a man known as Apfelbaum * * * out of 388 members, only 16 happened to
be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the exception possibly of
one man, who is a Negro from America, who calls himself Professor Gordon
* * * and 265 of this northern commune government that is sitting in the
Old Smolny Institute came from the lower East Side of New York--265 of
them. * * *
"'I might mention this, that when the Bolsheviki came into power, all
over Petrograd we at once had a predominance of Yiddish proclamations,
big posters, and everything in Yiddish. It became very evident that now
that was to be one of the great languages of Russia; and the real
Russians, of course, did not take very kindly to it.'"
William Chapin Huntington, who was commercial attache of the United
States Embassy at Petrograd, testified:
"The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about two-thirds Russian
Jews * * * The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not
interested in the particular national ideals of Russia."
William W. Welch, an employee of the National City Bank, New York,
testified:
"In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the Bolshevik leaders
are Jewish * * * There were some--not many, but there were some--real
Russians; and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born, and not
Russian Jews."
Roger E. Simmons, Trade Commissioner connected with the United States
Department of Commerce, also testified. An important anonymous witness,
whom the committee permitted to withhold his name, told the same things.
The British White Book, Russia, No. 1--"A Collection of Reports on
Bolshevism in Russia, presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty,
April, 1919," contains masses of the same testimony from many sources,
all of them eyewitnesses.
In that very highly respected magazine Asia for February-March, 1920, is
an article which contains, among other important ones, these statements:
(the italics are ours)
"In all the Bolshevist institutions the heads are Jews. The Assistant
Commissar for Elementary Education, Grunberg, can hardly speak Russian.
The Jews are successful in everything and obtain their ends. They know
how to command and get complete submission. But they are proud and
contemptuous toward everyone, which strongly excites the people against
them * * * At the present time there is a great national religious
fervor among the Jews. They believe that the promised time of the rule
of God's elect on earth is coming. They have connected Judaism with a
universal revolution. They see in the spread of revolution the
fulfilling of the Scriptures: 'Though I make an end of all the nations
whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make an end of thee.'"
Now if Gentile proof were wanted, the files of the THE DEARBORN
INDEPENDENT for a whole year would not begin to contain it. But Jewish
proof is better.
There has been a strange vacillation in Jewish opinion concerning
Bolshevism. At first it was hailed with delight. There was no
concealment whatever in the early days of the new regime as to the part
which Jewry had in it. Public meetings, interviews, special articles
poured forth in which very valuable elements of truth were mingled.
There was no attempt at concealment of names.
Then the horror of the thing began to take hold upon the world, and for
just a breathing space Jewish opinion fell silent. There was a spasmodic
denial or two. Then a new burst of glorification. The glorification
continues within Judaism itself, but it now carries on the Gentile side
of its face a very sad expression labeled "persecution."
We have lived to see the day when to denounce Bolshevism is to
"persecute the Jews."
In the American Hebrew, for September 10, 1920, an article appears which
not only acknowledges and explains the part which the Jew plays in the
present unrest and upheaval, but justifies it--and justifies it,
curiously enough, by The Sermon on the Mount.
The writer says that "the Jew evolved organized capitalism with its
working instrumentality, the banking system."
This is very refreshing, in view of the numerous Jewish denials of this
economic fact.
"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
own hand fashioned * * *" If this is true, why is Jewish "organized
capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system" supporting
the revolt?
"That achievement (referring to the Russian overthrow), destined to
figure in history as the overshadowing result of the World War, was
largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
effort to reconstruct."
"This rapid emergence of the Russian revolution from the destructive
phase and its entrance into the constructive phase is a conspicuous
expression of the constructive genius of Jewish discontent."
(This, of course, requires proof that the constructive phase has
appeared. The implication here is sheer propaganda. The Protocols,
however, have a reconstructive program. We have not reached it as yet in
this series of articles, but it is clearly outlined in the
Protocols--destroy the Gentile society, and then reconstruct it
according to "our" plans.)
Now read carefully:
"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
Jewish mind and heart ARE TENDING TO PROMOTE IN OTHER COUNTRIES."
Read that again. "What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so
powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia!" Just what was that? And
just how did it "powerfully contribute?" And why are "Jewish idealism"
and "Jewish discontent" always linked together? If you read the
Protocols it is all very clear. Jewish idealism is the destruction of
Gentile society and the erection of Jewish society. Was it not so in
Russia?--Yiddish proclamations on the walls, the ancient Hebrew in the
schools, Saturday substituted for Sunday, and the rabbis respected while
the priests were put to work on the roads! All "powerfully contributed"
to by murder, rapine, theft and starvation.
