FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 18th c. American statesman.
Franklin had gone to Holland to dicker with the Jewish international banking firm of De Neufville on a loan to the United States. He was aghast when he learned that a certain modest collateral was expected in return: the entire thirteen states themselves, plus a stiff annual commission on all trade and internal exchange:
"I think that keeping us out of the possession of fifty thousands of pounds sterling worth of goods for securing the payment of a demand for damages is not only dishonorable treatment but a monstrous injustice. It seems to me that it is principally with Johann Neufville of Amsterdam, Holland, that we have to do; and although I believe him to be as much a Jew as any in Jerusalem^ I did not expect that, with so many such constant professions of friendship for the U.S. with which he loads all his letters, he would attempt to enforce his demands by a proceeding so abominable. His proposition of terms on which he would borrow money for us stamped his character on my mind with an impression so deep that it is not yet effaced. "(Letter from Passy, France, to President John Adams, November 26, 1781. Cited by A. Smythe, 'The Writings of Benjamin Franklin.)
Franklin's letter to Adams on December 14, 1791, observes that such traits date back to the swindling of Esau by Jacob and the Israelites' treatment of the Canaanites. John Bigelow (Works of Benjamin Franklin) reproduces Franklin's poem on Benedict Arnold. It is replete with references to Arnold's intimate association with such Jews as David Sholesbury Franks.
THE FRANKLIN PROPHECY
The controversial Franklin Prophecy, supposedly voiced by-Benjamin Franklin at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787, is one of the more astringent anti-Jewish utterances -- though by no means harsher than some of the outbursts of MARTIN LUTHER or VOLTAIRE. Nevertheless, the Jewish leadership has been extremely concerned about it, and immediately after it was published in the 1930s, marshaled a star-studded panel of academicians to pronounce it a forgery (see the American Jewish Committee pamphlet, "Benjamin Franklin Vindicated"). The prophecy was supposed to have been recorded in "Chit Chat Around the Table During Intermissions," a section of the Diary of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. Pinckney was present at the Convention, and although the proceedings were secret, took down excerpts of the outstanding speeches. At the present time, no copies of the diary are known to exist, and this negative evidence is the chief fact advanced in attempting to refute the 'Prophecy.'
However, Pinckney did refer to his diary in a letter to John Quincy Adams of December 30, 1818. And it is also possible that a single MS. volume, or even an entire small printed edition, could have been destroyed -- particularly after the Civil War when occupying Northern troops practiced systematic looting and burning. Joining the fray, some well-known historians - among them no less a figure than Charles Beard - have had the coolness to say that Franklin could not have made such a speech because he had never in his life expressed an 'anti-Semitic' thought. Beard seems to have missed the De Neufville and Arnold references, both of which would have to be 'anti-Semitic,' by present usage of that meaningless term.
With this background, then, the Franklin Prophecy is presented in the hope that the reader will judge this too-damning indictment for himself. As with the enigmatic Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, denounced from Jewish headquarters as yet another 'forgery,' the real issue must be whether the Prophecy fits the actual facts as they have developed since 1787. Proof of any prophecy lies always in fulfillment.
"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Bccause they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other peoples not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance and jeopardized our liberty. If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations."
GIBBON, EDWARD. 18th c. British historian. "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius, the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome, which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital or the horrid cruelties which they committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives. . . In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder, according to a precedent to which David had given the sanction of his example. The victorious Jews devoured the flesh, licked the blood, and twisted the entrails like a girdle around their bodies." (History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
MENCKEN, H. L. 20th c. American writer.
"The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack many of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display." (Treatise on the Gods)
"The fact that what are commonly spoken of as rights are often really privileges is demonstrated in the case of the Jews. They resent bitterly their exclusion from certain hotels, resorts and other places of gathering, and make determined efforts to horn in. But the moment any considerable number of them horns in, the attractions of the place diminish, and the more pushful Jews turn to one where they are still "nicht gewunscht".. .
I am one of the few Goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other Goyim. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish. . .
The Jewish theory that the Goyim envy the superior ability of Jews is not borne out by the facts. Most Goyim, in fact, deny that the Jew is superior, and point in evidence to his failure to take the first prizes: he has to be content with the seconds. No Jewish composer has ever come within miles of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; no Jew has ever challenged the top-fight painters of the world, and no Jewish scientist has ever equalled Newton, Darwin, Pasteur or Mendel. In the latter bracket such apparent exceptions as Ehrlich, Freud and Einstein are only apparent. Ehrlich, in fact, contributed less to biochemical fact than to biochemical theory, and most of his theory Was dubious; Freud was nine-tenths quack, and there is sound reason for believing that even Einstein will not hold up: in the long run his curved space may be classed with the psychosomatic bumps of Gall and Spurzheim. But whether this inferiority of the Jew is real or only a delusion, it must be manifest that it is generally accepted. The Goy does not in fact believe that the Jew is better than the non-Jew; the most he will admit is that the Jew is smarter at achieving worldly success. But this he ascribes to sharp practices, not to superior ability. "(Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks)
BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON.
French statesman, general.
"The Jews provided troops for my campaign in Poland, but they ought to reimburse me: I soon found that they are no good for anything but selling old clothes. . .
Legislation must be put in effect everywhere that the general well-being is in danger. The government cannot look with indifference on the way a despicable nation takes possession of all the provinces of France. The Jews have to be treated as a special people. They are a state within the state. It is discouraging for the French nation to end up under the sway of the lowest of peoples. The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age; they are the carrion birds of humanity. . . They must be treated with political justice, not with civil justice. They are surely not real citizens.
