value on 1.11~ .Iewish Qucstioi~. The first mas
y 1oes11r 1 I I situation in Paleatinc.
Xow, Professor Clay is not an anti-Szmitz, null cert;iii~lg
the dtln~~tlc is not, a1111 yet 1.111: artir:lo \v;ls
rccc.ivcc1 with a gooil deal ol' ab~isc I'roin .Jcmisl~ rluni.tei's.
It told nol.l~ir~g I~iit the tiwtli; and it was
ratller i~erl,iii~~i~t rriitll too, mlrich intelligent .len7x
(lonbtless wcl1.1~111u(1. Piwfes8or Clay ki~erv v11:rt lie
was mrilinp :~lJotit a11d 11is co11clii8io11fi are IKJI 1.118il-
lei~gccl by any aull~o~itp OII 1I1c snbjcct.
Ti1 the May dtlro~lir:, I2;111111 Philip Roas, \i.llo is
riiirle~'stood to he of .lcn~isli rlesceilt; w~*ol.e ;ril ai.ti(.lc
on ".Jen~-Hail.i~~g in i\iiiei'ica." Ue speaks mtlrel.
~lisrl;rinli~lly of puhlicatiolls nrllicl~ llavc c.nileav~~l~trl
to ail. I,lle .Icwisb (Jnestion, 11111. ;1Ftm having ti1118
paid 11is tax to the .Jews' prr!ju~licc. lie pvocce,lr iu
~~oit!incn(lable fasliioli 1.0 1~11111.ibl1te his tl~ol~glits to
l"11c matter. On Ihe n,l~olc what lle says is 1.1.1113, an11
the facts lie rlxen as his foturclation are of c1)111.sc the
I'rict~ wit11 which T~rir D~,i~ncosx ~SI)I:~I:V~I~NJ~
II~S
nl~ulc its reailers familiar. 1Jc srls 1111 Ilis stral\-
Iilan rtr 'ihnti-Se~ui~islr~" ai~d after l~aving valiantly
~lestrovcd it:, to l.lle ;~l)lilause of all ol' us? 11c gets
ilomn to seriolls i~iisi~iess, anil says aornc thi~igs
1v11i1.11 all coul~l 11ol1c motilil pierce ihe .Tcn.ish CIIII-
~cio~lsneess to its i~i~lcvmost s1rongIlnl~l aild set np
11c.n. rihmi.i~~i~s there.
.krill ill tlie Jllly -4llnl1bic: Paul Scot.t, Jlow~.ei.,
I'aris rr~]~i~caeiitalive of the Cliicago Bnil?j Tcu:s, has

an article OII ',The :isjliiilatiou of Isr;>el." Dfr.
Mowrer has won tlte respect of stnrleiits ol n70rlcl
rrll'airs. by the c~~nscientious al~ili[y u7it1l 1vhi1:h he
Ii;rs ol~served and reported big e\.ents in Eiinq~r. In
his ncsrs reports he iras llot hesitatol, n-lien the Ea~:t,s
jnstiticil it., t;o cable a slory of +Jenrisl~ participatioii
in this 01. tllal moremcut. It \\,as rcporl.eil at onc
lillle that an attempt on liis job had bee11 made by
c!tl.l;lin Jen-isli il~ilaences, and it is certain tllaL seetious
of tile Jewish llress bitterly ellaciced him. Yet
MI.. dlon~rer is pr~~l~;rl~ly no III~J~C illte~ented ill the
Jcnrislt Qirestioii than the illany otller big yroblclris
which hare collrl- a-ithin his J~~i~rllalistic Len, arid it
would he cstl.c~iirr+l,v rlllfnir to regarc1 him as in any
way a prol~aganclist for anything.
Mr. i\Io~re~' talks al~i~~~t Israel wheii, of eouvse,
lie inearls Jlrilah. T1te1.e is a deep distinc,t:ion there.
Aircl Ile talks also abont :issitnilation, n~l~ich the .Tern
will not arlllrit ab a so11it,ii)u. He protects liimself
fore ancl aft 11y attac1;ing the "anti-Seniites," \\41irever
therr aiv, a11rl by espressing liis confidence in
tlie Jews: but ~ J I I ail ihe cleclcx of llis airticle he gives
tllr. facts-aucl tlrcy a1.r the same facts. It: ol~ght to
IIC prettr n-ell settlcd 11y this time that Lhcrr. are
facts, rlor ~\T'Q sets of lnctx, i~lit only one set of fdcts,
conce~~niirg .Te\vieh infI1:euee a1111 a.,:li\.ity.
The TYw717'a 1T'oi.k llas talien tlic 1il~erl;y of setting
briore rhe pcol~lt: 1;l~e only real anti-Jewish article
that llas appcal.cr1 ill the United Btatcs siilce the
!~re~ent discussion IIS lht? Q~lestiou began, arlrl t11;tt
ar(.ir:lr n7as ~vrittcli 1,y Hellr,v Morge~~thau, a Jcw
r..,llr!~rr lhe gove~'unre~it is a~~~~nsiorrrril t~i IIOIIOP wheneve1
it u.i~i~lil pa!7 a colnpliiiicnt ~,IJ lhr .Je!r7~. It
tirrns ont tl~;ri he attaclcs Jewry iu its ii~osl. Ielnlrr
ripot-Zionislti. Most people llarie reat1 it? Sol. it was
iirlrlreiliatel ruv~lcrl i31t1~ propaganda and ptiblirrireil
ilr 110sts nf ncwsl)al~c~.s, iit 1i1:111y nf thel~l a': fii1~tinlnmn,
firsl-~pagc iicws. 31s. Illorgellthan waid that
Zianisi~i nni. rrot $1 soliil.iou illit a surrenclel.. Flc
nttaelis the v111~lc l'alcl;l.irri;ri~ plau Iroiu every an;Ic,
sail lint only attai.lcs lt11i belittler it.
Oi' conrse, thi,~ is wry i~~leresiing. Lh~t one

ILWS BI

\relliele is *lot known. Riit tlie presses lvere stoppc(1
sue1 thc Sloi-gc~ithan backfire s1:artecl.
311.. AIo~,gentlro.u's article ;re a Jen~ish 1ironoiiiicemcut
is negligible, but tile Ii:

Ji(\VS ARE SILEYT. TJiE SI\TIONAI. VOICE IS IIF.?\RIl 13.5
are 11cillg loosci~rd. .\nil if tile Jews noulil 1;i)- 11p
iapital OII ~vl~i~,lh to (Iran,---llic capital 01' ~)nl?lic coilli~lcnce
in their iIesi1.e to (10 tire right rhing--lIie!.
n-olild go aronn(l ailll lon8eu (lie holils they still hare.
This, hon~eve~,
too much foresight,
I .
r I
.
:,. "I,
ir; 11r1i (zxpei:lell ol' l.helu. It retlt~ires

What Jews Attempted Where
They Had Power
HE tilric of lllc yi311r lias comc wlien Christians
iiri~~lorc ~lre tolerni~ce of Jcns while Christmas
is being celehraterl. If the Jews will or~ly ~~ernuil
the Christians lo cele11r:l.ic Christmas ill i.lrcir
s~.h,~i~ln, Tllcir. I~olues, tlieir cl~urchcs-in their city
.;q~ares and country \-illages-ilirre \\ill bc i1101,e
clisyusiiiou OIL tlic itar,t r~f tl~c public to bclic~e tile
,Ir\vis!~ boasts of tolerance.
Tt is not yet annoiiilced whether. tlrc Jews will give
their perinissioll (;r III)~. Eut that there are illq~iiries
i~eiuy rrrade into the matter i# i11dir:ateil hy
this article in the Brookly11 Eicgli:, S Or:tol,zr :I :
"Canou Willi2.m Shealo (:h:~sc today iiiadc
yublic a letter Ill: tias scnt to tlie secretary of the
Uoanl of Eiii~(::~l;i(;n asking folf a copy oi rlile~q
an11 rcgnlations which, he alleged, forbiil tile
telling of a Christ :;lory ;it Christmas time ill
the pnblic schools. Ct~non C'liase sail1 illat thr:
attention of tire J?ecle~.ntion of Cilnrvlie~ has
i~rnl c;~llccl to a stateinenl; of :A kinilergartt:~
tc;~ci~co n'bo last yein a:ii,l slre 11nd told si1(:11 ;I.
~rto~j aiitl had heen in>iifictl that 'she will 1)11 rc.
illover1 froiri her 11osirion if she repeats such an
exercise ,illis (:l~ristnlas.'
H e : I tllat t!le M~ipreirre Court oi 111:
['nitoil States has sail1 t!i;~t this is a Christian
coiiniry aucl ''I!ie ciiu~tn ill the St;lle of Sew
York havv wiil tlmr C~Il~~i~li;il~ity id tile

tl~e leligious holiilays ol' l11c (I!n.ir;!ian people, I
lielieve, is not, il~stigated by the IIebren-a ns ;I
wl~ole. but by certain nlisglliile~l lea(lers of Jcw.
is11 1.eIigio11,' ''
Tl~is is a \,;]riation of the Christn~as therue. Iustenil
of 1ool;ing forn.ar~l l,o (:hrisll~~as, it is ;I sl~irit.
of ii~qui~y as to how far ~vc -oung, arul tlic
scho~~ls of today whose pllpils ;rrc c;lrcfully screeue~l
I~OIII tlie fact thal. (!l~rishna cclclrrates Christ: is
si~cl~ a contrast :m ought to give nlatllre Americans
a pause.
Hilt, if past experience be the stanclal'd of judgri~rut:,
the appeal llr .J~~wislr tolerailcc? in Xew Yorli
will be futile. If (:liristians do nut :ake tllei~. 1.ig11tP.
it is cert;iin tlic .Jen,s will never grant them. It
\vo11l(1 i~c un-Jcwish to 1111 so; an11 tlre ceaselesti c:rg
of tllc leaders is, '.Re .Jcnislr !:'
.\ny nunrber of instailces cor~lil be cilcd of the
~vhil' which .Tewii;h leaders crarlc across tlre edocaiiorial
aurl p~~lirical PSS~~UIS of tllc City of Xev York,
but one or t~vo iunsi: srrrc foi, tlre pvcneiit.
'l'l~c first case lit 111: c(tnsi~Iere(1 iis illat of Rev. TVillialn
C.>arter. U. D.. girrn in "TVl~u's WIlo in hmericn"
aa pastor of tlie Throop .tvei~ne Presbyt~ria.n
(111~~~~~11~, Rroolily~~ ; 81111101~ of "The (:ate of .J;~ni~s,':
ell epic story of tllc TT'ar; also of "3liii.011 and Ilis
~1astorpiel:d' ;lllrl "Sturlirs ill the Pc~rtatench." lie
is an extensive traveler ai~d a lecturer (JS rcpli~atioii,
1: ,I& , hpccialty . heing history snrl 1ittrr:riurc. .It an
importaut Y. 31. C. -4. center ire liwu lectnl-eil for
ilrirty consecntire \~;\;rcl

;L airl~ilar olle ;rt tl~e 12rasm11s Uigh School. 1701.
teu years he lrus been migjtgail by the New Yorlr
Uoarcl of T211i1c1rlior1 ;is specla1 1ectnl.cr in the poprll;ir
~.r.eiuilig exteusion COII~SL'S.
The (.~III.RI: UI.. Carter l~u~l~rtch~cation was "7'11u Harial Origins mf the
hrrrericalr I'cople,'' a stnd? of i111111igratio11. That iu
to 2;1y, i)r. Ca1.tc1. \\-;rs aslied to i;tn(ly tlral: luattel.
and ,Iis(:nns it pnblicly Ilel'ore lris wcokly lectilrc,
aniliencc $11. firasluns 8cliool. Ht? ilicl so, ttrlciug I.~ILI

WIlriT JEWS .A'l"Tli\ll'TtD \VHERE T11T.Y Ilh13 l'O\VI,:I< 159
is always cli.ficrlll, to tell just where tlrc lint falls between
fear of giving otkllse and fear of being unfair.
In ally CVL'III;, 1)s. Ca~ter gi~~e every evidence of,
let us say; fear of l~eing 11nfair. Brit it is Sear, an11
a .Jew cents fear a long way; the lnan \vho fears
r\.ru Lhorlgh he fear to be unfair is i~lrea~ly ~uarked
by the .iew who may hal?pm to be stationetl to watch
11im.
So Dr. Garter, to a~oid giving oll'ense by this parl.
ol his lecture, did the nsnal thilrg \vhich 11as always
(lrawn sneers from the Jewish prer.;; Irc brgar~ lo
]lily cor~~plilne~~l.; 1.0 tlle Jervs on their good points.
Lle spoke of their contributions to Arl:, Hcienre, and
t'hilouupbj'; to Statesmanship, Religion, and l'hilan~
tlil.opy. He lauded tt~eii. clisiingrlisl~e~l III~U L J nai)re.
~
such as Disraeli, Rubinstein, Scl~ifY, Ili~
clc~gyncn lrave been spontiiig it evL 'r slllce. .~'
Ti Dr.. Carrer will study the allcged coirtribr~tir~us
of tlrc Jc~vs to the .\rts and Scicrlces, study this as
carefnliy as he (lid the immig1,ation thcll~e, 11e nlay
r,~nit tlre p~aiscs frou futl~re lcciurcs. i\nil 11c nlay
nisi, I.I:V~FI: Iris list of great .Terns. RII~ t11;lt is neither
liere nor there.
"As we have Puund bad elements in these otlrer
peoples," said D'. Carter in this portion of his lecture,
''~o they are to be found in the Jew, and as the
majority of these 113,000 Jews who calne here the
year before the n7ap were Trom hlssia, or Kussiarr
co~ult~ies, let us not forget that ibe Jews thcmselves
aclmit the Russian Jew is the 1\7nrst of llis race."
Apparently the audience rcrllaincd ullsllocked.
The cluestion period came roilnil and two Jews, 21
Isoman and a man, asked tlrc lecturer why he had
pickeil out tl~e 1lussia11 Jew in particular for critic,ism.
.Dl3. Carlrr re~liecl that be had only given the
evidence of ihe Jel\% thcmselves, that he was merely

160 THE IZTERYI'TTOUT. ]I

I~.i;il lor telling the truth as to public ol~inion, and
Jewisl~ iq~iuion particularly, about the Rossian Jew.
So the Inquisition upoil tl~c Gerli.ilc begall. Six
letters werc ~c;iil, inilnl 01' them Ilaving I~een allilreaneil
to 1)r. \V. L. Ettingcr, sllperir~tendent of
Kcw Yorl~ Hcl~ools. One of these lettcrs askeii Dr.
13ttinger as a Jew not to allow his people to be maligned
and u~isrepresentetl, bnt to see that this Gentile
\iras stopped!
After tlie re:i(ling oP the letters, Dr. Carter was
permitted to ~peal~. He cnlleil attention to the sirnilarity
of the style iu all the letters, a similarity
ivliictl nuggeslell 11) him the possibility of their having
heen dictated by oilc ycr.son. At which Rabbi
Levy flew into a passign-though no oue had meutiorled
his narue. Dr. Carter also observed that as
Dr. Ettinger hat1 heell ;i~q~e;tled to on racial, reli~
gious and prejudiced grounds, it moulcl 1)e right to
pernlit Dr. Carter time to get witnesses on liis side.
This was uoi permitted. Ile was on trial!
Even the .Trws ailnnittc~l, ilndcr al.raight questioning,
that what Dr. Carter had said \\-as not uttered
invidiously, They adinitteil that h.e 11ad referred to
the unclesiral~le elemeilts of othc~ races as well as
of the Jews. It. nras atlmittcd that the sul~ject was
not of his on711 choosing, 11ut was assignet1 to hi111 by
the Koard of Eclucariou. Tllerc was verF liillc lelt
at tlic encl of tlic kxarninalion except to assume that
tl~c Jews were a s:~cron;inct, race, wit11 special privileges,
a race wlli~ru no ilou..Triv sl~ould prrsnrue even
to 111r:nlion in arly~hing in~t awe-Gllcd ton(:s.
Thul: \ires the isalre ttn il. ;rl~pe;tre(l th;~t (lay. \Yith
llalf ill(! .Tcniall po~?nlal.ion of tllc Lnitccl st;tdcs ceutervrl
ill tllc city of New S'nrl

their o\rrn race; lliey lookccl forwan1 lo the teaching
of rf~~~litis~~~ as the ilniv~rsal ruorillity!
11: wan further brouglit nut. that this Christiall
ininister hati bccn one of thc men who had preached
in favor of the .Jews. He had been one of thofie
p~iblic Incn on whom Jewish leaders collld depenil
10 i~cslooii(l with tyyic;tl Christian generosity. He
Iiad ilelivered blo\\-s :I t race prrjil(1ice. Ue h~~rl lauded
the .Jcvish racc and its leading figures. He hail
intnl~reted its commanding influence ;is the rewanl
of (liligence and ability. He hall tliunclered against
\\.hat .Tcwish reports had led llilll to believ~ was "the
(Iriine at liisl~incff." AII~ for this Iic had been clinly
coilipliu~ented by ilic Jewish P~tblicntion Socjety.
anil orllem. BGT he hall now spoken a worll of
trull~ which tlic Jews disliked, and Ilc was hefon:
tl1c111 for trial and condemnation.
In illrr course of the esaruination it (lrr

