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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The International Jew, by Henry Ford
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+Title: The International Jew
+       The World's Foremost Problem
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+Author: Henry Ford
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+Release Date: October 14, 2011 [EBook #37539]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INTERNATIONAL JEW ***
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+THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
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+The World's Foremost Problem
+
+Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn
+Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
+
+November, 1920
+
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+
+Preface
+
+
+Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its
+emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and
+not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question
+in other countries.
+
+The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for a long time.
+Jews themselves have known this, even if Gentiles have not. There have
+been periods in our own country when it has broken forth with a sullen
+sort of strength which presaged darker things to come. Many signs
+portend that it is approaching an acute stage.
+
+Not only does the Jewish Question touch those matters that are of common
+knowledge, such as financial and commercial control, usurpation of
+political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic direction of
+the very news that the American people read; but it reaches into
+cultural regions and so touches the very heart of American life.
+
+This question reaches down into South America and threatens to become an
+important factor in Pan-American relations. It is interwoven with much
+of the menace of organized and calculated disorder which troubles the
+nations today. It is not of recent growth, but its roots go deep, and
+the long Past of this Problem is counterbalanced by prophetic hopes and
+programs which involve a very deliberate and creative view of the
+Future.
+
+This little book is the partial record of an investigation of the Jewish
+Question. It is printed to enable interested readers to inform
+themselves on the data published in The Dearborn Independent prior to
+Oct. 1, 1920. The demand for back copies of the paper was so great that
+the supply was exhausted early, as was also a large edition of a booklet
+containing the first nine articles of the series. The investigation
+still proceeds, and the articles will continue to appear as heretofore
+until the work is done.
+
+The motive of this work is simply a desire to make facts known to the
+people. Other motives have, of course, been ascribed to it. But the
+motive of prejudice or any form of antagonism is hardly strong enough to
+support such an investigation as this. Moreover, had an unworthy motive
+existed, some sign of it would inevitably appear in the work itself. We
+confidently call the reader to witness that the tone of these articles
+is all that it should be. The International Jew and his satellites, as
+the conscious enemies of all that Anglo-Saxons mean by civilization, are
+not spared, nor is that unthinking mass which defends anything that a
+Jew does, simply because it has been taught to believe that what Jewish
+leaders do is Jewish. Neither do these articles proceed upon a false
+emotion of brotherhood and apology, as if this stream of doubtful
+tendency in the world were only accidentally Jewish. We give the facts
+as we find them; that of itself is sufficient protection against
+prejudice or passion.
+
+This volume does not complete the case by any means. But it brings the
+reader along one step. In future compilations of these and subsequent
+articles the entire scope of the inquiry will more clearly appear.
+
+October, 1920.
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+Contents
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+
+I. The Jew in Character and Business
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+II. Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
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+III. Jewish History in the U. S.
+
+IV. The Jewish Question--Fact or Fancy?
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+V. Anti-Semitism--Will It Appear In the U. S.
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+VI. Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
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+VII. Arthur Brisbane to the Help of Jewry
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+VIII. Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
+
+IX. The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
+
+X. An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
+
+XI. "Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
+
+XII. "Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
+
+XIII. "Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
+
+XIV. Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
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+XV. Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
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+XVI. How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
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+XVII. Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
+
+XVIII. Does this Explain Jewish Political Power?
+
+XIX. The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
+
+XX. Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
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+"Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be
+mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family
+sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage
+of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier;
+remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great
+ability to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both
+individual and social; shrewdness and astuteness in speculation and
+money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full
+appreciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high
+average of intellectual ability."
+
+--The New International Encyclopedia.
+
+I.
+
+The Jew in Character and Business
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+
+The Jew is again being singled out for critical attention throughout the
+world. His emergence in the financial, political and social spheres has
+been so complete and spectacular since the war, that his place, power
+and purpose in the world are being given a new scrutiny, much of it
+unfriendly. Persecution is not a new experience to the Jew, but
+intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality is. He has
+suffered for more than 2,000 years from what may be called the
+instinctive anti-Semitism of the other races, but this antagonism has
+never been intelligent nor has it been able to make itself intelligible.
+Nowadays, however, the Jew is being placed, as it were, under the
+microscope of economic observation that the reasons for his power, the
+reasons for his separateness, the reasons for his suffering may be
+defined and understood.
+
+In Russia he is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an
+accusation which is serious or not according to the circle in which it
+is made; we in America, hearing the fervid eloquence and perceiving the
+prophetic ardor of young Jewish apostles of social and industrial
+reform, can calmly estimate how it may be. In Germany he is charged with
+being the cause of the Empire's collapse and a very considerable
+literature has sprung up, bearing with it a mass of circumstantial
+evidence that gives the thinker pause. In England he is charged with
+being the real world ruler, who rules as a super-nation over the
+nations, rules by the power of gold, and who plays nation against nation
+for his own purposes, remaining himself discreetly in the background. In
+America it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth
+and the younger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war
+organizations--principally those departments which dealt with the
+commercial and industrial business of war, and also the extent to which
+they have clung to the advantage which their experience as agents of the
+government gave them.
+
+In simple words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like
+other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made
+to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience
+has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner
+or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.
+
+The Jew is the world's enigma. Poor in his masses, he yet controls the
+world's finances. Scattered abroad without country or government, he yet
+presents a unity of race continuity which no other people has achieved.
+Living under legal disabilities in almost every land, he has become the
+power behind many a throne. There are ancient prophecies to the effect
+that the Jew will return to his own land and from that center rule the
+world, though not until he has undergone an assault by the united
+nations of mankind.
+
+The single description which will include a larger percentage of Jews
+than members of any other race is this: he is in business. It may be
+only gathering rags and selling them, but he is in business. From the
+sale of old clothes to the control of international trade and finance,
+the Jew is supremely gifted for business. More than any other race he
+exhibits a decided aversion to industrial employment, which he balances
+by an equally decided adaptability to trade. The Gentile boy works his
+way up, taking employment in the productive or technical departments;
+but the Jewish boy prefers to begin as messenger, salesman or
+clerk--anything--so long as it is connected with the commercial side of
+the business. An early Prussian census illustrates this characteristic:
+of a total population of 269,400, the Jews comprised six per cent or
+16,164. Of these, 12,000 were traders and 4,164 were workmen. Of the
+Gentile population, the other 94 per cent, or 153,236 people, there were
+only 17,000 traders.
+
+A modern census would show a large professional and literary class added
+to the traders, but no diminution of the percentage of traders and not
+much if any increase in the number of wage toilers. In America alone
+most of the big business, the trusts and the banks, the natural
+resources and the chief agricultural products, especially tobacco,
+cotton and sugar, are in the control of Jewish financiers or their
+agents. Jewish journalists are a large and powerful group here. "Large
+numbers of department stores are held by Jewish firms," says the Jewish
+Encyclopedia, and many if not most of them are run under Gentile names.
+Jews are the largest and most numerous landlords of residence property
+in the country. They are supreme in the theatrical world. They
+absolutely control the circulation of publications throughout the
+country. Fewer than any race whose presence among us is noticeable, they
+receive daily an amount of favorable publicity which would be impossible
+did they not have the facilities for creating and distributing it
+themselves. Werner Sombart, in his "Jew and Modern Capitalism" says, "If
+the conditions in America continue to develop along the same lines as in
+the last generation, if the immigration statistics and the proportion of
+births among all the nationalities remain the same, our imagination may
+picture the United States of fifty or a hundred years hence as a land
+inhabited only by Slavs, Negroes and Jews, wherein the Jews will
+naturally occupy the position of economic leadership." Sombart is a
+pro-Jewish writer.
+
+The question is, If the Jew is in control, how did it happen? This is a
+free country. The Jew comprises only about three per cent of the
+population; to every Jew there are 97 Gentiles; to the 3,000,000 Jews in
+the United States there are 97,000,000 Gentiles. If the Jew is in
+control, is it because of his superior ability, or is it because of the
+inferiority and don't-care attitude of the Gentiles?
+
+It would be very simple to answer that the Jews came to America, took
+their chances like other people and proved more successful in the
+competitive struggle. But that would not include all the facts. And
+before a more adequate answer can be given, two points should be made
+clear. This first is this: all Jews are not rich controllers of wealth.
+There are poor Jews aplenty, though most of them even in their poverty
+are their own masters. While it may be true that the chief financial
+controllers of the country are Jews, it is not true that every Jew is
+one of the financial controllers of the country. The classes must be
+kept distinct for a reason which will appear when the methods of the
+rich Jews and the methods of the poor Jews to gain power are
+differentiated. Secondly, the fact of Jewish solidarity renders it
+difficult to measure Gentile and Jewish achievements by the same
+standard. When a great block of wealth in America was made possible by
+the lavish use of another block of wealth from across the seas; that is
+to say, when certain Jewish immigrants came to the United States with
+the financial backing of European Jewry behind them, it would be unfair
+to explain the rise of that class of immigration by the same rules which
+account for the rise of, say, the Germans or the Poles who came here
+with no resource but their ambition and strength. To be sure, many
+individual Jews come in that way, too, with no dependence but
+themselves, but it would not be true to say that the massive control of
+affairs which is exercised by Jewish wealth was won by individual
+initiative; it was rather the extension of financial control across the
+sea.
+
+That, indeed, is where any explanation of Jewish control must begin.
+Here is a race whose entire period of national history saw them peasants
+on the land, whose ancient genius was spiritual rather than material,
+bucolic rather than commercial, yet today, when they have no country, no
+government, and are persecuted in one way or another everywhere they go,
+they are declared to be the principal though unofficial rulers of the
+earth. How does so strange a charge arise, and why do so many
+circumstances seem to justify it?
+
+Begin at the beginning. During the formative period of their national
+character the Jews lived under a law which made plutocracy and pauperism
+equally impossible among them. Modern reformers who are constructing
+model social systems on paper would do well to look into the social
+system under which the early Jews were organized. The Law of Moses made
+a "money aristocracy," such as Jewish financiers form today, impossible
+because it forbade the taking of interest. It made impossible also the
+continuous enjoyment of profit wrung out of another's distress.
+Profiteering and sheer speculation were not favored under the Jewish
+system. There could be no land-hogging; the land was apportioned among
+the people, and though it might be lost by debt or sold under stress, it
+was returned every 50 years to its original family ownership, at which
+time, called "The Year of Jubilee," there was practically a new social
+beginning. The rise of great landlords and a moneyed class was
+impossible under such a system, although the interim of 50 years gave
+ample scope for individual initiative to assert itself under fair
+competitive conditions.
+
+If, therefore, the Jews had retained their status as a nation, and had
+remained in Palestine under the Law of Moses, they would hardly have
+achieved the financial distinction which they have since won. Jews never
+got rich out of one another. Even in modern times they have not become
+rich out of each other but out of the nations among whom they dwelt.
+Jewish law permitted the Jew to do business with a Gentile on a
+different basis than that on which he did business with a brother Jew.
+What is called "the Law of the Stranger" was defined thus: "unto a
+stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt
+not lend upon usury."
+
+Being dispersed among the nations, but never merging themselves with the
+nations and never losing a very distinctive identity, the Jew has had
+the opportunity to practice "the ethics of the stranger" for many
+centuries. Being strangers among strangers, and often among cruelly
+hostile strangers, they have found this law a compensating advantage.
+Still, this alone would not account for the Jew's preeminence in
+finance. The explanation of that must be sought in the Jew himself, his
+vigor, resourcefulness and special proclivities.
+
+Very early in the Jewish story we discover the tendency of Israel to be
+a master nation, with other nations as its vassals. Notwithstanding the
+fact that the whole prophetic purpose with reference to Israel seems to
+have been the moral enlightenment of the world through its agency,
+Israel's "will to mastery" apparently hindered that purpose. At least
+such would seem to be the tone of the Old Testament. Divinely ordered to
+drive out the Canaanites that their corrupt ideas might not contaminate
+Israel, the Jews did not obey, according to the old record. They looked
+over the Canaanitish people and perceived what great amount of man-power
+would be wasted if they were expelled, and so Israel enslaved them--"And
+it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to
+tribute, and did not utterly drive them out." It was this form of
+disobedience, this preference of material mastery over spiritual
+leadership, that marked the beginning of Israel's age-long disciplinary
+distress.
+
+The Jews' dispersion among the nations temporarily (that is, for more
+than 25 centuries now) changed the program which their scriptures
+declare was divinely planned, and that dispersion continues until today.
+There are spiritual leaders in modern Judaism who still claim that
+Israel's mission to the nations is spiritual, but their assertions that
+Israel is today fulfilling that mission are not as convincing as they
+might be if accompanied by more evidence. Israel throughout the modern
+centuries is still looking at the Gentile world and estimating what its
+man-power can be made to yield. But the discipline upon Israel still
+holds; he is an exile from his own land, condemned to be discriminated
+against wherever he goes, until the time when exile and homelessness
+shall end in a re-established Palestine, and Jerusalem again the moral
+center of the earth, even as the elder prophets have declared.
+
+Had the Jew become an employe, a worker for other men, his dispersion
+would not probably have been so wide. But becoming a trader, his
+instincts drew him round the habitable earth. There were Jews in China
+at an early date. They appeared as traders in England at the time of the
+Saxons. Jewish traders were in South America 100 years before the
+Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock. Jews established the sugar
+industry in the Island of St. Thomas in 1492. They were well established
+in Brazil when only a few villages dotted the eastern coast of what is
+now the United States. And how far they penetrated when once they came
+here is indicated by the fact that the first white child born in Georgia
+was a Jew--Isaac Minis. The Jew's presence round the earth, his
+clannishness with his own people, made him a nation scattered among the
+nations, a corporation with agents everywhere.
+
+Another talent, however, contributed greatly to his rise in financial
+power--his ability to invent new devices for doing business. Until the
+Jew was pitted against the world, business was very crudely done. And
+when we trace the origins of many of the business methods which simplify
+and facilitate trade today, more likely than not we find a Jewish name
+at the end of the clue. Many of the indispensable instruments of credit
+and exchange were thought out by Jewish merchants, not only for use
+between themselves, but to check and hold the Gentiles with whom they
+dealt. The oldest bill of exchange extant was drawn by a Jew--one Simon
+Rubens. The promissory note was a Jewish invention, as was also the
+check "payable to bearer."
+
+An interesting bit of history attaches to the "payable to bearer"
+instrument. The Jews' enemies were always stripping them of their last
+ounce of wealth, yet strangely, the Jews recovered very quickly and were
+soon rich again. How this sudden recovery from looting and poverty?
+Their assets were concealed under "bearer" and so a goodly portion was
+always saved. In an age when it was lawful for any pirate to seize goods
+consigned to Jews, the Jews were able to protect themselves by
+consigning goods on policies that bore no names.
+
+The influence of the Jew was to center business around goods instead of
+persons. Previously all claims had been against persons; the Jew knew
+that the goods were more reliable than the persons with whom he dealt,
+and so he contrived to have claims laid against goods. Besides, this
+device enabled him to keep himself out of sight as much as possible.
+This introduced an element of hardness into business, inasmuch as it was
+goods which were being dealt in rather than men being dealt with, and
+this hardness remains. Another tendency which survives and which is of
+advantage in veiling the very large control which Jews have attained, is
+of the same origin as "bearer" bills; it permits a business dominated by
+Jewish capital to appear under a name that gives no hint of Jewish
+control.
+
+The Jew is the only and original international capitalist, but as a rule
+he prefers not to emblazon that fact upon the skies; he prefers to use
+Gentile banks and trust companies as his agents and instruments. The
+suggestive term "Gentile front" often appears in connection with this
+practice.
+
+The invention of the stock exchange is also credited to Jewish financial
+talent. In Berlin, Paris, London, Frankfort and Hamburg, Jews were in
+control of the first stock exchanges, while Venice and Genoa were openly
+referred to in the talk of the day as "Jew cities" where great trading
+and banking facilities might be found. The Bank of England was
+established upon the counsel and assistance of Jewish emigrants from
+Holland. The Bank of Amsterdam and the Bank of Hamburg both arose
+through Jewish influence.
+
+There is a curious fact to be noted in connection with the persecution
+and consequent wanderings of the Jews about Europe and that is: wherever
+they wandered, the center of business seemed to go with them. When the
+Jews were free in Spain, there was the world's gold center. When Spain
+drove out the Jews, Spain lost financial leadership and has never
+regained it. Students of the economic history of Europe have always been
+puzzled to discover why the center of trade should have shifted from
+Spain, Portugal and Italy, up to the northern countries of Holland,
+Germany, and England. They have sought for the cause in many things, but
+none has proved completely explanatory. When, however, it is known that
+the change was coincident with the expulsion of the Jews from the South
+and their flight to the North, when it is known that upon the Jews'
+arrival the northern countries began a commercial life which has
+flourished until our day, the explanation does not seem difficult. Time
+and again it has proved to be the fact that when the Jews were forced to
+move, the center of the world's precious metals moved with them.
+
+This distribution of the Jews over Europe and the world, each Jewish
+community linked in a fellowship of blood, faith and suffering with
+every other group, made it possible for the Jew to be international in
+the sense that no other race or group of merchants could be at that
+time. Not only were they everywhere (Americans and Russians are
+everywhere, too) but they were in touch. They were organized before the
+days of conscious international commercial organizations, they were
+bound together by the sinews of a common life. It was observed by many
+writers in the Middle Ages that the Jews knew more of what was
+transpiring in Europe than the governments did. They also had better
+knowledge of what was likely to occur. They knew more about conditions
+than the statesmen did. This information they imparted by letter from
+group to group, country to country. Indeed, they may be said thus to
+have originated unconsciously the financial news-letter. Certainly the
+information they were able to obtain and thus distribute was invaluable
+to them in their speculative enterprises. Advance knowledge was an
+immense advantage in the days when news was scarce, slow and unreliable.
+
+This enabled Jewish financiers to become the agents of national loans, a
+form of business which they encouraged wherever possible. The Jew has
+always desired to have nations for his customers. National loans were
+facilitated by the presence of members of the same family of financiers
+in various countries, thus making an interlocking directorate by which
+king could be played against king, government against government, and
+the shrewdest use made of national prejudices and fears, all to the no
+small profit of the fiscal agent.
+
+One of the charges most commonly made against Jewish financiers today is
+that they still favor this larger field of finance. Indeed, in all the
+criticism that is heard regarding the Jew as a business man, there is
+comparatively little said against him as an individual merchant serving
+individual customers. Thousands of small Jewish merchants are highly
+respected by their trade, just as tens of thousands of Jewish families
+are respected as our neighbors. The criticism, insofar as it respects
+the more important financiers, is not racial at all. Unfortunately the
+element of race, which so easily lends itself to misinterpretation as
+racial prejudice, is injected into the question by the mere fact that
+the chain of international finance as it is traced around the world
+discloses at every link a Jewish capitalist, financial family, or a
+Jewish-controlled banking system. Many have professed to see in this
+circumstance a conscious organization of Jewish power for Gentile
+control, while others have attributed the circumstance to Jewish racial
+sympathies, to the continuity of their family affairs down the line of
+descent, and to the increase of collateral branches. In the old
+Scriptural phrase, Israel grows as the vine grows, ever shooting out new
+branches and deepening old roots, but always part of the one vine.
+
+The Jew's aptitude for dealing with governments may also be traced to
+the years of his persecution. He early learned the power of gold in
+dealing with mercenary enemies. Wherever he went there followed him like
+a curse the aroused antipathy of other peoples. The Jew was never
+popular as a race; even the most fervid Jew will not deny that,
+howsoever he may explain it. Individuals have been popular, of course;
+many phases of Jewish nature are found to be very lovable when known;
+but nevertheless one of the burdens the Jews have had to bear as a race
+is this burden of racial unpopularity. Even in modern times, in
+civilized countries, in conditions which render persecution absolutely
+impossible, this unpopularity exists. And what is more, the Jew has not
+seemed to care to cultivate the friendship of the Gentile masses, due
+perhaps to the failures of experience, but due more likely to his inborn
+persuasion that he belongs to a superior race. Whatever the true reason,
+he has always placed his main dependence on cultivating friendship with
+kings and nobles. What cared the Jew if the people gnashed their teeth
+against him, so long as the king and the court were his friends? Thus
+there was always, even through most of the severely trying times, "a
+court Jew," one who had bought by loans and held by the strangle-hold of
+debt an entrance to the king's chamber. The policy of the Jews has
+always been to "go to headquarters." They never tried to placate the
+Russian people, but they did endeavor to enlist the Russian court. They
+never tried to placate the German people, but they did succeed in
+permeating the German court. In England they shrug their shoulders at
+the outspoken anti-Jew reactions of the British populace--what care
+they? Have they not all of lorddom at their heels, do they not hold the
+strings of Britain's purse?
+
+Through this ability of theirs to "go to headquarters" it is possible to
+account for the stronghold they got upon various governments and
+nations. Added to this ability was, of course, the ability to produce
+what the governments wanted. If a government wanted a loan, the Jew at
+court could arrange it through Jews at other financial centers and
+political capitals. If one government wanted to pay another government a
+debt without risking the precious metal to a mule train through a
+robber-infested country, the Jew at court arranged that too. He
+transferred a piece of paper and the debt was paid by the banking house
+at the foreign capital. The first time an army was ever fed in the
+modern commissary way, it was done by a Jew--he had the capital and he
+had the system; moreover he had the delight of having a nation for his
+customer.
+
+And this tendency, which served the race so well throughout the
+troublous centuries, shows no sign of abatement. Certainly, seeing to
+what an extent a race numerically so unimportant influences the various
+governments of the world today, the Jew who reflects upon the disparity
+between his people's numbers and their power may be pardoned if he sees
+in that fact a proof of their racial superiority.
+
+It may be said also that Jewish inventiveness in business devices
+continues to the present time, as well as Jewish adaptability to
+changing conditions. The Jew is credited with being the first to
+establish branch houses in foreign countries in order that responsible
+representatives of the home office might be on the ground taking instant
+advantage of every opening. During the war a great deal was said about
+the "peaceful penetration" which the "German Government" had effected in
+the United States by establishing here branch offices and factories of
+German firms. The fact that there were many German branch houses here is
+unquestionable. It should be known, however, that they were not the
+evidence of German enterprise but of Jewish enterprise. The old German
+business houses were too conservative to "run after customers" even in
+the hustling United States, but the Jewish firms were not, and they came
+straight to America and hustled. In due time the competition forced the
+more conservative German firms to follow suit. But the idea was Jewish
+in its origin, not German.
+
+Another modern business method whose origin is credited to Jewish
+financiers is that by which related industries are brought together, as
+for example, if an electrical power company is acquired, then the street
+railway company using the electricity would be acquired too, one purpose
+being in this way to conserve all the profit accruing along the line,
+from the origination of the power down to the delivery of the street car
+ride; but perhaps the main purpose being that, by the control of the
+power house the price of current could be increased to the car company,
+and by the control of the car company the cost of a ride could be
+increased to the public, the controllers thus receiving an additional
+profit all down the line. There is much of this going on in the world
+today, and in the United States particularly. The portion of the
+business immediately next to the ultimate consumer explains that its
+costs have risen, but it does not explain that the costs were increased
+by the owners and not by outsiders who were forced to do so by economic
+pressure.
+
+There is apparently in the world today a central financial force which
+is playing a vast and closely organized game, with the world for its
+table and universal control for its stakes. The people of civilized
+countries have lost all confidence in the explanation that "economic
+conditions" are responsible for all the changes that occur. Under the
+camouflage of "economic law" a great many phenomena have been accounted
+for which were not due to any law whatever except the law of the selfish
+human will as operated by a few men who have the purpose and the power
+to work on a wide scale with nations as their vassals.
+
+Whatever else may be national, no one today believes that finance is
+national. Finance is international. Nobody today believes that
+international finance is in any way competitive. There are some
+independent banking houses, but few strong independent ones. The great
+masters, the few whose minds see clearly the entire play of the plan,
+control numerous banking houses and trust companies, and one is used for
+this while another is used for that, but there is no disharmony between
+them, no correction of each other's methods, no competition in the
+interests of the business world. There is as much unity of policy
+between the principal banking houses of every country as there is
+between the various branches of the United States Post Office--and for
+the same reason, namely, they are all operated from the same source and
+for the same purpose.
+
+Just before the war Germany bought very heavily in American cotton and
+had huge quantities of it tied up here for export. When war came, the
+ownership of that mountainous mass of cotton wealth changed in one night
+from Jewish names in Hamburg to Jewish names in London. At this writing
+cotton is selling in England for less than it is selling in the United
+States, and the effect of that is to lower the American price. When the
+price lowers sufficiently, the market is cleared of cotton by buyers
+previously prepared, and then the price soars to high figures again. In
+the meantime, the same powers that have engineered the apparently
+causeless strengthening and weakening of the cotton market, have seized
+upon stricken Germany to be the sweatshop of the world. Certain groups
+control the cotton, lend it to Germany to be manufactured, leave a
+pittance of it there in payment for the labor that was used, and then
+profiteer the length and breadth of the world on the lie that "cotton is
+scarce." And when, tracing all these anti-social and colossally unfair
+methods to their source, it is found that the responsible parties all
+have a common characteristic, is it any wonder that the warning which
+comes across the sea--"Wait until America becomes awake to the
+Jew!"--has a new meaning?
+
+Certainly, economic reasons no longer explain the condition in which the
+world finds itself today. Neither does the ordinary explanation of "the
+heartlessness of capital." Capital has endeavored as never before to
+meet the demands of labor, and labor has gone to extremes in leading
+capital to new concessions--but what has it advantaged either of them?
+Labor has heretofore thought that capital was the sky over it, and it
+made the sky yield, but behold, there was yet an higher sky which
+neither capital nor labor had seen in their struggles one with another.
+That sky is so far unyielding.
+
+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 which 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 which is supported wholly by the fiction
+that gold is wealth. There is a super-government which is allied to no
+government, which is free from them all, and yet which has its hand in
+them all. There is a race, a part of humanity, which has never yet been
+received as a welcome part, and which 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.
+
+[Issue of May 22, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
+
+
+Humanity has become wise enough to discuss those forms of physical
+sickness over which it formerly drew the veil of shame and secrecy, but
+political hygiene is not so far advanced. The main source of the
+sickness of the German national body is charged to be the influence of
+the Jews, and although this was apparent to acute minds years ago, it is
+now said to have gone so far as to be apparent to the least observing.
+The eruption has broken out on the surface of the body politic, and no
+further concealment of this fact is possible. It is the belief of all
+classes of the German people that the collapse which has come since the
+armistice, and the revolution from which they are being prevented a
+recovery, are the result of Jewish intrigue and purpose. They declare it
+with assurance; they offer a mass of facts to confirm it; they believe
+that history will provide the fullest proof.
+
+The Jew in Germany is regarded as only a guest of the people; he has
+offended by trying to turn himself into the host. There are no stronger
+contrasts in the world than the pure Germanic and pure Semitic races;
+therefore, there has been no harmony between the two in Germany; the
+German has regarded the Jew strictly as a guest, while the Jew,
+indignant at not being given the privileges of the nation-family, has
+cherished animosity against his host. In other countries the Jew is
+permitted to mix more readily with the people, he can amass his control
+unchallenged; but in Germany the case was different. Therefore, the Jew
+hated the German people; therefore, the countries of the world which
+were most dominated by the Jews showed the greatest hatred of Germany
+during the recent regrettable war. Jewish hands were in almost exclusive
+control of the engines of publicity by which public opinion concerning
+the German people was molded. The sole winners of the war were Jews.
+
+But assertion is not enough; proof is wanted; therefore, consider the
+evidence. What occurred immediately upon the change from the old regime
+to the new? The cabinet composed of six men, which substituted the
+Minister of State, was dominated by the Jews Haase and Landsberg. Haase
+had control of foreign affairs; his assistant was the Jew Kautsky, a
+Czech, who in 1918 was not even a German citizen. Also associated with
+Haase were the Jews Cohn and Herzfeld. The Jew Schiffer was Financial
+Minister of State, assisted by the Jew Bernstein. The Secretary of the
+Interior was the Jew Preuss, with the Jew Dr. Freund for his assistant.
+The Jew Fritz Max Cohen, who was correspondent of the Frankfurter
+Zeitung in Copenhagen, was made government publicity agent.
+
+The kingdom of Prussia duplicated this condition of affairs. The Jews
+Hirsch and Rosenfeld dominated the cabinet, with Rosenfeld controlling
+the Department of Justice, and Hirsch in the Department of the Interior.
+The Jew Simon was in charge of the Treasury Department. The Prussian
+Department of Justice was wholly manned and operated by Jews. The
+Director of Education was the Jew Furtran with the assistance of the Jew
+Arndt. The Director of the Colonial Office was the Jew Meyer-Gerhard.
+The Jew Kastenberg was the director of the Department of Art. The War
+Food Supply Department was directed by the Jew Wurm, while in the State
+Food Department were the Jews Prof. Dr. Hirsch and the Geheimrat Dr.
+Stadthagen. The Soldiers' and Workmen's Committee was directed by the
+Jew Cohen, with the Jews Stern, Herz, Lowenberg, Frankel, Israelowicz,
+Laubenheim, Seligsohn, Katzenstein, Laufenberg, Heimann, Schlesinger,
+Merz and Weyl having control of various activities of that committee.
+
+The Jew Ernst is chief of police at Berlin; in the same office at
+Frankfurt is the Jew Sinzheimer; in Munich the Jew Steiner; in Essen the
+Jew Levy. It will be remembered that the Jew Eisner was President of
+Bavaria, his financial minister being the Jew Jaffe. Bavaria's trade,
+commerce and industry were in control of the half-Jew Brentano. The Jews
+Lipsinsky and Schwarz were active in the government of Saxony; the Jews
+Thalheimer and Heiman in Wurtemberg; the Jew Fulda in Hessen.
+
+Two delegates sent to the Peace Conference were Jews and a third was
+notoriously the tool of Jewish purposes. In addition Jews swarmed
+through the German delegation as experts and advisors--Max Warburg, Dr.
+Von Strauss, Merton, Oskar Oppenheimer, Dr. Jaffe, Deutsch, Brentano,
+Bernstein, Struck, Rathenau, Wassermann, and Mendelsohn-Bartholdi.
+
+As to the part which Jews from other countries had in the Peace
+Conference, German observers declare that any candid student may
+discover by reading the accounts of impartial non-Jewish recorders of
+that event. Only the non-Jewish historians seem to have been struck by
+the fact; the multitude of Jewish writers apparently judged it wise to
+conceal it.
+
+Jewish influence in German affairs came strongly to the front during the
+war. It came with all the directness and attack of a flying wedge, as if
+previously prepared. The Jews of Germany were not German patriots during
+the war, and although this will not appear a crime in the eyes of the
+nations who were opposed to Germany, it may throw some light on the
+Jew's assertion of patriotic loyalty to the land where he lives.
+Thoughtful Germans hold that it is impossible for the Jew to be a
+patriot, for reasons which will presently be given.
+
+The point to be considered is the general claim that the persons already
+named would not have obtained the positions in which they were found had
+it not been for the Revolution, and the Revolution would not have come
+had not they brought it. It is true that there were unsatisfactory
+conditions in Germany, but they could and would have been adjusted by
+the people themselves; the conditions which destroyed the people's
+morale and were made impossible of reform were in control of the Jews.
+
+The principal Jewish influences which are charged with bringing about
+the downfall of German order may be named under three heads: (a) the
+spirit of Bolshevism which masqueraded under the name of German
+Socialism; (b) Jewish ownership and control of the Press; (c) Jewish
+control of the food supply and the industrial machinery of the country.
+There was a fourth, "higher up," but these worked upon the German people
+directly.
+
+As it is possible that German conclusions upon this matter may be
+received doubtfully by peoples whose public opinion has been shaped by
+Jewish influence, it may help to quote George Pitter-Wilson, of the
+London Globe, who wrote early in April, 1919, "Bolshevism is the
+dispossession of the Christian nations of the world to such an extent
+that no capital will remain in the hands of the Christians, that all
+Jews may jointly hold the world in their hands and reign wherever they
+choose." As early as the second year of the war, German Jews were
+preaching that Germany's defeat was necessary to the rise of the
+proletariat, at which time Strobel declared, "I openly admit that a full
+victory of the country would not be in the interest of the Social
+Democrats." Everywhere it was preached that "the exaltation of the
+proletariat after a won victory is an impossibility." These instances,
+out of many, are cited not to reopen the military question but to show
+how the so-called German Jew forgot loyalty to the country in which he
+lived and joined the outside Jews in accomplishing the collapse of
+Germany, and not merely, as we shall see, to rid Germany of militarism,
+which every thoughtful German desired, but to throw the country into
+such confusion as to permit them to seize control.
+
+The press of Germany echoed this plan of the Jewish spokesmen, at first
+faintly, then boldly. The Berliner Tageblatt and the Munchner Neuester
+Nachrichten were during the whole war official and semi-official organs
+of the government. They were owned and controlled by Jews, as was also
+the Frankfurter Zeitung and a host of smaller papers that were their
+spiritual dependents. These papers, it is charged, were really German
+editions of the Jew-controlled press of the Allied countries, and their
+purpose was the same. One of the great pieces of research that ought to
+be undertaken for the purpose of showing the world how its thought is
+manufactured for it every day, and for what ulterior purposes, is this
+union of the Jewish press, which passes for the Public Press, throughout
+the world.
+
+The food and supplies of the people quickly passed into Jewish hands as
+soon as the war emergency came, and then began a period of dishonesty
+which destroyed the confidence of the bravest. Like all other patriotic
+people, the German people knew that war meant sacrifice and suffering,
+and like other people they were willing to share the common lot. But
+they found themselves preyed upon by a class of Jews who had prepared
+everything to make profit out of the common distress. Immediately Jews
+appeared in banks, war companies, distribution societies, and the
+ministries of supplies--wherever the life of the people could be
+speculated in or taxed. Articles that were plentiful disappeared, only
+to reappear again at high prices. The war companies were exclusively
+Jewish, and although the government attempted to regulate the outgo of
+food in the interests of all the people, it became notorious that those
+with money could get all of anything they wanted, regardless of the food
+cards. The Jews simply trebled the price of the goods they let go
+without the cards, and so kept a stream of the nation's gold flowing
+into their private treasuries. None of the government's estimates of the
+food stocks could be depended on, because of the hidden hoards on which
+these speculators drew. This began to disturb the morale of the people,
+and complaints were made and prosecutions started; but as soon as the
+cases came up it was discovered that the prosecutor appointed to charge
+and the commissioner appointed to judge were also Jews, and so the cases
+usually wore themselves out without results. When, however, a German
+merchant was caught, great noise was made about it, and the penalty
+placed upon him was equal to what all the others should have had. Go the
+length and breadth of Germany today, say the reports, study the temper
+of the people, and you will discover that the abuse of power by the Jews
+has burned across Germany's memory like a hot iron.
+
+While these influences were undermining the mass of the people, higher
+influences of Jewish origin were operating upon the government. The
+advisors of the Bethmann-Hollweg government were the great ship magnate
+Ballin, a Jew; Theodor Wolff, of the Berliner Tageblatt and member of
+the Pan-Jewish press; Von Gwinner, director of the German Bank who is
+connected by marriage with the great Jew bankers, the Speyers; and
+Rathenau, the leader of Jewish industrial-financial activities. These
+men were at the source of things and were bending the government as the
+other influences were bending the people.
+
+The rich German Jew could buy the recognition he desired by acquiring
+financial power over those interests which most directly affected the
+ruling class of Germany, but how was the poor Jew to gain the
+recognition he desired?--for all Jews are actuated by the same desire;
+it is in them; they feel the spur to mastery. Having explored the
+conquest of the higher circles by Jewish money-power, there is yet to
+explore the conquest of the body of the nation by Jews who had no money
+except what they could seize in the disorder which they caused. The
+analysis that is given, follows:
+
+The Jew is not an anarchist. He is not a destructionist. All this is
+true, notwithstanding he is the world's Bolshevist and preeminently
+Germany's revolutionist. His anarchy is not ingrain, it is a device
+which he uses for a purpose. The rich Jew is not an anarchist, because
+he can achieve what he desires by more subtle methods. The poor Jew has
+no other recourse. But rich and poor go jointly for a long stretch; the
+bond of sympathy between them never breaks; for, if the anarchy is
+successful, then the poor Jew shall take his place with the rich Jew;
+and if the anarchy is not successful, it has nevertheless served to
+break up new fields in which the rich Jew may operate.
+
+In Germany it was possible for the poor Jew to thrust himself up through
+the wall of Germanism above him only by breaking it up. In Russia the
+same was true. The social system had encrusted around the Jew, keeping
+him in a position where, as the nations knew by experience, he would be
+less harmful. As nature encysts the harmful foreign element in the
+flesh, building a wall around it, so nations have found it expedient to
+do with the Jew. In modern times, however, the Jew has found a means of
+knocking down the walls and throwing the whole national house into
+confusion, and in the darkness and riot that follows, seize the place he
+has long coveted. When Russia broke, who came first to light? Kerensky,
+who is a Jew. But his plans were not radical enough, and then came
+Trotsky, another Jew. Trotsky found the system too strong for him to
+break in America--he broke through the weak spot in Russia and would
+extend that weakness round the world. Every commissar in Russia today is
+a Jew. Publicists are accustomed to speak of Russia as if it were in
+disorder. It may be that Russia is, but the Jewish government of Russia
+is not. From a mass of underlings, the Jews of Russia came up a perfect
+phalanx, a flying wedge through the superinduced disorder, as if every
+man's place had been previously prepared for him.
+
+That also is the way it was in Germany. The German ceiling had to be
+broken, as it were, before the poor Jews could realize their ambition.
+When the break was made they swarmed through and settled in places of
+control above the nation.
+
+This may explain why Jews the world over supply the energy of disruptive
+movements. It is understood that the young Jews of the United States are
+propagandists of an ideal that would practically abolish the United
+States. The attack is aimed, of course, against "capitalism," which
+means the present government of the world by the Gentile. The true
+capitalists of the world are Jews, who are capitalists for capital's
+sake. It is hard to believe that they wish to destroy capital; they wish
+to obtain sole control of it, and their wish has long been in fair way
+to fulfillment.
+
+In Germany, therefore, as in Russia, distinction is made between the
+methods of the rich and of the poor Jews, because one method affects the
+government and the other the morale of the people, but both converge on
+the same objective. It is not only desire to escape oppression that
+actuates the lower classes of Jews, but desire to gain control--for the
+spirit of mastery pulses strong within them. German convictions on this
+question have reached the place where they may be expressed thus:
+Revolution is the expression of the Jews' will to power. Parties such as
+the socialists, democrats and freethinkers are but tools for the Jewish
+plan to power. The so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat" is really
+and practically the dictatorship of Jews.
+
+So suddenly have German eyes been opened, so stormfully wrathful has
+been the reaction, that the word has gone out through German Judaism to
+retire to the second trench. There has been a sudden and concerted
+abandonment of office wherever the office made direct contact with the
+public; there has, however, been no abandonment of power. What will
+happen in Germany is not now known. Some regrettable things have already
+happened. But the Germans will doubtless prove themselves equal to the
+situation by devising methods of control at once unobjectionable and
+effective. But as to Russia, it is hardly doubtful any longer what will
+happen there. When Russia turns, a shudder will run through the earth.
+
+How Gentile Germany and Russia look at the entire question may be
+summarized as follows:
+
+Judaism is the most closely organized power on earth, even more than the
+British Empire. It forms a State whose citizens are unconditionally
+loyal wherever they may be and whether rich or poor.
+
+The name which is given in Germany to this State which circulates among
+all the states is "All-Judaan."
+
+The means of power of the State of All-Judaan are capital and
+journalism, or money and propaganda.
+
+All-Judaan is the only State that exercises world government; all the
+other States can and may exercise national government only.
+
+The principal culture of All-Judaan is journalistic; the technical,
+scientific, literary performances of the modern Jew are throughout
+journalistic performances. They are due to the marvelous talent of the
+Jews for receptivity of others' ideas. Capital and Journalism are joined
+in the Press to create a political and spiritual medium of Jewish power.
+
+The government of this state of All-Judaan is wonderfully organized.
+Paris was its first seat, but has now been moved to third place. Before
+the war London was its first, and New York its second capital. It
+remains to be seen whether New York will now supplant London--the drift
+is toward America.
+
+As All-Judaan is not in a position to have a standing army and navy,
+other states supply these for it. Its fleet is the British fleet, which
+guards from hindrance the progress of all-Jewish world economy, or that
+part of it which depends on the sea. In return, All-Judaan assures
+Britain an undisturbed political and territorial world rule. All-Judaan
+has added Palestine to British control. Wherever there was an All-Judaan
+land force (whatever national uniform it might wear), it worked with the
+British navy.
+
+All-Judaan is willing to entrust the government of various strips of the
+world to the nationalistic governments; it only asks to control the
+governments. Judaism is passionately in favor of perpetuating
+nationalistic divisions for the Gentile world. For themselves, Jews
+never become assimilated with any nation. They are a separate people,
+always were and always will be.
+
+All-Judaan's only quarrel with any nation occurs when that nation makes
+it impossible for All-Judaan to control that nation's industrial and
+financial profits. It can make war, it can make peace; it can command
+anarchy in stubborn cases, it can restore order. It holds the sinews of
+world power in its hand and it apportions them among the nations in such
+ways as will best support All-Judaan's plan.
+
+Controlling the world's sources of news, All-Judaan can always prepare
+the minds of the people for its next move. The greatest exposure yet to
+be made is the way that news is manufactured and the way in which the
+mind of whole nations is molded for a purpose. When the powerful Jew is
+at last traced and his hand revealed, then comes the ready cry of
+persecution and it echoes through the world press. The real causes of
+the persecution (which is the oppression of the people by the financial
+practices of the Jews) are never given publicity.
+
+All-Judaan has its vice-governments in London and New York. Having
+wreaked its revenge on Germany it will now go forth to conquer other
+nations. Britain it already has. Russia it is struggling for, but the
+chances are against it. The United States, with its good-natured
+tolerance of all races, offers a promising field. The scene of
+operations changes, but the Jew is the same throughout the centuries.
+
+[Issue of May 29, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"At first sight it would seem as if the economic system of North America
+was the very one that developed independently of the Jews . . . .
+Nevertheless I uphold my assertion that the United States (perhaps more
+than any other land) are filled to the brim with the Jewish spirit. This
+is recognized in many quarters, above all in those best capable of
+forming a judgment on the subject . . . .
+
+"In the face of this fact, is there not some justification for the
+opinion that the United States owe their very existence to the Jews? And
+if this be so, how much more can it be asserted that Jewish influence
+made the United States just what they are--that is, American? For what
+we call Americanism is nothing else, if we may say so, than the Jewish
+spirit distilled."
+
+--Werner Sombart, "The Jews and Modern Capital," pp. 38, 43.
+
+III.
+
+Jewish History in the United States
+
+
+The story of the Jews in America begins with Christopher Columbus. On
+August 2, 1492, more than 300,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, with
+which event Spain's prestige began its long decline, and on August 3,
+the next day, Columbus set sail for the West, taking a group of Jews
+with him. They were not, however, refugees, for the prophetic
+navigator's plans had aroused the sympathy of influential Jews for a
+long period previously. Columbus himself tells us that he consorted much
+with Jews. The first letter he wrote detailing his discoveries was to a
+Jew. Indeed, the eventful voyage itself which added to men's knowledge
+and wealth "the other half of the earth" was made possible by Jews.
+
+The pleasant story that it was Queen Isabella's jewels which financed
+the voyage has disappeared under cool research. There were three Maranos
+or "secret Jews" who wielded great influence at the Spanish court: Luis
+de Santagel, who was an important merchant of Valencia and who was
+"farmer" of the royal taxes; his relative, Gabriel Sanchez, who was the
+royal treasurer; and their friend, the royal chamberlain, Juan Cabrero.
+These worked unceasingly on Queen Isabella's imagination, picturing to
+her the depletion of the royal treasury and the likelihood of Columbus
+discovering the fabulous gold of the Indies, until the Queen was ready
+to offer her jewels in pawn for the funds. But Santagel craved
+permission to advance the money himself, which he did, 17,000 ducats in
+all, about $20,000, perhaps equal to $160,000 today. It is probable that
+the loan exceeded the expedition's cost.
+
+Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews: Luis de
+Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician; Alonzo
+de la Calle, and Gabriel Sanchez. The astronomical instruments and maps
+which the navigators used were of Jewish origin. Luis de Torres was the
+first man ashore, the first to discover the use of tobacco; he settled
+in Cuba and may be said to be the father of Jewish control of the
+tobacco business as it exists today.
+
+Columbus' old patrons, Luis de Santagel and Gabriel Sanchez, received
+many privileges for the part they played in the work, but Columbus
+himself became the victim of a conspiracy fostered by Bernal, the ship's
+doctor, and suffered injustice and imprisonment as his reward.
+
+From that beginning, Jews looked more and more to America as a fruitful
+field, and immigration set in strongly toward South America, principally
+Brazil. But because of military participation in a disagreement between
+the Brazilians and the Dutch, the Jews of Brazil found it necessary to
+emigrate, which they did in the direction of the Dutch colony of what is
+now New York. Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, did not entirely
+approve of their settling among his people and ordered them to leave,
+but the Jews had evidently taken the precaution to assure their being
+received even if not welcomed, because upon revoking the order of
+Stuyvesant, the Directors gave as one of the reasons for the Jews being
+received, "the large amount of capital which they have invested in the
+shares of the Company." Nevertheless they were forbidden to enter public
+service and to open retail shops, which had the effect of driving them
+into foreign trade in which they were soon exercising all but a monopoly
+because of their European connections.
+
+This is only one of the thousand illustrations which can be given of the
+resourcefulness of the Jew. Forbid him in one direction, he will excel
+in another. When he was forbidden to deal in new clothes, he sold old
+clothes--that was the beginning of the organized traffic in secondhand
+clothing. When he was forbidden to deal in merchandise, he dealt in
+waste--the Jew is the originator of the waste product business of the
+world; he was the originator of the salvage system; he found wealth in
+the debris of civilization. He taught people how to use old rags, how to
+clean old feathers, how to use gall nuts and rabbit skins. He has always
+had a taste for the furrier trade, which he now controls, and to him is
+due the multitude of common skins which now pass under various alluring
+trade names as furs of high origin. The idea of renovation gained
+commercial value through the Jew. In the "rag men" who blow tin horns
+through our cities and save the old iron, old bottles, old paper and old
+fabrics, we have the commercial descendants of those earlier Jews who
+turned adversity into success by converting the rubbish of the earth
+into material of value.
+
+Unwittingly, old Peter Stuyvesant compelled the Jew to make New York the
+principal port of America, and though a majority of New York Jews had
+fled to Philadelphia at the time of the American Revolution, most of
+them returned to New York at the earliest opportunity, instinct seeming
+to make them aware that in New York was to be their principal paradise
+of gain. And so it has proved. New York is the greatest center of Jewish
+population in the world. It is the gateway where the bulk of American
+imports and exports are taxed, and where practically all the business
+done in America pays tribute to the masters of money. The very land of
+the city is practically the holdings of the Jews. A list of the property
+owners of the metropolis reveals only at rare intervals a Gentile name.
+No wonder that Jewish writers, viewing this unprecedented prosperity,
+this unchecked growth in wealth and power, exclaim enthusiastically that
+the United States is the Promised Land foretold by the prophets, and New
+York the New Jerusalem. Some have gone even further and described the
+peaks of the Rockies as "the mountains of Zion," and with reason, too,
+if the mining and coastal wealth of the Jews is considered.
+
+The new waterways proposal, which will make an ocean port of practically
+every great city on the Great Lakes and take from New York the prestige
+she has maintained by being the gateway toward which the principal
+railways narrowed, is being strongly protested at this time. And the
+strongest motive in opposing this most obvious betterment is that so
+much wealth counted in New York is not wealth at all, but fictitious
+values depending solely on New York remaining New York. When anything
+comes which will make New York merely a city on the coast, and not the
+city where the great taxers sit to levy their tribute, much Jewish
+wealth will decrease. It was fabulous before the war. What it is now the
+statisticians will hardly undertake to say.
+
+In fifty years the increase in the Jewish population of the United
+States has been from 50,000 to more than 3,300,000. In the British Isles
+there are only 300,000, in Palestine only 100,000. It is fortunate for
+the Jew himself that in Great Britain his numbers are not greater, for
+the large and evident control he exercises in great matters would
+sometimes make it inconvenient for the poorer Jew, if he were abroad in
+England in large numbers. An unusually well-informed Briton says that
+anti-Semitism is always ready to break out in England upon sufficient
+cause, but it cannot break out against the inaccessible rich Jews who
+control in politics and international finance. It us probably true that
+the commonest real cause of anti-Semitism is the action of the
+international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but the
+innocent victim of it is the poor Jew. Anti-Semitism, however, will be
+considered in the next article.
+
+The figures representing Jewish population in Great Britain and the
+United States indicate that the colossal power wielded by international
+Jewish financiers is neither consequent nor dependent upon their number.
+The arresting fact about the Jew is his world-wide unchallenged power,
+coupled with comparative numerical inferiority. There are only about
+14,000,000 Jews in the world; they are about as numerous as the Koreans.
+This comparison of their numbers with the Koreans will illustrate still
+more vividly the phenomenon of their power.
+
+In the time of George Washington there were about 4,000 Jews in the
+country, most of them well-to-do traders. For the most part they favored
+the American side. Haym Salomon helped the Colonies out with the loan of
+his entire fortune at a critical moment. But they never assimilated,
+they did not take up the usual employments nor farming, they never
+seemed to care for the worry of manufacturing things, but only for the
+selling of them after they were made.
+
+It is only of recent years the Jew has shown any capacity for
+manufacturing, and most of what he now engages in has grown up as an
+adjunct to his merchandising plans. By manufacturing, he saves a profit.
+The result has not been a decrease in cost to the public, but an
+increase. It is characteristic of Jewish business methods that economies
+are for the sake of the business, not for the sake of the public. The
+commodities in which there have been the most inexcusable and exorbitant
+increases in prices to the public, and the lines of business which have
+been most quickly frightened into lower prices without any explanatory
+change in the general situation, have been those lines in which Jews
+exercise the widest control.
+
+Business to the Jewish mind is money; what the successful Jew may do
+with the money after he gets it is another matter, but in the getting of
+it he never permits "idealistic slush" to interfere with the dollar. His
+dollar of profit is never "clipped" by any of the voluntary reforms by
+which a few men are trying to ameliorate the condition of the workers.
+
+This is not by any means due to the hardness of the Jewish heart, but to
+the hardness of the Jewish view of business. Business is to it a matter
+of goods and money, not of people. If you are in distress and suffering,
+the Jewish heart would have sympathy for you; but if your house were
+involved in the matter, you and your house would be two separate
+entities; the Jew would naturally find it difficult, in his theory of
+business, to humanize the house; he would deal with it after a manner
+which other people would call "hard," but he would not feel the charge
+to be just; he would say that it was only "business."
+
+It is probably this way that the Jewish "sweatshops" of New York may be
+explained. When the susceptible people of the nation commiserated the
+poor Jews of the New York sweatshops, they for the most part did not
+know that the inventors and operators of the "sweatshop" method were
+themselves Jews. Indeed, while it is the boast of our country that no
+race or color or creed is persecuted here, but liberty is insured to
+all, still it is a fact which every special investigator has noted that
+the only heartless treatment ever accorded the Jew in the United States
+came from his own people, his overseers and masters. And yet there is no
+evidence that either the "sweater" or the "sweated" ever thought of it
+as inhumanity or as "heartless." It was "business." The "sweated" lived
+in the hope of having a roomful of people sewing for him or her some
+day. Their endlessly vital interest in "business" and their unflagging
+ambition to get further up the ladder and become masters in their own
+sweatshop, enabled them to work without the slightest sense of
+oppression or injustice which, after all, is the sorest thing about
+poverty. The Jews never regard work as a calamity, but neither do they
+regard subordinate positions as permanently theirs. Thus, they spend
+their energies in getting up and out rather than in lamenting the
+inconveniences of the place where they are and trying to improve it.
+
+All this is individually excellent but socially harmful. The result is
+that, until recently, the lower ranges of employment were wholly
+unsupervised, and the higher circles never felt the necessity of
+devising industrial reforms and benefits. The record of the great Jews
+in charity is very noble; their record in industrial reforms is nil.
+With commendable sympathy toward their own people, they will donate a
+part of their profits to rectify some of the human need resulting from
+the method by which they made their profits, but as for reforming the
+method by which they get their profits in order that the resulting need
+might be diminished or prevented, apparently it has never occurred to
+them. At least, while there are many charitable names among the
+wealthier Jews, there are no names that stand for an actual, practical
+humanizing of industry, its methods and its returns.
+
+This, of course, is unfortunate; but it is intelligible; more than that,
+it is explanatory of many things for which the Jew is blamed by those
+who do not understand his nature. The Jew will go part way in sharing
+the results of his prosperity; he has not gone any length, save upon
+outer compulsion, in sharing the processes, or sharing wealth in the
+making. And while the social effect is the same as if this were done out
+of cruel insensibility and inhumanity, still it must be said that mostly
+it is done not out of such feelings, but out of the Jew's ingrain
+conception of the game of business. Some proposals of industrial reform
+appear as crazy to him as would a proposal to credit one baseball
+batter's hit to his opponent's score, just as a matter of humanity.
+
+The American Jew does not assimilate. This is stated, not to blame him,
+but merely as a fact. The Jew could merge with the people of America if
+he desired, but he doesn't. If there is any prejudice existing against
+him in America, aside from the sense of inquiry which his colossal
+success engenders, it is because of his aloofness. The Jew is not
+objectionable in his person, creed, or race. His spiritual ideals are
+shared by the world. But still he does not assimilate; he cultivates by
+his exclusiveness the feeling that he does not "belong." This is his
+privilege, and from one point of view it may indicate excellent
+judgement, but he must not make it one of the grounds of his complaint
+against Gentiles in general, as he has a tendency to do. It is better
+that he should make it clear to Gentiles once and for all where true
+Jews stand in the matter, as when a young Jew said--"There is all the
+difference in the world between an American Jew and a Jewish American. A
+Jewish American is a mere amateur Gentile, doomed to be a parasite
+forever."
+
+The ghetto is not an American product but the Jews' own importation.
+They have separated themselves into a distinct community. Speaking of
+this matter the Jewish Encyclopedia says: "The social organization of
+the Jews resident in America has differed little from that in other
+countries * * * in the main, and without any compulsion, Jews preferred
+to live in close proximity to one another, a peculiarity which still
+prevails."
+
+To make a list of the lines of business controlled by the Jews of the
+United States would be to touch most of the vital industries of the
+country--those which are really vital, and those which cultivated habit
+has made to seem vital. The theatrical business, of course, as everyone
+knows, is exclusively Jewish. Play-producing, booking, theater operation
+are all in the hands of Jews. This perhaps accounts for the fact that in
+almost every production today can be detected propaganda, sometimes
+glaringly commercial advertisement, which does not originate with
+playwrights, but with producers.
+
+The motion picture industry.
+
+The sugar industry.
+
+The tobacco industry.
+
+Fifty per cent or more of the meat packing industry.
+
+Upward of 60 per cent of the shoemaking industry.
+
+Men's and women's ready-made clothing.
+
+Most of the musical purveying done in the country.
+
+Jewelry.
+
+Grain.
+
+More recently, cotton.
+
+The Colorado smelting industry.
+
+Magazine authorship.
+
+News distribution.
+
+The liquor business.
+
+The loan business.
+
+These, only to name the industries with national and international
+sweep, are in control of the Jews of the United States, either alone or
+in association with Jews overseas.
+
+The American people would be vastly surprised if they could see a
+line-up of some of the "American business men" who hold up our
+commercial prestige overseas. They are mostly Jews. They have a keen
+sense of the value of the American name, and when in a foreign port you
+stroll up to the office which bears the sign, "American Importing
+Company," or "American Commercial Company," or other similarly
+non-committal names, hoping to find a countryman, an American, you
+usually find a Jew whose sojourn in America appears to have been all too
+brief. This may throw a sidelight on the regard in which "American
+business methods" are held in some parts of the world. When 30 or 40
+different races of people can carry on business under the name
+"American," and do it legally, too, it is not surprising that Americans
+do not recognize some of the descriptions of American methods which
+appear in the foreign press. The Germans long ago complained that the
+rest of the world was judging them by the German-speaking Jewish
+commercial traveler.
+
+Instances of Jewish prosperity in the United States are commonplace, but
+prosperity, the just reward of foresight and application, is not to be
+confounded with control. The prosperity of the Jews can be had by anyone
+who is willing to pay the price which the Jews pay for it--a very, very
+high price, as a rule, all things considered--but it would be impossible
+for any Gentile coalition under similar circumstances to attain the
+control which the Jews have won, for the reason that there is lacking in
+the Gentile a certain quality of working-togetherness, a certain
+conspiracy of objective, and the adhesiveness of intense raciality,
+which characterizes the Jew. It is nothing to a Gentile that another man
+is a Gentile; it is next to everything to a Jew that the man at his door
+is another Jew. So, if instances of Jewish prosperity were needed, the
+case of the Temple Emmanu-el, New York, might be cited, which in 1846
+could scarcely raise $1,520 for its budget, but in 1868, following the
+Civil War, raised $708,755 from the rental of 231 pews. And the rise of
+the Jewish clothing monopoly as one of the results of the same Civil War
+might be cited as an instance of prosperity plus national and
+international control.
+
+Indeed, it might be said that the Jew has succeeded in everything he has
+attempted in the United States, except farming. The explanation usually
+made in Jewish publications is that ordinary farming is far too simple
+to engage the Jew's intellect and therefore he is not enough interested
+in it to succeed, but that in dairy and cattle farming where the "brain"
+is more necessary he has made a success. Numerous attempts have been
+made in various parts of the United States to start Jewish farming
+colonies, but their story is a series of failures. Some have blamed the
+failures on the Jew's lack of knowledge of scientific farming, others on
+his distaste for manual labor, others on the lack of the speculative
+element in agriculture. In any case, he stands higher in the
+non-productive employments than in this basically productive one. Some
+students of the question state that the Jew never was a man of the land,
+but always a trader, for which assertion one of the proofs offered is
+the Jews' selection of Palestine as their country, that strip of land
+which formed a gateway between East and West and over which the overland
+traffic of the world passed.
+
+[Issue of June 5, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"The Jewish Question still exists. It would be useless to deny it . . .
+. The Jewish Question exists wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers.
+Where it does not exist, it is carried by Jews in the course of their
+migrations. We naturally move to those places where we are not
+persecuted, and there our presence produces persecution . . . . The
+unfortunate Jews are now carrying anti-Semitism into England; they have
+already introduced it into America."
+
+--Theodore Herzl, "A Jewish State," p. 4.
+
+IV.
+
+The Jewish Question--Fact or Fancy?
+
+
+The chief difficulty in writing about the Jewish Question is the
+supersensitiveness of Jews and non-Jews concerning the whole matter.
+There is a vague feeling that even to openly use the word "Jew," or to
+expose it nakedly to print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like
+"Hebrew" and "Semite," both of which are subject to the criticism of
+inaccuracy, are timidly essayed, and people pick their way gingerly as
+if the whole subject were forbidden, until some courageous Jewish
+thinker comes straight out with the good old word "Jew," and then the
+constraint is relieved and the air cleared. The word "Jew" is not an
+epithet; it is a name, ancient and honorable, with significance for
+every period of human history, past, present and to come.
+
+There is extreme sensitiveness about the public discussion of the Jewish
+Question on the part of Gentiles. They would prefer to keep it in the
+hazy borderlands of their thought, shrouded in silence. Their heritage
+of tolerance has something to do with their attitude, but perhaps their
+instinctive sense of the difficulty involved has more to do with it. The
+principal public Gentile pronouncements upon the Jewish Question are in
+the manner of the truckling politician or the pleasant after-dinner
+speaker; the great Jewish names in philosophy, medicine, literature,
+music and finance are named over, the energy, ability and thrift of the
+race are dwelt upon, and everyone goes home feeling that a difficult
+place has been rather neatly negotiated. But nothing is changed thereby.
+The Jew is not changed. The Gentile is not changed. The Jew still
+remains the enigma of the world.
+
+Gentile sensitiveness on this point is best expressed by the desire for
+silence--"Why discuss it at all?" is the attitude. Such an attitude is
+itself a proof that there is a problem which we would evade if we could.
+"Why discuss it at all?"--the keen thinker clearly sees in the
+implications of such a question, the existence of a problem whose
+discussion or suppression will not always be within the choice of
+easy-going minds.
+
+Is there a Jewish Question in Russia? Unquestionably, in its most
+virulent form. Is it necessary to meet that Question in Russia?
+Undoubtedly, meet it from every angle along which light and healing may
+come.
+
+Well, the percentage of the Jewish population of Russia is just one per
+cent more than it is in the United States. The majority of the Jews
+themselves are not less well-behaved in Russia than they are here; they
+lived under restrictions which do not exist here; yet in Russia their
+genius has enabled them to attain a degree of power which has completely
+baffled the Russian mind. Whether you go to Rumania, Russia, Austria or
+Germany, or anywhere else that the Jewish Question has come to the
+forefront as a vital issue, you will discover that the principal cause
+is the outworking of the Jewish genius to achieve the power of control.
+
+Here in the United States it is the fact of this remarkable minority--a
+sparse Jewish ingredient of three per cent in a nation of
+110,000,000--attaining in 50 years a degree of control that would be
+impossible to a ten times larger group of any other race, that creates
+the Jewish Question here. Three per cent of any other people would
+scarcely occasion comment, because we could not meet with a
+representative of them wherever we went in high places--in the innermost
+secrecy of the councils of the Big Four at Versailles; in the supreme
+court; in the councils of the White House; in the vast dispositions of
+world finance--wherever there is power to get or use. Yet we meet the
+Jew everywhere in the upper circles, literally everywhere there is
+power. He has the brains, the initiative, the penetrative vision which
+almost automatically project him to the top, and as a consequence he is
+more marked than any other race.
+
+And that is where the Jewish Question begins. It begins in very simple
+terms--How does the Jew so habitually and so resistlessly gravitate to
+the highest places? What puts him there? Why is he put there? What does
+he do there? What does the fact of his being there mean to the world?
+
+That is the Jewish Question in its origin. From these points it goes on
+to others, and whether the trend becomes pro-Jewish or anti-Semitic
+depends on the amount of prejudice brought to the inquiry, and whether
+it becomes pro-Humanity depends on the amount of insight and
+intelligence.
+
+The use of the word Humanity in connection with the word Jew usually
+throws a side-meaning which may not be intended. In this connection it
+is usually understood that the humanity ought to be shown toward the
+Jew. There is just as great an obligation upon the Jew to show his
+humanity toward the whole race. The Jew has been too long accustomed to
+think of himself as exclusively the claimant on the humanitarianism of
+society; society has a large claim against him that he cease his
+exclusiveness, that he cease exploiting the world, that he cease making
+Jewish groups the end and all of his gains, and that he begin to
+fulfill, in a sense his exclusiveness has never yet enabled him to
+fulfill, the ancient prophecy that through him all the nations of the
+earth should be blessed.
+
+The Jew cannot go on forever filling the role of suppliant for the
+world's humanitarianism; he must himself show that quality to a society
+which seriously suspects his higher and more powerful groups of
+exploiting it with a pitiless rapacity which in its wide-flung and long
+drawn-out distress may be described as an economic pogrom against a
+rather helpless humanity. For it is true that society is as helpless
+before the well-organized extortions of certain financial groups, as
+huddled groups of Russian Jews were helpless against the anti-Semitic
+mob. And as in Russia, so in America, it is the poor Jew who suffers for
+the delinquencies of the rich exploiter of his race.
+
+This series of articles is already being met by an organized barrage by
+mail and wire and voice, every single item of which carries the wail of
+persecution. One would think that a heartless and horrible attack were
+being made on a most pitiable and helpless people--until one looks at
+the letterheads of the magnates who write, and at the financial ratings
+of those who protest, and at the membership of the organizations whose
+responsible heads hysterically demand retraction. And always in the
+background there is the threat of boycott, a threat which has
+practically sealed up the columns of every publication in America
+against even the mildest discussion of the Jewish Question.
+
+The Jewish Question in America cannot be concealed forever by threats
+against publications, nor by the propagandist publication of matter
+extremely and invariably favorable to everything Jewish. It is here and
+it cannot be twisted into something else by the adroit use of
+propaganda, nor can it be forever silenced by threats. The Jews of the
+United States can best serve themselves and their fellow-Jews all over
+the world by letting drop their far too ready cry of "anti-Semitism," by
+adopting a franker tone than that which befits a helpless victim, and by
+seeing what the Jewish Question is and how it behooves every Jew who
+loves his people to help solve it.
+
+There has been used in this series the term "International Jew." It is
+susceptible of two interpretations: one, the Jew wherever he may be; the
+other, the Jew who exercises international control. The real contention
+of the world is with the latter and his satellites, whether Jew or
+Gentile.
+
+Now, this international type of Jew, this grasper after world-control,
+this actual possessor and wielder of world-control is a very unfortunate
+connection for his race to have. The most unfortunate thing about the
+international Jew, from the standpoint of the ordinary Jew, is that the
+international type is also a Jew. And the significance of this is that
+the type does not grow anywhere else than on a Jewish stem. There is no
+other racial nor national type which puts forth this kind of person. It
+is not merely that there are a few Jews among international financial
+controllers; it is that these world controllers are exclusively Jews.
+That is the phenomenon which creates an unfortunate situation for those
+Jews who are not and never shall be world-controllers, who are the plain
+people of the Jewish race. If world-control were mixed, like the
+control, say, of the biscuit business, then the occasional Jews we might
+find in those higher financial altitudes would not constitute the
+problem at all; the problem would then be limited to the existence of
+world-control in the hands of a few men, of whatever race or lineage
+they might be. But since world-control is an ambition which has only
+been achieved by Jews, and not by any of the methods usually adopted by
+would-be world conquerors, it becomes inevitable that the question
+should center in that remarkable race.
+
+This brings another difficulty: in discussing this group of
+world-controllers under the name of Jews (and they are Jews), it is not
+always possible to stop and distinguish the group of Jews that is meant.
+The candid reader can usually determine that, but the Jew who is in a
+state of mind to be injured is sometimes pained by reading as a charge
+against himself what was intended for the upper group. "Then why not
+discuss the upper group as financiers and not as Jews?" may be asked.
+Because they are Jews. It is not to the point to insist that in any list
+of rich men there are more Gentiles than Jews; we are not talking about
+merely rich men who have, many of them, gained their riches by serving a
+System, we are talking about those who Control--and it is perfectly
+apparent that merely to be rich is not to control. The world-controlling
+Jew has riches, but he also has something much more powerful than that.
+
+The international Jew, as already defined, rules not because he is rich,
+but because in a most marked degree he possesses the commercial and
+masterful genius of his race, and avails himself of a racial loyalty and
+solidarity the like of which exists in no other human group. In other
+words, transfer today the world-control of the international Jew to the
+hands of the highest commercially talented group of Gentiles, and the
+whole fabric of world-control would eventually fall to pieces, because
+the Gentile lacks a certain quality, be it human or divine, be it
+natural or acquired, that the Jew possesses.
+
+This, of course, the modern Jew denies. There is a new position taken by
+the modernists among the Jews which constitutes a denial that the Jew
+differs from any other man except in the matter of religion. "Jew" they
+say is not a racial designation, but a religious designation like
+"Episcopalian," "Catholic," "Presbyterian." This is the argument used in
+newspaper offices in the Jews' protests against giving the Jewish
+designation to those of their people who are implicated in crime--"You
+don't give the religious classification of other people who are
+arrested," the editor is told, "why should you do it with Jews?" The
+appeal to religious tolerance always wins, and is sometimes useful in
+diverting attention from other things.
+
+Well, if the Jews are only religiously differentiated from the rest of
+the world, the phenomenon grows stranger still. For the rest of the
+world is interested less in the Jew's religion than in anything else
+that concerns him. There is really nothing in his religion to
+differentiate the Jew from the rest of mankind, as far as the moral
+content of that religion is concerned, and if there were he would have
+overcome that by the fact that his Jewish religion supplies the moral
+structure for both of the other great religions. Moreover, it is stated
+that there are among English speaking nations 2,000,000 Jews who
+acknowledge their race and not their religion, while 1,000,000 are
+classed as agnostic--are these any less Jews than the others? The world
+does not think so. The authoritative students of human differences do
+not think so. An Irishman who grows indifferent to the Church is still
+an Irishman, and it would seem to be equally true that a Jew who grows
+indifferent to the Synagogue is still a Jew. He at least feels that he
+is, and so does the non-Jew.
+
+A still more serious challenge would arise if this contention of the
+modernists were true, for it would necessitate the explanation of these
+world-controlling Jews by their religion. We should have to say, "They
+excel through their religion," and then the problem would turn on the
+religion whose practice should bring such power and prosperity to its
+devotees. But another fact would intervene, namely, that these
+world-controlling Jews are not notably religious; and still another fact
+would hammer for recognition, namely, the most devout believers and most
+obedient followers of the Jewish religion are the poorest among the
+Jews. If you want Jewish orthodoxy, the bracing morality of the Old
+Testament, you will find it, not among the successful Jews, who have
+Unitarianized their religion to the same extent that the Unitarians have
+Judaized their Christianity, but among the poor in the side streets who
+still sacrifice the Saturday business for their Sabbath keeping.
+Certainly their religion has not given them world-control; instead, they
+have made their own sacrifices to keep it inviolate against modernism.
+
+Of course, if the Jew differs from the rest of mankind only when he is
+in full accord with his religion, the question becomes very simple. Any
+criticism of the Jew becomes sheer religious bigotry and nothing else!
+And that would be intolerable. But it would be the consensus of
+thoughtful opinion that the Jew differs less in his religion than in
+anything else. There is more difference between the two great branches
+of Christianity, more conscious difference, than between any branch of
+Christianity and Judaism.
+
+So that, the contention of certain modernists notwithstanding, the world
+will go on thinking of the Jew as a member of a race, a race whose
+persistence has defeated the utmost efforts made for its extermination,
+a race that has preserved itself in virility and power by the observance
+of those natural laws the violation of which has mongrelized so many
+nations, a race which has come up out of the past with the two great
+moral values which may be reckoned on monotheism and monogamy, a race
+which today is before us as the visible sign of an antiquity to which
+all our spiritual wealth harks back. Nay, the Jew will go on thinking of
+himself as the member of a people, a nation, a race. And all the mixture
+and intermixture of thought or faith or custom cannot make it otherwise.
+A Jew is a Jew and as long as he remains within his perfectly
+unassailable traditions, he will remain a Jew. And he will always have
+the right to feel that to be a Jew is to belong to a superior race.
+
+These world-controlling Jews at the top of affairs, then, are there by
+virtue of, among other things, certain qualities which are inherent in
+their Jewish natures. Every Jew has these qualities even if not in the
+supreme sense, just as every Englishman has Shakespeare's tongue but not
+in Shakespeare's degree. And thus it is impracticable, if not
+impossible, to consider the international Jew without laying the
+foundations broadly upon Jewish character and psychology.
+
+We may discount at once the too common libel that this greater form of
+Jewish success is built upon dishonesty. It is impossible to indict the
+Jewish people or any other people on a wholesale charge. No one knows
+better than the Jew how widespread is the notion that Jewish methods of
+business are all unscrupulous. There is no doubt a possibility of a
+great deal of unscrupulousness existing without actual legal dishonesty,
+but it is altogether possible that the reputation the Jewish people have
+long borne in this respect may have had other sources than actual and
+persistent dishonesty.
+
+We may indicate one of these possible sources. The Jew at a trade is
+naturally quicker than most other men. They say there are other races
+which are as nimble at a trade as is the Jew, but the Jew does not live
+much among them. In this connection one may remember the famous joke
+about the Jew who went to Scotland.
+
+Now, it is human nature for the slower man to believe that the quicker
+man is too deft by far, and to become suspicious of his deftness.
+Everybody suspects the "sharper" even though his sharpness be entirely
+honest. The slower mind is likely to conceive that the man who sees so
+many legitimate twists and turns to a trade, may also see and use a
+convenient number of illegitimate twists and turns. Moreover, there is
+always the ready suspicion that the one who gets "the best of the
+bargain" gets it by trickery which is not above board. Slow, honest,
+plain-spoken and straight-dealing people always have their doubts of the
+man who gets the better of it.
+
+The Jews, as the records for centuries show, were a keen people in
+trade. They were so keen that many regarded them as crooked. And so the
+Jew became disliked for business reasons, not all of which were
+creditable to the intelligence or initiative of his enemies.
+
+Take for example, the persecution which Jew merchants once suffered in
+England. In older England the merchant class had many easy-going
+traditions. One tradition was that a respectable tradesman would never
+seek business but wait for it to come to him. Another tradition was that
+to decorate one's store window with lights or colors, or to display
+one's stock of goods attractively in the view of the public, was a
+contemptible and underhanded method of tempting a brother tradesman's
+customers away from him. Still another tradition was that it was
+strictly unethical and unbusinesslike to handle more than one line of
+goods. If one sold tea, it was the best reason in the world why he
+should not sell teaspoons. As for advertising, the thing would have been
+so brazen and bold that public opinion would have put the advertiser out
+of business. The proper demeanor for a merchant was to seem reluctant to
+part with his goods.
+
+One may readily imagine what happened when the Jewish merchant bustled
+into the midst of this jungle of traditions. He simply broke them all.
+In those days tradition had all the force of a divinely promulgated
+moral law and in consequence of his initiative the Jew was regarded as a
+great offender. A man who would break those trade traditions would stop
+at nothing! The Jew was anxious to sell. If he could not sell one
+article to a customer, he had another on hand to offer him. The Jews'
+stores became bazaars, forerunners of our modern department stores, and
+the old English custom of one store for one line of goods was broken up.
+The Jew went after trade, pursued it, persuaded it. He was the
+originator of "a quick turnover and small profits." He originated the
+installment plan. The one state of affairs he could not endure was
+business at a standstill, and to start it moving he would do anything.
+He was the first advertiser--in a day when even to announce in the
+public prints the location of your store was to intimate to the public
+that you were in financial difficulties, were about to go to the wall
+and were trying the last desperate expedient to which no self-respecting
+merchant would stoop.
+
+It was as easy as child's play to connect this energy with dishonesty.
+The Jew was not playing the game, at least so the staid English merchant
+thought. As a matter of fact he was playing the game to get it all in
+his own hands--which he has practically done.
+
+The Jew has shown that same ability ever since. His power of analyzing
+the money currents amounts to an instinct. His establishment in one
+country represented another base from which the members of his race
+could operate. Whether by the natural outworking of innate gifts, or the
+deliberate plan of race unity and loyalty, all Jewish trading
+communities had relations, and as those trading communities increased in
+wealth, prestige and power, as they formed relations with governments
+and great interests in the countries where they operated, they simply
+put more power into the central community wherever it might be located,
+now in Spain, now in Holland, now in England. Whether by intention or
+not, they became more closely allied than the branches of one business
+could be, because the cement of racial unity, the bond of racial
+brotherhood cannot in the very nature of things exist among the Gentiles
+as it exists among the Jews. Gentiles never think of themselves as
+Gentiles, and never feel that they owe anything to another Gentile as
+such. Thus they have been convenient agents of Jewish schemes at times
+and in places when it was not expedient that the Jewish controllers
+should be publicly known; but they have never been successful
+competitors of the Jew in the field of world-control.
+
+From these separated Jewish communities went power to the central
+community where the master bankers and the master analysts of conditions
+lived. And back from the central community flowed information of an
+invaluable character and assistance wherever needed. It is not difficult
+to understand how, under such a condition, the nation that did not deal
+kindly with the Jews was made to suffer, and the nation that yielded to
+them their fullest desire was favored by them. And it is credibly stated
+that they have made certain nations feel the power of their displeasure.
+
+This system, if it ever existed, exists in greater power today. It is
+today, however, threatened as it has never been. Fifty years ago,
+international banking, which was mostly in control of the Jews as the
+money brokers of the world, was on top of business. It exercised the
+supercontrol of governments and finance everywhere. Then came that new
+thing, Industry, which expanded to a degree unguessed by the shrewdest
+prophets and analysts. As Industry gathered strength and power it became
+a powerful money magnet, drawing the wealth of the world in its train,
+not, however, merely for the sake of possessing the money, but of making
+it work. Production and profit on production, instead of loans and
+interest on loans, became the master method for a time. The war came, in
+which the former broker-masters of the world had undoubtedly their large
+part. And now the two forces, Industry and Finance, are in a struggle to
+see whether Finance is again to become the master, or creative Industry.
+This is one of the elements which is bringing the Jewish Question to the
+bar of public opinion.
+
+To state this and to prove it may be nothing more than to establish the
+superiority of Jewish ability. Certainly it is not a tenable position to
+say that the Jew is extraordinarily successful and therefore must be
+curbed. It would be equally aside from the truth to say that the
+co-ordination of Jewish activity has been, on the whole, a harmful thing
+for the world. It may be possible to show that up to this point it has
+been useful. Success cannot be attacked nor condemned. If any moral
+question arises at all, it must concern the use made of the success
+which has been attained. The whole matter centers there, after the
+previous fact is established. May the Jew go on as he has gone, or does
+his duty to the world require another use of his success?
+
+This inquiry obviously leads to further discussion, as well as a
+gathering up of the remaining threads of the present discussion, which
+future articles will attempt to do.
+
+[Issue of June 12, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"To this end we must organize. Organize, in the first place, so that the
+world may have proof of the extent and the intensity of our desire for
+liberty. Organize, in the second place, so that our resources may become
+known and be made available . . . .
+
+"Organize, organize, organize, until every Jew must stand up and be
+counted--counted with us, or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of
+the few who are against their own people."
+
+--Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
+"Zionism," pp. 113, 114.
+
+V.
+
+Anti-Semitism--Will It Appear in the U. S.?
+
+
+Anyone who essays to discuss the Jewish Question in the United States or
+anywhere else must be fully prepared to be regarded as an Anti-Semite,
+in high-brow language, or in low-brow language, a Jew-baiter. Nor need
+encouragement be looked for from people or from press. The people who
+are awake to the subject at all prefer to wait and see how it all turns
+out; while there is probably not a newspaper in America, and certainly
+none of the advertising mediums which are called magazines, which would
+have the temerity even to breathe seriously the fact that such a
+Question exists. The press in general is open at this time to fulsome
+editorials in favor of everything Jewish (specimens of the same being
+obtainable almost anywhere), while the Jewish press, which is fairly
+numerous in the United States, takes care of the vituperative end.
+
+Of course, the only acceptable explanation of any public discussion at
+present of the Jewish Question is that some one--writer, or publisher,
+or a related interest--is a Jew-hater. That idea seems to be fixed; it
+is fixed in the Jew by inheritance; it is sought to be fixed in the
+Gentile by propaganda, that any writing which does not simply cloy and
+drip in syrupy sweetness toward things Jewish is born of prejudice and
+hatred. It is, therefore, full of lies, insult, insinuation, and
+constitutes an instigation to massacre. These terms are culled at random
+from Jewish editorial utterances at hand.
+
+It would seem to be necessary for our Jewish citizens to enlarge their
+classification of Gentiles to include the class which recognizes the
+existence of a Jewish Question and still is not anti-Semitic.
+
+There are four distinct parties traceable among the Jews themselves.
+First, those whose passionate purpose is to keep Jewish faith and life
+alive at the cost of any sacrifice of popularity or success; second,
+those who are willing to make whatever sacrifice may be needed to
+preserve Jewish religion, but are not so particular about the
+traditional customs of Jewish life; third, those who have no very strong
+convictions either way, but are opportunists, and will always swerve in
+the direction of success; and, fourth, those who believe and preach that
+the only solution of the differences between the Jew and other men is
+the complete absorption of the Jewish race by the other races. The
+fourth is the weakest, most unpopular and least to be considered of all
+the parties.
+
+With the Gentiles there are only two classes, as far as this special
+question is concerned: those who dislike Jews, they cannot tell why; and
+those who are disposed to fairness, in spite of the accident of
+congeniality or uncongeniality, and who recognize the Jewish Question
+as, at least, a problem. Both these attitudes, whenever they become
+apparent, are subject to the charge of "anti-Semitism."
+
+Anti-Semitism is a term which is bandied about too loosely. It ought to
+be reserved to denote the real anti-Jewish temper of violent prejudice.
+If used indiscriminately about all who attempt to discuss Jewish
+characteristics and Jewish world-power, it may in time arrive at the
+estate of respectability and honor.
+
+Anti-Semitism in almost every form is bound to come to the United
+States; indeed, it may be said that it is here now, and has been here
+for a long time. If it be mislabeled now, the United States will not be
+able to work within it the transformation which has been effected upon
+so many other ideas that have arrived here in their journey round the
+globe.
+
+
+I.
+
+It may be a serviceable clearing of the ground to define what
+anti-Semitism is not:
+
+1. It is not recognition of the Jewish Question. If it were, then it
+could be set down that the bulk of the American people are destined to
+become anti-Semites, for they are beginning to recognize the existence
+of a Jewish Question and will steadily do so in increasing numbers as
+the Question is forced upon them from the various practical angles of
+their lives. The Question is here. We may be honestly blind to it. We
+may be timidly silent about it. We may even make dishonest denial of it.
+But it is here. In time all will have to recognize it. In time the
+polite "hush, hush" of over-sensitive or intimidated circles will not be
+powerful enough to suppress it. But to recognize it will not mean that
+we have gone over to a campaign of hatred and enmity against the Jews.
+It will only mean that a stream of tendency which has been flowing
+through our civilization has at last accumulated bulk and power enough
+to challenge attention, to call for some decision with regard to it, to
+call for the adoption of a policy which will not repeat the mistakes of
+the past and yet will forestall any possible social menace of the
+future.
+
+2. Again, the public discussion of the Jewish Question is not
+anti-Semitism. Publicity is sanitary. The publicity given the Jewish
+Question, or certain aspects of it, in this country has been very
+misleading. It has been discussed more fully in the Jewish press than
+elsewhere, but not with candor or breadth of vision. The two dominant
+notes--they are sounded over and over again with monotonous regularity
+in the Jewish press--are Gentile unfairness and Christian prejudice.
+These apparently are the two chief aspects of life which impress Jewish
+publicists when they look over the line of their own race. It is said in
+all soberness that it is fortunate for Jews generally that the Jewish
+press does not circulate very widely among Gentiles, for it is probably
+the one established agency in the United States which, without altering
+its program in the least, could stir up anti-Jewish sentiment by the
+simple expedient of a general reading among non-Jews. Jewish writers
+writing for Jewish readers present unusual material for the study of
+race consciousness and its accompaniment of contempt for other races. It
+is true that in the publications referred to, America is constantly
+praised, but not America as the land of the American people; America,
+rather, as the land of the Jews' opportunity.
+
+On the side of the daily press, there has been no serious discussion at
+all. This is neither surprising nor reprehensible. The daily press deals
+with matters that have reached the overheated stage. When it mentions
+the Jews at all, it has stock phrases for the purpose; the effort
+includes a list of the famous Jews of history, and usually closes with
+complimentary references to certain local Jews of commendable qualities,
+whose advertisements are not infrequently found in another part of the
+paper. Summing up, it may be said that the publicity given the question
+in this country consists in misrepresentative criticism of the Gentiles
+by the Jewish press and misrepresentative praise of the Jews by the
+non-Jewish press. An independent effort to give a constructive publicity
+cannot, therefore, be laid to anti-Semitism, even when some of the
+statements which are made in the course of it arouse the resentment of
+Jewish readers.
+
+3. Nor is it anti-Semitism to say that the suspicion is abroad in every
+capital of civilization and the certainty is held by a number of
+important men that there is active in the world a plan to control the
+world, not by territorial acquisition, not by military aggression, nor
+by governmental subjection, not even by economic control in the
+scientific sense, but by control of the machinery of commerce and
+exchange. It is not anti-Semitism to say that, nor to present the
+evidence which supports that, nor to bring the proof of that. Those who
+could best disprove it if it were not true are the international Jews
+themselves, but they have not disproved it. Those who could best prove
+it would be those Jews whose ideals include the good of the whole of
+humanity on an equality and not the good of one race only, but they have
+not proved it. Some day a prophetic Jew may arise who will see that the
+promises bestowed upon the Ancient People are not to be fulfilled by
+Rothschild methods, and that the promise that all the nations were to be
+blessed through Israel is not to be fulfilled by making the nations the
+economic vassals of Israel; and when that time comes we may hope for a
+redirection of Jewish energy into channels that will drain the present
+sources of the Jewish Question. In the meantime, it is not
+anti-Semitism, it may even be found to be a world service to the Jew, to
+throw light on what purpose motivates certain higher circles.
+
+If the above propositions are true, then the term "anti-Semitic," so
+freely bestowed on this series of articles, betrays a worse spirit in
+the critics than in the author. But enough of that. There is much yet to
+do, and what is done must stand on what merit remains after friend and
+foe alike are through with praise and blame.
+
+
+II.
+
+Anti-Semitism has unquestionably swayed large sections of humanity at
+various times, warping the vision, twisting the characters and staining
+the hands of its victims, but the most amazing statement that can be
+made of it is that it has never accomplished anything in behalf of those
+who used it, and it has never taught anything to the Jews against whom
+it was used.
+
+The grades of anti-Semitism are fairly numerous, and a few of them may
+be cited here:
+
+1. There is first that degree of anti-Semitism, if it may be so
+described, which consists in plain dislike of the Jew as a person, no
+matter whom he may be. This is often found in people of all grades. It
+is found mostly, however, in those whose contact with Jews has been very
+limited. It begins sometimes in childhood with an instinctive dislike
+for the word "Jew." It is encouraged by the misuse of the word "Jew" as
+an epithet, or as an adjective generally descriptive of unpopular
+practices. The feeling is not different from that which exists toward
+Gentiles, concerning whom the same notions are held, but it differs in
+that it is extended to the race of unknown individual Jews instead of
+being restricted to known individuals who may justify such a feeling.
+
+Congeniality is not within our choice, but control of the sentiment of
+uncongeniality is. Every fair-minded person is compelled at times to
+reflect that it is not impossible that the person for whom he feels a
+dislike may be as good and possibly a better person than he. Our dislike
+merely registers the result of attraction and repulsion as they operate
+between another person and oneself; it does not indicate that the
+disliked person is unworthy. Of course, wherever intelligence is joined
+with this instinctive withdrawal from social contact with members of the
+Jewish race, prejudice is forestalled, except, of course, in those
+persons who hold that there are no individuals among the Jews worthy of
+respect. This is an extreme attitude and is composed of other elements
+beside natural dislike. It is possible for people to dislike Jews and
+not be anti-Semitic. Indeed, it is not at all uncommon, it grows more
+and more common, that intelligent and refined Jews themselves do not
+relish the society of their own people except in cases of exceptional
+refinement.
+
+This reality calls for some comment on the manners and characteristics
+of the ordinary member of the Jewish race, the accidents of behavior
+which stand out most obnoxiously and of which Jews themselves are often
+the most unsparing critics, but these comments must fall into place
+later.
+
+2. A second stage of the spirit of anti-Semitism may be designated as
+hatred and enmity. It should be noted that the antipathy referred to
+immediately above was not hatred. Dislike is not hatred, nor is it
+necessarily enmity. One may dislike sugar in his tea without troubling
+to hate sugar. But undoubtedly there are people who because they have
+let their dislikes deepen into prejudice, and perhaps also because of
+unpleasant experiences with members of the Jewish race (probably a
+million Americans have been brought to the verge of becoming Jew-haters
+this winter because of contact with Jewish merchants and landlords) may
+be classified as, at least, incipient anti-Semites. This is most of all
+unfortunate for the persons who harbor these emotions. It is unfortunate
+in that it unfits the mind to consider intelligently the facts which
+constitute the Jewish Question, and also unfits it to deal with them in
+a fair and constructive way. For one's own sake, whatever the
+provocation otherwise, it is better not to let passion deflect the
+needle of one's mind. Hatred at the wheel means hazard on the course.
+Enmity lives in the vicinity of the Jews more than of any other race,
+and the reason for this is one of the puzzles of the ages. The Jewish
+nature itself, as shown in ancient and modern history, is not without
+its own share of enmity, and it either evokes or provokes enmity where
+it comes in contact with those Aryan races which follow their natural
+impulses unchecked by cultural and ethical influences. This age-long
+conflict of the Jew has puzzled the minds of students for generations.
+Some explain it Biblically as the curse of Jehovah upon His Chosen
+People for their disobedience to the discipline by which He would have
+made them the Prophet Nation of the world. If this offense must come, if
+it is part of the Jew's heritage, an old saying--Christian and
+Scriptural, by the way--would still remain true: "It must needs be that
+offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
+
+3. In some parts of the world at various times this feeling of hatred
+has broken into murderous violence, which has roused, as wholesale
+physical outrage always does, the horror and resentment of humanity.
+This is the extreme form in which anti-Semitism has exhibited itself,
+and it is the charge of intending to stimulate it here and elsewhere
+which every public discussion of the Jewish Question has to bear. There
+is, of course, no excuse for these outbreaks, but there is sufficient
+explanation of them. The Jews usually explain them as expressions of
+religious prejudice, and the Gentiles as rebellion against an economic
+yoke which the Jews have woven for the people. It is an astonishing fact
+that, to take one country, the parts of Russia where anti-Semitic
+violence has been most marked are the most prosperous parts, so
+prosperous indeed and with a prosperity so unquestionably due to Jewish
+enterprise that the Jews have openly declared that they have the power
+to throw those parts of Russia back into commercial lethargy again by
+simply withdrawing. It is utterly idle to throw denials at this
+statement. It is confirmed time and time again by men who have gone to
+Russia full of resentment against the attitude of the Russians toward
+the Jews, as that attitude is represented in the Anglo-Saxon press, and
+who have come home with a new light on the cause of these outbreaks,
+though not excusing their character. Impartial observers have also found
+that some of the outbreaks have been precipitated by the Jews
+themselves. A correspondent, known the world over for his trenchant
+defense of the Jews under Russian persecution, was always bitterly
+attacked by the Jews themselves whenever he stated the truth about this,
+notwithstanding his protest to them that if he did not tell the truth
+when they were in the wrong the world would not be ready to believe him
+when he said they were blameless. To this day, in every country, the
+Jews are slow to admit blameworthiness for anything. They must be
+excused, whoever else may be accused. It is a trait which will have to
+be disciplined before they can be brought to assist, if ever they can,
+the removal of those characteristics which arouse the antagonism of
+other peoples. Elsewhere in the world, it may be said that out-and-out
+enmity to the Jews has an economic basis. This, of course, leads to the
+question whether the Jew shall have to become a deliberate failure, or
+deny his genius, and forego his just meed of prosperity before he can
+win the approval of the other races--a question which will arise for
+discussion later.
+
+As to the religious prejudice which the Jews are, as a rule, readiest to
+affirm, it is safe to say that it does not exist in the United States.
+Yet it is charged up to Americans by Jewish writers just as freely as it
+is charged up to Russians. Each non-Jew reader is competent to settle
+this for himself. He can easily do so by asking himself whether in all
+his life he has ever felt a moment's resentment against the Jew on
+account of his religion. In an address recently delivered in a Jewish
+lodge and reported in the Jewish press, the speaker, a Jew, stated that
+if 100 non-Jews on the street were approached at random and casually
+asked what a Jew is, the reply of the majority would be, "He is a
+Christ-killer." One of the best known and most highly respected rabbis
+in the United States said recently in a sermon that children in
+Christian Sunday schools were taught to regard the Jew as a
+Christ-killer. He repeated it in a conversation several weeks later.
+
+It would probably be the testimony of Christians generally that they
+never heard this term until they heard it in a Jewish complaint, and
+certainly themselves never used it. The charge is absurd. Let the
+20,000,000 now in the Christian Sunday schools of Canada and the United
+States testify as to the instruction given. There is no hesitation in
+stating that there is no prejudice whatever in the Christian churches
+against the Jew on account of his religion. On the contrary, there is
+not only a deep sense of indebtedness, but a feeling of sharing with the
+Jew in his religion. The Sunday schools of the Christian churches of the
+world are spending six months of this year studying the International
+Lessons which are appointed for the Books of the Judges, Ruth, First and
+Second Samuel and the Books of the Kings, and every year is devoted in
+part to the Old Testament.
+
+Here, however, is something for Jewish religious leaders to consider:
+there is more downright bitterness of religious prejudice on the part of
+the Jews against Christianity than could ever be possible in the
+Christian churches of America. Simply take the church press of America
+and compare it with the Jewish press in this regard, and there is no
+answer. No Christian editor would think it either Christian or
+intelligent to attack the Jewish religion, yet any six months' survey of
+the Jewish press would yield a mass of attack and prejudice on the other
+side. Moreover, no religious bitterness in America attains within
+infinite distances to that bitterness visited upon the Jew who becomes a
+Christian in his faith. It amounts almost to a holy vendetta. A
+Christian may become a Jewish proselyte and his motives be respected; it
+is never so when a Jew becomes a Christian. These statements are true of
+both the orthodox and liberal wings of Judaism. It is not his religion
+that gives prominence to the Jew today; it is something else. And yet,
+with undeviating monotony, it is repeated wherever the Jew takes
+cognizance of the feeling toward him that it is on account of three
+things, first and most prominent of which is his religion. It may be
+comforting to him to think that he is suffering for his faith, but it is
+not true. Every intelligent Jew must know it.
