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THE BATTLE FOR PRESS CONTROL
The first
instinctive answer which the Jew makes to any criticism of his race
coming from a non-Jew is that of violence, threatened or inflicted.
This statement will be confirmed by hundreds of thousands of
citizens of the United States who have heard the evidence with their
own ears, seen it with their own eyes.
If the candid investigator of the Jewish Question happens to be in
business, the "boycott" is the first answer of which the Jews seem
to think. Whether it be a newspaper, or a mercantile establishment,
or a hotel, or a dramatic production; or any manufactured article
whose maker has adopted the policy that "my goods are for sale, but
not my principles" -- if there is any manner of business connection
with the student of the Jewish Question, the first "answer" is
"boycott."
The technique of this: a "whispering drive" is first begun.
Disquieting rumors begin to fly thick and fast. "Watch us get him,
is the word that is passed along. Jews in charge of national ticker
news services adopt the slogan of "a rumor a day." All leading news
agencies in America are Jew-controlled. Jews in charge of newspapers
adopt the policy of "a slurring headline a day." Jews in charge of
the newsboys on the streets (all the street concerns are preempted
by Jewish "padrones" who permit only their own boys to sell) give
orders to emphasize certain news in their street cries -- "a new
yell against him every day. " The whole campaign against the critic
of Jewry, whoever he may be, is keyed to the threat, "Watch us get
him."*
"The whispering drive," "the boycott," these are the chief Jewish
answers. They constitute the bone and the sinew of that state of
mind in non-Jews which is known as "the fear of the Jews."
BENNETT'S STRUGGLE
This is
the story of a boycott which lasted over a number of years; it is
only one of numerous stories of the same kind which can be
told of America. There have been even more outstanding cases since
this one, but it dates back to the dawn of Jewish ambitions and
power in the United States, and it is the first of the great battles
which Jewry waged, successfully, to snuff out the independent Press.
It concerns the long defunct "New York Herald," one
newspaper to remain independent of Jewish influence in New York. The
Herald enjoyed an existence of 90 years, which was terminated in
1920 by the inevitable amalgamation. It performed great feats in the
world of news-gathering. It sent Henry M. Stanley to Africa to find
Livingstone. It backed the Jeannette expedition to the Arctic
regions. It was largely instrumental in having the first Atlantic
cables laid. Its reputations among newspaper men was that neither
its news nor its editorial columns could be bought or influenced.
But perhaps its greatest feat was the maintenance during many years
of its journalistic independence against the combined attack of New
York Jewry. Its proprietor, the late James Gordon Bennett, a great
American citizen famed for many helpful activities, had always
maintained a friendly attitude toward the Jews of his city. He
apparently harbored no prejudices against them. Certainly he never
deliberately antagonized them. But he was resolved upon preserving
the honor of independent journalism. He never bent to the policy
that the advertisers had something to say about the editorial policy
of the paper, either as to influencing it for publication or
suppression. In Bennett's time the American Press was in the
majority free. Today it is entirely Jewish controlled. This control
is variously exercised, sometimes resting only on the owners' sense
of expediency. But the control is there, and for the moment it is
absolute. Fifty years ago there were many more newspapers in New
York than there are today, since then amalgamation has reduced the
competition to a select few who do not compete. This development has
been the same in other countries, particularly Great Britain.
EDITOR'S
NOTE: *Following the rise of the "popular" syndicated "columnist"
since 1920, the word is now "smear," it is specially prominent in
political-press affairs.
Bennett's
Herald, a three cent newspaper, enjoyed the highest
prestige and was the most desirable advertising medium due to the
class of its circulation. At that time the Jewish population of New
York was less than one-third of what it is today, but there was much
wealth represented in it.
Now, what every newspaper man knows is this: most Jewish leaders are
always interested either in getting a story published or getting it
suppressed. There is no class of people who read the public press
with so careful an eye to their own affairs as do the Jews. The
Herald simply adopted the policy from the beginning of this
form of harassment that it was not to be permitted to sway the
Herald from its duty as a public informant. And this policy had
a reflex advantage for the other newspapers in the city.
When a scandal occurred in Jewish circles (and at the turn of the
century growing Jewish influence in America produced many)
influential Jews would swarm into the editorial offices to arrange
for the suppression of the story. But the editors knew that the
Herald would not suppress anything for anybody. What was the
use of one paper suppressing if the others would not? So editors
would say: We would be very glad to suppress this story, but the
Herald will use it, so we'll have to do the same in
self-protection. However, if you can get the Herald to
suppress it, we will gladly do so, too.
But the Herald never succumbed, neither pressure of influence nor
promise of business nor threats of loss availed. It printed the
news.
