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VOL. X. NO. 1.
FORT WORTH-DALLAS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1920.
Price Five Cents
f In the Middle Ages when a plague
usually the result of bad sanitation
decimates the countryside the cry
arose that the Jews had poisoned the
wells and a massacre followed. It is
probable that the persons who made
these charges were subjectly honest
but fanaticism had robbed them of
their reasoning powers. We have no
doubt that the author of the strange
articles which have lately appeared
In the "Morning Post" on the cause of
world unrest is perfectly honest. He
has only we believe sought the ex-
planation of our troubles in a wrong
quarter. The cause lies we think rath-
er in the unchristian spirit that has
governed the world for the last three
centuries than in any Jewish or Ma-
sonic plots. However he has thought
differently and has given to the world
a strange and fantastic history. It
begins with the Knights Templar.
Somehow he thinks they got mixed
up with the Jews and were rightly
condemned. Their survivors and cer-
tain Jews have since that date been
mixed up with certain Masonic lodges
particularly one of the Scottish Rite
r.nd after remaining quiet for many
.'enturies began their policy of ven-
geance by arranging the French Rev-
olution. Since this great achievement
they have been struggling to destroy
kings and nobles and to bring the
world to anarchy and have lately
brought off a big coup in Russia. In
preparation for further horrors they
are at present starting strikes in Eng-
land and organizing Sinn Fein mur-
ders in Ireland. Later on they will be
setting up a King of the House of
David. Meanwhile there are a vast
number of good Jews who hold such
tricks in abhorrence and we may add
subscribe to the funds of the Unionist
party and also a vast number of good
Masons in whose lodges nothing worse
is arranged than perhaps a Curragh
camp mutiny.
The picture is fantastic and we
feel sure that if the mob took our con-
temporary seriously it would not
draw much distinction between the
good and the bad Jew and the good
I . and the bad Mason; but as some of
iff" our readers may have been disturbed
by the gruesome picture we shall try
and show him or her that there is little
. foundation for our contemporary's
wild history.
To reply to the history of our con-
temporary would require a volume.
The few facts which we shall mention
may however suffice to show our
' readers how very doubtful is the his-
The "Morning
Jewish
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July 30
tory on the subject which this news-
paper's authority presents.
1. As to the Templurs. It is extreme-
ly probable that they were innocent of
the charges brought against them by
Philip the Fair. If guilty they were
guilty not of apostasy to Judaism but
of idolatry. They can therefore have
no connection with the Jews.
2. Whatever may have been the
origin of the Scottish Masonic rite the
Scottish Masons were in the early
eighteenth century warm supporters
of the Jacobite cause. Scottish Mason-
ry cannot therefore represent an an-
cient conspiracy against throne and
altar.
3. The Jews played hardly any part
in the French Revolution.
(a) The "Illuminati" of whom the
Morning Post says so much were not
connected with the Jews. Their found-
er Weishaupt of Ingclstadt In Bava-
ria a pupil and enemy of the Jesuits
and a man of loose character founded
an order to spread revolutionary
ideas. His order was modeled in point
of organization on the Jesuit system
and he assumed the name of Sparta-
cus. His teaching was a. kind of phil-
osophic anarchy but had nothing in
common with Socialism or Bolshevism.
Every head of a family was to be
a domestic king and priest. The foun-
dation of the idea can be traced to
Rousseau's theory of nature and its
ideal would seem to be a life like that
described in St. Pierre's 'Taul and
Virginia." Weishaupt admitted to his
friend Knill that the higher grades
of his onlcr only existed in his imag-
ination. On Knill's advice he connected
it with Masonry. In 1785 it was sup-
pressed by the Elector of Bavaria. The
order was eagerly run after for a
time by fashionable people but was
unconnected either with Judaism or
Socialism.
(b) The Moming Post's writer
dwells on Mirabeau'a visits to Berlin
and his attitude to the Jewa. If any
connection between the French Revol-
ution and the Jews can be made out
it must be through the tribune of the
people Mirabeau. Berlin before the
Revolution was one of the few places
where Jews were really in society. A
Jewess Henrietta Hen .kept a salon
there which Mirabeau visited. We
learn however from Henrietta nen'a
Memoir that while she and her circle
were Liberal they turned against the
French Revolution after the arrest
of Loius XIV at Varennes and that
they would never have supported the
French democrats if they had foreseen
Post" and the
Peril
London
'2 . .
the consequent!... 'a9tj is proof posi-
tive that the one group of really In.
fluential Jews on the Continent had
no enmity to the Bourbons no sympa-
thy with the Jacobins.
