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 DID THE JEWS FORESEE THE WORLD WAR? 159 gress.
And if you ask me now what has Israel to do in Uganda, then let me
tell you as the answer the words of the statesmen of Sardinia, only
applied to our case and given in our version; let me tell you the
following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder
leading upward and upward: Herzl, the Zionistic Congress, the
Enghsh Uganda proposition, the future ivorld war, the peace
conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish
Palestine will be created.' "Like a mighty thunder these last words
came to us, and we all were trembling and awestruck as if we had
seen a vision of old. And in my ears were sounding the words of our
great brother Achad Haam, who said of Nordau's address at the First
Congress: " 'I felt that one of the great old prophets was speaking to
us, that his voice came down from the free hills of Judea, and our
hearts were burning in us when we heard his words, filled with
wonder, wisdom and vision.' " The amazing thing is that this article
by Litman Rosenthal should ever have been permitted to see print.
But it did not see print until the Balfour Declaration about Palestine,
and it never would have seen print had not the Jews believed that
one part of their program had been accomplished. The Jew never
betraj^s himself until he believes that what he seeks has been won,
then he lets himself go. It was only to Jews that the 1903 "program
of the> Ladder" — the fiiture world war — the peace conference—
the Jewish program — was communicated. When the ascent of that
ladder seemed to be complete, then came the public talk. A similar
illustration of this is to be found in the fall of the Czar. When that
event transpired it was an occasion of great rejoicing in New York,
and a Gentile of world-wide fame made a speech in which he lauded
an American Jew of national reputation for having begun the
downfall of the Czar by providing the money with which propaganda
had been made among Russian prisoners in Japan during the
RussoJapanese war. The story came out only after the success of the
plot. It is not at all out of keeping that the last men to see the last
act of the plot carried out, the actual murder of Nicholas
Romanovitch, his wife»
 160 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW his young daughters and his
invahd boy, were "five Soviet deputies, the latter five all Jews." What
began with the assistance of an American financier, finished with
Soviet deputies. Did International Jews in 1903 foresee the war?
This Rosenthal confession is but one bit of evidence that they did.
And did they do nothing but foresee it? It were well if the facts
stopped at foresight and did not run on to provocation. For the
present the reader is invited to retain in his mind two points in this
Rosenthal article: "Perhaps it will interest you to know that the right
hand of Cavour, his friend and adviser, was his secretary, Hartura, a
Jew." This is the way the Jewish press speaks of its own. If this
paper, or a Chicago paper, or a New York paper should go through
the list of the secretaries of the men of power in the world today
and make the note after the names — "His secretary, a Jew," the
Jewish Anti-Defamation Society would send letters of protest. There
is one rule for the Gentile and one for the Jew, in the Jewish mind.
Writing in the public prints about Hartum, he would be described as
an "Itahan." Were the Jewish secretaries who abounded before the
war, during the war and throughout the Peace Conference of less
brilliance than Hartum? Were there not Hartums in England, France,
Germany, yes and in Russia too (in the United States there were
many) who saw the "program of the Ladder"? Did Max Nordau who
saw it so clearly in 1903 forget it in 1914 and 1918? We know this:
the Jews in their Congress at Basle in 1903 foresaw "the future
world war." How did they know it was to be a ''world war"? We know
this also : the Protocols, perhaps as early as 1896, certainly not later
than 1905, foresaw the pohcy of "no annexations." The World War
came to -pass. "No annexations" came to pass. What was then
future in the Jewish world program, is now past. In the Protocols
there are two forms of declaration. One is, "we have." The other is,
"we shall." If somewhere in the world this summer the high secret
spokesman of the World Program is addressing his class of
International Initiates, he will have to say
 DID THE JEWS FORESEE THE WOULD WAR? 161 "we have"
in many places where the spokesman of 1896 said"we shall." Things
have been accomplished. "We will represent ourselves as the saviors
of the laboring classes." That has been and is being done. "We will
deflect the thoughts of the Gentiles to industry and commerce." That
has been done. "We will create a strongly centralized administration
so as to grasp all the social forces strongly in. our hands." That has
been done. "We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties
and all movements and provide orators." That has been done. "We
will force up wages." That has been done. "We will at the same time
cause a rise in the price of prime necessities." That has been done.
"We will also undermine the sources of production by instilling in the
workmen ideas of anarchy." That has been done. "To demonstrate
our enslavement of the Gentile governments of Europe, we shall
show our power to one by crimes of violence, that is, by a reign of
terror." — Protocol 7. Who that sees Russia and beholds the attitude
of the premiers of England, France and Italy toward the Soviets, the
"enslavement" of statesmanship by a condition that tangles more
gnarledly the more it is dealt with — who that sees the prostration
of Europe before a wound that is deliberately kept from healing, can
forbear to say: That too has been done! "Our plans will not upset
contemporary institutions immediately. Their management will only
be altered and consequently the whole procedure of their activity will
thus be directed according to plans laid down by us." That has been
done. "We shall saddle the press and keep a tight rein upon it." That
has been done. The rein is being strongly pulled in the United States
at this moment, as many an editor can testify. "Even if there should
be those who desire to write against us, no one will print their
writings." In large part, that has been done. It has been done
completely with the profit-making press. "We shall, as an incentive
to speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for
luxuries — all-enticing luxuries." That has been done. "To each act of
opposition we must be in a position to respond by bringing on war
through the neigh 
 162 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW bors of any country that
aares to oppose us, and if these neighbors should plan to stand
collectively against us, we must let loose a world war." (Protocol 7).
The term "world war" is the same as that used by Rosenthal and
Nordau. "Herzl knows," said Nordau in 1903, "that we stand before a
tremendous upheaval of the whole world." "We must create unrest,
dissension and mutual animosities throughout Europe and, with the
help of her relationships, on other continents. ' ' This has been done.