There was a certain Jewish banker who periodically demanded that
Bennett discharge the Herald's financial editor. The banker was in
the business of disposing of Mexican bonds at a time when such bonds
were least secure. Once when an unusually large number of bonds were
to be unloaded on unsuspecting Americans, the Herald published the
story of an impending Mexican revolution, which presently ensued.
The banker frothed at the mouth and moved every influence he could
to change the Herald's financial staff, but was not able to effect
the change even of an office boy.
Once when a shocking scandal involved a member of a prominent
family, Bennett refused to suppress it, arguing that if the episode
had occurred in a family of any other race it would be published
regardless of the prominence of the figures involved. The Jews of
Philadelphia secured suppression there, but because of Bennett's
unflinching stand there was no suppression in New York.
A newspaper is a business proposition. There are some matters it
cannot touch without putting itself in peril of becoming a defunct
concern. This is especially true since newspapers no longer receive
their main support from the public but from the advertisers. The
money the reader gives for the paper scarcely suffices to pay for
the amount of white paper he receives. In this way, advertisers
cannot be disregarded any more than the paper mills can be. As the
most extensive advertisers in New York were, and are, the department
stores, and as most department stores were, and are, owned by Jews,
it comes logically that Jews often influence the news policies of
the papers with whom they deal.
At this time, it had always been the burning ambition of the Jews to
elect a Jewish Mayor of New York. They selected a time when the
leading parties were disrupted to push forward their choice. The
method they adopted was characteristic. They reasoned that the
newspapers would not dare to refuse the dictum of the combined
department store owners, so they drew up a "strictly confidential"
letter which they sent to the owners of the New York newspapers,
demanding support for the Jewish mayoralty candidate. The newspaper
owners were in a quandary. For several days they debated how to act.
All remained silent. The editors of the Herald cabled the
news to Bennett who was abroad. Then it was that Bennett exhibited
that boldness and directness of judgment which characterized him. He
cabled back, "Print the letter." It was printed in the
Herald, the arrogance of the Jewish advertisers was exposed,
and non-Jewish New York breathed easier and applauded the action.
The Herald explained frankly that it could not support a
candidate of private interests, because it was devoted to the
interests of the public. But the Jewish leaders vowed vengeance
against the Herald and against the man who dared to expose
their game.
They had not liked Bennett for a long time, anyway. The Herald was
the real "society paper" of New York, but Bennett had a rule that
only the names of really prominent families should be printed. The
stories of the efforts of newly-rich Jews to break into the
Herald's society columns are some of the best that are told by
old newspaper men.
The whole "war" culminated in a contention which arose between
Bennett and Nathan Straus, a German-Jew whose business house was
known under the name of "R. H. Macy and Company," Macy being the
Scotsman who built up the business and from whose heirs Straus
obtained it. Straus was something of a philanthropist in the ghetto,
but the story goes that Bennett's failure to proclaim him as a
philanthropist led to ill-feeling. A long newspaper-war ensued, the
subject of which was the pasteurization of milk, a stupid discussion
which no one took seriously, save Bennett and Straus.*
The Jews, of course, took Straus' side. Jewish speakers made the
welkin ring with laudation of Nathan Straus and maledictions upon
James Bennett. Bennett was pictured in the most vile business of
"persecuting" a noble Jew. It went so far that the Jews were able to
put resolutions through the Board of Aldermen.
Long since, of course, Straus, a very heavy advertiser, had
withdrawn every dollar's worth of his business from the Herald.
And now the combined and powerful elements of New York Jewry
gathered to deal a staggering blow at Bennett. The Jewish policy of
"Dominate or Destroy" was at stake, and Jewry declared war.
EDITOR'S
NOTE: It is significant that, in the long years since this first
"food war," the business of "processing" and "substituting" pure
foods, messing about with natural food-stuffs, has developed into a
world wide business; mostly controlled by Jews.
As one
man, the Jewish advertisers withdrew their advertisements. Their
assigned reason was that the Herald was showing animosity against
the Jews. The real purpose of their action was to crush an American
newspaper owner who dared to be independent of them.
The blow they delivered was a staggering one. It meant the loss of
600,000 dollars a year. Any other newspaper in New York would have
been put out of business by it. The Jews knew that and sat back,
waiting for the downfall of the man they chose to consider their
enemy.
But Bennett was a fighter. Besides, he knew the Jewish psychology
probably better than any other non-Jew in New York. He turned the
tables on his opponents in a startling and unexpected fashion. The
coveted positions in his papers had always been used by the Jews.
