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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1920-07-23

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A mericaft

Awish

Perio&al Coder

CLIFTON MMUS CINCINNATI 30, OHIO

THE DETROIT

REPLY TO HENRY FORD

Furs!

At Marks'
you will find
the most
Fomplete and
finest selec-
tion of furs
and fur coats
in Detroit—
you will find
it pays to
buy of the
Makers.

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PLUMBING & HEATING

DESCENDENTS OF
SPANISH MARANNOS IN
BALEARIAN ISLANDS

"No nation prospers that persecutes
the Jews," said Frederic the Great.
Egypt
tried it and the Jews went to
(1'ontinued Prom Page 6.)
its funeral. Assyria made the same
blunder,
so did Babylan, Persia.
Jew kb financiers. They arc the largest
Greece, Rome and Spain—all of them
and most numerous landlords of resi-
at
one
time,
world powers.
MADRID—In Mallorca, one of the
dence property in the country."
lialearian Islands, a small colony of
Ellen he contradicts himself, he ad-
Plymouth Rock.
mits that "A modern census would
"As traders," Mr. Ford goes on, descendents of the Jews, who were
show a large professional and literary "his (the Jew's) instincts draw him
drk en out of Spain in the latter part
class. Jewish journalists forming a round the habitable earth. They were
large and powerful group here. They in China at an early date; in England of the fifteenth century and lied to
are supreme in the Theatrical N1'orld at the time of the Saxons. in South the island, is still to lie found. Al-
and absolutely ((oml the circulation America WO years before the I detain though several centuries hate already
passed, and their religious absorption
of publications throughout the coun- Fathers landed at Plytnouth Rock. !
into the Catholic faith has become
try,"
They established the sugar industry complete. they arc mill a distinct ele-
So it steins, by his own admission. in the Island of St. Thomas in 1492.
retain
That not all Jews are in "business." They were well established in Ilrazil menu of the population and
s
of the ancient customs of their
I wonder, when Mr. Ford hears on when only a few villages dotted the some
forefathers.
Je'w'ish
Iris graphoplione the music of Men- Eastern coast of what is now the
.
Somehow, the tradition of their an-
delsohn, Nleyerbeer, Rulnirstein, Hoff- United Stair s
White
. —and the first
cestry has followed not only them, but
man, Josephi and Offenbach if he ( him h orn i n Georgia war. a Jew—
their neighbors as well, throughout
knows they are all Jews? I doubt it. Isaac Minis." And yet he seems to
the many generations. They are called
If he knew, he would have bleated hold that use haven't as much right
Lhuetas' and are looked down upon
"There, the Jews l i ve even bagged to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- "
by their fellow Catholics. Nlarriage
all the music."
piness as he has—unless we omit busi- with one of them is considered a tuts-
ness and tinanciering, I presume.
Hod Carrier.
alliance, and so they marry very
largely among themselves. The
The Jew, he says, has also an aver-
Bills of Exchange.
"Cltuetas" think themselves good
sion to being a wage toiler or us urker
IIe says, further. or rather admits
for other men, though, he says, as a That "Until the Jew was pitted against Catholics, and scorn any intimation
merchant he is highly respected by the orld" (oughtn't that go the other of their Jewish origin. They are in
his trade: nor does he say anything way around?) "business was very fact. more fanatical and bigotted than
the other Catholics and many of them 0
against his honesty or integrity as a
ly done. The origin of many
Imancier, journalist, theatrical and business methods, which simplify and become monks and nuns.
In profession they are mainly
property owner or any other occupa- facilitate trade today are traced to
Jewelers.
tion.
Jews. The oldest hill of eechange
But why should a Jew bITOIlle a hod este:it was drawn by a lei, --Simon
carrier when his ability, his genius
. The pionlissory note as Well
and intellectuality tit him to he of as It'e cheek Were Jewish inventions.
more benefit to himself and his fe6 Brea! se always stripped of their last
lowimen in those avocations of which omit.' of wealth, the Jew had recourse
\I r. Ford complains? •ouhl Jossiphus In sly. methods named in order to
and Philo, or Spinoza, or Ri•rschel save -orate of his wealth."
0
Judah P. Benjamin or Disraeli have
A ! yet, after conferring all these
mankind tense if they had benseite on mankind. as he says sins-
devoted their talents to making bricks self. Nis.. Ford would like to see 0 -
as the lews had to do of old in the stripped Again and thus kill the goose
sitiliblecielik of Egypt
that laid the golden egg.

CALL NORTHWAY 186

o

Lord Macauley.

