The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-10-06
FORDS JEWISH POGROM
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Revolution with his blood, fought to
preserve the Union, and went in
countless thousands across seas in
that iridescent dream of making the
world safe for democracy. and they
died gloriorrsiy just as other Amcri;
cans died.
If because of his love of money the
Jew has been promoter of war. as
proof that he is any greater offender
in this behalf than any other nation
ality. If Il Rothschild has played the
war game for money, how about our
own Morgan, and how about Mr.. Ford
himself. who is reported to have come
out of the late war by no means pen
niless?
But such reasoning, if one may so
dignity it, is upon its face absurd.
Doubtless there are Jews who play
the war game for profits. just as there
are Americans. Englishmen. in fact
peoples of all nations. But to assign
to the Jew peculiar monopoly on
this vice is as ridiculous as it would
he to say that only men with white
skins could be honest, or because a
member of the Baptist church once
robbed bank all Baptists are predis-
posed to grand larceny. The Jew is
and always has been very much like
all the rest of us. His religion has
not uprooted rascality any more than
has our own. and if black sheep now
and then flecks the flock of Israel.
let us not forget that some of our own
pastures would make Jacobs breeding
trick look rather tame and innocuous.
Humanity is pretty nearly the same
wherever we fiuI n, an since the ser
pent came to corrupt the progeny of
ity have always been found IN every
race and religion. But because this
is so we anict conclude that rascal
ity is the common fearure of all
races. unless we wish to follow Mr..
Ford and assume that part is equal
to the whole
However. apart from all ,this. Mr..
FOrd'S course seems to be peculiarly
vicious if not positively dangerous.
from another angle. The Americans
are a composite race. Our ancestors
came from everywhere. The ances-
tors OF future generations are coming
1t is our task and our pride to ANAL
gamate all these races into good Amer
leans who shall embrace and carry
forward our ideals. Believing this.
one must preach and strive incessant-
ly against racial and religious prejd.
dice If the good work Is not to be
carted off to the junk heap of faded
visions
Most of us are as yet very ignor-
ant. and so long as we are ignorant
there is nothing so easy to arouse and
so dangerous when it is aroused as
our prejudices In religion this is pc
cnliarly true. In certain places even
in the Old Western Reserve there are
men who will not vote for other men
" they happen to belong to certain
churches which they do not approve.
while there is II perhaps subcOnscious
tendency for all hands TO turn upon
the fellow who is honest enough to
say that all religions look alike to
him. Certainly anyone who would ac-
centuate this tendency. who would
seek to arouse prejudice and passion.
racial Or religious, is by those acts
ceasing to be good American. and
thereby is holding back the progress
OF civilization
Mr.. Ford's scrceds are in reality as
strange to Americanism as its history
Is to him and while, no doubt. they
would he eminently popular in Russia
or Poland. they are most woefully out
Of place in the United States of Amer
lea.