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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Protocols and World Revolution, by
-Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus
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-Title: The Protocols and World Revolution
-       Including a Translation and Analysis of the "Protocols of the
-       Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom"
-
-Author: Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus
-
-Translator: Natalie de Bogory
-            Boris Leo Brasol
-
-Release Date: March 31, 2021 [eBook #64977]
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROTOCOLS AND WORLD
-REVOLUTION ***
-
-
-
-
-
-THE PROTOCOLS
-
-
-
-
-                            THE PROTOCOLS AND
-                            WORLD REVOLUTION
-
-                               INCLUDING A
-                        TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS
-                                 OF THE
-                       “PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS
-                           OF THE ZIONIST MEN
-                               OF WISDOM”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                                 BOSTON
-                        SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
-                               PUBLISHERS
-
-                             COPYRIGHT, 1920
-                       BY SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
-
-                          _All rights reserved_
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-TRANSLATION
-
-IT IS NEAR, AT THE DOOR
-
-    MATT. XXIV, 33
-    MARK XIII, 29
-    LUKE XXI, 31
-    REV. I, 3. XXII, 10
-    DAN. XII, 4
-
-CONCERNING SOMETHING PEOPLE DO NOT WISH TO BELIEVE AND WHICH IS SO NEAR
-
-FOURTH EDITION OF THE BOOK, “NEAR IS THE COMING OF ANTI-CHRIST AND THE
-KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL ON EARTH,” REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED BY
-LATER RESEARCHES AND INVESTIGATION
-
-SERGE NILUS
-
-_Dedicated to the small herd of Christ_
-
-“Ye, brethren, do not remain in the dark so that the day (of the Lord)
-shall not catch ye as thieves.” (I Sol. 5, 4.)
-
-“He who suffers to the end shall be saved.” (Matt. 24, 13.)
-
-THE TOWN OF SERGIEV
-
-
-
-
-Part One
-
-INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
-
-
-The world is in the midst of a crisis not less serious than that of the
-great war. While it was inevitable that the period following the war
-should be fraught with grave problems for civilization, these problems
-have been made much more difficult by the presence of a new danger,
-namely, the destructive force of Bolshevism. Russia was the first victim
-of what proves to be a movement of an international character, Russia
-being used as the base of operations. While powerful Bolshevist armies
-are overrunning Asia and menacing the European countries to the West, an
-equally dangerous force of Red propagandists, directed from Moscow, is
-operating on several continents, spreading its social poison throughout
-the world and threatening the destruction of the social and industrial
-morale of civilized nations.
-
-With the triumph of the Bolshevist revolution in Russia, a group of
-internationalists, most of whom were members of the Jewish race, seized
-the machinery of government and have held it ever since.
-
-The complete destruction of Russian civilization, which for centuries had
-been essentially a Christian civilization, and the reduction of the great
-majority of the Russian people to a state of abject misery and ruin, are
-accomplished facts. The Bolshevist leaders, however, not content with
-this destruction and the establishment of a cruel despotism in Russia,
-are making every effort to extend their revolution and their control to
-other countries.
-
-The Communist revolution in Hungary, under Bela Cohen (alias Kuhn), a
-confessed ally and agent of Trotzky, was not terminated until it had
-wrought great havoc in that country. The same is true of the Spartacan
-revolt in Germany, where recently the struggle broke out anew and assumed
-the character of a formidable civil war. Holland and Italy are to-day
-seriously threatened with uprisings inspired by the Bolsheviki, while in
-France the government has been compelled to expel the Bolshevist agents
-in large numbers. In the United States revolutionary agitation directly
-guided and fomented by agents of Lenin and Trotzky and subsidized
-with ample funds, recently reached such proportions that the Federal
-Government was forced to take strong measures, including hundreds of
-arrests and deportations. The enemy is in our midst. In this country,
-as elsewhere, alien agitators who are either Bolshevists themselves or
-emissaries of the Bolsheviki have wormed their way into some of the loyal
-labor organizations or put themselves at the head of the Socialist or
-other radical political parties artificially stimulating social unrest
-and seeking to turn industrial strikes into political upheavals, leading
-to revolution and anarchy.
-
-Shall America be as slow to realize the real danger of international
-Bolshevism as she was to recognize the menace of German imperialism?
-Shall America again be unprepared?
-
-We must be ready to meet the danger at our doors and, if necessary, to
-suppress it in our midst with physical force, just as was necessary in
-the struggle with Prussian militarism. It has been said, however, and
-perhaps truly, that Bolshevism cannot be met by force alone. Certainly
-to meet it effectively its nature must be understood. To this end it
-is necessary to analyze the movement carefully and to discover its
-underlying causes—if possible the predominating cause.
-
-From the very beginning there was an element of mystery in the Bolshevist
-revolution in Russia. Was it, essentially, an attempt to put into effect
-the principles of international socialism as promulgated by Karl Marx?
-Was it a disguised form of proletarian imperialism? Did it aim at the
-complete destruction of Christian civilization? Or, finally, was it a
-long planned, gigantic revolt of the Jewish race against Christendom and
-its institutions?
-
-From the very start there was a terrible method in the madness of Trotzky
-and those in league with him. Many of their moves which at the time
-seemed inexplicable afterwards appeared logical enough when their objects
-became apparent.
-
-The world was puzzled by Trotzky’s famous remark at Brest-Litovsk, “No
-peace, no war.” Later, however, the real meaning became known: “No war
-on Germany, no peace for Russia or the rest of the world.”
-
-That the Bolshevist revolution was from the beginning almost entirely led
-and controlled by Jews is a fact which has gradually thrust itself upon
-the attention of the world. The Jews in many instances have admitted the
-dominating rôle which members of their race have played in international
-Bolshevism and have sought to defend it. Some of their recognized leaders
-have proclaimed their pride in Trotzky.
-
-The fact that the Jewish race has taken such an active part in the
-Russian Bolshevist movement, with its international ramifications, has
-been attributed in some quarters to the motive of revenge on the part of
-the Jews for what they regard as a long era of persecution. If this be
-so, is it impossible that Jews in various parts of the world imagine that
-now is their chance not only for revenge but for world domination?
-
-The air of confidence with which Trotzky and other Jewish leaders
-are proceeding with their drastic program in Russia is significant.
-Significant, also, is the enthusiastic support which is being given to
-the Soviet rule by various Jewish elements and groups outside of Russia.
-Whether this co-related movement of the Jews in support of Bolshevism is
-not being carried out on some concerted plan is a question of importance
-which warrants careful study and investigation. No facts which can
-possibly throw light upon this question should be disregarded. For this
-reason it is timely to consider the contents and origin of a document of
-extraordinary interest which, though made public in Russia some fifteen
-years ago, is generally unknown elsewhere.
-
-The document referred to is entitled, “Protocols of the Meetings of the
-Zionist Men of Wisdom,” and was published for the first time in 1905 at
-Tsarskoje Selo in a Russian book entitled “The Great in the Little,”
-written by Serge Nilus, a well-known Russian author. The Protocols set
-forth a comprehensive program for the substantial destruction of all
-Christian states, and propose certain practical methods for achieving
-world domination by the Jewish nation. So far as is known, the Protocols
-have never been repudiated publicly by recognized Jewish authorities.
-Quite recently the well-known firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd., printers
-for the British Government, published a pamphlet under the title, “The
-Jewish Peril, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.” In the preface
-of this pamphlet it is explained that the Protocols referred to were
-translated from the Russian into English from Serge Nilus’s book _which
-appeared in Russia in 1905_. While the editors do not give the title of
-Nilus’s book, they say:
-
-    “A copy of the original may be seen at the British Museum
-    Library, under No. 3926-d-17, stamped British Museum, _10th
-    August, 1906_.”
-
-They state also that the publication of the English pamphlet at present
-is justified by the growing menace of Bolshevism throughout the world.
-The pamphlet concludes with the warning:
-
-    “GENTILES, BEWARE!”
-
-It seems obvious that the publishers, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd., have
-used Nilus’s book “The Great in the Little,” published in Russia in 1905.
-
-A specific reference to the Protocols is to be found also in the
-French weekly magazine _La Vieille-France_, No. 160, published in
-February, 1920. In the editorial article entitled “The Jews Have Created
-Bolshevism” (pages 10-13) the following extract from the Zionist
-Protocols, as published by Nilus, is given in French:
-
-    “A nous, son Peuple d’élection, Dieu a donné le pouvoir
-    d’expansion, et ce qui semble être notre faiblesse a été notre
-    force. _Nous sommes au seuil de la domination universelle._ Il
-    reste peu à construire sur ces bases,” etc. etc.
-
-The article asserts that Bolshevism is nothing but a phase of Judaism,
-and also states that the Jewish Bolshevist leaders in Russia were
-subsidized by Jewish banking houses in the United States and Germany.
-
-In January, 1917, Mr. Nilus published another book under the title “It is
-Near, At the Door,” and in this book the Protocols were again published
-in full. A reproduction of the title page of this book is inserted at the
-beginning of this volume.
-
-While the Protocols are generally unknown here, it is worthy of note that
-on October 27-28, 1919, the Philadelphia _Public Ledger_ printed long
-excerpts from them in an article calling the attention of the American
-people to the document and to the terrible program which it presents. The
-article in the _Ledger_ was somewhat misleading, however, since it was
-published under the captions “Red Bible” and “Bolshevist Propaganda.” All
-words in the text itself indicating that the Protocols were of Jewish
-origin were omitted. The Hebrew word “Goys,” signifying “Gentiles,” used
-in the Protocols, nowhere appears in the _Ledger_ article. Furthermore,
-wherever in the Protocols the expressions “our people” or “we”—meaning
-the “Jewish people” or the “Jews”—are used, the author of the article
-makes it appear that the people thus referred to are the “Bolshevists,”
-and speaks of the Protocols as a “Russian document,” which clearly it is
-not. Mr. Nilus shows that the Protocols came into his hands in 1901. In
-1901 the Bolshevist Party did not exist, for it was founded only in 1903
-and was not really organized for work until several years later. Nowhere
-in the Protocols does the word “Bolshevist” appear, while the word “Jews”
-is used many times, although the writer more frequently uses the word
-“we” when speaking of the Jews. There is only one hypothesis upon which
-the Protocols could possibly be considered “Bolshevist,” namely, that the
-Bolshevist movement was of Jewish origin, in which case the plan outlined
-in the Protocols might have become “Bolshevist” by adoption.
-
-The very fact that a document purporting to be written by a Jew for Jews
-could be so easily described as “Bolshevist Propaganda” is of interest.
-
-Now, for the first time, the document entitled by Mr. Nilus “Protocols of
-the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom” is published in full in the
-United States, correctly translated from the Russian. For this purpose
-we have used the Russian text as it appears in Mr. Nilus’s book, “It
-is Near, At the Door,” 1917, published in the printing office of the
-Sviato-Troitzky Monastery.
-
-Before proceeding to examine the contents of the Protocols, let us
-briefly give Mr. Nilus’s account of the way in which they came into his
-possession and of his views in regard to their origin.
-
-Mr. Nilus, at pages 86 to 92 of his book, “It is Near, At the Door,”
-states that he received the manuscript containing the Protocols of
-the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom in 1901 from Mr. Alexis
-Nikolajevich Souchotin, at one time Marshal of Nobility in the District
-of Chern, Central Russia, and later Vice Governor of the Government
-of Stavropol, South Russia, and that when giving the manuscript to Mr.
-Nilus, Mr. Souchotin said:
-
-    “Take it into your full possession. Read it. Become inspired
-    and make out of it something useful to the Christian soul.
-    Otherwise it might remain with me unused. From a political
-    standpoint it is useless, for it is too late to act on it. From
-    a spiritual standpoint, however, it might be otherwise. In your
-    hands, with God’s help, it will bear fruit.”
-
-Mr. Nilus states that Mr. Souchotin told him that the manuscript was
-originally obtained by a lady whose name is not given and who, he said,
-obtained it in a mysterious way. Mr. Nilus showed it to several Russians
-of high standing, one of whom said:
-
-    “Slavdom has not yet spoken its last word and, therefore, no
-    matter how cunning and strong the Zionist Men of Wisdom may be,
-    their efforts are doomed to failure, and for this reason there
-    is no need to despair.”
-
-Mr. Nilus states that prior to 1905 he submitted the Protocols to Grand
-Duke Serge Alexandrovitch, who, having examined them, sent him a message
-of two words only: “Too late.”
-
-Subsequently, Mr. Nilus made several attempts to call the attention
-of the proper officials to the contents of this document but without
-result. In 1905 he published the second edition of his book, “The Great
-in the Little.” In this edition the Protocols were for the first time
-incorporated.
-
-In his last book Mr. Nilus writes:
-
-    “These Protocols produced a scarcely noticeable impression
-    upon the world outside of the Christian church. The periodical
-    press, which in the main is in Jewish hands, or under the
-    guidance and influence of the Jews, sought to conceal their
-    publication, scarcely mentioning them or referring to them as a
-    fallacious invention or a fairy tale. Among loyal Christians,
-    however, the Protocols bore fruit and created a success for
-    my book far greater than could have been anticipated, for
-    they spread the knowledge of the hidden mysteries of our time
-    in a wide circle of those belonging to the Christian family.
-    Since then my book, with all the Protocols, has appeared in
-    its fourth edition; _but only now I learn authoritatively from
-    Jewish sources that these Protocols are nothing else than
-    a strategic plan for the conquest of the world, putting it
-    under the yoke of Israel_, the struggler-against-God, a plan
-    worked out by the leaders of the Jewish people during the many
-    centuries of their dispersion, and finally presented to the
-    Council of Elders by “The Prince of Exile,” Theodor Hertzl,
-    at the time of the first Zionist Congress, summoned by him at
-    Basle in August, 1897.”
-
-Again he writes:
-
-    “In what way these documents, constituting the Holy of Holies
-    of the hopes of Israel, the century-old mystery of its leaders,
-    reached the general mass of the uninitiated has not been
-    ascertained. As already mentioned, they were given to me in
-    1901. In that year, in circular No. 18, as well as in others
-    dispatched to the Zionists on behalf of the Zionist ‘Actions
-    Committee,’[1] Theodor Hertzl stated that certain confidential
-    information, notwithstanding the admonition, has not been kept
-    secret, and has been given undesirable publicity.”
-
-Finally Mr. Nilus declares:
-
-    “The Protocols are signed by the Zionist Representatives of
-    the 33rd (highest) Degree of Initiation. These Protocols were
-    secretly removed from the complete file of Protocols which,
-    as we now know, pertained to the first Zionist Congress, held
-    in Basle in August, 1897. All this was taken from the secret
-    vaults at the main Zionist office which, at present, is located
-    in French territory.”
-
-In 1918 the “Protocols” were again published in Russian by a book
-publishing firm, “The Sentinel” at Novocherkassk, South Russia. The
-pamphlet referred to bears the title “Zionist Protocols. The plans for
-the Conquest of the Universe by the Judo-Masons.” In the introduction
-to the pamphlet it is stated: “The ‘Protocols’ are a program carefully
-worked out in all its details for the conquest of the universe by the
-Jews. The greater part of this program has already been realized, and
-if we will not come back to our senses, we are inevitably doomed.”
-In the concluding part of this introduction the publishers state as
-follows: “The ‘Protocols,’ indeed, are not only the key to our first
-unsuccessful revolution, but they are also the key to the second, in
-which Jewry played such a sinister rôle for Russia.... For us, who are
-witnesses of the self-destruction of Russia, for us who hope for her
-regeneration, this document is all the more significant as it discloses
-the means of the enemies of Christendom for our enslavement. Only after
-having obtained the knowledge of the means it may become possible to
-successfully combat the enemies of Christ and of Christian culture.”
-
-There is not, and in the nature of the case there hardly can be, any
-direct evidence as to the authenticity of the Protocols. There is,
-however, a considerable body of facts having a bearing upon this question
-which the publishers of this book put before the reader, leaving him to
-draw his own conclusions.
-
-The facts to which we refer may be roughly grouped under three heads:
-
-(_a_) There is a remarkable similarity between the policies of
-destruction outlined in the Protocols and the actual measures of
-destruction put into effect by the Bolshevist régime in Russia, and there
-is evidence that this régime is under the control of Jewish leaders.
-
-(_b_) There is also a striking parallelism between certain passages in
-the Protocols and the statements of recognized Jewish leaders, both
-religious and political, appearing in their published writings and
-speeches.
-
-(_c_) Finally, certain Jewish activities outside of Russia coincide in a
-remarkable degree with certain parts of the Protocols.
-
-In Part Two of this volume evidence under these various heads is set
-forth. This evidence, however, can be intelligently considered only after
-a careful study of the _Protocols themselves_, a translation of which
-appears in the following pages, preceded by a short summary prepared for
-the convenience of the reader.
-
-
-SUMMARY OF THE PROTOCOLS
-
-The title under which the Protocols are presented in Mr. Nilus’s text,
-according to the literal translation from the Russian, is:
-
-“PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE ZIONIST MEN OF WISDOM”
-
-The word “Protocols” can be used in several senses, but in the present
-case the context would indicate that the word means simply the written
-minutes of certain meetings—_i.e._ meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom.
-The arrangement is in twenty-four separate Protocols, each Protocol
-apparently recording the contents of an address to the meeting by one
-of its members. The context would also indicate that all the addresses
-were delivered by the same person, and it should also be noted that each
-Protocol deals with a more or less distinct part of one complete subject,
-like the chapter of a book.
-
-In the first Protocol it is stated that the speaker undertakes to
-formulate “our system both from our point of view and from that of the
-Goys.” The word “Goys” or “Goyims” is an old Hebrew word signifying
-Gentiles, or persons who are not Jews. All of the following Protocols,
-whether they are the utterances of the same person who speaks in the
-first Protocol or not, are a continuation of the same general subject.
-
-Taking the set of documents as a whole, they clearly purport to formulate
-a strategic plan for united action of the Jews as a nation, or a people,
-to obtain certain ends. These ends are nothing less than complete
-political and religious domination of the world. The means by which this
-universal domination is to be achieved are set forth with great clearness
-and considerable elaboration.
-
-The document as a whole is of the most extraordinary character, and
-while to some readers it may seem fanatical or visionary, others will be
-more impressed with its profound cleverness, with the cold logic of the
-reasoning, and with the general orderliness of statement and argument,
-indicating that the work, whatever the underlying motive may be, is the
-result of careful thought and mature deliberation.
-
-The strategic plan of action is Machiavellian and ruthless in the
-extreme, and is expressly founded on the propositions that “might is
-right” and that “politics have nothing in common with morals.” It is also
-explicitly stated that the end in view is to “subjugate all government
-to our super-government,” and the Jewish super-government is to be an
-autocracy with a Jewish Sovereign at its head.
-
-Briefly summarized, the means by which this world domination is to be
-achieved are as follows:
-
-1. The national power of non-Jewish states is to be broken down by the
-fomenting of internal revolutions through appeals to class hatred,
-and by pretended efforts to obtain greater freedom and privileges for
-certain classes of the people, using the words “liberty, equality, and
-fraternity” merely as catchwords to gain recruits for the Jewish cause.
-Autocratic governments, which alone are strong, must be weakened in the
-first instance by the introduction of liberalism, which will pave the way
-to anarchy.
-
-2. All wars must be “shifted to an economic basis,” allowing no
-territorial advantages to result from war, and thus tending to make the
-Jewish control of wealth the determining factor in war.
-
-3. The Jewish international rights are to be strengthened at the expense
-of the national rights of the several Gentile nations.
-
-4. The non-Jewish states are to be further weakened by promoting false
-and conflicting political policies; by obtaining secret control over the
-actions of public officials; by manipulation of the press, and by the
-gradual elimination of free speech.
-
-5. The authority of governments where liberalism prevails is to be
-weakened by the destruction of religion (other than the Jewish religion),
-since it is the conservative and moral force which makes liberal
-governments possible.
-
-6. In order to overcome the resistance of those states which are
-unwilling to make submission to the new Jewish power, there must be no
-hesitation in resorting to violence, cunning, hypocrisy, bribery, fraud,
-and treason, or to the seizure of the property of others.
-
-7. The destruction of the social and economic structure of Christian
-states will also be brought about by the destruction of industrial
-prosperity, through speculation and constant strikes, “throwing masses of
-workmen out of employment,” artificially raising wages, thus increasing
-the cost of the necessaries of life, and finally by bringing about a
-general economic crisis and the disorganization of financial systems.
-The financial strength of the various non-Jewish states will also be
-undermined by causing them to overburden themselves with foreign and
-national loans on an ever increasing scale, which will ultimately lead to
-bankruptcy.
-
-8. Upon the social and political chaos created by these various means
-a Jewish dictatorship is to be gradually built up, principally through
-the “terrible” Jewish power of the purse and through the other great
-Jewish powers of control over the press and over the revolutionary labor
-movement.
-
-9. During the period of transition from Gentile to Jewish political
-control in every state there will be a secret government by the Jews,
-brought about through the manipulation of the press, misleading public
-opinion, mass terror, weakening the initiative of the Gentiles,
-misdirecting their education, and sowing discord among them.
-
-
-
-
-Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. I
-
-Let us put aside phraseology and discuss the inner meaning of every
-thought; by comparisons and deductions let us illuminate the situation.
-In this way I will describe our system, both from our own point of view
-and from that of the GOYS.[2]
-
-It must be remembered that people with base instincts are more numerous
-than those with noble ones; therefore, the best results in governing
-are achieved through violence and intimidation and not through academic
-discussion. Every man seeks power; every one would like to become a
-dictator if he possibly could; and rare indeed are those who would not
-sacrifice the common good in order to attain personal advantage.
-
-What has restrained the wild beasts we call men?
-
-What has influenced them heretofore?
-
-In the early stages of social life they submitted to brute and blind
-force; afterwards—to the Law, which is the same force but disguised. I
-deduce from this that according to the laws of nature, right lies in
-might.
-
-Political freedom is not a fact but an idea. One must know how to employ
-this idea when it becomes necessary to attract popular forces to one’s
-party by mental allurement if it plans to crush the party in power. The
-task is made easier if the opponent himself has contradicted the idea of
-freedom, the so-called liberalism, and for the sake of the idea yields
-his power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory becomes
-apparent: the relinquished reins of power are, according to the laws of
-nature, immediately seized by a new hand because the blind force of the
-people cannot remain without a leader even for one day, and the new power
-merely replaces the old, weakened by liberalism.
-
-In our day the _power of gold_ has replaced liberal rulers. There
-was a time when faith ruled. The idea of freedom cannot be realized
-because no one knows how to make reasonable use of it. Give the people
-self-government for a short time and it will become corrupted. From that
-very moment strife begins and soon develops into social struggles, as a
-result of which states are set aflame and their authority is reduced to
-ashes.
-
-Whether the state is exhausted by internal convulsions, or whether civil
-wars deliver it into the hands of external enemies, in either case it
-can be regarded as hopelessly lost: it is in our power. The despotism of
-capital, which is entirely in our hands, holds out to it a straw which
-the state must grasp, although against its will, or otherwise fall into
-the abyss.
-
-To him who, because of his liberal inclinations, would contend that
-arguments of this kind are immoral, I would propound the question: If a
-state has two enemies, and if against the external enemy it is permitted
-and it is not considered immoral to use all methods of warfare, and as a
-protective measure not to acquaint the enemy with the plans of attack,
-such as night attacks or attacks with superior forces, then why should
-the same methods be regarded as immoral when applied to a worse foe, a
-transgressor against social order and prosperity?
-
-How can a sound and logical mind hope successfully to guide the masses by
-means of reasonable persuasion or by arguments if there is a possibility
-of contradiction, even though unreasonable, but which may appear more
-attractive to the superficially thinking masses? Guided entirely by
-shallow passions, superstitions, customs, traditions, and sentimental
-theories, the people in and of the mob become embroiled in party
-dissensions which prevent all possibility of an agreement, even though
-it be on a basis of perfectly sound reasoning. Every decision of the mob
-depends upon the accidental or prearranged majority, which, owing to
-its ignorance of political secrets, pronounces absurd decisions, thus
-introducing the seeds of anarchy into the government.
-
-Politics have nothing in common with morals. The ruler guided by morality
-is not a skilled politician, and consequently he is not firm on his
-throne. He who desires to rule must resort to cunning and hypocrisy. The
-great popular qualities—honesty and frankness—become vices in politics,
-as they dethrone more surely and more certainly than the most powerful
-enemy. These qualities must be the attributes of GOY countries; but we by
-no means should be guided by them.
-
-Our right lies in might. The word “right” is an abstract idea,
-unsusceptible of proof. This word means nothing more than: Give me what I
-desire so that I may have evidence that I am stronger than you.
-
-Where does right begin? Where does it end?
-
-In a state with a poorly organized government and where the laws are
-insignificant, and the ruler has lost his dignity as the result of the
-accumulation of liberal rights, I find a new right, namely, the right of
-might to destroy all existing order and institutions, to lay hands on the
-law, to alter all institutions, and to become the ruler of those who have
-voluntarily, liberally renounced for our benefit the rights to their own
-power.
-
-With the present instability of all authority our power will be more
-unassailable than any other, because it will be invisible until it is so
-well rooted that no cunning can undermine it.
-
-From temporary evil to which we are now obliged to have recourse will
-emerge the good of an unshakable government, which will reinstate the
-orderly functioning of the mechanism of popular existence now interrupted
-by liberalism. The end justifies the means. In laying our plans we must
-turn our attention not so much to the good and moral as to the necessary
-and useful. Before us lies a plan in which a strategic line is shown,
-from which we must not deviate on pain of risking the collapse of many
-centuries of work.
-
-In working out an expedient plan of action it is necessary to take into
-consideration the meanness, vacillation, changeability of the mob, its
-inability to appreciate and respect the conditions of its own existence
-and of its own well-being. It is necessary to realize that the power of
-the masses is blind, unreasoning, and void of discrimination, prone to
-listen to right and left. The blind man cannot guide the blind without
-bringing them to the abyss; consequently, members of the crowd, upstarts
-from the people, even were they men of genius but incompetent in
-politics, cannot step forward as leaders of the mob without ruining the
-entire nation.
-
-Only the person prepared from childhood to autocracy can understand the
-words which are formed by political letters.
-
-The people left to themselves, that is to upstarts from among them, are
-ruined by party dissensions created by greed for power and honors, and
-by the disorders resulting therefrom. Is it possible for the masses
-of the people to direct the affairs of the state without rivalry, and
-without interjecting personal interests? Are they capable of protecting
-themselves against external enemies?—This is impossible, since a plan
-divided into as many parts as there are minds in a mob loses its unity,
-and consequently, becomes incomprehensible and unworkable.
-
-Only an autocrat can outline great and clear plans which allocate in
-an orderly manner all the parts of the mechanism of the government
-machinery. From this it is concluded that the government which is the
-most efficient for the benefit of a country must be concentrated in
-the hands of one responsible person. Civilization cannot exist without
-absolute despotism, for government is carried on not by the masses, but
-by their leader, whoever he may be. A barbarous crowd shows its barbarism
-on every occasion. The moment the mob grasps liberty in its hands it is
-speedily changed to anarchy, which is in itself the height of barbarism.
-
-Look at those beasts, steeped in alcohol, stupefied by wine, the
-unlimited use of which is granted by liberty.
-
-Surely you cannot allow our own people to come to this. The people of the
-GOYS are stupefied by spirituous liquors; their youth is driven insane
-through excessive study of the classics, and vice to which they have been
-instigated by our agents—tutors, valets, governesses—in rich houses, by
-clerks, and so forth, and by our women in the pleasure places of the
-GOYS. Among the latter I include the so-called “society women,” their
-volunteer followers in vice and luxury.
-
-Our motto is Power and Hypocrisy. Only power can conquer in politics,
-especially if it is concealed in talents which are necessary to
-statesmen. Violence must be the principle; hypocrisy and cunning the
-rule of those governments which do not wish to lay down their crowns at
-the feet of the agents of some new power. This evil is the sole means
-of attaining the goal of good. For this reason we must not hesitate at
-bribery, fraud, and treason when these can help us to reach our end.
-In politics it is necessary to seize the property of others without
-hesitation if in so doing we attain submission and power.
-
-Our government, following the line of peaceful conquest, has the right
-to substitute for the horrors of war less noticeable and more efficient
-executions, these being necessary to keep up terror, which induces blind
-submission. A just but inexorable strictness is the greatest factor of
-governmental power. We must follow a program of violence and hypocrisy,
-not only for the sake of profit, but also as a duty and for the sake of
-victory.
-
-A doctrine based on calculation is as potent as the means employed by
-it. That is why not only by these very means, but by the severity of our
-doctrines, we shall triumph and shall enslave all governments under our
-super-government.
-
-Even in olden times we shouted among the people the words “Liberty,
-Equality, and Fraternity.” These words have been repeated so many times
-since by unconscious parrots, which, flocking from all sides to the bait,
-have ruined the prosperity of the world and true individual freedom,
-formerly so well protected from the pressure of the mob. The would-be
-clever and intelligent GOYS did not discern the symbolism of the uttered
-words; did not notice the contradiction in the meaning and the connection
-between them; did not notice that there is no equality in nature; that
-there can be no liberty, since nature herself has established inequality
-of mind, character, and ability, as well as subjection to her laws. They
-did not reason that the power of the mob is blind; that the upstarts
-selected for government are just as blind in politics as is the mob
-itself, whereas the initiated man, even though a fool, is capable of
-ruling, while the uninitiated, although a genius, will understand nothing
-of politics. All this has been overlooked by the GOYS.
-
-Meanwhile dynastic government has been based upon this, that the father
-passed to his son the knowledge of the course of political evolution,
-so that nobody except the members of the dynasty could possess this
-knowledge, and no one could disclose the secrets to the governed people.
-In the course of time the meaning of the dynastic transmission of the
-true understanding of politics has been lost, thus contributing to the
-success of our cause.
-
-In all parts of the world the words “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity”
-have brought whole legions into our ranks through our blind agents,
-carrying our banners with delight. Meanwhile these words were worms which
-ruined the prosperity of the GOYS, everywhere destroying peace, quiet,
-and solidarity, undermining all the foundations of their states. You will
-see subsequently that this aided our triumph, _for it also gave us, among
-other things, the opportunity to grasp the trump card, the abolition of
-privileges; in other words, the very essence of the aristocracy of the
-GOYS, which was the only protection of peoples and countries against us_.
-
-On the ruins of natural and hereditary aristocracy we built an
-aristocracy of our intellectual class—the money aristocracy. We have
-established this new aristocracy on the qualification of wealth, which is
-dependent upon us, and also upon science, which is promoted by our wise
-men.
-
-Our triumph was also made easier because, through our connections with
-people who were indispensable to us, we always played upon the most
-sensitive chords of the human mind, namely, greed, and the insatiable
-selfish desires of man. Each of these human weaknesses taken separately
-is capable of killing initiative and of placing the will of the people at
-the disposal of the buyer of their activities.
-
-Abstract liberty offered the opportunity for convincing the masses that
-government is nothing but the manager representing the owner of the
-country, namely, the people, and that this manager can be discarded like
-a pair of worn-out gloves.
