"tracking down and identifying
anti-semites seems to be suspiciously close to tracking down and
identifying Jews"
 
Jonathon... your logic here is soooo confused.... as if their is any
equivalency in this!!!!
 
 
Stoneking
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan P. Gill <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Coded Language
 
 
> Re William Jennings Bryan:
>
> I would admit to a tiny stretch (or, as Huck might say, a stretcher), but
> not to an unconscionable one.
>
> I do regret calling WJB an anti-semite (tracking down and identifying
> anti-semites seems to be suspiciously close to tracking down and
> identifying Jews), but I stand firm on his language and ideology, at least
> around the turn-of-the-century, as an ideal example of Populist
> anti-semitism.  He presses all the buttons:  powerful international
> bankers bowing down to the golden calf of monometalism, etc.  When Bryan
> stood with arms wide and shouted "you shall not crucify mankind on a cross
> of gold," he was, of course, addressing "Christ killers."  Pound quotes
> this speech in his broadcasts.  Let us not also forget that the Bryan of
> 1896 returned to haunt Pound in the form of radio--the Scopes trial of
> 1925 was probably the first great public event broadcast live to a huge
> audience. I have no evidence that Pound commented directly on it, but the
> English papers available throughout Europe covered the trial quite
> closely.
>
> By the way, the Ku Klux Klan considered Bryan one of their greatest
> supporters.  It caused quite a bit of embarassment for Bryan, and prompted
> a very insincere apology.  Bryan's horrible social intolerances are, after
> a century of study by all kinds of scholars, a given.
>
> As for Buchanan, I can't say I've listened closely enough, but it seems to
> me that the Populist tradition comes hard-wired with judeophobia going
> right back to Jefferson's objections to Jews as too urban, too legalistic,
> too literal-minded.  That's what the most reliable historians (most of
> them liberals, to be sure) say.
>
> It's interesting, then, that EP doesn't seem to take advantage of this
> side of Jefferson--perhaps because his major interest in Jefferson (late
> 1920s and early 1930s) did not overlap with his obsession with Jews
> (mid-1930s and onward).  It's also worth noting that Pound edits out John
> Adams's anti-anti-semitic remarks in the Adams Cantos.
>
> Jonathan Gill
> Columbia University
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, bob scheetz wrote:
>
> > Jonathon Gill writes:
> >
> > >...William Jennings Bryan, whose "Cross of Gold"
> > >speech is a virtual lexicon of Populist judeophobia.
> >
> > this seems rather an unconscionable stretch
> > ...like how they're presently hatcheting patrick buchanan,
> > our latter-day golden-tongued populist
> >
> >
> > bob
> >
>