The First Christians.
Do you know why so many of the
I Is-tinder if Mr. Ford knows that
J. ws are in business? They are in
have conferred other benefits
the
Jews
business because for many centuries
out mankind? Does he know, for in-
they were not permitted to own land:
stance, that every syllable in the Bible
I hough you yourself say that "their
—both the old and the new testa-
entire period of national history saw
ments—upon which his faith is based,
them peasants on the land and that
was written by Jews? Does he know
OPTOMETRISTS
their ancient genius was bucolic
that NI oses, Isaiah, Paul, Jesus and all
rather than commercial" Nlacauley
Eyes Examined and
the apsotles were Jews as well as the
Glasses Fitted
in the British Parliament said this, on
first Christians?
the question of admitting them to
245 GRISWOLD ST.
The Judiciary.
Telephone Main 451
suffice.
"We long forbade them to possess
Rut in his diatribe against the Jests,
and :but them out from all the paths Mr. Ford entirely forgot to charge us
of amliiiion and then we complain with having monopolized even the
Comfort and Service at
that they chiefly occupy themselves Law and Judiciary. Just think of it.
in trade. During many ages we have there is a Jew actually on the Supreme
in all our dealings with them abused Bench and another is Chief Justice of
Corner Lamed and Bates Street.
our immense superiority of force and England! And then they have had
One block from Electric Depot
then we are disgusted because they the temerity to even invade the Con-
DETROIT, MICH.
have recouse to that cunning which gress of the United States and the
Rates Single - 31.50 to $2.50.
is the natural am universal defence Parliaments of England, France, Ger-
of the weak against the strong. many, Spain, Italy, etc.—not to men-
But were they always a mere money tion atnbasadors and cabinet members.
getting, money changing, money Why it is getting so bad that Mr.
hoarding race? Nobody knows bet- Ford will have eventually to leave
ter than soy honorable friend from this country and go where there are
Oxford that there is nothing in their no Jews. I am afraid, though, if he
national character which misfits them finds such a place lie won't stay there
for the highest duties of citizens. He very long.
knows that in the infancy of civiliza-
He Whimpers.
tion, when our island was as savage
"The Jew-," he whispers, "comprises
as New Entree, when letters and arts
For sale very cheap—Large quan.
only
three
per
cent of the population,
were still unknown to Athens, when
scarcely a thatched but mood on what and yet he is in control," and he wants
titles of structural steel, Including
was afterward the site of Rome, this to know if it is because of the "don't-
beams, channels, angles, concrete
condemned people had their fenced care attitude of the Gentiles." I •on-
rods, columns, 1,000 tons of all
cities and cedar palaces, their splendid der what it is you want the Gentiles
sizes and lengths, black and gal-
temple, their fleets of merchant ships, to do? Drown the Jews, burn them,
vanized pipe, switches, valves, fau-
their schools of sacred learning, their or expel them, as was done in Spain?
great statesmen and soldiers, their Ali, my friend, you forget this is a
cets; tons of sash weights, fire es-
natural philosophers, their historians free country, where the constitution
cape ladders, tanks, pumps, smoke
and poets. What nation contended guarantees to all civil and religious
stacks, electrical fixtures, plumbing
more manfully against overwhelming liberty. We helped to discover Amer-
supplies, banister railings, con-
odds for its independence and relig- ica. We have contributed, as George
ion? \\'hat nation, even in its last Eliott says, "to every science and en-
duit pipe, mirror doors, frames win-
agonies, gave such signal proofs of riched every art" and in every other
dows, lumber, wall radiators,
what may he accomplished by a brave way, as I have shown, to build up this
boilers, cast iron water pipe, me-
despair. Let us do justice to them. country, to preserve it, and to make
ters, elevator inclosures, etc., etc.
I.et its open to them every corner in it prosperous, and yet you have no
which ability and energy can be dis- more right to its sheltering protection
THIS IS A REAL OPPORTUNI-
played. Till we have done this let us and its privileges than the humblest
TY TO PURCHASE BUILDING
not presume to say, there is no gen- Jew though lie be a rag-picker.
MATERIAL FAR BELOW ITS
ius among the countrymen of Isaiah,
Benedict Arnold.
no heroism among the decendants of
VALUE. SALESMEN ON PREM-
Have you ever heard of Benedict
the Nlaccabees."
ISES.
So it must be plain to even a tra- Arnold? No? Well, he was not a
ducer of the Jews that "business" was Jew. What a feather in your cap if
the only refuge left them to engage he had been one. Probably you might
