For imperfectly educated, superficial readers the Frankfurter Zeitung is the essence of respectability. It never uses rough expressions, deprecates brute force and always writes in favour of fighting with “intellectual” weapons, and this appeals curiously enough to the least intellectual people.
But it is just for our semi-intellectual classes that the Jew writes in his so-called “Intelligenzia Press”. The tone of Frankfurter Ze^unS and Berliner Tageblatt is intended to appeal to them, and it is they who are influenced by those papers. Whilst they most carefully avoid all coarseness of language, they use other vessels for pouring the poison into the hearts of their readers. In a medley of charming expression they lull their readers into believing that pure knowledge and moral truth are the driving force of their actions, whereas really it is a cunning contrivance for stealing a weapon which their opponents might use against the Press.
Readiness to be content with half-measures is the outward sign of inward decadence, and a national collapse is sure to follow sooner or later.
I believe that our present generation, if rightly led, I 12 MY STRUGGLE will more easily master this danger. It has had certain experiences calculated to stiffen the nerves of anyone who has not completely missed the meaning of them. Certain it is that some time or other the Jew will cry out loudly in his newspapers, once a hand is laid on his beloved nest by putting an end to the disgraceful use of the Press, and once that instrument for education is brought into the service of the State and is no longer left in the hands of aliens and enemies of the nation I believe that it will be less of a burden to us younger ones than it was to our fathers. A thirty-centimeter grenade always hisses louder than a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers—so let them hiss !