The Jew in Character and Business

"That which we call capital here in America is usually money used in production, and we mistakenly refer to the manufacturer, the manager of work, the provider of tools and jobs - we refer to him as the "capitalist." Oh, no. He is not the capitalist in the real sense. Why, he himself must go to capitalists for the money with which to finance his plans. There is a power yet above him - a power that treats him far more callously and holds him in a more ruthless hand than he would ever dare display to labor. That, indeed, is one of the tragedies of these times, that "labor" and "capital" are fighting each other, when the conditions against which each one of them protests, and from which each one of them suffers, is not within their power to remedy at all, unless they find a way to wrest world control from that group of international financiers who create and control both these conditions."

There is a super-capitalism that is supported wholly by the fiction that gold is wealth. There is a super-government that is allied to no government, that is free from them all, and yet that has its hand in them all. There is a race, a part of humanity, that has never yet been received as a welcome part, and that has succeeded in raising itself to a power that the proudest Gentile race has never claimed - not even Rome in the days of her proudest power. It is becoming more and more the conviction of men all over the world that the labor question, the wage question, the land question cannot be settled until first of all this matter of an international super-capitalistic government is settled.

"To the victor belongs the spoils" is an old saying. And in a sense it is true that if all this power of control has been gained and held by a few men of a long-despised race, then either they are super-men whom it is powerless to resist, or they are ordinary men whom the rest of the world has permitted to obtain an undue and unsafe degree of power. Unless the Jews are super-men, the Gentiles will have themselves to blame for what has transpired, and they can look for rectification in a new scrutiny of the situation and a candid examination of the experiences of other countries."

EDITORS NOTE: Mr Ford, at the time he wrote this article was obviously laboring under the delusion that the jews of modern times are the genetic descendants of Abraham, known as the seed of Abraham and the chosen people of Yahweh God. His later writings reflect his further enlightenment in this area.

Henry Ford - The Jew in Character and Business