life] l~is ~~~~:;Lol~are, or 11i:j ~)O~iiiull as Iw!~lll'er for tll(!
Sem Yrwk Board of E~lucariou.
The term "ilirty" is rather an li~i~lsnal one to apl~ly
to a race that has so long aslouixhed Selnitic coun~
tries by ils iusistellce on its "11aw~h." Tl~at is to
tic!, the accuracy of Rallbi Levy's description woulil
i]rn\v about' the same degree an won111 an appraisal
of his geutlemanliuess.
Thcrrs %,as: f'ort,nnalely, one other non-Jew present,
namely, Ernest L. Cr:lndall, supervisor of Iccll~res~
wl~o was Alnerican enough to enter thc fray. Hc adcli.esse,l
the hysterical little rabbi:
"I uever hare Reen nor 1le;iril sr~ch bilfcrness
and hatry11 espressetl hy any hunlan being toward
another ns yon hare iuanifestc(1 lillirr. Yon
ougl~b to be asl~;rnred of yourself, and if 1 hear
anothur rvortl fro111 you along snch lines, T \r.ill
hare p u 1 hrown 011 I. !"
The future of 310. Cr;tndall should i~e wort11
wat,rhiug. If 111: is apologcl.ic for his principles, they
will "gel?' him. Sf not, he nray I)c the instru~rient ol'
itgetring:' some things that are wrong with Ki:w.
York.
:\t luy rate, 111.. Grandall acqoittecl Dl'. C;lrier,
aud tlic .Te\\rs went IIIII ~ulltteriug.
It is ratller an nnusnal alul uoten,ortliy fai:l., the
acqiiittal of a inall against wllom the Jews l~ail
morcil the charge and against rnlloni the secrct,ary
of the Roar(1 of Jcwish Ministei.s had uttered thi?
aforesaicl tlhrrat.
Dr. Cal.tcr went baclr to Ertismns school. He received
froni the Roaril of l

l~liudu oP u~illions aird coloring LI1c politics of tlie
United Slalcs ;IH well as challe~iging the T~ill abilit?
of i,l~e Rvitish Gorern~ucnl--that is, with the two
I'i11.emost "Cllrrellt Events" serlhing throughout the
world, orilers were given Illrough the Ncn7 York
lioartl r)f Eilncation l.Il;~t lcctnnrs must rclrlaiu
11111111.
Tt \\-as plain to be seen \\.hat llad lla~~pencrl. Ral~bi
Levy, au~l lhoso x,ho worked wilh him, llaving failed
in their pcrsonal attack, had achieved vhat ll~ry
\\ranter1 another way--by an orrlrr gircu to 1ei:tnrcrs
not to speak al~out the Jewish or. the Irish (~ncsrion.
7Y'lly 111g in the Iris11P The Irish wer,e not pro.
tesling against ~liscussiou of fl~c Ivish Qll~?stiou.
Tile Ti.ish nauterl the Irish (>~~cl;iiou discnsscd; they
believed that rlie successflil issue of tl~c matter de.
pendeil on wide all11 frce discussion. It is 1)ey)~lcl
the rr;rlin of iluagination that tl~c Irish should evev
ask, ilcsire or sanction a gag (111 popular discussion
q . ~ i Trish airairs.
hii to Yr. Carter, his audiencr!ri liar1 beer1 asking
him ql~r'sti~ils abolit the Irish Question frlv three
years. In Y. 31. (5. A,, ill pllblic school, in people's
Sor~im, everyw11el.e he ha11 bceu asl

turer saying, "I aln f(~rhiclclen ro l~~el~tion ireltill~l, or
(.he irish, or the Irish Question rl\cr;c prcmisen.:'
The Irishulan, being a whire inan, nonld uot be slo~v
to see lhal soll~cllon~ Ilc %-as bci~~g discriminated
ag:iinst. He mould clemancl to be iolil .tn71?/ tllc lec~
tuwr dared not lnentio~l the ~natrcr. ~Lrirl, being for,hidden
to meulion tllc Jews either, the lecturer
would not be able to say, "Those Jews (1on.n at. the
Roard of Education 11aj.e put llleir t.al~oo on both
the Jews and ihr irisli!" He would be bl'ealcing tile
rilles sen in giving the esplanation.
Rut iniagine the Irishman heing classed u~it.11 tllr
Jew-ll~e 1rishru:nl wlio wants publicityJ with the
.Jew rv!io icars it! How long would it take an lrisllmarl
to see that what was inl,elldc!l to be cliscrimina~
tiou i?~. Jwor o! the Jew mas cliscrirnination ciguinst
the Irish.
Yet tllat was precisely nhat the ,Je\r~s 01 Kew York
1)rought abont in the public lect~lre system to ~nake
their point against a (Ihrixtial~ cleq~rnan who had
told a verv well-lcni~~vn trutlr abont the Jews.
Of coursc, t11e1.e is nothi~~g in such an order that
mould appear to the Jew a.s Ireiuy sul~rer~irc

throwing thrcats about recklessly; a lew timid
Americans asking what New York mas corning to!
One newspaper came out with an American editorial
defending the right of free speech, 11111 changed itr;
icne somen-lrat upon receiving a delugo of Jcvislr
protests threatening the paljer with the ilispleasure
of the .Jems.
A man of lclis al~ililg and of ion-er slariili~lg th:tn
1)r.. Carter iuight. have been ovcrwholn~ecl by the
stom. But he hail at last struck rock and there he
stood. At tlial time he was not B~loa~n to 11avc xaid
l~nything detvimental to the Jews, and he is mot
1:non~n to have made snbseqneut remarks I I ~ ~ his I L
experie~~ce. T11;lt i~, l~eing altaclird by the Jcvs,
11e is not I~nnu~n to l~ave attaclred then1 in return.
It is quite possible that he might be in(lnce!l to do
the Aiadison C. l'cters stunt again and spralr iu
praise of them, gi~ing the~rl tlie 11811al lall~lation
~vhich tl~cy tl~cmsclrcs fivst ~rq~ai'ecl for our consnrnption.
But nevertheless he has been, thi*ough uo
fault of his onrn, the iocns of the viudi(:live policy
which prmslres ll~e trnl.l~-teller. Tt may be distastc-
In1 10 nr. Carter to have his story thns told: In~t
if 11c n7ill begin anen7 his stilrlieti in thc 1ii~t.or.g a11(1
character uC the lirlrrn;~ti(~nal Jew, he n'ill iind his
~m.n es].)eri(:nce a valuable coinmeutary thercou.
Dr. (I:n-tcr is ou!y one of Inauy. Tll~:r.c a1.e t,c;i!.l~-
!:I..; in Kcw York who co~ilil n tulc 11nf111il that mi~nlil
stir inflignation lo its ilrl~llls-hnt there has nercr
been an?- one ro tl:ll tl~ei~ toy or take their side.
lJarry ('1' tllrx(: stoiies ave in the possrssiom ~t TIJE
Die.i~monr 1 ~sni:r~~vii~~~.

The Jewish Question in Current
Testimony
RE .Jewish (Jusstion cor~iin~~ea Lo atlr'act rllor.e
a11rI i1101.e atleution. 111 rnnny quarters a new
leilclency toward irredoin of tile prens is observecl.
a1111 the long-corrce;tle~l truth is getting i1;ielf spoken
i t by I . It has beell t1101tght ~ ~ortl~ wllile, llefore
going on to otllrr phases of tllc si.1rdy of thc Jcwi~li
Qnelition, lo present in tl~ir: ai,ticle a few of Ihe inforiuatire
or coriiirniatory arriclcs iliac hare aplxared
in the public prefifi. It need not i~e said that,
wit,h a single possible csct!pl.ion, none of tllr: writer:<
or pnl)licatioi~n here quotecl c.o111(1 be calicrl ";rnli.
Semitic." Sot eveu thc ir~ost. ~~n~-easoi~ahlc JAW
could appc~~d rl~al term to any writer or liublicario~~
here cited.
The Associaterl I'rrss eent out a clis1);1lch ahich
was printed in A111t:rican papers of .ingust 24: ;IS
folloms :
"Th~~~sands of Russian Jews are crossillg the
Estl~oni:irr, Lithuanian and Polish I,oriler~ every
month, many sent Prom Soviet territory ~in(l(.r protection
of high Rolsl~eviki officials, arco1.11ing tr~
Irarelern in the bonler elates who ~~ecently 11:ivc r(:~
111rlred here. The opi~lion in ueighhijTing ~tates is
ali;rl the esorlus is prompt,ed hy fear of an approaching
crisis.
"Tlke fat:l. illat nu appreciable orga~iizrll 1t11a~ian
anti-Holsl~cril~ ~uovemeiit has appcm,ed since R;I~,III
1Yrangel's forces were dissipated, leads obserrci.~ of
?he situation 11cl.c to 1)rliere that, should the overthro~v
of tlic Soviets occur this viulrr, il. will bake
the natu1.e oP a popnlar uprising, supl~ortc;l by snch
tpoops as arc rlol, at the Eront. JI,niy few it vill
result in a n~irlcsp~.ea!l an1.i-Jen~ish program.
"I'or these reasons every .Tewisl~ lami$ of nreans?
and rllaily that are destitute, arc +ttcrnl)ting 111 gel
out of Rnsi;i;t. 'Dhey have no desire to tarry ill,

148 THE INTERNhTIOX.\l. JE\\'
Lilln~ania 01. E~thonia, but :ire serliing to enter
r t ~ ~ s wit11 y , the idea of cveni.nally reecl~ing
;In?erica."
To give the reader the hacLgro~u~ll of this fear,
we ofler par: ol a letter from T

I l i e I 1 I I I . 1 1 I I ! Tl~e faster,
the better! 1 tllink tllaf xorlle clay .A~~rerira will
have so lrlal1y Sclnites that they (ll~e Hernitcsi will
he lookell upoll the same as the r~~li~r~ci, the blaclc,
yello11- ;ind brown races.
'- ;mtl on l~orsrx, right
and leIt ;I~I!IIIT the same ~luniber of gllar!ls, in the
rc!ar sere~al c;rrr.iages or an ;~utonrol)ile ~rit11 ma.
i.11inc gun; anii l~ehincl That again infantry anrl II~I.,YCback
1.ii1n1.s. TTII~II illis group is secn on tl~e streets,
~:rr!ryone flees terrificcl ; occlrl~ants of houses peep
Illr!~uglr cracli: auil 111,css their hands to their henrls
1.0 si.e-nI~at?-F;~tl~er. brotl~rrr, son 01- other relatires
led an.;{? fi.om lhrair once llapl~y 11omes~ perl~al)m~i~rc~.
to rel~lril i~gai~r. Tliis they lmow, tl~osc
I~~~l~incl cluurs ;rnd \rill

either on the same il~ai~ 011 a peace-
,ful luission since the mar, the? say. At any rate,
our arrival has caused a great excitement, on account
of the food cargo n7e have for these people.
At present we are lied up to a qimy, in narrow
stream that scems to be also a sewer. Unloading our
flour is a. ticklish piece of work, due to the terrible
hnnger of the crowci that watches us. Whpriever a
hag hreal~s~ people fight to scrape up tihe loonc flour,
w!iich they pnt into cans along with n. good portion
of dirt That ia ]nixed into it . . . Ewryone has a tin
call and at noon tlicr~e was almost a riot over a
bucket of potato peelings that were tossed into thc
water. The people tied strings to their c;tlis and
went fishing lor the peelings. They ~tand all day
anrl the: n8 for food . . . . It itl not a very pleasant
siglit-this cr,owrl rif einnciated, white-faced men an0
wolnell, and big-cycil children.
"The mo~l: d;~rnaa~~le tl~ing about it all is the
rlozc?n Jews who ilit like inagpies through the cromcl.
The?~ are young, soft, well-groome(1 and prosperous.
The37 carry canes, wear new stram hats, and resemble
the kind you see in the States. Tl~cy hare nothing
in co~u~olr with the ol,her people. They l~$vc

money, plenty of it, anti they seem to thinlr this
ship is a floating pei1l:rr's cart and toixcco store.
They come 1111 to the g,:lngn.ay ttnrl wave British five.
pound note& in the, ;nr, orering theu~ for a cartun

exile or Judaism. Thcy cho8c the latter. That he
llradc a misl.aLe in forcing his religion on an un-
\villing people, may be seen i11 thc trcacl~erous IIerodian
dynasty, T~luniettn (:onreISts, who nrere a cnrse
Lo

'rill: JT:,\Vlil% QI.'ES'~lOK TN CLlXREIlir,istians in Cticsavea auil 11l:stl.oyed
their ct~nrchcs. When SI;e~Ranus, tlie go\-~:rnor, atternl)tc~l
to defend the Christiaus, the Jews fell on
I~irtl and den7 hiri~. In 605, tlie .Jeivn of Antioch Iell
up011 their Christi;~n neighbors ;md liilled thetri \I-itb
fire and sn70rd. The Patriarcl~ Anastasiun: surnarrlctl
tlie Siliaite, was disgracefully illtreateil by
ihvrrr afid his body dragged throrlgll the streei.~, 11e.
fore he was finally put to c1enl.h. :\bout 614, tllc
Persians advaricrrl upon Palestine a~ld the .Jews,
;~fter joining il~eir standard, rrl;iss;~cred the Cllr,istians
all11 cl?stroyecl Illeir chnrclies. Ninety thonsanrl
C11risti;lns perinlie11 ill Jcrl~~alem alolic. The
Jcn-s expectell fair play from l.l~e Persians as a re-

u-ar11, 11111 \\,ere treated worse by tiien~ Lhau l!y tilo
(:hrit;tiaus. Tn 028, the Emperor ilcr;~rlilir lrad retaken
I'alestine Srnlli the Peisians nnil \rIien milrcliiup
rhl~ugh Tiberius, he va.s mtrr1:iinctl 1)y :L
weal thy .TI:w named Benjamin, the sani:! ii~an who i:r.
vited the .TPWR to join tlic PCI.S~~~IS againclt the
Byzantines; the eilipevor aslied hi111 what 1ra:l in-
11!1ccd him to betray so great an aniu~osit?; against
the Clhristiana, lo which hi? rep1ie:l l11:ti. 111c!y were
the eueniies irf his rt:ligioii. 7'ct t71ey ciaill% tlic
pvopliccy of Isrrirrh, i,!, thc fifty-t?,ird chapter, to 11,ace
been f?iIfilleil i,i~ f71,c11i. '1Ic was oppi'es,s!~rl, rri~rE 7ra
! I I y e 71; I of, 7 7 1 ' l'liey
even persecnted IIohen~mctl in tlie iilcipieut stages
of his carwr. T'bcj ppl~ejutliceil the chiel Arahs
against him, helped his cnemies to 11ir;vrerlit E I ~ I ~ and I
enr1e;~vored to aliellate his Soll~rwrrs."
The article contin~~ec to givc in dctnil the persecution
to whi~!h rllc JCTI'S subjected their own people
wlio vere ~~rogi~essioe. It remincls oiie of 1.11~ warn.
ing. givi.11 to Ralihi Isaac 11. '17isi: iiy H:~l~!li 1.ilir11-
Ihal, when the forinrr wns urging the r~lorm of
r i m : ('If yo11 w:~nt to he Chrint yon innst erpect
to he cn~ciii~,

TiiE JEn:ISH Ql;ESTIOK T\' CCRKTN'L' TESTI.\IOA'Y 175
tivep; and we are tempted to allplurtd the serere re-
laliatio~r which vras exercised by ihe iu.111 of the
legions against a race of f::uatic~, ~vhose dire and
creclnlons superstitious seemv~l 111 ren!lrr tlieiu tire
iiuplaca.ble enemies not only uf l.l~e Rorn;rn Govc~,ument,
hilt of hiurnan kinil. Thn ~!~~thrlsiac~r~ of the
.Jews m:ls sl~pp(~rled . . . . hy tlrc flattering liromisc
ivhich they derive11 from their ancient oracles, that
a r:onqnerirrg Me8sial1 would soon arise, destined to
Itreak tlieir Setters aird to invest the fa~oritcs of
lieaven with tfle empire of the earth."
In iootuotes to this pansage, (+ibbons given revoltiilg
~letails of t,he metl~orls used hy tlie .ICIVR of
that period.
In all this worli tile Jewi~h lclea has 1.11~ asgistancc
of certain Christian sects who gloss liver tIr(!
ii~hurnar~ity am1 immorality of ccrt

Jews are to obtain worlrl rlilc. 'Phe l~alldbills are
llea~led "Tllc Fifth Uni\~ersal I

