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And if after having elected their man or group, obedience is not rendered

to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear "scandals" and

"investigations" and "impeachments" for the removal of the disobedient.

Usually a man with a "past" proves the most obedient instrument,

but even a good man can often be tangled up in campaign practices that

compromise him. It has been commonly known that Jewish manipulations

of American election campaigns have been so skillfully handled, that no

matter which candidate was elected, there was ready made a sufficient

amount of evidence to discredit him. To arrange this is part of the

thoroughness of Jewish control. And, of course, the American people

have been sufficiently trained to roar against the public official

immediately the frrst Jewish hound emits its warning bay.

Amazing as is the technique of the Jewish political process, the

readiness with which the American people can be counted on to do their

part in forwarding the game is still more amazing.

ALIENS AND TAMMANY LEADERSHIP

The strength of Tammany had exactly the same source as the strength

of the Kehillah, namely, in the foreign population; the difference

being that the Kehillah had a more compact foreign mass to draw upon.

But both the Kehillah leaders and L'i.e Tammany leaders have always been

alertly aware of the fact that their power depended upon an uninterrupted

flow of immigration. It is always the foreigner that makes the best

material for the Kehillah's purpose until Americans became so thoroughly

un-Americanized as to make intensive immigration no longer essential.

It was only then that immigration began to slow down. The third great

influx of immigration into the United States occurred in 1884 and was

really the cause of the beginning of the degeneration of New York, and

then of American political life. The great wave was composed of Russian,

Austrian and Hungarian Jews , whose arrival was followed by a

memorable period of crime, the marks of which remain to this day.

At that time the police department and the police courts before

which all criminal cases in the city were first brought, were in the hands

of Tammany Hall under the notorious Boss Croker. The result of the

Jewish control was a partnership between local government and crime

which has not been duplicated outside of Semitic countries. Immigrant