|
It All Begins With Christopher Columbus
The story of the Jews in America begins with Christopher
Columbus. On August 2, 1492, more than 300,000 Jews were expelled
from Spain, and on August 3, the next day, Columbus set sail for the
West, taking a group of Jews with him. They were not, however,
refugees, for the prophetic navigator's plans had aroused the
interest of influential Jews who sought a new country they could
dominate. Columbus
himself tells us that he consorted much with Jews.
|
|
|
The Queen Pawns Her Jewels
The first letter he wrote detailing his discoveries was to a Jew.
Indeed, the eventful voyage itself which added to men's knowledge
and wealth "the other half of the earth" was made possible by Jewish
usuary, as they used
Queen Isabella's jewels to financed the voyage.
|
|
|
|
|
The Treacherous Maranos
There were three Maranos or "secret Jews" who wielded great
influence at the Spanish court: Luis de Santagel, who was an
important merchant of Valencia and who was "farmer" of the royal
taxes; his relative, Gabriel Sanchez, who was the royal treasurer;
and their friend, the royal chamberlain, Juan Cabrero. These worked
unceasingly on Queen Isabella's imagination, picturing to her the
depletion of the royal treasury and the likelihood of Columbus
discovering the fabulous gold of the Indies, until the Queen was
ready to offer her jewels in pawn for the funds. Santagel advance the money
on her jewels, 17,000 ducats in all, about $20,000, perhaps equal to
$160,000 today.
|
|
|
Five Jews On Columbus's Ship
Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews:
Luis de Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the
physician; Alonzo de la Calle, and Gabriel Sanchez. Luis de Torres was the first man ashore, the first to
discover the use of tobacco; he settled in Cuba and may be said to
be the father of Jewish control of the tobacco business as it exists
today.
|
|
|
|
|
The Doctor Plots Against Columbus
Columbus' old patrons, Luis de Santagel and Gabriel
Sanchez, received many privileges for the part they played in the
work, but Columbus himself became the victim of a conspiracy
fostered by Bernal, the ship's doctor, and suffered injustice and
imprisonment as his reward.
|
|
|
They Infest New York
From that beginning, Jews looked more and more to America as a
fruitful field, and immigration set in strongly toward South
America, principally Brazil. But because of military participation
in a disagreement between the Brazilians and the Dutch, the Jews of
Brazil found it necessary to emigrate, which they did in the
direction of the Dutch colony of what is now New York. Peter
Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, did not entirely approve of their
settling among his people and ordered them to leave, but the Jews
had evidently taken the precaution to assure their being received
even if not welcomed, because upon revoking the order of Stuyvesant,
the Directors gave as one of the reasons for the Jews being
received, "the large amount of capital which they have invested in
the shares of the Company." Nevertheless they were forbidden to
enter public service and to open retail shops, which had the effect
of driving them into foreign trade in which they were soon
exercising all but a monopoly because of their European connections.
|
|
|
|
|
The Rag Peddler Succeeds
This is only one of the thousand illustrations which can be given
of the acumen of the Jew. Forbid him in one direction, he
will turns in another. When he is forbidden to deal in new clothes,
he sold old clothes -- that was the beginning of the organized
traffic in secondhand clothing. When he was forbidden to deal in
merchandise, he dealt in waste -- the Jew is the originator of the
waste product business of the world; he was the originator of the
salvage system; he found wealth in the debris of civilization.
Never The Worker, But Always The Merchant
He has always had a taste for the furrier trade, which he now
controls, and to him is due the multitude of common skins which now
pass under various alluring trade names as furs of high origin.
|
The idea of renovation gained commercial value through the Jew.
In the "rag men" who blow tin horns through our cities and save the
old iron, old bottles, old paper, and old fabrics.
|
|
New York Is Their Base
Unwittingly, old Peter Stuyvesant compelled the Jew to make New
York the principal port of America, and though a majority of New
York Jews had fled to Philadelphia at the time of the American
Revolution, to avoid military service, most of them returned to New York at the earliest
opportunity, instinct seeming to make them aware that in New York
was to be their principal paradise of gain. And so it has proved.