This passage continues: "There is a double advantage in this. First,
we shall command the respect of all countries by this method, for
they will realize that we have the power to create disorder or
establish order at will." This too has been done. Truly did the
spokesman of 1896 speak of "those momentous occurrences of the
near future toward which we are rushing in a stream of great
crises." Not only was "no annexations" achieved "as far as possible,"
just as the Protocols outlined it, but a host of other plans have
matured in achievement along with it. "No annexations" as a matter
of political morality is one thing; and "no annexations" for the reason
that "this will shift war to an economic footing and nations will
perceive the strength of our superiority in the aid we render" is quite
another thing. The world was with the "no annexations" program as
a matter of political morality; the other program, which used this
morality as its vehicle, was hidden. There are still other matters in
this group which must receive attention, but another article will be
necessary to do it. In the meantime, it is natural to wonder whether,
with the program as outlined in this report of the Protocols having
received fulfillment in so many particulars, a new Protocol, or a
further unfolding of the Ladder has been made by the Wise Men to
their Initiates; and whether any additional unveiling will ever come
to the knowledge of the world. It would seem that a proper estimate
of the knowledge now available would lead to such an awakening as
to nullify the present program and make all future ones impossible.
But Gentiles like their ease, and Judah is beckoned on by a bright
star. Issue of August 21, 1920.
 XV. Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"? THE Soviet
is not a Russian but a Jewish institution. Nor is it the invention of
Russian Jews of the present time, a new poUtical device which has
been set up as a vehicle of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky; it is of
ancient Jewish origin, a device which the Jews themselves invented
to maintain their distinctive racial and national life after the conquest
of Palestine by the Romans. Modern Bolshevism, which is now
known to be merely the outer cloak of a long-planned coup to
estabhsh the domination of a race, immediately set up the Soviet
form of government because the Jews of all countries who
contributed to Russian Bolshevism had long been schooled in the
nature and structure of the Soviet. The Soviet appears in the
"Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" under the ancient name of
KAHAL. In the Seventeenth Protocol this passage occurs: "Even now
our brothers are under obligation to denounce apostates of their
own family or any person known to be opposed to the Kahal. When
our kingdom comes, it will be necessary for all subjects to serve the
state in a similar manner." Anyone who is acquainted with
contemporary Jewish life knows what this denunciation of apostates
means. The bitterness of the persecution, which falls upon a convert
to Christianity, or upon the Jewish son or daughter of an orthodox
family who chooses to marry a Gentile, is without parallel among
men. Very recently in a western state a fine Jewish girl chose to
marry a Gentile, who was a newspaperman. From the time of her
announcement of intention, the girl was treated as an apostate. Had
she died a most wretched death, had she descended to a status of
most ignominious shame, the feelings which her fate would have
aroused could not have been more terrible. A
 164 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW darkly solemn funeral
service was held for her, and on her bridal day she was declared to
be dead to her people. The case is very far from being unusual.
Perhaps one of the most moving descriptions of it is to be found in
the life of Spinoza, the great philosopher whom modern Jews are
fond of holding up for exhibition as a great ornament of their people.
Spinoza's studies led him to question many of the dogmas the rabbis
taught, those "commandments of men" of which the New Testament
speaks, and as Spinoza was already a person of influence the very
common Jewish tactic of bribery was tried upon him. There would be
some hesitation in using the words just set down— "the very
common Jewish tactic of bribery" — if they were not known to be
true. There is no desire to cast aspersions which grow out of malice.
But Jewish history as written by Jews provides mountains of proof
that bribery was, while present knowledge amply testifies that it still
is, the favorite and most dependable weapon of the Jews. A Jewish
writer, Jacob Israel De Haan, a Dutch lawyer resident in Jerusa4em,
has recently stated that one hope of a settlement of the Arab
agitation in Palestine is the ease with which the Arab press can be
bribed. His words are: "There is a strong agitation here among the
Arabs against what they call the Zionist peril. But the Arabs,
especially the Arabian papers, are open to bribe. This weakness will
cause them, in the long run, to lose out against us." So, young
Spinoza was offered an annual stipend of 1,000 florins if he would
be silent upon his convictions and from time to time show himself at
the synagogue. This he refused with high-minded scorn. He made
ready to earn his bread by polishing lenses for optical instruments.
Upon this, he was excommunicated, a proceeding which is thus
described: "The day of excommunication at length arrived, and a
vast concourse assembled to witness the awful ceremony. It began
by the silent and solemn lighting of a quantity of black wax candles,
and by opening the tabernacle wherein were deposited the books of
the Law of Moses. Thus were the imaginations of the faithful
prepared for all the horror of the scene.
 IS THE JEWISH "KAHAL" THE MODERN "SOVIET"? 165 The
chief rabbi, the ancient friend and master, now the fiercest enemy, of
the condemned, was to order the execution. He stood there pained,
but implacable; the people fixed their eager eyes upon him. High
above, the chanter rose and chanted forth in loud lugubrious tones
the words of execration; while from the opposite side another
mingled with these curses the thrilling sounds of the trumpet. And
now the black candles were reversed, and were made to melt drop
by drop into a huge tub filled with blood." (Lewes: Biographical
History of Philosophy.) Then came the final anathema. " 'With the
judgment of the angels and of the saints, we excommunicate, cut
off, curse and anathematize Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of
the elders and all this holy congregation, in the presence of the holy
books: by the 613 precepts which are written therein, with the
anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the curse which
Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which are
written in the law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night.
Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking cursed in
going out, and cursed in coming in. The Lord shall not pardon him,
the wrath and the fury of the Lord shall henceforth be kindled
against this man, and shall lay upon him all the curses written in the
Book of the Law. The Lord shall destroy his name under the sun,
and cut him off for his undoing from all the tribes of Israel, with all
the curses of the firmament which are written in the Law * * * And
we warn you that none may speak with him by word of mouth nor
by writing, nor show any favor unto him, nor be under one roof with
him, nor come within four cubits of him, nor read any paper
composed by him.' " (Pollock: Life of Spinoza.) "As the blasting
words were uttered, the lights were all suddenly immersed in the
blood, a cry of religious horror and execration burst from all; and in
that solemn darkness, and to those solemn curses, they shouted
Amen, Amen!" (Professor J. K. Hosmer: The Jews.) That is a
commentary on the decree of denunciation. It also throws a very
strong light on the pressure which is brought against many Jews
who would
 166 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW cry out against the anti-
social ideas o£ their people, but who dare not because of the
penalties it would bring. This denunciation, as Protocol Seventeen
orders, is to be made against anyone who is "known to be opposed
to the Kahal" or ancient Soviet system of the Jews. After the
destruction of the Jewish state by the Romans, the Jews maintained
a center in the Patriarch; and after the dispersion of the Jews out of
Palestine this center of nationality was preserved in the Prince of the
Exile, or Exilarch, an office which is believed to persist to the present
time, and which some believe to be held now by an American Jew.