The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers, falling into disgrace when they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it. . . The evils of the Jews do not stem from individuals, but from the fundamental nature of this people." (From Napoleon's Reflexions, and from speeches before the Council of State on April 30 and May 7, 1806.)
"Nothing more contemptible could be done than the reception of the Jews by you. I decided to improve the Jews. But I do not want more of them in my kingdom. Indeed. I have done all to prove my scorn of the most vile nation in the world. " (Letter to his brother Jerome, king of Westphalia, March 6, 1808.)
"(1) Every big and small Jew in the peddling trade must renew his license every year. (2) Checks and other obligations are only redeemable if the Jew can prove that he has obtained the money without cheating. " (Ordinance of March 17, 1808. Code Napoleon.)
RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI. 20th c. writer in America.
"Of course you do resent us Jews The thing tnat intrigues me about this anti-Jewish business, however, is your total lack of grit. You seem to be suffering from self-consciousness horribly. It is not as if you were amateurs - you have been at it for over fifteen centuries. You resent us, but cannot clearly say why.
We are, if you are to be believed, a menace to your racial integrity. We shirk our patriotic duty in wartime, because we are pacifists by nature and tradition.
You accuse us of stirring up revolution in Moscow. Suppose we admit the charge, what of it?
Take the three principal revolutions in modern times - the French, American and Russian. What are they but the triumph of the Jewish idea of social, political and economic justice? And the end is still a long way off. We still dominate you.
You make much noise and fury about the undue Jewish influence in your theaters and movie palaces. Granted, your complaint is well-founded. But what is that compared with our staggering influence in your churches, your schools, your laws and your government, and the very thoughts you think? You believe "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." But what is that beside the unquestionable and historic conspiracy we have carried out, and which we have never denied because you have never had the courage to charge us with it? You call us subverters, agitators, revolution-mongers. It is the truth - and I cower at your discovery.
You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We are at the bottom not merely of the latest war, but nearly all your wars. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. We did it solely with the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas and propaganda.
If we were in your place, we should dislike you more cordially than you do us. But we should make no bones about telling you why. You go about whispering terrifyingly about the hand of the Jew in this and that. It makes us quake. We are conscious of the injury we did when we imposed upon you our alien faith and traditions. And then you specify and talk vaguely of Jewish financiers and Jewish motion picture promoters, and our terror dissolves in laughter. The gentiles, we see with relief, will never know the real blackness of our crimes.
Can you wonder that we Jews have always taken your anti-Semites rather lightly, as long as they did not resort to violence?" ("The Real Case Against the Jews," by Marcus Eli Ravage, pseudonym for "big destruction hammer of God,', Century Magazine, January 1928.)
SAMUEL, MAURICE, 20th c. writer in America.
"Between Gentiles and Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf. Ours is one life -- yours another. This primal difference is not reconcilable. It is abysmal. . .
Wherever the Jew is found, he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and those around him. Jews are everywhere to a large extent aliens -- unquestionably an alien spirit in your colleges. He will not accept your rules of right or wrong because he does not understand them. These two ways of life are utterly alien to the other. They are enemies...
Our Jewishness is not a creed: it is our totality. A Jew is a Jew in everything. We cannot conceive of a duality -- religion and life, the sacred and the secular. I might say, 'We and God grew up together." In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Jews alone understand the universality of God.
There does not seem to be a single country with a history which has not been anti-Semitic at one time or another.
You might say, 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other.' But the two are not merely different, they are opposed in mortal enmity. . .
In your world, a man should be loyal to his country, to his province, to his city. To the Jew, naked loyalty is an incomprehensible thing. . .
We Jews pay little attention to the afterlife. We thank God for having made us different from you. . .
We are not in your midst by our own will, but through your action. We are unwelcome to you because we are what we are. We have more cogent reasons for hating you than you for us....
Repudiation of the Jewish religion does not alter the Jew. ...
You must learn to dislike and fear the modern and 'assimilated' Jew more than you did the old Jew. He is more dangerous to you. His enmity to your way of life was tacit before. Today it is active. . .
We Jews are accused of being destroyers. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction. We cannot find it. We are destroyers - even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief. Jews will remain destroyers for ever. Nothing you do will meet our demands. . ." (from "You Gentiles")
VOLTAIRE (Francois Marie Arouet). 18th c. French philosopher, writer.
"Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race. . .
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous -- cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity. "(Essai sur les moeurs)
"You seem to me to be the maddest of the lot. The Kaffirs, the Hottentots, and the Negroes of Guinea are much more reasonable and more honest people than your ancestors, the Jews. You have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct and in barbarism. You deserve to be punished, for this is your destiny." (From a letter to a Jew who had written to him, complaining of his 'anti-Semitism.' Examen des quelques objections... dans I'Essai sur les moeurs.)
"You will only find in the Jews an ignorant and barbarous people, who for a long time have joined the most sordid avarice to the most detestable superstition and to the most invincible hatred of all peoples which tolerate and enrich them." ("Juif", Dictionnaire Philosophique)
"I know that there are some Jews in the English colonies. These marranos go wherever there is money to be made . . . But whether these circumcised who sell old clothes claim that they are of the tribe of Naphtali or Issachar is not of the slightest importance. They are, simply, the biggest scoundrels who have ever dirtied the face of the earth. "(Letter to Jean-Baptiste Nicolas de Lisle de Sales, December 15, 1773.Correspondance 86:166)
"They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race" (Lettres de Memmius a Ciceron, 1771
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