We have only to follow point by point the policy of the British Labour

Party since the war to recognize that whilst the measures it advocated

might be of doubtful benefit to the workers, there could be no doubt

whatever of the benefit they would confer on Germany. With a million and

a quarter unemployed and large numbers of the working classes unable to

find homes, the professed representatives of Labour have persistently

clamoured for the removal of restrictions on alien immigration and alien

imports. So although through the Trade Unions the British worker was to

be rigorously protected against competition from his fellow-Briton, no

obstacles were to be placed in the way of competition by foreign, and

frequently underpaid, labour. That this glaring betrayal of their

interests should not have raised a storm of resentment amongst the

working classes is surely evidence that the Marxian doctrine "the

emancipation of the working classes must be brought about by the working

classes themselves"[795] has so far led to no great results. Emerson

truly observed: "So far as a man thinks, he is free." The working

classes can never be free until they learn to think for themselves

instead of allowing their thinking to be done for them by the

middle-class exploiters of Labour.

The hand of Germany behind Socialism must be apparent to all those who

do not deliberately shut their eyes to the fact, and it is significant

to notice that the nearer Socialism approaches to Bolshevism the more

marked this influence becomes. Thus although certain Socialist groups,

such as the Social Democratic Federation in England and the Socialist

Party in France, have not become Germanized, the avowed Communists in

all the Allied countries are strongly pro-German. This is the case even

in France, where the Bolsheviks find fervent supporters in the group led

by Marcel Cachin, Froissart, and Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx.

The organization of the Bolshevist movement has indeed throughout owed a

great deal of its efficiency to German co-operation, provided not only by

the Socialist but by the Monarchist elements in Germany. It is necessary

in this connexion to understand the dual character of the German

Monarchist party since the ending of the war. The great majority of its

adherents, animated by nothing more reprehensible than the spirit of

militarism and an aggressive form of patriotism that clings to the old

formula of _Deutschland über alles_, are probably strangers to any

intrigues, but behind this mass of honest Imperialists, and doubtless

unknown to a great number, there lurk those sinister organizations the

Pan-German secret societies.

Many of these, as for example the _Ostmarkenverein_, ostensibly

instituted for the defence of German interests on the Russian frontier,

existed before the war; indeed, there is little doubt that they have

continued without a break since the days of the Tugendbund and have

always preserved their masonic and "illuminized" character. But since

the beginning of the Great War, and still more since the Armistice,

their numbers have increased until in 1921 they were estimated to run

into three figures. Moreover, as in the time of Weishaupt, Bavaria is

still a centre for secret-society intrigue, and it was here that

Escherich founded the _Einwohnerwehr_ sometimes known as the _Orgesch_

or Organization Escherich, with Munich as its headquarters. The Orgesch

was followed by the formidable murder club known to all the world as the

Organization C or "Consul," named after its founder, the famous Captain

Ehrhardt, whose nickname was "_der Herr Consul_." During the year 1921

no less than 400 political assassinations were reported in Germany and

said to be the work of secret societies. Amongst the crimes attributed

to the initiative of Organization C were the murders of Herr Erzberger

and the attempt on the life of Herr Scheidemann. Eighty persons arrested

for complicity in the murder of Herr Rathenau were also said to be

members of the same society.[796]

But as in the case of all secret societies, the visible leaders were not

the real hierarchy; behind this active body there existed an inner

circle organised on masonic lines, the Druidenorden, a name unknown to

the public, and behind this again another and still more secret circle

which appears to be nameless. It is these inner rings which, whilst

remaining Monarchist in Germany, work for other ends abroad, and are

connected with the world-revolutionary movement.

This alliance between the two extremes of ardent Monarchism and

revolutionary Socialism existed at the beginning of the war or even

earlier, and, as is now well known, it was the Jewish Social Democrat,

Israel Lazarewitch, alias Helphandt alias Parvus, who arranged with the

German General Staff for the passage of Lenin from Switzerland to

Russia, accompanied by Karl Radek, the Austrian Jew deserter, and a

number of other Jews.

Now, Switzerland has been for hundreds of years a centre of

revolutionary and secret-society intrigue. As early as the sixteenth

century the Pope, writing to the Kings of France and Spain, warned them

that Geneva was "un foyer éternel de révolution," and Joseph de Maistre,

quoting this letter in 1817, declared Geneva to be the metropolis of the

revolutionaries, whose art of deception he describes as "the great

European secret."[797] Elsewhere, a year earlier, he had referred to

Illuminism as the root of all the evil at work. It is now known that at

the moment de Maistre wrote these words an inner ring of

revolutionaries, claiming direct descent from Weishaupt and even from an

earlier sect existing at the end of the fifteenth century, profited by

the fall of Napoleon I to reconstruct its organization and took up its

headquarters in Switzerland with branch offices in London and Paris. The

same secret ring of Illuminati is believed to have been intimately

connected with the organization of the Bolshevist revolution, although

none of the leading Bolsheviks are said to have been members of the

innermost circle, which is understood to consist of men belonging to the

highest intellectual and financial classes whose names remained

absolutely unknown. Outside this absolutely secret ring there existed,

however, a semi-secret circle of high initiates of subversive societies

drawn from all over the world and belonging to various

nationalities--German, Jewish, French, Russian, and even Japanese. This

group, which might be described as the active ring of the inner circle,

appears to have been in touch with, if not in control of, a committee

which met in Switzerland to carry out the programme of the Third

Internationale.

It was thus in Switzerland that at the same time high initiates of

Pan-German secret societies foregathered and that an active centre of

pro-German, anti-Entente, and even Bolshevist propaganda was

established. These Germans, although Monarchists themselves, co-operated

with the secret revolutionary forces in stirring up trouble in the

countries of the Allies. At the same time the conferences of the Second

Internationale, attended by members of the British I.L.P. took place in

Switzerland, and at one of these--the Berne Conference of 1919--the

delegates were entertained by a mysterious "American" millionaire, John

de Kay, living himself in great style, paying for press service at the

rate of 2,000 francs a day, lavishing money on the conference, and at

the same time subsidizing a Pacifist and Defeatest paper named _La

Feuille_.

It is impossible, then, to ignore the role of Germany in the present

outbreak of world revolution. In the British White Paper on Bolshevism

in Russia we find it stated by an Englishman who had been through the

whole of the Revolution in that country that:

The Germans initiated disturbances in order to reduce Russia to

chaos. They printed masses of paper money to finance their schemes;

the notes, of which I possess specimens, can be easily recognized

by a special mark.[798]

What has Germany to say to all this? Simply that the promotion of

Bolshevism was a military "necessity" in order to bring about the

downfall of her opponents, but that the propaganda utilized by her was

in reality of Jewish origin, and that Jewry, not Germany, was the real

author of world revolution.

It is easy to see how such a theory can be made to serve the cause of

Pan-Germanism. For if Germany can persuade us that the Jews alone were

responsible for the war and were also the sole authors of Bolshevism, we

shall naturally be led to the conclusion that Germany is, after all,

innocent of the crimes attributed to her, and that our only safety lies

in forgoing reparations, restoring her to her former power, and

coalescing with her against a common enemy. We shall therefore do well

to accept with extreme caution advice on the Jewish question emanating

from German sources, and to test the sincerity of the spirit in which it

is offered by considering the relations which have hitherto existed

between the Germans and the Jews.

Now, Germany has long been the home of modern "anti-Semitism." Although

in every country and at every period, but more particularly in the East

of Europe during the last century, the Jews have suffered from

unpopularity, it was Germany that organized this aversion into a

definite plan of campaign. If in Russia, Galicia, and Poland the Jews

have met with sporadic violence at the hands of the peasants, in Germany

they have been systematically held up by the authorities to hatred and

contempt. Luther, Kant, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Treitschke, successively

inveighed against the Jewish race. Jews were denied admission to masonic

lodges and to the rank of officers in the army, whilst society excluded

them up to the outbreak of war.

Yet the extraordinary fact remains that of all nations the Germans have

always been the favourites of the Jews. Throughout the whole movement

for the unification of Germany under the ægis of Prussia, Jews played a

leading part, and in the recent war Germany found in them some of her

most valuable allies. As Maximilian Harden recently pointed out: "The

services of the Jews to Germany during the war were enormous. The

patriotism of the Jews was beyond reproach, in many cases even ludicrous

and offensive in its intensity." And in spite of "anti-Semitism," Harden

declares: "There is a strong affinity between the German and the Jew."[799]

To the Ashkenazim Germany even more than Palestine has appeared

the Land of Promise. Thus some years before the war Professor Ludwig

Geiger, leader of the Liberal Jews of Berlin, denounced "Zionist

sophisms" in the words: "The German Jew who has a voice in German

literature must, as he has been accustomed to for the last century and a

half, look upon Germany alone as his fatherland, upon the German

language as his mother-tongue, and the future of that nation must remain

the only one upon which he bases his hopes."[800]

How are we to explain this unrequited devotion? Simply by the German

policy of enlisting every dynamic force in her service. She has known

how to use the Jews just as she has known how to use the Freemasons, the

Illuminati, and the Socialists for the purpose of Pan-Germanism. From

Frederick the Great, who employed the Jew Ephraim to coin false money,

to William II, who kept in touch with Rathenau by means of a private

telephone wire, the rulers of Germany have always allowed them to

co-operate in their schemes of world-domination. As the allies of

Bismarck, who used them freely to fill his war-chests, the Jews directed

the power of the secret societies in the interests of Germany; in 1871

the Jew Bloechreider acted as adviser to the new German Empire as to the

best method of wresting indemnities from France. And Germany, whilst

heaping insults on the Jews, nevertheless fulfils certain conditions

essential to Jewish enterprise. Unlike England and France, she has never

allowed herself to be seriously weakened by democratic ideas, and

therefore to the Jews--as to British believers in autocracy--she

represents the principle of stability.