-
-The fact that the representatives of the nation can be deposed, delivers
-them into our power and practically places their appointment in our hands.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. II
-
-It is necessary for us that wars, whenever possible, should bring
-no territorial advantages; this will shift war to an economic basis
-and force nations to realize the strength of our predominance; such
-a situation will put both sides at the mercy of our million-eyed
-international agency, which will be unhampered by any frontiers. Then
-our international rights will do away with national rights, in a limited
-sense, and will rule the peoples in the same way as the civil power of
-each state regulates the relation of its subjects among themselves.
-
-The administrators chosen by us from among the people in accordance
-with their capacity for servility will not be experienced in the art of
-government, and consequently they will easily become pawns in our game,
-in the hands of our scientists and wise counselors, specialists trained
-from early childhood for governing the world. As you are aware, these
-specialists have obtained the knowledge necessary for government from our
-political plans, from the study of history, and from the observation of
-every passing event. The GOYS are not guided by the practice of impartial
-historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical
-regard for its results. Therefore, we need give them no consideration.
-Until the time comes let them amuse themselves, or live in the hope of
-new amusements or in the memories of those past. Let that play the most
-important part for them which we have induced them to regard as the
-laws of science (theory). For this purpose, by means of our press, we
-increase their blind faith in these laws. Intelligent GOYS will boast of
-their knowledge, and verifying it logically they will put into practice
-all scientific information compiled by our agents for the purpose of
-educating their minds in the direction which we require.
-
-Do not think that our assertions are without foundation: note the
-successes of Darwinism, Marxism, and Nietzscheism, engineered by us. The
-demoralizing effects of these doctrines upon the minds of the GOYS should
-be already obvious to us.
-
-It is essential that we take into consideration the modern ideas,
-temperaments, and tendencies of peoples in order that no mistakes in
-politics and in guiding administrative affairs may be made. The triumph
-of our system, parts of whose mechanism must be adapted in accordance
-with the temperament of the peoples with whom we come in contact, cannot
-be realized unless its practical application is based upon a résumé of
-the past as related to the present.
-
-_There is one great force in the hands of modern states which arouses
-thought movements among the people. That is the press._ The rôle of the
-press is to indicate necessary demands, to register complaints of the
-people, and to express and foment dissatisfaction. The triumph of free
-babbling is incarnated in the press; but governments were unable to
-profit by this power _and it has fallen into our hands_. Through it we
-have attained influence, while remaining in the background. Thanks to the
-press, we have gathered gold in our hands, although we had to take it
-from rivers of blood and tears.
-
-But it cost us the sacrifice of many of our own people. Every sacrifice
-on our part is worth a thousand GOYS before God.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. III
-
-To-day I can tell you that our goal is close at hand. Only a small
-distance remains, and the cycle of the _Symbolic Serpent_—the symbol of
-our people—will be complete. When this circle is completed, then all the
-European states will be enclosed in it as in strong claws.
-
-The modern constitutional scales will soon tip over, for we have
-set them inaccurately, thus insuring an unsteady balance for the
-purpose of wearing out their holder. The GOYS thought it had been
-sufficiently strongly made and hoped that the scales would regain their
-equilibrium, but the holder—the ruler—is screened from the people by
-his representatives, who fritter away their time, carried away by their
-uncontrolled and irresponsible authority. Their power, moreover, has
-been built up on terrorism spread through the palaces. Unable to reach
-the hearts of their people, the rulers cannot unite with them to gain
-strength against the usurpers of power. The visible power of royalty
-and the blind power of the masses, _separated by us_, have both lost
-significance, for separated, they are as helpless as the blind man
-without a stick.
-
-To induce the lovers of authority to abuse their power, we have placed
-all the forces in opposition to each other, having developed their
-liberal tendencies towards independence. We have excited different forms
-of initiative in that direction; we have armed all the parties; we have
-made authority the target of all ambitions. We have opened the arenas in
-different states, where revolts are now occurring, _and disorders and
-bankruptcy will shortly appear everywhere_.
-
-Unrestrained babblers have converted parliamentary sessions and
-administrative meetings into oratorical contests. Daring journalists,
-impudent pamphleteers, make daily attacks on the administrative
-personnel. The abuse of power is definitely preparing the downfall of
-all institutions and everything will be overturned by the blows of the
-infuriated mobs.
-
-The people are shackled by poverty to heavy labor more surely than they
-were by slavery and serfdom. They could liberate themselves from those in
-one way or another, whereas they cannot free themselves from misery. We
-have included in constitutions rights which for the people are fictitious
-and are not actual rights. All the so-called “rights of the people” can
-exist only in the abstract and can never be realized in practice. What
-difference does it make to the toiling proletarian, bent double by heavy
-toil, oppressed by his fate, that the babblers receive the right to talk,
-journalists the right to mix nonsense with reason in their writings,
-if the proletariat has no other gain from the constitution than the
-miserable crumbs which we throw from our table in return for his vote to
-elect our agents. Republican rights are bitter irony to the poor man, for
-the necessity of almost daily labor prevents him from using them, and at
-the same time deprives him of his guarantee of a permanent and certain
-livelihood by making him dependent upon strikes, organized either by his
-masters or by his comrades.
-
-Under our guidance the people have exterminated aristocracy, which
-was their natural protector and guardian, for its own interests are
-inseparably connected with the well-being of the people. Now, however,
-with the destruction of this aristocracy the masses have fallen under the
-power of the profiteers and cunning upstarts, who have settled on the
-workers as a merciless burden.
-
-We will present ourselves in the guise of saviors of the workers from
-this oppression when we suggest that they enter our army of Socialists,
-Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help, under the
-guise of the rule of brotherhood demanded by the human solidarity of
-our _social masonry_. The aristocracy which benefited by the labor of
-the people by right was interested that the workers should be well fed,
-healthy, and strong.
-
-We, on the contrary, are concerned in the opposite—in the degeneration
-of the GOYS. Our power lies in the chronic malnutrition and in the
-weakness of the worker, because through this he falls under our power and
-is unable to find either strength or energy to combat it.
-
-Hunger gives to capital greater power over the worker than the legal
-authority of the sovereign ever gave to the aristocracy. Through misery
-and the resulting jealous hatred we manipulate the mob and crush those
-who stand in our way.
-
-_When the time comes for our universal ruler to be crowned, the same
-hands will sweep away everything which may be an obstacle in our way._
-
-The GOYS are no longer accustomed to think without our scientific advice.
-Consequently, they do not see the imperative need of upholding that which
-we will sustain by all means when our kingdom is established, namely,
-the teaching in the schools of _the only true science, the first of
-all sciences—the science of the construction of human life, of social
-existence, which requires the division of labor and, consequently, the
-separation of people into classes and castes_. It is necessary that all
-should know that _equality cannot exist, owing to the different nature
-of various kinds of work_; that there cannot be the same responsibility
-before the law in the case of an individual who by his actions
-compromises an entire caste and another who does not affect anything but
-his own honor.
-
-The correct science of the social structure, to the secrets of which
-we do not admit the GOYS, would demonstrate to all that occupation and
-labor must be differentiated so as not to cause human suffering by the
-discrepancy between education and work. The study of this science will
-lead the masses to a voluntary submission to the authorities and to the
-governmental system organized by them. Whereas, under the present state
-of science, and due to the direction of our guidance therein, the people,
-in their ignorance, blindly believing the printed word, and owing to the
-misconceptions which have been fostered by us, feel a hatred towards all
-classes whom they consider superior to themselves, since they do not
-understand the importance of each caste.
-
-This hatred will be still more accentuated by the _economic crisis_,
-which will stop financial transactions and all industrial life. Having
-organized a general economic crisis by all possible underhand means, and
-with the help of gold which is all in our hands, we will throw great
-crowds of workmen into the street, simultaneously, in all countries of
-Europe. These crowds will gladly shed the blood of those of whom they, in
-the simplicity of their ignorance, have been jealous since childhood and
-whose property they will then be able to loot.
-
-_They will not harm our people because we will know of the time of the
-attack and we will take measures to protect them._
-
-We have persuaded others that progress will lead the GOYS into a realm
-of reason. Our despotism will be of such a nature that it will be in a
-position to pacify all revolts by wise restrictions and to eliminate
-liberalism from all institutions.
-
-When the people saw that they obtained concessions and license in the
-name of liberty, they imagined that they were the masters, and rushed
-into power; but like every blind person, they encountered innumerable
-obstacles; _they rushed to seek a leader, with no thought of returning to
-the old one_, and laid power at our feet. Remember the French Revolution,
-which we have called “great”; the secrets of its preparation are well
-known to us, for it was the work of our hands.
-
-Since then we have carried the masses from one disappointment to another,
-so that they will renounce even us in favor of _a despot sovereign of
-Zionist blood, whom we are preparing for the world_.
-
-At present, as an international force, we are invulnerable, because if we
-are attacked by one state we are supported by other states. The unlimited
-baseness of the GOY peoples, who grovel before force, who are pitiless
-towards weakness, who are merciless to misdemeanors and lenient to
-crimes, who are unwilling to tolerate the contradictions of a free social
-structure; patient unto martyrdom in bearing with the violence of daring
-despotism—this is what helps our independence. They tolerate and permit
-such abuses from their modern premiers—dictators—for the least of which
-they would behead twenty kings.
-
-How can such a phenomenon be explained, such an illogical conception on
-the part of the mass of the people towards events of seemingly the same
-nature? This phenomenon can be explained by the fact that these dictators
-through their agents whisper to their people that by these abuses they
-injure the states for a supreme purpose, namely, for the attainment of
-the happiness of the people, their universal fraternity, solidarity,
-and equality. Of course, they are not told that this unification will
-be achieved only under our rule. Thus, the people condemn the just and
-acquit the unjust, more and more convinced that they can do what they
-please. Owing to this, the people destroy all stability and create
-disorder on every occasion.
-
-The word “Liberty” brings all society into conflict with all authority,
-be it that of God or Nature. This is why, at the moment of our
-enthronement, we shall strike this word from the dictionary as being the
-symbol of brute power, which turns the masses into bloodthirsty beasts.
-It is true, however, that these beasts go to sleep as soon as they have
-drunk blood, and then it is easy to shackle them; but if the blood is not
-given to them they will not sleep and will struggle.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. IV
-
-Every republic passes through several stages. The first stage is like
-the early period of insane ravings of a blind man throwing himself
-right and left. The second is the demagogy which breeds anarchy, which
-inevitably leads to despotism, not of a legal and open character and,
-consequently, responsible, but an unseen and unknown despotism, no less
-effective because exercised by some secret organization, acting even less
-ceremoniously because it is hidden under the cover and behind the backs
-of different agents. The change of these agents will even help the secret
-organizations, as it will thus be able to rid itself of the necessity of
-spending money to reward employees of long terms of service.
-
-Who and what can overthrow an unseen power? For such is the character of
-our power. _External Masonry[3] acts as a screen for it and its aims, but
-the plan of action of this power, and its very headquarters, will always
-remain unknown to the people._
-
-Liberty could also be harmless and remain on the state program without
-detriment to the well-being of the people if it were to retain the ideas
-of the belief in God and human fraternity, free from the conception of
-equality for such a conception is in contradiction to the laws of nature
-which establish subordination. With such a faith the people would be
-governed by the guardians of the parish and would thrive quietly and
-obediently under the guidance of their spiritual leader, accepting God’s
-dispensation on earth. It is for this reason that we must undermine
-faith, tearing from the minds of the GOYS the very principal of God and
-Soul, and substituting mathematical formulas and material needs.
-
-In order that the minds of the GOYS may have no time to think and notice
-things, it is necessary to divert them in the direction of industry
-and commerce. Thus all nations will seek their own profit, and while
-engaged in the struggle they will not notice their common enemy. But in
-order that liberty should finally undermine and ruin the GOY’S society,
-it is necessary to put industry on a basis of speculation. The result
-of this will be that everything, absorbed by industry from the land,
-will not remain in the hands of the GOYS, but will be directed towards
-speculation; that is, it will come into our coffers.
-
-The intense struggle for supremacy, the shocks to economic life, will
-create, moreover have already created, disappointed, cold, and heartless
-societies. These societies will have complete disgust for high politics
-and religion. Their only guide will be calculation, _i.e._, gold, for
-which they will have a real cult because of the material delights which
-it can supply. It will be at that stage that the lower classes of the
-GOYS, not for the sake of doing good, nor even for the sake of wealth,
-but solely because of their hatred towards the privileged, will follow us
-against our competitors for power, the intelligent GOYS.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. V
-
-What form of government can be given to societies in which bribery has
-penetrated everywhere, where riches are obtained only by clever tricks
-and semi-fraudulent means, where corruption reigns, where morality is
-sustained by punitive measures and strict laws and not by voluntary
-acceptance of moral principles, where cosmopolitan convictions have
-eliminated patriotic feelings and religion? What form of government
-can be given to such societies other than a despotism such as I shall
-describe?
-
-We will create a strong centralized government, so as to gather the
-social forces into our power. We will mechanically regulate all the
-functions of political life of our subjects by new laws. These laws will
-gradually eliminate all the concessions and liberties permitted by the
-GOYS. Our kingdom will be crowned by such a majestic despotism that it
-will be able, at all times and in all places, to crush both antagonistic
-and discontented GOYS.
-
-We may be told that the despotism outlined by me is inconsistent with
-modern progress, but I will prove to you that the contrary is the case.
-
-At the time when people considered rulers as an incarnation of the will
-of God, they subjected themselves without murmur to the autocracy of the
-sovereigns; but as soon as we inspired them with the thought of their
-personal rights, they began to regard the rulers as ordinary mortals. The
-holy anointment fell from the heads of sovereigns in the opinion of the
-people; and when we deprived them of their belief in God, then authority
-was thrown into the street, where it became public property and was
-seized by us. Moreover, the art of governing the masses and individuals
-by means of cunningly constructed theories and phraseology, by rulers
-of social life, and other devices not understood by the GOYS, belongs,
-among other faculties, to our administrative mind, which is educated in
-analysis and observation, and is also based upon skillful reasoning in
-which we have no competitors, just as we have none in the preparation
-of plans for political action and solidarity. Only the Jesuits could be
-compared to us in this; but we were able to discredit them in the mind of
-the senseless mob as a visible organization, whereas we, with our secret
-organization, remained in the dark. After all, is it not the same to the
-world who will be its master—whether it be the head of Catholicism or our
-despot of Zionist blood? To us, however, the Chosen People, it is by no
-means a matter of indifference.
-
-Temporarily, a world coalition of the GOYS would be able to hold us in
-check, but we are insured against this by roots of dissension so deep
-among them that they cannot now be extracted. We have set at variance
-the personal and national interests of the GOYS; we have incited
-religious and race hatred, nurtured by us in their hearts for twenty
-centuries. Owing to all this, no state will obtain the help it asks for
-from any side because each of them will think that a coalition against
-us will be disadvantageous to it. We are too powerful—_we must be taken
-into consideration. No country can reach even an insignificant private
-understanding without our being secret parties to it._
-
-_Per me reges regnant_—“Through me the sovereigns reign.” The prophets
-have told us that we were chosen by God himself to reign over the world.
-God endowed us with genius to enable us to cope with the problem. Were
-there a genius in the opposing camp, he would struggle against us, but
-a newcomer is not equal to an old inhabitant. The struggle between us
-would be of such a merciless nature as the world has never seen before;
-moreover their genius would be too late.
-
-All the wheels of government mechanism move by the action of the motor
-which is in our hands, and _that motor is gold_. The science of political
-economy, invented by our wise men, has long ago demonstrated the royal
-prestige of capital.
-
-To attain freedom of action, capital must obtain freedom to monopolize
-industry and trade; this is already being done by an unseen hand in all
-parts of the world. Such liberty will give political power to traders,
-and will aid in subjugating the people. At present it is more important
-to disarm peoples than to lead them to war; it is more important to
-utilize flaming passions for our purposes than to extinguish them; more
-important to grasp and interpret the thoughts of others in our own way
-than to discard them.
-
-_The most important problem of our government is to weaken the popular
-mind by criticism; to disaccustom it to thought, which creates
-opposition; to deflect the power of thought into mere empty eloquence._
-
-At all times both peoples and individuals have mistaken words for deeds,
-as they are satisfied with the visible, rarely noticing whether the
-promise is performed in the fields of social life.
-
-Therefore, we will organize ostensible institutions which will prove
-eloquently their good work in the direction of “progress.”
-
-We will appropriate to ourselves the liberal aspect of all parties, of
-all shades of opinion, and we will provide our _orators with the same
-aspect, and they will talk so much that they will exhaust the people by
-their speeches and cause them to turn away from orators in disgust_.
-
-_To control public opinion it is necessary to perplex it by the
-expression of numerous contradictory opinions until the GOYS get lost in
-the labyrinth, and come to understand that it is best to have no opinion
-on political questions._
-
-Such questions are not intended to be understood by the people, since
-only he who rules knows them. This is the first secret.
-
-The second secret necessary for the success of governing consists in
-so multiplying popular failings, habits, passions, and conventional
-laws that no one will be able to disentangle himself in the chaos, and
-consequently, people will cease to understand each other. This measure
-would help us to sow dissension within all parties, to disintegrate all
-those collective forces which still do not wish to subjugate themselves
-to us; to discourage all individual initiative which might in any degree
-hamper our work.
-
-_There is nothing more dangerous than individual initiative_; if it has
-a touch of genius it can accomplish more than a million people among
-whom we have sown dissensions. We must direct the education of the GOY
-societies so that their arms will drop hopelessly when they face every
-task where initiative is required. The intensity of action resulting from
-individual freedom of action dissipates its force when it encounters
-another person’s freedom. This results in heavy blows at morale,
-disappointments and failures.
-
-_We will so tire the GOYS by all this that we will force them to offer us
-an international power, which by its position will enable us conveniently
-to absorb, without destroying, all governmental forces of the world and
-thus to form a super-government._ In lieu of modern rulers, we will place
-a monster which will be called the Super-Governmental Administration. Its
-hands will be stretched out like pincers in every direction so that this
-colossal organization cannot fail to conquer all the peoples.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. VI
-
-We will soon begin to establish great monopolies—reservoirs of huge
-wealth, upon which even the large fortunes of the GOYS will depend to
-such an extent that they will be drowned, together with the governmental
-credits, on the day following the political catastrophe.
-
-You economists, here present, will please carefully weigh the
-significance of this scheme!...
-
-We must develop, by all means, the importance of our super-government
-by representing it as the protector and reward-giver of all those who
-willingly submit to us.
-
-_The aristocracy of the GOYS as a political force is dead. We do not need
-to take it into consideration; but as land-owners they are harmful to
-us because they can be independent in their resources of life. For this
-reason we must deprive them of their land at any cost._
-
-To attain this object, the best method is to increase land taxes—the
-indebtedness of the land. These measures will keep land ownership in
-subjection.
-
-The aristocracy of the GOYS, which as a matter of heredity is unable to
-be satisfied with small things, will soon be ruined.
-
-At the same time it is necessary to patronize trade and industry
-vigorously, and more important, to encourage speculation, whose function
-is to act as a counterbalance to industry. Without speculation, industry
-will increase private capital and tend to the amelioration of land
-ownership by freeing it from indebtedness created by the loans granted
-by agricultural banks. It is necessary that industry should suck out of
-the land both labor and capital and through speculation deliver into our
-hands all the money of the world, thus throwing all the GOYS into the
-ranks of the proletarians. Then the GOYS will bow before us in order to
-obtain the mere right of existence.
-
-To destroy GOY industry we will create among the GOYS as an aid to
-speculation the strong demand for boundless luxury which we have already
-developed.
-
-_Let us raise wages, which, however, will be of no benefit to the
-workers, for we will simultaneously cause the rise in prices of objects
-of first necessity under the pretext that this is due to the decadence of
-agriculture, and of the cattle industry._
-
-_We will also artfully and deeply undermine the sources of production by
-teaching the workmen anarchy and the use of alcohol, at the same time
-taking measures to expel all the intelligent GOYS from the land._
-
-_That the true situation should not be noticed by the GOYS until the
-proper time, we will mask it by a pretended desire to help the working
-classes and great economic principles, an active propaganda of which
-principles is being carried on through the dissemination of our economic
-theories._
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. VII
-
-The intensification of armament and the increase of the police force
-are essential to the realization of the above-mentioned plans. It is
-necessary that there should be besides ourselves in all countries only
-the mass of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to us, policemen,
-and soldiers.
-
-We must create unrest, dissensions, and hatred throughout Europe and
-through European affiliations, also on other continents. In this there
-is a twofold advantage: First, we will hold all countries under our
-influence, since they will realize that we have the power to create
-disorders or to restore order whenever we wish. All countries have come
-to regard us as a necessary burden. Second, we will entangle by intrigues
-all the threads stretched by us into all the governmental bodies by means
-of politics, economic treaties, or financial obligations. To attain these
-ends we will worm our way into parleys and negotiations, armed with
-cunning, but in so-called “official language” we will assume the opposite
-tactics of seeming honest and reasonable. In this way the peoples and
-the governments of the GOYS, taught by us to regard only the surface of
-that which we show them, will look upon us as benefactors and saviors of
-mankind.
-
-_We must be able to overcome all opposition by provoking_ a war by the
-neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us. Should, however,
-those neighbors, in their turn, decide to unite against us we must
-respond by a world war.
-
-Chief success in politics lies in the secrecy of its undertakings. There
-must be inconsistency between the words and actions of diplomats.
-
-We must influence the GOY governments to action beneficial to our
-broadly conceived plan, now approaching its triumphant goal, creating
-the impression that such action is demanded by public opinion which in
-reality is secretly organized by us with the help of the so-called “great
-power,” namely, the press; the latter, however, with few exceptions that
-need not be considered, is already entirely in our hands.
-
-In short, to sum up our system of shackling the GOY governments of
-Europe, we will show our power to one of them by assassination and
-terrorism, and should there be a possibility of all of them rising
-against us, we will answer them with American, Chinese, or Japanese guns.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. VIII
-
-We must provide ourselves with the same arms our enemies can employ
-against us. We must seek the most subtle expressions and evasions of
-the legal dictionary to justify those cases in which we will be forced
-to announce decisions which may seem unnecessarily bold and unjust, for
-it is important that these decisions should be expressed in terms so
-forcible that they will appear as the highest moral rules of a legal
-character.
-
-Our government must be surrounded by all the forces of civilization, in
-the midst of which it will have to function. It will surround itself with
-publicists, experienced lawyers, administrators, diplomats, and, finally,
-people educated along special lines in our special advanced schools.
-
-These people will know all the secrets of social existence; they will
-know all languages composed of political letters and words; they
-will be familiar with the reverse side of human nature, with all its
-sensitive chords, upon which they must know how to play. These chords
-are the structure of the intellects of the GOYS, their tendencies, their
-failings, their vices, and their virtues, the peculiarities of classes
-and castes. It is evident that the highly talented members of our
-government, to which I refer, will be recruited not from the ranks of
-the GOYS, accustomed to performing their administrative duties without
-questioning their aim, and without thinking why they are necessary. The
-GOY administrators sign papers without reading them and work for profit
-or for pride.
-
-We will surround our government by a whole world of economists. It is for
-this reason that economics is the chief science taught to the Jews. We
-will be surrounded by a crowd of bankers, traders, capitalists, _and most
-important of all, by millionaires, because in essence everything will be
-decided by a question of figures_.
-
-Meanwhile, as it is not yet safe to give the responsible government
-posts to our brother Jews, we will give them to people whose record and
-whose character are such that there is an abyss between them and the
-people; also to people for whom, in case of disobedience to our orders,
-there will remain nothing but condemnation or exile—thus forcing them to
-protect our interests to their last breath.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. IX
-
-In applying our principles, turn your attention to the character of the
-people in whose countries you will be resident and among whom you will
-act, for a general similar application of them before the reëducation of
-a people according to our plan cannot be successful. But by advancing
-carefully in their application you will see that before ten years have
-passed the most obstinate character will have changed, and we can then
-count another people among those who already have submitted to us.
-
-When we are enthroned we will substitute for the liberal words of our
-Masonic catchword, “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,” another group of
-words expressing simply ideas, namely, “the right of Liberty, the duty of
-Equality, the ideal of Fraternity.” Thus we will speak and ... we shall
-have the goat by the horns.... _De facto_, we have already destroyed all
-governments except our own, although _de jure_ there are still many left.
-At present, if any of the governments raises a protest against us, it
-is done only as a matter of form, and at our desire, and by our order,
-because _their anti-Semitism is necessary to enable us to control our
-smaller brothers_. I will not further explain this, as it has already
-been the object of numerous discussions.
-
-In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government exists
-under such extra-legal conditions that it is common to designate it by an
-energetic and strong word—a Dictatorship.
-
-I can honestly state that at the present time we are law-makers; we are
-the judges and inflict punishment; we execute and pardon; we, as the
-chief of all our armies, ride the leader’s horse. We rule by indomitable
-will because we hold in our hands the fragments of a once strong party
-now subject to us. We possess boundless ambition, burning greed for
-merciless revenge, and bitter hatred.
-
-_From us emanates an all-embracing terror. People of all opinions and
-of all doctrines are in our service; people who desire to restore
-monarchies, demagogues, socialists, communists, and other utopians._ We
-have had to put all of them to work; every one of them is undermining the
-last remnant of authority, is trying to overthrow all existing order.
-All the governments have been tortured by this procedure; they beg for
-peace, and for the sake of peace are prepared to make any sacrifice,
-but we will not give them peace until they recognize our international
-super-government openly and with submission.
-
-The masses have begun to demand the solution of the social problem by
-means of an international agreement. _The division into parties has
-delivered all of them to us, because in order to conduct a party struggle
-money is required, and we have it all._
-
-We might fear the union of the intelligent power of the GOYS’ rulers with
-the blind power of the masses, but we have taken all measures against
-such a possibility. Between the two powers we have raised a wall in the
-form of mutual terror; thus the blind power of the people continues to be
-our support, and we alone will act as its leader and, naturally, we will
-direct it towards our goal.
-
-To prevent the hand of the blind from freeing itself from our guidance,
-we must from time to time keep in close touch with the masses, if not
-through personal contact then through our most devoted brethren. When we
-become a recognized power we will personally address the masses in open
-places, and we will expound political problems in the desired direction.
-
-How verify what is taught in village schools? But whatever the
-representative of the government or the ruler himself states will be
-immediately known to the entire nation, for it will rapidly spread by the
-voice of the people.
-
-In order not prematurely to destroy _Goy_ institutions, we have touched
-them with our efficient hands and grasped the ends of the springs of
-their mechanism. Formerly these springs were in rigid but just order; we
-have changed it to liberal, disorderly, and arbitrary lawlessness.
-
-We have affected legal procedure, electoral law, the press, personal
-freedom, and, most important, education, the corner-stone of free
-existence.
-
-_We have misled, corrupted, fooled, and demoralised the youth of the GOYS
-by education along principles and theories known by us to be false but
-which we ourselves have inspired._
-
-Without changing substantially the existing law we have created
-stupendous results by distorting the laws through contradictory
-interpretations. These results first manifested themselves by the
-fact that interpretation has concealed the law itself, and thereafter
-has completely hidden it from the eyes of the governments by the
-impossibility of understanding such complicated jurisprudence.
-
-Hence the theory of the court of conscience.[4]
-
-You may say that there will be an armed rising against us if our plans
-are discovered prematurely; but in anticipation of this we have such a
-terrorizing manoeuver in the West that even the bravest soul will shudder.
-
-Underground passages will be established by that time in all capitals,
-from where they can be exploded, together with all their institutions and
-national documents.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. X
-
-To-day I will begin by reiterating what has already been stated. _I beg
-you to remember that the government and the masses are satisfied with
-visible results in politics._ How can they examine the inner meaning
-of things when their representatives consider that pleasure is above
-everything? It is important to know one detail in our policy. It will
-help us in discussing division of authority, freedom of speech, of the
-press, of religion (faith), the right of assembly, equality before the
-law, inviolability of property and of the home, indirect taxes and the
-retrospective force of law. All such questions should never be directly
-and openly discussed before the masses. When it becomes necessary for
-us to discuss them, they should not be elaborated but merely mentioned,
-without going into details, pointing out that modern legal principles are
-being accepted by us. The significance of this reticence lies in the fact
-that a principle which has not been openly declared gives us freedom of
-action to exclude unnoticed one point or another, whereas if elaborated
-the principle becomes as good as established.
-
-The people feel an especial love and admiration towards the political
-genius, and they always react to their acts of violence as follows:
-
-    “Yes, of course it is villainy, but how clever!—It is a trick
-    but cleverly done! So majestically! so impudently!...”
-
-We count upon attracting all nations to the construction of the
-foundations of the new edifice which has been planned by us. It is for
-this reason that it is necessary for us first of all to acquire that
-spirit of daring, enterprise, and force which, through our agents, will
-enable us to overcome all obstacles in our path.
-
-_When we accomplish our coup d’état, we will say to the peoples:
-“Everything went badly; all of you have suffered. We will abolish the
-cause of your sufferings, that is to say, nationalities, frontiers, and
-national currencies. Of course you are free to condemn us, but would your
-judgment be just if you were to pronounce it before giving a trial to
-what we will give you?” Thereafter they will exalt us with a sentiment
-of unanimous delight and hope. The voting system which we have used as
-a tool for our enthronement, and to which we have accustomed even the
-most humble members of humanity by organizing meetings and prearranged
-agreements, will have performed its last service and will make its last
-appearance in the expression of a unanimous desire to become more
-closely acquainted with us before having pronounced a judgment._
-
-To attain this we must force all to vote, without class discrimination,
-to establish the autocracy of the majority, which cannot be obtained
-from the intellectual classes alone. Through this method of accustoming
-every one to the idea of self-determination, we will shatter the GOY
-family and its educational importance. We will not allow the formation of
-individual minds, because the mob, under our guidance, will prevent them
-from distinguishing themselves or even expressing themselves. The mob
-has become accustomed to listen only to us who pay it for obedience and
-attention. We will thus create such a blind power that it will be unable
-to move without the guidance of our agents, sent by us to replace their
-leaders.
-
-The masses will submit to this régime because they will know that their
-earnings, perquisites, and other benefits depend upon these leaders.
-
-The plan of government must emanate already formed from one head, as it
-would be impossible to put it together if disintegration by many minds
-into small pieces is allowed. That is why we only are allowed to know the
-plan of action; but we must not discuss it in order not to affect its
-ingenuity, the correlation between its component parts, the practical
-force of the secret meaning of its every clause. Were such a plan to be
-submitted to and altered by frequent voting, it would reflect the stamp
-of the misconceptions of every one who has not penetrated its depth and
-the correlation of its aims. For this reason our plans must be strongly
-and clearly conceived. Consequently, the inspired work of our leader must
-not be thrown to the mercy of the mob or even of a limited group.
-
-These plans will not immediately upset contemporary institutions.
-They will only alter their organization, and consequently the entire
-combination of their development, which will thus be directed according
-to the plans laid down by us.
