The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-03


 The denounced protocols purport to be an expose of a movement by Jews and Freemasons to secure con tro of the world and the BolSneVlst regime in Russia is cIred as part or the program of the combination. The statement declares that the protocols are malicious forgeries and part or the propaganda of a group of for- etgn reactionaries engaged in a con- spiracy to discredit free government in the eyes of the European masses a iafl thus facilitate the restoration or apsolutism in Europe"
 EThe declaration is signed by the American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, the Union of American Hehrew Congre- cations, the Union of Orthodox Jew ish Congregations, the United Syna- gogues of America, the Provisional Committee of an American Jewish Congress. the Independent Order of B'Nai Brith, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the United Orthodox Jewish Rabbis of America.
 The American Jewish Committee which issue the appeal is headed by. Louis Marshall, leading New York lawyer and the vice presidents are Cyrus Adler and Julius Rosen- wald, the latter the head of Sears, Roebuck & Co. The committee .in-
  bassador to Turkey; Albert D. Las ker, of Chicago, promoter of the so- called Lasker plan for the reform of baseball; Oscar B. Straus, the noted phila lanthrop:st; A. c. RatSheSky, a leading Boston lawyer and banker, and Cyrus l.. Sulzberger, one of the principal figures in the packing in- dustry.
 The statement in full follows: TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS:
 IT mi nn hXr = cies. a document variously called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" "The Protocols of Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom" and "'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" was clandestinely circulated in typewritten form,s among public of ficials and carefully selected civil ians, for the purpose of giving rise tc the belief that the Jews in con- junction with Freemasons. had been for centuries engaged in a conspir- acy to produce revolutions and an archy, by means of, which they hoped to attain the control of the world by the establishment of some sort of despotic rule. Some months ago this document was published ir England. More recently it has ap- peared in print in the United States and thousands of copies have beer circulated with an air of myster! among legislators, clergymen anC teachers, members of clubs, and in discriminatory to the general public JEWS AND FREEMASONS."
 The london Morning Post has giver out a series of articles a com mentary upon The Protocols, il which the cI.,rge of an unholy con spiracy between Jews and Freemas ons is elaborated, and Bolshevism i: characterized as movement of, fol and by the Jews and is declared tC he fulfillment of The Protocols These articles, whose authorship i not disclosed, have now appeared il book form under the title: tn' Cause of World Unrest" Durins th' Iast six months there have been sen forth weekly in Henry Ford's or gan. The Dearborn Independent. at lacks of extraordinary virulence upol the Jews
 INSPIRED BY AUTOCRACY.
 These assaults upon the honor O the Jewish people are all founded ol The Protocols and on the discred tied literature of Russia and Ger man anti-Semitism, inspired by tn minions of atuocracy. Parrot-hke they repeat the abominable charge tha. can only appeal to the creduit of a stnnted intelligencecharges lon since conceded to be unfounded b all fair-minded men, Ford is em ployins his great wealth in scatter L ing broadcast his fulmlnauons, re gardless of consequence.
 RECRUDESCENCE OF BlGOTRY.
 When the Jews of this countr first learned of these malevoler prints they deemed it beneath the degnity to take notice of them, be cause they regarded them as mer rccrudeScence of me edieval blgotry an stupidity showing upon their fac their utter worthlessness. These pub lications have, however, been put circulation to such an extent tha it is believed that the time has come humiliating though it be to then for the Jews to make answer to tnes 1ibels and to the unworthy insinu ations and innuendoes that have bee whispered against them.
 Speaking as representatives of tn Jewish people, familiar with the hi: tory of Judaism in it's various phase and with the movements, past an