?TIE JK\VISII QVESTIOY IS CURREKT TESTI~IONY lii
It is also charged that the Zionist Colii~uissioii VL~~ILtains
a strict censorship; that even a peli1.ion lo ~.III?
Icing. ilisappeareil in iral~sil; t1111t lcttcrs 11a1.c to be
mril.i~.~~ g~larilrilly. A series of articles by tllc sl)cci:ll
~,~!rrct;l~!n~lcnt of the Ti.nics sucldcnly ceased, thougll
ll~c ];>st, May 17, bo1.e the line, '1'0 Be Contillueil.'
LLSc~vs from I'alestine is exceedingly scanty, anil
no one lanon~ whether what does come ihrollgh i*
trustwortlip. It has been printed that Sir Hrr!rt
Samuel does not dare ride throngh llla streets of
Jerusaleni n~ithor~t all srvorcrl c:ll. ill attendance.
For these reasons i.llr:rc is a peat deal of siispicion
in Engln~i~l that all is not well in I'alestil~e!'
Tl~c mout outspol;en word that has yet ireen uttered
on the political dileiiln~a in wl~ich Zionism
places the Jen,, appearell in :In editorial entitled:
"Political .Inilaisn~" in f,l~c Chri.sti!oz Cciitzirg, ool
Chicago, a p11blicali111~ of \r~cight nnil character:
'~l'o1ili1:al loyalty is one. Uncler tlie present
\vorl~l ~rrdcr it clrrcs not adnlit of division. Tllc citizens
of any nation ma? maintain a l'lal.i>nic aclmiration
for the political systetlis of neighbo~.ing nations,
liut their ultirnate loyally cti~lnot bc 'Platonized.'
Spiritual .J~kiIaisln is imc tl~ing. h Palesti~iian sl.ate,
or a Jewish poliri~,al or,ganination anywhere else, is
a very ilill~.rt

11is religion woulil iuavitsl~lj~ iilenlify hi111 with the
Yortl~ries and a.ipirations aild rliploiuacy, cx7c11 with
tho rni1it;ll.y politics, of a p

America's Jewish Enigma-Louis
Mars hall
03IETHI&'C+ of an eniglila is Louis ?i!:trshall,
whew llalue heads thc list of or@nizecl Je~vq in
:imerica, nnrl who is known as the arch-protester
against most things 111;n-.lewisl~. Re is liead of
urarly eve1.y Jewish uiol,cmcnt tl~;rt aiuonnts to ;lnp
thing, ;i11,L he is cliief opponent of pra(,tically every
~i~iti-,Jernish il~ove~l~ent that proniises to alnouut to
sr.lii~g Yet lie is 1;nowu luostly as n namcand
not a resy .Te\vish name at th:lt.
It woal~l be interesting to finow horn the iiainc of
'l1;lrshalln fount1 ilk \vay to this Jcmisl~ gent1cm:in.
Tt is IIOC a comlnon n:nllr, even arnong Je~z,s who
change T111:ir names. Lonis Marshall is tlle only
L'JIassl~all" listetl in the Jevislr Encyclope(lia, and
lhe olll: Je\\.isli "3Iarsllall" ill the in~lex of the pub-
Iicatioils i ~f tlie A.mel.ic:ln Jewish IIistorical So1:iety.
In the list of !.he annual conlribntors to the Aml+i.ican
Jewish C:rimlnitl:ee are to be fr1un11 m(:h i~anlcs
;is 3Ia.rshntz, hfayer., 31;1ss;tl, Jlaremo~.t, >laniil~c:iiuer;
JIarx, Morse, Macklcr, JI:rrr:us, JIorris, Jlr~slinwitz,
Marks, hlargolis, Maseclr---but oiily one "Marsl~all,"
and that is Lollis. Of any otl~rr prominent
.Jew it may be aslce11, "CVIiich Strans?" "Which Uiitcr~u~?yer
'?" "TVhich 1Gill11 Y" ''TVIlich . 8chitt'Yn--
I~nt iiever, "TT7hich AInmhall?" for ll~rre is only one.
This in itself woul(1 indicate that i,[.larshall is not
:t Jewish rlarue. It is an Aniericau, or. an ,i~~glo-
Sason name transplanted into a Jewish latuily. Rnt
llow and why are clnestiona to which the prrblic ;is
yet hare no ansver.
Lolli~ l\l:a~shall is head of the ,\mesican .Jemish
Committee, and thl: American Jewish Comruittee is
head of all official Jcwisll activity in the United
Stutcn.
As head of the coininittee, he is also hc:d of thl:
cxecniire comniittee of the Kern Yorli l

organination which is the active front of oag;ii~izeil
Jr\vrj in Sew 170rllarshall. NII~ ouly ttre the An~ericail
.le~vish Comlnittcc and the Kehillali li1lLe11 ollicially
(see chapter 33> Volume 11, reprint of this series),
but tliey are liulied don~csf;i~:ally as well.
Lonis 1\Iarshali n7as president of all tlie Jewiriii
Corn~nittees of tl~c worl,l at the T'crs;lillt:s lJracc
(:~li~lrrence, a11d it is chiirged 11ow, a8 it lias lleell
charged belure, fliat the Jen~ish Program is tlie only
llrograrn that went. tllrollgh the Vcrsiilies conl'er.
ence as it \\:as drawn, and tllc sc-called League IIP
Yatiolls is busily c,arrring out its tcrius Loday. A
(ici;c:rmined effort is being m;i~le by .Jews to have th*
TVasliingt~,~~ (!onCerence rake up 11ie same nlatrcr.
Colo~lel Honsr \\;as Louia irlarsl~all's chief aid at,
lJaris in forcing the .Tewisll program on au nnmill.
ing \\:orlil.
Loilis hParshall has aplscarcd in all the great J(!w
ish cases. The inlpeachnlent of G~lscrnol. Sulzer mas
a. piece of Je~vislr ~cv(~nge, Inil Louis 3Iarshail wa'i
Suhcr's altorney. Bulzer was removeA I'rolu the of.
fice of govcrn~>r. The case of Leo Frank, a Jew,
cllarged with tllc l,ec,iliar.ly vicious mul-dcr of a
(+eorgia factory girl, nras ilcfoll~lr~l b,y hlr. llarsl~~lll.
It TVILS 111lr of tlloae cases n'l~crc tl~e wliole world is
n11il)lreil into excilerr~ent because a Jc\v is ill troul~le.
11, is almost an indir.;~l.i~!rr of the racial cl~;~r;lrtrr ol'
;L 1.11lprit these (lays to nolc hou. mucl~ mont!j is
spent for him and how much fuss is raised concc1.n~
ing him. It accrrls ~ I be I a part of Jcwisll loyalty
Lo prevent if possible thc Gelli.ile law being enforcell
;~gaillsi Je\vs. The Dreyfus case nild the l'ra~ik case
are examl~lcs of the el~rlless publicit? the Jews sccure
in hellalf of their own prol~ie. h'rank mas rei~riev~!d
Sl.om the death sentellcc, and stilt, i.o prison,
;rftci. wl~icl~ 11e mas killril. That horrible nct c;111 he
traced direct17 to the stal:c of 111rl)lic opinion \vliicl~
wai: caused by raucous Jc\visl~ pl~bli~.it!; \i.hicll
t;t(r~lped ;it rl

llir srnrr of Geulgi:~ is, in tllc average mind, part of
an association of irlras dircd:ly traceable to this
Jewish prol~egandil. Jewish publicity (lid lo Georgia
what it did 1.0 Xussi:~-grossly misl~epresenteil it,
and so ceaselessly as to cl,caLe a false imptcsaii)~
nenerally. It is not without rc:tsou that the I

192 THE 1STERNATIOSAL JE\V
"l'a~ii;~ Jlag 26.-1,oniti 11:1rslii~11, who l~an
silccercled Jutlge l\.lacli as llend of the Jewish
Co~nniillrr in Paris, was received hy lJresident
Wilson this afternoon, and gave him a long cableil
occouut if the Jewish mas.: meeting recent-
I$ 1i1:l~l iu &la(lison Square U-arcleu, i~lcluding
tlie full text of tho resolutions adopted at the
meeting . , . . and editorial cominent in
The Tiwres and other papers . . . ."
Wlicn Russia fell, Loliis 11a.rlillall l~ailetl it mith
tlelixht. The New York Tin?c.s begins its stoiy on
.,
n-orld ercnt since the lprench Revolution, LO& Mar-
~11i1ll ill nn ir~ierview 101. the Nen. York 'I'iitiea last
night sni(l"-;L 1111iu1,er of things, nrnoug \vliicl~ was
the statenlent that tllc crt!nls in Russia n7e.re no sure
Of course they ve1.e not, the events hcirig of
Jewish origin, and 31r. Marshall being the recipient
of Hie lilost inLiuiile il~terilation;xl ne\\,s.
Even lllc new Rnxsian re\-01ntiona1.y goro~~iincnl
111ade reports to T,ouis ilIarshal1, as is shown by the
dispatch ~rintecl in the Kew Tork 'Ili,~i~(?s of B~ril 3,
1 7 i h i r o I I Z I ~ rI c~ i r ~llat liail
I~cen

I~MERICA'S J1:WISI-I ENIGMA-LOUIS XAKSNALL 183
1111r1.tiwg the testimouy of eye-wituesses as given to
congressional iuves,tigatioil commil.tel

~rilble booli ~lightl~ ailit! ilint '.il~e ideal oftiter is a
Christiau geutl(:riian." Mi7. II;~.raliktll mrote, n,ireil,
~leiuau(le(l, aild ihc ciiitiol~ was cha.11ged. It now
reads that "the ideal olYircr is a courteous gellllt:.
mall,'' a big drop in idealism.
There \i7as ilotliiilg 1oi1 i~iril~~l)ol.tailt to draw fort11
3Ir. IIarsLall'x plwtest. Tn 1al;c cave of protests
aloue, 11c irlnst llavf5 ;L 1a1,ge oi-gal~i~atio~i.
And jer 11-ith all this high-l(!nsi who ha?
been referreil in as the a~,cli-in(p~i.sitor against llie

hare never favored the cl~cation of a sovereign Jew-
ish stale."
R L7T--
&[I.. 3Iarshall says, "Let the Zionists go on. Don't
interfere with them." Why? He writes:
"Zimlisw~ is liul all incbrlc~nt of cc far-i~caclvi+zg plari..
It is ?i~,erely a co~kti~~ici~t peg ox rolbich, to JLIMI~ a
pozt:crful toenpoi%. All tho protests 17~cbl ~~~ib-Zioi~i~ts
,!rimy iisrrke 21~0711d h~ f~tlile to (~fjc!ct that policv."
He says that opposition to Zionieill at that time
would be rlangerous. "I coul11 give concrete exam.
plcs of a most iinpressive nature in support of what
I have said. I a111 not: au alarluisl;, and even my
enclnies will give me creedit for not heing a coward,
but ~ny lore for our people is such that eve11 if 1
were (lisponcrl to combat Zionism,' I would shrink
from tlic responsibilities that might be entailed were
I to do SO."
And in concl~ldiny this strange pronouncement,
he says :
"Gic;e ,?itc tlce credit of bcliaci?%g at I a.m speaking
aadcisetlly."
Of course, tllcre is more to Zionism than appeal3
or1 tllc snrface, but. this is as close as anyone can
romc to finding a .Ten,ish ailr~~issinn on the subject.
If in this co11nl:ry tl~crc is apprchcnsion orcr the
Jewish Problem, the activities of Louis DIarshall
have been tl~c most ponrerful agents to evoke it. His
~wopagandas have occasione(1 great resentment in
many sections of the 'i:nitcd Sl.at,es. His oppo~ition
to salutary in~migl,ation laws, his dictation to boolz
ailrl ycriodical publishers, as in the recent case of
G. P. Putnanl's Sons, wllo illoditicd their publishing
program on his order; his campaign against: the use
of "Christological expressions" by Fe(le~.al, State
and m~~nicipal offir:crs; all have resulted in alarming
the ilativcr population and harming t.he vcly cause he
so indiscreetly atlrocates.
That this defen(1er of "Jcmish rights," a11d restless
advocate of the Jewish religious propaga~~~l;~, slin~~ld
lllnlie Iliinself the leader in ;rtL;rcl

186 THE I\~TI7BP\'ATIOShL JE\V
Sunday 1a1r-s and he;~~ling au anti-Christianity carnpaign,
seems, to s;~). 1:lle l(r;~sl., in(!onsistent.
>lr. lfarshall, who is i.egarclc(l by the Jc~irs as their
greatest "constitutional" laver, since

AMERICA'S JEWISH ENlGAlA-LOUIS MARSHALL 187
was present-ecl for t,l~e consideration of thought.
ful minds which is of no ortlinarr. importance.
Tlie (lici~lru ol Mr. Justice Story in Viclal
against Clirartl's Executors (2 How. U. H., 1'38),
to the en'eet that Christianity was a part of the
conlmon law of Pennsylvania, is also relied
II~IJII, Imt is 1101, an authoi'itative judicial de-
teimiuation of tl~ttt proposition. The remarlr
was not necen,qai~y to tl~c decision.
The rema:.lIr. Justice Brewer, to which
~cfercncc IIJIN ;rln!ady been macle, were also unnecessary
to the decision rc1111cre(l by thc conrt.
The fact that oaths are administered to witncsscs,
t11;tt l.l~e llollow rnorkery is pi~Ss~rell ol
opening deliberative asscmbli~?s and conve111.ions
with prayer, that wills begin nrith the absni.11
phra~e~ "In lie ualiie ol God, hmea," tlia? giganlic
rnissiouary- asfiociaiions are ill operation to
cstablisl~. Christian missions in every qilartcr of
the globe, mere also instai~ccd. But none of
these illustrations affords any valid proof in
fil;l>por1: of the assertion that "this is a Christian
n;~tion."
Our legislation relative to Ihe r)bsei3vance ol
S~iii~lny is siirh ;I 111:1ss of absurdilics and inrt~nxist~.ncics
that almost angt,hiiig call be pidicated
t-Irereoil except the idea that nnr lr+gislators
are iil~l)re.~isr~L with (he 111~1io11 that tl1~1.c i~
anylhiug s;ic:r1:11 iu the day. According to the
~~io~vs of any sect,io~i of the Christian church, the
acts n71rich I have euu~~~erated as 11ermiite(l
irould be regardeil as 8iuflll. l'l~cir. legality in
ilir cyc of tl~c law is a ~Icmonst~ation tliat the
pl.ol1ihito1.g enactn~e~~ts relating 1.0 Runday are
sinq~ly police regl~latious, ;rn(l it sl~ould be the
ri'i'orl, of f2ucry goocl Aule~.ican citizen to libe~~alinc
oul. Hui~dar. legislation still inore, so that it
slrall cease to be tile clo;ili of I~ypocrisy.
11s a lilisl resort, we are told hg our opl~orlci~ts
that -thin is a C11risf.ia1~ government because
?lie ~uiilority of OUP citizel18 are adherents
of the Cbristian faith; that lhis is a goverr~mant

of majorilies: bcc;rttse gi>v~ir~liuent mcnns I'orce
and majorities represent thc preponderance of
strength. This is a most darlgerous doctrine
, . . .
If tho Christianity of the IJniteil States is to be
qi~estioncd, the last person to ir~itinte the inq~iiry
~hould be a ineillber of that race ~vhich had 110 hanil
in creating the Co~istit~it,io~i or in tltc nphnilding of
the conntry. If Christian prayers in plll~li~: are a
l~ollo~v mockery, and Suu~lay 1;~~s i~nreaso~~able, l.he
last person ill the world to opposc ihelu should bc
a .Tew.
Mr. &tarshall has the advantage of being an Anierican
by birth. He mas born in Syracuse, Sew Pork,
in 1856, thc Ron of Jacob ;rnd Zilli JIarsliall. After
1)r;ucticing Ian, iu Syracuse, 11c established himself
in xew York, becarue a 77'all St,reet corporation law
ycr, ;knd his nativc coiuntry has afforilad him Sellerous
means to win a large fortune.
The question arises wllether if: i~ patriotic for Nr.
liarshall to i~uplaut into tlre ITI~II~R of hi8 foreignbonr
ro-i+eligioi~ists the idea that this is lot a Christian
conlrtry, that Sundax la\vs i;honld be opposed,
a~lcl that tlte ~uani~ers and cuslomn of the nativcborn
~hould be ~cnrneil and ridiculed. Tl~e erect has
tier~~ that thousands of immigrant .Tem,s from East-
( ~ Europe n are persisteni.ly violating Sunday laws
in tl~e large industrial cwrtcr,s of tl~e country, that
they arc Ihaled to court, lectured by jlidges, and
fined. Ame~~jcan Jrass 11,ho are ca~r~-i~lg i111.o practice
the teachings of Mr. 1\iaiSshall ant1 his follomcrs
a n reaping the ~vhirlmincl of a 11at;ural resentment.
1 . 1 1 a l was the leader of the movement
which led to tl~c abrogation oC th~? treat7 between
the Uilitecl States and Russia. I%'ltmier~er governrne111:
Iioords c>r committees are appointed to invcstigate
the actions, con(1uct or conrlil.io~ts of Eoreign-
I~onl Jens, great influences are iinn>c.diatcly cst+ried
lo liave 3lr. Alarshall luacle a luei~lber of such bodies
to "protect:' the Jevish interests.
As hmil of nlillions of organized Jews in tlie
Uiiitcd States, Mr. ibIar811all has ill\*ai'ial~l,v 7vieliled

this ilifl~ie~lcc 1)); 1neallH of ;I cau~l~aigi~ of 'Ll~rotests,"
lo sileuce criticiw~s of Jewinli ~~rollgdoinp. Tle thns
protested ~IICII testimony w:~s made before tlie
Senate Silh.Committee in Washington, in 1919, t,hat
the Jewish East Side of Xew I'orlc was the botbal
of Bolslierism. Again he protested to Sormau IIapgoo(l
against the eclitorial in UO/T)IC~.'B I11rie7ily, crilir.iaing
the acliviiies of Jewish lobbyists in Washington.
1113. 3larshall describes himself ill "Who's TVlio" as
a. Iearler in the fight for tlle abrogation of tllc trc~tty
nit11 Knssia. That was a distinct interference in
America's political affairs and was not a "religioi~a
activit~." connectecl vith the preservation of "Jewi~11
rigl~tg" in the TTr~iictl Slates. The limiting cxpression
':in the United States:' is, of course, our
on7n assumption. It is ilonl~iful if JIr. JIarshall
liniita anything 'o i,l~c Tlrhited States. Ile in a Jew
and t;l~ercf~lre ti11 i~~tcrnationalist. He i8 ambassador
of tllc "international nation of Jen~ry:' to the
Gentile rrrorld.
The pTo-Jewish Ggl~ts ill which JIr. Marshall has
l)ew engaged iri this country makc a considerable
lid.
He fought the proposal of the Census Bureau to
entunerate .Jews as a race. As a result, there arc
no ofiiicial figures, except thosc prepared by the
Arnerican Jewish Committee; ns to tlie Je\rvish popu.
It~tion of the United 8l;ii:es. The Census has them
listed under a score of different n:rtio~~alities, rvhich
is not only a 11ou-(lescril~tive ~~~eLhotl, hut a deceptive
one as well. At a 1)inch lllc Jewish a~rtl~nrities will
admit of 3,500:000 .Tcw in the United States. The
increase in tllu amount of Passover Bread required
nrorllrl indicate that, t11el.e are 6,000,000 in the ilnited
States II~IV! Btit llie (:ovel~ulnent of tlie Uni1:etl
States ix r~iiircly at sea, officially, a.s 1:i1 tl~e Jewish
o a t i o 0 i l l coi~ntl,y, except as the .Tuwish
governr~lrnt in this couili.ry, as an act of courtesy,
passes over ccr,tain figures lo the goveriirr~cnt. The
Jen~s linve a "forpig11 office" Illnlugh mhich tllc? deal
with the Oorern~iirr~l of the TT~iitctl States.