In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Jews have never ceased
to be "a people"; that is, a consciously united racial group, different
from all others, and with purposes and ideals which are strictly of
the Jews, by the Jews and for the Jews in distinction from the rest of
the world. That they constitute a nation within the nations, the most
responsible Jewish thinkers not only declare but insist upon. And this
is wholly jn accord with the facts as observed. The Jew not only
desires to live apart from other people, but he works with his own
people as against others, and he desires as much as possible to live
under his own laws. In the city of New York today, the Jews have
succeeded in establishing their own court for the settlement of their
own questions according to their own laws. And that is precisely the
principle of the Soviet-Kahal. From the first century forward, as any
reader can see by consulting the Jewish Encyclopedia, the
"community," "assembly" or "Kahal" has been the center of Jewish
life. It was so earlier, in the time of the Babylonian captivity. And the
last official appearance of it was at the Peace Conference, where the
Jews, in accordance with their World Program, the only program that
passed successfully and unchanged through the Peace Conference,
secured for themselves the right to the Kahal for administrative and
cultural purposes in addition to many other privileges in countries
where their activities had been a matter of protest. The Polish
question is purely a Jewish question, and Paderewski's failure as a
statesman was entirely
 IS THE JEWISH "KAHAL" THE MODERN "SOVIET"? 167 due
to his domination by Jewish influences. The Rumanian question is
hkewise a Jewish question, and all Rumanians speak of the United
States as "The Jews' Country" because they know through their
statesmen the terrific pressure which was exerted by American Jews
against their country, a pressure extending to the very necessities of
life, and which compelled Rumania to sign agreements which are as
humiliating as those that Austria asked of Serbia, out of which the
World War grew. The Jewish Question is written all over the forces
that provoked the war, and over all the hindrances to peace which
the world has since seen. Under the Kahal or ancient Soviet, the
Jews lived by themselves and governed themselves, doing business
with the government solely through their representatives. It was
communism in a more drastic form than has been seen anywhere in
the world outside Russia. Education, health, taxes, domestic affairs,
all were under the absolute control of a few men who constituted
the ruling board. This board, as the present-day Jewish hierarchy is
supposed to be, was selfperpetuating, the office often passing in an
unbroken line of hereditary succession through many generations.
All property was in common, which however did not prevent the
leaders becoming rich. These Kahals or Soviets existed in Rome,
France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Rumania,
Turkey and England. In the United States the idea has developed
around the synagogue and around national and international secret
societies of Jews, of which more will be said in succeeding articles.
The Kahal is the traditional Jewish political institution during the
dispersal of the race among the nations. Its international aspect is to
be seen in the higher councils. These councils enlarged as the Jews
spread over the world. The Jewish Encyclopedia cites the Council of
Three Lands, the Council of Four Lands, and the Council of Five
Lands, showing an international relationship in earlier years. But like
all such records, public view of them is not easily accessible so far as
they relate to modern times, f^ The recent Zionist Congress in
London, where doubtless much business was done that pertained to
the Jewish people throughout the world, though not in public
 168 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW halls by any means, may be
called the Council of Thirty-Seven Lands, for the delegates to that
congress came from all parts of the world, from points remote as
Lapland and South Africa, Persia and New Zealand. The purpose of
these World Councils was the unification of the Jews, and the
records of their assemblages run back through the centuries. It is
therefore no new thing that has arisen in Russia. It is the imposition
by the Jewish revolutionists ypon Gentile Russia of a form of control
in which Judaism has been schooled from the earliest times of its
contact with the world. Soviet Russia could not have been possible
had not 90 per cent of the commissars been Jewish. Soviet Hungary
could not have been possible had not Bela Kun, the chief Red, been
a Jew, and had not 18 of his 24 commissars been Jews. The Jews
are the only group schooled in the erection and administration of the
Kahal. An Associated Press dispatch under date of August 12 throws
a light on the congeniality of the Soviet system and the Jewish mind.
Speaking of the Polish towns and villages occupied by Bolshevik
forces in their recent drive, the dispatch says: "The local Jewish
parish populations already are said to be setting up Soviet and
Communist governments." Of course. Yet this is in strange contrast
with what we are constantly told through the press of the sufferings
of the Jews under the Soviet form and of their abhorrence of the
Reds. However, most of what we read concerning this in the public
press is Jewish propaganda, pure and simple, and the reports of
men on the spot contradict it all. One relief worker testifies that
relief work in Poland is frequently "hung up because some Jew
landlord asks an exorbitant rent for his premises," while another
testifies that though railroad fares in the supposedly famine-stricken
districts have gone up 1,000 per cent, the best and highest-fare
trains are "exclusively occupied by Jews." He adds, of his trip
through Hungary, "The Hungarians have no money any more, but
the Jews have." "But American Jews abhor Trotsky and Sovietism," is
the plea sometimes made. Do they?
 IS THE JEWISH "KAHAL" THE MODERN "SOVIET"? 169 On
page 9 of the American Jewish World, of July 30, a letter signed
"Mrs. Samuel Rush" appears. It is headed: "Are We Really Ashamed
of Trotsky?" Read a few excerpts from it: "I have read of late several
laments from editors of Jewish publications that the Jew is now
libeled as a radical. "It is true that many Jews are radicals. It is also
true that some of the radical leaders are Jews. "But before weeping
over the downfall of the race, let's think a bit. "Trotsky himself has
never been represented as anything but a cultured man, a student
of world economics, a powerful and efficient leader and thinker who
will surely go down in history as one of the great men our race has
given to the world. "* * * Very few of us doubt any longer that
behind the absurdities written about Russia is the great truth that
Russia is in that unsettled state which always attends reconstruction.
There is a plan behind this seeming disorder, and out of the
upheaval will come order. It will not be Utopia, but as good a
government as the undoubtedly high-minded practical idealists who
are building for Russia can build with the necessarily'' imperfect
materials — human beings — with which they must work. "And one
of the leaders is Leon Trotsky! "Are we really ashamed of Trotsky?"
