Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-02

literature of Russian and German
anti-Semitism, inspired by the
minions If autocracy.
When the Jews of the United
States first learned of these male
violent prints they deemed 1t be-
meath their dignity 70 take notice
of them, because they regarded
them as a mere recrudescence of
medieval higory and stupidity
showing upon their face their utter
worthlessness. These publications
have, however, been put in circu-
lation to such an extent That II is
believed that the time has come,
humiliating though ii be to them,
for the Jews to make answer 10
these libels and to the unworthy
insinuations and innuendoes that
have been whispered against them.
Are a Base Forgery.
Speaking as representatives OF
the Jewish people. familiar with
the history of Judaism in its va
rious phases and with the move
ments, past and present. in Jewish
life, we say with all solemnity;
I'd The protocols are a base
forgery. There has never been an
Organization 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 organ
lied for any purpose such as that
implied in the protocols. The Jew
ish people have never dreamed of
Jewish dictatorship. of destruc-
ton of religion, of an interference
with industrial prosperity, or OF an
overthrow of civilization.
The Jews have never conspired
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 polltl-
cal state. For centuries they We're
forced 10 wander from land to
land, to flee for refuge wherever
they fight find it against bitter per-
secution. They We're pent up III
ghettoes, were deprived of even the
shadow of civil or political rights
and were made the objects of eV-
ery possible form of discrimina-
| ton. 1t is little more than 80 years
since the Jews Of western Europe
became politically emancipated,
Until the outbreak of the world
war the Jews of eastern Europe,
constituting a majority of all the
Jews of the world, were not even
permitted to exercise the rights OF
citizenship in lands where they and
their ancestors had dwelt for gen
4erations. The great mass OF the
Jews were hampered in every way
in their efforts to earn a 1VeH-
hood. Far from desiring to goV'
ern the world, they were content
with the opportunity to live, Nj
merically they constitute less than
one per cent of the population OF
the earth; and more than one-hah
i of them are on the verge OF star
lvation. The suggestion that IT
their feebleness, they have beer
planning in secret conclave to selze
absolute power and to dominate the
1875 per cent of non-Jews upon the
globe is a ridiculous invention thar
which even madness can conJurt
nothing more preposterous.
The protocols as published beal
Inc signatures. The identity of the
Zionist representative by whom
thew are claimed to have beer
signed is left untold. The locator
of the main Zionist office and O
the secret vaults from which tn
protocols were secretly removed
remains a secret. 1t is, however
matter of history that the frs
Zionist congress was publicly hell
bv Jews who came from variou
parts of Europe for the purpose 0
considering the misery of thei
brethren in eastern Europe and o
enabling them to find shelter in tn
HOLY Land. Theodor HerZl was
distinguished journalist, man o
true nobility of character. lie pre-
sided at the congress, all of who's
deliberations were held in the ligh
of day.
The insinuation that there was
thirty third, or any other, degre
of initiation in this organization |
merely malicious effort to brin'
the Jews into parallelism with IN
Freemasons and thus to subJee
them to all the fanciful and ran
tastic charges that have from tim
to time been laid at the door
Freemasonry, oblivious of the rae
that fifteen presidents of the uni
ted States, including Washington
and many of the leading statesme
of Europe and America, have pee
members of that order.
Internal Evidence.
Jrrespectiye OF this history, brlst
ling with suspicion, an analysis 9
| the Protocols shows that on thel
face they are a fabrication and ina
| they must have emanated from IN
\ lbitter opponents of democrat!
They are replete with cynical refer
fences to the French revolution, an
to the conceptions of liberty, equa
fly and fraternity. They upflol
| privilege and autocracy. They Dc
little education. They condemn re
lIigious liberty. They assert ths
political freedom is an idea and M
a fact, and that the doctrine thS
a government is nothing put
steward of the people is a mel
phrase. These are the very do'
trines that one would expect fro
the protagonists of autocrac
Nothing can be more foreign,
Jewish thought and aspiration tina
these brutal theories of reactio
That the Jews, whose very life M
been prayer for the blessings
| liberty and equality, should no
them in contempt is unthinkable.
/ 1t is needless, however, TO Ella
crate, when one considers that Il
editor of the London Morning foS
! in his introduction to The eau
Of the World Unrest, himse
doubts the genuineness of The Pr
tocols, and that the anonymoo'
fauthor of that book, after usli