IqG TIIE IXTERX.\'TlOXi!. Jl?,,V
Mr. Xnrshall also fougl~r. IIIC pro]ioi;e~l ilatl~ralizatiou
laws that vonlrl rl~.l~rive '.~i,?iatics" (if tlie privilege
of bccoil~iug uat~~raliz?il citiz1.11:;. Tliis was
somctl~i~~g of a confci;sioii !
Wheuevev t,hcre \+-ere extradition casca t~, Iir:
fought, p~cr~enling .Tevjsh offellilers Irom being extracliteil:
Mr. 3J.lnoshall wa.s I'recluently onc w111i assisted.
This alao was 13a1.t of his "religions activities,"
perhaps.
He fougllt the right of the 1-nitell Stares Ciove1.n~
uient to restrict irnmigr~iiion. Be has ;~l?prare~l
oftener in Washington tl~an t~iiy other Jew nrl this
qnestiun.
In col~l~cction mith this, it maF be sugge~iccl Lo
Mr. ~Vlarshall t118.1 il he is rcall:i interested in up-
Iloliling the law of the laud and r(+s!raiuiug his on711
people fn1111 lawless acts, he coulcl bilsy hi~~lsr+li \\,itll
prolitabie res~~lts if he n~onl(l look into the slnllggling
of Jews across the Mcxirau and Canadian
borclcr~. And when lbat service is finished, lic
might look into the natioual .Jewish system of hootlegging
which, as a Jew of "rcligio~is sctivitien," III?
should lie couceri~cil to break up.
Louis 3IarshaIl is lea~lcr of thal: nlovernent wl~ich
will force the .Ten, by lam illto ylaves where lie is not
wanted. The lan- co~npelliug hotel keepc1.s to permit
Jews to nl:ike their hotels a pl;~cc of resort if they
n~anl to, has beeu steadily pnshcd. Such a law is
l~ractically a Bol*;lierik order to destroy property,
for it i~ commonly Irno\\-n what .Jewish l~;~l.~.onage
does for l~ul~lic places. Whcrc a few reslxctable
Jews are perluitte~l, the others flocl;. .\1i11 ~rhen one
clay tl~ey discorer that tl~c place they '(patrr~~~ize" is
becoming lalo\vn as "a Jew hotel" or "ti .rev club,"
thcr~ all the Jews ahanclon it:-but they cal1llol- caBe
the stigma wi1.h thelu. The place i~ known as "a
.Iew place? hut laclis both Jew and Gentile patronage
as a result.
1T7hcn T,IIII~S Marshall sl~ccceded in conlpelling bg
.Jewish pressuyc. a1111 .le~vish threars the (?oiigress of
thc United States to brcsk the treaty with Russia,
he was layi~ig a train of causes wllich resi~lte~l in a

prolungation of tl~c war and {.he utter subjngation of
llnssia. Rillisia ?elves the world today as a living
illuslral.ion of the ruthlessness, the stupidity and
the reality of Jewish pox7er4nillesa power, fanatic:~lly
mobilieed for a vcngcful end, but most stupiil-
Iv tt(lluinisterei1. Does Mr. Narshall ever reflect on
he grotcsqnc nt,~ipi~lily of Je\vish leadership?
It is regmttcd th;tt space does not permit the pub.
lication here of the coorespondence between Mr. 31a1.nlrall
and Major G. 11. Putnam, the publisher, as set
fort11 in l.he au1111;tl report of the American Jcwisll
Committee. Tt illustrates quite vivitlly the lnethods
by mhich Mr. Marshall secures the suppressio~l of
I)oolis anil other pl~blications which he docs i~ot lilre.
3Ir. Marsl~ttll, assititcd by factors which are not inentioiled
in his letter, procured the suppression of the
I'rotocols, after the house of P~rtnarn had them ready
to publish, and procl~mil lat,er the withdrawal of a
Iiook on tl~e Jcwish Question which had attracted
widc attention both here an11 in England.
Mr. 3Iarshall apparently has no confidence in "absurilities"
appearing absurd to the reader, nor of
ulicsx appearing false; but he would constitute himself
a censor and a guicle of public reading, as \\,ell
as of intcl~national legislation. If one might haeard
a guess-Mr. 31arshal11s kind of leaclcrship is on the
wane.

The Economic Plans of International
Jews
T HZ sl.rength ol Jewish inoneg is in its inierna-
tionalism. It nlretches a chain of banks and
centers of financial control across the n70rld, and
plap tlhmn on the side of the game that fa\.ors
I . This center was, and for tl~c ruorneni, is, in
Gcr~~haiiy, at, Fral~l;fort.on-the-&, hut feverish
anxiety non7 acconi1)anies the fear that it may hwe
to be moveil. 1)estiny is overtaking ihe Jewish
World Pon:er. The gold which is their gocl--':tl~c
God of the living" is \vLal they (:;rll tlit+ii. gold---is
heill:. I1i.ollg11t ovwscas 011 every available ship arid
locker1 up in the vaults ul .Jewish hanliers iti Xorth
and South America, not ti, curicll tllis irt!rnisphcre
but to mohiliec Jcwisli financial pnmer fur any desperate
slrokc. Financial Jerr-ry is afraid. It has a
right to be afraid. Its conscience, still illoodr. from
tile war ~vhore gaini: hare not yrt al.oppe(ll is in a
troubled slate.
l e i 1.1anliing houses in any country,
homcvci- giwt such banks should grow, wo~llil be no
menace. 111 ~piie of the fact that the ricllest banlic1.s
in the morlil arc: Jen,n: as mere hankers in their
several i:onntrics tlrc? would not occasion alarm.
Tn straight out-and-out banking, the Jew is not a
success. Tllc R!~rl~sclii!rls rnc1.c nc:avr. t~ankers in a
prrrpey sense; the>r mere money-lenders to nations
\rhose re~)re!

Jewish L~anl

Most; iliforule~l .Tews ha\-0 l!ons~e(i of il as indicating
tlre impoi.tance of their pcople. Above the nations at
a s I iilr11;1Iio1111 Ii~lallrinl cornruittee, all
Jewish, lookiug dovn npon all the 'uction and blood
tts sercncly as American baseball league diiwtors
look domn lipon a pemla.r~t ill-rir?~. S(?~!i~riii.e~l, ~cll
III;ITI timl tn liis country b;, tics of unclirirlcd 11:itlonalistic
loyalty, lrolle of these \r.oulrl hare amouiit(:(l
to UIIIC~. lJuiLe~l, 8s ;L s~~p?~ii;it,ion;il fin;rnr:ial
board, imon~ing the secrets of ~!1 the nations, corllerrilig
one.wil11 anoL11er in ;ill sorts of \va).s, ever1
cluri~i:; tlie llardest day \vhen a!1 coiiiiniii~icaLiou
between co~lntrie~ ~va8 SIIIJ~!O~I?I~ ti1 11~ locked by mar,
deciding the duration of the mar ant1 the hour of sovallcd
peace, tliesc groilprr constitute a dangcr whi(:lr
no one doubts after once ha\-iny clearly seer1 it.
&[en who call t11v.s manipulate iiicncy in tilr~c 01:
war (:all {lo so ir~ tiruc of ppace. Tile Ihitril Staten is
living under soine of that peace mani~)nlgti~!i~ no\\,.
The r1

powel that the world is Sitcing now. Look at It~rs~i~,
and looli at the people who s\ral.med at TTerfiailles
ttlld lllade lilt Pc~c~ Treaty. The Peace Tre;~,l.y was
rnil;tcn bp finandc1.s; it is the bill presented, not
to a iloatcn foe, h~lt to the n~orltl. TTery fevl people
llave ever rr;i

THE ECOKOMI,' PLAKS OF INTERNATIOiihL JEWS 197
lll".~; 1.h~ .Ten~inh money-lender's power. He does nr!t
lend to build iiu(lnsu17, blit to 11r;rin it.. li~depenilent
industrial or agricultunal wealth menaces his rule.
Industry must be curbed by sl~eculation; specnla-
I.~,II, mllst he ~nco~~raged by exlra~apancr.; 811 ill-
~lust~.i~~us pcoplc ~oon morks itscif fl,ce of its 11ebt
slavery; therefore invent new exciteme~lts to keep
it in debt. Ellrice people from ihe I'arms, an11 so
lorih, a1111 so forth, all \v-Licll devices arc uom well
I

11~~2 olirs %clr.ic/~ Je7,oish 1hizl;e~s 11%t 0716 for. others
lo jollozt:.
Jenish ba1ikr1.s kuo~v I~etter than anjroue else the
utter falrrity of the present system, but they profit
y that falsity, and tl.hey are rui~ii~~g non-Jewish
rule by that falsity, and they are establishing .J~ldah
by tllab lalsitg, and they mill try tri ruaintain that
falsity 1111iil it brings the illevitable collapse; after
which hey h(111c to reorganize i:he world on Jewi~11
n~onelary principles. Ao; at lcasl.: the Protocols
iudicatc. This had ri-girr~e is for the ~o-called Gentile
period only.
Tlre t;pmpornl.y na111re of the pi-esent Jcvish syrrem.
ant1 illtr ~iecitroction it is meant to ~vorl< in the
world, is s11ou.n in the Thin1 Frotocol, where, after
discr~sring wap tinrl iileans to nialie the lower classci:
litit,e the well-to-do, it says:
"This hostility will be still more acccnl.nated
as thc re~lllr of cr,iscs ~vbich -,ill close stoclc
excl~nage opl+ratiorc anil ulop the mheels of in-
1 1 Bar~ir~g organi~ecl ~ich a porleral ecnnomic
crisis by all l11e nn111:rgronnd rileans
arrailable to ,is, and tharlks to thc assintancc ol
golil, all of wIii1.11 is iu our Ilanils, a.e xirill throw
wl~nlr c~wwds of \\-orkingmen illto the street,s
8im1~lr;111rolinly in all il~e connt:ries of Ellrope.
These rro\vds n7ill gl:idly slied thc lllood of those
whom tl~ey, iii the siinplicit? of tlieir ignorance,
hare eilricd sinre childh~ioll anil wlrose p1.

solidarity to Iiandle :r ilivided \\,orl~l. And l.lli8 plall
has sncceelled. Out of tlle disorder. of tllc World
War 1001: hon. high the govenlilu~ent of .ludah has
beell placed in 1211ssia. Austl.ia, Germany, France,
Italy, F:ngland and in tile Uniteil States.
All the Jewish han1;ers :Ire still in Rnssia. It
was only tlie non-Jerrish bankers who were shot and
thrir 11ropei.t,v coiifiscated. Bolshe~inni has not
abolished Capital, it 113s 0111y ~t~lcii the Capital of
the "Gentiles.:' A4nrl that is all that Jewish fiocialism
or :tn;irchisin or Bolshevisin is designed to do.
K,very banker who is caricature11 with ilollar rnarks
on his clothes is a "Qentilu" banker. Ercry capitalist
pnlrlirly cIcni!nnced in Red paraden in a "Gcn.
l.ile?' cal)itali,st. Every big strike-railroad, steel,
coal-is against "Gentiln?' inrlnstr?. T1i;rt is the
purpose of l.lie lie11 n~o\~eincnt. Tt is alien, Jcwish
and anti-Christian.
row, nilc of the interesting points abont thc
Jewish financial scheiile Si~r t11c furui~ as slrnwn in
the Protocols is t.llr+ wv;r.y in n~liich it cont,rasts wit11
the finanriel s(.Ilciiie which the Jewish groiipa now
Pa,vor. As before ,stated: what: thr Prot:ocolists now
advise i8 not whzrt tll~g will adopt when thcir present
arlvive has n.01-Iced its hopc

200 THE 1iYTEICNATTONAL JEW
in the groimd and the gold that is money is under
Jewish control, and they n~ithdraw it when they
mill.
The stupid so-called "Gentile" saps, "Why should
they withdraw it5 Tllcp caanot nialce ally money
that way !" Or~cc again rememhei~ 1.hc distinction:
il; is not a matter of "maliing" rinoncp hut of "getting"
it; panics are morc: q11icl;lg pl'ofitable than is
a long period of prosperity for 1ue11 whose com-
.nloility is money. Indeed, men who deal in moncp
as a coiirnlodit~ and on the .Tewish plan, lose their
prestige if prosperit.y continues too long. The
banlier who is a banker, who lives to serve industry
and thc comrunnitp-l~e profits hy prosperity, hut
not so the money sharlcs.
"We create11 ccirnirmic crises lor ihe Gentiles
hy ihn ?a%th.draroaT oj v?,oiccy froin circ7blotion.
3Iass capital stagnated, money was wit,hdran~n
from use by the various governrni:nts, and they
in turn were obligeil to tun1 bacli to the capi.
talists for loans. Hncll loans naturally embarrassed
t,lle governmeiits, owing to the pa?
niertt of intercst charges, and nralle tlle~n sub.
sCrvient to the capitalists. . . . ."
The witlidrawal of inoney from ~i~culation ill
create panics; everyonc knows that. Slicl~ withdrawal
of money is xvithin the clccision of a very
smell gronp of men. Here in tlie United 8tatcs we
haro lrccn for a long fifteen months witnessing such
a mithilran~al and its effects. The word u7ent by
wire across tlie land, selling a date. On Lhnt date
va111es 11eg;m to crash all orer 1.he country, and
Iloncst banlters tried to help, wllilc othcrs who knew
the game proiiteil hngely. As ~lio~n in the last ar.
ticle, money wafi withdrawn frolu legitimate use,
that it rniglit be lent to money specnlnrors at six
pa cent, who in turn lent it t.o 11eq)erate people at
rates as high as 30 13er rent.
No inielligenl person will attempt t;o explain
snrl~ ~n,(+11l.s 011 tl~c gr~~nrl of natl~ral law 01, of hon.
est practice. These things occnrr.~~il in thin country
within recent days. It is the "elastic" system, you

TIIE ECONOlilTC 1'1 ANS OF IXTERU*TIONAI, JL\%'S 201
I;nonr, mitll tile public as a monkey on one end of the
"elastic." A splrn(1id iclca, no doubt, if ailn~il~interell
by the non-Jcmish nletlio~l of ~loing the gr.eatest possible
good to ihe gretttcst n~ull~ber, hut a deliberate
assassiualior~ I I ~ life and properly as it has been
3dlllinist~r~cd.
The Protocolislu then pay thcir respects t,o gov.
erlllnental finance witli the l;eennesn that is well
jnslifiod :
"Owing to n~etliods allowed hy irresponsible
Gentile governineuis, their tr.easur.i

202 TEE IUTLIIINATIOSAL JEW
from thc government body ir~ltil tllcy fa11 off of
their own accord or the govcrnll~eut il.sell removes
l.hem. But Gci~t,ile govcrnnlents, instead
of removilig them, colitinlre to plaee more. The?
mli~t perish inevilabl~ through exhauslion by
rolnr~tary blood-letting."
This is the plainly expressed crsiticis~n of the
Jewish Worl(l.(fovernment upon the govern~~~ent,s of
the nations, and the ir~~t!~ of it callnot be yaiilsaill.
It icpreeenta a state~rlent of cominon ivisclom upon
which tile Jru~ish T3hrld Program bo!)en lo colnmend
itself to the corllrnon peoplc.
"Tl~en why do nor