The lady is evidently not ashamed of Trotsky, or Mr. Braunstein, as
his real name is. Or take Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago. While
drawing a salary for work in the court, Judge Fisher went abroad on
Jewish relief work. His plans were changed somewhat after his
departure and he landed in Russia. He asserts in several interviews
that he was permitted to arrive in Russia on condition that he leave
political matters alone. There has been no such restriction placed
upon him since his return to the United States, for he appears as an
open advocate of full trade relations with the Soviet Government of
Russia,
 170 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW The Chicago Tribune thus
quotes him: "'We must leave Russia alone' he said" in summarizing
his views. 'We should resume trade with the Soviet. The Bolshevist
Government is permanent. * * * While there are only 700,000
members of the Communist party, the peasants, who represent
almost 100,000,000 people, are solidly back of the Lenin regime.' "
Among the Soviet devices which the 100,000,000 peasants of Russia
are said to be "solidly back of," is the following (it is particularly
interesting in view of the fact that Judge Fisher is judge of the
Morals Court of Chicago) : " 'Some time ago it was published that
the women of Russia had become national property,' he said. 'That is
untrue, but the ease with which marriage and divorce may be
effected makes for rapid changes. Everyone wanting to marry goes
to what we would call the city hall and registers. " 'Inducements to
marry are great. When people are hard pressed for clothes and food
they sometimes make a pact to wed for a day. " 'The next day they
go down to the city hall and register again. This time their names
are put side by side in the divorce book. That is all that is necessary
to be divorced, and they have had a good feed in the bargain.' "
Judge Harry Fisher, of Chicago, who has returned from Jewish relief
work abroad, evidently is one with the others in not being ashamed
of Trotsky. Also Max Pine, for many years secretary of the United
Hebrew Trades of New York, has been abroad in Soviet Russia as "a
labor delegate." He too had many good things to say of the Soviets,
among other things the strange contradiction that the Jews are
doing very well in Russia but are not pro-Bolshevik! Here are three
persons from widely different spheres of life, yet each one of them
indicates a natural liking for the Kahal or Soviet, an admiration of its
methods, and a distinct good feeling toward its rulers. For Sovietism
is the rankest form of autocracy, and the marriage laws of Soviet
Russia are in
 IS THE JEWISH "KAHAL" THE MODERN "SOVIET"? 171 full
harmony with the program stated in the Protocols— "We will break
down the influence of familylife among the Gentiles." Whether the
Soviet-Kahals of Russia will succeed in completely undermining
Russian family life is extremely doubtful. The weakness of Soviet rule
is the same as that of the Protocols — a moral weakness which must
eat like a cancer until it destroys the institutions which it infests.
Russia today, viewed in the light of the Protocols, does not represent
the Judaic state, but it represents the Gentile state seized by Jewish
forces. There are three degrees of action set forth in the Protocols.
There is first the secret process of breaking up the integrity of
society by the admixture of alluring but disruptive ideas. This is a
work in which Gentile agitators are used. When the ideas have
worked sufficiently to break up society and explode in a crisis, then
as in Germany, the forces that have worked in secret come swiftly to
the front to take the reins and guide the riot. In Germany this
immediately occurred upon the collapse which followed the
armistice, but the Germans were wise enough to know the meaning
of the influx of Jews into all the official positions of the former
empire, and it was not long before they were politically ousted. In
Russia, however, the Jews sprang immediately into official positions
and have succeeded in remaining there. It began with Kerensky
compeUing the Czar to lay aside his crown; it continues with Trotsky
and his armies at the throat of Europe. But this seizure of a country,
as was attempted in Germany, and as was not only attempted but
succeeded in Russia, is not the end of the Program. It is only the
beginning of its open or public phase. The SovietKahal makes for the
complete breaking up of society, the entire cutting off of co-
operation and communication, the ruling of each little section in the
way desired, until the whole country lies helpless in isolated bits.
The process includes, of course, the disintegration of industry also,
the massing of Gentiles into an army, and a general destruction of
morality and order. It is the Protocol program in its last stage
 172 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW before the reconstruction
begins which shall make the conquered country a Jewish state. The
world has not seen that last stage yet. It has not come, even in
Russia. If the Russian people waken from the daze into which they
have been thrust, it will not come. Jewish voices loudly proclaim that
Soviet Russia has come to stay. The only authoritative voice on that
subject is the voice of Russia, and Russia has not yet spoken. Today
the world is trembling on the very verge of Real Russia's awakening,
and with it a retribution most terrible upon the Sovietists. The
program of the Protocols once came near succeeding in the French
Revolution, but its essential immorality overreached itself. It has
come a step nearer success in Russia, but there too its defiance of
the moral law will be its undoing. The Jewish Question of today is
being fought out in Russia and Poland, and the strength of the
Jewish forces is largely and mostly supplied from the United States
of America. No wonder those small East European independencies
which are fighting for their lives refer to our country as "The Land of
the Jews." *'We will show our power to one," say the Protocols. "In
order to demonstrate our enslave.ment of the Gentile governments
of Europe, we shall show our power to one of them by crimes of
violence, that is, by a reign of terror." (Protocol Seven.) One by one
the Gentile nations of Europe have been compelled to withdraw their
troops from Russia. One by one the premiers of Europe have
submitted to heavy shackling of their official hands with regard to
the Russian question. And today the world looks on while little
Poland, apparently the second country on the list of Soviet victims, is
made to feel heavy vengeance for her daring to be independent of
Jewish power. Russia has been made to pay for her attempted
independence of the Jew; Poland is now being made to pay. It is a
flame, the Jews of Eastern Europe hope, and many Jews of America
also,' which will sweep round the world. If the ruling Jews of the
world wished the Russian people freed, if they wished the flames of
Bolshevism to be quenched, if they wished Jewish participation in
 IS THE JEWISH "KAHAL" THE MODERN "SOVIET"? 173
revolutionary movements to be withdrawn, they could accomplish it
in a week. What is going on today is going on by permission of the
Jewish world powers. There is apparently no desire to curtail a
movement which largely originated in American Jewry. This is the
program of "showing our power to one," and the program will be
followed out. The "showing," however, is twofold; it is a showing of
power, but it is also a showing of the people who wield the power,
and in the end it might have been just as well had the power never
been coveted, attained, or used. Anyone who desires to test the
exactitude of the Protocols' estimate of human nature may do so by
observing his own reactions to the Russian Bolshevist situation. It is
undeniable that there exists among all classes of Gentiles in America
a kind of admiration for the coup which Lenin and Trotsky have
managed on such a massive scale. The audacity of it, the ability to
stay afloat thus long in defiance of so many laws, have conspired to
draw out unwilling applause. Consider then this passage from the
Tenth Protocol: "The people feel an especial love and respect toward
the genius who wields political power, and they say of all his high-
handed actions: 'It is base, but clever! It is a trick, but how he
played it! So majestic! So impudent!' "We count on attracting all
nations to the constructive work of laying the foundations for the
structure planned by us. It is necessary for us first of all to acquire
the services of bold and fearless agents, who will overcome all
obstacles in our pathway. "When we accomplish our governmental
coup d'etat, we will say to the people: 'Everything has gone badly,
all have suffered. We will eliminate the causes of your sufferings —
nationality, frontiers and diversity of coinage. Of course you are free
to pronounce sentence upon us, but that can scarcely be just if you
do so before giving a trial to that which we offer you.' " This is very
well conceived, and this is the way in which, up to this time, it has
worked out. But there will be a strong reaction set in. False promises
like
 174 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW chickens come home to
roost. The real originators, the real purpose of the movement hidden
behind Bolshevism will become evident. And then the world will
crush out again the World Program which at times has seemed so
near success. There will probably be more light upon this World
Program as a result of the Russian Kahal-Soviet system than from
any other attempt to reahze it. For five generations the world has
lived in a false light supposed to be shed by the French Revolution.
