The Washington times., 1920-12-01

the Elders of Zion"
These protocols" that have imposed on ForGs Gre
duly scandalous, shameless inventions of malignant
bisotry and prejudice comprehensive, complete reply
has been prepared by representative committee including
Louis Marshall julius Rosenwald Cyrus Adler, Albert D.
Lasker, Irving Lehman, Oscar S. Straus and others.
editorial space available in this newspaper devoted
to this complete reply, slightly abbreviated for space
1t should be read carefully by those who realize the
dangerous results that follow the stirring up of race
igious and class hatred. The statement follows:
To Our Fellows Citizens:
+! To Our Fellows Citizens
called the war; BY H agen % poc1d
the Meetings of the Zionist Men Of WISDOM and THE Protocols
of the Wise Men of Zon clandestiney circulated in type
sn the paIs giving M @ ana a the w
conjunction with Feemason had been for centuries engaged
which they hoped world the estab
shment of some sort of despoc rule Some months ago this
peaed in print the United of copies have
been circulated with an air of mystery among legislators Jour-
crmnately to the general public These articles whose
authorship not disclosed have now nI in % book ks, TORN
months been forth weekly Henry Fords organ
the Dearborn Independent attacks of extraordinary vrence
people are all founded protocols and the dscedied
literature of Russian and German ani-semts INSPIRED by e
charges that can only appeal credu of unted ntel
gence-charge long since conceded to be unfounded by all
broadcast his fulminaons regardless of consequences
the Jews of the United States first learned of these
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notice of hem because they regarded them re-
cudescence of medieval bgoy and stupidity showing upon
however been put circulation to such extent that it is
believed that the time has come, huiang though be to he
for the make to these be and to the unworthy
and nuendoes that have been whispered against
them. go
with the history of Judaism in its various phases
movements past and present. in Jewish lhe we say with all
'1 The protocols base forgery There has never
been organization Of Jews known the Elders of Zon
the Zionist Men of Wisdom the Wise Men of Zon or
bearing any other similar There has existed
secret other Jewish body organized for any such
that implied in the protocols The Jewish people have
dreamed Of Jewish dictatorship, of destruction
of religion, of interference with industrial prosperity
of overthrow of civilization The Jews have never
conspred with the Freemasons with any other body
for any purpose.
Until the outbreak of the world war the Jews of Eastern
not permitted to exercise the rights of citizenship in
lands where they and their ancestors had dwe generations
efforts to livelihood Far from desiring to govern the
world they content with the opportunity live Numer-
earh and more than onea Of them are on the verge Of
starvation The suggestion that in their fcebene they have
dominate the nnenne per cent of nonews upon the globe
ridiculous invention than which madness conue
Where the habitat of these so-called Elders of zon by
whatever name they be caed' Who are these hidden
oganzaon The distributors of the protocols silent onI
that subject Whence these pretended proocos There
nave ceen various versions One Serge Ns of whose IDENTIFY
little is known, Russian mystic and supporter OF
Czasm, claims to have received them Russia 1901 n|
manuscript FORM from Russian oceoder Stated that the
manuscript had been originally obtained by lady, whose
not given and who he sad obtained them in mysterious way
In what language they written is not stated
An analysis of the protocols shows that on their face they
fabrication and that they must have emanated the
bitter opponents of democracy They repee with cynical
TO the French revolution and to the conceptions of
liberty equality and fraternity They uphold privilege and
auocracy. They bete education They condemn religious
liberty They assert that political freedom is idea and
fact and that the doctrine that government nothing but
steward of the people is phrase These are the verv
doctrines that would expect from the proagonists of auo
Nothing be foreign To Ieulsh