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so far
as Mr. Ford is concerned.
In this discussion of the anti-Semitic propaganda, and of the share of
the Dearborn Independent in that propaganda, I have not the slightest
intention of attacking Mr. Ford personally. While I find myself deeply
interested in the psychology of the transformation of an extremely
idealistic pacifist into an aggressive propagandist of race hatred, with
that I am not here and now concerned.

II
THE ALLEGED "GREAT JEWISH CONSPIRACY"
Just as in the case of the British anti-Semitic press, the Jew-baiting
campaign in the Dearborn Independent and other newspapers makes
much of the so-called "protocols" of the Wise Men of Zion, first

published in Russia in 1905, but lately translated into English and
published in England and the United States. In a sense it is not my
business to expose the dubious origin and history of these documents.
That is a Jewish task, to which various Jewish scholars have devoted
their attention. In the London Spectator Mr. Lucien Wolff has
performed it with distinction. I am not a Jew, racially or otherwise, and
can lay no claim to any special ability or knowledge which would
impose such a task upon me. There are, however, some things which
must be said concerning the above-mentioned protocols, things which
do not require specialized scholarship, and which even the non-Jew can
say with confidence.
These protocols are offered as evidence of the existence of a
world-wide conspiracy far more serious and extensive than anything
else of the kind recorded in history. By comparison, the greatest
conspiracy hitherto revealed seems like a kindergarten game. It is
charged, and these documents are submitted as evidence in support of
the charge, that there, exists, and has existed for centuries, a Jewish
imperialistic program; that Jews in all lands have been and are united in
a highly organized and subtly directed secret movement to bring about
the overthrow of all non-Jewish governments, to substitute therefor a
Jewish world government, to obliterate all national boundaries, and to
destroy all religions other than Judaism. This, it is alleged, is the
concrete form in which the Jews visualize their destiny as the Chosen
People. In order to attain this grandiose ideal, every means to weaken
the non-Jewish elements and institutions in civilization is encouraged
by the invisible Jewish government, the leaders of this vast conspiracy.
If we are to place credence in these documents, the principal agency
through which the Jewish conspirators have worked is Freemasonry.
The Masonic orders throughout the world have been the blind dupes
and tools of this superimperialism of the Jews, if the statements made
in these protocols are true. Indeed, there can hardly be any question at
all that if the truth of these documents can be established, there is, to
say the least, quite as much reason for suppressing Masonic lodges, and
making them illegal, as there is for suppressing Bolshevist or other
conspiratory organizations. I should just as little expect to find

sympathy for Bolshevism in a Masonic lodge as in the College of
Cardinals, or in the Union League Club, let us say. When we enter into
the mysteries of this "Jewish conspiracy" we encounter many surprises.
According to the statements made in these protocols, practically all the
revolutionary movements of modern times have been instigated and
directed by Jews. They have caused the assassination of rulers and
heads of states, so that behind the murderous fanaticism of individuals
there has generally been the cold calculation of the most cunning and
unscrupulous intellects of the human race. According to the same
evidence, the wars which have drenched the world with blood and rent
it with passion, including racial wars in Asia and Africa, the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Russo-Japanese War, and the recent
World War, were all brought about deliberately by Jewish cunning, for
the purpose of weakening the fabric of non-Jewish states and providing
the Jews with new sources of strength and power to be used to establish
their universal dominion.
All this is terrible enough. But there is even worse to follow. We must
remember that these documents were first published in Russia in 1905,
and they purport to be the procès-verbaux of a conference held eight or
nine years prior to that time. It is rather startling, therefore, to find
outlined therein a program of revolutionary action, to be initiated in
Russia and developed throughout the civilized world, remarkably like
the Bolshevist program, not merely in the precise measures contained
in the program, but also, and especially, in the general conception of
policy underlying it. We find in this alleged Jewish program the same
negation of all the accepted principles of law and honor and morality
that the Bolshevist policy has so conspicuously manifested. It is
brazenly stated that bribery, deceit, and treachery are