Chapter I: Front Matter

Aspects of Jewish Power
in the
United States

Volume IV
of
The International Jew
The World’s Foremost Problem

_Being a Reprint of a Fourth Selection
of Articles from_
The Dearborn Independent

Preface

This is the fourth volume of reprinted studies in the Jewish Question as they appeared in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT. The articles follow the same general line as the previous volume in showing the various angles of Jewish influence and achievement in the affairs of the people of the United States, but they do not by any means exhaust either the number of the angles nor the depth of the significance in the angles traced.

Deliberate public opinion has shown many signs of a new alertness to the movement which was proceeding deftly and unnoticed in the midst of America, and many checks have been put in operation. The work of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT was undertaken at a disadvantage because of the tremendous emphasis of the American mind on racial peace and because of the ease with which racial propagandists can make a purely economic and political matter assume the aspects of a religious controversy. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT opened the Question to public gaze, and was therefore assumed to be the attacker. In this country our sense of fairness always leaves the advantage with the attacked, and false accusations quickly fall. The country has seen, however, the truth of the statements and has observed the mild and unprejudiced manner in which they were made, so that it may now be said that truth has made its way.

Most gratifying are the signs which Jews themselves have given that certain abuses must be quickly stopped. A Jewish leader has appealed for the removal of the exemption which nullifies the Constitution of the United States in favor of the Jew with reference to the use of liquor. Other Jewish leaders have sought to compel Jewish theatrical controllers to observe elementary decency in their productions.

These articles have always held that the cleansing must come from within Judah itself. It is recognized that racial pride might prevent many improvements being attempted under fire, but American Jews cannot afford to be ruled by a false pride in this respect. These are days of judgment for all the corruptive forces of society and the Jews cannot expect to escape responsibility for their part in these things.

May, 1922.

Contents

Page
LXII. How Jews Gained American Liquor Control 7
LXIII. Gigantic Jewish Liquor Trust and Its Career 19
LXIV. The Jewish Element in Bootlegging Evil 31
LXV. Angles of Jewish Influence in American Life 41
LXVI. The Jews’ Complaint Against “Americanism” 54
LXVII. The Jewish Associates of Benedict Arnold 67
LXVIII. Benedict Arnold and Jewish Aid in Shady Deal 81
LXIX. Arnold and His Jewish Aids at West Point 95
LXX. The Gentle Art of Changing Jewish Names 109
LXXI. Jewish “Kol Nidre” and “Eli, Eli” Explained 121
LXXII. Jews as New York Magistrates See Them 132
LXXIII. Jews Are Silent, the National Voice is Heard 143
LXXIV. What Jews Attempted Where They Had Power 156
LXXV. The Jewish Question in Current Testimony 167
LXXVI. America’s Jewish Enigma—Louis Marshall 179
LXXVII. The Economic Plans of International Jews 193
LXXVIII. A Jew Sees His People As Others See Them 207
LXXIX. Candid Address to Jews on the Jewish Problem 223
LXXX. An Address to “Gentiles” on the Jewish Problem 235

_“United, then, by the strongest feelings of solidarity, the Jews can easily hold their own in this disjointed and anarchic society of ours. If the millions of Christians by whom they are surrounded were to substitute the same principle of cooperation for that of individual competition, the importance of the Jew would immediately be destroyed. The Christian, however, will not adopt such a course, and the Jew must, inevitably, I will not say dominate (the favorite expression of the anti-Semites) but certainly possess the advantage over others, and exercise the supremacy against which the anti-Semites inveigh without being able to destroy it.”—Lazare._