THE ECONOAIL(: J'IANS OF 1KTERXATIONAI. JliWS 203
the loali t:wice over; and in sixty yearn, thrca
I.irr~cs, 11.77ile the oi.igin.ul drht revznins i~npairl."
Extvemely simple, ;rncl yet it is the most gcncl%lly
ignorril hict of all.
We live iu ;t (lcniocracy, ye1 loans :IIT contracted
that alwsys cost illore illall tllc nlni~unt of the li):iri,
a11i1 no one has a n70nl 1.0 N ; L ~ about it. We Americans
do not kno\v how 1nuc11 interest nre pay every
?ear, arlrl \ire !li~n't linow to n-ho~u we pay it. TVe
are siill licing under rhe lie Ill;rl "A K;~fii~n;il Debt,
Ts a Natiousl Blessillg," tlle most delusive doctrine
ever pri~~nnlgated.
The amolint. oP our Katio~i;rl Dcbt is the measnro
of our en.;ln\.t!ir~cnr to .len,inh \lrcrld Vinance.
Tl~c rcadc~. may ohserre ill passing that .leuish
apelogicto, John Sl~nrgo? Hen~lz~n Rc~.nstein, and
ollic?rii, s;iy Illst the, Pl,otocols --ere put out by ttlr!
sr,cl.::t police of the Xussiali Cmrist; skgirne. H: is
r>el:v i~l~ii~niil, is it iii)i; to find the Czar's police inlereslts~l
i~! plans to remore gvaft from high fi~i;luce,
arid pr~:a':Iiing doctrji~ea exactlr contrav to the estel~lislietl
R)F.~.I+III ? TI16 re;~

204 THE IiYTEier will bc bought by the
govcr~irnmlt, which, in*tca(l of paying tribute on
loans as at present, -,ill !~rcin,t locita on. a Fusiiress
basis. h memuve of this character mill preveii!. 1110
s%clyncrtion of irtoi~cy, /,~)ar.nsitis?i~ and irrsiil~ss, ql~rrli.
tips (~hicW loci% uscjul in us as lorry as il~a Ceiatiles
?i~cci?&taiizcd theii. k~depo~iii:nce, b:tt wlii(:l~ arc rrut
desirable to us when our kingiloin comes.:'
(5) "We v;i!l rt

Ill;ry re11 iinagirie w1t:rt pow~:r. that will gi\.o ua."
Tho Protocolist norv bciiig quolcd also gives lrin
ail.~.~itiofi to 1;tsatiou lol~serve again tha 'LRusilin~~
lxilicc spy" ~loing sout? "forgi11g"j. TIIO bilildr~s of
this plan Sor 7TTorlil Rule rec~~gnize Illat nhm the
i:sclturu rolncs they ndl ham to be in a position
ill orTer t11c people xl~methiug cxtremelg good in or-
11cr. -to n-in their favor. Tllis, of COII~SI~, n-as the plan
in Rus.il;r! altho~rgl~ Rrrasia lrrcsents no parallel to
vhat 1111: Pl~otocolists hope to do for what llrc~ call
their "l:ingclon~." Ilnnni;~ ma8 simply l;ol.t~ireil in
pu~~islrmeut. Russia was a passover offering. Hussi:~
i~ an ex;imple of Jewish reilgearici?, cIeatri~i:tion,
rage, not of iilcr rnle wliich Iutcr~uatiorral Jewq
11oljes to piit over ;I nrorld i~c~~nonri,,:rlly conqncreil
throi~~h - its own. wea1;nrs:i and Illst. Gear then tho
rasatiolr plan :
ili ~, ':When 71.e becou~cr PII~~PS. OUT auto~:~.ilti~ eov- u
rrnment, as $1, first ljrivciyle ol self-l~roter:tion, \\,ill
rinriid bwrlei~iizg tiha people ,i,r>ith hm~q tams. It
111ust not Soi.get to pla~ the p4rl.t of fatller aurl pvotcctor.
Rut, as go\rcl,nll~eni. orga~~izatioils arc costly,
it is necess;trS to raisc u~orrzy for rusi~~tenal~ce.
Comcquentlg, ir is 11eccssary 1i1 study c;ri~cfully
this partic1~1;ti tl~e pri~blcii~ ol clrccl;s ;~ircl balauccs."
(2j Iiintls of taxw to he raised: (a) "The hest
lrrctllod ol tasntion is to eslnl~lish ic pro,q~.

. . . (b) "Such a measure will 17estl-oy the hetrcd
of t11c 1100). tol~c~~d t71~ vlci~, \\-I10 \rill be regar(let1 as
the liuaucial trilpi1l11.t of the gorernment au(l tl~c cu-
~)~,nentu of peace and prosperity. Tire ~ C I Iwill I ~ realize
lhst tire 1.ic11 are paying the mone2- necessary lo
attain these thillg~."
This was rvrill.en at Ict~~t as carly as 3gDG. How
many forlux of ta.x;tiio~~ llarc collie precisclg as here
outlined !
How illuminating also the following reinark:.
"Money sl~oulcl circnlare; a d to hinder Cree circ~ilation
has a fatal aflecl. 111i1111 tile gil~~!rlililellt IIICC~Ianism,
wl~iclr it lubricates. The tlliclieuillg of the
lubricator may xi.op llle co~,rect fl~~ictiuning of the
n7hole machiut:. Tiie a?ibntitziti~o?i. of a pc6r.t of ~nm~~ey
cccha?~ge by (1iscoun.t pc~l~o' 7zn8 created just such
a?& i~,r~~etli?nenf."
liernmnbcv that when nesc ycli hear the .Jewish
plan that L'C:eutiles" shall (lo b~lsiuess wit11 their
own hits of paper: n~liile .lews keep the golcl reserve
safely in their on11 hanels. If I:h!: vr:~al~ comes; "Geptiles:'
have the paper an11 Jews tlrc gold. If bits of
paper serve c~nli~~aiilg, tlie morld may sonle time de.
ciile In 1111 a\J7ay with the gold. Certainly n systern
wLi(.h rests on Cah yet morlis vilh Sot-(:ash, has
~lise~lrantages mhicll depressio~~ autl pa.ni(: reseal.
Says Protocol SXil-"We Lo111 in o!lr llancls the
grcgltesr ~lroclern po~vrr-~0111; ill two

A Jew Sees His People As Others
See Them
IIIR week me pvesrnl anotl~cr" Jew's comment on
his ~.scc and for tl~: good of rhe race. Rerr Levy
11as said these tllingn before Jeninll Womcrfls Councilfl,
and B'nai R'rith loclgrs: and ihey will assist
readers ol' tliis series to an iinrlerst;m(ling of some
of the truer, thong11 ulinority, i~lfluencca n~hich are
at work in American Jc\vry. He sincc~cly exposes
every obvious dcl'rrt, and it is to be lloped that one
day, 3xril.h as sinccrc a pen, lie will go deeper. &Ir.
Levy'~hosen title is:
FOR THE (+001) OF THI!: IL4C;E
F3,orn a Jar-off l;~.r~rl 1 came, a s:i(l-eyecl, pale-laced,
poetic young Jew, wit11 a11 nnsp;.aliable lore of ~nr.
people bi~rning in iny heart. Of Polisll-ltussian
parentapc, Illere was i~ul~lantecl in nly uatt~se an
indefiilablc 8orrorv (burn perhaps of 111y father's and
mother's l~crsecutioll!, \vl~i(:I~ lel't me high-strung and
semitire to the anti-Remil;ic tauuts of my school.
n~ates.
Given to idle dreaming by some old abe.ndoncd
sl~aPt or roalili~lg the deserted alluvial digging8 of
the little nlinir~y t;o\sru of my ym~lh. 1 vould conjure
up viaions o' tl~al, rlem vorlil 1 11atL so oftcli read
about--that great ro~rntry where tlle~e mas no
prcju(lice against m;r. race-the ;\;c\~. Jerusalem.
Shyly hugging to illy breast son~e borrowed
Americ:~n l~ook or nlngazine i \vould seek the shad.
ows of thc lr~lge ilecaying po~~et legs ;md dream
orre' the pages containing man2 .Tewish faces, and
I read with pride 81irl gratitude of the high places
~icctipied by my pcoplt: in music, art, literature and
the ilra~na. Pi,llccl with Jewish iianlc?s and good
Jewish deeds vas the story of this ncw Zion, and a
longing to 11e aiuong the grea.1; ones of my people
tool< posnessirln of nie. Bet~veel~ I~IJ dear father
ancl myself tllere was a honcl of love too eaelnutl for

208 THE IKTERUATIONAT. JK\U
words, an11 when I loolrecl ulmn Iiis 11en.r face for
the last lirne in (;his n~o'ld and bacle him a sorrowful
goodby before my ~l(rpnrture for the New Je~walem,
11e he111 nre close to llis i~reast and u.hispcved:
"Uon't forget that yo11 are a .Tes, and if yon need
~gmpathy, love or Iiclp, go to your own race and
show your Arha I

A JEW SEES ITIS 1'EOPI.E z\S OTITISRS ?Ill: TIIE\L 209
the listeners tn investigate. Onc of i,he passengers,
an ex-IIarvard man, retrlr~leil nritl~ the remark:
"Oh, it,?@ only so~nc damned Jew. Re's Pallell
and hurt l~imself pretty bailly.!'
Like a srnnilge on some hc;iulif~il picture n7as this
anti-Semitic scnf.iment on such a night, and considering
its sourcc I lrlt deeply grieve(1. As I was the
only other Jew jn Lhe first cabin I u~ade my n7ay ti,
the stateroom where they had carrietl the ~~ictirn ol
the accident and folluil hi111 to be a teude~l~ear.tc

of the grcat c.it.irn ot' Anlerica, and my very soul has
cried out to lriy fcllow Jew: "Suppress Thy~clf !"
The day I avi~ivcd in Xrw York I learned that my
de:irest friend, n1.v fatllcr, II:HI ]?assed away. and
natnr;rlly iuy lirst thought was to t;;ly the kaddish,
a l~r:ly':r oi' the .Jewish liturgp recited by orpl~nns for
the welfare of the souls of their deceased par.cnts,
somewhat aft.cr the fashion of the Catlrolic mass.
Every male of Jemisl~ 11lood at some ti!ne of his life
recites this beautiful prayer. It does not niattcr
how far one strays fi.om tl~c folrl or how iluncli one
h;m rlenie;l the faith, thew co~r~(: ;L lilr~e \\.hen the
.Tern in lli~ri asserts itself ancl be says the ki~~i~liuh.
P~lblic prayer among Jews can be recited only
in the p~~c,ser~c:c of lpu males above the age of re-
Iigionn r~~al.urity, and this assernbl~ is callcd minyan.
Ri~ri,ly in this great city I mould cat:ily find a minyal~!
I thought; so I followed tlre liric of lclist tcsistilnce,
like any stranger in a strange 1ti.ndj and
songlit out ll~e Je\\-ish names best kno~vn to tl~r
1 1 i 1 ca!l~?(l at, a, hnsiness house uptown with
the name of a gr~i~t EeI~re\v over the door. He mas
the great man (~f W~I~ILI I reacl'nith such pride in
thc little rriiuing town at the other end of the world.
Ye8: The saiue Jewish face depictcil in the huge
photograph in the lobby T had seen in the tnagazinc
I had iit~gged so lovingly at hoinc.
I macle my was full of hope, to his oEcc aud
was askeil by a doorkzel~er my ~uission. I explainetl
-thc (!oorkerper was a Uel~rew-that I desired to
say ka111li;h for my fallier aiid that I nanted to Porn1
a minxan. With li sly mink lie l>ilsi;ecl ~ nc oil to scvcral
Helirerv clerks aucl oEce boys: each of whom
smiled, sneer,ed, and in;tde hin li1.ilc joke al~o~lt
.;g~eci~l~orl~i;." Tli~u I was ushered with many
giimaces into Il~c l~resenci. of the biw man.
9
Just a nlinute's conr~crsalion convlnrc

-4 JEW SEES ITIS !'XOI'Ll: AS OTHERS SEE THEN 211
but recommenrlecl me to "one of our people," as he
put it, who ran a very ~op~llar chophouse close by.
I hegttn 1.0 realize that I was a stranger ainljng lily
own pcople and that night I n~nlked tlie streets of
great New 1-or.L \r.ith an aching heart. Everywhere
in the hurrying crowrls I saw The faces of my hrethrm
ancl siete~ss, thonsanrls, hnndreds of thonm~uds of
tl~crn, hllrrying, pushing, al~oviilg brethren they
wcrc, with all the tenderness, tl~c iriendship an11 tlie
Semitic look gone fro111 their eyes.
"Oh, Clod!" I thought, '(are these the children of
Israel? Is this the persecuted race--tl~at people
w11o 11ad been. scattered to the four corners of the
earth?:'
Eungry and meaiiy, I rnailc? ~uy war7 as if in a
dremu to the cafe of a great hotel. Evei~thi~~g in
tl~c lu~ge room was glaringly false-marble pillars,
oak beams, iiun~crs, Tryere all imitation : a big or-
chestra sat in a balcony with an arlillcial lnron and
a painted sky as it hackground; cverynrl~ere wcro
lights, lights and more lights.
From table to table I went bnt I was rougllly
reminded that "tl~is" was resercecl and "thae' was
reserved. Prcsenlly glaringly go\\,neI, bediarnondetl
Jewish woin(?n, accompanied by cllr~ally vulgar .Jew-
ish nicn, Gied in and occi~pied every scat,, i~llll be.
tween mouthfuls of food and drink tlleiv boclies
would sway to the voices of other Jerr.s wllo sang
only of "3Ii::sissippi" and "Georgia." lIow these
people dill laugh when tl~ej- caught sight of my
foreign clothes and my pale, poetic face, ancl how
they would have sc?,ca!rleil ivi1,h !aughter had I sliow~~
them my Arb Tianfoth, l.hat beautiful little token
which 11ly poor fatli(!r Son(lIy iiuagined we111113 have
rrlaclc me understood in the New World.
Out into Hie night I went and follnd niyself
struggling in a, iorrellt of humanity. Every time 1
received an extra hump o!. hare1 pnsh 1 looked only
to see that 111:~ antago~~ist tvas a Hebrew. On the
street, in the cilrs, in the slilrway, or at the s~~~la.
fountain, wherever 1 saw my fellow Jews blatantly

sl~outing and r11~1eIy pushing, I, in spite of nly in.
dignation, Ielt the love of my race ilplierlnost in my
hearr, and I waui.od to csy or~l.:
"Oh, Jew; 11car brothers and sisters, snppreNs
pourseives for the goo11 of the race! Stand h;~ck!
For the g~i~id of the r;r.ce!"
Never in the world hare our pcople kno\\-n s111.li a
free conntvy as ibis, and it is :t privilege to be here,
but at -times a great fear comes ovc~ nle that \ve :ire
abnsilrg that privilege. Amid the din of Jewish
mnfiic and lai~glrter, the iiewsboj,s are shouting tlie
names of Jewish m1114ererfi [the Rosenthal caisc),
the grul~nen of ti10 city. The bribe givers ailrl the
bribe i;~liers depictecl in the IIC\W sheets have .Te\vi?lt
cotuntenances. The gambling I~on-e keepers-jes!
yes! I kr~ow that i.l~cre are Chrislia.~is who arc
niu~.derers, gamblers awl is~formeril: I~nt the Jew ir~
a marked marl. IIe is distinct, apart, so distinct
that in a criirvcl he is the first noticed.
It is for this reason

A JEIZ' SEES TTiS VEOPLE AS O'PHEKS SEE THEM 213
Jlost of onr people, I have found, littvt? aggl'essive
personalities: ir is this a;:gmasiveness which has enabled
many iinnligrants to pass l.hrougli Ellis lslantl
1.0 the ownershil) of fine apnrt~iient: llo~ises all ~vithin
;L (.ouple of yea1.s-11nt soilletinics this aggressiveness
bccon~es absolutely cruel, crushing from the
ver.7 so111 all the tender clrlllents which go to make
up a Ilapl~y lile.
1;ecently T thoi~ghc with rnlici~ ilitterncss of my
father's last words to me: "lf yon need sympathy,
I~ve or help, go to yo~ir nnTn race." Ill-health orc1,camo
me all(! I became involre(l in debt for n trifling
amount. 11:;1c11 si.age of my cn~l~arrassmcnt anil consequent
suflr+ring \\,as contrihule(1 lo by a bl,rrl.l~er
.Tenr. Fivst, tllc tihyster lan~yor, withont principle
or mercy, tllcn l~is t~r~ltal clerlrs, sly ;in11 grafting.
Nest, a collectr~r, al~solutely callous, tllrnl 1.he process
server, and, at la&, the "bouiicel.," s;lns heart, sans
soul; sans evcr~tliii~g.
If all these agents of ~nislort~~iie mere Gentiles I
conld have boi~ne it, hnt the greatest henrthreak of
ail n7au the fact tli:~t one anrl all of thcm were
brotE~er .le~s. \Vhr must a Jew alwavs be in at the
death, as it nere?
There came a time won tif~rs this when I mall~rd
the streets almost penniless. Seeking worli, I ap.
plied at the stow of a vieell.l~y Hebrew. I explained
to the well-g~,ooincd pn~priel.or that I mas an ortho.
clos ~nelnbcr of his race ;lud appealerl ou that grrtilntl
fol: a chance. Hc ~ool1-~)0011ed (.he idea.
"PIy dear lellon7,fi said he, "these are the enlighteiletl
days, mlrc~~ Judainm is not tal;en ncrioi~sly, in
fact: it docsn'u p81y. T am a (~~l~ristitin (Irlltist, I meet
rricc ~~eol~le aul! ii- 11f:ll~s Iny l>i~siuess."
Here mas a poor fool with his head lil~ the ostrich's-in
the nand. I explained to him that being
a "ler %-as not a questio~~ of religioll lint a q~~estion
of blood. I told him that if a Jewish leopard ceasc(1
vkiting tlir syn:igogue to go to a (>hristiau Ciilt,ir;f:
chapel ii ilill not iicccssarilq- get vid of its spots. I
le!t hiiu scratchirig 11iii hrstl, and I also lost the
chance of a job iil his store.