Moreover, Germany as the home of militarism offers a wide field for

Jewish speculation. We have only to couple together an aphorism of

Mirabeau's with one of Werner Sombart's to perceive the bond of union

between the two races, thus: "War is the national industry of Prussia"

and "Wars are the Jews' harvests." As long ago as 1793 Anacharsis

Clootz, the apostle of universal brotherhood and defender of the Jewish

race, declared that if Germany were to be prevented from going to war

the Jews must be persuaded to withdraw their support from her military

adventures:

War could not begin or last in Germany without the activity, the

intelligence, and the money of the Jews. Magazines and munitions of

all kinds are provided by Hebrew capitalists and all the subaltern

agents of military provisionment are of the same nation. We have

only to come to an understanding with our brothers, the Rabbis, to

produce astonishing, miraculous results.[801]

Mr. Ford, the American motor-car manufacturer, appears to have arrived

at much the same conclusion expressed in the words recently attributed

to him: "We don't need the League of Nations to end war. Put under

control the fifty most wealthy Jewish financiers, who produce wars for

their own profit, and wars will cease."[802]

On another occasion Mr. Ford is reported to have said that the Jews who

voyaged with him in the Peace ship in 1915 "went out of their way to

convince" him of "the direct relations between the International Jew and

the war": they "went into details to tell me the means by which the Jews

controlled the war--how they had the money, how they had cornered all

the basic materials needed to fight the war," etc.[803]

Without in any way absolving Germany from the crime of the war, it is

necessary to take this secondary factor into consideration if peace

between the nations is to be established. For as long as the lust of war

lingers in the hearts of the Germans and the lust of gain at the price

of human suffering lingers in the hearts of the Jews, both races will

remain necessary to each other and the hideous nightmare of war will

continue to brood over the world.

There is then a great deal of truth in the Socialist phrase

"Capitalists' Wars," although not in the sense they attribute to it. For

it will be noticed that the Capitalists who are most instrumental in

making wars are precisely those whom the Socialists are always careful

to shield from blame. The following incident will illustrate this point.

At a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation Mr. Adolphe Smith moved

a resolution appealing to the organized workers of Great Britain--

Not to permit themselves in the supposed interests of their

fellow-workers in other countries, to be used by sinister financial

and militarist influences merely to weaken the Entente nations in

the present critical situation, and urging them to keep careful

watch against such manoeuvres on the part of pro-German

international financiers, who were able to exercise considerable

reactionary influence among the wealthy and official classes in

this country.[804]

Mr. Hyndman added that "the most serious danger by which we were

threatened was from the most powerful group of capitalists in Europe

headed by Hugo Stinnes and backed by Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the

militarist party in Germany." This resolution was opposed by a member of

the Parliamentary Labour Party and eventually withdrawn.

The connexion between German Imperialism, International Finance,

Illuminism, Bolshevism, and certain sections of British Socialism is

thus apparent. Is Germany then the secret power behind the thing we call

Bolshevism? Are Illuminism and Pan-Germanism one and the same thing? To

this hypothesis two objections present themselves: firstly, that the

spirit of Illuminism and Bolshevism existed, as we have seen in earlier

chapters of this book, long before modern Germany came into existence;

and secondly, that Germany herself is not entirely free from the

contagion. For although the danger of Bolshevism in Germany has been

doubtless greatly exaggerated in order to prevent the Allies from

pressing their demands for disarmament and reparations, nevertheless

Bolshevism under its illuminated name of Spartacism cannot be regarded

as a movement entirely staged for the deception of Europe. Moreover,

just as in the countries of the Allies it has shown itself, under the

guise of Pacifism, savagely anti-national and pro-German, so in Germany,

as also in Hungary, it turned Pacifism to the opposite purpose by

professing sympathy at moments with the Allies.

It is clear, then, that besides Pan-Germanism there is another power at

work, a power far older, that seeks to destroy all national spirit, all

ordered government in every country, Germany included. What is this

power? A large body of opinion replies: the Jewish power.

15

THE REAL JEWISH PERIL

In considering the immense problem of the Jewish Power, perhaps the most

important problem with which the modern world is confronted, it is

necessary to divest oneself of all prejudices and to enquire in a spirit

of scientific detachment whether any definite proof exists that a

concerted attempt is being made by Jewry to achieve world-domination and

to obliterate the Christian faith.

That such a purpose has existed amongst the Jews in the past has been

shown throughout the earlier chapters of this book. The conception of

the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms

indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism.

It is customary in this country to say that we should respect the Jewish

religion, and this would certainly be our duty were the Jewish religion

founded, as is popularly supposed, solely on the Old Testament. For

although we do not consider ourselves bound to observe the ritual of the

Pentateuch, we find no fault with the Jews for carrying out what they

conceive to be their religious duties. Moreover, although the Old

Testament depicts the Jews as a favoured race--a conception which we

believe to have been superseded by the Christian dispensation, whereby

all men are declared equal in the sight of God--nevertheless it does

contain a very lofty law of righteousness applicable to all mankind. It

is because of their universality that the books of Job and Ecclesiastes,

as also many passages in the Psalms, in Isaiah, and the minor prophets,

have made an undying appeal to the human race. But the Jewish religion

now takes its stand on the Talmud rather than on the Bible. "The modern

Jew," one of its latest Jewish translators observes, "is the product of

the Talmud."[805] The Talmud itself accords to the Bible only a

secondary place. Thus the Talmudic treatise Soferim says: "The Bible is

like water, the Mischna is like wine, and the Gemara is like spiced

wine."

Now, the Talmud is not a law of righteousness for all mankind, but a

meticulous code applying to the Jew alone. No human being outside the

Jewish race could possibly go to the Talmud for help or comfort. One

might look through its pages in vain for any such splendid rule of life

as that given by the prophet Micah: "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is

good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to

love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" In the Talmud, on the

contrary, as Drach points out, "the precepts of justice, of equity, of

charity towards one's neighbour, are not only not applicable with regard

to the Christian, but constitute a crime in anyone who would act

differently.... The Talmud expressly forbids one to save a non-Jew from

death, ... to restore lost goods, etc., to him, to have pity on him."[806]

How far the Talmud has contributed to the anti-social tendencies of

modern Judaism is shown by the fact that the Karaites living in the

south of Russia, the only body of Jews which takes its stand on the

Bible, and not on the Talmud,--of which it only accepts such portions as

are in accordance with Bible teaching--have always shown themselves good

subjects of the Russian Empire, and have therefore enjoyed equal rights

with the Russian people around them. Catherine the Great particularly

favoured the Karaites.

Thus even the Jews are not unanimous in supporting the Talmud; indeed,

as we have already seen, many Jews have protested against it as a

barrier between themselves and the rest of the human race.

But it is in the Cabala, still more than in the Talmud, that the Judaic

dream of world-domination recurs with the greatest persistence. The

Zohar indeed refers to this as a _fait accompli_, explaining that "the

Feast of Tabernacles is the period when Israel triumphs over the other

people of the world; that is why during this feast we seize the Loulab

[branches of trees tied together] and carry it as a trophy to show that

we have conquered all the other peoples known as 'populace' and that we

dominate them."[807] God is, however, asked to accord these other

peoples a certain share of blessings, "so that occupied with this share

they shall not participate nor mingle with the joy of Israel when he

calls down blessings from on high." The situation may thus be compared

with that of a king who, wishing to give a feast to his special friends,

finds his house invaded by importunate governors demanding admittance.

"What then does the king do? He orders the governors to be served with

beef and vegetables, which are common food, and then sits down to table

with his friends and has the most delicious dishes served."[808]

But this is nothing to the feasting that is to take place when the

Messianic era arrives. After the return of the Jews from all nations and

parts of the world to Palestine, the Messiah, we are told in the Talmud,

will entertain them at a gorgeous banquet, where they will be seated at

golden tables and regaled with wine from Adam's wine-cellar. The first

course is to consist of a roasted ox named Behemoth, so immense that

every day it eats up the grass upon a thousand hills; the second of a

monstrous fish Leviathan; the third of a female Leviathan boiled and

pickled; the fourth of a gigantic roast fowl known as Barjuchne, of

which the egg alone was so enormous that when it fell out of the nest it

crushed three hundred tall cedars and the white overflowed threescore

villages. This course is to be followed up by "the most splendid and

pompous Dessert" that can be procured, including fruit from the Tree of

Life and "the Pomegranates of Eden which are preserved for the Just."

At the end of the banquet "God will entertain the company at a ball"; He

Himself will sit in the midst of them, and everyone will point Him out

with his finger, saying: "Behold, this is our God: we have waited for

Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."[809]

The eighteenth-century commentator, whose summary of these passages we

quote, goes on to observe:

But let us see a little after what manner the Jews are to live in

their ancient Country under the Administration of the Messiah. In

the First Place, the strange Nations, which they shall suffer to

live, shall build them Houses and Cities, till them Ground, and

plant them Vineyards; and all this, without so much as looking for

any Reward of their Labour. These surviving Nations will likewise

voluntarily offer them all their Wealth and Furniture: And Princes

and Nobles shall attend them; and be ready at their Nod to pay them

all Manner of Obedience; while they themselves shall be surrounded

with Grandeur and Pleasure, appearing abroad in Apparel glittering

with Jewels like Priests of the Unction, consecrated to God....

In a word, the felicity of this Holy Nation, in the Times of the

Messiah, will be such, that the exalted Condition of it cannot

enter into the Conception of Man; much less can it be couched in

human Expression. This is what the Rabbis say of it. But the

intelligent reader will doubtless pronounce it the Paradise of

Fools.[810]

It is interesting to notice that this conception of the manner in which

the return to Palestine is to be carried out has descended to certain of

the modern colonists. Sir George Adam Smith, after watching Zionism at

work in 1918, wrote:

On visiting a recently established Jewish colony in the north-east

of the land, round which a high wall had been built by the

munificent patron, I found the colonists sitting in its shade

gambling away the morning, while groups of _fellahin_ at a poor

wage did the cultivation for them. I said that this was surely not

the intention of their patron in helping them to settle on land of

their own. A Jew replied to me in German: "Is it not written: The

sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and vinedressers?" I know

that such delinquencies have become the exception in Jewish

colonization of Palestine, but they are symptomatic of dangers

which will have to be guarded against.[811]

The fellahin may, however, consider themselves lucky to be allowed to

live at all, for, according to several passages in the Cabala, all the

_goyim_ are to be swept off the face of the earth when Israel comes into

its own. Thus the Zohar relates that the Messiah will declare war on the

whole world and all the kings of the world will end by declaring war on

the Messiah. But "the Holy One, blessed be He, will display His force

and exterminate them from the world."[812] Then:

Happy will be the lot of Israel, whom the Holy One, blessed be He,

has chosen from amongst the _goyim_ of whom the Scriptures say:

"Their work is but vanity, it is an illusion at which we must

laugh; they will all perish when God visits them in His wrath." At

the moment when the Holy One, blessed be He, will exterminate all

the _goyim_ of the world, Israel alone will subsist, even as it is

written: "The Lord alone will appear great on that day."[813]

The hope of world-domination is therefore not an idea attributed to the

Jews by "anti-Semites," but a very real and essential part of their

traditions. What then of their attitude to Christianity in the past? We

have already seen that hatred of the person and teaching of Christ did

not end at Golgotha, but was kept alive by the Rabbis and perpetuated in

the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu. The Cabala also contains passages

referring both to Christ and to Mohammed so unspeakably foul that it

would be impossible to quote them here.