New York is the greatest center of Jewish population in the world.
It is the gateway where the bulk of American imports and exports are
taxed, and where practically all the business done in America pays
tribute to the masters of money.
|
|
The very land of the city is practically the holdings of the
Jews. A list of the property owners of the metropolis reveals only
at rare intervals a Gentile name. No wonder that Jewish writers,
viewing this unprecedented prosperity, this unchecked growth in
wealth and power, exclaim enthusiastically that the United States is
the Promised Land foretold by the prophets, and New York the New
Jerusalem. Some have gone even further and described the peaks of
the Rockies as "the mountains of Zion," and with reason, too, if the
mining and coastal wealth of the Jews is considered.
|
|
|
|
The Waterways And Railroads Funneled Into New York
Jews quickly became the commissioners on the new waterways proposal, which will make an ocean port of
practically every great city on the Great Lakes and take from New
York the prestige she has maintained by being the gateway toward
which the principal railways narrowed, is being strongly protested
at this time. And the strongest motive in opposing this most obvious
betterment is that so much wealth counted in New York is not wealth
at all, but fictitious values depending solely on New York remaining
New York. When anything comes which will make New York merely a city
on the coast, and not the city where the great taxers sit to levy
their tribute, much Jewish wealth will decrease. It was fabulous
before the war. What it is now the statisticians will hardly
undertake to say.
|
|
|
They Quickly Swarm Into America
In fifty years the increase in the Jewish population of the
United States has been from 50,000 to more than 3,300,000. In the
British Isles there are only 300,000, in Palestine only 100,000. It
is fortunate for the Jew himself that in Great Britain his numbers
are not greater, for the large and evident control he exercises in
great matters would sometimes make it inconvenient for the poorer
Jew, if he were abroad in England in large numbers. An unusually
well-informed Briton says that anti-Semitism is always ready to
break out in England upon sufficient cause, but it cannot break out
against the inaccessible rich Jews who control in politics and
international finance.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The International Jewish Financier
It us probably true that the commonest real cause of
anti-Semitism is the action of the international Jew who is often
unknown and always secure. Anti-Semitism, however, will be considered in the next article.
The figures representing Jewish population in Great Britain and the
United States indicate that the colossal power wielded by
international Jewish financiers is neither consequent nor dependent
upon their number. The arresting fact about the Jew is his
world-wide unchallenged power, coupled with comparative numerical
inferiority. There are only about 14,000,000 Jews in the world; they
are about as numerous as the Koreans. This comparison of their
numbers with the Koreans will illustrate still more vividly the
phenomenon of their power.
|
|
|
The America Revolution
In the time of George Washington there were about 4,000 Jews in
the country, most of them well-to-do traders. For the most part they
favored the American side. Haym Salomon reaped enormous wealth by
lending gold to the Colonies at a desperate moment moment. But they
never assimilated, or served their country, they did not take up the usual employments nor
farming, they never seemed to care for the worry of manufacturing
things, but only for the selling of them after they were made.
|
|
|
|
|
From Rag Peddler To Manufacturer
It is only of recent years the Jew has shown any capacity for
manufacturing, and most of what he now engages in has grown up as an
adjunct to his merchandising plans. By manufacturing, he saves a
profit. The result has not been a decrease in cost to the public,
but an increase. It is characteristic of Jewish business methods
that economies are for the sake of the business, not for the sake of
the public.
|
|
|
Factories Had Their Benefits
The commodities in which there have been the most inexcusable and
exorbitant increases in prices to the public, and the lines of
business which have been most quickly frightened into lower prices
without any explanatory change in the general situation, have been
those lines in which Jews exercise the widest control.