have heard of hint then. And, by the
in and live.
way, have you ever heard of a Jew
Not Racial.
betraying his country. or a trust?
Yet strangely enough, Mr. Ford They tried mighty hard in France to
Third and Congress
advises that "modern reformers might prove it on one, by lies and forgeries,
to look up the social system under actuated, as you seem to be, by envy
Telephone Main 7566
which the Jews in their national ex- and jealousy. But the plot, as it be-
istence were organized and pattern fell Haman. resulted in a boomerang.
after it." Their system is all right
His Soul in Peace.
then to be followed by non-Jews but
must not be practiced by them. That
Butt let site assure my frenzied
the Jew is successful, he admits, is be- friend, if•I can, no that Isis soul may
of his "vigor and resourceful- rest in peace, that, as the world has
DETROIT'S EXCLUSIVE HATTER cause
ness" and if the Gentiles permit the not been any worse for the Jews hav-
49 ORATIOT AVE.
Jew to continue "to control the earth ing lived in it, and has gotten along
COB. LIBRARY AVE.
herrver he goes" they will have on- fairly well so far with the part the
ly themselves to blame. "The criti- Imes have played in it from the very
c km." lie says, "in so far as it respects beginning of all things—politically,
the more important financiers is not commercially, financially and especial-
racial at all." It is "the chain of in- ly religiously and morally and "with
ternational finance as traced around the center of business and prosperity
the world and which discloses at following them wherever they go,"
every link a Jewish capitalist." That things will not go to the everlasting
Own is the milk in the cocoanut. Isn't ho•-wows. if they remain on this sub-
that awful? If this were true, and not lunary globe, and especially in this
all rot, then it would be quite the laud of the free and the home of the
proper thing if, at the "links," say, brave, just a little longer, or even un-
a Methodist banker were found. The til Gabriel blows his horn—when, thus
objection therefore is entirely a re- pursuing him to the very last—a Jew.
ligious one.
at the right hand of God, for so it is
There are eight banks in Lexington written, -will ask him to give an ac-
and not one of them in the hands of count of himself.
Jews. They are directors, t is true,
The Lowest People.
in some of them, and they are not
meanly thought of. or they would
A negro asked recently if it was
lint have been elected by non-Jewish true that the Peace Commission had
enacted an international law, placing
stockholders.
the Jew on an equality with the rest
The Stock Exchange.
5055-1019
"The Jew." Mr. Ford says, "is the of the people.
Wed, Sept. 24
New Yeses Eve
"Yes, it was true," he was answered.
Nat, Clet. 4 only international capitalist. The in-
l am Kippur
"Well," he said. "I am awful sorry
Thurs. Wet. 0 vention of the Stock Exchange in en-
Succoth I First 11551
to
hear it."
Xueeoth t loud Itny—Nhemlnl
cry city in the world is credited to
Thum, Het Id
A t ttt th
"Why?" he was asked. "Don't you
his
talent."
Ought
not
Mr.
Ford
be
Fri, net. 17
slmeltuth Torah
think
the Jews are human beings like
.Frl, Owl. 24 grateful to them for it? "The banks of
Ittoseh-4 hodexel. ( -11
.Aus. Nor. 23 England. Hamburg, and Amsterdam all of us, created by the same God,
Itnxch-1 hodesek
Annuksh 4Frost of Dedleollonl
and
entitled
to the same rights as
Wed., nee. 17 were started by Jews" he says.
everybody?"
Iloseh-Chodeseh Teheih Hon. flee. 22 "Wherever he wanders" he continues,
"Yes,
Boss."
he said. "hut you see
51040-1020
"the center of business goes with
Timm, Jae. I
FRO of Tebeth
him (too bad!). When expelled from they have been looked upon as the
Ruseh-i bode/wit Shebat Wed., Jan. II
lowest
people
all along, and when
Feb. II Spain, Portugal and Italy and settled
hodeseh Adnr•
they can be no longer jumped on, why
Porto iFenot of Extherl.Thors.. War. 4 in Holland, Germany and England,
we
will
be
the
lowest
people."—Lex-
bodeseh Nliumn...tist, Hue. 30 those countries began a commercial
I Vessels) ant., April
life which has flourished until our ington Herald.

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day" he says, while the countries they
left languished. This, history says, is
true. But why ostracize the Jew for
that—for bringing prosperity to coun-
tries where it was lacking before? But
if prosperity follows hint so surely,
wouldn't it he advisable to keep him
with us, in place of hounding him and

rying to drive him away?

The Jewish party in Czecho-Slova-
kia secured 80.000 votes at the parlia-
Nevertheless, it
mentary elections.

failed to secure any scats in the
House. The election campaign was
attended by a considerable display of

anti-Semitism on the part of all par-
ties, not excluding the Socialists.

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