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English Publicist Lucian Wolf, on the Innocence of the “Morning Post”OUTLINES HISTORY OF SPURIOUS DOCUMENTS USED AGAINST JEWSWITHIN THE PAST CENTURIES.lt;J. C. B. Service.ILondon.— Iiy wuv of answer to flu* many absurd articles which tie* “Morning Post” recently published inan effort to demonstrate that .lews are organized for world domination. Mr. Lueien Wolf. England’s brilliant publicist, has the following in the lest 1 issue of the Manchester Guardian”:The prodigious essay on The Cause of World Unrest” which the Morning l’ost' ’has lutcly published in sevn n-teen articles and some sixty •olumns of printed matter is a document on which the student of political thought in England will dwell sadly. Over a century ago, in world clivumlt;taiioes of sturtling similarity and almost from the same party standpoint. Hurke gave us. in his Causes of the Present I»is contents,” his Reflections.” and his Itegicide Peace.” a large and stately piece of political philosophy. Today the leading organ of Conservative opin ion in this country can only expou id a sort of political demonology. lsirrowed partly from the ohseuruntists of Ilour-hon Clericalism and partly from the fanatiep of Hohonzollerii Anti Seini-tism. It would be merciful to pass by this strange effort in silence. but unfortunately there is reason to believe that, with all its grotesqueness. it is calculated to work a good deal of mischief. Credulous and vicious people are still abundant, ami they are not confined to the crowd. Mr. Winston Churchill lias darkly hi itod that he reads the signs of the times much In the same way as the Morning Post.” and a curious story is current that tin* translation of the Uus slau forgery, on which tin* theory of that journal mainly rests, was actually made hi the Intelligence Department of the War Office. Then there are Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Belloc, and quite a ^onvcntlelc of smaller fry. who have lieen vainly preaching the same apocnlypaa for years. The Morning Post” may bring them recruits. and that assuredly Is riot desirable.The theory of the Morning Postmay lie briefly stated. Its fundamental contention is that ull political unrest Is artificial. It Is a product of i the Hidden Hand which is now revealed to us as a ‘‘Formidable Sect encompassing the world. This sect has been at its present work for at least a hundred and fiftv venrs. The French Revolution was contrived by it. as well as all the subordinate revolutions down to our own time. Trade Union-| ism. Socialism. Syndicalism. Bolshevism. Sinn Fein. Indian Nationalism, and tlieir analogues in every part of Hie globe, are outward and visible signs of Its sinister activity. That there are social grievances and even evils at the root of this unrest is not denied, hilt they are as artificial as the unrest itself. They nave nil been deliberately brought alniui by the Hid. den Hand in order to stir un revolt against the Throne and Alter. The way in which it Is done is a little com. plicated. Behind the restless and seditious movements, which wo all know, there is a secret revolutionary organization in the shape of Freemasonry. But this is only intermediate. for Freemasonry itself, thru some obscure transaction between the Templars mid the Old Man of the Mountain, was created by the ‘•Formidable Sect.” and Is wholly, tho perhaps unconsciously, under its control.Now what is this “Formidable Sect?” tl is no other than the Jews. Those ancient enemies of the human race are alleged to l»e far more daring and dynamic in evil-doing tlian is generally supposed. Tliruout their world-wide Dispersion they have so eretly preserved their old political or. gnnizntion and they have used it—and lire still using it—with deadly persistency to overturn tho establish'd Christian order of tilings and to found in its place a universal Jewish do-| were by no means obscure. The French Revolution, us Burke pointed out. was not a mere uprising against local op-i pressiou. hut a revolution of doctrine and theoretic dogma which was boirid i to find echoes beyond tin* French frontiers. In this rcspeef it resembled the Reformation, and also that other “armed doctrine” which we know as bolshevism. Nevertheless it puzzled the Bourbon apologists, anil confusing i-ause and effect, they liecame con-vineod that they were in the pri*senoe | of an international conspiracy. Thetheory was first propounds! by a Superior of the Seminary of Eudists at Caen in 171M). but it was afterwards vastly developed by the Ahlie Barruel in ids Memories sur le Jacobinisme.” bv Robison ol| Edinburgh in his Proofs of a Conspiracy,” and by tin* Chevalier de Malet in his *‘Ri*eherches Hlstoriqnes.” Their conclusion was that there was a triple conspiracy of , Philosophers, Freemasons, and Illuminati who formed an actual sect , aiming deliberately and methodically at the overthrow of the established religions and Governments tliruout Europe. The theory had n short shift. tho1 the Industry of its authors did much to throw light on the organize* j Hon and activities of tho secret societies. So far as the Freemasons and ! Illuminati were concerned It was eas-I i|y demolished by the Earl of Moira, who. at a meeting of the Grand Lodge of England in 1800, showed convincingly that it was a mare's nest. As | for the Philosophers, no one ever took the charge against them seriously. For half a century scarcely anything more I was heard of this aspect of tin* For-! midahle Sect. tho meanwhile the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 had taken place. The nonsuit of Barruel was chose jugoo.It was revived' in the sixth's under the influence of the religions passions kindled by the war for Italian unity.The struggle for Jewish emancipation had triumphed nil over Western Europe. and the new citizens thus'enfranchised lind everywhere east their lot with the Liberal parties. This was swiftly nml angrily notihl by the Ultramontane polo mists, and the old bogey of n Formidable Soot” legan to haunt them In a new and enlurg-eil form. In the new conspiracy there , was no longer any talk of Philosophers and Illuminati. Their place was taken by Jews and Proti*stants. The “Formidable Sect” thus lieenme r. triple alliance of Freemasons. Jews, and Protestants, which was said to be directed by tho Grand Master Palmerston mid supported by tho whole British people, not only as Protestants hut ns descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel and the subjects of n dynasty claiming descent from the House of David. The chief protagonist of this stupendous hallucination was M. Gougenot dos Moussenux. who in 18(10 embodied it in a volume entitled Le Juif. le Judalsmo. et la Judaisation dos Peoples Chretiens.” From his own admissions, however, it appears that lie was largely indebted to Gorman Catholic inspiration. Onceagain the theory failed to find support. and Gongenot's book, like tho hooks of Barruel and Uohison. became relegated to the literature of forgotten, crazes.Later on. however, attempts to re-vivo it were made by M. de Saint-An-dre. the Abbe Chahauty, M. Drumont,I M. Martin, and M. Copin-Alim ncelll., in the full flood of the anti-Semitic agitation which had !*oon imported Into France from Germany. The only notable addition made to the theory by these writers was the hypothesis of a secret Jewish Government, transported from Jerusalem Into the Diaspora, which, tliruout the ages, has never ceased to command tho allegiance of international Jewry and to conspire against flu* established order of Christian Society. Since 1!»00 the
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