+
+Every Jew ought to know also that in every Christian church where the
+ancient prophecies are received and studied, there is a great revival of
+interest in the future of the Ancient People. It is not forgotten that
+certain Promises were made to them regarding their position in the
+world, and it is held that these prophecies will be fulfilled. The
+future of the Jew, as prophetically outlined, is intimately bound up
+with the future of this planet, and the Christian church in large
+part--at least by the evangelical wing, which the Jews most
+condemn--sees a Restoration of the Chosen People yet to come. If the
+mass of the Jews knew how understandingly and sympathetically all the
+prophecies concerning them are being studied in the Church, and the
+faith that exists that these prophecies will find fulfillment and that
+they will result in great Jewish service to society at large, they would
+probably regard the Church with another mind. They would at least know
+that the Church does not believe that it will be the instrument in the
+conversion of the Jews--a point on which Jewish leaders are tragically
+misled and which evokes more bitterness than anything else--but that it
+depends on quite other instruments and conditions, which it is not the
+function of this article to point out except to say that it will be the
+Jews' very own Messiah which will accomplish it and not the "wild
+olive," or the Gentile.
+
+Curiously enough, there is a phase of anti-Semitism having to do with
+religion, but not in the way here discussed. There are those, very few
+in number and of atheistical tendencies, who assert that all religion is
+a sham, being the invention of Jews for the purpose of enslaving the
+minds of the people of the world to an enervating superstition. This
+position, however, has had no effect on the main issue. It is a far
+extreme.
+
+
+III.
+
+Now, which of these exhibitions of anti-Semitism will show itself in
+America? If certain tendencies continue, as they are certain to do, what
+form will the feeling toward the Jew take? Not that of mass violence, we
+may be sure. The only mass action visible now is that of the Jewish
+agencies themselves against any person or institution that dares bring
+the Jewish Question to public attention.
+
+1. Anti-Semitism will come to America because of the habit which
+emotions and ideas apparently have of making their way westward around
+the world. North of Palestine, where the Jews have been longest settled
+and where they are now in great numbers, anti-Semitism is acute and
+well-defined. Westward, in Germany, it is clearly defined but, until the
+seizure of German revolutionary agencies, was devoid of violence. Still
+farther westward, in Great Britain, it is defined, but because of the
+comparatively small number of Jews in the British Isles and their
+coalition with the ruling class, it is more a feeling than a movement.
+In the United States it is not so definite, but shows itself in a
+restlessness, a questioning, a sensible friction between the traditional
+tendency of the American to fair-mindedness and his respect for the cold
+facts.
+
+Because the Question will assume more and more pressure in America it
+behooves everyone of foresight to disregard the shortsighted protests of
+the Jews themselves and see to it that the Question shall not present
+itself among us as it has done among other people, in its most
+distressing and confusing forms. It is a public duty to seize this
+problem at its beginning and train it up, so to speak; that is, so
+prepare for it that it may be handled here in a manner which will form a
+model for all other countries, which will indeed supply all other
+countries with the essential materials for a permanent solution. And
+this can be done only by exposing and recognizing and treating with the
+serum of publicity the conditions before which, heretofore, the nations
+have helplessly floundered because they lacked either the desire or the
+means to get at the great root of the difficulty.
+
+2. Another cause of the Question appearing here will be the great influx
+of Jews which is planned for America. There will probably be a million
+Jews enter the country this year, increasing our Jewish population to
+nearly 4,500,000. This does not mean merely an immigration of persons,
+but an immigration of ideas. No Jewish writer has ever told us, in
+systematic fashion, just what is the Jews' idea of non-Jews, how they
+regard the Gentiles in their private minds. But there are indications of
+it, although one would not attempt to reconstruct the Jewish attitude
+toward Gentiles. A Jew ought to do this for us, but he would probably be
+cast out by his own people if he discharged his task with rigorous
+jealousy for the exact fact.
+
+These people are coming here regarding the Gentile as an hereditary
+enemy, as perhaps they have good ground for doing, and so believing they
+are going to model their behavior in a manner that will show it. Nor
+will these Jews be so helpless as they appear. In stricken Poland, where
+the Jews are represented as having been stripped of everything during
+the war, there are hundreds daily appearing before the consulate to
+arrange their passage here. The fact is significant. In spite of their
+reputed suffering and poverty, they are able to travel a great distance
+and to insist on coming. No other people are financially able to travel
+in such numbers. But the Jews are. It will readily be seen that they are
+not objects of charity. They have been able to keep afloat in a storm
+that has wrecked the other people. They know it and they joy in it, as
+is natural. And they will bring here the same thoughts toward the
+majority which they have harbored in their present lands of domicile.
+They may hail America; they will have their own thoughts about the
+majority of the American people. They may be in the lists as Russians or
+Poles or what not, but they will be Jews with the full Jewish
+consciousness, and they will make themselves felt.
+
+All this is bound to have its effect. And it is not race prejudice to
+prepare for it, and to invite American Jews themselves to consider the
+fact and contribute to the solution of the problem which it presents.
+
+3. Every idea which has ruled Europe has met with transformation when it
+was transplanted in America. It was so with the idea of Liberty, the
+idea of Government, the idea of War. It will be so with the idea of
+anti-Semitism. The whole problem will center here and if we are wise and
+do not shirk it, it will find its solution here. A recent Jewish writer
+has said: "Jewry today largely means American Jewry . . . . . . . . . .
+all former Jewish centers were demolished during the war and were
+shifted to America." The problem will be ours, whether we choose it or
+not.
+
+And what course will it take? Much depends on what can be accomplished
+before it becomes very strong. It may be said, however, that the first
+element to appear will be a show of resentment against certain Jewish
+commercial successes, more particularly against the united action by
+which they are attained. Our people see the spectacle of a people in the
+midst of a people, in a sense which the Mormons never were, and they
+will not like it. The Mormons made an Exodus; Israel is going back into
+Egypt to subjugate it.
+
+The second element which will undoubtedly appear is prejudice and its
+incitement. The majority may always be right, but they are not always
+initially reasonable. That prejudice which exists now, and which is
+freely admitted by both Jew and Gentile, may become more marked, to the
+distress of both parties, for neither the subject nor the object of
+prejudice can attain that freedom of mind which is happiness.
+
+Then we may most confidently look for a reaction of Justice. It is here
+that the whole matter will begin to bend to the genius of Americanism.
+The innate justice of the American mind has come to the aid of every
+object that ever roused American resentment. The natural reaction with
+us is of very brief duration; the intellectual and ethical reaction
+swiftly follows. The American mind will never rest with merely resenting
+certain individuals. It will probe deeper. Already this deeper probe has
+been begun in Great Britain and America. We characteristically do not
+stop with persons when principles are in sight.
+
+And upon this there will be an investigation of materials, part of which
+may yet be presented in this series and which may possibly be
+disregarded for a time, but which at a future date will be found to be
+the clue to the maze. Upon this, the root of all the trouble will be
+bared to the light, to die as all roots do when deprived of their
+concealment of darkness, and then the Jewish people themselves may be
+expected to begin an adjustment to the new order of things, not to lose
+their identity or to curtail their energy or to dim their brilliance,
+but to turn all into more worthy channels for the benefit of all races,
+which alone can justify their claim to superiority. A race that can
+achieve in the material realm what the Jews have achieved while
+asserting themselves to be spiritually superior, can achieve in a less
+sordid, a less society-defying realm also.
+
+The Jews will not be destroyed; neither will they be permitted to
+maintain the yoke which they have been so skillful in fastening upon
+society. They are the beneficiaries of a system which itself will change
+and force them to other and higher devices to justify their proper place
+in the world.
+
+[Issue of June 19, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan already approaching its triumphal
+goal by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion which
+has in reality been organized by us with the help of the so-called
+'great power' of the Press. With few exceptions, not worth considering,
+it has already fallen into our hands."
+
+--The Seventh Protocol.
+
+VI.
+
+Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
+
+
+Once upon a time an American faculty member of an American university
+went to Russia on business. He was expert in a very important department
+of applied science and a keen observer. He entered Russia with the
+average American's feeling about the treatment which the government of
+that people accorded the Jew. He lived there three years, came home for
+a year, and went back again for a similar period, and upon his second
+return to America he thought it was time to give the American public
+accurate information about the Jewish Question in Russia. He prepared a
+most careful article and sent it to the editor of a magazine of the
+first class in the Eastern United States. The editor sent for him, spent
+most of two days with him, and was deeply impressed with all he
+learned--but he said he could not print the article. The same interest
+and examination occurred with several other magazine editors of the
+first rank.
+
+It was not because the professor could not write--these editors gladly
+bought anything he would write on other subjects. But it was impossible
+for him to get his article on the Jews accepted or printed in New York.
+
+The Jewish Question, however, has at last broken into a New York
+magazine. Rather it is a fragment of a shell hurled from the Jewish camp
+at the Jewish Question to demolish, if possible, the Question and thus
+make good the assertion that there is no such thing.
+
+Incidentally it is the only kind of article on the Jewish Question that
+the big magazines, whose mazes of financial controllers make most
+interesting rummaging, would care to print.
+
+Yet, the general public may learn much about the Question even from the
+type of article whose purpose is to prove that the Question doesn't
+exist.
+
+Mr. William Hard, in the Metropolitan for June, has done as well as
+could be expected, considering the use he was supposed to make of such
+material as he had at hand. And doubtless the telegraph and letter
+brigades, which keep watch over all printed references to the Jews, have
+duly congratulated the good editors of the Metropolitan for their
+assistance in soothing the public to further sleep.
+
+It is to be hoped, for the sake of the Question, that Mr. Hard's effort
+will have a wide reading, for there is very much to be learned from
+it--much more than it was anybody's intention should be learned from it.
+
+It may be learned, first, that the Jewish Question exists. Mr. Hard says
+it is discussed in the drawing-rooms of London and Paris. Whether the
+mention of drawing-rooms was a writer's device to intimate that the
+matter was unimportant and frivolous, or merely represented the extent
+of Mr. Hard's contact with the Question is not clear. He adds, however,
+that a document relating to the Question has "travelled a good bit in
+certain official circles in Washington." He also mentions a cable
+dispatch to the New York World, concerning the same Question, which that
+paper published. His article was probably published too early to note
+the review which the London Times made of the first document referred
+to. But he has told the reader who is looking for the objective facts in
+the article that there is a Jewish Question, and that it does not exist
+among the riff-raff either but principally in those circles where the
+evidence of Jewish power and control is most abundant. Moreover, the
+Question is being discussed. Mr. Hard tells us that much. If he does not
+go further and tell us that it is being discussed with great seriousness
+in high places and among men of national and international importance,
+it is probably because of one of two things, either he does not know, or
+he does not consider it consonant with the purpose of the article to
+tell.
+
+However, Mr. Hard has already made it clear that there is a Jewish
+Question, that it is being discussed, that it is being discussed by
+people who are best situated to observe the matter they are talking
+about.
+
+The reading of Mr. Hard's article makes it clear also that the Question
+always comes to the fore on the note of conspiracy. Of course, Mr. Hard
+says he does not believe in conspiracies which involve a large number of
+people, and it is with the utmost ease that his avowal of unbelief is
+accepted, for there is nothing more ridiculous to the Gentile mind than
+a mass conspiracy, because there is nothing more impossible to the
+Gentile himself. Mr. Hard, we take it, is of non-Jewish extraction, and
+he knows how impossible it would be to band Gentiles together in any
+considerable number for any length of time in even the noblest
+conspiracy. Gentiles are not built for it. Their conspiracy, whatever it
+might be, would fall like a rope of sand. Gentiles have not the basis
+either in blood or interest that the Jews have to stand together. The
+Gentile does not naturally suspect conspiracy; he will indeed hardly
+bring himself to the verge of believing it without the fullest proof.
+
+It is therefore quite easy to understand Mr. Hard's difficulty with
+conspiracy; the point is that to write his article at all, he is forced
+to recognize at almost every step that whenever the Jewish Question is
+discussed, the idea of conspiracy occupies a large part in it. As a
+matter of fact, it is the central idea in Mr. Hard's article, and it
+completely monopolizes the heading--"Great Jewish Conspiracy."
+
+The search for basic facts in Mr. Hard's article will disclose the
+additional information that there are certain documents in existence
+which purport to contain the details of the conspiracy, or--to drop a
+word that is unpleasant and may be misleading and which has not been
+used in this series--the tendency of Jewish power to achieve complete
+control. That is about all that the reader learns from Mr. Hard about
+the documents, except that he describes one as "strange and horrible."
+Here is indeed a regrettable gap in the story, for it is to discredit a
+certain document that Mr. Hard writes, and yet he tells next to nothing
+about it. Discreditable documents usually discredit themselves. But this
+document is not permitted to do that. The reader of the article is left
+to take Mr. Hard's word for it. The serious student or critic will feel,
+of course, that the documents themselves would have formed a better
+basis for an intelligent judgement. But laying that matter aside, Mr.
+Hard has made public the fact that there are documents.
+
+And then Mr. Hard does another thing, as well as he can with the
+materials at hand, the purpose of the article being what it was, and
+that is to show how little the Jews have to do with the control of
+affairs by showing who are the Jews that do control certain selected
+groups of affairs. The names are all brought forward by Mr. Hard and he
+alone is responsible for them, our purpose in referring to them being
+merely to show what can be learned from him.
+
+Mr. Hard leans heavily on Russian affairs. Sometimes it would almost
+seem as if the Jewish Question were conceived as the Soviet Question,
+which it is not, as Mr. Hard very well knows, and although the two have
+their plain connections, it is nothing less than well-defined propaganda
+to set up Bolshevist fiction and knock it down by Jewish fact for the
+purpose of the latter. However, what Mr. Hard offers as fact is very
+instructive, quite apart from the conclusion which he draws from it.
+
+Now, take his Russian line-up first. He says that in the cabinet of
+Soviet Russia there is only one Jew. But he is Trotsky. There are others
+in the government, of course, but Mr. Hard is speaking about the cabinet
+now. He is not speaking about the commissars, who are the real rulers of
+Russia, nor about the executive troops, who are the real strength of the
+Trotsky-Lenin régime. No, just the cabinet. Of course, there was only
+one Jew prominent in Hungary, too, but he was Bela Kun. Mr. Hard does
+not ask us to believe, however, that it is simply because of Trotsky and
+Kun that all Europe believes that Bolshevism has a strong Jewish
+element. Else the stupid credibility of the Gentiles would be more
+impossible of conception than the idea of a Jewish conspiracy is to Mr.
+Hard's mind. Why should it be easier to believe that Gentiles are dunces
+than that Jews are clever?
+
+However, it is not too much to say that Trotsky is way up at the top,
+sharing the utmost summit of Bolshevism with Lenin, and Trotsky is a
+Jew--nobody ever denied that, not even Mr. Braunstein himself (the
+latter being Trotsky's St. Louis, U.S.A., name).
+
+But then, says Mr. Hard, the Mensheviks are led by Jews, too! That is a
+fact worth putting down beside the others. Trotsky at the head of the
+Bolsheviks; at the head of the Mensheviks during their opposition of the
+Bolsheviks were Leiber, Martov and Dan--"all Jews," says Mr. Hard.
+
+There is, however, a middle party between these extremes, the Cadets,
+which, Mr. Hard says, are or were the strongest bourgeois political
+party in Russia. "They now have their headquarters in Paris. Their
+chairman is Vinaver--a Jew."
+
+There are the facts as stated by Mr. Hard. He says that Jews, whose
+names he gives, head the three great divisions of political opinion in
+Russia.
+
+And then he cries, look how the Jews are divided! How can there be
+conspiracy among people who thus fight themselves?
+
+But another, looking at the same situation may say, look how the Jews
+control every phase of political opinion in Russia! Doesn't there seem
+to be some ground for the feeling that they are desirous of ruling
+everywhere?
+
+The facts are there. What significance does it bring to the average mind
+that the three great parties of Russia are led by Jews?
+
+But that does not exhaust the information which the matter-of-fact
+reader may find in Mr. Hard's article. He turns to the United States and
+makes several interesting statements.
+
+"There is Otto Kahn," he says. Well, sometimes Otto Kahn is there, and
+sometimes he is in Paris on important international matters, and
+sometimes he is in London advocating certain alliances between British
+and American capital which have to do in a large way with European
+political conditions. Mr. Kahn is rated as a conservative, and that may
+mean anything. A man is conservative or not according to the angle from
+which he is viewed. The most conservative men in America are really the
+most radical; their motives and methods go to the very roots of certain
+matters; they are radicals in their own field. The men who controlled
+the last Republican Convention--if not the last, the most recent--are
+styled conservatives by those whose vision is circumscribed by certain
+limited economic interests; but they are the most radical of radicals,
+they have passed the red stage and are white with it. If it were known
+what is in the back of Mr. Kahn's mind, if he should display a chart of
+what he is doing and aiming to do, the term which would then most aptly
+describe him might be quite different. Anyway, we have it from Mr. Hard,
+"There is Mr. Kahn."
+
+"On the other hand," says Mr. Hard, "there is Rose Pastor Stokes." He
+adds the name of Morris Hillquit. They are, in Mr. Hard's
+classification, radicals. And to offset these names he adds the names of
+two Gentiles, Eugene V. Debs and Bill Haywood and intimates that they
+are much more powerful leaders than the first two. Students of modern
+influences, of which Mr. Hard has long appeared as one, do not think so.
+Neither Debs nor Haywood ever generated in all their lives a fraction of
+the intellectual power which Mrs. Stokes and Mr. Hillquit have
+generated. Both Debs and Haywood live by the others. To every informed
+person, as to Mr. Hard in this article, come the Jewish names to mind
+when the social tendencies of the United States are passed under
+reflection.
+
+This is most instructive indeed, that in naming the leaders of so-called
+conservatism and radicalism, Mr. Hard is driven to use Jewish names. On
+his showing the reader is entitled to say that Jews lead both divisions
+here in the United States.
+
+But Mr. Hard is not through. "The man who does more than any other
+man--the man who does more than any regiment of other men--to keep
+American labor anti-radical is a Jew--Samuel Gompers." That is a fact
+which the reader will place in his list--American labor is led by a Jew.
+
+Well, then, "the strongest anti-Gompers trade union in the country--The
+Amalgamated Clothing Workers--and very strong indeed, and very large--is
+led by a Jew--Sidney Hillman."
+
+It is the Russian situation over again. Both ends of the movements, and
+the movement which operate within the movement, are under the leadership
+of Jews. This, whatever the construction put upon it, is a fact which
+Mr. Hard is compelled by the very nature of his task to acknowledge.
+
+And the middle movement, "the Liberal Middle" as Mr. Hard calls it,
+which catches all between, produces in this article the names of Mr.
+Justice Brandeis, Judge Mack and Felix Frankfurter, gentlemen whose
+activities since Armistice Day would make a very interesting story.
+
+For good measure, Mr. Hard produces two other names, "Baron Gunzberg--a
+Jew" who is "a faithful official" of the Russian Embassy of Ambassador
+Bakhmetev, a repesentative of the modified old regime, while the Russian
+Information Bureau, whose literary output appears in many of our
+newspapers is conducted by another Jew, so Mr. Hard calls him, whose
+name is familiar to newspaper readers, Mr. A. J. Sack.
+
+It is not a complete list by any means, but it is quite impressive. It
+seems to reflect importance on the documents which Mr. Hard endeavors to
+minimize to a position of ridiculous unimportance. And it leads to the
+thought that perhaps the documents are scrutinized as carefully as they
+are because the readers of them have observed not only the facts which
+Mr. Hard admits but other and more astonishing ones, and have discovered
+that the documents confirm and explain the observations. Other readers
+who have not had the privilege of learning all that the documents
+contain are entitled to have satisfaction given to the interest thus
+aroused.
+
+The documents did not create the Jewish Question. If there were nothing
+but the documents, Mr. Hard would not have written nor would the
+Metropolitan Magazine have printed the article here discussed.
+
+What Mr. Hard has done is to bring confirmation in a most unexpected
+place that the Question exists and is pressing for discussion. Someone
+felt the pressure when "The Great Jewish Conspiracy" was ordered and
+written.
+
+[Issue of June 26, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"What are you prating about? As long as we do not have the Press of the
+whole world in our hands, everything you may do is vain. We must control
+or influence the papers of the whole world in order to blind and deceive
+the people."
+
+--Baron Montefiore.
+
+VII.
+
+Arthur Brisbane Leaps to the Help of Jewry
+
+
+Once more the current of this series on the Modern Jewish Question is
+interrupted to give notice of the appearance of the Question in another
+quarter, the appearance this time consisting of a more than two-column
+"Today" editorial in the Hearst papers of Sunday, June 20, from the pen
+of Arthur Brisbane. It would be too much to say that Mr. Brisbane is the
+most influential writer in the country, but perhaps he is among the
+dozen most widely read. It is, therefore, a confirmation of the
+statement that the Question is assuming importance in this country, that
+a writer of Mr. Brisbane's prominence should openly discuss it.
+
+Of course, Mr. Brisbane has not studied the Question. He would probably
+admit in private conversation--though such an admission would hardly be
+in harmony with the tone of certainty he publicly adopts--that he really
+knows nothing about it. He knows, however, as a good newspaper man, how
+to handle it when the exigencies of the newspaper day throw it up to him
+for offhand treatment. Every editorial writer knows how to do that.
+There is something good in every race, or there have been some notable
+individuals in it, or it has played a picturesque part in history--that
+is enough for a very readable editorial upon any class of people who may
+happen to be represented in the community. The Question, whatever it may
+be, need not be studied at all; a certain group of people may be salved
+for a few paragraphs, and the job need never be tackled again. Every
+newspaper man knows that.
+
+And yet, having lived in New York for a long time, having had financial
+dealings of a large and obligating nature with certain interests in this
+country, having seen no doubt more or less of the inner workings of the
+great trust and banking groups, and being constantly surrounded by
+assistants and advisors who are members of the Jewish race, Mr. Brisbane
+must have had his thoughts. It is, however, no part of a newspaper man's
+business to expose his thoughts about the racial groups of his
+community, any more than it is a showman's business to express his
+opinion of the patrons of his show. The kinds of offense a newspaper
+will give, and the occasions on which it will feel justified in giving
+it, are very limited.
+
+So, assuming that Mr. Brisbane had to write at all, it could have been
+told beforehand what he would write. The only wonder is that he felt he
+had to write. Did he really feel that the Jews are being "persecuted"
+when an attempt is made to uncover the extent and causes of their
+control in the United States and elsewhere? Did he feel, with good
+editorial shrewdness, that here was an opportunity to win the attention
+and regard of the most influential group in New York and the nation?
+Or--and this seems within the probabilities--was he inclined simply to
+pass it over, until secretarial suggestions reached him for a Sunday
+editorial, or until some of the bondholders made their wishes known?
+This is not at all to impugn Mr. Brisbane's motives, but merely to
+indicate on what slender strings such an editorial may depend.
+
+But what is more important--does Mr. Brisbane consider that, having
+disposed of the Sunday editorial, he is through with the Question, or
+that the Question itself is solved? That is the worst of daily
+editorializing; having come safely and inoffensively through with one
+editorial, the matter is at an end as far as that particular writer is
+concerned--that is, as a usual thing.
+
+It is to be hoped that Mr. Brisbane is not through. He ought not to
+leave a big question without contributing something to it, and in his
+Sunday editorial he did not contribute anything. He even made mistakes
+which he ought to correct by further study. "What about the
+Phoenicians?" he asks. He should have looked that up while his mind was
+opened receptively toward the subject, and he would not have made so
+miserable a blunder as to connect them so closely with the Jews. He
+would never find a Jew doing that. It is permissible, however, in Jewish
+propaganda intended for Gentile consumption. The Phoenicians themselves
+certainly never thought they were connected in any way with the Jews,
+and the Jews were equally without light on the subject. If in nothing
+else, they differed in their attitude toward the sea. The Phoenicians
+not only built boats but manned them; the Jew would rather risk his
+investment in a boat than himself. In everything else the differences
+between the two peoples were deep and distinct. Mr. Brisbane should have
+turned up the Jewish Encyclopedia at that point in his dictation. It is
+to be hoped he will resume his study and when he has found something
+that is not printed in "simply written" Jewish books will give the world
+the benefit of it. It is hardly like the question of the rotundity of
+the earth; this Question is not settled and it will be discussed.
+
+Mr. Brisbane is in a position to pursue some investigations of his own
+on this subject. He has a large staff, and it is presumed that some of
+its members are Gentiles of unbiased minds; he has a world-wide
+organization; since his own modification of speech and views following
+upon his adventure in the money-making world, he has a "look-in" upon
+certain groups of men and certain tendencies of power--why does he not
+take the Question as a world problem and go after the facts and the
+solution?
+
+It is a task worthy of any newspaper organization. It will assist
+America to make the contribution which she must make if this Question is
+ever to be turned from the bugbear it has been through all the
+centuries. All the talk on earth about "loving our fellow men" will not
+serve in lieu of an investigation, because it is asking men to love
+those who are rapidly and insidiously gaining the mastery of them.
+"What's wrong with the Jew?" is the first question, and then, "What's
+wrong with the Gentile to make it possible?"
+
+As in the case of every Gentile writer who appears as the Jew's
+good-natured defender, Mr. Brisbane is compelled to state a number of
+facts which comprise a part of the very Question whose existence is
+denied.
+
+"Every other successful name you see in a great city is a Jewish name,"
+says Mr. Brisbane. In his own city the ratio is even higher than that.
+
+"Jews numbering less than one per cent of the earth's population possess
+by conquest, enterprise, industry and intelligence 50 per cent of the
+world's commercial success," says Mr. Brisbane.
+
+Does it mean anything to Mr. Brisbane? Has he ever thought how it will
+all turn out? Is he willing to absolve that "success" from every quality
+which humanity has a right to challenge? Is he entirely satisfied with
+the way that "success" is used where it is supreme? Would he be willing
+to undertake to prove that it is due to those commendable qualities he
+has named and nothing less commendable? Speaking of the Jew-financed
+Harriman railroad campaign, is Mr. Brisbane ready to write his
+endorsement upon that? Did he ever hear of Jewish money backing
+railroads that were built for railroad purposes and nothing else?
+
+It would be very easy to suggest to Mr. Brisbane, as editor, a series of
+articles which would be most enlightening, both to himself and his
+readers, if he would only put unbiased men at work gathering the facts
+for them.
+
+One of the articles might be entitled "The Jews at the Peace
+Conference." His men should be instructed to learn who were the most
+prominent figures at the Peace Conference; who came and went most
+constantly and most busily; who were given freest access to the most
+important persons and chambers; which race provided the bulk of the
+private secretaries to the important personages there; which race
+provided most of the sentinels through whom engagements had to be made
+with men of note; which race went furthest in the endeavor to turn the
+whole proceeding into a festival rout by dances and lavish
+entertainment; which civilians of prominence oftenest dined the leading
+conferees in private session.
+
+If Mr. Brisbane, with the genius for reporting which his organization
+deservedly has, will turn his men loose on that assignment, and then
+print what they bring him, he will have a story that will make a mark
+even in his remarkable career as an editor.
+
+He might even run a second story on the Peace Conference, entitled,
+"Which Program Won at the Peace Conference?" He might instruct his men
+to inquire as to the business which brought the Jews in such quality and
+quantity to Paris, and how it was put through. Particularly should they
+inquire whether any jot or tittle of the Jews' world program was refused
+or modified by the Peace Conference. It should also be carefully
+inquired whether, after getting what they went after, they did not ask
+for still more and get that, too, even though it constituted a
+discrimination against the rest of the world. Mr. Brisbane would
+doubtless be surprised to learn that of all the programs submitted to
+that Conference, not excepting the great program on which humanity hung
+so many pathetic hopes, the only program to go through was the Jews'
+program. And yet he could learn just that if he inquired. The question
+is, having obtained that information, what would Mr. Brisbane do with
+it?
+
+There are any number of lines of investigation Mr. Brisbane might enter,
+and in any one of them his knowledge of his country and of its relation
+to this particular Question would be greatly enlarged.
+
+Does Mr. Brisbane know who owns Alaska? He may have been under the
+impression, in common with the rest of us until we learned better, that
+it was owned by the United States. No, it is owned by the same people
+who are coming rapidly to own the United States.
+
+Is Mr. Brisbane, from the vantage point afforded by his position in
+national journalism, even dimly aware that there are elements in our
+industrial unrest which neither "capital" nor "labor" accurately define?
+Has he ever caught a glimpse of another power which is neither "labor"
+nor "capital" in the productive sense, whose purpose and interest it is
+to keep labor and capital as far apart as possible, now by provoking
+labor, now by provoking capital? In his study of the industrial
+situation and its perfectly baffling mystery, Mr. Brisbane must have
+caught a flash of something behind the backmost scene. It would be good
+journalistic enterprise to find out what it is.
+
+Has Mr. Brisbane ever printed the name of the men who control the sugar
+supply of the United States--does he know them--would he like to know
+them?
+
+Has he ever looked into the woolen situation in this country, from the
+change of ownership in cotton lands, and the deliberate sabotage of
+cotton production by banking threats, right on through to the change in
+the price of cloth and clothing? And has he ever noted the names of the
+men he found on that piece of investigation? Would he like to know how
+it is done, and who does it? Mr. Brisbane could find all these things
+and give them to the public by using his efficient staff of
+investigators and writers on this Question.
+
+Whether Mr. Brisbane would feel free to do this, he himself best knows.
+There may be reasons why he would not, private reasons, prudential
+reasons.
+
+However that may be, there are no reasons why he should not make a
+complete study of the Question--a real study, not a superficial glance
+at it with an eye to its "news value"--and arrive at his own considered
+conclusion. There would be no intolerance about that. As it is now, Mr.
+Brisbane is not qualified to take a stand on either side of the
+Question; he simply brushes it aside as troublesome, as the old planters
+used brush aside the anti-slavery moralists; and for that reason the
+recent defense of the Jew is not a defense at all. It is more like a bid
+for favor.
+
+Mr. Brisbane's chief aversion, apparently, is toward what he calls race
+prejudice and race hatred. Of course, if any man should fear that the
+study of an economic situation would plunge him into these serious
+aberrations of mind, he should be advised to avoid that line of study.
+There is something wrong either with the investigation or with the
+investigator when prejudice and hatred are the result. It is a mighty
+poor excuse, however, for an intelligent man to put forward either on
+his own behalf or on behalf of those whose minds he has had the
+privilege of molding over a course of years.
+
+Prejudice and hatred are the very conditions which a scientific study of
+the Jewish Question will forestall and prevent. We prejudge what we do
+not know, and we hate what we do not understand; the study of the Jewish
+Question will bring knowledge and insight, and not to the Gentile only,
+but also to the Jew. The Jew needs this as much, even more than the
+Gentile. For if the Jew can be made to see, understand, and deal with
+certain matters, then a large part of the Question vanishes in the
+solution of ideal common sense. Awaking the Gentile to the facts about
+the Jew is only part of the work; awaking the Jew to the facts about the
+Question is an indispensable part. The big initial victory to be
+achieved is to transform Gentiles from being mere attackers and to
+transform Jews from being mere defenders, both of them special pleaders
+for partisan views, and to turn them both into investigators. The
+investigation will show both Gentile and Jew at fault, and the road will
+then be clear for wisdom to work out a result, if there should perchance
+be that much wisdom left in the race.
+
+There is a serious snare in all this plea for tolerance. Tolerance is
+first a tolerance of the truth. Tolerance is urged today for the sake of
+suppression. There can be no tolerance until there is first a full
+understanding of what is tolerated. Ignorance, suppression, silence,
+collusion--these are not tolerance. The Jew never has been really
+tolerated in the higher sense because he has never been understood. Mr.
+Brisbane does not assist the understanding of this people by reading a
+"simply written" book and flinging a few Jewish names about in a sea of
+type. He owes it to his own mind to get into the Question, whether he
+makes newspaper use of his discoveries or not.
+
+As to the newspaper angle, it is impossible to report the world even
+superficially without coming everywhere against the fact of the Jews,
+and the Press gets around that fact by referring to them as Russians,
+Letts, Germans, and Englishmen. This mask of names is one of the most
+confusing elements in the whole problem. Names that actually name,
+statements that actually define are needed for the clarification of the
+world's mind.
+
+Mr. Brisbane should study this question for the light such a study would
+throw on other matters with which he is concerned. It would be a help to
+that study if from time to time he would publish some of his findings,
+because such publication would put him in touch with a phase of Judaism
+which mere complimentary editorials could not. No doubt Mr. Brisbane has
+been deluged by communications which praise him for what he has written;
+the real eye-opener would come if he could get several bushels of the
+other kind. Nothing that has ever come to him could compare with what
+would come to him if he should publish even one of the facts he could
+discover by an independent investigation.
+
+Having written about the Jews, Mr. Brisbane will probably have a readier
+eye henceforth for other men's pronouncements on the same subject. In
+his casual reading he will find more references to the Jew than he has
+ever noticed before. Some of them will probably appear in isolated
+sentences and paragraphs of his own papers. Sooner or later, every
+competent investigator and every honest writer strikes a trail that
+leads toward Jewish power in the world. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is only
+doing with system and detail what other publications have done or are
+doing piecemeal.
+
+There is a real fear of the Jew upon the publicity sources of the United
+States--a fear which is felt and which ought to be analyzed. Unless it
+is a very great mistake, Mr. Brisbane himself has felt this fear, though
+it is quite possible he has not scrutinized it. It is not the fear of
+doing injustice to a race of people--all of us ought to have that
+honorable fear--it is the fear of doing anything at all with reference
+to them except unstintedly praising them. An independent investigation
+would convince Mr. Brisbane that a considerable modification of praise
+in favor of discriminate criticism is a course that is pressing upon
+American journalism.
+
+[Issue of July 3, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
+
+
+In all the explanations of anti-Jewish feeling which modern Jewish
+spokesmen make, these three alleged causes are commonly given--these
+three and no more: religious prejudice, economic jealousy, social
+antipathy. Whether the Jew knows it or not, every Gentile knows that on
+his side of the Jewish Question no religious prejudice exists. Economic
+jealousy may exist, at least to this extent, that his uniform success
+has exposed the Jew to much scrutiny. A few Jewish spokesmen seek to
+turn this scrutiny by denying that the Jew is pre-eminent in finance,
+but this is loyalty in extremity. The finances of the world are in
+control of Jews; their decisions and their devices are themselves our
+economic law. But because a people excels us in finance is no sufficient
+reason for calling them to the bar of public judgement. If they are more
+intellectually able, more persistently industrious than we are, if they
+are endowed with faculties which have been denied us as an inferior or
+slower race, that is no reason for our requiring them to give an account
+of themselves. Economic jealousy may explain some of the anti-Jewish
+feeling; it cannot account for the presence of the Jewish Question
+except as the hidden causes of Jewish financial success may become a
+minor element of the larger problem. And as for social antipathy--there
+are many more undesirable Gentiles in the world than there are
+undesirable Jews, for the simple reason that there are more Gentiles.
+
+None of the Jewish spokesmen today mention the political cause, or if
+they come within suggestive distance of it, they limit and localize it.
+It is not a question of the patriotism of the Jew, though this too is
+very widely questioned in all the countries. You hear it in England, in
+France, in Germany, in Poland, in Russia, in Rumania--and, with a shock,
+you hear it in the United States. Books have been written, reports
+published and scattered abroad, statistics skillfully set forth for the
+purpose of showing that the Jew does his part for the country in which
+he resides; and yet the fact remains that in spite of these most zealous
+and highly sponsored campaigns, the opposite assertion is stronger and
+lives longer. The Jews who did their duty in the armies of Liberty, and
+did it doubtless from true-hearted love and allegiance, have not been
+able to overcome the impression made upon officers and men and civilians
+by those who did not.
+
+But that is not what is here meant as the political element in the
+Jewish Question. To understand why the Jew should think less of the
+nationalities of the world than do those who comprise them is not
+difficult. The Jew's history is one of wandering among them all.
+Considering living individuals only, there is no race of people now upon
+the planet who have lived in so many places, among so many peoples as
+have the Jewish masses. They have a clearer world-sense than any other
+people, because the world has been their path. And they think in world
+terms more than any nationally cloistered people could. The Jew can be
+absolved if he does not enter into national loyalties and prejudices
+with the same intensity as the natives; the Jew has been for centuries a
+cosmopolitan. While under a flag he may be correct in the conduct
+required of him as a citizen or resident, inevitably he has a view of
+flags which can hardly be shared by the man who has known but one flag.
+
+The political element inheres in the fact that the Jews form a nation in
+the midst of the nations. Some of their spokesmen, particularly in
+America, deny that, but the genius of the Jew himself has always put
+these spokesmen's zeal to shame. And why this fact of nationhood should
+be so strenuously denied is not always clear. It may be that when Israel
+is brought to see that her mission in the world is not to be achieved by
+means of the Golden Calf, her very cosmopolitanism with regard to the
+world and her inescapable nationalistic integrity with regard to herself
+will together prove a great and serviceable factor in bringing about
+human unity, which the total Jewish tendency at the present time is
+doing much to prevent. It is not the fact that the Jews remain a nation
+in the midst of the nations; it is the use made of that inescapable
+status, which the world has found reprehensible. The nations have tried
+to reduce the Jew to unity with themselves; attempts toward the same end
+have been made by the Jews themselves; but destiny seems to have marked
+them out to continuous nationhood. Both the Jews and the World will have
+to accept that fact, find the good prophecy in it, and seek the channels
+for its fulfillment.
+
+Theodor Herzl, one of the greatest of the Jews, was perhaps the
+farthest-seeing public exponent of the philosophy of Jewish existence
+that modern generations have known. And he was never in doubt of the
+existence of the Jewish nation. Indeed, he proclaimed its existence on
+every occasion. He said, "We are a people--One people."
+
+He clearly saw that what he called the Jewish Question was political. In
+his introduction to "The Jewish State" he says, "I believe that I
+understand anti-Semitism, which is really a highly complex movement. I
+consider it from a Jewish standpoint, yet without fear or hatred. I
+believe that I can see what elements there are in it of vulgar sport, of
+common trade jealousy, of inherited prejudice, of religious intolerance
+and also of pretended self-defense. I think the Jewish Question is no
+more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes
+takes these and other forms. It is a national question, which can only
+be solved by making it a political world-question to be discussed and
+controlled by the civilized nations of the world in council."
+
+Not only did Herzl declare that the Jews formed a nation, but when
+questioned by Major Evans Gordon before the British Royal Commission on
+Alien Immigration in August, 1902, Dr. Herzl said: "I will give you my
+definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A nation
+is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion
+held together by a common enemy. That is in my view a nation. Then if
+you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the
+Jewish nation."
+
+Also, in relating the action of this Jewish nation to the world, Dr.
+Herzl wrote--"When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the
+subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there
+rises also our terrible power of the purse."
+
+This view, which appears to be the true view in that it is the view
+which has been longest sustained in Jewish thought, is brought out also
+by Lord Eustace Percy, and re-published, apparently with approval, by
+the Canadian Jewish Chronicle. It will repay a careful reading:
+
+"Liberalism and Nationalism, with a flourish of trumpets, threw open the
+doors of the ghetto and offered equal citizenship to the Jew. The Jew
+passed out into the Western World, saw the power and the glory of it,
+used it and enjoyed it, laid his hand indeed upon the nerve centers of
+its civilization, guided, directed and exploited it, and then--refused
+the offer * * * Moreover--and this is a remarkable thing--the Europe of
+nationalism and liberalism, of scientific government and democratic
+equality is more intolerable to him than the old oppressions and
+persecutions of despotism * * * In the increasing consolidation of the
+western nations, it is no longer possible to reckon on complete
+toleration * * *
+
+"In a world of completely organized territorial sovereignties he (the
+Jew) has only two possible cities of refuge: he must either pull down
+the pillars of the whole national state system or he must create a
+territorial sovereignty of his own. In this perhaps lies the explanation
+both of Jewish Bolshevism and of Zionism, for at this moment Eastern
+Jewry seems to hover uncertainly between the two.
+
+"In Eastern Europe Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by
+side, just as Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
+throughout the nineteenth century, down to the Young Turk revolution in
+Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago--not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but
+distasteful to him."
+
+All that is true, and Jewish thinkers of the more fearless type always
+recognize it as true. The Jew is against the Gentile scheme of things.
+He is, when he gives his tendencies full sway, a Republican as against
+the monarchy, a Socialist as against the republic, and a Bolshevist as
+against Socialism.
+
+What are the causes of this disruptive activity? First, his essential
+lack of democracy. Jewish nature is autocratic. Democracy is all right
+for the rest of the world, but the Jew wherever he is found forms an
+aristocracy of one sort or another. Democracy is merely a tool of a word
+which Jewish agitators use to raise themselves to the ordinary level in
+places where they are oppressed below it; but having reached the common
+level they immediately make efforts for special privileges, as being
+entitled to them--a process of which the late Peace Conference will
+remain the most startling example. The Jews today are the only people
+whose special and extraordinary privileges are written into the world's
+Treaty of Peace. But more of that at another time.
+
+No one now pretends to deny, except a few spokesmen who really do not
+rule the thought of the Jews but are set forth for the sole benefit of
+influencing Gentile thought, that the socially and economically
+disruptive elements abroad in the world today are not only manned but
+also moneyed by Jewish interests. For a long time this fact was held in
+suspense owing to the vigorous denial of the Jews and the lack of
+information on the part of those agencies of publicity to which the
+public had looked for its information. But now the facts are coming
+forth. Herzl's words are being proved to be true--"when we sink, we
+become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of the
+revolutionary party"--and these words were first published in English in
+1896, or 24 years ago.
+
+Just now these tendencies are working in two directions, one for the
+tearing down of the Gentile states all over the world, and the other for
+the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The latter project has
+the best wishes of the whole world, but it is far from having the best
+wishes of the whole, or even the larger part, of Jewry. The Zionist
+party makes a great deal of noise, but it is really an unrepresentative
+minority. It can scarcely be designated as more than an unusually
+ambitious colonization scheme. [See note on page 95.] It is doubtless
+serving, however, as a very useful public screen for the carrying on of
+secret activities. International Jews, the controllers of the world's
+governmental and financial power, may meet anywhere, at any time, in war
+time or peace time, and by giving out that they are only considering the
+ways and means of opening up Palestine to the Jews, they easily escape
+the suspicion of being together on any other business. The Allies and
+enemies of the Gentile nations at war thus met and were not molested. It
+was at a Zionist conference--the sixth, held in 1903--that the recent
+war was exactly predicted, its progress and outcome indicated, and the
+relation of the Jews to the Peace Treaty outlined.
+
+That is to say, though Jewish nationalism exists, its enshrinement in a
+state to be set up in Palestine is not the project that is engaging the
+whole Jewish nation now. The Jews will not move to Palestine just yet;
+it may be said that they will not move at all merely because of the
+Zionist movement. Quite another motive will be the cause of the exodus
+out of the Gentile nations, when the time for that exodus fully comes.
+
+As Donald A. Cameron, late British Consul-General at Alexandria, a man
+fully in sympathy with Zionism and much quoted in the Jewish press,
+says: "The Jewish immigrants (into Palestine) will tire of taking in one
+another's washing at three per cent, of winning one another's money in
+the family, and their sons will hasten by train and steamer to win 10
+per cent in Egypt * * * The Jew by himself in Palestine will eat his
+head off; he will kick his stable to pieces." Undoubtedly the time for
+the exodus--at least the motive for the exodus--is not yet here.
+
+The political aspect of the Jewish Question which is now engaging at
+least three of the great nations--France, Great Britain and the United
+States--has to do with matters of the present organization of the Jewish
+nation. Must it wait until it reaches Palestine to have a State, or is
+it an organized State now? Does Jewry know what it is doing? Has it a
+"foreign policy" with regard to the Gentiles? Has it a department which
+is executing that foreign policy? Has this Jewish State, visible or
+invisible, if it exists, a head? Has it a Council of State? And if any
+of these things is so, who is aware of it?
+
+The first impulsive answer of the Gentile mind would be "No" to all
+these questions--it is a Gentile habit to answer impulsively. Never
+having been trained in secrets or invisible unity, the Gentile
+immediately concludes that such things cannot be, if for no other reason
+than that they have not crossed his path and advertised themselves.
+
+The questions, however, answered thus, require some explanation of the
+circumstances which are visible to all men. If there is no deliberate
+combination of Jews in the world, then the control which they have
+achieved and the uniformity of the policies which they follow must be
+the simple result, not of deliberate decisions, but of a similar nature
+in all of them working out the same way. Thus, we might say that as a
+love for adventure on the water drove the Britisher forth, so it made
+him the world's greatest colonist. Not that he deliberately sat down
+with himself and in formal manner resolved that he would become a
+colonizer, but the natural outworking of his genius resulted that way.
+But would this be a sufficient account of the British Empire?
+
+Doubtless the Jews have the genius to do, wherever they go, the things
+in which we see them excel. But does this account for the relations
+which exist between the Jews of every country, for their world councils,
+for their amazing foreknowledge of stupendous events which break with
+shattering surprise on the rest of the world, for the smoothness and
+preparedness with which they appear, at a given time in Paris, with a
+world program on which they all agree?
+
+The world has long suspected--at first only a few, then the secret
+departments of the governments, next the intellectuals among the people,
+now more and more the common people themselves--that not only are the
+Jews a nation distinct from all the other nations and mysteriously
+unable to sink their nationality by any means they or the world may
+adopt to this end, but that they also constitute a state; that they are
+nationally conscious, not only, but consciously united for a common
+defense and for a common purpose. Revert to Theodor Herzl's definition
+of the Jewish nation, as held together by a common enemy, and then
+reflect that this common enemy is the Gentile world. Does this people
+which knows itself to be a nation remain loosely unorganized in the face
+of that fact? It would hardly be like Jewish astuteness in other fields.
+When you see how closely the Jews are united by various organizations in
+the United States, and when you see how with practiced hand they bring
+those organizations to bear as if with tried confidence in their
+pressure, it is at least not inconceivable that what can be done within
+a country can be done, or has been done, between all the countries where
+the Jews live.
+
+At any rate, in the American Hebrew of June 25, 1920, Herman Bernstein
+writes thus: "About a year ago a representative of the Department of
+Justice submitted to me a copy of the manuscript of 'The Jewish Peril'
+by Professor Nilus, and asked for my opinion of the work. He said that
+the manuscript was a translation of a Russian book published in 1905
+which was later suppressed. The manuscript was supposed to contain
+'protocols' of the Wise Men of Zion and was supposed to have been read
+by Dr. Herzl at a secret conference of the Zionist Congress at Basle. He
+expressed the opinion that the work was probably that of Dr. Theodor
+Herzl. . . . . He said that some American Senators who had seen the
+manuscript were amazed to find that so many years ago a scheme had been
+elaborated by the Jews which is now being carried out, and that
+Bolshevism had been planned years ago by Jews who sought to destroy the
+world."
+
+This quotation is made merely to put on record the fact that it was a
+representative of the Department of Justice of the United States
+Government, who introduced this document to Mr. Bernstein, and expressed
+a certain opinion upon it, namely, "that the work was probably that of
+Theodor Herzl." Also that "some American Senators" were amazed to note
+the comparison between what a publication of the year 1905 proposed and
+what the year 1920 revealed.
+
+The incident is all the more preoccupying because it occurred by action
+of the representative of a government who today is very largely in the
+hands of, or under the influence of, Jewish interests. It is more than
+probable that as soon as the activity became known, the investigator was
+stopped. But it is equally probable that whatever orders may have been
+given and apparently obeyed, the investigation may not have stopped.
+
+The United States Government was a little late in the matter, however.
+At least four other world powers had preceded it, some by many years. A
+copy of the Protocols was deposited in the British Museum and bears on
+it the stamp of that institution, "August 10, 1906." The notes
+themselves probably date from 1896, or the year of the utterances
+previously quoted from Dr. Herzl. The first Zionist Congress convened in
+1897.
+
+The document was published in England recently under auspices that
+challenged attention for it, in spite of the unfortunate title under
+which it appeared. Eyre and Spottiswoode are the appointed printers to
+the British Government, and it was they who brought out the pamphlet. It
+was as if the Government Printing Office at Washington should issue them
+in this country. While there was the usual outcry by the Jewish press,
+the London Times in a review pronounced all the Jewish counter-attacks
+as "unsatisfactory."
+
+The Times noticed what will probably be the case in this country also
+that the Jewish defenders leave the text of the protocols alone, while
+they lay heavy emphasis on the fact of their anonymity. When they refer
+to the substance of the document at all there is one form of words which
+recurs very often--"it is the work of a criminal or a madman."
+
+The protocols, without name attached, appearing for the most part in
+manuscripts here and there, laboriously copied out from hand to hand,
+being sponsored by no authority that was willing to stand behind it,
+assiduously studied in the secret departments of the governments and
+passed from one to another among higher officials, have lived on and on,
+increasing in power and prestige by the sheer force of their contents. A
+marvelous achievement for either a criminal or a madman! The only
+evidence it has is that which it carries within it, and that internal
+evidence is, as the London Times points out, the point on which
+attention is to be focused, and the very point from which Jewish effort
+has been expended to draw us away.
+
+The interest of the Protocols at this time is their bearing on the
+questions: Have the Jews an organized world system? What is its policy?
+How is it being worked?
+
+These questions all receive full attention in the Protocols. Whosoever
+was the mind that conceived them possessed a knowledge of human nature,
+of history and of statecraft which is dazzling in its brilliant
+completeness, and terrible in the objects to which it turns its powers.
+Neither a madman nor an intentional criminal, but more likely a
+super-mind mastered by devotion to a people and a faith could be the
+author, if indeed one mind alone conceived them. It is too terribly real
+for fiction, too well-sustained for speculation, too deep in its
+knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery.
+
+Jewish attacks upon it thus far make much of the fact that it came out
+of Russia. That is hardly true. It came by way of Russia. It was
+incorporated in a Russian book published about 1905 by a Professor
+Nilus, who attempted to interpret the Protocols by events then going
+forward in Russia. This publication and interpretation gave it a Russian
+tinge which has been useful to Jewish propagandists in this country and
+England, because these same propagandists have been very successful in
+establishing in Anglo-Saxon mentalities a certain atmosphere of thought
+surrounding the idea of Russia and Russians. One of the biggest humbugs
+ever foisted on the world has been that foisted by Jewish propagandists,
+principally on the American public, with regard to the temper and genius
+of the truly Russian people. So, to intimate that the Protocols are
+Russian, is partially to discredit them.
+
+The internal evidence makes it clear that the Protocols were not written
+by a Russian, nor originally in the Russian language, nor under the
+influence of Russian conditions. But they found their way to Russia and
+were first published there. They have been found by diplomatic officers
+in manuscript in all parts of the world. Wherever Jewish power is able
+to do so, it has suppressed them, sometimes under the supreme penalty.
+
+Their persistence is a fact which challenges the mind. Jewish apologists
+may explain that persistence on the ground that the Protocols feed the
+anti-Semitic temper, and therefore are preserved for that service.
+Certainly there was no wide nor deep anti-Semitic temper in the United
+States to be fed or that felt the greed for agreeable lies to keep
+itself alive. The progress of the Protocols in the United States can
+only be explained on the ground that they supply light and give meaning
+to certain previously observed facts, and that this light and meaning is
+so startling as to give a certain standing and importance to these
+otherwise unaccredited documents. Sheer lies do not live long, their
+power soon dies. These Protocols are more alive than ever. They have
+penetrated higher places than ever before. They have compelled a more
+serious attitude to them than ever before.
+
+The Protocols would not be more worthy of study if they bore, say, the
+name of Theodor Herzl. Their anonymity does not decrease their power any
+more than the omission of a painter's signature detracts from the art
+value of a painting. Indeed, the Protocols are better without a known
+source. For if it were definitely known that in France or Switzerland in
+the year 1896, or thereabouts, a group of International Jews, assembled
+in conference, drew up a program of world conquest it would still have
+to be shown that such a program was more than a mere vagary, that it was
+confirmed at large by efforts to fulfill it. The Protocols are a World
+Program--there is no doubt anywhere of that. Whose program, is stated
+within the articles themselves. But as for outer confirmation, which
+would be the more valuable--a signature, or six signatures, or twenty
+signatures, or a 25-year unbroken line of effort fulfilling that
+program?
+
+The point of interest for this and other countries is not that a
+"criminal or a madman" conceived such a program, but that, when
+conceived, this program found means of getting itself fulfilled in its
+most important particulars. The document is comparatively unimportant;
+the conditions to which it calls attention are of a very high degree of
+importance.
+
+[NOTE: The statements indicated are those of non-Zionist Jews. The real
+Jewish program is that program which is executed. It was the Zionist
+program that was followed by the Peace Conference. It must therefore be
+regarded as the official program.]
+
+[Issue of July 10, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"We are a people--One people . . . . When we sink, we become a
+revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of a revolutionary
+party; when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse."
+
+--Theodore Herzl, "A Jewish State," pp. 5, 23.
+
+IX.
+
+The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
+
+
+A great unloosening of speech with reference to the Jewish Question and
+the Jewish program for world power has occurred in this country since
+the beginning of this series of articles. It is now possible to
+pronounce the word "Jew" in a perfectly serious discussion, without
+timidity, or without intimidation. Heretofore that has been regarded as
+the special prerogative of the Jewish publicists themselves and they
+have used the name exclusively in well-organized and favorable
+propaganda. They can oust portions of Shakespeare from the public
+schools on the ground that the Jews are offended; they can demand the
+removal of one of Sargent's paintings from the Boston Library because it
+represents the Synagogue in a decline. But when anything emanates from
+the Gentile side which indicates that the Gentile is also conscious of
+the Jew, then the charge of prejudice is instantly and strongly made.
+The effect of that in this country has been a ban on speech which has
+had few parallels in our history. Recently at a banquet a speaker used
+the term "Jews" in reference to the actions of a group of Jewish
+bankers. A Jewish guest leaped to his feet demanding to know if the
+speaker considered it "American" to single out a race that way. The
+speaker replied, "I do, sir," and received the approval of the audience.
+In that particular part of the country, business men's tongues had been
+tied for years by the unwritten law that Jews must never by singled out
+as Jews.
+
+No one would have predicted a year ago that a newspaper like the Chicago
+Tribune could have convinced itself that it was good newspaper policy to
+print in the first column of its first page a copyrighted article on the
+Jewish program for world rule, printing the word "Jew" in large letters
+in its headline, and abstaining from editorial retouching of the word
+"Jew" in the body of the article. The usual plan is to do what an
+eastern newspaper did when dealing with the same subject: wherever the
+term "international Jew" occurred in the article which it printed, it
+was retouched to "financiers."
+
+The Chicago Tribune, however, on Saturday, June 19, 1920, printed in the
+first column of the first page a cable dispatch from John Clayton, its
+special correspondent, under the heading: "Trotsky Leads Jew-Radicals to
+World Rule. Bolshevism Only a Tool for His Scheme."
+
+The first paragraph reads as follows:
+
+"For the last two years army intelligence officers, members of the
+various secret service organizations of the Entente, have been bringing
+in reports of a world revolutionary movement other than Bolshevism. At
+first these reports confused the two, but latterly the lines they have
+taken have begun to be more and more clear."
+
+As previously stated in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, our own secret service
+is one of these, though there is reason to believe that because of the
+influence of Jews upon the government these investigations were not
+pursued with the persistency that might otherwise have been given them.
+However, we know from Jewish sources, not to mention any other, that the
+Department of Justice of the United States was at one time interested
+enough to make inquiries.
+
+What the Tribune writer does in the above paragraph is to show that this
+interest has been sustained for two years by officials of the Entente, a
+fact which ought to be borne in mind by those who declare that the whole
+matter is of German instigation. The emergence of the Jewish Question
+into American thought was immediately met by a statement from Jewish
+sources that it was a German importation, and that the anti-Semitism
+which flowed over Germany and resulted in cleaning out the overwhelming
+Jewish revolutionary influences from the new German Government, was only
+a trick to throw the blame for the defeat of Germany on the Jews.
+American rabbis are even now unitedly preaching that history shows that
+every great war is followed by a new "attack" on the Jews. It is
+undoubtedly a fact that every war newly opens the people's eyes to the
+power which international Jewish financiers exert with reference to
+war--and it would seem that such a fact is worthy of a better
+explanation than that of "prejudice." However, as the Tribune article
+shows, and as all the facts confirm, the interest is not confined to the
+German side; indeed, it is not even strongest there. It is "the various
+secret service organizations of the Entente" that have been most active
+in the matter.
+
+The second paragraph further distinguishes between Bolshevism and Jewish
+imperialism:
+
+"Bolshevism aims at the overthrow of existing society and the
+establishment of an international brotherhood of men who work with their
+hands as rulers of the world. The second movement aims for the
+establishment of a new racial domination of the world. So far as the
+British, French and our own department's inquiry have been able to
+trace, the moving spirits in the second scheme are Jewish radicals."
+
+Other statements in the article are:
+
+"Within the ranks of communism is a group of this party, but it does not
+stop there. To its leaders, communism is only an incident."
+
+(This will recall the statement of Lord Eustace Percy, quoted last week
+from the Canadian Jewish Chronicle--"Not because the Jew cares for the
+positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to be a
+partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because no
+existing Gentile system of government is anything but distasteful to
+him.")
+
+"They are ready to use the Islamic revolt, hatred by the central empires
+for England, Japan's designs on India, and commercial rivalry between
+America and Japan."
+
+"As any movement of world revolution must be, this is primarily
+anti-Anglo-Saxon."
+
+"The organization of the world Jewish-radical movement has been
+perfected in almost every land."
+
+"The aims of the Jewish-radical party have nothing of altruism behind
+them beyond liberation of their own race."
+
+It will be conceded that these are rather startling statements. If they
+were found in a propagandist publication of no responsibility, the
+average reader might pass them by as preposterous, so little does the
+average reader know of the secret influences which shape his life and
+frame his problems. But appearing in a great newspaper, they must
+receive a different evaluation.
+
+Nor did the Tribune stop at the news article. On June 21, 1920, an
+editorial appeared entitled "World Mischief." The editorial is evidently
+an effort to prevent possible misunderstanding of what the news article
+was driving at.
+
+"The Jewish phase of the movement, he asserts, aims at a new racial
+domination of the world . . ."
+
+The Tribune also says that while it is perhaps natural for the Jews of
+other countries to be engaged in this "world mischief," the Jews of
+England and the United States "are loyal nationalists and conservative
+upholders of the national traditions." It were well if this were true.
+Perhaps it is true of tens of thousands of Jews as individuals; it
+certainly is not true of those internationalists who pull the strings of
+all the governments and who during the last six tragic years have been
+meddling with world affairs in a way which must soon be plainly told.
+The unfortunate circumstance is that all the American and English Jews
+must for a time feel a distress which no one desires them to feel, which
+everyone would do much to save them from, but which seems inevitable
+until the whole story is told and until the mass of the Jews themselves
+cut off from their name and support some who now receive their deepest
+homage.
+
+It is worth while observing the contrasts and similarities between the
+Gentile and Jewish reaction to this alleged movement to establish a
+Jewish imperialism over the world. Jewish publicists first deny it
+without qualification. It is all false, all a lie, all hatched up by
+enemies of the Jews in order to stir up hatred and murder. As the
+evidence accumulates, the Jewish tone changes: "Well, suppose it is
+true," the publicists say; "is it any wonder that the poor oppressed
+Jews, driven to madness through their sufferings, should dream dreams of
+overthrowing their enemies and placing themselves in the seat of
+authority?"
+
+The Gentile mind, confronted with the statement, says: "Yes, but they
+are Russian Jews. Don't mind them. American Jews are all right. They
+would never be taken in by anything like that." Going a little deeper
+into the subject, the Gentile mind is forced to admit the existence of
+some kind of a subversive world movement, the power of which has shaken
+even this country, and that the moving spirits in it are revolutionary
+Jews. And then the tendency from that point forward is either to fall in
+with the theory that the movement is really Jewish in its origin,
+agitation, execution and purpose, or to set up the theory that it is a
+"world movement" undoubtedly, but only incidentally Jewish. The end of
+both Jewish and Gentile reaction is an admission that something
+answering to the movement charged actually exists.
+
+For example, the Christian Science Monitor, whose standard as a
+newspaper no one will question, has this to say in a lengthy editorial
+on the subject:
+
+"In spite of this, it would be a tremendous mistake to conclude that the
+Jewish peril, given another name and atmosphere, does not exist. It
+might, indeed, be renamed, out of one of the grandest of the books of
+the Old Testament, 'the terror by night,' for it is, essentially, the
+Psalmist's concept of the forces of mental evil at which, consciously or
+unconsciously, Professor Nilus is aiming. In other words, that a secret
+international political organization exists, working unremittingly by
+means of its Bureau of Psychology, though the world which should be
+awake to it is entirely asleep to it, is, to the man who can read the
+signs of the times, a thing unquestionable."
+
+The Monitor gives warning against prejudice and disregard of the laws of
+evidence which is exceedingly timely and is, indeed, the desire of
+anyone who has ever undertaken to deal with this subject, but too often
+it is a disregard of facts and not of evidence that makes the
+difficulty. It is safe to say that most of the prejudice today is
+against the facts, it has not been caused by them.
+
+There are two preconceptions to be guarded against in making an approach
+to this question. One is that the Jewish imperialistic program, if such
+a thing exists, is of recent origin. Upon the mere mention of such a
+program, Gentiles are likely to think that it was formulated last week,
+or last year, or within recent time. That need not be the case at all,
+and in Jewish matters it is very likely not to be the case. It is very
+easy to see how, if the program were to be formulated today, it would be
+wholly different from the one which is to be considered. The kind of
+program that would be made today indeed exists too, but it is not to be
+compared in extent and profundity with that which has existed for a very
+long time. Perfect constitutions of invisible governments are not the
+creations of secret conventions; they are the accumulated thought and
+experience of centuries. Moreover, no matter how prone a modern
+generation may be to disregard such things, the mere fact that they may
+have existed as a secret racial ideal for centuries is a powerful
+argument for their respectable acceptance, if not active execution, by
+the generation that now is. There is no idea deeper in Judaism than that
+Jews constitute a Chosen People and that their future is to be more
+glorious than their past. A large part of the Christian world accepts
+that, too, and it may well be true, but in a moral universe it cannot
+come to pass by the methods which have been and are being used.
+
+But to mention the ancient lineage of the idea of the Chosen People is
+merely to suggest that of all the programs that may have gathered round
+it to assist its full historical realization, it is not strange that
+there should be one very old one to which the wisest minds of Israel
+have contributed their best of mind and heart to insure its success.
+That there is such a plan has been the belief of many deep delvers in
+the hidden things of the world, and that such a plan has at times had
+its dress rehearsals, so to speak, on a limited stage, as if in
+preparation for its grand finale on the universal stage, is another
+belief held by men at whose knowledge it is impossible to cavil.
+
+So, then, it may be that we are dealing with something for which
+present-day Jews, even the more important internationalists, are not
+originally responsible. It may have come to them as part of their
+ancient Jewish inheritance. Certainly, if it were a mere modern thing,
+hastily conceived and thrown together after the modern fashion, it could
+be expected to disappear in the same era which saw it born.
+
+Another preconception to be guarded against is that every Jew one meets
+has secret knowledge of this program. That is not the case. With the
+general idea of the ultimate triumph of Israel every Jew who has
+retained contact with his people is familiar, but with the special plans
+which for centuries have existed in formulated form for the attainment
+of that triumph, the average Jew is no more familiar than anyone
+else--no more so than was the average German with the secret plans of
+the Pan-Germanic party whose ideas started and guided the recent war.
+The average Jew enters into the plans of the secret group just to this
+extent, except in specially selected cases: It is perfectly understood
+that the consummation of the Jewish triumph will not be distasteful to
+any Jew, and if the methods to be used toward the end are a bit violent,
+every Jew can be depended upon to see in that violence a very
+insufficient retribution visited upon the Gentile world for the
+sufferings which it has caused the sons of Judah throughout the
+centuries.
+
+Still, with even these preconceptions guarded against, there is no
+escape from the conclusion that if such a program of Jewish world
+imperialism exists today, it must exist with the cognizance and active
+support of certain individuals, and that these groups of individuals
+must have somewhere an official head.
+
+This is, perhaps, the one point at which more investigators stop than at
+any other. The idea of a Jewish autocrat is too strange for the mind
+which has not been much in contact with the main question. And yet there
+is no race which more instinctively supports autocracy than does the
+Jewish race, no race which more craves and respects position. It is
+their sense of the value of position that explains the main course their
+activities take. The Jew is primarily a money-maker for the reason that
+up to this time money is the only means he knows by which to gain
+position. The Jews who have gained position for any other reason are
+comparatively few. This is not a Gentile gibe; it is the position of a
+famous Anglo-Jewish physician, Dr. Barnard Von Oven, who wrote: "All
+other means of distinction are denied him; he must rise by wealth, or
+not at all. And if, as he well knows, to insure wealth will be to insure
+rank, respect and attention in society, does the blame rest with him who
+endeavors to acquire wealth for the distinction which it will purchase,
+or with that society which so readily bows down to the shrine of
+Mammon?"
+
+The Jew is not averse to kings, only to the state of things which
+prevents a Jewish king. The future autocrat of the world is to be a
+Jewish king, sitting upon the throne of David, so ancient prophecies and
+the documents of the imperialistic program agree.
+
+Is such a king in the world now? If not, the men who could choose a king
+are in the world. There has been no king of the Jews since before the
+Christian Era, but until about the eleventh century there were Princes
+of the Exile, those who represented the headship of the Jews who were
+dispersed through the nations. They were and still are called
+"exilarchs," or Princes of the Exile. They were attended by the wise men
+of Israel, they held court, they gave the law to their people. They
+lived abroad wherever their circumstances or convenience dictated, in
+Christian or Mohammedan countries. Whether the office was discontinued
+with the last publicly known exilarch or merely disappeared from the
+surface of history, whether today it is entirely abandoned or exists in
+another form, are questions which must wait. That there are offices of
+world jurisdiction held by Jews is well known. That there are world
+organizations of Jews--organizations, that is, within the very strong
+solidarity of the Jewish nation itself--is well known. That there is
+world unity on certain Jewish activities, defensive and offensive, is
+well known. There is nothing in the condition or thought of the Jews
+which would render the existence today of an exilarch distasteful to
+them; indeed, the thought would be very comfortable.
+
+The Jewish Encyclopedia remarks: "Curiously enough, the exilarchs are
+still mentioned in the Sabbath services of the Ashkenazim ritual * * *
+The Jews of the Sephardic ritual have not preserved this anachronism,
+nor was it retained in most of the Reform synagogues of the nineteenth
+century."
+
+Is there, then, a Jewish Sanhedrin?--a governing or counseling body of
+Jews who take oversight of the affairs of their people throughout the
+world?
+
+The Jewish Sanhedrin was a most interesting institution. Its origin and
+method of constitution are obscure. It consisted of 71 members, with the
+president, and performed the functions of a political senate. There is
+nothing to show whence the Sanhedrin derived its authority. It was not
+an elective body. It was not democratic. It was not representative. It
+was not responsible to the people. In these qualities, it was typically
+Jewish. The Sanhedrin was chosen by the prince or priest, not with the
+purpose of safeguarding the people's interest, but to assist the ruler
+in the work of administration. It was thus assembled by call, or it was
+self-perpetuating, calling its own members. The arrangement seems to
+have been that well-known device by which an aristocracy can maintain
+itself in power whatever the political construction of the nation may
+be. The Jewish Encyclopedia says: "The Sanhedrin, which was entirely
+aristocratic in character, probably assumed its own authority, since it
+was composed of members of the most influential families of the nobility
+and priesthood."
+
+This body was flanked by a similar body, which governed the religious
+interests of the nation, the members being drawn apparently from classes
+nearer the common people.
+
+The Sanhedrin exercised authority not only over the Jews of Palestine,
+but wherever they were scattered throughout the world. As a senate
+exercising direct political authority, it ceased with the downfall of
+the Jewish State in the year 70, but there are indications of its
+continuance as an advisory body down to the fourth century.
+
+In 1806, in order to satisfy the mind of Napoleon upon some questions
+which had arisen concerning the Jews, an Assembly of Notables was
+called, whose membership consisted of prominent Jews of France. They, in
+turn, to bring the sanction of all Jewry to the answers which they
+should give Napoleon, convoked the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin assembled in
+Paris on February 9, 1807. It followed the prescribed ancient forms; it
+was comprised of Jews from all parts of Europe; it was assembled to put
+the whole authority of Jewry behind any compact the French Jews may have
+been able to make with Napoleon.
+
+In putting forth its decisions, this Sanhedrin of 1807 declared that it
+was in all respects like the ancient Sanhedrin, "a legal assembly vested
+with power of passing ordinances in order to promote the welfare of
+Israel."
+
+The significance of these facts is this: Whatever the leaders of the
+Jews may do today in the way of maintaining the policy and constitution
+of Israel, would not constitute a new departure. It would not signify a
+new attitude. It would not be evidence of a new plan.
+
+It would be entirely natural, Jewish solidarity being what it is, that
+the Sanhedrin should still be continued. The ancient Sanhedrin appears
+to have had a group of ten who were somewhat exalted in importance above
+the rest; it would be perfectly natural if the leaders of the Jews were
+today divided into committees, by countries or by objects.
+
+There are always being held, year by year, world meetings of the
+principal Jews of all lands. They come together whenever called, to the
+disregard of everything else. Great judges from the high courts of the
+various countries, international financiers, Jewish orators of the
+"liberal type" who have the ear of the Gentiles, political maneuverers
+from all the parties represented in the world, they assemble wherever
+they will, and the subjects of their deliberations are made known only
+to the extent they will. It is not to be supposed that all of the
+attendants on these conventions are members of the inner circle. The
+list of delegates will show scores of persons with whom no one would
+associate Lord Reading and Judge Brandeis. If the modern Sanhedrin
+meets, and it would be the most natural thing in the world if it should,
+we may be sure it meets within the closed circle of those persons which
+the Jewish aristocracy of money, intellect and power approves.
+
+The machinery of a Jewish world government exists ready-made. The Jew is
+convinced that he has the best religion, the best morality, the best
+method of education, the best social standards, the best ideal of
+government. He would not have to go outside the circle of that which he
+considers best to get anything which he may need to advance the welfare
+of his people, or to execute any program which may have to do with the
+outside world.
+
+It is the ancient machinery that the international Jew uses in all those
+activities which he permits the world to see in part. There are
+gatherings of the financial, political and intellectual chief rulers of
+the Jews. These gatherings are announced for one or another
+thing--sometimes. Sometimes there is a gathering of Jews in a world
+capital, with no announced purpose. They all appear in one city, confer
+and depart.
+
+Whether there is a recognized head to all of this is yet to be
+disclosed. There can be little doubt, however, as to the existence of
+what may be called a "foreign policy," that is, a definite point of view
+and plan of action with reference to the Gentile world. The Jew feels
+that he is in the midst of enemies, but he also feels that he is a
+member of a people--"one people." He must have some policy with regard
+to the outer world. He cannot help but consider present conditions, he
+cannot consider them without being stirred to speculate upon what the
+outcome must be, and he cannot speculate on the outcome without in some
+manner endeavoring to make it as he would like it to be.
+
+The invisible government of the Jews, its attitude toward the Gentile
+world, its policy with regard to the future, are not, then, the abnormal
+things that some would make them appear. Given the Jewish position, they
+are of all things most natural. Jewish existence in this world is not
+such as woos the Jew into sleepy contentment; it is such as stirs him
+into organization against future contingencies and into programs which
+may shape those contingencies to the benefit of his race. That there
+should be a Sanhedrin of the Jews, a world body of the leading men of
+all countries; that there should even be an exilarch, a visible and
+recognized head of the Sanhedrin, mystically foreshadowing the autocrat
+to come; that there should even be a world program, just as every
+government has its foreign policy, are not strange, uncanny
+suppositions. They grow normally out of the situation itself.
+
+And it is also natural that not every Jew should know this. The
+Sanhedrin always was the aristocracy, and would be today. When rabbis
+cry from their pulpits that they know nothing about this thing, they are
+doubtless telling the truth. What the international Jew depends upon is
+the likelihood of every Jew approving that which brings power and
+prestige to his people. At any rate, it is well enough known that
+however little the ordinary Jewish leader may have been told about world
+programs, he regards with the greatest respect and confidence the very
+men who must put these programs through, if these exist at all.
+
+The twenty-fourth Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion has this to
+say:
+
+"Now I will discuss the manner in which the roots of the house of King
+David will penetrate to the deepest strata of the earth. This dynasty,
+even to this day, has given the power of controlling world affairs to
+our wise men, the educational directors of all human thought."
+
+This would indicate, if reliable, that, as the Protocol goes on to
+recite, the Autocrat himself has not appeared, but the dynasty, or the
+Davidic line in which he must appear, have entrusted the work of
+preparing for him to the Wise Men of Zion. These wise men are
+represented not only as preparing those who exercise rulership over
+Judaism's affairs, but also as framing and influencing the world's
+thought toward ends which shall be propitious to these plans. Whatever
+may be hidden in the program, it is certain that its execution or the
+effects of its execution cannot be hidden. Therefore, it may be possible
+to find in the outer world the clues which, traced back to their source,
+reveal the existence of a program, whose promise for the world, good or
+bad, ought to be widely known.
+
+[Issue of July 17, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+X.
+
+An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
+
+
+The documents most frequently mentioned by those who are interested in
+the theory of Jewish World Power rather than in the actual operation of
+that power in the world today, are those 24 documents known as "The
+Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."
+
+The Protocols have attracted much attention in Europe, having become the
+center of an important storm of opinion in England only recently, but
+discussion of them in the United States has been limited. These are the
+documents concerning which the Department of Justice was making
+inquiries more than a year ago, and which were given publication in
+London by Eyre and Spottiswoode, the official printers to the British
+Government.
+
+Who it was that first entitled these documents with the name of the
+"Elders of Zion" is not known. It would be possible without serious
+mutilation of the documents to remove all hint of Jewish authorship, and
+yet retain all the main points of the most comprehensive program for
+world subjugation that has ever come to public knowledge.
+
+Yet it must be said that thus to eliminate all hint of Jewish authorship
+would be to bring out a number of contradictions which do not exist in
+the Protocols in their present form. The purpose of the plan revealed in
+the Protocols is to undermine all authority in order that a new
+authority in the form of autocracy may be set up. Such a plan could not
+emanate from a ruling class which already possessed authority, although
+it might emanate from anarchists. But anarchists do not avow autocracy
+as the ultimate condition they seek. The authors might be conceived as a
+company of French Subversives such as existed at the time of the French
+Revolution and had the infamous Duc d'Orleans as their leader, but this
+would involve a contradiction between the fact that those Subversives
+have passed away, and the fact that the program announced in these
+Protocols is being steadily carried out, not only in France, but
+throughout Europe and very noticeably in the United States.
+
+In their present form which bears evidence of being their original form,
+there is no contradiction. The allegation of Jewish authorship seems
+essential to the consistency of the plan.
+
+If these documents were the forgeries which Jewish apologists claim them
+to be, the forgers would probably have taken pains to make Jewish
+authorship so clear that their anti-Semitic purpose could easily have
+been detected. But only twice is the term "Jew" used in them. After one
+has read much further than the average reader usually cares to go into
+such matters, one comes upon the plans for the establishment of the
+World Autocrat, and only then it is made clear of what lineage he is to
+be.
+
+But all through the documents there is left no doubt as to the people
+against whom the plan is aimed. It is not aimed against aristocracy as
+such. It is not aimed against capital as such. It is not aimed against
+government as such. Very definite provisions are made for the enlistment
+of aristocracy, capital and government for the execution of the plan. It
+is aimed against the people of the world who are called "Gentiles." It
+is the frequent mention of "Gentiles" that really decides the purpose of
+the documents. Most of the destructive type of "liberal" plans aim at
+the enlistment of the people as helpers; this plan aims at the
+degeneration of the people in order that they may be reduced to
+confusion of mind and thus manipulated. Popular movements of a "liberal"
+kind are to be encouraged, all the disruptive philosophies in religion,
+economics, politics and domestic life are to be sown and watered, for
+the purpose of so disintegrating social solidarity that a definite plan,
+herein set forth, may be put through without notice, and the people then
+molded to it when the fallacy of these philosophies is shown.
+
+The formula of speech is not, "We Jews will do this," but "The Gentiles
+will be made to think and do these things." With the exception of a few
+instances in the closing Protocols, the only distinctive racial term
+used is "Gentiles."
+
+To illustrate: the first indication of this kind comes in the first
+Protocol in this way:
+
+"The great qualities of the people--honesty and frankness--are
+essentially vices in politics, because they dethrone more surely and
+more certainly than does the strongest enemy. These qualities are
+attributes of Gentile rule; we certainly must not be guided by them."
+
+And again:
+
+"On the ruins of the hereditary aristocracy of the Gentiles we have set
+up the aristocracy of our educated class, and over all the aristocracy
+of money. We have established the basis of this new aristocracy on the
+basis of riches, which we control, and on the science guided by our wise
+men."
+
+Again:
+
+"We will force up wages, which however will be of no benefit to workers,
+for we at the same time will cause a rise in the prices of prime
+necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture
+and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply undermine the
+sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas of anarchy and
+encourage them in the use of alcohol, at the same time taking measures
+to drive all the intellectual forces of the Gentiles from the land."
+
+(A forger with anti-Semitic malice might have written this any time
+within the last five years, but these words were in print at least 14
+years ago according to British evidence, a copy having been in the
+British Museum since 1906, and they were circulated in Russia a number
+of years prior.)
+
+The above point continues: "That the true situation shall not be noticed
+by the Gentiles prematurely we will mask it by a pretended effort to
+serve the working classes and promote great economic principles, for
+which an active propaganda will be carried on through our economic
+theories."
+
+These quotations will illustrate the style of the Protocols in making
+reference to the parties involved. It is "we" for the writers, and
+"Gentiles" for those who are being written about. This is brought out
+very clearly in the Fourteenth Protocol:
+
+"In this divergence between Gentiles and ourselves in ability to think
+and reason is to be seen clearly the seal of our election as the chosen
+people, as higher human beings, in contrast with the Gentiles who have
+merely instinctive and animal minds. They observe, but they do not
+foresee, and they invent nothing (except perhaps material things). It is
+clear from this that nature herself predestined us to rule and guide the
+world."
+
+This, of course, has been the Jewish method of dividing humanity from
+the earliest times. The world was only Jew and Gentile; all that was not
+Jew was Gentile.
+
+The use of the word Jew in the Protocol may be illustrated by this
+passage in the eighth section:
+
+"For the time being, until it will be safe to give responsible
+government positions to our brother Jews, we shall entrust them to
+people whose past and whose characters are such that there is an abyss
+between them and the people."
+
+This is the practice known as using "Gentile fronts" which is
+extensively practiced in the financial world today in order to cover up
+the evidences of Jewish control. How much progress has been made since
+these words were written is indicated by the occurrence at the San
+Francisco convention when the name of Judge Brandeis was proposed for
+President. It is reasonably to be expected that the public mind will be
+made more and more familiar with the idea of Jewish occupancy--which
+will be really a short step from the present degree of influence which
+the Jews exercise--of the highest office in the government. There is no
+function of the American Presidency in which the Jews have not already
+secretly assisted in a very important degree. Actual occupancy of the
+office is not necessary to enhance their power, but to promote certain
+things which parallel very closely the plans outlined in the Protocols
+now before us.
+
+Another point which the reader of the Protocols will notice is that the
+tone of exhortation is entirely absent from these documents. They are
+not propaganda. They are not efforts to stimulate the ambitions or
+activity of those to whom they are addressed. They are as cool as a
+legal paper and as matter-of-fact as a table of statistics. There is
+none of the "Let us rise, my brothers" stuff about them. There is no
+"Down with the Gentiles" hysteria. These Protocols, if indeed they were
+made by Jews and confided to Jews, or if they do contain certain
+principles of a Jewish World Program, were certainly not intended for
+the firebrands but for the carefully prepared and tested initiates of
+the higher groups.
+
+Jewish apologists have asked, "Is it conceivable that if there were such
+a world program on the part of the Jews, they would reduce it to writing
+and publish it?" But there is no evidence that these Protocols were ever
+uttered otherwise than in spoken words by those who put them forth. The
+Protocols as we have them are apparently the notes of lectures which
+were made by someone who heard them. Some of them are lengthy; some of
+them are brief. The assertion which has always been made in connection
+with the Protocols since they have become known is that they are the
+notes of lectures delivered to Jewish students presumably somewhere in
+France or Switzerland. The attempt to make them appear to be of Russian
+origin is absolutely forestalled by the point of view, the reference to
+the times and certain grammatical indications.
+
+The tone certainly fits the supposition that they were originally
+lectures given to students, for their purpose is clearly not to get a
+program accepted but to give information concerning a program which is
+represented as being already in process of fulfillment. There is no
+invitation to join forces or to offer opinions. Indeed it is
+specifically announced that neither discussion nor opinions are desired.
+("While preaching liberalism to the Gentiles, we shall hold our own
+people and our own agents in unquestioning obedience." "The scheme of
+administration must emanate from a single brain * * * Therefore, we may
+know the plan of action, but we must not discuss it, lest we destroy its
+unique character * * * The inspired work of our leader therefore must
+not be thrown before a crowd to be torn to pieces, or even before a
+limited group.")
+
+Moreover, taking the Protocols at their face value, it is evident that
+the program outlined in these lecture notes was not a new one at the
+time the lectures were given. There is no evidence of its being of
+recent arrangement. There is almost the tone of a tradition, or a
+religion, in it all, as if it had been handed down from generation to
+generation through the medium of specially trusted and initiated men.
+There is no note of new discovery or fresh enthusiasm in it, but the
+certitude and calmness of facts long known and policies long confirmed
+by experiment.
+
+This point of the age of the program is touched upon at least twice in
+the Protocols themselves. In the First Protocol this paragraph occurs:
+
+"Already in ancient times we were the first to shout the words,
+'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,' among the people. These words have been
+repeated many times by unconscious poll-parrots, flocking from all sides
+to this bait, with which they have ruined the prosperity of the world
+and true personal freedom * * * The presumably clever and intellectual
+Gentiles did not understand the symbolism of the uttered words; did not
+observe their contradiction in meaning; did not notice that in nature
+there is no equality * * *"
+
+The other reference to the program's finality is found in the Thirteenth
+Protocol:
+
+"Questions of policy, however, are permitted to no one except those who
+have originated the policy and have directed it for many centuries."
+
+Can this be a reference to a secret Jewish Sanhedrin, self-perpetuating
+within a certain Jewish caste from generation to generation?
+
+Again, it must be said that the originators and directors here referred
+to cannot be at present any ruling caste, for all that the program
+contemplates is directly opposed to the interests of such a caste. It
+cannot refer to any national aristocratic group, like the Junkers of
+Germany, for the methods which are proposed are the very ones which
+would render powerless such a group. It cannot refer to any but a people
+who have no government, who have everything to gain and nothing to lose,
+and who can keep themselves intact amid a crumbling world. There is only
+one group that answers that description.
+
+Again, a reading of the Protocols makes it clear that the speaker
+himself was not seeking for honor. There is a complete absence of
+personal ambition throughout the document. All plans and purposes and
+expectations are merged in the future of Israel, which future, it would
+seem, can only be secured by the subtle breaking down of certain world
+ideas held by the Gentiles. The Protocols speak of what has been done,
+what was being done at the time these words were given, and what
+remained to be done. Nothing like them in completeness of detail, in
+breadth of plan and in deep grasp of the hidden springs of human action
+has ever been known. They are verily terrible in their mastery of the
+secrets of life, equally terrible in their consciousness of that
+mastery. Truly they would merit the opinion which Jews have recently
+cast upon them, that they were the work of an inspired madman, were it
+not that what is written in the Protocols in words is also written upon
+the life of today in deeds and tendencies.
+
+The criticisms which these Protocols pass upon the Gentiles for their
+stupidity are just. It is impossible to disagree with a single item in
+the Protocols' description of Gentile mentality and veniality. Even the
+most astute of the Gentile thinkers have been fooled into receiving as
+the motions of progress what has only been insinuated into the common
+human mind by the most insidious systems of propaganda.
+
+It is true that here and there a thinker has arisen to say that science
+so-called was not science at all. It is true that here and there a
+thinker has arisen to say that the so-called economic laws both of
+conservatives and radicals were not laws at all, but artificial
+inventions. It is true that occasionally a keen observer has asserted
+that the recent debauch of luxury and extravagance was not due to the
+natural impulses of the people at all, but was systematically
+stimulated, foisted upon them by design. It is true that a few have
+discerned that more than half of what passes for "public opinion" is
+mere hired applause and booing and has never impressed the public mind.
+
+But even with these clues here and there, for the most part disregarded,
+there has never been enough continuity and collaboration between those
+who were awake, to follow all the clues to their source. The chief
+explanation of the hold which the Protocols have had on many of the
+leading statesmen of the world for several decades is that they explain
+whence all these false influences come and what their purpose is. They
+give a clue to the modern maze. It is now time for the people to know.
+And whether the Protocols are judged as proving anything concerning the
+Jews or not, they constitute an education in the way the masses are
+turned about like sheep by influences which they do not understand. It
+is almost certain that once the principles of the Protocols are known
+widely and understood by the people, the criticism which they now
+rightly make of the Gentile mind will no longer hold good.
+
+It is the purpose of future articles in this series to study these
+documents and to answer out of their contents all the questions that may
+arise concerning them.
+
+Before that work is begun, one question should be answered--"Is there
+likelihood of the program of the Protocols being carried through to
+success?" The program is successful already. In many of its most
+important phases it is already a reality. But this need not cause alarm,
+for the chief weapon to be used against such a program, both in its
+completed and uncompleted parts, is clear publicity. Let the people
+know. Arousing the people, alarming the people, appealing to the
+passions of the people is the method of the plan outlined in the
+Protocols. The antidote is merely enlightening the people.
+
+That is the only purpose of these articles. Enlightenment dispels
+prejudice. It is as desirable to dispel the prejudice of the Jew as of
+the Gentile. Jewish writers too frequently assume that the prejudice is
+all on one side. The Protocols themselves ought to have the widest
+circulation among the Jewish people, in order that they may check those
+things which are bringing suspicion upon their name.
+
+[Issue of July 24, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XI.
+
+"Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
+
+"Upon completing this program of our present and future actions, I will
+read to you the principles of these theories."--Protocol 16.
+
+"In all that I have discussed with you hitherto, I have endeavored to
+indicate carefully the secrets of past and future events and of those
+momentous occurrences of the near future toward which we are rushing in
+a stream of great crises, anticipating the hidden principles of
+future relationships with the Gentiles and of our financial
+operations."--Protocol 22.
+
+
+The Protocols, which profess themselves to be an outline of the Jewish
+World Program, are found upon analysis to contain four main divisions.
+These, however, are not marked in the structure of the documents, but in
+the thought. There is a fifth, if the object of it all is included, but
+this object is assumed throughout the Protocols, being only here and
+there defined in terms. And the four main divisions are great trunks
+from which there are numerous branches.
+
+There is first what is alleged to be the Jewish conception of human
+nature, by which is meant Gentile nature. It is inconceivable that such
+a plan as that which the Protocols set forth could have been evolved by
+a mind that had not previously based the probability of success on a
+certain estimate of the ignobility and corruptibility of human
+nature--which all through the Protocols is referred to as Gentile
+nature.
+
+Then, secondly, there is the account of what has already been
+accomplished in the realization of the program--things actually done.
+
+Thirdly, there is a complete instruction in the methods to be used to
+get the program still further fulfilled--methods which would themselves
+supply the estimate of human nature upon which the whole fabric is
+based, if there were nothing else to indicate it.
+
+Fourth, the Protocols contain in detail some of the achievements which,
+at the time these words were uttered, were yet to be made. Some of these
+desired things have been achieved in the meantime, for it should be
+borne in mind that between the year 1905 and the year 1920 there has
+been time to set many influences in motion and attain many ends. As the
+second quotation at the head of this article would indicate, the speaker
+knew that events were "rushing in a stream of great crises," a knowledge
+which is amply attested by Jewish sources outside the Protocols.
+
+If this series of articles represented a special pleading upon the
+Jewish Question, the present article would seek to win the reader's
+confidence by presenting first the set of facts which are described
+under "secondly" in the above list of main divisions. To begin with the
+estimate of human nature here disclosed is to court alienation of the
+reader's interest, especially if the reader be a Gentile. We know from
+abundant sources what the Jewish estimate of human nature is, and it
+tallies in all respects with what is disclosed in the Protocols, but it
+has always been one of the fallacies of Gentile thought that human
+nature is, now, full of dignity and nobility. There is little question,
+when the subject is considered in all its lights, that the Jewish
+conception is right. And so far as these Protocols are concerned, their
+low estimate of mankind, though harsh to human pride and conceit, are
+very largely true.
+
+Just to run through the Protocols and select the salient passages in
+which this view is expressed is to find a pretty complete philosophy of
+the motives and qualities of human beings.
+
+Take these words from the First Protocol:
+
+"It should be noted that people with evil instincts are more numerous
+than those with good ones; therefore, the best results in governing them
+are attained by intimidation and violence, and not by academic argument.
+Every man aims for power; everyone desires to be a dictator, if
+possible; moreover, few would not sacrifice the good of others to attain
+their own ends."
+
+"People in masses and people of the masses are guided by exceptionally
+shallow passions, beliefs, customs, traditions and sentimental theories
+and are inclined toward party divisions, a fact which prevents any form
+of agreement, even when this is founded on a thoroughly logical basis.
+Every decision of the mob depends upon an accidental or prearranged
+majority, which, owing to its ignorance of the mysteries of political
+secrets, gives expression to absurd decisions that introduce anarchy
+into government."
+
+"In working out an expedient plan of action, it is necessary to take
+into consideration the meanness, the vacillation, the changeability of
+the crowd * * * It is necessary to realize that the force of the masses
+is blind, unreasoning and unintelligent, prone to listen now to the
+right, and now to the left * * *"
+
+"Our triumph has also been made easier because, in our relations with
+the people necessary to us, we have always played upon the most
+sensitive strings of the human mind--on calculation, greed, and the
+insatiable material desires of men. Each of these human weaknesses,
+taken separately, is capable of paralyzing initiative and placing the
+will of the people at the disposal of the purchaser of their
+activities."
+
+In the Fifth Protocol, this shrewd observation on human nature is to be
+found:
+
+"In all times, nations as well as individuals, accepted words for acts.
+They have been satisfied by what is shown them, rarely noticing whether
+the promise has been followed by fulfillment. For this reason we will
+organize 'show' institutions which will conspicuously display their
+devotion to progress."
+
+And this from the Eleventh Protocol:
+
+"The Gentiles are like a flock of sheep * * * They will close their eyes
+to everything because we will promise them to return all the liberties
+taken away, after the enemies of peace have been subjugated and all the
+parties pacified. Is it worth while to speak of how long they will have
+to wait? For what have we conceived all this program and instilled its
+measures into the minds of the Gentiles without giving them the
+possibility of examining its underside, if it is not for the purpose of
+attaining by circuitous methods that which is unattainable to our
+scattered race by a direct route?"
+
+Notice also this very shrewd observation upon the "joiners" of secret
+societies--this estimate being made by the Protocols to indicate how
+easily these societies may be used to further the plan:
+
+"Usually it is the climbers, careerists and people, generally speaking,
+who are not serious, who most readily join secret societies, and we
+shall find them easy to handle and through them operate the mechanism of
+our projected machine."
+
+The remarks under this head are curtailed by the present writer, because
+the Protocols make reference to a very important secret order, the
+mention of whose name in this connection might lead to misunderstanding,
+and which is therefore reserved for future and fuller attention. It
+will, however, be of interest to the members of that order to see what
+the Protocols have to say of it, and then check up the facts and see how
+far they correspond with the words.
+
+To continue: "The Gentiles join lodges out of curiosity or in the hope
+that through them they may worm their way into social distinction * * *
+We therefore give them this success so that we can take advantage of the
+self-conceit to which it gives birth and because of which people
+unconsciously accept our suggestions without examination * * * You
+cannot imagine to what an extent the most intelligent Gentiles may be
+brought to a state of unconscious naivete under conditions of
+self-deceit, and how easy it is to discourage them by the least failure,
+even the stopping of applause, or to bring them into a state of servile
+subjection for the sake of regaining it. The Gentiles are as ready to
+sacrifice their plans for the sake of popular success as our people are
+to ignore success for the sake of carrying out our plans. This
+psychology of theirs facilitates the task of directing them."
+
+These are a few of the passages in which this estimate of human or
+Gentile nature is made out in words. But even if it were not so baldly
+stated, it could be easily inferred from various items in the program
+which was depended upon to break up Gentile solidarity and strength.
