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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/37539-8.txt b/37539-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76e6830 --- /dev/null +++ b/37539-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8842 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The International Jew, by Henry Ford + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The International Jew + The World's Foremost Problem + +Author: Henry Ford + +Release Date: October 14, 2011 [EBook #37539] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INTERNATIONAL JEW *** + + + + + + + + + + +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 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." 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The International Jew + The World's Foremost Problem + +Author: Henry Ford + +Release Date: October 14, 2011 [EBook #37539] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INTERNATIONAL JEW *** + + + + + + + + + + +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." 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