-
-More or less the same institutions exist in different countries under
-different names, such as representative bodies, ministries, senate, state
-council, legislative and executive bodies. It is not necessary for me to
-explain to you the connecting mechanism of these different institutions,
-as it is well known to you. I only call to your attention that every
-one of the aforesaid institutions fulfills some important governmental
-function, and, moreover, I beg you to notice that the word “important”
-refers not to the institution but to the function. Consequently,
-it is not the institutions that are important but their functions.
-Such institutions have divided among themselves all the functions of
-government, namely, administrative, legislative, and executive powers;
-therefore, their functions in the state organism have become similar
-to those in a human body. If one part of the governmental machine is
-injured, the state itself falls ill, in the same way as the human body,
-and then it dies.
-
-When we injected the poison of liberalism into the state organism, its
-entire political complexion changed; the states became infected with
-a mortal disease, namely, the decomposition of the blood. It is only
-necessary to await the end of their agony.
-
-Constitutional governments were born of liberalism, which replaced the
-autocracy that was the salvation of the GOYS, for the constitution, as
-you well know, is nothing more than a school for dispute, discussion,
-disagreement, fruitless party agitation, dissension, party tendencies—in
-other words, a school for everything which weakens the efficiency of
-government. The platform no less than the press condemned the authorities
-to inaction and impotency and thereby rendered them useless and
-superfluous, for which reason they were overthrown in many countries. The
-rise of the republican era then became possible, and then we substituted
-for the ruler a caricature of government—a president chosen from the mob,
-from among our creatures, our slaves. This was the kind of mine we laid
-under the GOYS, or, more correctly, under the GOY nations.
-
-In the near future we will make the president a responsible officer,
-whereupon we will no longer stand on ceremony in carrying out the things
-for which our dummy will be responsible. What difference does it make
-to us that the ranks of those aiming at authority will thin out, that
-confusion will result from inability to find presidents, confusion which
-will definitely disorganize the country?
-
-To accomplish our plan, we will engineer the election of presidents
-whose past record contains some hidden scandal, some “Panama”—then
-they will be faithful executors of our orders from fear of exposure,
-and from the natural desire of every man who has reached authority
-to retain the privileges, advantages, and dignity connected with the
-position of president. The Chamber of Deputies will elect, protect, and
-screen presidents, but we will deprive it of the right of initiating
-laws or of amending them, for this right will be granted by us to the
-responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Of course then the power
-of the president will become the target of numerous attacks, but we
-will give him the means of self-protection by giving him the right of
-directly applying to the people, for their decision, over the heads of
-their representatives. In other words, he will turn to the same blind
-slave—to the majority of the mob. Moreover, we will empower the president
-to proclaim martial law. We will justify this prerogative under the
-pretext that the president, as chief of the national army, must control
-it in order to protect the new republican constitution, which he, as a
-responsible representative of this constitution, is bound to defend.
-
-It is obvious that under such conditions the keys to the shrine will
-be in our hands, and nobody except ourselves will be able to guide the
-legislative power.
-
-We will also take away from the Chamber, with the introduction of the
-new republican constitution, the right of interpellation in regard to
-governmental measures, under the pretext that political secrets must
-be preserved. With the aid of this new constitution we will reduce the
-number of representatives to the minimum, thus also reducing to the same
-extent political passions and passion for politics. If, in spite of this,
-those remaining are recalcitrant, we will abolish them completely by
-appealing to the majority of the people.
-
-The appointment of the president and vice presidents of the Chamber and
-Senate will be the prerogative of the president. Instead of continuous
-parliamentary sessions, we will shorten them to a few months. Moreover,
-the president, as chief executive, will have the right to convene
-or dissolve parliament, and in the case of dissolution, defer the
-appointment of a new parliament. But to prevent the president from
-being held responsible before our plans are matured for the results of
-all these essentially illegal actions inaugurated by us, we will give
-the ministers and other high administrative officials surrounding the
-president the idea of circumventing his orders by issuing instructions
-of their own. Consequently, they will be made responsible instead of
-him. We recommend that the execution of this plan be given especially
-to the Senate, State Council, or Council of Ministers, and not to
-individuals. Under our guidance the president will interpret in ambiguous
-ways such existing laws as it is possible so to interpret. Moreover, he
-will annul them when the need is pointed out to him by us: he will also
-have the right to propose temporary laws and even modifications in the
-constitutional work of government, alleging as the motive for so doing
-the exigencies of the welfare of the country.
-
-By such measures we will be able to destroy gradually, step by step,
-everything that, upon entering into our rights, we were obliged
-to introduce into government constitutions as a transition to the
-imperceptible abolition of all constitutions, when the time comes to
-convert all government into _our autocracy_.
-
-The recognition of our autocrat may come even before the abolition of the
-constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the people,
-tormented by dissension and the incompetency of their rulers, incited by
-us, will exclaim: Depose them, and give us one universal sovereign who
-will unite us and abolish the causes of dissension—national frontiers,
-religion, state indebtedness—and who will give us the peace and quiet
-which we cannot find with our rulers and representatives.
-
-But you know well that to render such a universal expression of desire
-possible, it is necessary continuously to disturb the relationship
-between the people and the government in all countries, and so to exhaust
-everybody by the dissension, hostility, struggle, hatred, and even
-martyrdom, hunger, inoculation of diseases, and misery, as to make the
-GOYS see no other solution than an appeal to our money and complete rule.
-
-Should we give the people a rest, however, the longed for moment will
-probably never arrive.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XI
-
-The Council of State will tend to accentuate the power of the ruler;
-in the capacity of an ostensible legislative body, it will act as a
-committee for the drawing up of laws and statutes on behalf of the ruler.
-
-The following is the program of the new constitution which we are
-preparing. We will make laws and control the courts in the following
-manner:
-
-    1. By suggestions to the legislative body.
-
-    2. By means of orders issued by the president as general
-    statutes, decrees of the Senate, and decisions of the Council
-    of State, as regulations passed by the ministries.
-
-    3. And when the opportune moment arrives—in the form of a _coup
-    d’état_.
-
-Having thus roughly outlined the _modus agendi_, we will now take up
-in detail those measures by which we will complete the development of
-the governmental mechanism in the above direction. By these measures, I
-mean the freedom of the press, the right of assembly, religious freedom,
-electoral rights, and many other things which must disappear from the
-human repertoire, or must be fundamentally altered on the day following
-the declaration of the new constitution. It is only at this moment that
-it will become possible for us to announce all our decrees, for at any
-time in the future every perceptible change would be dangerous, and
-this for the following reasons: If these changes should be introduced
-and rigidly enforced, it might cause despair by creating the fear of
-further changes in a similar direction; if, however, they are made
-with a tendency to subsequent leniency, then it might be said that we
-have recognized our mistakes, which would undermine the faith in the
-infallibility of the new authority; it might also be said that we were
-frightened, and that we were forced to make concessions for which nobody
-would be thankful since they would be considered as legitimately due.
-
-Any of these impressions would be detrimental to the prestige of the new
-constitution. It is necessary for us that, from the first moment of its
-proclamation, when the people are still dumbfounded by the accomplished
-revolution and are in a state of terror and surprise, they should realize
-we are so strong, so invulnerable, and so mighty that we shall in no
-case pay attention to them, and not only will we ignore their opinions
-and desires, but be ready to and capable of suppressing at any moment or
-place any sign of opposition with indisputable authority. We shall want
-the people to realize that we have taken at once everything we wanted,
-and that we shall under no circumstances share our power with them. Then
-they will close their eyes to everything out of fear and will await
-further developments.
-
-The GOYS are like a flock of sheep—we are wolves.
-
-Do you know what happens to sheep when wolves get into the fold?
-
-They will also close their eyes to everything because we will promise to
-return to them all their liberties after the enemies of peace have been
-subjugated and all the parties pacified.
-
-Is it necessary to say how long they would have to wait for the return of
-their liberties?
-
-Why have we conceived and inspired this policy for the GOYS without
-giving them an opportunity to examine its inner meaning if not for the
-purpose of attaining by a circuitous method what is unattainable for our
-scattered race by a direct road?
-
-This constituted a base for our organization of _secret masonry which
-is not known to and whose aims are not even suspected by these cattle,
-the GOYS. They have been decoyed by us into our numerous ostensible
-organisations, which appear to be Masonic lodges, so as to divert the
-attention of their co-religionists._
-
-God has given us, his chosen people, the power to scatter, and what to
-all appears to be our weakness, has proved to be our strength, and has
-now brought us to the threshold of universal rule.
-
-Little remains to be built on these foundations.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XII
-
-The word “Liberty” can be differently interpreted. We will define it as
-follows:
-
-Liberty is the right to do that which is permitted by law. Such a
-definition of this word will eventually serve us, because liberty will be
-in our power; and also because the laws will either destroy or construct
-only what we desire in accordance with the above mentioned program.
-
-We will deal with the press in the following manner: What is the present
-rôle of the press? It serves to arouse furious passions or egotistic
-party dissensions which may be necessary for our purpose. It is empty,
-unjust, inaccurate, and most people do not understand what end it serves.
-We will shackle it and keep a tight rein on it. We will also do the
-same with other printed matter, for what use would it be for us to rid
-ourselves of attacks on the part of the periodical press if we remain
-open to criticism through pamphlets and books? We will convert the
-products of publicity, now so expensive, owing to the need of censorship,
-into a source of income for our state. We will impose a special stamp
-tax. When a newspaper printing shop is started, bonds will have to be
-deposited, which will guarantee our government from all attacks on the
-part of the press. In case of an attack, we will mercilessly impose
-fines. Such measures as stamps, bonds, and fines, the payment of which
-is guaranteed by the bonds, will bring a huge income to the government.
-It is true that party papers might not fear the loss of money, so we
-will suppress these after the second attack on us. No one shall touch
-the prestige of our political infallibility and remain unpunished. The
-pretext for stopping a publication will be that the publication in
-question excites public opinion without cause or reason. _I ask you to
-bear in mind that among those who attack us there will be also organs
-established by us, but they will attack exclusively those points which we
-plan to change._
-
-_Not one notice will be made public without our control._ This is already
-being done by us, since the news from all parts of the world is received
-through several agencies in which it is centralized.
-
-These agencies will then be completely in our power and they will publish
-only such news as we will permit.
-
-If we have already managed to subjugate the minds of the GOYS to such an
-extent that almost all of them see world events through colored glasses
-which we put over their eyes; if, even at present, there is not one state
-which bars our access to state secrets, so termed by the stupid GOYS,
-then what will it be when we, in the person of our universal sovereign,
-are the recognized rulers of the world?
-
-Let us return to the future of the press. Anybody who wishes to become an
-editor, a librarian, or a printer, will be obliged to obtain a diploma,
-which in case of disobedience will be immediately revoked.
-
-With such measures, _thought will become an educational instrument in
-the hands of our government, which will not allow the people to be led
-astray into realms of fancy and dreams about beneficent progress_. Who of
-us does not know that these fantastic blessings are the direct road to
-baseless hopes which lead to anarchistic relations between the people and
-the government? Progress, or better still the idea of progress, has led
-to the creation of different modes of emancipation without setting any
-limit to it. All so-called liberals are essentially anarchists in thought
-if not in action. Each one of them pursues the phantom of liberty,
-becoming self-willed, that is to say, falling into a state of anarchy by
-protesting for the mere sake of protesting.
-
-We will now again refer to the question of the press. We will place stamp
-taxes secured by bonds on each page of all printed matter, while on
-books containing less than four hundred and eighty pages we will place
-a double tax. We will classify them as pamphlets, so as to lessen the
-number of magazines, which represent the worst printed poison—and on the
-other hand, to force writers to prepare such long works that they will be
-little read, especially as they will be expensive. Our own publications,
-guiding public opinion in the direction we desire, will be cheap and
-rapidly bought. The tax will discourage the writing of mere leisure
-literature, whereas punishment will make the writers dependent upon us.
-Even if there were writers who would like to attack us, they would find
-no publishers for their works. Before printing any work, the editor or
-printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission. We will
-then know beforehand of the attacks that are being prepared against us,
-and we will destroy them by coming out with advance statements on the
-subject.
-
-Literature and journalism are the two most important educational
-forces; for this reason our government will become the owner of most of
-the periodicals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the
-private press and have great influence on the people. If we permit ten
-periodicals, we ourselves will print thirty, and so forth. This, however,
-must not be suspected by the public. All the periodicals published by us
-will seem to be of contradictory views and opinions, inviting trust in
-us, thus attracting to us unsuspecting enemies, and in this way they will
-be caught in our trap and made harmless.
-
-The predominant place will be held by periodicals of an official
-character. They will always stand guard over our interests and
-consequently their influence will be comparatively limited.
-
-In the second category we will place semi-official organs, whose aim will
-be to attract the indifferent and little interested.
-
-The third category will be our ostensible opposition, which at least in
-one of its publications will represent the opposition to us. Our real
-enemies will mistake this seeming opposition as belonging to their own
-group and will thus show us their cards.
-
-All our newspapers will represent different tendencies, namely,
-aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchistic, so long of
-course as the constitution lasts. Like the Indian God VISHNU, these
-periodicals will have one hundred arms, each of which will reach the
-pulse of every group of public opinion. When the pulse beats faster,
-these arms will guide opinion toward our aims, since the excited person
-loses the power of reasoning and is easily led. Those fools who believe
-that they repeat the opinions expressed by the newspapers of their party
-will be repeating our opinions or those which we desire them to have.
-Imagining that they are following the press of their party, they will
-follow the flag which we will fly for them.
-
-In order that our newspaper militia may carry out our program, we must
-organize the press with great care. Under the title of the Central
-Department of the press, we will organize literary meetings at which our
-agents unnoticed will give the passwords and countersigns. Discussing
-and contradicting our policies, although always superficially, without
-touching their essence, our press will conduct an empty fire against
-official newspapers so as to give us only an opportunity to express
-ourselves in greater detail than we were able to in our preliminary
-declarations. This, of course, will be done when it is useful to us.
-
-_These attacks against us will also seem to convince the people that
-complete liberty of the press still exists, and it will give our
-agents the opportunity to declare that the papers opposing us are mere
-wind-bags_, since they are unable to find any real ground to refute our
-orders.
-
-Such measures, which will escape the notice of public attention, will
-be the most successful means of guiding the public mind and of inspiring
-confidence in our government. Thanks to them, we will as the need arises
-excite or pacify the public mind on political questions. We will be able
-to persuade or confuse them, sometimes printing the truth, sometimes
-lies, referring to facts or contradicting them according to the way they
-are received by the public, always carefully sounding the ground before
-stepping on it. _We will surely conquer our enemies, because they will
-not have the press at their disposal in which to express themselves in
-full._ Moreover, with the above mentioned plans against the press, we
-will not even need to refute them seriously.
-
-The trial balloons thrown out by us in the third category of our press,
-we will deny energetically, in case of need, in our semi-official organs.
-
-In French journalism there already exists the Masonic solidarity of a
-password; all organs of the press are bound by professional secrecy; like
-the ancient augurs, not one member will disclose his secret if he is not
-ordered to do so. Not one journalist will dare to disclose this secret,
-for not one of them is admitted to literary headquarters unless he has
-a disgraceful action in his past record. The fact would immediately be
-made public. While these disgraceful actions are known only to a few, the
-prestige of the journalist attracts opinion throughout the country—he is
-admired.
-
-Our plans must extend chiefly to the provincial districts. There we must
-excite hopes and ambitions opposed to those of the capitals, by means
-of which we may always attack them, presenting such ambitions to the
-capitals as the inspired views and aims of provincial districts. It is
-obvious that their source will be ours. It is necessary for us that while
-we are not yet in full power, the capital should be under the influence
-of provincial public opinion; that is under the influence of the majority
-prearranged by our agents. It is necessary for us that at the critical
-psychological moment the capitals should not discuss an accomplished
-fact, for the mere reason that it had been accepted by the provincial
-majority.
-
-_When we reach the phase of the new régime, which is transitory to
-our accession to power, we must not allow the press to expose social
-corruption. It must be thought that the new régime has satisfied
-everybody to such an extent that even criminality has stopped._ Cases of
-criminal activity must only be known to their victims or their accidental
-witnesses, and to these alone.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XIII
-
-The need of daily bread forces the GOYS to silence and compels them to
-remain our obedient servants. The agents taken from among them for our
-press will discuss the facts they are ordered to publish, when it is
-inconvenient for us to publish statements openly in official documents.
-While discussion and dispute are taking place, we will simply pass the
-measures we desire and present them to the public as an accomplished
-fact. Nobody will dare to demand the rejection of measures thus passed,
-and the more so as they will be interpreted as an improvement. At this
-point the press will divert the thoughts of the people to new problems
-(we having accustomed the people always to seek new emotions). Those
-brainless creators of destiny, who heretofore have been unable to
-understand and do not now understand that they are ignorant of matters
-which they undertake to discuss, will also hasten to discuss these new
-problems. Political questions are meant to be understood only by those
-who have created them and have been directing them for many centuries.
-
-From all this you will realize that by aiming to control the opinion of
-the mob we will only facilitate the functioning of our mechanism, and you
-will also notice that we seek approbation, not for actions but for words
-uttered by us on various occasions. We always declare that we are guided
-in all our policies by the hope and certainty of serving the general good.
-
-To divert the over-restless people from discussing political problems,
-we now make it appear that we provide them with new problems, namely,
-those pertaining to industry. Let them become excited over this subject
-as much as they like. The masses will consent to remain inactive, to
-rest from so-called political activity (to which we ourselves accustomed
-them for the purpose of helping us in our struggle against the GOY
-government), only on condition of a new occupation in which we can show
-them supposedly the same political background.
-
-To prevent them from reaching any independent decisions, _we will divert
-their minds by amusements, games, pastimes, passions, and cultural
-centers for the people_. We will soon begin to offer prize contests,
-through the press, in the field of art, and sports of all kinds. Such
-attractions will definitely deflect the mind from problems over which we
-would otherwise have to fight with the people. By losing more and more
-the custom of independent thought, they will begin to talk in unison with
-us, because we alone will provide new lines of thought through persons
-with whom of course we will presumably have no connection.
-
-The rôle of liberal Utopians will be definitely terminated when our
-government is recognized. Until that time, they will do us good service.
-For this reason we will still direct thought towards different fantastic
-theories which will appear to be progressive. For it was by the word
-“progress” that we have successfully turned the brains of the stupid
-GOYS. There are no brains among the GOYS to realize that this word is
-but a cover for digression from the truth, unless it is applied to
-material inventions, _since there is but one truth and there is no room
-for progress_. Progress, being a false conception, serves to conceal the
-truth so that nobody may know it except ourselves, God’s elect, who are
-its guardians.
-
-When our kingdom is established, our orators will discuss the great
-problems which have stirred humanity for the purpose of bringing it
-finally under our blessed rule.
-
-Who will then suspect that all _these problems were instigated by us,
-according to a political plan which has not been disclosed by any one
-during so many centuries_.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XIV
-
-When we become rulers we will not tolerate the existence of any other
-religion except our own, which proclaims one God, with whom our
-fate is bound up because we are the Chosen People, and our fate has
-determined the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all
-other religions. If the result of this produces modern atheists, as a
-transitory step, this will not interfere with our plans but will act as
-an example to those generations which will listen to our teaching of the
-religion of Moses, which, owing to its solid and thoughtful system, will
-eventually lead to the domination of all nations by us. We will also lay
-stress on the mystical truth of Masonic teaching which, we will assert,
-is the foundation of its whole educative power.
-
-On every possible occasion we will then publish articles in which we will
-compare our beneficial rule with that of the past. The benefits of peace,
-although attained through centuries of unrest, will serve to demonstrate
-the beneficial character of our rule. The mistakes made by the GOYS
-during their administration will be pictured by us in the most vivid
-colors. We will cause such disgust towards the administration of the GOYS
-that the masses will prefer the peace of serfdom to the rights of the
-much lauded liberty which has so cruelly tortured them and drained from
-them the very source of human existence, and by which they were exploited
-by a mass of adventurers, ignorant of what they were doing. _The useless
-changes of government, to which we ourselves prompted the GOYS, when
-we were undermining their governmental apparatus, will become such a
-nuisance to the people by that time, that they will prefer to endure
-anything from us rather than risk a repetition of former unrest and
-hardships._ We will, moreover, lay particular stress on the historical
-mistakes made by the GOY governments, which caused humanity to suffer for
-many centuries for lack of understanding of all matters pertaining to its
-true welfare, and because of their search for fantastic schemes of social
-welfare. The GOYS did not notice that such schemes instead of improving
-mutual relationship, which is the basis of human existence, have only
-made it worse.
-
-The whole force of our principles and measures will lie in the fact that
-they are put forward and interpreted by us as being in sharp contrast to
-the decayed social order of former times.
-
-Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the GOY religion,
-but nobody will ever discuss our religion in the light of its true
-aspect, and nobody will ever thoroughly understand it, except our own
-people, who will never dare to disclose its secrets.
-
-_In countries so-called advanced we have created insane, dirty, and
-disgusting literature._ For a short time after our entrance into power
-we will encourage its publication in order that the contrast between
-it and the speeches and programs which will be heard from our heights
-should be more pointedly marked. Our wise men, trained as guides to the
-GOYS, will prepare speeches, plans, memoranda, and articles, by which we
-will influence the minds and direct them towards the conceptions and the
-knowledge which we wish them to have.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XV
-
-When we finally become rulers by means of revolutions, which will be
-arranged so that they shall take place simultaneously in all countries
-and immediately after all existing governments shall have been officially
-pronounced as incapable (which may not happen soon, perhaps not before a
-whole century), we will see to it that no plots are hatched against us.
-To effect this, we will kill heartlessly all who take up arms against the
-establishment of our rule.
-
-The establishment of any new secret society will be met by the death
-penalty, and those societies which now exist and are known to us and
-either work or have worked for us, will be disbanded and their members
-exiled to continents far removed from Europe.
-
-_We will deal in the same manner with those Masons among the GOYS who
-know too much._ The Masons whom we may pardon for any reason will be kept
-under continual fear of exile. We will pass a law whereby all members of
-secret organizations will be exiled from Europe, that being the center of
-our government. The decisions of our government will be final and there
-will be no right of appeal.
-
-In the GOY society, where we have planted such deep roots of dissension
-and protest, order can only be restored by merciless measures which
-will serve as evidence that our power cannot be infringed. There is
-no necessity for regard towards the victims sacrificed for the future
-good. To attain good, even though by the sacrifice of life, is the duty
-of every government which realizes that its existence depends not upon
-privileges alone, but upon the exercise of its duties as well.
-
-The most important means for erecting a stable government is to
-strengthen the prestige of authority. This is only obtained by its
-majestic and unshakable power, which will convey the impression that it
-is inviolable because of its mystical nature, namely, because chosen
-by God. _Such until recently has been the Russian Autocracy—our only
-dangerous enemy throughout the world, with the exception of the Pope._
-Remember Italy drowning in blood; she did not touch a hair on the head
-of Sulla who had shed that blood. Sulla had become powerful in the eyes
-of the people, although they were tortured by him; his manly return to
-Italy placed him beyond persecution. The people do not touch those who
-hypnotize them by bravery and steadfastness of spirit.
-
-Meanwhile, until our rule is established, we, on the contrary, will
-organize and multiply free masonic lodges in all the countries of the
-world. We will attract to them all those who are and who may become
-public-spirited, because in these lodges will be the chief source of
-information and from them will emanate our influence.
-
-All these lodges will be centralized under one management, known only
-to us and unknown to all others; these lodges will be administered by
-our wise men. The lodges will have their own representative in this
-management in order to screen the above mentioned Masonic government; he
-will give the password and elaborate the program. We will tie the knot
-of all revolutionary liberal elements in these lodges. Their membership
-will consist of all strata of society. The most secret political plans
-will be known to us and will fall under our leadership on the very day
-of their origination. _Among the members of these lodges will be almost
-all the agents of the international and national police_, whose work is
-indispensable for us, inasmuch as the police not only are able to take
-independent measures against the rebellious, but may also serve to mask
-our actions, provoke discontent, and so forth.
-
-Most people who become members of secret societies are adventurers,
-career makers, and irresponsible persons in general, with whom we will
-have no difficulty in dealing and who will help us to set in motion the
-mechanism of the machine planned by us. If this world becomes perturbed,
-it will only prove that it was necessary for us to disorganize it so
-as to destroy its too great solidarity. _If a plot is laid, it must be
-headed by one of our most trustworthy servants._ It is only natural that
-we want nobody but ourselves to guide the work of the Masons,[5] for we
-know where we are trending, we know the final aim of every action. The
-GOYS, however, understand nothing, not even the immediate results. They
-are usually concerned about the momentary satisfaction of their ambitions
-in achieving their intentions. They do not notice, however, that the
-intention itself was not initiated by them, but that it was we who gave
-them the idea.
-
-The GOYS become members of the lodges out of pure curiosity, or hoping to
-receive their share in the public funds. There are others who come for
-the purpose of seizing the opportunity of putting before the public their
-impossible and baseless hopes. They long for the emotion of success and
-for the applause which we grant them lavishly. We create their success
-in order to utilize the self-deception that is born with it and by
-which people, without noticing, begin to follow our suggestions without
-suspecting them, and being fully convinced that their infallibility
-originates its own ideas and, therefore, does not need those of others.
-You have no idea how easy it is to bring even the most intelligent GOYS
-to a state of unconscious credulity, and, on the other hand, how easy it
-is to discourage them by the smallest failure, or merely by ceasing to
-applaud them, thus bringing them into servitude for the sake of achieving
-new success. _To the same extent as our people ignore success for the
-sake of carrying out their plans, so are the GOYS ready to sacrifice all
-their plans for the sake of success._ Their psychology makes the problem
-of direction easier for us. Those tigers in appearance have the souls of
-sheep and nonsense filters through their heads. As a hobby we have given
-them the dream of submerging human individualism through the symbolic
-idea of _collectivism_.
-
-They have not yet discovered and will not discover that this hobby is
-a clear infringement on the principal law of nature, which, from the
-beginning of the world, created a being unlike all others, precisely for
-the sake of expressing his individuality.
-
-If we were able to lead them to such insane and blind beliefs, does
-it not obviously prove the low level of development of the GOY mind as
-compared to our mind? It is precisely the thing which guarantees our
-success.
-
-How far sighted were our wise men of old when they said that to attain
-a serious object one must not stop at the means, nor should one count
-the victims sacrificed to the cause. We have not counted the victims
-from among the GOYS, those seeds of cattle. Although we have sacrificed
-many of our own peoples, we have already given them in return a formerly
-undreamed-of position on earth. The comparatively few victims from among
-our own people have saved our race from destruction.
-
-Death is the unavoidable end of all. It would be better to accelerate
-this end for those who interfere with our cause than for our people or
-for us, ourselves, the creators of this cause to die. _We kill Masons in
-such a way that none but the brothers suspect, not even the victims; they
-all die when it is necessary, apparently from a natural death._ Knowing
-this, even the brethren, in their turn, dare not protest. It is through
-such measures that we have uprooted the heart of protest against our
-orders from among the Masons. Preaching liberalism to the GOYS, at the
-same time we hold our people and our agents under iron discipline.
-
-Through our influence the enforcement of the GOY laws has been reduced
-to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been undermined by the liberal
-interpretations introduced by us. The courts decide as we dictate
-the most important principles, both political and moral, viewing the
-cases in the light presented by us for the GOY administration. This we
-accomplished naturally through agents, with whom we have ostensibly no
-connection, namely, through the press or otherwise. Even senators and
-high officials blindly follow our advice. The purely animal mind of
-the GOYS is incapable of analysis and observation, and even less so of
-foreseeing to what results the development of the principle involved in a
-case may lead.
-
-It is through this difference in the process of reasoning between us and
-the GOYS that it becomes possible clearly to demonstrate the stamp of
-God’s elect as compared to the instinctive and bestial mentality of the
-GOYS. They see, but they cannot foresee, and they cannot invent anything
-except material things. It is clear, therefore, that nature herself
-intended us to rule and guide the world.
-
-When the time comes for our open rule, then will be the time to show its
-benefits, and we will change all the laws. Our laws will be short, clear,
-irrevocable, and requiring no interpretation, so that everybody will be
-able to know them thoroughly. The chief point emphasized in them will
-be a highly developed obedience to authority, which will eliminate all
-abuses, for all without exception will be responsible before the supreme
-power vested in the highest authority.
-
-Abuse of power by minor officials will then disappear, because it will be
-punished so mercilessly that they will lose the desire to experiment with
-their power. We will closely watch every action of the administration,
-upon which depends the action of the government machinery, for corruption
-there creates corruption everywhere; not a single violation of law or act
-of corruption will remain unpunished. Acts of concealment and willful
-neglect on the part of governmental officials will disappear after they
-have seen the first example of severe punishment. The prestige of power
-necessitates that appropriate, that is to say severe, punishments should
-be inflicted even for the smallest violations of the sanctity of the
-supreme authority, committed for the sake of personal gain. The guilty,
-if punished severely, will be like a soldier who falls on the battlefield
-of administration for the sake of Authority, Principle, and Law; these
-principles do not allow any digression from their social function for a
-personal motive, even on the part of those who rule. For instance: _Our
-judges will know that by attempting to show stupid mercy, they overstep
-the law of justice, which was created solely for exemplary punishment of
-crimes and not for the manifestation of moral qualities on the part of
-the judge._ Such qualities are commendable in private, but not in public
-life, which constitutes the educational forum of human life.
-
-The personnel of our judges will not remain in office after the age
-of fifty-five. First, because old people adhere more persistently to
-prejudiced opinions and are less capable of submitting to new commands;
-and secondly, because that enables us to achieve a certain flexibility of
-change in the personnel, which will bend more easily under our pressure.
-He who wishes to retain his position will have to obey blindly.
-
-In general, our judges will be selected only from among those who will
-clearly understand that they must punish people and enforce the laws, and
-not indulge in dreams of liberalism at the expense of the educational
-plan of the government, as is now imagined by the GOYS. The method of
-changing the personnel will also serve to undermine the collective
-solidarity of the governmental officials and will attach them to the
-cause of the government, which decides their fate. The younger generation
-of judges will be so educated as to prevent any criminal activity which
-might interfere with the inter-relationship which we have established for
-our subjects.
-
-At present the GOY judges, lacking a clear conception of the nature
-of their duties, make exceptions to all kinds of crimes. This occurs
-because the present rulers, when appointing judges, do not take the
-trouble to encourage the sense of duty and conscientiousness in the work
-to be performed by them. As the animal sends out its young in search of
-prey, so the GOYS are giving their subjects responsible offices without
-taking the time to explain their functions. Owing to this, their rule
-is undermined by their own efforts and through the actions of their own
-administration. Let us use the result of such actions as one more example
-of the advantage of our own rule.
-
-We will eliminate liberalism from all the important strategic positions
-in our administration upon which depend the training of our subjects for
-our social order. These positions will be given only to those who have
-been trained by us for governmental work.
-
-In answer to a possible remark, that the putting of old officials on the
-retired list may prove expensive for the treasury, I can state first,
-that, prior to their dismissal, some private work will be found for them
-to replace what they are losing, and secondly, I may also remark, that
-all the world’s money will be concentrated in our hands; consequently,
-our government need not fear expense.
