The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-01-12
Ex-Pres. Taft Denounces
Ford's Jew Batting
DECLARES ANTI-SEMfTISM HAS
NO PLACE IN AMERICA.

Gus plant. 1t is "A :ioxious weed that
should be cut out. Ii has no place in
free America and the men who seek
TO Introduce it should be condemned
by public opinion"
In an attack on the campaign being
dent, "international'' organ of Mr.
Henry Ford. cx-president WilliaIn
Howard Taft as speaker at II Bnni
Birth dinner in Chicago tlius sum
med mp the movement now being fost.
cred by a clique of anti-Senitcs.
Former President Taft declared that
the Protocols" fake document forged
by royalist llirclings and tools, have
their counterpart in literature only in
the tales of Baron Munchausen. Mr..
Taft said in part in his address on
".inti-Semitism"
One of the chief causes of suffer
ing and evil in the world today is
race hatred, and any man who slim
ulates that hatred has much to answer
for When he does this by the cir
culatiOn of unfOunded and unjust
charges and the arousing of mean and
groundlcss fears his fault is more TO
be condemned.
Liberal Americans who appreciate
the liberty and equality of oppnr
tunity that prevails in our civilian
tion and under the Constitution of the
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United States have prided themselves
that here at least there is 80 ban
against the Jews.
''Yet recently has thcre appeared in
this country an elaborate attack upon
the Jews and n studied effort to crca'"
an anti-SeInitic feeling and movement
in the United States.
"The attack is made in series of
articles in the Dearborn independent.
This is the paper which Henry Ford
the successful manufacturer of the
Ford automobile has found for the
'uyowed purpose of expressing hi,
views without fear or favor.
..v;,b tho stot.p.nt thot thc press
l.. hold Il, s,h;aot;o, bv tbc mower OF
,ho lows tho nuebor of the articles
.s,e,l,s to uut Mr. Ford On pedestal
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"I have rend the articles and the
documents called the Protocols upon
which they purport 90 be based, and
find II difficult TO discuss them with
=
"The writer of these articles furth
or socks TO bolster his premise. that
Jews are the worldly controllers of
finance and so of politics. by dcscrib
inc tbcir business successes in the
J-,ited States.
"rhot tbe Jews are successful mcr
chants and bankers is, or course true.
,rbot thev are keen i'm business. with
exceI,ont iu.lpmcut and with never
.p,;,y notiepcc mud npplication, every
ono knows
"Iu nroportion 60 their uuinber their
husiness success is noteworthy. The
s,ne is true of them in the professions
and in every field into which their
tastes and adaptability nnly take them.
That they are friendly Gu one another
in business as in other relations is
also true. and why should they not be!
..,rbev ore artistic. they are his
tr;o,ic tboy ,ro u,turoIIv lovers of
,,;o 'prt fo,. tb, n,trou1rp and
support of the Jews we should not he
able to have the theatre. the Ope!sl.
or the symphony concerts. But what
Of all this in the matter of world con-
trol2 ..... ..t.a. |a If.s fUa
"If it he true chat the Internal ton
nj ba,llSers and capitalists are Jews
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