The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-03

present, in Jewish life, we say with all solemnity: -. PROTOCOLS BASE FORGERY.
 CD The protocols are a base for gerry. There has never been an or ganization of Jews known as The Elders of Zion. or The Zionist Men of Wisdom or the Wise Men of Zion, or bearing any other similar name. There has never existed a secret or other Jewish body organized for any purpose such as that implied in the protocols. The Jewish people have never dreamed of a Jewishdictator- shipss of a destruction of religion, of "an interference with industrFa1 pros perity, of an overthrow of civ ilization. The Jews have never con- spired with the Freemasons, or with any other body, for any purpose.
 From the time of the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem by Titus the Jews have had no political state. For centuries they were forced to wan der from land to land, to flee for refuge wherever they might find it against bitter persecution. They were pent up in ghettoes, were deprived of ever the shadow of civil or po- litical rights, and were made the ob- jects of every possible form of dis crimination.
 JEWS RECENTLY FREED.
 It is little more than fifty years since the Jews of western Europe became politically emancipated. Un- til the outbreak of the world war the Jews of eastern Europe, consti- tuting a majority of all the Jews of the world, were not even permit ted to exercise the rights of citizen ship in lands where they and their ancestors had dweIt for generations. l The great mass of 5the- Jews were hampered in every way in their ef- | forts to earn a livelihood. Far from desiring to govern the worlds they | were content with the opportunity to | live. Numerically, they constitute tion of the earth, and more than | one-haIf of them are on the verge i of starvation.
 Charge Ridiculous Invention l The suggestion that. in their feeble ness, they have been planning in se- | cret conclave to seize absolute power and to dominate the 99 per cent ot l non-Jews upon the globe is a ridicu- lous invention than which even mad
 ness can conjure nothing more pre- l posterOus.
 Mysterious Origin.
 Where is the habitation of these SO | called Elders of Zion, by whatever
 name they may be called? Who are | these hidden sageS Whence do they
 come. What is the nature of their l organiza tion? The distributors of the | protocols are silent on that subject l Whence come these pretended proto- ! co.'s There have been various yer
 sions. One Serge Lilus; of whose identity little is known, a Russian I mystic and an ardent supporter o1 Czarisrn, claims to have received then
 in Russia in 1901 in manuscript form
 from a Russian off1ceholder, Wht stated that the manuscript had beer originally obtained by a lady whose name is not given, and who, he said | obtained them in q mysterious way In what language they were writer
 is not stated. Where that manuscrip
 now is does not appear. N1luS as
 serts that he submitted the protocol: | to one of the Russian grand dukes
 who after examination, returned then
 with the despairing message: tTot
 late" Apparently there was no room
 for them in the Russian archives
 and they suggested no task for thu
 czar's ubiquitous police to perform
 In 1905, Nilus published at Tsarkoj'
 Selo a second edition. of a mystica , book entitled ''The Great in the Lit tle." the first edition having beer , published in 1901. Into this later edi ton he incorporated for the first tim the protocols. which he claimed t have had in his possession for fou - years. In January. 1917. he published another book under the title Ut I Near. at the Door," purporting t
 foretel ''the coming of the Anti
 Christ and the Kingdom Of the Devi 7 on Earth In this book he an nounces that he had only then learn ? ed authcritatively from Jewisl : sources (what they were is not ex , plained) that these protocols wer nothing other than strategic pla } for the conquest of the world, o
 putting it under the yoke of ISrae e .the struggle -against-God.'' a p1a t worked out by the leaders of tn Jewish people during the many cen turies of their dispersion and final 3 ly presented to the council of Fl = ders by the Prince of Exile. Theo l dor Herzl, al the time of the frs
 Zionist congress summoned by hir e at Basic in August, 1897. He de . clared that the protocols were signe s by the Zionist representatives of tn l thirty-thfrd degree of initiation; tha