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I Si D0-O0DX -Q3 top 'sy&J VOL. X, NO. 6. The agents of Henry Ford are try ing to convince the readers of the Dearborn Independent that the press of the world is controlled by Jews and that especially the American presB, together with the various American news services, are owned and controlled by Jews. This is no', a new accusation against us, for it was lcvelod against us years and de cades ago in every European country where anti-Semites were active. If this charge is false as far as Euro pean countries are concerned, it is simply ridiculous here in America, where the Jews do not only not own and control the press, but where they play a very unimportant part in jour nalism. As far as Europe is concerned, one tan at least say that so many Jews are the foremost journalists of the country, and as such have a certain influence on the press, though in ninety-nine out of one hundred cases the influence is not in favor of, but fegainst Judaism. The case of the late Theodore Herzl illustrates the point Theodore Henl was the lit erary editor of the Neue Freie Presse, the most famous European continent al press organ. Theodore Herzl, as is well known, was a courageous and upright man, but still he never men tioned one word about Zionism in the Neue Freie Presse. He understood so well the value of publicity for Zionism that. he did not leave ont stone unturned to obtain the good wilt of the newspapers. But the pa(.cr with which he himself was connoted was also owned by a Jew named Bach, rach, and ignored Zionism complete ly, and not only that, the Neue Freie Presse is to the present day v non Jewish that it is often anti-Jewish. It often suppresses Jewish news, lent the readers think it a Jewish pa,r. Herzl knew that the sort of news papers owned by rich European Jews are everything but Jewish and (hat they are no place to discuss matters Jewish, because the Gentile reuJers of these paper are not favorably in clined towards the Jews, and the Jew ish readers are all b'ase, and a.e of ten ashamed of thrir Judaism. There fore, he abstained f'oin even nen tioning the word ZionUm in his own newspaper. There are in Central Eu- .. rope a great many liberal pper. tho owners of which are Jews, but Jews in name only. There is Rjdolph Mosse, the owner and publisher o' the Berliner Tagcblatt; there are the Son nemanns in Frankfurt, the ownen and . publishers of the Frankfurter Zel tung; there are the Bachrachs in Vi enna, the owners and publishers of FORT WORTH-DALLAS, TEXAS, THEJEWSandthe PRESS the Neue Freie Presse, and the Sing, ers in Vienna, the owners and pub lishers of the Neues Weiner Tagc blatt. It is true that these four pa pers are, from a literary point of view, the most important and influ ential continental European press or-' ' gans, but politically they are less Im portant than people imagine. There are in Europe scores of dailies owned, run and edited by Gentiles, and each and every one of them is politically more influential than any one of the above mentioned four papers owned by Jews, but none of them has such a literary value and is so brilliantly edited as the four so-called Jewish papers. None of the thirty-six so cialist dailies in Germany belong to Jews, and none of the conservative nationalistic papers in Central Eu rope belong to Jews. In the Eastern European countries notably in Po land, Lithuania, Whit Russia and the Ukraine, the Jews have their own press either in Yiddish or in the country's vernacular, but are actually excluded from participation in the activities of the general press, so that one cannot very well say that the Jews in Eastern Europe have any in fluence on the Eastern European press. In the southern Slavic coun tries, especially in Jugo-Slavia, Bui gara .Czccho-Slovakia, the Jews have no standing with the press at all. There may or may not be a few Jew ish journalists in those countries, but the owners of all the newspapers and the editorial writers as well as the lit. erary contributors are all Gentiles. One can thus readily see that there lit nothing to the hue and cry of the anti Semites, that the Jews own and con trol the European press. In all tho Central and Eastern European coun tries there are only four Jewish news paper owners and as we have said be fore, these newspapers owned by Jew are more often anti-Jewish than pro Jewish. A similar situation we see in tho Western European countries. We do not know of one paper in England that is owned or controlled by a Jew. The London Times ,the Daily Mail and the England News arc owned and con. trolled by Lord Northcliffe. The Lon don Morning Post is controlled by Po lish agents and run by anti-Semitic propagandists. The Daily Tclegrapn was once owned by a Jew, but is not controlled by a Jew today. Nor is the London Standard or any other of the more conservative papera owned or controlled by Jews. The two great liberal dallies in London, the Chroni cle and the News are owned by Gen tiles, edited, by Gentiles and run by FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1920. Gentiles. The