The Denver Jewish news., 1921-04-13

III tlle little NOlulne by lne elnlHeht
| English publicist and writer, Lucien
Wolf, which has recently left the
presses of the Macmillan Publishing
Co.. virilc answer is given to the pro
ponents of the anti-Jewish movement.
The wave of anti-Semitism, with its
| supposedly formidable array of proof
| positive" of base Jewish conspiracy
| for world dominion, is proving to be
but recurrence of an old wave OF
racial or religious class antagonism,'
which has in times past. dashed itself
to nothingness upon the rocks of truth
and reason. Mr.. Wolf skaters each
so-called evidence of Jewish conspir'
acy, and proves the much discussed
Protocols" malicious forgery.
There is nothing new in the attempt
TO stigmatize the Jewish people with
| unholy ambition toward world domin-
| ion. There have appeared from time
| to time numerous forged anti-Semitic
documents, bearing the imprint of a
racial antipatlay. having common
form of presentation, and differing
only in minor details, adapted to par
ticular phases of political and eco
nomic struggles.
The recent anti-Semitic agitation
has used the every dubious raw mate
rial of the Protocol of the Learned
Elders of Zion as Il basis for its dis
reputable TRADE. But the Protocols
are the outgrowth of fantastic the
DRY three centuries old, which is of
like color to the Wandering Jew myth
0logy. In the arly eighteen century
the Puritan Revolution was explained
as plot contrived by tho Quakefs,
Freetl.inkers and Jews. After the
French Revolution. the triumvirate of
evil included the Philosophers Free
masons and illuminate. In 1SGS, an
ingenious German named Herman
Goedsche palmed off on the German
public an avowcd fiction of pscudo-his-
toric romances, in which were included
picture of a secret assembly of the
Elders of Israel, gathered in conclavc
in the worship of the Golden Calf. This
was the edito princcps of Il number
of forged anti-Semitic documents of
which the Nilus Protocols are the lat
est reaction.
1.-THE Protocols are an ampliiied imi-
tation Of Goedschels handiwork adapt
| ed to the circumstances of the Russian
Revolution of 1905" No less than
three hopelessly contradictory state
ments are made by Nilus in explana,
ton of the origin of the Protocols. Ac-
cori!ing to one statement, the Proto-
coils came from deceased friend I'M
named, who received them from
woman also unnamed. who stole them
from one of the most influential lead
ers of Freemasonry. Another state
ment eliminates the woman intermed-
larry. also the Freemuson. and gives
the deceased friend himself the role of
riilljng the safes of the Headquarters
of the Officers of the Society of Zion
in France The third story explains
that the documents did not come from
France but from Switzerland, that
they were not deo-Masonic. but
Zionist. and were the secret Protocols
of the Zionist Congress held in Basic
in 1897. These fictions of themselves
brand the statements Of Nilus as de
liberate untruths.
The Protocols, then, are not even an
echo of Jewish IDEALS but are de-
rived from Gentle forgery based on
a work of confcssedly Gentle imagi
lation. Furthermore. for the autocratic
philosophy. attributed to the Jewish
Elders. Nilus uses the distinctive Rus
sian doctrines of that arch-cnemy of
the Jews. the fanaticaI Greek Christian.
Konstantine Petrovich Pobyedonoszeh.
The evidence of this is forcefully pre-
scented by Mr.. WoWlf in comparison
of the documents from PuDyedonosZeff
and Nilus.
| There were political ends to be
furthcred in the publication of the
protocols Nilus' book was Intended
to serve the sinister ends of the pro-
German foreign policy of Count Sdrns-
dorf in the same way as it served
the bloody purposes of the pogrom-
nongcrs. German reactionaries are
leading the anti-Scmitic movement.
In the closing chapter Mr. Wolf con
siders the final argument of the anti
Semitic scarcmongers-'.the .Judco-Bol-
shevik" DOGGY The statistics show
that the strength of Bolshovism in
| Russia was always in inverse ratio to
| the strength of the local Jewish popu-
lation." There are Jewish leaders
! among the Bolshevini. but they are
avowcdly athcistic in religion, and not
Jewish. They are no more Jews than
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