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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
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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
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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
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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