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cles, and has been as seriously and courteously con- sidered.
What is the answer? First, that these men are Jews. Second, that being Jews these men consti- tute a problem for the Jews themselves. Third, it is time for some one to call attention to the neces- sity of cleaning up on that problem. There has been too mnch 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 swift- ly toward the same conditions which have menaced their race in Europe, and The Dearborn Independ- ent 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 coun- try, 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 peo- ple 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.
It is true that there is a distinct "Jewish idea" in business and professional life which has eaten away the traditional principles of honor on which Anglo-Saxon life was erected. Every Jew knows that, every non-Jew knows it. Here and there a Jew in business or professional life makes a break- away from trickery, deception, dishonesty, and ex- ploitation of the gullible public, and achieves sue-
