ally interpreted by the rabid anti-Semite as follows:
“Ultimately all over the United States we intend to see to it that no citizen may engage in any private business.
“Ultimately all over the United States we intend to see to it that no citizen may work for wages except for the government.
“Ultimately all over the United States we intend to see to it that no citizen may worship in church, or build a church to worship in, according to his conscience.”
This change in the character of the government, Pelley warns, is being accomplished by the group of Jews who are the “true political rulers of the United States.”
“RULERS” GROW
This group he now numbers as seventy-five, an increase of twenty-four of his last week’s estimate of fifty-one.
“It is their introvert alien and radical policies,” Pelley declares, “that are responsible for the creation of this titanic and un-American bureaucracy whose Frankenstein potentialities threatens to transfer the conditions prevailing in Russia over here into the Christian United States.”
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