214 TIIE TPiT1IRUATlONAI. JTi\V
Jn and out of nEces presided 01-er by men with
Jewish faces I trntlgl:~l :ill ilay. Moat of these men?
1 subsequently learnctl, I)el:it i.l~r;rlrical rliptricts I lounil thousar1i1.i
of my fellow Jews who had g1~nn7n rich o7r.r
night by coiuing 11r~Iiaps a 110piilar song that l~iill
pleased the cal~11rr1.-n~atl cro\vil or hr- ricliculoui? ilrkpersonations
of tliei~ r;icc 11l)o11 tl~t: 111nsic h:i11
~t;lgcs. A gtl~tl mnliy of these were young men, sons
of fathers ant1 111i1tl1er.s wl~:~ 11:~tl 1)een drivel1 lro111
their own country with fire :in(l s,,vt~rrl.
The mothers and fat11el.s st:~y at llomc hlessillg
Gorl cvcry 11011r of 111t% i1a.y au(i night fo~. glliding
1;ltcrn 1.0 such a countr~ as this, n71iile the solis and
~la~lghtera are out at: the theatersl in tllc 11;ills and
cabarets singing songs of Dixie. P;is~ing I!?. iu this
great tl~roi~g are 11ro1uine111, actors, critics 311d play
wrigl~l,s, nisny lrIl!ler assilme(l lnames, simply because
their on7n uaiiles are Jewish.
Flashing across the horixon as I write is a noto-
~.ious Jcwisli clr~ct,~~. ~vitl~ :L cous~~u~piion cilre. IIe
I ~ ~ J III:IVC! I ~ I ~ ~I:PII ~~IIII~JIIS :ar1

,l JEN- SEES IIIS PEOPLE AS OTHERS SEE THEM 213
this inilk thing is saving tlre babies all rigl~t-he+
some riclr Jcw-God bless him-T're eot three babie~
of my own."
Huneerine to hear a .Jew nraised I tallieil wilh
.> u
this man for an hour, listening'with kern i!ujojmmt
to the story of one ol luy race who hail c,ans?~i his
millions to (lo good for tl~e proplc irrcspi!~,l.ire of
creed, and harl kept hin~self si~gpressr(l. I 1c;lrneil
ol tliis .Jen-!s ell'orts lor Ihi! il~ilig I~al~ies at home and
for hi8 st~rviiig co-religio~~istn ill P;~lenlinc and felt
pro11c1. Prolid all11 11app-y f11r tllc fivst time, I sat in
tlln little parL watching the passing procession till
1 dozed off into a so1111rl sleep. My l~:~~iliii~css con-
timtail ill my slcr!y. fi11. T had a most beautiful clrearri.
Rcforv me in my dream passetl a grand pavade;
it was a se~.ics of "For the good of the 'ace" tablranx.
;\I1 the ],ronrineiit l~rofessioiial .Jen78 lii?arleiL llie procession
with tlieir real names and the llalilr ol' iheir
race einblanoned npon silk bainiers in letters of golrl.
Then came all tlie IIebrew gambling lio~lse keepers
bearing aloft, bro1;en rc~~letle \vheeln n11:1 11l.11er embleiirs
of a discarded anrl ilisgrace,l '*Bl~silr(?ss.?'
Next in orrlcr was a large arm)- of Hebi,emn who
wcrc pi~r~fessir~nal boilrlsirie~~ for arseaterl street
\v:~ll;cr~s licadcd by two crool~ed ward politicim~s cnrrying
a huge sti~eamer with the words: c'IIrn~~ePrirl.l~
we will go to morli." These ~iie~i loolier! a lil.llc ~ sil
as they inai~he(l along tl~in!;ing ol' tlie easy n~i~l~i?y
t,llcp mcr,e lcaviiig behincl, b181 lhi: i:heerrr of tlic mtlltitude
es~tlti~lg over tlieir grea.i. sai.rifivc soincwliat
;Ironed Eov tl~cir agony of 111i11il. Xr~t follrlrr~cd tl~:
amalgaii~;il.r.d J~:winIi nsur,ei.s, real &ate an11 conipany
p~otuoterx' ~inio~l. Tl~is 1xrt of the parade
took four ho11.r~ an11 a 11;tlf to pna a given point.
A11 the nlarcherfl ha.il discartled their espeirsire
clothing aucl their dialuonils ;rnrl rr7cre l:ir~(lestly atr
l Tllq liar1 also discr.isiled il~cir au t~~mr~i)ilen-
IIL;I~I>- i~f tl~c ])i,r:ininent men in this sr.i.li~in ~:;lr.ricrl
llags auil l~at~itc~~s npon which were illscril,orl the
legends: "We will ni~t lie nl~i~ct valnea." "nTc mill
not charge exor1)ilaiit inteiwt" anrl "1%'~ will nol.
wa!er ollr sti~vk," Ther?e iuscriptinirs nc:vc ~'occiroil

wit11 ilrrredulous 1o11ks of astonishnicr!t, an11 lnan?
of tl~c rrowd called out: 'L7Ve'~.e frwn Nissouri,"
whatever That meant.
Then ?;%rue a beautiful torchlight brigade called
"The Hebrew. Virebngs' IJnion." &-early all these
Inen had their hair close-croppe~l anit %,ore prison
clothes? a fact which filled the crow11 with Telief.
Yext came tllat part of the processiol~ which showed
ilie greatest following among its nrarcliers. It ma8
the large army of EI~l~rew "aggressivcs." Hurl~lretls
and thonsauds of thc~r~ passed by with reformed
looks up1,11 t,lieir faces. Oh, I fell so happy as I reart
i.he batto~is they wore and saw the flags tl~ey carried.
Xosl: of the streamcrh' read : "We will ooppress
ouraelvcs." "XXe will stand ilacli anil keep quict.!'
"We will bc unostentatious." There 1.he.y were, hun-
~lredv of well-lrn~~wvn faces and types-end-seat hogs,,
front-seat hops, loucl talkers, inconsidcrates, I1a1,gainers
and the terril~le army of people that go to
rrlalie up tlie crowd wl~icl~ is ili'ectly responsible for
the ;inti-Semitic feeling. The line of them was niile8
long.
I was a~valrenccl frnrr~ luy happy dream by a
rude thnn~p Sro~n a Jewish policern;tll who hurried
lrln to a police sterion: where I was surronn~lcd by
shyster lawyers, my brethren, who wanted money
with which they conlcl sqnare other brethren. I
co111il not gain the services of a Ilebrew bonrl,31uan
hecnure T llacl no pull. A Bebrew magistrate called
ma i~ "11111n" and a loafe~ fnr going to sleep in a pnblic
park.
'(Keep awake in the future,:' he said as I was
roughly I~rmilled out of tlte courl:.
lirey awalie! This is the wowt a(1vicc 11e could
I~avi? given me, for. I was so happy arileep anil dreami~ig
that my brethren and sisters had reformed and
had beco~i~e real Jens for the salre of the race.
T IIII~ look upon my police court liumiliario~~ as
the befit thing that could have happened ttl~ me, for a
Icinilly old Jewisl~ ncliolar, who acted as ro~~rt inler-
~reler, vas attraclcd by lny appearalice. Ais lolijr
contact with l~nn~an misery and his great expericrlce

A JEW SEES HIS I'EO1'l.B AS O'CHliRS SEE TITEA[ 217
\villi foreigners strailded in a strange colmhy en.
ahled hiin TO ur~(Ier~larld ine.
Tlrnl night he tool< li:e 1.0 hi# poverty-stricI

218 I'IIE INTERNATIOKAL JEW
(:ray-11;1irc(I, bewl~islicrc~l, sad old mell; nlany of
mhorr~ 11;ivc tastetl oslly the bitternem of life--get
snch is thciv faith in the Aln~ighty that ikey cling
to the praying shawl anil Bible 1.0 lllot ont the
memory of a 1iishinefl'-their live^ of study and
prayer amid abjed. poverty giving t11c lie 10 the
fallacy that the .Jew lircs bnt for moncy.
I have ol'teri wallilr.rc11 alllnllg thc'ie sclu~lars
picking up the crnrr11)s of wirido~n n~hich fall from the
lips of the old rnfn, grateful that nly Jewish face
anil l)loo~l gave me the privilege to sit ancl sBctclr
aini~r~g tlleln. Somehon, or other 1117 rainbliiigs 011
the East. Side we, lilje the calm after the storin I!S
the i~ptonrn struggle.
Many iilue~ I llavc felt the hc:irt tug-the longing
to he ailioilg rrly people-i.l~c rnal Jews-and,
leaving tlreatl~ical uptown, the land oP malie-belierc!
:?11r1 i~nrcst, 1 have sought the little schools of study
where t.he woncler~ful real old inen n.ho live by optiir~itiln
and nourish their soule by faith ieacli me the
lesson of patience and the lore ol humanity.
There is soiuetliiiig restful and iuspii,ing wl~nn
:I~I old inan-loug, long past rl:e 'Biblical three scorc
and It+~~-l)laccs his hanil on your sl~ouldcr ancl in~lr-
111s in i l l i l It is o i l I 11;rvc envied
the profonnd peace of Illany of these agegl students
living in the past and lu~disturbed by tlionghts of
the ~II~IIIY:. Tli~i~. .Te~vis11 view of life i)-. 11s b~~,t~t,il.l~l
as it is simpla. It disregarils neither earzh nor
I~earen. Tt looks to earth and obi;ei.\!es the evil
l!re\.;~iling ;tniolli: inen; it thi~?l;s of 1i1:evcu an(l
l)ou~lers rln Llle i~litis of "tl~c f~ilnve stale? ai~d it
11rge~ i11a11 1.0 strive i,o 11ri1ig II~+;IVI?II OIL c;ir1,11, to
establish by juiitice aurl equity those hlessed i:ouditions
on earth which so Inany associ;~te ivilh l~e;ive~i.
Their .Tervish vie\\. of tle;i~h is c~lilal:y l!eautifol.
loor those \rho die they Peel 110 sorron-. Ilaving once
torn aside the veil wlrich pa17ts the l;no\vn and tllc
unl;no\vn, 11;lving once entered into the shadon., or
rather tlre sunshine, of tlie bc;ron,l; tliey are bcrtcl,
of in tl~r: otllcr life. Wllc~lier r1wtl1 me;ins eternal

A JE\V SgES IIIS l'EOT:.l? AS OTHERS SEE THEM
sleep or eternal life, i,hose who hare left our sille,
having passer1 into the arms of pitiless de:lth, repose
in a condition a7bich shoul~l give survivo1.s no cause
for anxiety on 8.cconnt of their beloved dead.
lu the pathetic chapter of '

In slrong eoutrast to their fathers and grandfathers
are l.l~e rhildrer~ ol 1.11ese olrl ma. l\lodei*n
:\mcrica, with its opportunities for all, lias tor11
them lrolll the religious atmosphere and sent them
upion7rl to become the lamj~ers, the artists and the
actors.
Thc .Tr+u.isl~ co~r~erli;~n of i;h: vanil~:vill~: thc~aler
who nigl~lly sets the n,~~(lien~:e sl~riekiug a.t his Yid-
rlish irliri~lls is in nine. (:;r.srs O II~, ol' t,eu (.he sou of a
~cl~olitl., ant1 though thc gls~rlou~ of Rroarlway saccess
clainis him and 11e no 11i11gar lircs liomc, in his
heart of hearts lie is a .Jew ancl never forgets the old
~eople. IIe mill tell liiany stories of his pal'ents to
his (:enl.ilr lrirn(ls, imitating nr~il rxaggeraf.ing 1hei1~
rna11:- ~:ll;irael.rrisl.ics; ti111 11c is migllty sore \irl~an Lo
hears a Ccnrilo (lo rl~c same thing. Rut, after all,
the coniic .Tev of the modern stage is bnt an imagin.
ary slieteh.
Ttlerc is ahsolntcly nothing. humorous in these
old men of .Ju~lea. Even in tl~c ~

have had son~l: of my non..Te~vish frientlr: six how lit.
rle thought of money and husi~less 1he. reitl Jc\\' has.
8ometirnes wlleil I have Ielt full of R~~IUC: at the
hel~aiior in public places of men and woman with
Jen,isll, S~I.I:S but with no Judaic~u in tlleii* hearts, I
have wished that. 1.11~ silnl~le, studious lives of the
old men of the East Biilu cnulcl be, the standard by
which our raco is judged, and that tllc T;tlmntlic
saying so aptly 1~1t jllto wrse by Ilabbi My61:8 was
better knovn:
"Wl~ich is the path, both riglit an11 wise,
That for hirn~i;rlf a nlan sl~onl~l find?
That wllich liill~nclf much ilignitics,
An11 brings hint honnr fro111 rr~anliirlcl.~'

"Ii can hordiy be an accident that errtagonisin
directed against tlzc Jetirs is to he fi~and firefly
lii~t~h ~i,~,i.y~~:ltei-e in tlte ~0r1d w/%ei.e Jeti~s and
non-Jczcs are ussoiioted. And or :kc Jeiw are
:he colnniroir eb!m~i%t of !Ira si!ualio>c it would
.rerin priihahlc, of6 ike ftrce of it, that the cause
?~'i/l 6'5 [o~;t, YO!/W~ than &% iibe widely
uui.yii?g groups ur1:ich , fscl t1bi.s at~ti~go>li~,n.''
-Jesse H. Ifol~~~es, zn T ~ Anbcrira,t F lJcbrc?u

Candid Address to Jews on the
Jewish Problem
THIS is a can~lid ad(lresg 1.0 tihe .Ten.& of the United
States. TTithouc s~htcrfuy!~ wii:l~o~it fl;rttrry,
wholly without fear of all that they may tl~~.c;rten
or can 1111, Illis attempi i~: nialle to set before the111
tlie Jemislr Qnesti1111 as 17~eil. ~lllesl.ion, tlieirs to
ack~iomleclge, theirs to consiclcl; tlreirs to solve.
It is not a, c in eat ion of TIIE DnaknoR~ INIIIIPI~XII~:N~I
at dl. This paper has merely beco~ne the rel~icle of
unwelcome fiicts wl~ich have flually thrust them.
selves up for final dispnsal in this country.
Damning i,his paper, compelling cheap city politicians
to interfere wil,h its sale, indulging a ribald
humor concelming it? will not rffect the facts at all.
What THE DEARBORN INDEI'EKDEST ~ays istrne 0'
it is imtrue. If tnle, it ought to be considerell. Ii
iir~trne, it ouglrt t11 be

224 THE IKTERUATTONAI. JG\LL
cles, and has been as seriously and courteously con.
siilere~l.
What ia the answer? First? that these nlen are
Jews. Second; that ljcir~g .le\vs these Inen constitutn
a problem for tlie Jews tl~cn~selvra. Tliircl, it
iq tirncj for ~0111~ one to call attention to the necessity
of cleaning up on t,hat ~roblein. There lias been
too much mincing of words. Tl~crc has been too
1rn11.h conc(~:~lrurnt of names and l~el;ttionr;hip. The
method ~:hicli Jews were inking in this coiintl'y
wit11 repard to conccalmcut F:LS heading thein swift
ly lowaril tl~e same conditions ~:hicl~ l~avc r~~eliaced
tlrcir race in Eur.~ipe, and THB DE.~EEORK INI)EL'END-
ENT would count no labor lust tl~at wo111d rouse the
Jews lo a serlre ol' the responsibility wlrich reats
on them to solve the Jewi~h ()lmstion in this country,
possibly the only coui-itr~ vhcre it C;III tie solved.
Let us be frank: if this paper had incnlioned only
the names ol inili~~idoal .Jen~s: never mentioning thcir
race, ar~rl hn11 expos~:d 1.112111 as isolated persons, it
would have made no ditFcrcncc in the general Jewish
reaction, the cry ~~~onlcl still linre been that "the
Jews were heing attacketl?'; whereas ihe other people
uf the country would liave bm:n jl~st as miicli in
the dark regarding the close bonds which unite all
the groups of evil inlluences in ihis coilntlSy. The
puTpose of