Our author is more candid than he realizes. He calls this linked
idealism and discontent "the historic qualities of the Jewish mind." THE
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is indebted to him for this clear confirmation of
what it has been saying for some time.
But even that is not all. "These same historic qualities of the Jewish
mind" which "contributed so powerfully to accomplish in Russia" the Red
Terror still existing there, are declared by this author to be tending
to promote the same sort of thing in other countries. He says so in so
many words--"tending to promote in other countries."
But we knew that. The only difference is that when Gentiles said it,
they were overwhelmed with the wildest abuse; but now a pro-Jewish
writer says it in a leading Jewish publication. And he says it
apologetically--listen to him:
"It was natural that * * * discontent in other parts of the world should
find expression in overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims."
What discontent? Jewish discontent, of course. Discontent with what?
With any form of Gentile rule. And how did it find expression? "In
overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims." What were these
issues and aims? To bring the Bolshevik revolution to the United States.
No, they did not overstate their aims; they exactly stated them--they
simply selected the wrong country, that's all.
There are Russian Bolshevists in this country now, hawking about the
streets of New York the gold cigaret cases which they stole from Russian
families, and the family jewels, the wedding and birthday rings, which
they filched from Russian women. Bolshevism never got further than the
pawnshop and burglar's "fence" idea. The proof of this traffic in stolen
property is going to drive some people into hiding before long. It will
be a long, long time before America will be taking orders in Yiddish, or
American women will be giving up their jewels to "the chosen race."
However, that happens to be only the most recent acknowledgement that
has come to hand. It is significant for its confession that "Jewish
discontent" was "tending to promote" in "other countries" what it has
"so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia."
And with such a link between the American Hebrew, Russian Bolshevism and
the Protocols, there are still Jewish publicists with the crust to say
that only crazy people could see the connection. Only blind people will
not see it. But that is only a minor connection. This series of articles
does not rest on anything so accidental as the Jewish New Year's apology
for Bolshevism in the great Hebrew weekly of the United States.
[Issue of September 25, 1920.]
"Out of the economic chaos, the discontent of the Jew evolved organized
capital with its working instrumentality, the banking system . . . .
"One of the impressive phenomena of the impressive time is the revolt of
the Jew against the Frankenstein which his own mind conceived and his
own hand fashioned. . . .
"That achievement (Russian Bolshevik revolution--Ed.), destined to
figure in history as the over-shadowing result of the World War, was
largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish
effort to reconstruct . . . .
"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully
contributed to accomplish in Russia, the same historic qualities of the
Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other countries . . . .
"Shall America, like the Russia of the Czars, overwhelm the Jew with the
bitter and baseless reproach of being a destroyer, and thus put him in
the position of an irreconcilable enemy?
"Or shall America avail itself of Jewish genius as it avails itself of
the peculiar genius of every other race? . . . .
"That is the question for the American people to answer."
--From an article in The American Hebrew, Sept. 10, 1920.
XX.
Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
The American people will answer that question, and their answer will be
against the disruptive genius of dissatisfied Jews.
It is very well known that "what Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent
have so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia" is also being
attempted in the United States. Why did not the writer in the American
Hebrew say the United States, instead of saying "the same historic
qualities of the Jewish mind and heart are tending to promote in other
countries."
"Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent" are not directed against
capital. Capital is enlisted in their service. The only governmental
order the Jewish effort is directed against is Gentile governmental
order; and the only "capital" it attacks is Gentile capital.
Lord Eustace Percy who, if one may judge by the full and appreciative
quotations of his words in the Jewish press, has the sanction of
thinkers among the Jews, settles the first point. Discussing the Jewish
tendency to revolutionary movements he says:
"In Eastern Europe Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by
side, just as Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
throughout the nineteenth century down to the Young Turk revolution in
Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago--not because the Jew cares
for the positive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to
be a partaker in Gentile nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because
no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything but
distasteful to him."
And that analysis is absolutely true. In Russia, the excuse was the
czar; in Germany, the kaiser; in England it is the Irish question; in
the numerous South American revolutions, where the Jews always had a
ruling hand, no particular reason was thought necessary to be given; in
the United States it is "the capitalistic class;" but always and
everywhere it is, by the confession of their own spokesman, a distaste
for any form whatsoever of Gentile government. The Jew believes that the
world is his by right; he wants to collect his own, and the speediest
way of doing so is the destruction of order by revolution--a destruction
which is made possible by a long and clever campaign of loose and
destructive ideas.