+
+The method is one of disintegration. Break up the people into parties
+and sects. Sow abroad the most promising and utopian of ideas and you
+will do two things: you will always find a group to cling to each idea
+you throw out; and you will find this partisanship dividing and
+estranging the various groups. The authors of the Protocols show in
+detail how this is to be done. Not one idea, but a mass of ideas are to
+be thrown out, and there is to be no unity among them. The purpose is
+not to get the people thinking one thing, but to think so diversely
+about so many different things that there will be no unity among them.
+The result of this will be vast disunity, vast unrest--and that is the
+result aimed for.
+
+When once the solidarity of the Gentile society is broken up--and the
+name, "Gentile society" is perfectly correct, for human society is
+overwhelmingly Gentile--then this solid wedge of another idea which is
+not at all affected by the prevailing confusion can make its way
+unsuspectedly to the place of control. It is well enough known that a
+body of 20 trained police or soldiers can accomplish more than a
+disordered mob of a thousand persons. So the minority initiated into the
+plan can do more with a nation or a world broken into a thousand
+antagonistic parties, than any of the parties could do. "Divide and
+rule" is the motto of the Protocols.
+
+The division of society is perfectly easy, according to the estimate of
+human nature made in these documents. It is human nature to take
+promises for acts. No one who considered the list of dreams and vagaries
+and theories that have swayed the people through the centuries can doubt
+this. The more utopian, the more butterfly-like the theory, the more it
+commands public adherence. Just as the Protocols say, Gentile society
+does not scrutinize the origin or the consequences of the theories it
+adopts. When a theory makes its appeal to the mind, the tendency is to
+believe that the mind which receives it always had it in essence, and
+therefore the experience has all the glow of original discovery.
+
+In this manner, theory after theory has been exploited among the masses,
+theory after theory has been found to be impracticable and has been
+discarded, but the result is precisely that which the program of the
+Protocols aims for--with the discarding of each theory, society is a
+little more broken than it was before. It is a little more helpless
+before its exploiters. It is a little more confused as to where to look
+for leadership. As a consequence society falls an easy victim again to a
+theory which promises it the good it seeks, and the failure of this
+theory leaves it still more broken. There is no longer any such thing as
+public opinion. Distrust and division are everywhere. And in the midst
+of the confusion everyone is dimly aware that there is a higher group
+that is not divided at all, but is getting exactly what it wants by
+means of the confusion that obtains all around. It will be shown, as
+claimed by the Protocols, that most of the disruptive theories abroad in
+the world today are of Jewish origin; it will also be shown that the one
+solid unbroken group in the world today, the group that knows where it
+wants to go and is going there regardless of the condition of society,
+is the Jewish group.
+
+The most dangerous theory of all is that which explains the rise of
+theories and the social break-up which follows them. These are all
+"symptoms of progress" we are told. If so, then "progress" is toward
+dissolution. No one can predicate the fact of "progress" on the ground
+that, whereas our fathers made wheels to go round with the blowing wind
+or the running water, we make them go round by successive small
+explosions of gasoline. The question of "progress" is, Where are the
+wheels taking us? Was windmill and water wheel society better or worse
+than the present society? Was it more unified in its morality? Did it
+more highly respect law, did it produce a higher and sturdier type of
+character?
+
+The modern theory of "ferment," that out of all the unrest and change
+and transvaluation of values a new and better mankind is to be evolved
+is not borne out by any fact on the horizon. It is palpably a theory
+whose purpose is to make a seeming good out of that which is undeniable
+evil. The theories which cause the disruption and the theory which
+explains the disruption as good, come from the same source. The whole
+science of economics, conservative and radical, capitalistic and
+anarchistic, is of Jewish origin. This is another of the announcements
+of the Protocols which the facts confirm.
+
+Now, all this is accomplished, not by acts, but by words. The
+word-brokers of the world, those who wish words to do duty for things,
+in their dealings with the world outside their class, are undoubtedly
+the Jewish group--the international Jews with which these articles
+deal--and their philosophy and practice are precisely set forth in the
+Protocols.
+
+Take for illustration these passages: The first is from the First
+Protocol:
+
+"Political freedom is an idea, not a fact. It is necessary to know how
+to apply this idea when there is need of a clever bait to gain the
+support of the people for one's party, if such a party has undertaken to
+defeat another party already in power. This task is made easier if the
+opponent has himself been infected by principles of freedom or so-called
+liberalism, and for the sake of the idea will yield some of his own
+power."
+
+Or consider this from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"To obtain control over public opinion, it is first necessary to confuse
+it by the expression from various sides of so many conflicting opinions
+that the Gentiles will lose themselves in the labyrinth and come to
+understand that it is best to have no opinion on political questions,
+which it is not given to society at large to understand but only to the
+ruler who directs society. This is the first secret.
+
+"The second secret consists in so increasing and intensifying the
+shortcomings of the people in their habits, passions and mode of living
+that no one will be able to collect himself in the chaos, and,
+consequently, people will lose all their mutual understanding. This
+measure will serve us also in breeding disagreement in all parties, in
+disintegrating all those collective forces which are still unwilling to
+submit to us and in discouraging all personal initiative which can in
+any way interfere with our undertaking."
+
+And this from the Thirteenth Protocol:
+
+"* * * and you may also notice that we seek approval, not for our acts,
+but for our words uttered in regard to one or another question. We
+always announce publicly that we are guided in all our measures by the
+hope and the conviction that we are serving the general good.
+
+"To divert over-restless people from discussing political questions, we
+shall now bring forward new problems apparently connected with the
+people--problems of industry. In these, let them lose themselves as much
+as they like. Under such conditions we shall make them think that the
+new questions have also a political bearing."
+
+(It is to be hoped that the reader, as his eye passes over these details
+of the Program, is also permitting his mind to pass over the trend of
+events, to see if he may detect for himself these very developments in
+the life and thought of the past few years.)
+
+"To prevent them from really thinking out anything themselves, we shall
+deflect their attention to amusements, games, pastimes, excitements and
+people's palaces. Such interests will distract their minds completely
+from questions on which we might be obliged to struggle with them.
+Becoming less and less accustomed to independent thinking, people will
+express themselves in unison with us because we alone offer new lines of
+thought--of course, through persons whom they do not consider as in any
+way connected with us."
+
+In this same Protocol it is plainly stated what is the purpose of the
+output of "liberal" theories, of which Jewish writers, poets, rabbis,
+societies and influences are the most prolific sources:
+
+"The role of the liberal Utopians will be completely played out when our
+government is recognized. Until that time they will perform good
+service. For that reason we will continue to direct thought into all the
+intricacies of fantastic theories, new and supposedly progressive.
+Surely we have been completely successful in turning the witless heads
+of the Gentiles by the word 'progress.'"
+
+Here is the whole program of confusing, enervating, and trivializing the
+mind of the world. And it would be the most outlandish thought to put
+into words, were it not possible to show that this is just what has been
+done, and is still being done, by agencies which are highly lauded and
+easy to be identified among us.
+
+A recent writer in a prominent magazine has pointed out what he calls
+the impossibility of the Jewish ruling group being allied in one common
+World Program because, as he showed, there were Jews acting as leading
+minds in all the divisions of present-day opinion. There were Jews at
+the head of the capitalists, Jews at the head of the labor unions, and
+Jews at the head of those more radical organizations which find even the
+labor unions too tame. There is a Jew at the head of the judiciary of
+England and a Jew at the head of Sovietism in Russia. How can you say,
+he asked, that they are united, when they represent so many points of
+view?
+
+The common unity, the possible common purpose of it all, is thus
+expressed in the Ninth Protocol:
+
+"People of all opinions and of all doctrines are at our service,
+restorers of monarchy, demagogues, Socialists, communists and other
+Utopians. We have put them all to work. Every one of them from his point
+of view is undermining the last remnant of authority, is trying to
+overthrow all existing order. All the governments have been tormented by
+these actions. But we will not give them peace until they recognize our
+super-government."
+
+The function of the idea is referred to in the Tenth Protocol also:
+
+"When we introduced the poison of liberalism into the government
+organism, its entire political complexion changed."
+
+The whole outlook of these Protocols upon the world is that the idea may
+be made a most potent poison. The authors of these documents do not
+believe in liberalism, they do not believe in democracy, but they lay
+plans for the constant preaching of these ideas because of their power
+to break up society, to divide it into groups, to destroy the power of
+collective opinion through a variety of convictions. The poison of an
+idea is their most relied-on weapon.
+
+The plan of thus using ideas extends to education:
+
+"We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us, but
+which we have inspired."--Protocol 9.
+
+It extends also to family life:
+
+"Having in this way inspired everybody with the thought of his own
+importance, we will break down the influence of family life among the
+Gentiles, and its educational importance."--Protocol 10.
+
+And in a passage which might well provide the material for long
+examination and contemplation by the thoughtful reader, this is said:
+
+"Until the time is ripe, let them amuse themselves * * * Let those
+theories of life which we have induced them to regard as the dictates of
+science play the most important role for them. To this end we shall
+endeavor to inspire blind confidence in these theories by means of our
+Press * * *
+
+"Note the successes we have arranged in Darwinism, Marxism, and
+Nietzscheism. The demoralizing effect of these doctrines upon the minds
+of the Gentiles should be evident at least to us."--Protocol 2.
+
+That this disintegration and division of Gentile society was proceeding
+at a favorable rate when the Protocols were uttered is evident from
+every line of them. For it must be remembered that the Protocols are not
+bidding for support for a proposed program, but are announcing progress
+on a program which has been in process of fulfillment for "centuries"
+and "from ancient times." They contain a series of statements regarding
+things accomplished, as well as a forelook at things yet to be
+accomplished. The split of Gentile society was very satisfactorily
+proceeding in 1896, or thereabouts, when these oracles were uttered.
+
+It is to be noticed that the purpose is nowhere stated to be the
+extermination of the Gentiles, but their subjugation, at first under the
+invisible rule which is proposed in these documents, at length under the
+rule of one whom the invisible forces would be able to put in control of
+the world through political changes which would create an office of
+World President or Autocrat. The Gentiles are to be subdued, first
+intellectually, as here shown, and then economically. Nowhere is it
+hinted that they are to be deprived of the earth, but only of their
+independence of those whom the Protocols represent to be Jews.
+
+How far the division of society had proceeded when these Protocols were
+given may be gathered from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"A world coalition of Gentiles could cope with us temporarily, but we
+are assured against this by roots of dissension among them so deep that
+they cannot be torn out. We have created antagonism between the personal
+and national interests of the Gentiles by arousing religious and race
+hatreds which we have nourished in their hearts for twenty centuries."
+
+As far as that concerns the dissensions of the Gentiles or Christian
+world, it is absolutely true. And we have seen in our own nation how
+"the antagonism between personal and national interests" have rested on
+"religious and race hatreds." But whoever suspected a common source for
+these? More amazing still, who would expect any man or group to avow
+themselves the source? Yet it is thus written in the Protocols--"we have
+created the antagonism--we thus assure ourselves against the possibility
+of a Gentile coalition against us." And whether these Protocols are of
+Jewish origin or not, whether they represent Jewish interests or not,
+this is exactly the state of the world, of the Gentile world, today.
+
+But a still deeper division is aimed for, and there are signs of even
+this coming to pass. Indeed, in Russia it has already come to pass, the
+spectacle of a Gentile lower class led by Jewish leaders against a
+Gentile upper class! In the First Protocol, describing the effects of a
+speculative industrial system upon the people, it is said that this sort
+of economic folly--
+
+"* * * has already created and will continue to create a society which
+is disillusioned, cold and heartless. Such a society is completely
+estranged from politics and religion. Lust of gold will be the only
+guide of the people * * * THEN, not for the sake of good, nor even for
+the sake of riches, but solely on account of their hatred of the
+privileged classes, the lower classes of the Gentiles will follow us in
+the struggle against our rivals for power, the Gentiles of the
+intellectual classes."
+
+"The lower classes of the Gentiles will follow us * * * against * * *
+the Gentiles of the intellectual classes."
+
+If that struggle were to occur today, the leaders of the Gentile
+insurgents against Gentile society would be Jewish leaders. They are in
+the leader's place now--not only in Russia, but also in the United
+States.
+
+[Issue of July 31, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"There is all the difference in the world," said a young Jewish
+philosopher, "between an American Jew and a Jewish American. A Jewish
+American is a mere amateur Gentile, doomed to be a parasite forever."
+
+--"The Conquering Jew," p. 91.
+
+XII.
+
+"Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
+
+"With the present instability of all authority, our power will be more
+unassailable than any other, because it will be invisible until it has
+gained such strength that no cunning can undermine it."--Protocol 1.
+
+"It is indispensable for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars
+should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an
+economic footing . . . . Such a condition of affairs will place both
+sides under the control of our international agents with their million
+eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. Then, our
+international rights will eliminate national rights in the narrow
+sense, and will govern the governments as they govern their
+subjects."--Protocol 2.
+
+
+As a mere literary curiosity, these documents which are called "The
+Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" would exercise a fascination by
+reason of the terrible completeness of the World Plan which they
+disclose. But they discourage at every turn the view that they are
+literature; they purport to be statesmanship, and they provide within
+their own lines the clue by which their status may be determined.
+Besides the things they look forward to doing, they announce the things
+they have done and are doing. If, in looking about the world, it is
+possible to see both the established conditions and the strong
+tendencies to which these Protocols allude, it will not be strange if
+interest in a mere literary curiosity gives way to something like
+alertness, and it may be alarm.
+
+A few general quotations will serve to illustrate the element of present
+achievement in the assertions of these documents, and in order that the
+point may be made clear to the reader the key words will be emphasized.
+
+Take this from Protocol Nine:
+
+"In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government has
+such an extra-legal status that it may be called by the energetic and
+strong word--dictatorship. I can conscientiously say that, at the
+present time, we are the lawmakers. We create courts and jurisprudence.
+We rule with a strong will because we hold in our hands the remains of a
+once strong party, now subjugated by us."
+
+And this from the Eighth Protocol:
+
+"We will surround our government with a whole world of economists. It is
+for this reason that the science of economics is the chief subject of
+instruction taught by the Jews. We shall be surrounded by a whole galaxy
+of bankers, industrialists, capitalists, and especially by millionaires
+because, actually, everything will be decided by an appeal to figures."
+
+These are strong claims, but not too strong for the facts that can be
+marshaled to illustrate them. They are, however, but an introduction to
+further claims that are made and equally paralleled by the facts. All
+through the Protocols, as in this quotation from the Eighth, the
+pre-eminence of the Jews in the teaching of political economy is
+insisted upon, and the facts bear that out. They are the chief authors
+of those vagaries which lead the mob after economic impossibilities, and
+they are also the chief teachers of political economy in our
+universities, the chief authors of those popular textbooks in the
+subject, which hold the conservative classes to the fiction that
+economic theories are economic laws. The idea, the theory, as
+instruments of social disintegration are common to both the university
+Jew and the Bolshevik Jew. When all this is shown in detail, public
+opinion upon the importance of academic and radical economics may
+undergo a change.
+
+And, as claimed in the quotation just given from the Ninth Protocol, the
+Jewish world power does today constitute a super-government. It is the
+Protocol's own word, and none is more fitting. No nation can get all
+that it wants, but the Jewish World Power can get all that it wants,
+even though its demands exceed Gentile equality. "We are the lawmakers,"
+say the Protocols, and Jewish influences have been lawmakers in a
+greater degree than any but the specialists realize. In the past ten
+years Jewish international rule, or the power of the group of
+International Jews has quite dominated the world. More than that, it has
+been powerful enough to prevent the passage of salutary laws, and where
+one law may have slipped through to a place on the statute books, it has
+been powerful enough to get it interpreted in a sense that rendered it
+useless for its purpose. This, too, can be illustrated by a large
+collection of facts.
+
+Moreover, the method by which this is done was outlined long ago in the
+program of which the Protocols purport to be an outline. "We create
+courts," continues the quotation, and it is followed in other Protocols
+by numerous references to "our judges." There is a Jewish court sitting
+in a public building in the city of New York every week, and other
+courts, for the sole advantage and use of this people whose spokesmen
+deny that they are a "separate people," are in formation everywhere. The
+Zionist plan has already been used in some of the smaller European
+countries to confer an extra-citizenship upon Jews who already enjoy
+citizenship in the lands of their residence, and in addition to that a
+degree of self-rule under the very governments which they demand to
+protect them. Wherever Jewish tendencies are permitted to work
+unhindered, the result is not "Americanization," or "Anglicization" nor
+any other distinctive nationalism, but a strong and ruling reversion
+back to essential "Judaization."
+
+The "agents" referred to in the first quotation will receive attention
+in another article. To resume the claims of the Protocols: This from the
+Seventeenth Protocol:
+
+"We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy and
+thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper us
+considerably. Their influence over the people diminishes daily.
+
+"Freedom of conscience has been proclaimed everywhere. Consequently it
+is only a question of time when the complete crash of the Christian
+religion will occur. It will be easier to handle the other religions,
+but it is too early to discuss this phase of the subject."
+
+This will be of considerable interest, perhaps, to those clergymen who
+are laboring with Jewish rabbis to bring about some kind of religious
+union. Such a union would of necessity dispose of Christ as a
+well-meaning but wholly mistaken Jewish prophet, and thus distinctive
+Christianity would cease to exist insofar as the "union" was effective.
+The principal religious aversion of the Protocols, however, so far as it
+is expressed, is against the Catholic church in general and the
+pontifical office in particular.
+
+A curious paragraph in this Protocol claims for the Jewish race a
+particular skill in the art of insult:
+
+"Our contemporary press will expose governmental and religious affairs
+and the incapacity of the Gentiles, always using expressions so
+derogatory as to approach insult, the faculty of employing which is so
+well known to our race."
+
+This from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"Under our influence the execution of the laws of the Gentiles is
+reduced to a minimum. Respect for the law is undermined by the liberal
+interpretation we have introduced in this sphere. The courts decide as
+we dictate, even in the most important cases in which are involved
+fundamental principles or political issues, viewing them in the light in
+which we present them to the Gentile administration through agents with
+whom we have apparently nothing in common, through newspaper opinion and
+other avenues.
+
+"In Gentile society where we have planted discord and protestantism * *
+* *"
+
+The word "protestantism" is evidently not used in the religious or
+sectarian sense, but to denote a temper of querulous fault-finding
+destructive of harmonious collective opinion.
+
+This from the Fourteenth Protocol:
+
+"In countries called advanced, we have created a senseless, filthy and
+disgusting literature. For a short time after our entrance into power we
+shall encourage its existence so that it may show in greater relief the
+contrast between it and the written and spoken announcements which will
+emanate from us."
+
+Discussing in the Twelfth Protocol the control of the Press--a subject
+which must be treated more extensively in another article--the claim is
+made:
+
+"We have attained this at the present time to the extent that all news
+is received through several agencies in which it is centralized from all
+parts of the world. These agencies will then be to all intents and
+purposes our own institutions and will publish only that which we
+permit."
+
+This from the Seventh Protocol bears on the same subject:
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan, already approaching its triumphant
+goal, by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion,
+which has been organized by us with the help of the so-called 'great
+power' of the press. With a few exceptions not worth considering, it is
+already in our hands."
+
+To resume the Twelfth Protocol:
+
+"If we have already managed to dominate the mind of Gentile society to
+such a point that almost all see world affairs through the colored
+lenses of the spectacles which we place before their eyes, and if now
+there is not one government with barriers erected against our access to
+that which by Gentile stupidity is called state secrets, what then will
+it be when we are the recognized masters of the world in the person of
+our universal ruler?"
+
+The Jewish nation is the only nation that possesses the secrets of all
+the rest. No nation long protects a secret which directly concerns
+another nation, but even so, no nation has all the secrets of all the
+other nations. Yet it is not too much to say that the International Jews
+have this knowledge. Much of it, of course, amounts to nothing and their
+possession of it does not materially add to their power, but the fact
+that they have the access, that they can get whatever they want when
+they want it is the important point--as many a secret paper could
+testify if it could talk, and many a custodian of secret papers could
+tell if he would. The real secret diplomacy of the world is that which
+hands over the world's so-called secrets to a few men who are members of
+one race. The surface of diplomacy, those activities which get written
+down in the memoirs of comfortably aging statesmen, those coups and
+treaties which are given high-sounding fame as if they really were
+important--that is incomparable with the diplomacy of Judah, and its
+matchless enginery for worming out the hidden knowledge of every ruling
+group. The United States is included in all these statements. Perhaps
+there is no government in the world so completely at their service as
+our own at present, their control having been gained during the past
+five or six years.
+
+The Protocols do not regard the dispersal of the Jews abroad upon the
+face of the earth as a calamity, but as a providential arrangement by
+which the World Plan can be more certainly executed, as see these words
+of the Eleventh Protocol:
+
+"God gave to us, His Chosen People, as a blessing, the dispersal, and
+this which has appeared to all to be our weakness has been our whole
+strength. It has now brought us to the threshold of universal rule."
+
+The claims to accomplishment which are put forth in the Ninth Protocol
+would be too massive for words were they too massive for concrete
+realization, but there is a point where the word and the actuality meet
+and tally.
+
+"In order not to destroy prematurely the Gentile institutions, we have
+laid our efficient hands on them, and rasped the springs of their
+mechanism. They were formerly in strict and just order, but we have
+replaced them with a liberal disorganized and arbitrary administration.
+We have tampered with jurisprudence, the franchise, the press, freedom
+of the person, and, most important of all, education and culture, the
+corner stone of free existence.
+
+"We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories patently false to us, but
+which we have inspired.
+
+"Above existing laws, without actual change but by distorting them
+through contradictory interpretations, we have created something
+stupendous in the way of results."
+
+Everyone knows that, in spite of the fact that the air was never so full
+of theories of liberty and wild declarations of "rights," there has been
+a steady curtailment of "personal freedom." Instead of being socialized,
+the people, under a cover of socialistic phrases, are being brought
+under an unaccustomed bondage to the state. The Public Health is one
+plea. Various forms of Public Safety are other pleas. Children are
+hardly free to play nowadays except under play-masters appointed by the
+State, among whom, curiously enough, an astonishing proportion of Jews
+manage to find a place. The streets are no longer as free as they were;
+laws of every kind are hedging upon the harmless liberties of the
+people. A steady tendency toward systemization, every phase of the
+tendency based upon some very learnedly stated "principle," has set in,
+and curiously enough, when the investigator pursues his way to the
+authoritative center of these movements for the regulation of people's
+life, he finds Jews in power. Children are being lured away from the
+"social center" of the home for other "centers"; they are being led away
+(and we are speaking of Gentile children--no Gentiles are ever allowed
+to regulate the lives of Jewish children) from their natural leaders in
+home, church and school, to institutionalized "centers" and scientific
+"play spots," under "trained leaders" whose whole effect, consciously or
+unconsciously, is to lead the modern child to look to the State, instead
+of its natural environment, for leadership. All this focuses up to the
+World Plan for the subjugation of the Gentiles, and if it is not the
+Jewish World Plan it would be interesting to know why the material for
+it is so largely Gentile children and the leaders of it so often of the
+Jewish race.
+
+Jewish liberties are the best safeguarded in the United States. Gentiles
+take their chance with public matters, but every Jewish community is
+surrounded by special protectors who gain special recognition by various
+devices--political and business threats not the least of them. No public
+spirited Gentiles are welcomed to the task of regulating the lives of
+Jewish children. The Jewish community in every city is all-sufficient in
+itself as far as such activities go. The most secret of all parochial
+schools are the Jewish schools, whose very locations are not all known
+to the officials of large cities. The Jew is almost anxious in his
+efforts to mold the Gentile mind; he insists on being permitted to tell
+the Gentile what to think, especially about the Jew; he is not averse to
+influencing general Gentile thought in a manner which, though it come
+about by wide circles, works ultimately into the Jewish scheme of
+things. The anxiety and the insistence, so well known to all who have
+observed them, are only reflections of the Jew's conviction that his is
+the superior race and is capable of directing the inferior race--of
+which there is but one, including the whole non-Jewish world.
+
+Every influence that leads to lightness and looseness in Gentile youth
+today heads up in a Jewish source. Did the young people of the world
+devise the "sport clothes" which have had so deleterious an effect on
+the youth of the times that every publicist has thought it worthy of
+mention? Those styles come out of Jewish clothing concerns, where
+certainly art is not the rule nor moral influence the main
+consideration. The moving picture is an interesting development of
+photography allied with the show business, but whose is the
+responsibility for its development along such lines as make it a menace
+to the minds of millions--so serious a menace that it has not escaped
+observation and condemnation everywhere? Who are the masters of musical
+jazz in the world? Who direct all the cheap jewelry houses, the
+bridge-head show parks, the "coney islands," the centers of nervous
+thrills and looseness? It is possible to take the showy young man and
+woman of trivial outlook and loose sense of responsibility, and tag them
+outwardly and inwardly from their clothing and ornaments to their hectic
+ideas and hopes, with the same tag, "Made, introduced and exploited by a
+Jew."
+
+There is, therefore, something most sinister in the light which events
+cast upon that paragraph:
+
+"We have misled, stupefied, and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us but
+which we have inspired."
+
+"Principles and theories" do not necessarily imply lofty or even modest
+intellectual qualities. The youngster who spends his noon hours and
+evenings at the movies is getting his "principles and theories" just as
+the more intellectual youngster from a higher grade of society who
+listens to a Jewish "liberal" expound "sex liberty" and the "control of
+population" is getting his. The looseness which inheres in these
+"principles and theories" does not emanate from the Gentile home, or the
+Gentile church, or from any line of money-making which is filled
+principally with Gentiles, but from theories, movements and lines of
+money-making mostly fancied by Jews. This line of accusation could be
+run much deeper, but it is preferred to restrict it to what is
+observable by decent eyes everywhere.
+
+And that "the youth of the Gentiles" are the principal victims, and not
+the youth of the Jews, is also observable. While a certain percentage of
+Jewish youth itself is overcome by this social poison, the percentage is
+almost nothing compared with the results among the youth of the
+Gentiles. It is a significant fact that Jews who link this process of
+enervation of Gentiles with large profits are not themselves, nor are
+their sons and daughters, the victims of this enervation. Jewish youth
+comes through more proudly and more cleanly than the mass of Gentile
+youth.
+
+Many a father and mother, many a sound-minded, uncorrupted young person,
+and thousands of teachers and publicists have cried out against luxury.
+Many a financier, observing the manner in which the people earned and
+flung away their money, has warned against luxury. Many an economist,
+knowing that the nonessential industries were consuming men and
+materials that were necessary to the stabilizing of essential
+industries; knowing that men are making knick-knacks who should be
+making steel; knowing that men are engaged in making gew-gaws who should
+be working on the farm; that materials are going into articles that are
+made only to sell and never to use, and that materials are thus diverted
+from the industries that support the people's life--every observer
+knowing this crazy insistence on luxurious nonessentials has lifted up a
+strong voice against it.
+
+But, according to these Protocols, we have been starting at the wrong
+end. The people, it is true, buy these senseless nonessentials which are
+called luxuries. But the people do not devise them. And the people grow
+tired of them one by one. But the stream of varieties continues--always
+something else being thrust at the people, dangled before their eyes,
+set bobbing down the avenue on enough mannikins to give the impression
+that it is "style"; newspaper print and newspaper pictures; movie
+pictures; stage costumes enough to force the new thing into "fashion"
+with a kind of force and compulsion which no really worthy essential
+thing can command.
+
+Where does it come from? What power exists whose long experience and
+deliberate intent enable it to frivolize the people's minds and tastes
+and compel them to pay most of their money for it too? Why this spasm of
+luxury and extravagance through which we have just passed? How did it
+occur that before luxury and extravagance were apparent, all the
+material to provoke and inflame them had been prepared beforehand and
+shipped beforehand, ready for the stampede which also had been prepared?
+
+If the people of the United States would stop to consider, when the
+useless and expensive thing is offered them--if they would trace its
+origin, trace the course of the enormous profits made out of it, trace
+the whole movement to flood the market with uselessness and extravagance
+and thus demoralize the Gentile public financially, intellectually, and
+socially--if, in short, it could be made clear to them that Jewish
+financial interests are not only pandering to the loosest elements in
+human nature, but actually engaged in a calculated effort to render them
+loose in the first place and keep them loose--it would do more than
+anything else to stop this sixfold waste--the waste of material, the
+waste of labor, the waste of Gentile money, the waste of Gentile mind,
+the waste of Jewish talent, and the worse than waste of Israel's real
+usefulness to the world.
+
+We say the Gentile public is the victim of this stimulated trade in
+useless luxuries. Did you ever see Jewish people so victimized? They
+might wear very noticeable clothing, but its price and its quality
+agree. They might wear rather large diamonds, but they are diamonds. The
+Jew is not the victim of the Jew, the craze for luxuries is just like
+the "coney island" crowd to him; he knows what attracts them and the
+worthlessness of it.
+
+And it is not so much the financial loss that is to be mourned, nor yet
+the atrocities committed upon good taste, but the fact that the silly
+Gentile crowds walk into the net willingly, even gaily, supposing the
+change of the fashion to be as inevitable as the coming of spring,
+supposing the new demand on their earnings to be as necessary and as
+natural as taxes. The crowds think that somehow they have part in it,
+when their only part is to pay, and then pay again for the new
+extravagance when the present one palls. There are men in this country
+who know two years ahead what the frivolities and extravagances of the
+people will be, because they decree what they shall be. These things are
+strictly business, demoralizing to the Gentile majority, enriching to
+the Jewish minority.
+
+Look at the Sixth Protocol for a sidelight on all this:
+
+This is an excerpt from a longer passage dealing with the plans by which
+the people's interest could be swung from political to industrial
+questions, how industry could be made insecure and unfair by the
+introduction of speculation into its management, and finally how against
+this condition the people could be rendered restless and helpless.
+Luxury was to be the instrument:
+
+"To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this
+speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for
+luxuries--all enticing luxuries."
+
+And in the First Protocol:
+
+"Surely we cannot allow our own people to come to this. The people of
+the Gentiles are stupefied with spirituous liquors * * *"
+
+--incidentally, the profits of spirituous liquors flow in large amounts
+to Jewish pockets. The history of the whiskey ring in this country will
+show this. Historically, the whole prohibition movement may be described
+as a contest between Gentile and Jewish capital, and in this instance,
+thanks to the Gentile majority, the Gentiles won.
+
+The amusement, gambling, jazz song, scarlet fiction, side show,
+cheap-dear fashions, flashy jewelry, and every other activity that lived
+by reason of an invisible pressure upon the people, and that exchanged
+the most useless of commodities for the prices that would just exhaust
+the people's money surplus and no more--every such activity has been
+under the mastery of the Jews.
+
+They may not be conscious of their participation in any wholesale
+demoralization of the people. They may only be conscious of "easy
+money." They may sometimes yield to surprise as they contrast the silly
+Gentiles with their own money-wise and fabric-wise and metal-wise Jews.
+But however this may be, there is the conception of a program by which a
+people may be deliberately devastated materially and spiritually, and
+yet kept pleasant all the time--and there also is the same program
+translated into terms of daily transactions and for the most part,
+perhaps altogether under control of the members of one race.
+
+[Issue of August 7, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XIII.
+
+"Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
+
+
+The method by which the Protocols work for the breakdown of society
+should now be fairly evident to readers of these articles. An
+understanding of the method is necessary if one is to find the meaning
+of the currents and cross-currents which make so hopeless a hodge-podge
+of the present times. People who are confused and discouraged by the
+various voices and discordant theories of today, each seeming to be
+plausible and promising, may find a clear clue to the value of the
+voices and the meaning of the theories if they understand that their
+confusion and discouragement comprise the very objective which is
+sought. The uncertainty, hesitation, hopelessness, fear; the eagerness
+with which every promising plan and offered solution is grasped--these
+are the very reactions which the program outlined in the Protocols aims
+to produce. The condition is proof of the efficacy of the program.
+
+It is a method that takes time, and the Protocols declare that it has
+taken time, indeed, centuries. Students of the matter find the identical
+program of the Protocols, announced and operated by the Jewish race,
+from the first century onward.
+
+It has taken 1900 years to bring Europe to its present degree of
+subjugation--violent subjugation in some countries, political
+subjugation in some, economic subjugation in all--but in America the
+same program, with almost the same degree of success, has required about
+50 years. Certain mistaken ideas of liberalism, certain flabby ideas of
+tolerance, all of them originating at European sources which the
+Protocolists had completely polluted, were transported to America, and
+here under cover of the blindness and innocence of a false liberalism
+and tolerance, together with modern appliances for the swift
+acceleration of opinion, there has been worked a subjugation of our
+institutions and public thought which is the amazement of European
+observers. It is a fact that some of the important students of the
+Jewish Question, whom Jewish publicists are pleased to damn with the
+term "Anti-Semites," have been awakened to the existence of the Question
+not by what they have observed in Europe, but by what they have seen in
+the swift and distinct "close-up" which has been afforded in American
+affairs.
+
+The center of Jewish power, the principal sponsors of the Jewish
+program, are resident in America, and the leverage which was used at the
+Peace Conference to fasten Jewish power more securely upon Europe, was
+American leverage exercised at the behest of the strong Jewish pressure
+which was brought from the United States for that purpose. And these
+activities did not end with the Peace Conference.
+
+The whole method of the Protocols may be described in one word,
+Disintegration. The undoing of what has been done, the creation of a
+long and hopeless interim in which attempts at reconstruction shall be
+baffled, and the gradual wearing down of public opinion and public
+confidence, until those who stand outside the created chaos shall insert
+their strong calm hand to seize control--that is the whole method of
+procedure.
+
+Putting together the estimate of human nature which obtains in these
+Protocols, and their claims to a rather definite though as yet
+incomplete fulfillment of the World Program (these two comprising the
+themes of the previous two articles), some of the aspects of this
+propaganda of disintegration have become clear. But not all of them.
+There are yet other aspects of these methods, which will be dealt with
+in the present article, and there are yet future reaches of the program
+which will be considered later.
+
+The first point of attack is Collective Opinion, that body of ideas
+which through men's agreement with them, holds large groups together in
+political, racial, religious, or social unity. Sometimes we call them
+"standards," sometimes we call them "ideals"; whatever they may be
+called, they are the invisible bonds of unity, they are the common
+faith, they are the great overarching reason for group unity and
+loyalty.
+
+The Protocols assert that here the first attack has been made. The
+history of Jewish propaganda in the world shows that also.
+
+The first wave of attack is to corrupt Collective Opinion. Now, to
+"corrupt" in the real sense does not mean anything unsavory or unclean.
+The whole power of every heresy is its attractiveness to the good mind.
+The whole explanation of the strong hold which untruth has gained upon
+the world of our day, is that the untruth is reasonable, inspiring and
+apparently good. It is only after a long discipline in false
+ideals--which are reasonable, inspiring and good--that the evil fruits
+appear in acts and conditions which are unreasonable, destructive and
+wholly evil. If you will trace the idea of Liberty as it has appeared in
+Russian history, from its philosophic beginning (a Jewish beginning, by
+the way) to its present ending (a Jewish ending also), you will see the
+process.
+
+The Protocols claim that the Gentiles are not thinkers, that attractive
+ideas have been thrown at them so strategically and persistently that
+the power of thought is almost destroyed out of them. Fortunately this
+is a matter on which any Gentile may apply his own test. If he will
+segregate his ruling ideas, especially those that center round the
+thought of "democracy," he will discover that he is being ruled in his
+mind by a whole company of ideas into whose authority over him he has
+not inquired at all. He is ruled by "say so" whose origin he has not
+traced. And when, pursuing those ideas, he finds that they are not
+practicable, he is received by the explanation that "we are not yet
+sufficiently advanced." Yet when he does see men who are sufficiently
+"advanced" to put these very ideas into operation, he recoils from what
+he sees them do, because he knows that "advancement" such as that is
+deterioration--a form of disintegration. Yet every one of the ideas were
+"good," "reasonable," "inspiring," "humane," to begin with. And, if this
+Gentile will observe a little further, he will see that they are the
+most persistently preached ideas in the world; he will also see who the
+preachers are.
+
+The Protocols distinctly declare that it is by means of the set of
+ideals which cluster around "democracy," that their first victory over
+public opinion was obtained. The idea is the weapon. And to be a weapon
+it must be an idea at variance with the natural trend of life. It must
+indeed be a theory opposed to the facts of life. And no theory so
+opposed can be expected to take root and become the ruling factor,
+unless it appeals to the mind as reasonable, inspiring and good. The
+Truth frequently seems unreasonable; the Truth frequently is depressing;
+the Truth sometimes seems to be evil; but it has this eternal advantage,
+it is the Truth, and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to
+confusion.
+
+This first step does not give the control of public opinion, but leads
+up to it. It is worthy of note that it is the sowing of "the poison of
+liberalism," as the Protocols name it, which comes first in order in
+those documents. Then, following upon that, the Protocols say:
+
+"To obtain control over public opinion it is first necessary to confuse
+it."
+
+Truth is one and cannot be confused, but this false, appealing
+liberalism which has been sown broadcast, and which is ripening faster
+under Jewish nurture in America than ever it did in Europe, is easily
+confused because it is not truth. It is error, and error has a thousand
+forms. Take a nation, a party, a city, an association in which "the
+poison of liberalism" has been sown, and you can split that up into as
+many factions as there are individuals simply by throwing among them
+certain modifications of the original idea. This is a piece of strategy
+well known to the forces that invisibly control mass-thought. Theodor
+Herzl, the arch-Jew, a man whose vision was wider than any statesman's
+and whose program paralleled the Protocols, knew this many years ago
+when he said that the Zionist (cryptic for "Jewish") state would come
+before the Socialist state could come; he knew with what endless
+divisions the "liberalism" which he and his predecessors had planted
+would be shackled and crippled.
+
+The process of which all Gentiles have been the victims, but never the
+Jews--never the Jews!--is just this--
+
+First, to create an ideal of "broad-mindedness." That is the phrase
+which appears in every Jewish remonstrance against public mention of the
+Jew and his alleged World Program: "We thought you were too broad-minded
+a man to express such thoughts;" "we thought Mr. So-and-So was too
+broad-minded a man to suspect the Jews of this;" "we thought the daily
+or weekly or monthly such-and-such a paper was too broad-minded
+editorially to consider such material." It is a sort of keyword,
+indicative of the state of mind in which it is desired that the Gentles
+be kept. It is a state of flabby tolerance. A state of mind which mouths
+meaningless phrases about Liberty, phrases which act as an opiate on the
+mind and conscience and which allow all sorts of things to be done under
+cover. The phrase, the slogan, is a very dependable Jewish weapon. ("In
+all times people have accepted words for acts."--Protocol 5.) The
+reality behind the phrase the Protocols frankly admit to be
+non-existent.
+
+Nothing has served to create "broad-mindedness," a state of mind whose
+breadth indicates its lack of depth, so much as the ideas of liberalism
+which the Jews are constantly teaching to Gentiles and on which they
+never themselves act. We need a new sort of allegiance to the reality of
+life, to the facts as they are, which will enable us to stand up under
+all cajoling to "broad-mindness" and assert a new intolerance of
+everything but truth. The terms "narrow" and "broad" as they are used
+today represent lies. The liberal man ought to believe more, he ought to
+be deep and wide in his beliefs in order to merit that name; but as a
+usual thing he believes nothing. He is not liberal at all. When you seek
+belief, belief with a foundation, belief with vitality, you must seek it
+among men who are sneered at, under this false Jewish-propagated notion
+of liberality, as "narrow men." Jewish propaganda, in common with the
+Protocols, is against men who have dug down to the rock; they want
+"broad-minded men" who can easily be shifted about the surface and thus
+serve the invisible scheme in any manner desired. This type of men, on
+their part, never imagine but that their "broad-mindedness" is a mark of
+their superiority and independence.
+
+Now, see what follows. Men are born believers. For a time they may
+believe in "broad-mindedness" and under the terrific social pressure
+that has been set up in its favor they will openly espouse it. But it is
+too shallow to satisfy any growing roots of life. They must believe,
+deeply, something. For proof of this, notice the undeniable strength of
+the negative beliefs which are held by men who fancy that they believe
+nothing. Therefore, some who are highly endowed with independence of
+spirit, root down into those prohibited matters which at some point
+touch Jewish concerns--these are the "narrow" men. But others find it
+more convenient to cultivate those departments which promise a highway
+whereon there shall be no clashes of vital opinion, no chance of the
+charge of "intolerance"; in short they transfer all their contemplative
+powers to the active life, even as it is written in the Protocols--
+
+"To divert Gentile thought and observation, interest must be deflected
+to industry and commerce."
+
+It is amazing to look around and see the number of men who have been
+actually browbeaten into committing their whole lives to these secondary
+or even tertiary things, while they look with great timidity and
+aversion at the vital things which really rule the world and upon the
+issue of which the world really depends.
+
+But it is just this deflection to the materialistic base that offers the
+Protocolists, and similarly Jewish propagandists, their best hold.
+"Broad-mindedness" today consists in leaving vital matters severely
+alone. It descends quickly to material-mindedness. Within this lower
+sphere all the discord which distresses the world today is to be found.
+
+First, there is the ruin of the upper circles of industry and commerce:
+
+"To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin
+Gentile society, industry must be placed on a speculative basis."
+
+No one needs to be told what this means. It means, as everything about
+us shouts, the prostitution of service to profits and the eventual
+disappearance of the profits. It means that the high art of management
+degenerates into exploitation. It means reckless confusion among the
+managers and dangerous unrest among the workmen.
+
+But it means something worse; it means the splitting up of Gentile
+society. Not a division between "Capital" and "Labor," but the division
+between the Gentiles at both ends of the working scheme. Gentile
+managers and manufacturers are not the "capitalists" of the United
+States. Most of them have to go to the "capitalists" for the funds with
+which they work--and the "capitalists" are Jewish, International Jews.
+
+But with Jewish capital at one end of the Gentile working scheme putting
+the screws on the manufacturers, and with Jewish agitators and
+disruptionists and subversives at the other end of the Gentile working
+scheme putting the screws on the workmen, we have a condition at which
+the world-managers of the Protocol program must be immensely satisfied.
+
+"We might fear the combined strength of the Gentiles of vision with the
+blind strength of the masses, but we have taken all measures against
+such a possible contingency by raising a wall of mutual antagonism
+between these two forces. Thus, the blind force of the masses remains
+our support. We, and we alone, shall serve as their leaders. Naturally,
+we will direct their energy to achieve our end."--Protocol 9.
+
+The indication that they are highly satisfied is that they are not only
+not doing anything to relieve the situation, but are apparently willing
+to have it made worse, and if it be at all possible for them to do so
+they would like to see this coming winter, and the privations which are
+scheduled for it (unless Gentile flabbiness before the Jewish power,
+high and low, receives a new backbone), bring the United States to the
+verge of, if not across the very line of Bolshevism. They know the whole
+method of artificial scarcity and high prices. It was practiced in the
+French Revolution and in Russia. All the signs of it are in this country
+too.
+
+Industrial problems for their mental food and light amusement for their
+leisure hours, these are the Protocols' method with regard to the
+Gentile mind, and under cover of these the work is to be done--the work
+which is best expressed by the motto, "Divide and Rule."
+
+Read this:
+
+"To divert over-restless people from discussing political questions, we
+shall now bring forward new problems apparently connected with
+them--problems of industry."--Protocol 13.
+
+Has not everyone been struck by the divorcement which exists in this
+country between the mass-thought which is almost exclusively devoted to
+industrial questions, and the party-thought which is endeavoring to keep
+the field of pure politics? And is it not a fact that our friends, the
+Jews, are strongly entrenched in both fields--in politics to keep it
+reactionary, and in industrial circles to keep it radical--and so widen
+the split? And what is this split but a split of the Gentiles?--for
+society is Gentile, and the disruptive influences are Jewish.
+
+Read this:
+
+"We have included in the constitution rights for the people that are
+fictitious and not actual rights. All those so-called 'rights of the
+people' can only exist in the abstract and can never be realized in
+practice * * * The proletarian gains no more from the constitution than
+the miserable crumbs thrown from our table in return for his votes to
+elect our agents and pass our measures. Republican rights are a bitter
+irony to the poor man, for the pressure of daily labor prevents him from
+using them, and at the same time, deprives him of the guaranty of a
+permanent and certain livelihood by making him dependent upon strikes,
+organized either by his employers or his comrades."--Protocol 3.
+
+This remark about strikes is not at all puzzling to anyone who has
+studied the different types of strikes in this country. The number
+fomented from above the working class is astoundingly large.
+
+Read this also:
+
+"We will force up wages, which, however, will be of no benefit to the
+workers, for we will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of
+necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture
+and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply undermine the
+sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas of
+anarchy."--Protocol 6.
+
+And this:
+
+"We will represent ourselves as the saviours of the working class who
+have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting that they
+join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to whom we always
+extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of universal
+human solidarity."--Protocol 3.
+
+"Broad-mindedness" again! In this connection it is always well to
+remember the words of Sir Eustace Percy, heretofore quoted, words which
+are sponsored by Jews themselves--"Not because the Jew cares for the
+positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to be a
+partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because no
+existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but distasteful
+to him."
+
+Or, as the author of "The Conquering Jew" says: "He is democratic in his
+sentiments, but not in his nature. When he proclaims the common
+brotherhood of man, he is asking that the social gate now closed against
+him in so many quarters shall be open to him; not because he wants
+equality, but because he desires to be master in the social world, as he
+is showing himself in so may other spheres. Many an honorable Jew will,
+I doubt not, dispute the accuracy of this distinction; but if he does it
+will be because he has lived so long in the atmosphere of the West that
+he is unconscious of what is bred in the bone of his Eastern race."
+
+It is not difficult, therefore, to see the genealogy of the Jewish ideas
+of liberalism from their origin to their latest effects upon Gentile
+life. The confusion aimed for is here. There is not a reader of these
+lines who has not felt in his own life the burden of it. Bewilderment
+characterizes the whole mental climate of the people today. They do not
+know what to believe. First one set of facts is given to them, then
+another. First one explanation of conditions is given to them, and then
+another. The fact-shortage is acute. There is a whole market-full of
+explanations that explain nothing, but only deepen the confusion. The
+government itself seems to be hampered, and whenever it starts on a line
+of investigation finds itself mysteriously tangled up so that procedure
+is difficult. This governmental aspect is also set forth in the
+Protocols.
+
+Add to this the onslaught on the human tendency toward religion, which
+is usually the last barrier to fall before violence and robbery
+unashamed stalk forth. In order to bring the condition about at which
+this World Program aims, the Fourth Protocol says:
+
+"It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from the
+minds of the Gentiles the very principles of God and Soul, and replace
+these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material desires."
+
+"When we deprived the masses of their belief in God, ruling authority
+was thrown into the gutter, where it became public property, and we
+seized it."--Protocol 5.
+
+"We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile
+clergy."--Protocol 17.
+
+"When we become rulers we shall regard as undesirable the existence of
+any religion except our own, proclaiming One God with Whom our fate is
+tied as The Chosen People, and by Whom our fate has been made one with
+the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all other
+religions. If thereby should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a
+transition step, this will not interfere with our aims."--Protocol 14.
+
+This will probably offer matter for reflection by the "broad-minded."
+
+It is curious to note how this religious program has worked out in
+Russia where Trotsky (as loudly heralded in the American Jewish Press)
+is said to have no religion, and where Jewish commissars tell dying
+Russians who ask for priests, "We have abolished the Almighty." Miss
+Katherine Dokoochief is reported, under a Philadelphia date, to have
+told the Near East Relief that Russian Christian churches have been
+subjected to the vilest indignities by the Bolsheviki, details of which
+she gives; but "the synagogues remain untouched, meeting with no
+damage."
+
+All these lines of attack, whose object is the destruction of the
+natural rallying points of Gentile thought, and the substitution of
+other rallying points of an unwholesome and destructive nature, are
+assisted, as we saw in the last article, by the propaganda for luxury.
+Luxury is recognizedly one of the most enervating influences. Its course
+runs from ease, through softness, to flabbiness, to degeneracy, mental,
+physical and moral. Its beginnings are attractive, its end is
+lasciviousness in some form, testifying to the complete breakdown of all
+the strong fiber of the life. It may make a theme for a more complete
+study some day, this lure to lasciviousness through luxury, and the
+identity of the forces that set the lure.
+
+But now, to conclude this general view of the method, rather this part
+of the method, the confusion itself, which all these influences converge
+to produce, is expected to produce another more deeply helpless state.
+And that state is, Exhaustion.
+
+It needs no imagination to see what this means. Exhaustion is today one
+of the conditions that menace the people. The recent political
+conventions and their effect upon the public fully illustrate it. Nobody
+seemed to care. Parties might make their declarations and candidates
+their promises--nobody cared. The war and its strain began the
+exhaustion; the "peace" and its confusion have about completed it. The
+people believe little and expect less. Confidence is gone. Initiative is
+nearly gone. The failure of movements falsely heralded as "people's
+movements" has gone far to make the people think that no people's
+movement is possible.
+
+So say the Protocols:
+
+"To wear everyone out by dissensions, animosities, feuds, famine,
+inoculation of diseases, want, until the Gentiles see no other way of
+escape except an appeal to our money and power."--Protocol 10.
+
+"We will so wear out and exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they will
+be compelled to offer us an international authority, which by its
+position will enable us to absorb without disturbance all the
+governmental forces of the world and thus form a super-government.
+
+"We must so direct the education of Gentile society that its hands will
+drop in the weakness of discouragement in the face of any undertaking
+where initiative is needed."--Protocol 5.
+
+The Jews have never been worn out or exhausted. They have never been
+nonplused. This is the true psychic characteristic of those who have a
+clue to the maze. It is the unknown that exhausts the mind, the constant
+wandering around among tendencies and influences whose source is not
+known and whose purpose is not understood. Walking in the dark is
+wearing work. The Gentiles have been doing it for centuries. The others,
+having a pretty accurate idea what it was all about, have not succumbed.
+Even persecution is endurable if it is understandable, and the Jews of
+the world have always known just where it fitted in the scheme of
+things. Gentiles have suffered from Jewish persecutions than have the
+Jews, for after the persecutions were over, the Gentile was as much in
+the dark as ever; whereas Judaism simply took up again its century-long
+march toward a goal in which it implicitly believes, and which, some say
+who have deep knowledge of Jewish roots in the world and who too may be
+touched with exhaustion, they will achieve. However this may be, the
+revolution which would be necessary to unfasten the International Jewish
+system from its grip on the world, would probably have to be just as
+radical as any attempts the Jews have made to attain that grip. There
+are those who express serious doubts that the Gentiles are competent to
+do it at all. Maybe not. Let them at least know who their conquerors
+are.
+
+[Issue of August 14, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XIV.
+
+Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
+
+
+Before proceeding to a more detailed study of the connection between the
+written program of the documents which are called "The Protocols of the
+Learned Elders of Zion," and the actual program as it can be traced in
+real life, we shall now view those plans which were future when the
+Protocols were uttered. It must be borne in mind, however, that what was
+future in 1896 and 1905, may be past today, that what was plan then may
+be fulfillment now. To bear this in mind will be in exact accord with
+the expression of Protocol 22--"I have endeavored to indicate carefully
+the secrets of past and future events, and of those momentous
+occurrences of the near future toward which we are rushing in a stream
+of great crises." Some of those "momentous occurrences" have come to
+pass, and with them a brighter light on the Question which we are
+studying.
+
+An illustration of this which is fresh in the minds of all was furnished
+by the Great War. Jewish comment on this series of articles has made
+much of the fact that one of the articles was devoted to the then
+prominence of the Jewish Question in Germany, and it was sought to
+mislead the people to think that this series was really a part of subtle
+German after-the-war propaganda. The fact is that articles on the
+Question in a number of countries were set aside in order to bring the
+Question itself prominently before the minds of Americans with the least
+delay. The postponed articles will appear in due season, though out of
+their order. Germany is today, with perhaps the possible exception of
+the United States, the most Jew-controlled country in the
+world--controlled within and from without--and a much stronger set of
+facts could be presented now than was presented in the original article
+(the facts of which were at first denied and later admitted by the
+Jewish spokesmen in the United States). For, since that article was
+written, public sentiment in Germany has swept the Jews largely out of
+public office. German public opinion exerted itself to the utmost to put
+German political administration back into German hands. But did that
+liberate Germany from the Jews? Not at all. For their entrenchments
+stretched further and deeper than mere display of official power. Their
+hold on the basic industries, the finances, the future of Germany has
+not been loosened in the least. It is there, unmovable. In what that
+hold consists, the reader will be told at some convenient time.
+
+Germany is mentioned now, in connection with the Jews, for this purpose:
+It will be remembered that it was from Germany that the first cry of
+"annexations" came, and it came at a time when all German war activities
+and war sentiment were admittedly in Jewish control. "Annexations" was
+the cry that flashed across the world one day. And back across the
+world, from the United States, a nation that was not even a party to the
+war at that time, the word flashed back, "No Annexations." Thus by a
+dramatic play the whole question was thrust before the world.
+
+Soon the people of all countries had forgotten the blood of battle, the
+war profiteers and every other vital point, and were discussing a matter
+which belonged to the end of the war and not the beginning, the question
+of "annexations." Now, when it is known who were controlling the
+formulation of war-aims in Germany and who were the chief counselors of
+the foreign policy of the United States at the same time, the projection
+of this question of "annexations" into the world's mind becomes
+interesting; interesting but not wholly intelligible.
+
+Not until you read the Protocols do you get a full light on this--and
+this report of the Protocols which is now given the world probably dates
+from 1896; there is absolutely ironclad proof of the date 1905.
+
+The Second Protocol begins on the note of war, and its opening words are
+these:
+
+"It is indispensable for our purpose that as far as possible, wars
+should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an
+economic footing, and nations will perceive the strength of our
+superiority in the aid we render."
+
+Who was thinking, between 1896 and 1905, of the new "no annexations"
+rule to be applied to war? Were you? Do you know of any statesman who
+was? We know that military men were concerned about the appliances and
+operations of any future war that might occur. We know that statesmen,
+of the more responsible sort, were working to consolidate a balance of
+interests that would make war extremely improbable. Who had outdistanced
+them all in foresight and planning sufficiently to lay down a definite
+program of "no annexations?"
+
+Fortunately the clue to the answer is supplied to us by unquestionable
+Jewish sources. The American Jewish News of September 19, 1919, had an
+advertisement on its front page which read thus:
+
+"WHEN PROPHETS SPEAK
+
+By Litman Rosenthal
+
+Many years ago Nordau prophesied the Balfour Declaration. Litman
+Rosenthal, his intimate friend, relates this incident in a fascinating
+memoir.
+
+The article, on page 464, begins: "It was on Saturday, the day after the
+closing of the Sixth Congress, when I received a telephone message from
+Dr. Herzl asking me to call on him."
+
+This fixes the time. The Sixth Zionist Congress was held at Basle in
+August, 1903.
+
+The memoir continues: "On entering the lobby of the hotel I met Herzl's
+mother who welcomed me with her usual gracious friendliness and asked me
+whether the feelings of the Russian Zionists were now calmer.
+
+"'Why just the Russian Zionists, Frau Herzl?' I asked. 'Why do you only
+inquire about these?'
+
+"'Because my son,' she explained, 'is mostly interested in the Russian
+Zionists. He considers them the quintessence, the most vital part of the
+Jewish people.'"
+
+At this Sixth Congress the British Government ("Herzl and his agents had
+kept in contact with the English Government"--Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol.
+12, page 678) had offered the Jews a colony in Uganda, East Africa.
+Herzl was in favor of taking it, not as a substitute for Palestine, but
+as a step toward it. It was this which formed the chief topic of
+conversation between Herzl and Litman Rosenthal in that Basle hotel.
+Herzl said to Rosenthal, as reported in this article: "There is a
+difference between the final aim and the ways we have to go to achieve
+this aim."
+
+Suddenly Max Nordau, who seems at the conference held last month in
+London to have become Herzl's successor, entered the room, and the
+Rosenthal interview was ended.
+
+Let the reader now follow attentively the important part of this
+Rosenthal story:--(the italics are ours)
+
+"About a month later I went on a business trip to France. On my way to
+Lyons I stopped in Paris, and there I visited, as usual, our Zionist
+friends. One of them told me that this very same evening Dr. Nordau was
+scheduled to speak about the Sixth Congress, and I, naturally,
+interrupted my journey to be present at this meeting and to hear Dr.
+Nordau's report. When we reached the hall in the evening we found it
+filled to overflowing and all were waiting impatiently for the great
+master, Nordau, who, on entering, received a tremendous ovation. But
+Nordau, without paying heed to the applause showered upon him, began his
+speech immediately, and said:
+
+"'You all came here with a question burning in your hearts and trembling
+on your lips, and the question is, indeed, a great one, and of vital
+importance. I am willing to answer it. What you want to ask is: How
+could I--I who was one of those who formulated the Basle program--how
+could I dare to speak in favor of the English proposition concerning
+Uganda, how could Herzl as well as I betray our ideal of Palestine,
+because you surely think that we have betrayed it and forgotten it. Yet
+listen to what I have to say to you. I spoke in favor of Uganda after
+long and careful consideration; deliberately I advised the Congress to
+consider and to accept the proposal of the English Government, a
+proposal made to the Jewish nation through the Zionist Congress, and my
+reasons--but instead of my reasons let me tell you a political story as
+a kind of allegory.
+
+"'I want to speak of a time which is now almost forgotten, a time when
+the European powers had decided to send a fleet against the fortress of
+Sebastopol. At this time Italy, the United Kingdom of Italy, did not
+exist. Italy was in reality only a little principality of Sardinia, and
+the great, free and united Italy was but a dream, a fervent wish, a far
+ideal of all Italian patriots. The leaders of Sardinia, who were
+fighting for and planning this free and united Italy, were the three
+great popular heroes: Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Cavour.
+
+"'The European powers invited Sardinia to join in the demonstration at
+Sebastopol and to send also a fleet to help in the siege of this
+fortress, and this proposal gave rise to a dissension among the leaders
+of Sardinia. Garibaldi and Mazzini did not want to send a fleet to the
+help of England and France and they said: "Our program, the work to
+which we are pledged, is a free and united Italy. What have we to do
+with Sebastopol? Sebastopol is nothing to us, and we should concentrate
+all our energies on our original program so that we may realize our
+ideal as soon as possible."
+
+"'But Cavour, who even at this time was the most prominent, the most
+able, and the most far-sighted statesman of Sardinia, insisted that his
+country should send a fleet and beleaguer with the other powers
+Sebastopol, and, at last, he carried his point. Perhaps it will interest
+you to know that the right hand of Cavour, his friend and adviser, was
+his secretary, Hartum, a Jew, and in those circles, which were in
+opposition to the government, one spoke fulminantly of Jewish treason.
+And once at an assembly of Italian patriots one called wildly for
+Cavour's secretary, Hartum, and demanded of him to defend his dangerous
+and treasonable political actions. And this is what he said: "Our dream,
+our fight, our ideal, an ideal for which we have paid already in blood
+and tears, in sorrow and despair, with the life of our sons and the
+anguish of our mothers, our one wish and one aim is a free and united
+Italy. All means are sacred if they lead to this great and glorious
+goal. Cavour knows full well that after the fight before Sebastopol
+sooner or later a peace conference will have to be held, and at this
+peace conference those powers will participate who have joined in the
+fight. True, Sardinia has no immediate concern, no direct interest in
+Sebastopol, but if we will help now with our fleet, we will sit at the
+future peace conference, enjoying equal rights with the other powers,
+and at this peace conference Cavour, as the representative of Sardinia,
+will proclaim the free and independent, united Italy. Thus our dream for
+which we have suffered and died, will become, at last, a wonderful and
+happy reality. And if you now ask me again, what has Sardinia to do at
+Sebastopol, then let me tell you the following words, like the steps of
+a ladder: Cavour, Sardinia, the siege of Sebastopol, the future European
+peace conference, the proclamation of a free and united Italy.'"
+
+"The whole assembly was under the spell of Nordau's beautiful, truly
+poetic and exalted diction, and his exquisite, musical French delighted
+the hearers with an almost sensual pleasure. For a few seconds the
+speaker paused, and the public, absolutely intoxicated by his splendid
+oratory, applauded frantically. But soon Nordau asked for silence and
+continued:
+
+"'Now this great progressive world power, England, has after the pogroms
+of Kishineff, in token of her sympathy with our poor people, offered
+through the Zionist Congress the autonomous colony of Uganda to the
+Jewish nation. Of course, Uganda is in Africa, and Africa is not Zion
+and never will be Zion, to quote Herzl's own words. But Herzl knows full
+well that nothing is so valuable to the cause of Zionism as amicable
+political relations with such a power as England is, and so much more
+valuable as England's main interest is concentrated in the Orient.
+Nowhere else is precedent as powerful as in England, and so it is most
+important to accept a colony out of the hands of England and create thus
+a precedent in our favor. Sooner or later the Oriental question will
+have to be solved, and the Oriental question means, naturally, also the
+question of Palestine. England, who had addressed a formal, political
+note to the Zionist Congress--the Zionist Congress which is pledged to
+the Basle program, England will have the deciding voice in the final
+solution of the Oriental question, and Herzl has considered it his duty
+to maintain valuable relations with this great and progressive power.
+Herzl knows that we stand before a tremendous upheaval of the whole
+world. Soon, perhaps, some kind of a world-congress will have to be
+called, and England, the great, free and powerful England, will then
+continue the work it has begun with its generous offer to the Sixth
+Congress. And if you ask me now what has Israel to do in Uganda, then
+let me tell you as the answer the words of the statesmen of Sardinia,
+only applied to our case and given in our version; let me tell you the
+following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading
+upward and upward: Herzl, The Zionist Congress, the English Uganda
+proposition, the future world war, the peace conference where with the
+help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.'
+
+"Like a mighty thunder these last words came to us, and we all were
+trembling and awestruck as if we had seen a vision of old. And in my
+ears were sounding the words of our great brother Achad Haam, who said
+of Nordau's address at the First Congress:
+
+"'I felt that one of the great old prophets was speaking to us, that his
+voice came down from the free hills of Judea, and our hearts were
+burning in us when we heard his words, filled with wonder, wisdom and
+vision.'"
+
+The amazing thing is that this article by Litman Rosenthal should ever
+have been permitted to see print. But it did not see print until the
+Balfour Declaration about Palestine, and it never would have seen print
+had not the Jews believed that one part of their program had been
+accomplished.
+
+The Jew never betrays himself until he believes that what he seeks has
+been won, then he lets himself go. It was only to Jews that the 1903
+"program of the Ladder"--the future world war--the peace conference--the
+Jewish program--was communicated. When the ascent of that ladder seemed
+to be complete, then came the public talk.
+
+A similar illustration of this is to be found in the fall of the Czar.
+When that event transpired it was an occasion of great rejoicing in New
+York, and a Gentile of world-wide fame made a speech in which he lauded
+an American Jew of national reputation for having begun the downfall of
+the Czar by providing the money with which propaganda had been made
+among Russian prisoners in Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. The
+story came out only after the success of the plot. It is not at all out
+of keeping that the last men to see the last act of the plot carried
+out, the actual murder of Nicholas Romanovitch, his wife, his young
+daughters and his invalid boy, were "five Soviet deputies, the latter
+five all Jews." What began with the assistance of an American financier,
+finished with Soviet deputies.
+
+Did International Jews in 1903 foresee the war? This Rosenthal
+confession is but one bit of evidence that they did. And did they do
+nothing but foresee it? It were well if the facts stopped at foresight
+and did not run on to provocation.
+
+For the present the reader is invited to retain in his mind two points
+in this Rosenthal article: "Perhaps it will interest you to know that
+the right hand of Cavour, his friend and adviser, was his secretary,
+Hartum, a Jew." This is the way the Jewish press speaks of its own. If
+this paper, or a Chicago paper, or a New York paper should go through
+the list of the secretaries of the men of power in the world today and
+make the note after the names--"His secretary, a Jew," the
+Anti-Defamation Society would send letters of protest. There is one rule
+for the Gentile and one for the Jew, in the Jewish mind. Writing in the
+public prints about Hartum, he would be described as an "Italian."
+
+Were the Jewish secretaries who abounded before the war, during the war
+and throughout the Peace Conference of less brilliance than Hartum? Were
+there not Hartums in England, France, Germany, yes and in Russia too (in
+the United States there were many) who saw the "program of the Ladder"?
+Did Max Nordau who saw it so clearly in 1903 forget it in 1914 and 1918?
+
+We know this: the Jews in their Congress at Basle in 1903 foresaw "the
+future world war." How did they know it was to be a "world war"?
+
+We know this also: the Protocols, perhaps as early as 1896, certainly
+not later than 1905, foresaw the policy of "no annexations."
+
+The World War came to pass.
+
+"No annexations" came to pass. What was then future in the Jewish world
+program, is now past.
+
+In the Protocols there are two forms of declaration. One is, "we have."
+The other is, "we shall." If somewhere in the world this summer the high
+secret spokesman of the World Program is addressing his class of
+International Initiates, he will have to say "we have" in many places
+where this spokesman of 1896 said "we shall." Things have been
+accomplished.
+
+"We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes."
+That has been and is being done. "We will deflect the thoughts of the
+Gentiles to industry and commerce." That has been done. "We will create
+a strongly centralized administration so as to grasp all the social
+forces strongly in our hands." That has been done. "We will adopt for
+ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all movements and provide
+orators." That has been done. "We will force up wages." That has been
+done. "We will at the same time cause a rise in the price of prime
+necessities." That has been done. "We will also undermine the sources of
+production by instilling in the workmen ideas of anarchy." That has been
+done.
+
+"To demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+shall show our power to one by crimes of violence, that is, by a reign
+of terror."--Protocol 7.
+
+Who that sees Russia and beholds the attitude of the premiers of
+England, France, and Italy toward the Soviets, the "enslavement" of
+statesmanship by a condition that tangles more gnarledly the more it is
+dealt with--who that sees the prostration of Europe before a wound that
+is deliberately kept from healing, can forbear to say: That too has been
+done!
+
+"Our plans will not upset contemporary institutions immediately. Their
+management will only be altered and consequently the whole procedure of
+their activity will thus be directed according to plans laid down by
+us." That has been done.
+
+"We shall saddle the press and keep a tight reign upon it." That has
+been done. The rein is being strongly pulled in the United States at
+this moment, as many an editor can testify.
+
+"Even if there should be those who desire to write against us, no one
+will print their writings." In large part, that has been done. It has
+been done completely with the profit-making press.
+
+"We shall, as an incentive to speculation, encourage among the Gentiles
+a strong demand for luxuries--all-enticing luxuries." That has been
+done.
+
+"To each act of opposition we must be in a position to respond by
+bringing on war through the neighbors of any country that dares to
+oppose us, and if these neighbors should plan to stand collectively
+against us, we must let loose a world war." (Protocol 7). The term
+"world war" is the same as that used by Rosenthal and Nordau. "Herzl
+knows," said Nordau in 1903, "that we stand before a tremendous upheaval
+of the whole world."
+
+"We must create unrest, dissension and mutual animosities throughout
+Europe and, with the help of her relationships, on other continents."
+This has been done. This passage continues: "There is a double advantage
+in this. First, we shall command the respect of all countries by this
+method, for they will realize that we have the power to create disorder
+or establish order at will." This too has been done.
+
+Truly did the spokesman of 1896 speak of "those momentous occurrences of
+the near future toward which we are rushing in a stream of great
+crises."
+
+Not only was "no annexations" achieved "as far as possible," just as the
+Protocols outlined it, but a host of other plans have matured in
+achievement along with it. "No annexations" as a matter of political
+morality is one thing; and "no annexations" for the reason that "this
+will shift war to an economic footing and nations will perceive the
+strength of our superiority in the aid we render" is quite another
+thing. The world was with the "no annexations" program as a matter of
+political morality; the other program, which used this morality as its
+vehicle, was hidden.
+
+There are still other matters in this group which must receive
+attention, but another article will be necessary to do it. In the
+meantime, it is natural to wonder whether, with the program as outlined
+in this report of the Protocols having received fulfillment in so many
+particulars, a new Protocol, or a further unfolding of the Ladder has
+been made by the Wise Men to their Initiates; and whether any additional
+unveiling will ever come to the knowledge of the world. It would seem
+that a proper estimate of the knowledge now available would lead to such
+an awakening as to nullify the present program and make all future ones
+impossible. But Gentiles like their ease, and Judah is beckoned on by a
+bright star.
+
+[Issue of August 21, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XV.
+
+Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
+
+
+The Soviet is not a Russian but a Jewish institution. Nor is it the
+invention of Russian Jews of the present time, a new political device
+which has been set up as a vehicle of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky; it
+is of ancient Jewish origin, a device which the Jews themselves invented
+to maintain their distinctive racial and national life after the
+conquest of Palestine by the Romans.
+
+Modern Bolshevism, which is now known to be merely the outer cloak of a
+long-planned coup to establish the domination of a race, immediately set
+up the Soviet form of government because the Jews of all countries who
+contributed to Russian Bolshevism had long been schooled in the nature
+and structure of the Soviet.
+
+The Soviet appears in the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"
+under the ancient name of KAHAL. In the Seventeenth Protocol this
+passage occurs:
+
+"Even now our brothers are under obligation to denounce apostates of
+their own family or any person known to be opposed to the Kahal. When
+our kingdom comes, it will be necessary for all subjects to serve the
+state in a similar manner."
+
+Anyone who is acquainted with contemporary Jewish life knows what this
+denunciation of apostates means. The bitterness of the persecution which
+falls upon a convert to Christianity or upon the Jewish son or daughter
+of an orthodox family who chooses to marry a Gentile, is without
+parallel among men. Very recently in a western state a fine Jewish girl
+chose to marry a Gentile, who was a newspaperman. From the time of her
+announcement of intention, the girl was treated as an apostate. Had she
+died a most wretched death, had she descended to a status of most
+ignominious shame, the feelings which her fate would have aroused could
+not have been more terrible. A darkly solemn funeral service was held
+for her, and on her bridal day she was declared to be dead to her
+people.
+
+The case is very far from being unusual. Perhaps one of the most moving
+descriptions of it is to be found in the life of Spinoza, the great
+philosopher whom modern Jews are fond of holding up for exhibition as a
+great ornament of their people. Spinoza's studies led him to question
+many of the dogmas the rabbis taught, those "commandments of men" of
+which the New Testament speaks, and as Spinoza was already a person of
+influence the very common Jewish tactic of bribery was tried upon him.
+
+There would be some hesitation in using the words just set down--"the
+very common Jewish tactic of bribery"--if they were not known to be
+true. There is no desire to cast aspersions which grow out of malice.
+But Jewish history as written by Jews provides mountains of proof that
+bribery was, while present knowledge amply testifies that it still is,
+the favorite and most dependable weapon of the Jews. A Jewish writer,
+Jacob Israel De Haan, a Dutch lawyer resident in Jerusalem, has recently
+stated that one hope of a settlement of the Arab agitation in Palestine
+is the ease with which the Arab press can be bribed. His words are:
+"There is a strong agitation here among the Arabs against what they call
+the Zionist peril. But the Arabs, especially the Arabian papers, are
+open to bribe. This weakness will cause them, in the long run, to lose
+out against us."
+
+So, young Spinoza was offered an annual stipend of 1,000 florins if he
+would be silent upon his convictions and from time to time show himself
+at the synagogue. This he refused with high-minded scorn. He made ready
+to earn his bread by polishing lenses for optical instruments. Upon
+this, he was excommunicated, a proceeding which is thus described:
+
+"The day of excommunication at length arrived, and a vast concourse
+assembled to witness the awful ceremony. It began by the silent and
+solemn lighting of a quantity of black wax candles and by opening the
+tabernacle wherein were deposited the books of the Law of Moses. Thus
+were the imaginations of the faithful prepared for all the horror of the
+scene. The chief rabbi, the ancient friend and master, now the fiercest
+enemy, of the condemned, was to order the execution. He stood there
+pained, but implacable; the people fixed their eager eyes upon him. High
+above, the chanter rose and chanted forth in loud lugubrious tones the
+words of execration; while from the opposite side another mingled with
+these curses the thrilling sounds of the trumpet. And now the black
+candles were reversed and were made to melt drop by drop into a huge tub
+filled with blood." (Lewes: Biographical History of Philosophy.)
+
+Then came the final anathema. "'With the judgment of the angels and of
+the saints, we excommunicate, cut off, curse and anathematize Baruch de
+Espinoza, with the consent of the elders and all this holy congregation,
+in the presence of the holy books: by the 613 precepts which are written
+therein, with the anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the
+curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which
+are written in the law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night.
+Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking, cursed in going
+out, and cursed in coming in. The Lord shall not pardon him, the wrath
+and the fury of the Lord shall henceforth be kindled against this man,
+and shall lay upon him all the curses written in the Book of the Law.
+The Lord shall destroy his name under the sun, and cut him off for his
+undoing from all the tribes of Israel, with all the curses of the
+firmament which are written in the Law * * * And we warn you that none
+may speak with him by word of mouth nor by writing, nor show any favor
+unto him, nor be under one roof with him, nor come within four cubits of
+him, nor read any paper composed by him.'" (Pollock: Life of Spinoza.)
+
+"As the blasting words were uttered, the lights were all suddenly
+immersed in the blood, a cry of religious horror and execration burst
+from all; and in that solemn darkness, and to those solemn curses, they
+shouted Amen, Amen!" (Professor J. K. Hosmer: The Jews.)
+
+That is a commentary on the decree of denunciation. It also throws a
+very strong light on the pressure which is brought against many Jews who
+would cry out against the anti-social ideas of their people, but who
+dare not because of the penalties it would bring.
+
+This denunciation, as Protocol Seventeen orders, is to be made against
+anyone who is "known to be opposed to the Kahal" or ancient Soviet
+system of the Jews.
+
+After the destruction of the Jewish state by the Romans, the Jews
+maintained a center in the Patriarch; and after the dispersion of the
+Jews out of Palestine this center of nationality was preserved in the
+Prince of the Exile, or Exilarch, an office which is believed to persist
+to the present time, and which some believe to be held now by an
+American Jew. In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Jews have
+never ceased to be "a people"; that is, a consciously united racial
+group, different from all others, and with purposes and ideals which are
+strictly of the Jews, by the Jews, and for the Jews in distinction from
+the rest of the world. That they constitute a nation within the nations,
+the most responsible Jewish thinkers not only declare but insist upon.
+And this is wholly in accord with the facts as observed. The Jew not
+only desires to live apart from other people, but he works with his own
+people as against others, and he desires as much as possible to live
+under his own laws. In the city of New York today, the Jews have
+succeeded in establishing their own court for the settlement of their
+own questions according to their own laws. And that is precisely the
+principle of the Soviet-Kahal.
+
+From the first century forward, as any reader can see by consulting the
+Jewish Encyclopedia, the "community," "assembly" or "Kahal" has been the
+center of Jewish life. It was so earlier, in the time of the Babylonian
+captivity. And the last official appearance of it was at the Peace
+Conference, where the Jews, in accordance with their World Program, the
+only program that passed successfully and unchanged through the Peace
+Conference, secured for themselves the right to the Kahal for
+administrative and cultural purposes in addition to many other
+privileges in countries where their activities had been a matter of
+protest. The Polish question is purely a Jewish question, and
+Paderewski's failure as a statesmen was entirely due to his domination
+by Jewish influences. The Rumanian question is likewise a Jewish
+question, and all Rumanians speak of the United States as "The Jews'
+Country" because they know through their statesmen the terrific pressure
+which was exerted by American Jews against their country, a pressure
+extending to the very necessities of life, and which compelled Rumania
+to sign agreements which are as humiliating as those that Austria asked
+of Serbia, out of which the World War grew. The Jewish Question is
+written all over the forces that provoked the war, and over all the
+hindrances to peace which the world has since seen.
+
+Under the Kahal or ancient Soviet, the Jews lived by themselves and
+governed themselves, doing business with the government solely through
+their representatives. It was communism in a more drastic form than has
+been seen anywhere in the world outside Russia. Education, health,
+taxes, domestic affairs, all were under the absolute control of a few
+men who constituted the ruling board. This board, as the present-day
+Jewish hierarchy is supposed to be, was self-perpetuating, the office
+often passing in an unbroken line of hereditary succession through many
+generations. All property was in common, which however did not prevent
+the leaders becoming rich. These Kahals or Soviets existed in Rome,
+France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Rumania,
+Turkey and England. In the United States the idea has developed around
+the synagogue and around national and international secret societies of
+Jews, of which more will be said in succeeding articles.
+
+The Kahal is the traditional Jewish political institution during the
+dispersal of the race among the nations. Its international aspect is to
+be seen in the higher councils. These councils enlarged as the Jews
+spread over the world. The Jewish Encyclopedia cites the Council of
+Three Lands, the Council of Four Lands, and the Council of Five Lands,
+showing an international relationship in earlier years. But like all
+such records, public view of them is not easily accessible so far as
+they relate to modern times. The recent Zionist Congress in London,
+where doubtless much business was done that pertained to the Jewish
+people throughout the world, though not in public halls by any means,
+may be called the Council of Thirty-Seven Lands, for the delegates to
+that congress came from all parts of the world, from points remote as
+Lapland and South Africa, Persia and New Zealand. The purpose of these
+World Councils was the unification of the Jews, and the records of their
+assemblages run back through the centuries.
+
+It is therefore no new thing that has arisen in Russia. It is the
+imposition by the Jewish revolutionists upon Gentile Russia of a form of
+control in which Judaism has been schooled from the earliest times of
+its contact with the world. Soviet Russia could not have been possible
+had not 90 per cent of the commissars been Jewish. Soviet Hungary could
+not have been possible had not Bela Kun, the chief Red, been a Jew, and
+had not 18 of his 24 commissars been Jews. The Jews are the only group
+schooled in the erection and administration of the Kahal.
+
+An Associated Press dispatch under date of August 12 throws a light on
+the congeniality of the Soviet system and the Jewish mind. Speaking of
+the Polish towns and villages occupied by Bolshevik forces in their
+recent drive, the dispatch says:
+
+"The local Jewish parish populations already are said to be setting up
+Soviet and Communist governments."
+
+Of course. Yet this is in strange contrast with what we are constantly
+told through the press of the sufferings of the Jews under the Soviet
+form and of their abhorrence of the Reds. However, most of what we read
+concerning this in the public press is Jewish propaganda, pure and
+simple, and the reports of men on the spot contradict it all. One relief
+worker testifies that relief work in Poland is frequently "hung up
+because some Jew landlord asks an exorbitant rent for his premises,"
+while another testifies that though railroad fares in the supposedly
+famine-stricken districts have gone up 1,000 per cent, the best and
+highest-fare trains are "exclusively occupied by Jews." He adds, of his
+trip through Hungary, "The Hungarians have no money any more, but the
+Jews have."
+
+"But American Jews abhor Trotsky and Sovietism" is the plea sometimes
+made.
+
+Do they?
+
+On page 9 of the American Jewish World, of July 30, a letter signed
+"Mrs. Samuel Rush" appears. It is headed: "Are We Really Ashamed of
+Trotsky?" Read a few excerpts from it:
+
+"I have read of late several laments from editors of Jewish publications
+that the Jew is now libeled as a radical.
+
+"It is true that many Jews are radicals. It is also true that some of
+the radical leaders are Jews.
+
+"But before weeping over the downfall of the race, let's think a bit.
+
+"Trotsky himself has never been represented as anything but a cultured
+man, a student of world economics, a powerful and efficient leader and
+thinker who will surely go down in history as one of the great men our
+race has given the world.
+
+"* * * Very few of us doubt any longer that behind the absurdities
+written about Russia is the great truth that Russia is in that unsettled
+state which attends reconstruction. There is a plan behind this seeming
+disorder, and out of the upheaval will come order. It will not be
+utopia, but as good a government as the undoubtedly high-minded
+practical idealists who are building for Russia can build with the
+necessarily imperfect materials--human beings--with which they must
+work.
+
+"And one of the leaders is Leon Trotsky!
+
+"Are we really ashamed of Trotsky?"
+
+The lady is evidently not ashamed of Trotsky, or Mr. Braunstein, as his
+real name is.
+
+Or take Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago. While drawing a salary for work
+in the court, Judge Fisher went abroad on Jewish relief work. His plans
+were changed somewhat after his departure and he landed in Russia. He
+asserts in several interviews that he was permitted to arrive in Russia
+on condition that he leave political matters alone. There has been no
+such restriction placed upon him since his return to the United States,
+for he appears as an open advocate of full trade relations with the
+Soviet Government of Russia.
+
+The Chicago Tribune thus quotes him:
+
+"'We must leave Russia alone' he said in summarizing his views. 'We
+should resume trade with the Soviet. The Bolshevist Government is
+permanent. * * * While there are only 700,000 members of the Communist
+party, the peasants, who represent almost 100,000,000 people, are
+solidly back of the Lenin regime.'"
+
+Among the Soviet devices which the 100,000,000 peasants of Russia are
+said to be "solidly back of," is the following (it is particularly
+interesting in view of the fact that Judge Fisher is judge of the Morals
+Court of Chicago):
+
+"'Some time ago, it was published that the women of Russia had become
+national property,' he said. 'That is untrue, but the ease with which
+marriage and divorce may be effected makes for rapid changes. Everyone
+wanting to marry goes to what we would call the city hall and registers.
+
+"'Inducements to marry are great. When people are hard pressed for
+clothes and food they sometimes make a pact to wed for a day.
+
+"'The next day they go down to the city hall and register again. This
+time their names are put side by side in the divorce book. That is all
+that is necessary to be divorced, and they have had a good feed in the
+bargain.'"
+
+Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago, who has returned from Jewish relief work
+abroad, evidently is one with the others in not being ashamed of
+Trotsky.
+
+Also Max Pine, for many years secretary of the United Hebrew Trades of
+New York, had been abroad in Soviet Russia as "a labor delegate." He too
+had many good things to say of the Soviets, among other things the
+strange contradiction that the Jews are doing very well in Russia but
+are not pro-Bolshevik!
+
+Here are three persons from widely different spheres of life, yet each
+one of them indicates a natural liking for the Kahal or Soviet, an
+admiration of its methods, and a distinct good feeling towards its
+rulers. For Sovietism is the rankest form of autocracy, and the marriage
+laws of Soviet Russia are in full harmony with the program stated in the
+Protocols--
+
+"We will break down the influence of family life among the Gentiles."
+
+Whether the Soviet-Kahals of Russia will succeed in completely
+undermining Russian family life is extremely doubtful. The weakness of
+Soviet rule is the same as that of the Protocols--a moral weakness that
+must eat like a cancer until it destroys the institutions which it
+infests.
+
+Russia today, viewed in the light of the Protocols, does not represent
+the Judaic state, but it represents the Gentile state seized by Jewish
+forces. There are three degrees of action set forth in the Protocols.
+There is first the secret process of breaking up the integrity of
+society by the admixture of alluring but disruptive ideas. This is a
+work in which Gentile agitators are used. When the ideas have worked
+sufficiently to break up society and explode in a crisis, then as in
+Germany, the forces that have worked in secret swiftly come to the front
+to take the reins and guide the riot. In Germany this immediately
+occurred upon the collapse which followed the armistice, but the Germans
+were wise enough to know the meaning of the influx of Jews into all the
+official positions of the former empire, and it was not long before they
+were politically ousted. In Russia, however, the Jews sprang immediately
+into official positions and have succeeded in remaining there. It began
+with Kerensky compelling the Czar to lay aside his crown; it continues
+with Trotsky and his armies at the throat of Europe.
+
+But this seizure of a country, as was attempted in Germany, and as was
+not only attempted but succeeded in Russia, is not the end of the
+Program. It is only the beginning of its open or public phase. The
+Soviet-Kahal makes for the complete breaking up of society, the entire
+cutting off of co-operation and communication, the ruling of each little
+section in the way desired, until the whole country lies helpless in
+isolated bits. The process includes, of course, the disintegration of
+industry also, the massing of Gentiles into an army, and a general
+destruction of morality and order. It is the Protocol program in its
+last stage before the reconstruction begins which shall make the
+conquered country a Jewish state.
+
+The world has not seen that last stage yet. It has not come, even in
+Russia. If the Russian people waken from the daze into which they have
+been thrust, it will not come. Jewish voices loudly proclaim that Soviet
+Russia has come to stay. The only authoritative voice on that subject is
+the voice of Russia, and Russia has not yet spoken. Today the world is
+trembling on the very verge of Real Russia's awakening, and with it a
+retribution most terrible upon the Sovietists.
+
+The program of the Protocols once came near succeeding in the French
+Revolution, but its essential immorality overreached itself. It has come
+a step nearer success in Russia, but there too its defiance of the moral
+law will be its undoing. The Jewish Question of today is being fought
+out in Russia and Poland, and the strength of the Jewish forces is
+largely and mostly supplied from the United States of America. No wonder
+those small East European independencies which are fighting for their
+lives refer to our country as "The Land of the Jews."
+
+"We will show our power to one," say the Protocols. "In order to
+demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+shall show our power to one of them by crimes of violence, that is, by a
+reign of terror." (Protocol Seven.)
+
+One by one the Gentile nations of Europe have been compelled to withdraw
+their troops from Russia. One by one the premiers of Europe have
+submitted to heavy shackling of their official hands with regard to the
+Russian question. And today the world looks on while little Poland,
+apparently the second country on the list of Soviet victims, is made to
+feel heavy vengeance for her daring to be independent of Jewish power.
+Russia has been made to pay for her attempted independence of the Jew;
+Poland is now being made to pay. It is a flame, the Jews of Eastern
+Europe hope, and many Jews of America also, which will sweep round the
+world.
+
+If the ruling Jews of the world wished the Russian people freed, if they
+wished the flames of Bolshevism to be quenched, if they wished Jewish
+participation in revolutionary movements to be withdrawn, they could
+accomplish it in a week. What is going on today is going on by
+permission of the Jewish world powers.
+
+There is apparently no desire to curtail a movement which largely
+originated in American Jewry. This is the program of "showing our power
+to one," and the program will be followed out. The "showing," however,
+is twofold; it is a showing of power, but it is also a showing of the
+people who wield the power, and in the end it might have been just as
+well had the power never been coveted, attained, or used.
+
+Anyone who desires to test the exactitude of the Protocols' estimate of
+human nature may do so by observing his own reactions to the Russian
+Bolshevist situation. It is undeniable that there exists among all
+classes of Gentiles in America a kind of admiration for the coup which
+Lenin and Trotsky have managed on such a massive scale. The audacity of
+it, the ability to stay afloat thus long in defiance of so many laws,
+have conspired to draw out unwilling applause.
+
+Consider then this passage from the Tenth Protocol:
+
+"The people feel an especial love and respect toward the genius who
+wields political power, and they say of all his high-handed actions: 'It
+is base, but clever! It is a trick, but how he played it! So majestic!
+So impudent!'
+
+"We count on attracting all nations to the constructive work of laying
+the foundations for the structure planned by us. It is necessary for us
+first of all to acquire the services of bold and fearless agents, who
+will overcome all obstacles in our pathway.
+
+"When we accomplish our governmental coup d'etat, we will say to the
+people: 'Everything has gone badly, all have suffered. We will eliminate
+the cause of your sufferings--nationality, frontiers and diversity of
+coinage. Of course you are free to pronounce sentence upon us, but that
+can scarcely be just if you do so before giving a trial to that which we
+offer you.'"
+
+This is very well conceived, and this is the way in which, up to this
+time, it has worked out. But there will be a strong reaction set in.
+False promises like chickens come home to roost. The real originators,
+the real purpose of the movement hidden behind Bolshevism will become
+evident. And then the world will crush out again the World Program which
+at times has seemed so near success.
+
+There will probably be more light upon this World Program as a result of
+the Russian Kahal-Soviet system than from any other attempt to realize
+it. For five generations the world has lived in a false light supposed
+to be shed by the French Revolution. It is now known that that
+revolution was not the Revolution of the French People, but the
+disorders of a minority who sought to impose upon the French People the
+very Plan which is now being considered. It was the French People who
+ultimately put down the so-called French Revolution. And France, as a
+result of that upheaval of a well-organized minority, has been bound by
+Jewish control ever since.
+
+The Russian Revolution will go down in history with no such false halo
+of romance around it. The world now knows it for what it is. The world
+will soon know whose was the money and whose were the brains that
+fostered it, and from what part of the world the principal impetus came.
+The Russian upheaval is racial, not political nor economic. It conceals
+beneath all its false socialism and its empty mouthings of "human
+brotherhood" a clear-cut plan of racial imperialism, which is not
+Russian, and which the common sense and interest of the world will
+speedily stamp out.
+
+[Issue of August 28, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVI.
+
+How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
+
+
+The real estate speculations of the Jews are familiar to all, but
+unfortunately do not constitute their entire land program. Many American
+cities have changed their characters entirely during the past 15 years
+by reason of Jewish speculation in residence property, and it is a fact
+established in the larger eastern cities that the recent exorbitant and
+extortionate rise in rents was largely a matter of the Jewish landlord.
+The governor of one of the most important of our commonwealths was loath
+to sign a bill regulating rents. His hesitancy was encouraged by very
+heavy pressure brought to bear upon him by the weightiest Jewish
+financial interests in his own and neighboring states. He finally
+decided that he would sign the bill and give the law effect, and the
+fact that decided him was his personal investigation and the
+investigation of his personal agents into hundreds of cases of abuse
+where he discovered that it was a common practice among Jewish landlords
+to transfer the same piece of property round and round to every member
+of the family in turn, each "transfer" being the excuse for a new
+increase in the rent. Men have their eyes opened to the Jewish Question
+in various ways: this was the way a governor had his eyes opened.
+
+That, however, is not the peculiarity of Jewish landlords alone; Gentile
+landlords have played the same trick. But landlordism is peculiarly a
+Jewish ambition and distinction; the Jew is the Landlord of America. Any
+group of tenants almost anywhere in America, except the West, could
+testify to this.
+
+Nor is landlordism itself reprehensible, things being what they are,
+unless it is anti-social and anti-American. And just here is where it
+gets point. Some of the oldest and most sacred shrines of Americanism in
+the East have entirely lost their character as such by the invasion--not
+of "foreigners"--but of Jews.
+
+The more one sees of the invasion, the more one utterly distrusts the
+statistics given out by Jews as to the Jewish population of the United
+States.
+
+Do you know that the one nationality on which the Government of the
+United States is estopped from asking questions, either for immigration
+or census statistics, is the Jewish?
+
+Do you know that when the Government of the United States wants to know
+anything about the Jews it must go to statisticians which the Jews
+themselves support?
+
+If a nation claims that it is no nation with respect to the United
+States Government, as the Jews claim, and has no national statistics
+which it will permit to government to collect in the official way, why
+should it treat itself as a nation and keep its own records?
+
+The Jews of the United States, like the Jews of every European country,
+are a nation among themselves, with their own government, their own
+policy, their own records; and the United States Government does
+business with the Jewish Government in America through chosen Jews--no
+doubt of that.
+
+It is, however, a digression. The matter of Jewish statistics will come
+up again. In the meantime a glance at the rapid changing of so many
+American cities in all parts of the land leads to the belief that the
+Jewish statistics furnished by the Jews for Gentile consumption entirely
+misstate the facts, and this belief is strengthened by the knowledge
+that the statistics given by the Jews for Jewish consumption are very
+different from those supplied for the outside world.
+
+Landlordism may be explained by the inclination of the Jew toward
+speculation, and we know that real estate has been made one of the most
+speculative of occupations, disgracefully, almost disastrously so. The
+Jew cannot be condemned for becoming a landlord, for becoming the most
+conspicuous landlord in America; he cannot be condemned apart from his
+Gentile co-offenders for the abuse he has made of his advantage as
+landlord. But it is a matter for American concern that the cities to
+which, in the schoolbooks, our children are taught to look as the
+birthplaces of liberty and as still the spokesmen of Americanism, should
+become Semite cities, financially and politically, and the recruiting
+grounds of the world's Bolshevism.
+
+Until recently, however, the Jew in America has not cared for the land.
+It is a characteristic. The Jew is not an agriculturist. Lavish fortunes
+have been expended to make him so, but the productive work of farming
+has not had, and does not now have, any appeal to him. His choice in
+land is this: land that produces gold from the mine, and land that
+produces rents. Land that produces mere potatoes and wheat has not
+directly interested him.
+
+It is true, of course, that the land question has been distinctly Jewish
+in countries like Poland and Rumania. No law against Jews owning land in
+those countries has ever been effective in preventing their control of
+whole provinces. Not that the Jews demanded the right to farm the land,
+their choice was to farm the farmers. By devious methods and the use of
+"Gentile fronts" they could always secure control of the land, and thus
+dominating the peasants they could create almost any condition they
+wished. That is what they actually did. That is the Jewish Question in
+those parts of the world. Not for farming purposes, it must be
+understood, but for the purpose of controlling the main source of wealth
+in agricultural countries and for taking the control of people away from
+their natural Gentile leaders.
+
+These two things always go together in countries where there is
+intellectual or landed aristocracy to which the people look for
+leadership: the Jewish program is to destroy that leadership by gaining
+control of the land. It is profitable, of course, but when you survey
+the outworking of the plan you always see something other than profits
+involved. The consummate perfection of the Jewish plan for World Control
+is that it does not involve sacrifice as have other plans, it is
+immensely profitable at every stage, and the greater the profitableness
+the more surely the purpose is being achieved.