-
-Our autocracy will be consistent in every respect, and consequently every
-manifestation of our great power will be respected and unconditionally
-obeyed. We will ignore grumbling and discontent, and all active
-manifestations of either will be suppressed by punishment, which will
-serve as an example to the rest of the people.
-
-We will abolish the right of appellate courts to annul judicial
-decisions, which will become the exclusive prerogative of the sovereign,
-for we cannot permit the people to think that an incorrect decision may
-possibly be rendered by the judges appointed by us. Should, however, such
-an error happen, we ourselves will annul the decision; but the punishment
-which we will impose upon the judge for misconception of his duties and
-of his responsibility will be so severe that it will eliminate the very
-possibility of a recurrence. I repeat that we will watch every step taken
-by our administration in order to enable us to satisfy the people, for
-they have a right to demand a good appointee from a good administration.
-
-In the person of our sovereign, our government will bear the appearance
-of a patriarchal or fatherly tutelage. The people, our subjects, will see
-in him a father who takes care of every need, every action, and who is
-concerned with every relationship, both among the subjects themselves and
-between them and the sovereign.
-
-Thus, they will become imbued with the idea that it is impossible for
-them to do without this guardian and guide if they wish to live in a
-world of peace and quiet. _They will recognize the autocracy of our
-sovereign, whom they will respect and almost deify_, especially when they
-realize that our agents do not usurp his power, but merely execute his
-orders blindly. They will be glad that everything is regulated in their
-lives, as is done by wise parents who wish to educate their children to a
-sense of duty and obedience. With regard to the secrets of our political
-plans, both the masses and their administration are like little children.
-
-As you can see for yourselves, I base our despotism upon right and duty;
-the right of forcing the performance of duty is the direct function
-of government, acting as the father to its subjects. It is the right
-of the strong to utilize his power in order to lead humanity towards
-a social order established by the law of nature, namely, obedience.
-Everything in the world is subject, if not to some other persons, then
-to circumstances, or to its own nature; but in any case, to something
-stronger than itself. Consequently, let us be the strongest for the
-common good.
-
-We must sacrifice without hesitation those individuals who violate the
-existing order, for in exemplary punishment of evil there lies a great
-educational problem.
-
-When the King of Israel places the crown offered to him by Europe on his
-sacred head, he will become the Patriarch of the World. The necessary
-sacrifices made by him will never equal the number of victims sacrificed
-to the mania of greatness during the centuries of rivalry between the GOY
-governments.
-
-Our sovereign will be in constant communication with the people,
-delivering from tribunes addresses which will be spread to all parts of
-the world.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XVI
-
-For the purpose of destroying all collective forces except our own,
-we will nullify the universities, the first stage of collectivism, by
-reconstructing them along new lines. _Their directors and professors will
-be trained for their work through detailed secret programs of action,
-from which they will not be able to deviate in the least with impunity.
-They will be appointed with special care and will be so placed as to be
-completely dependent upon the government._
-
-We will exclude from the curriculum civic law, as well as all that
-touches upon political questions. These subjects will be taught only to a
-few dozen selected for their striking ability from among the initiated.
-_The universities must not allow the callow youths to graduate who
-concoct plans of constitutions as they do comedies or tragedies, or who
-meddle with political matters which even their fathers do not understand._
-
-Poorly directed study of political questions by a great number of people
-creates Utopians and poor citizens, as you can judge by the universal
-education as conducted by the GOYS along those lines. It was necessary
-for us to infiltrate into their educational system such principles as
-have successfully broken down their social order. When we are in power,
-we will eliminate all disturbing subjects from educational systems and
-will make young people obedient children of their superiors, loving the
-sovereign as their assurance of hope, peace, and quiet.
-
-For the study of the classics and ancient history, which contain more
-bad than good examples, we will substitute a program dealing with the
-future. We will obliterate from the memory of the people all those facts
-pertaining to former centuries which are not to our advantage, leaving
-only those which emphasize the mistakes of the GOY governments. The study
-of practical life, of obligatory social order, of the inter-relationship
-of human beings, the avoidance of evil, egotistical examples that plant
-the seed of evil, and other questions of a pedagogical nature, will head
-the educational program. This program will differ for each caste, never
-allowing education to be of a uniform character. Such a system is of
-special importance.
-
-Each caste must be educated with strict limitations, according to its
-particular occupation and the nature of the work. Accidental genius has
-always been able and always will be able to rise to a higher caste; but,
-for the sake of this rare exception, to open the door to the inefficient,
-and to admit them to higher castes or ranks, enabling them to occupy
-positions of others born and trained to fill them—is absolute insanity.
-You, yourself, know what happened to the GOYS when they yielded to this
-nonsense.
-
-In order to implant the sovereign firmly in the minds and hearts of his
-subjects, it is necessary to acquaint the people, during his term of
-office, both in schools and in public places, with the importance of his
-activity and the benevolence of his enterprises.
-
-We will abolish all unlicensed teaching. Students will have the right
-to gather, with their relatives, in their colleges as if in clubs.
-During these gatherings, on holidays, the teachers will read supposedly
-unbiased lectures on problems of human relationship, on the law of
-imitation, on the cruelty of unrestricted competition, and finally, on
-new philosophical theories which have not yet been disclosed to the world.
-
-We will promote these theories into dogmatic beliefs, using them as
-stepping-stones to our faith. After having presented our program of
-action for the present and for the future, I will read to you the
-principles of these theories.
-
-In short, knowing from the experience of many centuries that men live
-and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbued only by means of
-education given to persons of all ages, of course by different methods
-but meeting with equal success, we will absorb and appropriate to our own
-advantage the last traces of independent thought, which for a long time
-have been directed to the goal and to the ideas necessary to us. The
-system of enslaving thought is already in action through so-called visual
-education.
-
-This system tends to turn the GOYS into thoughtless, obedient animals,
-expecting to see in order to understand. In France one of our best
-agents, Bourgeois, has already announced a new program of visual
-education.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XVII
-
-The lawyer’s profession makes people grow cold, cruel, stubborn and
-unprincipled, and compels them to take an abstract or purely legal
-viewpoint in all matters. They have learned to consider solely the
-personal gain derived from every case they handle and not the possibility
-of the social benefit of its results. They rarely refuse to take a
-case and always strive for acquittal at all cost, clinging to minor
-technical points of a legal nature. In this way they demoralize the
-courts. Therefore we will limit this profession, converting it into
-an executive public office. Lawyers will be deprived of the right of
-contact with their clients on the same basis as are the judges. They will
-receive their cases only from the court, preparing them on the strength
-of written reports and documents and defending their clients after they
-have been examined in court on the basis of the facts obtained during the
-trial. They will receive a salary, regardless of whether the defense has
-been successful or not. They will act as simple exponents of the case on
-behalf of the defense in counterbalance to the public prosecutor, who
-will act as exponent on behalf of the prosecution. This will shorten
-legal procedure and establish an honest and impartial defense, conducted
-not for the sake of personal gain, but based on the personal conviction
-of the lawyer. This will also eliminate the existing bribery among fellow
-lawyers and prevent their allowing the side to win which pays.
-
-We have already taken care to discredit the clergy of the GOYS and thus
-to undermine their function, which at the present time could have been
-very much in our way. Their influence over the people diminishes daily.
-
-To-day freedom of religion has been proclaimed everywhere; consequently,
-it is only a _question of a few years before the complete collapse of
-Christendom_. It will be still easier to deal with other religions, but
-it is too early to discuss this problem. We will confine clericalism and
-clericals within such a narrow field that their influence will have an
-effect opposite to what it used to have.
-
-When the moment comes to annihilate the Vatican completely, an invisible
-hand, pointing towards this court, will guide the masses in their
-assault. When, however, the masses attack, we will come forward as
-defenders to prevent too much bloodshed. By this method we will penetrate
-its very heart and will not leave it until we have undermined its power.
-
-The King of Israel will become the real Pope of the Universe, the
-Patriarch of the International Church.
-
-But until we have accomplished the re-education of the youth to new
-transitional religions and finally to our own, _we will not openly attack
-the existing churches, but will fight them by means of criticism, thus
-creating dissension_.
-
-In general, our press will denounce governmental activities and religion,
-and will expose the inefficiency of the GOYS in the most unscrupulous
-terms, so as to humiliate them to such an extent as only our ingenious
-race is capable of doing. Our rule will simulate the God Vishnu, who
-resembles us physically; each of our hundred hands will hold one of the
-springs of the social machine. We will see everything without the aid of
-the official police; in its present organization, however, which we have
-worked out for the GOYS, the police prevent the government from seeing
-anything. According to our program, one-third of our subjects will watch
-the others from a pure sense of duty, as volunteers for the government.
-Then it will not be considered disgraceful to be a spy and an informer;
-on the contrary, it will be regarded as praiseworthy. Unfounded reports,
-however, will be severely punished to prevent abuse of this privilege.
-
-Our agents will be recruited both from among the highest and the lowest
-ranks of society; they will be selected from among the pleasure-loving
-governmental officials, editors, printers, booksellers, salesmen,
-workmen, drivers, butlers, etc. This police force will have no official
-rights or credentials, which give opportunity for the abuse of power,
-and consequently it will be powerless; it will merely act as observer
-and will make reports. The verification of such reports and the issue
-of warrants for arrests will rest with a responsible group of police
-controllers. The actual arrests, however, will be made by a gendarme
-corps or the municipal police. In case of failure to report any political
-matter which has been observed or rumored, the person who should have
-reported it may be brought to trial for concealment of crime, if it is
-proven that he is guilty.
-
-_In the same way that our brethren are now under obligation to report
-on their own initiative on all apostates_, or on any person marked as
-being opposed to the Kehillah, so in our Universal Kingdom it will be
-obligatory for all subjects to serve the state in that direction.
-
-Such an organization will eliminate all abuse of power and various
-kinds of coercion and corruption, in fact, the very things which have
-been introduced into the customs of the GOYS by our councils and by the
-theories of the rights of supermen. But how otherwise could we foment the
-increasing causes for disorder in the midst of their administration? What
-other means could we use? Among these means, one of the most important is
-the employment of such agents for the preservation of order as are in a
-position to manifest their own evil inclinations in the course of their
-destructive work, namely, their self-will, abuse of authority, and, most
-important of all, bribery.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XVIII
-
-When the time comes for us to strengthen the measures of police
-protection (the most terrible poison for the prestige of authority),
-we will artificially organize disorder or simulate the expression of
-discontent with the aid of experienced orators. These orators will be
-joined by sympathizers. This will give us the pretext for searches and
-special restrictions which will be put in force by our servants among the
-GOY police.
-
-As most conspirators work as amateurs for the sake of chattering, we
-will not disturb them until we see that they are about to take action;
-but we will introduce in their midst secret service agents. It must be
-remembered that the prestige of authority diminishes if conspiracies
-against it are often discovered, for that leads to the presumption of the
-weakness of the authority, or, what is worse, to the admission of its
-own mistakes. You are aware that we have destroyed the prestige of the
-ruling GOYS by frequent attempts made on their lives through our agents,
-who were but blind sheep of our flock, easily moved, by a few liberal
-phrases, to crimes, so long as they were of a political nature. _We have
-forced the rulers to admit their own weakness by adopting open measures
-of police protection, and thereby we have ruined the prestige of their
-authority._
-
-Our sovereign will be protected only by the most invisible guard, because
-we will never allow any one to think that conspiracy might exist against
-him which he is unable to combat and from which he has to hide himself.
-If we were to allow this thought to prevail, as it prevails among the
-GOYS, we would thereby sign the death warrant, if not of the sovereign
-himself, then of his dynasty in the near future.
-
-Observing strict decorum, our sovereign will use his power only for the
-benefit of the people, but never for his own good or for that of his
-dynasty. By strictly adhering to this decorum, his authority will be
-respected and protected by his subjects; moreover, he will be worshiped,
-because it will be known that upon his authority depends the well-being
-of every citizen of the kingdom, and the stability of the social order
-itself.
-
-_To guard the sovereign openly is equivalent to an admission of the
-weakness of his governmental organization._
-
-Our sovereign, when amidst his people, will always appear to be
-surrounded by a crowd of curious men and women, who will stand beside
-him as though accidentally and will hold back the other people as
-though through respect for order. This example will implant an idea of
-self-restraint in others. If there be a person in the crowd trying to
-present a petition, and working his way through the ranks, the person
-nearest to him must take the petition and present it to the sovereign in
-sight of the petitioner himself, so that all may know that the petition
-presented has reached its destination and consequently that there exists
-a control of affairs on the part of the sovereign himself. The prestige
-of authority demands that the people should be able to say, “If only the
-king could know it,” or, “The king will know about this.”
-
-With the establishment of an official police guard the mystical prestige
-of authority vanishes at once; with a certain amount of audacity, every
-one considers himself superior to authority; the assassin realizes his
-strength and only has to watch his opportunity to make an attempt against
-an official. We preached differently for the GOYS, but we can see the
-results to which open methods of protection have led them.
-
-We will arrest criminals upon the first more or less well-founded
-suspicion. Because of the fear of a possible mistake political criminals
-should not be given the opportunity to escape; indeed towards political
-crime we will show no mercy. If, in exceptional cases, it may seem
-possible to allow the investigation of motives which have led to ordinary
-criminal offences, there is no excuse for those who attempt to deal with
-matters which no one can understand except the government. Moreover, not
-even all governments are capable of understanding the right policy.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XIX
-
-Though we will not allow individuals to become involved in politics, we
-will, on the other hand, encourage the submission for the approval of
-the government of all petitions and reports containing suggestions and
-plans for bettering the condition of the people. This will bring to our
-knowledge the shortcomings or merely the fantastic aspirations of our
-subjects. These suggestions we will answer either by favorable action or
-by refusals proving the lack of intelligence and the errors of those who
-have submitted such suggestions.
-
-Sedition is nothing but the barking of a lap dog at an elephant. From
-the point of view of a government which is well organized, not from the
-police standpoint but with regard to its social basis, the lap dog barks
-at the elephant because he does not realize his strength. It is only
-necessary for the elephant to show his strength once and the dog barks no
-more; he begins to wag his tail the moment he sees the elephant.
-
-In order to eliminate the prestige of martyrdom from political crime,
-we will seat the political criminal on the same bench with thieves,
-murderers, and other disgusting and dirty criminals. Then public opinion
-will regard that class of criminals as quite as disgraceful as any other,
-and will brand them with equal contempt.
-
-We have endeavored to prevent, and I hope have succeeded in preventing,
-the GOYS from using such methods of dealing with seditious activities.
-In order to attain this end, we have made use of the press and public
-speeches; indirectly, through cleverly compiled historical textbooks, we
-have given publicity to martyrdom as though revolutionists had undergone
-it for the sake of human welfare. Such an advertisement has increased the
-contingent of liberals and forced thousands of GOYS into the herds of our
-cattle.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XX
-
-To-day we shall deal with the financial program, the discussion of which
-I have postponed until the end of my report because it is the most
-difficult, conclusive, and decisive point in our plans. In approaching
-it, I will remind you that I have already intimated that the result of
-our actions is measured in figures.
-
-When we become rulers, our autocratic government, for the sake of
-self-defense, will avoid burdening the people with heavy taxes, and it
-will not forget the rôle it has to play, namely, that of Father and
-Protector. But as government organization is costly, it is necessary to
-raise the means for its maintenance. Consequently, we must carefully work
-out the plan of a fair distribution of taxation.
-
-In our government the sovereign will have the legal fiction of owning
-everything in his kingdom (which is easily put into practice), and can
-resort to legal confiscation of all money in order to regulate its
-circulation throughout the country. Consequently, the best method of
-taxation is the levying of a progressive tax on property. Taxes will thus
-be paid without difficulty or ruin in respective proportion to the amount
-of property owned. The rich must realize that it is their duty to give a
-part of their surplus wealth for the benefit of the country as a whole,
-because the government guarantees inviolability of the remaining part of
-their property and the right of honest gain. I say _honest_ because the
-control of property will prevent legal theft.
-
-This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe and it is
-becoming necessary as a guarantee of peace.
-
-The tax on the poor is the seed of revolution, and it acts detrimentally
-to the government, which loses the great in its pursuit of the little.
-Moreover, the taxation of capital will lessen the increase of wealth
-in private hands, in which at present we have concentrated it as a
-counterweight to the governmental power of the GOYS, namely, to the state
-treasury.
-
-Progressive taxation, assessed according to the amount of capital, will
-produce a much greater revenue than the present system of taxing every
-one at an equal rate, which is useful to us now only as a means of
-exciting revolt and discontent among the GOYS. The power of our sovereign
-will rest mainly in equilibrium and in guarantees of peace. For these,
-the capitalists must cede a part of their income so as to protect the
-action of the government machine. Public needs must be met by those who
-can best afford to do so and by those from whom there is something to
-take.
-
-Such a measure will eliminate the hatred of the poor towards the rich, as
-they will be regarded as the financial supporters of the state and the
-upholders of peace and prosperity. The poor will also see that the rich
-are providing the necessary means to insure this end.
-
-To prevent intelligent taxpayers from being too discontented with the new
-system of taxation, they will be furnished with detailed reports of the
-disbursement of public funds, exclusive of such as are appropriated for
-the needs of the throne and administrative institutions.
-
-The sovereign will not own property, since everything in the state will
-seem to belong to him and these two conceptions would contradict each
-other. Private means would eliminate his right to own everything.
-
-The relatives of the sovereign, aside from his descendants who will also
-be supported by the state, must join the ranks of government officials,
-or otherwise work for the right of holding property. The privilege of
-being of royal blood must not entitle them to rob the state treasury.
-
-Sales, profits, or inheritances will be taxed by a progressive stamp
-tax. The transfer of property, whether in cash or otherwise, without the
-required stamp, will place the payment of the tax on the original owner,
-dating from the time of the transfer until the time of the reported
-failure to record the transaction. Transfer vouchers must be shown weekly
-at the local branch of the state treasury, together with a statement of
-the names, surnames, and the permanent addresses both of the original and
-of the new owner. The recording of the names of those participating in a
-transaction will be necessary in all transactions involving more than a
-certain amount for ordinary expenditure. The sale of prime necessities
-will be taxed only by a stamp tax, which will represent a certain small
-per cent of the cost of the particular article.
-
-Just calculate how many times the amount received from such taxes will
-exceed the income of the GOY governments.
-
-The state bank must keep a definite reserve fund, and all sums in excess
-must be put back into circulation. The cost of public works will be met
-out of this surplus fund. The initiative of such works emanating from
-the government will also tie the working class to the interests of the
-government and the rulers. Some of this money will be allotted to prizes
-for inventions and for the purposes of production.
-
-Even small sums in excess of a certain definite and broadly calculated
-fund, should not be allowed to be kept in the state treasury, because
-money is intended to circulate, and every impediment to circulation is
-detrimental to the governmental mechanism, which the money lubricates;
-the congestion of lubricating substances can stop the proper functioning
-of the mechanism.
-
-The substitution of bonds for a part of the currency has created just
-such an impediment. The result of this has already become sufficiently
-evident.
-
-We will also establish an auditing office, so as to enable the sovereign
-to find at all times a full account of state revenues and expenses,
-except for the current month not yet made up, and that of the previous
-month not yet presented.
-
-The only person who will not be interested in robbing the state treasury
-will be the sovereign, its owner. This is the reason why his control will
-prevent the possibility of loss or misappropriation.
-
-Receptions for the purpose of etiquette, which waste the valuable time
-of the sovereign, will be abolished, because the ruler needs time for
-control and thought. Then his power will not be frittered away on the
-people surrounding the throne for the sake of appearance and brilliance,
-and who have only their own and not the public interest in mind.
-
-The economic crises were created by us for the GOYS only by the
-withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge amounts of capital were kept
-idle and were taken away from the nations, which were thus compelled
-to apply to us for loans. Payment of interest on these loans burdened
-the state finances and made the states subservient to capital. The
-concentration of industry having taken production out of the hands of the
-artisan and put it into the hands of capitalists, sucked all the power
-out of the people and also out of the state.
-
-The present issue of money generally does not coincide with the need
-per capita, and consequently it cannot satisfy all the needs of the
-working classes. The issue of currency must correspond with the increase
-in population, and children must be reckoned as consumers from the day
-of their birth. The revision of the issue of currency is an essential
-problem for the whole world.
-
-You know that gold currency was detrimental to the governments that
-accepted it, for it could not satisfy the requirements for money, since
-we took as much gold as possible out of circulation.
-
-We must issue a currency based on the value of the working power, whether
-it be of paper or wood. We will issue money in proportion to the normal
-demands of every subject, adding a certain amount at every birth and
-decreasing it with every death.
-
-Every department (the French administrative divisions),[6] every
-district, will be in charge of its own accounts.
-
-To avoid any delay in paying government expenses, the terms of such
-payments will be decreed by order of the sovereign; this will eliminate
-any favoritism of the ministry (of finance)[7] over any other department
-to the detriment of the others.
-
-The budget of revenues and the budget of expenditure will be placed side
-by side, in order that they may always be compared with each other.
-
-We will present plans for the reform of the GOY financial institutions
-and of their principles, as planned by us, in such a manner that nobody
-will be frightened. We will demonstrate the need of reform by the
-disorderly twaddle produced by the financial disorganization of the
-GOYS. We will show that the first reason for this confusion lies in
-the drafting of rough estimates for the budget, which increases from
-year to year. This annual budget is with great difficulty made to last
-during the first half of the year; then a revised budget is demanded
-and the funds thus allotted are spent in the next three months, after
-which a supplementary budget is called for and all this is wound up by a
-liquidation budget. As the budget of the following year is based on the
-total expenditure of the preceding year, the divergence from the normal
-reaches fifty per cent annually, so that the annual budget trebles every
-ten years. Owing to such a procedure, resulting from the carelessness of
-the GOY governments, their treasuries became empty. The period of loans
-followed and used up the remainder and brought all the GOY states to
-bankruptcy.
-
-You can well understand that such a management of financial affairs as we
-induced the GOYS to pursue cannot be adopted by us.
-
-Every loan proves the impotency of the government and its failure to
-understand its own rights. Loans, like the sword of Damocles, hang
-above the heads of the rulers, who instead of placing temporary taxes
-on their subjects, stretch forth their hands and beg the charity of our
-bankers. Foreign loans are leeches, which can never be removed from the
-governmental body until they either fall off themselves or the government
-itself manages to get rid of them. But the GOY governments instead of
-throwing them off increase their number, so that these governments must
-inevitably perish through self-inflicted loss of blood.
-
-Indeed, what is a loan, especially a foreign loan, if not a leech? A loan
-is the issuance of government obligations which involve the liability to
-pay interest in proportion to the sum borrowed. If the loan pays five
-per cent, then in twenty years the government has unnecessarily paid in
-interest an amount equal to the principal sum borrowed. In forty years
-it has paid twice; in sixty years it has trebled the sum, while the loan
-still remains an unpaid debt.
-
-From this calculation it is evident that under the system of universal
-taxation the government takes the last penny from the poor taxpayers in
-the form of taxes in order to pay interest to foreign capitalists, from
-whom the money was borrowed, instead of collecting these same pennies for
-its needs free from all interest.
-
-So long as the loans were domestic, the GOYS only shifted the money from
-the pockets of the poor into those of the rich; but when we bribed the
-proper persons to make the loans foreign, then national riches poured
-into our hands and all the GOYS began to pay us the tribute of subjects.
-
-The carelessness of the reigning GOYS in statemanship, the corruption of
-their ministers, the ignorance of other officials of financial problems,
-has forced their countries into debt to our banks to such an extent that
-they can never pay off their debts. It should be realized, however, that
-we have gone to great pains in order to bring about such a state of
-affairs.
-
-Impediments to the circulation of money will not be allowed by us, and
-therefore there will be no government bonds, except one per cent bonds,
-so that the payment of interest should not deliver the power of the state
-to the sucking of leeches. The right of issuing bonds will be exclusively
-granted to industrial corporations, which will easily pay the interest
-out of their profits. The government, however, does not derive profit on
-borrowed money as these corporations do, since the state borrows money
-for expenditure and not for production.
-
-Industrial bonds will also be bought by the government, which instead of
-being, as at present, the payer of tribute on loans, will become a sound
-creditor. Such a measure will prevent stagnation in the circulation of
-money, as well as indolence and laziness, which were useful to us so
-long as the GOYS remained independent, but are not wanted by us in our
-government.
-
-How apparent is the shortsightedness of the purely bestial brains of the
-GOYS! It manifested itself when they borrowed money for at interest.
-It did not occur to the GOYS that, at any rate, this money, with the
-additional interest on it, would have to be taken from the resources of
-the country and paid to us. Would it not have been more simple to take
-the needed money from their own people?
-
-This proves the genius of our distinguished mind, for we were able to
-present the question of loans to them in such a light that they saw in
-loans an advantage for themselves.
-
-Our estimates, which we will produce when the time comes, will be based
-on the experience of centuries, on all those experiments which were
-conducted by us at the expense of the GOY governments; our estimates
-will prove to be clear and definite, and will obviously demonstrate the
-advantage of our new system. They will end all those abuses which made it
-possible for us to master the GOYS, but which cannot be permitted in our
-reign.
-
-We will so organize the accounting system that neither the sovereign
-himself nor the most humble clerk will be able to deflect the smallest
-sum from its destination or direct it into a different channel from that
-indicated in our original financial plan.
-
-It is impossible to govern without a definite plan. Traveling along a
-definite road with an indefinite supply of provisions destroys heroes and
-knights.
-
-The GOY rulers, to whom we once gave advice to neglect governmental
-duties for grandiose receptions, etiquette, and pleasures, only concealed
-our rule. The accounts of the powerful favorites who replaced the
-sovereign were drawn up by our agents, and they always satisfied the
-shallow minds by promises that in the future there would be savings and
-improvements. Savings from what? From new taxes? This might have been
-asked but was not asked by those who read our reports and plans. You know
-to what their carelessness has led them, what financial disorganization
-they have reached in spite of the wonderful diligence of their people.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XXI
-
-I will add one more detail regarding domestic loans in addition to the
-report which I made at the last meeting. I will not speak any more of
-foreign loans, for they filled our coffers with the national money of the
-GOYS. There will be no foreigners in our government, nobody outside.
-
-We profited by the corruption of the administrators and by the negligence
-of the rulers in receiving sums that were doubled, trebled, and even
-more, loaning the GOY governments money which in reality was not needed
-by the states at all. Who could do the same with regard to us? Therefore,
-I will only set forth details in regard to domestic loans.
-
-In announcing such a loan, the governments open a subscription to their
-bonds. To make them accessible to all, they vary the denomination from
-one hundred to thousands, and the first subscribers are allowed to buy
-below face value. The following day the price is artificially raised
-on the pretext that everybody hurried to buy the bonds. In a few more
-days there is a pretense that the treasury is filled and that it is not
-known what to do with the money, which has been oversubscribed. (What
-was the use of taking it?) The subscription is evidently considerably in
-excess of the amount asked for. Therein lies the effect, for it is thus
-demonstrated that the public has confidence in the government obligations.
-
-But after the comedy has been played the fact of the debt appears, and it
-is usually a heavy one. In order to pay the interest, new loans have to
-be issued, which do not liquidate but increase the original debt. Then
-when the borrowing capacity of the government has been exhausted, it
-becomes necessary to meet the interest on the loan—not the loan itself—by
-new taxes. These taxes are nothing but a debit used to cover a debit.
-
-Then comes the period of conversions, but these only decrease the
-payment of interest while they do not annul the debts. Moreover, they
-cannot be made without the consent of the bondholders. When a conversion
-is advertised, an offer is made to return the money to those who are
-not willing to convert their bonds. If everybody were to demand his
-money, the government would be caught in its own net and would be
-unable to return all the money. Fortunately, the GOY subjects, ignorant
-of financial affairs, always preferred to suffer a fall in the value
-of their securities and a reduction of interest to the risk of new
-investments; thus, they have given these governments more than one
-opportunity of throwing off a deficit of several millions. At present,
-with the existence of foreign loans, the GOYS cannot play such tricks,
-for they know that we would demand all the money back.
-
-Thus, an avowed bankruptcy will be the best proof of the lack of common
-interest between the people and their government.
-
-I direct your express attention to the above circumstance, as also to the
-following: At present all domestic loans are consolidated into so-called
-floating debts; in other words, into those whose terms of payment are
-more or less close at hand. Such debts consist of money placed in savings
-banks. Being at the disposal of the government, for a considerable length
-of time, these funds vanish in the payment of interest on foreign loans,
-and they are replaced by an equal amount of government securities. _The
-latter cover all the deficits in the government treasuries of the GOYS._
-
-When we mount the throne of the universe, such financial expedients,
-being detrimental to our interests, will vanish. We will also destroy
-all stock exchanges, for we will not allow the prestige of our authority
-to be shaken by the shifting of the prices of our securities. We will
-fix the full price of their value legally without any possibility of its
-fluctuation. (A rise leads to a fall, and this was precisely what we did
-to the GOY stocks and bonds at the beginning.)
-
-We will replace the stock exchanges by great government credit
-institutions, whose functions will be to tax commercial values according
-to governmental plans. These institutions will be in a position to throw
-daily on the market 500,000,000 shares of industrial stocks, or to buy up
-a like amount. Thus all industrial enterprises will become dependent upon
-us. You can well imagine what power that will give us.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XXII
-
-In all that I have hitherto reported to you I have carefully tried to
-show you a true picture of the mystery of present events, as also of
-those of the past, which all flow into the stream of great events, the
-results of which will be seen in the near future. I have exposed our
-secret plans which govern our relations with the GOYS, as well as our
-financial policy. There remains but little to add.
-
-We hold in our hands the greatest modern power—gold. In the course of two
-days we can get it from our treasuries in any desired quantity.
-
-Is there any more need for us to prove that our rule is decreed by
-God? Do we not prove by such wealth that all the evil which we were
-forced to do during so many centuries has served in the end to true
-happiness—to the restoration of order? Although by means of violence,
-order will nevertheless be established. We will be able to prove that we
-are benefactors, who have brought true welfare and individual freedom to
-the tortured world, insuring at the same time the possibility of enjoying
-peace, quiet, and dignity of relationships, upon the sole condition, of
-course, that obedience to the laws established by us is practiced. We
-will also make it clear that freedom does not mean license and in doing
-whatever people please, no more than dignity and power imply the right
-to propound destructive doctrines, like freedom of conscience, equality,
-and similar things. Individual freedom by no means imports the right of
-disturbing oneself and others, disgracing oneself by making ridiculous
-speeches in disorderly gatherings, and implies that true liberty means
-individual inviolability through an honest and strict obedience to social
-laws; that moreover, human dignity implies the conception of one’s rights
-as well as the idea of legal inhibitions which prohibit fantastic dreams
-about the _Ego_.
-
-Our power will be glorious because it will be mighty; it will rule and
-guide, and not helplessly crawl after leaders and orators, shouting
-insane words which they call great principles, and which in reality are
-simply Utopian. Our power will lead to order, which, in turn, brings
-happiness to the people. The prestige of this power will excite mystical
-adoration, and the peoples will bow before it. True power does not yield
-to any right, even be it that of God. None will dare approach it in order
-to deprive it even of an atom of its might.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XXIII
-
-To teach the people obedience they must be taught modesty, and to
-accomplish this the production of luxuries must be limited. We will thus
-improve customs, demoralized by rivalry, resulting from luxury.
