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Problem: The International ,law."
W e in America are not afraid of
the word, "International," for.
We Express Sincere
after all, "international" for us
means little more than skating
rinks in Montreal and shooting par-
! ties in Mexico. Rut, in Europe, the
"International Jew" is meant to be
Sermon Delivered before the Free Synagogue, Oat. 9, 1927.
a spe•tre of terror. A ti "interna-
1 tional" is n tieing who lives in and
I on one land and gives t h.: allegiance
By STEPHEN S. WISE.
of his heart to another. The term,
"International Je•," is the most
Some of you may have noticed
When will the Christian wort
damning that could be uttered
hat I chose, us the theme of the unlearn the habit of hearing wrens. against the Jew, for the implica-
morning, "Henry Ford's Retrac- about a Jew and repeating it alma tions, bordering closely upon ex-
ion",• and I ask you now to notice the Jew? I do not pretend tha plicitness, are that the Jew: has no
exactly what term I (.11 , ,e. I did every Jew in America or in Net
no fatherland, 110 leyalty,
not say, "Henry Ford's repent- York can rise to the moral and country,
that he is a wastrel and a gypsy
ance"; I did nut use the term, spiritual eminence of the chief jus-
'Henry Ford's reparation." 1 deal tice of the highest court of the without land and loyalty.
Ni,, 1 repeat, it is not enough to
oday neither with repentance nor state of New York, as witnessed
with reparation—not with repent• upon a recent occasion by that declare: "I retract," for the re-
ince, because it is not for mortals classic document addressed by .him traction ought to be set to work in
o l u ck into the heart of man. And through an intermediary to the the cultural circles of Europe with
't were churlish on the part of a President of the United States. the systematic and expeditious
few to raise the question, as I Therein Chief Justice Cardozo de - thoroughness with which the Ford
boat not that it was raised some clines on the highest grounds the tractors are said to operate in agri
months ago, whether Henry Ford proffered honor of membership in cultural fields. Otherwise, the re-
is sincere and genuine in his peni- the high court of The Hague. I do traction is verbal rather than ae
(once with respect to the great uvil not say that all or most Jews are tun!. Reparation there cannot be,
that he now cont'esses to have long Cardozos, fur he is one of the rue- Redress we are too proud to ask
land.
I may and
not finest
say that
Chief
est
minds
spirits
in Jus-
the But retraction there should be, full,
ALEX KLEIN
lone.
sincere.
On the other hand, I shall not
And yet another question pros: es
Rai with the question of repara- lice Cardozo is the Jew. 1 would he
tion, because, after all, there is no were. But I have the right to saw How came it to be possible for ewe,
such thing spiritually as repara- —what is ranty said of him—that who has probably never read a boo4d:
tion. I think that war reparations, he is a Jew. The thing that I find about the Jew save for the Old and
for example, are n ghastly joke, abhorrent is that the moment aught New Testaments, to get a hearing
mocking alike in their irrelevance that is wrong is mentioned or even for volume after volume, bearing
and inadequacy. Reparations may rumored touching a Jew, hurt is his imprint, about and against the
be thinkable from the punitive wittingly dune to the Jew! When Jew? What if a kindly but not to,
point of view, but how can there will the world learn the elementary literate motorman on one of our
at reparation touching such impal- lesson of decent fair-play, that we surface ears were today to receive
pable, incalculable things as the in- Americans beast much about in all information to the offset that he
spheres of life—even toward the was the heir of the fortune of the
fluence of libel and defamation?