+
+In America there was no aristocracy to be cut under by the gaining of
+land control. Jewish activity in the United States until recently has
+confined itself to the control of land products after they have been
+produced: that is, so to say, Jewish interests do not engage in
+trapping, but they control the fur trade.
+
+Speaking of furs, it is very funny to see how some affairs turn out.
+During the war there was a great to-do made about the German control of
+the American fur trade. It was true that the fur trade was controlled
+from Germany, but not by Germans--by Jews! And then a great to-do was
+made about seizing, confiscating and absolutely selling out that
+"German" fur business to Americans, and the "Americans" who bought it
+were--Jews! The actual control has never changed; the profits still find
+their way to the "International" purse.
+
+But furs is just an example. Jewish interests do not engage in raising
+grain, but control the grain that others produce. The need of the United
+States is a "Who's Who of Jewish Financiers" that the people may
+identify the men about whom they read as having made this "corner" or
+sprung that "coup." These interests, which have simply grabbed
+American-produced wealth and made American consumers pay and pay and
+pay, have been able to operate almost openly because of the sheer
+blindness of the American people as they read their newspapers. And, of
+course, while the American newspaper will gladly inform you that this
+man is an Italian and that man a Pole and the other man a Briton, it
+will never tell you that the fourth man is a Jew. There is a Jewish
+organization in every city, large and small, to prevent it--and they
+prevent it by methods that are violent and wholly subversive of the
+American ideal of liberty.
+
+So, until recently, the plan in the United States has been to seize the
+commodity at just that point in its passage from the producer to the
+consumer where the heaviest weight of profit can be extracted from
+it--at the neck of the bottle, so to speak--and control it there. It is
+not service that the people pay for; they pay for seizure.
+
+But a new movement has begun in the United States. Jewish millions are
+now being used to secure immense tracts of American lands. Formerly it
+was enough to control the cotton, as the bread was controlled, but now
+the movement is toward controlling the cotton lands. The operations are
+carefully guarded; "Gentile fronts" are used almost exclusively; but
+follow the trail through all the "blinds" and "false scents," and you
+come at last to the International Jew, whose throne is set up in London.
+
+Many Jews have written THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT saying that they do not
+know about these racial plans for world control. It may well be believed
+that they do not. One purpose of these articles is to tell them about
+it. But this every Jew rejoices in--the movement of his people toward
+power. And it is this sentiment that the International Jew implicitly
+trusts, and because this sentiment exists the International Program
+secures a maximum of success at a minimum risk of exposure. Jewry is not
+a democracy but an autocracy. Of course the ordinary Jew does not know!
+The question is, Why should he revile the Gentile who tries to tell him?
+If a Jew will not seal his mind against the statements made in these
+articles, he will find in his own knowledge sufficient corroboration of
+their principal features, and he will be in a better position to assist
+in the solution of the Jewish Question.
+
+It is with amazement at certain men's conception of editorial honesty
+that THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has read some of the reports made of these
+articles. Under cover, principally of the Yiddish, alleged translations
+of these articles have been flung broadcast among non-English speaking
+Jews, translations which not only bear no resemblance to the original,
+but actually insert whole paragraphs of matter which never appeared in
+the original at all. Is there a fear of permitting the average Jew to
+read this series? Nothing is more desired by those whose purpose is to
+lay foundations for the solution of the Jewish Question in America than
+that every Jew in the United States should know exactly what is being
+printed here week by week. The Jew has been deceived by his leaders long
+enough.
+
+The fact is, then, that there is a definite and already well forwarded
+movement toward the control of the cotton lands of the United States.
+The first step was to depreciate the market value of these lands as much
+as possible. Pressure was brought through certain banks to limit the
+cotton farmers' efforts. They were told that if they planted more
+acreage to cotton than they were told to, they would not be financed.
+Cotton production was to go down while cotton prices were to go up, and
+the profits were not the farmers' but those who controlled the course of
+cotton from the first market to the wearer. Cotton farming was to be
+made less profitable, while cotton speculation was to become more
+profitable. The public was being compelled to supply the money by which
+the Jewish controllers were to buy the land. In brief, it was to be made
+more profitable to sell cotton lands than to sell cotton.
+
+These statements are being deliberately restricted to the traffic in
+cotton lands. Jewish financiers in New York and London know these
+things, even if Jewish editors and rabbis do not.
+
+This movement has been within the knowledge of certain classes of
+business men for a long time, indeed some have been forced by what used
+to be called "the pressure of circumstances," to serve the movement. But
+they were not able to interpret its meaning. It is only recently that
+the more important Gentile business men of the United States have been
+able to interpret certain things. The war was a potent eye-opener.
+
+Those wonderful documents known as the "Protocols," with their strong
+grasp of every element of life, have not overlooked Land. The Land
+Program found in the Sixth Protocol, which is one of the briefest of
+these documents and may be quoted in full to show now the relation it
+bears to certain excerpts made in previous articles:
+
+Protocol VI.
+
+"We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, colossal reservoirs
+of wealth, upon which even the big Gentile properties will be dependent
+to such an extent that they will all fall together with the government
+credit on the day following the political catastrophe. The economists
+here present must carefully weigh the significance of this combination.
+We must develop by every means the importance of our super-government,
+representing it as the protector and benefactor of all who voluntarily
+submit to us.
+
+"The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed away.
+We need not take them into consideration. But, as owners of the land,
+they are harmful to us in that they are independent in their sources of
+livelihood. Therefore, at all costs, we must deprive them of their land.
+
+"The best means to attain this is to increase the taxes and mortgage
+indebtedness. These measures will keep land ownership in a state of
+unconditional subordination. Unable to satisfy their needs by small
+inheritances, the aristocrats among the Gentiles will burn themselves
+out rapidly.
+
+"At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry
+vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to act
+as a counterpoise to industry. Without speculation, industry will cause
+private capital to increase and tend to improve the condition of
+Agriculture BY FREEING THE LAND FROM INDEBTEDNESS FOR LOANS by the land
+banks. It is necessary for industry to deplete the land both of laborers
+and capital, and, through speculations, transfer all the money of the
+world into our hands, thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of
+the proletariat. The Gentiles will then bow before us to obtain the
+right to existence.
+
+"To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this
+speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for luxuries,
+all-enticing luxuries.
+
+"We will force up wages, which however, will be of no benefit to
+workers, for we will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of
+prime necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of
+agriculture and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply
+undermine the sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas
+of anarchy, and encourage them in the use of alcohol, at the same time
+taking measures to drive all the intellectual forces of the Gentiles
+from the land.
+
+"That the true situation shall not be noticed by the Gentiles
+prematurely, we will mask it by a pretended effort to serve the working
+classes and promote great economic principles, for which an active
+propaganda will be carried on through our economic theories."
+
+The local and passing element in this is "the aristocracy of the
+Gentiles." That is to say, the program is not entirely fulfilled by the
+passing of aristocrats. Jewry goes on just the same. Its program
+stretches far. Jewry will retain such kings as it desires as long as it
+desires them. Probably the last throne to be vacated will be the British
+throne because what to the British mind is the honor of being Jewry's
+protector and therefore the inheritor of the blessing which that
+attitude brings, is to the Jewish mind the good fortune of being able to
+use a world-wide empire for the furtherance of Jewry's purpose. Each has
+served the other and the partnership will probably last until Jewry gets
+ready to throw Britain over, which Jewry can do at almost any time.
+There are indications that it has already started in this last task.
+
+But the permanent elements in the Protocol are the Land, the Jews, and
+the Gentiles. A word of explanation may be necessary on this inclusion
+of the Gentiles as permanent: the Protocols do not contemplate the
+extermination of the Gentiles, nor the making of this world a completely
+Jewish populated world. The Protocols contemplate a Gentile world ruled
+by the Jews--the Jews as masters, the Gentiles as hewers of wood and
+drawers of water, a policy which every Old Testament reader knows to be
+typically Jewish and the source of divine judgement upon Israel time and
+again.
+
+Now, look at this whole Program as it concerns the Land.
+
+"Owners of the land * * * are harmful to us in that they are independent
+in their sources of livelihood."
+
+That is a foundation principle of the Protocols. It matters not whether
+the owners are the "Gentile aristocracy," the peasants of Poland, or the
+farmers of the United States--land ownership makes the owners,
+"independent in their sources of livelihood." And any form of
+independence is fatal to the success of the World Program which is
+written so comprehensively in the Protocols and which is advancing so
+comprehensively under Jewish guidance in the world of actual affairs
+today.
+
+Not "tillers" of the land, not "dwellers" on the land, not "tenants,"
+not an "agricultural peasantry," but "owners of the land"--this is the
+class singled out for attention in this Sixth Protocol, BECAUSE they are
+"independent in their sources of livelihood."
+
+Now, there has been no time in the history of the United States when
+apparently it was more easy for the farmer to own his land than now.
+Mortgages should be a thing of the past. Everywhere the propaganda of
+the question tells us that the farmers are growing "rich." And yet there
+were never so many abandoned farms!
+
+"Therefore, at all costs we must deprive them of their land."
+
+How? "The best means to attain this is to increase land taxes and
+mortgage indebtedness." High taxes to keep the land at all, borrowed
+money to finance the tilling of it.
+
+"These measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional
+subordination."
+
+We will leave it to the farmers of the United States to say whether this
+is working out or not.
+
+And in a future reference to this subject we will show that whenever an
+attempt is made to enable farmers to borrow money at decent rates,
+whenever it is proposed to lighten the burden of "mortgage indebtedness"
+on the farm, Jewish financial influence in the United States steps in to
+prevent it, or failing to prevent it, mess it all up in the operation.
+
+By increasing the farmer's financial disability on the one hand, and by
+increasing industrial allurements on the other, a very great deal is
+accomplished. The Protocol says: "It is necessary for industry to
+deplete the Land both of laborers and capital."
+
+Has that been done? Have the farms of the United States been depleted
+both of laborers and capital? Certainly. Money is harder for the farmer
+to get than it is for any other man; and as for labor, he cannot get it
+on any terms.
+
+What is the result of these two influences, the one working on the farm,
+and the other in the cities? It is precisely what the Protocol says it
+will be: Increased wages that buy less of the materials of life--"We
+will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of prime necessities,
+pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture and cattle
+raising."
+
+The Jew who set these Protocols in order was a financier, economist and
+philosopher of the first order. He knew what he was talking about. His
+operations in the ordinary world of business always indicated that he
+knew exactly what he was doing. How well this Sixth Protocol has worked
+and is still working out in human affairs is before the eyes of everyone
+to see.
+
+Here in the United States one of the most important movements toward
+real independence of the financial powers has been begun by the farmers.
+The farmer's strong advantage is that, owning the land, he is
+independent in his sources of livelihood. The land will feed him whether
+he pleases International Jewish Financiers or not. His position is
+impregnable as long as the sun shines and the seasons roll. It was
+therefore necessary to do something to hinder this budding independence.
+He was placed under a greater disadvantage than any other business man
+in borrowing capital. He was placed more ruthlessly than any other
+producer between the upper and nether stones of a thievish distribution
+system. Labor was drawn away from the farm. The Jew-controlled melodrama
+made the farmer a "rube," and Jew-made fiction presented him as a
+"hick," causing his sons to be ashamed of farm life. The grain
+syndicates which operate against the farmer are Jew-controlled. There is
+no longer any possibility of doubting, when the facts of actual affairs
+are put alongside the written Program, that the farmer of the United
+States has an interest in this Question.
+
+What would this World Program gain if the wage-workers were enslaved and
+the farmers were allowed to go scot-free? Therefore the program of
+agricultural interference which has been only partially outlined here.
+
+But this is not all.
+
+Any writer who attempts fully to inform the Gentile mind on the Jewish
+Question must often feel that the extent of the Protocols' Conspiracy is
+so great as to stagger the Gentile mind. Gentiles are not conspirators.
+They cannot follow a clue through long and devious and darkened
+channels. The elaborate completeness of the Jewish Program, the perfect
+co-ordination of its mass of details wearies the Gentile mind. This,
+really more than the daring of the Program itself, constitutes the
+principal danger of Program being fulfilled. Gentile mental laziness is
+the most powerful ally the World Program has.
+
+For example: after citing the perfectly obvious coincidence and most
+probable connection between the Protocols and the observable facts with
+reference to the farm situation, the writer is compelled to say, as
+above, "But this is not all." And it is a peculiarity of Gentile
+psychology that the Gentile reader will feel that it ought to be all
+because it is so complete. This is where the Jewish mind out-maneuvers
+the Gentile mind.
+
+Gentiles may do a thing for one reason: the Jew often does the same
+thing for three or four reasons. The Gentile can understand thus far why
+Jewish financiers should seek control of the land in order to prevent
+widespread Agricultural Independence which, as Protocol Six says, would
+be "harmful to us." That reason is perfectly clear.
+
+But there is another. It is found in the Twelfth Protocol. It
+contemplates nothing less than the playing of City against Country in
+the great game now being exposed. Complete control over the City by the
+industrial leverage, and over the Country by the debt leverage, will
+enable the Hidden Players to move first the Country by saying that the
+City demands certain things, and then move the City by saying that the
+Country demands certain things, thus splitting Citizens and Farmers
+apart and using them against one another.
+
+Look at the plainness and the boldness, yet the calm assurance, with
+which this plan is broached:
+
+"Our calculations reach out, especially into the country districts.
+There we must necessarily arouse those interests and ambitions which we
+can always turn against the city, representing them to the cities as
+dreams and ambitions for independence on the part of the provinces. It
+is clear that the source of all this will be precisely the same, and
+that it will come from us. It will be necessary for us before we have
+attained full power to so arrange matters that, from time to time, the
+cities shall come under the influence of opinion in the country
+districts, that is, of the majority prearranged by our agents * * *"
+
+The preliminaries of the game are here set forth--to jockey City and
+Farm against each other, that in the end the Conspirators may use
+whichever proves the stronger in putting the Plan over. In Russia, both
+schemes have been worked. The old regime, established in the Cities, was
+persuaded to lay down power because it was made to believe that the
+peasants of Russia requested it. Then, when the Bolshevists seized
+power, they ruled the peasantry on the ground that the Cities wanted it.
+The Cities listened to the Country, now the Country is listening to the
+Cities.
+
+If you see any attempt made to divide City and Farm into antagonistic
+camps, remember this paragraph from the Twelfth Protocol. Already the
+poison is working. Have you never heard that Prohibition was something
+which the backwoods districts forced upon the cities? Have you never
+heard that the High Cost of Living was due to extravagant profits of the
+farmer?--profits which he doesn't get.
+
+One big dent in this Program of World Control could be made if the
+Citizen and the Farmer could learn each other's mind, not through
+self-appointed spokesmen, but directly from each other. City and Farm
+are drifting apart because of misrepresentation of outsiders, and in the
+widening rift the sinister shadow of the World Program appears.
+
+Let the Farmers look past the "Gentile fronts" in their villages or
+principal trading points, past them to the real controllers who are
+hidden.
+
+[Issue of September 4, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVII.
+
+Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
+
+
+The purpose of this article is twofold: to set forth what the Protocols
+have to say about the relation of the Press to the World Program, and to
+make an introduction to a study of Jewish influence on the Press.
+
+The Jewish race has always been aware of the advantages to be derived
+from news. This was one of the factors in its control of European
+commerce from the earliest Christian times. To be informed beforehand,
+to know what was coming before the Gentiles among whom they lived knew
+it, was a special privilege of the Jews, made possible by the close
+communication in which widely separated Jewish groups kept themselves.
+From the first they were inveterate correspondents. They were the
+inventors of the news-letter.
+
+This does not imply, however, that the Jews were the forerunners or even
+the sponsors of the modern Press. It was no part of their purpose to
+distribute news among the people, but to keep it for themselves as a
+secret advantage. The political, economic and commercial news which sped
+with really remarkable facility throughout Europe, from Jewish community
+to Jewish community, was in reality the official budget by which each
+community informed all the others of what was transpiring, as to war,
+trade currents, rising emergencies, or whatever the matter may have
+been. For centuries the Jews were the best informed people on the
+continent; from their secret sources in courts and chancellories, from
+privileged Jews who were placed in every position of vantage, the whole
+race was informed of the state of the world.
+
+Scouts were kept in motion everywhere. Far down in South America, before
+the British or Dutch colonies in North America had hardly secured a
+foothold, there were Jews who served as outposts for European trade
+interests. The world was spied out in the interests of their race, just
+as today the entire planet is under the watchful eyes of Jewish
+agents--mostly Gentiles, it must be said--for any hint of new gold
+discoveries.
+
+An interesting and historic illustration of the Jews' appreciation of
+news is to be found in the career of Nathan Rothschild. Rothschild had
+laid all his plans on the assumption that the Emperor Napoleon, then
+banished to Elba, was finally eliminated from European affairs. Napoleon
+unexpectedly returned, and in the "Hundred Days" it seemed as if the
+Rothschild financial edifice might collapse. Feverishly the financier
+aided both Prussia and England, and as the Battle of Waterloo
+approached, no one was more interested in the outcome than he.
+
+Rothschild was a man who shrank from the sight of blood; he was
+physically a coward, and any sign of violence unnerved him; but so
+intense was his interest in the battle on which his whole fortune seemed
+to depend, that he hastened to France, followed the British Army, and
+when the battle began he hid himself in "some shot-proof nook near
+Hougomont" where he watched all day the ebb and flow of battle. Just
+before Napoleon ordered the last desperate charge Rothschild had made up
+his mind. He said afterward that his exclamation at this point was, "The
+House of Rothschild has won the battle."
+
+He hurried from the field, galloped wildly to Brussels, communicating
+not a word of what he knew to the anxious people he met by the way.
+Hiring a carriage at an exorbitant price, he galloped away to Ostend.
+Here a fierce storm was raging on the ocean and no sailor was willing to
+set out for England, about 20 miles away. Rothschild himself, always
+afraid of danger, forgot his fear in his visions of the stock market. He
+offered 500, 800, and at length 1,000 francs to the man who would take
+him across. But no one dared. Finally one sailor proposed that if
+Rothschild would pay 2,000 francs into his wife's hands, he would
+attempt it.
+
+Half dead the two men reached the English coast, but without rest
+Rothschild ordered express post and hurried away to London. Whip and
+spur were not spared on that journey.
+
+There were no telegrams in those days, no swift communication. England
+was anxious. The rumors were bad. And on the morning of June 20, 1815,
+when Nathan Rothschild appeared in his usual place at the Stock Exchange
+and leaned against the column, England knew nothing of what he knew. He
+was pale and broken. The sight of his face led the other financiers to
+believe that he had received bad news from the front. Then it was seen
+that he was quietly selling his securities. What? Rothschild unloading?
+The market dropped disastrously, a very panic seized the financiers, the
+market was flooded with consols offered for sale--and all that was
+offered, Rothschild's agents bought!
+
+So it went on, all day the 20th, and all day the 21st. At the close of
+business the second day, Rothschild's heavy chests were crammed with
+securities. Then in the evening a courier galloped into London with the
+news that Wellington had won and Napoleon was a fugitive. But Nathan
+Rothschild had made $10,000,000 and the men he did business with had
+lost that much--all as an affair of news!
+
+There was a little incident in Washington during the war--a "leak" of
+news, it was called. The wise men of Wall Street sometimes whisper that
+even between 1914-1918 there were men of Rothschild's race who showed
+his same appreciation of "news," with the same profitable results. And
+not only the men of "Rothschild's race," but some of their "Gentile
+fronts," also.
+
+There were times during the war when no Gentile knew what was going on
+in certain countries. The Jewish leaders always knew. Some very
+interesting testimony can be presented on that point.
+
+Aside from its own interest, this Rothschild narrative fully illustrates
+the statement that while the Jews were very early news-gatherers, they
+were not publicists. They used the news for their own benefit; they did
+not disseminate it. If it had depended on their influence, there would
+have been no public Press at all. It was in France, which had no
+newspapers outside the capital, that the French Revolution was possible.
+There being no reliable exchange of news and opinion, the people were
+kept in ignorance. Paris itself did not know that the Bastille had
+fallen until next day. Where there is no Press, minorities easily gain
+control--as the Jewish-Bolshevist revolution in Russia illustrates.
+
+One of the most dangerous developments of the time is public distrust of
+the Press. If the day ever comes when swift, reliable and authoritative
+communication with the entire people shall be necessary for public
+action in the interests of public safety, the nation may find itself
+sadly crippled unless a new confidence in the daily Press can be built
+up. If for no other reason than that the free press is a safeguard
+against minority seizure of control, such laws as the zone laws, or any
+restrictions on the freest and fullest communication between various
+parts of the country, should be absolutely abolished.
+
+But, the Press being in existence, and being largely an Anglo-Saxon
+creation, it is a force not to be treated lightly, and that is the point
+where the World Program and Jewish Control come in contact with it.
+
+The Protocols, which overlook nothing, propose a very definite plan with
+regard to the Press. As in the multitude of other matters with which
+these remarkable documents deal, there are the two phases--"what we have
+done," and "what we will do."
+
+As early as the Second Protocol, the Press comes in for attention. It is
+significant that it makes its appearance in the same Protocol in which
+the "No Annexations" program was announced 20 years before the World
+War, in the same Protocol in which it is announced that Gentile rulers
+will be allowed to appear before the people for a short period, while
+Jewish influences were organizing themselves behind the seats of power,
+and in the same Protocol where Darwinism, Marxism and Nietzscheism are
+claimed among the most "demoralizing" doctrines which Jewish influence
+has disseminated. These are very curious statements, but not stranger
+than the actuality that has come to pass.
+
+Says the Second Protocol:
+
+"There is one great force in the hands of modern governments which
+creates thought movements among the people, that is, the Press. The
+presumed role of the Press is to indicate supposedly indispensable
+needs, to register popular complaints, and to create discontent. The
+triumph of 'free speech' (babbling) rests in the Press. But governments
+are unable to profit by this power, and it has fallen into our hands.
+Through it we have attained influence while remaining in the shadow.
+Thanks to it, we have amassed gold, though it has cost us torrents of
+blood and tears."
+
+In the same Protocol, "our Press" is spoken of as the agency through
+which are disseminated "those theories of life which we have induced
+them (the Gentiles) to regard as the dictates of science."
+
+"To this end we shall certainly endeavor to inspire blind confidence in
+these theories by means of our Press."
+
+Then follows the claim made concerning the three most revolutionary
+theories in the physical, economic and moral realms, namely Darwinism,
+Marxism and Nietzscheism.
+
+In the Third Protocol the claim is made that this control of the Press
+is being used to break down respect for authority:
+
+"Daring journalists and audacious pamphleteers make daily attack upon
+the personnel of the administration. This abuse of authority is
+definitely preparing the downfall of all institutions, and everything
+will be overturned by blows coming from the infuriated populace."
+
+Again, in the Seventh Protocol, discussing the progress which the World
+Program has already made, the part played by the Press is indicated:
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan already approaching its triumphal
+goal, by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion,
+which has in reality been organized by us with the help of the so-called
+'great power' of the Press. With few exceptions not worth considering,
+it is already in our hands."
+
+Thus twice is the claim made to control of the Press. "It has fallen
+into our hands," says the Second Protocol. "It is already in our hands,"
+says the Seventh. In the Second Protocol the Press is represented as
+furthering revolutionary physical, economic and moral philosophies;
+while in the Seventh it is used to create the "pressure of stimulated
+public opinion" for the purpose of "forcing Gentile governments to adopt
+measures which will promote our broadly conceived plan, already
+approaching its triumphal goal."
+
+A word of comment may be made here upon the claim of the Second Protocol
+that "thanks to it (the Press), we have amassed gold, though it has cost
+us torrents of blood and tears."
+
+This is a statement which can be illustrated in many ways. "Though it
+has cost us torrents of blood and tears" is an admission upon which the
+Protocols throw light, a light which also shines upon the Jewish
+argument regarding responsibility for the recent war, namely, that
+Jewish World Financial Power could not have willed the war seeing that
+Jews suffered so heavily in Eastern Europe. The Protocols frankly
+recognize the possibility of Jews suffering during the establishment of
+the World Program, but it consoles them with the thought that they fall
+as soldiers for the good of Israel. The death of a Jew, we are told in
+the Protocols, is more precious in the sight of God than the death of a
+thousand "seed of cattle," which is one of the delicate names applied to
+the Gentiles.
+
+The reference to the amassment of gold is very clear. It does not apply
+to ownership of publications and a share in their profits only, but also
+the use that may be made of them through silence or outcry to promote
+International Jewish Financiers' schemes. The Rothschilds bought editors
+as they bought legislators. It was a preliminary of nearly every scheme
+they floated to first "fix" the newspapers, either for silence or claque
+boosting. In matters of war and peace; in the removal of administrations
+inimical to Jewish financial or political plans; in the elimination by
+public exposure of "Gentile fronts" whom their Jewish masters wished to
+be rid of; in the gradual building up of reputation and influence for
+"rising men" who had been chosen for work in the future--in these and
+like matters the Press very greatly aided the International Cabal in
+attaining its end.
+
+All the details of the foregoing paragraph can be illustrated at length
+by instances which have occurred in the United States within the past 15
+years.
+
+There was once a Senator of the United States who--but that story
+illustrates another point also, and will be reserved until that point is
+reached in this series of discussions.
+
+The Twelfth Protocol, however, contains the entire plan of Control of
+the Press, reaching from the present time into the future when the
+Jewish World Government shall be established. The reader is invited to
+read carefully and thoughtfully the deep and wide outreaching of this
+plan.
+
+Keep also in mind the boast that has been made for generations that no
+publication that has handled the Jewish Question in a manner distasteful
+to the Jewish powers has been allowed to live.
+
+"What role is played at present by the Press? It serves to inflame the
+passions of selfish partisanship which our interests require. It is
+shallow, lying and unfair, the most people do not understand what end it
+serves."
+
+In that quotation we have the same low estimate which was noted when we
+studied "the estimate of human nature" which the Protocols contain.
+
+Now, for the Plan of Press Control: We separate the points for
+convenience:
+
+"We shall handle the Press in the following manner:
+
+1. "We shall saddle it and keep tight rein upon it. We shall do the same
+also with other printed matter, for of what use is it to rid ourselves
+of attacks in the Press, if we remain exposed to criticism through
+pamphlets and books?"
+
+2. "Not one announcement will reach the people save under our
+supervision. We have attained this at the present time to the extent
+that all news is received through several agencies in which it is
+centralized from all parts of the world."
+
+A sidelight on the first sentence above may be had from the Jewish
+statement regarding the British Declaration relating to Palestine: "This
+Declaration was sent from the Foreign Office to Lord Walter Rothschild.
+* * * It came perhaps as a surprise to large sections of the Jewish
+people * * * But to those who were active in Zionist circles, the
+declaration was no surprise. * * * The wording of it came from the
+British Foreign Office, but the text had been revised in the Zionist
+offices in America as well as in England. The British Declaration was
+made in the form in which the Zionists desired it. * * *" pp. 85-86,
+"Guide to Zionism," by Jessie E. Sampter, published by the Zionist
+Organization of America.
+
+3. "Literature and journalism are two most important educational forces,
+and consequently our government will become the owner of most of the
+journals. * * * If we permit ten private journals, we shall organize
+thirty of our own, and so on. This must not be suspected by the public,
+for which reason all the journals published by us will be EXTERNALLY of
+the most contrary opinions and tendencies thus evoking confidence in
+them and attracting our unsuspecting opponents, who thus will be caught
+in our trap and rendered harmless."
+
+This is most interesting in view of the defense now being made for so
+many Jewish journals. "Look at the newspapers owned and controlled by
+Jews," they say; "see how they differ in policy! See how they disagree
+with each other!" Certainly, "externally," as Protocol 12 says, but the
+underlying unity is never hard to find.
+
+Besides, one way of discovering who are the people that have knowledge
+of the Jewish World problem, of who can be convinced of it, or who will
+write about it is just to start a paper which "externally" seems to be
+independent of the Jewish Question. So deeply is this thought shared by
+even uneducated Jews that a rumor is today widespread in the United
+States that the reason for the present series of articles in THE
+DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is the desire of its owner to forward the Jewish
+World Program! Unfortunately, this scheme of starting a fake opposition
+in order to discover where the real opposing force is, is not confined
+to the Jewish Internationalists, although there is every indication that
+it was learned from them.
+
+This idea of a misrepresentative front for certain secret purposes is
+expressed at length not only with reference to the Press, but throughout
+the Protocols in other relations. But in Protocol 12 it is fully
+developed with regard to the Press, as the following quotations show.
+
+(a) In order to force writers into such long productions that no one
+will read them, a tax on writing is proposed--"on books of less than 30
+pages a double tax." Small articles are most feared. Therefore doubly
+tax the pamphlets of less than 30 pages. The longer articles fewer will
+read, so the Protocols argue, and the double tax will thus "force
+writers into such long productions that they will be little read,
+especially as they will be expensive."
+
+BUT--
+
+"That which we ourselves shall publish for directing the public mind
+will be cheap and widely read. The tax will discourage mere literary
+ambition, whereas the fear of punishment will make the writers
+subservient to us. Even if there should be those who may desire to write
+against us, no one will publish their writings." (How many American
+writers know this!)
+
+"Before accepting any work for printing, the publisher or printer must
+obtain permission from the authorities. Thus we will know in advance
+what attacks are being prepared against us and shall be able to
+counteract them by coming out beforehand with explanations on the
+subject."
+
+That is largely the situation today. They do know in advance what is
+being done, and they do seek to disarm it beforehand.
+
+(b) Here are the Three Degrees of Jewish Journalism, which are not only
+stated in the Protocols but are observable in the everyday world of the
+present.
+
+"The leading place will be held by organs of an official character. They
+will always stand guard over our interests and consequently their
+influence will be comparatively small.
+
+"The second place will be held by semi-official organs whose aim it will
+be to attract the indifferent and lukewarm.
+
+"In the third category we shall place organs of apparent opposition. At
+least one will be extremely antagonistic. Our true opponents will
+mistake this seeming opposition as belonging to their own group and will
+thus show us their cards.
+
+"I beg you to notice that among those who attack us there will be organs
+founded by us, and they will attack exclusively those points which we
+plan to change or eliminate.
+
+"All our papers will support most diverse opinions: aristocratic,
+republican, even anarchist, so long of course as the Constitution lives.
+* * These fools who believe they are repeating the opinions expressed by
+their party newspapers will be repeating our opinions or those things
+which we wish them to think.
+
+"By always discussing and contradicting our writings superficially, and
+without touching upon their essence, our press will keep up a blank fire
+against the official newspapers, only to give us opportunity to express
+ourselves in greater detail than we could in our first declaration. This
+will be done when useful to us.
+
+"These attacks will also convince the people of the full freedom of the
+press, and it will give our agents the opportunity of declaring that the
+papers opposing us are mere wind-bags, since they cannot find any real
+arguments to oppose our orders."
+
+Undoubtedly that would be the case were all the papers controlled. In
+the case of the present series of articles, however, the tables appear
+to be turned. It is the Jewish Press which has so signally failed to
+bring forward disproof either by fact or argument.
+
+"When necessary, we shall promulgate ideas in the third section of our
+Press as feelers, and then refute them vigorously in the semi-official
+press.
+
+"We shall overcome our opponents without fail because they will not have
+organs of the Press at their disposal.
+
+"The pretext for suppressing a publication will be that it stirs up the
+public mind without basis of reason"--a pretext which has already been
+urged time and again, but without the legal power to effect suppression,
+although without legal power the Jewish interests in the United States
+have effected a pretty complete suppression of everything they do not
+desire.
+
+How far does Jewish influence control the Newspapers of the United
+States?
+
+In so far as the use of the word "Jew" is concerned, the Press is almost
+completely dominated. The editor who uses it is certain to hear from it.
+He will be visited and told--contrary to everything the Jew is
+told--that the word "Jew" denotes a member of a religious denomination
+and not a member of a race, and that its use with reference to any
+person spoken of in the public prints is as reprehensible as if
+"Baptist," "Catholic," or "Episcopalian" were used.
+
+The Jew is always told by his leaders that regardless of religion or
+country of birth, he is a Jew, the member of a race by virtue of blood.
+Pages of this paper could be filled with the most authoritative Jewish
+statements on this point. But what the Jew is told by his leaders, and
+what the Gentile editor is told by the Jewish committee are two
+different and antagonistic things. A Jewish paper may shriek to the
+skies that Professor So-and-So, or Judge So-and-So, or Senator So-and-So
+is a Jew, but the secular newspaper that should do that would be visited
+by an indignant committee bearing threats.
+
+A certain newspaper, as a mere matter of news, published an excerpt from
+one of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT articles. Next day a number of
+advertising accounts dropped for lack of copy. Inquiry developed the
+fact that the reticent advertisers were all Jewish firms and the cause
+of their action was the really unimportant excerpt which the paper
+published. It developed also that the advertising agent who handled all
+the advertising for those Jewish firms was himself a Jew who also held
+an office in a Jewish secret society, which office was concerned
+exclusively with the control of newspapers in the matter of Jewish
+publicity. It was this man who dealt with the editor. A lame editorial
+retraction followed which faintly praised the Jews. The advertising was
+returned to the paper, and it is just a question whether that editor was
+rightly handled or not. Certainly he has been made to feel the power.
+But the diplomacy of it was bad. The editor, along with hundreds of
+others, has only been given the proper background for estimating the
+Jewish power in its wider reaches.
+
+This is not to say that every editor should enter upon a campaign to
+expose the secret power. That is a matter for personal decision. Every
+editor, however, is so situated that he can see certain things, and he
+ought to see them, note them, and inwardly digest them.
+
+Jewish publicity in response to these articles is very easy to get in
+almost any newspaper. Some have fallen most lamentably for lying
+statements. Others have opened their columns to propaganda sent out from
+Jewish sources. That is all very well. But the Gentile interest in the
+question has been largely ignored, even in cases where the editors are
+awake to the whole Question. This too affords a vantage from which the
+average editor can view what is transpiring in this country.
+
+If a list of the Jewish owners, bondholders and other interests in our
+newspapers should be published the list would be impressive. But it
+would not account for the widespread control of the Press as observed in
+this country. Indeed, it would be unfair in such a connection as this to
+list some of the Jewish-owned newspapers of the United States, because
+their owners are fair and public-spirited servants of the people.
+
+Actual ownership does not often account for much in a newspaper.
+Ownership in the newspaper business in not always synonymous with
+control.
+
+If you wish to know the control of the newspaper, look to its attorney
+and the interests he serves; look to the social connections of its chief
+editors; look to the advertising agents who handle the bulk of Jewish
+advertising; and then look to the matter of the paper's partisanship or
+independence in politics.
+
+Newspaper control of the Press by the Jews is not a matter of money. It
+is a matter of keeping certain things out of the public mind and putting
+certain things into it.
+
+One absolute condition insisted upon with the daily Press is that it
+shall not identify the Jew, mention him, or in any but the most
+favorable way call the public's attention to his existence.
+
+The first plea for this is based on "fairness," on the false statement
+that a Jew is not a Jew but a church member. This is the same statement
+which Jewish agents in the United States Government have used for years
+to prevent the United States Government from listing the Jews in any
+racial statistics. It is in direct contradiction to what the Jews
+themselves are told. A flabby "fairness," a sloppy "broad-mindedness," a
+cry of "religious prejudice," is the first plea. The second is a sudden
+cessation of Jewish patronage. The third is withdrawal of patronage by
+every Gentile concern that is under the grip of Jewish financiers. It is
+a mere matter of brutal bludgeoning. And the fourth act, in a community
+thoroughly blinded to the Jewish Question, is the collapse of the
+offending publication.
+
+Read the Jewish Encyclopedia for a list of some of the papers which
+dared open up the Question, and ceased!
+
+When old Baron Moses Montefiore said at Krakau:
+
+"What are you prating about? As long as we do not have the press of the
+whole world in our hands, everything you may do is vain. We must control
+or influence the papers of the whole world in order to blind and deceive
+the people."
+
+--he knew what he was saying. By "blinding" the people he only meant
+that they should not see the Jew, and by "deceiving" them he only meant
+that the people should think certain world movements meant one thing
+when they really meant another. The people may be told what happens:
+they may not be told what was behind it. The people do not yet know why
+certain occurrences which have affected their whole lives, should have
+occurred at all. But the "why" of it is very definitely known in certain
+circles whose news service never sees print, and sometimes not even
+writing.
+
+Statistics as to the space given the Jews by newspapers concerning
+things they want to get into print would also be an eye-opener. A
+minority nation, they get more publicity than any ten of the important
+minor nations of Europe--of the kind of publicity they want!
+
+The number of Jewish contributors to the Press of the United States
+makes another interesting statistical bit. It would be sheer prejudice
+to make objectionable mention of many Jewish journalists and writers,
+and they come within the scope of this study only as they have shown
+themselves to be the watchful agents and active servants of the System.
+This is what many of them are. Not the ambitious young Jewish reporter
+who runs around the streets gathering news, perhaps, but the journalist
+at the seat of the news and at the necks of those two or three important
+international runways through which the news of the world flows.
+
+The whole matter, as far as extent of control is concerned, could be
+visualized on a map of the United States, by means of colored pins
+showing the number of Jewish-owned, provably Jewish-controlled papers,
+and the number of Jewish writers who are directing the majority thought
+of the various sections of the country.
+
+The Jewish journalist who panders to unrest, whose literary ambition is
+to maintain a ferment in his readers, whose humor is sordid and whose
+philosophy is one of negation; as well as the Jewish novelist who extols
+his or her own people even while the story sows subtle seeds of
+disruption in Gentile social or economic life must be listed as the
+agents of that World Program which would break down society through the
+agency of "ideas." And it is very striking how many there are, and how
+skillfully they conceal their propaganda in their work.
+
+Here and there in the United States it is now becoming possible to print
+the word "Jew" in the headlines of an article, and tell the Jewish
+committee which calls the next day that this is yet a free country.
+Quietly a number of newspapers have tested the strength of this assumed
+control in their communities, and have discounted it.
+
+There is no reason for fear on the part of the editor who has his facts.
+But the editor who backs down will more and more feel the pressure upon
+him. The man who courageously and fairly holds his ground will soon
+learn another thing that is not so generally known, namely, that with
+all the brilliance there is a lot of bluff, and that the chain of
+control once broken is felt throughout the whole system as a blow.
+
+There is nothing that the International Jew fears so much as the truth,
+or any hint of the truth about himself or his plans. And, after all, the
+rock of refuge and defense, the foundation of endurance for Jew or
+Gentile must be the Truth.
+
+[Issue of September 11, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVIII.
+
+Does This Explain Jewish Political Power?
+
+
+Little has yet been said in this commentary on the Protocols about the
+political program contained in them. It is desirable that the points be
+taken separately in order that when our study turns to actual conditions
+in this country, the reader may be in a position to judge whether the
+written program agrees with the acted program as it may be seen all
+about us. The World Program as outlined in these strange documents turns
+upon many points, some of which have already been discussed. Its success
+is sought (a) by securing financial control of the world, this having
+already been secured by the overwhelming indebtedness of every nation
+through wars, and by the capitalistic (not the manufacturing or
+managerial) control of industry; (b) by securing political control,
+which is easily illustrated by the condition of every civilized country
+today; (c) by securing control of education, a control which has been
+steadily won under the blinded eyes of the people; (d) by trivializing
+the public mind through a most complete system of allurement which has
+just brought us into a period which requires the new word "jazz" to
+describe it; and (e) by the sowing of seeds of disruption
+everywhere--not the seeds of progress, but of economic fallacies and
+revolutionary temper. All of these main objectives entail various
+avenues of action, none of which has been overlooked by the Protocols.
+
+In leading up to what the Protocols have to say about the selection and
+control of Presidents, it will be enlightening to take the views which
+these documents express about other phases of politics.
+
+It may be very interesting to those Jewish apologists, who in all their
+pronouncements never discuss the contents of the Protocols, to know that
+so far from their being a plea for monarchy, they are a plea for the
+most drastic and irresponsible liberalism in government. The powers
+behind the Protocols appear to have absolute confidence in what they can
+do with the people once the people are made to believe that popular
+government has really arrived.
+
+The Protocols believe in frequent change. They like elections; they
+approve frequent revisions of constitutions; they counsel the people to
+change their representatives often.
+
+Take this from the First Protocol:
+
+"The abstract conception of Liberty made it possible for us to convince
+the crowd that government is only the management for the owner of the
+country, the people, and that the steward can be changed like a pair of
+worn-out gloves. The possibility of changing the representatives of the
+people has placed them at our disposal and, as it were, has placed them
+in our power as creatures of our purposes."
+
+Note also how this Use of Change is buried in this paragraph from the
+Fourth Protocol, which describes the evolution of a Republic:
+
+"Every republic passes through several stages. The first is that of
+senseless ravings, resembling those of a blind man throwing himself from
+right to left. The second is that of demagogy, which breeds anarchy and
+inevitably leads to despotism, not of a legal, open and consequently
+responsible character, but an unseen and unknown despotism, felt none
+the less because exercised by a secret organization. Such a despotism
+acts with even less scruple because it is hidden under cover and works
+behind the backs of various agents, the shifting and changing of which
+will not harm its secret power, but serve it, since such changes will
+relieve the organization from the necessity of expending its resources
+on rewards for long service."
+
+This "changing" of servants is not unknown in the United States. A
+former Senator of the United States could easily testify to this if he
+only knew who did the "changing." Time was when he was the tool of every
+Jewish lobbyist in the Senate. His glib tongue lent charm and
+plausibility to every argument they wished to advance against the
+government's intentions. Secretly, however, the Senator was receiving
+"favors" from a very high source, "favors" of a financial character. The
+time came when it was desirable to "detach" the Senator. The written
+record of his "favors" was abstracted from its place of supposed
+secrecy, a newspaper system that has always been the ready organ of
+American Jewry made the exposure, and an indignant public did the rest.
+It could not have been done had not the man been compromised first; it
+could not have been done without certain newspaper connivance; it would
+never have been done had not the Senator's masters wished it. However,
+it was done.
+
+In the Fourteenth Protocol, which begins "When we become rulers," it is
+pictured how hopeless the Gentile peoples will have become of any
+betterment of conditions through changes of government, and therefore
+will accept the promise of stability which the Protocolists of that time
+will be prepared to offer:
+
+"The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of
+administration which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were
+undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate
+anything from us * * *"
+
+The official who is changed most quickly in this country is the man who
+questions certain matters which come from Jewish sources. There must be
+a small army of such men in the United States today. Some of them do not
+know even now how it happened. Some are still wondering why perfectly
+legitimate and patriotic information should have been lost in an icy
+silence when they sent it in, and why they should have lost favor for
+sending it.
+
+Protocol Nine is full of the most amazing claims, of which these may
+serve as illustration:
+
+"At the present time, if any government raises a protest against us, it
+is only for the sake of form, it is under our control, and it is done by
+our direction, for their anti-Semitism is necessary for keeping in order
+our lesser brothers. I will not explain this further as already it has
+been the subject of numerous discussions between us."
+
+This doctrine of the usefulness of anti-Semitism and the desirability of
+creating it where it does not exist are found in the words of Jewish
+leaders, ancient and modern.
+
+"In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government has
+such an extra-legal status that it may be called by the energetic and
+strong word--dictatorship. I can conscientiously say that at the present
+time we are the lawmakers."
+
+In that Protocol this claim is made:
+
+"De facto, we have already eliminated every government except our own,
+although de jure there are still many others left."
+
+That is simple: the governments still exist, under their own names,
+having authority over their own people; but the super-government has
+unchallenged influence over all of them in matters pertaining to the
+Jewish Nation and particularly in matters pertaining to the purpose of
+The International Jew.
+
+The Eighth Protocol shows how this can be:
+
+"For the time being, until it will be safe to give responsible
+government positions to our brother Jews, we shall entrust them to
+people whose past and whose character are such that there is an abyss
+between them and the people; to people, for whom, in case of
+disobedience to our orders, there will remain only trial or exile (from
+public life), thus forcing them to protect our interest to their last
+breath."
+
+In the Ninth Protocol again is this reference to party funds:
+
+"The division into parties has placed them all at our disposal, inasmuch
+as in order to carry on a party struggle it is necessary to have money,
+and we have it all."
+
+There have been many investigations of campaign funds. None has ever yet
+gone deep enough to inquire into the "international" sources of these
+funds.
+
+Now, in the United States during the last five years we have seen an
+almost complete Judaized administration in control of all the war
+activities of the American people. The function of the regularly
+organized United States Government during that time was practically
+confined to the voting of money. But the administration of the business
+end of the war was in charge of a government within a government, and
+this inner, extra government was Jewish.
+
+It is, of course, often asked why this was so. The first answer given is
+that the Jews who were immediately placed in charge of the business
+administration of the war were competent men, the most competent men who
+could be found. This was actually the answer given to an inquiry as to
+the reason for so large a part of the foreign policy of the United
+States depending on the counsel of a certain group of Jews--they were
+the men who knew, no one else knew so much, the officials chosen by the
+people had a right to select the most efficient and able counsel they
+could find.
+
+Very well, let that stand. Let the explanation be that in all the United
+States, Jews were the only persons to be found who could handle the
+emergency with masterly ease. We shall see more of this phase of the
+matter at another time. The war is not under discussion in this article,
+merely the fact that in an emergency the government became distinctly
+Jewish.
+
+But the Second Protocol would appear to throw a little light on the
+matter.
+
+"The administrators chosen by us from the masses for their servility
+will not be persons trained for government, and consequently they will
+easily become pawns in our game, played by our learned and talented
+counsellors, specialists educated from early childhood to administer
+world affairs. As we know, our specialists have been acquiring the
+necessary knowledge for governing * * *"
+
+The language is a trifle raw, as it usually is when Gentiles are under
+discussion. But the same fact, namely, that Jewish specialists have come
+to the aid of Gentile administrators in an emergency, when uttered for
+the consideration of the general public, may be very beautifully
+phrased.
+
+The untrained Gentile administrator must have help; his unpreparedness
+makes it necessary. And who knows it better than those who have the help
+to offer? The Gentile public has been taught to suspect the man who has
+had experience in politics or government. This, of course, makes the
+whole situation doubly easy for those whose speciality it is to give
+"aid." Just what interests they aid most will give, when discovered, a
+strong light upon their zeal.
+
+But in all that the Protocols have to say about the political angle of
+the World Program, nothing is of so great interest as that which
+concerns the selection and control of Presidents. The whole plan is
+outlined in the Tenth Protocol. The fact that the President of France
+seems to have been in mind is a localism; the plan is applicable
+elsewhere; indeed has elsewhere its most perfect illustration.
+
+This Tenth Protocol, then, leads gradually up to the subject, tracing
+the evolution of rulers from Autocrat to President, and of nations from
+Monarchies to Republics.
+
+The language of this passage is particularly objectionable, but no more
+so than can be found in current Jewish literature where boasting of
+power is indulged in. Unpleasant as the whole attitude is, it is
+valuable as showing in just what light the supporters of the Protocol
+Program view the Gentiles and their dignities. It must be born in mind
+that the Jewish ideal is not a President, but a Prince and a King. The
+Jewish students of Russia marched the streets in 1918 singing this
+hymn--
+
+"We have given you a God; Now we will give you a King."
+
+The new flag of Palestine, now permitted to fly without hindrance, bears
+insignia, as does every synagogue, of a Jewish King. The Jewish hope is
+that the Throne of David shall be set up again, as doubtless it will be.
+None of these things is to be decried in the least, nor to be regarded
+with anything but a decent respect, but they should be borne in mind as
+a side light on the expressed contempt for Gentile Presidents and
+Legislatures.
+
+The Tenth Protocol reaches the theme of President thus:
+
+"Then the rise of the republican era became possible, and then in the
+place of a sovereign we substituted a caricature of him, a President
+picked from the crowd * * * Such was the foundation of the mine we laid
+underneath the Gentile people, or more accurately, the Gentile peoples."
+
+It is with something of a shock that one reads that men with a "past"
+are specially favored for the presidential office. Men with a "past"
+have become President in various countries, including the United States,
+there is no doubt of that. In some instances, the particular scandal
+that constituted the "past" has been publicly known; in other cases it
+has been hushed up and lost in a maze of rumor. In at least one case it
+was made the special property of a syndicate of men who, while
+protecting the official from public knowledge, compelled him to pay
+rather stiffly for their service. Men with a "past" are not uncommon,
+and it is not always the "past" but the concealment of it that concerns
+them most, and in this lack of frankness, this distrust of the
+understanding and mercy of the people, they usually fall into another
+slavery, namely, the slavery of political or financial blackmail.
+
+"We will manipulate the election of Presidents whose past contains some
+undisclosed dark affair, some 'Panama,' then they will be faithful
+executors of our orders from fear of exposure and from the natural
+desire of every man who has attained a position of authority to retain
+the privileges, emoluments and the dignity associated with the position
+of President."
+
+The use of the word "Panama" here refers to the various scandals which
+arose in French political circles over the original efforts to construct
+the Panama Canal. If the present form of the Protocols had been written
+at a later date they might have referred to the "Marconi wireless"
+scandals in England--though on second thought, they would not have done
+so because certain men were involved who were not Gentiles. Herzl, the
+great Jewish Zionist leader, uses the expression in "The Jewish State."
+Speaking of the management of the business of Palestine he says that the
+Society of the Jews "will see to it that the enterprise does not become
+a Panama but a Suez." That the same expression should occur in Herzl and
+in the Protocols is significant; it has also another significance, which
+will be described at another time. It must be clear to the reader,
+however, that no one writing for the general public at this day would
+refer to a "Panama" in a man's past. The reference would not be
+understood.
+
+It is this practice of holding a man under obligation which makes it
+needful on the part of the true publicist to tell the truth and the
+whole truth about aspirants for public office. It is not enough to say
+of a candidate that he "began as a poor boy" and then became
+"successful." How did he become successful? How explain the "rise" of
+his fortunes? Sometimes the clue leads deep into the domestic life of
+the candidate. It may be told of a man, for example, that he helped
+another out of a scrape by marrying the woman involved, and received a
+sum of money for doing so. It may be told of another that he was
+implicated by his too friendly relations with another's wife, but was
+relieved of his predicament by the astute diplomacy of powerful friends,
+to whom thereafter he felt himself in debt of honor. It is strange that,
+in American affairs at least, the woman-note is predominant. In our
+higher offices that has more frequently occurred than any other, oftener
+than the money-note.
+
+In European countries, however, where the fact of a man's being
+entangled illegitimately with a woman does not carry so heavy a stamp of
+shame with it, the controlled men have been found to have "pasts" of
+another character.
+
+The whole subject is extremely distasteful, but truth has its surgical
+duties to perform, and this is one of them. When, for example, a pivotal
+assemblage like that of the Peace Conference is studied, and the men who
+are most subject to the Jewish influence are isolated, and their past
+history is carefully traced, there is almost no difficulty whatever in
+determining the precise moment when they passed over into that fateful
+condition which, while it did not hinder them of public honors for one
+hour, made them unchangeably the servants of a power the public did not
+see. The puzzling spectacle which the observer sees of the great leaders
+of Anglo-Saxon races closely surrounded and continuously counseled by
+the princes of the Semitic race, is explained only by knowledge of those
+leaders' "past" and those words of the Protocols--"We will manipulate
+the election of Presidents whose past contains some undisclosed dark
+affair."
+
+And where this Jewish domination of officials is glaringly apparent, it
+may be safely assumed that the custody of the secret is almost entirely
+with that race. When necessity arises, it may be a public service for
+those in possession of the facts to make them public--not for the
+purpose of destroying reputations, but for the purpose of damning for
+all time a most cowardly practice.
+
+Politically, so the Jewish publicists tell us, Jews do not vote as a
+group. Because of this so we are told, they have no political influence.
+Moreover, we are told, they are so divided among themselves that they
+cannot be led in one direction.
+
+It may be true that when it is a question of being for anything, the
+Jewish community may show a majority and minority opinion--a small
+minority, it is likely to be. But when it becomes a question of being
+against anything, the Jewish community is always a unit.
+
+These are facts to which any ward politician can testify. Any man in
+political life can test it for himself by announcing that he will not
+permit himself to be dominated by Jews or anybody else. Just let him
+mention Jews in that manner; he will no longer have to read about Jewish
+solidarity; he will have felt it. Not that, in a vote, the Jewish
+solidarity can accomplish anything it wishes; the Jew's political
+strength is not in his vote, but in the "pull" of, say, seven men at the
+seat of government. The Jews, a political minority so far as votes are
+concerned, were a political majority so far as influence was concerned,
+during the last five years. They ruled. They boast that they ruled. The
+mark of their rule is everywhere.
+
+The note which everyone observes in politics, as in the Press, is the
+fear of the Jews. This fear is such that nowhere are the Jews discussed
+as are, say, the Armenians, the Germans, the Russians, or the Hindoos.
+What is this fear but reflection of the knowledge of the Jews' power and
+their ruthlessness in the use of it? It is possibly true, as many Jewish
+publicists say, that what is called anti-Semitism is just a panic-fear.
+It is a dread of the unknown. The uncanny spectacle of an apparently
+poor people who are richer than all, of a very small minority which is
+more powerful than all, creates phantoms before the mind.
+
+It is very significant that those who most assume to represent the Jews
+are quite content that the fear should exist. They wish it to exist. To
+keep it delicately poised and always there, though not too obtrusively,
+is an art they practice. But once the balance is threatened, their
+crudeness instantly appears. Then comes the threat, by which it is hoped
+to re-establish the fear again. When the threat fails, there comes the
+wail of anti-Semitism.
+
+How strange this is, that the Jews should not see that the most abject
+form of anti-Semitism is just this fear which they are willing to have
+felt toward them by their neighbors. This fear is "Semitophobia" in its
+worst form. To inspire fear--what is more dreaded by the normal man, and
+yet what more delights an inferior race?
+
+Now, a great service is done when the people are emancipated from this
+fear. It is the process of emancipation that Jewish publicists attack.
+It is this they call anti-Semitism. It is not anti-Semitism at all; it
+is the only course that can prevent anti-Semitism.
+
+The process involves several steps. The extent of the Jewish power must
+be shown. To this, of course, strong Jewish objection is made, though no
+strong disproof can be made.
+
+Then the existence of this power must be explained. It can be explained
+only by the Jewish Will to Power, as it may be called, or by the
+deliberate program which is followed in the attainment of the power.
+When the method is explained, half the damage is undone. The Jew is not
+a superman. He is bright, he is intense, his philosophy of material
+things leaves him free to do many things from which his neighbor draws
+back; but, given equal advantages, he is not a superman. The Yankee is
+more than his equal any time, but the Yankee has an inborn inclination
+to observe the rules of the game. When the people know by what means
+this power is gained--when they are informed how, for example, political
+control is seized, as it has been in the United States, the very method
+takes all the glamour from the power, and shows it to be a rather sordid
+thing after all.
+
+This series of articles is attempting to take these orderly steps, and
+it is believed the complete effort will justify itself to reasonable
+minds, both Jewish and Gentile.
+
+In the present article one important means of power has been described
+on the authority of the Protocols. Whether the method laid down by the
+Protocols is worth considering or not depends entirely on whether it can
+be found in actual affairs today. It can be found. The two tally. The
+parallel is complete. It were well for the Jew, of course, if no trace
+of him could be found in either the written or the actual program. But
+he is there, and it is illogical for him to blame anyone but himself for
+being there. Certainly, it is small defense against the fact to heap
+abuse upon the one who discloses the fact. We have agreed that the Jews
+are clever, but they are not so clever as to be able to cover their
+work. There is a certain element of weakness in them which reveals the
+whole matter in the end. And even the revelation would not mean much if
+the thing revealed were not wrong. But that is the weakness of the
+Jewish program--it is wrong. The Jews have never gained any measure of
+success so great that the world cannot check it. The world is engaged in
+a great checking tactic now, and if there are still prophets among the
+Jews they should lead their people in another path.
+
+The proof and the fruit of any exposure of the World Program is the
+removal of the element of fear from the peoples among whom the Jews
+live.
+
+[Issue of September 18, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"In a world of completely organized territorial sovereignties he (the
+Jew) has only two possible cities of refuge; he must either pull down
+the pillars of the whole national state system, or he must create a
+territorial sovereignty of his own . . . . In Eastern Europe, Bolshevism
+and Zionism seem to grow side by side . . . . not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system is ever anything but distasteful to him."
+
+XIX.
+
+The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
+
+
+We shall now briefly interrupt the commentary which we have been making
+on the Protocols to set at rest once and for all certain misstatements
+which are made for Gentile consumption.
+
+To learn what the Jewish leaders of the United States or any other
+country think, do not read their addresses to the Gentiles; read their
+addresses to their own people. On such matters as these--Whether the Jew
+regards himself as destined to rule the world; whether he regards
+himself as belonging to a nation and race distinct from every other
+nation and race; whether he regards the Gentile world as the legitimate
+field of his exploitation by a lower moral method than is permissible
+among his own people; whether he knows and shares the principles of the
+Protocols--on such matters as these, the only safe guide is to be found
+in the words which Jewish leaders speak to Jews, not in the words they
+speak to Gentiles.
+
+The notable Jewish names which appear oftenest in the Press do not
+represent the spokesmen of Judaism at all, but only a selected few who
+represent the Department of Propaganda Among the Gentiles. Sometimes
+that propaganda is in the form of donations for Christian charitable
+organizations; sometimes it is in the form of "liberal" opinion on
+religious, social and political questions. In whatever form it comes,
+you may depend upon it that the real activities of the Jewish hierarchy
+proceed under cover of that which the Gentile is invited to observe and
+approve.
+
+The statements offered in this series are never made without the
+strictest and fullest proof, confirmation and corroboration in the
+utterances of Jewish leaders. This is one of the strange features of the
+multitude of Jewish attacks on this series: they are attacking what they
+themselves stand for, and their only reason for the attack must be their
+belief that this investigation has not been able to penetrate through to
+that which has been kept hidden from the world.
+
+The most persistent denials have been offered to the statement that
+Bolshevism everywhere, in Russia or the United States, is Jewish. In
+these denials we have perhaps one of the most brazen examples of the
+double intent referred to above. The denial of the Jewish character of
+Bolshevism is made to the Gentile; but in the confidence and secrecy of
+Jewish communication, or buried in the Yiddish dialect, or obscurely
+hidden in the Jewish national press, we find the proud assertion
+made--to their own people!--that Bolshevism is Jewish.
+
+Jewish propaganda has only two straws to grasp in the terrible tale of
+murder, immorality, robbery, enforced starvation and hideous humanism
+which make the present Russian situation impossible to describe and all
+but impossible to comprehend.
+
+One of these straws is that Kerensky, the man who eased in the opening
+wedge of Bolshevism, is not a Jew. Indeed, one of the strongest
+indications that Bolshevism is Jewish is that the Jewish press
+emphasizes so fiercely the alleged Gentilism of a least two of the
+revolutionary notables. It may be cruel to deny them two among hundreds,
+but merely saying so cannot change Kerensky's nationality. His name is
+Adler. His father was a Jew and his mother a Jewess. Adler, the father,
+died, and the mother married a Russian named Kerensky, whose name the
+young child took. Among the radicals who employed him as a lawyer, among
+the forces that put him forward to drive the first nail into Russia's
+cross, among the soldiers who fought with him, his Jewish descent and
+character have never been doubted.
+
+"Well, but there is Lenin," our Jewish publicists say--"Lenin the head
+of it all, the brains of it all, and Lenin is a Gentile! We've got you
+there--Lenin is a Gentile!"
+
+Perhaps he is, but why do his children speak Yiddish? Why are his
+proclamations put forth in Yiddish? Why did he abolish the Christian
+Sunday and establish by law the Jewish Saturday Sabbath?
+
+The explanation of all this may be that he married a Jewess. The fact is
+that he did. But another explanation may be that he himself is a Jew.
+Certainly he is not the Russian nobleman he has always claimed to be.
+The statements he has made about his identity thus far have been lies.
+The claim that he is a Gentile may be unfounded too.
+
+No one has ever doubted Trotsky's nationality--he is a Jew. His name is
+Braunstein. Recently the Gentiles were told that Trotsky had said he
+wasn't much of anything--in religion. That may be. But still he must be
+something--else why are the Russian Christian churches turned into
+stables, slaughter houses and dancing halls, while the Jewish synagogues
+remain untouched? And why are Christian priests and ministers made to
+work on roads, while Jewish rabbis are left their clerical privileges?
+Trotsky may not be much of anything in religion, but he is a Jew
+nevertheless. This is not mere Gentile insistence that he shall be
+considered a Jew whether or no; it is straight Jewish teaching that he
+is. In a future discussion on "religion or race?" we shall show that
+even without religion, Trotsky is, and is considered by all Jewish
+authorities to be, a Jew.
+
+An apology must be made here for repeating well-known facts. Yet, so
+many people are not even now aware of the true meaning of Bolshevism,
+that at the risk of monotony, we shall cite a few of the salient facts.
+The purpose, however, is not alone to explain Russia, but to throw a
+warning light on conditions in the United States.
+
+The Bolshevik Government, as it stood late this summer when the latest
+report was smuggled through to certain authorities, shows up the Jewish
+domination of the whole affair. It has changed very slightly since the
+beginning. We give only a few items to indicate the proportion. It must
+not be supposed that the non-Jewish members of the government are
+Russian.
+
+Very few Russians have anything to say about their own country these
+days. The so-called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat," in which the
+proletariat has nothing whatever to say, is Russian only in the sense
+that it is set up in Russia; it is not Russian in that it springs from
+or includes the Russian people. It is the international program of the
+Protocols, which might be "put over" by a minority in any country, and
+which is being given a dress-rehearsal in Russia.
+
+Table Showing Jewish Control of Russia
+
+                                | Number  | Number of | Jewish
+                                |   of    |  Jewish   |  Per-
+                                | Members |  Members  | centage
+--------------------------------+---------+-----------+--------
+The Council of the Commissaries |         |           |
+  of the People                 |   22    |    17     |  77.2%
+The Commissariat of War         |   43    |    33     |  76.7%
+The Commissariat of Foreign     |         |           |
+  Affairs                       |   16    |    13     |  81.2%
+The Commissariat of Finance     |   30    |    24     |  80.0%
+The Commissariat of Justice     |   21    |    20     |  95.2%
+The Commissariat of Public      |         |           |
+  Instruction                   |   53    |    42     |  79.2%
+The Commissariat of Social      |         |           |
+  Assistance                    |    6    |     6     | 100.0%
+The Commissariat of Work        |    8    |     7     |  87.5%
+Delegates of the Bolshevik Red  |         |           |
+  Cross to Berlin, Vienna,      |         |           |
+  Varsovie, Bucharest, Copen-   |         |           |
+  hagen                         |    8    |     8     | 100.0%
+Commissaries of the Provinces   |   23    |    21     |  91.3%
+Journalists                     |   41    |    41     | 100.0%
+
+These are enlightening figures. The reader will note that the Jewish
+percentage is high at all times, never lower than 76 per cent in any
+case. (Curiously enough, the lowest percentage of Jews is found in the
+Commissariat of War.) But in those committees which deal most closely
+with the mass of the people, as well as in the committees of defense and
+propaganda, Jews fill literally all the places.
+
+Remember what the Protocols say about Press control: remember what Baron
+Montefiore said about it, and then look at the Government Journalists.
+That committee comprises 41 men, and the 41 are Jews. Only Jewish pens
+are trusted with Bolshevist propaganda.
+
+And then the so-called "Red Cross delegates," which are merely Red
+Revolutionary delegates to the cities named--of the 8, there are 8 Jews.
+
+The Commissariat of Social Assistance, upon whose word the life and
+privilege of tens of thousands hang--there are 6 members, and the 6 are
+Jews. And so on through the list.
+
+Out of the 53 members of the Commissariat of Public Instruction, 11 are
+noted as non-Jews. But what kind of non-Jews is not stated. They may be
+"non-Jews like Lenin" whose children speak the Yiddish as their native
+tongue. Whatever they are, there is a sidelight upon their attitude in
+the fact that the Bolsheviki immediately took over all the Hebrew
+schools and continued them as they were and laid down a rule that the
+ancient Hebrew language should be taught in them. The ancient Hebrew
+language is the vehicle of the deeper secrets of the World Program.
+
+And for the Gentile Russian children--? "Why," said these gentle Jewish
+educators, "we will teach them sex knowledge. We will brush out of their
+minds the cobwebs. They must learn the truth about things!"--with
+consequences that are too pitiable to narrate. But this can be said:
+unquestionably there were deaths among innocent Jews when Hungary
+wrested itself free from the Red Bolshevism of Bela Kun (or Cohen). The
+Jews may well call it the "White Terror" that followed their failure to
+re-enact the tragedy of Russia in Hungary. But there are mountains of
+evidence to show that nothing had so potent an effect in producing the
+bloodshed of the "White Terror" as the outraged minds of parents whose
+children had been compulsorily drawn through sloughs of filth during the
+short time the Jewish Bolsheviki had charge of the schools.
+
+American Jews do not like to hear this. Their shrinking from it would be
+greatly to their honor did they not immediately return to the defense of
+the people who do these things. It is well enough known that the
+chastity of Christians is not so highly regarded by the orthodox male
+Jew as is the chastity of his own people, but it would be pleasant to be
+certain that all of them condemn what went on in Russia and Hungary in
+the matter of education. However, as most of the influences which
+destroy Gentile youth today--in America--are in the hands of the Jews,
+and as it is plainly stated in the Protocols that one of the lines of
+campaign is "to corrupt the youth of the Gentiles," the situation is one
+that calls for something more than mere hard feelings and angry denials
+whenever these facts are referred to.
+
+It is not the economic experiment, so-called, that one objects to in
+Russia; it is not the fallacies, the sad delusion of the people. No. It
+is the downright dirty immorality, the brutish nastiness of it all; and
+the line which the immorality and nastiness draws between Jew and
+Gentile. The horrible cruelty involved we will not deal with, leaving it
+merely with the explanation which has found utterance in the Jewish
+press that "it may be that the Jew in Russia is taking an unconscious
+revenge for his centuries of suffering."
+
+"But," asks some reader, "how may we know that all this is true?"
+
+Bearing in mind that we are speaking of Russia, not for the interest of
+the Russian situation at all, but to indicate the international
+character of those who are responsible for conditions there, and to
+identify them for the protection of the United States, we shall look at
+the evidence.
+
+There is, of course, the evidence brought to light by our own United
+States Senate and printed in a Report of the Committee on the Judiciary.
+We do not wish to spend much time on this, because we prefer in these
+articles to use Jewish testimony instead of Gentile. But we shall pause
+long enough to show the nature of the testimony brought out by our own
+government.
+
+Dr. George A. Simons, a clergyman in charge of an American congregation
+in Petrograd at the time the Bolshevik terror broke out, was a witness.
+Parts of his testimony are given here:
+
+"'There were hundreds of agitators who followed in the trail of
+Trotsky-Bronstein, these men having come over from the lower East Side
+of New York * * * A number of us were impressed by the strange Yiddish
+element in this thing right from the start, and it soon became evident
+that more than half the agitators in the so-called Bolshevik movement
+were Yiddish.'
+
+"Senator Nelson--'Hebrews?'
+
+"Dr. Simons--'They were Hebrews, apostate Jews. I do not want to say
+anything against the Jews, as such. I am not in sympathy with the
+anti-Semitic movement, never have been, and do not ever expect to be * *
+* But I have a firm conviction that this thing is Yiddish, and that one
+of its bases is found in the East Side of New York.'
+
+"Senator Nelson--'Trotsky came over from New York during that summer,
+did he not?'
+
+"Dr. Simons--'He did.'
+
+"Later Dr. Simons said: 'In December, 1918 * * * under the presidency of
+a man known as Apfelbaum * * * out of 388 members, only 16 happened to
+be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the exception possibly of
+one man, who is a Negro from America, who calls himself Professor Gordon
+* * * and 265 of this northern commune government that is sitting in the
+Old Smolny Institute came from the lower East Side of New York--265 of
+them. * * *
+
+"'I might mention this, that when the Bolsheviki came into power, all
+over Petrograd we at once had a predominance of Yiddish proclamations,
+big posters, and everything in Yiddish. It became very evident that now
+that was to be one of the great languages of Russia; and the real
+Russians, of course, did not take very kindly to it.'"
+
+William Chapin Huntington, who was commercial attache of the United
+States Embassy at Petrograd, testified:
+
+"The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about two-thirds Russian
+Jews * * * The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not
+interested in the particular national ideals of Russia."
+
+William W. Welch, an employee of the National City Bank, New York,
+testified:
+
+"In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the Bolshevik leaders
+are Jewish * * * There were some--not many, but there were some--real
+Russians; and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born, and not
+Russian Jews."
+
+Roger E. Simmons, Trade Commissioner connected with the United States
+Department of Commerce, also testified. An important anonymous witness,
+whom the committee permitted to withhold his name, told the same things.
+
+The British White Book, Russia, No. 1--"A Collection of Reports on
+Bolshevism in Russia, presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty,
+April, 1919," contains masses of the same testimony from many sources,
+all of them eyewitnesses.
+
+In that very highly respected magazine Asia for February-March, 1920, is
+an article which contains, among other important ones, these statements:
+(the italics are ours)
+
+"In all the Bolshevist institutions the heads are Jews. The Assistant
+Commissar for Elementary Education, Grunberg, can hardly speak Russian.
+The Jews are successful in everything and obtain their ends. They know
+how to command and get complete submission. But they are proud and
+contemptuous toward everyone, which strongly excites the people against
+them * * * At the present time there is a great national religious
+fervor among the Jews. They believe that the promised time of the rule
+of God's elect on earth is coming. They have connected Judaism with a
+universal revolution. They see in the spread of revolution the
+fulfilling of the Scriptures: 'Though I make an end of all the nations
+whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make an end of thee.'"
+
+Now if Gentile proof were wanted, the files of the THE DEARBORN
+INDEPENDENT for a whole year would not begin to contain it. But Jewish
+proof is better.
+
+There has been a strange vacillation in Jewish opinion concerning
+Bolshevism. At first it was hailed with delight. There was no
+concealment whatever in the early days of the new regime as to the part
+which Jewry had in it. Public meetings, interviews, special articles
+poured forth in which very valuable elements of truth were mingled.
+There was no attempt at concealment of names.
+
+Then the horror of the thing began to take hold upon the world, and for
+just a breathing space Jewish opinion fell silent. There was a spasmodic
+denial or two. Then a new burst of glorification. The glorification
+continues within Judaism itself, but it now carries on the Gentile side
+of its face a very sad expression labeled "persecution."
+
+We have lived to see the day when to denounce Bolshevism is to
+"persecute the Jews."
+
+In the American Hebrew, for September 10, 1920, an article appears which
+not only acknowledges and explains the part which the Jew plays in the
+present unrest and upheaval, but justifies it--and justifies it,
+curiously enough, by The Sermon on the Mount.
+
+The writer says that "the Jew evolved organized capitalism with its
+working instrumentality, the banking system."
+
+This is very refreshing, in view of the numerous Jewish denials of this
+economic fact.
+
+"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
+the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
+own hand fashioned * * *" If this is true, why is Jewish "organized
+capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system" supporting
+the revolt?
+
+"That achievement (referring to the Russian overthrow), destined to
+figure in history as the overshadowing result of the World War, was
+largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
+effort to reconstruct."
+
+"This rapid emergence of the Russian revolution from the destructive
+phase and its entrance into the constructive phase is a conspicuous
+expression of the constructive genius of Jewish discontent."
+
+(This, of course, requires proof that the constructive phase has
+appeared. The implication here is sheer propaganda. The Protocols,
+however, have a reconstructive program. We have not reached it as yet in
+this series of articles, but it is clearly outlined in the
+Protocols--destroy the Gentile society, and then reconstruct it
+according to "our" plans.)
+
+Now read carefully:
+
+"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
+contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
+Jewish mind and heart ARE TENDING TO PROMOTE IN OTHER COUNTRIES."
+
+Read that again. "What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so
+powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia!" Just what was that? And
+just how did it "powerfully contribute?" And why are "Jewish idealism"
+and "Jewish discontent" always linked together? If you read the
+Protocols it is all very clear. Jewish idealism is the destruction of
+Gentile society and the erection of Jewish society. Was it not so in
+Russia?--Yiddish proclamations on the walls, the ancient Hebrew in the
+schools, Saturday substituted for Sunday, and the rabbis respected while
+the priests were put to work on the roads! All "powerfully contributed"
+to by murder, rapine, theft and starvation.
+
+Our author is more candid than he realizes. He calls this linked
+idealism and discontent "the historic qualities of the Jewish mind." THE
+DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is indebted to him for this clear confirmation of
+what it has been saying for some time.
+
+But even that is not all. "These same historic qualities of the Jewish
+mind" which "contributed so powerfully to accomplish in Russia" the Red
+Terror still existing there, are declared by this author to be tending
+to promote the same sort of thing in other countries. He says so in so
+many words--"tending to promote in other countries."
+
+But we knew that. The only difference is that when Gentiles said it,
+they were overwhelmed with the wildest abuse; but now a pro-Jewish
+writer says it in a leading Jewish publication. And he says it
+apologetically--listen to him:
+
+"It was natural that * * * discontent in other parts of the world should
+find expression in overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims."
+
+What discontent? Jewish discontent, of course. Discontent with what?
+With any form of Gentile rule. And how did it find expression? "In
+overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims." What were these
+issues and aims? To bring the Bolshevik revolution to the United States.
+
+No, they did not overstate their aims; they exactly stated them--they
+simply selected the wrong country, that's all.
+
+There are Russian Bolshevists in this country now, hawking about the
+streets of New York the gold cigaret cases which they stole from Russian
+families, and the family jewels, the wedding and birthday rings, which
+they filched from Russian women. Bolshevism never got further than the
+pawnshop and burglar's "fence" idea. The proof of this traffic in stolen
+property is going to drive some people into hiding before long. It will
+be a long, long time before America will be taking orders in Yiddish, or
+American women will be giving up their jewels to "the chosen race."
+
+However, that happens to be only the most recent acknowledgement that
+has come to hand. It is significant for its confession that "Jewish
+discontent" was "tending to promote" in "other countries" what it has
+"so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia."
+
+And with such a link between the American Hebrew, Russian Bolshevism and
+the Protocols, there are still Jewish publicists with the crust to say
+that only crazy people could see the connection. Only blind people will
+not see it. But that is only a minor connection. This series of articles
+does not rest on anything so accidental as the Jewish New Year's apology
+for Bolshevism in the great Hebrew weekly of the United States.
+
+[Issue of September 25, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"Out of the economic chaos, the discontent of the Jew evolved organized
+capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system . . . .
+
+"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
+the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
+own hand fashioned. . . .
+
+"That achievement (Russian Bolshevik revolution--Ed.), destined to
+figure in history as the over-shadowing result of the World War, was
+largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
+effort to reconstruct . . . .
+
+"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
+contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
+Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other countries . . . .
+
+"Shall America, like the Russia of the Czars, overwhelm the Jew with the
+bitter and baseless reproach of being a destroyer, and thus put him in
+the position of an irreconcilable enemy?
+
+"Or shall America avail itself of Jewish genius as it avails itself of
+the peculiar genius of every other race? . . . .
+
+"That is the question for the American people to answer."
+
+--From an article in The American Hebrew, Sept. 10, 1920.
+
+XX.
+
+Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
+
+
+The American people will answer that question, and their answer will be
+against the disruptive genius of dissatisfied Jews.
+
+It is very well known that "what Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent
+have so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia" is also being
+attempted in the United States. Why did not the writer in the American
+Hebrew say the United States, instead of saying "the same historic
+qualities of the Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other
+countries."
+
+"Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent" are not directed against
+capital. Capital is enlisted in their service. The only governmental
+order the Jewish effort is directed against is Gentile governmental
+order; and the only "capital" it attacks is Gentile capital.
+
+Lord Eustace Percy who, if one may judge by the full and appreciative
+quotations of his words in the Jewish press, has the sanction of
+thinkers among the Jews, settles the first point. Discussing the Jewish
+tendency to revolutionary movements he says:
+
+"In Eastern Europe Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by
+side, just as Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
+throughout the nineteenth century down to the Young Turk revolution in
+Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago--not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but
+distasteful to him."
+
+And that analysis is absolutely true. In Russia, the excuse was the
+czar; in Germany, the kaiser; in England it is the Irish question; in
+the numerous South American revolutions, where the Jews always had a
+ruling hand, no particular reason was thought necessary to be given; in
+the United States it is "the capitalistic class;" but always and
+everywhere it is, by the confession of their own spokesman, a distaste
+for any form whatsoever of Gentile government. The Jew believes that the
+world is his by right; he wants to collect his own, and the speediest
+way of doing so is the destruction of order by revolution--a destruction
+which is made possible by a long and clever campaign of loose and
+destructive ideas.
+
+As to the second point, every reader can verify the fact from his own
+experience. Let him recall to his mind the capitalists who have been
+held up to public scorn in the Jew-controlled press of the United
+States--and whom does he find them to be? Whose forms have you seen
+caricatured with the dollar-mark in Hearst's papers? Are they Seligman,
+Kahn, Warburg, Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, or any of the others? No.
+These are Jewish bankers. The attack is never made on them. The names
+made most familiar to you by newspaper denunciation are the names of
+Gentile industrial and banking leaders--and Gentile leaders only--the
+principal ones being Morgan and Rockefeller.
+
+It is a well-known fact that during the French Commune when men of
+wealth suffered severe losses in property, the Jewish Rothschilds were
+not injured to the extent of one pennyworth. It is also a well-known
+fact, capable of proof satisfactory to any ordinary mind, that the
+connections between Jewish financiers and the more dangerous
+revolutionary elements here in the United States are such that it is
+most unlikely that the former stand to lose anything in any event. Under
+cover of the disorder in Russia at the present time, Jewish financiers
+are taking advantage of the stress of the people to gain control of all
+the strategic natural resources and municipal property, by methods which
+they fully expect to be legalized by Jewish courts when the present
+"Bolshevik regime" announces that it will give way to a "modified
+communism." The world hasn't seen the end of Bolshevism yet. Like the
+World War, Bolshevism cannot be interpreted until it is seen who profits
+most by it, and the profiteering is in full sway now. The enemy is
+Gentile capital. Not any other. And "all the wealth of the world is in
+our hands" is the unspoken slogan of every Jewish outbreak in the world
+today.
+
+The quotation at the head if this article represents the position which
+the Jews are now ready to take with reference to the Russian Revolution.
+They have always been charged with responsibility for what has occurred
+in that unhappy country, but at first their spokesmen denied it. The
+denials were most indignant, and were usually accompanied by the typical
+plaint that the charge was "persecution." But the facts have been so
+overwhelming, and the government investigations have been so revealing,
+that denials have been abandoned.
+
+For a while an attempt was made to distract attention from Russia by a
+tremendously powerful propaganda concerning the Jews in Poland. There
+are many indications that the Polish propaganda was undertaken as a
+"cover" for the immense immigration of Jews into the United States. It
+may be that some of our readers do not know it, but an endless stream of
+the most undesirable immigrants pours daily into the United States, tens
+of thousands of the same people whose presence has been the problem and
+menace of the governments of Europe.
+
+Well, the Polish propaganda and the immigration movement are sailing
+along smoothly, and the United States Government is assured by the
+Jewish ring at Washington that everything is quiet along the Potomac (it
+is quiet there, quiet as the Jewish ring could wish), but still the
+Russian fact persists in calling for explanation.
+
+And here is the explanation: The Jews created capitalism, we are told.
+But capitalism has proved itself ill-behaved. So now, the Jewish
+creators are going to destroy their creation. They have done so in
+Russia. And now, will the American people be good and let their Jewish
+benefactors do the same in America?
+
+That is the new explanation, and typically Jewish again, it is coupled
+with a proposal for the United States--and a threat! If America refuses
+this particular service of the Jew, we "put him in a position of an
+irreconcilable enemy." See quotation at the head of this article.
+
+But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia. When Lenin and
+Trotsky make their farewell bow and retire under the protective
+influence of the Jewish capitalists of the world, it will be seen that
+only Gentile or Russian capital has been destroyed, and that Jewish
+capital has been enthroned.
+
+What is the record? Documents printed by the United States Government
+contain this letter: Please note the date, the Jewish banker and the
+Jewish names:
+
+"Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1917.
+
+"To Mr. Raphael Scholan:
+
+"Dear Comrade:--The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the
+enterprise of Comrade Trotsky upon receipt of a telegram from the
+Chairman of the 'Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.' A lawyer, probably Mr.
+Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the transportation of same,
+together with that of the money * * * to whom the sum demanded by
+Comrade Trotsky is to be handed.
+
+"Fraternal Greetings!
+
+"Furstenberg."
+
+Long before that, an American Jewish financier was supplying the funds
+which carried revolutionary propaganda to thousands of Russian prisoners
+of war in Japanese camps.
+
+It is sometimes said, by way of explaining the Bolshevik movement, that
+it was financed from Germany, a fact which was seized upon to supply war
+propaganda. It is true that part of the money came from Germany. It is
+true that part of the money came from the United States. It is the whole
+truth that Jewish finance in all the countries was interested in
+Bolshevism as an All-Jewish investment. For the whole period of the war,
+the Jewish World Program was cloaked under this or that national
+name--the blame being laid on the Germans by the Allies, and on the
+Allies by the Germans, and the people kept in ignorance of who the real
+personages were.
+
+It was stated by a French official that two millions of money was
+contributed by one Jewish banker alone.
+
+When Trotsky left the United States to fulfill his appointed task, he
+was released from arrest at Halifax upon request of the United States,
+and everyone knows who constituted the War Government of the United
+States.
+
+The conclusion, when all the facts are considered, is irresistible, that
+the Bolshevik revolution was a carefully groomed investment on the part
+of International Jewish Finance.
+
+It is easy to understand, then, why the same forces would like to
+introduce it to the United States. The real struggle in this country is
+not between labor and capital; the real struggle is between Jewish
+capital and Gentile capital, with the I.W.W. leaders, the Socialist
+leaders, the Red leaders and the labor leaders almost a unit on the side
+of the Jewish capitalists.
+
+Again recall which financiers these men most attack. You cannot recall a
+single Jewish name.
+
+The main purpose in these two articles, however, is to introduce the
+Jewish testimony which exists as to the Jewish nature of Bolshevism.
+
+The Jewish Chronicle, of London, said in 1919:
+
+"There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so
+many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at
+many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism."
+
+In the same paper, of 1920, is a report of an address made by Israel
+Zangwill, a noted Jewish writer, in which he pronounced glowing praise
+on "the race which has produced a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a Montagu, a
+Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotsky." Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic
+enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same
+category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik
+governments. What is the difference? They are all Jewish, and all of
+equal honor and usefulness to "the race."
+
+Rabbi J. L. Magnes, in an address at New York in 1919, is reported to
+have said:
+
+"When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the cause of the
+workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinherited of the world, the
+radical quality within him goes to the roots of things, and in Germany
+he becomes a Marx and a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward Bernstein; in
+Austria he becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in Russia, a
+Trotsky. Just take for a moment the present situation in Russia and in
+Germany. The revolution set creative forces free, and see what a large
+company of Jews was available for immediate service. Socialist
+Revolutionaries and Mensheviki, and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority
+Socialists--whatever they be called--Jews are to be found among the
+trusted leaders and the routine workers of all these revolutionary
+parties."
+
+"See," says the rabbi, "what a large company of Jews are available for
+immediate service." One ought to see where he points. There are as many
+Jewish members of revolutionary societies in the United States, as there
+were in Russia; and here, as there, they are "available for immediate
+service."
+
+Bernard Lazare, a Jewish writer who has published a work on
+anti-Semitism, says:
+
+"The Jew, therefore, does take a part in revolutions, and he
+participates in them in so far as he is a Jew, or more correctly, in so
+far as he remains a Jew."
+
+He says also--"The Jewish spirit is essentially a revolutionary spirit,
+and consciously or otherwise, the Jew is a revolutionist."
+
+There is hardly any country in the world, except the United States,
+where denials of this could be made in such a way as to require proof.
+In every other country the fact is known. Here we have been under such a
+fear of mentioning the word "Jew" or anything pertaining to it, that the
+commonest facts have been kept from us--facts which even a superficial
+knowledge of Jewish writing would have given us. It was almost a
+pathetic spectacle to see American audiences go to lectures about the
+Russian situation, and come away from the hall confused and perplexed
+because the Russian situation is so un-Russian, all because no lecturer
+thought it politic to mention "Jew" in the United States, for, as some
+day we shall see, the Jew has contrived to gain control of the platform
+too.
+
+Not only do the literary lights of Jewry acknowledge the Jew's
+propensity to revolution generally, and his responsibility for the
+Russian situation particularly, but the lower lights also have a very
+clear idea about it. The Jew in the midst of the revolution is conscious
+that somehow he is advancing the cause of Israel. He may be a "bad Jew"
+in the synagogue sense, but he is enough of a Jew to be willing to do
+any thing that would advance the prestige of Israel. Race is stronger
+than religion in Jewry.
+
+The Russian paper, On to Moscow, in September, 1919, said:
+
+"It should not be forgotten that the Jewish people, who for centuries
+were oppressed by kings and czars, are the real proletariat, the real
+Internationale, which has no country."
+
+Mr. Cohan, in the newspaper, Communist, in April, 1919, said:
+
+"Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Russian social
+revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands of the Jews. Would the
+dark, oppressed masses of the Russian workmen and peasants have been
+able to throw off the yoke of the bourgeoisie by themselves? No, it was
+precisely the Jews who led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the
+Internationale and not only have led, but are also now leading the
+Soviet cause which remains in their safe hands. We may be quiet as long
+as the chief command of the Red Army is in the hands of Comrade Leon
+Trotsky. It is true that there are no Jews in the ranks of the Red Army
+as far as privates are concerned, but in the committees and Soviet
+organizations, as commissars, the Jews are gallantly leading the masses
+of the Russian proletariat to victory. It is not without reason that
+during the elections to all Soviet institutions the Jews are winning by
+an overwhelming majority * * * The symbol of Jewry, which for centuries
+has struggled against capitalism, has become also the symbol of the
+Russian proletariat, which can be seen even in the adoption of the Red
+five-pointed star, which in former times, as it is well known, was the
+symbol of Zionism and Jewry. With this sign comes victory, with this
+sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie * * * Jewish
+tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+
+This confession, or rather boast, is remarkable for its completeness.
+
+The Jews, says Mr. Cohan, are in control of the Russian masses--the
+Russian masses who have never risen at all, who only know that a
+minority, like the czar's minority, is in control at the seat of
+government.
+
+The Jews are not in the Red Army, Mr. Cohan informs us, that is, in the
+ranks where the actual fighting is done; and this is strictly in line
+with the Protocols. The strategy of the World Program is to set Gentiles
+to kill Gentiles. This was the Jewish boast during the various French
+social disasters, that so many Frenchmen had been set killing each
+other.
+
+In the World War just passed, there were as many Gentiles killed by
+Gentiles as there are Jews in the world. It was a great victory for
+Israel. "Jewish tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+
+But the Jews are in the places of control and safety, says Mr. Cohan,
+and he is absolutely right about it. The wonder is that he was so honest
+as to say it.
+
+As to the elections, so-called, at which the Jews are so unanimously
+chosen, the literature of Bolshevism is very explicit. Those who voted
+against the Jewish candidates were adjudged "enemies of the revolution"
+and executed. It did not require many executions at a voting place to
+make all the elections unanimous.
+
+Mr. Cohan is especially instructive on the significance of the Red Star,
+the five-pointed emblem of Bolshevism. "The symbol of Jewry," he says,
+"has become also the symbol of the Russian proletariat."
+
+The Star of David, the Jewish national emblem, is a six-pointed Star,
+formed by two triangles, one standing on its base, the other on its
+apex. Deprived of their base lines, these triangles approximate the
+familiar Masonic emblem of the Square and Compass. It is this Star of
+David of which a Jewish observer in Palestine remarks that there are so
+few among the graves of the British solders who won Palestine in the
+recent war; most of the signs are the familiar wooden Cross. These
+Crosses are now reported to be objectionable to the new rulers of
+Palestine, because they are so plainly in view of the visitor who
+approaches the new Jewish university. As in Soviet Russia, so in
+Palestine, not many Jews laid down their lives for the cause: there were
+plenty of Gentiles for that purpose.
+
+As the Jew is a past master in the art of symbolism, it may not be
+without significance that the Bolshevik Star has one point less than the
+Star of David. For there is still one point to be fulfilled in the World
+Program as outlined in the Protocols--and that is the enthronement of
+"our leader." When he comes, the World Autocrat for whom the whole
+program is framed, the sixth point may be added.
+
+The Five Points of the Star now apparently assured are the Purse, the
+Press, the Peerage, Palestine and Proletarianism. The sixth point will
+be the Prince of Israel.
+
+It is very hard to say, it is hard to believe, but Mr. Cohan has said
+it, and revolutions especially since the French Revolution confirm it,
+that "with this sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie
+* * * Jewish tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+The "bourgeoisie," as the Protocols say, are always Gentile.
+
+The common counterargument to the invincible fact of the Jewish
+character of the Russian revolution--an argument which is destined to
+disappear now that Jewish acknowledgement is coming thick and fast--is
+that the Jews in Russia suffer too. "How can we favor a movement which
+makes our own people suffer?" is the argument put up to the Gentile.
+
+Well, the fact is this: they are favoring that movement. Today, this
+very moment, the Bolshevik Government is receiving money from Jewish
+financiers in Europe, and if in Europe, then of course from the
+International Jewish bankers in America also. That is one fact.
+
+Another fact is this: the Jews of Russia are not suffering to anywhere
+near the extent we are told by the propagandists. It is now a fact
+admitted by Jews themselves that upon the first sweep of the Bolshevists
+across Poland, the Polish Jews were friendly with the invaders and
+helped them. The fact was explained by American Jews in this manner:
+since Bolshevism came to Russia, the condition of the Jews there has
+greatly improved--therefore the Polish Jews were friendly. And it is
+true--the condition of Russian Jews is good.
+
+One reason is: they have Russia. Everything there belongs to them.
+
+The other reason is: The Jews of Russia are the only ones receiving help
+there today.
+
+Did that second statement ever strike you as significant? Only the Jews
+of Russia have food and money sent to them. It is one form, of course,
+of the support which the Jewish world is giving Bolshevism. But if the
+suffering among the Jews is what the propagandists say it is, what must
+it be among the Russians? Yet no one is sending food or money to them.
+The probable truth of the whole situation is that Jewish Bolshevism is
+laying a tax on the world. Any time it may be required, there is plenty
+of evidence as to the good condition of the Jews in Russia. They have
+all there is.
+
+Another source of confusion is revealed in the question: "How can Jewish
+capitalists support Bolshevism when Bolshevism is against capitalism?"
+
+Bolshevism, as before stated, is only against Gentile capitalism. Jewish
+financiers who remained in Russia are very useful to the Bolsheviki.
+Read this description by an eyewitness: "A Jew is this Commissary of the
+Bank, very elegant, with a cravat of the latest style, and a fancy
+waistcoat. A Jew is this District Commissary, former stockbroker, with a
+double bourgeois chin. Again a Jew, this inspector of taxes: he
+understands perfectly how to squeeze the bourgeoisie."
+
+These agents of Jewry are still there. Other agents are among the
+Russians who fled, getting their lands away from them on mortgage loans.
+When the curtain lifts, most of the choice real estate will be found to
+have passed into Jewish control by perfectly "legal" means.
+
+That is one answer to the question, Why the Jewish capitalists support
+Bolshevism. The Red Revolution is the greatest speculative event of
+human history. Besides, it is for the exaltation of Israel; it is a
+colossal revenge, which the Jews always take where they can, for wrongs
+real or imaginary.
+
+Jewish capitalism knows exactly what it is doing. What are its gains?
+
+1. It has taken a whole rich country, without the cost of war.
+
+2. It has demonstrated the necessity of gold. Jewish power rests on the
+fiction that gold is wealth. By the premeditated clumsiness of the
+Bolshevik monetary system, the unthinking world has been made to believe
+still more strongly that gold is necessary, and this belief gives Jewish
+capitalism another hold on the Gentile world. If the Bolshevists had
+been honest, they could have dealt Jewish capitalism its death blow. No!
+Gold is still on its throne. Destroy the fiction that gold has value,
+and you leave the Jewish International Financiers sitting forlorn on
+heaps of useless metal.
+
+3. It has demonstrated its power to the world. Protocol Seven says: "To
+demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+will show our power to one of them by crimes of violence, that is, a
+reign of terror." Has Europe been sufficiently "shown"? Europe has, and
+is afraid! That is a great gain for Jewish capitalists.
+
+4. Not the least of the gains is the field practice in the art of
+revolution which Russia has offered. Students of that Red school are
+coming back to the United States. The technique of revolution has been
+reduced to a science according to the details laid down in the
+Protocols. To use Rabbi Magnes's words again: "See what a large company
+of Jews was available for immediate service." The available company is
+now much larger.
+
+[Issue of October 2, 1920.]