-
-We will restore handicraft, which will undermine the private capital
-of manufacturers. This is necessary, because big manufacturers often
-influence, although not always consciously, the thoughts of the people
-against the government.
-
-A people, practicing handicraft, does not know what unemployment means,
-and this makes them cling to existing conditions and consequently to the
-power of authority. Unemployment is most dangerous for a government. It
-will have finished its work for us as soon as authority falls into our
-hands.
-
-Drunkenness will also be forbidden by law and will be punishable as a
-crime against human decency, for man becomes bestial under the influence
-of alcohol.
-
-Once more I state, that people obey blindly only the hand that is
-strong and entirely independent of them, in which they see a sword of
-defense and a stronghold against the blows of social misfortune. Why
-should the sovereign have an angel’s heart? They want to see in him the
-personification of might and power.
-
-The sovereign who will replace the present existing governments, dragging
-along their existence in the midst of a society demoralized by us,
-which denies even the power of God and from whose midst rises on all
-sides the flames of anarchy, must primarily undertake to extinguish
-this all-consuming fire. Therefore, he must destroy such a society,
-if necessary drown it in its own blood, in order to resurrect it as a
-well-organized army, which consciously struggles against the infection of
-any anarchy affecting the state organism.
-
-He, God’s elect, is chosen from above for the purpose of crushing the
-insane forces that are moved by instinct and not by intellect, by
-bestiality and not by humanitarianism. These forces are now triumphant,
-and assume the form of robberies and all kinds of violence exercised in
-the name of liberty and of right. They have destroyed all social order,
-so as to establish the throne of the King of Israel; but their rôle will
-be ended with his coming into power. Then it will be necessary to sweep
-them from his path, on which not a twig or an impediment shall remain.
-
-Then we will say to the peoples: Pray to God and bow before him who bears
-the mark of predestination, to whom God Himself showed His Star, so that
-none but He Himself should free you from all sinful forces and from evil.
-
-
-PROTOCOL NO. XXIV
-
-Now I shall refer to the manner in which we will strengthen the dynastic
-roots of King David so as to cause this dynasty to endure until the
-last day. This method will consist chiefly of the same principles which
-enabled our Wise Men to conserve their power to cope with universal
-problems and to guide the education of the thoughts of humanity at large.
-
-A few members of the seed of David will train the sovereigns and their
-successors, who will be selected not by right of inheritance, but
-according to their personal ability. To them the deep political mysteries
-and the plan of our rule will be confided, but in such a wise manner that
-nobody will know these secrets. The aim of this method is to prove to
-all that power will not be given to the uninitiated in the mysteries of
-political art.
-
-Only such people will be taught how to apply the above mentioned plans
-in practice, by comparing them with the experiences of many centuries,
-and only they will be initiated in the conclusions drawn from all the
-observations of political, economic, and social movements and sciences;
-in short, only they will know the true spirit of the laws, irrevocably
-established by nature for the purpose of regulating human relationship.
-
-Direct descendants of the sovereign will often be prevented from
-inheriting the throne if, during the period of their study, they show
-signs of frivolity, lenience, or other tendencies detrimental to
-authority, which would make them incapable of government and dangerous to
-the prestige of the Crown.
-
-Only those of an undoubtedly able and firm, even cruel character, will
-receive the reins of government from our Wise Men.
-
-In case of illness, loss of will-power, or any other form of
-inefficiency, the sovereigns will be compelled to hand over the reins of
-government to new and able hands.
-
-The sovereign’s immediate plan of action and its application in the
-future will be unknown even to the so-called closest advisers.
-
-Only the sovereign and his three sponsors will know the future.
-
-In the person of the sovereign, with his immovable will over himself
-and humanity, all will recognize Fate itself with her mysterious paths.
-Nobody will know the aims of the sovereign when he issues his orders, and
-thus nobody will dare oppose him.
-
-Naturally the mental capacity of the sovereign must be equal to the plan
-of rule herein contained. For this reason he will not mount the throne
-before a test of his mind is made by the above mentioned Wise Men.
-
-To make people know and love their sovereign, it is necessary that he
-should address the people in public places, thus establishing harmony
-between the two forces, now separated from each other by mutual terror.
-This terror was necessary for us until the time came to make both forces
-fall under our influence.
-
-The King of Israel must not be influenced by his passions, especially
-by sensuality. No particular element of his nature must have the upper
-hand and rule over his mind. Sensuality, more than anything else, upsets
-mental ability and clearness of vision by deflecting thought to the worst
-and most bestial side of human nature.
-
-The Pillar of the Universe in the person of the World Ruler, sprung from
-the sacred seed of David, must sacrifice all personal desires for the
-benefit of his people.
-
-Our sovereign must be irreproachable.
-
-
-
-
-Part Two
-
-EVIDENCE AS TO ORIGIN AND AUTHENTICITY
-
-
-
-
-I. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE ACTUAL POLICIES OF THE BOLSHEVIKI AND THE
-PROTOCOLS
-
-
-The most striking fact in connection with the Protocols is the close
-resemblance which their ruthless program bears in many respects to the
-policies actually put into effect by the Bolsheviki in Russia. Indeed,
-without this fact before us, the necessity for a serious consideration
-of the Protocols would be much less apparent. If the evidence shows that
-the Bolshevist movement is a movement conducted under Jewish leadership
-and principally controlled by Jews, and, furthermore, that it closely
-corresponds with the political program outlined in the Protocols, then,
-indeed, we have facts of grave significance supporting the authenticity
-of the Protocols.
-
-
-1. JEWISH CHARACTER OF THE BOLSHEVIST MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA
-
-With regard to the question as to how far the Bolshevist movement is
-a Jewish movement in the sense that it is under Jewish control, there
-is some disagreement. Certain prominent Jews in this country, while
-admitting that most of the Bolshevist leaders in Russia are Jews, claim
-that this is a mere coincidence, and claim further that the Bolshevist
-leaders are only _apostate_ Jews who do not adhere to the Jewish
-religion.[8] The evidence, however, is not very convincing on either
-point, for on the one hand the proportion of Jews among the Bolshevist
-leaders in Russia is so large that it strongly tends to show that it is
-not accidental but must be otherwise explained, while on the other hand,
-as to the allegation of apostasy, this seems to be principally based upon
-evidence that the Jewish leaders in Russia are denouncing religion _in
-general_ on the ground that it is the bulwark of the capitalistic system
-and the enemy of the Socialistic State, in accordance with the teachings
-of Karl Marx and his followers. Such evidence, however, does not prove
-very much if in practice only the Christian church is actually attacked.
-
-It is important to note in this connection that Karl Marx himself was a
-Jew, as are also practically all of the best known leaders of radical
-socialism, such as Bebel, Bernstein, Lassalle, Hillquit, the brothers
-Adler (in Austria), etc. The legend now prominently displayed by the
-Bolsheviki in Russia, that “religion is the opium of the people,” was the
-saying of Karl Marx himself, while it was Bebel who said: “Christianity
-and Socialism stand towards each other as fire and water.”
-
-Moreover, there is evidence that there has been a marked persecution
-of _Christian_ priests and their congregations by the Bolsheviki, and
-that the Jewish rabbis have not been molested. Generally speaking, we
-believe that the preponderance of evidence strongly tends to show that
-Bolshevism is Jewish in character in the sense that it is under the
-control principally of Jews who occupy, either openly or secretly, almost
-all of the positions of importance in the Soviet government in Russia.
-This was equally true in regard to the recent Spartacan and Bolshevist
-revolutions in Germany and Hungary. The one important exception is Lenin
-himself, Trotzky and almost all the other important Bolshevist leaders
-to-day being members of the Jewish race.
-
-Evidence that the Bolsheviki in Russia have conducted a campaign of
-persecution against the Christian religion, while protecting the Jewish
-religion, will be considered below under the heading, “The Destruction of
-Religion and Christianity.” For the present we shall confine ourselves to
-other evidence which tends to show that the Bolshevik movement in Russia
-is under Jewish leadership and may be regarded as primarily a Jewish
-movement.
-
-
-(_a_) _Testimony before the Overman Committee_
-
-The testimony of a number of reliable witnesses before the Overman
-Committee is to the effect that from the very beginning the leadership of
-the Bolshevist revolution in Russia has been principally Jewish and that
-the movement had powerful support from Jews returning to Russia in the
-spring of 1917.
-
-This testimony was taken early in the year 1919 and is contained in
-the printed Senate Report (a public document) entitled, “Bolshevik
-Propaganda—Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the
-Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, pursuant to S.
-Res. 439 and 469.”
-
-Among the witnesses who testified as to the Jewish character of the
-Bolshevist movement before the Senate Committee was Dr. George A. Simons,
-a Methodist clergyman who had been for many years in charge of a church
-and other property belonging to the American Methodists in Petrograd. He
-was there during the Kerensky régime and during the Bolshevist régime
-until October 6, 1918.
-
-Dr. Simons testified that “at the beginning of the so-called new régime
-[Kerensky’s] there was a disposition to glorify the Allies and to make a
-great deal of what the French Revolution had stood for; within from six
-to eight weeks there was an undercurrent just the opposite, and things
-began to loom up in a pro-German way.”[9]
-
-He then told of the arrival of Lenin from Switzerland _via_ Germany, and
-of Bronstein (_alias_ Trotzky) from New York, and how they conducted a
-vigorous agitation in Russia while Kerensky was “running up and down the
-front.” He then goes on to testify as follows:
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “Kerensky was spending a good deal of his time
-    running up and down the front, trying to hearten the Russian
-    soldiers in their warfare, and he was generally accredited
-    with being a fine orator and doing splendid work, and I do
-    not doubt but what he did manage to keep the men longer than
-    they otherwise would have stayed in, but we were told there
-    were hundreds of agitators who had followed in the trail of
-    Trotzky-Bronstein, these men having come over from the lower
-    East Side of New York. I was surprised to find scores of such
-    men walking up and down Nevsky. Some of them, when they learned
-    that I was the American pastor in Petrograd, stepped up to me
-    and seemed very much pleased that there was somebody who could
-    speak English, and their broken English showed that they had
-    not qualified as being real Americans; and a number of these
-    men called on me, and a number of us were impressed with the
-    strange Yiddish element in this thing right from the start, and
-    it soon became evident that more than half of the agitators in
-    the so-called Bolshevik movement were Yiddish.”
-
-    SENATOR NELSON. “Hebrews?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “They were Hebrews, apostate Jews. I do not want to
-    say anything against the Jews, as such. I am not in sympathy
-    with the anti-Semitic movement, never have been, and do not
-    ever expect to be. I am against it. I abhor all pogroms of
-    whatever kind. But I have a firm conviction that this thing is
-    Yiddish, and that one of its bases is found in the East Side of
-    New York.”
-
-    SENATOR NELSON. “Trotzky came over from New York during that
-    summer, did he not?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “He did.”
-
-    SENATOR OVERMAN. “You think he brought these people with him?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “I am not able to say that he brought them with
-    him. I think that most of them came after him, but that he was
-    responsible for their coming.”
-
-MR. SIMONS further states (Senate Report, p. 114):
-
-    “The latest startling information, given me by some one who
-    says that there is good authority for it—and I am to be given
-    the exact figures later on and have them checked up properly by
-    the proper authorities—is this, that in December, 1918, in the
-    northern community of Petrograd, so-called—that is what they
-    call that section of the Soviet régime under the presidency
-    of the man known as Mr. Apfelbaum—out of 388 members, only 16
-    happened to be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the
-    exception possibly of one man, who is a negro from America,
-    who calls himself Prof. Gordon, and 265 of the members of this
-    northern commune government, that is sitting in the old Smolny
-    Institute, came from the lower East Side of New York—265 of
-    them.... In fact, I am very much impressed with this, that
-    moving around here I find that certain Bolsheviki propagandists
-    are nearly all Jews—apostate Jews. I have been in the so-called
-    People’s House, at 7 East Fifteenth Street, New York, which
-    calls itself also the Rand School of Social Science, and I have
-    visited that at least six times during the last eleven weeks or
-    so, buying their literature, and some of the most seditious
-    stuff I have ever found against our own Government, and 19 out
-    of every 20 people I have seen there have been Jews.”
-
-On the same page, referring to a pamphlet written by one Albert Rhys
-Williams, Dr. Simons states:
-
-    “I have analyzed certain questions and answers, especially with
-    regard to this paragraph on religion, and I have no doubt in my
-    mind that the predominant element in this Bolsheviki movement
-    in America is, you may call it, the Yiddish of the East Side.”
-
-On page 116 the witness further states:
-
-    “I was impressed with this, Senator, that shortly after the
-    great revolution of the winter of 1917 there were scores of
-    Jews standing on the benches and soap boxes, and what not,
-    talking until their mouths frothed, and I often remarked to my
-    sister, ‘Well, what are we coming to, anyway? This all looks so
-    Yiddish.’ Up to that time we had very few Jews, because there
-    was, as you may know, a restriction against having Jews in
-    Petrograd; but after the revolution they swarmed in there, and
-    most of the agitators happened to be Jews. I do not want to be
-    unfair to them, but I usually know a Jew when I see one.”
-
-In a subsequent part of his testimony, he says:
-
-    “I had occasion to speak with people who were working and
-    people who were not bourgeois, I interviewed hundreds, and I
-    asked them, ‘Well, what do you think of this thing?’ ‘Well, we
-    know that it is first of all German, and second, we know that
-    it is Jewish. It is not a Russian proposition at all.’ That
-    became so popular that as you moved through the streets in
-    Petrograd in July and August and September and the beginning
-    of October, openly they would tell you this, ‘This is not a
-    Russian Government; this a German and Hebrew Government.’ And
-    then others would come out and say, ‘And very soon there is
-    going to be a big pogrom.’ As a result of that, _hundreds of
-    Bolshevik officials who happened to be Jews_ were sending their
-    wives and their children out of Petrograd and Moscow, afraid
-    that the pogrom would really come.” (p. 132).
-
-On page 142 of his testimony Dr. Simons introduced a list of names, which
-he said was widely circulated in Petrograd in August, 1917, giving the
-real names and the Jewish names of the most important Bolshevist leaders.
-This list is as follows:
-
-                          _Real name_
-
-    “1. Chernoff           Von Gutmann
-     2. Trotzky            Bronstein
-     3. Martoff            Zederbaum
-     4. Kamkoff            Katz
-     5. Meshkoff           Goldenberg
-     6. Zagorsky           Krochmal
-     7. Suchanoff          Gimmer
-     8. Dan                Gurvitch
-     9. Parvuss            Geldfand
-    10. Kradek             Sabelson
-    11. Zinovyeff          Apfelbaum
-    12. Stekloff           Nachamkes
-    13. Larin              Lurye
-    14. Ryazanoff          Goldenbach
-    15. Bogdanoff          Josse
-    16. Goryeff            Goldmann
-    17. Zwezdin            Wanstein
-    18. Lieber             Goldman
-    19. Ganezky            Fürstenberg
-    20. Roshal             Solomon”
-
-Dr. Simons also testified that when the Bolsheviki came into power the
-Yiddish language at once became predominant in official proclamations and
-posters. He says:
-
-    “I might mention this, that when the Bolsheviki came into
-    power, all over Petrograd we at once had a predominance of
-    Yiddish proclamations, big posters, and everything in Yiddish.
-    It became very evident that now that was to be one of the great
-    languages of Russia; and the real Russians, of course, did not
-    take very kindly to it.”
-
-On page 135 Dr. Simons states:
-
-    “Trotzky is a Jew. His real name is Leon Bronstein.”[10]
-
-
-_Testimony of Mr. William Chapin Huntington_
-
-Mr. Huntington was Commercial Attaché of the United States Embassy at
-Petrograd from June, 1916, until September, 1918. He was in Petrograd
-at the outbreak of the Bolshevist _coup d’état_ in November, 1917, and
-remained there until February, 1918, when he was sent on a mission to
-Siberia by Ambassador Francis. When he returned to Russia he remained in
-Moscow from May, 1918, until August 26, 1918. He states on page 47:
-
-    “The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not
-    interested in the particular national ideals of Russia.”
-
-On page 69 he testified:
-
-    “The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about
-    two-thirds Russian Jews and perhaps one-sixth or more of some
-    of the other nationalities, like the Letts, or the Armenians.”
-
-
-_Testimony of Mr. William W. Welsh_
-
-Mr. Welsh was employed by the National City Bank and was in Russia from
-October, 1916, until September, 1918. He states on page 269:
-
-    “_In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the
-    Bolshevik leaders are Jewish._”
-
-In regard to the men who went to Russia from the East Side of New York,
-at the outbreak of the revolution, he stated:
-
-    “There were some—not many, but there were some—real Russians;
-    and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born, and not
-    Russian Jews.”
-
-The witness also stated that he knew “several cases” in which well-to-do
-Jews had been persecuted in the same way as other Russian bourgeois. On
-page 270 he states:
-
-    “Bolshevism cannot be explained along racial lines alone. The
-    Bolsheviks are made up of the very worst elements of many
-    races. It is important, however, that Jews in this country
-    should not favor Bolshevism because of any liberties or
-    privileges which they may think are being accorded to the
-    Jews in Russia by the Bolsheviks. They should study the facts
-    carefully and not be prejudiced by any racial feeling, or they
-    are sure to bring the odium of Bolshevism unjustly to the door
-    of the Jew. The best Jews in this country would do well to
-    brand the Jewish Bolsheviks in Russia as anti-Jews, which they
-    really are, for they bring nothing but discredit to the Jewish
-    race.”
-
-
-_Testimony of Roger E. Simmons_
-
-Mr. Simmons was Trade Commissioner, connected with the United States
-Department of Commerce, who was in Siberia and Russia from July, 1917,
-until November, 1918. He was in Vologda in July, 1918, and gives a
-graphic account of his imprisonment there by the assistant of the
-commissar of that community, a man named Iduke. He says:
-
-    “Iduke is a Lettish Jew, a man of a very irascible nature, and,
-    on account of his experience in the uprising in Yaroslav, where
-    the protest against the Bolshevik régime had become formidable,
-    he had the reputation of being the cruelest and the most
-    bloodthirsty Bolshevik leader of the revolution.”
-
-Mr. Simmons then narrates how he himself escaped execution only because
-he succeeded in bribing a Lettish soldier who had been in America to
-deliver a letter to the Swedish Consul General. An English subject who
-was imprisoned with him in the same cell was actually executed. Shortly
-before his death this Englishman said to Simmons:
-
-    “I do not like the situation. I don’t understand these people.
-    They are not Russians. I don’t know why they accuse me, nor
-    what they are going to do with me.”[11]
-
-
-_Testimony of an Anonymous Witness_
-
-Another witness, who was allowed to withhold his name, testified before
-the Senate Committee that he left Petrograd November 6, 1917, the night
-the Bolshevist uprising took place. His testimony on page 321 of the
-Senate Report is as follows:
-
-    “With regard to the industrial conditions before the Bolsheviki
-    rising started, with the revolution of March, 1917, we found
-    that there were quite a number of so-called Americans who had
-    returned to Russia almost immediately after the revolution,
-    commencing, probably, to arrive in April of 1917.”
-
-    SENATOR NELSON. “What sort of people were they? They were
-    people who had been here, were they not?”
-
-    MR. ⸺. “People who had been in this country.”
-
-    SENATOR NELSON. “Were they Hebrews?”
-
-    MR. ⸺. “A large number of them were—that is Hebrew by race,
-    non-Slavs—and we were continually meeting these men on all
-    sorts of labor conditions, (committees?) to regulate the hours
-    of labor and the rates of remuneration, and quite a number of
-    them spoke English.”
-
-
-_Testimony of Theodor Kryshtofovich_
-
-This witness testified that he left Petrograd on December 15, 1918, and
-that he had been there continuously for the three years previous to that
-date; that he belonged to no political party in Russia, but had lived
-among the peasants and workmen, teaching them agriculture. He at one time
-had been employed by the Russian Department of Agriculture, as an agent,
-in the United States.
-
-On page 424 he testified in regard to the Jewish aspect of the movement
-as follows:
-
-    “And, besides these refugees, most of the people that are
-    governing Russia now are Jews. I am not against Jews in
-    general. They are a very capable and energetic people, but,
-    as you Americans say, the right man must be in the right
-    place. Their place is in the commission houses, in banks, in
-    the offices, but not in the government of a fine agricultural
-    country. They do not understand anything about agriculture,
-    about production, about keeping materials, and about
-    distribution. They do not know anything about those things at
-    all.”
-
-    SENATOR WOLCOTT. “You mean those that are in charge of the
-    Bolsheviki, do you not?”
-
-    MR. KRYSHTOFOVICH. “I am talking about the Bolsheviki; because
-    if you take out Bolshevik government, Lenine is a Russian and
-    all these constellations that are turning around this sun are
-    Jews. They have changed their names. For instance, Trotzky is
-    not Trotzky, but Bronstein. We have Apfelbaum, and so on, and
-    so on.”
-
-
-(_b_) _Other Evidence_
-
-It is important that other official documents pertaining to the
-Bolshevist activities in Russia also refer to the question which we are
-now discussing, namely, the Jewish character of the Bolshevist régime.
-In this connection we quote from the British White Book, Russia No.
-1 (1919), entitled “A Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia,
-presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. April, 1919.”
-
-This document was published in London at the government printing
-office in 1919. In exhibit No. 33, a cablegram dispatched by Mr.
-Alston to Earl Curzon, from Vladivostok to London, February 8, 1919
-(“telegraphic—following from consul at Ekaterinburg, 6th February”), the
-following is stated:
-
-    “From examination of several labourer and peasant witnesses,
-    I have evidence to the effect that very smallest percentage
-    of this district were pro-Bolshevik, majority of labourers
-    sympathising with summoning of Constituent Assembly. Witnesses
-    further stated that Bolshevik leaders did not represent Russian
-    working classes, most of them being Jews” (page 33).
-
-In a cable dispatch from General Knox to the British War Office on
-February 5, 1919, from Omsk, Siberia, details are given as to the murder
-of the Imperial Russian family. This cable reads in part as follows:
-
-    “With regard to the murder of the Imperial family at
-    Ekaterinburg, there is further evidence to show that there were
-    two parties in the local Soviet, one which was anxious to save
-    Imperial family, and the latter, headed by five Jews, two of
-    whom were determined to have them murdered. These two Jews,
-    by name Vainen and Safarof, went with Lenine when he made a
-    journey across Germany” (page 41).
-
-Again, in a report made by Rev. B. S. Lombard to Earl Curzon on March 23,
-1919, referring to the results of the Bolshevist régime in Russia, among
-other things, the following is stated:
-
-    “All business became paralyzed, shops were closed, Jews became
-    possessors of most of the business houses, and horrible scenes
-    of starvation became common in the country districts. The
-    peasants put their children to death rather than see them
-    starve. In a village on the Dvina, not far from Schlusselburg,
-    a mother hanged three of her children” (page 57).
-
-Mr. Henry C. Emery, formerly Chairman of the United States Tariff Board,
-recently wrote a treatise on Bolshevism, of which Lord Bryce has said:
-
-    “It seems to me the sanest and clearest exposition of
-    Bolshevist theory and practice that I have seen and confirms my
-    view that between them and us there can be no peace.”
-
-Mr. Emery comes to the conclusion that Bolshevism is the promotion of a
-relentless and universal class war, and that “a Bolshevik is a man who
-believes in the overthrow of the institution of private property by
-force of arms.” While this is the definition which he gives of Bolshevism
-as a movement, and his argument in support of it is certainly a very
-able one, it is interesting to note what he says in regard to the Jewish
-support of the movement:
-
-    “In the minds of some people, especially in Russia, Bolshevism
-    takes on the color of a revolt of the Jews against the
-    Russians, who have so long kept them in subjection. Lenin is of
-    course a pure Russian, and it is a mistake to say that all the
-    other leaders of importance are Jews. On the other hand, the
-    Jews have been active in the movement out of all proportion to
-    their relative numbers. No one who ever made a visit to Smolny
-    Institute, when that was the headquarters of the Bolshevik
-    government at Petrograd, could fail to understand how easy it
-    was to get the impression that the Jews had at last seized the
-    power.”
-
-Mr. Robert Wilton, a well-known Englishman, who was the Petrograd
-correspondent of the London _Times_, and a Knight of St. George, in his
-book entitled “Russia’s Agony,” refers to the part which the Jews played
-in undermining the Kerensky government and establishing the Bolshevist
-rule:
-
-    “Subversion had been carried out by a handful of pseudo-Jew
-    Extremists in the Soviet, but the Soviet was a party to
-    the traitorous business. Most of the leaders—especially
-    the pseudo-Jews—were a truculent pack, cowering behind the
-    soldiery, intent upon realizing their revolutionary ‘ideals,’
-    but terrified by a possibility of failure and eventual
-    reprisals.”
-
-The author also states:
-
-    “Afterwards their numbers [referring to the Jew Extremists in
-    the Soviet] increased largely, and although they studiously
-    concealed their identity under assumed Russian or Polish names,
-    it became known that the principal ones were: Nahamkez—Steklov,
-    Apfelbaum—Zinoviev, Rosenfeldt—Kamenev, Goldmann—Gorev,
-    Goldberg—Mekowski, Zederbaum—Martov, Himmer—Sukhanov,
-    Krachman—Zagorski, Hollander—Mieshkowski, Lourier—Larim,
-    Seffer—Bogdanov. Among the leaders of this gang—under
-    Lenin—were: Trotzky, whose real name was Bronstein, and
-    Feldmann, alias Chernov.”[12]
-
-In the well-known French periodical _L’Illustration_, issued September
-14, 1918, an article appeared under the title “Petrograd under the
-Commune,” from which we reproduce the following extract:
-
-    “The Masters of the Hour.
-
-    “_The Bolshevist Movement and the Jews of Russia_
-
-    “When one lives in contact with the functionaries who are
-    serving the Bolshevist government, one feature strikes the
-    attention, which is that almost all of them are Jews.
-
-    “I am not at all anti-Semitic but I must state what strikes
-    the eyes: everywhere in Petrograd, in Moscow, in Provincial
-    Districts, in all commissariats, in district offices, in
-    Smolny, in the former ministries, in the Soviets, I have met
-    nothing but Jews and again Jews.
-
-    “A Jew is this District Commissary, former stock broker, with
-    a double bourgeois chin. A Jew is this commissary of the
-    bank, very elegant, with a cravat of the latest style, and a
-    fancy waistcoat. Again a Jew, this inspector of taxes, with
-    his hooked nose: he understands perfectly how to squeeze the
-    bourgeois in order to cover the deficit in the Bolshevist
-    budget which amounts for the first half year, 1918, to
-    14,000,000,000 rubles! Jewish are these little stenographers,
-    these secretaries: the same hooked noses, the same jet black
-    hair.
-
-    “The more one studies the second revolution the more one is
-    convinced that Bolshevism is a Jewish movement which can be
-    explained by the special conditions in which the Jewish people
-    were placed in Russia.”
-
-In the London _Times_ of March 29, 1919, the following article appeared,
-entitled “Bolshevist Portraits III. Some Commissaries”:
-
-    “One of the most curious features of the Bolshevist movement
-    is the high percentage of non-Russian elements amongst its
-    leaders. Of the twenty or thirty commissaries or leaders who
-    provide the central machinery of the Bolshevist movement not
-    less than 75% are Jews....
-
-    “If Lenin is the brains of the movement, the Jews provide the
-    executive officers. Of the leading commissaries, Trotzky,
-    Zinoviev, Kameneff, Stekloff, Sverdloff, Uritsky, Joffe,
-    Rakovsky, Radek, Menjinsky, Larin, Bronski, Zaalkind,
-    Volodarsky, Petroff, Litvinoff, Smirdovitch, and Vovrovsky
-    are all of the Jewish race, while amongst the minor Soviet
-    officials the number is legion. Of all the Bolshevist leaders
-    Petrovsky, the Commissary for the Interior, and a former member
-    of the Duma, is practically the only one who in any way could
-    be described as a working man. The rest are all intellectuals
-    of bourgeois or paid bourgeois origin.”
-
-In the issue of “ASIA” February-March, 1920, there is an article entitled
-“Inside Soviet Russia.” The author of the said article, Mr. V. Anichkoff,
-is a well-known Russian scientist. Among other things, he states as
-follows:
-
-    “In all the Bolshevist institutions the heads are Jews. The
-    Assistant Commissar for Elementary Education, Grunberg, can
-    hardly speak Russian. The Jews are successful in everything and
-    obtain their ends. They know how to command and get complete
-    submission. But they are proud and contemptuous to everyone,
-    which strongly excites the people against them. Anti-Semitism
-    in a strong degree has spread in all grades of the people.
-    The people are inclined to see in the Jews the culprits of
-    all their woes. They look on Bolshevism as a Jewish affair,
-    and Anti-Semitism is widely spread in the Red army. The Red
-    soldiers openly and strongly express their hatred of the Jews.
-    One Red soldier related before me that he was discharged, and
-    that at all the hospitals and halting stages the doctors and
-    their assistants and nurses were Jews; that a Jewish doctor
-    snatched the cross from one of his comrades and said: ‘That
-    is not wanted now, it has been done away with,’ but that he
-    did not let the doctor do the same to him. At the present time
-    there is a great national religious fervor among the Jews. They
-    believe that the promised time of the rule of God’s elect on
-    earth is coming. They have connected Judaism with a universal
-    revolution. They see in the spread of revolution the fulfilling
-    of the Scriptures: ‘Though I make an end of all the nations,
-    whether I have scattered thee, yet will I not make an end of
-    thee.’ Bound up with the overwhelming part taken by Jews in the
-    Revolution, an interest in masonry, Zionism and the mission of
-    the Jews have spread among educated Russians.”
-
-                            (“ASIA,” February-March, 1920, p. 223).
-
-We also refer the reader to the testimony of a well-known Jewish
-periodical published in London, _The Jewish Chronicle_, as to the
-identity of Bolshevism and Judaism. In part the article states as follows:
-
-    “There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact
-    that so many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals
-    of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest
-    ideals of Judaism.” (See _Jewish Chronicle_, No. 2609, April 4,
-    1919, p. 7, article entitled “Peace, War, and Bolshevism.”)
-
-It is significant that one of the well-known Jewish leaders, Israel
-Zangwill, addressing a recent conference of the Poale Zion Congregation
-in London, glorified “_the race_ which has produced a Beaconsfield, a
-Reading, a Montagu, a Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotzky” (quoted from _The
-Jewish Chronicle_, February 27, 1920, No. 2656, p. 28). Referring to this
-statement, _La Vieille-France_ says, “Thus, Trotzky is, in fact, the hero
-of Judaism” (No. 164, March 18-24, 1920).
-
-It is important to note that the Jewish character of the Bolshevist
-movement which is so accentuated in Soviet Russia was equally apparent
-in Soviet Hungary when that country was under the Red rule of Bela Cohen
-(Kuhn). Mr. Edward Dillon in his book “The Inside Story of the Peace
-Conference,” devotes much attention to this subject. Referring to the
-situation in Hungary, Mr. Dillon states as follows, at page 224.
