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under our supervision. We have attained this at the chief Jewish answers. They constitute the bone and the
present time to the extent that all news is received sinew of that state of mind in non-Jews which is known
through several agencies in which it is centralized as "the fear of the Jews."
from all parts of the world "
BENNETT'S STRUGGLE
3. "Literature and journalism are two most
This is the story of a boycott which lasted over a number
important educational forces, and consequently our
of years; it is only one of numerous stories
government will become the owner of most of the
of the same kind which can be told of America. There
journals. If we permit ten private journals, we shall
have been even more outstanding cases since this one,
organize thirty of our own, and so on. This must not
but it dates back to the dawn of Jewish ambitions and
be suspected by the public, for which reason all the
power in the United States, and it is the first of the great
journals published by us will be externally of the
battles which Jewry waged, successfully, to snuff out the
most contrary opinions and tendencies thus evoking
independent Press.
confidence in them and attracting our unsuspecting
opponents, who thus will be caught in
It concerns the long defunct "New York Herald," one
our trap and rendered harmless. "
newspaper to remain independent of Jewish influence in
- The Twelfth Protocol.
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
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news-gathering. It sent Henry M. Stanley to Africa to
THE BATTLE FOR PRESS CONTROL
find Livingstone. It backed the Jeannette expedition to
The first instinctive answer which the Jew makes to any the Arctic regions. It was largely instrumental in having
criticism of his race coming from a non-Jew the first Atlantic cables laid. Its reputations among
is that of violence, threatened or inflicted. This statement newspaper men was that neither its news nor its editorial
will be confirmed by hundreds of thousands columns could be bought or influenced. But
of citizens of the United States who have heard the perhaps its greatest feat was the maintenance during
evidence with their own ears, seen it with their own many years of its journalistic independence against the
eyes. combined attack of New York Jewry. Its proprietor, the
late James Gordon Bennett, a great American citizen
If the candid investigator of the Jewish Question famed for many helpful activities, had always
happens to be in business, the "boycott" is the first maintained a friendly attitude toward the Jews of his
answer of which the Jews seem to think. Whether it be a city. He apparently harbored no prejudices against them.
newspaper, or a mercantile establishment, or a hotel, or a Certainly he never deliberately antagonized them. But he
dramatic production; or any manufactured article whose was resolved upon preserving the honor of independent
maker has adopted the policy that "my goods are for journalism. He never bent to the policy that the
sale, but not my principles"- if there is any manner of advertisers had something to say about the editorial
business connection with the student of the Jewish policy of the paper, either as to influencing it for
Question, the first "answer" is "boycott." publication or suppression. In Bennett's time the
American Press was in the majority free. Today it is
The technique of this: a "whispering drive" is first entirely Jewish controlled. This control is variously
begun. Disquieting rumors begin to fly thick and exercised, sometimes resting only on the owners' sense
fast. "Watch us get him, is the word that is passed along. of expediency. But the control is there, and for the
Jews in charge of national ticker news services adopt the moment it is absolute. Fifty years ago there were many
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more newspapers in New York than there are today, change the Herald's financial staff, but was not able to
since then amalgamation has reduced the competition to effect the change even of an office boy.
a select few who do not compete. This development has
been the same in other countries, particularly Great Once when a shocking scandal involved a member of a
Britain. prominent family, Bennett refused to suppress it, arguing
that if the episode had occurred in a family of any other
EDITOR'S NOTE: Following the rise of the "popular" race it would be published regardless of the prominence
syndicated "columnist" since 1920, the word is now of the figures involved. The Jews of Philadelphia
"smear," it is specially prominent in political-press secured suppression there, but because of Bennett's
affairs. unflinching stand there was no suppression in New
York.
Bennett's Herald, a three cent newspaper, enjoyed the
highest prestige and was the most desirable advertising A newspaper is a business proposition. There are some
medium due to the class of its circulation. At that time matters it cannot touch without putting itself in peril of
the Jewish population of New York was less than one- becoming a defunct concern. This is especially true since
third of what it is today, but there was much wealth newspapers no longer receive their main support from
represented in it. the public but from the advertisers. The money the
reader gives for the paper scarcely suffices to pay for the
Now, what every newspaper man knows is this: most amount of white paper he receives. In this way,
Jewish leaders are always interested either in getting a advertisers cannot be disregarded any more than the
story published or getting it suppressed. There is no class paper mills can be. As the most extensive advertisers in
of people who read the public press with so careful an New York were, and are, the department stores, and as
eye to their own affairs as do the Jews. The Herald most department stores were, and are, owned by Jews, it
simply adopted the policy from the beginning of this comes logically that Jews often influence the news
form of harassment that it was not to be permitted to policies of the papers with whom they deal.
sway the Herald from its duty as a public informant. And
this policy had a reflex advantage for the other At this time, it had always been the burning ambition of
newspapers in the city. the Jews to elect a Jewish Mayor of New York. They
selected a time when the leading parties were disrupted
When a scandal occurred in Jewish circles (and at the to push forward their choice.
turn of the century growing Jewish influence in America The method they adopted was characteristic. They
produced many) influential Jews would swarm into the reasoned that the newspapers would not dare to
editorial offices to arrange for the refuse the dictum of the combined department store
suppression of the story. But the editors knew that the owners, so they drew up a "strictly confidential"
Herald would not suppress anything for anybody. What letter which they sent to the owners of the New York
was the use of one paper suppressing if the others would newspapers, demanding support for the Jewish
not? So editors would say: mayoralty candidate. The newspaper owners were in a
We would be very glad to suppress this story, but the quandary. For several days they debated how to act. All
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