It is now known that that revolution was not the Revolution of the
French People, but the disorders of a minority who sought to impose
upon the French People the very Plan which is now being
considered. It was the French People who ultimately put down the
socalled French Revolution. And France, as a result of that upheaval
of a well-organized minority, has been bound by Jewish control ever
since. The Russian Revolution will go down in history with no such
false halo of romance around it. The world now knows it for what it
is. The world will soon know whose was the money and whose were
the brains that fostered it, and from what part of the world the
principal impetus came. The Russian upheaval is racial, not political
nor economic. It conceals beneath all its false socialism and its
empty mouthings of "human brotherhood" a clear-cut plan of racial
imperialism, which is not Russian, and which the common sense and
interest of the world will speedily stamp out. Issue of Aogost 28,
1920.
 XVI. How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm THE real
estate speculations of the Jews are familiar to all, but unfortunately
do not constitute their entire land program. Many American cities
have changed their characters entirely during the past 15 years by
reason of Jewish speculation in residence property, and it is a fact
established in the larger eastern cities that the recent exorbitant and
extortionate rise in rents was largely a matter of the Jewish landlord.
The governor of one of the most important of our commonwealths
was loath to sign a bill regulating rents. His hesitancy was
encouraged by very heavy pressure brought to bear upon him by the
weightiest Jewish financial interests in his own and neighboring
states. He finally decided that he would sign the bill and give the law
effect, and the fact that decided him was his personal investigation
and the investigation of his personal agents into hundreds of cases
of abuse where he discovered that it was a common practice among
Jewish landlords to transfer the same piece of property round and
round to every member of the family ia turn, each "transfer" being
the excuse for a new increase in the rent. Men have their eyes
opened to the Jewish Question in various ways: this was the way a
governor had his eyes opened. That, however, is not the peculiarity
of Jewish landlords alone; Gentile landlords have played the same
trick. But landlordism is peculiarly a Jewish ambition and. distinction;
the Jew is the Landlord of America. Any group of tenants almost
anywhere in America, except the West, could testify to this. Nor is
landlordism itself reprehensible, things being what they are, unless it
is anti-social and antiAmerican. And just here is where it gets point.
Some of the oldest and most sacred shrines of Americanism in the
East have entirely lost their character as such by the invasion — not
of "foreigners" — but of Jews.
 176 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW The more one sees of this
invasion, the more one utterly distrusts the statistics given out by
Jews as to the Jewish population of the United States. Do you know
that the one nationality on which the Government of the United
States is estopped from asking questions, either for immigration or
census statistics, is the Jewish? Do you know that when the
Government of the United States wants to know anything about the
Jews, it must go to statisticians which the Jews themselves support?
If a nation claims that it is no nation with respect to the United
States Government, as the Jews claim, and has no national statistics
which it will permit the government to collect in the official way, why
should it treat itself as a nation and keep its own records? The Jews
of the United States, like the Jews of every European country, are a
nation among themselves, with their own government, their own
policy, their own records; and the United States Government does
business with the Jewish Government in America through chosen
Jews — no doubt of that. It is, however, a digression. The matter of
Jewish statistics will come up again. In the meantime a glance at the
rapid changing of so many American cities in all parts of the land
leads to the belief that the Jewish statistics furnished by the Jews for
Gentile consumption entirely misstate the facts, and this belief is
strengthened by the knowledge that the statistics given by the Jews
for Jewish consumption are very different from those supphed for
the outside world. Landlordism may be explained by the inclination
of the Jew toward speculation, and we know that real estate has
been made one of the most speculative of occupations, disgracefully,
almost disastrously so. The Jew cannot be condemned for becoming
a landlord, for becoming the most conspicuous landlord in America;
he cannot be condemned apart from his Gentile co-offenders for the
abuse be has made of his advantage as landlord. But it is a matter
for American concern that the cities to which, in the schoolbooks,
our children are taught to look as the birthplaces of liberty and as
still the spokesmen of Americanism, should become Semite cities,
financially and politically,
 HOW "JEWISH QUESTION'" TOUCHES THE FARM 177 and
the recruiting grounds of the world's Bolshevism. Until recently,
however, the Jew in America has not cared for the land. It is a
characteristic. The Jew is not an agriculturist. Lavish fortunes have
been expentled to make him so, but the productive work of farming
has not had, and does not now have, any appeal to him. His choice
in land is this: land that produces gold from the mine, and land that
produces rents. Land that produces mere potatoes and wheat has
not directly interested him. It is true, of course, that the land
question has been distinctly Jewish in countries like Poland and
Rumania. No law against Jews owning land in those countries has
ever been effective in preventing their control of whole provinces.