But it will be urged: the Jews of Western Europe to-day know nothing of

the Cabala. This may be so, yet imperceptibly the Cabala has moulded the

mind of the Jew. As a modern Jewish writer has declared:

[Kabbalism] has contributed to the formation of modern Judaism,

for, without the influence of the Kabbala, Judaism to-day might

have been one-sided, lacking in warmth and imagination. Indeed, so

deeply has it penetrated into the body of the faith that many ideas

and prayers are now immovably rooted in the general body of

orthodox doctrine and practice. This element has not only become

incorporated, but it has fixed its hold on the affections of the

Jews and cannot be eradicated.[814]

It is thus not in the law of Moses thundered from Sinai, not in the dry

ritual of the Talmud, but in the stupendous imaginings of the Cabala,

that the real dreams and aspirations of Jewry have been transmitted

through the ages. Belief in the coming Messiah may burn low, but faith

in the final triumph of Israel over the other nations of the world still

glows in the hearts of a race nurtured on this hope from time

immemorial. Even the free-thinking Jew must unconsciously react to the

promptings of this vast and ancient ambition. As a modern French writer

has expressed it:

Assuredly sectarian Freethinkers swarm, who flatter themselves on

having borrowed nothing from the synagogue and on hating equally

Jehovah and Jesus. But the modern Jewish world is itself also

detached from any supernatural belief, and the Messianic tradition,

of which it preserves the cult, reduces itself to considering the

Jewish race as the veritable Messiah[815].

Some colour is lent to this statement by an article which recently

appeared in the Jewish press, in which it is explained that, according

to the teaching of the "Liberal Jewish Synagogue," the beautiful

passages in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah concerning "the Man of

Sorrows acquainted with grief," usually supposed by Christians to relate

to the promised Messiah, are interpreted to modern Jewish youth as

relating to Israel and signifying that Israel's "sufferings were caused

by the sins of other nations," who thus "escaped the suffering they

deserved." Consequently "Israel has suffered for the sake of the whole

world[816]." How this amazing pretension can be maintained in view of

the perpetual denunciations of the Israelites throughout the whole of

the Old Testament is difficult to imagine. On their entry into Canaan

they were distinctly told by Moses that the Lord their God had not given

them "this good land" on account of their righteousness or the

uprightness of their hearts[817]; long afterwards Daniel declared that

all Israel had transgressed the law of God[818]; Nehemiah showed that on

account of their rebellion and disobedience they had been delivered into

the hands of their enemies[819]. Isaiah spoke of the iniquities of Judah

in burning words:

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of

evildoers, children that are corruptors!... Wash your, make you

clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes;

cease to do evil; learn to do well, etc.[820]

Thus even the Word of God itself is powerless to mitigate the immense

megalomania of the Jewish race. It is doubtful indeed whether by the

majority of Jews the Bible is now regarded as divinely inspired. "The

ten commandments which _we_ gave to mankind[821]" is a phrase typical of

the manner in which Israel now arrogates to itself the sole authorship

of the Scriptures. The deification of humanity by the Freemasons of the

Grand Orient finds its counterpart in the deification of Israel by the

modern Jew.

It is here that we must surely see the cause of much of the suffering

the Jews have endured in the past. No one of course would justify the

cruelty with which they have frequently been treated; nevertheless to

maintain there was no provocation on the part of the Jews would be

absurd. A race that has always considered itself entitled to occupy a

privileged position amongst the nations of the world must inevitably

meet with resentment, and in a primitive age or population resentment is

apt to find a vent in violence shocking to the civilized mind. Moreover,

to represent the Jews as a gentle long-suffering people, always the

victims but never the perpetrators of violence, is absolutely contrary

to historic fact. In the dark ages of the past the Jews showed

themselves perfectly capable of cruelties not only towards other races

but towards each other. One of the first pogroms recorded in the

Christian era was carried out by the Jews themselves. The Jewish

historian Josephus describes the reign of "lawlessness and barbarity"

that was inaugurated about the middle of the first century A.D. by the

band of assassins known as the Sicarii, who infested the country round

Jerusalem and, by means of little daggers that they wore concealed

beneath their garments, "slew men in the daytime and in the midst of the

city, especially at the festivals when they mixed with the multitude."

During one night raid on the small town of Engaddi they massacred more

than seven hundred women and children.[822] And Josephus goes on to say:

Somehow, indeed, that was a time most fertile in all manner of

wicked practices among the Jews, insomuch that no kind of villainy

was then left undone; nor could anyone so much as devise any bad

thing that was new if he wished. So deeply were they all infected,

both privately and publicly, and vied with one another who should

run the greatest lengths in impiety towards God, and in unjust

actions towards their neighbours, men in power oppressing the

multitude, and the multitude earnestly endeavouring to destroy men

in power.[823]

It is futile then to maintain as do the Jews and their friends--for the

pro-Jew is frequently _plus royaliste que le roi_--that all the faults

of the modern Jew are to be attributed to bitterness engendered by

persecution. Judaism has always contained an element of cruelty[824]

which finds expression in the Talmud. It is from the Talmud, not from

the Mosaic law, that the inhuman methods of Jewish slaughtering are

derived.[825] The Talmud likewise gives the most horrible directions for

carrying out capital punishment, particularly with regard to women, by

the methods of stoning, burning, choking, or slaying with the sword. The

victim condemned to be burnt is to have a scarf wound round his neck,

the two ends pulled tightly by the executioners whilst his mouth is

forced open with pincers and a lighted string thrust into it "so that it

flows down through his inwards and shrinks his entrails."[826]

It will be said that all this belongs to the past. True, the practice

here described may be considered obsolete, but the spirit of cruelty and

intolerance that dictated it is still alive. One has only to study the

modern Jewish press to realize the persecution to which Jews are

subjected from members of their own race should they infringe one

fraction of the Jewish code.

If, then, "the modern Jew is the product of the Talmud," it is here that

we must see the principal obstacle to Jewish progress. It is said that

Isaac Disraeli, the father of Lord Beaconsfield, gave as his reason for

withdrawing from the Synagogue that Rabbinical Judaism with its

unyielding laws and fettering customs "cuts off the Jews from the great

family of mankind."[827] Such a system is indeed absolutely

incompatible not only with Christian teaching but with the secular ideas

of Western civilization. The attitude it adopts towards women would be

in itself sufficient to justify this assertion. The Jewish daily prayer,

"Blessed be Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, that Thou has

not made me a woman!"[828] is a ludicrous anachronism in the present

age. According to the Talmud a service can take place in the Synagogue

only if ten persons are present, which number ensures the presence of

God in the assembly. Drach explains however that these persons must all

be men. "If then there were nine men and a million women there could be

no assembly, for the reason that women are nothing. But there arrives

[on the scene] only one small boy of thirteen years and a day, at once

there can be a holy assembly and, according to our Doctors, it is

permitted to God to be present[829]."

When therefore we say that we must respect the Jewish religion we

cannot, if we know anything about it, mean that we respect that portion

of it which is founded on the Rabbinical traditions of the Talmud and

the Cabala, but only that ethical law set forth in the Old Testament, to

which right-living Jews have faithfully adhered and which is largely in

accord with Christian teaching.

Let us not forget that Rabbinical Judaism is the declared and implacable

enemy of Christianity. Hatred of Christianity and of the person of

Christ is not a matter of remote history, nor can it be regarded as the

result of persecution; it forms an integral part of Rabbinical tradition

which originated before any persecution of the Jews by Christians had

taken place, and has continued in our country long after all such

persecution has ended.

It is here that we cannot fail to detect the origin of much of that

virulent anti-Christian teaching that is being disseminated in our midst

to-day. This teaching will be observed to follow three lines, of which

the course has been traced throughout this book. These consist in

desecrating the Christian tradition by declaring that Christ was either

(_a_) a myth, (_b_) a purely human teacher endowed with superior virtue

and knowledge of natural laws, (_c_) a crazy fanatic[830] or a

malefactor. The first two theories are, as we have seen, those held by

secret societies; the last is essentially Jewish. It is true that there

is now a movement amongst the more enlightened Jews to recognize Jesus

as a great teacher; so far, unfortunately, this is met by bitter

hostility from the rest, and in the current Jewish press contemptuous

and even blasphemous references to Christ and the Christian faith

frequently occur. The fact that here in England, for nearly three

hundred years, the Jews have been allowed to dwell in peace and carry

out their religious rites unmolested, that they have been admitted to

society, to masonic lodges, and to all offices of State and have met

with increasing tolerance and favour, has done nothing to moderate that

hatred of Christianity inculcated throughout nineteen centuries of

Rabbinical teaching. Thus, for example, under the heading of "What

Christianity has Meant," we read in a modern Jewish periodical:

We are thinking of what Christianity as an institution has meant to

us Jews. The twenty centuries of its existence have been coeval

with the long-drawn tragedy of the Jew's dispersal among the

nations.... What kindliness and consideration we have received at

the hands of Christianity has for the most part been tendered with

the lure of the baptismal font. To the extent to which

Christianity's embodiment, the Church, has been puissant has the

Jewish tragedy deepened. Only when and where the Church has been

weak has life been tolerable for the Jew.... Hatred of the Jew,

anti-Jewish outbursts and anti-Semitic campaigns, are traceable to

nothing so surely as to antipathy to the Jew which has been inbred

by Christianity.... There is thus precious little about which the

Jew has for rejoicing and gladness in the institution of

Christianity, etc.[831]

The most cursory study of history would reveal the falseness of this

contention. Antipathy to the Jew began long before the Christian era; in

Egypt, Persia, and Rome he became, whether just or not, the object of

suspicion to rulers. The reason given by Pharaoh for oppressing the

Israelites was that if they were allowed to grow too powerful they might

join themselves to the enemy in time of war[832]; the Emperors of Rome

regarded them as a turbulent element; Mohammed declared: "Their aim will

be to abet disorder on the earth, but God loveth not the abettors of

disorder."[833] Meanwhile, the antipathy shown by the "people" in every

country was mainly based on economic grounds. It was not simply the

possession of wealth--which according to the Socialist creed should

justify any amount of hatred--but the manner in which it was acquired

and the arrogance with which it was displayed that roused popular

feeling against the Jews. An Arab Fakih, Abu Ishak of Elvira, thus

warned his master of the growing power of the Jews in Spain in the

middle of the eleventh century A.D.:

The Jews, contemptible outcasts, have become great lords, and their

pride and arrogance know no bounds.... Take not such men for thy

ministers, but abandon them to curses, for the whole earth crieth

out against them--ere long it will quake and we shall all perish.

