Edward Lauterbach, Felix Warburg—why not let it go with these men’s names, why say ‘Jew’? When you say ‘Jew,’ it sounds as if you blamed all the Jews.”
This objection has been seriously and courteously made by a number of Jews who have conferred with The Dearborn Independent on this series of articles, and has been as seriously and courteously considered.
What is the answer? First, that these men are Jews. Second, that being Jews these men constitute a problem for the Jews themselves. Third, it is time for some one to call attention to the necessity of cleaning up on that problem. There has been too much mincing of words. There has been too much concealment of names and relationship. The method which Jews were taking in this country with regard to concealment was heading them swiftly toward the same conditions which have menaced their race in Europe, and The Dearborn Independent would count no labor lost that would rouse the Jews to a sense of the responsibility which rests on them to solve the Jewish Question in this country, possibly the only country where it can be solved.
Let us be frank: if this paper had mentioned only the names of individual Jews, never mentioning their race, and had exposed them as isolated persons, it would have made no difference in the general Jewish reaction, the cry would still have been that “the Jews were being attacked”; whereas the other people of the country would have been just as much in the dark regarding the close bonds which unite all the groups of evil influences in this country. The purpose of this series of articles is to let in the light—to show the Jews generally that the stench had become too great, and to show the rest of the people where the stench arose.
The list of charges for the Jews of the United States to consider as affecting the distinguished members of their race is very serious. And the charges are true.