"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]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > >