Judge — July 1938 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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= pi cr logic has no place in a fight for liberty, or for freedom from persecution. Hot determina- tion to free a people from binding shackles, to span a rushing torrent, to cross a threatening mountain range, or to make fertile an arid desert, must enter the human mind so that obstacles to such progress, or fear of failure, are negligible. Out of such thinking and preaching come martyrs and leaders whose unreason- ing intention to free a people from physical shackles is assured of accomplishment. Logicians and engincers abound to do the chores and find the means later. Those who reason in advance find too many reasons to abandon undertaking, and too much proof that the end cannot be attained. The logical in the American colonies reasoned the great strength of England and its trained army as too much to overcome with the ragged volunteer armies of the American wilderness, and fled to Canada, until the unreasoning and ragged had won their ends. Na- poleon died on St. Helena, confused because his mili- tary logic had betrayed him. The German high com- mand, in the early twentieth century, built by rule and a study of maps and a multiplication of materials and men, had proof that force of arms could change the world map, and believed this until the Treaty of Ver- sailles. Empires have crashed and republics have been born, old flags have been hauled down and banners with new designs flung to the world winds, because human intelligence betrayed its little creators, and human emotions, which are the unexplained and un- fathomed responses to the Great Creator, overrode all opposition. I am Irish. I have seen my people win economic peace and a right to racial pride through illogical and unsound methods, because their hearts beat al- ways toward an objective which their vision held clear and which could not be misted. Ancient enemies of Ireland have come to respect her as they have always been able to depend upon her assistance in times of common trouble. AND now the Jew. An amateur logician, a mad paper-hanger drunk with power, a festering symbol of hatred rampant in the world, tramples, July, 1938 THE JUDGE ON THE BENCH robs and murders a kindly race, not because they have offended, but because his amateur cold logic has found the Jew the weakest in defense, unorganized and trained in suffering. There is a degeneracy in thinking, common to such minds as would sieze power, which proves to them that they must record repeated vic- tories over something or someone. They must create fear in the minds and hearts of onlookers by the ruth- lessness with which they attain their ends, as an object lesson to those yet untouched by their omnipo- tence. And so Hitler cuts the throats of Jews, robs the Jewish poor of their meager savings and the rich Jew of his greater hoard, so that you and I, who are not Jewish, may be afraid of this great genius. HATRED is contagious, and unless checked at its most obvious point today, it will unquestionably spread to other minds as small as Hitler's, in other lands, who will attempt to ape his methods. To stop this the Jew needs, and must have, a leader—a leader to stir the minds, not only of his own people, but of the non-Jew as well, by the fearlessness of his leadership. The Jew outside of Germany must not become the vic- tim of self-mesmerism such as a certain type of Jew in Berlin once had, that that poison now existing cannot spread to reach his home and fireside. It is on its way. The excuse that there are only four and a half mil- lion Jews in America, and that therefore they are in- capable of attack upon Europe’s madman, is cold logic which has no place in the freeing of a people from persecution. The Gentile’s obligation is an obligation to protect and aid the Jew in his determination to fight, and a further obligation to defend himself by rallying around the Jew. My obligation is an obligation to pay no attention to the threatening demands that I cease making these statements, and that I remember with gratitude that I am a citizen of a nation which took my Irish forebears to its arms, and demanded of them nothing but that they be good citizens, of proud hearts and strong arms, and encouraged them in lov- ing the old country enough never to forget its fight for freedom. I have the further obligation of praying that the Jew may too learn this lesson from the pages of the history of an old and tired world. 23 comicbooks.com