CrlN1)ID ADDRESS TO JEWS OK THIS JE!V.VISl< PROBLElI 223
ccss \vitl~ 111)1101., b11t lllat Jew also l

eplies uiadn by Jews (lnring ilie cour8e of Lhe present
series.
1. "T,t7hat you sa.y is tvuruq 711st you ~hould not
say it."
There is a principle, seldom expressed among the
Jews, but always acted on, that Jeu7s should not
have public attention called to them except by thcnlficlves
or their chosen spol

ality, if it 1.~~11.ese11tcd 5 higher civili~atii~n agr?in8t
;I lower civilinatiol~. TI7ill ally Jew contenil that it
does? Will ally .Tev del~y f.llitt: 1.l1e infll~eiice of the
Jewish idea iu lhi~ gmcr;ll.i(ll~ is to break down RIICII
morality as wc had? Will any ,lev deny that the
civilizarion of the United Stah l~eforc the advent
of the Jews thither was superior to the highest
civilizatioll ever achiever1 by thc Jews anywhere at
any period of their* hisioi.y?
Tl~crc are troo idcns in conflict-that is certain.
The Jewish idea has a tremen(1ons infiltvating force
al~d a seriol~s degenerative prnver. It is a. ~owe~*f~llly
~lisintegratinginfluence. It rats the substance out of
tlie civilizatiou which it; ;il laclis. destroy8 its ~r~oral
virility, tlirows (lo\vn its reverence, saps its respcct
for ant.lu~rit.x, casts a sliadow onevery hohic principle.
That is the n7ay the Jewish illea. works in Ameri-
?an civili~arion. JIoral gravit;~ lion being: like physi.
cal gravitation, ~lo~vll\v;rr(l, it is not diiliclllt to se
duce human uatiire 1.0 lowcl. lcvels, h11C it is a massive
lank i;o lift it to higher le~el~ of morality ;in,l
rtvcrencr :rnd sobev jlistice. Anrl this latter t;lsL,
organized Jen.i.;h clrort. 11:rs nerer attrmptcd. The
campaign in tile 1;11itcrl States is a campaign for
the l~realr~low~l of tlre ideas ll~;~t nrrw obtain, not a
lifting of then1 to a l~igller dcg~~ee of nolrilit,y.
If it weye an ai.tl:lll~)t to snb~titllte the austerity
of lhr Mosaic larr.-the law given to 3Ioses> not the
ordin:tnccs dcc~.eed b!j Jlo8t:~-for the half-hcarted
Christian idealism aC l.l~r:. day! eve11 lllat \rould be
a task in which a11 right-liearte(l lnen could join.
But ~lloaes co?zde?r~ils thc ?~iodo.ih .Jetna mm.e severely
l;l~al~ anyonc else could. TIII.~ have rejected the
Mosaic law. The~? 11ar.c built their interllational
power upon lh(: exact opposite of the Mosaic law.
Mosc~ was given a lam of Il~unan society which
monld have saver1 civilir;;rtioll its grcatcst tragedies.
Mose~ has a. social program, obcrlicnce t;o mhich for
one day wonld co~npletely wrccl; the .Teminh inter.
national pon7el.. Jloses is their jlldge, and when tho
Law is estakrlisllcd 31oses will be their rles1,roycr.
Let the Jews think seriously n7h;it is this idea.

which they set up to follow. Let them penetrate the
lrliais and seek oul: where this idea origiuate~l. Let
tl~cln thi~~lz forward and visottlizc the etFc!ct if this
idea should beco~ne regnant. It mill not l~ecoiilo
rcgnallt llrre; there tlsc iiafegliar~ls Irere wl~ich tho
t.r.11c 1sr;lelito will understand; but it is as cctfain as
clay illat the idea --ill in the end destroy, utterly drstroy,
all who trust ~LI it.
This much is gained, l~owe~-er, from the at,titn~la
we are now discussing: we have gained clarity of 1111.
derstancling as to just what it is that is in collision;
it is tzro ideas, and one ol' thrln is the idea of &srupt.ion,
Ponl.ered by tl~c falsc and clclusive Ilope lllat
disruptio~~ will spare the rlisruptor.
3. "TT'hat yo.u say is ~Y.'uB. 1~3117, 10e JB%M cot1117
cha.?&gr il ij roe r,?aly u:uuTd. l'l~ trouble is, tuc doll't
zt:n?t21
lo see?,& to lit? clricnb to it. But I dovb't src 1r.ozo
othnzcisc toe are to do it."
3.Iany Jews will recognize this scnt,iment as their
own, but they will be re:l(lier to expr,css it to a noll~
Jew than a Jew. Why Y Because prophets ml~st be
prel~arerl to suffer in Jadah. "Well, if yon insist ml
l~lagiug Christ, yo11 m ~st cspn(:.t to be cn~cified,"
said Lilienthitl to Tsaac Wise. "0 Jerusalem, that
stonest ihcm that are sent to tllee!"
Vet there is need of pm~~hrls in Judah today, n~eli
\~IIc> vill rise airlong thc prt~lple and tell them plainly.
The rabbinate is ut,terly banlcrupt of thc pro-
])lietic spirit. It has fallen iuto the l~lindncss of tho
olrl priesthood. Here and. ihere a, literary man nttempts
to speak, hut .Jewish "art" has so accustonled
the .Tewtl, to mal;ebelievo that the writing is loo1;ed
~1por1 as a perfomance, nothing more.
KO oue nri1.h a sense for s111:h things-and there
are believers still left in J~~rlah-will doubt that the
times are ripe for a great change respecti~~g thc
.Jews. So st,rong is the feeling. among the re~nnaut
of believing Jews that: it is intcrl~rete~i an forenrarning~
of the lfes~iauie poiiod. Among t,he Jnrl;rinn~l
Christ,ian sects, otllcr interpretations are give11 to
the times, rni~st of whicll are used to s~rpport political
Zioni~nl n;llich represents the ~n~rlcriirlisn~ il~rrl

lulbclief of present~clag Judaism ancl wl~ich will iin.
doubtedly fail ;IS a national rrstor;ltive ant1 as a
political prograin. But L~owever misinterprctative
these sectarian and Jewish conclusions rlray be, they
indicate a sense of ilnxninent change. A greater
change is indicated than migvation to Palestinc
nrould hcfor that wonld uot moan any change at
all in tlre world, anil certainly no cbangc for the
better in the fortunes of tl~c Jew8. (:hr.istian~misguided
Chrititians, one must say--n~ho see (Iorl's
alleged will of universal Jewisll dr~rninioi~ fnlfrlled
by n1o;lns of the Jews' dellance and (lerpite of 1111.
Law given to JIoses, ought to re-cxaminc thcir
round for so xtrsnge and ilnnloral a conclusion.
The brcak.up of this civiliaarion, this age of civilization,
nil1 occllr becallsc of the collapse of this
system by which the .Jew has obtained his I~old on
the nations. The systcm that gives hi:u his hold
is doonled, is pass in^, and the fallacy of ,Jewish
trihal destiny io r'ile tile world will pass wit11 it.
With this change ahuaclp on The thrcsliold,
prophets should he exlipcted to arise irt Judah 1.0
rccall their people to the Law whose ~irrvioiis (1eni;il
mealit thcir overtlirow. There prophets will not he
of the "Reforui school'! which denies 111c Goil cS
Israel. as a divine Person, nor will they be of t;hc
ultru-ovtbodox school which n~:tl

230 TIIE INTliRUATlONAL JEW
tempt he must fall when tlic str~lc.llirr collapses.
The second is in dispute; but is by no means be-
yonrl conaideratiol~, especially by Jew% In these
~natterli the .Ts\vs ;,I.(> ilnich \viser than tlie so-called
(?hrisrians. Tlic1.c is ainul~y llle .Jews "the law of
the hrother" and :'the lam of the stranger.:' Tllc
"law of the stranger" permits several important
things whicli the "1a.w of the brother" proliibit~.
The Jews hai.5 heell Ireatil~g the rest of the world.
oflem i~~t,enlionally, ~onlrlinies :IS ;L lllatter of roumc,
according to tlie "law of tlie strnngcr." This is one
of the influences nrliich has helped to solidify .Icnrry
against l.he rcsl of ll~c worl(1.
Suppose it should be slion,n that the people in
whose lands the Jews have never been persecuted,
the peol~le of those lands lo which the. .Jews have
never been "(lrivin" Ii11t 1.0 which they have hopel'ully
and ji)yCnlly VO~II:, are not "~l.mngers" and are not
to bc trcarcd as "strangers" ancl, so far froin being
a st rang el.^;! are really the learlera an

C.4KlJID ADDRESS TO JEWS ON THE JhWTSII PROBLEM 231
pcoples. The reason for this sense of impropriety is
that here, in this 1a1111, lllc Jew mill have to change
llis atlicnda of antagonism ailcl dx7ell in peace as
in a land prepared for him. Jot as lord of it, by my iueans, but as a gratelul wanderer at last come
home. Sot as nllcr, but as adding hi8 bit to the
righteonsncsu, l>rospel~ity and pcace of the people.
It is not a question of religion. Let the Jem get
hack his Alosaic religioil--it is the motit perfect so.
cia1 system ever ilevi,sctl and directly contrary to the
practical moileru Jew's iclea of things.
It is not a rli~r~l.ion of inlern~arriagc. Lct the
.Tc\v- keep ;IS long ;is 11c pleases his idea that he is
~.acially cliiferent. The suggestion (11 intermarriage
is a crucle one and always i~~rlicates a lack of grasp
of the Jewish Qi~estin~~.
Let thc Jew kcel, all Iris traditions. They are not
objectional~lc i11 any way; the slightest regard for
thein can only hold then1 as r~nantic.
But let him sheit his false notion of "the Jew
against the world !!'
Let llinl filled 11is false program of breaking. down
Chvistcndoin by the iufiltratio~l of 0ricnl:alism into
hnsiness, art, eilterlai~lrllent ;1nd the professions.
Let hiru abolialk t.Ile false ideal that it is an honou
to .Te!\~ry to Rave a guilty Jew fron~ the common law,
an11 a disgrace to Jew7 to see a gnilty .Tern punished
by the cornmoll law.
Let llim draw up i~oticc on all the Jews of the
1:nited States who hy hooli or crook are sowing vile
seed in society, that the Jewish cornmr~nit,y charges
itself with thcir misbehavior an(1 will use methods
r,rll known to Jews to bring that misbehavior to
;in end.
Let the Jew end forever the disgrace of an antideiamalion
coinmittee wl~it:l~ grows frantic over inrloceut
remarks on the part of "Gentiles," and is ahsolutcly
illdifferent to the misdeeds of tl~~usar~ds of
Jenrs who do nuore damage to the .Tcmish name than
all the "Ge~~tile" critics an11 ncvspapers co11ld do in
tn7ei1ly ycttrs. No one can gibe the Jews a bad repuiaLion
but the .Iews themselves.

Xost Jews wllo have given this matter a ihought
will agmc. A good rlral of bad temper exists arnong
them, no doubt, and it will be harcl for them to admit
that anything TIIB DEARBORN ISDEPEND~~T may ~011tend
for is right, bnt the idea li~re expressed, when
divorced fro111 this paper, . . does roli~n~a~rd respect
from many Jews.
The fluestion remains: TVIlen will they start on
the prograiil here snggestecl?
Hnni:~n nature being what it is, tllej? will hate 'o
start at all if it will secm t,hat the prescnt agitation
has colupelled thcrri. But wol~ld they have started
without ihe agitation?
It is possible for an additional number of Jews to
catch tlie thought that tliia series of articles cnnnot
be so easily explainc(1 away-we arc not referring
to the conlents now, but to the fact that these articles
exist at all-as being the creation of prejudice,
or hatred or rimrlictiveness or ignorance?
Suppose these arti;:Ier sl~ould be t~.uly a sign of
thc times for America11 Jewry! Suppose they oEer
a warning word, however nnwelcome, and a light,
however unclcsireil, which it woulrl he most unwise
for Jews to ignore.
Snppose these articles n7ere conceived in a spirit
f:~r (liflerent than the average pro.Jewish spouter is
competent to understand. Snppovc the ultimate
benefit mill be mostly Judah's. Suppose the set time
has now corne fnr the Jews to quit thcir attitnilc ol'
attacking cvcrTone who shows tliem the truth, an11
to profit by this report of tllc poor figure they c~il
in Ameyiran life today. Snppose these people wlio
are ~ilove~l to search and report the truth abonl.
Judall are truly the sliophar ralling the people to a
new clay-is it wise to let stnlrl~ornncs~ counsel? Is
it wise to let pride close the ear?
The e~l~mies of the Jews are those u~bo defend
tllem for ille pay of hire or pl.;risc or votcs. The
enemies of the Jews are those who bc:yr~~l; them fair
to their faces, nr~d express quite rliiTerent llloughta
behind their backs. The writer of this perronallp
kuoars that tnTo of the pi7incipal "Gentile" defcnrlnn

CA.\-D:D ALillKliSS TO JE\V-S OX 'PHI'. JEWISH I'ItOBLlSbL 333
of the .Jervs, r~~cu n;ho have sho~~ted and rantc~l
through the Press on the Jeirs' brllalf, are 111er1 wlro
priralely hold and expr~ss ttlollghts about tllc Jews
which are sheer hal.rcd and eumily and-fear.
Mostly fear! The cneniies of the Jews are those
who encourage thelll to take a11 attitude that the!.
canuot hold in :\nierica-not as affecting their pcrsonal
lillcrty at all, but their social altitude a ~ tlie ~ d
Pnblic Right. Tliesc a1.e the eue~nies of the Jew-, el111
yet these arc the ones who111 ;Juclah counts l~is friends.
They aye hired fvicnds, false friends, jncapa!llrr of
realizing for a monient what this wl~ole Ql!ei:tiun
means. .Tudah' friends lolltry a1.e those \~.IIII ivill
speak the s~lrgical truth to him, bra~~in:: his fu~y in
the kno\vlcdj:e that The f11111rc n-ill justify t.he n.111~1.
Judan's leaders have 1)etr:~ycil him in 1,llin r.olilitr?.
-they ilo not kno\ir t,hcp have crossed thc Jor.dan.
The Jews arc as sheep withont shepherds in thifi
land. And the chief ohjectiorl which the .Jcrrish
1eadcl.s have to TEIU Dn~lmon~ INDEPEN:)II:~YT is that
tlhe .iorr;s i?rcl?/ rcud it on$, ?iecrnl hoza shephr?).rlless
they fwn, the Jewish leaders' opposition to TII~
n~annor,~ INDEPENDENT rises mostl~ frour lhr! for?
t7hol the JEICS 712o?/ vccld it! The Jews have read it:,
and they have not foiind hatred, they 1i;irc 11ot
found abuse md calunlny, il~ay llare not Eo~rri,l
ignorance a.nd illslice; the7 have fonnil st,at,crrrl:nts
of fact calmly set forth, not to anlusc hatred among
the nou-.Jerirs: hut to aronsr? a sellye of social rcsprlnsibilitr
amone the Jenw
destiny thatias come up& us, noi; SOI. harm bnt f~
good. The Jew& niiist III~CO~CP tl~cir eyes and nnslop
their ears, an3 they will see fl~r beginiling of the end
of tl~eir travail, and tihey will hear that to which
thcy have been too long hceilless.
The justification of a discirssion of the Jewish
Question is the good of the Ja~vs, anil the greatest
present ol~st,acle 11) That good is the Jevs themselves.
The time is here when they shall :.ec it.
-
Lssuc of January 7, 1922.