same is true of the Man chester Guardian, the Glasgow Herald, the Scotchman and all the other great English dailies whether published in London or in the province. Nor are tthere too many Jewish journalists of ., jjtanee in England. In view of '. only anti-Semitic propa. gaitw, lre 88 ru'e mastcr liars, wo"G5j4 that the Eng lish press is controlled or even influenced by ...wi, There was once a rumor in circulation that Sir Alfred Mond, the well known English statesman and economist who discov ered his Judaism only recently, was the owner of the Westminster Gazette. But the rumor has proven untrue. Sir Alfrad Mond's connection with the Westminster Gazette consists in his willingness displayed every year to pay the annual deficit of the paper, but he does not own the Westminster Gazette. In France and Italy we fare similar conditions. Le Matin, the most influential boulevard paper in Paris it owned by Buno Varilla, a Franco Argentine half cast. Le Journal be longs to a French Senator in whose veins there is not one drop of Jewisn blood flowing. Le Figaro, La Petite, Republiqie, La Republique Francaise, Ijl Laterne, Le P-.ulois, La Libre Par ole and the other minor papers lik-j the Tribune, L'Intransigeant, etc., all belong to non-Jews and none of thr r.i have a Jew as editor. With the excep tion of the anti-Semitic nationalistic Le aulois whose editor, Paul Meyer, is a non-baptized Jew, and the leader of the French monarchists and anti Semites, its main anti-Semitisc con tributors are the Wolf sisters, two Jewish girls who are anti-Semitle propagandists and a fellow named Po lonais a former Hungarian Jew, nan . ed Pollack. These four anti-Semitic journalists, Meyer, Wolfs and Pollack control the editorial columns of the anti-Semitic Le aulois. There was once a rumor In Paris that the late Edward Dummont, the founder of French anti Semitism and the editor of the la Libre Parole was a Jew and that his original name was Drelmund, but it could not be established whether this rumor had any basis In reality or not. There are a few journalists In Franco who are Jews by birth, but not oy conviction and know as much about Jewish matters aa the other French men do. Nor are they in touch with Jewish life. In Italy all the dailiei without one exception, are controlled, owned and edited by Geitlles, and the same is of course true of the Spanish and the Portugese pi ess. This being the case, the question is justified where do the Jews control the prew, If not in Enstrn, Western nd Cn Price Five Cents tral Europe? Do they control the American press? We know only of three newspapers owned by Jews, but we know that all three, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Ledger, and the Omaha Bee, are not only not pro Jewish in character, but they are of ten anit-Jewish in character, becauso they would suppress Jewish news of interest to the public at large, lest the public think them Jewish news, papers. The New York World was founded by a Jew named Pulitzer, but the heirs and present owners of the paper have long ago found their sal vation in the arms of a church and are Christians in good standing. Neither the New York Tribune, nor the New York American, nor the New York Herald and Sun are controlled, owned or edited by Jews. Nor is the New York Evening Post, Evening Mail anJ Globe owned or controlled by Jews. As far as our knowledge goes, none of the great Chicago dailies from the Tribune dwn to the Post are owned, controlled or edited by Jews. Nor can it be said that the offices of the great American dailies are crowded with Jewish re sorters or Jewish editorial writers. Tliere are not too many Jew ish jouma'ists in America who are ac tive in th American press. There ii not even one great American publicist who is a Jew. In England there is Lu cicn Wolf, in Germany there is Theo dore Wolf, in Italy there is Enrico Levi, in Russia there was Jabotinsky, and in Austria Singer, but there are no great publicists in America, and the editorial influence of the American Jews on the American Press is nil. We would like to know therefore how do the Jews control the press in Ameri ca? And how do they do it if they do not own, run and edit newspapers f But still anti-Semites will always re peat the accusation that the Jews own, control and run the press and an in nocent jublic will believe them. Among all the charges leveled against us in recent times, the charge that we own and control the press of the world is the most ridiculous because It has no basis in fact, whatsoever. If the Jews had more influence on the press, the Jewish position in the world today would be a different one. But unfor tunately we have not even access to the press, especially not in those newspapers which speak for govern ments or for parties. It may also w taken for granted that if a newspaper is not outspokenly liberal it is always a little anti-Semitic. However, Henry Ford's anti-Semitic propagandists capitalize even these capital liea of the Jewish control over the world press. The Jewish Sentinel