The Denver Jewish news., 1920-09-08
English Publicist Lucian Wolf, on the Innocence
of the Morning POST
AGAINST JEWS
CENTURIES.

teNOlnt1On. as Snrke pOlnted out. WAS
not mere uprising against local OPP
preston, but revolution of doctrine
and theoretic dogma" which was bound
TO find echoes beyond the French
frontiers In this respect it resembled
the Reformation. and also that other
armed doctrine" which we know as
RolShevism Nevertheless it puzzled
the Bourbon apOlOgists. and confusing
cause and effect, they became cor
vinced that they were in the presence
of an international conspiracy. The
theory was first propounded by a
Superior of the Seminary of Eudists
at Caen in 1880, hut it was afterwards
vastly developed by the Able Barruel
in his "Memories sur le JacObinisme."
by Robson of Edinburgh in his
Proofs of Conspiracy" and by the
Chevalier de Malet in his ''Recherches
Historiques" Their conclusion was
that there was triple conspiracy of
Philosophers. Freemasons, and Illu-
ninati who formed an actual sect
aiming deliberately and methOdically
at the overthrow of the established re-
ligions and Governments turnout Eu-
rope The theory had short shift.
tho the industry of its authors did
much to throw light on the Organizs-
ton and activities of the secret socie-
ties So far as the FreemasOns and
illuminate were concerned 1t was cas-
lily demolished by the Earl of Moira.
who at meeting of the Grand Lodge
of England in 1900. showed convinc-
ingly that it was mares nest As
FOR the Philosophers. no one ever took
the charge against them seriously. For
half century scarcely anything more
was heard of this aspect of the For
midahle Sect tho meanwhile the rc-
volutions of 1880 and 1913 had taken
place. The nonsuit of Barruel was
chose jugee.
It was revived in the sixties under
the influence of the religious passions
kindlcd by the war for Italian unity.
The struggle for Jewish. ema lcipation
had triumphed all over Western Eii-
rope. and the new citizens thus en-
franchised had everywhere cast their
lot with the Liberal parties. This was
swiftly and angrily noted by the u
tramontane polemists. and the Old
bogey of formidable Sect began
to haunt them in n new and enlurg-
cd form. In the new conspiracy there
was no longer any talk of Philosoph-
crs and illuminate. Their place was
taken by Jews and Protestants. The
"Formidahle Sect thus became
triple alliance of FrecmasOns. Jews.
and Protrstants. which was said to he
directed hy the Grand Master Pal
morston" and supported by the whole
British people. not only as Protest.
ants hut as descendants of the Lost
Tribes of Israel and the subjects Of
n dynasty claiming descent from tho
House of David. The chief protagon-
ist of this stupendous hallucinatio1
wns NJ. GougenOt dcs MousscnuN. who
in 1860 embodied it in volume en-
titled "Te Juif, le Judaisme. ct In
Judaisntion dos Peuples Chretiens.'
From his own admissions. however. 1t
appears that he was largely indebted
to German Catholic inspiration. Once
again the theory failed to find sup
port and Gougenot's hook. like the
hooks of Barrucl and Robson. became
relcgatrd to the literature of forgotten
| crazes.
Later on. however, attempts to re-
vive it were made by N. de Saint-An-
Dire. the Abbe Chabauty, NJ. Drumont.
NJ. Martin. and NJ. COpin-Albancelli.
in the full flood of the anti-Semitic
agitation which had been imnorted
into France from Germany. The on
ly notable addition made to the theory
hy these writer's was the hypothesis
Of n secret Jewish Government. trans
ported from Jerusalem into the
Diaspora which. thruout the ages has
never ceased to command the alleg
lance of international Jewry and to
c0nspirc against the established order
of Christian Society. Since 1909 the
agitation has become retransferrcd to
the headquarters of Clerical Anti
SomitiSm in Vienna and Munich. and
the most recent works on the subject
with which the Morning Post" an
pears to have mainly worked. altho for
obvious reasons 1t does not acknowl-
edge thcm-are Wichtl's "Wcltfrei-
maurcrci Wcltrcvolution. Weltrepub-
llik." Meister's Judas Schuldhuch."
and RoSelbcrg's "Dic Spur dos Jndcn
i'm wnndel der Zeitcn." nll published
IN 1910. All this literature. while OK
pounding exactly the same theory ms
that of the Morning Post" is ms VIC,
lently anti-Enclish as 1t is anti-Masonic