"Ez'ev),w,lt.crc th~g ?uar%ted to yelizoii~ Jews, orzri
eoerjwl~rve' flrey ri,cl'e guc?a!cd dlic prizii/rgs of
cstnbli~hirzg r: Stntc ~~'ithi;~ 1 S'tnte. BY z/r!t!e o/
tJ:e.w p~;.z~ilcqcs ofbd ~!:en3!~!io;ts, ow2 ,imntt!>tity
fro>il ta.rrs, the>, ~rozttd soon r.i.ic above t!ic yeirera1
co?zditioi~ of the citi;e#ts of !i>c irztrriicipa1ltii.s
where lhcy residi.d; the?, Ood hettcr oPport.ruzi-.
lips fiir lrodc urtd : ! / i of zt>enl!l:,
ruhcrcbg the9 escitcd jcnlo:'~~~ ni~d hatreif."
-I,.l;u,.r

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 t,l~at has heen given us, not by
ourselves, but by Jews, and it. is by no means certain
that it is accurately given. A vcry great clrdnce
exists that it is not. That, however, is a matter
which "gentiles" do not botherto understand; they
think, of cok~rse, that if one is not a Jew one must be
a ger~tilc. This is only another inslarkce of the Jew.
ish view being "put over" without the "gentile" un-
(leustanding or even questioning it.
There is another diiliculiy : horn ahall one address
"gent.iles" collectively? When one addresses JemR
he knows that the Jcw is always a Jew; that every
.lew aclmowledges every other Jew: that Jews un-
derstand each other and are loyal to each other an
against "outsiders": that they think together and
act together; that they stand togethcr for Jewish
defense, no rr~atter how just the ctkasge brol~ght
against them. When you address ,Jews yo11 address
a unit, and when you discuss Jews you get a united
reaction from them.
This cannot he said of gent,iIee They are of many
races, manx n;ttionalities, many religions, many
tongues. They never think of ihemselves as being
unitecl under the name "gentiles.:' They are not race
01- clam conscious; certainly the37 clo not think of
thenlselves as a unit wit11 reference to the JCWS as
ark opposi1.e unit. "Gentiles:' cannot be organized
into one group nationally, let alone internationally,
as Jews can. Jews of evev shade of opinion, of
evev degree of religion and of nnreligion, can unite
all round the world, and [lo unite, having their own
news service, their own telegraph service, their own
"foreign department" (as they themselves describe
it), hy which they 1ceel1 the~r~selves united and in-

formed for mans actiou. There is nothing even re.
motely a.pproacl~ing that among "gentiles."
Not that this fact can I,

life. Xothing bnt a clcar vision OC the d;lr~gr!r: not,hing
bnt an iu1peratir.e sense of duty nwuld impcl any
one of 11s to crnl!arlr on a course which is x~~lijecl- t,o
misunderstanding ;~nrl wllicl~ liliist, ill t,llc: ilat~lre 01
things, wait long for its complete juxtitical.ir!n. Our
Race is too fair, and has always bccn too fair, to
cntcr hastily inlo j~irignient-and npon this fairness
ancl long-suffering the ollending groups have often
seriously trespas.sed.
liegarded hr itself, as a separ,ate entity, the JEWis11
Po~ver is luost impressive. Internatiollal .lewn
today occupy lilerally every co~ltrolli~~g 1ev~r of
power. Building up for ccntnries, perfedi~lg tl~eis
tean~woek from generation to generation, froln conntlAy
to country, tllcy Ilwe pracf.ically reached the
xnrnluit. A-othing but the Christian religion remains
nnvanqnishe(1 li,y them, though through false "fiberaiism"
ercn tll;it 6as felt the Jewish assnnlt. Ho
great is this power that the very lcnomlcdge of ir
Icills hope that any movement can ever di~loilge it.
Earnc!xt, honest men have walked round it, surveyed
it, measnrc(1 its strength, and have given up the
dream of changing it. In Russia tl~ey tried to seg
regate it, but while segregation went on from one
side, infiltration proceeded fro111 the other, anil i:rren
the "anti-Re~nilic" Itussinn Governiueut was 11r111eycomhcd
wit11 .Jews, as the end sl~~!\vetl. In Oerlnauy
they endeavored to vote the Jcwish power out of
politics, only to find the root deey-set in financo
and no country has yet attacked the sacred image of
gold. In ILngland the policy of ahsorption was
:~(loptal, an11 the result is that wllererer a Jew wan
ln?t in power the British Empi1.e has reaped troubie,
in Ireland, in India, in Palestine, lhe present vireregents
of all t,liese possessions being Jcws. Ol,her
little countries, esasperatccl beyond endurance, tried
violence, and failed juxt as misrral~ly as tllc ol.lrers.
Why :! Becanse cvrF onc of tliese methods is yreri8ely
the nletllod that the Jew prefers to have people
tsy. He knows their futility first;

thns won would be pure gain, nrere it not that it also
seems to-discourage the lropc of men %rho know how
sei~iously vrolig the situation is.
Resides this massive array of power, immovable
as it appears, there is the veil cast over the C,hristian
n~ind as to the su~~pose(lly peculiar destiny of "God's
cl~osen people." Tl~c Christian cannot read his Bible
except through Jcwish spectacles, and, therefore,
reatls it wrong. The idea of "the chosen people'' is
one of the two great Biblical ideas: but that the
Jews constitute rhis Cl~osen People is entirely oopposed
to the statement of the Ril~le-even of the
Riblu wliich tlie Jews acknowletlge, the Old Testament
of rhc C:lnistiairs. Tt~e hlessiugs ol world possession,
world rule, suyerior populal.ion, commercial
greatness, military powel; constituted governments,
"a great nat,ion a1111 ;i coupany of nations"-all of
these as means l~y nlrich to sprcatl light and 1ic;iling
arnong the nations-nere truly promised to one
people, to Tsrael, not to Jndah. Judali's destiny mas
to he quite different. Veq fen7 Bible readers ever
uoie f.he distinction between the IIonse of Israel and
the House of Judah, yet this tlintinctiun was marked
from the time of Jacob; the pr*ophets absolutely insist
npon it. Israel seceiletl from .Indah, iri~ing nnable
to live with that people any !ongel. Israel's
dcstiuy took the111 nl~t into the world, ;in11 if the
Bible be true, then TsraeYs destiny of grearaess is
being fnllilled in Israel a11d not in .Tir~lali. The two
Houses are distinct to this day, althonpli a future
rcnuion, a spiritrlal reunion, is prophesiell to conle.
Yet the falsc itlw that tl~c Jenrs constitul.c A11
Israel has ~~enutr~;iteiI the Christian corisciousness
to an alarnliug extent, su that when the .Te\vish press
insists, as it does every wcelr, "\Ve gave you your
God, we gave you your Bihle, we gave you your
Christ," even Christian ministers cannot find an answcr.
The answer is that the Old Teslalnent is ninetenths
an Israelitish book, aurl riot a .Jewish book.
Bbrahaln was not a Jew; Isnac \\.as not a Jew;
Jacob was not ;r .Jew; Moses vas uot a .Jew; Joshua

AN ADDRESS TO "GENTILES" 021 TliE Jl?WTSlI I'ROBLEM 239
was not a Jew; Giclcon mas not a .Jew; Samuel n7as
not a Jew; eve11 Esther and Mordecai verc not Jcn~s,
but Benjaminites; the majority of the prophets were
not Jews, but 1sr;iclites. Upon the coming of Jnrlah
into power, in the persons of David and Solomon,
the misrule u7as so great that Israel seceded, ancl the
secession wax sanctioned by the prophets. In the
Sew Testament, Jesus Christ found his disciples in
(ialilee, far ont of .Jnclca, and of them there mas but
one, Juclas, whose name indicates tha.t lie was a Je~v.
St. Paul mas of the tribe of Reniamin, "the light
tribe," which was left with Judah '(for a light.''
But there is a constant patter of l)re:iclling (the
Russellites make it the great thcn~c) that "the .Jews
are to rule the world because it is so prophesied."
The amaning blindness wit11 which (:llrisl.ians have
regarded the open pages ol lheir Rible is the only
explanation of ihis one-sidcd teaching m-hich is confusing
to the Christians and exceedingly rlangerous
to the Jews. In the Bible, Israel is the Chose11
People of Blessing, and the ti~l~e is annou~~cerl when
Judah shall walk to Isracl ancl recognize t.l~em and
become ono 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 .Tn!lal~. One thing,
therefore, that Christian call ilo, an a contrihutioir
to the solution of the Jewish Qnerition, is to read
their Bibles cni.cfullg.
The Jeaisll Qucstion will he solved, ;an11 its si)lntion
will begin in the United States. But that docs
ilot mean that it will come as the result ol a l)ol)ular
luovement. Great changes do not occur that way. It
inakes little difference whether the mass of tilepcople
see this Question or not; the nrass of the people
are not always called into s11c11 n~i~ttcrs. Tlleir work
is to hold the world stearly while the change takes
place. Rut a sufficient llllmber of rplalificd peYsonu
hare sccn tho Question to insure that now the era
of solution has set in. The tinlid, the soft literary
men in pulpits (with nrhose ilk .Jeremiah hacl a Iceen
acq~iainbance), the false preachers of "Peace, peace,"

240 THE 1STRRh'hTIONAL JEW
the 11ush broilnel,s a1111 ~isiers of every name, the
fihallow shoutens for "fairness," anil all n~ho ale
afraid of the tratll in its surgical forn?s-these have
no place in the, Ilrealiug i~f the hn~t of time times;
they are wedded to tl~eii. rioftness. Not,l~ing has
been more shamef~~l in the last two years than the
spect;tcle of men iridding fill. the applause i~f bootleggel.#,
and g:in~hlers, and the lechero~~s nlasters
of the inoilern stage, mil the sinister Icehillah, and
illc anti-Christian -kmel.ican Jewish Corninittee, because,
forsooth, Rome one has fulfilled the duty to
tell roposerl,
for virions pllrposes; strong organization. 11ar.e of.
Cereil tlremsel\~ei; as vehicles lor the csr~yiug out of
any 1)lan TEE YII~LREORIL' IPCDEPL~N~ENT
~nighl. IlriJpoet?.
But n.11 such l~l~dertakirlgs have been avoiilcd, our
belid being that simply To sta1.e the t:ruth, and let it
mark its own right will, was sufficient at. this tilnc.
And to that i~clief anil policy me have adlrcrcil.
"Bnt w11a1 sl~all we ilo?' is the cor~staut qnesl.ion;
"How shall u7c balk this sgstenl wl~ich snrro~u~rls 11s
and infects NO lnucl~ of 0111. COI~IIIO~ life?'
Ol~ser\~e it;, identify it, ccllew i&that is mope
po\verful t11;i1; active oppo~ition. Tlie clear eye of
the man wl~o sees e.lrd unrlt.rstanda is solnething that
evnn the evil powers of Jew17 cannot endure.

AN ADDRESS TO "GEKTILES" OK THII. JEWISH PROBLEM 241
Rut the niost potent action any aw;tkened person
can take is this: t,o erect again onr own moral hndmarks,
which the Oriental Jewish invasion has
brolren down. This woulrl ~pell sheer do on^ to the
whole evil system sponsored l~y Jews. And tliis is
the course ~vhich has never been tried. 'Yo go b~tck
to the principles which nlade our ~;I(:I: great, the
principles to which we have been rccl.e;~r~t and thew
fore have fallell an easy prey-this is tlic only invincible
course. It in an opposition vvhich evil Jews
cannot nnderstand and cannot defeat.
In place of the may of doing btlsiness wl~ich Jewish
dealers have ii~t~oduced, let the business nien of
rl~e couut17 adopt the old mar of the white man,
~~-licn a man's word was as good as his bond, and
when bnlsiness was se~?i~.~: and i~ot exploitation.
Let the wru and women of the couutry learn h(lw
to buy, let tlleru learn how to tciit quality in fabric
and food, instead of being depenrle~~t on price tags.
The merchandisi~~g practices of tliis country, iu the
hands of rnthless exploiters, 1111,ve all but rained honest
nlerct~:~ntn. Let auy dweller in a great city? recall
t,hc last twenty years, 11ow the (:hrisiian merd~ants
l~avc been growing fewer and fewer. 7Vh,y'/ Is it
because the owners of Jewish ilepa.rtruent: sl.ores are
hct,ter bnsiness men? So! The Je\vish we~cbants
I~cgan the practice of filling their store windows
with goods that lo11Irc11 like the goods in reputable
merchants' windows, and sold thew for a much lon~ev
price. The helpless public, no longer able to deter.
mine tho quality of goods, and guided solely by price
tags, flocl~ed to the Jews' store. The result is that
oiic hears everywhere in ordinary conrcrsation the
complaint, that "everything is shoclcly." Of courm
it is: and it will 1.emain so, until we educate people
in the art of huyiug.. That of itself \\-ill break down
thrcc-fourtl~s of ihe abuses practiced in the commercial
nrorl(l today.
Anothcl cont~ik~uldon that can he made to the defeat
of Jen-ish ~ubuc~~uivc influrucc is 'the esalnination
of so-called "liberal" ideas, their source, their

242 'THE INTERP(ATI0KAL JEW
eflect, their whole tenJ(.nry. hIen are thinking ideas
t11~1:x- that poisou them morally, socially and ucobomicnlly.
These ideas are as deliberately shot into
society :IS poisoll gm V;ln sllot into rallks of soldiers
in Prance. Ollr mental hospitality has been grossly
abused, the public lni~id ha8 bt%n inarlc a sewer. The
tirue has come for :t c~~stom immrir:r to be rai~ell for
the examination of importel ideas. Unrcslr'icte(1
immigr;rlion of ideas has bee11 as bail lor the Amcrican
mentality as unrestricted imnligratiori of people
has been for i\merir.:rn society.
\Ve hare taken oui- amuscrr~ci~ts witl~olit thought
of wh;tt \\,as liehind then1 in the way of cleliherat,e
intent to mafie 11s COIIIIIIO~, and ca~eles': anil coarse.
We have read our newsp:lpcm, wliolly innocent of
the propaganda mixed with the news. We. have even
talren our religion in a Judaized form, without
troubling to inqiiire whether it sqirarerl with thc
Bible, the tcstborik of religion. 7Ve liave read 0111.
novels and hare failed to see what sevliin the authol'
was injecting along with his story. An11 8.11 this
Irax heen possil~le l~era~rsc we llavc bc

AX ADUHESS 'TO 'GEiiTlLES" Oh TTIE JE\VISH PROBLELI 2.13
broken up, and the subversive .ie\visl~ il~flupice suljp~rts
the oligarchy of unserviceable wealth at one
end of the social scale, u7hile it stimulates the b;lscr
elements of inrlnstriul unrest at the other end. And
the racc thns rent asunder to its ow11 ttndoing, ~loes
not see this-capital does not see, arlil 1;tbor doe^
not see-that tllo learlers of cliaos are alien in blood
and soul.
To keep American ancl Chr.istiaa thc ~chool, the
rl~urcl~, tElc legislature, the jury roon~ and the Government,
is the most potent. ~.zsisla~ic~? i.Ilal: call be
made to the evil inflnellccs which have bcon upon us
anrl which this series of articles has partly uncov~
ered. The strength of all snbvrrsivc infl~~encc is in
proportion as u-c ccase to be what u7e ought to be.
The evil influences surrounding this people call succeed
only 8,s t.lley change this people into sonnrlhing
les~ thall it ongllt to bc. Tllcrcfo~.c, ill go irack to
the old landmarks, whereby we 111ade all the progress
nre ever made, is not only the part of n,isdo~n, bnt the
rlee~l of i.he lloi~r. The scl~ool nlilnl: Ire cleansed. The
jur2~ box must be lrcpt invinl;rte~-trial by jury ha.;
ahuost disappeared in Jewish Kerv Yorli. The
chilrch rllnst be nn-.Tl~~laize(l and Cllristianizeil, l'lle
Covrrnmrnt ~nllsi, be Am~:ricanizril. LeL Illerr: br
lllc iitniost Fwc(li~m of flloilgl~t ill111 iil~eecli, hxt letthem
l ~r also willt it, ;t ~lii.crin~i~lation \\-liich will 111'1:.
vent thl: lrel~ple ireiug victilnizrcl by every sl?urinlis
iiie;~,, every "golll bricli" econon~ic proposal nrhicl~
colllrs aloug. It i~eeds oii11 that nieu be aw&rl

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itself ag?in o11, the parent tree and dram again the
s~islenance which made it great wrl irnitful.
Many so-calleil "gentilea" are somewhat affected
by the Jewd wails of "persecution." This has been
auiliciently discusseil in previous articles, but "gentiles"
can further contribute to the solution of the
Jcn7ish Question by looking about them to see if they
can discover any cvitlenco of "~~eraecutionn here-
~lnless it be persecution of the Christians by tl~c or.
ganinecl ageilcies of the .len,s! In this montli's
Atlantic Xosthly a Jewish rabbi, who unclo~ibtedly
Lnonrs better, assumes that his race is a hated race.
Re rather enjoys thc thol~ght sml accepts it as a
clistiuctive honor. Our "gentile" might also observe
Ilow untrue this is-how, indeed, in this mirt,lire of
natians, the Jew gets otl: ~vill~ less ever1 of the harmless
kind of racial animosity than any other foreign
admixture.
Above all, the L'gentilr:," 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
lear. Nothing is more abject, than "the fear of the
Jew-," arlrl nothing more disastrous to tl~c Jew than
the tactics he employs to sustain that fear. The
Jewish subversive power has beeu poverful only for
evil and only n7here there a7as a disp$xition to evil.
Tt has never yet fiuccccded in briuging slrallle or
confusion to the right.
Tndeed, there is one ,sure nap of gaining the
respect of the Jew, and that is, Tell The Truti~. R'o
one knows better rhan the Jciv whether statements
~uacle about Jew aTe true or ni:l.. "(2entiles" may
never be certain whether a statc~llcnt maile about

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Lllc day of Jndah's return to standing has come. 'I'l~c
truth is Judah's friend, and Israel's fricn:l, and the
a.orld'n I'rien(1. Ii, makes hard demands; it is soh tiu~es not casy to speak and har~ler ~l.ill to 11erir;
I!i~t the truth lleals, as .lnilall is due tn discover.
There is this lo say, that among tile inany thousands
of prrsons who bave written to i'iis Uuanr~oazr
IXDEPKKIII:XT confinnitlg out of their own obscrv;ttion
and experience the statements ma

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gandn. It has scavc(1 ill llnndrecls of i~r~~orta~~t
cases to give the confirmatiun to our stateme~lts
which was wanted. .le\vish literature has heen a
11o1verf111 informer of tlie gravity of the Jewish
Question in the [Jniterl Mates. The result was not:
what the Jewish 1e:~clers wished, of conrse, but it
warr serviceable to the truth jnst the same.
Now tl~af: t,he Question is opcn, 1lon7 that the prcss
is able to print '.Te\!+ when necessaq, now that a
I,l~nch of keys has becn pro\ridecl by which the
people ]nay i~nlock doom and make furtiller inquiri