“In the U.S. cotton states, after the war… the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the Negroes’ wants on
credit, and at the end of the season was the proprietor of the Negro’s share of the present crop and part of the next one. Before long, the
whites detested the Jew. (1) The Jew is being legislated out of
Russia. The reason is not concealed. The movement was instituted
because the Christian peasant stood no chance against his commercial abilities. The Jew was always ready to lend on a crop. When settlement
day came, he owned the crop; the next year he owned the farm – like Joseph. (2) In the England of John’s time everybody got into debt to
the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands. He was
the King of Commerce. He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago, and Austria a couple
of centuries later. In all ages Christian Europe has been obliged to
curtail his activities. If he entered upon a trade, the Christian had
to retire from it. If he set up as a doctor, he took the business. If
he exploited agriculture, the other farmers had to get at something
else. The law had to step in to save the Christian from the
poor-house. Still, almost bereft of employments, he found ways to make money. Even to get rich. This history has a most sordid and practical commercial look. Religious prejudices may account for one part of it,
bit not for the other nine. Protestants have persecuted Catholics –
but they did not take their livelihoods away from them. Catholics have persecuted Protestants – bit they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them. I feel convinced that the Crucifixion has
not much to do with the world’s attitude toward the Jew; that the
reasons for it are much older than that event … I am convinced that
the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and aim
of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since. His
success has made the whole human race his enemy. You will say that the
Jew is everywhere numerically feeble. When I read in the Cyclopedia Britannica that the Jewish population in the United States was 250,000
I wrote the editor and explained to him that I was personally
acquainted with more Jews than that, and that his figures were without
doubt a misprint for 25,000,000. People told me that they had reasons
to suspect that for business reasons, many Jews did not report
themselves as Jews. It looks plausible. I am strongly of the opinion
that we have an immense Jewish population in America. I am assured by
men competent to speak that the Jews are exceedingly active in
politics.
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