26 The International Jew

"arrange" the passport work, they "arrange" avoidance of the health

regulations. The laws of the country are set aside in open contempt. The

Jewish immigrants can come from anywhere and are coming from

anywhere: their first glimpse of life here shows a Jewish control as potent

and complete as it is in Russia. They see officials of Jewish secret

societies override officials of the United States Immigration Bureau; why

should they not behave as if they own the United States? No wonder that

they literally beat down the walls and gates with all the eclat of a

victorious invasion. It is an invasion, nothing less, and it is inspired and

helped by influences within the United States. When it is not secret it is

thinly cloaked with sentiment: "these people are fleeing from

persecution."

After the tide of Jewish invasion into the United States in the 1880's

became too wide for anyone to ignore the dangers, the census authorities

asked Congress for permission to classify people by "race" as well as by

"country of birth." The strongest opposition was led in Congress by the

Jews, principally by Simon Guggenheim and Julian W. Mack. Hearings

had to be ordered to know what elements were comprising the

population: whether the 'united States was an Anglo-Saxon, Semitic,

Latin .nation, or what. The Jewish. opposition to the hearings disclosed

four matters very clearly:

i. the Jew is opposed to any restrictive legislation against his entrance

into a country;

ii. the Jew is opposed to any racial classification of himself after he has

entered a country;

iii. the Jewish argument to the Gentile authorities is that the Jew

represents religion and not rac.e;

IV. the Jew has one view to present to the Gentiles, and another which

he cherishes among his own people, on this question of Race.

When Americans disregarded as untenable the argument of

"religion, not race," the Jewish spokesmen were able to fall back on the

fact that their powerful organizations did not want certain things and

would not have certain things-argument or no argument, commission or

no commission. The Jewish lobbyists had their way. There is no

enumeration of Jews in the United States. There are classifications for all

other races and nations, but none for the Jews. None of the other races

made objection, but the Jew is not distinguished at all. What is the result

today? If you ask the government of the United States how many

Frenchmen there are in the country, it can give you the figures. If you

ask the number of Poles, it is there. If you ask for the number of Africans

it is known. Down a long list you may make your inquiries, you will find

that the government knows. But ask the government of the United States

how many Jews are in the country-and it cannot tell; there are no

records.

RACE OR RELIGION

W hat have the Jews themselves to say about "race or religion"? The

following quotations put the reader in possession of information

regarding the Jew's own thought of himself as a member of a separa te

people quite aside from the consideration of his religion.

LeoN . Levi, President of B'nai B'rith, 1900-1904:

"The distinctive character of the Jew does not arise solely from

religion. It is true that his race and religion are indissolubly

connected, but whatever. be the cause of this junction of the race

idea with the religion, it is very certain LIJ.at the religion alone does

not constitute the people. A believer in the Jewish faith does not by

reason of that fact be!:ome a Jew. On the other hand, however, a

Jew by birth remains a Jew, even though he abjures his religion."

Graetz, the historian of the Jews, whose monumental work is one of

the standard authorities, says that the history of L'le Jews, ever since they

lost the Jewish State,

"Still possesses a national character; it is by no means merely a

creed or church history. "