Turn thine eyes to other lands and behold how the Jews are treated

as dogs, and kept apart....

I came to Granada, and there I beheld the Jews reigning. They had

parcelled out the provinces and the capital between them:

everywhere one of these accursed ruled. They collected the taxes,

they made good cheer, they were sumptuously clad, while your

garments, O Moslems, were old and worn-out. All the secrets of

state were known to them; yet is it folly to put trust in traitors!

While believers ate the bread of poverty, they dined delicately in

the palace.... How can we thrive if we live in the shade and the

Jews dazzle us with the glory of their pride?[834]

In mediæval France the chief cause for complaint against the Jews is

that of not working with their hands but of enriching themselves by

"excessive usury." In the fifteenth century the Strasbourg preacher

Geyler asks: "Are the Jews above the Christians? Why will they not work

with their hands?... practising usury is not working. It is exploiting

others whilst remaining idle."[835] Such quotations as these might be

multiplied _ad infinitum_.

To attribute the persecution of the Jews to Christianity is therefore

ludicrous. That in a less enlightened age the Church should have adopted

rigorous measures--although no more rigorous than their own laws

demanded--against those Jews who practised magic and witchcraft must

appear deplorable to the modern mind, but so must many other phases of

mediæval life. Why then hark back perpetually to the past? If the Jews

were persecuted in a less enlightened age, so were many other sections

of the community. Catholics were persecuted, Protestants were

persecuted, men were placed in the stocks for minor offences, scolding

women were ducked in the village pond. But if all these cruelties of the

dark ages are to be remembered and perpetuated on the plan of a tribal

blood-feud, what peace can there be for the world? The disastrous

results of this tendency were seen in the Irish Intellectuals, nourished

from infancy on the story of Ireland's wrongs, who, instead of sanely

facing present problems, unhinged their minds by brooding on historic

grievances, thereby sealing their own doom and plunging their country

into ruin. So, too, the enraged Feminists, harking back to injustices

that had long ceased to exist, embittered their lives by proclaiming

themselves the eternal enemies of Man. Emerson, the prophet of sanity,

declared: "The only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour."

It is for lack of this ballast that the Jews have become victims of a

fanaticism in which Christians from a mistaken idea of kindness have

frequently encouraged them. In reality nothing is more cruel than to

encourage in the minds of a nervous race the idea of persecution; true

kindness to the Jews would consist in urging them to throw off memories

of past martyrdom and to enter healthfully into the enjoyment of their

present blessings, which are the direct outcome of Christian

civilization.

Let us consider what Christianity has in reality done for the Jews. If

so much is to be said about the persecutions they have endured, what of

the extraordinary indulgence shown them as the result of Christian

respect for the Bible? For hundreds of years Christian school children

have been brought up on Old Testament history and Christian

congregations have listened sympathetically to the story of Israel's

sufferings and hopes of final restoration. All the support lent to

Zionism arose from this tradition. Christianity, then, so reviled by the

Jews, has been their greatest protection. If Christianity goes, the

whole theory that the Jews were once the Chosen People goes with it as

far as Gentiles are concerned, and the Jewish race, divested of its halo

of divine favour, will have to be judged on its own merits.

In our own country, the Chosen People theory has in fact been carried to

the point of superstition--a superstition immensely advantageous to the

Jews--which consists in interpreting the passage of Scripture containing

the promise made to Abraham, "I will bless them that bless thee, and

curse them that curseth thee," as meaning that favour shown to the

Jews--who form merely a fraction of the seed of Abraham--brings with it

peculiar blessings. In reality it would be easier to show by history

that countries and rulers who have protected the Jews have frequently

met with disaster. France banished the Jews in 1394 and again in 1615,

and did not readmit them in large numbers till 1715-19, so that they

were absent throughout the most glorious period in French history--the

_Grand Siècle_ of Louis XIV--whilst their return coincided with the

Regency, from which moment the monarchy of France may be said to have

declined. England likewise banished the Jews in 1290, and it was during

the three and a half centuries they remained in exile that she was known

as "Merrie England." The fact that their return in force in 1664 was

followed the next year by the Great Plague and the year after by the

Great Fire of London would not appear to indicate that the Jews

necessarily bring good fortune to the land that protects them. The truth

is, of course, that kindness to any portion of the human race brings its

own reward in the form of moral improvement in the individual or nation

that performs it, but no more benefit attaches to philanthropy when

exercised towards the Jew than towards the Chinaman.

I would urge, then, that the Jewish problem should be approached neither

in the spirit of superstitious pro-Semitism nor in the bitter spirit of

"anti-Semitism," but with a sanity worthy of an enlightened age. To

quote again the words of Bernard Lazare, let us enquire what part "the

Jew, considering his spirit, his character, the nature of his philosophy

and his religion," may now be taking "in revolutionary processes and

movements." Is there, then, any evidence that there exists amongst Jewry

to-day an organized conspiracy having for its objects world-domination

and the destruction of Christianity such as the famous _Protocols of the

Elders of Zion_ suggest?[836]

The theory of a Jewish world-conspiracy does not, of course, rest on the

evidence of Protocols. To judge by the pæans of joy that rang through

the press after the publication of the _Times_ articles, one would

imagine that with the so-called "refutation" of this one document the

whole case against the Jews had collapsed and that the "anti-Semites"

must be for ever silenced. But the arguments of the Jews and their

friends go further than this; not only do they claim that there is no

Jewish conspiracy, but no world-plot of any kind. This contention they

had indeed maintained from the beginning, and Mr. Lucien Wolf, in his

earliest "refutation" of the Protocols, derided the exponents of the

secret-society danger as vehemently as he derided the perfidious author

of the Jewish Peril. It will in fact always be noticed that references

to the Illuminati meet with almost as much resentment from the Jewish

press as allusions of a directly "anti-Semitic" character. Barruel, who

refused to incriminate the Jews, and de Malet, who never referred to

them at all, are denounced by Mr. Lucien Wolf no less as scaremongers

than Gougenot des Mousseaux or Chabauty. To suggest that any Hidden Hand

has ever been at work in the world is to raise immediately a storm of

Jewish protest.

Yet intelligent Jews must be well aware that, whether secret societies

have contributed as much to past revolutions as these writers believed,

their existence and their very real influence is not a matter of surmise

but of historical fact. No one ever warned the British public more

distinctly of the danger they presented or of the role the Jews were

playing in them than Disraeli, whose famous words have been quoted so

frequently in this connexion: "The world is governed by very different

personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the

scenes." What is this but a clear recognition of the Hidden Hand? Why,

then, is Disraeli not included with Barruel, Robison, de Malet, and Des

Mousseaux in Mr. Wolf's list of scaremongers? Is it because Disraeli

pointed the moral that, Jews being so dangerous, they should be

employed?

* * * * *

If, then, leading Jews persist in villifying everyone who reiterates the

warnings uttered by so eminent a member of their race, it is inevitable

that they should come to be suspected of having some interest in

suppressing further revelations.

Setting all such evidence as the Protocols completely aside, let us

examine the reasons for believing in the exisence of a Jewish

world-conspiracy. Now, we know for certain that the five powers before

referred to--Grand Orient Masonry, Theosophy, Pan-Germanism,

International Finance, and Social Revolution--have a very real existence

and exercise a very definite influence on the affairs of the world. Here

we are not dealing with hypothesis but with facts based on documentary

evidence. We know in each case the names of many of the leaders, their

methods of organization, their centres of direction, and the aims they

are pursuing. But with regard to the Jewish power we cannot proceed with

the same certainty. We cannot cite the names of the leaders or the

centres of direction, we cannot produce documentary evidence as to their

methods of organization or their final aims. The very existence of such

a power, in the sense of a united and organized body of Jews working for

the destruction of Christianity and the existing social system, is still

a matter of speculation and not of known fact. Investigations into the

activities of such groups as the B'nai B'rith, Poale Zion, the Jewish

Bund, and the Weltverband (or Jewish International Union of Socialists),

might however throw much light on this question. The custom of printing

their pidgin German, known as Yiddish, in Hebrew characters provides the

Jews with a more or less secret code by means of which their ideas and

aspirations are concealed from the great mass of the Gentiles.

Whether then the Jewish power is unified or not, Jews are to be found

co-operating with, if not directing, all the five powers of which the

existence is known. Thus Jews have long played a leading part in Grand

Orient Masonry[837] and predominate in the upper degrees. As we have

already seen, Freemasonry is always said to be subversive in Roman

Catholic countries. It will also be noticed that in countries where

Freemasonry is subversive, Jews are usually less conspicuous in the

revolutionary movement than in countries where Freemasonry is either

non-existent or constitutional. Thus in France the masonic peril is much

more generally recognized than the Jewish peril; in Italy the Freemasons

have been banned by Mussolini, but the Jews are not regarded by him as a

particular danger; in Portugal it was the Freemasons rather than the

Jews who made the recent revolutions. In Hungary, however, the

revolutionaries were principally both Jews and Freemasons. On the other

hand, in England, Germany, and America, where Freemasonry is not

subversive, the Jewish question is more apparent. All this would suggest

that either Freemasonry is the cover under which the Jews, like the

Illuminati, prefer to work, so that where the cover is not available

they are obliged to come out more into the open, or that Grand Orient

Masonry is the directing power which employs Jews as agents in those

countries where it cannot work on its own account.

The preponderance of Jews in the ranks of "Aurora" has already been

indicated, as also the influence of the Jewish Cabala in the teaching of

Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. But it is important that the latter point

should be further emphasized in connexion with the craze for occultism

that is spreading through society. Ragon has said: "The Cabala is the

key of all occult sciences"; therefore in this field of experiment the

Gentile must always be at a disadvantage with the Jew. Indeed Mr. Waite,

who certainly cannot be suspected of "anti-Semitism," goes so far as to

suggest that the gift of ceremonial magic was "the answer of Jewry to

Christendom as a counter-blast" to "centuries of persecution."[838] It

would be well if every Gentile who has been tempted to dabble in

occultism were to realize this source of inspiration.

The rôle of Jews in social revolution and particularly in Bolshevism

hardly needs comment. Yet since the Jewish press has chosen to deny this

last and very obvious fact and still persists in setting down to

prejudice or "anti-Semitism" a mere statement of facts, it may be well

to quote here a few official statements on the subject which admit of no

denial.