Jew? peer who died in England a day or
I pray that I may keep my heart
Another question remains to be two ago, who had contributod per-
free in the course of my word to-
touched upon which can he alluded baps more largely than any other
day front every manner of bitter- touched
to the liquid refreshment of the
ness. And, yet, I cannot help tell- to only with trepidation on the pa
English-speaking people! What if
ing you that, a month after the so- of one who notes some distinguish-
lawyers in this congregation. I that fortune of Lord Somebody, in-
called retraction of Mr. Ford, I ed
have been assured by many men stead of being a hundred million
:raw upon a cartoon in one of the
leading journals of Europe, which learned in the law, that, under the dollars or twenty million 'murals,
of our country, it is perfectly million pounds! What if the day
proves anew that there can be no laws
safe despite Edmund Burke to after he gut possession of that
such thing as reparation, after all
draw
up an indictment, however li- billion dollars, the American heir
the years of measureless hurt,
•which Mr. Ford inflicted upon Is- bellous, against a whole people. I would write a book on, let us say,
am
told
moreover that this does not "International Law," and main-
rael and upon the whole social
structure of human justice and fair hold good in Canada, where there RIM that all that had been said
obtains
a
method of dealing legally heretofore by the great Grotiu,
dealing. Mr. Ford in this carbson
his illustrious successors down
is pictured as a noble looking being with defamation of or libel against and
lsi,tunfn
unfair
, i,ht ask roaftheer t .0 Bassett Moore wrong! Now,
—some sort of combination of
are rather if he were too publish millions of
George Washington and Gene Tun- a leg Pi's l fs Ple oi America,
, ot
my. There he stands in all his dig- keen and nimble in taking around copies of his new principle
nity and nobleness, and by the side corners when it COMVS to defend.. international lawfi distribute Coo
ing
and
safeguarding
interests,
widely
and
freely
enough,
a
coo
4.
of hint crouches a miserable, crim-
inal•looking and verminous being. whether there is no way of dealing number of Americans would cow
to
believe:
"There
is
proloobi:
Ford is putting forth his hand to with the question of wronging a
this wretched-looking human crew- people—without, of course, risking l something in that." Why? ti ell.
turn in a patronizing way. The fig- the consequence of an abuse that a billion dollars is a lot of money
are is evidently meant to be the may be greater than the wrung of ' a n d the money kings can do no
wrung, certainly make no mis-
figure of a Jew and the caption of libellous treatment of a people?
I soak not the suppression of free takes.
the cartoon reads: "Henry Ford
Putting the matter differently.
Defends his Friend, the Jew." That speech. I dread any denial or cur-
cartoon is more significant and tailment of liberty in America. Will one of the worst things in Ameri-
more eloquent, with respect to the not some eminent though "unre- (an life is that we attribute to the
totality of the effect of six or seven tainered" lawyer set himself to deal possessors of fortunes, expertness
years of ceaseless defamation than with the question—or that highly and rightfulness of judgment in all
all the things that could be said by decorative rather than useful body, the things they say and do, though
all the eloquent voices of the world the American Bar Association, ad- these have no relation to the tield in
touching the influence of Henry f dress itself to the problem—how which their competence was re-
Ford's long-time and systematic can the matter be dealt with in our quired. What would you have
campaign of misrepresentation and courts, under the forms of law? If thought of me, if some years ago I
defamation, one one-thousandth of the legal ac- had purported to share Mr. Ford's
I do not mean to say that we are umen that is applied to the defense expertness in the making of an in-
expensive motor-engine? You would
not to accept Mr. F'ord's retraction. of the evasion of the interstate have mocked at my claim, because
We do. If I had been in America commerce laws, were dedicated to
and the appeal had come to me— the solution of this problem, some Mr. Ford has an extraordinary,
as it was meant to come to me—to way out might be found. And this even unique, genius in that field.
deal directly with Mr. Ford, I to the end that no man—I an not lie made the cheapest and best
would have done substantially thinking of Ford any longer— motor-engine that had been made
though not exactly what was done could, week after week and year up to his time. But what had or
has his competence in the rather
by another. When a man says, "I after year, indulge himself in the
limited field of motor-engine man-
am sorry — I withdraw the luxury of drawing up all indict- ufacture
to do with his unconsid-
ment
against
and
of
convicting
and
charges," there is nothing to be
ered judgments touching matters of
11011e, in any event, by the Jew save damning a people without having which he never knew nor even
to
face
the
consequences
of
his
con-
to grant forgiveness. Preaching in
heard of, up to the day that the
this pulpit, in 1921, I said, and my duct in a court of law. Redress may
dividends began to accumulate and
tvord MIS published at the time be obtained for the publication of to multiply in his possession?