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The International Jew, by Henry Ford
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+Title: The International Jew
+       The World's Foremost Problem
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+Author: Henry Ford
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+Release Date: October 14, 2011 [EBook #37539]
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+Language: English
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+THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
+
+The World's Foremost Problem
+
+Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn
+Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
+
+November, 1920
+
+
+
+
+Preface
+
+
+Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its
+emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and
+not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question
+in other countries.
+
+The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for a long time.
+Jews themselves have known this, even if Gentiles have not. There have
+been periods in our own country when it has broken forth with a sullen
+sort of strength which presaged darker things to come. Many signs
+portend that it is approaching an acute stage.
+
+Not only does the Jewish Question touch those matters that are of common
+knowledge, such as financial and commercial control, usurpation of
+political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic direction of
+the very news that the American people read; but it reaches into
+cultural regions and so touches the very heart of American life.
+
+This question reaches down into South America and threatens to become an
+important factor in Pan-American relations. It is interwoven with much
+of the menace of organized and calculated disorder which troubles the
+nations today. It is not of recent growth, but its roots go deep, and
+the long Past of this Problem is counterbalanced by prophetic hopes and
+programs which involve a very deliberate and creative view of the
+Future.
+
+This little book is the partial record of an investigation of the Jewish
+Question. It is printed to enable interested readers to inform
+themselves on the data published in The Dearborn Independent prior to
+Oct. 1, 1920. The demand for back copies of the paper was so great that
+the supply was exhausted early, as was also a large edition of a booklet
+containing the first nine articles of the series. The investigation
+still proceeds, and the articles will continue to appear as heretofore
+until the work is done.
+
+The motive of this work is simply a desire to make facts known to the
+people. Other motives have, of course, been ascribed to it. But the
+motive of prejudice or any form of antagonism is hardly strong enough to
+support such an investigation as this. Moreover, had an unworthy motive
+existed, some sign of it would inevitably appear in the work itself. We
+confidently call the reader to witness that the tone of these articles
+is all that it should be. The International Jew and his satellites, as
+the conscious enemies of all that Anglo-Saxons mean by civilization, are
+not spared, nor is that unthinking mass which defends anything that a
+Jew does, simply because it has been taught to believe that what Jewish
+leaders do is Jewish. Neither do these articles proceed upon a false
+emotion of brotherhood and apology, as if this stream of doubtful
+tendency in the world were only accidentally Jewish. We give the facts
+as we find them; that of itself is sufficient protection against
+prejudice or passion.
+
+This volume does not complete the case by any means. But it brings the
+reader along one step. In future compilations of these and subsequent
+articles the entire scope of the inquiry will more clearly appear.
+
+October, 1920.
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+
+I. The Jew in Character and Business
+
+II. Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
+
+III. Jewish History in the U. S.
+
+IV. The Jewish Question--Fact or Fancy?
+
+V. Anti-Semitism--Will It Appear In the U. S.
+
+VI. Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
+
+VII. Arthur Brisbane to the Help of Jewry
+
+VIII. Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
+
+IX. The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
+
+X. An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
+
+XI. "Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
+
+XII. "Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
+
+XIII. "Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
+
+XIV. Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
+
+XV. Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
+
+XVI. How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
+
+XVII. Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
+
+XVIII. Does this Explain Jewish Political Power?
+
+XIX. The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
+
+XX. Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
+
+
+
+
+"Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be
+mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family
+sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage
+of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier;
+remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great
+ability to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both
+individual and social; shrewdness and astuteness in speculation and
+money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full
+appreciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high
+average of intellectual ability."
+
+--The New International Encyclopedia.
+
+I.
+
+The Jew in Character and Business
+
+
+The Jew is again being singled out for critical attention throughout the
+world. His emergence in the financial, political and social spheres has
+been so complete and spectacular since the war, that his place, power
+and purpose in the world are being given a new scrutiny, much of it
+unfriendly. Persecution is not a new experience to the Jew, but
+intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality is. He has
+suffered for more than 2,000 years from what may be called the
+instinctive anti-Semitism of the other races, but this antagonism has
+never been intelligent nor has it been able to make itself intelligible.
+Nowadays, however, the Jew is being placed, as it were, under the
+microscope of economic observation that the reasons for his power, the
+reasons for his separateness, the reasons for his suffering may be
+defined and understood.
+
+In Russia he is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an
+accusation which is serious or not according to the circle in which it
+is made; we in America, hearing the fervid eloquence and perceiving the
+prophetic ardor of young Jewish apostles of social and industrial
+reform, can calmly estimate how it may be. In Germany he is charged with
+being the cause of the Empire's collapse and a very considerable
+literature has sprung up, bearing with it a mass of circumstantial
+evidence that gives the thinker pause. In England he is charged with
+being the real world ruler, who rules as a super-nation over the
+nations, rules by the power of gold, and who plays nation against nation
+for his own purposes, remaining himself discreetly in the background. In
+America it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth
+and the younger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war
+organizations--principally those departments which dealt with the
+commercial and industrial business of war, and also the extent to which
+they have clung to the advantage which their experience as agents of the
+government gave them.
+
+In simple words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like
+other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made
+to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience
+has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner
+or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.
+
+The Jew is the world's enigma. Poor in his masses, he yet controls the
+world's finances. Scattered abroad without country or government, he yet
+presents a unity of race continuity which no other people has achieved.
+Living under legal disabilities in almost every land, he has become the
+power behind many a throne. There are ancient prophecies to the effect
+that the Jew will return to his own land and from that center rule the
+world, though not until he has undergone an assault by the united
+nations of mankind.
+
+The single description which will include a larger percentage of Jews
+than members of any other race is this: he is in business. It may be
+only gathering rags and selling them, but he is in business. From the
+sale of old clothes to the control of international trade and finance,
+the Jew is supremely gifted for business. More than any other race he
+exhibits a decided aversion to industrial employment, which he balances
+by an equally decided adaptability to trade. The Gentile boy works his
+way up, taking employment in the productive or technical departments;
+but the Jewish boy prefers to begin as messenger, salesman or
+clerk--anything--so long as it is connected with the commercial side of
+the business. An early Prussian census illustrates this characteristic:
+of a total population of 269,400, the Jews comprised six per cent or
+16,164. Of these, 12,000 were traders and 4,164 were workmen. Of the
+Gentile population, the other 94 per cent, or 153,236 people, there were
+only 17,000 traders.
+
+A modern census would show a large professional and literary class added
+to the traders, but no diminution of the percentage of traders and not
+much if any increase in the number of wage toilers. In America alone
+most of the big business, the trusts and the banks, the natural
+resources and the chief agricultural products, especially tobacco,
+cotton and sugar, are in the control of Jewish financiers or their
+agents. Jewish journalists are a large and powerful group here. "Large
+numbers of department stores are held by Jewish firms," says the Jewish
+Encyclopedia, and many if not most of them are run under Gentile names.
+Jews are the largest and most numerous landlords of residence property
+in the country. They are supreme in the theatrical world. They
+absolutely control the circulation of publications throughout the
+country. Fewer than any race whose presence among us is noticeable, they
+receive daily an amount of favorable publicity which would be impossible
+did they not have the facilities for creating and distributing it
+themselves. Werner Sombart, in his "Jew and Modern Capitalism" says, "If
+the conditions in America continue to develop along the same lines as in
+the last generation, if the immigration statistics and the proportion of
+births among all the nationalities remain the same, our imagination may
+picture the United States of fifty or a hundred years hence as a land
+inhabited only by Slavs, Negroes and Jews, wherein the Jews will
+naturally occupy the position of economic leadership." Sombart is a
+pro-Jewish writer.
+
+The question is, If the Jew is in control, how did it happen? This is a
+free country. The Jew comprises only about three per cent of the
+population; to every Jew there are 97 Gentiles; to the 3,000,000 Jews in
+the United States there are 97,000,000 Gentiles. If the Jew is in
+control, is it because of his superior ability, or is it because of the
+inferiority and don't-care attitude of the Gentiles?
+
+It would be very simple to answer that the Jews came to America, took
+their chances like other people and proved more successful in the
+competitive struggle. But that would not include all the facts. And
+before a more adequate answer can be given, two points should be made
+clear. This first is this: all Jews are not rich controllers of wealth.
+There are poor Jews aplenty, though most of them even in their poverty
+are their own masters. While it may be true that the chief financial
+controllers of the country are Jews, it is not true that every Jew is
+one of the financial controllers of the country. The classes must be
+kept distinct for a reason which will appear when the methods of the
+rich Jews and the methods of the poor Jews to gain power are
+differentiated. Secondly, the fact of Jewish solidarity renders it
+difficult to measure Gentile and Jewish achievements by the same
+standard. When a great block of wealth in America was made possible by
+the lavish use of another block of wealth from across the seas; that is
+to say, when certain Jewish immigrants came to the United States with
+the financial backing of European Jewry behind them, it would be unfair
+to explain the rise of that class of immigration by the same rules which
+account for the rise of, say, the Germans or the Poles who came here
+with no resource but their ambition and strength. To be sure, many
+individual Jews come in that way, too, with no dependence but
+themselves, but it would not be true to say that the massive control of
+affairs which is exercised by Jewish wealth was won by individual
+initiative; it was rather the extension of financial control across the
+sea.
+
+That, indeed, is where any explanation of Jewish control must begin.
+Here is a race whose entire period of national history saw them peasants
+on the land, whose ancient genius was spiritual rather than material,
+bucolic rather than commercial, yet today, when they have no country, no
+government, and are persecuted in one way or another everywhere they go,
+they are declared to be the principal though unofficial rulers of the
+earth. How does so strange a charge arise, and why do so many
+circumstances seem to justify it?
+
+Begin at the beginning. During the formative period of their national
+character the Jews lived under a law which made plutocracy and pauperism
+equally impossible among them. Modern reformers who are constructing
+model social systems on paper would do well to look into the social
+system under which the early Jews were organized. The Law of Moses made
+a "money aristocracy," such as Jewish financiers form today, impossible
+because it forbade the taking of interest. It made impossible also the
+continuous enjoyment of profit wrung out of another's distress.
+Profiteering and sheer speculation were not favored under the Jewish
+system. There could be no land-hogging; the land was apportioned among
+the people, and though it might be lost by debt or sold under stress, it
+was returned every 50 years to its original family ownership, at which
+time, called "The Year of Jubilee," there was practically a new social
+beginning. The rise of great landlords and a moneyed class was
+impossible under such a system, although the interim of 50 years gave
+ample scope for individual initiative to assert itself under fair
+competitive conditions.
+
+If, therefore, the Jews had retained their status as a nation, and had
+remained in Palestine under the Law of Moses, they would hardly have
+achieved the financial distinction which they have since won. Jews never
+got rich out of one another. Even in modern times they have not become
+rich out of each other but out of the nations among whom they dwelt.
+Jewish law permitted the Jew to do business with a Gentile on a
+different basis than that on which he did business with a brother Jew.
+What is called "the Law of the Stranger" was defined thus: "unto a
+stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt
+not lend upon usury."
+
+Being dispersed among the nations, but never merging themselves with the
+nations and never losing a very distinctive identity, the Jew has had
+the opportunity to practice "the ethics of the stranger" for many
+centuries. Being strangers among strangers, and often among cruelly
+hostile strangers, they have found this law a compensating advantage.
+Still, this alone would not account for the Jew's preeminence in
+finance. The explanation of that must be sought in the Jew himself, his
+vigor, resourcefulness and special proclivities.
+
+Very early in the Jewish story we discover the tendency of Israel to be
+a master nation, with other nations as its vassals. Notwithstanding the
+fact that the whole prophetic purpose with reference to Israel seems to
+have been the moral enlightenment of the world through its agency,
+Israel's "will to mastery" apparently hindered that purpose. At least
+such would seem to be the tone of the Old Testament. Divinely ordered to
+drive out the Canaanites that their corrupt ideas might not contaminate
+Israel, the Jews did not obey, according to the old record. They looked
+over the Canaanitish people and perceived what great amount of man-power
+would be wasted if they were expelled, and so Israel enslaved them--"And
+it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to
+tribute, and did not utterly drive them out." It was this form of
+disobedience, this preference of material mastery over spiritual
+leadership, that marked the beginning of Israel's age-long disciplinary
+distress.
+
+The Jews' dispersion among the nations temporarily (that is, for more
+than 25 centuries now) changed the program which their scriptures
+declare was divinely planned, and that dispersion continues until today.
+There are spiritual leaders in modern Judaism who still claim that
+Israel's mission to the nations is spiritual, but their assertions that
+Israel is today fulfilling that mission are not as convincing as they
+might be if accompanied by more evidence. Israel throughout the modern
+centuries is still looking at the Gentile world and estimating what its
+man-power can be made to yield. But the discipline upon Israel still
+holds; he is an exile from his own land, condemned to be discriminated
+against wherever he goes, until the time when exile and homelessness
+shall end in a re-established Palestine, and Jerusalem again the moral
+center of the earth, even as the elder prophets have declared.
+
+Had the Jew become an employe, a worker for other men, his dispersion
+would not probably have been so wide. But becoming a trader, his
+instincts drew him round the habitable earth. There were Jews in China
+at an early date. They appeared as traders in England at the time of the
+Saxons. Jewish traders were in South America 100 years before the
+Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock. Jews established the sugar
+industry in the Island of St. Thomas in 1492. They were well established
+in Brazil when only a few villages dotted the eastern coast of what is
+now the United States. And how far they penetrated when once they came
+here is indicated by the fact that the first white child born in Georgia
+was a Jew--Isaac Minis. The Jew's presence round the earth, his
+clannishness with his own people, made him a nation scattered among the
+nations, a corporation with agents everywhere.
+
+Another talent, however, contributed greatly to his rise in financial
+power--his ability to invent new devices for doing business. Until the
+Jew was pitted against the world, business was very crudely done. And
+when we trace the origins of many of the business methods which simplify
+and facilitate trade today, more likely than not we find a Jewish name
+at the end of the clue. Many of the indispensable instruments of credit
+and exchange were thought out by Jewish merchants, not only for use
+between themselves, but to check and hold the Gentiles with whom they
+dealt. The oldest bill of exchange extant was drawn by a Jew--one Simon
+Rubens. The promissory note was a Jewish invention, as was also the
+check "payable to bearer."
+
+An interesting bit of history attaches to the "payable to bearer"
+instrument. The Jews' enemies were always stripping them of their last
+ounce of wealth, yet strangely, the Jews recovered very quickly and were
+soon rich again. How this sudden recovery from looting and poverty?
+Their assets were concealed under "bearer" and so a goodly portion was
+always saved. In an age when it was lawful for any pirate to seize goods
+consigned to Jews, the Jews were able to protect themselves by
+consigning goods on policies that bore no names.
+
+The influence of the Jew was to center business around goods instead of
+persons. Previously all claims had been against persons; the Jew knew
+that the goods were more reliable than the persons with whom he dealt,
+and so he contrived to have claims laid against goods. Besides, this
+device enabled him to keep himself out of sight as much as possible.
+This introduced an element of hardness into business, inasmuch as it was
+goods which were being dealt in rather than men being dealt with, and
+this hardness remains. Another tendency which survives and which is of
+advantage in veiling the very large control which Jews have attained, is
+of the same origin as "bearer" bills; it permits a business dominated by
+Jewish capital to appear under a name that gives no hint of Jewish
+control.
+
+The Jew is the only and original international capitalist, but as a rule
+he prefers not to emblazon that fact upon the skies; he prefers to use
+Gentile banks and trust companies as his agents and instruments. The
+suggestive term "Gentile front" often appears in connection with this
+practice.
+
+The invention of the stock exchange is also credited to Jewish financial
+talent. In Berlin, Paris, London, Frankfort and Hamburg, Jews were in
+control of the first stock exchanges, while Venice and Genoa were openly
+referred to in the talk of the day as "Jew cities" where great trading
+and banking facilities might be found. The Bank of England was
+established upon the counsel and assistance of Jewish emigrants from
+Holland. The Bank of Amsterdam and the Bank of Hamburg both arose
+through Jewish influence.
+
+There is a curious fact to be noted in connection with the persecution
+and consequent wanderings of the Jews about Europe and that is: wherever
+they wandered, the center of business seemed to go with them. When the
+Jews were free in Spain, there was the world's gold center. When Spain
+drove out the Jews, Spain lost financial leadership and has never
+regained it. Students of the economic history of Europe have always been
+puzzled to discover why the center of trade should have shifted from
+Spain, Portugal and Italy, up to the northern countries of Holland,
+Germany, and England. They have sought for the cause in many things, but
+none has proved completely explanatory. When, however, it is known that
+the change was coincident with the expulsion of the Jews from the South
+and their flight to the North, when it is known that upon the Jews'
+arrival the northern countries began a commercial life which has
+flourished until our day, the explanation does not seem difficult. Time
+and again it has proved to be the fact that when the Jews were forced to
+move, the center of the world's precious metals moved with them.
+
+This distribution of the Jews over Europe and the world, each Jewish
+community linked in a fellowship of blood, faith and suffering with
+every other group, made it possible for the Jew to be international in
+the sense that no other race or group of merchants could be at that
+time. Not only were they everywhere (Americans and Russians are
+everywhere, too) but they were in touch. They were organized before the
+days of conscious international commercial organizations, they were
+bound together by the sinews of a common life. It was observed by many
+writers in the Middle Ages that the Jews knew more of what was
+transpiring in Europe than the governments did. They also had better
+knowledge of what was likely to occur. They knew more about conditions
+than the statesmen did. This information they imparted by letter from
+group to group, country to country. Indeed, they may be said thus to
+have originated unconsciously the financial news-letter. Certainly the
+information they were able to obtain and thus distribute was invaluable
+to them in their speculative enterprises. Advance knowledge was an
+immense advantage in the days when news was scarce, slow and unreliable.
+
+This enabled Jewish financiers to become the agents of national loans, a
+form of business which they encouraged wherever possible. The Jew has
+always desired to have nations for his customers. National loans were
+facilitated by the presence of members of the same family of financiers
+in various countries, thus making an interlocking directorate by which
+king could be played against king, government against government, and
+the shrewdest use made of national prejudices and fears, all to the no
+small profit of the fiscal agent.
+
+One of the charges most commonly made against Jewish financiers today is
+that they still favor this larger field of finance. Indeed, in all the
+criticism that is heard regarding the Jew as a business man, there is
+comparatively little said against him as an individual merchant serving
+individual customers. Thousands of small Jewish merchants are highly
+respected by their trade, just as tens of thousands of Jewish families
+are respected as our neighbors. The criticism, insofar as it respects
+the more important financiers, is not racial at all. Unfortunately the
+element of race, which so easily lends itself to misinterpretation as
+racial prejudice, is injected into the question by the mere fact that
+the chain of international finance as it is traced around the world
+discloses at every link a Jewish capitalist, financial family, or a
+Jewish-controlled banking system. Many have professed to see in this
+circumstance a conscious organization of Jewish power for Gentile
+control, while others have attributed the circumstance to Jewish racial
+sympathies, to the continuity of their family affairs down the line of
+descent, and to the increase of collateral branches. In the old
+Scriptural phrase, Israel grows as the vine grows, ever shooting out new
+branches and deepening old roots, but always part of the one vine.
+
+The Jew's aptitude for dealing with governments may also be traced to
+the years of his persecution. He early learned the power of gold in
+dealing with mercenary enemies. Wherever he went there followed him like
+a curse the aroused antipathy of other peoples. The Jew was never
+popular as a race; even the most fervid Jew will not deny that,
+howsoever he may explain it. Individuals have been popular, of course;
+many phases of Jewish nature are found to be very lovable when known;
+but nevertheless one of the burdens the Jews have had to bear as a race
+is this burden of racial unpopularity. Even in modern times, in
+civilized countries, in conditions which render persecution absolutely
+impossible, this unpopularity exists. And what is more, the Jew has not
+seemed to care to cultivate the friendship of the Gentile masses, due
+perhaps to the failures of experience, but due more likely to his inborn
+persuasion that he belongs to a superior race. Whatever the true reason,
+he has always placed his main dependence on cultivating friendship with
+kings and nobles. What cared the Jew if the people gnashed their teeth
+against him, so long as the king and the court were his friends? Thus
+there was always, even through most of the severely trying times, "a
+court Jew," one who had bought by loans and held by the strangle-hold of
+debt an entrance to the king's chamber. The policy of the Jews has
+always been to "go to headquarters." They never tried to placate the
+Russian people, but they did endeavor to enlist the Russian court. They
+never tried to placate the German people, but they did succeed in
+permeating the German court. In England they shrug their shoulders at
+the outspoken anti-Jew reactions of the British populace--what care
+they? Have they not all of lorddom at their heels, do they not hold the
+strings of Britain's purse?
+
+Through this ability of theirs to "go to headquarters" it is possible to
+account for the stronghold they got upon various governments and
+nations. Added to this ability was, of course, the ability to produce
+what the governments wanted. If a government wanted a loan, the Jew at
+court could arrange it through Jews at other financial centers and
+political capitals. If one government wanted to pay another government a
+debt without risking the precious metal to a mule train through a
+robber-infested country, the Jew at court arranged that too. He
+transferred a piece of paper and the debt was paid by the banking house
+at the foreign capital. The first time an army was ever fed in the
+modern commissary way, it was done by a Jew--he had the capital and he
+had the system; moreover he had the delight of having a nation for his
+customer.
+
+And this tendency, which served the race so well throughout the
+troublous centuries, shows no sign of abatement. Certainly, seeing to
+what an extent a race numerically so unimportant influences the various
+governments of the world today, the Jew who reflects upon the disparity
+between his people's numbers and their power may be pardoned if he sees
+in that fact a proof of their racial superiority.
+
+It may be said also that Jewish inventiveness in business devices
+continues to the present time, as well as Jewish adaptability to
+changing conditions. The Jew is credited with being the first to
+establish branch houses in foreign countries in order that responsible
+representatives of the home office might be on the ground taking instant
+advantage of every opening. During the war a great deal was said about
+the "peaceful penetration" which the "German Government" had effected in
+the United States by establishing here branch offices and factories of
+German firms. The fact that there were many German branch houses here is
+unquestionable. It should be known, however, that they were not the
+evidence of German enterprise but of Jewish enterprise. The old German
+business houses were too conservative to "run after customers" even in
+the hustling United States, but the Jewish firms were not, and they came
+straight to America and hustled. In due time the competition forced the
+more conservative German firms to follow suit. But the idea was Jewish
+in its origin, not German.
+
+Another modern business method whose origin is credited to Jewish
+financiers is that by which related industries are brought together, as
+for example, if an electrical power company is acquired, then the street
+railway company using the electricity would be acquired too, one purpose
+being in this way to conserve all the profit accruing along the line,
+from the origination of the power down to the delivery of the street car
+ride; but perhaps the main purpose being that, by the control of the
+power house the price of current could be increased to the car company,
+and by the control of the car company the cost of a ride could be
+increased to the public, the controllers thus receiving an additional
+profit all down the line. There is much of this going on in the world
+today, and in the United States particularly. The portion of the
+business immediately next to the ultimate consumer explains that its
+costs have risen, but it does not explain that the costs were increased
+by the owners and not by outsiders who were forced to do so by economic
+pressure.
+
+There is apparently in the world today a central financial force which
+is playing a vast and closely organized game, with the world for its
+table and universal control for its stakes. The people of civilized
+countries have lost all confidence in the explanation that "economic
+conditions" are responsible for all the changes that occur. Under the
+camouflage of "economic law" a great many phenomena have been accounted
+for which were not due to any law whatever except the law of the selfish
+human will as operated by a few men who have the purpose and the power
+to work on a wide scale with nations as their vassals.
+
+Whatever else may be national, no one today believes that finance is
+national. Finance is international. Nobody today believes that
+international finance is in any way competitive. There are some
+independent banking houses, but few strong independent ones. The great
+masters, the few whose minds see clearly the entire play of the plan,
+control numerous banking houses and trust companies, and one is used for
+this while another is used for that, but there is no disharmony between
+them, no correction of each other's methods, no competition in the
+interests of the business world. There is as much unity of policy
+between the principal banking houses of every country as there is
+between the various branches of the United States Post Office--and for
+the same reason, namely, they are all operated from the same source and
+for the same purpose.
+
+Just before the war Germany bought very heavily in American cotton and
+had huge quantities of it tied up here for export. When war came, the
+ownership of that mountainous mass of cotton wealth changed in one night
+from Jewish names in Hamburg to Jewish names in London. At this writing
+cotton is selling in England for less than it is selling in the United
+States, and the effect of that is to lower the American price. When the
+price lowers sufficiently, the market is cleared of cotton by buyers
+previously prepared, and then the price soars to high figures again. In
+the meantime, the same powers that have engineered the apparently
+causeless strengthening and weakening of the cotton market, have seized
+upon stricken Germany to be the sweatshop of the world. Certain groups
+control the cotton, lend it to Germany to be manufactured, leave a
+pittance of it there in payment for the labor that was used, and then
+profiteer the length and breadth of the world on the lie that "cotton is
+scarce." And when, tracing all these anti-social and colossally unfair
+methods to their source, it is found that the responsible parties all
+have a common characteristic, is it any wonder that the warning which
+comes across the sea--"Wait until America becomes awake to the
+Jew!"--has a new meaning?
+
+Certainly, economic reasons no longer explain the condition in which the
+world finds itself today. Neither does the ordinary explanation of "the
+heartlessness of capital." Capital has endeavored as never before to
+meet the demands of labor, and labor has gone to extremes in leading
+capital to new concessions--but what has it advantaged either of them?
+Labor has heretofore thought that capital was the sky over it, and it
+made the sky yield, but behold, there was yet an higher sky which
+neither capital nor labor had seen in their struggles one with another.
+That sky is so far unyielding.
+
+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 which 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 which is supported wholly by the fiction
+that gold is wealth. There is a super-government which is allied to no
+government, which is free from them all, and yet which has its hand in
+them all. There is a race, a part of humanity, which has never yet been
+received as a welcome part, and which 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.
+
+[Issue of May 22, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
+
+
+Humanity has become wise enough to discuss those forms of physical
+sickness over which it formerly drew the veil of shame and secrecy, but
+political hygiene is not so far advanced. The main source of the
+sickness of the German national body is charged to be the influence of
+the Jews, and although this was apparent to acute minds years ago, it is
+now said to have gone so far as to be apparent to the least observing.
+The eruption has broken out on the surface of the body politic, and no
+further concealment of this fact is possible. It is the belief of all
+classes of the German people that the collapse which has come since the
+armistice, and the revolution from which they are being prevented a
+recovery, are the result of Jewish intrigue and purpose. They declare it
+with assurance; they offer a mass of facts to confirm it; they believe
+that history will provide the fullest proof.
+
+The Jew in Germany is regarded as only a guest of the people; he has
+offended by trying to turn himself into the host. There are no stronger
+contrasts in the world than the pure Germanic and pure Semitic races;
+therefore, there has been no harmony between the two in Germany; the
+German has regarded the Jew strictly as a guest, while the Jew,
+indignant at not being given the privileges of the nation-family, has
+cherished animosity against his host. In other countries the Jew is
+permitted to mix more readily with the people, he can amass his control
+unchallenged; but in Germany the case was different. Therefore, the Jew
+hated the German people; therefore, the countries of the world which
+were most dominated by the Jews showed the greatest hatred of Germany
+during the recent regrettable war. Jewish hands were in almost exclusive
+control of the engines of publicity by which public opinion concerning
+the German people was molded. The sole winners of the war were Jews.
+
+But assertion is not enough; proof is wanted; therefore, consider the
+evidence. What occurred immediately upon the change from the old regime
+to the new? The cabinet composed of six men, which substituted the
+Minister of State, was dominated by the Jews Haase and Landsberg. Haase
+had control of foreign affairs; his assistant was the Jew Kautsky, a
+Czech, who in 1918 was not even a German citizen. Also associated with
+Haase were the Jews Cohn and Herzfeld. The Jew Schiffer was Financial
+Minister of State, assisted by the Jew Bernstein. The Secretary of the
+Interior was the Jew Preuss, with the Jew Dr. Freund for his assistant.
+The Jew Fritz Max Cohen, who was correspondent of the Frankfurter
+Zeitung in Copenhagen, was made government publicity agent.
+
+The kingdom of Prussia duplicated this condition of affairs. The Jews
+Hirsch and Rosenfeld dominated the cabinet, with Rosenfeld controlling
+the Department of Justice, and Hirsch in the Department of the Interior.
+The Jew Simon was in charge of the Treasury Department. The Prussian
+Department of Justice was wholly manned and operated by Jews. The
+Director of Education was the Jew Furtran with the assistance of the Jew
+Arndt. The Director of the Colonial Office was the Jew Meyer-Gerhard.
+The Jew Kastenberg was the director of the Department of Art. The War
+Food Supply Department was directed by the Jew Wurm, while in the State
+Food Department were the Jews Prof. Dr. Hirsch and the Geheimrat Dr.
+Stadthagen. The Soldiers' and Workmen's Committee was directed by the
+Jew Cohen, with the Jews Stern, Herz, Lowenberg, Frankel, Israelowicz,
+Laubenheim, Seligsohn, Katzenstein, Laufenberg, Heimann, Schlesinger,
+Merz and Weyl having control of various activities of that committee.
+
+The Jew Ernst is chief of police at Berlin; in the same office at
+Frankfurt is the Jew Sinzheimer; in Munich the Jew Steiner; in Essen the
+Jew Levy. It will be remembered that the Jew Eisner was President of
+Bavaria, his financial minister being the Jew Jaffe. Bavaria's trade,
+commerce and industry were in control of the half-Jew Brentano. The Jews
+Lipsinsky and Schwarz were active in the government of Saxony; the Jews
+Thalheimer and Heiman in Wurtemberg; the Jew Fulda in Hessen.
+
+Two delegates sent to the Peace Conference were Jews and a third was
+notoriously the tool of Jewish purposes. In addition Jews swarmed
+through the German delegation as experts and advisors--Max Warburg, Dr.
+Von Strauss, Merton, Oskar Oppenheimer, Dr. Jaffe, Deutsch, Brentano,
+Bernstein, Struck, Rathenau, Wassermann, and Mendelsohn-Bartholdi.
+
+As to the part which Jews from other countries had in the Peace
+Conference, German observers declare that any candid student may
+discover by reading the accounts of impartial non-Jewish recorders of
+that event. Only the non-Jewish historians seem to have been struck by
+the fact; the multitude of Jewish writers apparently judged it wise to
+conceal it.
+
+Jewish influence in German affairs came strongly to the front during the
+war. It came with all the directness and attack of a flying wedge, as if
+previously prepared. The Jews of Germany were not German patriots during
+the war, and although this will not appear a crime in the eyes of the
+nations who were opposed to Germany, it may throw some light on the
+Jew's assertion of patriotic loyalty to the land where he lives.
+Thoughtful Germans hold that it is impossible for the Jew to be a
+patriot, for reasons which will presently be given.
+
+The point to be considered is the general claim that the persons already
+named would not have obtained the positions in which they were found had
+it not been for the Revolution, and the Revolution would not have come
+had not they brought it. It is true that there were unsatisfactory
+conditions in Germany, but they could and would have been adjusted by
+the people themselves; the conditions which destroyed the people's
+morale and were made impossible of reform were in control of the Jews.
+
+The principal Jewish influences which are charged with bringing about
+the downfall of German order may be named under three heads: (a) the
+spirit of Bolshevism which masqueraded under the name of German
+Socialism; (b) Jewish ownership and control of the Press; (c) Jewish
+control of the food supply and the industrial machinery of the country.
+There was a fourth, "higher up," but these worked upon the German people
+directly.
+
+As it is possible that German conclusions upon this matter may be
+received doubtfully by peoples whose public opinion has been shaped by
+Jewish influence, it may help to quote George Pitter-Wilson, of the
+London Globe, who wrote early in April, 1919, "Bolshevism is the
+dispossession of the Christian nations of the world to such an extent
+that no capital will remain in the hands of the Christians, that all
+Jews may jointly hold the world in their hands and reign wherever they
+choose." As early as the second year of the war, German Jews were
+preaching that Germany's defeat was necessary to the rise of the
+proletariat, at which time Strobel declared, "I openly admit that a full
+victory of the country would not be in the interest of the Social
+Democrats." Everywhere it was preached that "the exaltation of the
+proletariat after a won victory is an impossibility." These instances,
+out of many, are cited not to reopen the military question but to show
+how the so-called German Jew forgot loyalty to the country in which he
+lived and joined the outside Jews in accomplishing the collapse of
+Germany, and not merely, as we shall see, to rid Germany of militarism,
+which every thoughtful German desired, but to throw the country into
+such confusion as to permit them to seize control.
+
+The press of Germany echoed this plan of the Jewish spokesmen, at first
+faintly, then boldly. The Berliner Tageblatt and the Munchner Neuester
+Nachrichten were during the whole war official and semi-official organs
+of the government. They were owned and controlled by Jews, as was also
+the Frankfurter Zeitung and a host of smaller papers that were their
+spiritual dependents. These papers, it is charged, were really German
+editions of the Jew-controlled press of the Allied countries, and their
+purpose was the same. One of the great pieces of research that ought to
+be undertaken for the purpose of showing the world how its thought is
+manufactured for it every day, and for what ulterior purposes, is this
+union of the Jewish press, which passes for the Public Press, throughout
+the world.
+
+The food and supplies of the people quickly passed into Jewish hands as
+soon as the war emergency came, and then began a period of dishonesty
+which destroyed the confidence of the bravest. Like all other patriotic
+people, the German people knew that war meant sacrifice and suffering,
+and like other people they were willing to share the common lot. But
+they found themselves preyed upon by a class of Jews who had prepared
+everything to make profit out of the common distress. Immediately Jews
+appeared in banks, war companies, distribution societies, and the
+ministries of supplies--wherever the life of the people could be
+speculated in or taxed. Articles that were plentiful disappeared, only
+to reappear again at high prices. The war companies were exclusively
+Jewish, and although the government attempted to regulate the outgo of
+food in the interests of all the people, it became notorious that those
+with money could get all of anything they wanted, regardless of the food
+cards. The Jews simply trebled the price of the goods they let go
+without the cards, and so kept a stream of the nation's gold flowing
+into their private treasuries. None of the government's estimates of the
+food stocks could be depended on, because of the hidden hoards on which
+these speculators drew. This began to disturb the morale of the people,
+and complaints were made and prosecutions started; but as soon as the
+cases came up it was discovered that the prosecutor appointed to charge
+and the commissioner appointed to judge were also Jews, and so the cases
+usually wore themselves out without results. When, however, a German
+merchant was caught, great noise was made about it, and the penalty
+placed upon him was equal to what all the others should have had. Go the
+length and breadth of Germany today, say the reports, study the temper
+of the people, and you will discover that the abuse of power by the Jews
+has burned across Germany's memory like a hot iron.
+
+While these influences were undermining the mass of the people, higher
+influences of Jewish origin were operating upon the government. The
+advisors of the Bethmann-Hollweg government were the great ship magnate
+Ballin, a Jew; Theodor Wolff, of the Berliner Tageblatt and member of
+the Pan-Jewish press; Von Gwinner, director of the German Bank who is
+connected by marriage with the great Jew bankers, the Speyers; and
+Rathenau, the leader of Jewish industrial-financial activities. These
+men were at the source of things and were bending the government as the
+other influences were bending the people.
+
+The rich German Jew could buy the recognition he desired by acquiring
+financial power over those interests which most directly affected the
+ruling class of Germany, but how was the poor Jew to gain the
+recognition he desired?--for all Jews are actuated by the same desire;
+it is in them; they feel the spur to mastery. Having explored the
+conquest of the higher circles by Jewish money-power, there is yet to
+explore the conquest of the body of the nation by Jews who had no money
+except what they could seize in the disorder which they caused. The
+analysis that is given, follows:
+
+The Jew is not an anarchist. He is not a destructionist. All this is
+true, notwithstanding he is the world's Bolshevist and preeminently
+Germany's revolutionist. His anarchy is not ingrain, it is a device
+which he uses for a purpose. The rich Jew is not an anarchist, because
+he can achieve what he desires by more subtle methods. The poor Jew has
+no other recourse. But rich and poor go jointly for a long stretch; the
+bond of sympathy between them never breaks; for, if the anarchy is
+successful, then the poor Jew shall take his place with the rich Jew;
+and if the anarchy is not successful, it has nevertheless served to
+break up new fields in which the rich Jew may operate.
+
+In Germany it was possible for the poor Jew to thrust himself up through
+the wall of Germanism above him only by breaking it up. In Russia the
+same was true. The social system had encrusted around the Jew, keeping
+him in a position where, as the nations knew by experience, he would be
+less harmful. As nature encysts the harmful foreign element in the
+flesh, building a wall around it, so nations have found it expedient to
+do with the Jew. In modern times, however, the Jew has found a means of
+knocking down the walls and throwing the whole national house into
+confusion, and in the darkness and riot that follows, seize the place he
+has long coveted. When Russia broke, who came first to light? Kerensky,
+who is a Jew. But his plans were not radical enough, and then came
+Trotsky, another Jew. Trotsky found the system too strong for him to
+break in America--he broke through the weak spot in Russia and would
+extend that weakness round the world. Every commissar in Russia today is
+a Jew. Publicists are accustomed to speak of Russia as if it were in
+disorder. It may be that Russia is, but the Jewish government of Russia
+is not. From a mass of underlings, the Jews of Russia came up a perfect
+phalanx, a flying wedge through the superinduced disorder, as if every
+man's place had been previously prepared for him.
+
+That also is the way it was in Germany. The German ceiling had to be
+broken, as it were, before the poor Jews could realize their ambition.
+When the break was made they swarmed through and settled in places of
+control above the nation.
+
+This may explain why Jews the world over supply the energy of disruptive
+movements. It is understood that the young Jews of the United States are
+propagandists of an ideal that would practically abolish the United
+States. The attack is aimed, of course, against "capitalism," which
+means the present government of the world by the Gentile. The true
+capitalists of the world are Jews, who are capitalists for capital's
+sake. It is hard to believe that they wish to destroy capital; they wish
+to obtain sole control of it, and their wish has long been in fair way
+to fulfillment.
+
+In Germany, therefore, as in Russia, distinction is made between the
+methods of the rich and of the poor Jews, because one method affects the
+government and the other the morale of the people, but both converge on
+the same objective. It is not only desire to escape oppression that
+actuates the lower classes of Jews, but desire to gain control--for the
+spirit of mastery pulses strong within them. German convictions on this
+question have reached the place where they may be expressed thus:
+Revolution is the expression of the Jews' will to power. Parties such as
+the socialists, democrats and freethinkers are but tools for the Jewish
+plan to power. The so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat" is really
+and practically the dictatorship of Jews.
+
+So suddenly have German eyes been opened, so stormfully wrathful has
+been the reaction, that the word has gone out through German Judaism to
+retire to the second trench. There has been a sudden and concerted
+abandonment of office wherever the office made direct contact with the
+public; there has, however, been no abandonment of power. What will
+happen in Germany is not now known. Some regrettable things have already
+happened. But the Germans will doubtless prove themselves equal to the
+situation by devising methods of control at once unobjectionable and
+effective. But as to Russia, it is hardly doubtful any longer what will
+happen there. When Russia turns, a shudder will run through the earth.
+
+How Gentile Germany and Russia look at the entire question may be
+summarized as follows:
+
+Judaism is the most closely organized power on earth, even more than the
+British Empire. It forms a State whose citizens are unconditionally
+loyal wherever they may be and whether rich or poor.
+
+The name which is given in Germany to this State which circulates among
+all the states is "All-Judaan."
+
+The means of power of the State of All-Judaan are capital and
+journalism, or money and propaganda.
+
+All-Judaan is the only State that exercises world government; all the
+other States can and may exercise national government only.
+
+The principal culture of All-Judaan is journalistic; the technical,
+scientific, literary performances of the modern Jew are throughout
+journalistic performances. They are due to the marvelous talent of the
+Jews for receptivity of others' ideas. Capital and Journalism are joined
+in the Press to create a political and spiritual medium of Jewish power.
+
+The government of this state of All-Judaan is wonderfully organized.
+Paris was its first seat, but has now been moved to third place. Before
+the war London was its first, and New York its second capital. It
+remains to be seen whether New York will now supplant London--the drift
+is toward America.
+
+As All-Judaan is not in a position to have a standing army and navy,
+other states supply these for it. Its fleet is the British fleet, which
+guards from hindrance the progress of all-Jewish world economy, or that
+part of it which depends on the sea. In return, All-Judaan assures
+Britain an undisturbed political and territorial world rule. All-Judaan
+has added Palestine to British control. Wherever there was an All-Judaan
+land force (whatever national uniform it might wear), it worked with the
+British navy.
+
+All-Judaan is willing to entrust the government of various strips of the
+world to the nationalistic governments; it only asks to control the
+governments. Judaism is passionately in favor of perpetuating
+nationalistic divisions for the Gentile world. For themselves, Jews
+never become assimilated with any nation. They are a separate people,
+always were and always will be.
+
+All-Judaan's only quarrel with any nation occurs when that nation makes
+it impossible for All-Judaan to control that nation's industrial and
+financial profits. It can make war, it can make peace; it can command
+anarchy in stubborn cases, it can restore order. It holds the sinews of
+world power in its hand and it apportions them among the nations in such
+ways as will best support All-Judaan's plan.
+
+Controlling the world's sources of news, All-Judaan can always prepare
+the minds of the people for its next move. The greatest exposure yet to
+be made is the way that news is manufactured and the way in which the
+mind of whole nations is molded for a purpose. When the powerful Jew is
+at last traced and his hand revealed, then comes the ready cry of
+persecution and it echoes through the world press. The real causes of
+the persecution (which is the oppression of the people by the financial
+practices of the Jews) are never given publicity.
+
+All-Judaan has its vice-governments in London and New York. Having
+wreaked its revenge on Germany it will now go forth to conquer other
+nations. Britain it already has. Russia it is struggling for, but the
+chances are against it. The United States, with its good-natured
+tolerance of all races, offers a promising field. The scene of
+operations changes, but the Jew is the same throughout the centuries.
+
+[Issue of May 29, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"At first sight it would seem as if the economic system of North America
+was the very one that developed independently of the Jews . . . .
+Nevertheless I uphold my assertion that the United States (perhaps more
+than any other land) are filled to the brim with the Jewish spirit. This
+is recognized in many quarters, above all in those best capable of
+forming a judgment on the subject . . . .
+
+"In the face of this fact, is there not some justification for the
+opinion that the United States owe their very existence to the Jews? And
+if this be so, how much more can it be asserted that Jewish influence
+made the United States just what they are--that is, American? For what
+we call Americanism is nothing else, if we may say so, than the Jewish
+spirit distilled."
+
+--Werner Sombart, "The Jews and Modern Capital," pp. 38, 43.
+
+III.
+
+Jewish History in the United States
+
+
+The story of the Jews in America begins with Christopher Columbus. On
+August 2, 1492, more than 300,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, with
+which event Spain's prestige began its long decline, and on August 3,
+the next day, Columbus set sail for the West, taking a group of Jews
+with him. They were not, however, refugees, for the prophetic
+navigator's plans had aroused the sympathy of influential Jews for a
+long period previously. Columbus himself tells us that he consorted much
+with Jews. The first letter he wrote detailing his discoveries was to a
+Jew. Indeed, the eventful voyage itself which added to men's knowledge
+and wealth "the other half of the earth" was made possible by Jews.
+
+The pleasant story that it was Queen Isabella's jewels which financed
+the voyage has disappeared under cool research. There were three Maranos
+or "secret Jews" who wielded great influence at the Spanish court: Luis
+de Santagel, who was an important merchant of Valencia and who was
+"farmer" of the royal taxes; his relative, Gabriel Sanchez, who was the
+royal treasurer; and their friend, the royal chamberlain, Juan Cabrero.
+These worked unceasingly on Queen Isabella's imagination, picturing to
+her the depletion of the royal treasury and the likelihood of Columbus
+discovering the fabulous gold of the Indies, until the Queen was ready
+to offer her jewels in pawn for the funds. But Santagel craved
+permission to advance the money himself, which he did, 17,000 ducats in
+all, about $20,000, perhaps equal to $160,000 today. It is probable that
+the loan exceeded the expedition's cost.
+
+Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews: Luis de
+Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician; Alonzo
+de la Calle, and Gabriel Sanchez. The astronomical instruments and maps
+which the navigators used were of Jewish origin. Luis de Torres was the
+first man ashore, the first to discover the use of tobacco; he settled
+in Cuba and may be said to be the father of Jewish control of the
+tobacco business as it exists today.
+
+Columbus' old patrons, Luis de Santagel and Gabriel Sanchez, received
+many privileges for the part they played in the work, but Columbus
+himself became the victim of a conspiracy fostered by Bernal, the ship's
+doctor, and suffered injustice and imprisonment as his reward.
+
+From that beginning, Jews looked more and more to America as a fruitful
+field, and immigration set in strongly toward South America, principally
+Brazil. But because of military participation in a disagreement between
+the Brazilians and the Dutch, the Jews of Brazil found it necessary to
+emigrate, which they did in the direction of the Dutch colony of what is
+now New York. Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, did not entirely
+approve of their settling among his people and ordered them to leave,
+but the Jews had evidently taken the precaution to assure their being
+received even if not welcomed, because upon revoking the order of
+Stuyvesant, the Directors gave as one of the reasons for the Jews being
+received, "the large amount of capital which they have invested in the
+shares of the Company." Nevertheless they were forbidden to enter public
+service and to open retail shops, which had the effect of driving them
+into foreign trade in which they were soon exercising all but a monopoly
+because of their European connections.
+
+This is only one of the thousand illustrations which can be given of the
+resourcefulness of the Jew. Forbid him in one direction, he will excel
+in another. When he was forbidden to deal in new clothes, he sold old
+clothes--that was the beginning of the organized traffic in secondhand
+clothing. When he was forbidden to deal in merchandise, he dealt in
+waste--the Jew is the originator of the waste product business of the
+world; he was the originator of the salvage system; he found wealth in
+the debris of civilization. He taught people how to use old rags, how to
+clean old feathers, how to use gall nuts and rabbit skins. He has always
+had a taste for the furrier trade, which he now controls, and to him is
+due the multitude of common skins which now pass under various alluring
+trade names as furs of high origin. The idea of renovation gained
+commercial value through the Jew. In the "rag men" who blow tin horns
+through our cities and save the old iron, old bottles, old paper and old
+fabrics, we have the commercial descendants of those earlier Jews who
+turned adversity into success by converting the rubbish of the earth
+into material of value.
+
+Unwittingly, old Peter Stuyvesant compelled the Jew to make New York the
+principal port of America, and though a majority of New York Jews had
+fled to Philadelphia at the time of the American Revolution, most of
+them returned to New York at the earliest opportunity, instinct seeming
+to make them aware that in New York was to be their principal paradise
+of gain. And so it has proved. New York is the greatest center of Jewish
+population in the world. It is the gateway where the bulk of American
+imports and exports are taxed, and where practically all the business
+done in America pays tribute to the masters of money. The very land of
+the city is practically the holdings of the Jews. A list of the property
+owners of the metropolis reveals only at rare intervals a Gentile name.
+No wonder that Jewish writers, viewing this unprecedented prosperity,
+this unchecked growth in wealth and power, exclaim enthusiastically that
+the United States is the Promised Land foretold by the prophets, and New
+York the New Jerusalem. Some have gone even further and described the
+peaks of the Rockies as "the mountains of Zion," and with reason, too,
+if the mining and coastal wealth of the Jews is considered.
+
+The new waterways proposal, which will make an ocean port of practically
+every great city on the Great Lakes and take from New York the prestige
+she has maintained by being the gateway toward which the principal
+railways narrowed, is being strongly protested at this time. And the
+strongest motive in opposing this most obvious betterment is that so
+much wealth counted in New York is not wealth at all, but fictitious
+values depending solely on New York remaining New York. When anything
+comes which will make New York merely a city on the coast, and not the
+city where the great taxers sit to levy their tribute, much Jewish
+wealth will decrease. It was fabulous before the war. What it is now the
+statisticians will hardly undertake to say.
+
+In fifty years the increase in the Jewish population of the United
+States has been from 50,000 to more than 3,300,000. In the British Isles
+there are only 300,000, in Palestine only 100,000. It is fortunate for
+the Jew himself that in Great Britain his numbers are not greater, for
+the large and evident control he exercises in great matters would
+sometimes make it inconvenient for the poorer Jew, if he were abroad in
+England in large numbers. An unusually well-informed Briton says that
+anti-Semitism is always ready to break out in England upon sufficient
+cause, but it cannot break out against the inaccessible rich Jews who
+control in politics and international finance. It us probably true that
+the commonest real cause of anti-Semitism is the action of the
+international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but the
+innocent victim of it is the poor Jew. Anti-Semitism, however, will be
+considered in the next article.
+
+The figures representing Jewish population in Great Britain and the
+United States indicate that the colossal power wielded by international
+Jewish financiers is neither consequent nor dependent upon their number.
+The arresting fact about the Jew is his world-wide unchallenged power,
+coupled with comparative numerical inferiority. There are only about
+14,000,000 Jews in the world; they are about as numerous as the Koreans.
+This comparison of their numbers with the Koreans will illustrate still
+more vividly the phenomenon of their power.
+
+In the time of George Washington there were about 4,000 Jews in the
+country, most of them well-to-do traders. For the most part they favored
+the American side. Haym Salomon helped the Colonies out with the loan of
+his entire fortune at a critical moment. But they never assimilated,
+they did not take up the usual employments nor farming, they never
+seemed to care for the worry of manufacturing things, but only for the
+selling of them after they were made.
+
+It is only of recent years the Jew has shown any capacity for
+manufacturing, and most of what he now engages in has grown up as an
+adjunct to his merchandising plans. By manufacturing, he saves a profit.
+The result has not been a decrease in cost to the public, but an
+increase. It is characteristic of Jewish business methods that economies
+are for the sake of the business, not for the sake of the public. The
+commodities in which there have been the most inexcusable and exorbitant
+increases in prices to the public, and the lines of business which have
+been most quickly frightened into lower prices without any explanatory
+change in the general situation, have been those lines in which Jews
+exercise the widest control.
+
+Business to the Jewish mind is money; what the successful Jew may do
+with the money after he gets it is another matter, but in the getting of
+it he never permits "idealistic slush" to interfere with the dollar. His
+dollar of profit is never "clipped" by any of the voluntary reforms by
+which a few men are trying to ameliorate the condition of the workers.
+
+This is not by any means due to the hardness of the Jewish heart, but to
+the hardness of the Jewish view of business. Business is to it a matter
+of goods and money, not of people. If you are in distress and suffering,
+the Jewish heart would have sympathy for you; but if your house were
+involved in the matter, you and your house would be two separate
+entities; the Jew would naturally find it difficult, in his theory of
+business, to humanize the house; he would deal with it after a manner
+which other people would call "hard," but he would not feel the charge
+to be just; he would say that it was only "business."
+
+It is probably this way that the Jewish "sweatshops" of New York may be
+explained. When the susceptible people of the nation commiserated the
+poor Jews of the New York sweatshops, they for the most part did not
+know that the inventors and operators of the "sweatshop" method were
+themselves Jews. Indeed, while it is the boast of our country that no
+race or color or creed is persecuted here, but liberty is insured to
+all, still it is a fact which every special investigator has noted that
+the only heartless treatment ever accorded the Jew in the United States
+came from his own people, his overseers and masters. And yet there is no
+evidence that either the "sweater" or the "sweated" ever thought of it
+as inhumanity or as "heartless." It was "business." The "sweated" lived
+in the hope of having a roomful of people sewing for him or her some
+day. Their endlessly vital interest in "business" and their unflagging
+ambition to get further up the ladder and become masters in their own
+sweatshop, enabled them to work without the slightest sense of
+oppression or injustice which, after all, is the sorest thing about
+poverty. The Jews never regard work as a calamity, but neither do they
+regard subordinate positions as permanently theirs. Thus, they spend
+their energies in getting up and out rather than in lamenting the
+inconveniences of the place where they are and trying to improve it.
+
+All this is individually excellent but socially harmful. The result is
+that, until recently, the lower ranges of employment were wholly
+unsupervised, and the higher circles never felt the necessity of
+devising industrial reforms and benefits. The record of the great Jews
+in charity is very noble; their record in industrial reforms is nil.
+With commendable sympathy toward their own people, they will donate a
+part of their profits to rectify some of the human need resulting from
+the method by which they made their profits, but as for reforming the
+method by which they get their profits in order that the resulting need
+might be diminished or prevented, apparently it has never occurred to
+them. At least, while there are many charitable names among the
+wealthier Jews, there are no names that stand for an actual, practical
+humanizing of industry, its methods and its returns.
+
+This, of course, is unfortunate; but it is intelligible; more than that,
+it is explanatory of many things for which the Jew is blamed by those
+who do not understand his nature. The Jew will go part way in sharing
+the results of his prosperity; he has not gone any length, save upon
+outer compulsion, in sharing the processes, or sharing wealth in the
+making. And while the social effect is the same as if this were done out
+of cruel insensibility and inhumanity, still it must be said that mostly
+it is done not out of such feelings, but out of the Jew's ingrain
+conception of the game of business. Some proposals of industrial reform
+appear as crazy to him as would a proposal to credit one baseball
+batter's hit to his opponent's score, just as a matter of humanity.
+
+The American Jew does not assimilate. This is stated, not to blame him,
+but merely as a fact. The Jew could merge with the people of America if
+he desired, but he doesn't. If there is any prejudice existing against
+him in America, aside from the sense of inquiry which his colossal
+success engenders, it is because of his aloofness. The Jew is not
+objectionable in his person, creed, or race. His spiritual ideals are
+shared by the world. But still he does not assimilate; he cultivates by
+his exclusiveness the feeling that he does not "belong." This is his
+privilege, and from one point of view it may indicate excellent
+judgement, but he must not make it one of the grounds of his complaint
+against Gentiles in general, as he has a tendency to do. It is better
+that he should make it clear to Gentiles once and for all where true
+Jews stand in the matter, as when a young Jew said--"There is all the
+difference in the world between an American Jew and a Jewish American. A
+Jewish American is a mere amateur Gentile, doomed to be a parasite
+forever."
+
+The ghetto is not an American product but the Jews' own importation.
+They have separated themselves into a distinct community. Speaking of
+this matter the Jewish Encyclopedia says: "The social organization of
+the Jews resident in America has differed little from that in other
+countries * * * in the main, and without any compulsion, Jews preferred
+to live in close proximity to one another, a peculiarity which still
+prevails."
+
+To make a list of the lines of business controlled by the Jews of the
+United States would be to touch most of the vital industries of the
+country--those which are really vital, and those which cultivated habit
+has made to seem vital. The theatrical business, of course, as everyone
+knows, is exclusively Jewish. Play-producing, booking, theater operation
+are all in the hands of Jews. This perhaps accounts for the fact that in
+almost every production today can be detected propaganda, sometimes
+glaringly commercial advertisement, which does not originate with
+playwrights, but with producers.
+
+The motion picture industry.
+
+The sugar industry.
+
+The tobacco industry.
+
+Fifty per cent or more of the meat packing industry.
+
+Upward of 60 per cent of the shoemaking industry.
+
+Men's and women's ready-made clothing.
+
+Most of the musical purveying done in the country.
+
+Jewelry.
+
+Grain.
+
+More recently, cotton.
+
+The Colorado smelting industry.
+
+Magazine authorship.
+
+News distribution.
+
+The liquor business.
+
+The loan business.
+
+These, only to name the industries with national and international
+sweep, are in control of the Jews of the United States, either alone or
+in association with Jews overseas.
+
+The American people would be vastly surprised if they could see a
+line-up of some of the "American business men" who hold up our
+commercial prestige overseas. They are mostly Jews. They have a keen
+sense of the value of the American name, and when in a foreign port you
+stroll up to the office which bears the sign, "American Importing
+Company," or "American Commercial Company," or other similarly
+non-committal names, hoping to find a countryman, an American, you
+usually find a Jew whose sojourn in America appears to have been all too
+brief. This may throw a sidelight on the regard in which "American
+business methods" are held in some parts of the world. When 30 or 40
+different races of people can carry on business under the name
+"American," and do it legally, too, it is not surprising that Americans
+do not recognize some of the descriptions of American methods which
+appear in the foreign press. The Germans long ago complained that the
+rest of the world was judging them by the German-speaking Jewish
+commercial traveler.
+
+Instances of Jewish prosperity in the United States are commonplace, but
+prosperity, the just reward of foresight and application, is not to be
+confounded with control. The prosperity of the Jews can be had by anyone
+who is willing to pay the price which the Jews pay for it--a very, very
+high price, as a rule, all things considered--but it would be impossible
+for any Gentile coalition under similar circumstances to attain the
+control which the Jews have won, for the reason that there is lacking in
+the Gentile a certain quality of working-togetherness, a certain
+conspiracy of objective, and the adhesiveness of intense raciality,
+which characterizes the Jew. It is nothing to a Gentile that another man
+is a Gentile; it is next to everything to a Jew that the man at his door
+is another Jew. So, if instances of Jewish prosperity were needed, the
+case of the Temple Emmanu-el, New York, might be cited, which in 1846
+could scarcely raise $1,520 for its budget, but in 1868, following the
+Civil War, raised $708,755 from the rental of 231 pews. And the rise of
+the Jewish clothing monopoly as one of the results of the same Civil War
+might be cited as an instance of prosperity plus national and
+international control.
+
+Indeed, it might be said that the Jew has succeeded in everything he has
+attempted in the United States, except farming. The explanation usually
+made in Jewish publications is that ordinary farming is far too simple
+to engage the Jew's intellect and therefore he is not enough interested
+in it to succeed, but that in dairy and cattle farming where the "brain"
+is more necessary he has made a success. Numerous attempts have been
+made in various parts of the United States to start Jewish farming
+colonies, but their story is a series of failures. Some have blamed the
+failures on the Jew's lack of knowledge of scientific farming, others on
+his distaste for manual labor, others on the lack of the speculative
+element in agriculture. In any case, he stands higher in the
+non-productive employments than in this basically productive one. Some
+students of the question state that the Jew never was a man of the land,
+but always a trader, for which assertion one of the proofs offered is
+the Jews' selection of Palestine as their country, that strip of land
+which formed a gateway between East and West and over which the overland
+traffic of the world passed.
+
+[Issue of June 5, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"The Jewish Question still exists. It would be useless to deny it . . .
+. The Jewish Question exists wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers.
+Where it does not exist, it is carried by Jews in the course of their
+migrations. We naturally move to those places where we are not
+persecuted, and there our presence produces persecution . . . . The
+unfortunate Jews are now carrying anti-Semitism into England; they have
+already introduced it into America."
+
+--Theodore Herzl, "A Jewish State," p. 4.
+
+IV.
+
+The Jewish Question--Fact or Fancy?
+
+
+The chief difficulty in writing about the Jewish Question is the
+supersensitiveness of Jews and non-Jews concerning the whole matter.
+There is a vague feeling that even to openly use the word "Jew," or to
+expose it nakedly to print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like
+"Hebrew" and "Semite," both of which are subject to the criticism of
+inaccuracy, are timidly essayed, and people pick their way gingerly as
+if the whole subject were forbidden, until some courageous Jewish
+thinker comes straight out with the good old word "Jew," and then the
+constraint is relieved and the air cleared. The word "Jew" is not an
+epithet; it is a name, ancient and honorable, with significance for
+every period of human history, past, present and to come.
+
+There is extreme sensitiveness about the public discussion of the Jewish
+Question on the part of Gentiles. They would prefer to keep it in the
+hazy borderlands of their thought, shrouded in silence. Their heritage
+of tolerance has something to do with their attitude, but perhaps their
+instinctive sense of the difficulty involved has more to do with it. The
+principal public Gentile pronouncements upon the Jewish Question are in
+the manner of the truckling politician or the pleasant after-dinner
+speaker; the great Jewish names in philosophy, medicine, literature,
+music and finance are named over, the energy, ability and thrift of the
+race are dwelt upon, and everyone goes home feeling that a difficult
+place has been rather neatly negotiated. But nothing is changed thereby.
+The Jew is not changed. The Gentile is not changed. The Jew still
+remains the enigma of the world.
+
+Gentile sensitiveness on this point is best expressed by the desire for
+silence--"Why discuss it at all?" is the attitude. Such an attitude is
+itself a proof that there is a problem which we would evade if we could.
+"Why discuss it at all?"--the keen thinker clearly sees in the
+implications of such a question, the existence of a problem whose
+discussion or suppression will not always be within the choice of
+easy-going minds.
+
+Is there a Jewish Question in Russia? Unquestionably, in its most
+virulent form. Is it necessary to meet that Question in Russia?
+Undoubtedly, meet it from every angle along which light and healing may
+come.
+
+Well, the percentage of the Jewish population of Russia is just one per
+cent more than it is in the United States. The majority of the Jews
+themselves are not less well-behaved in Russia than they are here; they
+lived under restrictions which do not exist here; yet in Russia their
+genius has enabled them to attain a degree of power which has completely
+baffled the Russian mind. Whether you go to Rumania, Russia, Austria or
+Germany, or anywhere else that the Jewish Question has come to the
+forefront as a vital issue, you will discover that the principal cause
+is the outworking of the Jewish genius to achieve the power of control.
+
+Here in the United States it is the fact of this remarkable minority--a
+sparse Jewish ingredient of three per cent in a nation of
+110,000,000--attaining in 50 years a degree of control that would be
+impossible to a ten times larger group of any other race, that creates
+the Jewish Question here. Three per cent of any other people would
+scarcely occasion comment, because we could not meet with a
+representative of them wherever we went in high places--in the innermost
+secrecy of the councils of the Big Four at Versailles; in the supreme
+court; in the councils of the White House; in the vast dispositions of
+world finance--wherever there is power to get or use. Yet we meet the
+Jew everywhere in the upper circles, literally everywhere there is
+power. He has the brains, the initiative, the penetrative vision which
+almost automatically project him to the top, and as a consequence he is
+more marked than any other race.
+
+And that is where the Jewish Question begins. It begins in very simple
+terms--How does the Jew so habitually and so resistlessly gravitate to
+the highest places? What puts him there? Why is he put there? What does
+he do there? What does the fact of his being there mean to the world?
+
+That is the Jewish Question in its origin. From these points it goes on
+to others, and whether the trend becomes pro-Jewish or anti-Semitic
+depends on the amount of prejudice brought to the inquiry, and whether
+it becomes pro-Humanity depends on the amount of insight and
+intelligence.
+
+The use of the word Humanity in connection with the word Jew usually
+throws a side-meaning which may not be intended. In this connection it
+is usually understood that the humanity ought to be shown toward the
+Jew. There is just as great an obligation upon the Jew to show his
+humanity toward the whole race. The Jew has been too long accustomed to
+think of himself as exclusively the claimant on the humanitarianism of
+society; society has a large claim against him that he cease his
+exclusiveness, that he cease exploiting the world, that he cease making
+Jewish groups the end and all of his gains, and that he begin to
+fulfill, in a sense his exclusiveness has never yet enabled him to
+fulfill, the ancient prophecy that through him all the nations of the
+earth should be blessed.
+
+The Jew cannot go on forever filling the role of suppliant for the
+world's humanitarianism; he must himself show that quality to a society
+which seriously suspects his higher and more powerful groups of
+exploiting it with a pitiless rapacity which in its wide-flung and long
+drawn-out distress may be described as an economic pogrom against a
+rather helpless humanity. For it is true that society is as helpless
+before the well-organized extortions of certain financial groups, as
+huddled groups of Russian Jews were helpless against the anti-Semitic
+mob. And as in Russia, so in America, it is the poor Jew who suffers for
+the delinquencies of the rich exploiter of his race.
+
+This series of articles is already being met by an organized barrage by
+mail and wire and voice, every single item of which carries the wail of
+persecution. One would think that a heartless and horrible attack were
+being made on a most pitiable and helpless people--until one looks at
+the letterheads of the magnates who write, and at the financial ratings
+of those who protest, and at the membership of the organizations whose
+responsible heads hysterically demand retraction. And always in the
+background there is the threat of boycott, a threat which has
+practically sealed up the columns of every publication in America
+against even the mildest discussion of the Jewish Question.
+
+The Jewish Question in America cannot be concealed forever by threats
+against publications, nor by the propagandist publication of matter
+extremely and invariably favorable to everything Jewish. It is here and
+it cannot be twisted into something else by the adroit use of
+propaganda, nor can it be forever silenced by threats. The Jews of the
+United States can best serve themselves and their fellow-Jews all over
+the world by letting drop their far too ready cry of "anti-Semitism," by
+adopting a franker tone than that which befits a helpless victim, and by
+seeing what the Jewish Question is and how it behooves every Jew who
+loves his people to help solve it.
+
+There has been used in this series the term "International Jew." It is
+susceptible of two interpretations: one, the Jew wherever he may be; the
+other, the Jew who exercises international control. The real contention
+of the world is with the latter and his satellites, whether Jew or
+Gentile.
+
+Now, this international type of Jew, this grasper after world-control,
+this actual possessor and wielder of world-control is a very unfortunate
+connection for his race to have. The most unfortunate thing about the
+international Jew, from the standpoint of the ordinary Jew, is that the
+international type is also a Jew. And the significance of this is that
+the type does not grow anywhere else than on a Jewish stem. There is no
+other racial nor national type which puts forth this kind of person. It
+is not merely that there are a few Jews among international financial
+controllers; it is that these world controllers are exclusively Jews.
+That is the phenomenon which creates an unfortunate situation for those
+Jews who are not and never shall be world-controllers, who are the plain
+people of the Jewish race. If world-control were mixed, like the
+control, say, of the biscuit business, then the occasional Jews we might
+find in those higher financial altitudes would not constitute the
+problem at all; the problem would then be limited to the existence of
+world-control in the hands of a few men, of whatever race or lineage
+they might be. But since world-control is an ambition which has only
+been achieved by Jews, and not by any of the methods usually adopted by
+would-be world conquerors, it becomes inevitable that the question
+should center in that remarkable race.
+
+This brings another difficulty: in discussing this group of
+world-controllers under the name of Jews (and they are Jews), it is not
+always possible to stop and distinguish the group of Jews that is meant.
+The candid reader can usually determine that, but the Jew who is in a
+state of mind to be injured is sometimes pained by reading as a charge
+against himself what was intended for the upper group. "Then why not
+discuss the upper group as financiers and not as Jews?" may be asked.
+Because they are Jews. It is not to the point to insist that in any list
+of rich men there are more Gentiles than Jews; we are not talking about
+merely rich men who have, many of them, gained their riches by serving a
+System, we are talking about those who Control--and it is perfectly
+apparent that merely to be rich is not to control. The world-controlling
+Jew has riches, but he also has something much more powerful than that.
+
+The international Jew, as already defined, rules not because he is rich,
+but because in a most marked degree he possesses the commercial and
+masterful genius of his race, and avails himself of a racial loyalty and
+solidarity the like of which exists in no other human group. In other
+words, transfer today the world-control of the international Jew to the
+hands of the highest commercially talented group of Gentiles, and the
+whole fabric of world-control would eventually fall to pieces, because
+the Gentile lacks a certain quality, be it human or divine, be it
+natural or acquired, that the Jew possesses.
+
+This, of course, the modern Jew denies. There is a new position taken by
+the modernists among the Jews which constitutes a denial that the Jew
+differs from any other man except in the matter of religion. "Jew" they
+say is not a racial designation, but a religious designation like
+"Episcopalian," "Catholic," "Presbyterian." This is the argument used in
+newspaper offices in the Jews' protests against giving the Jewish
+designation to those of their people who are implicated in crime--"You
+don't give the religious classification of other people who are
+arrested," the editor is told, "why should you do it with Jews?" The
+appeal to religious tolerance always wins, and is sometimes useful in
+diverting attention from other things.
+
+Well, if the Jews are only religiously differentiated from the rest of
+the world, the phenomenon grows stranger still. For the rest of the
+world is interested less in the Jew's religion than in anything else
+that concerns him. There is really nothing in his religion to
+differentiate the Jew from the rest of mankind, as far as the moral
+content of that religion is concerned, and if there were he would have
+overcome that by the fact that his Jewish religion supplies the moral
+structure for both of the other great religions. Moreover, it is stated
+that there are among English speaking nations 2,000,000 Jews who
+acknowledge their race and not their religion, while 1,000,000 are
+classed as agnostic--are these any less Jews than the others? The world
+does not think so. The authoritative students of human differences do
+not think so. An Irishman who grows indifferent to the Church is still
+an Irishman, and it would seem to be equally true that a Jew who grows
+indifferent to the Synagogue is still a Jew. He at least feels that he
+is, and so does the non-Jew.
+
+A still more serious challenge would arise if this contention of the
+modernists were true, for it would necessitate the explanation of these
+world-controlling Jews by their religion. We should have to say, "They
+excel through their religion," and then the problem would turn on the
+religion whose practice should bring such power and prosperity to its
+devotees. But another fact would intervene, namely, that these
+world-controlling Jews are not notably religious; and still another fact
+would hammer for recognition, namely, the most devout believers and most
+obedient followers of the Jewish religion are the poorest among the
+Jews. If you want Jewish orthodoxy, the bracing morality of the Old
+Testament, you will find it, not among the successful Jews, who have
+Unitarianized their religion to the same extent that the Unitarians have
+Judaized their Christianity, but among the poor in the side streets who
+still sacrifice the Saturday business for their Sabbath keeping.
+Certainly their religion has not given them world-control; instead, they
+have made their own sacrifices to keep it inviolate against modernism.
+
+Of course, if the Jew differs from the rest of mankind only when he is
+in full accord with his religion, the question becomes very simple. Any
+criticism of the Jew becomes sheer religious bigotry and nothing else!
+And that would be intolerable. But it would be the consensus of
+thoughtful opinion that the Jew differs less in his religion than in
+anything else. There is more difference between the two great branches
+of Christianity, more conscious difference, than between any branch of
+Christianity and Judaism.
+
+So that, the contention of certain modernists notwithstanding, the world
+will go on thinking of the Jew as a member of a race, a race whose
+persistence has defeated the utmost efforts made for its extermination,
+a race that has preserved itself in virility and power by the observance
+of those natural laws the violation of which has mongrelized so many
+nations, a race which has come up out of the past with the two great
+moral values which may be reckoned on monotheism and monogamy, a race
+which today is before us as the visible sign of an antiquity to which
+all our spiritual wealth harks back. Nay, the Jew will go on thinking of
+himself as the member of a people, a nation, a race. And all the mixture
+and intermixture of thought or faith or custom cannot make it otherwise.
+A Jew is a Jew and as long as he remains within his perfectly
+unassailable traditions, he will remain a Jew. And he will always have
+the right to feel that to be a Jew is to belong to a superior race.
+
+These world-controlling Jews at the top of affairs, then, are there by
+virtue of, among other things, certain qualities which are inherent in
+their Jewish natures. Every Jew has these qualities even if not in the
+supreme sense, just as every Englishman has Shakespeare's tongue but not
+in Shakespeare's degree. And thus it is impracticable, if not
+impossible, to consider the international Jew without laying the
+foundations broadly upon Jewish character and psychology.
+
+We may discount at once the too common libel that this greater form of
+Jewish success is built upon dishonesty. It is impossible to indict the
+Jewish people or any other people on a wholesale charge. No one knows
+better than the Jew how widespread is the notion that Jewish methods of
+business are all unscrupulous. There is no doubt a possibility of a
+great deal of unscrupulousness existing without actual legal dishonesty,
+but it is altogether possible that the reputation the Jewish people have
+long borne in this respect may have had other sources than actual and
+persistent dishonesty.
+
+We may indicate one of these possible sources. The Jew at a trade is
+naturally quicker than most other men. They say there are other races
+which are as nimble at a trade as is the Jew, but the Jew does not live
+much among them. In this connection one may remember the famous joke
+about the Jew who went to Scotland.
+
+Now, it is human nature for the slower man to believe that the quicker
+man is too deft by far, and to become suspicious of his deftness.
+Everybody suspects the "sharper" even though his sharpness be entirely
+honest. The slower mind is likely to conceive that the man who sees so
+many legitimate twists and turns to a trade, may also see and use a
+convenient number of illegitimate twists and turns. Moreover, there is
+always the ready suspicion that the one who gets "the best of the
+bargain" gets it by trickery which is not above board. Slow, honest,
+plain-spoken and straight-dealing people always have their doubts of the
+man who gets the better of it.
+
+The Jews, as the records for centuries show, were a keen people in
+trade. They were so keen that many regarded them as crooked. And so the
+Jew became disliked for business reasons, not all of which were
+creditable to the intelligence or initiative of his enemies.
+
+Take for example, the persecution which Jew merchants once suffered in
+England. In older England the merchant class had many easy-going
+traditions. One tradition was that a respectable tradesman would never
+seek business but wait for it to come to him. Another tradition was that
+to decorate one's store window with lights or colors, or to display
+one's stock of goods attractively in the view of the public, was a
+contemptible and underhanded method of tempting a brother tradesman's
+customers away from him. Still another tradition was that it was
+strictly unethical and unbusinesslike to handle more than one line of
+goods. If one sold tea, it was the best reason in the world why he
+should not sell teaspoons. As for advertising, the thing would have been
+so brazen and bold that public opinion would have put the advertiser out
+of business. The proper demeanor for a merchant was to seem reluctant to
+part with his goods.
+
+One may readily imagine what happened when the Jewish merchant bustled
+into the midst of this jungle of traditions. He simply broke them all.
+In those days tradition had all the force of a divinely promulgated
+moral law and in consequence of his initiative the Jew was regarded as a
+great offender. A man who would break those trade traditions would stop
+at nothing! The Jew was anxious to sell. If he could not sell one
+article to a customer, he had another on hand to offer him. The Jews'
+stores became bazaars, forerunners of our modern department stores, and
+the old English custom of one store for one line of goods was broken up.
+The Jew went after trade, pursued it, persuaded it. He was the
+originator of "a quick turnover and small profits." He originated the
+installment plan. The one state of affairs he could not endure was
+business at a standstill, and to start it moving he would do anything.
+He was the first advertiser--in a day when even to announce in the
+public prints the location of your store was to intimate to the public
+that you were in financial difficulties, were about to go to the wall
+and were trying the last desperate expedient to which no self-respecting
+merchant would stoop.
+
+It was as easy as child's play to connect this energy with dishonesty.
+The Jew was not playing the game, at least so the staid English merchant
+thought. As a matter of fact he was playing the game to get it all in
+his own hands--which he has practically done.
+
+The Jew has shown that same ability ever since. His power of analyzing
+the money currents amounts to an instinct. His establishment in one
+country represented another base from which the members of his race
+could operate. Whether by the natural outworking of innate gifts, or the
+deliberate plan of race unity and loyalty, all Jewish trading
+communities had relations, and as those trading communities increased in
+wealth, prestige and power, as they formed relations with governments
+and great interests in the countries where they operated, they simply
+put more power into the central community wherever it might be located,
+now in Spain, now in Holland, now in England. Whether by intention or
+not, they became more closely allied than the branches of one business
+could be, because the cement of racial unity, the bond of racial
+brotherhood cannot in the very nature of things exist among the Gentiles
+as it exists among the Jews. Gentiles never think of themselves as
+Gentiles, and never feel that they owe anything to another Gentile as
+such. Thus they have been convenient agents of Jewish schemes at times
+and in places when it was not expedient that the Jewish controllers
+should be publicly known; but they have never been successful
+competitors of the Jew in the field of world-control.
+
+From these separated Jewish communities went power to the central
+community where the master bankers and the master analysts of conditions
+lived. And back from the central community flowed information of an
+invaluable character and assistance wherever needed. It is not difficult
+to understand how, under such a condition, the nation that did not deal
+kindly with the Jews was made to suffer, and the nation that yielded to
+them their fullest desire was favored by them. And it is credibly stated
+that they have made certain nations feel the power of their displeasure.
+
+This system, if it ever existed, exists in greater power today. It is
+today, however, threatened as it has never been. Fifty years ago,
+international banking, which was mostly in control of the Jews as the
+money brokers of the world, was on top of business. It exercised the
+supercontrol of governments and finance everywhere. Then came that new
+thing, Industry, which expanded to a degree unguessed by the shrewdest
+prophets and analysts. As Industry gathered strength and power it became
+a powerful money magnet, drawing the wealth of the world in its train,
+not, however, merely for the sake of possessing the money, but of making
+it work. Production and profit on production, instead of loans and
+interest on loans, became the master method for a time. The war came, in
+which the former broker-masters of the world had undoubtedly their large
+part. And now the two forces, Industry and Finance, are in a struggle to
+see whether Finance is again to become the master, or creative Industry.
+This is one of the elements which is bringing the Jewish Question to the
+bar of public opinion.
+
+To state this and to prove it may be nothing more than to establish the
+superiority of Jewish ability. Certainly it is not a tenable position to
+say that the Jew is extraordinarily successful and therefore must be
+curbed. It would be equally aside from the truth to say that the
+co-ordination of Jewish activity has been, on the whole, a harmful thing
+for the world. It may be possible to show that up to this point it has
+been useful. Success cannot be attacked nor condemned. If any moral
+question arises at all, it must concern the use made of the success
+which has been attained. The whole matter centers there, after the
+previous fact is established. May the Jew go on as he has gone, or does
+his duty to the world require another use of his success?
+
+This inquiry obviously leads to further discussion, as well as a
+gathering up of the remaining threads of the present discussion, which
+future articles will attempt to do.
+
+[Issue of June 12, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"To this end we must organize. Organize, in the first place, so that the
+world may have proof of the extent and the intensity of our desire for
+liberty. Organize, in the second place, so that our resources may become
+known and be made available . . . .
+
+"Organize, organize, organize, until every Jew must stand up and be
+counted--counted with us, or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of
+the few who are against their own people."
+
+--Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
+"Zionism," pp. 113, 114.
+
+V.
+
+Anti-Semitism--Will It Appear in the U. S.?
+
+
+Anyone who essays to discuss the Jewish Question in the United States or
+anywhere else must be fully prepared to be regarded as an Anti-Semite,
+in high-brow language, or in low-brow language, a Jew-baiter. Nor need
+encouragement be looked for from people or from press. The people who
+are awake to the subject at all prefer to wait and see how it all turns
+out; while there is probably not a newspaper in America, and certainly
+none of the advertising mediums which are called magazines, which would
+have the temerity even to breathe seriously the fact that such a
+Question exists. The press in general is open at this time to fulsome
+editorials in favor of everything Jewish (specimens of the same being
+obtainable almost anywhere), while the Jewish press, which is fairly
+numerous in the United States, takes care of the vituperative end.
+
+Of course, the only acceptable explanation of any public discussion at
+present of the Jewish Question is that some one--writer, or publisher,
+or a related interest--is a Jew-hater. That idea seems to be fixed; it
+is fixed in the Jew by inheritance; it is sought to be fixed in the
+Gentile by propaganda, that any writing which does not simply cloy and
+drip in syrupy sweetness toward things Jewish is born of prejudice and
+hatred. It is, therefore, full of lies, insult, insinuation, and
+constitutes an instigation to massacre. These terms are culled at random
+from Jewish editorial utterances at hand.
+
+It would seem to be necessary for our Jewish citizens to enlarge their
+classification of Gentiles to include the class which recognizes the
+existence of a Jewish Question and still is not anti-Semitic.
+
+There are four distinct parties traceable among the Jews themselves.
+First, those whose passionate purpose is to keep Jewish faith and life
+alive at the cost of any sacrifice of popularity or success; second,
+those who are willing to make whatever sacrifice may be needed to
+preserve Jewish religion, but are not so particular about the
+traditional customs of Jewish life; third, those who have no very strong
+convictions either way, but are opportunists, and will always swerve in
+the direction of success; and, fourth, those who believe and preach that
+the only solution of the differences between the Jew and other men is
+the complete absorption of the Jewish race by the other races. The
+fourth is the weakest, most unpopular and least to be considered of all
+the parties.
+
+With the Gentiles there are only two classes, as far as this special
+question is concerned: those who dislike Jews, they cannot tell why; and
+those who are disposed to fairness, in spite of the accident of
+congeniality or uncongeniality, and who recognize the Jewish Question
+as, at least, a problem. Both these attitudes, whenever they become
+apparent, are subject to the charge of "anti-Semitism."
+
+Anti-Semitism is a term which is bandied about too loosely. It ought to
+be reserved to denote the real anti-Jewish temper of violent prejudice.
+If used indiscriminately about all who attempt to discuss Jewish
+characteristics and Jewish world-power, it may in time arrive at the
+estate of respectability and honor.
+
+Anti-Semitism in almost every form is bound to come to the United
+States; indeed, it may be said that it is here now, and has been here
+for a long time. If it be mislabeled now, the United States will not be
+able to work within it the transformation which has been effected upon
+so many other ideas that have arrived here in their journey round the
+globe.
+
+
+I.
+
+It may be a serviceable clearing of the ground to define what
+anti-Semitism is not:
+
+1. It is not recognition of the Jewish Question. If it were, then it
+could be set down that the bulk of the American people are destined to
+become anti-Semites, for they are beginning to recognize the existence
+of a Jewish Question and will steadily do so in increasing numbers as
+the Question is forced upon them from the various practical angles of
+their lives. The Question is here. We may be honestly blind to it. We
+may be timidly silent about it. We may even make dishonest denial of it.
+But it is here. In time all will have to recognize it. In time the
+polite "hush, hush" of over-sensitive or intimidated circles will not be
+powerful enough to suppress it. But to recognize it will not mean that
+we have gone over to a campaign of hatred and enmity against the Jews.
+It will only mean that a stream of tendency which has been flowing
+through our civilization has at last accumulated bulk and power enough
+to challenge attention, to call for some decision with regard to it, to
+call for the adoption of a policy which will not repeat the mistakes of
+the past and yet will forestall any possible social menace of the
+future.
+
+2. Again, the public discussion of the Jewish Question is not
+anti-Semitism. Publicity is sanitary. The publicity given the Jewish
+Question, or certain aspects of it, in this country has been very
+misleading. It has been discussed more fully in the Jewish press than
+elsewhere, but not with candor or breadth of vision. The two dominant
+notes--they are sounded over and over again with monotonous regularity
+in the Jewish press--are Gentile unfairness and Christian prejudice.
+These apparently are the two chief aspects of life which impress Jewish
+publicists when they look over the line of their own race. It is said in
+all soberness that it is fortunate for Jews generally that the Jewish
+press does not circulate very widely among Gentiles, for it is probably
+the one established agency in the United States which, without altering
+its program in the least, could stir up anti-Jewish sentiment by the
+simple expedient of a general reading among non-Jews. Jewish writers
+writing for Jewish readers present unusual material for the study of
+race consciousness and its accompaniment of contempt for other races. It
+is true that in the publications referred to, America is constantly
+praised, but not America as the land of the American people; America,
+rather, as the land of the Jews' opportunity.
+
+On the side of the daily press, there has been no serious discussion at
+all. This is neither surprising nor reprehensible. The daily press deals
+with matters that have reached the overheated stage. When it mentions
+the Jews at all, it has stock phrases for the purpose; the effort
+includes a list of the famous Jews of history, and usually closes with
+complimentary references to certain local Jews of commendable qualities,
+whose advertisements are not infrequently found in another part of the
+paper. Summing up, it may be said that the publicity given the question
+in this country consists in misrepresentative criticism of the Gentiles
+by the Jewish press and misrepresentative praise of the Jews by the
+non-Jewish press. An independent effort to give a constructive publicity
+cannot, therefore, be laid to anti-Semitism, even when some of the
+statements which are made in the course of it arouse the resentment of
+Jewish readers.
+
+3. Nor is it anti-Semitism to say that the suspicion is abroad in every
+capital of civilization and the certainty is held by a number of
+important men that there is active in the world a plan to control the
+world, not by territorial acquisition, not by military aggression, nor
+by governmental subjection, not even by economic control in the
+scientific sense, but by control of the machinery of commerce and
+exchange. It is not anti-Semitism to say that, nor to present the
+evidence which supports that, nor to bring the proof of that. Those who
+could best disprove it if it were not true are the international Jews
+themselves, but they have not disproved it. Those who could best prove
+it would be those Jews whose ideals include the good of the whole of
+humanity on an equality and not the good of one race only, but they have
+not proved it. Some day a prophetic Jew may arise who will see that the
+promises bestowed upon the Ancient People are not to be fulfilled by
+Rothschild methods, and that the promise that all the nations were to be
+blessed through Israel is not to be fulfilled by making the nations the
+economic vassals of Israel; and when that time comes we may hope for a
+redirection of Jewish energy into channels that will drain the present
+sources of the Jewish Question. In the meantime, it is not
+anti-Semitism, it may even be found to be a world service to the Jew, to
+throw light on what purpose motivates certain higher circles.
+
+If the above propositions are true, then the term "anti-Semitic," so
+freely bestowed on this series of articles, betrays a worse spirit in
+the critics than in the author. But enough of that. There is much yet to
+do, and what is done must stand on what merit remains after friend and
+foe alike are through with praise and blame.
+
+
+II.
+
+Anti-Semitism has unquestionably swayed large sections of humanity at
+various times, warping the vision, twisting the characters and staining
+the hands of its victims, but the most amazing statement that can be
+made of it is that it has never accomplished anything in behalf of those
+who used it, and it has never taught anything to the Jews against whom
+it was used.
+
+The grades of anti-Semitism are fairly numerous, and a few of them may
+be cited here:
+
+1. There is first that degree of anti-Semitism, if it may be so
+described, which consists in plain dislike of the Jew as a person, no
+matter whom he may be. This is often found in people of all grades. It
+is found mostly, however, in those whose contact with Jews has been very
+limited. It begins sometimes in childhood with an instinctive dislike
+for the word "Jew." It is encouraged by the misuse of the word "Jew" as
+an epithet, or as an adjective generally descriptive of unpopular
+practices. The feeling is not different from that which exists toward
+Gentiles, concerning whom the same notions are held, but it differs in
+that it is extended to the race of unknown individual Jews instead of
+being restricted to known individuals who may justify such a feeling.
+
+Congeniality is not within our choice, but control of the sentiment of
+uncongeniality is. Every fair-minded person is compelled at times to
+reflect that it is not impossible that the person for whom he feels a
+dislike may be as good and possibly a better person than he. Our dislike
+merely registers the result of attraction and repulsion as they operate
+between another person and oneself; it does not indicate that the
+disliked person is unworthy. Of course, wherever intelligence is joined
+with this instinctive withdrawal from social contact with members of the
+Jewish race, prejudice is forestalled, except, of course, in those
+persons who hold that there are no individuals among the Jews worthy of
+respect. This is an extreme attitude and is composed of other elements
+beside natural dislike. It is possible for people to dislike Jews and
+not be anti-Semitic. Indeed, it is not at all uncommon, it grows more
+and more common, that intelligent and refined Jews themselves do not
+relish the society of their own people except in cases of exceptional
+refinement.
+
+This reality calls for some comment on the manners and characteristics
+of the ordinary member of the Jewish race, the accidents of behavior
+which stand out most obnoxiously and of which Jews themselves are often
+the most unsparing critics, but these comments must fall into place
+later.
+
+2. A second stage of the spirit of anti-Semitism may be designated as
+hatred and enmity. It should be noted that the antipathy referred to
+immediately above was not hatred. Dislike is not hatred, nor is it
+necessarily enmity. One may dislike sugar in his tea without troubling
+to hate sugar. But undoubtedly there are people who because they have
+let their dislikes deepen into prejudice, and perhaps also because of
+unpleasant experiences with members of the Jewish race (probably a
+million Americans have been brought to the verge of becoming Jew-haters
+this winter because of contact with Jewish merchants and landlords) may
+be classified as, at least, incipient anti-Semites. This is most of all
+unfortunate for the persons who harbor these emotions. It is unfortunate
+in that it unfits the mind to consider intelligently the facts which
+constitute the Jewish Question, and also unfits it to deal with them in
+a fair and constructive way. For one's own sake, whatever the
+provocation otherwise, it is better not to let passion deflect the
+needle of one's mind. Hatred at the wheel means hazard on the course.
+Enmity lives in the vicinity of the Jews more than of any other race,
+and the reason for this is one of the puzzles of the ages. The Jewish
+nature itself, as shown in ancient and modern history, is not without
+its own share of enmity, and it either evokes or provokes enmity where
+it comes in contact with those Aryan races which follow their natural
+impulses unchecked by cultural and ethical influences. This age-long
+conflict of the Jew has puzzled the minds of students for generations.
+Some explain it Biblically as the curse of Jehovah upon His Chosen
+People for their disobedience to the discipline by which He would have
+made them the Prophet Nation of the world. If this offense must come, if
+it is part of the Jew's heritage, an old saying--Christian and
+Scriptural, by the way--would still remain true: "It must needs be that
+offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
+
+3. In some parts of the world at various times this feeling of hatred
+has broken into murderous violence, which has roused, as wholesale
+physical outrage always does, the horror and resentment of humanity.
+This is the extreme form in which anti-Semitism has exhibited itself,
+and it is the charge of intending to stimulate it here and elsewhere
+which every public discussion of the Jewish Question has to bear. There
+is, of course, no excuse for these outbreaks, but there is sufficient
+explanation of them. The Jews usually explain them as expressions of
+religious prejudice, and the Gentiles as rebellion against an economic
+yoke which the Jews have woven for the people. It is an astonishing fact
+that, to take one country, the parts of Russia where anti-Semitic
+violence has been most marked are the most prosperous parts, so
+prosperous indeed and with a prosperity so unquestionably due to Jewish
+enterprise that the Jews have openly declared that they have the power
+to throw those parts of Russia back into commercial lethargy again by
+simply withdrawing. It is utterly idle to throw denials at this
+statement. It is confirmed time and time again by men who have gone to
+Russia full of resentment against the attitude of the Russians toward
+the Jews, as that attitude is represented in the Anglo-Saxon press, and
+who have come home with a new light on the cause of these outbreaks,
+though not excusing their character. Impartial observers have also found
+that some of the outbreaks have been precipitated by the Jews
+themselves. A correspondent, known the world over for his trenchant
+defense of the Jews under Russian persecution, was always bitterly
+attacked by the Jews themselves whenever he stated the truth about this,
+notwithstanding his protest to them that if he did not tell the truth
+when they were in the wrong the world would not be ready to believe him
+when he said they were blameless. To this day, in every country, the
+Jews are slow to admit blameworthiness for anything. They must be
+excused, whoever else may be accused. It is a trait which will have to
+be disciplined before they can be brought to assist, if ever they can,
+the removal of those characteristics which arouse the antagonism of
+other peoples. Elsewhere in the world, it may be said that out-and-out
+enmity to the Jews has an economic basis. This, of course, leads to the
+question whether the Jew shall have to become a deliberate failure, or
+deny his genius, and forego his just meed of prosperity before he can
+win the approval of the other races--a question which will arise for
+discussion later.
+
+As to the religious prejudice which the Jews are, as a rule, readiest to
+affirm, it is safe to say that it does not exist in the United States.
+Yet it is charged up to Americans by Jewish writers just as freely as it
+is charged up to Russians. Each non-Jew reader is competent to settle
+this for himself. He can easily do so by asking himself whether in all
+his life he has ever felt a moment's resentment against the Jew on
+account of his religion. In an address recently delivered in a Jewish
+lodge and reported in the Jewish press, the speaker, a Jew, stated that
+if 100 non-Jews on the street were approached at random and casually
+asked what a Jew is, the reply of the majority would be, "He is a
+Christ-killer." One of the best known and most highly respected rabbis
+in the United States said recently in a sermon that children in
+Christian Sunday schools were taught to regard the Jew as a
+Christ-killer. He repeated it in a conversation several weeks later.
+
+It would probably be the testimony of Christians generally that they
+never heard this term until they heard it in a Jewish complaint, and
+certainly themselves never used it. The charge is absurd. Let the
+20,000,000 now in the Christian Sunday schools of Canada and the United
+States testify as to the instruction given. There is no hesitation in
+stating that there is no prejudice whatever in the Christian churches
+against the Jew on account of his religion. On the contrary, there is
+not only a deep sense of indebtedness, but a feeling of sharing with the
+Jew in his religion. The Sunday schools of the Christian churches of the
+world are spending six months of this year studying the International
+Lessons which are appointed for the Books of the Judges, Ruth, First and
+Second Samuel and the Books of the Kings, and every year is devoted in
+part to the Old Testament.
+
+Here, however, is something for Jewish religious leaders to consider:
+there is more downright bitterness of religious prejudice on the part of
+the Jews against Christianity than could ever be possible in the
+Christian churches of America. Simply take the church press of America
+and compare it with the Jewish press in this regard, and there is no
+answer. No Christian editor would think it either Christian or
+intelligent to attack the Jewish religion, yet any six months' survey of
+the Jewish press would yield a mass of attack and prejudice on the other
+side. Moreover, no religious bitterness in America attains within
+infinite distances to that bitterness visited upon the Jew who becomes a
+Christian in his faith. It amounts almost to a holy vendetta. A
+Christian may become a Jewish proselyte and his motives be respected; it
+is never so when a Jew becomes a Christian. These statements are true of
+both the orthodox and liberal wings of Judaism. It is not his religion
+that gives prominence to the Jew today; it is something else. And yet,
+with undeviating monotony, it is repeated wherever the Jew takes
+cognizance of the feeling toward him that it is on account of three
+things, first and most prominent of which is his religion. It may be
+comforting to him to think that he is suffering for his faith, but it is
+not true. Every intelligent Jew must know it.