First of all, it must be remembered that the founder and patron saint of

Bolshevism was the Jew Karl Marx, and that it was the Anarchist Bakunin,

not the Duke of Northumberland, who described him and his following in

the Internationale as "the German-Jew Company" and the "red

bureaucracy." It was therefore not surprising that when the "red

bureaucracy," avowedly founded on the doctrines of Marx, came to be set

up in Russia, it should have been largely led by Jews. This is what the

official British White Paper has to say on the matter:

_Extract from Report from the Netherlands Minister at Petrograd on the

6th of September_, 1918, _forwarded by Sir M. Findlay, at Christiania,

to Mr. Balfour_:

I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the

greatest issue now before the world, not even excluding the war

which is still raging, and unless, as above stated, Bolshevism is

nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form or

another over Europe and the whole world, as it is organized and

worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object is to

destroy for their own ends the existing order of things.*[839]

Mr. Alston to Lord Curzon, quoting statement from British Consul at

Ekaterinburg, January 23, 1919:

The Bolsheviks can no longer be described as a political party

holding extreme communistic views. They form a relatively small

privileged class which is able to terrorize the rest of the

population because it has a monopoly both of arms and of food

supplies. This class consists chiefly of workmen and soldiers, and

includes a large non-Russian element, such as Letts and Esthonians

and Jews; the latter are specially numerous in higher posts.

Lord Kilmarnock to Lord Curzon, quoting information given by Frenchman

from Petrograd, February 3, 1919:

The Bolsheviks comprised chiefly Jews and Germans, who were

exceedingly active and enterprising. The Russians were largely

anti-Bolshevik, but were for the most part dreamers, incapable of

any sustained action, who now, more than ever before, were unable

to throw off the yoke of their oppressors.*[839]

Mr. Alston to Lord Curzon, forwarding Report from Consul at Ekaterinburg

of February 6, 1919:

From examination of several labourer and peasant witnesses, I have

evidence to the effect that very smallest percentage of this

district were pro-Bolshevik, majority of labourers sympathizing

with summoning of Constituent Assembly. Witnesses further stated

that Bolshevik leaders did not represent Russian working classes,

most of them being Jews.

The Rev. B.S. Lombard to Lord Curzon, March 23, 1919:

I have been for ten years in Russia, and have been in Petrograd

through the whole of the revolution.... [I] had ample opportunity

of studying Bolshevik methods. It originated in German propaganda,

and was, and is being, carried out by international Jews. The

Germans initiated disturbances in order to reduce Russia to chaos.

They printed masses of paper money to finance their schemes, the

notes, of which I possess specimens, can be easily recognized by a

special mark.

As one of the results, the writer adds:

All business became paralysed, shops were closed, Jews became

possessors of most of the business houses, and horrible scenes of

starvation became common in the country districts.

In Hungary (where, as has been said, Socialism had been propagated by

Jews in the masonic lodges[840]) the outbreak of Bolshevism was

conducted under the auspices of the same race. To quote again an

official document on this question, the Report on Revolutionary

Activities issued by a Committee of the New York Legislature, headed by

Senator Lusk[841]:

There was no organized opposition to Bela Kun. Like Lenin, he

surrounded himself with commissars, having absolute authority. Of

the thirty-two principal commissars, twenty-five were Jews, which

was about the same proportion as in Russia. The most prominent of

these formed a directorate of five: Bela Kun, Bela Varga, Joseph

Pogany, Sigmund Kunfi, and one other. Other leaders were Alpari

and Samuely, who had charge of the Red Terror, and carried out the

torturing and executing of the bourgeoisie, especially the groups

held as hostages, the so-called counter-revolutionists and

peasants.[842]

The same Report publishes a list of seventy-six men prosecuted by the

Committee on the charge of criminal anarchy in America at the beginning

of 1920, of which the overwhelming majority are seen by their names to

be Jewish.[843]

These names speak for themselves and are published without comment on

the obvious nationality of the majority of the persons concerned. So far

indeed does the Lusk Committee appear to have been removed from

"anti-Semitism," that nowhere in its vast Report, running to 2008 pages,

is attention drawn to the preponderance of Jews concerned in the

revolutionary movement, except in the one passage on Hungary quoted

above. The Lusk Report must therefore be regarded as an absolutely

impartial statement of facts.

In view of these official data, how is it possible for the Jewish press

to pretend that a connexion between Jews and Bolshevism is a malicious

invention of the "anti-Semites"? That all Jews are not Bolsheviks and

that all Bolsheviks are not Jews is of course obvious; but that Jews are

playing a preponderating part in Bolshevism it is absurd to deny.

An attempt has been made to show that Jews have suffered as much as the

rest of the population in Russia under Bolshevism and that the Jewish

religion has met with the same hostility as the Christian faith.

Doubtless many Jews have suffered in Russia, since human violence, once

allowed to go unchecked, is liable to express itself in various

unexpected ways, and the resentment of the Russian "proletariat" towards

the Jews was bound to break out under Lenin as under the Tzar. Again, a

campaign against Christianity inevitably led in Russia, as in France, to

a campaign against all forms of religion, and the Jewish Bolsheviks,

being atheists themselves, were doubtless as ready as Lambert of the

French Revolution to turn against the believers in the faith they had

abandoned.

Yet that the Jewish religion suffered to the same extent as

Christianity, or that any organized campaign was conducted against it by

the Government, is effectually disproved by the lamentations of

professing Jews on the death of Lenin.[844] Indeed, as is generally

recognized, the fall of the Soviet Government must mean the downfall of

the Jews from the position of privilege they now occupy.

That in our own country Jews are playing a part in the background of

Bolshevism is again evident. The _Patriot_ recently published a series

of articles giving inside information on the organization of the

revolutionary movement in Great Britain, where it was stated the whole

plot was directed by a group of twelve men. This group in turn was

controlled by three of its members. These three men, as the key

revealed, were all Jews, so also was "the fiend in human form whose

psychological perversion produced this plot,"[845] and who was one of a

group in America consisting of four Jews and a Jewess which controlled

an outer revolutionary group of eighteen.[846] The Irish Republican

Brotherhood also maintained close relations with a ring of revolutionary

Jews in America. Incidentally, it is curious to notice that the language

employed in some of the correspondence that has passed between members

of an inner group bears a strong resemblance to that of Weishaupt and

his fellow-Illuminati.

Jewish influence in the less extreme forms of Socialism in this country

is no less apparent. If the Labour Party is solidly pro-German, it is

also solidly pro-Jewish. Whilst loudly proclaiming pacifism and pressing

for the reduction of armaments, it has never uttered a word of protest

against the employment of British troops to defend Jewish interests

against the Arabs in Palestine. The blessed word Mesopotamia may be

freely mentioned in connexion with the withdrawal of troops from

military adventures, but never the word Palestine. Again, the free

admission of aliens and particularly of Jews into this country has

always been one of the principal planks in the Labour platform. Even the

Jewish capitalist meets with indulgence at the hands of our Socialist

Intellectuals, who whilst inveighing against British owners of property,

never include Jewish millionaires in their diatribes.

This may perhaps throw some light on the question frequently propounded:

How can one believe that Jews advocate Socialism since they stand to

lose everything by it? The fact remains that many Jews do advocate it.

After the recent accession of the Labour Party to office the _Jewish

World_ observed:

The result of the General Election in England is regarded as very

gratifying by the Hebrew and Yiddish press. The Hebrew journals in

Palestine, as well as the Hebrew and Yiddish organs in Europe and

America, express satisfaction at the return to Parliament of men

who have repeatedly assured the public of their intention to adhere

to the Balfour declaration.[847]

A further reason is advanced by the _Jewish Courier_ for rejoicing at

the downfall of the Conservative Government, namely, that "the election

results have wiped out anti-Semitic remnants in England," for "the

Conservative Government does include several members who are far from

favourably disposed towards Jews."[848] The indulgence shown to the Jews

and the honours piled on them by Conservative statesmen therefore

availed nothing to the Conservative cause, and the welfare of the whole

country was subordinated to the interests of the Jews alone.

It is difficult at first to understand how the programme of the "Labour"

Party, even when combined with ardent pro-Semitism, could however be in

accord with the interests of the Jews, who have never displayed any

hostility towards the Capitalist system which Socialism sets out to

destroy. Indeed, we find the same Jewish paper which rejoiced at the

advent of the present Government to office offering birthday

congratulations to the richest Jew in this country, whose wealth, it

goes on to observe with some complacency, "amounts to no less than

£12,000,000 sterling, and is constantly increasing, apart from the

interest that it brings, by the huge profits of the concerns in which he

is interested."[849]

It would seem, then, that in the eyes of Jewry all capitalists are not

to be regarded as monsters who should be mercilessly expropriated.

But in considering the war on Capitalism it is essential to bear in mind

that capitalists are of two kinds: national industrial

capitalists--largely Gentiles and usually men of brains and energy who

have built up flourishing businesses--and international loan-mongering

capitalists, principally, though not exclusively, Jews, who live by

speculation. Whilst to the former, social unrest may prove fatal, to the

latter any disturbances may provide opportunities for profit. As M.

Georges Batault has well expressed it:

From the strictly financial point of view, the most disastrous

events of history, wars or revolutions, never represent

catastrophes; the manipulators of money and the wary business men

can make profit out of everything, provided they know beforehand

and are well-informed.... It is certain that the Jews dispersed

over all the surface of the earth ... are particularly favourably

situated in this respect.[850]

It is significant to notice that the capitalists most attacked by the

Socialists and Pacifists are not those who make profit out of wars and

revolutions, but those who contribute to the prosperity of the country

and provide work for millions of people. Here, then, the Jews and the

Socialists seem to find a point of agreement. It is evident, at any

rate, that many rich Jews consider that they have nothing to fear from

the threatened Capital Levy and other features of expropriation. Are we

not irresistibly reminded of the passage in the Protocols--where

incidentally the Capital Levy is specifically mentioned--"Ours they will

not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to us and we shall

take measures to protect our own"?

But let us consider further how the Socialist plan for "the

nationalization of all the means of production, distribution, and

exchange" might be reconciled even with the interests of Jewish

Industrial Capitalists. The more we examine this magic formula which is

to transform the world into a Paradise for the workers, the more we

shall see that it approximates to the system of Super Capitalism, of

which, as Werner Sombart has shown, the Jews were the principal

inaugurators. Socialists are fond of explaining that "Capitalism" began

with the introduction of steam; in reality, of course, Capitalism, in

the sense of wealth accumulated in private hands, has always existed

since the first savage made his store of winter food. What Socialists

really mean by Capitalism is the modern system of Industrialism, which

tends to concentrate all the means of production and distribution in the

hands of individuals or groups, who, if they happen to be unscrupulous,

are able by systematic sweating of the worker and bleeding of the

consumer to conduct operations on so large a scale as to crush all

competition by the home worker or the small tradesman.