'l I pity and forgive Henry Ford." an article that libels and damages
I ant not thinking of Mr. Ford
When Henry Ford was impenitent, an individual. Shall no way be
he needed pity and forgiveness very found of dealing with the problem, alone, nor even chietty. I deal Witt
much more than he requires these not in the interests of securing a lamentable habit of the Americal.
now. Do not imagine for a moment damages and redress for a people people—that of assuming that I
that 1 would have anyone in this but in order to call a halt, in a way man's success in any field guaran•
congregation feel that it is impos- that shall be within the limit, of tees the infallibility of his judg-
sible to forgive Ilenry Ford. We the law, to such a series of hurt- ments and the inerrancy of his acts
have had 1900 years in which to dealing calumnies as we have had in all fields. America, as no other
country, attributes omniscience and
master the art of forgiveness. I to endure for nearly a decade.
But there remains a somewhat infallibility to some men under the
sometimes think that Christendom
has dealt with us as it has in order more personal aspect of the prob- assumption that possessions some
that, while it professed and preach- lem to be considered. The gentle- how endow a man with magic pow-
441, we might practice forgiveness. man apologizes and retracts—RS ers. This is to be borne in mind,
And we do practice it. If there be far as one can retract. But the not only when men are as absurdly
one thing the Jew has learned, it question may fairly be asked—can false in their viewpoints, as was
is the art of forgiveness. If it be any man be said to retract, who the case in the matter of Ilenry
divine to forgive, then the Jew has does nut devote as much time and Ford's long-protracted indictment
risen to heights that are super- strength and substance to the can- of the Jewish people, but when
human. We are a people not of cellation of the results of his libels other men, who are of no particular
vindictiveness, but of forgiveness. as he lung devoted to the publica- competence in certain folds, essay
Henry Ford has declared in sub- tion of them? Europe today is to array themselves in the robes of
flooded with such publications. In expertness because they are the
stance:
"1 withdraw
railroad station
of a up
village
that I have
long said, these
things things
about a Switzerland,
I picked
about in a possessors of large fortunes. And
this holds true in the case of the
,which I did not know; and 1 am month ago two filthy books about head of an elevator-manufacturing
sorry." Forgiveness was and is Jews, which might never have been concern offering illiterate guesses
granted him and that ends matters, published, had it not been for the touching the higher education of
as
as Jews are
with did
furtherance.
I am
sure Ford
and women—even though he has no —
the far
personality:
of concerned
the man who
materially morally
I believe,
of the
more to defame, to libel, to wrong propaganda machinery. To say more than an elementary or A. it
C. acquaintance with any problem
"1.
the
Jew, than
any one
man
many
that "I
retract"
is be
not a enough.
centuries.
But may
not in ask
the There
ought
now to
trennon- of education. And it is no less true .7=
in the case of a Jewish textile mai.-
question—when
will the world dous effort, in all sincerity and ufacturer improvising mission
cease
to libel,
yea,
the of most
truth,
to end the
publication
and the realm of social betterment and I =
heinous
charges
at to
the lay
door
the the
circulation
of those
empoison-
Jew? I think not of such gross and, ing documents, which are for the having his unreasoned and uns =
I for the most part, absurd libels as most part translations of the com- cialized dicta accepted as if they =
were the inspirations of a tie, I=
are contained within the covers of piled articles and editorials that Moses or Isaiah. I-
"The International Je•," wha, in appeared over a series of years in
1 do not hold that every man f -
millions of !Hooks published through the "Dearborn Independent" and
large fortune in America ventures
'the medium of Mr. Ford's money,
was
subsequently
assembled
within
to
lay down judgments ex cathedra,
has been labelled "The World's the covers
a a World's
series of Greatest
volumes, touching all public problems. Many
Greatest Problem." I deal with the entitled The
of the outstanding men 44 affairs in
less grave calumnies, which the
world lightly and continuously ac-
cepts and in any event repeats as
against the Jew.
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