These associations produce in Jewish banking circles a constant tendency toward control or monopoly of certain lines of industry which are identified with the fields of finance. The rule is, once control is gained, all non-Jewish interests must be driven out.
4‘Jewish financial interests have rarely been connected with industrials,” says the Jewish Encyclopedia, “except as regards some of the precious stones and metals, the Rothschilds, controlling mercury, Barnato Brothers and Werner, Beit & Company diamonds, and the firms of Lewisohn Brothers and Guggenheim Sons controlling copper, and to some extent silver.” To this, of course, may be added whiskey, wireless, thea¬ ters, the European press and part of the American, and a number of other fields. The list will be made com¬ plete in this series of articles before they are finished.
The Jewish Encyclopedia continues:
“It is, however, mainly in the direction of foreign loans that there has been any definite predominance of Jewish financiers, this being due,, as before stated, to the international relations of the larger Jewish firms.”
In order that the senseless denials of certain por¬ tions of the Jewish press may be checked, it may be said that Jewish authorities do not deny such state¬ ments as are made about Jewish international financial control, although they declare it is not as strong as it once was. “Of more recent years,” says The Jewish Encyclopedia, “non-Jewish financiers have learned the same cosmopolitan method, and, on the whole, the control is now rather less than more in Jewish hands than formerly.”