-
-    “By the first of August the lawless band that was ruling the
-    country relinquished the reins of power which were taken over
-    at first by a Socialist Cabinet of which an influential French
-    press organ wrote: ‘The names of the new ... commissaries of
-    the people tell us nothing, because their bearers are unknown.
-    But the endings of their names tell us that most of them are,
-    like those of the preceding government, of Jewish origin. Never
-    since the inauguration of official Communism did Budapest
-    better deserve the appellation of Judapest, which was assigned
-    to it by the late M. Lueger, chief of the Christian Socialists
-    of Vienna. That is an additional trait in common with the
-    Russian Soviets.’”
-
-In this same connection the weekly magazine _The New Witness_, published
-in London, in its issue of April 11, 1919, remarked as follows:
-
-    “It is not only among the Allies that the Jewish influence is
-    making itself felt. We know what a tight grip they have on the
-    governments at Petrograd and Berlin. It now appears that the
-    new government of Hungary is dominated by Jews. Ninety-five
-    per cent of Hungarians are Christians and eighty per cent
-    of the ministers are Hebrew. This fact becomes the more
-    remarkable when we are told that the ministers are nearly all
-    mediocrities.”
-
-The Jewish character of the Bolshevist movement in Russia has been
-explicitly referred to in the Bolshevist press itself. In substantiation
-of this we present the following evidence:
-
-    In No. 1 of the Russian weekly newspaper, _On to Moscow_,
-    published on September 23, 1919, in Rostov on the Don, an
-    article was published, entitled “Not one Drop of Innocent
-    Blood.” The article reads as follows:
-
-    “In the newspaper ‘Communist,’ issued on April 12, 1919, No.
-    72, which paper was published in the City of Kharkoff, 13 Karl
-    Liebnecht Street, telephone No. 8-40, Mr. M. Cohan, in his
-    article ‘Services of the Jewry to the working class,’ wrote as
-    follows:
-
-    “‘Various kinds of reactionary regimental organizations and
-    radas are working out agrarian “laws,” are giving away the
-    land to the workmen, are establishing an eight-hour day, and
-    throwing out other crumbs to the working masses with the sole
-    object to remain in power. But let us unmask them and let
-    us see what there is behind this servile mask. Let us, for
-    instance, analyze their attitude towards the Jews. On all the
-    territory which is occupied by the Don, Kuban and Voluntary
-    gangs, the Jews are being annihilated and oppressed. One is
-    unable to trace a Jew holding any office, be it important or
-    unimportant, and this is called “equality and fraternity.” The
-    Voluntary executioners scream about their humanitarianism and
-    at the same time they oppress a whole nation which always had
-    the esteem of the whole world. It should not be forgotten that
-    the Jewish people, who for centuries were oppressed by kings
-    and czars, are the real proletariat, the real internationale,
-    which has no country.
-
-    “‘Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Russian
-    social revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands of the
-    Jews. Would the dark oppressed masses of the Russian workmen
-    and peasants have been able to throw off the yoke of the
-    bourgeoisie by themselves? No, it was precisely the Jews who
-    led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the Internationale,
-    and not only have led, but are also now leading the Soviet
-    cause which remains in their safe hands. We may be quiet as
-    long as the chief command of the Red Army is in the hands of
-    comrade Leon Trotzky. It is true that there are no Jews in the
-    ranks of the Red Army as far as privates are concerned, but
-    in the committees and in Soviet organizations, as commissars,
-    the Jews are gallantly leading the masses of the Russian
-    proletariat to victory. It is not without reason that during
-    the elections to all Soviet institutions the Jews are winning
-    by an overwhelming majority. It is not without reason, let us
-    repeat, that the Russian proletariat has elected as its head
-    and leader the Jew comrade Bronstein-Trotzky. The symbol of
-    Jewry, which for centuries has struggled against capitalism,
-    has become also the symbol of the Russian proletariat, which
-    can be seen even in the fact of the adoption of the Red
-    five-pointed star, which in former times, as it is well-known,
-    was the symbol of Zionism and Jewry. With this sign comes
-    victory, with this sign comes the death of the parasites of
-    the bourgeoisie, and let the supporters of Denikine, Krasnov
-    and Kolchak tremble, these oppressors and executioners of the
-    advance guard of Socialism—of the gallant Jewish people. Their
-    servility before the working masses will not help them, and
-    Jewish tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood.’”
-
-The publishers of the newspaper “On to Moscow” print a footnote to the
-article of Mr. Cohan which reads:
-
-    “The issue of the newspaper ‘Communist’ is kept at the office
-    and everybody is invited to ascertain its authenticity.”
-
-
-2. PARALLELISM BETWEEN PROTOCOLS AND BOLSHEVIST POLICIES
-
-
-(_a_) _The Policy of Terror_
-
-It will be recalled that the Protocols advocate a mass terror, a “program
-of violence.” In this connection also the actual Bolshevist policies are
-in complete harmony with the program of the Protocols. With reference
-to this point it becomes important to quote the _Krasnaya Gazeta_ (_Red
-Gazette_), the official organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’, Red
-Army, and Peasants’ Deputies, which body is presided over by Zinovieff,
-alias Apfelbaum, a Jew. On August 31, 1918, in an editorial article, the
-following is stated:
-
-    “The interests of the revolution require the physical
-    annihilation of the bourgeois class. It is time for us to
-    start.”
-
-More explicitly the program of violence is defined by the same paper on
-September 1, 1918, in an article entitled “Blood for Blood.” Therein it
-is stated:
-
-    “We will turn our hearts into steel, which we will temper in
-    the fire of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom.
-    We will make our hearts cruel, hard, and immovable, so that no
-    mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the
-    sight of a sea of enemy blood. We will let loose the floodgates
-    of that sea. Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our
-    enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands; let them
-    drown themselves in their own blood. For the blood of Lenin and
-    Uritzki, Zinovieff and Volodarski, let there be floods of blood
-    of the bourgeois—more blood, as much as possible.”
-
-Mr. Zinovieff—Apfelbaum went into further details as to the number of
-Russians whom he proposed to kill for the sake of Mr. Trotzky’s régime.
-In a speech of Zinovieff’s, reported in the _Northern Commune_, published
-in Petrograd on September 19, 1918, No. 109, the following plain
-statement is quoted:
-
-    “To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist
-    militarism. We must win over to our side 90,000,000 of the
-    100,000,000 of population of Russia under the Soviets. _As
-    for the rest, we have nothing to say to them; they must be
-    annihilated._”
-
-To be sure that the Jewish Bolsheviks were not boasting, the following
-report of the American Consul General at Moscow, dated September 3, 1918,
-is of the utmost significance. This report, which was published in the
-“Memorandum on Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in Russia,”
-Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919, reads in part as follows:
-
-    “Since May the so-called Extraordinary Commission to Combat
-    Counter-revolution has conducted an openly avowed campaign of
-    terror. Thousands of persons have been summarily shot without
-    even the form of trial. Many of them have no doubt been
-    innocent of even the political views which were supposed to
-    supply the motive of their execution.”
-
-The American Consul General concludes his report by stating:
-
-    “The situation cries aloud to all who will act for the sake of
-    humanity.”[13]
-
-Trotzky made an attempt to justify “mass terror” in an article signed
-by him in the official daily newspaper _Izvestia_ on January 10, 1919,
-under the title “Military Specialists and the Red Army.” In this article
-Trotzky states among other things as follows:
-
-    “Terror as the demonstration of the will and strength of the
-    working class, is historically justified, precisely because
-    the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will
-    of the Intelligentsia, pacify the professional men of various
-    categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own
-    aims within the fields of their specialties.”[14]
-
-The London _Times_ of November 14, 1919, printed a letter “sent by a
-British Officer in South Russia to his wife” stating that “the letter is
-published exactly as sent, except that names and dates have been altered
-so that the writer and his wife will not be embarrassed.” The officer
-appeals to his wife to do all she can to put before the British public
-the information which he gives her as to the atrocities committed by the
-Bolsheviki which he had himself witnessed while fighting with the army of
-General Denikin.
-
-    “The Bolshevists are devils.... I hope to send you copies of
-    64 official photos taken by British officers at Odessa when
-    the town was retaken from the Bolshevists.... As no paper will
-    print them I suggest that you should have copies done. If we’re
-    too hard up you could pay for them by sending me no parcels, or
-    selling my Caucasian dagger, or Persian book, or something. And
-    I suggest that you should then do with them as you think fit,
-    to make them most widely known. Their horror may make people
-    realize. They must realize. By God, they shall realize! They
-    show men who’ve been crucified with the torture of the ‘human
-    glove.’ The victim gets crucified, nails through his elbows.
-    The hands are treated with a solution which shrivels the skin.
-    The skin is cut out with a razor, round the wrist, and peeled
-    off, till it hangs by the finger nails—the ‘human glove.’ I’m
-    not sparing you. I hope you’ll show and send them to everybody
-    we know. People at home, apathetic fools they are, do not
-    deserve to be spared. They must be woken up. John and Katie
-    ought to see them. Most of the photos are of women. Women with
-    their breasts cut off to the bone.... Two little bits, ref.
-    Bolshevist atrocities, you might type in as many copies as you
-    can. If you and several others left them in different tea-shops
-    every afternoon, it might touch quite a lot of people. I shall
-    send you chapter and verse if I can. If I haven’t sent chapter
-    and verse in a month, do your best without. Papers are no good,
-    because papers would put it more delicately. We have here at H.
-    Q. passes issued to Bolshevists by commissaries on occupying
-    Ekaterinodar. These passes authorize their holders to arrest
-    any girl they fancy for the use of the soldiery. Sixty-two
-    girls of all classes were arrested like this and thrown to
-    the Bolshevist troops. Those who struggled were killed quite
-    early on. The rest, when used and finished, were mutilated
-    and thrown, dead and dying, into the two small rivers flowing
-    through Ekaterinodar. In all towns occupied by Bolshevists
-    and reoccupied by us ‘slaughter-houses’ are found choked with
-    corpses. Hundreds of ‘suspects,’ men, women, and children, were
-    herded in these—doors and windows manned and the struggling
-    mass fired into until most of them were dead or dying. The
-    doors were then locked and they were left. The stench in these
-    places, I am told, is hair-raising. These ‘slaughter-houses’
-    are veritable plague spots and have caused widespread
-    epidemics. I want you to proselytize Robinson and galvanize the
-    Colonel and everybody else you can get hold of. I’d like James
-    to see this and No. 47 and Dorothy. Above all the Mater. For I
-    feel sure, that whatever happens, she and you will be glad that
-    I’ve come out.”
-
-    (_“The Horrors of Bolshevism,” reprinted from The Times,
-    November 14, 1919, pp. 5 and 6._)
-
-In the same letter the writer refers to the Bolshevist plans of extending
-their power to Asia and Africa, and discusses the part played by the Jews
-in the Bolshevist régime in Russia.
-
-    “... Bolshevist Russia is a channel of communication to
-    the Committee of Union and Progress, to Egypt, India, and
-    Afghanistan. Unless beaten by us, the Bolshies will beat us.
-    It’s a side issue for the present, but the danger of their
-    rousing and letting loose the Chinese is not so very remote.
-    They have declared war on Christianity. The Bible to them is
-    a ‘counter-revolutionary’ book, and to be stamped out. They
-    are aiming at raising all non-Christian races against the
-    Christian countries. The Bolshevists form about 5 per cent.
-    of the population of Russia—_JEWS_ (80 to 90 per cent. of the
-    commissaries are Jews), Chinese, Letts, Germans, and certain
-    of the ‘skilled labor’ artisans. The conscribed peasantry,
-    originally captured by the catchwords mentioned in the
-    pamphlets, now often goaded beyond endurance, is rising against
-    them over wide districts. Still conscribed and put up to fight,
-    under severe penalties, they form most of the ‘cannon fodder’
-    used by the Bolshies. They desert, often _en masse_, and many a
-    peasant who marched for the Bolshevists last week is fighting
-    for Denikin in the Volunteer Army to-day. Ref. Jews—In towns
-    captured by Bolshevists the only unviolated sacred buildings
-    are the synagogues, while churches are used for anything,
-    from movie-shows to ‘slaughter-houses.’ The Poles, Galicians,
-    and Petlura have committed ‘pogroms’ (massacres of Jews). Not
-    the Russian Volunteer Armies under Denikin. Denikin has, in
-    fact, been so strict in protecting the Jews that he has been
-    accused by his sympathizers of favoring them. If, however, a
-    Commissary, steeped in murder, with torture and rape, with
-    mutilation, happens to be a Jew, as most of them are, should he
-    receive exceptional treatment?”
-
-    (_“The Horrors of Bolshevism,” p. 5._)
-
-The London _Times_ of December 3, 1919, published the statement of an eye
-witness of the “reign of torture” under the Bolsheviki at the time of the
-first capture of Odessa. The witness is the Rev. R. Courtier-Forster,
-late British Chaplain at Odessa and the Russian Ports of the Black Sea.
-Space permits the reprint here of only the following passages from this
-important testimony as to one chapter of the Bolshevist terror:
-
-    “While I was still British chaplain of Odessa the city was
-    deluged with blood. When the Bolshevist elements, grafting
-    on to their main support the 4,000 criminals released from
-    the city gaols, attempted to seize the town, people of
-    education, regardless of social position, offered what armed
-    resistance was in their power. Workmen, shop assistants,
-    soldiers, professional men, and a handful of officers fought
-    for freedom and liberty through the streets of the great port
-    for three days and nights against the bloody despotism of the
-    Bolshevists. Tramcars were overturned to make barricades,
-    trenches dug in the streets, machine-guns placed in the upper
-    windows of houses to move the thoroughfare with fire. The
-    place became an inferno. The Bolshevists were victorious. On
-    capturing Odessa Railway Station, which had been defended by
-    a few officers and a number of anti-Bolshevist soldiers, the
-    Bolshevists bayoneted to death the 19 wounded and helpless men
-    laid on the waiting-room floor to await Red Cross succour.
-
-    “Scores of other men who fell wounded in the streets also
-    became victims to the triumphant Bolshevist criminals. The
-    majority of these wretched and unhappy sufferers completely
-    disappeared. Inquiries at the hospitals and prisons revealed
-    the fact that they were not there, and no trace of them was
-    to be found. A fortnight later there was a terrible storm on
-    the Black Sea, and the bodies of the missing men were washed
-    up on the rocks of Odessa breakwater and along the shore;
-    they had been taken out to sea in small boats, stones tied to
-    their feet, and then been dropped over alive into deep water.
-    Hundreds of others were captured and taken on board the Almaz
-    and the Sinope, the largest cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet.
-    Here they became victims of unthinkable tortures.
-
-    “On the Sinope General Chormichoff and some other personal
-    friends of my own were fastened one by one with iron chains to
-    planks of wood and pushed slowly, inch by inch, into the ship’s
-    furnaces and roasted alive. Others were tied to winches, the
-    winches turned until the men were torn in two alive. Others
-    were taken to the boilers and scalded with boiling steam; they
-    were then moved to another part of the ship and ventilating
-    fans set revolving that currents of cold air might blow on the
-    scalds and increase the agony of the torture. The full names of
-    17 of the Sinope victims were given me in writing by members
-    of their families or their personal friends. These were lost
-    later when my rooms were raided, my papers seized, and I myself
-    arrested and thrown into prison.
-
-    “The house in the Catherine Square in which I was first in
-    captivity afterwards became the Bolshevists’ House of Torture
-    in which hundreds of victims were done to death. The shrieks
-    of the people being tortured to death or having splinters of
-    wood driven under the quick of their nails were so agonizing
-    and appalling that personal friends of my own living more
-    than a hundred yards away in the Vorontsoffsky Pereulok were
-    obliged to fasten their double windows to prevent the cries of
-    anguish penetrating into the house. The horror and fear of the
-    surviving citizens was so great that the Bolshevists kept motor
-    lorries thundering up and down the street to drown the awful
-    screams of agony wrung from their dying victims.
-
-    “This House of Torture remains as much as possible in the
-    condition in which the Bolshevists left it and is now shown to
-    those who care to inspect its gruesome and blood-bespattered
-    rooms.
-
-    “Week by week the newspapers published articles for and against
-    the nationalization of women. In South Russia the proposal did
-    not become a legal measure, but in Odessa bands of Bolshevists
-    seized women and girls and carried them off to the Port,
-    the timber yards, and the Alexandrovsky Park for their own
-    purposes. Women used in this way were found in the mornings
-    either dead or mad or in a dying condition. Those found still
-    alive were shot. One of the most awful of my own personal
-    experiences of the New Civilization was hearing at night from
-    my bedroom windows the frantic shrieks of women being raped
-    to death in the park opposite. Screams of shrill terror and
-    despair repeated at intervals until they became nothing but
-    hoarse cries of agony like the death calls of a dying animal.
-    This happened not once, or twice, but many times. Never to the
-    day of my death shall I forget the horror of those dreadful
-    shrieks of tortured women, and one’s own utter powerlessness
-    to aid the victims or punish the Bolshevist devils in their
-    bestial orgies.”
-
-    (_“Bolshevism, Reign of Torture at Odessa,” by the Rev. R.
-    Courtier-Forster, late British Chaplain at Odessa and the
-    Russian Ports of the Black Sea. Reprinted from The Times,
-    December 3, 1919, pp. 2, 3 and 4._)
-
-The Protocols speak of _concealed_ executions as well as of open
-violence when making use of the weapon of terrorism to secure political
-domination. The Bolsheviki closely paralleled the Protocols in this
-respect.
-
-While it is true that the number of victims of outright execution by
-shooting, drowning, etc., have run into very large figures, they are
-undoubtedly few in comparison with the number who have been deliberately
-starved by the Bolsheviki. In pursuance of their avowed policy of
-exterminating the bourgeois class the Soviet government divided the
-people into four categories with respect to the receipt of food, the
-bourgeoisie being placed in the last two categories as to which the
-allowance of food was insufficient to support life. A report by “Mr. E.”
-found in the British White Book, “Russia No. 1” (1919), relating to the
-conditions in February, 1919, shows that the last two categories have
-been done away with altogether. The report states that the Bolsheviki
-have published statistics “showing that the fourth category was not
-necessary, as there were so few members.” “This proves,” he says,
-“that the 4th category people have either been exterminated or have
-been forced to work under the Bolsheviks in order to live.” The same
-witness states that the amount of food given to the first category was
-constantly varying according to the supplies. The rations allowed the
-four categories in October, 1918, are shown by the Bolshevist paper
-_Vooruzheny Narod_ (_The Armed People_):
-
-    “The Commissary of Food of the Petrograd Labor Commune states
-    that on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, for four days, the
-    following products will be given on the presentation of the
-    bread cards, according to category:
-
-    1st category—1 lb. (Russian) of bread and 3 lb. of potatoes
-    2nd category—½ lb. of bread and 2 lb. of potatoes
-    3rd category—¼ lb. of bread and 1 lb. of potatoes
-    4th category—½ lb. of potatoes.”[15]
-
-Many witnesses, have referred to the cruelty of this category system.
-Of course, these rations for the 3rd and 4th categories are quite
-insufficient to support life, and as the bourgeois classes were not only
-placed in these categories, but were also persecuted and prevented from
-getting employment in many cases, it is not surprising that hundreds of
-thousands of them were exterminated by these measures.
-
-As to the question of how the Jewish element in the population came out
-on the question of food as compared with the Christian element there
-is little evidence at hand, but we may refer to one statement in a
-memorandum of a Mr. B. contained in the British White Book, “Russia No. 1
-(1919),” as follows:
-
-    “At the Putilof Works anti-Semitism is growing, probably
-    because the food supply committees are entirely in the hands
-    of Jews—and voices can be heard sometimes calling for a
-    ‘pogrom.’”[16]
-
-Wholesale starvation in Russian cities is one of the most striking
-features of Russia’s tragedy. The bourgeoisie, and especially the
-intellectual classes of the Russian people, are systematically underfed
-by the treacherous rationing system of the Jewish Soviet officials.
-Manual labor as well as the intellectual workers are subjected to a most
-villainous tyranny, namely, to the tyranny of starvation. It is proper to
-propound the question: Is this policy carried out in accordance with the
-stipulation of the Protocols which reads as follows:
-
-    “Our power lies in the chronic malnutrition and in the weakness
-    of the worker, because through this he falls under our power
-    and is unable to find either strength or energy to counteract
-    it.” (Protocol No. III.)
-
-
-(_b_) _The Program of Hypocrisy_
-
-As already seen, the Protocols call for a program of hypocrisy as well
-as terror. The nature of the Bolshevist régime viewed from this angle is
-graphically described by Mr. Roger E. Simmons in his testimony before the
-Overman Committee. On pages 298 and 299 of the Senate Report he states:
-
-    “Along the trans-Siberian line, proceeding slowly, I had a
-    chance of reading the literature that the Bolsheviki were
-    distributing in connection with their active propaganda; also
-    the decrees, proclamations, and the public formal announcements
-    of all kinds of the local and national authorities. Many of
-    these sounded plausible, aimed to be constructive, ostensibly,
-    and in their idealism and promises were golden. I could
-    see how people would be attracted, and for the first 8 to
-    10 weeks understood their sanguine hopes. But after this
-    time disintegration was rapid and I saw the awful results.
-    The _modus operandi_ was not in line with theories. They
-    talked ideals but did not act ideals. Practices showed there
-    was decided immorality; decidedly, the game was not being
-    played squarely, the people being deceived by the leaders.
-    I suspected it from the very beginning from what I saw in
-    Siberia. If you will let me, I will read to you a significant
-    admission in that connection.
-
-    “This statement was written to me, at my request, by an
-    American that it could be given to the American Consul General.
-    It reads as follows:
-
-    “‘Bonch Bruevitch, the executor of the acts of all the People’s
-    Commissars, not a strong man, but a close friend of Lenine’s,
-    who, working in the same office, is able to influence Lenine
-    strongly. A power in the government as long as Lenine lives.
-    He states that the Bolsheviki have not worked out a code of
-    morals yet, and until they do, the end justifies the means. Any
-    lies or dictatorial methods are worth using as long as they
-    are in the interests of the working classes. A close friend of
-    his says he has no compunctions, lying whenever there is an
-    advantage to be gained from it for the Soviets.’
-
-    “The movement is immoral, absolutely.”
-
-In this connection it is of the utmost importance to call the attention
-of the reader to the statement of one of the best known Jewish Soviet
-officials, Zinovieff—Apfelbaum, President of the Petrograd Soviet,
-regarding the means of spreading world-wide propaganda. The passage as
-quoted before proves how closely the policies advocated in the Protocols
-resemble the Jewish policies as carried out by the Soviet officials in
-Russia. This is what Zinovieff stated on February 2, 1919:
-
-    “We are willing to sign an unfavorable peace with the
-    allies.... It would only mean that we should put no trust
-    whatever in the bit of paper we would sign. We should use the
-    breathing space so obtained in order to gather our strength in
-    order that the mere continued existence of our government would
-    keep up the world-wide propaganda which Soviet Russia has been
-    carrying on for more than a year.”[17]
-
-
-(_c_) _The Destruction of Religion and Christianity_
-
-Here again the actual policies of the Bolsheviki fully coincide with the
-Protocols.
-
-The most important passage in the Protocols as to the policy advocated in
-regard to religion is the following:
-
-    “Liberty could also be harmless and remain on the state program
-    without detriment to the well-being of the people if it were to
-    retain the ideas of the belief in God and human fraternity,
-    free from the conception of equality which is in contradiction
-    to the laws of nature which establish subordination. With
-    such a faith the people would be governed by the guardians
-    of the parish and would thrive quietly and obediently under
-    the guidance of their spiritual leader, accepting God’s
-    dispensation on earth. It is for this reason that we must
-    undermine faith, tearing from the minds of the GOYS the very
-    principle of God and Soul, and substituting mathematical
-    formulas and material needs.”
-
-It appears from the above excerpt that the Protocols advocate the
-destruction of religion and the religious spirit among the Gentiles on
-the ground that they are the political as well as the moral bulwarks of
-the Gentile states. In another place the Protocols state that the most
-formidable antagonist of the Jews in the past has been Rome, _i.e._, the
-Roman Catholic Church.
-
-The Bolsheviki, whatever their real motives may be, have from the
-moment they came into power in Russia conducted a campaign of violence
-and persecution against the Christian religion, in the guise of a
-campaign against religion in general. While they have not attacked the
-Jewish religion or the Jewish rabbis, they have murdered and persecuted
-Christian priests and harassed their congregations in the churches. While
-professing to be merely following the Socialist teachings of Karl Marx
-(himself a Jew), who attacked religion in general as the creature of
-capitalism, the Bolshevist campaign against religion is in fact directed
-against Christianity.
-
-Evidence of the above is found in the sworn testimony of several
-witnesses before the Overman Committee and in official reports of the
-British government and elsewhere.
-
-An English clergyman, the Rev. B. S. Lombard, in a report to Earl Curzon,
-dated March 23, 1919, referring to the conditions in Soviet Russia,
-stated as follows:
-
-    “The treatment of the priests was brutal beyond everything.
-    Eight of them were incarcerated in a cell in our corridor.
-    Some of us saw an aged man knocked down twice one morning
-    for apparently no reason whatever, and they were employed to
-    perform the most degrading work and made to clean out the
-    filthy prison hospital.”[18]
-
-Mr. George A. Simons testified before the Overman Committee, in answer to
-a question of Senator King, as follows:
-
-    SENATOR KING. “Did you find, then, that atheism permeates the
-    ranks of the Bolsheviki?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “Yes, sir. And the anti-Christ spirit as well.”
-
-The testimony of Mr. Simons on this subject was as follows:
-
-    SENATOR KING. “What I am trying to get at is, for my
-    information, why Bolshevism is bitterly opposed to all sorts of
-    religion or sacraments of the church—Christianity; because I
-    suppose that they recognize that Christianity is the basis of
-    law and order and of orderly government. I was wondering if you
-    had discovered why they were so bitter against Christianity,
-    and if you found that all the Bolsheviks were atheistic or
-    rationalistic or anti-Christian?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “My experience over there under the Bolsheviki
-    régime has led me to come to the conclusion that the Bolsheviki
-    religion is not only absolutely anti-religious, atheistic,
-    but has it in mind to make all real religious work impossible
-    as soon as they can achieve that end which they are pressing.
-    There was a meeting—I cannot give you the date offhand; it
-    must have been in August, 1918—held in a large hall that
-    had once been used by the Young Men’s Christian Association
-    in Petrograd for their work among the Russian soldiers. The
-    Bolsheviki confiscated it; put out the Y. M. C. A. In that
-    large hall there was a meeting held which was to be a sort of
-    religious dispute. Lunacharsky, the Commissar of the People’s
-    Enlightenment, as he was called, and Mr. Spitzberg, who was
-    the Commissar of Propaganda for Bolshevism, were the two
-    main speakers. Both of those men spoke in very much the same
-    way as Emma Goldman has been speaking. I have been getting
-    some of her literature, and recently I have been very much
-    amazed at the same line of argumentation with regard to the
-    attack on religion and Christianity and so-called religious
-    organizations.”
-
-    SENATOR KING. “She is the Bolshevik who has been in jail in
-    this country and who will be deported as soon as her sentence
-    is over?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “I do not know as she will be deported.”
-
-    SENATOR KING. “I think she will be.”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “She ought to be put somewhere where she cannot
-    issue any more of that literature. Lunacharsky and Spitzberg
-    came out with pretty much the same things that she has been
-    saying and printing. This is one of these theses: ‘All that is
-    bad in the world, misery and suffering that we have had, is
-    largely due to the superstition that there is a God.’”
-
-    SENATOR KING. “I noticed in yesterday’s paper that in their
-    schools the children are being taught, wherever they have
-    schools at all, positive atheism. Did you verify that?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “Lunacharsky, as the official head of the
-    department of education, Commissar of the People’s
-    Enlightenment, said: ‘We now propose to enlighten our boys and
-    our girls and we are using as a textbook a catechism of atheism
-    which will be used in our public schools.’ Yet he had the
-    audacity to say: ‘We are going to give all churches the same
-    chance.’ And a priest replied to him, saying: ‘Then you ought
-    not to put your catechism of atheism into the schools.’”[19]
-
-Referring further to the meeting at the Y. M. C. A., Mr. Simons said a
-little later in his testimony:
-
-    “Lunacharsky and Spitzberg said in that meeting, and they sent
-    it out in their proclamations: ‘The greatest enemy to our
-    proletarian cause is religion. The so-called church is simply a
-    camouflage of capitalistic control and they are hiding behind
-    it, and in order to have success in our movement we must get
-    rid of the church.’ Now a frank statement like that seems to me
-    to indicate their anti-religious and anti-Christian animus.”[20]
-
-Mr. Simons further testified as follows:
-
-    SENATOR KING. “Has there been a confiscation of church property
-    and buildings?”
-
-    MR. SIMONS. “Yes, sir; and in quite a number of instances
-    monasteries, with their wealth, have been taken, and all
-    kinds of indecent things have been done by certain Bolshevik
-    officials.
-
-    “I have some data showing that they have turned certain
-    churches and monasteries into dancing halls, and one instance
-    has been reported to me where a certain Bolshevik official
-    went into a church while the people were there waiting for the
-    sacrament, and threw the priest out, so I am told, and himself
-    put on the clerical garb, and then went on the altar and made a
-    comedy of the ritual, which stirred up the religious sense of
-    the people to that extent that they threatened—of course, among
-    themselves—that they would yet kill that man. _He happened to
-    be an apostate Jew._”
-
-Mr. Roger E. Simmons testified as follows in regard to the Russian priest
-who was put in the same prison with him by the Bolsheviki:
-
-    “A high priest of the church was there. He had been preaching
-    sermons publicly denouncing the immorality of the Bolsheviki.
-    They imprisoned him and shot him. This priest told me that he
-    was a great admirer of Dr. Mott of America.”
-
-    SENATOR NELSON. “Do you not think that the church in the end
-    will prove the rallying center for the anti-Bolshevik forces?”
