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...This has led me to direct my personal attention to this subject, in order to ascertain the exact nature of these articles. As a result of this survey I confess that I am deeply mortified that this journal, which is intended to be constructive and not destructive has been made the medium for resurrection of exploded fictions, for giving currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital...
...Those who know me can bear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult upon and to occasion pain to anybody and that it has been my effort to free myself from prejudice. Because of that I frankly confess that I have been greatly shocked as a result of my study and examination of the files of the Dearborn Independent and the pamphlets entitled 'The International...
...went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many of my dearest friends. . . . While I feel...
...remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution...
...this problem from their attention now: all agitation brings it closer under their scrutiny. It is not entirely a false notion that the administration of the Treasury Department has been in part corrupted and much confused by the exigencies of enforcement. Yet the government does not do well to confess impotency too readily however impracticable a project it has undertaken...