Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-01
Condemns Secret
Methods Anti-Jewish
Groups in America

M OuNS Ill 1A1l1Cl 1CQ
New York, Nov. Standardization
of the widespread campaign of
secret anti-Jewish propaganda in the
United States" is contained in a
statement prepared at conferences Of
several national Jewish organizations
addressed to ''Our Fellow Citizens."
and made public today by the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee.
The statement brands as a forgery
the ''so-called Protocols OF the
Learned Elders Of Zion now being
circulated in large numbers by secret
agencies. for the purpose of giving
rise to the belief that the Jews, in
conjunction with the Freemasons, had
been for centuries engaged in a con-
spiracy to produce revolution and
anarchy, by means of which they
hoped to attain the control of the
world by the establishment Of some
sort Of despotic rule"
The charge that Bolshevism is part
Of a conspiracy Of Jews and Free
masons to obtain world domination it
denounces as "a malicious invention
inspired by foreign reactionary forces
for the purpose of breeding suspicion
and hatred Of the Jews and Free
masons in the United States in order
to discredit free government in the
eyes of the European masses and thus
facilitate the restoration of absolut-
ism in government"
+ Henry Ford's references to the Jews
in his Dearborn Independent are de-
nounced as false in the statement,
which declares that Ford, in the full
ness of his knowledge, unqualifiedly
declares the Protocols to be genuine
and argues that practically every Jew
is Bolshevist.
Ford is employing his great wealth
to scattering broadcast his fulmina-
tons. regardless of consequences"
the statment said. adding that cit is
useless to analyze the puerile and
venomous drivel that he has derived
from the connections of professional
agitators," and that Ford is merely a
dupe."
THE London Morning Post has
given out a series of articles as a
which the charge Of an unholy con-
spiracy between Jews and Freemasons
is elaborated, and Bolshevism is
characterized as a movement of, for
and by the Jews. and is declared to be
a fulfillment of The Protocols" the
statement said. These articles,
whose authorship is not disclosed,
have now appeared in book form un-
der the title The Cause of World I'm
rest. During the past six months
there have been sent forth weekly in
Henry Ford's organ. The Dearborn
Independent, attacks of extraordinary
virulence upon the Jews.
These assaults upon the honor of
the Jewish people are all, founded on
The Protocols and on the discredited
literature of Russian and German
anti-Semitism, inspired by the min
ions of autocracy. Parrot-like they
repeat the abominable charges that
can only appeal to the credulity of a
stunted ntelligence-charges long
since conceded to be unfounded by all
fair minded men.
speaking as representatives of the
Jewish people, familiar with the his
tory of Judaism in it's various phases
and with the movements, past and
present, in Jewish life, we say with
all solemnity: =.
"The Protocols are 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 9TH
; er similar name. There has never ex-
listed 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 Jewish dictatorship, of destruction
of religion, or an interference with
industrial prosperity, or of an over
throw of civilization. The Jews have
never conspired with the Freemasons,
or with any other body. for any pur-
pose.
whence come these pretended
Protocols p There have been various
versions. One Serge Nilus. a Russian
mystic and ardent supporter of
Czarism, claims to have received
them in Russia. in 1901. in manu-
script form, from a Russian Office
holder. who stated that the manu-
script had been originally obtained by
lady, whose name is not given, and
Who. he said; obtained them in a mys-
FERROUS way.
"Nilus asserts that he submitted
The Protocols to one of the Russian
Grand Dukes, who after examination,
returned them with the despairing
| message: Too late
I'm 1906 NiIus Incorporated the
Protocols in a second edition of a
mystical book entitled The Great in
the Little In January, 1917, he pub
lished another book under the title Tt
is Near, at the Door,. purporting to
foretell the coming of the Anti Christ
and the Kingdom Of the Devil on
Earth
I'm this book he announces that he
had only then learned authoritatively
from Jewish sources (what they were
is not explained) that these Protocols
were nothing other than a strategic
plan for the conquest of the world, of
putting 1t under the yoke Of Israel.
the struggler-a against God a plan
worked out by the leaders of the Jew
ish people during the many centuries
of their dispersion, and finally pre-
scented to the Council of Elders by the
Prince of Exile, Theodor Herzl, at the
time of the first Zionist Congress
summoned by him at Basic in August,