+
+Every Jew ought to know also that in every Christian church where the
+ancient prophecies are received and studied, there is a great revival of
+interest in the future of the Ancient People. It is not forgotten that
+certain Promises were made to them regarding their position in the
+world, and it is held that these prophecies will be fulfilled. The
+future of the Jew, as prophetically outlined, is intimately bound up
+with the future of this planet, and the Christian church in large
+part--at least by the evangelical wing, which the Jews most
+condemn--sees a Restoration of the Chosen People yet to come. If the
+mass of the Jews knew how understandingly and sympathetically all the
+prophecies concerning them are being studied in the Church, and the
+faith that exists that these prophecies will find fulfillment and that
+they will result in great Jewish service to society at large, they would
+probably regard the Church with another mind. They would at least know
+that the Church does not believe that it will be the instrument in the
+conversion of the Jews--a point on which Jewish leaders are tragically
+misled and which evokes more bitterness than anything else--but that it
+depends on quite other instruments and conditions, which it is not the
+function of this article to point out except to say that it will be the
+Jews' very own Messiah which will accomplish it and not the "wild
+olive," or the Gentile.
+
+Curiously enough, there is a phase of anti-Semitism having to do with
+religion, but not in the way here discussed. There are those, very few
+in number and of atheistical tendencies, who assert that all religion is
+a sham, being the invention of Jews for the purpose of enslaving the
+minds of the people of the world to an enervating superstition. This
+position, however, has had no effect on the main issue. It is a far
+extreme.
+
+
+III.
+
+Now, which of these exhibitions of anti-Semitism will show itself in
+America? If certain tendencies continue, as they are certain to do, what
+form will the feeling toward the Jew take? Not that of mass violence, we
+may be sure. The only mass action visible now is that of the Jewish
+agencies themselves against any person or institution that dares bring
+the Jewish Question to public attention.
+
+1. Anti-Semitism will come to America because of the habit which
+emotions and ideas apparently have of making their way westward around
+the world. North of Palestine, where the Jews have been longest settled
+and where they are now in great numbers, anti-Semitism is acute and
+well-defined. Westward, in Germany, it is clearly defined but, until the
+seizure of German revolutionary agencies, was devoid of violence. Still
+farther westward, in Great Britain, it is defined, but because of the
+comparatively small number of Jews in the British Isles and their
+coalition with the ruling class, it is more a feeling than a movement.
+In the United States it is not so definite, but shows itself in a
+restlessness, a questioning, a sensible friction between the traditional
+tendency of the American to fair-mindedness and his respect for the cold
+facts.
+
+Because the Question will assume more and more pressure in America it
+behooves everyone of foresight to disregard the shortsighted protests of
+the Jews themselves and see to it that the Question shall not present
+itself among us as it has done among other people, in its most
+distressing and confusing forms. It is a public duty to seize this
+problem at its beginning and train it up, so to speak; that is, so
+prepare for it that it may be handled here in a manner which will form a
+model for all other countries, which will indeed supply all other
+countries with the essential materials for a permanent solution. And
+this can be done only by exposing and recognizing and treating with the
+serum of publicity the conditions before which, heretofore, the nations
+have helplessly floundered because they lacked either the desire or the
+means to get at the great root of the difficulty.
+
+2. Another cause of the Question appearing here will be the great influx
+of Jews which is planned for America. There will probably be a million
+Jews enter the country this year, increasing our Jewish population to
+nearly 4,500,000. This does not mean merely an immigration of persons,
+but an immigration of ideas. No Jewish writer has ever told us, in
+systematic fashion, just what is the Jews' idea of non-Jews, how they
+regard the Gentiles in their private minds. But there are indications of
+it, although one would not attempt to reconstruct the Jewish attitude
+toward Gentiles. A Jew ought to do this for us, but he would probably be
+cast out by his own people if he discharged his task with rigorous
+jealousy for the exact fact.
+
+These people are coming here regarding the Gentile as an hereditary
+enemy, as perhaps they have good ground for doing, and so believing they
+are going to model their behavior in a manner that will show it. Nor
+will these Jews be so helpless as they appear. In stricken Poland, where
+the Jews are represented as having been stripped of everything during
+the war, there are hundreds daily appearing before the consulate to
+arrange their passage here. The fact is significant. In spite of their
+reputed suffering and poverty, they are able to travel a great distance
+and to insist on coming. No other people are financially able to travel
+in such numbers. But the Jews are. It will readily be seen that they are
+not objects of charity. They have been able to keep afloat in a storm
+that has wrecked the other people. They know it and they joy in it, as
+is natural. And they will bring here the same thoughts toward the
+majority which they have harbored in their present lands of domicile.
+They may hail America; they will have their own thoughts about the
+majority of the American people. They may be in the lists as Russians or
+Poles or what not, but they will be Jews with the full Jewish
+consciousness, and they will make themselves felt.
+
+All this is bound to have its effect. And it is not race prejudice to
+prepare for it, and to invite American Jews themselves to consider the
+fact and contribute to the solution of the problem which it presents.
+
+3. Every idea which has ruled Europe has met with transformation when it
+was transplanted in America. It was so with the idea of Liberty, the
+idea of Government, the idea of War. It will be so with the idea of
+anti-Semitism. The whole problem will center here and if we are wise and
+do not shirk it, it will find its solution here. A recent Jewish writer
+has said: "Jewry today largely means American Jewry . . . . . . . . . .
+all former Jewish centers were demolished during the war and were
+shifted to America." The problem will be ours, whether we choose it or
+not.
+
+And what course will it take? Much depends on what can be accomplished
+before it becomes very strong. It may be said, however, that the first
+element to appear will be a show of resentment against certain Jewish
+commercial successes, more particularly against the united action by
+which they are attained. Our people see the spectacle of a people in the
+midst of a people, in a sense which the Mormons never were, and they
+will not like it. The Mormons made an Exodus; Israel is going back into
+Egypt to subjugate it.
+
+The second element which will undoubtedly appear is prejudice and its
+incitement. The majority may always be right, but they are not always
+initially reasonable. That prejudice which exists now, and which is
+freely admitted by both Jew and Gentile, may become more marked, to the
+distress of both parties, for neither the subject nor the object of
+prejudice can attain that freedom of mind which is happiness.
+
+Then we may most confidently look for a reaction of Justice. It is here
+that the whole matter will begin to bend to the genius of Americanism.
+The innate justice of the American mind has come to the aid of every
+object that ever roused American resentment. The natural reaction with
+us is of very brief duration; the intellectual and ethical reaction
+swiftly follows. The American mind will never rest with merely resenting
+certain individuals. It will probe deeper. Already this deeper probe has
+been begun in Great Britain and America. We characteristically do not
+stop with persons when principles are in sight.
+
+And upon this there will be an investigation of materials, part of which
+may yet be presented in this series and which may possibly be
+disregarded for a time, but which at a future date will be found to be
+the clue to the maze. Upon this, the root of all the trouble will be
+bared to the light, to die as all roots do when deprived of their
+concealment of darkness, and then the Jewish people themselves may be
+expected to begin an adjustment to the new order of things, not to lose
+their identity or to curtail their energy or to dim their brilliance,
+but to turn all into more worthy channels for the benefit of all races,
+which alone can justify their claim to superiority. A race that can
+achieve in the material realm what the Jews have achieved while
+asserting themselves to be spiritually superior, can achieve in a less
+sordid, a less society-defying realm also.
+
+The Jews will not be destroyed; neither will they be permitted to
+maintain the yoke which they have been so skillful in fastening upon
+society. They are the beneficiaries of a system which itself will change
+and force them to other and higher devices to justify their proper place
+in the world.
+
+[Issue of June 19, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan already approaching its triumphal
+goal by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion which
+has in reality been organized by us with the help of the so-called
+'great power' of the Press. With few exceptions, not worth considering,
+it has already fallen into our hands."
+
+--The Seventh Protocol.
+
+VI.
+
+Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
+
+
+Once upon a time an American faculty member of an American university
+went to Russia on business. He was expert in a very important department
+of applied science and a keen observer. He entered Russia with the
+average American's feeling about the treatment which the government of
+that people accorded the Jew. He lived there three years, came home for
+a year, and went back again for a similar period, and upon his second
+return to America he thought it was time to give the American public
+accurate information about the Jewish Question in Russia. He prepared a
+most careful article and sent it to the editor of a magazine of the
+first class in the Eastern United States. The editor sent for him, spent
+most of two days with him, and was deeply impressed with all he
+learned--but he said he could not print the article. The same interest
+and examination occurred with several other magazine editors of the
+first rank.
+
+It was not because the professor could not write--these editors gladly
+bought anything he would write on other subjects. But it was impossible
+for him to get his article on the Jews accepted or printed in New York.
+
+The Jewish Question, however, has at last broken into a New York
+magazine. Rather it is a fragment of a shell hurled from the Jewish camp
+at the Jewish Question to demolish, if possible, the Question and thus
+make good the assertion that there is no such thing.
+
+Incidentally it is the only kind of article on the Jewish Question that
+the big magazines, whose mazes of financial controllers make most
+interesting rummaging, would care to print.
+
+Yet, the general public may learn much about the Question even from the
+type of article whose purpose is to prove that the Question doesn't
+exist.
+
+Mr. William Hard, in the Metropolitan for June, has done as well as
+could be expected, considering the use he was supposed to make of such
+material as he had at hand. And doubtless the telegraph and letter
+brigades, which keep watch over all printed references to the Jews, have
+duly congratulated the good editors of the Metropolitan for their
+assistance in soothing the public to further sleep.
+
+It is to be hoped, for the sake of the Question, that Mr. Hard's effort
+will have a wide reading, for there is very much to be learned from
+it--much more than it was anybody's intention should be learned from it.
+
+It may be learned, first, that the Jewish Question exists. Mr. Hard says
+it is discussed in the drawing-rooms of London and Paris. Whether the
+mention of drawing-rooms was a writer's device to intimate that the
+matter was unimportant and frivolous, or merely represented the extent
+of Mr. Hard's contact with the Question is not clear. He adds, however,
+that a document relating to the Question has "travelled a good bit in
+certain official circles in Washington." He also mentions a cable
+dispatch to the New York World, concerning the same Question, which that
+paper published. His article was probably published too early to note
+the review which the London Times made of the first document referred
+to. But he has told the reader who is looking for the objective facts in
+the article that there is a Jewish Question, and that it does not exist
+among the riff-raff either but principally in those circles where the
+evidence of Jewish power and control is most abundant. Moreover, the
+Question is being discussed. Mr. Hard tells us that much. If he does not
+go further and tell us that it is being discussed with great seriousness
+in high places and among men of national and international importance,
+it is probably because of one of two things, either he does not know, or
+he does not consider it consonant with the purpose of the article to
+tell.
+
+However, Mr. Hard has already made it clear that there is a Jewish
+Question, that it is being discussed, that it is being discussed by
+people who are best situated to observe the matter they are talking
+about.
+
+The reading of Mr. Hard's article makes it clear also that the Question
+always comes to the fore on the note of conspiracy. Of course, Mr. Hard
+says he does not believe in conspiracies which involve a large number of
+people, and it is with the utmost ease that his avowal of unbelief is
+accepted, for there is nothing more ridiculous to the Gentile mind than
+a mass conspiracy, because there is nothing more impossible to the
+Gentile himself. Mr. Hard, we take it, is of non-Jewish extraction, and
+he knows how impossible it would be to band Gentiles together in any
+considerable number for any length of time in even the noblest
+conspiracy. Gentiles are not built for it. Their conspiracy, whatever it
+might be, would fall like a rope of sand. Gentiles have not the basis
+either in blood or interest that the Jews have to stand together. The
+Gentile does not naturally suspect conspiracy; he will indeed hardly
+bring himself to the verge of believing it without the fullest proof.
+
+It is therefore quite easy to understand Mr. Hard's difficulty with
+conspiracy; the point is that to write his article at all, he is forced
+to recognize at almost every step that whenever the Jewish Question is
+discussed, the idea of conspiracy occupies a large part in it. As a
+matter of fact, it is the central idea in Mr. Hard's article, and it
+completely monopolizes the heading--"Great Jewish Conspiracy."
+
+The search for basic facts in Mr. Hard's article will disclose the
+additional information that there are certain documents in existence
+which purport to contain the details of the conspiracy, or--to drop a
+word that is unpleasant and may be misleading and which has not been
+used in this series--the tendency of Jewish power to achieve complete
+control. That is about all that the reader learns from Mr. Hard about
+the documents, except that he describes one as "strange and horrible."
+Here is indeed a regrettable gap in the story, for it is to discredit a
+certain document that Mr. Hard writes, and yet he tells next to nothing
+about it. Discreditable documents usually discredit themselves. But this
+document is not permitted to do that. The reader of the article is left
+to take Mr. Hard's word for it. The serious student or critic will feel,
+of course, that the documents themselves would have formed a better
+basis for an intelligent judgement. But laying that matter aside, Mr.
+Hard has made public the fact that there are documents.
+
+And then Mr. Hard does another thing, as well as he can with the
+materials at hand, the purpose of the article being what it was, and
+that is to show how little the Jews have to do with the control of
+affairs by showing who are the Jews that do control certain selected
+groups of affairs. The names are all brought forward by Mr. Hard and he
+alone is responsible for them, our purpose in referring to them being
+merely to show what can be learned from him.
+
+Mr. Hard leans heavily on Russian affairs. Sometimes it would almost
+seem as if the Jewish Question were conceived as the Soviet Question,
+which it is not, as Mr. Hard very well knows, and although the two have
+their plain connections, it is nothing less than well-defined propaganda
+to set up Bolshevist fiction and knock it down by Jewish fact for the
+purpose of the latter. However, what Mr. Hard offers as fact is very
+instructive, quite apart from the conclusion which he draws from it.
+
+Now, take his Russian line-up first. He says that in the cabinet of
+Soviet Russia there is only one Jew. But he is Trotsky. There are others
+in the government, of course, but Mr. Hard is speaking about the cabinet
+now. He is not speaking about the commissars, who are the real rulers of
+Russia, nor about the executive troops, who are the real strength of the
+Trotsky-Lenin regime. No, just the cabinet. Of course, there was only
+one Jew prominent in Hungary, too, but he was Bela Kun. Mr. Hard does
+not ask us to believe, however, that it is simply because of Trotsky and
+Kun that all Europe believes that Bolshevism has a strong Jewish
+element. Else the stupid credibility of the Gentiles would be more
+impossible of conception than the idea of a Jewish conspiracy is to Mr.
+Hard's mind. Why should it be easier to believe that Gentiles are dunces
+than that Jews are clever?
+
+However, it is not too much to say that Trotsky is way up at the top,
+sharing the utmost summit of Bolshevism with Lenin, and Trotsky is a
+Jew--nobody ever denied that, not even Mr. Braunstein himself (the
+latter being Trotsky's St. Louis, U.S.A., name).
+
+But then, says Mr. Hard, the Mensheviks are led by Jews, too! That is a
+fact worth putting down beside the others. Trotsky at the head of the
+Bolsheviks; at the head of the Mensheviks during their opposition of the
+Bolsheviks were Leiber, Martov and Dan--"all Jews," says Mr. Hard.
+
+There is, however, a middle party between these extremes, the Cadets,
+which, Mr. Hard says, are or were the strongest bourgeois political
+party in Russia. "They now have their headquarters in Paris. Their
+chairman is Vinaver--a Jew."
+
+There are the facts as stated by Mr. Hard. He says that Jews, whose
+names he gives, head the three great divisions of political opinion in
+Russia.
+
+And then he cries, look how the Jews are divided! How can there be
+conspiracy among people who thus fight themselves?
+
+But another, looking at the same situation may say, look how the Jews
+control every phase of political opinion in Russia! Doesn't there seem
+to be some ground for the feeling that they are desirous of ruling
+everywhere?
+
+The facts are there. What significance does it bring to the average mind
+that the three great parties of Russia are led by Jews?
+
+But that does not exhaust the information which the matter-of-fact
+reader may find in Mr. Hard's article. He turns to the United States and
+makes several interesting statements.
+
+"There is Otto Kahn," he says. Well, sometimes Otto Kahn is there, and
+sometimes he is in Paris on important international matters, and
+sometimes he is in London advocating certain alliances between British
+and American capital which have to do in a large way with European
+political conditions. Mr. Kahn is rated as a conservative, and that may
+mean anything. A man is conservative or not according to the angle from
+which he is viewed. The most conservative men in America are really the
+most radical; their motives and methods go to the very roots of certain
+matters; they are radicals in their own field. The men who controlled
+the last Republican Convention--if not the last, the most recent--are
+styled conservatives by those whose vision is circumscribed by certain
+limited economic interests; but they are the most radical of radicals,
+they have passed the red stage and are white with it. If it were known
+what is in the back of Mr. Kahn's mind, if he should display a chart of
+what he is doing and aiming to do, the term which would then most aptly
+describe him might be quite different. Anyway, we have it from Mr. Hard,
+"There is Mr. Kahn."
+
+"On the other hand," says Mr. Hard, "there is Rose Pastor Stokes." He
+adds the name of Morris Hillquit. They are, in Mr. Hard's
+classification, radicals. And to offset these names he adds the names of
+two Gentiles, Eugene V. Debs and Bill Haywood and intimates that they
+are much more powerful leaders than the first two. Students of modern
+influences, of which Mr. Hard has long appeared as one, do not think so.
+Neither Debs nor Haywood ever generated in all their lives a fraction of
+the intellectual power which Mrs. Stokes and Mr. Hillquit have
+generated. Both Debs and Haywood live by the others. To every informed
+person, as to Mr. Hard in this article, come the Jewish names to mind
+when the social tendencies of the United States are passed under
+reflection.
+
+This is most instructive indeed, that in naming the leaders of so-called
+conservatism and radicalism, Mr. Hard is driven to use Jewish names. On
+his showing the reader is entitled to say that Jews lead both divisions
+here in the United States.
+
+But Mr. Hard is not through. "The man who does more than any other
+man--the man who does more than any regiment of other men--to keep
+American labor anti-radical is a Jew--Samuel Gompers." That is a fact
+which the reader will place in his list--American labor is led by a Jew.
+
+Well, then, "the strongest anti-Gompers trade union in the country--The
+Amalgamated Clothing Workers--and very strong indeed, and very large--is
+led by a Jew--Sidney Hillman."
+
+It is the Russian situation over again. Both ends of the movements, and
+the movement which operate within the movement, are under the leadership
+of Jews. This, whatever the construction put upon it, is a fact which
+Mr. Hard is compelled by the very nature of his task to acknowledge.
+
+And the middle movement, "the Liberal Middle" as Mr. Hard calls it,
+which catches all between, produces in this article the names of Mr.
+Justice Brandeis, Judge Mack and Felix Frankfurter, gentlemen whose
+activities since Armistice Day would make a very interesting story.
+
+For good measure, Mr. Hard produces two other names, "Baron Gunzberg--a
+Jew" who is "a faithful official" of the Russian Embassy of Ambassador
+Bakhmetev, a repesentative of the modified old regime, while the Russian
+Information Bureau, whose literary output appears in many of our
+newspapers is conducted by another Jew, so Mr. Hard calls him, whose
+name is familiar to newspaper readers, Mr. A. J. Sack.
+
+It is not a complete list by any means, but it is quite impressive. It
+seems to reflect importance on the documents which Mr. Hard endeavors to
+minimize to a position of ridiculous unimportance. And it leads to the
+thought that perhaps the documents are scrutinized as carefully as they
+are because the readers of them have observed not only the facts which
+Mr. Hard admits but other and more astonishing ones, and have discovered
+that the documents confirm and explain the observations. Other readers
+who have not had the privilege of learning all that the documents
+contain are entitled to have satisfaction given to the interest thus
+aroused.
+
+The documents did not create the Jewish Question. If there were nothing
+but the documents, Mr. Hard would not have written nor would the
+Metropolitan Magazine have printed the article here discussed.
+
+What Mr. Hard has done is to bring confirmation in a most unexpected
+place that the Question exists and is pressing for discussion. Someone
+felt the pressure when "The Great Jewish Conspiracy" was ordered and
+written.
+
+[Issue of June 26, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"What are you prating about? As long as we do not have the Press of the
+whole world in our hands, everything you may do is vain. We must control
+or influence the papers of the whole world in order to blind and deceive
+the people."
+
+--Baron Montefiore.
+
+VII.
+
+Arthur Brisbane Leaps to the Help of Jewry
+
+
+Once more the current of this series on the Modern Jewish Question is
+interrupted to give notice of the appearance of the Question in another
+quarter, the appearance this time consisting of a more than two-column
+"Today" editorial in the Hearst papers of Sunday, June 20, from the pen
+of Arthur Brisbane. It would be too much to say that Mr. Brisbane is the
+most influential writer in the country, but perhaps he is among the
+dozen most widely read. It is, therefore, a confirmation of the
+statement that the Question is assuming importance in this country, that
+a writer of Mr. Brisbane's prominence should openly discuss it.
+
+Of course, Mr. Brisbane has not studied the Question. He would probably
+admit in private conversation--though such an admission would hardly be
+in harmony with the tone of certainty he publicly adopts--that he really
+knows nothing about it. He knows, however, as a good newspaper man, how
+to handle it when the exigencies of the newspaper day throw it up to him
+for offhand treatment. Every editorial writer knows how to do that.
+There is something good in every race, or there have been some notable
+individuals in it, or it has played a picturesque part in history--that
+is enough for a very readable editorial upon any class of people who may
+happen to be represented in the community. The Question, whatever it may
+be, need not be studied at all; a certain group of people may be salved
+for a few paragraphs, and the job need never be tackled again. Every
+newspaper man knows that.
+
+And yet, having lived in New York for a long time, having had financial
+dealings of a large and obligating nature with certain interests in this
+country, having seen no doubt more or less of the inner workings of the
+great trust and banking groups, and being constantly surrounded by
+assistants and advisors who are members of the Jewish race, Mr. Brisbane
+must have had his thoughts. It is, however, no part of a newspaper man's
+business to expose his thoughts about the racial groups of his
+community, any more than it is a showman's business to express his
+opinion of the patrons of his show. The kinds of offense a newspaper
+will give, and the occasions on which it will feel justified in giving
+it, are very limited.
+
+So, assuming that Mr. Brisbane had to write at all, it could have been
+told beforehand what he would write. The only wonder is that he felt he
+had to write. Did he really feel that the Jews are being "persecuted"
+when an attempt is made to uncover the extent and causes of their
+control in the United States and elsewhere? Did he feel, with good
+editorial shrewdness, that here was an opportunity to win the attention
+and regard of the most influential group in New York and the nation?
+Or--and this seems within the probabilities--was he inclined simply to
+pass it over, until secretarial suggestions reached him for a Sunday
+editorial, or until some of the bondholders made their wishes known?
+This is not at all to impugn Mr. Brisbane's motives, but merely to
+indicate on what slender strings such an editorial may depend.
+
+But what is more important--does Mr. Brisbane consider that, having
+disposed of the Sunday editorial, he is through with the Question, or
+that the Question itself is solved? That is the worst of daily
+editorializing; having come safely and inoffensively through with one
+editorial, the matter is at an end as far as that particular writer is
+concerned--that is, as a usual thing.
+
+It is to be hoped that Mr. Brisbane is not through. He ought not to
+leave a big question without contributing something to it, and in his
+Sunday editorial he did not contribute anything. He even made mistakes
+which he ought to correct by further study. "What about the
+Phoenicians?" he asks. He should have looked that up while his mind was
+opened receptively toward the subject, and he would not have made so
+miserable a blunder as to connect them so closely with the Jews. He
+would never find a Jew doing that. It is permissible, however, in Jewish
+propaganda intended for Gentile consumption. The Phoenicians themselves
+certainly never thought they were connected in any way with the Jews,
+and the Jews were equally without light on the subject. If in nothing
+else, they differed in their attitude toward the sea. The Phoenicians
+not only built boats but manned them; the Jew would rather risk his
+investment in a boat than himself. In everything else the differences
+between the two peoples were deep and distinct. Mr. Brisbane should have
+turned up the Jewish Encyclopedia at that point in his dictation. It is
+to be hoped he will resume his study and when he has found something
+that is not printed in "simply written" Jewish books will give the world
+the benefit of it. It is hardly like the question of the rotundity of
+the earth; this Question is not settled and it will be discussed.
+
+Mr. Brisbane is in a position to pursue some investigations of his own
+on this subject. He has a large staff, and it is presumed that some of
+its members are Gentiles of unbiased minds; he has a world-wide
+organization; since his own modification of speech and views following
+upon his adventure in the money-making world, he has a "look-in" upon
+certain groups of men and certain tendencies of power--why does he not
+take the Question as a world problem and go after the facts and the
+solution?
+
+It is a task worthy of any newspaper organization. It will assist
+America to make the contribution which she must make if this Question is
+ever to be turned from the bugbear it has been through all the
+centuries. All the talk on earth about "loving our fellow men" will not
+serve in lieu of an investigation, because it is asking men to love
+those who are rapidly and insidiously gaining the mastery of them.
+"What's wrong with the Jew?" is the first question, and then, "What's
+wrong with the Gentile to make it possible?"
+
+As in the case of every Gentile writer who appears as the Jew's
+good-natured defender, Mr. Brisbane is compelled to state a number of
+facts which comprise a part of the very Question whose existence is
+denied.
+
+"Every other successful name you see in a great city is a Jewish name,"
+says Mr. Brisbane. In his own city the ratio is even higher than that.
+
+"Jews numbering less than one per cent of the earth's population possess
+by conquest, enterprise, industry and intelligence 50 per cent of the
+world's commercial success," says Mr. Brisbane.
+
+Does it mean anything to Mr. Brisbane? Has he ever thought how it will
+all turn out? Is he willing to absolve that "success" from every quality
+which humanity has a right to challenge? Is he entirely satisfied with
+the way that "success" is used where it is supreme? Would he be willing
+to undertake to prove that it is due to those commendable qualities he
+has named and nothing less commendable? Speaking of the Jew-financed
+Harriman railroad campaign, is Mr. Brisbane ready to write his
+endorsement upon that? Did he ever hear of Jewish money backing
+railroads that were built for railroad purposes and nothing else?
+
+It would be very easy to suggest to Mr. Brisbane, as editor, a series of
+articles which would be most enlightening, both to himself and his
+readers, if he would only put unbiased men at work gathering the facts
+for them.
+
+One of the articles might be entitled "The Jews at the Peace
+Conference." His men should be instructed to learn who were the most
+prominent figures at the Peace Conference; who came and went most
+constantly and most busily; who were given freest access to the most
+important persons and chambers; which race provided the bulk of the
+private secretaries to the important personages there; which race
+provided most of the sentinels through whom engagements had to be made
+with men of note; which race went furthest in the endeavor to turn the
+whole proceeding into a festival rout by dances and lavish
+entertainment; which civilians of prominence oftenest dined the leading
+conferees in private session.
+
+If Mr. Brisbane, with the genius for reporting which his organization
+deservedly has, will turn his men loose on that assignment, and then
+print what they bring him, he will have a story that will make a mark
+even in his remarkable career as an editor.
+
+He might even run a second story on the Peace Conference, entitled,
+"Which Program Won at the Peace Conference?" He might instruct his men
+to inquire as to the business which brought the Jews in such quality and
+quantity to Paris, and how it was put through. Particularly should they
+inquire whether any jot or tittle of the Jews' world program was refused
+or modified by the Peace Conference. It should also be carefully
+inquired whether, after getting what they went after, they did not ask
+for still more and get that, too, even though it constituted a
+discrimination against the rest of the world. Mr. Brisbane would
+doubtless be surprised to learn that of all the programs submitted to
+that Conference, not excepting the great program on which humanity hung
+so many pathetic hopes, the only program to go through was the Jews'
+program. And yet he could learn just that if he inquired. The question
+is, having obtained that information, what would Mr. Brisbane do with
+it?
+
+There are any number of lines of investigation Mr. Brisbane might enter,
+and in any one of them his knowledge of his country and of its relation
+to this particular Question would be greatly enlarged.
+
+Does Mr. Brisbane know who owns Alaska? He may have been under the
+impression, in common with the rest of us until we learned better, that
+it was owned by the United States. No, it is owned by the same people
+who are coming rapidly to own the United States.
+
+Is Mr. Brisbane, from the vantage point afforded by his position in
+national journalism, even dimly aware that there are elements in our
+industrial unrest which neither "capital" nor "labor" accurately define?
+Has he ever caught a glimpse of another power which is neither "labor"
+nor "capital" in the productive sense, whose purpose and interest it is
+to keep labor and capital as far apart as possible, now by provoking
+labor, now by provoking capital? In his study of the industrial
+situation and its perfectly baffling mystery, Mr. Brisbane must have
+caught a flash of something behind the backmost scene. It would be good
+journalistic enterprise to find out what it is.
+
+Has Mr. Brisbane ever printed the name of the men who control the sugar
+supply of the United States--does he know them--would he like to know
+them?
+
+Has he ever looked into the woolen situation in this country, from the
+change of ownership in cotton lands, and the deliberate sabotage of
+cotton production by banking threats, right on through to the change in
+the price of cloth and clothing? And has he ever noted the names of the
+men he found on that piece of investigation? Would he like to know how
+it is done, and who does it? Mr. Brisbane could find all these things
+and give them to the public by using his efficient staff of
+investigators and writers on this Question.
+
+Whether Mr. Brisbane would feel free to do this, he himself best knows.
+There may be reasons why he would not, private reasons, prudential
+reasons.
+
+However that may be, there are no reasons why he should not make a
+complete study of the Question--a real study, not a superficial glance
+at it with an eye to its "news value"--and arrive at his own considered
+conclusion. There would be no intolerance about that. As it is now, Mr.
+Brisbane is not qualified to take a stand on either side of the
+Question; he simply brushes it aside as troublesome, as the old planters
+used brush aside the anti-slavery moralists; and for that reason the
+recent defense of the Jew is not a defense at all. It is more like a bid
+for favor.
+
+Mr. Brisbane's chief aversion, apparently, is toward what he calls race
+prejudice and race hatred. Of course, if any man should fear that the
+study of an economic situation would plunge him into these serious
+aberrations of mind, he should be advised to avoid that line of study.
+There is something wrong either with the investigation or with the
+investigator when prejudice and hatred are the result. It is a mighty
+poor excuse, however, for an intelligent man to put forward either on
+his own behalf or on behalf of those whose minds he has had the
+privilege of molding over a course of years.
+
+Prejudice and hatred are the very conditions which a scientific study of
+the Jewish Question will forestall and prevent. We prejudge what we do
+not know, and we hate what we do not understand; the study of the Jewish
+Question will bring knowledge and insight, and not to the Gentile only,
+but also to the Jew. The Jew needs this as much, even more than the
+Gentile. For if the Jew can be made to see, understand, and deal with
+certain matters, then a large part of the Question vanishes in the
+solution of ideal common sense. Awaking the Gentile to the facts about
+the Jew is only part of the work; awaking the Jew to the facts about the
+Question is an indispensable part. The big initial victory to be
+achieved is to transform Gentiles from being mere attackers and to
+transform Jews from being mere defenders, both of them special pleaders
+for partisan views, and to turn them both into investigators. The
+investigation will show both Gentile and Jew at fault, and the road will
+then be clear for wisdom to work out a result, if there should perchance
+be that much wisdom left in the race.
+
+There is a serious snare in all this plea for tolerance. Tolerance is
+first a tolerance of the truth. Tolerance is urged today for the sake of
+suppression. There can be no tolerance until there is first a full
+understanding of what is tolerated. Ignorance, suppression, silence,
+collusion--these are not tolerance. The Jew never has been really
+tolerated in the higher sense because he has never been understood. Mr.
+Brisbane does not assist the understanding of this people by reading a
+"simply written" book and flinging a few Jewish names about in a sea of
+type. He owes it to his own mind to get into the Question, whether he
+makes newspaper use of his discoveries or not.
+
+As to the newspaper angle, it is impossible to report the world even
+superficially without coming everywhere against the fact of the Jews,
+and the Press gets around that fact by referring to them as Russians,
+Letts, Germans, and Englishmen. This mask of names is one of the most
+confusing elements in the whole problem. Names that actually name,
+statements that actually define are needed for the clarification of the
+world's mind.
+
+Mr. Brisbane should study this question for the light such a study would
+throw on other matters with which he is concerned. It would be a help to
+that study if from time to time he would publish some of his findings,
+because such publication would put him in touch with a phase of Judaism
+which mere complimentary editorials could not. No doubt Mr. Brisbane has
+been deluged by communications which praise him for what he has written;
+the real eye-opener would come if he could get several bushels of the
+other kind. Nothing that has ever come to him could compare with what
+would come to him if he should publish even one of the facts he could
+discover by an independent investigation.
+
+Having written about the Jews, Mr. Brisbane will probably have a readier
+eye henceforth for other men's pronouncements on the same subject. In
+his casual reading he will find more references to the Jew than he has
+ever noticed before. Some of them will probably appear in isolated
+sentences and paragraphs of his own papers. Sooner or later, every
+competent investigator and every honest writer strikes a trail that
+leads toward Jewish power in the world. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is only
+doing with system and detail what other publications have done or are
+doing piecemeal.
+
+There is a real fear of the Jew upon the publicity sources of the United
+States--a fear which is felt and which ought to be analyzed. Unless it
+is a very great mistake, Mr. Brisbane himself has felt this fear, though
+it is quite possible he has not scrutinized it. It is not the fear of
+doing injustice to a race of people--all of us ought to have that
+honorable fear--it is the fear of doing anything at all with reference
+to them except unstintedly praising them. An independent investigation
+would convince Mr. Brisbane that a considerable modification of praise
+in favor of discriminate criticism is a course that is pressing upon
+American journalism.
+
+[Issue of July 3, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
+
+
+In all the explanations of anti-Jewish feeling which modern Jewish
+spokesmen make, these three alleged causes are commonly given--these
+three and no more: religious prejudice, economic jealousy, social
+antipathy. Whether the Jew knows it or not, every Gentile knows that on
+his side of the Jewish Question no religious prejudice exists. Economic
+jealousy may exist, at least to this extent, that his uniform success
+has exposed the Jew to much scrutiny. A few Jewish spokesmen seek to
+turn this scrutiny by denying that the Jew is pre-eminent in finance,
+but this is loyalty in extremity. The finances of the world are in
+control of Jews; their decisions and their devices are themselves our
+economic law. But because a people excels us in finance is no sufficient
+reason for calling them to the bar of public judgement. If they are more
+intellectually able, more persistently industrious than we are, if they
+are endowed with faculties which have been denied us as an inferior or
+slower race, that is no reason for our requiring them to give an account
+of themselves. Economic jealousy may explain some of the anti-Jewish
+feeling; it cannot account for the presence of the Jewish Question
+except as the hidden causes of Jewish financial success may become a
+minor element of the larger problem. And as for social antipathy--there
+are many more undesirable Gentiles in the world than there are
+undesirable Jews, for the simple reason that there are more Gentiles.
+
+None of the Jewish spokesmen today mention the political cause, or if
+they come within suggestive distance of it, they limit and localize it.
+It is not a question of the patriotism of the Jew, though this too is
+very widely questioned in all the countries. You hear it in England, in
+France, in Germany, in Poland, in Russia, in Rumania--and, with a shock,
+you hear it in the United States. Books have been written, reports
+published and scattered abroad, statistics skillfully set forth for the
+purpose of showing that the Jew does his part for the country in which
+he resides; and yet the fact remains that in spite of these most zealous
+and highly sponsored campaigns, the opposite assertion is stronger and
+lives longer. The Jews who did their duty in the armies of Liberty, and
+did it doubtless from true-hearted love and allegiance, have not been
+able to overcome the impression made upon officers and men and civilians
+by those who did not.
+
+But that is not what is here meant as the political element in the
+Jewish Question. To understand why the Jew should think less of the
+nationalities of the world than do those who comprise them is not
+difficult. The Jew's history is one of wandering among them all.
+Considering living individuals only, there is no race of people now upon
+the planet who have lived in so many places, among so many peoples as
+have the Jewish masses. They have a clearer world-sense than any other
+people, because the world has been their path. And they think in world
+terms more than any nationally cloistered people could. The Jew can be
+absolved if he does not enter into national loyalties and prejudices
+with the same intensity as the natives; the Jew has been for centuries a
+cosmopolitan. While under a flag he may be correct in the conduct
+required of him as a citizen or resident, inevitably he has a view of
+flags which can hardly be shared by the man who has known but one flag.
+
+The political element inheres in the fact that the Jews form a nation in
+the midst of the nations. Some of their spokesmen, particularly in
+America, deny that, but the genius of the Jew himself has always put
+these spokesmen's zeal to shame. And why this fact of nationhood should
+be so strenuously denied is not always clear. It may be that when Israel
+is brought to see that her mission in the world is not to be achieved by
+means of the Golden Calf, her very cosmopolitanism with regard to the
+world and her inescapable nationalistic integrity with regard to herself
+will together prove a great and serviceable factor in bringing about
+human unity, which the total Jewish tendency at the present time is
+doing much to prevent. It is not the fact that the Jews remain a nation
+in the midst of the nations; it is the use made of that inescapable
+status, which the world has found reprehensible. The nations have tried
+to reduce the Jew to unity with themselves; attempts toward the same end
+have been made by the Jews themselves; but destiny seems to have marked
+them out to continuous nationhood. Both the Jews and the World will have
+to accept that fact, find the good prophecy in it, and seek the channels
+for its fulfillment.
+
+Theodor Herzl, one of the greatest of the Jews, was perhaps the
+farthest-seeing public exponent of the philosophy of Jewish existence
+that modern generations have known. And he was never in doubt of the
+existence of the Jewish nation. Indeed, he proclaimed its existence on
+every occasion. He said, "We are a people--One people."
+
+He clearly saw that what he called the Jewish Question was political. In
+his introduction to "The Jewish State" he says, "I believe that I
+understand anti-Semitism, which is really a highly complex movement. I
+consider it from a Jewish standpoint, yet without fear or hatred. I
+believe that I can see what elements there are in it of vulgar sport, of
+common trade jealousy, of inherited prejudice, of religious intolerance
+and also of pretended self-defense. I think the Jewish Question is no
+more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes
+takes these and other forms. It is a national question, which can only
+be solved by making it a political world-question to be discussed and
+controlled by the civilized nations of the world in council."
+
+Not only did Herzl declare that the Jews formed a nation, but when
+questioned by Major Evans Gordon before the British Royal Commission on
+Alien Immigration in August, 1902, Dr. Herzl said: "I will give you my
+definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A nation
+is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion
+held together by a common enemy. That is in my view a nation. Then if
+you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the
+Jewish nation."
+
+Also, in relating the action of this Jewish nation to the world, Dr.
+Herzl wrote--"When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the
+subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there
+rises also our terrible power of the purse."
+
+This view, which appears to be the true view in that it is the view
+which has been longest sustained in Jewish thought, is brought out also
+by Lord Eustace Percy, and re-published, apparently with approval, by
+the Canadian Jewish Chronicle. It will repay a careful reading:
+
+"Liberalism and Nationalism, with a flourish of trumpets, threw open the
+doors of the ghetto and offered equal citizenship to the Jew. The Jew
+passed out into the Western World, saw the power and the glory of it,
+used it and enjoyed it, laid his hand indeed upon the nerve centers of
+its civilization, guided, directed and exploited it, and then--refused
+the offer * * * Moreover--and this is a remarkable thing--the Europe of
+nationalism and liberalism, of scientific government and democratic
+equality is more intolerable to him than the old oppressions and
+persecutions of despotism * * * In the increasing consolidation of the
+western nations, it is no longer possible to reckon on complete
+toleration * * *
+
+"In a world of completely organized territorial sovereignties he (the
+Jew) has only two possible cities of refuge: he must either pull down
+the pillars of the whole national state system or he must create a
+territorial sovereignty of his own. In this perhaps lies the explanation
+both of Jewish Bolshevism and of Zionism, for at this moment Eastern
+Jewry seems to hover uncertainly between the two.
+
+"In Eastern Europe Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by
+side, just as Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
+throughout the nineteenth century, down to the Young Turk revolution in
+Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago--not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but
+distasteful to him."
+
+All that is true, and Jewish thinkers of the more fearless type always
+recognize it as true. The Jew is against the Gentile scheme of things.
+He is, when he gives his tendencies full sway, a Republican as against
+the monarchy, a Socialist as against the republic, and a Bolshevist as
+against Socialism.
+
+What are the causes of this disruptive activity? First, his essential
+lack of democracy. Jewish nature is autocratic. Democracy is all right
+for the rest of the world, but the Jew wherever he is found forms an
+aristocracy of one sort or another. Democracy is merely a tool of a word
+which Jewish agitators use to raise themselves to the ordinary level in
+places where they are oppressed below it; but having reached the common
+level they immediately make efforts for special privileges, as being
+entitled to them--a process of which the late Peace Conference will
+remain the most startling example. The Jews today are the only people
+whose special and extraordinary privileges are written into the world's
+Treaty of Peace. But more of that at another time.
+
+No one now pretends to deny, except a few spokesmen who really do not
+rule the thought of the Jews but are set forth for the sole benefit of
+influencing Gentile thought, that the socially and economically
+disruptive elements abroad in the world today are not only manned but
+also moneyed by Jewish interests. For a long time this fact was held in
+suspense owing to the vigorous denial of the Jews and the lack of
+information on the part of those agencies of publicity to which the
+public had looked for its information. But now the facts are coming
+forth. Herzl's words are being proved to be true--"when we sink, we
+become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of the
+revolutionary party"--and these words were first published in English in
+1896, or 24 years ago.
+
+Just now these tendencies are working in two directions, one for the
+tearing down of the Gentile states all over the world, and the other for
+the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The latter project has
+the best wishes of the whole world, but it is far from having the best
+wishes of the whole, or even the larger part, of Jewry. The Zionist
+party makes a great deal of noise, but it is really an unrepresentative
+minority. It can scarcely be designated as more than an unusually
+ambitious colonization scheme. [See note on page 95.] It is doubtless
+serving, however, as a very useful public screen for the carrying on of
+secret activities. International Jews, the controllers of the world's
+governmental and financial power, may meet anywhere, at any time, in war
+time or peace time, and by giving out that they are only considering the
+ways and means of opening up Palestine to the Jews, they easily escape
+the suspicion of being together on any other business. The Allies and
+enemies of the Gentile nations at war thus met and were not molested. It
+was at a Zionist conference--the sixth, held in 1903--that the recent
+war was exactly predicted, its progress and outcome indicated, and the
+relation of the Jews to the Peace Treaty outlined.
+
+That is to say, though Jewish nationalism exists, its enshrinement in a
+state to be set up in Palestine is not the project that is engaging the
+whole Jewish nation now. The Jews will not move to Palestine just yet;
+it may be said that they will not move at all merely because of the
+Zionist movement. Quite another motive will be the cause of the exodus
+out of the Gentile nations, when the time for that exodus fully comes.
+
+As Donald A. Cameron, late British Consul-General at Alexandria, a man
+fully in sympathy with Zionism and much quoted in the Jewish press,
+says: "The Jewish immigrants (into Palestine) will tire of taking in one
+another's washing at three per cent, of winning one another's money in
+the family, and their sons will hasten by train and steamer to win 10
+per cent in Egypt * * * The Jew by himself in Palestine will eat his
+head off; he will kick his stable to pieces." Undoubtedly the time for
+the exodus--at least the motive for the exodus--is not yet here.
+
+The political aspect of the Jewish Question which is now engaging at
+least three of the great nations--France, Great Britain and the United
+States--has to do with matters of the present organization of the Jewish
+nation. Must it wait until it reaches Palestine to have a State, or is
+it an organized State now? Does Jewry know what it is doing? Has it a
+"foreign policy" with regard to the Gentiles? Has it a department which
+is executing that foreign policy? Has this Jewish State, visible or
+invisible, if it exists, a head? Has it a Council of State? And if any
+of these things is so, who is aware of it?
+
+The first impulsive answer of the Gentile mind would be "No" to all
+these questions--it is a Gentile habit to answer impulsively. Never
+having been trained in secrets or invisible unity, the Gentile
+immediately concludes that such things cannot be, if for no other reason
+than that they have not crossed his path and advertised themselves.
+
+The questions, however, answered thus, require some explanation of the
+circumstances which are visible to all men. If there is no deliberate
+combination of Jews in the world, then the control which they have
+achieved and the uniformity of the policies which they follow must be
+the simple result, not of deliberate decisions, but of a similar nature
+in all of them working out the same way. Thus, we might say that as a
+love for adventure on the water drove the Britisher forth, so it made
+him the world's greatest colonist. Not that he deliberately sat down
+with himself and in formal manner resolved that he would become a
+colonizer, but the natural outworking of his genius resulted that way.
+But would this be a sufficient account of the British Empire?
+
+Doubtless the Jews have the genius to do, wherever they go, the things
+in which we see them excel. But does this account for the relations
+which exist between the Jews of every country, for their world councils,
+for their amazing foreknowledge of stupendous events which break with
+shattering surprise on the rest of the world, for the smoothness and
+preparedness with which they appear, at a given time in Paris, with a
+world program on which they all agree?
+
+The world has long suspected--at first only a few, then the secret
+departments of the governments, next the intellectuals among the people,
+now more and more the common people themselves--that not only are the
+Jews a nation distinct from all the other nations and mysteriously
+unable to sink their nationality by any means they or the world may
+adopt to this end, but that they also constitute a state; that they are
+nationally conscious, not only, but consciously united for a common
+defense and for a common purpose. Revert to Theodor Herzl's definition
+of the Jewish nation, as held together by a common enemy, and then
+reflect that this common enemy is the Gentile world. Does this people
+which knows itself to be a nation remain loosely unorganized in the face
+of that fact? It would hardly be like Jewish astuteness in other fields.
+When you see how closely the Jews are united by various organizations in
+the United States, and when you see how with practiced hand they bring
+those organizations to bear as if with tried confidence in their
+pressure, it is at least not inconceivable that what can be done within
+a country can be done, or has been done, between all the countries where
+the Jews live.
+
+At any rate, in the American Hebrew of June 25, 1920, Herman Bernstein
+writes thus: "About a year ago a representative of the Department of
+Justice submitted to me a copy of the manuscript of 'The Jewish Peril'
+by Professor Nilus, and asked for my opinion of the work. He said that
+the manuscript was a translation of a Russian book published in 1905
+which was later suppressed. The manuscript was supposed to contain
+'protocols' of the Wise Men of Zion and was supposed to have been read
+by Dr. Herzl at a secret conference of the Zionist Congress at Basle. He
+expressed the opinion that the work was probably that of Dr. Theodor
+Herzl. . . . . He said that some American Senators who had seen the
+manuscript were amazed to find that so many years ago a scheme had been
+elaborated by the Jews which is now being carried out, and that
+Bolshevism had been planned years ago by Jews who sought to destroy the
+world."
+
+This quotation is made merely to put on record the fact that it was a
+representative of the Department of Justice of the United States
+Government, who introduced this document to Mr. Bernstein, and expressed
+a certain opinion upon it, namely, "that the work was probably that of
+Theodor Herzl." Also that "some American Senators" were amazed to note
+the comparison between what a publication of the year 1905 proposed and
+what the year 1920 revealed.
+
+The incident is all the more preoccupying because it occurred by action
+of the representative of a government who today is very largely in the
+hands of, or under the influence of, Jewish interests. It is more than
+probable that as soon as the activity became known, the investigator was
+stopped. But it is equally probable that whatever orders may have been
+given and apparently obeyed, the investigation may not have stopped.
+
+The United States Government was a little late in the matter, however.
+At least four other world powers had preceded it, some by many years. A
+copy of the Protocols was deposited in the British Museum and bears on
+it the stamp of that institution, "August 10, 1906." The notes
+themselves probably date from 1896, or the year of the utterances
+previously quoted from Dr. Herzl. The first Zionist Congress convened in
+1897.
+
+The document was published in England recently under auspices that
+challenged attention for it, in spite of the unfortunate title under
+which it appeared. Eyre and Spottiswoode are the appointed printers to
+the British Government, and it was they who brought out the pamphlet. It
+was as if the Government Printing Office at Washington should issue them
+in this country. While there was the usual outcry by the Jewish press,
+the London Times in a review pronounced all the Jewish counter-attacks
+as "unsatisfactory."
+
+The Times noticed what will probably be the case in this country also
+that the Jewish defenders leave the text of the protocols alone, while
+they lay heavy emphasis on the fact of their anonymity. When they refer
+to the substance of the document at all there is one form of words which
+recurs very often--"it is the work of a criminal or a madman."
+
+The protocols, without name attached, appearing for the most part in
+manuscripts here and there, laboriously copied out from hand to hand,
+being sponsored by no authority that was willing to stand behind it,
+assiduously studied in the secret departments of the governments and
+passed from one to another among higher officials, have lived on and on,
+increasing in power and prestige by the sheer force of their contents. A
+marvelous achievement for either a criminal or a madman! The only
+evidence it has is that which it carries within it, and that internal
+evidence is, as the London Times points out, the point on which
+attention is to be focused, and the very point from which Jewish effort
+has been expended to draw us away.
+
+The interest of the Protocols at this time is their bearing on the
+questions: Have the Jews an organized world system? What is its policy?
+How is it being worked?
+
+These questions all receive full attention in the Protocols. Whosoever
+was the mind that conceived them possessed a knowledge of human nature,
+of history and of statecraft which is dazzling in its brilliant
+completeness, and terrible in the objects to which it turns its powers.
+Neither a madman nor an intentional criminal, but more likely a
+super-mind mastered by devotion to a people and a faith could be the
+author, if indeed one mind alone conceived them. It is too terribly real
+for fiction, too well-sustained for speculation, too deep in its
+knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery.
+
+Jewish attacks upon it thus far make much of the fact that it came out
+of Russia. That is hardly true. It came by way of Russia. It was
+incorporated in a Russian book published about 1905 by a Professor
+Nilus, who attempted to interpret the Protocols by events then going
+forward in Russia. This publication and interpretation gave it a Russian
+tinge which has been useful to Jewish propagandists in this country and
+England, because these same propagandists have been very successful in
+establishing in Anglo-Saxon mentalities a certain atmosphere of thought
+surrounding the idea of Russia and Russians. One of the biggest humbugs
+ever foisted on the world has been that foisted by Jewish propagandists,
+principally on the American public, with regard to the temper and genius
+of the truly Russian people. So, to intimate that the Protocols are
+Russian, is partially to discredit them.
+
+The internal evidence makes it clear that the Protocols were not written
+by a Russian, nor originally in the Russian language, nor under the
+influence of Russian conditions. But they found their way to Russia and
+were first published there. They have been found by diplomatic officers
+in manuscript in all parts of the world. Wherever Jewish power is able
+to do so, it has suppressed them, sometimes under the supreme penalty.
+
+Their persistence is a fact which challenges the mind. Jewish apologists
+may explain that persistence on the ground that the Protocols feed the
+anti-Semitic temper, and therefore are preserved for that service.
+Certainly there was no wide nor deep anti-Semitic temper in the United
+States to be fed or that felt the greed for agreeable lies to keep
+itself alive. The progress of the Protocols in the United States can
+only be explained on the ground that they supply light and give meaning
+to certain previously observed facts, and that this light and meaning is
+so startling as to give a certain standing and importance to these
+otherwise unaccredited documents. Sheer lies do not live long, their
+power soon dies. These Protocols are more alive than ever. They have
+penetrated higher places than ever before. They have compelled a more
+serious attitude to them than ever before.
+
+The Protocols would not be more worthy of study if they bore, say, the
+name of Theodor Herzl. Their anonymity does not decrease their power any
+more than the omission of a painter's signature detracts from the art
+value of a painting. Indeed, the Protocols are better without a known
+source. For if it were definitely known that in France or Switzerland in
+the year 1896, or thereabouts, a group of International Jews, assembled
+in conference, drew up a program of world conquest it would still have
+to be shown that such a program was more than a mere vagary, that it was
+confirmed at large by efforts to fulfill it. The Protocols are a World
+Program--there is no doubt anywhere of that. Whose program, is stated
+within the articles themselves. But as for outer confirmation, which
+would be the more valuable--a signature, or six signatures, or twenty
+signatures, or a 25-year unbroken line of effort fulfilling that
+program?
+
+The point of interest for this and other countries is not that a
+"criminal or a madman" conceived such a program, but that, when
+conceived, this program found means of getting itself fulfilled in its
+most important particulars. The document is comparatively unimportant;
+the conditions to which it calls attention are of a very high degree of
+importance.
+
+[NOTE: The statements indicated are those of non-Zionist Jews. The real
+Jewish program is that program which is executed. It was the Zionist
+program that was followed by the Peace Conference. It must therefore be
+regarded as the official program.]
+
+[Issue of July 10, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"We are a people--One people . . . . When we sink, we become a
+revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of a revolutionary
+party; when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse."
+
+--Theodore Herzl, "A Jewish State," pp. 5, 23.
+
+IX.
+
+The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
+
+
+A great unloosening of speech with reference to the Jewish Question and
+the Jewish program for world power has occurred in this country since
+the beginning of this series of articles. It is now possible to
+pronounce the word "Jew" in a perfectly serious discussion, without
+timidity, or without intimidation. Heretofore that has been regarded as
+the special prerogative of the Jewish publicists themselves and they
+have used the name exclusively in well-organized and favorable
+propaganda. They can oust portions of Shakespeare from the public
+schools on the ground that the Jews are offended; they can demand the
+removal of one of Sargent's paintings from the Boston Library because it
+represents the Synagogue in a decline. But when anything emanates from
+the Gentile side which indicates that the Gentile is also conscious of
+the Jew, then the charge of prejudice is instantly and strongly made.
+The effect of that in this country has been a ban on speech which has
+had few parallels in our history. Recently at a banquet a speaker used
+the term "Jews" in reference to the actions of a group of Jewish
+bankers. A Jewish guest leaped to his feet demanding to know if the
+speaker considered it "American" to single out a race that way. The
+speaker replied, "I do, sir," and received the approval of the audience.
+In that particular part of the country, business men's tongues had been
+tied for years by the unwritten law that Jews must never by singled out
+as Jews.
+
+No one would have predicted a year ago that a newspaper like the Chicago
+Tribune could have convinced itself that it was good newspaper policy to
+print in the first column of its first page a copyrighted article on the
+Jewish program for world rule, printing the word "Jew" in large letters
+in its headline, and abstaining from editorial retouching of the word
+"Jew" in the body of the article. The usual plan is to do what an
+eastern newspaper did when dealing with the same subject: wherever the
+term "international Jew" occurred in the article which it printed, it
+was retouched to "financiers."
+
+The Chicago Tribune, however, on Saturday, June 19, 1920, printed in the
+first column of the first page a cable dispatch from John Clayton, its
+special correspondent, under the heading: "Trotsky Leads Jew-Radicals to
+World Rule. Bolshevism Only a Tool for His Scheme."
+
+The first paragraph reads as follows:
+
+"For the last two years army intelligence officers, members of the
+various secret service organizations of the Entente, have been bringing
+in reports of a world revolutionary movement other than Bolshevism. At
+first these reports confused the two, but latterly the lines they have
+taken have begun to be more and more clear."
+
+As previously stated in THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, our own secret service
+is one of these, though there is reason to believe that because of the
+influence of Jews upon the government these investigations were not
+pursued with the persistency that might otherwise have been given them.
+However, we know from Jewish sources, not to mention any other, that the
+Department of Justice of the United States was at one time interested
+enough to make inquiries.
+
+What the Tribune writer does in the above paragraph is to show that this
+interest has been sustained for two years by officials of the Entente, a
+fact which ought to be borne in mind by those who declare that the whole
+matter is of German instigation. The emergence of the Jewish Question
+into American thought was immediately met by a statement from Jewish
+sources that it was a German importation, and that the anti-Semitism
+which flowed over Germany and resulted in cleaning out the overwhelming
+Jewish revolutionary influences from the new German Government, was only
+a trick to throw the blame for the defeat of Germany on the Jews.
+American rabbis are even now unitedly preaching that history shows that
+every great war is followed by a new "attack" on the Jews. It is
+undoubtedly a fact that every war newly opens the people's eyes to the
+power which international Jewish financiers exert with reference to
+war--and it would seem that such a fact is worthy of a better
+explanation than that of "prejudice." However, as the Tribune article
+shows, and as all the facts confirm, the interest is not confined to the
+German side; indeed, it is not even strongest there. It is "the various
+secret service organizations of the Entente" that have been most active
+in the matter.
+
+The second paragraph further distinguishes between Bolshevism and Jewish
+imperialism:
+
+"Bolshevism aims at the overthrow of existing society and the
+establishment of an international brotherhood of men who work with their
+hands as rulers of the world. The second movement aims for the
+establishment of a new racial domination of the world. So far as the
+British, French and our own department's inquiry have been able to
+trace, the moving spirits in the second scheme are Jewish radicals."
+
+Other statements in the article are:
+
+"Within the ranks of communism is a group of this party, but it does not
+stop there. To its leaders, communism is only an incident."
+
+(This will recall the statement of Lord Eustace Percy, quoted last week
+from the Canadian Jewish Chronicle--"Not because the Jew cares for the
+positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to be a
+partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because no
+existing Gentile system of government is anything but distasteful to
+him.")
+
+"They are ready to use the Islamic revolt, hatred by the central empires
+for England, Japan's designs on India, and commercial rivalry between
+America and Japan."
+
+"As any movement of world revolution must be, this is primarily
+anti-Anglo-Saxon."
+
+"The organization of the world Jewish-radical movement has been
+perfected in almost every land."
+
+"The aims of the Jewish-radical party have nothing of altruism behind
+them beyond liberation of their own race."
+
+It will be conceded that these are rather startling statements. If they
+were found in a propagandist publication of no responsibility, the
+average reader might pass them by as preposterous, so little does the
+average reader know of the secret influences which shape his life and
+frame his problems. But appearing in a great newspaper, they must
+receive a different evaluation.
+
+Nor did the Tribune stop at the news article. On June 21, 1920, an
+editorial appeared entitled "World Mischief." The editorial is evidently
+an effort to prevent possible misunderstanding of what the news article
+was driving at.
+
+"The Jewish phase of the movement, he asserts, aims at a new racial
+domination of the world . . ."
+
+The Tribune also says that while it is perhaps natural for the Jews of
+other countries to be engaged in this "world mischief," the Jews of
+England and the United States "are loyal nationalists and conservative
+upholders of the national traditions." It were well if this were true.
+Perhaps it is true of tens of thousands of Jews as individuals; it
+certainly is not true of those internationalists who pull the strings of
+all the governments and who during the last six tragic years have been
+meddling with world affairs in a way which must soon be plainly told.
+The unfortunate circumstance is that all the American and English Jews
+must for a time feel a distress which no one desires them to feel, which
+everyone would do much to save them from, but which seems inevitable
+until the whole story is told and until the mass of the Jews themselves
+cut off from their name and support some who now receive their deepest
+homage.
+
+It is worth while observing the contrasts and similarities between the
+Gentile and Jewish reaction to this alleged movement to establish a
+Jewish imperialism over the world. Jewish publicists first deny it
+without qualification. It is all false, all a lie, all hatched up by
+enemies of the Jews in order to stir up hatred and murder. As the
+evidence accumulates, the Jewish tone changes: "Well, suppose it is
+true," the publicists say; "is it any wonder that the poor oppressed
+Jews, driven to madness through their sufferings, should dream dreams of
+overthrowing their enemies and placing themselves in the seat of
+authority?"
+
+The Gentile mind, confronted with the statement, says: "Yes, but they
+are Russian Jews. Don't mind them. American Jews are all right. They
+would never be taken in by anything like that." Going a little deeper
+into the subject, the Gentile mind is forced to admit the existence of
+some kind of a subversive world movement, the power of which has shaken
+even this country, and that the moving spirits in it are revolutionary
+Jews. And then the tendency from that point forward is either to fall in
+with the theory that the movement is really Jewish in its origin,
+agitation, execution and purpose, or to set up the theory that it is a
+"world movement" undoubtedly, but only incidentally Jewish. The end of
+both Jewish and Gentile reaction is an admission that something
+answering to the movement charged actually exists.
+
+For example, the Christian Science Monitor, whose standard as a
+newspaper no one will question, has this to say in a lengthy editorial
+on the subject:
+
+"In spite of this, it would be a tremendous mistake to conclude that the
+Jewish peril, given another name and atmosphere, does not exist. It
+might, indeed, be renamed, out of one of the grandest of the books of
+the Old Testament, 'the terror by night,' for it is, essentially, the
+Psalmist's concept of the forces of mental evil at which, consciously or
+unconsciously, Professor Nilus is aiming. In other words, that a secret
+international political organization exists, working unremittingly by
+means of its Bureau of Psychology, though the world which should be
+awake to it is entirely asleep to it, is, to the man who can read the
+signs of the times, a thing unquestionable."
+
+The Monitor gives warning against prejudice and disregard of the laws of
+evidence which is exceedingly timely and is, indeed, the desire of
+anyone who has ever undertaken to deal with this subject, but too often
+it is a disregard of facts and not of evidence that makes the
+difficulty. It is safe to say that most of the prejudice today is
+against the facts, it has not been caused by them.
+
+There are two preconceptions to be guarded against in making an approach
+to this question. One is that the Jewish imperialistic program, if such
+a thing exists, is of recent origin. Upon the mere mention of such a
+program, Gentiles are likely to think that it was formulated last week,
+or last year, or within recent time. That need not be the case at all,
+and in Jewish matters it is very likely not to be the case. It is very
+easy to see how, if the program were to be formulated today, it would be
+wholly different from the one which is to be considered. The kind of
+program that would be made today indeed exists too, but it is not to be
+compared in extent and profundity with that which has existed for a very
+long time. Perfect constitutions of invisible governments are not the
+creations of secret conventions; they are the accumulated thought and
+experience of centuries. Moreover, no matter how prone a modern
+generation may be to disregard such things, the mere fact that they may
+have existed as a secret racial ideal for centuries is a powerful
+argument for their respectable acceptance, if not active execution, by
+the generation that now is. There is no idea deeper in Judaism than that
+Jews constitute a Chosen People and that their future is to be more
+glorious than their past. A large part of the Christian world accepts
+that, too, and it may well be true, but in a moral universe it cannot
+come to pass by the methods which have been and are being used.
+
+But to mention the ancient lineage of the idea of the Chosen People is
+merely to suggest that of all the programs that may have gathered round
+it to assist its full historical realization, it is not strange that
+there should be one very old one to which the wisest minds of Israel
+have contributed their best of mind and heart to insure its success.
+That there is such a plan has been the belief of many deep delvers in
+the hidden things of the world, and that such a plan has at times had
+its dress rehearsals, so to speak, on a limited stage, as if in
+preparation for its grand finale on the universal stage, is another
+belief held by men at whose knowledge it is impossible to cavil.
+
+So, then, it may be that we are dealing with something for which
+present-day Jews, even the more important internationalists, are not
+originally responsible. It may have come to them as part of their
+ancient Jewish inheritance. Certainly, if it were a mere modern thing,
+hastily conceived and thrown together after the modern fashion, it could
+be expected to disappear in the same era which saw it born.
+
+Another preconception to be guarded against is that every Jew one meets
+has secret knowledge of this program. That is not the case. With the
+general idea of the ultimate triumph of Israel every Jew who has
+retained contact with his people is familiar, but with the special plans
+which for centuries have existed in formulated form for the attainment
+of that triumph, the average Jew is no more familiar than anyone
+else--no more so than was the average German with the secret plans of
+the Pan-Germanic party whose ideas started and guided the recent war.
+The average Jew enters into the plans of the secret group just to this
+extent, except in specially selected cases: It is perfectly understood
+that the consummation of the Jewish triumph will not be distasteful to
+any Jew, and if the methods to be used toward the end are a bit violent,
+every Jew can be depended upon to see in that violence a very
+insufficient retribution visited upon the Gentile world for the
+sufferings which it has caused the sons of Judah throughout the
+centuries.
+
+Still, with even these preconceptions guarded against, there is no
+escape from the conclusion that if such a program of Jewish world
+imperialism exists today, it must exist with the cognizance and active
+support of certain individuals, and that these groups of individuals
+must have somewhere an official head.
+
+This is, perhaps, the one point at which more investigators stop than at
+any other. The idea of a Jewish autocrat is too strange for the mind
+which has not been much in contact with the main question. And yet there
+is no race which more instinctively supports autocracy than does the
+Jewish race, no race which more craves and respects position. It is
+their sense of the value of position that explains the main course their
+activities take. The Jew is primarily a money-maker for the reason that
+up to this time money is the only means he knows by which to gain
+position. The Jews who have gained position for any other reason are
+comparatively few. This is not a Gentile gibe; it is the position of a
+famous Anglo-Jewish physician, Dr. Barnard Von Oven, who wrote: "All
+other means of distinction are denied him; he must rise by wealth, or
+not at all. And if, as he well knows, to insure wealth will be to insure
+rank, respect and attention in society, does the blame rest with him who
+endeavors to acquire wealth for the distinction which it will purchase,
+or with that society which so readily bows down to the shrine of
+Mammon?"
+
+The Jew is not averse to kings, only to the state of things which
+prevents a Jewish king. The future autocrat of the world is to be a
+Jewish king, sitting upon the throne of David, so ancient prophecies and
+the documents of the imperialistic program agree.
+
+Is such a king in the world now? If not, the men who could choose a king
+are in the world. There has been no king of the Jews since before the
+Christian Era, but until about the eleventh century there were Princes
+of the Exile, those who represented the headship of the Jews who were
+dispersed through the nations. They were and still are called
+"exilarchs," or Princes of the Exile. They were attended by the wise men
+of Israel, they held court, they gave the law to their people. They
+lived abroad wherever their circumstances or convenience dictated, in
+Christian or Mohammedan countries. Whether the office was discontinued
+with the last publicly known exilarch or merely disappeared from the
+surface of history, whether today it is entirely abandoned or exists in
+another form, are questions which must wait. That there are offices of
+world jurisdiction held by Jews is well known. That there are world
+organizations of Jews--organizations, that is, within the very strong
+solidarity of the Jewish nation itself--is well known. That there is
+world unity on certain Jewish activities, defensive and offensive, is
+well known. There is nothing in the condition or thought of the Jews
+which would render the existence today of an exilarch distasteful to
+them; indeed, the thought would be very comfortable.
+
+The Jewish Encyclopedia remarks: "Curiously enough, the exilarchs are
+still mentioned in the Sabbath services of the Ashkenazim ritual * * *
+The Jews of the Sephardic ritual have not preserved this anachronism,
+nor was it retained in most of the Reform synagogues of the nineteenth
+century."
+
+Is there, then, a Jewish Sanhedrin?--a governing or counseling body of
+Jews who take oversight of the affairs of their people throughout the
+world?
+
+The Jewish Sanhedrin was a most interesting institution. Its origin and
+method of constitution are obscure. It consisted of 71 members, with the
+president, and performed the functions of a political senate. There is
+nothing to show whence the Sanhedrin derived its authority. It was not
+an elective body. It was not democratic. It was not representative. It
+was not responsible to the people. In these qualities, it was typically
+Jewish. The Sanhedrin was chosen by the prince or priest, not with the
+purpose of safeguarding the people's interest, but to assist the ruler
+in the work of administration. It was thus assembled by call, or it was
+self-perpetuating, calling its own members. The arrangement seems to
+have been that well-known device by which an aristocracy can maintain
+itself in power whatever the political construction of the nation may
+be. The Jewish Encyclopedia says: "The Sanhedrin, which was entirely
+aristocratic in character, probably assumed its own authority, since it
+was composed of members of the most influential families of the nobility
+and priesthood."
+
+This body was flanked by a similar body, which governed the religious
+interests of the nation, the members being drawn apparently from classes
+nearer the common people.
+
+The Sanhedrin exercised authority not only over the Jews of Palestine,
+but wherever they were scattered throughout the world. As a senate
+exercising direct political authority, it ceased with the downfall of
+the Jewish State in the year 70, but there are indications of its
+continuance as an advisory body down to the fourth century.
+
+In 1806, in order to satisfy the mind of Napoleon upon some questions
+which had arisen concerning the Jews, an Assembly of Notables was
+called, whose membership consisted of prominent Jews of France. They, in
+turn, to bring the sanction of all Jewry to the answers which they
+should give Napoleon, convoked the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin assembled in
+Paris on February 9, 1807. It followed the prescribed ancient forms; it
+was comprised of Jews from all parts of Europe; it was assembled to put
+the whole authority of Jewry behind any compact the French Jews may have
+been able to make with Napoleon.
+
+In putting forth its decisions, this Sanhedrin of 1807 declared that it
+was in all respects like the ancient Sanhedrin, "a legal assembly vested
+with power of passing ordinances in order to promote the welfare of
+Israel."
+
+The significance of these facts is this: Whatever the leaders of the
+Jews may do today in the way of maintaining the policy and constitution
+of Israel, would not constitute a new departure. It would not signify a
+new attitude. It would not be evidence of a new plan.
+
+It would be entirely natural, Jewish solidarity being what it is, that
+the Sanhedrin should still be continued. The ancient Sanhedrin appears
+to have had a group of ten who were somewhat exalted in importance above
+the rest; it would be perfectly natural if the leaders of the Jews were
+today divided into committees, by countries or by objects.
+
+There are always being held, year by year, world meetings of the
+principal Jews of all lands. They come together whenever called, to the
+disregard of everything else. Great judges from the high courts of the
+various countries, international financiers, Jewish orators of the
+"liberal type" who have the ear of the Gentiles, political maneuverers
+from all the parties represented in the world, they assemble wherever
+they will, and the subjects of their deliberations are made known only
+to the extent they will. It is not to be supposed that all of the
+attendants on these conventions are members of the inner circle. The
+list of delegates will show scores of persons with whom no one would
+associate Lord Reading and Judge Brandeis. If the modern Sanhedrin
+meets, and it would be the most natural thing in the world if it should,
+we may be sure it meets within the closed circle of those persons which
+the Jewish aristocracy of money, intellect and power approves.
+
+The machinery of a Jewish world government exists ready-made. The Jew is
+convinced that he has the best religion, the best morality, the best
+method of education, the best social standards, the best ideal of
+government. He would not have to go outside the circle of that which he
+considers best to get anything which he may need to advance the welfare
+of his people, or to execute any program which may have to do with the
+outside world.
+
+It is the ancient machinery that the international Jew uses in all those
+activities which he permits the world to see in part. There are
+gatherings of the financial, political and intellectual chief rulers of
+the Jews. These gatherings are announced for one or another
+thing--sometimes. Sometimes there is a gathering of Jews in a world
+capital, with no announced purpose. They all appear in one city, confer
+and depart.
+
+Whether there is a recognized head to all of this is yet to be
+disclosed. There can be little doubt, however, as to the existence of
+what may be called a "foreign policy," that is, a definite point of view
+and plan of action with reference to the Gentile world. The Jew feels
+that he is in the midst of enemies, but he also feels that he is a
+member of a people--"one people." He must have some policy with regard
+to the outer world. He cannot help but consider present conditions, he
+cannot consider them without being stirred to speculate upon what the
+outcome must be, and he cannot speculate on the outcome without in some
+manner endeavoring to make it as he would like it to be.
+
+The invisible government of the Jews, its attitude toward the Gentile
+world, its policy with regard to the future, are not, then, the abnormal
+things that some would make them appear. Given the Jewish position, they
+are of all things most natural. Jewish existence in this world is not
+such as woos the Jew into sleepy contentment; it is such as stirs him
+into organization against future contingencies and into programs which
+may shape those contingencies to the benefit of his race. That there
+should be a Sanhedrin of the Jews, a world body of the leading men of
+all countries; that there should even be an exilarch, a visible and
+recognized head of the Sanhedrin, mystically foreshadowing the autocrat
+to come; that there should even be a world program, just as every
+government has its foreign policy, are not strange, uncanny
+suppositions. They grow normally out of the situation itself.
+
+And it is also natural that not every Jew should know this. The
+Sanhedrin always was the aristocracy, and would be today. When rabbis
+cry from their pulpits that they know nothing about this thing, they are
+doubtless telling the truth. What the international Jew depends upon is
+the likelihood of every Jew approving that which brings power and
+prestige to his people. At any rate, it is well enough known that
+however little the ordinary Jewish leader may have been told about world
+programs, he regards with the greatest respect and confidence the very
+men who must put these programs through, if these exist at all.
+
+The twenty-fourth Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion has this to
+say:
+
+"Now I will discuss the manner in which the roots of the house of King
+David will penetrate to the deepest strata of the earth. This dynasty,
+even to this day, has given the power of controlling world affairs to
+our wise men, the educational directors of all human thought."
+
+This would indicate, if reliable, that, as the Protocol goes on to
+recite, the Autocrat himself has not appeared, but the dynasty, or the
+Davidic line in which he must appear, have entrusted the work of
+preparing for him to the Wise Men of Zion. These wise men are
+represented not only as preparing those who exercise rulership over
+Judaism's affairs, but also as framing and influencing the world's
+thought toward ends which shall be propitious to these plans. Whatever
+may be hidden in the program, it is certain that its execution or the
+effects of its execution cannot be hidden. Therefore, it may be possible
+to find in the outer world the clues which, traced back to their source,
+reveal the existence of a program, whose promise for the world, good or
+bad, ought to be widely known.
+
+[Issue of July 17, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+X.
+
+An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
+
+
+The documents most frequently mentioned by those who are interested in
+the theory of Jewish World Power rather than in the actual operation of
+that power in the world today, are those 24 documents known as "The
+Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."
+
+The Protocols have attracted much attention in Europe, having become the
+center of an important storm of opinion in England only recently, but
+discussion of them in the United States has been limited. These are the
+documents concerning which the Department of Justice was making
+inquiries more than a year ago, and which were given publication in
+London by Eyre and Spottiswoode, the official printers to the British
+Government.
+
+Who it was that first entitled these documents with the name of the
+"Elders of Zion" is not known. It would be possible without serious
+mutilation of the documents to remove all hint of Jewish authorship, and
+yet retain all the main points of the most comprehensive program for
+world subjugation that has ever come to public knowledge.
+
+Yet it must be said that thus to eliminate all hint of Jewish authorship
+would be to bring out a number of contradictions which do not exist in
+the Protocols in their present form. The purpose of the plan revealed in
+the Protocols is to undermine all authority in order that a new
+authority in the form of autocracy may be set up. Such a plan could not
+emanate from a ruling class which already possessed authority, although
+it might emanate from anarchists. But anarchists do not avow autocracy
+as the ultimate condition they seek. The authors might be conceived as a
+company of French Subversives such as existed at the time of the French
+Revolution and had the infamous Duc d'Orleans as their leader, but this
+would involve a contradiction between the fact that those Subversives
+have passed away, and the fact that the program announced in these
+Protocols is being steadily carried out, not only in France, but
+throughout Europe and very noticeably in the United States.
+
+In their present form which bears evidence of being their original form,
+there is no contradiction. The allegation of Jewish authorship seems
+essential to the consistency of the plan.
+
+If these documents were the forgeries which Jewish apologists claim them
+to be, the forgers would probably have taken pains to make Jewish
+authorship so clear that their anti-Semitic purpose could easily have
+been detected. But only twice is the term "Jew" used in them. After one
+has read much further than the average reader usually cares to go into
+such matters, one comes upon the plans for the establishment of the
+World Autocrat, and only then it is made clear of what lineage he is to
+be.
+
+But all through the documents there is left no doubt as to the people
+against whom the plan is aimed. It is not aimed against aristocracy as
+such. It is not aimed against capital as such. It is not aimed against
+government as such. Very definite provisions are made for the enlistment
+of aristocracy, capital and government for the execution of the plan. It
+is aimed against the people of the world who are called "Gentiles." It
+is the frequent mention of "Gentiles" that really decides the purpose of
+the documents. Most of the destructive type of "liberal" plans aim at
+the enlistment of the people as helpers; this plan aims at the
+degeneration of the people in order that they may be reduced to
+confusion of mind and thus manipulated. Popular movements of a "liberal"
+kind are to be encouraged, all the disruptive philosophies in religion,
+economics, politics and domestic life are to be sown and watered, for
+the purpose of so disintegrating social solidarity that a definite plan,
+herein set forth, may be put through without notice, and the people then
+molded to it when the fallacy of these philosophies is shown.
+
+The formula of speech is not, "We Jews will do this," but "The Gentiles
+will be made to think and do these things." With the exception of a few
+instances in the closing Protocols, the only distinctive racial term
+used is "Gentiles."
+
+To illustrate: the first indication of this kind comes in the first
+Protocol in this way:
+
+"The great qualities of the people--honesty and frankness--are
+essentially vices in politics, because they dethrone more surely and
+more certainly than does the strongest enemy. These qualities are
+attributes of Gentile rule; we certainly must not be guided by them."
+
+And again:
+
+"On the ruins of the hereditary aristocracy of the Gentiles we have set
+up the aristocracy of our educated class, and over all the aristocracy
+of money. We have established the basis of this new aristocracy on the
+basis of riches, which we control, and on the science guided by our wise
+men."
+
+Again:
+
+"We will force up wages, which however will be of no benefit to workers,
+for we at the same time will cause a rise in the prices of prime
+necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture
+and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply undermine the
+sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas of anarchy and
+encourage them in the use of alcohol, at the same time taking measures
+to drive all the intellectual forces of the Gentiles from the land."
+
+(A forger with anti-Semitic malice might have written this any time
+within the last five years, but these words were in print at least 14
+years ago according to British evidence, a copy having been in the
+British Museum since 1906, and they were circulated in Russia a number
+of years prior.)
+
+The above point continues: "That the true situation shall not be noticed
+by the Gentiles prematurely we will mask it by a pretended effort to
+serve the working classes and promote great economic principles, for
+which an active propaganda will be carried on through our economic
+theories."
+
+These quotations will illustrate the style of the Protocols in making
+reference to the parties involved. It is "we" for the writers, and
+"Gentiles" for those who are being written about. This is brought out
+very clearly in the Fourteenth Protocol:
+
+"In this divergence between Gentiles and ourselves in ability to think
+and reason is to be seen clearly the seal of our election as the chosen
+people, as higher human beings, in contrast with the Gentiles who have
+merely instinctive and animal minds. They observe, but they do not
+foresee, and they invent nothing (except perhaps material things). It is
+clear from this that nature herself predestined us to rule and guide the
+world."
+
+This, of course, has been the Jewish method of dividing humanity from
+the earliest times. The world was only Jew and Gentile; all that was not
+Jew was Gentile.
+
+The use of the word Jew in the Protocol may be illustrated by this
+passage in the eighth section:
+
+"For the time being, until it will be safe to give responsible
+government positions to our brother Jews, we shall entrust them to
+people whose past and whose characters are such that there is an abyss
+between them and the people."
+
+This is the practice known as using "Gentile fronts" which is
+extensively practiced in the financial world today in order to cover up
+the evidences of Jewish control. How much progress has been made since
+these words were written is indicated by the occurrence at the San
+Francisco convention when the name of Judge Brandeis was proposed for
+President. It is reasonably to be expected that the public mind will be
+made more and more familiar with the idea of Jewish occupancy--which
+will be really a short step from the present degree of influence which
+the Jews exercise--of the highest office in the government. There is no
+function of the American Presidency in which the Jews have not already
+secretly assisted in a very important degree. Actual occupancy of the
+office is not necessary to enhance their power, but to promote certain
+things which parallel very closely the plans outlined in the Protocols
+now before us.
+
+Another point which the reader of the Protocols will notice is that the
+tone of exhortation is entirely absent from these documents. They are
+not propaganda. They are not efforts to stimulate the ambitions or
+activity of those to whom they are addressed. They are as cool as a
+legal paper and as matter-of-fact as a table of statistics. There is
+none of the "Let us rise, my brothers" stuff about them. There is no
+"Down with the Gentiles" hysteria. These Protocols, if indeed they were
+made by Jews and confided to Jews, or if they do contain certain
+principles of a Jewish World Program, were certainly not intended for
+the firebrands but for the carefully prepared and tested initiates of
+the higher groups.
+
+Jewish apologists have asked, "Is it conceivable that if there were such
+a world program on the part of the Jews, they would reduce it to writing
+and publish it?" But there is no evidence that these Protocols were ever
+uttered otherwise than in spoken words by those who put them forth. The
+Protocols as we have them are apparently the notes of lectures which
+were made by someone who heard them. Some of them are lengthy; some of
+them are brief. The assertion which has always been made in connection
+with the Protocols since they have become known is that they are the
+notes of lectures delivered to Jewish students presumably somewhere in
+France or Switzerland. The attempt to make them appear to be of Russian
+origin is absolutely forestalled by the point of view, the reference to
+the times and certain grammatical indications.
+
+The tone certainly fits the supposition that they were originally
+lectures given to students, for their purpose is clearly not to get a
+program accepted but to give information concerning a program which is
+represented as being already in process of fulfillment. There is no
+invitation to join forces or to offer opinions. Indeed it is
+specifically announced that neither discussion nor opinions are desired.
+("While preaching liberalism to the Gentiles, we shall hold our own
+people and our own agents in unquestioning obedience." "The scheme of
+administration must emanate from a single brain * * * Therefore, we may
+know the plan of action, but we must not discuss it, lest we destroy its
+unique character * * * The inspired work of our leader therefore must
+not be thrown before a crowd to be torn to pieces, or even before a
+limited group.")
+
+Moreover, taking the Protocols at their face value, it is evident that
+the program outlined in these lecture notes was not a new one at the
+time the lectures were given. There is no evidence of its being of
+recent arrangement. There is almost the tone of a tradition, or a
+religion, in it all, as if it had been handed down from generation to
+generation through the medium of specially trusted and initiated men.
+There is no note of new discovery or fresh enthusiasm in it, but the
+certitude and calmness of facts long known and policies long confirmed
+by experiment.
+
+This point of the age of the program is touched upon at least twice in
+the Protocols themselves. In the First Protocol this paragraph occurs:
+
+"Already in ancient times we were the first to shout the words,
+'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,' among the people. These words have been
+repeated many times by unconscious poll-parrots, flocking from all sides
+to this bait, with which they have ruined the prosperity of the world
+and true personal freedom * * * The presumably clever and intellectual
+Gentiles did not understand the symbolism of the uttered words; did not
+observe their contradiction in meaning; did not notice that in nature
+there is no equality * * *"
+
+The other reference to the program's finality is found in the Thirteenth
+Protocol:
+
+"Questions of policy, however, are permitted to no one except those who
+have originated the policy and have directed it for many centuries."
+
+Can this be a reference to a secret Jewish Sanhedrin, self-perpetuating
+within a certain Jewish caste from generation to generation?
+
+Again, it must be said that the originators and directors here referred
+to cannot be at present any ruling caste, for all that the program
+contemplates is directly opposed to the interests of such a caste. It
+cannot refer to any national aristocratic group, like the Junkers of
+Germany, for the methods which are proposed are the very ones which
+would render powerless such a group. It cannot refer to any but a people
+who have no government, who have everything to gain and nothing to lose,
+and who can keep themselves intact amid a crumbling world. There is only
+one group that answers that description.
+
+Again, a reading of the Protocols makes it clear that the speaker
+himself was not seeking for honor. There is a complete absence of
+personal ambition throughout the document. All plans and purposes and
+expectations are merged in the future of Israel, which future, it would
+seem, can only be secured by the subtle breaking down of certain world
+ideas held by the Gentiles. The Protocols speak of what has been done,
+what was being done at the time these words were given, and what
+remained to be done. Nothing like them in completeness of detail, in
+breadth of plan and in deep grasp of the hidden springs of human action
+has ever been known. They are verily terrible in their mastery of the
+secrets of life, equally terrible in their consciousness of that
+mastery. Truly they would merit the opinion which Jews have recently
+cast upon them, that they were the work of an inspired madman, were it
+not that what is written in the Protocols in words is also written upon
+the life of today in deeds and tendencies.
+
+The criticisms which these Protocols pass upon the Gentiles for their
+stupidity are just. It is impossible to disagree with a single item in
+the Protocols' description of Gentile mentality and veniality. Even the
+most astute of the Gentile thinkers have been fooled into receiving as
+the motions of progress what has only been insinuated into the common
+human mind by the most insidious systems of propaganda.
+
+It is true that here and there a thinker has arisen to say that science
+so-called was not science at all. It is true that here and there a
+thinker has arisen to say that the so-called economic laws both of
+conservatives and radicals were not laws at all, but artificial
+inventions. It is true that occasionally a keen observer has asserted
+that the recent debauch of luxury and extravagance was not due to the
+natural impulses of the people at all, but was systematically
+stimulated, foisted upon them by design. It is true that a few have
+discerned that more than half of what passes for "public opinion" is
+mere hired applause and booing and has never impressed the public mind.
+
+But even with these clues here and there, for the most part disregarded,
+there has never been enough continuity and collaboration between those
+who were awake, to follow all the clues to their source. The chief
+explanation of the hold which the Protocols have had on many of the
+leading statesmen of the world for several decades is that they explain
+whence all these false influences come and what their purpose is. They
+give a clue to the modern maze. It is now time for the people to know.
+And whether the Protocols are judged as proving anything concerning the
+Jews or not, they constitute an education in the way the masses are
+turned about like sheep by influences which they do not understand. It
+is almost certain that once the principles of the Protocols are known
+widely and understood by the people, the criticism which they now
+rightly make of the Gentile mind will no longer hold good.
+
+It is the purpose of future articles in this series to study these
+documents and to answer out of their contents all the questions that may
+arise concerning them.
+
+Before that work is begun, one question should be answered--"Is there
+likelihood of the program of the Protocols being carried through to
+success?" The program is successful already. In many of its most
+important phases it is already a reality. But this need not cause alarm,
+for the chief weapon to be used against such a program, both in its
+completed and uncompleted parts, is clear publicity. Let the people
+know. Arousing the people, alarming the people, appealing to the
+passions of the people is the method of the plan outlined in the
+Protocols. The antidote is merely enlightening the people.
+
+That is the only purpose of these articles. Enlightenment dispels
+prejudice. It is as desirable to dispel the prejudice of the Jew as of
+the Gentile. Jewish writers too frequently assume that the prejudice is
+all on one side. The Protocols themselves ought to have the widest
+circulation among the Jewish people, in order that they may check those
+things which are bringing suspicion upon their name.
+
+[Issue of July 24, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XI.
+
+"Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
+
+"Upon completing this program of our present and future actions, I will
+read to you the principles of these theories."--Protocol 16.
+
+"In all that I have discussed with you hitherto, I have endeavored to
+indicate carefully the secrets of past and future events and of those
+momentous occurrences of the near future toward which we are rushing in
+a stream of great crises, anticipating the hidden principles of
+future relationships with the Gentiles and of our financial
+operations."--Protocol 22.
+
+
+The Protocols, which profess themselves to be an outline of the Jewish
+World Program, are found upon analysis to contain four main divisions.
+These, however, are not marked in the structure of the documents, but in
+the thought. There is a fifth, if the object of it all is included, but
+this object is assumed throughout the Protocols, being only here and
+there defined in terms. And the four main divisions are great trunks
+from which there are numerous branches.
+
+There is first what is alleged to be the Jewish conception of human
+nature, by which is meant Gentile nature. It is inconceivable that such
+a plan as that which the Protocols set forth could have been evolved by
+a mind that had not previously based the probability of success on a
+certain estimate of the ignobility and corruptibility of human
+nature--which all through the Protocols is referred to as Gentile
+nature.
+
+Then, secondly, there is the account of what has already been
+accomplished in the realization of the program--things actually done.
+
+Thirdly, there is a complete instruction in the methods to be used to
+get the program still further fulfilled--methods which would themselves
+supply the estimate of human nature upon which the whole fabric is
+based, if there were nothing else to indicate it.
+
+Fourth, the Protocols contain in detail some of the achievements which,
+at the time these words were uttered, were yet to be made. Some of these
+desired things have been achieved in the meantime, for it should be
+borne in mind that between the year 1905 and the year 1920 there has
+been time to set many influences in motion and attain many ends. As the
+second quotation at the head of this article would indicate, the speaker
+knew that events were "rushing in a stream of great crises," a knowledge
+which is amply attested by Jewish sources outside the Protocols.
+
+If this series of articles represented a special pleading upon the
+Jewish Question, the present article would seek to win the reader's
+confidence by presenting first the set of facts which are described
+under "secondly" in the above list of main divisions. To begin with the
+estimate of human nature here disclosed is to court alienation of the
+reader's interest, especially if the reader be a Gentile. We know from
+abundant sources what the Jewish estimate of human nature is, and it
+tallies in all respects with what is disclosed in the Protocols, but it
+has always been one of the fallacies of Gentile thought that human
+nature is, now, full of dignity and nobility. There is little question,
+when the subject is considered in all its lights, that the Jewish
+conception is right. And so far as these Protocols are concerned, their
+low estimate of mankind, though harsh to human pride and conceit, are
+very largely true.
+
+Just to run through the Protocols and select the salient passages in
+which this view is expressed is to find a pretty complete philosophy of
+the motives and qualities of human beings.
+
+Take these words from the First Protocol:
+
+"It should be noted that people with evil instincts are more numerous
+than those with good ones; therefore, the best results in governing them
+are attained by intimidation and violence, and not by academic argument.
+Every man aims for power; everyone desires to be a dictator, if
+possible; moreover, few would not sacrifice the good of others to attain
+their own ends."
+
+"People in masses and people of the masses are guided by exceptionally
+shallow passions, beliefs, customs, traditions and sentimental theories
+and are inclined toward party divisions, a fact which prevents any form
+of agreement, even when this is founded on a thoroughly logical basis.
+Every decision of the mob depends upon an accidental or prearranged
+majority, which, owing to its ignorance of the mysteries of political
+secrets, gives expression to absurd decisions that introduce anarchy
+into government."
+
+"In working out an expedient plan of action, it is necessary to take
+into consideration the meanness, the vacillation, the changeability of
+the crowd * * * It is necessary to realize that the force of the masses
+is blind, unreasoning and unintelligent, prone to listen now to the
+right, and now to the left * * *"
+
+"Our triumph has also been made easier because, in our relations with
+the people necessary to us, we have always played upon the most
+sensitive strings of the human mind--on calculation, greed, and the
+insatiable material desires of men. Each of these human weaknesses,
+taken separately, is capable of paralyzing initiative and placing the
+will of the people at the disposal of the purchaser of their
+activities."
+
+In the Fifth Protocol, this shrewd observation on human nature is to be
+found:
+
+"In all times, nations as well as individuals, accepted words for acts.
+They have been satisfied by what is shown them, rarely noticing whether
+the promise has been followed by fulfillment. For this reason we will
+organize 'show' institutions which will conspicuously display their
+devotion to progress."
+
+And this from the Eleventh Protocol:
+
+"The Gentiles are like a flock of sheep * * * They will close their eyes
+to everything because we will promise them to return all the liberties
+taken away, after the enemies of peace have been subjugated and all the
+parties pacified. Is it worth while to speak of how long they will have
+to wait? For what have we conceived all this program and instilled its
+measures into the minds of the Gentiles without giving them the
+possibility of examining its underside, if it is not for the purpose of
+attaining by circuitous methods that which is unattainable to our
+scattered race by a direct route?"
+
+Notice also this very shrewd observation upon the "joiners" of secret
+societies--this estimate being made by the Protocols to indicate how
+easily these societies may be used to further the plan:
+
+"Usually it is the climbers, careerists and people, generally speaking,
+who are not serious, who most readily join secret societies, and we
+shall find them easy to handle and through them operate the mechanism of
+our projected machine."
+
+The remarks under this head are curtailed by the present writer, because
+the Protocols make reference to a very important secret order, the
+mention of whose name in this connection might lead to misunderstanding,
+and which is therefore reserved for future and fuller attention. It
+will, however, be of interest to the members of that order to see what
+the Protocols have to say of it, and then check up the facts and see how
+far they correspond with the words.
+
+To continue: "The Gentiles join lodges out of curiosity or in the hope
+that through them they may worm their way into social distinction * * *
+We therefore give them this success so that we can take advantage of the
+self-conceit to which it gives birth and because of which people
+unconsciously accept our suggestions without examination * * * You
+cannot imagine to what an extent the most intelligent Gentiles may be
+brought to a state of unconscious naivete under conditions of
+self-deceit, and how easy it is to discourage them by the least failure,
+even the stopping of applause, or to bring them into a state of servile
+subjection for the sake of regaining it. The Gentiles are as ready to
+sacrifice their plans for the sake of popular success as our people are
+to ignore success for the sake of carrying out our plans. This
+psychology of theirs facilitates the task of directing them."
+
+These are a few of the passages in which this estimate of human or
+Gentile nature is made out in words. But even if it were not so baldly
+stated, it could be easily inferred from various items in the program
+which was depended upon to break up Gentile solidarity and strength.
+
+The method is one of disintegration. Break up the people into parties
+and sects. Sow abroad the most promising and utopian of ideas and you
+will do two things: you will always find a group to cling to each idea
+you throw out; and you will find this partisanship dividing and
+estranging the various groups. The authors of the Protocols show in
+detail how this is to be done. Not one idea, but a mass of ideas are to
+be thrown out, and there is to be no unity among them. The purpose is
+not to get the people thinking one thing, but to think so diversely
+about so many different things that there will be no unity among them.
