I gradually realized that the Social-democratic Press was preponderantly controlled by Jews. I attached no particular importance to this circumstance by itself, but it was exactly the same with the other newspapers. But there was one striking fact ; there was not a single paper with which Jews were connected which could be described as genuinely national in the sense that my education and opinions had taught me.
I got over my reluctance and tried to read this sort of Marxian stuff in the Press, but my dislike of it intensi¬ fied as I read ; I now tried to get acquainted with the compilers of that mass of knavery ; from the editors downwards they were all Jews.
I seized all the Social-democratic pamphlets I could get hold of and looked up the names of their authors —nothing but Jews. I noted the names of nearly all the leaders, the great majority were equally members of the “chosen people55 ; whether they were members of the Reichrat or secretaries of Trades Unions, chair¬ men of organizations or street agitators, the same sinister picture was presented. The names of Auster¬ litz, David, Adler, Ellenbogen, etc., will ever remain in my memory.
One thing now became clear to me ; the leader¬ ship of the Party, with whose minor supporters I had been fighting hard for months, was almost entirely in the hands of a foreign race, for to my inward satis¬ faction I knew finally that the Jew was no German.
It was only now that I thoroughly understood the corrupter of our nation.
The more I contended with them the more I learned to know their dialectical methods. They began by relying on the stupidity of their opponents, and if that was unsuccessful they themselves would pretend stupidity. If that was no good, they would refuse to take in what was said or promptly leap to another subject, and they came out with truisms, which, when agreed to, they made to refer to something quite dif¬ ferent