The Denver Jewish news., 1920-08-04
Israel Zangwill and the
Jewish Peril
THE GREAT ENGLISH WRITER
DENIES THE ACCUSATIONS
BROUGHT AGAINST THE CHOS-
EN- RACE.

those anti-Semites in this country. who
have made an effort to make capital
out of the publication of the Jewish
Peril"
1.-The war has accentuated race-con.
sciOusness, and so the Jew-tho he has
fought and died for all his fellow
citiZens-finds himself today suspect
of all. slandered by the more civiliz-
ed. and slaughtered by the less civiliA-
ed.
The popular Imagination seems able
to think of the Jew only in terms of
melodrama. 1t is perhaps some dim
response in the mob to the real TO
nance of his indestructibility.
Nothing, according to the anti
Semitic. is too colossal for the Jew to
have achieved.
He has at once made the worldwar
and pulled the strings of the peace
, traps.
And similarly nothing is too sm III
For example, the warning given Ia
the world by DIR. Hallinan, Bishop of
llHleTlck, us 10 tut
of the latest feminine fashions.
''The new NODES" wrote the learned
Bishop. 'are designed not by women
hut by men-Parisians. Jews and Free
masons--seeking to uproot Christianity
by these dangerous and indecent
dresses"
1t was Jews who murdered the Tsar.
and accusation actually Incorporated
in the British White Book, and still
exploited by the reactionary Russians.
despite that even the Minister of Jus
tice under Koltchak's Government has
certified "that, among the number of
persons proved by the data of the pre-
liminary inquiry to have been guilty
Of the assination of the late Emperor
Nicholas III. and his family. there was
not a person Of Jewish descent" Mr..
Chestcftof. writing Of tsic ffishs catis'
| tically remarks that. having for cen
| turies been accused of religious fan
ticism. they cannot now be indicted for
its antithesis. Yet in Mr.. Chesterton's
own organ the most paradoxical accusa
tions against the Jew find hospitality
And for the world at large. altho II
is as the capitalist that che Jew has
been abused thruOut the ages. there has
been no difficulty in shifting the count
| to that of Bolshevism the moment n
more malodorOus bogey appeared on
| the scene.
ShylOck is now Socialist. rabid to
destroy all property. including his own
And it is only the other day that he
was venomous prO-German. sup
porter of monarchistic militarism and
Hun atrocities.
But. despite the momentary charge
of Bolshevism. and the more perma
nent charge of Poverty---for 1t Is as
an invading pauper horde that Jewry
more frequently figures 10 the Christ
ian cgislator-Capitalism is destined
| to remain the chief of the criminal
stigmata by which the jew may b.
known.
Put not Capitalism merely for prof
it's sake. Capitalism for Jewry's sake
The Jew bankers of the world-that
notorious intcrcatenation of super
moneylenders-are engaged in the old
Biblical business of exploiting the rest
of mankind as n prelude to its EXTERN
inatiOn.
Legendary Powers Of the jews.
suppose nobody is in a better DO
sition than l to give the lie to the
charge of Jewish solidarity. whose
life has been half-wasted in the effort
to bring something of the sort about.
who for twenty years have toiled to
unite the Jewish millionaires in the
quest for n Jewish State. and whose
s,lprcmcst triumph lay in assembling
three of them Ga British. Russian
and an American) in one committee
room to promote emigration from n
Jewish centre.
Undoubtedly there are Rothschilds
in London and in Paris and in vienna
and perhaps still in Frankfort.
But in fantastic idea that this con
catenation of cousins holds the purse
strings of the world. and is ready to
plunge it into war without II yQualm
so that it may finance the whirlwihd
and capitalize the storm. is-tho it was
actually propounded in my hearing by
one of our most liberal men of letters
only to he taken seriously because
its effects are serious.
One would have imagined that tn"
discovery in the Kaisers archives of
child, pleading desperately for the
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