vehement attacks on America Jewry, culminating in proposals which recall the barbarism of the Middle Ages are contained in a book, “The Evil Religion Does” by Morrison I. Swift, published by the Liberty Press, Boston.
The book speaks of “Jerusalemizing the American mind.” It also contains an attack on what it terms “Catholic anti-Americanism” and “Protestant anti-Americanism,” and on the “Jewish atavism in the Christian churches.”
In the book Mr. Swift advocates: “Until the ‘Jews’ abolish their tribe, abandon ‘Jewry,’ drop their double citizenship, and merge as complete Americans, the following steps are imperative:
“The ‘Jewish’ should be given a birth quota to limit their intemperate reproduction, for the same reason that their immigration is curtailed. Disregard of this birth quota should be followed by sterilization. Child production is a privilege, not a right, and depends on social sanction. The Jews could themselves exercise birth control by contraception, but they do the reverse. They propagate in monstrous excess.
“Jewish immigration to the United States from any country should be entirely barred. not merely reduced,” he continues. “The American right to discriminate among groups and nations and wholly exclude those that are for any reason unsuitable, is clear, absolue and obligatory. It is as sound a right as the debarment of undesired individuals. It is not invidious. It simply affirms that the excluded are not a proper chemical for the American population-compound planned. The Jews could make themselves fit, as this book has shown, and refuse to do so. Therefore bar them out.
“All Jewish children, born already or hereafter in this country, should be excluded from citizenship.
“Newspaper owners are obliged to publish their names and degree of ownership as a measure of public protection. Since the Jews are undermining America by absorption of wealth and wealth-influence, business and professional Jews should not be allowed to hide their identity behind American or company names. All business and professional Jews, large or small, should be required to publish on their signs, stationery, advertisements, etc., a word indicating their Jewishness; and business companies, corporations and the like, and the shares they own or represent.
“The ‘Jews’ have chosen the status they want; Americans should recognize and deal with that. They should debunk the Jews’ prentenious farce that they can be Americans and also Jews. It is impossible.”
The book strongly attacks the pro-Palestine movement and the support given it by American Jews. “Palestine where this antique Jewism is first to be restored,” the author writes, “will be the base of action for breaking down modern culture and Judaizing civilization. It is mainly the money of rich American Jews derived from the great body of genuine Americans, that is enabling the Jews to do this subversive work. It is the duty of the American people to unite as an immovable barrier to further progress of the Jews in these lines and compel them completely to abandon their anti-modern, anti-American policies and their Jewishness, or to receive the status of complete aliens here. They must no longer trick and double-cross Americans by playing the two-faced part of Americans on the surface and Jews underneath.
“That no group, racial or otherwise shall build itself up as a separate tribe or nation in the United States is a fundamental American principle. The Jews under very bad leadership have elected to do it. To cast off their false leaders, cease their tribal practices, and merge with the rest as genuine Americans is now incumbent on them. If they refuse, they have no basis of complaint if they are treated as the intrinsic aliens they have elected to be and are deprived of the privileges accorded only to true citizens. When this happens the Jews will, as always, raise the cry of persecution, race prejudice and religious bigotry, against Americans; but it is the Jews who are guilty, not Americans. For they are practising racial and religious bigotry when they decline to renounce Jewishness and become Americans in full.”
Dr. Jacob Fuhs, who has practiced medicine in Brooklyn for more than half a century, died Sunday at the age of 78. He leaves a wife and two daughters.
In the course of his long professional career Dr. Fuhs has been assocated with nearly a score of medical socletles and hospitals, among them the Acaemy of Medicine, Long Island College Hospital and Wyckoff Heights, St. Catherine’s and Israel Zion hospitals. He belonged to the Practioners Club and the Kings County Medical Society. He was on the original staff of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn
He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1875. For many years his office had been at 871 Park Place.
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