New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

PAVOASc any HVIeWOItuy lSaCtIoHo ia
Germany, the country of its origin.
The author ssecs profound significance
in the fact that Spartacus, the name
adopted by a revolutionary faction of
modern German Socialists, was the
pseudonym Of Weishaupt, The -ounder
Of the liluminati. But this seems q
casual coincidence. The figure Of
Spartacus, the leader Of formidable
slave revolt against the Roman En-
pire. doubtless appealed both to Weis-
haupt and to Liebknecht. But there
is certainly little kinship Of idealism
between the Bavarisn visionary and
the modern revolutionist.
Much is made Of the Jewish sym
bolism, which is said to DO found in
the higher degree Of Masonry. Here,
again the author makes mountain
out Of mole hill. To impicate the
Free Masons in plot for Jewish world
domination on account Of their use
of Hebrac symbols is, to say the
least, y formidable leap of imagina-
tion. It would be just as reasonable
to accuse secret society which used
medieval phraseolgy of desiring to
compass the restoration Of the empire
Of Chsrlemsgne.
The author attaches great sign1a
esnce to q work entitled The Protocols
Of The Learned Eldcrs Of Zion, pub
iishod by the Russian, Serge Nilus, in
1905 These protocols ostensibly re-
veal srsniiose conspiracy on the part
OF The Jews to seize power by tsking
advantage Of revolutions and liberal
movements In Christian states. It
should be observed, in the frs. place,
that Nilus does not present a shred Of
evidence to prove the authenticity Of
the protocols, He asserts that thew
constitute & report OF the secret de-
iiberatons Of tbs Zionist Congress at
Basic in 1897. Hs does not tell ho7,
they came into his possession; he does
not even attempt to establish legal
case for their genuine character.
Protocols Apparently Fictitious
Now, both the contents OF tha pro
tocols and the date Of their publication
should convince any fair minded OBJ
server OF their fictitious nature. The
protocols were published In 1905, when
Russia va scething with revolutionary
activity. A familiar form Of reaction
ary propaganda was to attgmstizo the
eevolutionistS az Jews who wished to
destroy Russian nationalism and Chris.
tian faith. The wording Of the proto
coils, their contempt for the "goyim"
states, their prophecy OF Jewish rule
as result of revolution, represents
precisely the ideology Of the typical
reactionary anti-Semite. The circula-
ton Of similar literature WIS an al
most lnvariable accompaniment of the
pogroms which took place so fire.
queutly in Czarst Russia.
SO it may be seen that there IS no
internal evidence Of the validity of the
protocol and that The external cir
cumstances suggest very strongly that
Nilus was simply m official or unoffi
cial government propagandist and In
citcr Of pogroms. But tho anonymous
author Of The Cause Of World Unrest
takes this crude effort very seriously
He insists that the prophecies Of Nilus
have been fulfilled In the Bolshevk
revolution, with It's predomjnance Of
Jewish leaders. In support Of this
viewpoint he gives list of fifty Boil
, shevik leaders, OF whom nll hut eight
are Jews. This list, incidentally, is
extremely inaccurate. 1t includes such
we'll known anti Bolsheviki as Martov,
Damn and Abramovitch It sets down
as Jews two Poles, Mashkovsky and
Iapinsky. Moreover, there arc many
mistakes IN the real names and pseu.
donyms of the fifty radicals
| Returning to the statement that
many Bolshevik leaders are Jews, the
fact is undeniablo But it is equally
true Of al the other Russian political
factions, radical. liberal and conserva
| tive. Damn, Martov and Chernov, the
CHIEF opponents of Bolshcvism in
| Russia, are Jews. Many Of tho
, refugees who are vigorously denounc-
J ing the Soviet regime in Western
Europe and America are Jews.
The comparatively large number Of
Jews among the political leaders Of
the Eastern European countries is
dus, not to any mysterious conspiracy,
but to very simple and obvious
cause; the backwardness and illteracy
Of the present populations in these
countries.
Sufferings OF Eastern Jewry
The cruelty and absurdity Of trying
to represent the Russian revolution
= as an incident in Jewish conspiracy
q clear when one considers the pitt
able state to which the Jews Of East
ern Europe have been reduced by the
civil war within Russia, and by the
war between Russia and Poland.
Eastern Jewry has been decimated
ssain and again by disease, by starva
ton, and by pogroms partially inspired
by just such mischievous propaganda.
as Is contained in the present book.
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