Obviously, however, with the growing demand of the workers for better

conditions of life and the increasing support lent to them by

enlightened public opinion this possibility cannot continue

indefinitely, and unless a violent convulsion takes place the time will

come when great industrial magnates will have to content themselves with

moderate profits on their outlay. Thus although at first sight it might

appear that the Super-Capitalist must desire to maintain the existing

order of things, if he is far-seeing he must realize that profiteering

under present conditions must soon cease.

It is therefore conceivable that even the Jewish Industrial Capitalist

may see in the nationalization of industry a preferable alternative to

the limitation of profits under private enterprise. The same financial

acumen and skill in management which has enabled him to control rings

and trusts in the past would ensure him a place at the head of

nationalized industries, which in effect would be nothing but gigantic

trusts nominally under State control but really, like all State

enterprises, in the hands of a few men. Under Socialism the position of

these trusts would be rendered impregnable. For whilst under the present

system any individual or group may set out to break a trust, no such

competition would be possible in a State where private enterprise had

been made illegal. The men in control of nationalized industries would

therefore be able to exercise absolute authority both over the worker

and the consumer. Further, if the worker can be persuaded to accept the

ultimate scheme of Communism, which is compulsory labour in return for

no monetary remuneration, but merely a daily ration of food and the

other necessaries of life whenever State officials decide that he

requires them, the directors of Labour, like the overseers in a slave

plantation, will be able, as in Russia, to impose any conditions they

please.

The Jews may well hope to occupy these posts, not only because of their

aptitude for organization on so large a scale, but because their

international relations would facilitate the sale or barter of goods

between countries. The cohesion which exists amongst them would speedily

lead to the monopolization of all the higher posts by members of their

race.

It is idle to dismiss such a possibility as a chimera. This is what

happened in Russia and is happening in Germany to-day. Here, then, we

may find perhaps the inner meaning of a remark attributed to a

prominent member of the Labour Party, that under Socialism a certain

well-known Jewish capitalist might well be worth £10,000 a year. Lenin

expressed much the same idea when he said that the Russian Soviet

Republic might require a thousand first-class specialists "to direct the

work of the people," and that "these greatest 'stars' must be paid

25,000 roubles each," or even four times that sum, supposing it were

necessary to employ foreign specialists for the purpose.[851]

But the Jewish capitalists doubtless see further that in England, as in

Russia, this condition of things would be merely a temporary phase, and

that the institution of Socialism by dispossessing the present Gentile

owners of wealth and property would pave the way for a Jewish and German

plutocracy. In Russia wealth has not been altogether destroyed; it has

simply changed hands, and a class of new rich has sprung up which meets

with no hostility from the professed advocates of equality. Those Jews

who see in the Christian Intelligentsia the main obstacle to their dream

of world-power, therefore naturally find in the promoters of

class-warfare their most valuable allies. For the Christian

Intelligentsia is the sole bare to the enslavement of the proletariat;

most of the movements to redress the wrongs of the workers, from Lord

Shaftesbury's onwards, have arisen not amongst the workers themselves,

but amongst the upper or middle classes[852]; once these were swept away

an iron bureaucracy would have the workers at their mercy. I do not say

this is the plan, but I do say that such a hypothesis provides a reason

for the otherwise unaccountable indulgence displayed by Socialists

everywhere towards wealthy Jews and at the same time for the huge funds

the Socialists appear to have at their disposal.

If big financiers are not at their back, I repeat: where does all the

money come from? It seems unlikely that it can be derived from the

British owners of wealth and property whom the Socialists are openly out

to dispossess; the only body of financiers which can therefore be

suspected of contributing towards this end is the body known as

"International Finance," which is mainly, though not exclusively,

Jewish.

The influence of the Jews in all the five great powers at work in the

world--Grand Orient Masonry, Theosophy, Pan-Germanism, International

Finance, and Social Revolution--is not a matter of surmise but of fact.

Let us now examine what part they are playing in the minor subversive

movements enumerated in an earlier chapter.

Freud, the inventor of the most dangerous form of Psycho-Analysis, is a

Jew. In this connexion the eminent American neuro-psychiatrist before

quoted writes:

Not only the Freud theory of psycho-analysis but a considerable

quantity of pseudo-scientific propaganda of that type has for years

been emanating from a group of German Jews who live and have their

headquarters in Vienna. From its inception, psycho-analysis has

been in Jewish hands. There are not half a dozen physicians in the

whole world, recognized as authorities in this field, whose names

are identified with this movement who are not Jews. This may have

been an accident, but nevertheless it is a fact.[853]

I have already referred in an earlier chapter to the question of

degenerate art defined in a circular to the _New York Herald_ as "the

deification of ugliness."[854] The originators of this cult are here

described as a group of Satan worshippers in Paris, and the dealers by

whom the movement was propagated as "Germans," but we note amongst the

lenders to the exhibition at which these "works of art" were displayed

several Jewish names. Of one well-known Jewish artist a critic has

written:

Were these works the product of a man who had imperfect control

over his material, who, in stumbling towards the light, dwelt

inevitably upon much darkness, who sought for beauty and found

ugliness, who looked for purity and found filth--even then one

might be silent and hope for better things to come. But here,

apparently, unless my whole reading is ludicrously wrong, he

delights in deformity and glories in degradation.... He brings to

the world of art a new gospel, a black gospel, a gospel in which

everything is to be inverted and distorted. Whatsoever things are

hideous, whatsoever things are of evil report, whatsoever things

are sordid: if there be any unhealthiness or any degradation: think

on these things.

What better résumé could be given of that tendency to perversion

denounced by the prophet Isaiah in the words: "Woe unto them that call

evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for

darkness"? An organ of the Jewish press, with that sense of solidarity

which always rallies Jews to the defence of their compatriots however

culpable, immediately detects in the critic's expression of opinion the

insidious work of "anti-Semitism." A more enlightened Jew, Mr. Frank L.

Emanuel, however, having come to the support of the Gentile critic, the

Jewish journal is obliged to admit the justice of his contention that

"it is lamentable to think of the undue proportion of young Jews" who

"have joined the Revolutionary or sham 'Modern Art' movement in this

country."

The same influence will be noticed in the cinema world, where, as has

already been pointed out, history is systematically falsified in the

interests of class hatred, and everything that can tend, whilst keeping

within the present law, to undermine patriotism or morality is pressed

upon the public. And the cinema trade is almost entirely in the hands of

the Jews.

In the drug traffic Jews are playing a prominent part both here and in

America. An eminent New York doctor writes to me as follows:

Members of the Federal narcotic squad attached to the Treasury

Department and having the function of enforcing the provisions of

the Harrison Act have long been convinced that there is a direct

relationship between Radicalism and narcotism. From seven to ten

years ago this was thought to be a manifestation of pan-German

propaganda. Activity was and still is greater on the part of the

distributors and pedlars than is to be accounted for by the large

profits, according to their story. Curiously enough, the traffic

largely stopped for several weeks following the signing of the

Armistice.

In one instance, seven regularly licensed physicians of the "East

Side," all Jews, were arrested in succession during the summer of

1920 for illegitimate use of narcotic prescriptions, and every

office raided had large quantities of Radical literature. Such

associations are not uncommon.

As to the distribution, a recent investigation by _Hearst's

Magazine_ definitely revealed the fact that the illegitimate

distributors were almost invariably of the Jewish race, and that

the pedlars were exclusively Jewish and Italian.

Enough, then, has been said to show that, whether as agents or as

principals, Jews are playing a part in all subversive movements. A

Christian Jew, no renegade to his race but deeply concerned for their

future development, said recently to the present writer: "The growing

materialism amongst Jews has made them the most destructive force in the

world. The only hope for them is to accept Christianity. At present

they are the greatest danger that Christian civilization has to face."

The recognition of all these facts does not of course imply the belief

that all Jews are destructive. Undoubtedly there are good and loyal

Jews--particularly in France, where the Sephardim predominate--who have

absolutely identified themselves with the country of their adoption, and

are sincerely opposed to Bolshevism. But these isolated individuals

carry little weight compared to the massed forces of subversive Jewry.

The same thing was observed in America, where a report privately

communicated to the present writer in 1923 stated:

It appears not without significance that Radical literature is

never anti-Semitic, but, on the contrary, manifestoes issued by the

Executive Committee of the Communist Party are often emphatically

pro-Jewish. So far as I know, there is not one exclusively Jewish

organization in the United States which is openly and consistently

fighting Radicalism. Conservative Judaism loyal to the United

States and its institutions as conceived by its founders is

unorganized and inarticulate.

When, therefore, the Jewish press protests at the injustice of

associating Jews with Bolshevism it may be legitimately answered: What

has Jewry done collectively to disassociate itself from Bolshevism?[855]

What official protests has the Jewish press uttered against any

subversive movement except when Jewish interests were threatened?[856]

Has it not, on the contrary, denounced all patriotic efforts to oppose

the forces of destruction whenever such efforts necessitated the

exposure of the corrupt elements in Jewry?

But these tactics have not been confined to the Jewish press alone. The

general press of this country, over which the Jews exercise an

increasing control, has followed the same policy. This process of

penetration began long ago on the Continent. As early as 1846 an English

missionary to the Jews in Berlin wrote:

Independently of the fifteen exclusively Jewish journals of

Germany, four of which have made their appearance since the

beginning of the present year, the daily political press of Europe

is very much under the dominion of the Jews; as literary

contributors, they influence almost every leading Continental

newspaper, and as controversy seems to be their native air, and

they bring into the field mental energies of no ordinary stamp,

they find no lack of employment, and if any literary opponent

ventures to endeavour to arrest the progress of Judaism to

political power, he finds himself held up to public notice, and

exposed to attack after attack in most of the leading journals of

Europe. Such ... was the lot of a Roman Catholic priest of Prague,

who lately wrote a pamphlet entitled _Guter Rath für Zeit der

Noth_, directed against the advancing power of Judaism. And such is

my conviction of the extent of the participation the Jews take in

the everyday literature of Germany, that I never pass by a crowded

reading-room, but what I think I see standing behind the scenes a

Jew, causing new ideas to rise and stir, and develop themselves in

the unsuspecting mind of the Gentile.[857]

Do we not see the same methods being pursued with still greater vigour

to-day? It would not be an exaggeration to say that there is hardly a

periodical in this country with the exception of _The Patriot_ that

dares to speak out freely on questions in which the interests of Jews

are involved.

