Section 1

threatened to be, but American financiers have always been silently aware of the International Jewish Financier, and have endeavored quietly to block his game. Time and again the contest has seemed to turn in favor of the Jew, but when the widespread secret wrestlings of the two powers have been sus¬ pended for a moment, it has been found that American finance has maintained its superiority, if only in a slight degree. The Rothschilds were the first to be beaten on American soil; the story of their hidden hand in American finance, politics and diplomacy is a volu¬ minous one; but even their finesse did not avail against the sterling worth of American Business—not “Ameri¬ can business” as it has come to be known now that thousands of Jews are scattered about the world, representing themselves to be “American business men” although they can scarcely speak English!— but American Business as represented by the combi¬ nation of American ability and American conscience. If the reputation of American business has suffered, it is because something other than American methods have been used under the American name.