As to the second point, every reader can verify the fact from his own
experience. Let him recall to his mind the capitalists who have been
held up to public scorn in the Jew-controlled press of the United
States--and whom does he find them to be? Whose forms have you seen
caricatured with the dollar-mark in Hearst's papers? Are they Seligman,
Kahn, Warburg, Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, or any of the others? No.
These are Jewish bankers. The attack is never made on them. The names
made most familiar to you by newspaper denunciation are the names of
Gentile industrial and banking leaders--and Gentile leaders only--the
principal ones being Morgan and Rockefeller.
It is a well-known fact that during the French Commune when men of
wealth suffered severe losses in property, the Jewish Rothschilds were
not injured to the extent of one pennyworth. It is also a well-known
fact, capable of proof satisfactory to any ordinary mind, that the
connections between Jewish financiers and the more dangerous
revolutionary elements here in the United States are such that it is
most unlikely that the former stand to lose anything in any event. Under
cover of the disorder in Russia at the present time, Jewish financiers
are taking advantage of the stress of the people to gain control of all
the strategic natural resources and municipal property, by methods which
they fully expect to be legalized by Jewish courts when the present
"Bolshevik regime" announces that it will give way to a "modified
communism." The world hasn't seen the end of Bolshevism yet. Like the
World War, Bolshevism cannot be interpreted until it is seen who profits
most by it, and the profiteering is in full sway now. The enemy is
Gentile capital. Not any other. And "all the wealth of the world is in
our hands" is the unspoken slogan of every Jewish outbreak in the world
today.
The quotation at the head if this article represents the position which
the Jews are now ready to take with reference to the Russian Revolution.
They have always been charged with responsibility for what has occurred
in that unhappy country, but at first their spokesmen denied it. The
denials were most indignant, and were usually accompanied by the typical
plaint that the charge was "persecution." But the facts have been so
overwhelming, and the government investigations have been so revealing,
that denials have been abandoned.
For a while an attempt was made to distract attention from Russia by a
tremendously powerful propaganda concerning the Jews in Poland. There
are many indications that the Polish propaganda was undertaken as a
"cover" for the immense immigration of Jews into the United States. It
may be that some of our readers do not know it, but an endless stream of
the most undesirable immigrants pours daily into the United States, tens
of thousands of the same people whose presence has been the problem and
menace of the governments of Europe.
Well, the Polish propaganda and the immigration movement are sailing
along smoothly, and the United States Government is assured by the
Jewish ring at Washington that everything is quiet along the Potomac (it
is quiet there, quiet as the Jewish ring could wish), but still the
Russian fact persists in calling for explanation.
And here is the explanation: The Jews created capitalism, we are told.
But capitalism has proved itself ill-behaved. So now, the Jewish
creators are going to destroy their creation. They have done so in
Russia. And now, will the American people be good and let their Jewish
benefactors do the same in America?
That is the new explanation, and typically Jewish again, it is coupled
with a proposal for the United States--and a threat! If America refuses
this particular service of the Jew, we "put him in a position of an
irreconcilable enemy." See quotation at the head of this article.
But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia. When Lenin and
Trotsky make their farewell bow and retire under the protective
influence of the Jewish capitalists of the world, it will be seen that
only Gentile or Russian capital has been destroyed, and that Jewish
capital has been enthroned.
What is the record? Documents printed by the United States Government
contain this letter: Please note the date, the Jewish banker and the
Jewish names:
"Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1917.
"To Mr. Raphael Scholan:
"Dear Comrade:--The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the
enterprise of Comrade Trotsky upon receipt of a telegram from the
Chairman of the 'Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.' A lawyer, probably Mr.
Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the transportation of same,
together with that of the money * * * to whom the sum demanded by
Comrade Trotsky is to be handed.
"Fraternal Greetings!
"Furstenberg."
Long before that, an American Jewish financier was supplying the funds
which carried revolutionary propaganda to thousands of Russian prisoners
of war in Japanese camps.
It is sometimes said, by way of explaining the Bolshevik movement, that
it was financed from Germany, a fact which was seized upon to supply war
propaganda. It is true that part of the money came from Germany. It is
true that part of the money came from the United States. It is the whole
truth that Jewish finance in all the countries was interested in
Bolshevism as an All-Jewish investment. For the whole period of the war,
the Jewish World Program was cloaked under this or that national
name--the blame being laid on the Germans by the Allies, and on the
Allies by the Germans, and the people kept in ignorance of who the real
personages were.
It was stated by a French official that two millions of money was
contributed by one Jewish banker alone.
When Trotsky left the United States to fulfill his appointed task, he
was released from arrest at Halifax upon request of the United States,
and everyone knows who constituted the War Government of the United
States.