Not that the Jews demanded the right to farm the land, their choice
was to farm the farmers. By devious methods and the use of
"Gentile fronts" they could always secure control of the land, and
thus dominating the peasants they could create almost any condition
they wished. That is what they actually did. That is the Jewish
Question in those parts of the world. Not for farming purposes, it
must be understood, but for the purpose of controlling the main
source of wealth in agricultural countries and for taking the control
of the people away from their natural Gentile leaders. These two
things always go together in countries where there is intellectual or
landed aristocracy to which the people look for leadership : the
Jewish program is to destroy that leadership by gaining control of
the land. It is profitable, of course, but when you survey the
outworking of the plan you always see something other than profits
involved. The consummate perfection of the Jewish plan for World
Control is that it does not involve sacrifice as have other plans, it is
immensely profitable at every stage, and the greater the
profitableness the more surely the purpose is being achieved. In
America there was no aristocracy to be cut under by the gaining of
land control. Jewish activity in the United States until recentlj^ has
confined itself to the control of land products after they have been
produced: that is, so to say, Jewish interests do not engage in
trapping, but they control the fur trade.
 178 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW Speaking of furs, it is very
funny to see how some affairs turn out. During the war there was a
great to-do made about the German control of the American fur
trade. It was true that the fur trade was controlled from Germany,
but not by Germans — by Jews! And then a great to-do was made
about seizing, confiscating and absolutely selling out that "German"
fur business to Americans, and the "Americans" who bought it were
— Jews ! The actual control has never changed; the profits still find
their way to the "International" purse. But furs is just an example.
Jewish interests do not engage in raising grain, but control the grain
that others produce. The need of the United States is a "Who's Who
of Jewish Financiers" that the people may identify the men about
whom they read as having made this "corner" or sprung that "coup."
, These interests, which have simply grabbed American-produced
wealth and made American consumers pay and pay and pay, have
been able to operate almost openly because of the sheer blindness
of the American people as they read their newspapers. And, of
course, while the American newspaper will gladly inform you that
this man is an Italian and that man a Pole and the other man a
Briton, it will never tell you that the fourth man is a Jew. There is a
Jewish organization in every city, large and small, to prevent it —
and they prevent it by methods that are violent and wholly
subversive of the American ideal of liberty. So, until recently, the
plan in the United States has been to seize the commodity at just
that point in its passage from producer to consumer where the
heaviest weight of profit can be extracted from it — at the neck of
the bottle, so to speak — and control it there. It is not service that
the people pay for; they pay for seizure. But a new movement has
begun in the United States. Jewish millions are now being used to
secure immense tracts of American lands. Formerly it was enough to
control the cotton, as the bread was controlled, but now the
movement is toward controlling the cotton lands. The operations are
carefully guarded; "Gentile fronts" are used almost exclusively; but
follow the trail through all the "blinds" and "false
 HOW "JEWISH QUESTION" TOUCHES THE FARM 179
scents," and you come at last to the International Jew, whose throne
is set up in London. Many Jews have written The Dearborn
Independent saying that they do not know about these racial plans
for world control. It may well be believed that they do not. One
purpose of these articles is to tell them about it. But this every Jew
rejoices in — the movement of his people toward power. And it is
this sentiment that the International Jew implicitly trusts, and
because this sentiment exists The International Program secures a
maximum of success at a minimum risk of exposure. Jewry is not a
democracy but an autocracy. Of course the ordinary Jew does not
know ! The question is, Why should he revile the Gentile who tries to
tell him? If a Jew will not seal his mind against the statements made
in these articles, he will find in his own knowledge sufficient
corroboration of their principal features, and he will be in a better
position to assist in the solution of the Jewish Question. It is with
amazement at certain men's conception of editorial honesty that The
Dearborn Independent has read some of the reports made of these
articles. Under cover, principally of the Yiddish, alleged translations
of these articles have been flung broadcast among non-English
speaking Jews, translations which not only bear no resemblance to
the original, but actually insert whole paragraphs of matter which
never appeared in the original at all. Is there a fear of permitting the
average Jew to read this series? Nothing is more desired by those
whose purpose is to lay foundations for the solution of the Jewish
Question in America than that every Jew in the United States should
know exactly what is being printed here week by week. The Jew has
been deceived by his leaders long enough. The fact is, then, that
there is a definite and already well forwarded movement toward the
control of the cotton lands of the United States. The first step was to
depreciate the market value of these lands as much as possible.
Pressure was brought through certain banks to limit the cotton
farmers' efforts. They were told that if they planted more acreage to
cotton than they ^ were told to, they would not be financed.
 180 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW Cotton production was to
go down while cotton prices were to go up, and the profits were not
the farmers' but those who controlled the course of cotton from the
first market to the wearer. Cotton farming was to be made less
profitable, while cotton speculation was to become more profitable.
The public was being compelled to supply the money by which the
Jewish controllers were to buy the land. In brief, it was to be made
more profitable to sell cotton lands than to sell cotton. These
statements are being deliberately restricted to the traffic in cotton
lands. Jewish financiers in New York and London know these things,
even if Jewish editors and rabbis do not. This movement has been
within the knowledge of certain classes of business men for a long
time, indeed some have been forced by what used to be called "the
pressure of circumstances," to serve the movement. But they were
not able to interpret its meaning. It is only recently that the more
important Gentile business men of the United States have been able
to interpret certain things. The war was a potent eye-opener. Those
wonderful documents known as the "Protocols," with their strong
grasp of every element of life, have not overlooked Land. The Land
Program is found in the Sixth Protocol, which is one of the briefest of
these documents and may be quoted in full to show now the relation
it bears to certain excerpts made in previous articles: Protocol VI.
"We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, colossal
reservoirs of wealth, upon which even the big Gentile properties will
be dependent to such an extent that they will all fall together with
the government credit on the day following the political catastrophe.
The economists here present must carefully weigh the significance of
this combination. We must develop by every means the importance
of our super-government, representing it as the protector and
benefactor of all who voluntarily submit to us. "The aristocracy of
the Gentiles as a political
 HOW "JEWISH QUESTION" TOUCHES THE FARM 181 force
has passed away. We need not take them into consideration. But, as
owners of the land, they are harmful to us in that they are
independent in their sources of livelihood'. Therefore, at all costs, we
must deprive them of their land. "The best means to attain this is to
increase the taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These measures will
keep land oivnership in a state of unconditional subordination.