The fact is that the whole educational as well as the whole political

and social world is permeated with Jewish influence. Every man in public

life, every modern politician, to whatever party he belongs, seems to

find it _de rigueur_ to have his confidential Jewish adviser at his

elbow, just as in the Middle Ages a prince had his Jewish doctor always

at hand to mix his potions and ensure him long life. This appears to be

owing not only to the utility of the Jew in financing projects, but to

the almost universal belief in the superior intelligence of the Jewish

race which the Jew has succeeded in implanting in the Gentile mind.

But the time has come to ask: Is the Jew really the super-man we have

been taught to consider him? On examination we shall find that in the

present as in the past his talents are displayed principally along two

lines--financial and occult. Usurers in the Middle Ages, financiers

to-day, the Jews have always excelled in the making and manipulating of

wealth. And just as at the former period they were the great masters of

magic, so at the present time they are the masters of the almost

magical art of gaining control over the mind both of the individual and

of the public.

Yet in the realms of literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture,

politics, and even science, Jews will be found frequently occupying the

second or third ranks, and only very seldom the first. Heine may be

cited as a poet of the first order, Spinoza as a philosopher, Disraeli

as a statesman, but it would be difficult to prolong the list. On the

stage and in music alone can the Jews be said to have proved absolutely

the equals of their Gentile competitors. The fact is that the Jew is not

usually a man of vast conceptions, nor is he endowed with great

originality of mind; his skill consists rather in elaborating or in

adapting other men's ideas and rendering them more effectual. Thus the

most important inventions of modern times have not been made by Jews,

but have been frequently improved by them. Neither James Watt,

Stephenson, Marconi, Edison, Pasteur, nor Madame Curie were of the

Jewish race, and the same might be said of nearly all the greatest men

who have lived since the dawn of our civilization. Napoleon was not a

Jew, nor was Shakespeare, nor Bacon, nor Sir Isaac Newton, nor Michael

Angelo, nor Leonardo da Vinci, nor Galileo, nor Dante, nor Descartes,

nor Molière, nor Emerson, nor Abraham Lincoln, nor Goethe, nor Kant, nor

even Machiavelli. Thrown on their own resources, what civilization were

the Jews able to create? Whilst Egypt, Greece, and Rome have left

immortal monuments, what monuments has Palestine bequeathed to the

world?[858]

The Jews, then, provide a high average of cleverness, but have they ever

during the last two thousand years produced one mighty genius? Moreover,

against this high average of intelligence must be set an equally high

average of mental derangement. On this point we have the evidence of the

_Jewish Encyclopædia_:

The Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than

the other races and peoples among which they dwell. Hysteria and

neurasthenia appear to be most frequent. Some physicians of large

experience among Jews have even gone so far as to state that most

of them are neurasthenic and hysterical. Tobler claims that all

the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical; and Raymond says that

in Warsaw, Poland, hysteria is very frequently met with among both

Jewish men and Jewish women. The Jewish population of that city

alone is almost exclusively the inexhaustible source for the supply

of hysterical males for the clinics of the whole Continent

(_L'Etude des Maladies du Système Nerveux en Russie_). As regards

Austria and Germany, the same neurotic taint of the Jews has been

emphasized by Krafft, Ebbing, etc.... In New York it has been shown

by Collins that among 333 cases of neurasthenia which came under

his observation, more than 40 per cent, were of Jewish extraction,

etc.[859]

The same American neuro-psychiatrist already quoted attributes the

predominance of Jews in the revolutionary movement in America largely to

this cause:

Anarchists have been developed largely from the criminal classes,

and a belief in anarchy, _per se_, is a psychopathic manifestation.

A student of anarchy, therefore, would not only be obliged to cover

the field of criminology, but its more significant and important

background, psycho-pathology. Some anarchists are actually insane,

while others show marked psychological deficiencies. Under our laws

as they are now framed, they cannot be restrained unless they

commit acts of violence.

As it is, our asylums are filled with this class, and that

introduces another phase of the matter. Our asylum insane are

largely recruited from the Jewish race, at least recruited in

tremendous disproportion to their number in the population. The

fact that the revolutionary movement is so largely made up of

Jewish elements furnishes an interesting confirmation of what I

have said.

The _Jewish World_, recently commenting on the "generally admitted" fact

that "the percentage of mental disorders among Jews is much greater than

among non-Jews," asks: "Is the cause inherent, that is to say, is there

a racial disposition towards degeneracy, or is it the result of the

external conditions and causes?" The writer goes on to refer to an

article in the _Zukunft_ which supports the view that the terrible

experiences of the Jews in the Middle Ages have affected their nervous

system, and therefore that the cause of mental derangement amongst them

"is not due to racial disposition, is not an ethnic principle, but is the

result of the tragic lot of the Jewish people."[860] It might perhaps

be traced more surely to the habit of brooding on that tragic lot. At

any rate, it is curious to notice that the two symptoms recognized in

the first stages of "general paralysis of the insane," the mania that

one is the object of persecution and "exalted ideas" (known in France as

the _folie des grandeurs_), are the two obsessions that the Talmud and

the Cabala with their dreams of world-domination under an avenging

Messiah have inculcated in the mind of the Jew.

But whatever are the causes of this neurosis, it is surely undesirable

that a race which exhibits it should be allowed to control the destinies

of the British Empire or indeed of any country. If "all the Jewish women

in Palestine are hysterical," presumably many of their menkind suffer

from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the

luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble

that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause

it is impossible to know. The increasing number of Jews in positions of

authority in England presents, however, a far greater subject for alarm.

Jews and Arabs are at any rate both Semites and may be expected to have

certain ideas in common, but to place a highly civilized Aryan race

under Semitic control is another matter. The time has come for every

Briton to ask himself whether he seriously desires to see the traditions

of his country, those great traditions of honour, integrity, and justice

which have made the name of England great, replaced by Oriental

standards. I do not say that there are no honourable and upright Jews,

but I do maintain that the spirit of fair play which is the essence of

the British character is not the characteristic of the Jewish race in

general. The complete absence of this spirit shown in the attempts of

agitators to suppress free speech during elections cannot be attributed

to English working-men--whose "sporting" instinct is highly

developed--and testifies to the alien character of the so-called Labour

movement. If England loses the spirit of fair play, she will have lost

her most priceless national heritage.

Conservatism, which has always stood for these great traditions, allows

itself to be hypnotized by the memory of Disraeli and accepts his dictum

that "the natural tendency of the Jews is to Conservatism"--hence the

advisability of placing Jews in control of its interests. The late Mr.

Hyndman saw further when he warned us that "those who are accustomed to

look upon all Jews as essentially practical and conservative, as

certain, too, to enlist on the side of the prevailing social system,

will be obliged to reconsider their conclusions."[861] The causes of

the recent _débâcle_ of the Conservative Government are still obscure,

but the fact remains that it was precisely at a moment when Conservative

organization had passed largely into Jewish hands that Conservatism met

with the most astounding disaster in the whole of its history. If the

manner in which Conservative propaganda was conducted at this moment was

an example of Jewish efficiency, it might be well to consider whether on

a future occasion the task should not be confided into the hands of

simple Britons.

_The only effectual way of combating Socialism is to show up the alien

influences behind it_. As long as the working man believes it to be the

outcome of a genuine British labour movement, he will turn a deaf ear to

all warnings and anti-Socialist propaganda will merely serve to drive

more recruits into the Socialist camp. But let him once suspect that he

is being made the tool of foreign intrigue, and all his national feeling

will assert itself. We have only to ask him whether he wants his work

taken from him by the import of alien goods, his housing accommodation

appropriated by alien immigrants, finally to make him understand who are

the people behind the scenes advocating a policy so disastrous to his

true interests, in order to gain his support. The Secret Service has

overwhelming evidence on this last point, which under a Conservative

Government might have been made public, but unseen influences in high

places have ordained its suppression. The slogan "Britain for the

Britons," that would form the strongest counterblast to the false

slogans of Socialism, has been barred from Conservative platforms and

the very word "alien" avoided lest it should offend Jewish

susceptibilities. Thus out of deference to the Jews, Conservatism allows

its most powerful weapon to rust in its armoury.

In reality these tactics avail nothing to the Conservative cause. The

great weight of Jewry will never be thrown into the scale of true

Conservatism; only in so far as Conservatism abandons its patriotic

traditions and compromises with the forces of Internationalism will it

win any considerable Jewish support. We have but to follow the

commitments on current politics in the Jewish press in order to realize

that the only standard by which the Jews judge of any political party is

the measure in which it will confer exclusive advantages on their own

race. The Jewish question, therefore, does not turn on whether the Jews

shall be accorded everywhere equal rights with the rest of mankind, but

whether they shall be placed above the law, whether they shall be

allowed to occupy everywhere a privileged position.[862] Nothing less

will satisfy them, and any attempt to oppose this claim will always be

met by them with the cry of "persecution." Further, this position of

privilege represents to a section of Jewry merely a stage on the road to

world-domination. For if, as we have seen by documentary evidence, this

plan has always existed in the past, is it likely that it has been

abandoned at the very moment which seems most propitious for its

realization? The trend of present events and the tone of the Jewish

press certainly do not warrant any such conclusion.

To sum up, then, I do not think that the Jews can be proved to provide

the sole cause of world-unrest. In order to establish this contention we

should be obliged to show the Jews to have been the authors of every

past social convulsion in the history of modern civilization, to

discover their influence behind the heretical sects of Islam, as behind

the Bavarian Illuminati and the Anarchists of Russia. In the absence of

any such conclusive evidence we must therefore recognize the existence

of other destructive forces at work in the world.

But this is not to underrate the importance of the Jewish peril.

Although the existence of an inner circle of Masonic "Elders" remains

problematical, Jewry in itself constitutes the most effectual

Freemasonry in the world. What need of initiations, or oaths, or signs,

or passwords amongst people who perfectly understand each other and are

everywhere working for the same end? Far more potent than the sign of

distress that summons Freemasons to each other's aid at moments of peril

is the call of the blood that rallies the most divergent elements in

Jewry to the defence of the Jewish cause.

