The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-08

VI HE fFOtOcOlS are u Dasc IOfS.
cry. There has never been an Organi-
zatiOn Of Jews known as The Elders
Of Zion, or The Zionist Men Of Wis
dom, or The Wise Men of Zion, or
hearing any other similar name. There
has never existed secret or other
Jewish body organized for any purpose
such as that implied in The Protocols.
The Jewish people have never dream
ed Of Jewish dictatorship, Of
destruction Of religion. of an interfer-
tnce with industrial prosperity, or Of
an overthrow Of civilization. The Jews
have never cOnspired with the Free
masons, 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
wander from land to land, to flee for
refuge wherever they might find it
against bitter persecution. They were
pent up in ghettoes, We're deprived of
even the shadow of civil or political
rights. and were made the objects Of
every possible form of discrimination.
1t is little more than fifty years since
the Jews of Western Europe became
politically emancipated. Until the
outbreak of the World War the Jews
of Eastern Europe. constituting a ma
jOrity of all the Jews Of the world.
were not even permitted to exercise
the rights of citizenship in lands
where they and their ancestors hnd
dweIt for generations The great mass
of the Jews were hampered in every
way in their efforts to earn liyeli-
hood. Far from desiring to govern
the world. they were content with the
opportunity to live. Numerically they
constitute less than one per cent Of
the population Of the Earth; and more
than one-llalf of them are on the verge
of starvation. The suggestion tlint. IN
their fecbleness. they have becn plan
ming iu sccret conclave to seize afs-
solute power and to dominate the
njnety-nine per cent. of non-Jews mp
on the globe IL ridiculous invention
than which even madness can conjure
nothing more preposterous.
Where is the habitat of these no.
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
organizn tiOn? The distributors of The
Protocols are silent on that subject.
Whence come these pretended Pro-
tocols? There have been various ver-
sions. One Serge Nilus. of whose
identity little is known. Russian
mystic and an ardent supporter OF
GA rism. claims to have received them
In Russia. In 1901. in manuscript form,
from a Russian office-holder. who
stated that the manuscript had been
originally obtained by lady. whose
name is not given. and who. he said.
obtained them in mysterious way.
IN what language they were written
is not stated. Where that manu-
script now is does not appear. Nilns
asserts that he submitted The Pro.
tocols to one of the Russian Grand
Dukes. who after examination. re.
turned them with the despairing mes
sage: "Too late" Apparently there
was no room for them in the Russian
archives. and they suggested no task
for the Cars ubiquitous police TO per-
form In 1905. Nilus published ut
Tsarkoje Selo second edition Of a
mystical hook entitled "The Great in
the Little" the first edition having
Leen published in 1901. Into this later
edition he Incorporated for the first
time The Protocols. which he claimed
TO have had in his possession for four
years. In January. 1917. he published
another book under the title at is
Near. at the Door," purporting to fore
tell "the coming of the Anti-Christ
and the Kingdom of the Devil on
Earth" In this book he announces
that he had only thea learned au-
thorita atively from Jewish sources
twhat they were is not explained)
that these Protocols were nothing other
than strategic plan for the conquest
of the world. of putting 1t under the
yoke of Israel, '.the struggler-against-
Cod" plan worked out by the lead
ers of the Jewish people during the
many centuries of their dispersion. and
finally presented to the Council Of
Elders by the Prince of Exile, The
odor Herzl. ut the time of the first
Zionist Congress summoned by him at
Rasle in August. 1897. He declared
that the Protocols were signed by the
Zionist representatives Of the thirty