Anti-Semitic

It has been a favorite pastime, down the ages, whenever anything went wrong to blame the Jews. Thus, in Germany, the Jews are responsible for losing the War, responsible for the Republic, responsible for the peace terms and responsible for many other things. Anti-Semitism runs high throughout the Teutonic land.

Not long ago, Theodor Fritsch, Editor of the anti-Semitic Hammer, called Max Warburg, head of the Hamburg banking house of that name, a "Secret Kaiser"; accused him and one Dr. Karl Melchior, together with Jewish financiers in general, of sacrificing patriotic interests for their own gain.

The matter came to court when Herr

Warburg sued Editor Fritsch. In his evidence, Max Warburg declared that individual Jews had everywhere won influential positions through their ability, but that none exercised or sought to exercise any super-Government control

Continuing, Herr Warburg said: "My brothers Paul [onetime head of the Federal Reserve Bank] and Felix [financier, member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Manhattan] are American citizens. Paul holds an office in America equivalent to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Throughout the whole War, he never once saw President Wilson and, therefore, could hardly have controlled the United States Government.

"I myself have always followed the interests of our Government in all financial transactions. I warned the authorities against signing the Versailles Treaty. At the Peace Conference, I served only as an expert, declining to be a member of the delegation. Naturally, the Jews have acted as advisers to statesmen, as, for instance, Bleichroeder did for Bismarck.

"But the international dictatorship of Jewish high finance can never be proved because it does not exist."

The court gave a decision for the plaintiff; the judge sentenced Fritsch to three months imprisonment.