The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-01
Reaction and1the Jew.
Same Now as in Past
EDITOR OF THE NATION" SAYS
TECHNIQUE NOT CHANGED
THE JEW STILL BLAMED FOR
UNREST.

more sweeping the world The Poles
in their nationalistic frenzy are trying
| to eXterminate the three million jew,
within their boundaries; the Pan-Ger
mans In the fostering pOwerlessnes'
of their defeat are furnishing the Old
weapons of reaction: virulent Brit.
ish pamphlet. "The Jewish Peril" has
been insinuatingly presented in what
passes for the mind of Henry Ford.
his paper, the Dearborn Independent
which has diluted it in series Of
articles; open letters of an anti-Sem-
lite tinge are beginning to appear IL
Jewish meetings have been held IN
the streets Of Brooklyn and clergy.
men of the hectic and sensational type
are ut their old game of finding an
Anti-Christ, and are loudly identifying
the goddess Bolshevik with the Jew.
The chief responsibility for the re-
in America attaches to Henry Ford.
His name, like his car. reaches the
common man who reasons that the
multimillionaire mechanic cannot be
wholly wrong. Yet it is this latest ex.
ploit that. once and for all. confirms
nld stamps the ethical and intellectual
character of the Detroit manufacturer.
He pretended to be n pacifist: he fit
ted out and set sail In 'peace ship
Today he betrays the very spirit of
peace and filings another torch into an
already blazing world. For beneath
every accidental and temporary cause
of human discord turks the most last
ing and malignant of all-the blind
and bloody hatred of tribe for tribe
race. for rnce the denial of that uni.
versal purely human solidarity which
In the one ultimate hope Of peace and
civilization among men. Whoever stlrs'
up these ancient and barbarous hatreds
Of race or creed or color. whoever
sets Gentle agninst Jew. white against
black. the races of the West against
those Of the East, approaches mankind
with the kiss Of the betrayer and the
dagger of the assassin There can be
no compromise no shadow Of waycr-
ing oil this supreme issue. We are
imprisoned upon this, little earth; the
universal forces are careless of our
welfare; earthquakes and storms tum-
BILE down our frail shelters AID disease
gnaws at our perishable bodies. How
shall we fight our way out of the
darkness II not as brothers? How
shall we build humane civilization
II, in the maze of CHASTITY Pigments
and cruel superstitions, we persecutc
and wound and darkcn each others
souls?
The common source of Mr.. Ford''
propaganda. OF the pamphlet THE
Jewish Peril" and of ",rhe Cause OF
World Unrest" published with sin
lister anonymity by G. +. Putnams
Sons. Is an old and absurd forgery
that is sufficiently and. we hope. fin
| ally exposed by Mr.. Lucicn Wolf in
the London Spectator. At every great
revolution In human affairs since the
days of the Protestant Reformation
this fable of worldwide Jewish con
spirncy against the safety of civiliZa
| tion and the vested interests OF the
age has been an easy weapon IN
| the hands of the reactionaries. The
Puritan Revolution in England was
attributed to "Quakers. frce-thinkers
and goddess Jews and numerous
French writer's from 1917 to 1SS:
sought to father the French Revolu
tion itself on Masonic and Jewish con
spiracics The old forgery known as
"The Protocols of the Learned Elders
of Zion" was revamped by PrussiaI
postal clerk who was himself dis
charged from the service for forger!
| in 1868. But Russian edition of his
work. attributed to professor
sergyei Nilus," was used as pogrou
weapon during the Russian Revolution
of 1905 and n French version of th'
latter was published in 1911. 1t j.
the work of this entirely mythica
tNilus which forms the immediate basis
for "The Jewish Peril" the articles
In Mr.. Ford's paper. and the more
recent "The Cause of World Unrest.
The motive for the emergence o
these old forgeries and ISLANDERS at thi.
moment in history is clear enough