These he immediately turned over to non-Jewish merchants under
exclusive contracts. Merchants who had formerly been crowded into
the back pages and obscure corners by the more opulent Jews, now
blossomed forth full page in the most popular spaces. One of the
non-Jewish merchants who took advantage of the new situation was
John Wanamaker, whose large advertisements from that time forward
were conspicuous in the Bennett newspapers. The Bennett papers came
out with undiminished circulation and full advertising pages. The
well-planned catastrophe did not, then occur. Instead, there was a
rather comical surprise. Here were the non-Jewish merchants of
America enjoying the choicest service of a valuable advertising
medium, while the Jewish merchants were unrepresented. Unable to
stand the spectacle of trade being diverted to non-Jewish merchants,
the Jews came back to Bennett, requesting the use of his columns for
advertising. The "boycott" had been hardest on the boycotters.
Bennett received all who came, displaying no rancor. They wanted
their old positions back, but Bennett said, No. They argued, but
Bennett said, No. They offered more money, but Bennett said, No. The
choice positions had been forfeited.
Bennett triumphed, but it proved a costly victory. All the time
Bennett was resisting them, the Jews were growing more powerful in
New York, and they were obsessed by the idea that to control
journalism in New York meant to control the thought of the whole
country.
The number of newspapers gradually diminished through combinations
of publications. Adolph S. Ochs, a Philadelphia Jew, acquired the
"New York Times." He soon made it into a great newspaper,
but one whose bias is to serve the Jews. It is the quality of the
Times as a newspaper that makes it so weighty as a Jewish
organ. In this paper the Jews are persistently lauded, eulogized and
defended, no such tenderness is granted other races.
Then Hearst came into the field, a dangerous agitator because he not
only agitates the wrong things, but because he agitates the wrong
class of people. He surrounded himself with a coterie of Jews,
pandered to them, worked hand in glove with them, but never told the
truth about them, never gave them away.
The trend toward Jewish control of the press set in strongly, and
has continued that way ever since. The old names, made great by
great editors and American policies, slowly dimmed.
A newspaper is founded either on a great editorial mind, in which
event it becomes the expression of a powerful personality, or it
becomes institutionalized as to policy and becomes a commercial
establishment. In the latter event, its chances for continuing life
beyond the lifetime of its founder are much stronger.
The Herald was Bennett, and with his passing it was
inevitable that a certain force and virtue should depart out of it.
Bennett, advancing in age, dreaded lest his newspaper, on his death
should fall into the hands of the Jews. He knew that they regarded
it with longing. He knew that they had pulled down, seized, and
afterward built up many an agency that had dared to speak the truth
about them, and boasted about it as a conquest for Jewry.
Bennett loved the Herald as a man loves a child. He so
arranged his will that the Herald should not fall into
individual ownership, but that its revenues should flow into a fund
for the benefit of the men who had worked to make the Herald
what it was. He died in May, 1919. The Jewish enemies of the
Herald, eagerly watchful, once more withdrew their advertising
to force, if possible, the sale of the newspaper. They knew that if
the Herald became a losing proposition, the trustees would
have no course but to sell, notwithstanding Bennett's will.
But there were also interests in New York who were beginning to
realize the peril of a Jewish press. These interests provided a sum
of money for the Herald's purchase by Frank A. Munsey.
Then, to general astonishment, Munsey discontinued the gallant old
paper, and bestowed its name as part of the name of the "New
York Sun."
The newspaper managed by Bennett is extinct. The men who worked on
it were scattered abroad in the newspaper field and, in the main,
retired or dead.
Even though the Jews had not gained actual possession of the
Herald, they at least succeeded in driving another non-Jewish
newspaper from the field. They set about obtaining control of
several newspapers, their victory is now complete. But the victory
was a financial victory over a dead man. The moral victory, as well
as the financial victory, remained with Bennett while he lived; the
moral victory still remains with the Herald. It
demonstrated what could be done by fearless, independent minds,
supported by men who knew their work and loved it for its own sake.
It demonstrated what could have been achieved had these men received
the support of wide-awake, active, non-Jewish Americans. The
Herald is immortalized as the last bulwark against Jewry in New
York, in America. Today the Jews are more completely masters of the
journalistic field in New York than they are in any capital in
Europe. Indeed, in Europe there frequently emerges a newspaper that
gives the real news of the Jews. There is none in New York.
And thus the situation will remain until Americans shake themselves
from their long sleep, and look with steady eyes at the national
situation. That look will be enough to show them all, and their very
eyes will quail the oriental usurpers.
The First Protocol --
"Our triumph has been rendered
easier by the fact that in our relations with the men whom we wanted
we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human
mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the
insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human
weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for
it hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has
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