Unable to satisfy their needs by small inheritances, the aristocrats
among the Gentiles will burn themselves out rapidly. "At the same
time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry vigorously and
especially speculation, the function of which is to act as a
counterpoise to industry. Without speculation, industry will cause
private capital to increase and tend to improve the condition of
Agriculture BY FREEING THE LAND FROM INDEBTEDNESS FOR
LOANS by the land banks. It is necessary for industry to deplete the
land both of laborers and capital, and, through speculations, transfer
all the money of the world into our hands, thereby throwing the
Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. The Gentiles will then bow
before us to obtain the right to existence. "To destroy Gentile
industry, we shall, as an incentive to this speculation, encourage
among the Gentiles a strong demand for luxuries, allenticing
luxuries. "We will force up wages, which however will be of no
benefit to workers, for we will at the same time cause a rise in the
prices of prime necessities, pretending that this is due to the decline
of agriculture and of cattle raising. We will also artfully and deeply
undermine the sources of production by instilling in the workmen
ideas of anarchy, and encourage them in the use of alcohol, at the
same time taking measures to drive all the intellectual forces of the
Gentiles from I'he land. "That the true situation shall not be noticed
by the Gentiles prematurely, we will mask it by a pretended effort to
serve the working classes and promote great economic principles,
for which
 182 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW an active propaganda will
be carried on through our economic theories." The local and passing
element in this is "the aristocracy of the Gentiles." That is to say, the
program is not entirely fulfilled by the passing of aristocrats. Jewry
goes on just the same. Its program stretches far. Jewry will retain
such kings as it desires as long as it desires them. Probably the last
throne to be vacated will be the British throne because what to the
British mind is the honor of being Jewry's protector and therefore
the inheritor of the blessing which that attitude brings, is to the
Jewish mind the good fortune of being able to use a world-wide
empire for the furtherance of Jewry's purpose. Each has served the
other and the partnership will probably last until Jewry gets ready to
throw Britain over, which Jewry can do at almost any time. There are
indications that it has already started on this last task. But the
permanent elements in this Protocol are the Land, the Jews, and the
Gentiles. A word of explanation may be necessary on this inclusion
of the Gentiles as permanent: the Protocols do not contemplate the
extermination of the Gentiles, nor the making of this world a
completely Jewish populated world. The Protocols contemplate a
Gentile world ruled by the Jews — the Jews as masters, the Gentiles
as hewers of wood and drawers of water, a policy which every Old
Testament reader knows to be typically Jewish and the source of
divine judgment upon Israel time and again. Now, look at this whole
Program as it concerns the Land. "Owners of the land * * * are
harmful to us in that they are independent in their sources of
livelihood." That is a foundation principle of the Protocols. It matters
not whether the owners are the "Gentile aristocracy," the peasants
of Poland, or the farmers of the United States — land ownership
makes the owners "independent in their sources of livelihood." And
any form of independence is fatal to the success of the World
Program which is written so comprehensively in the Protocols and
which is advancing so comprehensively under Jewish guidance in the
world of actual affairs today.
 HOW "JEWISH QUESTION" TOUCHES THE FARM 183 Not
"tillers" of the land, not "dwellers" on the land, not "tenants," not an
"agricultural peasantry," but "owners of the land" — this is the class
singled out for attention in this Sixth Protocol, BECA USE they are
"independent in their sources of livelihood.^' Now, there has been
no time in the history of the United States when apparently it was
more easy for the farmer to own his land than now. Mortgages
should be a thing of the past. Everywhere the propaganda of the
question tells us that the farmers are growing "rich." And yet there
were never so many abandoned farms! "Therefore, at all costs ive
must deprive them of their land." How? "The best means to attain
this is to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness." High
taxes to keep the land at all, borrowed money to finance the tilling
of it. "These measures will keep land ownership in a state of
unconditional subordination." We will leave it to the farmers of the
United States to say whether this is working out or not. And in a
future reference to this subject we will show that whenever an
attempt is made to enable farmers to borrow money at decent rates,
whenever it is proposed to lighten the burden of "mortgage
indebtedness" on the farm, Jewish financial influence in the United
States steps in to prevent it, or faihng to prevent it, mess it all up in
the operation. By increasing the farmer's financial disability on the
one hand, and by increasing industrial allurements on the other, a
very great deal is accomplished. The Protocol says: "It is necessary
for industry to deplete the Land both of laborers and capital." Has
that been done? Have the farms of the United States been depleted
both of laborers and capital? Certainly. Money is harder for the
farmer to get than it is for any other man; and as for labor, he
cannot get it on any terms. What is the result of these two
influences, the one working on the farm, and the other in the cities?
It is precisely what the Protocol says it will be: Increased wages that
buy less of the materials of life — "we will at the same time cause a
rise in the prices of
 184 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW prime necessities,
pretending that this is due to the decline of agriculture and cattle
raising." The Jew who set these Protocols in order was a financier,
economist and philosopher of the first order. He knew what he was
talking about. His operations in the ordinary world of business
always indicated that he knew exactly what he was doing. How well
this Sixth Protocol has worked and is still working out in human
affairs is before the eyes of everyone to see. Here in the United
States one of the most important movements toward real
independence of the financial powers has been begun by the
farmers. The farmers' strong advantage is that, owning the land, he
is independent in his sources of livelihood. The land 1 will feed him
whether he pleases International Jewish Financiers or not. His
position is impregnable as long as the sun shines and the seasons
roll. It was therefore necessary to do something to hinder this
budding independence. He was placed under a greater disadvantage
than any other business man in borrowing capital. He was placed
more ruthlessly than any other producer between the upper and
nether stones of a thievish distribution system. Labor was drawn
away from the farm. The Jew-controlled melodrama made the
farmer a "rube," and Jew-made fiction presented him as a "hick,"
causing his sons to be ashamed of farm fife. The grain syndicates
which operate against the farmer are Jew-controlled. There is no
longer any possibility of doubting, when the facts of actual affairs
are put alongside the written Program, that the farmer of the United
States has an interest in this Question. What would this World
Program gain if the wageworkers were enslaved and the farmers
were allowed to go scot-free? Therefore the program of agricultural
interference which has been only partially outlined here. But this is
not all. Any writer who attempts fully to inform the Gentile mind on
the Jewish Question must often feel that the extent of the Protocols'
Conspiracy is so great as to stagger the Gentile mind. Gentiles are
not conspirators. They cannot follow a clue through long and