The conclusion, when all the facts are considered, is irresistible, that
the Bolshevik revolution was a carefully groomed investment on the part
of International Jewish Finance.
It is easy to understand, then, why the same forces would like to
introduce it to the United States. The real struggle in this country is
not between labor and capital; the real struggle is between Jewish
capital and Gentile capital, with the I.W.W. leaders, the Socialist
leaders, the Red leaders and the labor leaders almost a unit on the side
of the Jewish capitalists.
Again recall which financiers these men most attack. You cannot recall a
single Jewish name.
The main purpose in these two articles, however, is to introduce the
Jewish testimony which exists as to the Jewish nature of Bolshevism.
The Jewish Chronicle, of London, said in 1919:
"There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so
many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at
many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism."
In the same paper, of 1920, is a report of an address made by Israel
Zangwill, a noted Jewish writer, in which he pronounced glowing praise
on "the race which has produced a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a Montagu, a
Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotsky." Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic
enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same
category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik
governments. What is the difference? They are all Jewish, and all of
equal honor and usefulness to "the race."
Rabbi J. L. Magnes, in an address at New York in 1919, is reported to
have said:
"When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the cause of the
workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinherited of the world, the
radical quality within him goes to the roots of things, and in Germany
he becomes a Marx and a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward Bernstein; in
Austria he becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in Russia, a
Trotsky. Just take for a moment the present situation in Russia and in
Germany. The revolution set creative forces free, and see what a large
company of Jews was available for immediate service. Socialist
Revolutionaries and Mensheviki, and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority
Socialists--whatever they be called--Jews are to be found among the
trusted leaders and the routine workers of all these revolutionary
parties."
"See," says the rabbi, "what a large company of Jews are available for
immediate service." One ought to see where he points. There are as many
Jewish members of revolutionary societies in the United States, as there
were in Russia; and here, as there, they are "available for immediate
service."
Bernard Lazare, a Jewish writer who has published a work on
anti-Semitism, says:
"The Jew, therefore, does take a part in revolutions, and he
participates in them in so far as he is a Jew, or more correctly, in so
far as he remains a Jew."
He says also--"The Jewish spirit is essentially a revolutionary spirit,
and consciously or otherwise, the Jew is a revolutionist."
There is hardly any country in the world, except the United States,
where denials of this could be made in such a way as to require proof.
In every other country the fact is known. Here we have been under such a
fear of mentioning the word "Jew" or anything pertaining to it, that the
commonest facts have been kept from us--facts which even a superficial
knowledge of Jewish writing would have given us. It was almost a
pathetic spectacle to see American audiences go to lectures about the
Russian situation, and come away from the hall confused and perplexed
because the Russian situation is so un-Russian, all because no lecturer
thought it politic to mention "Jew" in the United States, for, as some
day we shall see, the Jew has contrived to gain control of the platform
too.
Not only do the literary lights of Jewry acknowledge the Jew's
propensity to revolution generally, and his responsibility for the
Russian situation particularly, but the lower lights also have a very
clear idea about it. The Jew in the midst of the revolution is conscious
that somehow he is advancing the cause of Israel. He may be a "bad Jew"
in the synagogue sense, but he is enough of a Jew to be willing to do
any thing that would advance the prestige of Israel. Race is stronger
than religion in Jewry.
The Russian paper, On to Moscow, in September, 1919, said:
"It should not be forgotten that the Jewish people, who for centuries
were oppressed by kings and czars, are the real proletariat, the real
Internationale, which has no country."
Mr. Cohan, in the newspaper, Communist, in April, 1919, said:
"Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Russian social
revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands of the Jews. Would the
dark, oppressed masses of the Russian workmen and peasants have been
able to throw off the yoke of the bourgeoisie by themselves? No, it was
precisely the Jews who led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the
Internationale and not only have led, but are also now leading the
Soviet cause which remains in their safe hands. We may be quiet as long
as the chief command of the Red Army is in the hands of Comrade Leon
Trotsky. It is true that there are no Jews in the ranks of the Red Army
as far as privates are concerned, but in the committees and Soviet
organizations, as commissars, the Jews are gallantly leading the masses
of the Russian proletariat to victory. It is not without reason that
during the elections to all Soviet institutions the Jews are winning by
an overwhelming majority * * * The symbol of Jewry, which for centuries
has struggled against capitalism, has become also the symbol of the
Russian proletariat, which can be seen even in the adoption of the Red
five-pointed star, which in former times, as it is well known, was the
symbol of Zionism and Jewry. With this sign comes victory, with this
sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie * * * Jewish
tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
This confession, or rather boast, is remarkable for its completeness.