The New York herald., 1921-03-10
JEWS ARE DEFENDED
In NEW SPARGO BOOK
Socialist Counters Charges Of
Ford With Assertion of
World Anti-Jew Plot.
SEES HATE ENTHR0NED
Motives Behind Propaganda of
Detroit Man Pathological
in Origin, He Thinks.

| The motives or Henry Ford In pub
| fishing IN the Dearborn Independent
charges that there is conspiracy OF
Jews to gain control of the world are, so
John Spargo suspects. pathological IN
their origin"
| This view is voiced by Mr.. Spargo,
who. although a Socialist. is one of the
most bitter opponents of Bolshevism. In
| little book. aThe Jew and American
| Ideals" published by Harper & Bros.
out yesterday.
AS his reason for publishing the book
Mr.. Spargo asserts that in recent trip
| through Europe he observed that, al
| though some OF the most violent hatreds
of the war are dying down. nevertheless
| In country after country hatred of the
| Jew is being deliberately and systemati-
cally revived and intensified, threaten
ing brutal and ugly crimes against
humanity. Even In England there is, he
says, ian extensive. active and skilfully
organized campaign directed against
Jews as Jews Unless this propaganda
is checked England will take the place
OF the Russia of the Romanoffs as the
land of pogroms and mfamies like the
horrible pogrom of Kishineff may occur
in British cities"
In America Mr.. Spargo gives Mr..
Ford q prominent place In a similar
anti-Semite movement. after first max
ing plain that, as a non-Jew, his motive
is not defence of the Jew but de-
fence of American ideals and institu-
tions against anti-Semitism
The charge against the Jews Is that
there exists and has for centuries a
highly organized and subtly directed
secret movement to bring about the
overthrow of all non-Jewish govern-
ments, to substitute therefor Jewish
world government, to obliterate all ma
tional boundaries and 10 destroy all
religions other than Judaism This pro-
gramrne was revealed through 'proto-
coils OF the Wise Men OF zion." which
the writer describes as documents Of
dubious origin and history" first pub
lished In Russia In 1905. These papers.
purporting to be reports of a conference
held in 1897 or 1898. outlined a system
of bribery. deceit and treachery, a vast
army of spies and secret agents to pro-
mote revolt In the principal countries.
blackmail OF influential statesmen in
order TO control them and various other
highly interesting methods.
Mr.. Spargo points out that the pub
fisher OF the alleged protocols was one
Prof. Sergei Nilus, a gentleman almost
as elusive as Santa Claus, but who was
probably member OF the CzarS secret
police. He stresses the point that Nilus.
the agent OF the Car. first revealed"
the documents in 1906 at the beginning
of revolt and created an anti-Jewish
agitation which weakened the revolu-
tionary movement, and that they were
reissued in January. 1917, when Czarism
was very obviously heading toward the
crash which actually came In March,
1917. There is absolutely no proof that
there ever existed any organization Of
.Wise Men OF Zion," or any similar
secret body. he says.
PERSONALLY can find nothing In them
(the protocols) which suggests any
highly organized intelligence such as
the leaders of the Jewish race represent
and command In abundance rather.
they seem TO me to clearly indicate the
disordered mind and distorted vision Of
a very common type OF monomaniac.
the genus crank" he says.
Mr.. Spargo denies the charge that
Bolshevism. concerning which he has
written several books, was brought about
by the Jews as part of the Conspiracy"
He shows that few Jews, and these
apostates, are leaders OF Bolshevism,
only one. Trotzlxy. being among the
seventeen members of the Council or
Peoples Commissars. the supreme Boil
shevist authority: that pogroms have
fiourished under the Bolshevist regime.