devious and darkened channels. The elaborate com 
 HOW "JEWISH QUESTION" TOUCHES THE FARM 185
pleteness of the Jewish Program, the perfect co-ordination of its
mass of details wearies the Gentile mind. This, really more than the
daring of the Program itself, constitutes the principal danger of
Program being fulfilled. Gentile mental laziness is the most powerful
ally the World Program has. For example: after citing the perfectly
obvious coincidence and most probable connection between the
Protocols and the observable facts with reference to the farm
situation, the writer is compelled to say, as above, "But this is not
all." And it is a peculiarity of Gentile psychology that the Gentile
reader will feel that it ought to be all because it is so complete. This
is where the Jewish mind out-maneuvers the Gentile mind. Gentiles
may do a thing for one reason: the Jew often does the same thing
for three or four reasons. The Gentile can understand thus far why
Jewish financiers should seek control of the land in order to prevent
widespread Agricultural Independence which, as Protocol Six says,
would be "harmful to us." That reason is perfectly clear. But there is
another. It is found in the Twelfth Protocol. It contemplates nothing
less than the playing of City against Country in the great game now
being exposed. Complete control over the City by the industrial
leverage, and over the Country by the debt leverage, will enable the
Hidden Players to move first the Countrj^ by saying that the City
demands certain things, and then move the City by saying that the
Country demands certain things, thus splitting Citizens and Farmers
apart and using them against one another. Look at the plainness and
the boldness, yet the calm assut-ance, with which this plan is
broached: "Our calculations reach out, especially into the country
districts. There we must necessarily arouse those interests and
ambitions which we can always turn against the city, representing
them to the cities as dreams and ambitions for independence on the
part of the provinces. It is clear that the source of this will be
precisely the same, and that it will come from us. It will be
necessary for us before we have attained full power to so arrange
 186 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW matters that, from time to
time, the cities shall come under the influence of opinion in the
country districts, that is, of the majority prearranged by our agents *
* *" The preliminaries of the game are here set forth — to jockey
City and Farm against each other, that in the end the Conspirators
may use whichever proves the stronger in putting the Plan over. In
Russia, both schemes have been worked. The old regime,
established in the Cities, was persuaded to lay down power because
it was made to believe that the peasants of Russia requested it.
Then, when the Bolshevists seized power, they ruled the peasantry
on the ground that the Cities wanted it. The Cities listened to the
Country, now the Country is listening to the Cities. If you see any
attempt made to divide City and Farm into antagonistic camps,
remember this paragraph from the Twelfth Protocol. Already the
poison is working. Have you never heard that Prohibition was
something which the backwoods districts forced upon the cities?
Have you never heard that the High Cost of Living was due to
extravagant profits of the farmer? — profits which he doesn't get.
One big dent in this Program of World Control could be made if the
Citizen and the Farmer could learn each other's mind, not through
self-appointed spokesmen, but directly from each other. City and
Farm are drifting apart because of misrepresentation of outsiders,
and in the widening rift the sinister shadow of the World Program
appears. Let the Farmers look past the "Gentile fronts" in their
villages or principal trading points, past them to the real controllers
who are hidden. Usoe oi September 4, 1920.
 XVII. Does Jewish Power Control the World Press? THE
purpose of this article is twofold: to set forth what the Protocols
have to say about the relation 'of the Press to the World Program,
and to make an introduction to a study of Jewish influence on the
Press. The Jewish race has always been aware of the advantages to
be derived from news. This was one of the factors in its control of
European commerce from the earliest Christian times. To be
informed beforehand, to know what was coming before the Gentiles
among whom they lived knew it, was a special privilege of the Jews,
made possible by the close communication in which widely
separated Jewish groups kept themselves. From the first they were
inveterate correspondents. They were the inventors of the news-
letter. This does not imply, however, that the Jews were the
forerunners or even the sponsors of the modern Press. It was no
part of their purpose to distribute news among the people, but to
keep it for themselves as a secret advantage. The political, economic
and commercial news which sped with really remarkable facility
throughout Europe, from Jewish community to Jewish community,
was in reality the official budget by which each community informed
all the others of what was transpiring, a^ to war, trade current's,
rising emergencies, or whatever the matter may have been. For
centuries the Jews were the best informed people on the continent;
from their secret sources in courts and chancellories, from privileged
Jews who were placed in every position of vantage, the whole race
was informed of the state of the world. Scouts were kept in motion
everywhere. Far down in South America, before the British or Dutch
colonies in North America had hardly secured a foothold, there were
Jews who served as outposts for European trade interests. The
world was spied out in the interests of their race, just as today the
entire planet is under the watchful eyes of Jewish agents — mostly
Gentiles, it must be said — for any hint of new gold discoveries.
 188 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW An interesting and historic
illustration of the Jews' appreciation of news is to be found in the
career of Nathan Rothschild. Rothschild had laid all his plans on the
assumption that the Emperor Napoleon, then banished to Elba, was
finally eliminated from European affairs. Napoleon unexpectedly
returned, and in the "Hundred Daj^s" it seemed as if the Rothschild
financial- edifice might collapse. Feverishly the financier aided both
Prussia and England, and as the Battle' of Waterloo approached, no
one was more interested in the outcome than he. Rothschild was a
man who shrank from the sight of blood; he was physically a
coward, and any sign of violence unnerved him; but so intense was
his interest in the battle on which his whole fortune seemed to
depend, that he hastened to France, followed the British Army, and
when the battle began he hid himself in "some shot-proof nook near
Hougomont" where he watched all day the ebb and flow of battle.
Just before Napoleon ordered the last desperate charge Rothschild
had made up his mind. He said afterward that his exclamation at this
point was, "The House of Rothschild has won the battle." He hurried
from the field, galloped wildly to Brussels, communicating not a
word of what he knew to the anxious people he met by the way.
Hiring a carriage at an exorbitant price, he galloped away to Ostend.
Here a fierce storm was raging on the ocean and no sailor was
willing to set out for England, about 20 miles away. Rothschild
himself, always afraid of danger, forgot his fear in his visions of the
stock market. He offered 500, 800, and at length 1,000 francs to the
man who would take him across. But no one dared. Finally one sailor
proposed that if Rothschild would pay 2,000 francs into his wife's
hands, he would attempt it. Half dead the two men reached the
English coast, but without rest Rothschild ordered express post and
hurried away to London. Whip and spur were not spared on that
journey. There were no telegrams in those days, no swift
communication. England was anxious. The rumors were bad. And on
the morning of June 20, 1815, when Nathan Rothschild appeared in
his usual place at the