The Denver Jewish news., 1923-08-09
Former Premier Lloyd George
Discusses Jelu Baiters
"Of All the Bigotries That Savage the Human Temper
There Is None So Stupid as the Anti-Semitic."

id Lloyd George in an article OF un-
usual interest and Significance, makes
the following scatmng arraignnent OF
picsent-day anti-Senites:
OF all the bigotries that savage the
human temper there is none so stupid
as the anti-Semitie.
1t has no basis in reason-it is not
rooted In faith-it aspires to no ideal
it is Just one of those dnnk and I'M
wholesome weeds that grow in the
morass of racial hatred.
How utterly devoid OF reason 1t is
may he gathered from the fact that IL
is almost confined to nations who wor-
ship the Jewish prophets and apostles
and revere the national literature of
the Hebrews as The only inspired mes
sage delivered by the Deity to mankind.
and whose only hope of salvation rests
on the precepts and promises of the
great teachers of Judaism.
Still, in the sight of these fanatics.
Jews of today can do nothing right.
1t they are rich they are birds of prey.
If they are poor they are vermin. If
they are In favor Of war. that is he
cause they want to exploit the bloody
feuds of Gentiles to their own profit.
II they are anxious for peace they are
either instructive towards or traitors.
If they give geperously-and there
are no more liberal givers than the
Jews-they are doing it for some selfish
purpose of their own. II they don't
givc-thcn what would one expect of
n few.
II labor is oppressed by great capital,
the greed of the Jew is held responsible.
If labor revolts against capitnl-as it
did in Russia-the Jew is blamed for
that also.
II he lives in strange land hp must
Ike persecuted and pogrommed out Of 1t.
II he wants to go back to-lhts owsi he
must he prevented.
Through the centuries. in every land.
whatever he does or intends or fails
10 do. he has been pursued by the
echo of the brutal cry of the rabble
Of Jerusalem against the greatest of all
JewS-'Crucify Him :.
No good has ever come of nations
that crucificd Jews 1t is poor and
pusillanimous sport, lacking all true
qualities of manliness. and those who
indulge in it would be the first to run
away were there any element of danger
IL. 1t.
Jew baiters are generally of the type
that found good reasons for evading
military service when their own cOun-
try was In danger.
Land Turned into Desert
The latest exhibition OF this wretch
cd indulgence is the agitation against
settling poor Jews in the land their
fathers made famous. Palestine under
Jewish rule once maintained popula-
ticn of 5.OOO.OOO Under the blighting
rule of the Turk 1t barely supported n
population Of 10000. The land flowing
with milk and honey is now largely a
stony and unsightly desert.
d, To quote one of the ablest and most
farsighted business men of today: at
is land of immense possibilities in
spite OF the terrible neglect Of its re-
sources resulting from Turkish misrule'
Its glorious estate has been let down
by centuries of neglect. The Turks cut
down the forests and never troubled
to replant them. They slaughted the
cattle and never troubled to replace
them"
~, Ill ri tGesy Of
Jew hunter that he adores the Turk
If Palestine is to he restored to a
condition even apprOximoting to its
ancient prosperity. it must be by set
Ting Jews on its soil. The condition
to which the land has been reduced by
centuries of the most devasting Oppres-
sion in the world is such that restOr-
alton is cnly possible by race that
is prepared for sentimental reasons to
make and endure sacrifices for the pur-
pose.
What is the history of Jewish set
Element in Palestine? 1t did not be
gin with the BalfOur declaration. A
century ago there were barely 10000
Jews on tne Wnoie OF IaieStihe. beiore
the war there were 100000 The war
considerably reduced these numbers
and immigrn ton since 1918 has bare
. ly filed up the gaps. At the present
timorCus rate of progress it will be
many years before it reaches 100000
Jewish sediment started practically
seventy years ago. 1t started with Sir
Moses Montefiore's experiment in 1854