The Washington times., 1922-06-04

ON FORD'S
CRUSADE
Noted Writer Gives
Inside Facts of Auto
Kings Recent Fight
Against Jews.
BY NORMAN HAPGOOp.

"iE reason that Hesrst's Inter
national Is giving in docu.
- mentary form the inside
story, Of Henry Ford crusade
against the Jews is that We be-
lieve steps against freedom are in
sidious and ought to be fought at
the beginning.
Ford's Campaign, ridiculous as It
was, has left a good many people
in the United States with a notion
that there must have been some
thing behind It. The purpose Of
our exposure Is 10 show precisely
what there was behind It.
When the American people have
before their eyes. without any
mystery whatever. what steps Mr..
Ford took to get his material.
what he got. and what he did with
II. any respect they may have had
for his conclusions viii be swept
away.
It II not the Jews who are ex-
clusively, or even predominantly.
concerned.
One Of the clearest and most in
teresting facts Of history is that
those crusades against tho Jews
which have taken place from time
to time in despotic countries abroad
have always been combined with
crusades against liberal thought.
They have been stirred up by the
reactionariss as the best tested
and easiest method Of soaring the
people out Of thinking for them
selves.
Ford's crusade against the Jew $.
when the facts are known, becomes .
grotesquely similar to the crusades
In Russia, Austria, Rumania. Ger
many and the famous Dreyfus
case in France.
In this series we reproducs docu-
ments to show the entertaining
business Of forging protocols. 1t
is an old trade in Russia; It has
only Just been transplanted into
the United States; we do Lot be-
heve It will flourish.
We show also, with documents.
where Mr.. Ford maintained in
New York city a group Of invest.
gators, headed by an idealist, but
conducting themselves like a set
Of ordinary detectives. drawing
money regularly from Mr.. Ford's
purse. and sending him in return
for their salary every shred Of
suspicion that they could rake up
against any Jew and any liberal.
These pseudo-detectives operated
In New York and Washington.
Their heads were filled with Wis
ions Of q vast world conspiracy.
Into this melodramatic dream
they drew President Wilson, Col
onel House. Mr.. Hoover, and other
gentiles. as we'll as outstanding
Jews, like Justice Brandeis, Mr..
Meyer, Mr.. Lasker, Mr.. Baruch
and Mr.. Schiff.
There was no limit to the phan-
tasmagoria that danced before
their imagtnations. They spent
solid time and solid money trying
to prove that President Wilson
maintained a secret telephone into
the office Of Mr.. Justice Brandeis,
across which he executed the Jew
ish control Of the policies Of the
world.
The story sounds like a bur-
iesque. but we tell 1t, not as a
surprise, but as a series of known
and entirely substantiated facts.
As the writer OF the series. am
glad to say that I think Henry
Ford the greatest manufacturer in
the world, man Of genius and
OF pure ideals.
II hereafter he will confine him.
self to manufacturing and to the
economic and financial problems
that go along with manufacturing,
the appreciation that the world
has Of his value will not need to be
offset by any strange follies CON-
mitted in fields where he is no
,oora oovonatent than child