The old complaint of the French merchants already quoted would thus

appear to be justified, that "the Jews are particles of quicksilver,

which at the least slant run together into a block." One must therefore

not be deceived by the fact that they often appear disunited. There may

be, and indeed is, very little unity amongst Jews, but there is immense

solidarity. A Jew named Morel, referring to the persecution of the

converted Rabbi Drach by the Jews, observes:

What can the wisest measures of the authorities of all countries do

against _the vast and permanent conspiracy of a people_ which, like

a network as vast as it is strong, stretched over the whole globe,

brings its force to bear wherever an event occurs that interests

the name of Israelite?[863]

It is this solidarity that constitutes the real Jewish Peril and at the

same time provides the real cause of "anti-Semitism." If in a world

where all patriotism, all national traditions, and all Christian virtues

are being systematically destroyed by the doctrines of International

Socialism one race alone, a race that since time immemorial has

cherished the dream of world-power, is not only allowed but encouraged

to consolidate itself, to maintain all its national traditions, and to

fulfil all its national aspirations at the expense of other races, it is

evident that Christian civilization must be eventually obliterated. The

wave of anti-Jewish feeling that during the last few years has been

passing over this country has nothing in common with the racial hatred

that inspires the "anti-Semitism" of Germany; it is simply the answer to

a pretension that liberty-loving Britons will not admit. Those of us

who, sacrificing popularity and monetary gain, dare to speak out on this

question have no hatred in our hearts, but only love for our country. We

believe that not only our national security but our great national

traditions are at stake, and that unless England awakens in time she

will pass under alien domination and her influence as the stronghold of

Christian civilization will be lost to the world.

CONCLUSION

We have now followed the course of associations working throughout

nineteen centuries to undermine social and moral order and above all

Christian civilization. We have also seen that although on the one hand

the unholy spirit of destruction and on the other the natural spirit of

revolt against oppression have always existed independently of any

organization, it is to secret societies using and organizing these

forces that the revolutionary movement has owed its success. Further, we

have considered the possibility that behind both open and secret

subversive societies there may exist a hidden centre of direction, and

finally we have observed that at the present time many lines of

investigation reveal a connexion between these groups and the Grand

Orient, or rather with an invisible circle concealed behind that great

masonic power. At the same time this circle is clearly not French in

character since everywhere the activities of World Revolution are

directed against France and England but seldom against Germany and never

against the Jews. It would not be an exaggeration to say that no

subversive movement in the world to-day is either pro-French,

pro-British, or "anti-Semitic." We must conclude then that if one Power

controls the rest it is either the Pan-German Power, the Jewish Power or

what we can only call Illuminism.

This last hypothesis is one that deserves serious consideration. In the

light of our present knowledge it does not appear impossible that if an

inner circle of World Revolution exists it consists of a purely

International group of men whose aim is that of Weishaupt--the

destruction of the present system of society. That such an aim can be

seriously entertained is shown by the fact that it is openly proclaimed

by a whole school of writers and thinkers ranging from gentle Idealists

to ferocious Anarchists who, whilst widely differing as to methods and

the ultimate ends to be attained, are agreed on the common purpose

expressed by Rabaud de Saint-Étienne in the words: "Everything, yes,

everything must be destroyed, since everything must be re-made."

It is idle to say that so insane a project can present no danger to the

world; the fact remains that an increasing number of people regard it

with perfect equanimity. The phrase: "All civilizations have passed

away; ours will doubtless pass away likewise," is continually to be

heard on the lips of apparently sane men and women who, whether they

advocate such an eventuality or not, seem prepared to accept it in a

spirit of complete fatalism and to put up no resistance. The point they

ignore is that when civilization existed only in isolated spots on the

earth's surface it might pass away in one spot only to spring to life in

another, but now that civilization is world-wide the dream of a return to

nature and the joys of savagery conjured up by Rousseau and Weishaupt

can never be realized. Yet if civilization in a material sense cannot be

destroyed, it is none the less possible to take the soul out of it, to

reduce it to a dead and heartless machine without human feelings or

divine aspirations. The Bolsheviks continue to exist amidst telephones,

electric light, and other amenities of modern life, but they have almost

killed the soul of Russia. In this sense then civilization may pass

away, not as the civilizations of the ancient world passed away, leaving

only desert sands and crumbling ruins behind them, but vanishing

imperceptibly from beneath the outward structure of our existing

institutions. Here is the final goal of world revolution.

If, then, one inner circle exists, composed of Illuminati animated by a

purely destructive purpose it is conceivable that they might find

support in those Germans who desire to disintegrate the countries of the

Allies with a view to future conquests, and in those Jews who hope to

establish their empire on the ruins of Christian civilization--hence the

superb organization and the immense financial resources at the disposal

of the world revolutionaries. On the other hand it may be that the

hidden centre of direction consists in a circle of Jews located in the

background of the Grand Orient, or perhaps, like the early

nineteenth-century Illuminati, located nowhere but working in accord and

using both Pan-Germans and Gentile Illuminati as their tools.

On this point I think it would be dangerous at present to dogmatize. But

that the problem is capable of elucidation I have no doubt whatever. If

the Secret Services of the world had chosen to co-ordinate and make

public the facts in their possession the whole plot might long since

have been laid bare. A "Department for the Investigation of Subversive

Movements" should have had a place in every ordered government. This

might have been created by the recent Conservative Government in

England, but the same mysterious influence that protected the enemy

during the Great War has throughout prevented disclosures that would

have enlightened the country on the real nature of the peril confronting

it. In the present state of European politics the only course open to

those who would save civilization is to act independently of

governments, and form a counter-organization in each country with

unofficial bureaux of information maintaining relations with each other,

yet each retaining its national character.

As far as this country is concerned I am convinced that only a great

national movement can save us from destruction--a movement in which men

of all classes and above all of the working-class will take part.

Fascismo triumphed in Italy, because it was not, as it has been absurdly

represented, a reactionary movement, but because it was essentially

democratic and progressive, because by appealing to the noblest

instincts in human nature, to patriotism and self-sacrifice, it rallied

all elements in a disorganized and disunited nation around the standard

of a common cause.

One cannot bring about any great movement without first kindling a

sacred fire in the hearts of men; one cannot move masses of people

merely by appealing to self-interest; they must have a cause to fight

for, a cause that is not entirely their own. Socialism, whilst enlisting

a large proportion of its following by appealing to their baser

instincts, has nevertheless, by its false ideals and promises, been able

to kindle a fire in many generous hearts, and to persuade deluded

enthusiasts that they are working for the welfare of humanity. The only

way to combat Socialism is to create counter enthusiasm for a true

ideal.

Yet even Mussolini found that a purely secular ideal was not enough, and

that the spirit of religious fervour was necessary to defeat the spirit

of materialism and destruction. For behind the concrete forces of

revolution--whether Pan-German, Judaic, or Illuminist--beyond that

invisible secret circle which perhaps directs them all, is there not yet

another force, still more potent, that must be taken into account? In

looking back over the centuries at the dark episodes that have marked

the history of the human race from its earliest origins--strange and

horrible cults, waves of witchcraft, blasphemies, and desecrations--how

is it possible to ignore the existence of an Occult Power at work in the

world? Individuals, sects, or races fired with the desire of

world-domination, have provided the fighting forces of destruction, but

behind them are the veritable powers of darkness in eternal conflict

with the powers of light.

APPENDIX

I

JEWISH EVIDENCE ON THE TALMUD

The denunciation of the Talmud by the Jew Pfefferkorn in 1509 and the

ex-Rabbi Drach in 1844 have been quoted in the course of this book.

Graetz however, in his _History of the Jews_, quotes an earlier incident

of this kind.[864] In the thirteenth century a converted Jew and former

Talmudist Donin who, on his baptism, assumed the name of Nicholas,

presented himself before the Pope, Gregory IX, "and brought charges

against the Talmud, saying that it distorted the words of Holy Writ, and

in the Agadic portions of it there were to be found disgraceful

representations of God," that it contained many gross errors and

absurdities, further that "it was filled with abuse against the founder

of the Christian religion and the Virgin. Donin demonstrated that it was

the Talmud which prevented the Jews from accepting Christianity, and

that without it they would certainly have abandoned their state of

unbelief." Again "he stated that the Talmudical writings taught it was a

meritorious action to kill the best man among the Christians[865] ...

that it was lawful to deceive a Christian without any scruple; that it

was permitted to Jews to break a promise made on oath." These Graetz

describes as lying charges.

The Jews were accordingly ordered by the Pope to hand over all their

copies of the Talmud to the Dominicans and Franciscans for examination,

and if their judgment should corroborate the charges of Nicholas Donin,

they were to burn the volumes of the Talmud (June 9, 1239).

In France Graetz goes on to relate that "the priest-ridden and

weak-minded Louis IX"--that is to say, Saint Louis--pursued the same

course. "The Talmud was put on its trial. Four distinguished Rabbis of

North France were commanded by the King to hold a public disputation

with Nicholas, either to refute the imputations levelled against the

Talmud, or to make confession of the abuse against Christianity and the

blasphemies against God that it contained."

It is impossible to imagine a fairer decision, and the queen-mother,

Blanche de Castille, was careful to assure the first witness summoned

that if the lives of the Rabbis were in danger she would protect them

and that he was only required to answer the questions that would be

asked of him. Now, there would have been nothing simpler than for the

Rabbis to admit honestly that these offensive passages existed, that

they had been written perhaps in moments of passion in a less

enlightened age, that they recognized the indelicacy of insulting the

religion of the country in which they lived, and that therefore such

passages should henceforth be deleted. But instead of adopting this

straightforward course, which might have put an end for ever to attacks

on the book they held sacred, the Rabbis proceeded to deny the existence

of the "alleged blasphemous and immoral expressions" and to declare that

"the odious facts related in the Talmud concerning a Jesus, the son of

Pantheras, had no reference to Jesus of Nazareth, but to one of a

similar name who had lived long before him." Graetz, who admits that

this was an error and that the passages in question did relate to the

Jesus of the Christians, represents the Rabbis as being merely "misled"

on the question. But the King, who was not misled by the Rabbis, ordered

all copies of the Talmud to be burnt, and in June 1242 these were

committed to the flames.[866]

The Talmud, however, continued to exist, and it was not until 1640 that,

as we have already seen, the offending passages against Christ were

expunged by the Rabbis as a measure of expediency. Now that they have

been replaced, no further attempt is made to deny that they refer to the

founder of Christianity. As far as I am aware they are not included in

any English translation of the Talmud, but may be found in an English

version of Dr. Gustav H. Dalman's book, _Jesus Christus im Talmud_

(1891).

II

THE "PROTOCOLS" OF THE ELDERS OF ZION