Henry Ford

“ Brisbane says that Jewish bankers exercise their large measure of control because they are abler than the other bankers. It was very good of Mr. Brisbane to say so, and it adds to the sum of his weekly, almost daily, worship at the Jewish shrine, but it is scarcely true. Jewish bankers do not yet control the United States, and the principal reason they do not is that they are not abler than the other bankers. Doubtless they seek control ”

“ It is this international quality of the Jewish banking group which largely accounts for Jewish financial power: there is team-play, intimate understandings, and while there is a margin of competition among themselves (as at golf) there is also a wiping out of that margin when it comes to a contest between Jewish and “Gentile” capital.
Four conspicuous contemporary names in Jewish-American finance are Belmont, Schiff, Warburg and Kahn. All of them, even the most recent, are of foreign origin. ”

“ I had been a very loyal citizen of my own country; and I think that a man who hesitates in giving up his own nationality and taking a new one, is apt to be more loyal to his new country when he does change his nationality than a man who gives up his old country more lightly.” Senator Bristow—“Yes.” Mr. Warburg—“I may add this: That a thing which had a great deal of influence on my making up my mind to remain in this country and work here, and become a part and parcel of this country, was that monetary reform work, for I felt I had a distinct duty to perform here ”

“ The great Jewish banking houses of the United States are foreign importations, as perhaps everyone knows. Most of them are sufficiently recent to be considered in their immigrant status, while the thought of them as aliens is stimulated by their retention of oversea connections. ”

“ Most of the world is engaged in doing its work and indulging its national, racial, domestic and social affections and inclinations; a small minority stands in the background and watches the entire mass at its unconscious maneuvers, and studies it as an observer studies a hive of bees. ”

“ Nevertheless they form such a formidable force, and with their international connections constitute such a political problem, that the mere fact of their failing to top the column of control is not so reassuring as it sounds. ”

“ The man at work has no time except for his job. One man, standing back and studying 1,000 men at work, is able to see how he might utilize their labor or possess himself of a first toll on their production. ”

“ Mr. Warburg—“It is the Russian bank for foreign trade, which has an agency in Paris. “And after that I went back to Hamburg and worked there again for a year, I think. “Then I went round to India, China and Japan. “And then I came to this country for the first time in 1893. I stayed here only a short time then, and went back to Hamburg, and then became a partner of the firm in Hamburg.” The Chairman—“How long were you in Hamburg then in the banking business?” Mr. Warburg—“Until 1902 . . . . And then I moved over here to this country to become a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Company.” ”

“ Doubtless there must be men to stand at a sufficient distance from things to get a correct idea of their interrelationship, and doubtless such an attitude may be made of great service to the race, but doubtless it has also contributed to the selfish manipulation of natural and social processes. ”

“ Kahn’s trips abroad are usually unheralded, but their results richly repay observation.
A fourth member of the Jewish financial group in America (which is the form of statement which Mr. Chaim Weizmann would sanction, rather than to say “Jewish-American financiers”) is Mr. Paul Warburg, to whose testimony we have just alluded.
Mr. Warburg is the most recent of all. He was born in Germany in 1868; he came to the United States in 1902; he became an American citizen in 1911. ”

“ It was such a man, then, that came to Mr. Warburg for advice. The labors of Senator Aldrich comprise many volumes of difficult material and Senator Aldrich’s appeal to Mr. Warburg was a very high compliment to the quality of the latter’s mind and financial experience—this, of course, assuming that Mr. Warburg’s counsel was not forced upon the Aldrich committee by the New York money interests.
In his testimony, Mr. Warburg did not tell all. The omission, however, was supplied by an article in Leslie’s Weekly in 1916, the author being B. C. Forbes. ”

“ Warburg testified that at that time Mr. Kahn was not a citizen of the United States.
Senator Bristow—“How many of these partners are American citizens, or are they all American citizens . . . .” Mr. Warburg—“They are all American citizens except Mr. Kahn.”— (p. 7, Senate Hearings, August 1, 1914.) Senator Bristow—“Now, the members of your firm, are they all American citizens except Mr. Kahn?” Mr. Warburg—“Except Mr. Kahn, yes.” Senator Bristow—“Was Mr. Kahn ever an American Citizen?” Mr. Warburg—“No.” Senator Bristow—“He never was?” Mr. Warburg—“No; he is a British subject.” ”