The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
THE JEW.

to Henry Ford, VINO seemed TO have
singled out the Jews and held then
!, responsible alone for the profteerine
which prevailed in this country dur
ing the war, considerable controversy
has arisen, and especially are the
Jewish papers exercised over the mat
ter.
A number of secular papers have
also commented upon these charges,
with the general consensus that they
are unfounded. The paper credited
to Mr.. Ford somehow escaped us, but
in general way the subject has not
appeared to us in that light.
Probably the greatest financiers of
Europe in the nineteenth century
were Jews. The Rothschilds seemed
to have a controlling interest in the
wealth of France, and in some re-
spects were identified in Great Brit
ain. Benjamin Disraeli, prime min
lister of England, was a Jew. Neither
of these houses were connected with
war scandals.
AS to our own country, the Jews
do not seem to have controlled either
government or finances. In the f.
nancial centers the names of Sage,
Morgan, Rockefeller, Hartman,
Gould, and others, some of them
Presbyterians and all probably Gen
tiles, have controlled the destinies of
American finance. There Is also OF
to Kahn, who is probably a Jew, and
others of his race, but they do not
seem to have been connected with
anything but legitimate and well
recognized financial transactions.
There was evidently great deal of
profiteering done during the war and
even afterwards, but to single out and
trace all the rottenness to the Jews
is to distort facts and to draw on the
Imagination of diseased or cratic
brain.
A year ago some of this profteer-
ing was disclosed by Secretary Nc
Adoo, from an examination of the In
ternal Revenue reports. OF course
these profits were based on the CAPT
tai stock Of the various concerns, not
on the investment, which may or may
not have been greater than the cap
ital stock. In cases here enumer-
ated the highest profits were as fol-
lows:
Coal operators, Ice to 1900 per
cent.
Meat packers, 1000 per cent.
Gamers of fruits and vegetables,
1000 per cent.
Wooden mills, 100 per cent.
Furniture manufacturers, 1900 per
cent.
Clothing and dry goods stores,
$500 per cent.
Steel mills, as high as 100000 per
cent reported on one contract with
the U. S. Government.
Now, no one will suggest that the
Jews controlled either all or any
great percentage of these industries
during the war. Neither can it be
said that all the contracts for ship
building, aeronautics and all the va
rious vocational lines connected with
these things, were controlled by
Jews.
Every man has a right to believe
there was prof1teering during the
war; the profiteering was scandalous
and criminal; but to dispose of the
matter by wholesale denunciatfon
of the Jew is arrant nonsense.
The Jews may have been Gods
chosen people, but to say that they
have not realized suffering and OPP
preston, years of torment and pain, to
say that they have not been scourged,
would be to misstate facts. On the
other hand, to say that all the rogues
are Jews, or that all the disloyalty,
intrigue and crafty transactions are
traceable to the Jew is not supported
by facts and statistics.
The proper attitude to take toward
the Jew in America is as an Ameri-
can citizen not as race. True
there is practically no assimilation
between the Jew and Gentle as with
many other peoples, but as a citizen
he has his merits and his faults in
common with Others Jews have de-
veloped some exemplary traits of
character. They have in not few
instances given us some fine men and
women, whose standards of personal
honor and national character are
true to the very highest conceptions
of human ideals. Therefore a whole
sale denunciation of the Jew comes
in very bad taste, and recoils as a
matter of natural gravitation upon
the head of the accuser.