-
-    MR. SIMMONS. “I think it certainly will be one of the principal
-    factors; no doubt of it. That priest took the occasion,
-    knowing that I was an official of the American Government,
-    thinking that it was the last duty he could perhaps perform for
-    Russia, to beg me to go back and _tell the American people_,
-    ‘_For God’s sake, send us help_.’ He was speaking, gentlemen,
-    not for himself, but for the large class of people that he
-    represented.”[21]
-
-TESTIMONY OF MR. THEODOR KRYSHTOFOVICH
-
-    “As you know, gentlemen, the Russians are a very religious
-    people. Like here in the United States, there are very many
-    denominations there, but most of the people belong to the
-    Greek Church. Of course, the priests and religious people are
-    not very pleasant to the Bolsheviki, because the Bolsheviki
-    deny any religion or any religious sentiment. They oppose the
-    Russian clergy and the Russian clergy oppose the Bolsheviki,
-    and the Russian priests are treated very badly. For instance,
-    they are set to do streetwork, cleaning the streets, paving
-    streets, digging ditches, and so on. The workmen told me
-    several times, ‘The Bolsheviki are sending out priests to work
-    in the streets. Why do they not send their rabbis?’ And that is
-    true. _The Jewish Rabbis are not sent to work on the streets._
-    The Bolsheviki are opposing religion to such an extent that
-    lately when I was going to Petrograd they raised a question
-    of teaching atheism in the schools. They boast that they have
-    opened so many schools, but they do not say that they closed
-    as many schools as they opened. We had schools in connection
-    with the churches, in connection with every church there was a
-    school, and all these schools are closed now.”[22]
-
-Further evidence that the Bolsheviki, although attacking Christianity,
-protect the Jewish religion, is found in the following article, which
-appeared on the 5th of July, 1919, in the weekly publication _Soviet
-Russia_, page 15. The article is entitled “Soviet Tolerance.” It reads as
-follows:
-
-    “The New York Jewish Daily, ‘_The Day_,’ in its issue of
-    June 24th has the following cablegram from its European
-    correspondent, N. Shiffrin: ‘Glad Tidings from Russia.’ ‘The
-    Zionists have organized throughout Russia Food Co-operative
-    Societies which are united in every city into Central
-    Co-operative Associations united in the All-Russian Federation
-    of Jewish Food Co-operative Associations. The Federation is in
-    part subsidized by the Moscow Soviet Government. All schools of
-    the Zionists in which the language of instruction is ancient
-    Hebrew, as well as the Hebrew High School in Minsk, have been
-    taken over by the government. They have been incorporated
-    in the Public School System which is maintained by the
-    Commissariat of Public Education.’”
-
-The significant part of this article consists in the fact that the old
-Hebrew is a religious language in which the Talmud is written. The old
-Hebrew can serve only for the study of the Talmud as well as of other
-Jewish religious writings. Thus, while combating the Christian religion,
-the Bolsheviki are extending protection to the Jewish religion and to the
-synagogues.
-
-In a pamphlet entitled “The Russian Church under the Bolsheviks,”
-recently published in England, is printed the appeal of Father Serge
-Orlov, “who played an important part in the Reform movement in the
-Russian church,” and who is now in Switzerland, where the National
-Consistory has expressed its sympathy for the Russian people by composing
-a special prayer for the liberation of Russia from the Bolsheviks. We
-quote the following passages from this appeal of Father Orlov:
-
-    “Owing to Bolshevism the Orthodox Russian Church is passing
-    through so acute a crisis that there is serious danger to the
-    fundamental idea of the whole of Christianity.
-
-    “Bolshevism is essentially hostile to Christ, and manifests
-    even greater hatred towards Christianity than did the pagan
-    power of the first centuries....
-
-    “Bolshevism and the Christian Church cannot exist side by side.
-
-    “The persecution of the Church began in January, 1918, and has
-    been increasing since then. The Bolsheviks issued a decree
-    on the disestablishment of the Church, although never had
-    the Russian Church been so firmly in the grip of the secular
-    authorities as in Soviet Russia. The Church has not only been
-    robbed but treated with contumely. Every commissary has the
-    right of prohibiting a service if he suspects the priest or his
-    congregation of counter-revolutionary tendencies. Practically
-    whenever he chooses he can close a church, turn it into a
-    cinema, mock at the ancient sacred relics, and in general
-    insult people’s religious feelings.
-
-    “But it is strange that the greater the persecution of the
-    Russian Church the nearer and dearer does it become to the
-    tortured Russian people. Indeed, the priests of the Russian
-    Church boldly denounce the Bolsheviks. _Not one of the secular
-    rulers has accused them so openly as Tikhon, the All-Russian
-    Patriarch, over whom the Damocles sword of the Bolsheviks is
-    always hanging. But the sword can only kill the body, and not
-    the spirit._
-
-    “As early as last February, Patriarch Tikhon excommunicated the
-    Bolsheviks, the excommunication being read in the churches. At
-    that time the persecution of the clergy had already commenced,
-    but the Patriarch had not been arrested. It was only later,
-    in the autumn of 1918, during the universal Terror, that he
-    was placed under domiciliary arrest in his apartments in the
-    Kremlin, with a guard of Chinese, Letts and Red Army men, and
-    deprived of his rations. But even as a prisoner the Patriarch
-    issued declarations against the Bolsheviks, in which he
-    severely denounced them.
-
-    “_It is not enough,” writes the Patriarch, “that you have
-    stained the hands of the Russian people with the blood of their
-    brethren. You have instigated the people to open, shameless
-    robbery. You have befogged their consciences and stifled their
-    conviction of sin, but under whatever name you disguise an evil
-    deed, murder, violence and robbery will always remain crimes
-    and deeds of evil that clamor to Heaven for vengeance. Yes, we
-    are going through a dreadful time under your dominion, and it
-    will be long before it fades from the hearts of the nation,
-    where it has dimmed the image of God and impressed that of the
-    beast._
-
-    “But as yet the Bolsheviks have not dared to raise their hand
-    against the aged Patriarch. Apparently he is alive.”
-
-A faint idea of what the Bolsheviks are doing to the Russian Church may
-be gathered from the following:
-
-    “According to information received from A. Kartashov, former
-    Minister of Cults, by December, 1918, the Bolsheviks had killed
-    ten archbishops and bishops; it is difficult to ascertain
-    the number of priests killed. It reaches several hundreds.
-    The Patriarch is a prisoner in his own house. According to
-    the (later) message from the Archbishop of Omsk, President
-    of the Supreme Administration of the Orthodox Church, to the
-    Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of Kiev, twenty
-    bishops and hundreds of priests have been assassinated. Some
-    were buried alive. ‘Wherever the Bolsheviks are in power,’ says
-    the Archbishop of Omsk, ‘the Christian Church is persecuted
-    with even greater ferocity than in the first three centuries of
-    the Christian era.’
-
-    “When, in January, 1919, the town of Yuriev (Dorpat) was taken
-    by the Bolsheviks, Bishop Platon was arrested. The Reval papers
-    thus describe the Bishop’s last moments. The Bolsheviks burst
-    into his house at night, dragged him from his bed. Barefoot
-    and clad only in his under-linen, the Bishop, with 17 other
-    persons, was dragged down to the cellars of the house they had
-    been arrested in. Here the Red executioners rushed at them with
-    their axes and killed them.
-
-    “Near Kotlas, all the ten monks of the monastery, with the
-    prior at their head, were shot for agitation against the Soviet
-    authorities.”
-
-Information has come from Omsk that as a result of a judicial
-investigation of the Bolshevik terror in Perm, the following has been
-discovered:—
-
-    “Archbishop Andronik was buried alive; Vassili, Archbishop
-    of Chernigov, who had come to Moscow to inquire about the
-    fate of Archbishop Andronik, was cut down and killed with
-    his two companions. Bishop Feofan was first tortured, then
-    dipped several times into the river through a hole in the ice,
-    and finally drowned in the River Kama. Besides this, it was
-    discovered that 50 priests had been executed. Before being
-    killed they were horribly tortured.
-
-    “At the evacuation of Cherdyn the Bolsheviks took with them
-    among other hostages a highly respected priest, Nicolas
-    Koniurov, whom they subjected to atrocious torments.
-
-    “During a severe frost they stripped the old man naked and
-    poured water over him until he was transformed into a statue of
-    ice.”
-
-    (“_The Russian Church under the Bolsheviks,” pages 1, 2, 3._)
-
-The statement of the Rev. R. Courtier-Forster, British Chaplain at
-Odessa, already cited under the head of “Terror,” contains the following
-passage as to the martyrdom of Christians under the Bolsheviki:
-
-    “It was the martyrdom of the two Metropolitans and the
-    assassination of so many Bishops and the killing of hundreds
-    of various Christian ministers of religion, regardless of
-    denomination or school of thought, that proved the undoing of
-    the _Scourge_. Russian Orthodox clergy, Protestant Lutheran
-    pastors, Roman Catholic priests, were tortured and done to
-    death with the same light-hearted indiscrimination in the name
-    of Toleration and Freedom. Then it was that the _Scourge_,
-    seeing the last remnants of Liberty ground under the heel of
-    a tyranny more brutal in its methods than a mediaeval torture
-    chamber, published another full-page cartoon representing Moses
-    descending from the Burning Mount, bringing in his arms the
-    Tables of Ten Commandments to Humanity, and being stoned to
-    death by a mob of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates.
-
-    “The following Sunday afternoon I was passing through the Town
-    Gardens, when I saw a group of Bolshevist soldiers insulting
-    an Ikon of the Thorn-crowned Face of Christ. The owner of
-    the Ikon was spitting in the pictured Face, while the others
-    were standing around watching with loud guffaws of laughter.
-    Presently they tore the sacred picture into fragments, danced
-    on it, and trampled and stamped the pieces into the mud.”
-
-    (_“Bolshevism, Reign of Torture at Odessa,” by Rev. R.
-    Courtier-Forster, reprinted from The Times, Dec. 3, 1919, page
-    4._)
-
-
-(_d_) _Inciting Class Hatred_
-
-It will be recalled that the Protocols specifically refer to the
-incitement of class hatred as one of the most effective means of bringing
-about the destruction of Christian, that is, “GOY” states. The concluding
-sentence of Protocol No. IV reads as follows:
-
-    “It will be at that stage that the lower classes of the
-    GOYS, not for the sake of doing good, nor even for the sake
-    of wealth, but solely because of their hatred towards the
-    privileged, will follow us against the intelligent GOYS, our
-    competitors for power.”
-
-This remarkable stipulation of the Protocols is literally followed by
-the Jewish Soviet officials in Russia. This is how Mr. Roger E. Simmons,
-in his testimony before the Overman Committee, describes the policy of
-inciting class hatred by the Bolsheviki in Russia:
-
-    MR. SIMMONS. “Being a social revolution, of course the worst
-    parts about it are the results of the awful class hatred the
-    Bolsheviki leaders are inciting. They are inciting it in every
-    part of the country by their publications and in all their
-    efficient propaganda. It has not been any more disastrous
-    in any parts of Russia, I believe, than it has been in many
-    villages among the peasantry.
-
-    “Their policy has as an underlying motive the arousing of
-    class antagonism, the proletariat hating the bourgeoisie. In
-    practice it means that the less fortunate in every industry and
-    institution bear animus against those qualified to hold better
-    positions. This has been indirectly the cause of most of the
-    incidents of terrorism witnesses have spoken of, more of which
-    I will tell you about later.
-
-    “When it was seen that the peasantry did not rally to the
-    support of the Bolshevik cause and that they refused to sell
-    grain for rubles without value, the Bolsheviki took the class
-    issue to the villages. Lenine calls this movement awakening
-    class consciousness of the peasantry. He organized for this
-    work ‘poor committees,’ as they are called in translation.
-    These committees of soldiers go out to the villages to inflame
-    the dissatisfied elements and to extract by force food from the
-    peasants.... But Lenine sends the poor committees, agitators,
-    to incite peasants who have no land to conspire against those
-    who have, and to take the guns he gives them for fighting,
-    robbing, and plundering neighbors in their own and neighboring
-    villages who have land. When you come later to read, gentlemen,
-    the history of the Russian revolution, some of the bloodiest
-    fights, you will find, and worst horrors, have occurred in
-    villages. Those simple, peace-loving people have been living
-    among themselves for centuries in more or less harmony under
-    their communistic system. But all of a sudden Lenine, by his
-    nefarious policies, sets the passions of the demoralized class
-    aflame and turns them against the other two classes. Instead
-    of promoting brotherly love and helping to make the sentiment
-    of the nation one for the good of all, as we are striving to
-    do in America, the Bolsheviki are trying by _jealousy and
-    animosity to disintegrate the population of various localities_
-    into classes with a view of the honest toiler being overcome
-    and subjected. Now this is a serious matter. The peasantry
-    represent 85 per cent of the 160,000,000 Russians.
-
-    “In Russia class hatred is seen manifested everywhere. I
-    will mention one illustration which I saw in Petrograd—the
-    undressing of a woman. I had heard about it before. It was
-    about 6:30, growing dark, as I was walking down the Nevsky
-    Prospect on my way home. I heard a yell of distress from a
-    woman up a street running perpendicularly to the Nevsky. There
-    two soldiers were removing the cloak—a very good substantial
-    cloth coat—from a woman. And when protests were made by the
-    standers-by, the answer was, ‘We have blacked your boots and
-    washed your clothes for many years. Now you bourgeoisie have
-    got to bow to us and wash our clothes and black our boots.’
-    Undressing to steal clothes went on to a considerable extent
-    in Moscow, Petrograd and Kiev, according to reports. It went
-    as far as taking off besides cloaks the very dresses of women,
-    and where they could handle it, taking also the clothes and
-    overcoats off men....
-
-    “Now, you can see that all their practices aimed to invite
-    people to do acts of that kind showing intense hatred—I
-    wish I could think of another word, it is more than
-    hatred—detestation—against people that they thought were a
-    little higher up. Now, remember, as I pointed out in the first
-    place this hatred is against a good many of these people in
-    the cities, and people like the peasants who had land, who
-    belonged to the proletariat. But because they did not agree,
-    they call them bourgeoisie. You can see that they are fighting
-    parts of the very class for whom they say they are trying
-    to establish a dictatorship. They are not trying to put the
-    proletariat in power, but the most demoralized elements of that
-    class, which represents, gentlemen, a very small per cent.
-
-    “Now, this class hatred is a matter we have got to consider,
-    I think, with a great deal of interest and a great deal of
-    seriousness, because it is the basis of their international
-    movement.”[23]
-
-
-(_e_) _Autocracy in Government_
-
-The Protocols call for a world autocracy and state that liberalism in
-government is a source of weakness which should be encouraged by the Jews
-only for the temporary object of destroying Christian states with the
-ultimate purpose of establishing a Jewish despotism over the whole world.
-
-    “Only an autocrat can outline great and clear plans which
-    allocate in an orderly manner all the parts of the mechanism of
-    the government machinery.”
-
-On the other hand, the Protocols state as follows:
-
-    “In all parts of the world the words ‘Liberty, Equality, and
-    Fraternity’ have brought whole legions into our ranks through
-    our blind agents, carrying our banners with delight. Meanwhile
-    these words were worms which ruined the prosperity of the GOYS,
-    everywhere destroying peace, quiet, and solidarity, undermining
-    all the foundations of their states.”
-
-Ambassador Francis, when asked by Senator King whether Lenin and Trotzky
-and those who are in control of the Bolshevik government were there as
-the result of a general election, testified:[24]
-
-    MR. FRANCIS. “No, no. They are there as usurpers.”
-
-    SENATOR KING. “By force and terror?”
-
-    MR. FRANCIS. “I do not think they represent more than ten per
-    cent of the Russians.”
-
-    SENATOR OVERMAN. “Of the whole 180,000,000?”
-
-    MR. FRANCIS. “Of the whole 180,000,000.”
-
-Mr. Roger E. Simmons also describes the Bolshevik government as it
-existed when he left Russia in November, 1918, as follows:
-
-    “The Soviet government, composed solely of Bolsheviks, of a
-    portion only of the ‘manual proletariat’ is a government in
-    name only. Rightly stated, it is a well-organized institution
-    functioning to further the social revolution, the overthrow of
-    all recognized standards of morality and civilization.”[25]
-
-That gradual despotism shown by the testimony of these witnesses to
-exist in 1918 has tended to become more and more complete is shown by
-evidence of a recent date. The British White Book, “Russia No. 1 (1919),
-Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia,” contains a report of a
-Mr. C. who was formerly connected with a commercial company which had a
-branch in Moscow. This document bears the date of January 21, 1919. Among
-other information therein contained is the following:
-
-    “All factories nationalized; only about half of them working.
-    Men all anti-Bolshevik. Very discontented with conditions of
-    life, and with the working of the factories. Conditions getting
-    worse and worse every day. A great many of the men have gone
-    to the country, as it is practically impossible to live in the
-    towns.... In Petrograd more attempts to strike than in Moscow;
-    this is because in Moscow the workmen are more under the power
-    of the government, and _they do not dare to strike_. Even if
-    they did there is nothing to gain by it, for the government
-    would simply stop their wages, discharge a good many, and
-    probably cancel their bread cards.”
-
-As recently as in the fall of 1919 conditions in the factories were
-reported to be intolerable. The Soviet officials have gone far beyond
-that part of the program of Karl Marx in his “Communist Manifesto,” which
-prescribes “Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial
-armies, especially for agriculture.” The Soviet government’s Code of
-Labor Laws, translated into English and published in New York in _Soviet
-Russia_, the organ of the Russian Soviet Bureau, in its issue of February
-21, 1920, imposes compulsory labor upon every one, male or female,
-between the ages of sixteen and sixty, unless physically disqualified,
-and enforces iron discipline of the most tyrannical nature.
-
-Moreover, the New York _World_ of Friday, April 9, 1920, published an
-article entitled “Mobilize Russian Labor,” in which it was stated that
-Trotzky, addressing the ninth convention of the Communist Party at Moscow
-on March 27, 1920, directed his address chiefly to defining the relation
-between the mobilization of industry to the industrial rehabilitation of
-Russia, and stated:
-
-    “Mobilization is more necessary now than it was formerly,
-    because we have to deal with the peasant population and masses
-    of unskilled labor which cannot be utilized to the fullest
-    extent by any other means than military discipline. Trades
-    unions are capable of organizing great masses of qualified
-    workers, but 30 per cent of the people cannot be reached by
-    this means.”
-
-    An elaborate system among the workmen had been gradually
-    established and at present the communist spy reporting directly
-    to the Soviets has almost mediaeval powers of executing a man
-    merely for the reason that he is opposed to the tyranny of the
-    Soviets. Moreover, by the weapon of starvation, the workman is
-    compelled to work more hours than under any preceding form of
-    government. The very right to strike is entirely denied the
-    workmen. Every strike is called sabotage against the Soviets
-    and every act of sabotage is forbidden under pain of capital
-    punishment. Supplementary Decree No. 27 deals specifically
-    with incitements to strike. Persons violating such decree
-    are brought before the Extraordinary Committees to Combat
-    Counter-revolution.
-
-This situation strikingly recalls a passage in the Protocols where it is
-stated:
-
-    “Civilization cannot exist without _absolute despotism_, for
-    government is carried on not by the masses, but by their leader
-    whoever he may be.”
-
-Is Trotzky this leader?
-
-Immediately before his departure from the United States for Russia in
-order to join his brethren who were engaged in the destruction of the
-Russian state, Trotzky made the following boast:
-
-    “_I stand forth the world’s greatest internationalist. I shall
-    rule Russia._”
-
-Then he made this appeal to the audience:
-
-    “On with our world civil war! On with the world revolution!
-    Down with the governments!”
-
-Unfortunately, the wise step taken by the British Government in arresting
-Trotzky at Halifax while on his way to Russia was countermanded, and
-Lieut.-Colonel J. B. Maclean, proprietor of _Maclean’s Magazine_,
-published at Toronto, in an article entitled “Why Did We Let Trotzky
-Go?”, printed in the issue of June, 1919 (Vol. XXXII, No. 6), referring
-to various explanations for his release, says, “Finally it is said it was
-done at the request of the British Embassy at Washington over the head of
-the British and American Intelligence Department; and that the Embassy
-acted on the request of the U. S. State Department, who were acting for
-some one else.”
-
-
-
-
-II. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE PROTOCOLS AND JEWISH WRITINGS
-
-
-There are many passages in the writings and speeches of well-known
-Jewish leaders at various times during the last hundred years which show
-a remarkable parallelism with some of the important ideas set forth
-in the Protocols. The following instances may be cited as a result
-of a search which is by no means exhaustive. In each case we cite a
-passage taken verbatim from the Protocols, followed under the title of
-“Substantiations” by parallel quotations from well-known Jews.
-
-
-1. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
-
-=(a) “The prophets have told us that we were chosen by God himself to
-reign over the world. God endowed us with genius to enable us to cope
-with the problem.” (Protocol No. V.)=
-
-=(b) “God has given us, his chosen people, the power to scatter, and what
-to all appears to be our weakness has proved to be our strength, and has
-now brought us to the threshold of universal rule.” (Protocol No. XI.)=
-
-=(c) “When the King of Israel places the crown on his sacred head,
-offered him by Europe, he will be the Patriarch of the World.” (Protocol
-No. XV.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “The men of all nations shall be subject to Israel, but those who
-have ruled over you shall be destroyed with the sword.”
-
-(_Apocalypse of Baruch (LXXII), a well-known Jewish work of the first
-century A.D._)
-
-(_b_) “Our task is great and holy and its success is guaranteed.
-Catholicism, our greatest foe, lay wounded in its brains. The net which
-is being spread by Israel all over the surface of the earth will spread
-day by day, and the glorious prophecies of our holy rights will be
-finally realized. The time is approaching when Jerusalem will become the
-home of worship of all peoples and the banner of the Jewish monotheism
-will be flying on the most distant coast. Our strength is enormous, we
-must learn how to apply it in practice. What have we to be afraid of?
-The day is approaching when all the wealth of the world will become the
-property of the Sons of Israel.”
-
-(_Isaac-Adolphe Crémieux, founder of the Alliance Israélite Universelle,
-quoted by Serge Nilus, in a footnote which appears on page 172 in 1917
-edition of his book, “It is near! At the door!” A reference to the same
-document of the Alliance Israélite Universelle can be found in issue No.
-24, December 15, 1909, of the Arabic paper “Al Kalemat” (“The World”),
-which was published in New York. See article entitled, “A Chapter
-Concerning Moral Discussions. Concerning the Destroyers of the Foundation
-of the Christian Faith,” pp. 461-464._)
-
-(_c_) “It has always been a unique feature of Judaism that its traits of
-particularism—essential to its self-preservation—have been blended with
-the highest aspirations of _universalism_.”
-
-(_Paul Goodman, “Zionism and Liberal Judaism,” Zionist Review, Nov.
-1917._)
-
-(_d_) “When we read in the Book of Isaiah that the prophet of the exile
-declared that the Jews were God’s witnesses, chosen for a religious
-purpose and charged with a religious mission, we believe that he was
-speaking words which were inspired by God.”
-
-(_Cl. G. Montefiore, “Outlines of Liberal Judaism,” p. 166. London:
-Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1912._)
-
-(_e_) “The Jews energetically reject the idea of fusion with the other
-nationalities and cling firmly to their historical hope, _i.e._, of world
-empire.”
-
-(_From speech of Dr. Mandelstam, Professor in the University of Kiev,
-Russia, delivered at the Basel Zionist Congress of 1898. See H. S.
-Chamberlain’s “The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century,” Vol. I, p.
-335. London: John Lane. 1913._)
-
-(_f_) “The Jew will never be able to assimilate himself; he will never
-adopt the customs and ways of other peoples. The Jew remains a Jew under
-all circumstances. Every assimilation is purely exterior.”
-
-(_From speech of Rabbi Dr. Leopold Kahn on Zionism, delivered in July,
-1901, in the orthodox Jewish school in Pressburg, Idem._)
-
-(_g_) “The governments of all countries, scourged by anti-Semitism, will
-serve their own interests in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we
-want.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 11. Published by the Federation of
-American Zionists, New York, 1917._)
-
-(_h_) “Christianity itself seems to Jews only a stage in the preparation
-of the world for a purified, developed and universalized Judaism.”
-
-(_Cl. G. Montefiore, “Outlines of Liberal Judaism,” p. 163. London.
-1912._)
-
-(_i_) “Liberal Judaism has higher ambitions for the Jewish people. Above
-all, it seeks to preserve the _Jewish religion_ in full beauty and power,
-and _to extend its workings to a sphere co-extensive with the universe of
-men_.”[26]
-
-(_Rabbi Mattuck, quoted by Paul Goodman in his article on “Zionism and
-Liberal Judaism,” in the Zionist Review, November, 1911. Reprinted by
-Petty & Sons, Ltd., Whitehall Printeries, Leeds, pp. 2 and 3._)
-
-(_j_) “It is not given to every one to _understand_ that which is not yet
-finished.... Yes! The likelihood of realizing our demands and proposals
-grows with our numbers and with the increase in our strength. For the
-present we have reason to be satisfied with the spirit in which our
-aspirations were regarded by the mighty ones of the earth. _Do not demand
-more than this intimation from your Action Committee. In this respect you
-must have implicit confidence in it. You may freely question it regarding
-all other matters._”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “Congress Addresses,” delivered at London, August 13,
-1900, at the Zionist Congress. Published by the Federation of American
-Zionists, New York, 1917._)
-
-(_k_) “Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe
-large enough to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the nation: _the
-rest we shall manage for ourselves_.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 11._)
-
-
-2. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
-
-=(a) “We must follow a program of violence and hypocrisy, not only for
-the sake of profit, but also as a duty and for the sake of victory.”
-(Protocol No. I.)=
-
-=(b) “When we finally become rulers ... we will see to it that no plots
-are hatched against us. To effect this we will kill heartlessly all who
-take up arms against the establishment of our rule.” (Protocol No. XV.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “Our people who are receiving the new country from the Society will
-also thankfully accept the new constitution it offers them. Should they,
-however, show signs of rebellion, they will be promptly crushed.” (_Theo.
-Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 38._)
-
-(_b_) “The interests of the revolution require the physical annihilation
-of the bourgeois class. It is time for us to start.” (_Red Gazette_, Aug.
-31, 1918, No. 159. Published by the Petrograd Soviet of the Workmens’ &
-Soldiers’ Deputies, presided over by the Jew, Apfelbaum—Zinoviev.)
-
-(_c_) “Blood and mercilessness must be our slogans.” (Leon Trotzky,
-International Communist Congress, Moscow, March, 1919. Quoted, _New York
-Evening Sun_, March 18, 1919.)
-
-
-3. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
-
-=(a) “We will also artfully and deeply undermine the sources of
-production by teaching the workmen Anarchy and the use of alcohol, at
-the same time taking measures to expel all the intelligent Goys from the
-land.=
-
-=“That the true situation should not be noticed by the Goys until the
-proper time, we will mask it by a pretended desire to help the working
-classes and great economic principles, an active propaganda of which
-principles is being carried on through the dissemination of our economic
-theories.” (Protocol VI.)=
-
-=(b) “We will present ourselves in the guise of saviors of the workers
-from this oppression, when we suggest that they enter our army of
-Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help
-under the guise of the rule of brotherhood demanded by the human
-solidarity of our social masonry.” (Protocol III.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the cause of
-the workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinherited of the world,
-the radical quality within him there, too, goes to the roots of things,
-and in Germany he becomes a Marx and a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward
-Bernstein; in Austria he becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in
-Russia, a Trotzky. Just take for a moment the present situation in Russia
-and in Germany. The revolution set creative forces free, and see what
-a large company of Jews was available for immediate service. Socialist
-Revolutionaries and Mensheviki, and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority
-Socialists—whatever they be called ... _Jews are to be found among the
-trusted leaders and the routine workers of all those revolutionary
-parties_.”
-
-(_Rabbi J. L. Magnes in his address delivered at the opening session of
-the first Jewish Labor Congress, January 16, 1919, New York City. See the
-Jewish Forum, February, 1919, P. 722._)
-
-(_b_) “The Jew, therefore, does take an active part in revolutions; and
-he participates in them in so far as he is a Jew, or more correctly in
-_so far as he remains Jewish_.”
-
-(_Bernard Lazare, “Anti-Semitism: Its History and Causes,” p. 312.
-Published by International Library Publishing Co., New York, 1903._)
-
-(_c_) “We must not, however, leave these problems (social) and this
-reform (social) outside of our Jewish thought, our Jewish activities.
-We must not let them be taken by active Christians and stamped as
-specifically Christian.”
-
-(_Rabbi Montefiore, “Outlines of Liberal Judaism,” pp. 266 and 267.
-London, 1912._)
-
-(_d_) “_Das Volk_, a Jewish periodical published in America, writes in
-1905:
-
-“‘One cannot blame us that people with different mentalities and views
-as _Social Democrats_, _Anarchists_, and so on, are filled with our
-socialist territorial ideas, and enter in our ranks in order to struggle
-for a better future of the Jewish people. On the contrary, it shows that
-life itself has raised our ideal and drives all under our banner.’”
-
-(_The Jewish Life, March, 1906, p. 173. Jewish newspaper published in
-Russian, found in New York Public Library._)
-
-(_e_) The following quotation is an estimate by Bernard Lazare,
-Jewish writer, of the part which was and is played by the Jews in the
-revolutionary movement throughout the world:
-
-“Their [_i.e._, the Jews’] contribution to present-day Socialism was,
-as is well known, and still is, very great. The Jews, it may be said,
-are situated at the poles of contemporary society. They are found among
-the representatives of industrial and financial capitalism, and among
-those who have vehemently protested against capital. Rothschild is
-the antithesis of Marx and Lassalle; the struggle for money finds its
-counterpart in the struggle against money, and the world-wide outlook of
-the stock-speculator finds its answer in the international proletarian
-and revolutionary movement. It was Marx who gave the first impulse to
-the founding of the Internationale through the manifesto of 1847, drawn
-up by himself and Engels. Not that it can be said that he ‘founded’
-the Internationale, as is maintained by those who persist in regarding
-the Internationale as a secret society controlled by the Jews. Many
-causes led to the organization of the Internationale, but from Marx
-proceeded the idea of a Labor Congress, which was held at London in
-1864, and resulted in the founding of that society. The Jews constituted
-a very large proportion of its members, and in the General Council of
-the society, we find Karl Marx, Secretary for Germany and Russia, and
-James Cohen, Secretary for Denmark. Many of the Jewish members of the
-Internationale took part subsequently in the Commune, where they found
-others of their faith. In the organization of the socialist party, the
-Jews participated to the greatest extent. Marx and Lassalle in Germany,
-Aaron Libermann and Adler in Austria, Dobrojan Gherea in Roumania, are,
-or were at one time, its creators and its leaders. The Jews of Russia
-deserve special notice in this brief résumé. Young Jewish students,
-scarcely escaped from the Ghetto, have played an important part in the
-Nihilistic propaganda; some, among them women, have given up their lives
-for the cause of Liberation, and to these young Jewish physicians and
-lawyers, we must add the large number of exiled workingmen who have
-founded in London and New York important labor societies, which serve as
-centers of socialistic and even of anarchistic propaganda.”
-
-(_Bernard Lazare, “Anti-Semitism,” pp. 312, 313, and 314._)
-
-(_f_) “When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the
-subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there
-rises also our terrible power of the purse.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
-
-(_g_) “Thus it would seem as if the grievance of the anti-Semite were
-well founded; the Jewish spirit is essentially a revolutionary spirit,
-and _consciously or otherwise, the Jew is_ a revolutionist.”