+The result of this will be vast disunity, vast unrest--and that is the
+result aimed for.
+
+When once the solidarity of the Gentile society is broken up--and the
+name, "Gentile society" is perfectly correct, for human society is
+overwhelmingly Gentile--then this solid wedge of another idea which is
+not at all affected by the prevailing confusion can make its way
+unsuspectedly to the place of control. It is well enough known that a
+body of 20 trained police or soldiers can accomplish more than a
+disordered mob of a thousand persons. So the minority initiated into the
+plan can do more with a nation or a world broken into a thousand
+antagonistic parties, than any of the parties could do. "Divide and
+rule" is the motto of the Protocols.
+
+The division of society is perfectly easy, according to the estimate of
+human nature made in these documents. It is human nature to take
+promises for acts. No one who considered the list of dreams and vagaries
+and theories that have swayed the people through the centuries can doubt
+this. The more utopian, the more butterfly-like the theory, the more it
+commands public adherence. Just as the Protocols say, Gentile society
+does not scrutinize the origin or the consequences of the theories it
+adopts. When a theory makes its appeal to the mind, the tendency is to
+believe that the mind which receives it always had it in essence, and
+therefore the experience has all the glow of original discovery.
+
+In this manner, theory after theory has been exploited among the masses,
+theory after theory has been found to be impracticable and has been
+discarded, but the result is precisely that which the program of the
+Protocols aims for--with the discarding of each theory, society is a
+little more broken than it was before. It is a little more helpless
+before its exploiters. It is a little more confused as to where to look
+for leadership. As a consequence society falls an easy victim again to a
+theory which promises it the good it seeks, and the failure of this
+theory leaves it still more broken. There is no longer any such thing as
+public opinion. Distrust and division are everywhere. And in the midst
+of the confusion everyone is dimly aware that there is a higher group
+that is not divided at all, but is getting exactly what it wants by
+means of the confusion that obtains all around. It will be shown, as
+claimed by the Protocols, that most of the disruptive theories abroad in
+the world today are of Jewish origin; it will also be shown that the one
+solid unbroken group in the world today, the group that knows where it
+wants to go and is going there regardless of the condition of society,
+is the Jewish group.
+
+The most dangerous theory of all is that which explains the rise of
+theories and the social break-up which follows them. These are all
+"symptoms of progress" we are told. If so, then "progress" is toward
+dissolution. No one can predicate the fact of "progress" on the ground
+that, whereas our fathers made wheels to go round with the blowing wind
+or the running water, we make them go round by successive small
+explosions of gasoline. The question of "progress" is, Where are the
+wheels taking us? Was windmill and water wheel society better or worse
+than the present society? Was it more unified in its morality? Did it
+more highly respect law, did it produce a higher and sturdier type of
+character?
+
+The modern theory of "ferment," that out of all the unrest and change
+and transvaluation of values a new and better mankind is to be evolved
+is not borne out by any fact on the horizon. It is palpably a theory
+whose purpose is to make a seeming good out of that which is undeniable
+evil. The theories which cause the disruption and the theory which
+explains the disruption as good, come from the same source. The whole
+science of economics, conservative and radical, capitalistic and
+anarchistic, is of Jewish origin. This is another of the announcements
+of the Protocols which the facts confirm.
+
+Now, all this is accomplished, not by acts, but by words. The
+word-brokers of the world, those who wish words to do duty for things,
+in their dealings with the world outside their class, are undoubtedly
+the Jewish group--the international Jews with which these articles
+deal--and their philosophy and practice are precisely set forth in the
+Protocols.
+
+Take for illustration these passages: The first is from the First
+Protocol:
+
+"Political freedom is an idea, not a fact. It is necessary to know how
+to apply this idea when there is need of a clever bait to gain the
+support of the people for one's party, if such a party has undertaken to
+defeat another party already in power. This task is made easier if the
+opponent has himself been infected by principles of freedom or so-called
+liberalism, and for the sake of the idea will yield some of his own
+power."
+
+Or consider this from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"To obtain control over public opinion, it is first necessary to confuse
+it by the expression from various sides of so many conflicting opinions
+that the Gentiles will lose themselves in the labyrinth and come to
+understand that it is best to have no opinion on political questions,
+which it is not given to society at large to understand but only to the
+ruler who directs society. This is the first secret.
+
+"The second secret consists in so increasing and intensifying the
+shortcomings of the people in their habits, passions and mode of living
+that no one will be able to collect himself in the chaos, and,
+consequently, people will lose all their mutual understanding. This
+measure will serve us also in breeding disagreement in all parties, in
+disintegrating all those collective forces which are still unwilling to
+submit to us and in discouraging all personal initiative which can in
+any way interfere with our undertaking."
+
+And this from the Thirteenth Protocol:
+
+"* * * and you may also notice that we seek approval, not for our acts,
+but for our words uttered in regard to one or another question. We
+always announce publicly that we are guided in all our measures by the
+hope and the conviction that we are serving the general good.
+
+"To divert over-restless people from discussing political questions, we
+shall now bring forward new problems apparently connected with the
+people--problems of industry. In these, let them lose themselves as much
+as they like. Under such conditions we shall make them think that the
+new questions have also a political bearing."
+
+(It is to be hoped that the reader, as his eye passes over these details
+of the Program, is also permitting his mind to pass over the trend of
+events, to see if he may detect for himself these very developments in
+the life and thought of the past few years.)
+
+"To prevent them from really thinking out anything themselves, we shall
+deflect their attention to amusements, games, pastimes, excitements and
+people's palaces. Such interests will distract their minds completely
+from questions on which we might be obliged to struggle with them.
+Becoming less and less accustomed to independent thinking, people will
+express themselves in unison with us because we alone offer new lines of
+thought--of course, through persons whom they do not consider as in any
+way connected with us."
+
+In this same Protocol it is plainly stated what is the purpose of the
+output of "liberal" theories, of which Jewish writers, poets, rabbis,
+societies and influences are the most prolific sources:
+
+"The role of the liberal Utopians will be completely played out when our
+government is recognized. Until that time they will perform good
+service. For that reason we will continue to direct thought into all the
+intricacies of fantastic theories, new and supposedly progressive.
+Surely we have been completely successful in turning the witless heads
+of the Gentiles by the word 'progress.'"
+
+Here is the whole program of confusing, enervating, and trivializing the
+mind of the world. And it would be the most outlandish thought to put
+into words, were it not possible to show that this is just what has been
+done, and is still being done, by agencies which are highly lauded and
+easy to be identified among us.
+
+A recent writer in a prominent magazine has pointed out what he calls
+the impossibility of the Jewish ruling group being allied in one common
+World Program because, as he showed, there were Jews acting as leading
+minds in all the divisions of present-day opinion. There were Jews at
+the head of the capitalists, Jews at the head of the labor unions, and
+Jews at the head of those more radical organizations which find even the
+labor unions too tame. There is a Jew at the head of the judiciary of
+England and a Jew at the head of Sovietism in Russia. How can you say,
+he asked, that they are united, when they represent so many points of
+view?
+
+The common unity, the possible common purpose of it all, is thus
+expressed in the Ninth Protocol:
+
+"People of all opinions and of all doctrines are at our service,
+restorers of monarchy, demagogues, Socialists, communists and other
+Utopians. We have put them all to work. Every one of them from his point
+of view is undermining the last remnant of authority, is trying to
+overthrow all existing order. All the governments have been tormented by
+these actions. But we will not give them peace until they recognize our
+super-government."
+
+The function of the idea is referred to in the Tenth Protocol also:
+
+"When we introduced the poison of liberalism into the government
+organism, its entire political complexion changed."
+
+The whole outlook of these Protocols upon the world is that the idea may
+be made a most potent poison. The authors of these documents do not
+believe in liberalism, they do not believe in democracy, but they lay
+plans for the constant preaching of these ideas because of their power
+to break up society, to divide it into groups, to destroy the power of
+collective opinion through a variety of convictions. The poison of an
+idea is their most relied-on weapon.
+
+The plan of thus using ideas extends to education:
+
+"We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us, but
+which we have inspired."--Protocol 9.
+
+It extends also to family life:
+
+"Having in this way inspired everybody with the thought of his own
+importance, we will break down the influence of family life among the
+Gentiles, and its educational importance."--Protocol 10.
+
+And in a passage which might well provide the material for long
+examination and contemplation by the thoughtful reader, this is said:
+
+"Until the time is ripe, let them amuse themselves * * * Let those
+theories of life which we have induced them to regard as the dictates of
+science play the most important role for them. To this end we shall
+endeavor to inspire blind confidence in these theories by means of our
+Press * * *
+
+"Note the successes we have arranged in Darwinism, Marxism, and
+Nietzscheism. The demoralizing effect of these doctrines upon the minds
+of the Gentiles should be evident at least to us."--Protocol 2.
+
+That this disintegration and division of Gentile society was proceeding
+at a favorable rate when the Protocols were uttered is evident from
+every line of them. For it must be remembered that the Protocols are not
+bidding for support for a proposed program, but are announcing progress
+on a program which has been in process of fulfillment for "centuries"
+and "from ancient times." They contain a series of statements regarding
+things accomplished, as well as a forelook at things yet to be
+accomplished. The split of Gentile society was very satisfactorily
+proceeding in 1896, or thereabouts, when these oracles were uttered.
+
+It is to be noticed that the purpose is nowhere stated to be the
+extermination of the Gentiles, but their subjugation, at first under the
+invisible rule which is proposed in these documents, at length under the
+rule of one whom the invisible forces would be able to put in control of
+the world through political changes which would create an office of
+World President or Autocrat. The Gentiles are to be subdued, first
+intellectually, as here shown, and then economically. Nowhere is it
+hinted that they are to be deprived of the earth, but only of their
+independence of those whom the Protocols represent to be Jews.
+
+How far the division of society had proceeded when these Protocols were
+given may be gathered from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"A world coalition of Gentiles could cope with us temporarily, but we
+are assured against this by roots of dissension among them so deep that
+they cannot be torn out. We have created antagonism between the personal
+and national interests of the Gentiles by arousing religious and race
+hatreds which we have nourished in their hearts for twenty centuries."
+
+As far as that concerns the dissensions of the Gentiles or Christian
+world, it is absolutely true. And we have seen in our own nation how
+"the antagonism between personal and national interests" have rested on
+"religious and race hatreds." But whoever suspected a common source for
+these? More amazing still, who would expect any man or group to avow
+themselves the source? Yet it is thus written in the Protocols--"we have
+created the antagonism--we thus assure ourselves against the possibility
+of a Gentile coalition against us." And whether these Protocols are of
+Jewish origin or not, whether they represent Jewish interests or not,
+this is exactly the state of the world, of the Gentile world, today.
+
+But a still deeper division is aimed for, and there are signs of even
+this coming to pass. Indeed, in Russia it has already come to pass, the
+spectacle of a Gentile lower class led by Jewish leaders against a
+Gentile upper class! In the First Protocol, describing the effects of a
+speculative industrial system upon the people, it is said that this sort
+of economic folly--
+
+"* * * has already created and will continue to create a society which
+is disillusioned, cold and heartless. Such a society is completely
+estranged from politics and religion. Lust of gold will be the only
+guide of the people * * * THEN, not for the sake of good, nor even for
+the sake of riches, but solely on account of their hatred of the
+privileged classes, the lower classes of the Gentiles will follow us in
+the struggle against our rivals for power, the Gentiles of the
+intellectual classes."
+
+"The lower classes of the Gentiles will follow us * * * against * * *
+the Gentiles of the intellectual classes."
+
+If that struggle were to occur today, the leaders of the Gentile
+insurgents against Gentile society would be Jewish leaders. They are in
+the leader's place now--not only in Russia, but also in the United
+States.
+
+[Issue of July 31, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"There is all the difference in the world," said a young Jewish
+philosopher, "between an American Jew and a Jewish American. A Jewish
+American is a mere amateur Gentile, doomed to be a parasite forever."
+
+--"The Conquering Jew," p. 91.
+
+XII.
+
+"Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
+
+"With the present instability of all authority, our power will be more
+unassailable than any other, because it will be invisible until it has
+gained such strength that no cunning can undermine it."--Protocol 1.
+
+"It is indispensable for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars
+should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an
+economic footing . . . . Such a condition of affairs will place both
+sides under the control of our international agents with their million
+eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. Then, our
+international rights will eliminate national rights in the narrow
+sense, and will govern the governments as they govern their
+subjects."--Protocol 2.
+
+
+As a mere literary curiosity, these documents which are called "The
+Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" would exercise a fascination by
+reason of the terrible completeness of the World Plan which they
+disclose. But they discourage at every turn the view that they are
+literature; they purport to be statesmanship, and they provide within
+their own lines the clue by which their status may be determined.
+Besides the things they look forward to doing, they announce the things
+they have done and are doing. If, in looking about the world, it is
+possible to see both the established conditions and the strong
+tendencies to which these Protocols allude, it will not be strange if
+interest in a mere literary curiosity gives way to something like
+alertness, and it may be alarm.
+
+A few general quotations will serve to illustrate the element of present
+achievement in the assertions of these documents, and in order that the
+point may be made clear to the reader the key words will be emphasized.
+
+Take this from Protocol Nine:
+
+"In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government has
+such an extra-legal status that it may be called by the energetic and
+strong word--dictatorship. I can conscientiously say that, at the
+present time, we are the lawmakers. We create courts and jurisprudence.
+We rule with a strong will because we hold in our hands the remains of a
+once strong party, now subjugated by us."
+
+And this from the Eighth Protocol:
+
+"We will surround our government with a whole world of economists. It is
+for this reason that the science of economics is the chief subject of
+instruction taught by the Jews. We shall be surrounded by a whole galaxy
+of bankers, industrialists, capitalists, and especially by millionaires
+because, actually, everything will be decided by an appeal to figures."
+
+These are strong claims, but not too strong for the facts that can be
+marshaled to illustrate them. They are, however, but an introduction to
+further claims that are made and equally paralleled by the facts. All
+through the Protocols, as in this quotation from the Eighth, the
+pre-eminence of the Jews in the teaching of political economy is
+insisted upon, and the facts bear that out. They are the chief authors
+of those vagaries which lead the mob after economic impossibilities, and
+they are also the chief teachers of political economy in our
+universities, the chief authors of those popular textbooks in the
+subject, which hold the conservative classes to the fiction that
+economic theories are economic laws. The idea, the theory, as
+instruments of social disintegration are common to both the university
+Jew and the Bolshevik Jew. When all this is shown in detail, public
+opinion upon the importance of academic and radical economics may
+undergo a change.
+
+And, as claimed in the quotation just given from the Ninth Protocol, the
+Jewish world power does today constitute a super-government. It is the
+Protocol's own word, and none is more fitting. No nation can get all
+that it wants, but the Jewish World Power can get all that it wants,
+even though its demands exceed Gentile equality. "We are the lawmakers,"
+say the Protocols, and Jewish influences have been lawmakers in a
+greater degree than any but the specialists realize. In the past ten
+years Jewish international rule, or the power of the group of
+International Jews has quite dominated the world. More than that, it has
+been powerful enough to prevent the passage of salutary laws, and where
+one law may have slipped through to a place on the statute books, it has
+been powerful enough to get it interpreted in a sense that rendered it
+useless for its purpose. This, too, can be illustrated by a large
+collection of facts.
+
+Moreover, the method by which this is done was outlined long ago in the
+program of which the Protocols purport to be an outline. "We create
+courts," continues the quotation, and it is followed in other Protocols
+by numerous references to "our judges." There is a Jewish court sitting
+in a public building in the city of New York every week, and other
+courts, for the sole advantage and use of this people whose spokesmen
+deny that they are a "separate people," are in formation everywhere. The
+Zionist plan has already been used in some of the smaller European
+countries to confer an extra-citizenship upon Jews who already enjoy
+citizenship in the lands of their residence, and in addition to that a
+degree of self-rule under the very governments which they demand to
+protect them. Wherever Jewish tendencies are permitted to work
+unhindered, the result is not "Americanization," or "Anglicization" nor
+any other distinctive nationalism, but a strong and ruling reversion
+back to essential "Judaization."
+
+The "agents" referred to in the first quotation will receive attention
+in another article. To resume the claims of the Protocols: This from the
+Seventeenth Protocol:
+
+"We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy and
+thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper us
+considerably. Their influence over the people diminishes daily.
+
+"Freedom of conscience has been proclaimed everywhere. Consequently it
+is only a question of time when the complete crash of the Christian
+religion will occur. It will be easier to handle the other religions,
+but it is too early to discuss this phase of the subject."
+
+This will be of considerable interest, perhaps, to those clergymen who
+are laboring with Jewish rabbis to bring about some kind of religious
+union. Such a union would of necessity dispose of Christ as a
+well-meaning but wholly mistaken Jewish prophet, and thus distinctive
+Christianity would cease to exist insofar as the "union" was effective.
+The principal religious aversion of the Protocols, however, so far as it
+is expressed, is against the Catholic church in general and the
+pontifical office in particular.
+
+A curious paragraph in this Protocol claims for the Jewish race a
+particular skill in the art of insult:
+
+"Our contemporary press will expose governmental and religious affairs
+and the incapacity of the Gentiles, always using expressions so
+derogatory as to approach insult, the faculty of employing which is so
+well known to our race."
+
+This from the Fifth Protocol:
+
+"Under our influence the execution of the laws of the Gentiles is
+reduced to a minimum. Respect for the law is undermined by the liberal
+interpretation we have introduced in this sphere. The courts decide as
+we dictate, even in the most important cases in which are involved
+fundamental principles or political issues, viewing them in the light in
+which we present them to the Gentile administration through agents with
+whom we have apparently nothing in common, through newspaper opinion and
+other avenues.
+
+"In Gentile society where we have planted discord and protestantism * *
+* *"
+
+The word "protestantism" is evidently not used in the religious or
+sectarian sense, but to denote a temper of querulous fault-finding
+destructive of harmonious collective opinion.
+
+This from the Fourteenth Protocol:
+
+"In countries called advanced, we have created a senseless, filthy and
+disgusting literature. For a short time after our entrance into power we
+shall encourage its existence so that it may show in greater relief the
+contrast between it and the written and spoken announcements which will
+emanate from us."
+
+Discussing in the Twelfth Protocol the control of the Press--a subject
+which must be treated more extensively in another article--the claim is
+made:
+
+"We have attained this at the present time to the extent that all news
+is received through several agencies in which it is centralized from all
+parts of the world. These agencies will then be to all intents and
+purposes our own institutions and will publish only that which we
+permit."
+
+This from the Seventh Protocol bears on the same subject:
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan, already approaching its triumphant
+goal, by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion,
+which has been organized by us with the help of the so-called 'great
+power' of the press. With a few exceptions not worth considering, it is
+already in our hands."
+
+To resume the Twelfth Protocol:
+
+"If we have already managed to dominate the mind of Gentile society to
+such a point that almost all see world affairs through the colored
+lenses of the spectacles which we place before their eyes, and if now
+there is not one government with barriers erected against our access to
+that which by Gentile stupidity is called state secrets, what then will
+it be when we are the recognized masters of the world in the person of
+our universal ruler?"
+
+The Jewish nation is the only nation that possesses the secrets of all
+the rest. No nation long protects a secret which directly concerns
+another nation, but even so, no nation has all the secrets of all the
+other nations. Yet it is not too much to say that the International Jews
+have this knowledge. Much of it, of course, amounts to nothing and their
+possession of it does not materially add to their power, but the fact
+that they have the access, that they can get whatever they want when
+they want it is the important point--as many a secret paper could
+testify if it could talk, and many a custodian of secret papers could
+tell if he would. The real secret diplomacy of the world is that which
+hands over the world's so-called secrets to a few men who are members of
+one race. The surface of diplomacy, those activities which get written
+down in the memoirs of comfortably aging statesmen, those coups and
+treaties which are given high-sounding fame as if they really were
+important--that is incomparable with the diplomacy of Judah, and its
+matchless enginery for worming out the hidden knowledge of every ruling
+group. The United States is included in all these statements. Perhaps
+there is no government in the world so completely at their service as
+our own at present, their control having been gained during the past
+five or six years.
+
+The Protocols do not regard the dispersal of the Jews abroad upon the
+face of the earth as a calamity, but as a providential arrangement by
+which the World Plan can be more certainly executed, as see these words
+of the Eleventh Protocol:
+
+"God gave to us, His Chosen People, as a blessing, the dispersal, and
+this which has appeared to all to be our weakness has been our whole
+strength. It has now brought us to the threshold of universal rule."
+
+The claims to accomplishment which are put forth in the Ninth Protocol
+would be too massive for words were they too massive for concrete
+realization, but there is a point where the word and the actuality meet
+and tally.
+
+"In order not to destroy prematurely the Gentile institutions, we have
+laid our efficient hands on them, and rasped the springs of their
+mechanism. They were formerly in strict and just order, but we have
+replaced them with a liberal disorganized and arbitrary administration.
+We have tampered with jurisprudence, the franchise, the press, freedom
+of the person, and, most important of all, education and culture, the
+corner stone of free existence.
+
+"We have misled, stupefied and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories patently false to us, but
+which we have inspired.
+
+"Above existing laws, without actual change but by distorting them
+through contradictory interpretations, we have created something
+stupendous in the way of results."
+
+Everyone knows that, in spite of the fact that the air was never so full
+of theories of liberty and wild declarations of "rights," there has been
+a steady curtailment of "personal freedom." Instead of being socialized,
+the people, under a cover of socialistic phrases, are being brought
+under an unaccustomed bondage to the state. The Public Health is one
+plea. Various forms of Public Safety are other pleas. Children are
+hardly free to play nowadays except under play-masters appointed by the
+State, among whom, curiously enough, an astonishing proportion of Jews
+manage to find a place. The streets are no longer as free as they were;
+laws of every kind are hedging upon the harmless liberties of the
+people. A steady tendency toward systemization, every phase of the
+tendency based upon some very learnedly stated "principle," has set in,
+and curiously enough, when the investigator pursues his way to the
+authoritative center of these movements for the regulation of people's
+life, he finds Jews in power. Children are being lured away from the
+"social center" of the home for other "centers"; they are being led away
+(and we are speaking of Gentile children--no Gentiles are ever allowed
+to regulate the lives of Jewish children) from their natural leaders in
+home, church and school, to institutionalized "centers" and scientific
+"play spots," under "trained leaders" whose whole effect, consciously or
+unconsciously, is to lead the modern child to look to the State, instead
+of its natural environment, for leadership. All this focuses up to the
+World Plan for the subjugation of the Gentiles, and if it is not the
+Jewish World Plan it would be interesting to know why the material for
+it is so largely Gentile children and the leaders of it so often of the
+Jewish race.
+
+Jewish liberties are the best safeguarded in the United States. Gentiles
+take their chance with public matters, but every Jewish community is
+surrounded by special protectors who gain special recognition by various
+devices--political and business threats not the least of them. No public
+spirited Gentiles are welcomed to the task of regulating the lives of
+Jewish children. The Jewish community in every city is all-sufficient in
+itself as far as such activities go. The most secret of all parochial
+schools are the Jewish schools, whose very locations are not all known
+to the officials of large cities. The Jew is almost anxious in his
+efforts to mold the Gentile mind; he insists on being permitted to tell
+the Gentile what to think, especially about the Jew; he is not averse to
+influencing general Gentile thought in a manner which, though it come
+about by wide circles, works ultimately into the Jewish scheme of
+things. The anxiety and the insistence, so well known to all who have
+observed them, are only reflections of the Jew's conviction that his is
+the superior race and is capable of directing the inferior race--of
+which there is but one, including the whole non-Jewish world.
+
+Every influence that leads to lightness and looseness in Gentile youth
+today heads up in a Jewish source. Did the young people of the world
+devise the "sport clothes" which have had so deleterious an effect on
+the youth of the times that every publicist has thought it worthy of
+mention? Those styles come out of Jewish clothing concerns, where
+certainly art is not the rule nor moral influence the main
+consideration. The moving picture is an interesting development of
+photography allied with the show business, but whose is the
+responsibility for its development along such lines as make it a menace
+to the minds of millions--so serious a menace that it has not escaped
+observation and condemnation everywhere? Who are the masters of musical
+jazz in the world? Who direct all the cheap jewelry houses, the
+bridge-head show parks, the "coney islands," the centers of nervous
+thrills and looseness? It is possible to take the showy young man and
+woman of trivial outlook and loose sense of responsibility, and tag them
+outwardly and inwardly from their clothing and ornaments to their hectic
+ideas and hopes, with the same tag, "Made, introduced and exploited by a
+Jew."
+
+There is, therefore, something most sinister in the light which events
+cast upon that paragraph:
+
+"We have misled, stupefied, and demoralized the youth of the Gentiles by
+means of education in principles and theories, patently false to us but
+which we have inspired."
+
+"Principles and theories" do not necessarily imply lofty or even modest
+intellectual qualities. The youngster who spends his noon hours and
+evenings at the movies is getting his "principles and theories" just as
+the more intellectual youngster from a higher grade of society who
+listens to a Jewish "liberal" expound "sex liberty" and the "control of
+population" is getting his. The looseness which inheres in these
+"principles and theories" does not emanate from the Gentile home, or the
+Gentile church, or from any line of money-making which is filled
+principally with Gentiles, but from theories, movements and lines of
+money-making mostly fancied by Jews. This line of accusation could be
+run much deeper, but it is preferred to restrict it to what is
+observable by decent eyes everywhere.
+
+And that "the youth of the Gentiles" are the principal victims, and not
+the youth of the Jews, is also observable. While a certain percentage of
+Jewish youth itself is overcome by this social poison, the percentage is
+almost nothing compared with the results among the youth of the
+Gentiles. It is a significant fact that Jews who link this process of
+enervation of Gentiles with large profits are not themselves, nor are
+their sons and daughters, the victims of this enervation. Jewish youth
+comes through more proudly and more cleanly than the mass of Gentile
+youth.
+
+Many a father and mother, many a sound-minded, uncorrupted young person,
+and thousands of teachers and publicists have cried out against luxury.
+Many a financier, observing the manner in which the people earned and
+flung away their money, has warned against luxury. Many an economist,
+knowing that the nonessential industries were consuming men and
+materials that were necessary to the stabilizing of essential
+industries; knowing that men are making knick-knacks who should be
+making steel; knowing that men are engaged in making gew-gaws who should
+be working on the farm; that materials are going into articles that are
+made only to sell and never to use, and that materials are thus diverted
+from the industries that support the people's life--every observer
+knowing this crazy insistence on luxurious nonessentials has lifted up a
+strong voice against it.
+
+But, according to these Protocols, we have been starting at the wrong
+end. The people, it is true, buy these senseless nonessentials which are
+called luxuries. But the people do not devise them. And the people grow
+tired of them one by one. But the stream of varieties continues--always
+something else being thrust at the people, dangled before their eyes,
+set bobbing down the avenue on enough mannikins to give the impression
+that it is "style"; newspaper print and newspaper pictures; movie
+pictures; stage costumes enough to force the new thing into "fashion"
+with a kind of force and compulsion which no really worthy essential
+thing can command.
+
+Where does it come from? What power exists whose long experience and
+deliberate intent enable it to frivolize the people's minds and tastes
+and compel them to pay most of their money for it too? Why this spasm of
+luxury and extravagance through which we have just passed? How did it
+occur that before luxury and extravagance were apparent, all the
+material to provoke and inflame them had been prepared beforehand and
+shipped beforehand, ready for the stampede which also had been prepared?
+
+If the people of the United States would stop to consider, when the
+useless and expensive thing is offered them--if they would trace its
+origin, trace the course of the enormous profits made out of it, trace
+the whole movement to flood the market with uselessness and extravagance
+and thus demoralize the Gentile public financially, intellectually, and
+socially--if, in short, it could be made clear to them that Jewish
+financial interests are not only pandering to the loosest elements in
+human nature, but actually engaged in a calculated effort to render them
+loose in the first place and keep them loose--it would do more than
+anything else to stop this sixfold waste--the waste of material, the
+waste of labor, the waste of Gentile money, the waste of Gentile mind,
+the waste of Jewish talent, and the worse than waste of Israel's real
+usefulness to the world.
+
+We say the Gentile public is the victim of this stimulated trade in
+useless luxuries. Did you ever see Jewish people so victimized? They
+might wear very noticeable clothing, but its price and its quality
+agree. They might wear rather large diamonds, but they are diamonds. The
+Jew is not the victim of the Jew, the craze for luxuries is just like
+the "coney island" crowd to him; he knows what attracts them and the
+worthlessness of it.
+
+And it is not so much the financial loss that is to be mourned, nor yet
+the atrocities committed upon good taste, but the fact that the silly
+Gentile crowds walk into the net willingly, even gaily, supposing the
+change of the fashion to be as inevitable as the coming of spring,
+supposing the new demand on their earnings to be as necessary and as
+natural as taxes. The crowds think that somehow they have part in it,
+when their only part is to pay, and then pay again for the new
+extravagance when the present one palls. There are men in this country
+who know two years ahead what the frivolities and extravagances of the
+people will be, because they decree what they shall be. These things are
+strictly business, demoralizing to the Gentile majority, enriching to
+the Jewish minority.
+
+Look at the Sixth Protocol for a sidelight on all this:
+
+This is an excerpt from a longer passage dealing with the plans by which
+the people's interest could be swung from political to industrial
+questions, how industry could be made insecure and unfair by the
+introduction of speculation into its management, and finally how against
+this condition the people could be rendered restless and helpless.
+Luxury was to be the instrument:
+
+"To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this
+speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for
+luxuries--all enticing luxuries."
+
+And in the First Protocol:
+
+"Surely we cannot allow our own people to come to this. The people of
+the Gentiles are stupefied with spirituous liquors * * *"
+
+--incidentally, the profits of spirituous liquors flow in large amounts
+to Jewish pockets. The history of the whiskey ring in this country will
+show this. Historically, the whole prohibition movement may be described
+as a contest between Gentile and Jewish capital, and in this instance,
+thanks to the Gentile majority, the Gentiles won.
+
+The amusement, gambling, jazz song, scarlet fiction, side show,
+cheap-dear fashions, flashy jewelry, and every other activity that lived
+by reason of an invisible pressure upon the people, and that exchanged
+the most useless of commodities for the prices that would just exhaust
+the people's money surplus and no more--every such activity has been
+under the mastery of the Jews.
+
+They may not be conscious of their participation in any wholesale
+demoralization of the people. They may only be conscious of "easy
+money." They may sometimes yield to surprise as they contrast the silly
+Gentiles with their own money-wise and fabric-wise and metal-wise Jews.
+But however this may be, there is the conception of a program by which a
+people may be deliberately devastated materially and spiritually, and
+yet kept pleasant all the time--and there also is the same program
+translated into terms of daily transactions and for the most part,
+perhaps altogether under control of the members of one race.
+
+[Issue of August 7, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XIII.
+
+"Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
+
+
+The method by which the Protocols work for the breakdown of society
+should now be fairly evident to readers of these articles. An
+understanding of the method is necessary if one is to find the meaning
+of the currents and cross-currents which make so hopeless a hodge-podge
+of the present times. People who are confused and discouraged by the
+various voices and discordant theories of today, each seeming to be
+plausible and promising, may find a clear clue to the value of the
+voices and the meaning of the theories if they understand that their
+confusion and discouragement comprise the very objective which is
+sought. The uncertainty, hesitation, hopelessness, fear; the eagerness
+with which every promising plan and offered solution is grasped--these
+are the very reactions which the program outlined in the Protocols aims
+to produce. The condition is proof of the efficacy of the program.
+
+It is a method that takes time, and the Protocols declare that it has
+taken time, indeed, centuries. Students of the matter find the identical
+program of the Protocols, announced and operated by the Jewish race,
+from the first century onward.
+
+It has taken 1900 years to bring Europe to its present degree of
+subjugation--violent subjugation in some countries, political
+subjugation in some, economic subjugation in all--but in America the
+same program, with almost the same degree of success, has required about
+50 years. Certain mistaken ideas of liberalism, certain flabby ideas of
+tolerance, all of them originating at European sources which the
+Protocolists had completely polluted, were transported to America, and
+here under cover of the blindness and innocence of a false liberalism
+and tolerance, together with modern appliances for the swift
+acceleration of opinion, there has been worked a subjugation of our
+institutions and public thought which is the amazement of European
+observers. It is a fact that some of the important students of the
+Jewish Question, whom Jewish publicists are pleased to damn with the
+term "Anti-Semites," have been awakened to the existence of the Question
+not by what they have observed in Europe, but by what they have seen in
+the swift and distinct "close-up" which has been afforded in American
+affairs.
+
+The center of Jewish power, the principal sponsors of the Jewish
+program, are resident in America, and the leverage which was used at the
+Peace Conference to fasten Jewish power more securely upon Europe, was
+American leverage exercised at the behest of the strong Jewish pressure
+which was brought from the United States for that purpose. And these
+activities did not end with the Peace Conference.
+
+The whole method of the Protocols may be described in one word,
+Disintegration. The undoing of what has been done, the creation of a
+long and hopeless interim in which attempts at reconstruction shall be
+baffled, and the gradual wearing down of public opinion and public
+confidence, until those who stand outside the created chaos shall insert
+their strong calm hand to seize control--that is the whole method of
+procedure.
+
+Putting together the estimate of human nature which obtains in these
+Protocols, and their claims to a rather definite though as yet
+incomplete fulfillment of the World Program (these two comprising the
+themes of the previous two articles), some of the aspects of this
+propaganda of disintegration have become clear. But not all of them.
+There are yet other aspects of these methods, which will be dealt with
+in the present article, and there are yet future reaches of the program
+which will be considered later.
+
+The first point of attack is Collective Opinion, that body of ideas
+which through men's agreement with them, holds large groups together in
+political, racial, religious, or social unity. Sometimes we call them
+"standards," sometimes we call them "ideals"; whatever they may be
+called, they are the invisible bonds of unity, they are the common
+faith, they are the great overarching reason for group unity and
+loyalty.
+
+The Protocols assert that here the first attack has been made. The
+history of Jewish propaganda in the world shows that also.
+
+The first wave of attack is to corrupt Collective Opinion. Now, to
+"corrupt" in the real sense does not mean anything unsavory or unclean.
+The whole power of every heresy is its attractiveness to the good mind.
+The whole explanation of the strong hold which untruth has gained upon
+the world of our day, is that the untruth is reasonable, inspiring and
+apparently good. It is only after a long discipline in false
+ideals--which are reasonable, inspiring and good--that the evil fruits
+appear in acts and conditions which are unreasonable, destructive and
+wholly evil. If you will trace the idea of Liberty as it has appeared in
+Russian history, from its philosophic beginning (a Jewish beginning, by
+the way) to its present ending (a Jewish ending also), you will see the
+process.
+
+The Protocols claim that the Gentiles are not thinkers, that attractive
+ideas have been thrown at them so strategically and persistently that
+the power of thought is almost destroyed out of them. Fortunately this
+is a matter on which any Gentile may apply his own test. If he will
+segregate his ruling ideas, especially those that center round the
+thought of "democracy," he will discover that he is being ruled in his
+mind by a whole company of ideas into whose authority over him he has
+not inquired at all. He is ruled by "say so" whose origin he has not
+traced. And when, pursuing those ideas, he finds that they are not
+practicable, he is received by the explanation that "we are not yet
+sufficiently advanced." Yet when he does see men who are sufficiently
+"advanced" to put these very ideas into operation, he recoils from what
+he sees them do, because he knows that "advancement" such as that is
+deterioration--a form of disintegration. Yet every one of the ideas were
+"good," "reasonable," "inspiring," "humane," to begin with. And, if this
+Gentile will observe a little further, he will see that they are the
+most persistently preached ideas in the world; he will also see who the
+preachers are.
+
+The Protocols distinctly declare that it is by means of the set of
+ideals which cluster around "democracy," that their first victory over
+public opinion was obtained. The idea is the weapon. And to be a weapon
+it must be an idea at variance with the natural trend of life. It must
+indeed be a theory opposed to the facts of life. And no theory so
+opposed can be expected to take root and become the ruling factor,
+unless it appeals to the mind as reasonable, inspiring and good. The
+Truth frequently seems unreasonable; the Truth frequently is depressing;
+the Truth sometimes seems to be evil; but it has this eternal advantage,
+it is the Truth, and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to
+confusion.
+
+This first step does not give the control of public opinion, but leads
+up to it. It is worthy of note that it is the sowing of "the poison of
+liberalism," as the Protocols name it, which comes first in order in
+those documents. Then, following upon that, the Protocols say:
+
+"To obtain control over public opinion it is first necessary to confuse
+it."
+
+Truth is one and cannot be confused, but this false, appealing
+liberalism which has been sown broadcast, and which is ripening faster
+under Jewish nurture in America than ever it did in Europe, is easily
+confused because it is not truth. It is error, and error has a thousand
+forms. Take a nation, a party, a city, an association in which "the
+poison of liberalism" has been sown, and you can split that up into as
+many factions as there are individuals simply by throwing among them
+certain modifications of the original idea. This is a piece of strategy
+well known to the forces that invisibly control mass-thought. Theodor
+Herzl, the arch-Jew, a man whose vision was wider than any statesman's
+and whose program paralleled the Protocols, knew this many years ago
+when he said that the Zionist (cryptic for "Jewish") state would come
+before the Socialist state could come; he knew with what endless
+divisions the "liberalism" which he and his predecessors had planted
+would be shackled and crippled.
+
+The process of which all Gentiles have been the victims, but never the
+Jews--never the Jews!--is just this--
+
+First, to create an ideal of "broad-mindedness." That is the phrase
+which appears in every Jewish remonstrance against public mention of the
+Jew and his alleged World Program: "We thought you were too broad-minded
+a man to express such thoughts;" "we thought Mr. So-and-So was too
+broad-minded a man to suspect the Jews of this;" "we thought the daily
+or weekly or monthly such-and-such a paper was too broad-minded
+editorially to consider such material." It is a sort of keyword,
+indicative of the state of mind in which it is desired that the Gentles
+be kept. It is a state of flabby tolerance. A state of mind which mouths
+meaningless phrases about Liberty, phrases which act as an opiate on the
+mind and conscience and which allow all sorts of things to be done under
+cover. The phrase, the slogan, is a very dependable Jewish weapon. ("In
+all times people have accepted words for acts."--Protocol 5.) The
+reality behind the phrase the Protocols frankly admit to be
+non-existent.
+
+Nothing has served to create "broad-mindedness," a state of mind whose
+breadth indicates its lack of depth, so much as the ideas of liberalism
+which the Jews are constantly teaching to Gentiles and on which they
+never themselves act. We need a new sort of allegiance to the reality of
+life, to the facts as they are, which will enable us to stand up under
+all cajoling to "broad-mindness" and assert a new intolerance of
+everything but truth. The terms "narrow" and "broad" as they are used
+today represent lies. The liberal man ought to believe more, he ought to
+be deep and wide in his beliefs in order to merit that name; but as a
+usual thing he believes nothing. He is not liberal at all. When you seek
+belief, belief with a foundation, belief with vitality, you must seek it
+among men who are sneered at, under this false Jewish-propagated notion
+of liberality, as "narrow men." Jewish propaganda, in common with the
+Protocols, is against men who have dug down to the rock; they want
+"broad-minded men" who can easily be shifted about the surface and thus
+serve the invisible scheme in any manner desired. This type of men, on
+their part, never imagine but that their "broad-mindedness" is a mark of
+their superiority and independence.
+
+Now, see what follows. Men are born believers. For a time they may
+believe in "broad-mindedness" and under the terrific social pressure
+that has been set up in its favor they will openly espouse it. But it is
+too shallow to satisfy any growing roots of life. They must believe,
+deeply, something. For proof of this, notice the undeniable strength of
+the negative beliefs which are held by men who fancy that they believe
+nothing. Therefore, some who are highly endowed with independence of
+spirit, root down into those prohibited matters which at some point
+touch Jewish concerns--these are the "narrow" men. But others find it
+more convenient to cultivate those departments which promise a highway
+whereon there shall be no clashes of vital opinion, no chance of the
+charge of "intolerance"; in short they transfer all their contemplative
+powers to the active life, even as it is written in the Protocols--
+
+"To divert Gentile thought and observation, interest must be deflected
+to industry and commerce."
+
+It is amazing to look around and see the number of men who have been
+actually browbeaten into committing their whole lives to these secondary
+or even tertiary things, while they look with great timidity and
+aversion at the vital things which really rule the world and upon the
+issue of which the world really depends.
+
+But it is just this deflection to the materialistic base that offers the
+Protocolists, and similarly Jewish propagandists, their best hold.
+"Broad-mindedness" today consists in leaving vital matters severely
+alone. It descends quickly to material-mindedness. Within this lower
+sphere all the discord which distresses the world today is to be found.
+
+First, there is the ruin of the upper circles of industry and commerce:
+
+"To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin
+Gentile society, industry must be placed on a speculative basis."
+
+No one needs to be told what this means. It means, as everything about
+us shouts, the prostitution of service to profits and the eventual
+disappearance of the profits. It means that the high art of management
+degenerates into exploitation. It means reckless confusion among the
+managers and dangerous unrest among the workmen.
+
+But it means something worse; it means the splitting up of Gentile
+society. Not a division between "Capital" and "Labor," but the division
+between the Gentiles at both ends of the working scheme. Gentile
+managers and manufacturers are not the "capitalists" of the United
+States. Most of them have to go to the "capitalists" for the funds with
+which they work--and the "capitalists" are Jewish, International Jews.
+
+But with Jewish capital at one end of the Gentile working scheme putting
+the screws on the manufacturers, and with Jewish agitators and
+disruptionists and subversives at the other end of the Gentile working
+scheme putting the screws on the workmen, we have a condition at which
+the world-managers of the Protocol program must be immensely satisfied.
+
+"We might fear the combined strength of the Gentiles of vision with the
+blind strength of the masses, but we have taken all measures against
+such a possible contingency by raising a wall of mutual antagonism
+between these two forces. Thus, the blind force of the masses remains
+our support. We, and we alone, shall serve as their leaders. Naturally,
+we will direct their energy to achieve our end."--Protocol 9.
+
+The indication that they are highly satisfied is that they are not only
+not doing anything to relieve the situation, but are apparently willing
+to have it made worse, and if it be at all possible for them to do so
+they would like to see this coming winter, and the privations which are
+scheduled for it (unless Gentile flabbiness before the Jewish power,
+high and low, receives a new backbone), bring the United States to the
+verge of, if not across the very line of Bolshevism. They know the whole
+method of artificial scarcity and high prices. It was practiced in the
+French Revolution and in Russia. All the signs of it are in this country
+too.
+
+Industrial problems for their mental food and light amusement for their
+leisure hours, these are the Protocols' method with regard to the
+Gentile mind, and under cover of these the work is to be done--the work
+which is best expressed by the motto, "Divide and Rule."
+
+Read this:
+
+"To divert over-restless people from discussing political questions, we
+shall now bring forward new problems apparently connected with
+them--problems of industry."--Protocol 13.
+
+Has not everyone been struck by the divorcement which exists in this
+country between the mass-thought which is almost exclusively devoted to
+industrial questions, and the party-thought which is endeavoring to keep
+the field of pure politics? And is it not a fact that our friends, the
+Jews, are strongly entrenched in both fields--in politics to keep it
+reactionary, and in industrial circles to keep it radical--and so widen
+the split? And what is this split but a split of the Gentiles?--for
+society is Gentile, and the disruptive influences are Jewish.
+
+Read this:
+
+"We have included in the constitution rights for the people that are
+fictitious and not actual rights. All those so-called 'rights of the
+people' can only exist in the abstract and can never be realized in
+practice * * * The proletarian gains no more from the constitution than
+the miserable crumbs thrown from our table in return for his votes to
+elect our agents and pass our measures. Republican rights are a bitter
+irony to the poor man, for the pressure of daily labor prevents him from
+using them, and at the same time, deprives him of the guaranty of a
+permanent and certain livelihood by making him dependent upon strikes,
+organized either by his employers or his comrades."--Protocol 3.
+
+This remark about strikes is not at all puzzling to anyone who has
+studied the different types of strikes in this country. The number
+fomented from above the working class is astoundingly large.
+
+Read this also:
+
+"We will force up wages, which, however, will be of no benefit to the
+workers, for we will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of
+necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture
+and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply undermine the
+sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas of
+anarchy."--Protocol 6.
+
+And this:
+
+"We will represent ourselves as the saviours of the working class who
+have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting that they
+join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to whom we always
+extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of universal
+human solidarity."--Protocol 3.
+
+"Broad-mindedness" again! In this connection it is always well to
+remember the words of Sir Eustace Percy, heretofore quoted, words which
+are sponsored by Jews themselves--"Not because the Jew cares for the
+positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to be a
+partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because no
+existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but distasteful
+to him."
+
+Or, as the author of "The Conquering Jew" says: "He is democratic in his
+sentiments, but not in his nature. When he proclaims the common
+brotherhood of man, he is asking that the social gate now closed against
+him in so many quarters shall be open to him; not because he wants
+equality, but because he desires to be master in the social world, as he
+is showing himself in so may other spheres. Many an honorable Jew will,
+I doubt not, dispute the accuracy of this distinction; but if he does it
+will be because he has lived so long in the atmosphere of the West that
+he is unconscious of what is bred in the bone of his Eastern race."
+
+It is not difficult, therefore, to see the genealogy of the Jewish ideas
+of liberalism from their origin to their latest effects upon Gentile
+life. The confusion aimed for is here. There is not a reader of these
+lines who has not felt in his own life the burden of it. Bewilderment
+characterizes the whole mental climate of the people today. They do not
+know what to believe. First one set of facts is given to them, then
+another. First one explanation of conditions is given to them, and then
+another. The fact-shortage is acute. There is a whole market-full of
+explanations that explain nothing, but only deepen the confusion. The
+government itself seems to be hampered, and whenever it starts on a line
+of investigation finds itself mysteriously tangled up so that procedure
+is difficult. This governmental aspect is also set forth in the
+Protocols.
+
+Add to this the onslaught on the human tendency toward religion, which
+is usually the last barrier to fall before violence and robbery
+unashamed stalk forth. In order to bring the condition about at which
+this World Program aims, the Fourth Protocol says:
+
+"It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from the
+minds of the Gentiles the very principles of God and Soul, and replace
+these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material desires."
+
+"When we deprived the masses of their belief in God, ruling authority
+was thrown into the gutter, where it became public property, and we
+seized it."--Protocol 5.
+
+"We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile
+clergy."--Protocol 17.
+
+"When we become rulers we shall regard as undesirable the existence of
+any religion except our own, proclaiming One God with Whom our fate is
+tied as The Chosen People, and by Whom our fate has been made one with
+the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all other
+religions. If thereby should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a
+transition step, this will not interfere with our aims."--Protocol 14.
+
+This will probably offer matter for reflection by the "broad-minded."
+
+It is curious to note how this religious program has worked out in
+Russia where Trotsky (as loudly heralded in the American Jewish Press)
+is said to have no religion, and where Jewish commissars tell dying
+Russians who ask for priests, "We have abolished the Almighty." Miss
+Katherine Dokoochief is reported, under a Philadelphia date, to have
+told the Near East Relief that Russian Christian churches have been
+subjected to the vilest indignities by the Bolsheviki, details of which
+she gives; but "the synagogues remain untouched, meeting with no
+damage."
+
+All these lines of attack, whose object is the destruction of the
+natural rallying points of Gentile thought, and the substitution of
+other rallying points of an unwholesome and destructive nature, are
+assisted, as we saw in the last article, by the propaganda for luxury.
+Luxury is recognizedly one of the most enervating influences. Its course
+runs from ease, through softness, to flabbiness, to degeneracy, mental,
+physical and moral. Its beginnings are attractive, its end is
+lasciviousness in some form, testifying to the complete breakdown of all
+the strong fiber of the life. It may make a theme for a more complete
+study some day, this lure to lasciviousness through luxury, and the
+identity of the forces that set the lure.
+
+But now, to conclude this general view of the method, rather this part
+of the method, the confusion itself, which all these influences converge
+to produce, is expected to produce another more deeply helpless state.
+And that state is, Exhaustion.
+
+It needs no imagination to see what this means. Exhaustion is today one
+of the conditions that menace the people. The recent political
+conventions and their effect upon the public fully illustrate it. Nobody
+seemed to care. Parties might make their declarations and candidates
+their promises--nobody cared. The war and its strain began the
+exhaustion; the "peace" and its confusion have about completed it. The
+people believe little and expect less. Confidence is gone. Initiative is
+nearly gone. The failure of movements falsely heralded as "people's
+movements" has gone far to make the people think that no people's
+movement is possible.
+
+So say the Protocols:
+
+"To wear everyone out by dissensions, animosities, feuds, famine,
+inoculation of diseases, want, until the Gentiles see no other way of
+escape except an appeal to our money and power."--Protocol 10.
+
+"We will so wear out and exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they will
+be compelled to offer us an international authority, which by its
+position will enable us to absorb without disturbance all the
+governmental forces of the world and thus form a super-government.
+
+"We must so direct the education of Gentile society that its hands will
+drop in the weakness of discouragement in the face of any undertaking
+where initiative is needed."--Protocol 5.
+
+The Jews have never been worn out or exhausted. They have never been
+nonplused. This is the true psychic characteristic of those who have a
+clue to the maze. It is the unknown that exhausts the mind, the constant
+wandering around among tendencies and influences whose source is not
+known and whose purpose is not understood. Walking in the dark is
+wearing work. The Gentiles have been doing it for centuries. The others,
+having a pretty accurate idea what it was all about, have not succumbed.
+Even persecution is endurable if it is understandable, and the Jews of
+the world have always known just where it fitted in the scheme of
+things. Gentiles have suffered from Jewish persecutions than have the
+Jews, for after the persecutions were over, the Gentile was as much in
+the dark as ever; whereas Judaism simply took up again its century-long
+march toward a goal in which it implicitly believes, and which, some say
+who have deep knowledge of Jewish roots in the world and who too may be
+touched with exhaustion, they will achieve. However this may be, the
+revolution which would be necessary to unfasten the International Jewish
+system from its grip on the world, would probably have to be just as
+radical as any attempts the Jews have made to attain that grip. There
+are those who express serious doubts that the Gentiles are competent to
+do it at all. Maybe not. Let them at least know who their conquerors
+are.
+
+[Issue of August 14, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XIV.
+
+Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
+
+
+Before proceeding to a more detailed study of the connection between the
+written program of the documents which are called "The Protocols of the
+Learned Elders of Zion," and the actual program as it can be traced in
+real life, we shall now view those plans which were future when the
+Protocols were uttered. It must be borne in mind, however, that what was
+future in 1896 and 1905, may be past today, that what was plan then may
+be fulfillment now. To bear this in mind will be in exact accord with
+the expression of Protocol 22--"I have endeavored to indicate carefully
+the secrets of past and future events, and of those momentous
+occurrences of the near future toward which we are rushing in a stream
+of great crises." Some of those "momentous occurrences" have come to
+pass, and with them a brighter light on the Question which we are
+studying.
+
+An illustration of this which is fresh in the minds of all was furnished
+by the Great War. Jewish comment on this series of articles has made
+much of the fact that one of the articles was devoted to the then
+prominence of the Jewish Question in Germany, and it was sought to
+mislead the people to think that this series was really a part of subtle
+German after-the-war propaganda. The fact is that articles on the
+Question in a number of countries were set aside in order to bring the
+Question itself prominently before the minds of Americans with the least
+delay. The postponed articles will appear in due season, though out of
+their order. Germany is today, with perhaps the possible exception of
+the United States, the most Jew-controlled country in the
+world--controlled within and from without--and a much stronger set of
+facts could be presented now than was presented in the original article
+(the facts of which were at first denied and later admitted by the
+Jewish spokesmen in the United States). For, since that article was
+written, public sentiment in Germany has swept the Jews largely out of
+public office. German public opinion exerted itself to the utmost to put
+German political administration back into German hands. But did that
+liberate Germany from the Jews? Not at all. For their entrenchments
+stretched further and deeper than mere display of official power. Their
+hold on the basic industries, the finances, the future of Germany has
+not been loosened in the least. It is there, unmovable. In what that
+hold consists, the reader will be told at some convenient time.
+
+Germany is mentioned now, in connection with the Jews, for this purpose:
+It will be remembered that it was from Germany that the first cry of
+"annexations" came, and it came at a time when all German war activities
+and war sentiment were admittedly in Jewish control. "Annexations" was
+the cry that flashed across the world one day. And back across the
+world, from the United States, a nation that was not even a party to the
+war at that time, the word flashed back, "No Annexations." Thus by a
+dramatic play the whole question was thrust before the world.
+
+Soon the people of all countries had forgotten the blood of battle, the
+war profiteers and every other vital point, and were discussing a matter
+which belonged to the end of the war and not the beginning, the question
+of "annexations." Now, when it is known who were controlling the
+formulation of war-aims in Germany and who were the chief counselors of
+the foreign policy of the United States at the same time, the projection
+of this question of "annexations" into the world's mind becomes
+interesting; interesting but not wholly intelligible.
+
+Not until you read the Protocols do you get a full light on this--and
+this report of the Protocols which is now given the world probably dates
+from 1896; there is absolutely ironclad proof of the date 1905.
+
+The Second Protocol begins on the note of war, and its opening words are
+these:
+
+"It is indispensable for our purpose that as far as possible, wars
+should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an
+economic footing, and nations will perceive the strength of our
+superiority in the aid we render."
+
+Who was thinking, between 1896 and 1905, of the new "no annexations"
+rule to be applied to war? Were you? Do you know of any statesman who
+was? We know that military men were concerned about the appliances and
+operations of any future war that might occur. We know that statesmen,
+of the more responsible sort, were working to consolidate a balance of
+interests that would make war extremely improbable. Who had outdistanced
+them all in foresight and planning sufficiently to lay down a definite
+program of "no annexations?"
+
+Fortunately the clue to the answer is supplied to us by unquestionable
+Jewish sources. The American Jewish News of September 19, 1919, had an
+advertisement on its front page which read thus:
+
+"WHEN PROPHETS SPEAK
+
+By Litman Rosenthal
+
+Many years ago Nordau prophesied the Balfour Declaration. Litman
+Rosenthal, his intimate friend, relates this incident in a fascinating
+memoir.
+
+The article, on page 464, begins: "It was on Saturday, the day after the
+closing of the Sixth Congress, when I received a telephone message from
+Dr. Herzl asking me to call on him."
+
+This fixes the time. The Sixth Zionist Congress was held at Basle in
+August, 1903.
+
+The memoir continues: "On entering the lobby of the hotel I met Herzl's
+mother who welcomed me with her usual gracious friendliness and asked me
+whether the feelings of the Russian Zionists were now calmer.
+
+"'Why just the Russian Zionists, Frau Herzl?' I asked. 'Why do you only
+inquire about these?'
+
+"'Because my son,' she explained, 'is mostly interested in the Russian
+Zionists. He considers them the quintessence, the most vital part of the
+Jewish people.'"
+
+At this Sixth Congress the British Government ("Herzl and his agents had
+kept in contact with the English Government"--Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol.
+12, page 678) had offered the Jews a colony in Uganda, East Africa.
+Herzl was in favor of taking it, not as a substitute for Palestine, but
+as a step toward it. It was this which formed the chief topic of
+conversation between Herzl and Litman Rosenthal in that Basle hotel.
+Herzl said to Rosenthal, as reported in this article: "There is a
+difference between the final aim and the ways we have to go to achieve
+this aim."
+
+Suddenly Max Nordau, who seems at the conference held last month in
+London to have become Herzl's successor, entered the room, and the
+Rosenthal interview was ended.
+
+Let the reader now follow attentively the important part of this
+Rosenthal story:--(the italics are ours)
+
+"About a month later I went on a business trip to France. On my way to
+Lyons I stopped in Paris, and there I visited, as usual, our Zionist
+friends. One of them told me that this very same evening Dr. Nordau was
+scheduled to speak about the Sixth Congress, and I, naturally,
+interrupted my journey to be present at this meeting and to hear Dr.
+Nordau's report. When we reached the hall in the evening we found it
+filled to overflowing and all were waiting impatiently for the great
+master, Nordau, who, on entering, received a tremendous ovation. But
+Nordau, without paying heed to the applause showered upon him, began his
+speech immediately, and said:
+
+"'You all came here with a question burning in your hearts and trembling
+on your lips, and the question is, indeed, a great one, and of vital
+importance. I am willing to answer it. What you want to ask is: How
+could I--I who was one of those who formulated the Basle program--how
+could I dare to speak in favor of the English proposition concerning
+Uganda, how could Herzl as well as I betray our ideal of Palestine,
+because you surely think that we have betrayed it and forgotten it. Yet
+listen to what I have to say to you. I spoke in favor of Uganda after
+long and careful consideration; deliberately I advised the Congress to
+consider and to accept the proposal of the English Government, a
+proposal made to the Jewish nation through the Zionist Congress, and my
+reasons--but instead of my reasons let me tell you a political story as
+a kind of allegory.
+
+"'I want to speak of a time which is now almost forgotten, a time when
+the European powers had decided to send a fleet against the fortress of
+Sebastopol. At this time Italy, the United Kingdom of Italy, did not
+exist. Italy was in reality only a little principality of Sardinia, and
+the great, free and united Italy was but a dream, a fervent wish, a far
+ideal of all Italian patriots. The leaders of Sardinia, who were
+fighting for and planning this free and united Italy, were the three
+great popular heroes: Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Cavour.
+
+"'The European powers invited Sardinia to join in the demonstration at
+Sebastopol and to send also a fleet to help in the siege of this
+fortress, and this proposal gave rise to a dissension among the leaders
+of Sardinia. Garibaldi and Mazzini did not want to send a fleet to the
+help of England and France and they said: "Our program, the work to
+which we are pledged, is a free and united Italy. What have we to do
+with Sebastopol? Sebastopol is nothing to us, and we should concentrate
+all our energies on our original program so that we may realize our
+ideal as soon as possible."
+
+"'But Cavour, who even at this time was the most prominent, the most
+able, and the most far-sighted statesman of Sardinia, insisted that his
+country should send a fleet and beleaguer with the other powers
+Sebastopol, and, at last, he carried his point. Perhaps it will interest
+you to know that the right hand of Cavour, his friend and adviser, was
+his secretary, Hartum, a Jew, and in those circles, which were in
+opposition to the government, one spoke fulminantly of Jewish treason.
+And once at an assembly of Italian patriots one called wildly for
+Cavour's secretary, Hartum, and demanded of him to defend his dangerous
+and treasonable political actions. And this is what he said: "Our dream,
+our fight, our ideal, an ideal for which we have paid already in blood
+and tears, in sorrow and despair, with the life of our sons and the
+anguish of our mothers, our one wish and one aim is a free and united
+Italy. All means are sacred if they lead to this great and glorious
+goal. Cavour knows full well that after the fight before Sebastopol
+sooner or later a peace conference will have to be held, and at this
+peace conference those powers will participate who have joined in the
+fight. True, Sardinia has no immediate concern, no direct interest in
+Sebastopol, but if we will help now with our fleet, we will sit at the
+future peace conference, enjoying equal rights with the other powers,
+and at this peace conference Cavour, as the representative of Sardinia,
+will proclaim the free and independent, united Italy. Thus our dream for
+which we have suffered and died, will become, at last, a wonderful and
+happy reality. And if you now ask me again, what has Sardinia to do at
+Sebastopol, then let me tell you the following words, like the steps of
+a ladder: Cavour, Sardinia, the siege of Sebastopol, the future European
+peace conference, the proclamation of a free and united Italy.'"
+
+"The whole assembly was under the spell of Nordau's beautiful, truly
+poetic and exalted diction, and his exquisite, musical French delighted
+the hearers with an almost sensual pleasure. For a few seconds the
+speaker paused, and the public, absolutely intoxicated by his splendid
+oratory, applauded frantically. But soon Nordau asked for silence and
+continued:
+
+"'Now this great progressive world power, England, has after the pogroms
+of Kishineff, in token of her sympathy with our poor people, offered
+through the Zionist Congress the autonomous colony of Uganda to the
+Jewish nation. Of course, Uganda is in Africa, and Africa is not Zion
+and never will be Zion, to quote Herzl's own words. But Herzl knows full
+well that nothing is so valuable to the cause of Zionism as amicable
+political relations with such a power as England is, and so much more
+valuable as England's main interest is concentrated in the Orient.
+Nowhere else is precedent as powerful as in England, and so it is most
+important to accept a colony out of the hands of England and create thus
+a precedent in our favor. Sooner or later the Oriental question will
+have to be solved, and the Oriental question means, naturally, also the
+question of Palestine. England, who had addressed a formal, political
+note to the Zionist Congress--the Zionist Congress which is pledged to
+the Basle program, England will have the deciding voice in the final
+solution of the Oriental question, and Herzl has considered it his duty
+to maintain valuable relations with this great and progressive power.
+Herzl knows that we stand before a tremendous upheaval of the whole
+world. Soon, perhaps, some kind of a world-congress will have to be
+called, and England, the great, free and powerful England, will then
+continue the work it has begun with its generous offer to the Sixth
+Congress. And if you ask me now what has Israel to do in Uganda, then
+let me tell you as the answer the words of the statesmen of Sardinia,
+only applied to our case and given in our version; let me tell you the
+following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading
+upward and upward: Herzl, The Zionist Congress, the English Uganda
+proposition, the future world war, the peace conference where with the
+help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.'
+
+"Like a mighty thunder these last words came to us, and we all were
+trembling and awestruck as if we had seen a vision of old. And in my
+ears were sounding the words of our great brother Achad Haam, who said
+of Nordau's address at the First Congress:
+
+"'I felt that one of the great old prophets was speaking to us, that his
+voice came down from the free hills of Judea, and our hearts were
+burning in us when we heard his words, filled with wonder, wisdom and
+vision.'"
+
+The amazing thing is that this article by Litman Rosenthal should ever
+have been permitted to see print. But it did not see print until the
+Balfour Declaration about Palestine, and it never would have seen print
+had not the Jews believed that one part of their program had been
+accomplished.
+
+The Jew never betrays himself until he believes that what he seeks has
+been won, then he lets himself go. It was only to Jews that the 1903
+"program of the Ladder"--the future world war--the peace conference--the
+Jewish program--was communicated. When the ascent of that ladder seemed
+to be complete, then came the public talk.
+
+A similar illustration of this is to be found in the fall of the Czar.
+When that event transpired it was an occasion of great rejoicing in New
+York, and a Gentile of world-wide fame made a speech in which he lauded
+an American Jew of national reputation for having begun the downfall of
+the Czar by providing the money with which propaganda had been made
+among Russian prisoners in Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. The
+story came out only after the success of the plot. It is not at all out
+of keeping that the last men to see the last act of the plot carried
+out, the actual murder of Nicholas Romanovitch, his wife, his young
+daughters and his invalid boy, were "five Soviet deputies, the latter
+five all Jews." What began with the assistance of an American financier,
+finished with Soviet deputies.
+
+Did International Jews in 1903 foresee the war? This Rosenthal
+confession is but one bit of evidence that they did. And did they do
+nothing but foresee it? It were well if the facts stopped at foresight
+and did not run on to provocation.
+
+For the present the reader is invited to retain in his mind two points
+in this Rosenthal article: "Perhaps it will interest you to know that
+the right hand of Cavour, his friend and adviser, was his secretary,
+Hartum, a Jew." This is the way the Jewish press speaks of its own. If
+this paper, or a Chicago paper, or a New York paper should go through
+the list of the secretaries of the men of power in the world today and
+make the note after the names--"His secretary, a Jew," the
+Anti-Defamation Society would send letters of protest. There is one rule
+for the Gentile and one for the Jew, in the Jewish mind. Writing in the
+public prints about Hartum, he would be described as an "Italian."
+
+Were the Jewish secretaries who abounded before the war, during the war
+and throughout the Peace Conference of less brilliance than Hartum? Were
+there not Hartums in England, France, Germany, yes and in Russia too (in
+the United States there were many) who saw the "program of the Ladder"?
+Did Max Nordau who saw it so clearly in 1903 forget it in 1914 and 1918?
+
+We know this: the Jews in their Congress at Basle in 1903 foresaw "the
+future world war." How did they know it was to be a "world war"?
+
+We know this also: the Protocols, perhaps as early as 1896, certainly
+not later than 1905, foresaw the policy of "no annexations."
+
+The World War came to pass.
+
+"No annexations" came to pass. What was then future in the Jewish world
+program, is now past.
+
+In the Protocols there are two forms of declaration. One is, "we have."
+The other is, "we shall." If somewhere in the world this summer the high
+secret spokesman of the World Program is addressing his class of
+International Initiates, he will have to say "we have" in many places
+where this spokesman of 1896 said "we shall." Things have been
+accomplished.
+
+"We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes."
+That has been and is being done. "We will deflect the thoughts of the
+Gentiles to industry and commerce." That has been done. "We will create
+a strongly centralized administration so as to grasp all the social
+forces strongly in our hands." That has been done. "We will adopt for
+ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all movements and provide
+orators." That has been done. "We will force up wages." That has been
+done. "We will at the same time cause a rise in the price of prime
+necessities." That has been done. "We will also undermine the sources of
+production by instilling in the workmen ideas of anarchy." That has been
+done.
+
+"To demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+shall show our power to one by crimes of violence, that is, by a reign
+of terror."--Protocol 7.
+
+Who that sees Russia and beholds the attitude of the premiers of
+England, France, and Italy toward the Soviets, the "enslavement" of
+statesmanship by a condition that tangles more gnarledly the more it is
+dealt with--who that sees the prostration of Europe before a wound that
+is deliberately kept from healing, can forbear to say: That too has been
+done!
+
+"Our plans will not upset contemporary institutions immediately. Their
+management will only be altered and consequently the whole procedure of
+their activity will thus be directed according to plans laid down by
+us." That has been done.
+
+"We shall saddle the press and keep a tight reign upon it." That has
+been done. The rein is being strongly pulled in the United States at
+this moment, as many an editor can testify.
+
+"Even if there should be those who desire to write against us, no one
+will print their writings." In large part, that has been done. It has
+been done completely with the profit-making press.
+
+"We shall, as an incentive to speculation, encourage among the Gentiles
+a strong demand for luxuries--all-enticing luxuries." That has been
+done.
+
+"To each act of opposition we must be in a position to respond by
+bringing on war through the neighbors of any country that dares to
+oppose us, and if these neighbors should plan to stand collectively
+against us, we must let loose a world war." (Protocol 7). The term
+"world war" is the same as that used by Rosenthal and Nordau. "Herzl
+knows," said Nordau in 1903, "that we stand before a tremendous upheaval
+of the whole world."
+
+"We must create unrest, dissension and mutual animosities throughout
+Europe and, with the help of her relationships, on other continents."
+This has been done. This passage continues: "There is a double advantage
+in this. First, we shall command the respect of all countries by this
+method, for they will realize that we have the power to create disorder
+or establish order at will." This too has been done.
+
+Truly did the spokesman of 1896 speak of "those momentous occurrences of
+the near future toward which we are rushing in a stream of great
+crises."
+
+Not only was "no annexations" achieved "as far as possible," just as the
+Protocols outlined it, but a host of other plans have matured in
+achievement along with it. "No annexations" as a matter of political
+morality is one thing; and "no annexations" for the reason that "this
+will shift war to an economic footing and nations will perceive the
+strength of our superiority in the aid we render" is quite another
+thing. The world was with the "no annexations" program as a matter of
+political morality; the other program, which used this morality as its
+vehicle, was hidden.
+
+There are still other matters in this group which must receive
+attention, but another article will be necessary to do it. In the
+meantime, it is natural to wonder whether, with the program as outlined
+in this report of the Protocols having received fulfillment in so many
+particulars, a new Protocol, or a further unfolding of the Ladder has
+been made by the Wise Men to their Initiates; and whether any additional
+unveiling will ever come to the knowledge of the world. It would seem
+that a proper estimate of the knowledge now available would lead to such
+an awakening as to nullify the present program and make all future ones
+impossible. But Gentiles like their ease, and Judah is beckoned on by a
+bright star.
+
+[Issue of August 21, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XV.
+
+Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
+
+
+The Soviet is not a Russian but a Jewish institution. Nor is it the
+invention of Russian Jews of the present time, a new political device
+which has been set up as a vehicle of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky; it
+is of ancient Jewish origin, a device which the Jews themselves invented
+to maintain their distinctive racial and national life after the
+conquest of Palestine by the Romans.
+
+Modern Bolshevism, which is now known to be merely the outer cloak of a
+long-planned coup to establish the domination of a race, immediately set
+up the Soviet form of government because the Jews of all countries who
+contributed to Russian Bolshevism had long been schooled in the nature
+and structure of the Soviet.
+
+The Soviet appears in the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"
+under the ancient name of KAHAL. In the Seventeenth Protocol this
+passage occurs:
+
+"Even now our brothers are under obligation to denounce apostates of
+their own family or any person known to be opposed to the Kahal. When
+our kingdom comes, it will be necessary for all subjects to serve the
+state in a similar manner."
+
+Anyone who is acquainted with contemporary Jewish life knows what this
+denunciation of apostates means. The bitterness of the persecution which
+falls upon a convert to Christianity or upon the Jewish son or daughter
+of an orthodox family who chooses to marry a Gentile, is without
+parallel among men. Very recently in a western state a fine Jewish girl
+chose to marry a Gentile, who was a newspaperman. From the time of her
+announcement of intention, the girl was treated as an apostate. Had she
+died a most wretched death, had she descended to a status of most
+ignominious shame, the feelings which her fate would have aroused could
+not have been more terrible. A darkly solemn funeral service was held
+for her, and on her bridal day she was declared to be dead to her
+people.
+
+The case is very far from being unusual. Perhaps one of the most moving
+descriptions of it is to be found in the life of Spinoza, the great
+philosopher whom modern Jews are fond of holding up for exhibition as a
+great ornament of their people. Spinoza's studies led him to question
+many of the dogmas the rabbis taught, those "commandments of men" of
+which the New Testament speaks, and as Spinoza was already a person of
+influence the very common Jewish tactic of bribery was tried upon him.
+
+There would be some hesitation in using the words just set down--"the
+very common Jewish tactic of bribery"--if they were not known to be
+true. There is no desire to cast aspersions which grow out of malice.
+But Jewish history as written by Jews provides mountains of proof that
+bribery was, while present knowledge amply testifies that it still is,
+the favorite and most dependable weapon of the Jews. A Jewish writer,
+Jacob Israel De Haan, a Dutch lawyer resident in Jerusalem, has recently
+stated that one hope of a settlement of the Arab agitation in Palestine
+is the ease with which the Arab press can be bribed. His words are:
+"There is a strong agitation here among the Arabs against what they call
+the Zionist peril. But the Arabs, especially the Arabian papers, are
+open to bribe. This weakness will cause them, in the long run, to lose
+out against us."
+
+So, young Spinoza was offered an annual stipend of 1,000 florins if he
+would be silent upon his convictions and from time to time show himself
+at the synagogue. This he refused with high-minded scorn. He made ready
+to earn his bread by polishing lenses for optical instruments. Upon
+this, he was excommunicated, a proceeding which is thus described:
+
+"The day of excommunication at length arrived, and a vast concourse
+assembled to witness the awful ceremony. It began by the silent and
+solemn lighting of a quantity of black wax candles and by opening the
+tabernacle wherein were deposited the books of the Law of Moses. Thus
+were the imaginations of the faithful prepared for all the horror of the
+scene. The chief rabbi, the ancient friend and master, now the fiercest
+enemy, of the condemned, was to order the execution. He stood there
+pained, but implacable; the people fixed their eager eyes upon him. High
+above, the chanter rose and chanted forth in loud lugubrious tones the
+words of execration; while from the opposite side another mingled with
+these curses the thrilling sounds of the trumpet. And now the black
+candles were reversed and were made to melt drop by drop into a huge tub
+filled with blood." (Lewes: Biographical History of Philosophy.)
+
+Then came the final anathema. "'With the judgment of the angels and of
+the saints, we excommunicate, cut off, curse and anathematize Baruch de
+Espinoza, with the consent of the elders and all this holy congregation,
+in the presence of the holy books: by the 613 precepts which are written
+therein, with the anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the
+curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which
+are written in the law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night.
+Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking, cursed in going
+out, and cursed in coming in. The Lord shall not pardon him, the wrath
+and the fury of the Lord shall henceforth be kindled against this man,
+and shall lay upon him all the curses written in the Book of the Law.
+The Lord shall destroy his name under the sun, and cut him off for his
+undoing from all the tribes of Israel, with all the curses of the
+firmament which are written in the Law * * * And we warn you that none
+may speak with him by word of mouth nor by writing, nor show any favor
+unto him, nor be under one roof with him, nor come within four cubits of
+him, nor read any paper composed by him.'" (Pollock: Life of Spinoza.)
+
+"As the blasting words were uttered, the lights were all suddenly
+immersed in the blood, a cry of religious horror and execration burst
+from all; and in that solemn darkness, and to those solemn curses, they
+shouted Amen, Amen!" (Professor J. K. Hosmer: The Jews.)
+
+That is a commentary on the decree of denunciation. It also throws a
+very strong light on the pressure which is brought against many Jews who
+would cry out against the anti-social ideas of their people, but who
+dare not because of the penalties it would bring.
+
+This denunciation, as Protocol Seventeen orders, is to be made against
+anyone who is "known to be opposed to the Kahal" or ancient Soviet
+system of the Jews.
+
+After the destruction of the Jewish state by the Romans, the Jews
+maintained a center in the Patriarch; and after the dispersion of the
+Jews out of Palestine this center of nationality was preserved in the
+Prince of the Exile, or Exilarch, an office which is believed to persist
+to the present time, and which some believe to be held now by an
+American Jew. In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Jews have
+never ceased to be "a people"; that is, a consciously united racial
+group, different from all others, and with purposes and ideals which are
+strictly of the Jews, by the Jews, and for the Jews in distinction from
+the rest of the world. That they constitute a nation within the nations,
+the most responsible Jewish thinkers not only declare but insist upon.
+And this is wholly in accord with the facts as observed. The Jew not
+only desires to live apart from other people, but he works with his own
+people as against others, and he desires as much as possible to live
+under his own laws. In the city of New York today, the Jews have
+succeeded in establishing their own court for the settlement of their
+own questions according to their own laws. And that is precisely the
+principle of the Soviet-Kahal.
+
+From the first century forward, as any reader can see by consulting the
+Jewish Encyclopedia, the "community," "assembly" or "Kahal" has been the
+center of Jewish life. It was so earlier, in the time of the Babylonian
+captivity. And the last official appearance of it was at the Peace
+Conference, where the Jews, in accordance with their World Program, the
+only program that passed successfully and unchanged through the Peace
+Conference, secured for themselves the right to the Kahal for
+administrative and cultural purposes in addition to many other
+privileges in countries where their activities had been a matter of
+protest. The Polish question is purely a Jewish question, and
+Paderewski's failure as a statesmen was entirely due to his domination
+by Jewish influences. The Rumanian question is likewise a Jewish
+question, and all Rumanians speak of the United States as "The Jews'
+Country" because they know through their statesmen the terrific pressure
+which was exerted by American Jews against their country, a pressure
+extending to the very necessities of life, and which compelled Rumania
+to sign agreements which are as humiliating as those that Austria asked
+of Serbia, out of which the World War grew. The Jewish Question is
+written all over the forces that provoked the war, and over all the
+hindrances to peace which the world has since seen.
+
+Under the Kahal or ancient Soviet, the Jews lived by themselves and
+governed themselves, doing business with the government solely through
+their representatives. It was communism in a more drastic form than has
+been seen anywhere in the world outside Russia. Education, health,
+taxes, domestic affairs, all were under the absolute control of a few
+men who constituted the ruling board. This board, as the present-day
+Jewish hierarchy is supposed to be, was self-perpetuating, the office
+often passing in an unbroken line of hereditary succession through many
+generations. All property was in common, which however did not prevent
+the leaders becoming rich. These Kahals or Soviets existed in Rome,
+France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Rumania,
+Turkey and England. In the United States the idea has developed around
+the synagogue and around national and international secret societies of
+Jews, of which more will be said in succeeding articles.
+
+The Kahal is the traditional Jewish political institution during the
+dispersal of the race among the nations. Its international aspect is to
+be seen in the higher councils. These councils enlarged as the Jews
+spread over the world. The Jewish Encyclopedia cites the Council of
+Three Lands, the Council of Four Lands, and the Council of Five Lands,
+showing an international relationship in earlier years. But like all
+such records, public view of them is not easily accessible so far as
+they relate to modern times. The recent Zionist Congress in London,
+where doubtless much business was done that pertained to the Jewish
+people throughout the world, though not in public halls by any means,
+may be called the Council of Thirty-Seven Lands, for the delegates to
+that congress came from all parts of the world, from points remote as
+Lapland and South Africa, Persia and New Zealand. The purpose of these
+World Councils was the unification of the Jews, and the records of their
+assemblages run back through the centuries.
+
+It is therefore no new thing that has arisen in Russia. It is the
+imposition by the Jewish revolutionists upon Gentile Russia of a form of
+control in which Judaism has been schooled from the earliest times of
+its contact with the world. Soviet Russia could not have been possible
+had not 90 per cent of the commissars been Jewish. Soviet Hungary could
+not have been possible had not Bela Kun, the chief Red, been a Jew, and
+had not 18 of his 24 commissars been Jews. The Jews are the only group
+schooled in the erection and administration of the Kahal.
+
+An Associated Press dispatch under date of August 12 throws a light on
+the congeniality of the Soviet system and the Jewish mind. Speaking of
+the Polish towns and villages occupied by Bolshevik forces in their
+recent drive, the dispatch says:
+
+"The local Jewish parish populations already are said to be setting up
+Soviet and Communist governments."
+
+Of course. Yet this is in strange contrast with what we are constantly
+told through the press of the sufferings of the Jews under the Soviet
+form and of their abhorrence of the Reds. However, most of what we read
+concerning this in the public press is Jewish propaganda, pure and
+simple, and the reports of men on the spot contradict it all. One relief
+worker testifies that relief work in Poland is frequently "hung up
+because some Jew landlord asks an exorbitant rent for his premises,"
+while another testifies that though railroad fares in the supposedly
+famine-stricken districts have gone up 1,000 per cent, the best and
+highest-fare trains are "exclusively occupied by Jews." He adds, of his
+trip through Hungary, "The Hungarians have no money any more, but the
+Jews have."
+
+"But American Jews abhor Trotsky and Sovietism" is the plea sometimes
+made.
+
+Do they?
+
+On page 9 of the American Jewish World, of July 30, a letter signed
+"Mrs. Samuel Rush" appears. It is headed: "Are We Really Ashamed of
+Trotsky?" Read a few excerpts from it:
+
+"I have read of late several laments from editors of Jewish publications
+that the Jew is now libeled as a radical.
+
+"It is true that many Jews are radicals. It is also true that some of
+the radical leaders are Jews.
+
+"But before weeping over the downfall of the race, let's think a bit.
+
+"Trotsky himself has never been represented as anything but a cultured
+man, a student of world economics, a powerful and efficient leader and
+thinker who will surely go down in history as one of the great men our
+race has given the world.
+
+"* * * Very few of us doubt any longer that behind the absurdities
+written about Russia is the great truth that Russia is in that unsettled
+state which attends reconstruction. There is a plan behind this seeming
+disorder, and out of the upheaval will come order. It will not be
+utopia, but as good a government as the undoubtedly high-minded
+practical idealists who are building for Russia can build with the
+necessarily imperfect materials--human beings--with which they must
+work.
+
+"And one of the leaders is Leon Trotsky!
+
+"Are we really ashamed of Trotsky?"
+
+The lady is evidently not ashamed of Trotsky, or Mr. Braunstein, as his
+real name is.
+
+Or take Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago. While drawing a salary for work
+in the court, Judge Fisher went abroad on Jewish relief work. His plans
+were changed somewhat after his departure and he landed in Russia. He
+asserts in several interviews that he was permitted to arrive in Russia
+on condition that he leave political matters alone. There has been no
+such restriction placed upon him since his return to the United States,
+for he appears as an open advocate of full trade relations with the
+Soviet Government of Russia.
+
+The Chicago Tribune thus quotes him:
+
+"'We must leave Russia alone' he said in summarizing his views. 'We
+should resume trade with the Soviet. The Bolshevist Government is
+permanent. * * * While there are only 700,000 members of the Communist
+party, the peasants, who represent almost 100,000,000 people, are
+solidly back of the Lenin regime.'"
+
+Among the Soviet devices which the 100,000,000 peasants of Russia are
+said to be "solidly back of," is the following (it is particularly
+interesting in view of the fact that Judge Fisher is judge of the Morals
+Court of Chicago):
+
+"'Some time ago, it was published that the women of Russia had become
+national property,' he said. 'That is untrue, but the ease with which
+marriage and divorce may be effected makes for rapid changes. Everyone
+wanting to marry goes to what we would call the city hall and registers.
+
+"'Inducements to marry are great. When people are hard pressed for
+clothes and food they sometimes make a pact to wed for a day.
+
+"'The next day they go down to the city hall and register again. This
+time their names are put side by side in the divorce book. That is all
+that is necessary to be divorced, and they have had a good feed in the
+bargain.'"
+
+Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago, who has returned from Jewish relief work
+abroad, evidently is one with the others in not being ashamed of
+Trotsky.
+
+Also Max Pine, for many years secretary of the United Hebrew Trades of
+New York, had been abroad in Soviet Russia as "a labor delegate." He too
+had many good things to say of the Soviets, among other things the
+strange contradiction that the Jews are doing very well in Russia but
+are not pro-Bolshevik!
+
+Here are three persons from widely different spheres of life, yet each
+one of them indicates a natural liking for the Kahal or Soviet, an
+admiration of its methods, and a distinct good feeling towards its
+rulers. For Sovietism is the rankest form of autocracy, and the marriage
+laws of Soviet Russia are in full harmony with the program stated in the
+Protocols--
+
+"We will break down the influence of family life among the Gentiles."
+
+Whether the Soviet-Kahals of Russia will succeed in completely
+undermining Russian family life is extremely doubtful. The weakness of
+Soviet rule is the same as that of the Protocols--a moral weakness that
+must eat like a cancer until it destroys the institutions which it
+infests.
+
+Russia today, viewed in the light of the Protocols, does not represent
+the Judaic state, but it represents the Gentile state seized by Jewish
+forces. There are three degrees of action set forth in the Protocols.
+There is first the secret process of breaking up the integrity of
+society by the admixture of alluring but disruptive ideas. This is a
+work in which Gentile agitators are used. When the ideas have worked
+sufficiently to break up society and explode in a crisis, then as in
+Germany, the forces that have worked in secret swiftly come to the front
+to take the reins and guide the riot. In Germany this immediately
+occurred upon the collapse which followed the armistice, but the Germans
+were wise enough to know the meaning of the influx of Jews into all the
+official positions of the former empire, and it was not long before they
+were politically ousted. In Russia, however, the Jews sprang immediately
+into official positions and have succeeded in remaining there. It began
+with Kerensky compelling the Czar to lay aside his crown; it continues
+with Trotsky and his armies at the throat of Europe.
+
+But this seizure of a country, as was attempted in Germany, and as was
+not only attempted but succeeded in Russia, is not the end of the
+Program. It is only the beginning of its open or public phase. The
+Soviet-Kahal makes for the complete breaking up of society, the entire
+cutting off of co-operation and communication, the ruling of each little
+section in the way desired, until the whole country lies helpless in
+isolated bits. The process includes, of course, the disintegration of
+industry also, the massing of Gentiles into an army, and a general
+destruction of morality and order. It is the Protocol program in its
+last stage before the reconstruction begins which shall make the
+conquered country a Jewish state.
+
+The world has not seen that last stage yet. It has not come, even in
+Russia. If the Russian people waken from the daze into which they have
+been thrust, it will not come. Jewish voices loudly proclaim that Soviet
+Russia has come to stay. The only authoritative voice on that subject is
+the voice of Russia, and Russia has not yet spoken. Today the world is
+trembling on the very verge of Real Russia's awakening, and with it a
+retribution most terrible upon the Sovietists.
+
+The program of the Protocols once came near succeeding in the French
+Revolution, but its essential immorality overreached itself. It has come
+a step nearer success in Russia, but there too its defiance of the moral
+law will be its undoing. The Jewish Question of today is being fought
+out in Russia and Poland, and the strength of the Jewish forces is
+largely and mostly supplied from the United States of America. No wonder
+those small East European independencies which are fighting for their
+lives refer to our country as "The Land of the Jews."
+
+"We will show our power to one," say the Protocols. "In order to
+demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+shall show our power to one of them by crimes of violence, that is, by a
+reign of terror." (Protocol Seven.)
+
+One by one the Gentile nations of Europe have been compelled to withdraw
+their troops from Russia. One by one the premiers of Europe have
+submitted to heavy shackling of their official hands with regard to the
+Russian question. And today the world looks on while little Poland,
+apparently the second country on the list of Soviet victims, is made to
+feel heavy vengeance for her daring to be independent of Jewish power.
+Russia has been made to pay for her attempted independence of the Jew;
+Poland is now being made to pay. It is a flame, the Jews of Eastern
+Europe hope, and many Jews of America also, which will sweep round the
+world.
+
+If the ruling Jews of the world wished the Russian people freed, if they
+wished the flames of Bolshevism to be quenched, if they wished Jewish
+participation in revolutionary movements to be withdrawn, they could
+accomplish it in a week. What is going on today is going on by
+permission of the Jewish world powers.
+
+There is apparently no desire to curtail a movement which largely
+originated in American Jewry. This is the program of "showing our power
+to one," and the program will be followed out. The "showing," however,
+is twofold; it is a showing of power, but it is also a showing of the
+people who wield the power, and in the end it might have been just as
+well had the power never been coveted, attained, or used.
+
+Anyone who desires to test the exactitude of the Protocols' estimate of
+human nature may do so by observing his own reactions to the Russian
+Bolshevist situation. It is undeniable that there exists among all
+classes of Gentiles in America a kind of admiration for the coup which
+Lenin and Trotsky have managed on such a massive scale. The audacity of
+it, the ability to stay afloat thus long in defiance of so many laws,
+have conspired to draw out unwilling applause.
+
+Consider then this passage from the Tenth Protocol:
+
+"The people feel an especial love and respect toward the genius who
+wields political power, and they say of all his high-handed actions: 'It
+is base, but clever! It is a trick, but how he played it! So majestic!
+So impudent!'
+
+"We count on attracting all nations to the constructive work of laying
+the foundations for the structure planned by us. It is necessary for us
+first of all to acquire the services of bold and fearless agents, who
+will overcome all obstacles in our pathway.
+
+"When we accomplish our governmental coup d'etat, we will say to the
+people: 'Everything has gone badly, all have suffered. We will eliminate
+the cause of your sufferings--nationality, frontiers and diversity of
+coinage. Of course you are free to pronounce sentence upon us, but that
+can scarcely be just if you do so before giving a trial to that which we
+offer you.'"
+
+This is very well conceived, and this is the way in which, up to this
+time, it has worked out. But there will be a strong reaction set in.
+False promises like chickens come home to roost. The real originators,
+the real purpose of the movement hidden behind Bolshevism will become
+evident. And then the world will crush out again the World Program which
+at times has seemed so near success.
+
+There will probably be more light upon this World Program as a result of
+the Russian Kahal-Soviet system than from any other attempt to realize
+it. For five generations the world has lived in a false light supposed
+to be shed by the French Revolution. It is now known that that
+revolution was not the Revolution of the French People, but the
+disorders of a minority who sought to impose upon the French People the
+very Plan which is now being considered. It was the French People who
+ultimately put down the so-called French Revolution. And France, as a
+result of that upheaval of a well-organized minority, has been bound by
+Jewish control ever since.
+
+The Russian Revolution will go down in history with no such false halo
+of romance around it. The world now knows it for what it is. The world
+will soon know whose was the money and whose were the brains that
+fostered it, and from what part of the world the principal impetus came.
+The Russian upheaval is racial, not political nor economic. It conceals
+beneath all its false socialism and its empty mouthings of "human
+brotherhood" a clear-cut plan of racial imperialism, which is not
+Russian, and which the common sense and interest of the world will
+speedily stamp out.
+
+[Issue of August 28, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVI.
+
+How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
+
+
+The real estate speculations of the Jews are familiar to all, but
+unfortunately do not constitute their entire land program. Many American
+cities have changed their characters entirely during the past 15 years
+by reason of Jewish speculation in residence property, and it is a fact
+established in the larger eastern cities that the recent exorbitant and
+extortionate rise in rents was largely a matter of the Jewish landlord.
+The governor of one of the most important of our commonwealths was loath
+to sign a bill regulating rents. His hesitancy was encouraged by very
+heavy pressure brought to bear upon him by the weightiest Jewish
+financial interests in his own and neighboring states. He finally
+decided that he would sign the bill and give the law effect, and the
+fact that decided him was his personal investigation and the
+investigation of his personal agents into hundreds of cases of abuse
+where he discovered that it was a common practice among Jewish landlords
+to transfer the same piece of property round and round to every member
+of the family in turn, each "transfer" being the excuse for a new
+increase in the rent. Men have their eyes opened to the Jewish Question
+in various ways: this was the way a governor had his eyes opened.
+
+That, however, is not the peculiarity of Jewish landlords alone; Gentile
+landlords have played the same trick. But landlordism is peculiarly a
+Jewish ambition and distinction; the Jew is the Landlord of America. Any
+group of tenants almost anywhere in America, except the West, could
+testify to this.
+
+Nor is landlordism itself reprehensible, things being what they are,
+unless it is anti-social and anti-American. And just here is where it
+gets point. Some of the oldest and most sacred shrines of Americanism in
+the East have entirely lost their character as such by the invasion--not
+of "foreigners"--but of Jews.
+
+The more one sees of the invasion, the more one utterly distrusts the
+statistics given out by Jews as to the Jewish population of the United
+States.
+
+Do you know that the one nationality on which the Government of the
+United States is estopped from asking questions, either for immigration
+or census statistics, is the Jewish?
+
+Do you know that when the Government of the United States wants to know
+anything about the Jews it must go to statisticians which the Jews
+themselves support?
+
+If a nation claims that it is no nation with respect to the United
+States Government, as the Jews claim, and has no national statistics
+which it will permit to government to collect in the official way, why
+should it treat itself as a nation and keep its own records?
+
+The Jews of the United States, like the Jews of every European country,
+are a nation among themselves, with their own government, their own
+policy, their own records; and the United States Government does
+business with the Jewish Government in America through chosen Jews--no
+doubt of that.
+
+It is, however, a digression. The matter of Jewish statistics will come
+up again. In the meantime a glance at the rapid changing of so many
+American cities in all parts of the land leads to the belief that the
+Jewish statistics furnished by the Jews for Gentile consumption entirely
+misstate the facts, and this belief is strengthened by the knowledge
+that the statistics given by the Jews for Jewish consumption are very
+different from those supplied for the outside world.
+
+Landlordism may be explained by the inclination of the Jew toward
+speculation, and we know that real estate has been made one of the most
+speculative of occupations, disgracefully, almost disastrously so. The
+Jew cannot be condemned for becoming a landlord, for becoming the most
+conspicuous landlord in America; he cannot be condemned apart from his
+Gentile co-offenders for the abuse he has made of his advantage as
+landlord. But it is a matter for American concern that the cities to
+which, in the schoolbooks, our children are taught to look as the
+birthplaces of liberty and as still the spokesmen of Americanism, should
+become Semite cities, financially and politically, and the recruiting
+grounds of the world's Bolshevism.
+
+Until recently, however, the Jew in America has not cared for the land.
+It is a characteristic. The Jew is not an agriculturist. Lavish fortunes
+have been expended to make him so, but the productive work of farming
+has not had, and does not now have, any appeal to him. His choice in
+land is this: land that produces gold from the mine, and land that
+produces rents. Land that produces mere potatoes and wheat has not
+directly interested him.
+
+It is true, of course, that the land question has been distinctly Jewish
+in countries like Poland and Rumania. No law against Jews owning land in
+those countries has ever been effective in preventing their control of
+whole provinces. Not that the Jews demanded the right to farm the land,
+their choice was to farm the farmers. By devious methods and the use of
+"Gentile fronts" they could always secure control of the land, and thus
+dominating the peasants they could create almost any condition they
+wished. That is what they actually did. That is the Jewish Question in
+those parts of the world. Not for farming purposes, it must be
+understood, but for the purpose of controlling the main source of wealth
+in agricultural countries and for taking the control of people away from
+their natural Gentile leaders.
+
+These two things always go together in countries where there is
+intellectual or landed aristocracy to which the people look for
+leadership: the Jewish program is to destroy that leadership by gaining
+control of the land. It is profitable, of course, but when you survey
+the outworking of the plan you always see something other than profits
+involved. The consummate perfection of the Jewish plan for World Control
+is that it does not involve sacrifice as have other plans, it is
+immensely profitable at every stage, and the greater the profitableness
+the more surely the purpose is being achieved.