During the wars, as women moved into the workplace, the Jews took
full advantage of female employees.
|
|
|
|
|
It's All About Money And Power
Business to the Jewish mind is money; what the successful Jew may
do with the money after he gets it is another matter, but in the
getting of it he never permits "idealistic slush" to interfere with
the dollar. His dollar of profit is never "clipped" by any of the
voluntary reforms by which a few men are trying to ameliorate the
condition of the workers.
Business is to
it a matter of goods and money, not of people. If you are in
distress and suffering, the Jewish heart would have sympathy for
you; but if your house were involved in the matter, you and your
house would be two separate entities; the Jew would naturally find
it difficult, in his theory of business, to humanize the house; he
would deal with it after a manner which other people would call
"hard," but he would not feel the charge to be just; he would say
that it was only "business."
|
|
|
The New York Sweatshops
It is probably this way that the Jewish "sweatshops" of New York
may be explained. When the susceptible people of the nation
commiserated the poor Gentiles of the New York sweatshops, they for the
most part did not know that the inventors and operators of the
"sweatshop" method were themselves Jews. Indeed, while it is the
boast of our country that no race or color or creed is persecuted
here, but liberty is insured to all, still it is a fact which every
special investigator has noted that the only heartless treatment
ever accorded the Jew in the United States came from his own people,
his overseers and masters. And yet there is no evidence that either
the "sweater" or the "sweated" ever thought of it as inhumanity or
as "heartless."
|
|
It was "business." The "sweated" lived in the hope of having a
roomful of people sewing for him or her some day. Their endlessly
vital interest in "business" and their unflagging ambition to get
further up the ladder and become masters in their own sweatshop,
enabled them to work without the slightest sense of oppression or
injustice which, after all, is the sorest thing about poverty. The
Jews never regard work as a calamity, but neither do they regard
subordinate positions as permanently theirs.
|
|
|
Difficult Employees Were Dealt With Harshly
All this is individually excellent but socially harmful. The
result is that, until recently, the lower ranges of employment were
wholly unsupervised, and the higher circles never felt the necessity
of devising industrial reforms and benefits. The record of the Jews
in industrial reforms is nil. With commendable sympathy toward their
own people, they will donate a part of their profits to rectify some
of the human need resulting from the method by which they made their
profits, but as for reforming the method by which they get their
profits in order that the resulting need might be diminished or
prevented, apparently it has never occurred to them.
|
|
|
A Different Business Ethic
This, of course, is unfortunate; but it is intelligible; more
than that, it is explanatory of many things for which the Jew is
blamed by those who do not understand his nature. The Jew will go
part way in sharing the results of his prosperity; he has not gone
any length, save upon outer compulsion, in sharing the processes, or
sharing wealth in the making. And while the social effect is the
same as if this were done out of cruel insensibility and inhumanity,
still it must be said that mostly it is done not out of such
feelings, but out of the Jew's ingrain conception of the game of
business.
|
|
|
|
|
They Dwell With Their Own
The American Jew does not assimilate. This is stated, not to
blame him, but merely as a fact. The Jew could merge with the people
of America if he desired, but he doesn't. If there is any prejudice
existing against him in America, aside from the sense of inquiry
which his colossal success engenders, it is because of his
aloofness. The Jew is not objectionable in his person, creed, or
race. His spiritual ideals are shared by the world. But still he
does not assimilate; he cultivates by his exclusiveness the feeling
that he does not "belong." This is his privilege, and from one point
of view it may indicate excellent judgment, but he must not make it
one of the grounds of his complaint against
Gentiles in general, as he has a tendency to do. It is better
that he should make it clear to Gentiles once and for all where true
Jews stand in the matter, as when a young Jew said -- "There is all
the difference in the world between an American Jew and a Jewish
American. A Jewish American is a mere amateur Gentile, doomed to be
a parasite forever."
|
|
|
The Ghetto Was A form Of Jewish Sanctuary
The ghetto is not an American product but the Jews' own
importation. They have separated themselves into a distinct
community. Speaking of this matter the Jewish Encyclopedia says:
"The social organization of the Jews resident in America has
differed little from that in other countries in the main, and
without any compulsion, Jews preferred to live in close proximity to
one another, a peculiarity which still prevails."
