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Tlhe Fojrdl International Weekly
INDEPENDEN
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Dearborn, Michigan, May 22, 1920
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The International Jew:
The World's Problem
"Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be mentioned: distaste
for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked
religious instinct; the courage of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier;
remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great ability to retain
racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both individual and social; shrewdness and astute
ness in speculation and money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full appre
ciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high average of intellectual ability. "
The New International Encyclopedia.
TJIK Jew is again being singled out for critical attention through
out the world. His emergence in the financial, political and social
pherei has been so complete and spectacular since the war. that
his lace, power and purpose in the world are being given a new
scru . much of it unfriendly. Persecution is not a new experience
to the Jew, but intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality
is. Be has suffered for more than 2,000 years from what may be
calk -: the instinctive anti-semitism of the other races, but this an
tagoi m has never been intelligent nor has it been able to make itself
intelligible, Nowadays, however, the Jew is being placed, as it were,
ondei the microscope of economic observation that the reasons for
his po r, the reasons for his separateness, the reasons for his suffer
ing he defined and understood.
ti Russia he is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an
accu ion which is serious or not according to the circle in which it is
ma! we in America, hearing the fervid eloquence and perceiving the
prophetic ardor of young Jewish apostles of social and industrial re
form can calmly estimate how it may be. In Germany he is charged
with ;ing the cause of the Empire's collapse and a very considerable
literal ire has sprung up, bearing with it a mass of circumstantial evi
denci that gives the thinker pause. In England he is charged with be
ing t e real world ruler, who rules as a super-nation over the nations,
rules by the power of gold, and who plays nation against nation for
his own purposes, remaining himself discreetly in the background. In
Arm- ica it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth and
the vainger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war organizations
principally those departments which dealt with the commercial and
induMrial business of war, and also the extent to which they have
clun to the advantage which their experience as agents of the gov
ernment gave them.
IN SIMPLE words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but
1 like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will
be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, ex
perience has taught us anything it is that questions tkttl suppressed
sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.
The Jew is the world's enigma. Poor in his masses, he yet con
sols the world's finances. Scattered abroad without country or gov
ernment, he yet presents a unity of race continuity which no other
People has achieved. Living under legal disabilities in almost every
,aH he has become the power behind many a throne. There are
ancient prophecies to the effect that the Jew will return to his own
land and from that center rule the world, though not until he has
undergone an assault by the united nations of mankind.
The single description which will include a larger percentage of
lews than members of any other race is this: he is in business. It
may be only gathering rags and selling them, but he is in business.
From the sale of old clothes to the control of international trade and
finance, the Jew is supremely gifted for business. More than any
other race he exhibits a decided aversion to industrial employment,
which he balances by an equally decided adaptability to trade. The
Gentile boy works his way up. taking employment in the productive or
technical departments; but the Jewish boy prefers to begin as mes
senger, salesman or clerk anything so long as it is connected with
the commercial side of the business. An early Prussian census il
lustrates this characteristic: of a total population of 209.400, the Jews
comprised six per cent or 16.164. Of these. 12.000 were traders and
4,164 were workmen. Of the Gentile population, the other 94 per cent,
or 153,236 people, there were only 17,000 traders.
A MODERN census would show a large professional and literary
class added to the traders, but no diminution of the percentage of
traders and not much if any increase in the number of wage toilers.
In America alone most of the big business, the trusts and the hanks,
the natural resources and the chief agricultural products, especially
tobacco, cotton and sugar, are in. the control of Jewish financiers or
their agents. Jewish journalists are a large and powerful group here
"Large numbers of department stores are held by Jewish firms." saw
the Jewish Encyclopedia, and many if not most of them are run under
Gentile names. Jews are the largest and most numerous landlords of
residence property in the country. They are supreme in the theatrical
world. They absolutely control the circulations of publications through
out the country. Fewer than any race whose presence among us is
noticeable, thev receive daily an amount of favorable publicity which
would be impossible did they not have the facilities for creating and
distributing it themselves. Werner Sombart, in his "Jew and Modern
Capitalism' says, "If the conditions in America continue to develop
along the same lines as in the last generation, if the immigration sta
tistics and the proportion of births among all the nationalities remain
the same, our imagination may picture the United States of fifty or a
hundred years hence as a land inhabited only by Slavs, Negroes and
Jews, wherein the Jews will naturally occupy the position of