+
+In America there was no aristocracy to be cut under by the gaining of
+land control. Jewish activity in the United States until recently has
+confined itself to the control of land products after they have been
+produced: that is, so to say, Jewish interests do not engage in
+trapping, but they control the fur trade.
+
+Speaking of furs, it is very funny to see how some affairs turn out.
+During the war there was a great to-do made about the German control of
+the American fur trade. It was true that the fur trade was controlled
+from Germany, but not by Germans--by Jews! And then a great to-do was
+made about seizing, confiscating and absolutely selling out that
+"German" fur business to Americans, and the "Americans" who bought it
+were--Jews! The actual control has never changed; the profits still find
+their way to the "International" purse.
+
+But furs is just an example. Jewish interests do not engage in raising
+grain, but control the grain that others produce. The need of the United
+States is a "Who's Who of Jewish Financiers" that the people may
+identify the men about whom they read as having made this "corner" or
+sprung that "coup." These interests, which have simply grabbed
+American-produced wealth and made American consumers pay and pay and
+pay, have been able to operate almost openly because of the sheer
+blindness of the American people as they read their newspapers. And, of
+course, while the American newspaper will gladly inform you that this
+man is an Italian and that man a Pole and the other man a Briton, it
+will never tell you that the fourth man is a Jew. There is a Jewish
+organization in every city, large and small, to prevent it--and they
+prevent it by methods that are violent and wholly subversive of the
+American ideal of liberty.
+
+So, until recently, the plan in the United States has been to seize the
+commodity at just that point in its passage from the producer to the
+consumer where the heaviest weight of profit can be extracted from
+it--at the neck of the bottle, so to speak--and control it there. It is
+not service that the people pay for; they pay for seizure.
+
+But a new movement has begun in the United States. Jewish millions are
+now being used to secure immense tracts of American lands. Formerly it
+was enough to control the cotton, as the bread was controlled, but now
+the movement is toward controlling the cotton lands. The operations are
+carefully guarded; "Gentile fronts" are used almost exclusively; but
+follow the trail through all the "blinds" and "false scents," and you
+come at last to the International Jew, whose throne is set up in London.
+
+Many Jews have written THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT saying that they do not
+know about these racial plans for world control. It may well be believed
+that they do not. One purpose of these articles is to tell them about
+it. But this every Jew rejoices in--the movement of his people toward
+power. And it is this sentiment that the International Jew implicitly
+trusts, and because this sentiment exists the International Program
+secures a maximum of success at a minimum risk of exposure. Jewry is not
+a democracy but an autocracy. Of course the ordinary Jew does not know!
+The question is, Why should he revile the Gentile who tries to tell him?
+If a Jew will not seal his mind against the statements made in these
+articles, he will find in his own knowledge sufficient corroboration of
+their principal features, and he will be in a better position to assist
+in the solution of the Jewish Question.
+
+It is with amazement at certain men's conception of editorial honesty
+that THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has read some of the reports made of these
+articles. Under cover, principally of the Yiddish, alleged translations
+of these articles have been flung broadcast among non-English speaking
+Jews, translations which not only bear no resemblance to the original,
+but actually insert whole paragraphs of matter which never appeared in
+the original at all. Is there a fear of permitting the average Jew to
+read this series? Nothing is more desired by those whose purpose is to
+lay foundations for the solution of the Jewish Question in America than
+that every Jew in the United States should know exactly what is being
+printed here week by week. The Jew has been deceived by his leaders long
+enough.
+
+The fact is, then, that there is a definite and already well forwarded
+movement toward the control of the cotton lands of the United States.
+The first step was to depreciate the market value of these lands as much
+as possible. Pressure was brought through certain banks to limit the
+cotton farmers' efforts. They were told that if they planted more
+acreage to cotton than they were told to, they would not be financed.
+Cotton production was to go down while cotton prices were to go up, and
+the profits were not the farmers' but those who controlled the course of
+cotton from the first market to the wearer. Cotton farming was to be
+made less profitable, while cotton speculation was to become more
+profitable. The public was being compelled to supply the money by which
+the Jewish controllers were to buy the land. In brief, it was to be made
+more profitable to sell cotton lands than to sell cotton.
+
+These statements are being deliberately restricted to the traffic in
+cotton lands. Jewish financiers in New York and London know these
+things, even if Jewish editors and rabbis do not.
+
+This movement has been within the knowledge of certain classes of
+business men for a long time, indeed some have been forced by what used
+to be called "the pressure of circumstances," to serve the movement. But
+they were not able to interpret its meaning. It is only recently that
+the more important Gentile business men of the United States have been
+able to interpret certain things. The war was a potent eye-opener.
+
+Those wonderful documents known as the "Protocols," with their strong
+grasp of every element of life, have not overlooked Land. The Land
+Program found in the Sixth Protocol, which is one of the briefest of
+these documents and may be quoted in full to show now the relation it
+bears to certain excerpts made in previous articles:
+
+Protocol VI.
+
+"We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, colossal reservoirs
+of wealth, upon which even the big Gentile properties will be dependent
+to such an extent that they will all fall together with the government
+credit on the day following the political catastrophe. The economists
+here present must carefully weigh the significance of this combination.
+We must develop by every means the importance of our super-government,
+representing it as the protector and benefactor of all who voluntarily
+submit to us.
+
+"The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed away.
+We need not take them into consideration. But, as owners of the land,
+they are harmful to us in that they are independent in their sources of
+livelihood. Therefore, at all costs, we must deprive them of their land.
+
+"The best means to attain this is to increase the taxes and mortgage
+indebtedness. These measures will keep land ownership in a state of
+unconditional subordination. Unable to satisfy their needs by small
+inheritances, the aristocrats among the Gentiles will burn themselves
+out rapidly.
+
+"At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry
+vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to act
+as a counterpoise to industry. Without speculation, industry will cause
+private capital to increase and tend to improve the condition of
+Agriculture BY FREEING THE LAND FROM INDEBTEDNESS FOR LOANS by the land
+banks. It is necessary for industry to deplete the land both of laborers
+and capital, and, through speculations, transfer all the money of the
+world into our hands, thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of
+the proletariat. The Gentiles will then bow before us to obtain the
+right to existence.
+
+"To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this
+speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for luxuries,
+all-enticing luxuries.
+
+"We will force up wages, which however, will be of no benefit to
+workers, for we will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of
+prime necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline of
+agriculture and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply
+undermine the sources of production by instilling in the workmen ideas
+of anarchy, and encourage them in the use of alcohol, at the same time
+taking measures to drive all the intellectual forces of the Gentiles
+from the land.
+
+"That the true situation shall not be noticed by the Gentiles
+prematurely, we will mask it by a pretended effort to serve the working
+classes and promote great economic principles, for which an active
+propaganda will be carried on through our economic theories."
+
+The local and passing element in this is "the aristocracy of the
+Gentiles." That is to say, the program is not entirely fulfilled by the
+passing of aristocrats. Jewry goes on just the same. Its program
+stretches far. Jewry will retain such kings as it desires as long as it
+desires them. Probably the last throne to be vacated will be the British
+throne because what to the British mind is the honor of being Jewry's
+protector and therefore the inheritor of the blessing which that
+attitude brings, is to the Jewish mind the good fortune of being able to
+use a world-wide empire for the furtherance of Jewry's purpose. Each has
+served the other and the partnership will probably last until Jewry gets
+ready to throw Britain over, which Jewry can do at almost any time.
+There are indications that it has already started in this last task.
+
+But the permanent elements in the Protocol are the Land, the Jews, and
+the Gentiles. A word of explanation may be necessary on this inclusion
+of the Gentiles as permanent: the Protocols do not contemplate the
+extermination of the Gentiles, nor the making of this world a completely
+Jewish populated world. The Protocols contemplate a Gentile world ruled
+by the Jews--the Jews as masters, the Gentiles as hewers of wood and
+drawers of water, a policy which every Old Testament reader knows to be
+typically Jewish and the source of divine judgement upon Israel time and
+again.
+
+Now, look at this whole Program as it concerns the Land.
+
+"Owners of the land * * * are harmful to us in that they are independent
+in their sources of livelihood."
+
+That is a foundation principle of the Protocols. It matters not whether
+the owners are the "Gentile aristocracy," the peasants of Poland, or the
+farmers of the United States--land ownership makes the owners,
+"independent in their sources of livelihood." And any form of
+independence is fatal to the success of the World Program which is
+written so comprehensively in the Protocols and which is advancing so
+comprehensively under Jewish guidance in the world of actual affairs
+today.
+
+Not "tillers" of the land, not "dwellers" on the land, not "tenants,"
+not an "agricultural peasantry," but "owners of the land"--this is the
+class singled out for attention in this Sixth Protocol, BECAUSE they are
+"independent in their sources of livelihood."
+
+Now, there has been no time in the history of the United States when
+apparently it was more easy for the farmer to own his land than now.
+Mortgages should be a thing of the past. Everywhere the propaganda of
+the question tells us that the farmers are growing "rich." And yet there
+were never so many abandoned farms!
+
+"Therefore, at all costs we must deprive them of their land."
+
+How? "The best means to attain this is to increase land taxes and
+mortgage indebtedness." High taxes to keep the land at all, borrowed
+money to finance the tilling of it.
+
+"These measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional
+subordination."
+
+We will leave it to the farmers of the United States to say whether this
+is working out or not.
+
+And in a future reference to this subject we will show that whenever an
+attempt is made to enable farmers to borrow money at decent rates,
+whenever it is proposed to lighten the burden of "mortgage indebtedness"
+on the farm, Jewish financial influence in the United States steps in to
+prevent it, or failing to prevent it, mess it all up in the operation.
+
+By increasing the farmer's financial disability on the one hand, and by
+increasing industrial allurements on the other, a very great deal is
+accomplished. The Protocol says: "It is necessary for industry to
+deplete the Land both of laborers and capital."
+
+Has that been done? Have the farms of the United States been depleted
+both of laborers and capital? Certainly. Money is harder for the farmer
+to get than it is for any other man; and as for labor, he cannot get it
+on any terms.
+
+What is the result of these two influences, the one working on the farm,
+and the other in the cities? It is precisely what the Protocol says it
+will be: Increased wages that buy less of the materials of life--"We
+will at the same time cause a rise in the prices of prime necessities,
+pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture and cattle
+raising."
+
+The Jew who set these Protocols in order was a financier, economist and
+philosopher of the first order. He knew what he was talking about. His
+operations in the ordinary world of business always indicated that he
+knew exactly what he was doing. How well this Sixth Protocol has worked
+and is still working out in human affairs is before the eyes of everyone
+to see.
+
+Here in the United States one of the most important movements toward
+real independence of the financial powers has been begun by the farmers.
+The farmer's strong advantage is that, owning the land, he is
+independent in his sources of livelihood. The land will feed him whether
+he pleases International Jewish Financiers or not. His position is
+impregnable as long as the sun shines and the seasons roll. It was
+therefore necessary to do something to hinder this budding independence.
+He was placed under a greater disadvantage than any other business man
+in borrowing capital. He was placed more ruthlessly than any other
+producer between the upper and nether stones of a thievish distribution
+system. Labor was drawn away from the farm. The Jew-controlled melodrama
+made the farmer a "rube," and Jew-made fiction presented him as a
+"hick," causing his sons to be ashamed of farm life. The grain
+syndicates which operate against the farmer are Jew-controlled. There is
+no longer any possibility of doubting, when the facts of actual affairs
+are put alongside the written Program, that the farmer of the United
+States has an interest in this Question.
+
+What would this World Program gain if the wage-workers were enslaved and
+the farmers were allowed to go scot-free? Therefore the program of
+agricultural interference which has been only partially outlined here.
+
+But this is not all.
+
+Any writer who attempts fully to inform the Gentile mind on the Jewish
+Question must often feel that the extent of the Protocols' Conspiracy is
+so great as to stagger the Gentile mind. Gentiles are not conspirators.
+They cannot follow a clue through long and devious and darkened
+channels. The elaborate completeness of the Jewish Program, the perfect
+co-ordination of its mass of details wearies the Gentile mind. This,
+really more than the daring of the Program itself, constitutes the
+principal danger of Program being fulfilled. Gentile mental laziness is
+the most powerful ally the World Program has.
+
+For example: after citing the perfectly obvious coincidence and most
+probable connection between the Protocols and the observable facts with
+reference to the farm situation, the writer is compelled to say, as
+above, "But this is not all." And it is a peculiarity of Gentile
+psychology that the Gentile reader will feel that it ought to be all
+because it is so complete. This is where the Jewish mind out-maneuvers
+the Gentile mind.
+
+Gentiles may do a thing for one reason: the Jew often does the same
+thing for three or four reasons. The Gentile can understand thus far why
+Jewish financiers should seek control of the land in order to prevent
+widespread Agricultural Independence which, as Protocol Six says, would
+be "harmful to us." That reason is perfectly clear.
+
+But there is another. It is found in the Twelfth Protocol. It
+contemplates nothing less than the playing of City against Country in
+the great game now being exposed. Complete control over the City by the
+industrial leverage, and over the Country by the debt leverage, will
+enable the Hidden Players to move first the Country by saying that the
+City demands certain things, and then move the City by saying that the
+Country demands certain things, thus splitting Citizens and Farmers
+apart and using them against one another.
+
+Look at the plainness and the boldness, yet the calm assurance, with
+which this plan is broached:
+
+"Our calculations reach out, especially into the country districts.
+There we must necessarily arouse those interests and ambitions which we
+can always turn against the city, representing them to the cities as
+dreams and ambitions for independence on the part of the provinces. It
+is clear that the source of all this will be precisely the same, and
+that it will come from us. It will be necessary for us before we have
+attained full power to so arrange matters that, from time to time, the
+cities shall come under the influence of opinion in the country
+districts, that is, of the majority prearranged by our agents * * *"
+
+The preliminaries of the game are here set forth--to jockey City and
+Farm against each other, that in the end the Conspirators may use
+whichever proves the stronger in putting the Plan over. In Russia, both
+schemes have been worked. The old regime, established in the Cities, was
+persuaded to lay down power because it was made to believe that the
+peasants of Russia requested it. Then, when the Bolshevists seized
+power, they ruled the peasantry on the ground that the Cities wanted it.
+The Cities listened to the Country, now the Country is listening to the
+Cities.
+
+If you see any attempt made to divide City and Farm into antagonistic
+camps, remember this paragraph from the Twelfth Protocol. Already the
+poison is working. Have you never heard that Prohibition was something
+which the backwoods districts forced upon the cities? Have you never
+heard that the High Cost of Living was due to extravagant profits of the
+farmer?--profits which he doesn't get.
+
+One big dent in this Program of World Control could be made if the
+Citizen and the Farmer could learn each other's mind, not through
+self-appointed spokesmen, but directly from each other. City and Farm
+are drifting apart because of misrepresentation of outsiders, and in the
+widening rift the sinister shadow of the World Program appears.
+
+Let the Farmers look past the "Gentile fronts" in their villages or
+principal trading points, past them to the real controllers who are
+hidden.
+
+[Issue of September 4, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVII.
+
+Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
+
+
+The purpose of this article is twofold: to set forth what the Protocols
+have to say about the relation of the Press to the World Program, and to
+make an introduction to a study of Jewish influence on the Press.
+
+The Jewish race has always been aware of the advantages to be derived
+from news. This was one of the factors in its control of European
+commerce from the earliest Christian times. To be informed beforehand,
+to know what was coming before the Gentiles among whom they lived knew
+it, was a special privilege of the Jews, made possible by the close
+communication in which widely separated Jewish groups kept themselves.
+From the first they were inveterate correspondents. They were the
+inventors of the news-letter.
+
+This does not imply, however, that the Jews were the forerunners or even
+the sponsors of the modern Press. It was no part of their purpose to
+distribute news among the people, but to keep it for themselves as a
+secret advantage. The political, economic and commercial news which sped
+with really remarkable facility throughout Europe, from Jewish community
+to Jewish community, was in reality the official budget by which each
+community informed all the others of what was transpiring, as to war,
+trade currents, rising emergencies, or whatever the matter may have
+been. For centuries the Jews were the best informed people on the
+continent; from their secret sources in courts and chancellories, from
+privileged Jews who were placed in every position of vantage, the whole
+race was informed of the state of the world.
+
+Scouts were kept in motion everywhere. Far down in South America, before
+the British or Dutch colonies in North America had hardly secured a
+foothold, there were Jews who served as outposts for European trade
+interests. The world was spied out in the interests of their race, just
+as today the entire planet is under the watchful eyes of Jewish
+agents--mostly Gentiles, it must be said--for any hint of new gold
+discoveries.
+
+An interesting and historic illustration of the Jews' appreciation of
+news is to be found in the career of Nathan Rothschild. Rothschild had
+laid all his plans on the assumption that the Emperor Napoleon, then
+banished to Elba, was finally eliminated from European affairs. Napoleon
+unexpectedly returned, and in the "Hundred Days" it seemed as if the
+Rothschild financial edifice might collapse. Feverishly the financier
+aided both Prussia and England, and as the Battle of Waterloo
+approached, no one was more interested in the outcome than he.
+
+Rothschild was a man who shrank from the sight of blood; he was
+physically a coward, and any sign of violence unnerved him; but so
+intense was his interest in the battle on which his whole fortune seemed
+to depend, that he hastened to France, followed the British Army, and
+when the battle began he hid himself in "some shot-proof nook near
+Hougomont" where he watched all day the ebb and flow of battle. Just
+before Napoleon ordered the last desperate charge Rothschild had made up
+his mind. He said afterward that his exclamation at this point was, "The
+House of Rothschild has won the battle."
+
+He hurried from the field, galloped wildly to Brussels, communicating
+not a word of what he knew to the anxious people he met by the way.
+Hiring a carriage at an exorbitant price, he galloped away to Ostend.
+Here a fierce storm was raging on the ocean and no sailor was willing to
+set out for England, about 20 miles away. Rothschild himself, always
+afraid of danger, forgot his fear in his visions of the stock market. He
+offered 500, 800, and at length 1,000 francs to the man who would take
+him across. But no one dared. Finally one sailor proposed that if
+Rothschild would pay 2,000 francs into his wife's hands, he would
+attempt it.
+
+Half dead the two men reached the English coast, but without rest
+Rothschild ordered express post and hurried away to London. Whip and
+spur were not spared on that journey.
+
+There were no telegrams in those days, no swift communication. England
+was anxious. The rumors were bad. And on the morning of June 20, 1815,
+when Nathan Rothschild appeared in his usual place at the Stock Exchange
+and leaned against the column, England knew nothing of what he knew. He
+was pale and broken. The sight of his face led the other financiers to
+believe that he had received bad news from the front. Then it was seen
+that he was quietly selling his securities. What? Rothschild unloading?
+The market dropped disastrously, a very panic seized the financiers, the
+market was flooded with consols offered for sale--and all that was
+offered, Rothschild's agents bought!
+
+So it went on, all day the 20th, and all day the 21st. At the close of
+business the second day, Rothschild's heavy chests were crammed with
+securities. Then in the evening a courier galloped into London with the
+news that Wellington had won and Napoleon was a fugitive. But Nathan
+Rothschild had made $10,000,000 and the men he did business with had
+lost that much--all as an affair of news!
+
+There was a little incident in Washington during the war--a "leak" of
+news, it was called. The wise men of Wall Street sometimes whisper that
+even between 1914-1918 there were men of Rothschild's race who showed
+his same appreciation of "news," with the same profitable results. And
+not only the men of "Rothschild's race," but some of their "Gentile
+fronts," also.
+
+There were times during the war when no Gentile knew what was going on
+in certain countries. The Jewish leaders always knew. Some very
+interesting testimony can be presented on that point.
+
+Aside from its own interest, this Rothschild narrative fully illustrates
+the statement that while the Jews were very early news-gatherers, they
+were not publicists. They used the news for their own benefit; they did
+not disseminate it. If it had depended on their influence, there would
+have been no public Press at all. It was in France, which had no
+newspapers outside the capital, that the French Revolution was possible.
+There being no reliable exchange of news and opinion, the people were
+kept in ignorance. Paris itself did not know that the Bastille had
+fallen until next day. Where there is no Press, minorities easily gain
+control--as the Jewish-Bolshevist revolution in Russia illustrates.
+
+One of the most dangerous developments of the time is public distrust of
+the Press. If the day ever comes when swift, reliable and authoritative
+communication with the entire people shall be necessary for public
+action in the interests of public safety, the nation may find itself
+sadly crippled unless a new confidence in the daily Press can be built
+up. If for no other reason than that the free press is a safeguard
+against minority seizure of control, such laws as the zone laws, or any
+restrictions on the freest and fullest communication between various
+parts of the country, should be absolutely abolished.
+
+But, the Press being in existence, and being largely an Anglo-Saxon
+creation, it is a force not to be treated lightly, and that is the point
+where the World Program and Jewish Control come in contact with it.
+
+The Protocols, which overlook nothing, propose a very definite plan with
+regard to the Press. As in the multitude of other matters with which
+these remarkable documents deal, there are the two phases--"what we have
+done," and "what we will do."
+
+As early as the Second Protocol, the Press comes in for attention. It is
+significant that it makes its appearance in the same Protocol in which
+the "No Annexations" program was announced 20 years before the World
+War, in the same Protocol in which it is announced that Gentile rulers
+will be allowed to appear before the people for a short period, while
+Jewish influences were organizing themselves behind the seats of power,
+and in the same Protocol where Darwinism, Marxism and Nietzscheism are
+claimed among the most "demoralizing" doctrines which Jewish influence
+has disseminated. These are very curious statements, but not stranger
+than the actuality that has come to pass.
+
+Says the Second Protocol:
+
+"There is one great force in the hands of modern governments which
+creates thought movements among the people, that is, the Press. The
+presumed role of the Press is to indicate supposedly indispensable
+needs, to register popular complaints, and to create discontent. The
+triumph of 'free speech' (babbling) rests in the Press. But governments
+are unable to profit by this power, and it has fallen into our hands.
+Through it we have attained influence while remaining in the shadow.
+Thanks to it, we have amassed gold, though it has cost us torrents of
+blood and tears."
+
+In the same Protocol, "our Press" is spoken of as the agency through
+which are disseminated "those theories of life which we have induced
+them (the Gentiles) to regard as the dictates of science."
+
+"To this end we shall certainly endeavor to inspire blind confidence in
+these theories by means of our Press."
+
+Then follows the claim made concerning the three most revolutionary
+theories in the physical, economic and moral realms, namely Darwinism,
+Marxism and Nietzscheism.
+
+In the Third Protocol the claim is made that this control of the Press
+is being used to break down respect for authority:
+
+"Daring journalists and audacious pamphleteers make daily attack upon
+the personnel of the administration. This abuse of authority is
+definitely preparing the downfall of all institutions, and everything
+will be overturned by blows coming from the infuriated populace."
+
+Again, in the Seventh Protocol, discussing the progress which the World
+Program has already made, the part played by the Press is indicated:
+
+"We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will
+promote our broadly conceived plan already approaching its triumphal
+goal, by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion,
+which has in reality been organized by us with the help of the so-called
+'great power' of the Press. With few exceptions not worth considering,
+it is already in our hands."
+
+Thus twice is the claim made to control of the Press. "It has fallen
+into our hands," says the Second Protocol. "It is already in our hands,"
+says the Seventh. In the Second Protocol the Press is represented as
+furthering revolutionary physical, economic and moral philosophies;
+while in the Seventh it is used to create the "pressure of stimulated
+public opinion" for the purpose of "forcing Gentile governments to adopt
+measures which will promote our broadly conceived plan, already
+approaching its triumphal goal."
+
+A word of comment may be made here upon the claim of the Second Protocol
+that "thanks to it (the Press), we have amassed gold, though it has cost
+us torrents of blood and tears."
+
+This is a statement which can be illustrated in many ways. "Though it
+has cost us torrents of blood and tears" is an admission upon which the
+Protocols throw light, a light which also shines upon the Jewish
+argument regarding responsibility for the recent war, namely, that
+Jewish World Financial Power could not have willed the war seeing that
+Jews suffered so heavily in Eastern Europe. The Protocols frankly
+recognize the possibility of Jews suffering during the establishment of
+the World Program, but it consoles them with the thought that they fall
+as soldiers for the good of Israel. The death of a Jew, we are told in
+the Protocols, is more precious in the sight of God than the death of a
+thousand "seed of cattle," which is one of the delicate names applied to
+the Gentiles.
+
+The reference to the amassment of gold is very clear. It does not apply
+to ownership of publications and a share in their profits only, but also
+the use that may be made of them through silence or outcry to promote
+International Jewish Financiers' schemes. The Rothschilds bought editors
+as they bought legislators. It was a preliminary of nearly every scheme
+they floated to first "fix" the newspapers, either for silence or claque
+boosting. In matters of war and peace; in the removal of administrations
+inimical to Jewish financial or political plans; in the elimination by
+public exposure of "Gentile fronts" whom their Jewish masters wished to
+be rid of; in the gradual building up of reputation and influence for
+"rising men" who had been chosen for work in the future--in these and
+like matters the Press very greatly aided the International Cabal in
+attaining its end.
+
+All the details of the foregoing paragraph can be illustrated at length
+by instances which have occurred in the United States within the past 15
+years.
+
+There was once a Senator of the United States who--but that story
+illustrates another point also, and will be reserved until that point is
+reached in this series of discussions.
+
+The Twelfth Protocol, however, contains the entire plan of Control of
+the Press, reaching from the present time into the future when the
+Jewish World Government shall be established. The reader is invited to
+read carefully and thoughtfully the deep and wide outreaching of this
+plan.
+
+Keep also in mind the boast that has been made for generations that no
+publication that has handled the Jewish Question in a manner distasteful
+to the Jewish powers has been allowed to live.
+
+"What role is played at present by the Press? It serves to inflame the
+passions of selfish partisanship which our interests require. It is
+shallow, lying and unfair, the most people do not understand what end it
+serves."
+
+In that quotation we have the same low estimate which was noted when we
+studied "the estimate of human nature" which the Protocols contain.
+
+Now, for the Plan of Press Control: We separate the points for
+convenience:
+
+"We shall handle the Press in the following manner:
+
+1. "We shall saddle it and keep tight rein upon it. We shall do the same
+also with other printed matter, for of what use is it to rid ourselves
+of attacks in the Press, if we remain exposed to criticism through
+pamphlets and books?"
+
+2. "Not one announcement will reach the people save under our
+supervision. We have attained this at the present time to the extent
+that all news is received through several agencies in which it is
+centralized from all parts of the world."
+
+A sidelight on the first sentence above may be had from the Jewish
+statement regarding the British Declaration relating to Palestine: "This
+Declaration was sent from the Foreign Office to Lord Walter Rothschild.
+* * * It came perhaps as a surprise to large sections of the Jewish
+people * * * But to those who were active in Zionist circles, the
+declaration was no surprise. * * * The wording of it came from the
+British Foreign Office, but the text had been revised in the Zionist
+offices in America as well as in England. The British Declaration was
+made in the form in which the Zionists desired it. * * *" pp. 85-86,
+"Guide to Zionism," by Jessie E. Sampter, published by the Zionist
+Organization of America.
+
+3. "Literature and journalism are two most important educational forces,
+and consequently our government will become the owner of most of the
+journals. * * * If we permit ten private journals, we shall organize
+thirty of our own, and so on. This must not be suspected by the public,
+for which reason all the journals published by us will be EXTERNALLY of
+the most contrary opinions and tendencies thus evoking confidence in
+them and attracting our unsuspecting opponents, who thus will be caught
+in our trap and rendered harmless."
+
+This is most interesting in view of the defense now being made for so
+many Jewish journals. "Look at the newspapers owned and controlled by
+Jews," they say; "see how they differ in policy! See how they disagree
+with each other!" Certainly, "externally," as Protocol 12 says, but the
+underlying unity is never hard to find.
+
+Besides, one way of discovering who are the people that have knowledge
+of the Jewish World problem, of who can be convinced of it, or who will
+write about it is just to start a paper which "externally" seems to be
+independent of the Jewish Question. So deeply is this thought shared by
+even uneducated Jews that a rumor is today widespread in the United
+States that the reason for the present series of articles in THE
+DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is the desire of its owner to forward the Jewish
+World Program! Unfortunately, this scheme of starting a fake opposition
+in order to discover where the real opposing force is, is not confined
+to the Jewish Internationalists, although there is every indication that
+it was learned from them.
+
+This idea of a misrepresentative front for certain secret purposes is
+expressed at length not only with reference to the Press, but throughout
+the Protocols in other relations. But in Protocol 12 it is fully
+developed with regard to the Press, as the following quotations show.
+
+(a) In order to force writers into such long productions that no one
+will read them, a tax on writing is proposed--"on books of less than 30
+pages a double tax." Small articles are most feared. Therefore doubly
+tax the pamphlets of less than 30 pages. The longer articles fewer will
+read, so the Protocols argue, and the double tax will thus "force
+writers into such long productions that they will be little read,
+especially as they will be expensive."
+
+BUT--
+
+"That which we ourselves shall publish for directing the public mind
+will be cheap and widely read. The tax will discourage mere literary
+ambition, whereas the fear of punishment will make the writers
+subservient to us. Even if there should be those who may desire to write
+against us, no one will publish their writings." (How many American
+writers know this!)
+
+"Before accepting any work for printing, the publisher or printer must
+obtain permission from the authorities. Thus we will know in advance
+what attacks are being prepared against us and shall be able to
+counteract them by coming out beforehand with explanations on the
+subject."
+
+That is largely the situation today. They do know in advance what is
+being done, and they do seek to disarm it beforehand.
+
+(b) Here are the Three Degrees of Jewish Journalism, which are not only
+stated in the Protocols but are observable in the everyday world of the
+present.
+
+"The leading place will be held by organs of an official character. They
+will always stand guard over our interests and consequently their
+influence will be comparatively small.
+
+"The second place will be held by semi-official organs whose aim it will
+be to attract the indifferent and lukewarm.
+
+"In the third category we shall place organs of apparent opposition. At
+least one will be extremely antagonistic. Our true opponents will
+mistake this seeming opposition as belonging to their own group and will
+thus show us their cards.
+
+"I beg you to notice that among those who attack us there will be organs
+founded by us, and they will attack exclusively those points which we
+plan to change or eliminate.
+
+"All our papers will support most diverse opinions: aristocratic,
+republican, even anarchist, so long of course as the Constitution lives.
+* * These fools who believe they are repeating the opinions expressed by
+their party newspapers will be repeating our opinions or those things
+which we wish them to think.
+
+"By always discussing and contradicting our writings superficially, and
+without touching upon their essence, our press will keep up a blank fire
+against the official newspapers, only to give us opportunity to express
+ourselves in greater detail than we could in our first declaration. This
+will be done when useful to us.
+
+"These attacks will also convince the people of the full freedom of the
+press, and it will give our agents the opportunity of declaring that the
+papers opposing us are mere wind-bags, since they cannot find any real
+arguments to oppose our orders."
+
+Undoubtedly that would be the case were all the papers controlled. In
+the case of the present series of articles, however, the tables appear
+to be turned. It is the Jewish Press which has so signally failed to
+bring forward disproof either by fact or argument.
+
+"When necessary, we shall promulgate ideas in the third section of our
+Press as feelers, and then refute them vigorously in the semi-official
+press.
+
+"We shall overcome our opponents without fail because they will not have
+organs of the Press at their disposal.
+
+"The pretext for suppressing a publication will be that it stirs up the
+public mind without basis of reason"--a pretext which has already been
+urged time and again, but without the legal power to effect suppression,
+although without legal power the Jewish interests in the United States
+have effected a pretty complete suppression of everything they do not
+desire.
+
+How far does Jewish influence control the Newspapers of the United
+States?
+
+In so far as the use of the word "Jew" is concerned, the Press is almost
+completely dominated. The editor who uses it is certain to hear from it.
+He will be visited and told--contrary to everything the Jew is
+told--that the word "Jew" denotes a member of a religious denomination
+and not a member of a race, and that its use with reference to any
+person spoken of in the public prints is as reprehensible as if
+"Baptist," "Catholic," or "Episcopalian" were used.
+
+The Jew is always told by his leaders that regardless of religion or
+country of birth, he is a Jew, the member of a race by virtue of blood.
+Pages of this paper could be filled with the most authoritative Jewish
+statements on this point. But what the Jew is told by his leaders, and
+what the Gentile editor is told by the Jewish committee are two
+different and antagonistic things. A Jewish paper may shriek to the
+skies that Professor So-and-So, or Judge So-and-So, or Senator So-and-So
+is a Jew, but the secular newspaper that should do that would be visited
+by an indignant committee bearing threats.
+
+A certain newspaper, as a mere matter of news, published an excerpt from
+one of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT articles. Next day a number of
+advertising accounts dropped for lack of copy. Inquiry developed the
+fact that the reticent advertisers were all Jewish firms and the cause
+of their action was the really unimportant excerpt which the paper
+published. It developed also that the advertising agent who handled all
+the advertising for those Jewish firms was himself a Jew who also held
+an office in a Jewish secret society, which office was concerned
+exclusively with the control of newspapers in the matter of Jewish
+publicity. It was this man who dealt with the editor. A lame editorial
+retraction followed which faintly praised the Jews. The advertising was
+returned to the paper, and it is just a question whether that editor was
+rightly handled or not. Certainly he has been made to feel the power.
+But the diplomacy of it was bad. The editor, along with hundreds of
+others, has only been given the proper background for estimating the
+Jewish power in its wider reaches.
+
+This is not to say that every editor should enter upon a campaign to
+expose the secret power. That is a matter for personal decision. Every
+editor, however, is so situated that he can see certain things, and he
+ought to see them, note them, and inwardly digest them.
+
+Jewish publicity in response to these articles is very easy to get in
+almost any newspaper. Some have fallen most lamentably for lying
+statements. Others have opened their columns to propaganda sent out from
+Jewish sources. That is all very well. But the Gentile interest in the
+question has been largely ignored, even in cases where the editors are
+awake to the whole Question. This too affords a vantage from which the
+average editor can view what is transpiring in this country.
+
+If a list of the Jewish owners, bondholders and other interests in our
+newspapers should be published the list would be impressive. But it
+would not account for the widespread control of the Press as observed in
+this country. Indeed, it would be unfair in such a connection as this to
+list some of the Jewish-owned newspapers of the United States, because
+their owners are fair and public-spirited servants of the people.
+
+Actual ownership does not often account for much in a newspaper.
+Ownership in the newspaper business in not always synonymous with
+control.
+
+If you wish to know the control of the newspaper, look to its attorney
+and the interests he serves; look to the social connections of its chief
+editors; look to the advertising agents who handle the bulk of Jewish
+advertising; and then look to the matter of the paper's partisanship or
+independence in politics.
+
+Newspaper control of the Press by the Jews is not a matter of money. It
+is a matter of keeping certain things out of the public mind and putting
+certain things into it.
+
+One absolute condition insisted upon with the daily Press is that it
+shall not identify the Jew, mention him, or in any but the most
+favorable way call the public's attention to his existence.
+
+The first plea for this is based on "fairness," on the false statement
+that a Jew is not a Jew but a church member. This is the same statement
+which Jewish agents in the United States Government have used for years
+to prevent the United States Government from listing the Jews in any
+racial statistics. It is in direct contradiction to what the Jews
+themselves are told. A flabby "fairness," a sloppy "broad-mindedness," a
+cry of "religious prejudice," is the first plea. The second is a sudden
+cessation of Jewish patronage. The third is withdrawal of patronage by
+every Gentile concern that is under the grip of Jewish financiers. It is
+a mere matter of brutal bludgeoning. And the fourth act, in a community
+thoroughly blinded to the Jewish Question, is the collapse of the
+offending publication.
+
+Read the Jewish Encyclopedia for a list of some of the papers which
+dared open up the Question, and ceased!
+
+When old Baron Moses Montefiore said at Krakau:
+
+"What are you prating about? As long as we do not have the press of the
+whole world in our hands, everything you may do is vain. We must control
+or influence the papers of the whole world in order to blind and deceive
+the people."
+
+--he knew what he was saying. By "blinding" the people he only meant
+that they should not see the Jew, and by "deceiving" them he only meant
+that the people should think certain world movements meant one thing
+when they really meant another. The people may be told what happens:
+they may not be told what was behind it. The people do not yet know why
+certain occurrences which have affected their whole lives, should have
+occurred at all. But the "why" of it is very definitely known in certain
+circles whose news service never sees print, and sometimes not even
+writing.
+
+Statistics as to the space given the Jews by newspapers concerning
+things they want to get into print would also be an eye-opener. A
+minority nation, they get more publicity than any ten of the important
+minor nations of Europe--of the kind of publicity they want!
+
+The number of Jewish contributors to the Press of the United States
+makes another interesting statistical bit. It would be sheer prejudice
+to make objectionable mention of many Jewish journalists and writers,
+and they come within the scope of this study only as they have shown
+themselves to be the watchful agents and active servants of the System.
+This is what many of them are. Not the ambitious young Jewish reporter
+who runs around the streets gathering news, perhaps, but the journalist
+at the seat of the news and at the necks of those two or three important
+international runways through which the news of the world flows.
+
+The whole matter, as far as extent of control is concerned, could be
+visualized on a map of the United States, by means of colored pins
+showing the number of Jewish-owned, provably Jewish-controlled papers,
+and the number of Jewish writers who are directing the majority thought
+of the various sections of the country.
+
+The Jewish journalist who panders to unrest, whose literary ambition is
+to maintain a ferment in his readers, whose humor is sordid and whose
+philosophy is one of negation; as well as the Jewish novelist who extols
+his or her own people even while the story sows subtle seeds of
+disruption in Gentile social or economic life must be listed as the
+agents of that World Program which would break down society through the
+agency of "ideas." And it is very striking how many there are, and how
+skillfully they conceal their propaganda in their work.
+
+Here and there in the United States it is now becoming possible to print
+the word "Jew" in the headlines of an article, and tell the Jewish
+committee which calls the next day that this is yet a free country.
+Quietly a number of newspapers have tested the strength of this assumed
+control in their communities, and have discounted it.
+
+There is no reason for fear on the part of the editor who has his facts.
+But the editor who backs down will more and more feel the pressure upon
+him. The man who courageously and fairly holds his ground will soon
+learn another thing that is not so generally known, namely, that with
+all the brilliance there is a lot of bluff, and that the chain of
+control once broken is felt throughout the whole system as a blow.
+
+There is nothing that the International Jew fears so much as the truth,
+or any hint of the truth about himself or his plans. And, after all, the
+rock of refuge and defense, the foundation of endurance for Jew or
+Gentile must be the Truth.
+
+[Issue of September 11, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+XVIII.
+
+Does This Explain Jewish Political Power?
+
+
+Little has yet been said in this commentary on the Protocols about the
+political program contained in them. It is desirable that the points be
+taken separately in order that when our study turns to actual conditions
+in this country, the reader may be in a position to judge whether the
+written program agrees with the acted program as it may be seen all
+about us. The World Program as outlined in these strange documents turns
+upon many points, some of which have already been discussed. Its success
+is sought (a) by securing financial control of the world, this having
+already been secured by the overwhelming indebtedness of every nation
+through wars, and by the capitalistic (not the manufacturing or
+managerial) control of industry; (b) by securing political control,
+which is easily illustrated by the condition of every civilized country
+today; (c) by securing control of education, a control which has been
+steadily won under the blinded eyes of the people; (d) by trivializing
+the public mind through a most complete system of allurement which has
+just brought us into a period which requires the new word "jazz" to
+describe it; and (e) by the sowing of seeds of disruption
+everywhere--not the seeds of progress, but of economic fallacies and
+revolutionary temper. All of these main objectives entail various
+avenues of action, none of which has been overlooked by the Protocols.
+
+In leading up to what the Protocols have to say about the selection and
+control of Presidents, it will be enlightening to take the views which
+these documents express about other phases of politics.
+
+It may be very interesting to those Jewish apologists, who in all their
+pronouncements never discuss the contents of the Protocols, to know that
+so far from their being a plea for monarchy, they are a plea for the
+most drastic and irresponsible liberalism in government. The powers
+behind the Protocols appear to have absolute confidence in what they can
+do with the people once the people are made to believe that popular
+government has really arrived.
+
+The Protocols believe in frequent change. They like elections; they
+approve frequent revisions of constitutions; they counsel the people to
+change their representatives often.
+
+Take this from the First Protocol:
+
+"The abstract conception of Liberty made it possible for us to convince
+the crowd that government is only the management for the owner of the
+country, the people, and that the steward can be changed like a pair of
+worn-out gloves. The possibility of changing the representatives of the
+people has placed them at our disposal and, as it were, has placed them
+in our power as creatures of our purposes."
+
+Note also how this Use of Change is buried in this paragraph from the
+Fourth Protocol, which describes the evolution of a Republic:
+
+"Every republic passes through several stages. The first is that of
+senseless ravings, resembling those of a blind man throwing himself from
+right to left. The second is that of demagogy, which breeds anarchy and
+inevitably leads to despotism, not of a legal, open and consequently
+responsible character, but an unseen and unknown despotism, felt none
+the less because exercised by a secret organization. Such a despotism
+acts with even less scruple because it is hidden under cover and works
+behind the backs of various agents, the shifting and changing of which
+will not harm its secret power, but serve it, since such changes will
+relieve the organization from the necessity of expending its resources
+on rewards for long service."
+
+This "changing" of servants is not unknown in the United States. A
+former Senator of the United States could easily testify to this if he
+only knew who did the "changing." Time was when he was the tool of every
+Jewish lobbyist in the Senate. His glib tongue lent charm and
+plausibility to every argument they wished to advance against the
+government's intentions. Secretly, however, the Senator was receiving
+"favors" from a very high source, "favors" of a financial character. The
+time came when it was desirable to "detach" the Senator. The written
+record of his "favors" was abstracted from its place of supposed
+secrecy, a newspaper system that has always been the ready organ of
+American Jewry made the exposure, and an indignant public did the rest.
+It could not have been done had not the man been compromised first; it
+could not have been done without certain newspaper connivance; it would
+never have been done had not the Senator's masters wished it. However,
+it was done.
+
+In the Fourteenth Protocol, which begins "When we become rulers," it is
+pictured how hopeless the Gentile peoples will have become of any
+betterment of conditions through changes of government, and therefore
+will accept the promise of stability which the Protocolists of that time
+will be prepared to offer:
+
+"The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of
+administration which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were
+undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate
+anything from us * * *"
+
+The official who is changed most quickly in this country is the man who
+questions certain matters which come from Jewish sources. There must be
+a small army of such men in the United States today. Some of them do not
+know even now how it happened. Some are still wondering why perfectly
+legitimate and patriotic information should have been lost in an icy
+silence when they sent it in, and why they should have lost favor for
+sending it.
+
+Protocol Nine is full of the most amazing claims, of which these may
+serve as illustration:
+
+"At the present time, if any government raises a protest against us, it
+is only for the sake of form, it is under our control, and it is done by
+our direction, for their anti-Semitism is necessary for keeping in order
+our lesser brothers. I will not explain this further as already it has
+been the subject of numerous discussions between us."
+
+This doctrine of the usefulness of anti-Semitism and the desirability of
+creating it where it does not exist are found in the words of Jewish
+leaders, ancient and modern.
+
+"In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government has
+such an extra-legal status that it may be called by the energetic and
+strong word--dictatorship. I can conscientiously say that at the present
+time we are the lawmakers."
+
+In that Protocol this claim is made:
+
+"De facto, we have already eliminated every government except our own,
+although de jure there are still many others left."
+
+That is simple: the governments still exist, under their own names,
+having authority over their own people; but the super-government has
+unchallenged influence over all of them in matters pertaining to the
+Jewish Nation and particularly in matters pertaining to the purpose of
+The International Jew.
+
+The Eighth Protocol shows how this can be:
+
+"For the time being, until it will be safe to give responsible
+government positions to our brother Jews, we shall entrust them to
+people whose past and whose character are such that there is an abyss
+between them and the people; to people, for whom, in case of
+disobedience to our orders, there will remain only trial or exile (from
+public life), thus forcing them to protect our interest to their last
+breath."
+
+In the Ninth Protocol again is this reference to party funds:
+
+"The division into parties has placed them all at our disposal, inasmuch
+as in order to carry on a party struggle it is necessary to have money,
+and we have it all."
+
+There have been many investigations of campaign funds. None has ever yet
+gone deep enough to inquire into the "international" sources of these
+funds.
+
+Now, in the United States during the last five years we have seen an
+almost complete Judaized administration in control of all the war
+activities of the American people. The function of the regularly
+organized United States Government during that time was practically
+confined to the voting of money. But the administration of the business
+end of the war was in charge of a government within a government, and
+this inner, extra government was Jewish.
+
+It is, of course, often asked why this was so. The first answer given is
+that the Jews who were immediately placed in charge of the business
+administration of the war were competent men, the most competent men who
+could be found. This was actually the answer given to an inquiry as to
+the reason for so large a part of the foreign policy of the United
+States depending on the counsel of a certain group of Jews--they were
+the men who knew, no one else knew so much, the officials chosen by the
+people had a right to select the most efficient and able counsel they
+could find.
+
+Very well, let that stand. Let the explanation be that in all the United
+States, Jews were the only persons to be found who could handle the
+emergency with masterly ease. We shall see more of this phase of the
+matter at another time. The war is not under discussion in this article,
+merely the fact that in an emergency the government became distinctly
+Jewish.
+
+But the Second Protocol would appear to throw a little light on the
+matter.
+
+"The administrators chosen by us from the masses for their servility
+will not be persons trained for government, and consequently they will
+easily become pawns in our game, played by our learned and talented
+counsellors, specialists educated from early childhood to administer
+world affairs. As we know, our specialists have been acquiring the
+necessary knowledge for governing * * *"
+
+The language is a trifle raw, as it usually is when Gentiles are under
+discussion. But the same fact, namely, that Jewish specialists have come
+to the aid of Gentile administrators in an emergency, when uttered for
+the consideration of the general public, may be very beautifully
+phrased.
+
+The untrained Gentile administrator must have help; his unpreparedness
+makes it necessary. And who knows it better than those who have the help
+to offer? The Gentile public has been taught to suspect the man who has
+had experience in politics or government. This, of course, makes the
+whole situation doubly easy for those whose speciality it is to give
+"aid." Just what interests they aid most will give, when discovered, a
+strong light upon their zeal.
+
+But in all that the Protocols have to say about the political angle of
+the World Program, nothing is of so great interest as that which
+concerns the selection and control of Presidents. The whole plan is
+outlined in the Tenth Protocol. The fact that the President of France
+seems to have been in mind is a localism; the plan is applicable
+elsewhere; indeed has elsewhere its most perfect illustration.
+
+This Tenth Protocol, then, leads gradually up to the subject, tracing
+the evolution of rulers from Autocrat to President, and of nations from
+Monarchies to Republics.
+
+The language of this passage is particularly objectionable, but no more
+so than can be found in current Jewish literature where boasting of
+power is indulged in. Unpleasant as the whole attitude is, it is
+valuable as showing in just what light the supporters of the Protocol
+Program view the Gentiles and their dignities. It must be born in mind
+that the Jewish ideal is not a President, but a Prince and a King. The
+Jewish students of Russia marched the streets in 1918 singing this
+hymn--
+
+"We have given you a God; Now we will give you a King."
+
+The new flag of Palestine, now permitted to fly without hindrance, bears
+insignia, as does every synagogue, of a Jewish King. The Jewish hope is
+that the Throne of David shall be set up again, as doubtless it will be.
+None of these things is to be decried in the least, nor to be regarded
+with anything but a decent respect, but they should be borne in mind as
+a side light on the expressed contempt for Gentile Presidents and
+Legislatures.
+
+The Tenth Protocol reaches the theme of President thus:
+
+"Then the rise of the republican era became possible, and then in the
+place of a sovereign we substituted a caricature of him, a President
+picked from the crowd * * * Such was the foundation of the mine we laid
+underneath the Gentile people, or more accurately, the Gentile peoples."
+
+It is with something of a shock that one reads that men with a "past"
+are specially favored for the presidential office. Men with a "past"
+have become President in various countries, including the United States,
+there is no doubt of that. In some instances, the particular scandal
+that constituted the "past" has been publicly known; in other cases it
+has been hushed up and lost in a maze of rumor. In at least one case it
+was made the special property of a syndicate of men who, while
+protecting the official from public knowledge, compelled him to pay
+rather stiffly for their service. Men with a "past" are not uncommon,
+and it is not always the "past" but the concealment of it that concerns
+them most, and in this lack of frankness, this distrust of the
+understanding and mercy of the people, they usually fall into another
+slavery, namely, the slavery of political or financial blackmail.
+
+"We will manipulate the election of Presidents whose past contains some
+undisclosed dark affair, some 'Panama,' then they will be faithful
+executors of our orders from fear of exposure and from the natural
+desire of every man who has attained a position of authority to retain
+the privileges, emoluments and the dignity associated with the position
+of President."
+
+The use of the word "Panama" here refers to the various scandals which
+arose in French political circles over the original efforts to construct
+the Panama Canal. If the present form of the Protocols had been written
+at a later date they might have referred to the "Marconi wireless"
+scandals in England--though on second thought, they would not have done
+so because certain men were involved who were not Gentiles. Herzl, the
+great Jewish Zionist leader, uses the expression in "The Jewish State."
+Speaking of the management of the business of Palestine he says that the
+Society of the Jews "will see to it that the enterprise does not become
+a Panama but a Suez." That the same expression should occur in Herzl and
+in the Protocols is significant; it has also another significance, which
+will be described at another time. It must be clear to the reader,
+however, that no one writing for the general public at this day would
+refer to a "Panama" in a man's past. The reference would not be
+understood.
+
+It is this practice of holding a man under obligation which makes it
+needful on the part of the true publicist to tell the truth and the
+whole truth about aspirants for public office. It is not enough to say
+of a candidate that he "began as a poor boy" and then became
+"successful." How did he become successful? How explain the "rise" of
+his fortunes? Sometimes the clue leads deep into the domestic life of
+the candidate. It may be told of a man, for example, that he helped
+another out of a scrape by marrying the woman involved, and received a
+sum of money for doing so. It may be told of another that he was
+implicated by his too friendly relations with another's wife, but was
+relieved of his predicament by the astute diplomacy of powerful friends,
+to whom thereafter he felt himself in debt of honor. It is strange that,
+in American affairs at least, the woman-note is predominant. In our
+higher offices that has more frequently occurred than any other, oftener
+than the money-note.
+
+In European countries, however, where the fact of a man's being
+entangled illegitimately with a woman does not carry so heavy a stamp of
+shame with it, the controlled men have been found to have "pasts" of
+another character.
+
+The whole subject is extremely distasteful, but truth has its surgical
+duties to perform, and this is one of them. When, for example, a pivotal
+assemblage like that of the Peace Conference is studied, and the men who
+are most subject to the Jewish influence are isolated, and their past
+history is carefully traced, there is almost no difficulty whatever in
+determining the precise moment when they passed over into that fateful
+condition which, while it did not hinder them of public honors for one
+hour, made them unchangeably the servants of a power the public did not
+see. The puzzling spectacle which the observer sees of the great leaders
+of Anglo-Saxon races closely surrounded and continuously counseled by
+the princes of the Semitic race, is explained only by knowledge of those
+leaders' "past" and those words of the Protocols--"We will manipulate
+the election of Presidents whose past contains some undisclosed dark
+affair."
+
+And where this Jewish domination of officials is glaringly apparent, it
+may be safely assumed that the custody of the secret is almost entirely
+with that race. When necessity arises, it may be a public service for
+those in possession of the facts to make them public--not for the
+purpose of destroying reputations, but for the purpose of damning for
+all time a most cowardly practice.
+
+Politically, so the Jewish publicists tell us, Jews do not vote as a
+group. Because of this so we are told, they have no political influence.
+Moreover, we are told, they are so divided among themselves that they
+cannot be led in one direction.
+
+It may be true that when it is a question of being for anything, the
+Jewish community may show a majority and minority opinion--a small
+minority, it is likely to be. But when it becomes a question of being
+against anything, the Jewish community is always a unit.
+
+These are facts to which any ward politician can testify. Any man in
+political life can test it for himself by announcing that he will not
+permit himself to be dominated by Jews or anybody else. Just let him
+mention Jews in that manner; he will no longer have to read about Jewish
+solidarity; he will have felt it. Not that, in a vote, the Jewish
+solidarity can accomplish anything it wishes; the Jew's political
+strength is not in his vote, but in the "pull" of, say, seven men at the
+seat of government. The Jews, a political minority so far as votes are
+concerned, were a political majority so far as influence was concerned,
+during the last five years. They ruled. They boast that they ruled. The
+mark of their rule is everywhere.
+
+The note which everyone observes in politics, as in the Press, is the
+fear of the Jews. This fear is such that nowhere are the Jews discussed
+as are, say, the Armenians, the Germans, the Russians, or the Hindoos.
+What is this fear but reflection of the knowledge of the Jews' power and
+their ruthlessness in the use of it? It is possibly true, as many Jewish
+publicists say, that what is called anti-Semitism is just a panic-fear.
+It is a dread of the unknown. The uncanny spectacle of an apparently
+poor people who are richer than all, of a very small minority which is
+more powerful than all, creates phantoms before the mind.
+
+It is very significant that those who most assume to represent the Jews
+are quite content that the fear should exist. They wish it to exist. To
+keep it delicately poised and always there, though not too obtrusively,
+is an art they practice. But once the balance is threatened, their
+crudeness instantly appears. Then comes the threat, by which it is hoped
+to re-establish the fear again. When the threat fails, there comes the
+wail of anti-Semitism.
+
+How strange this is, that the Jews should not see that the most abject
+form of anti-Semitism is just this fear which they are willing to have
+felt toward them by their neighbors. This fear is "Semitophobia" in its
+worst form. To inspire fear--what is more dreaded by the normal man, and
+yet what more delights an inferior race?
+
+Now, a great service is done when the people are emancipated from this
+fear. It is the process of emancipation that Jewish publicists attack.
+It is this they call anti-Semitism. It is not anti-Semitism at all; it
+is the only course that can prevent anti-Semitism.
+
+The process involves several steps. The extent of the Jewish power must
+be shown. To this, of course, strong Jewish objection is made, though no
+strong disproof can be made.
+
+Then the existence of this power must be explained. It can be explained
+only by the Jewish Will to Power, as it may be called, or by the
+deliberate program which is followed in the attainment of the power.
+When the method is explained, half the damage is undone. The Jew is not
+a superman. He is bright, he is intense, his philosophy of material
+things leaves him free to do many things from which his neighbor draws
+back; but, given equal advantages, he is not a superman. The Yankee is
+more than his equal any time, but the Yankee has an inborn inclination
+to observe the rules of the game. When the people know by what means
+this power is gained--when they are informed how, for example, political
+control is seized, as it has been in the United States, the very method
+takes all the glamour from the power, and shows it to be a rather sordid
+thing after all.
+
+This series of articles is attempting to take these orderly steps, and
+it is believed the complete effort will justify itself to reasonable
+minds, both Jewish and Gentile.
+
+In the present article one important means of power has been described
+on the authority of the Protocols. Whether the method laid down by the
+Protocols is worth considering or not depends entirely on whether it can
+be found in actual affairs today. It can be found. The two tally. The
+parallel is complete. It were well for the Jew, of course, if no trace
+of him could be found in either the written or the actual program. But
+he is there, and it is illogical for him to blame anyone but himself for
+being there. Certainly, it is small defense against the fact to heap
+abuse upon the one who discloses the fact. We have agreed that the Jews
+are clever, but they are not so clever as to be able to cover their
+work. There is a certain element of weakness in them which reveals the
+whole matter in the end. And even the revelation would not mean much if
+the thing revealed were not wrong. But that is the weakness of the
+Jewish program--it is wrong. The Jews have never gained any measure of
+success so great that the world cannot check it. The world is engaged in
+a great checking tactic now, and if there are still prophets among the
+Jews they should lead their people in another path.
+
+The proof and the fruit of any exposure of the World Program is the
+removal of the element of fear from the peoples among whom the Jews
+live.
+
+[Issue of September 18, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"In a world of completely organized territorial sovereignties he (the
+Jew) has only two possible cities of refuge; he must either pull down
+the pillars of the whole national state system, or he must create a
+territorial sovereignty of his own . . . . In Eastern Europe, Bolshevism
+and Zionism seem to grow side by side . . . . not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system is ever anything but distasteful to him."
+
+XIX.
+
+The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
+
+
+We shall now briefly interrupt the commentary which we have been making
+on the Protocols to set at rest once and for all certain misstatements
+which are made for Gentile consumption.
+
+To learn what the Jewish leaders of the United States or any other
+country think, do not read their addresses to the Gentiles; read their
+addresses to their own people. On such matters as these--Whether the Jew
+regards himself as destined to rule the world; whether he regards
+himself as belonging to a nation and race distinct from every other
+nation and race; whether he regards the Gentile world as the legitimate
+field of his exploitation by a lower moral method than is permissible
+among his own people; whether he knows and shares the principles of the
+Protocols--on such matters as these, the only safe guide is to be found
+in the words which Jewish leaders speak to Jews, not in the words they
+speak to Gentiles.
+
+The notable Jewish names which appear oftenest in the Press do not
+represent the spokesmen of Judaism at all, but only a selected few who
+represent the Department of Propaganda Among the Gentiles. Sometimes
+that propaganda is in the form of donations for Christian charitable
+organizations; sometimes it is in the form of "liberal" opinion on
+religious, social and political questions. In whatever form it comes,
+you may depend upon it that the real activities of the Jewish hierarchy
+proceed under cover of that which the Gentile is invited to observe and
+approve.
+
+The statements offered in this series are never made without the
+strictest and fullest proof, confirmation and corroboration in the
+utterances of Jewish leaders. This is one of the strange features of the
+multitude of Jewish attacks on this series: they are attacking what they
+themselves stand for, and their only reason for the attack must be their
+belief that this investigation has not been able to penetrate through to
+that which has been kept hidden from the world.
+
+The most persistent denials have been offered to the statement that
+Bolshevism everywhere, in Russia or the United States, is Jewish. In
+these denials we have perhaps one of the most brazen examples of the
+double intent referred to above. The denial of the Jewish character of
+Bolshevism is made to the Gentile; but in the confidence and secrecy of
+Jewish communication, or buried in the Yiddish dialect, or obscurely
+hidden in the Jewish national press, we find the proud assertion
+made--to their own people!--that Bolshevism is Jewish.
+
+Jewish propaganda has only two straws to grasp in the terrible tale of
+murder, immorality, robbery, enforced starvation and hideous humanism
+which make the present Russian situation impossible to describe and all
+but impossible to comprehend.
+
+One of these straws is that Kerensky, the man who eased in the opening
+wedge of Bolshevism, is not a Jew. Indeed, one of the strongest
+indications that Bolshevism is Jewish is that the Jewish press
+emphasizes so fiercely the alleged Gentilism of a least two of the
+revolutionary notables. It may be cruel to deny them two among hundreds,
+but merely saying so cannot change Kerensky's nationality. His name is
+Adler. His father was a Jew and his mother a Jewess. Adler, the father,
+died, and the mother married a Russian named Kerensky, whose name the
+young child took. Among the radicals who employed him as a lawyer, among
+the forces that put him forward to drive the first nail into Russia's
+cross, among the soldiers who fought with him, his Jewish descent and
+character have never been doubted.
+
+"Well, but there is Lenin," our Jewish publicists say--"Lenin the head
+of it all, the brains of it all, and Lenin is a Gentile! We've got you
+there--Lenin is a Gentile!"
+
+Perhaps he is, but why do his children speak Yiddish? Why are his
+proclamations put forth in Yiddish? Why did he abolish the Christian
+Sunday and establish by law the Jewish Saturday Sabbath?
+
+The explanation of all this may be that he married a Jewess. The fact is
+that he did. But another explanation may be that he himself is a Jew.
+Certainly he is not the Russian nobleman he has always claimed to be.
+The statements he has made about his identity thus far have been lies.
+The claim that he is a Gentile may be unfounded too.
+
+No one has ever doubted Trotsky's nationality--he is a Jew. His name is
+Braunstein. Recently the Gentiles were told that Trotsky had said he
+wasn't much of anything--in religion. That may be. But still he must be
+something--else why are the Russian Christian churches turned into
+stables, slaughter houses and dancing halls, while the Jewish synagogues
+remain untouched? And why are Christian priests and ministers made to
+work on roads, while Jewish rabbis are left their clerical privileges?
+Trotsky may not be much of anything in religion, but he is a Jew
+nevertheless. This is not mere Gentile insistence that he shall be
+considered a Jew whether or no; it is straight Jewish teaching that he
+is. In a future discussion on "religion or race?" we shall show that
+even without religion, Trotsky is, and is considered by all Jewish
+authorities to be, a Jew.
+
+An apology must be made here for repeating well-known facts. Yet, so
+many people are not even now aware of the true meaning of Bolshevism,
+that at the risk of monotony, we shall cite a few of the salient facts.
+The purpose, however, is not alone to explain Russia, but to throw a
+warning light on conditions in the United States.
+
+The Bolshevik Government, as it stood late this summer when the latest
+report was smuggled through to certain authorities, shows up the Jewish
+domination of the whole affair. It has changed very slightly since the
+beginning. We give only a few items to indicate the proportion. It must
+not be supposed that the non-Jewish members of the government are
+Russian.
+
+Very few Russians have anything to say about their own country these
+days. The so-called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat," in which the
+proletariat has nothing whatever to say, is Russian only in the sense
+that it is set up in Russia; it is not Russian in that it springs from
+or includes the Russian people. It is the international program of the
+Protocols, which might be "put over" by a minority in any country, and
+which is being given a dress-rehearsal in Russia.
+
+Table Showing Jewish Control of Russia
+
+                                | Number  | Number of | Jewish
+                                |   of    |  Jewish   |  Per-
+                                | Members |  Members  | centage
+--------------------------------+---------+-----------+--------
+The Council of the Commissaries |         |           |
+  of the People                 |   22    |    17     |  77.2%
+The Commissariat of War         |   43    |    33     |  76.7%
+The Commissariat of Foreign     |         |           |
+  Affairs                       |   16    |    13     |  81.2%
+The Commissariat of Finance     |   30    |    24     |  80.0%
+The Commissariat of Justice     |   21    |    20     |  95.2%
+The Commissariat of Public      |         |           |
+  Instruction                   |   53    |    42     |  79.2%
+The Commissariat of Social      |         |           |
+  Assistance                    |    6    |     6     | 100.0%
+The Commissariat of Work        |    8    |     7     |  87.5%
+Delegates of the Bolshevik Red  |         |           |
+  Cross to Berlin, Vienna,      |         |           |
+  Varsovie, Bucharest, Copen-   |         |           |
+  hagen                         |    8    |     8     | 100.0%
+Commissaries of the Provinces   |   23    |    21     |  91.3%
+Journalists                     |   41    |    41     | 100.0%
+
+These are enlightening figures. The reader will note that the Jewish
+percentage is high at all times, never lower than 76 per cent in any
+case. (Curiously enough, the lowest percentage of Jews is found in the
+Commissariat of War.) But in those committees which deal most closely
+with the mass of the people, as well as in the committees of defense and
+propaganda, Jews fill literally all the places.
+
+Remember what the Protocols say about Press control: remember what Baron
+Montefiore said about it, and then look at the Government Journalists.
+That committee comprises 41 men, and the 41 are Jews. Only Jewish pens
+are trusted with Bolshevist propaganda.
+
+And then the so-called "Red Cross delegates," which are merely Red
+Revolutionary delegates to the cities named--of the 8, there are 8 Jews.
+
+The Commissariat of Social Assistance, upon whose word the life and
+privilege of tens of thousands hang--there are 6 members, and the 6 are
+Jews. And so on through the list.
+
+Out of the 53 members of the Commissariat of Public Instruction, 11 are
+noted as non-Jews. But what kind of non-Jews is not stated. They may be
+"non-Jews like Lenin" whose children speak the Yiddish as their native
+tongue. Whatever they are, there is a sidelight upon their attitude in
+the fact that the Bolsheviki immediately took over all the Hebrew
+schools and continued them as they were and laid down a rule that the
+ancient Hebrew language should be taught in them. The ancient Hebrew
+language is the vehicle of the deeper secrets of the World Program.
+
+And for the Gentile Russian children--? "Why," said these gentle Jewish
+educators, "we will teach them sex knowledge. We will brush out of their
+minds the cobwebs. They must learn the truth about things!"--with
+consequences that are too pitiable to narrate. But this can be said:
+unquestionably there were deaths among innocent Jews when Hungary
+wrested itself free from the Red Bolshevism of Bela Kun (or Cohen). The
+Jews may well call it the "White Terror" that followed their failure to
+re-enact the tragedy of Russia in Hungary. But there are mountains of
+evidence to show that nothing had so potent an effect in producing the
+bloodshed of the "White Terror" as the outraged minds of parents whose
+children had been compulsorily drawn through sloughs of filth during the
+short time the Jewish Bolsheviki had charge of the schools.
+
+American Jews do not like to hear this. Their shrinking from it would be
+greatly to their honor did they not immediately return to the defense of
+the people who do these things. It is well enough known that the
+chastity of Christians is not so highly regarded by the orthodox male
+Jew as is the chastity of his own people, but it would be pleasant to be
+certain that all of them condemn what went on in Russia and Hungary in
+the matter of education. However, as most of the influences which
+destroy Gentile youth today--in America--are in the hands of the Jews,
+and as it is plainly stated in the Protocols that one of the lines of
+campaign is "to corrupt the youth of the Gentiles," the situation is one
+that calls for something more than mere hard feelings and angry denials
+whenever these facts are referred to.
+
+It is not the economic experiment, so-called, that one objects to in
+Russia; it is not the fallacies, the sad delusion of the people. No. It
+is the downright dirty immorality, the brutish nastiness of it all; and
+the line which the immorality and nastiness draws between Jew and
+Gentile. The horrible cruelty involved we will not deal with, leaving it
+merely with the explanation which has found utterance in the Jewish
+press that "it may be that the Jew in Russia is taking an unconscious
+revenge for his centuries of suffering."
+
+"But," asks some reader, "how may we know that all this is true?"
+
+Bearing in mind that we are speaking of Russia, not for the interest of
+the Russian situation at all, but to indicate the international
+character of those who are responsible for conditions there, and to
+identify them for the protection of the United States, we shall look at
+the evidence.
+
+There is, of course, the evidence brought to light by our own United
+States Senate and printed in a Report of the Committee on the Judiciary.
+We do not wish to spend much time on this, because we prefer in these
+articles to use Jewish testimony instead of Gentile. But we shall pause
+long enough to show the nature of the testimony brought out by our own
+government.
+
+Dr. George A. Simons, a clergyman in charge of an American congregation
+in Petrograd at the time the Bolshevik terror broke out, was a witness.
+Parts of his testimony are given here:
+
+"'There were hundreds of agitators who followed in the trail of
+Trotsky-Bronstein, these men having come over from the lower East Side
+of New York * * * A number of us were impressed by the strange Yiddish
+element in this thing right from the start, and it soon became evident
+that more than half the agitators in the so-called Bolshevik movement
+were Yiddish.'
+
+"Senator Nelson--'Hebrews?'
+
+"Dr. Simons--'They were Hebrews, apostate Jews. I do not want to say
+anything against the Jews, as such. I am not in sympathy with the
+anti-Semitic movement, never have been, and do not ever expect to be * *
+* But I have a firm conviction that this thing is Yiddish, and that one
+of its bases is found in the East Side of New York.'
+
+"Senator Nelson--'Trotsky came over from New York during that summer,
+did he not?'
+
+"Dr. Simons--'He did.'
+
+"Later Dr. Simons said: 'In December, 1918 * * * under the presidency of
+a man known as Apfelbaum * * * out of 388 members, only 16 happened to
+be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the exception possibly of
+one man, who is a Negro from America, who calls himself Professor Gordon
+* * * and 265 of this northern commune government that is sitting in the
+Old Smolny Institute came from the lower East Side of New York--265 of
+them. * * *
+
+"'I might mention this, that when the Bolsheviki came into power, all
+over Petrograd we at once had a predominance of Yiddish proclamations,
+big posters, and everything in Yiddish. It became very evident that now
+that was to be one of the great languages of Russia; and the real
+Russians, of course, did not take very kindly to it.'"
+
+William Chapin Huntington, who was commercial attache of the United
+States Embassy at Petrograd, testified:
+
+"The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about two-thirds Russian
+Jews * * * The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not
+interested in the particular national ideals of Russia."
+
+William W. Welch, an employee of the National City Bank, New York,
+testified:
+
+"In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the Bolshevik leaders
+are Jewish * * * There were some--not many, but there were some--real
+Russians; and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born, and not
+Russian Jews."
+
+Roger E. Simmons, Trade Commissioner connected with the United States
+Department of Commerce, also testified. An important anonymous witness,
+whom the committee permitted to withhold his name, told the same things.
+
+The British White Book, Russia, No. 1--"A Collection of Reports on
+Bolshevism in Russia, presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty,
+April, 1919," contains masses of the same testimony from many sources,
+all of them eyewitnesses.
+
+In that very highly respected magazine Asia for February-March, 1920, is
+an article which contains, among other important ones, these statements:
+(the italics are ours)
+
+"In all the Bolshevist institutions the heads are Jews. The Assistant
+Commissar for Elementary Education, Grunberg, can hardly speak Russian.
+The Jews are successful in everything and obtain their ends. They know
+how to command and get complete submission. But they are proud and
+contemptuous toward everyone, which strongly excites the people against
+them * * * At the present time there is a great national religious
+fervor among the Jews. They believe that the promised time of the rule
+of God's elect on earth is coming. They have connected Judaism with a
+universal revolution. They see in the spread of revolution the
+fulfilling of the Scriptures: 'Though I make an end of all the nations
+whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make an end of thee.'"
+
+Now if Gentile proof were wanted, the files of the THE DEARBORN
+INDEPENDENT for a whole year would not begin to contain it. But Jewish
+proof is better.
+
+There has been a strange vacillation in Jewish opinion concerning
+Bolshevism. At first it was hailed with delight. There was no
+concealment whatever in the early days of the new regime as to the part
+which Jewry had in it. Public meetings, interviews, special articles
+poured forth in which very valuable elements of truth were mingled.
+There was no attempt at concealment of names.
+
+Then the horror of the thing began to take hold upon the world, and for
+just a breathing space Jewish opinion fell silent. There was a spasmodic
+denial or two. Then a new burst of glorification. The glorification
+continues within Judaism itself, but it now carries on the Gentile side
+of its face a very sad expression labeled "persecution."
+
+We have lived to see the day when to denounce Bolshevism is to
+"persecute the Jews."
+
+In the American Hebrew, for September 10, 1920, an article appears which
+not only acknowledges and explains the part which the Jew plays in the
+present unrest and upheaval, but justifies it--and justifies it,
+curiously enough, by The Sermon on the Mount.
+
+The writer says that "the Jew evolved organized capitalism with its
+working instrumentality, the banking system."
+
+This is very refreshing, in view of the numerous Jewish denials of this
+economic fact.
+
+"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
+the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
+own hand fashioned * * *" If this is true, why is Jewish "organized
+capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system" supporting
+the revolt?
+
+"That achievement (referring to the Russian overthrow), destined to
+figure in history as the overshadowing result of the World War, was
+largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
+effort to reconstruct."
+
+"This rapid emergence of the Russian revolution from the destructive
+phase and its entrance into the constructive phase is a conspicuous
+expression of the constructive genius of Jewish discontent."
+
+(This, of course, requires proof that the constructive phase has
+appeared. The implication here is sheer propaganda. The Protocols,
+however, have a reconstructive program. We have not reached it as yet in
+this series of articles, but it is clearly outlined in the
+Protocols--destroy the Gentile society, and then reconstruct it
+according to "our" plans.)
+
+Now read carefully:
+
+"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
+contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
+Jewish mind and heart ARE TENDING TO PROMOTE IN OTHER COUNTRIES."
+
+Read that again. "What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so
+powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia!" Just what was that? And
+just how did it "powerfully contribute?" And why are "Jewish idealism"
+and "Jewish discontent" always linked together? If you read the
+Protocols it is all very clear. Jewish idealism is the destruction of
+Gentile society and the erection of Jewish society. Was it not so in
+Russia?--Yiddish proclamations on the walls, the ancient Hebrew in the
+schools, Saturday substituted for Sunday, and the rabbis respected while
+the priests were put to work on the roads! All "powerfully contributed"
+to by murder, rapine, theft and starvation.
+
+Our author is more candid than he realizes. He calls this linked
+idealism and discontent "the historic qualities of the Jewish mind." THE
+DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is indebted to him for this clear confirmation of
+what it has been saying for some time.
+
+But even that is not all. "These same historic qualities of the Jewish
+mind" which "contributed so powerfully to accomplish in Russia" the Red
+Terror still existing there, are declared by this author to be tending
+to promote the same sort of thing in other countries. He says so in so
+many words--"tending to promote in other countries."
+
+But we knew that. The only difference is that when Gentiles said it,
+they were overwhelmed with the wildest abuse; but now a pro-Jewish
+writer says it in a leading Jewish publication. And he says it
+apologetically--listen to him:
+
+"It was natural that * * * discontent in other parts of the world should
+find expression in overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims."
+
+What discontent? Jewish discontent, of course. Discontent with what?
+With any form of Gentile rule. And how did it find expression? "In
+overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims." What were these
+issues and aims? To bring the Bolshevik revolution to the United States.
+
+No, they did not overstate their aims; they exactly stated them--they
+simply selected the wrong country, that's all.
+
+There are Russian Bolshevists in this country now, hawking about the
+streets of New York the gold cigaret cases which they stole from Russian
+families, and the family jewels, the wedding and birthday rings, which
+they filched from Russian women. Bolshevism never got further than the
+pawnshop and burglar's "fence" idea. The proof of this traffic in stolen
+property is going to drive some people into hiding before long. It will
+be a long, long time before America will be taking orders in Yiddish, or
+American women will be giving up their jewels to "the chosen race."
+
+However, that happens to be only the most recent acknowledgement that
+has come to hand. It is significant for its confession that "Jewish
+discontent" was "tending to promote" in "other countries" what it has
+"so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia."
+
+And with such a link between the American Hebrew, Russian Bolshevism and
+the Protocols, there are still Jewish publicists with the crust to say
+that only crazy people could see the connection. Only blind people will
+not see it. But that is only a minor connection. This series of articles
+does not rest on anything so accidental as the Jewish New Year's apology
+for Bolshevism in the great Hebrew weekly of the United States.
+
+[Issue of September 25, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
+"Out of the economic chaos, the discontent of the Jew evolved organized
+capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system . . . .
+
+"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
+the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
+own hand fashioned. . . .
+
+"That achievement (Russian Bolshevik revolution--Ed.), destined to
+figure in history as the over-shadowing result of the World War, was
+largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
+effort to reconstruct . . . .
+
+"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
+contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
+Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other countries . . . .
+
+"Shall America, like the Russia of the Czars, overwhelm the Jew with the
+bitter and baseless reproach of being a destroyer, and thus put him in
+the position of an irreconcilable enemy?
+
+"Or shall America avail itself of Jewish genius as it avails itself of
+the peculiar genius of every other race? . . . .
+
+"That is the question for the American people to answer."
+
+--From an article in The American Hebrew, Sept. 10, 1920.
+
+XX.
+
+Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
+
+
+The American people will answer that question, and their answer will be
+against the disruptive genius of dissatisfied Jews.
+
+It is very well known that "what Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent
+have so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia" is also being
+attempted in the United States. Why did not the writer in the American
+Hebrew say the United States, instead of saying "the same historic
+qualities of the Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other
+countries."
+
+"Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent" are not directed against
+capital. Capital is enlisted in their service. The only governmental
+order the Jewish effort is directed against is Gentile governmental
+order; and the only "capital" it attacks is Gentile capital.
+
+Lord Eustace Percy who, if one may judge by the full and appreciative
+quotations of his words in the Jewish press, has the sanction of
+thinkers among the Jews, settles the first point. Discussing the Jewish
+tendency to revolutionary movements he says:
+
+"In Eastern Europe Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by
+side, just as Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
+throughout the nineteenth century down to the Young Turk revolution in
+Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago--not because the Jew cares
+for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
+be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
+no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but
+distasteful to him."
+
+And that analysis is absolutely true. In Russia, the excuse was the
+czar; in Germany, the kaiser; in England it is the Irish question; in
+the numerous South American revolutions, where the Jews always had a
+ruling hand, no particular reason was thought necessary to be given; in
+the United States it is "the capitalistic class;" but always and
+everywhere it is, by the confession of their own spokesman, a distaste
+for any form whatsoever of Gentile government. The Jew believes that the
+world is his by right; he wants to collect his own, and the speediest
+way of doing so is the destruction of order by revolution--a destruction
+which is made possible by a long and clever campaign of loose and
+destructive ideas.
+
+As to the second point, every reader can verify the fact from his own
+experience. Let him recall to his mind the capitalists who have been
+held up to public scorn in the Jew-controlled press of the United
+States--and whom does he find them to be? Whose forms have you seen
+caricatured with the dollar-mark in Hearst's papers? Are they Seligman,
+Kahn, Warburg, Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, or any of the others? No.
+These are Jewish bankers. The attack is never made on them. The names
+made most familiar to you by newspaper denunciation are the names of
+Gentile industrial and banking leaders--and Gentile leaders only--the
+principal ones being Morgan and Rockefeller.
+
+It is a well-known fact that during the French Commune when men of
+wealth suffered severe losses in property, the Jewish Rothschilds were
+not injured to the extent of one pennyworth. It is also a well-known
+fact, capable of proof satisfactory to any ordinary mind, that the
+connections between Jewish financiers and the more dangerous
+revolutionary elements here in the United States are such that it is
+most unlikely that the former stand to lose anything in any event. Under
+cover of the disorder in Russia at the present time, Jewish financiers
+are taking advantage of the stress of the people to gain control of all
+the strategic natural resources and municipal property, by methods which
+they fully expect to be legalized by Jewish courts when the present
+"Bolshevik regime" announces that it will give way to a "modified
+communism." The world hasn't seen the end of Bolshevism yet. Like the
+World War, Bolshevism cannot be interpreted until it is seen who profits
+most by it, and the profiteering is in full sway now. The enemy is
+Gentile capital. Not any other. And "all the wealth of the world is in
+our hands" is the unspoken slogan of every Jewish outbreak in the world
+today.
+
+The quotation at the head if this article represents the position which
+the Jews are now ready to take with reference to the Russian Revolution.
+They have always been charged with responsibility for what has occurred
+in that unhappy country, but at first their spokesmen denied it. The
+denials were most indignant, and were usually accompanied by the typical
+plaint that the charge was "persecution." But the facts have been so
+overwhelming, and the government investigations have been so revealing,
+that denials have been abandoned.
+
+For a while an attempt was made to distract attention from Russia by a
+tremendously powerful propaganda concerning the Jews in Poland. There
+are many indications that the Polish propaganda was undertaken as a
+"cover" for the immense immigration of Jews into the United States. It
+may be that some of our readers do not know it, but an endless stream of
+the most undesirable immigrants pours daily into the United States, tens
+of thousands of the same people whose presence has been the problem and
+menace of the governments of Europe.
+
+Well, the Polish propaganda and the immigration movement are sailing
+along smoothly, and the United States Government is assured by the
+Jewish ring at Washington that everything is quiet along the Potomac (it
+is quiet there, quiet as the Jewish ring could wish), but still the
+Russian fact persists in calling for explanation.
+
+And here is the explanation: The Jews created capitalism, we are told.
+But capitalism has proved itself ill-behaved. So now, the Jewish
+creators are going to destroy their creation. They have done so in
+Russia. And now, will the American people be good and let their Jewish
+benefactors do the same in America?
+
+That is the new explanation, and typically Jewish again, it is coupled
+with a proposal for the United States--and a threat! If America refuses
+this particular service of the Jew, we "put him in a position of an
+irreconcilable enemy." See quotation at the head of this article.
+
+But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia. When Lenin and
+Trotsky make their farewell bow and retire under the protective
+influence of the Jewish capitalists of the world, it will be seen that
+only Gentile or Russian capital has been destroyed, and that Jewish
+capital has been enthroned.
+
+What is the record? Documents printed by the United States Government
+contain this letter: Please note the date, the Jewish banker and the
+Jewish names:
+
+"Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1917.
+
+"To Mr. Raphael Scholan:
+
+"Dear Comrade:--The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the
+enterprise of Comrade Trotsky upon receipt of a telegram from the
+Chairman of the 'Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.' A lawyer, probably Mr.
+Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the transportation of same,
+together with that of the money * * * to whom the sum demanded by
+Comrade Trotsky is to be handed.
+
+"Fraternal Greetings!
+
+"Furstenberg."
+
+Long before that, an American Jewish financier was supplying the funds
+which carried revolutionary propaganda to thousands of Russian prisoners
+of war in Japanese camps.
+
+It is sometimes said, by way of explaining the Bolshevik movement, that
+it was financed from Germany, a fact which was seized upon to supply war
+propaganda. It is true that part of the money came from Germany. It is
+true that part of the money came from the United States. It is the whole
+truth that Jewish finance in all the countries was interested in
+Bolshevism as an All-Jewish investment. For the whole period of the war,
+the Jewish World Program was cloaked under this or that national
+name--the blame being laid on the Germans by the Allies, and on the
+Allies by the Germans, and the people kept in ignorance of who the real
+personages were.
+
+It was stated by a French official that two millions of money was
+contributed by one Jewish banker alone.
+
+When Trotsky left the United States to fulfill his appointed task, he
+was released from arrest at Halifax upon request of the United States,
+and everyone knows who constituted the War Government of the United
+States.
+
+The conclusion, when all the facts are considered, is irresistible, that
+the Bolshevik revolution was a carefully groomed investment on the part
+of International Jewish Finance.
+
+It is easy to understand, then, why the same forces would like to
+introduce it to the United States. The real struggle in this country is
+not between labor and capital; the real struggle is between Jewish
+capital and Gentile capital, with the I.W.W. leaders, the Socialist
+leaders, the Red leaders and the labor leaders almost a unit on the side
+of the Jewish capitalists.
+
+Again recall which financiers these men most attack. You cannot recall a
+single Jewish name.
+
+The main purpose in these two articles, however, is to introduce the
+Jewish testimony which exists as to the Jewish nature of Bolshevism.
+
+The Jewish Chronicle, of London, said in 1919:
+
+"There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so
+many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at
+many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism."
+
+In the same paper, of 1920, is a report of an address made by Israel
+Zangwill, a noted Jewish writer, in which he pronounced glowing praise
+on "the race which has produced a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a Montagu, a
+Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotsky." Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic
+enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same
+category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik
+governments. What is the difference? They are all Jewish, and all of
+equal honor and usefulness to "the race."
+
+Rabbi J. L. Magnes, in an address at New York in 1919, is reported to
+have said:
+
+"When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the cause of the
+workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinherited of the world, the
+radical quality within him goes to the roots of things, and in Germany
+he becomes a Marx and a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward Bernstein; in
+Austria he becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in Russia, a
+Trotsky. Just take for a moment the present situation in Russia and in
+Germany. The revolution set creative forces free, and see what a large
+company of Jews was available for immediate service. Socialist
+Revolutionaries and Mensheviki, and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority
+Socialists--whatever they be called--Jews are to be found among the
+trusted leaders and the routine workers of all these revolutionary
+parties."
+
+"See," says the rabbi, "what a large company of Jews are available for
+immediate service." One ought to see where he points. There are as many
+Jewish members of revolutionary societies in the United States, as there
+were in Russia; and here, as there, they are "available for immediate
+service."
+
+Bernard Lazare, a Jewish writer who has published a work on
+anti-Semitism, says:
+
+"The Jew, therefore, does take a part in revolutions, and he
+participates in them in so far as he is a Jew, or more correctly, in so
+far as he remains a Jew."
+
+He says also--"The Jewish spirit is essentially a revolutionary spirit,
+and consciously or otherwise, the Jew is a revolutionist."
+
+There is hardly any country in the world, except the United States,
+where denials of this could be made in such a way as to require proof.
+In every other country the fact is known. Here we have been under such a
+fear of mentioning the word "Jew" or anything pertaining to it, that the
+commonest facts have been kept from us--facts which even a superficial
+knowledge of Jewish writing would have given us. It was almost a
+pathetic spectacle to see American audiences go to lectures about the
+Russian situation, and come away from the hall confused and perplexed
+because the Russian situation is so un-Russian, all because no lecturer
+thought it politic to mention "Jew" in the United States, for, as some
+day we shall see, the Jew has contrived to gain control of the platform
+too.
+
+Not only do the literary lights of Jewry acknowledge the Jew's
+propensity to revolution generally, and his responsibility for the
+Russian situation particularly, but the lower lights also have a very
+clear idea about it. The Jew in the midst of the revolution is conscious
+that somehow he is advancing the cause of Israel. He may be a "bad Jew"
+in the synagogue sense, but he is enough of a Jew to be willing to do
+any thing that would advance the prestige of Israel. Race is stronger
+than religion in Jewry.
+
+The Russian paper, On to Moscow, in September, 1919, said:
+
+"It should not be forgotten that the Jewish people, who for centuries
+were oppressed by kings and czars, are the real proletariat, the real
+Internationale, which has no country."
+
+Mr. Cohan, in the newspaper, Communist, in April, 1919, said:
+
+"Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Russian social
+revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands of the Jews. Would the
+dark, oppressed masses of the Russian workmen and peasants have been
+able to throw off the yoke of the bourgeoisie by themselves? No, it was
+precisely the Jews who led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the
+Internationale and not only have led, but are also now leading the
+Soviet cause which remains in their safe hands. We may be quiet as long
+as the chief command of the Red Army is in the hands of Comrade Leon
+Trotsky. It is true that there are no Jews in the ranks of the Red Army
+as far as privates are concerned, but in the committees and Soviet
+organizations, as commissars, the Jews are gallantly leading the masses
+of the Russian proletariat to victory. It is not without reason that
+during the elections to all Soviet institutions the Jews are winning by
+an overwhelming majority * * * The symbol of Jewry, which for centuries
+has struggled against capitalism, has become also the symbol of the
+Russian proletariat, which can be seen even in the adoption of the Red
+five-pointed star, which in former times, as it is well known, was the
+symbol of Zionism and Jewry. With this sign comes victory, with this
+sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie * * * Jewish
+tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+
+This confession, or rather boast, is remarkable for its completeness.
+
+The Jews, says Mr. Cohan, are in control of the Russian masses--the
+Russian masses who have never risen at all, who only know that a
+minority, like the czar's minority, is in control at the seat of
+government.
+
+The Jews are not in the Red Army, Mr. Cohan informs us, that is, in the
+ranks where the actual fighting is done; and this is strictly in line
+with the Protocols. The strategy of the World Program is to set Gentiles
+to kill Gentiles. This was the Jewish boast during the various French
+social disasters, that so many Frenchmen had been set killing each
+other.
+
+In the World War just passed, there were as many Gentiles killed by
+Gentiles as there are Jews in the world. It was a great victory for
+Israel. "Jewish tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+
+But the Jews are in the places of control and safety, says Mr. Cohan,
+and he is absolutely right about it. The wonder is that he was so honest
+as to say it.
+
+As to the elections, so-called, at which the Jews are so unanimously
+chosen, the literature of Bolshevism is very explicit. Those who voted
+against the Jewish candidates were adjudged "enemies of the revolution"
+and executed. It did not require many executions at a voting place to
+make all the elections unanimous.
+
+Mr. Cohan is especially instructive on the significance of the Red Star,
+the five-pointed emblem of Bolshevism. "The symbol of Jewry," he says,
+"has become also the symbol of the Russian proletariat."
+
+The Star of David, the Jewish national emblem, is a six-pointed Star,
+formed by two triangles, one standing on its base, the other on its
+apex. Deprived of their base lines, these triangles approximate the
+familiar Masonic emblem of the Square and Compass. It is this Star of
+David of which a Jewish observer in Palestine remarks that there are so
+few among the graves of the British solders who won Palestine in the
+recent war; most of the signs are the familiar wooden Cross. These
+Crosses are now reported to be objectionable to the new rulers of
+Palestine, because they are so plainly in view of the visitor who
+approaches the new Jewish university. As in Soviet Russia, so in
+Palestine, not many Jews laid down their lives for the cause: there were
+plenty of Gentiles for that purpose.
+
+As the Jew is a past master in the art of symbolism, it may not be
+without significance that the Bolshevik Star has one point less than the
+Star of David. For there is still one point to be fulfilled in the World
+Program as outlined in the Protocols--and that is the enthronement of
+"our leader." When he comes, the World Autocrat for whom the whole
+program is framed, the sixth point may be added.
+
+The Five Points of the Star now apparently assured are the Purse, the
+Press, the Peerage, Palestine and Proletarianism. The sixth point will
+be the Prince of Israel.
+
+It is very hard to say, it is hard to believe, but Mr. Cohan has said
+it, and revolutions especially since the French Revolution confirm it,
+that "with this sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie
+* * * Jewish tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
+The "bourgeoisie," as the Protocols say, are always Gentile.
+
+The common counterargument to the invincible fact of the Jewish
+character of the Russian revolution--an argument which is destined to
+disappear now that Jewish acknowledgement is coming thick and fast--is
+that the Jews in Russia suffer too. "How can we favor a movement which
+makes our own people suffer?" is the argument put up to the Gentile.
+
+Well, the fact is this: they are favoring that movement. Today, this
+very moment, the Bolshevik Government is receiving money from Jewish
+financiers in Europe, and if in Europe, then of course from the
+International Jewish bankers in America also. That is one fact.
+
+Another fact is this: the Jews of Russia are not suffering to anywhere
+near the extent we are told by the propagandists. It is now a fact
+admitted by Jews themselves that upon the first sweep of the Bolshevists
+across Poland, the Polish Jews were friendly with the invaders and
+helped them. The fact was explained by American Jews in this manner:
+since Bolshevism came to Russia, the condition of the Jews there has
+greatly improved--therefore the Polish Jews were friendly. And it is
+true--the condition of Russian Jews is good.
+
+One reason is: they have Russia. Everything there belongs to them.
+
+The other reason is: The Jews of Russia are the only ones receiving help
+there today.
+
+Did that second statement ever strike you as significant? Only the Jews
+of Russia have food and money sent to them. It is one form, of course,
+of the support which the Jewish world is giving Bolshevism. But if the
+suffering among the Jews is what the propagandists say it is, what must
+it be among the Russians? Yet no one is sending food or money to them.
+The probable truth of the whole situation is that Jewish Bolshevism is
+laying a tax on the world. Any time it may be required, there is plenty
+of evidence as to the good condition of the Jews in Russia. They have
+all there is.
+
+Another source of confusion is revealed in the question: "How can Jewish
+capitalists support Bolshevism when Bolshevism is against capitalism?"
+
+Bolshevism, as before stated, is only against Gentile capitalism. Jewish
+financiers who remained in Russia are very useful to the Bolsheviki.
+Read this description by an eyewitness: "A Jew is this Commissary of the
+Bank, very elegant, with a cravat of the latest style, and a fancy
+waistcoat. A Jew is this District Commissary, former stockbroker, with a
+double bourgeois chin. Again a Jew, this inspector of taxes: he
+understands perfectly how to squeeze the bourgeoisie."
+
+These agents of Jewry are still there. Other agents are among the
+Russians who fled, getting their lands away from them on mortgage loans.
+When the curtain lifts, most of the choice real estate will be found to
+have passed into Jewish control by perfectly "legal" means.
+
+That is one answer to the question, Why the Jewish capitalists support
+Bolshevism. The Red Revolution is the greatest speculative event of
+human history. Besides, it is for the exaltation of Israel; it is a
+colossal revenge, which the Jews always take where they can, for wrongs
+real or imaginary.
+
+Jewish capitalism knows exactly what it is doing. What are its gains?
+
+1. It has taken a whole rich country, without the cost of war.
+
+2. It has demonstrated the necessity of gold. Jewish power rests on the
+fiction that gold is wealth. By the premeditated clumsiness of the
+Bolshevik monetary system, the unthinking world has been made to believe
+still more strongly that gold is necessary, and this belief gives Jewish
+capitalism another hold on the Gentile world. If the Bolshevists had
+been honest, they could have dealt Jewish capitalism its death blow. No!
+Gold is still on its throne. Destroy the fiction that gold has value,
+and you leave the Jewish International Financiers sitting forlorn on
+heaps of useless metal.
+
+3. It has demonstrated its power to the world. Protocol Seven says: "To
+demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we
+will show our power to one of them by crimes of violence, that is, a
+reign of terror." Has Europe been sufficiently "shown"? Europe has, and
+is afraid! That is a great gain for Jewish capitalists.
+
+4. Not the least of the gains is the field practice in the art of
+revolution which Russia has offered. Students of that Red school are
+coming back to the United States. The technique of revolution has been
+reduced to a science according to the details laid down in the
+Protocols. To use Rabbi Magnes's words again: "See what a large company
+of Jews was available for immediate service." The available company is
+now much larger.
+
+[Issue of October 2, 1920.]
+
+
+
+
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