(c) The Morning Post's writer lays
great stress on a book called "Mem-
oirs Illustrating the History of Jacob-
inism" of which an English tranla-
tion appeared in 1798. The Abbe says
nothing about the Jews and traces the
origin of the revolution to Voltaire
Weishaupt the Masons and the Il-
luminati. His prejudice was such that
he attributes Polish resistance to Rus-
sian aggression to Masonic influence.
If we accept his view that Voltaire
was the real author of the French
Revolution we entirely acquit the
Jiws. No man has held up the Jews
to greater ridicule than the author of
"Saul" who in some measure was the
true founder of Anti-Semiticism. The
Morning Post's authority tells us that
some years after the book was pub-
lished the Abbe received a letter from
Italy which he handed to his super-
iors telling him that the Jewi were
behind the Masons in the Revolution.
He however never altered his book.
There is. in fact no evidence that
the Jews had any serious connection
with the French Revolution and with
this view it may be added Mr. Hilaire
Bellox who cannot be regarded as an
enemy of anti-Semitism substantially
agrees. (See Belloc's French Revolu-
tion Home University Library p.
321.)
4. It is true that the Jews since the
general emancipation have generally
identified themselves with Liberalism
as they hold that it is to Liberalism
that they owe their emancipation.
Some Jews did take part in the 1848
Revolutions but they did not origin-
ate them. It is true that many Jews
sympathized with the Carbonari and
the Young Italy movement in Italy;
so did most Englishmen.
5. It is incorrect to attribute the
work of Karl Marx the Socialistic
writer to Jewish inspiration. Marx
came of a Jewish stock but his father
was a nominal Christian. Marx lived
for many years in London in great
penury and was not supported by the
Jewish community.
Enough we trust hat been written
to show that the Jews cannot be fairly
accused of being the instigators of the
Revolutions of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. The one piece of
our contemporary's evidence which
strikes us as impressive is the wild
statement of Disraeli in "Conlngsby."
One need not however take the wild
statements there on the Jews more
seriously than Disraeli's affected ad-
miration for the High Church party
in the same book. The chapters in
question were doubtless written to
convince English aristocrats that
Rothschild who appears under the
name of Sidonia was a gentleman
born. If. however the statements be
accepted as true they do not help the
Morning Post's contributor's conten-
tion for we are informed that the
"Jews are ever anxious to see the re-
ligious systems of the countries in
which they live flourish."
It is true that in modern times cos-
mopolitan Hebrew finance has become
an anxiety and that the influence of
the Jews in the Press and in politics
and Masonry has often been used in
favor of anti-Catholic movements. It
is true also that many Jews like Dis-
raeli in the last generation and Mr.
Montagu in our own have shown a
sympathy with Mohammedanism
which has had disastrous consequen-
ces in Turkey. However as the Morn-
ing Post supported Disraeli and never
attempted to restore St. Sophia to
Christendom it must share the res-
ponsibility. Jews would do well in
such questions as Poland and St.
Sophia to pay more regard than they
do to genuine Christian and Catholic
sentiment. To put it on no higher
grounds they would find it good bus-
iness. Generally we must add that on
most political questions in this coun-
try Jews vote and think much like
Englishmen and in war time are not
less patriotic.
It is true however that in the
countries along the Russian marches
a different feelings exists. Here Jew-
ish bigotry stimulated perhaps by the
oppression of the past is far deeper
than in Western lands. Education
seems to have made it worse and in
this fact we may find an explanation
not only of some of the horrors of the
Russian Revolution but of the extra-
ordinary pamphlet of "Sergius Nilus"
of which the Morning Post makes so
much assuming of course that the
pamphlet was not the concoction of
the Tzarist police. This Russian He-
braism needs watching though prob-
ably 'its worst features will vanish
with liberty and education. They are
however only a fraction of Judaism.
Our conclusion therefore on the re-
cent revelations is that they do not
prove much which was not known be-
fore and that much in them Is ab-
surd. In any case it is the duty of the
Christian while not shutting his eyes
to a possible Jewish peril to protect
the Jew from unjust and unfair charges.
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