|
|
|
|
What Businesses Do Jews Control
To make a list of the lines of business controlled by the Jews of the
United States would be to touch most of the vital industries of the
country -- those which are really vital, and those which cultivated
habit has made to seem vital. The theatrical business, of course, as
everyone knows, is exclusively Jewish. Play-producing, booking, theater
operation are all in the hands of Jews. This perhaps accounts for the
fact that in almost every production today can be detected propaganda,
sometimes glaringly commercial advertisement, which does not originate
with playwrights, but with producers.
- The motion picture industry.
- The sugar industry.
- The tobacco industry.
- Fifty per cent or more of the meat packing industry.
- Upward of 60 per cent of the shoemaking industry.
- Men's and women's ready-made clothing.
- Most of the musical purveying done in the country.
- Jewelry.
- Grain.
- More recently, cotton.
- The Colorado smelting industry.
- Magazine authorship.
- News distribution.
- The liquor business.
- The loan business.
These, only to name the industries with national and international
sweep, are in control of the Jews of the United States, either alone or
in association with Jews overseas.
Who Controls American Businesses Overseas
The American people would be vastly surprised if they could see a
line-up of some of the "American business men" who hold up our
commercial prestige overseas. They are mostly Jews. They have a keen
sense of the value of the American name, and when in a foreign port you
stroll up to the office which bears the sign, "American Importing
Company," or "American Commercial Company," or other similarly
non-committal names, hoping to find a countryman, an American, you
usually find a Jew whose sojourn in America appears to have been all too
brief. This may throw a sidelight on the regard in which "American
business methods" are held in some parts of the world. When 30 or 40
different races of people can carry on business under the name
"American," and do it legally, too, it is not surprising that Americans
do not recognize some of the descriptions of American methods which
appear in the foreign press. The Germans long ago complained that the
rest of the world was judging them by the German-speaking Jewish
commercial traveler.
No One Understands The Jewish Network
Instances of Jewish prosperity in the United States are commonplace,
but prosperity, the just reward of foresight and application, is
not to be confounded with control. The prosperity of the Jews can
be had by anyone who is willing to pay the price which the Jews pay for
it -- a very, very high price, as a rule, all things considered -- but
it would be impossible for any Gentile coalition under similar
circumstances to attain the control which the Jews have won, for the
reason that there is lacking in the Gentile a certain quality of
working-togetherness, a certain conspiracy of objective, and the
adhesiveness of intense raciality, which characterizes the Jew. It is
nothing to a Gentile that another man is a Gentile; it is next to
everything to a Jew that the man at his door is another Jew. So, if
instances of Jewish prosperity were needed, the case of the
Temple Emmanu-el, New York, might be cited, which in 1846 could scarcely
raise $1,520 for its budget, but in 1868, following the Civil War,
raised $708,755 from the rental of 231 pews. And the rise of the Jewish
clothing monopoly as one of the results of the same Civil War might be
cited as an instance of prosperity plus national and international
control.
He Is Never A Farmer
Indeed, it might be said that the Jew has succeeded in everything he
has attempted in the United States, except farming. The explanation
usually made in Jewish publications is that ordinary farming is far too
simple to engage the Jew's intellect and therefore he is not enough
interested in it to succeed, but that in dairy and cattle farming where
the "brain" is more necessary he has made a success. Numerous attempts
have been made in various parts of the United States to start Jewish
farming colonies, but their story is a series of failures. Some have
blamed the failures on the Jew's lack of knowledge of scientific
farming, others on his distaste for manual labor, others on the lack of
the speculative element in agriculture. In any case, he stands higher in
the non-productive employments than in this basically productive one.
Some students of the question state that the Jew never was a man of the
land, but always a trader, for which assertion one of the proofs offered
is the Jews' selection of Palestine as their country, that strip of land
which formed a gateway between East and West and over which the overland
traffic of the world passed.
[THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT
|