-
-(_Bernard Lazare, “Anti-Semitism,” p. 298._)
-
-
-4. EXTRACT FROM PROTOCOLS
-
-=“At present as an international force we are invulnerable.” (Protocol
-III.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “Nothing effectual can really be done to our injury.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 9._)
-
-(_b_) “The very impossibility of getting at the Jews nourishes and
-embitters hatred of them.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
-
-(_c_) “It is of course possible to get at shares and debentures in
-railways, banks and industrial concerns of all descriptions, by taxation,
-and where the progressive income tax is in force, all our realized
-property can eventually be laid hold of. But all these efforts cannot
-be directed against Jews alone, and where they have nevertheless been
-made, severe economic crises with far-reaching effects have been their
-immediate consequences.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
-
-(_d_) “A distracted and divided people have been so well instructed
-in thought that the unity of Israel is greater than all the differing
-religions, social, economic and political views of the individuals who
-make up a nation, that the Rabbis of Eastern Europe have entered in full
-force into the vanguard of the movement.”
-
-(_Jacob de Haas. See his preface to Hertzl’s “The Jewish State,” p. 8._)
-
-(_e_) “... _There is such a thing as a Kol_ (All) _Israel policy to
-be pursued by all Jews together, regardless of their political, their
-economic, their spiritual outlook._”
-
-(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Speech delivered at the Jewish Labor Congress,
-Jan. 16, 1919, at Yorkville Casino, New York City; quoted in the Jewish
-Forum, February, 1919, p. 720._)
-
-(_f_) “The Jewish people, traditionally and through its experience,
-knows the meaning of internationalism, and it must apply the method of
-internationalism to its own national life as well, sharing the destiny of
-every people, free and oppressed, in freeing the world in order that it
-itself may be freed.”
-
-(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Ibid., p. 721._)
-
-(_g_) “But, in order that the Jewish people may do its work in the world,
-it must be organized—_organized for its specific purposes_ as well as for
-participation in all of the cultural and spiritual movements of humanity.”
-
-(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Ibid., p. 724._)
-
-(_h_) “_Here we are, just Jews and nothing else, a nation among nations.
-Take it or leave it._”
-
-(_From speech of Dr. Weizman, delivered in Manchester, England, Dec. 9,
-1917, partially quoted in a pamphlet entitled “Great Britain, Palestine
-and the Jews,” p. 73. Published by Geo. H. Doran Co., New York._)
-
-(_i_) “Our union is not a French one, nor English, nor Swiss, nor German.
-Nay, our union is Jewish and it is universal. The other peoples are
-split into nationalities. We, however, are the only ones who have no
-co-citizens, but exclusively co-religionists. The Jew will not sooner
-become the friend of a Christian or a Mohammedan than at the time when
-the light of the Jewish faith—the only religion of reason—will spread
-throughout the world. Scattered among peoples who are hostile to our
-rights, to our interests, we wish above all to be and always to remain
-Jews. Our nationality is the religion of our fathers and we do not
-recognize any other. Living in lands of dispersion we cannot be concerned
-about the changing aims of those lands which are strange to us until
-the time when our own aims both moral and material are in danger. The
-Jewish teachings must spread all over the world. Sons of Israel! however
-much the faith would disperse you all over the earth, always consider
-yourselves as members of a chosen people. If you realize and if you
-understand that the faith of our ancestors is our sole patriotism, _if
-you realize that in spite of your cover nationalities you form only one
-and the same people_, if you believe that only Judaism constitutes the
-religious and political truth, if you are convinced in the above, you
-universal sons of Israel, you will come to us, you will listen to our
-appeal and you will prove that you accept it.”
-
-(In 1860, Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, the well-known Jewish leader in France,
-founded the Universal Jewish Alliance (Alliance Israélite Universelle).
-On this occasion he issued a circular appeal to the Jewish organizations
-throughout the world. The above quotation is from this circular appeal.
-Quoted by A. Shmakoff, “Jewish Speeches,” p. 131.)
-
-(_j_) “It is our opinion that the Jewish question can be solved only by
-the _Jews themselves.... We no longer want to wear the mask of any other
-nationality._”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, in Congress Addresses delivered at Basle, December 26,
-1901, p. 28. Published by the Federation of American Zionists, 1917, New
-York._)
-
-(_k_) “Furthermore, it is well understood in Germany and in Austria
-that the Jews of Russia have never had real citizenship in Russia, and
-although a Jew may have been born in Russia, that does not necessarily
-imply that he has been a citizen of Russia. Realizing that, and for
-other apparent reasons, the German and Austrian Governments are making
-every effort to secure the coöperation and good-will of the large Jewish
-population, now under their control.”
-
-(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes. See his letter to Mr. Byrlavski, June, 1916.
-Published in the Report of the Commission of the American Jewish Relief
-Fund. New York City, March, 1917._)
-
-(_l_) “Let us forget whence we spring. No more talk of ‘German’ or of
-‘Portuguese’ Jews. Though scattered over the earth we are nevertheless a
-single people.”
-
-(_Rabbi Salomon Lipmann-Cerfberr in his opening speech delivered on July
-26, 1806, at the meeting preparatory to the Synedrion. Quoted by H. S.
-Chamberlain in his “Foundations of the Nineteenth Century” Vol. I, p.
-329._)
-
-(_m_) “_Israel is a nationality._ We are born Jews, ‘_natu_’ because
-we are born Jews. A child born from Jewish parents is Jewish. The very
-birth casts on him all the duties of an Israelite. It is not through
-circumcision that we obtain our Israelan quality. Nay, circumcision is in
-no way analogous to Christian baptism. We are not Israelites because we
-are circumcised, but, on the contrary, we circumcise our children because
-we are Israelites. We acquire the Jewish character through our birth,
-and we can never lose it nor get rid of it. _Even if a Jew denies his
-religion, even if he is baptized, he does not cease to be an Israelite._
-All Israelite duties continue to remain with him.”
-
-(_Archives Israélites, 1864. Quotation from Ed. Drumont, “La France
-Juive,” Vol. I, p. 14, 12th ed. Paris: C. Marpont E. Flammarion._)
-
-
-5. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
-
-=(a) “The economic crises were created by us for the Goys only by the
-withdrawal of money from circulation.” (Protocol XX.)=
-
-=(b) “We hold in our hands the greatest modern power—Gold.” (Protocol
-XXII.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “The first official violation of Jewish liberties invariably brings
-about an economic crisis. Therefore, no weapons can be effectually used
-against us, because these cut the hands that wield them.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 43._)
-
-(_b_) “When we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse,”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
-
-(_c_) “The day is approaching when all the wealth of the world will
-become the property of the Sons of Israel.”
-
-(_Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, quoted by A. Shmakoff, “Jewish Speeches,” p.
-131._)
-
-(_d_) “The Government of Palestine (in the hands of Jews), composed of
-_men of wisdom_ and of intellectuals _will guide_ the economic movement
-not only of the Orient and of Anatolia, but probably also of the _whole
-world_.”
-
-(_The Inkilab, a Jewish paper published in Constantinople. Quoted in La
-Vieille France, No. 108, February 13, 1919, p. 21._)
-
-
-6. EXTRACT FROM PROTOCOL
-
-=“At present, if any of the governments raises a protest against us, it
-is done only as a matter of form and at our desire and by our order,
-because their anti-Semitism is necessary to us to govern our smaller
-brothers.” (Protocol IX.)=
-
-
-_Substantiations_
-
-(_a_) “The governments of all countries, scourged by anti-Semitism, will
-serve their own interests in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we
-want.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 11._)
-
-(_b_) “Disaster binds us together, and, thus united, we suddenly discover
-our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and a model
-State.”
-
-(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
-
-
-
-
-III. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE PROTOCOLS AND CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE JEWS
-OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA
-
-
-There are a number of important policies in the Protocols which find
-a striking parallel in certain activities and movements among Jews in
-various parts of the world outside of Russia. Among these policies of the
-Protocols are: the control of the press for political purposes, securing
-international or so-called “minority” rights for the Jews, the stirring
-up of class hatred and social disorder, and the promotion of revolutions
-and internationalism.
-
-
-“SECRET KINGDOM OF THE PRESS”
-
-1. The boast is made in the Protocols that in Europe the press, with
-unimportant exceptions, is under Jewish control. It is indeed true that
-the Jewish influence in the press in many parts of the world is very
-powerful. Just how powerful it is in America it is difficult to state.
-It is certainly a great and growing power in New York City. A Jewish
-magazine, _The American Jewish News_, recently pointed with pride to the
-great number of newspapers in New York which are either controlled by
-the Jews or in which Jews occupy important strategic positions. In the
-article referred to, which was published in the issue of March 28, 1919,
-under the title “Men Who Make Our Newspapers,” the following statement is
-made:
-
-    “While it is an accepted fact that certain of our industries
-    to-day are almost entirely directed and supported by Jewish
-    minds and labor, there are nevertheless just as many which are
-    not generally conceded to come within the same classification
-    which have at their head men of Jewish descent. Most
-    important among these latter is the greatest of all public
-    institutions—the press.
-
-    “Hardly a newspaper of importance thrives in this city but it
-    has at its head or in some position of paramount influence
-    a man in whose fibre there is Jewish energy. And with one
-    exception the achievements of these men who mould and interpret
-    American public opinion could provide material for books of
-    incalculable inspiration.”
-
-The article proceeds to refer to several large dailies in New York which
-are owned or controlled by Jews, with biographical sketches of these men
-and their subordinates. At the end of the article it is stated that the
-men mentioned are “but a few of a great number.”
-
-That there is nothing new in the Jewish policy of controlling the press
-is shown by the following statement of Isaac-Adolphe Crémieux, who in
-1860 founded the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
-
-    “Consider the governmental and public offices as nothing. Look
-    upon all honors as upon nonsense. Do not pay any attention
-    for the time being to money itself.... _Capture the press!_
-    Through it everything will come to you in the natural course of
-    events.”[27]
-
-The complete dictatorship over the press exercised by the Jewish
-Bolshevist leaders in Soviet Russia is such a generally accepted fact
-that it needs no extended comment. All newspapers that have attempted
-in any way to criticize the Bolshevist government have been ruthlessly
-suppressed, and many writers who have dared to criticize Trotzky have
-been executed.
-
-The policy of the Bolsheviks is well expressed by one of the Soviet
-officials, N. Bukharin, in “The Communist Program,” published by the
-Soviet printing office, called “The Communist,” Moscow, 1918, Chapter
-VII, pp. 20-23:
-
-    “The Communist (Bolshevist) party receives from all sides
-    accusations and even threats like the following: ‘You close
-    newspapers, you arrest people, you forbid meetings, you trample
-    under foot freedom of speech and of the press, you reconstruct
-    autocracy, you are oppressors and murderers.’ It is necessary
-    to discuss in detail this question of the ‘liberties’ in a
-    Soviet Republic....
-
-    “At present the following is clear for the workingmen and the
-    peasants. The Communist party not only does not demand any
-    liberty of the press, of speech, meetings, unions, etc., for
-    the bourgeois enemies of the people, but, on the contrary, it
-    demands that the government should be always in readiness to
-    close the bourgeois press; to disperse the meetings of the
-    enemies of the people, to forbid them to lie, slander, and
-    spread panic; to crush ruthlessly all attempts at a restoration
-    of the bourgeois régime. This is precisely the meaning of the
-    dictatorship of the proletariat.”
-
-
-“MINORITY RIGHTS” IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROTOCOLS
-
-2. From a practical point of view it is of the utmost importance to
-Christian countries to ascertain whether the Jews are to be treated as
-citizens who enjoy equal rights and equal duties with the rest of the
-community, or whether they are to have, in addition, special privileges
-uniform in every country because they are Jews.
-
-The American Constitution grants equal rights to all citizens of the
-United States, without distinction as to race or religion. The same
-conception of citizenship prevails in a majority of the western European
-countries (Great Britain, Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland,
-Norway, and Sweden).
-
-During the last two years, however, the Jews in various countries have
-adopted a peculiar policy, threatening the fundamental principles of
-equal citizenship, by demanding special national or minority rights
-in central and eastern European states. During the Peace Conference
-the Jews maintained an influential delegation at Paris which insisted
-that such rights be granted to the Jews in Poland, Austria, Roumania,
-Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Ukrainia. A special Bill of Jewish Rights
-was presented by the Jewish delegation to the Peace Conference. This bill
-contained the following stipulations:
-
-    “_First_—New guarantees of citizenship for those born in the
-    territories affected, or resident therein since August, 1909.
-
-    “_Second_—All citizens to enjoy equal civil, religious,
-    national and political rights, without distinction of birth,
-    race, nationality or religion.
-
-    “_Third_—The right to use the language of any national minority
-    in business, private intercourse, public meetings or the press
-    shall be guaranteed; nor shall there be any restriction of such
-    language in the schools or other institutions, nor shall the
-    validity of any transaction or document be affected by the use
-    of any language whatsoever.
-
-    “_Fourth_—The state shall recognize the several national
-    minorities as constituting distinct autonomous organizations,
-    having the right to establish, manage and control schools and
-    religious, educational, charitable and social institutions.
-
-    “_Fifth_—Each national minority shall be allotted its
-    proportion of state, departmental and municipal funds, based on
-    the ratio of its numbers in the respective areas, as well as in
-    the entire population.
-
-    “_Sixth_—Proportional representation of national minorities in
-    elected bodies.
-
-    “_Seventh_—Those observing any other day except Sunday as
-    Sabbath shall not be required to perform on such days acts
-    they regard as desecrations, and shall be permitted to conduct
-    business on Sunday if they so desire.
-
-    “_Eighth_—The signatories to the treaty, or any minority which
-    may be affected by failure to observe its provisions, shall be
-    entitled to submit complaints for adjudication to the League of
-    Nations, which will assume jurisdiction.” (New York _Tribune_,
-    June 12, 1919.)
-
-This Bill of Rights was strongly endorsed by the American Jewish Congress
-held in Philadelphia in December, 1918. We quote an article in the New
-York _Tribune_ of May 14, 1919, on this subject:
-
-    “NATIONS MUST GUARANTEE RACIAL RIGHTS, SAYS MACK.
-
-    “CHAIRMAN OF JEWISH DELEGATION TO PARIS CABLES RESULTS OF ITS
-    EFFORTS.
-
-    “According to a cable received by the Zionist Organization of
-    America from its president, Judge Julian W. Mack, who is now
-    in Paris, heading the American Jewish Congress delegation to
-    the peace conference, and chairman of the Jewish delegations
-    from every part of Europe, the treaty offered to Germany
-    requires Poland and other nations to accept separate provisions
-    guaranteeing rights to racial, religious and linguistic
-    minorities within their boundaries.
-
-    “Judge Mack says the word ‘national’ is not included in the
-    treaty as now formulated, but that a decision on this point is
-    expected in a few days.
-
-    “He expresses himself as sanguine that the substance of the
-    demands adopted by the American Jewish Congress, held in
-    Philadelphia last December, will be obtained.”
-
-Moreover, the Bill of Rights was endorsed by most of the recognized
-Jewish organizations throughout the world.
-
-“NINE MILLION JEWS PRESENT BILL OF RIGHTS AT PARIS,” is the title
-under which the universal support of Hebrew national rights within the
-boundaries of other nations was recorded by the New York _Tribune_ on
-June 12, 1919.
-
-Mr. Edward Dillon, in his book “The Inside Story of the Peace
-Conference,” referring to these national rights and to the support which
-was extended to the Jewish demands, stated that the Allied policy was
-“looked upon as anything but disinterested.” Mr. Dillon further said:
-
-    “Unhappily this conviction was subsequently strengthened by
-    certain of the measures decreed by the Supreme Council between
-    April and the close of the Conference. The misgivings of other
-    delegates turned upon a matter which at first sight may appear
-    so far removed from any of the pressing issues of the twentieth
-    century as to seem wholly imaginary. They feared that a
-    religious—some would call it racial—bias lay at the root of Mr.
-    Wilson’s policy. It may seem amazing to some readers, but it is
-    none the less a fact, that a considerable number of delegates
-    believed that the real influences behind the Anglo-Saxon
-    peoples were Semitic.
-
-    “They confronted the President’s proposal on the subject of
-    religious inequality, and, in particular, the odd motive
-    alleged for it, with the measures for the protection of
-    minorities which he subsequently imposed on the lesser states,
-    and which had for their keynote to satisfy the Jewish elements
-    in eastern Europe. And they concluded that the sequence of
-    expedients framed and enforced in this direction were inspired
-    by the Jews, assembled in Paris for the purpose of realizing
-    their carefully thought-out program, which they succeeded in
-    having substantially executed. However right or wrong these
-    delegates may have been, it would be a dangerous mistake to
-    ignore their views, seeing that they have since become one
-    of the permanent elements of the situation. The formula into
-    which this policy was thrown by the members of the Conference,
-    whose countries it affected, and who regarded it as fatal to
-    the peace of eastern Europe, was this: ‘Henceforth the world
-    will be governed by the Anglo-Saxon peoples, who, in turn, are
-    swayed by their Jewish elements.’” (Pages 496, 497.)
-
-Mr. Dillon emphasizes that the Jewish demands for special national
-privileges were largely fomented by western Jews, including those of the
-United States. He even states that among the many Jews who were present
-at the Paris Peace Conference “the largest and most brilliant contingent
-was sent by the United States.” (Page 12.) According to this author,
-“Their principal mission, with which every fair-minded man sympathized
-heartily, was to secure for their kindred in Eastern Europe rights equal
-to those of the populations in whose midst they reside. And to the credit
-of the Poles, Rumanians, and Russians, who were to be constrained to
-remove all the existing disabilities, they enfranchised the Hebrew
-elements spontaneously. But the western Jews who championed their eastern
-brothers, proceeded to demand a further concession which many of their
-own co-religionists hastened to disclaim as dangerous—a kind of autonomy
-which Roumanian, Polish and Russian statesmen, as well as many of their
-Jewish fellow-subjects, regarded as tantamount to the creation of a state
-within a state.” (Page 13.)
-
-The treaties imposed by the Allies upon Poland, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia,
-Jugo-Slavia and Greece granted all, or nearly all the demands of the Jews
-contained in the above “Bill of Rights,” while Austria and Hungary gave
-pledges in their treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, that
-they would protect “minority rights” in the same general way defined in
-the treaties with the other five powers.
-
-These treaties, as Mr. Dillon correctly points out, go much further
-than to guarantee to the Jews residing in these several countries full
-political equality with other citizens, and freedom from persecution or
-discrimination on account of race or religion. Not only did the treaties
-contain such guarantees,—which, Mr. Dillon states, the small powers in
-question were quite willing to give,—but they contained a principle new
-to international law, viz. that a racial minority should be treated in
-various relations as a separate entity within the State, with separate
-rights of its own, which it is permitted to enforce against the national
-government. An illustration of this new principle is found in certain
-articles of the treaty with Poland relating to educational matters. By
-these articles the Polish State is actually compelled to permit the Jews,
-in towns and districts where they constitute “a considerable proportion”
-of the population, to administer primary education in their own language
-in the Jewish schools, supported by an allocated part of the state funds.
-The articles of the treaty which create this extraordinary “minority
-right” are quoted _verbatim_ below. The two articles must be read
-together and compared with each other to bring out their full meaning.
-
-
-“ARTICLE 9
-
-“Poland will provide in the public educational system in towns and
-districts in which a considerable proportion of Polish nationals of other
-than Polish speech are residents adequate facilities for ensuring that
-in the primary schools the instruction shall be given to the children of
-such nationals through the medium of their own language. This provision
-shall not prevent the Polish Government from making the teaching of the
-Polish language obligatory in the said schools.
-
-“In towns and districts where there is a considerable proportion of
-Polish nationals belonging to racial, religious or linguistic minorities,
-these minorities shall be assured an equitable share in the enjoyment and
-application of the sums which may be provided out of the public funds
-under the State, municipal or other budget, for educational, religious or
-charitable purposes.
-
-“The provision of this article shall apply to Polish citizens of German
-speech only in that part of Poland which was German territory on August
-1, 1914.
-
-
-“ARTICLE 10
-
-“Educational Committees appointed locally by the Jewish Committees of
-Poland will, subject to the general control of the State, provide for the
-distribution of the proportional share of the public funds allocated to
-the Jewish schools in accordance with Article 9, and for the organization
-and management of these schools.
-
-“The provisions of Article 9 concerning the use of languages in schools
-shall apply to these schools.”
-
-In some central European countries the Jews took prompt advantage of
-the favorable feeling created in Paris by the Jewish leaders towards
-the Jewish national demands. Thus, for instance, in Ukrainia a special
-ministry for Jewish affairs was established, headed by Krasny Pinhoos,
-a Jew. According to information contained in an editorial article in
-the _New Witness_ of April 11, 1919, the new minister of the Jews “told
-a press representative that the Jews take part in the spiritual and
-social life of the Ukraine under conditions of equality with those of the
-rest of the population, but that in affairs appertaining to the Jewish
-community they would govern themselves.”
-
-The _New Witness_ made a rather peculiar deduction from the above
-statement of Mr. Pinhoos:
-
-    “But it is anyhow a good thing that in one country at least
-    the Jewish race should be regarded and should consent to be
-    regarded as something different and separate. We presume that
-    as soon as the Jewish State in Palestine is established, Mr.
-    Pinhoos will change his title to that of Jewish Ambassador. Mr.
-    Pinhoos hopes that before long there will be many other such
-    ministries established, but while Isaacs and Mond can govern
-    England and dictate to the Peace Conference, there is not much
-    hope that they will desire to rule the affairs of Whitechapel.”
-
-Mr. Israel Zangwill, in a recent address at the Poale Zion Conference in
-London, went a step further when he stated that the race which produced
-“a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a Montagu, a Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotzky”
-should be represented as an independent member of the League of Nations.
-(See Mr. Zangwill’s statement in _The Jewish Chronicle_, February 27,
-1920, No. 2656, p. 28.)
-
-In view of the adoption of this policy by the Jews in Paris, Americans
-are justified in ascertaining just what is the position of the American
-Jewry with respect to enforcing such a program here. Our Constitution
-knows no such thing as foreign national rights enjoyed by persons who at
-the same time enjoy the privileges of American citizens. A subject of a
-foreign nationality when he becomes an American citizen renounces his
-former allegiance, and it is upon this condition only that he becomes a
-member of our body politic.
-
-Nevertheless in the United States itself, where the Jews enjoy an
-absolute equality of rights with all other citizens, they have recently
-endeavored to build up an institution which is entirely opposed to the
-spirit of the American Constitution, namely, a special Jewish court
-which tries cases pertaining only to the Jews. This institution is known
-as “The Jewish Court of Arbitration” and holds its sessions in one
-of the Municipal Court rooms in New York City. This fact was briefly
-recorded by the New York _Times_ in its issue of February 19, 1920, in an
-article under the title, “Jews Here Start Modern Sanhedrin.” While this
-significant fact may have passed almost unnoticed by the American public,
-nevertheless it has already attracted attention in France.
-
-It is unthinkable to any American brought up under a system of government
-which has provided a check against the oppression of minorities by the
-majority, that special rights should be granted to any of the ethnic
-elements of our population, such as the Jews, the Chinese, the Negroes,
-or any other racial group, or that any of these groups should by virtue
-of such special rights diminish our sovereignty by a treaty provision
-similar to Article XII of the special treaty with Poland. By this article
-Poland agreed that any member of the Council of the League of Nations
-should have the right to bring to the attention of the Council any
-infraction _or any danger of infraction_ of any of these obligations (the
-national rights of the Jews), and that the Council may thereupon take
-such action and give such directions as it may deem proper and effective
-in the circumstances.[28]
-
-The whole question of Jewish double national rights is of the utmost
-importance, since the recognized Zionist leaders and the international
-Zionist organizations have on various occasions strongly urged the
-adoption of such double rights. Such rights and privileges for the
-Jews indeed are more than “national rights”; they are in one sense
-international rights common to Jews living in different countries.
-In other words, under such a system they would enjoy both the rights
-of citizenship of the particular country in which they live, and in
-addition, special privileges granted to them alone. The granting of such
-privileges to the Jews would constitute a series of international rights
-conferred exclusively upon the Jewish race. The Protocols of the Zionist
-Men of Wisdom contemplate this very thing in the following language:
-
-    “Then our international rights will sweep away the national
-    rights in a limited sense and will rule countries in the
-    same manner as the civil power of each state regulates the
-    relationship of its subjects among themselves.” (Protocol No.
-    II.)
-
-It is a question to what extent the demands for Jewish minority rights in
-eastern European states may be a part of the general Zionist movement.
-To this movement little attention can be given in this volume. It is
-sufficient to quote a portion of an article published in the New York
-_Globe_ on January 25, 1919, under the title “Want Brandeis to Govern
-Judea.” The staff correspondent of the New York _Globe_ and Chicago
-_Daily News_ in London, under date of December 31, 1918, refers to the
-Zionist movement and the exposition of its objects and purposes by one of
-its leaders, Ittimar Ben Avi:
-
-    “If the plans and ambitions of the recently proclaimed nation
-    of Judea are fulfilled, Louis Brandeis, now Justice of the
-    United States Supreme Court, will be the first of the new
-    rulers of Israel. The dream of the renationalization of
-    Palestine which has lived for 2,000 years in the hearts of the
-    Jews is fast entering the realm of reality. Judea is sending
-    its delegates to the peace conference. Its existence as a
-    nation has been recognized by the allies, its declaration of
-    independence has been signed and its diplomats and politicians
-    are already busy moulding the future of its institutions.
-
-    “Ittimar Ben Avi is the first of its peace delegates to reach
-    London. An impassioned idealist who already visions Judea
-    enrolled among the great powers of the world, is Ben Avi. But
-    his idealism and his oratorical agitations on behalf of Judea
-    have not impaired his worth as a diplomat.
-
-    UNDER BRITISH TRUSTEESHIP
-
-    “‘Israel cannot leap to its feet, full grown and capable,’ he
-    explained. ‘It has been scattered and dormant too long. As
-    delegate to the peace conference, I am to outline the demands
-    of the new Judea. The first and most important of these is the
-    political desire of the new Hebrew nation. We desire a British
-    trusteeship for a period of twenty-five years. We do not want
-    to establish a parliament or congress in Judea for at least
-    twenty-five years. The British have emancipated us from the
-    Turk. Great Britain is more capable of governing or overseeing
-    Palestine as a colony than any one other country.
-
-    “‘If the English will agree to this our plan then includes
-    the appointment by England of a Zionist as governor-general
-    of Judea. It is more or less known among Zionists that Mr.
-    Justice Brandeis is the most logical man now living for the
-    position of governor-general. Under him there should be two
-    sub-governors—one a Christian and the other a Moslem. Both
-    should be appointed by England. We also intend to have attorney
-    generals for the various provinces and mayors for the various
-    communities in Palestine. These are to be elected by the people.
-
-    “‘After twenty-five years Judea may be in position to govern
-    herself. As a totally independent nation and part of an entente
-    including Armenia and Arabia, Judea would be a powerful asset
-    to the western world not only as a producer of culture and a
-    contributor to the world’s markets, but as a military barrier
-    against any power seeking to control the Suez Canal.’
-
-    “OUTNUMBERED BY OTHERS
-
-    “Ben Avi’s desire for a British over-lordship is inspired
-    by the fact that were Palestine to proclaim a complete
-    independence to-day and seek by popular vote to elect its
-    own ruler, the Moslem and Christian peoples living there
-    would outnumber and outvote the Hebrew population. The result
-    would be a nation in which the Jews were in the minority. By
-    England’s recognition of Judea as a Jewish nation and giving
-    its Moslems and Christians representation through sub-governor
-    generals, the Zionists are confident that their dreams will be
-    most practically fulfilled.
-
-    “The history of Palestine’s struggle towards renationalizing of
-    the Jewish race is comparatively recent. Beginning some forty
-    years ago with the agitation of a handful of idealists, the
-    movement expanded slowly. Great effort to repopulate Palestine
-    with Jews drawn from Russia for the most part met with
-    indifferent success. In the face of ridicule and protest from
-    their own race, the Jews of England, the United States, France,
-    Russia and Germany, acting as an intensive minority, pursued
-    their dream.”
-
-
-RADICAL AND REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF THE JEWS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
-
-3. The strategy of stirring up class hatred in Christian nations, and
-the encouragement of revolutionary radicalism to that end, which has
-such a prominent place in the Protocols, finds corroboration in the very
-prominent part which, in recent times, the Jews have been taking in the
-radical and revolutionary movement in many parts of the world, including
-Hungary, Germany, Holland, Poland, the United States, and certain South
-American states.
-
-The predominant influence of the Jews in the Bolshevist movement
-throughout the world is a question which is publicly discussed in the
-European press. The Budapest correspondent of the _London Times_ some
-time ago stated:
-
-    “Hungary is being terrorized by Jewish agitators.” (_American
-    Jewish News_, May 2, 1919.)
-
-Charges of this kind have appeared in the press in many European
-countries. In this connection we call the attention of the reader to an
-article of the _Morning Post_, entitled “An Insult to Poland,” August 30,
-1919. In this article, among other things, the following is stated:
-
-    “It is unfortunately true that Bolshevism is very largely a
-    Jewish movement. In Russia the Jewish Bolsheviks have taken a
-    terrible revenge upon all whom they regarded as enemies, and
-    also upon all who protected the Russian peasantry against the
-    exactions of the Jewish usurers.”
-
-This article closes with the following sentence:
-
-    “And we warn Jews also, not for the first time. They are
-    showing themselves not Englishmen of the Jewish faith, as we
-    used to consider them, but a nation with a foreign policy of
-    their own—and that policy hostile to the friends of England.
-    And that is what in the end Englishmen will not stand.”
-
-The three following documents are also of importance:
-
-(_a_) An editorial article which appeared in the London _Morning Post_ on
-April 8, 1919, entitled “Bolstering the Bolshevik.”
-
-(_b_) A letter signed by Lionel Rothschild and nine other well-known
-British Jews to the editor of the London _Morning Post_, which
-practically justifies the stand that was taken by that paper.
-
-(_c_) Comment on the two above-mentioned documents published in the
-_American Jewish News_ on May 2, 1919.
-
-We set forth in full these three documents.
-
-
-(_a_) “_Bolstering the Bolshevik_
-
-    “The news from Russia fluctuates from day to day. It is
-    now reported that the situation on the Murmansk Coast has
-    somewhat improved; but the situation in Archangel is obviously
-    critical. Our soldiers have driven off formidable attacks;
-    but the fighting is close and desperate. From South Russia
-    the Bolsheviks reported that Odessa had been captured, and
-    although we may hope that if this is true the Allied forces
-    were safely evacuated, there remains a terrible anxiety as to
-    the fate which may have overtaken our devoted friends in South
-    Russia. For these critical situations we do not blame the War
-    Office; but we do blame Allied policy which has trifled with
-    the whole situation and has alternated between large promises
-    to our Allies and obsequious approaches to our enemies. We are
-    informed that although the anti-Bolshevist Armies in Russia
-    have been promised arms and supplies in abundance, what they
-    have actually received has been contemptible. The result is
-    that they are fighting almost naked and in many cases without
-    arms. We may be certain both our soldiers and our allies in
-    Russia are putting up a brave and desperate fight for their
-    lives and their cause, but in these circumstances they must
-    feel that they have been forgotten, if not betrayed, by those
-    upon whom they looked for support. And so it is in Poland. We
-    hear from trustworthy sources that the spirit of the Poles
-    is magnificent. They are ready to become a strong and trusty
-    support of the Allies upon the eastern borders of Germany; but
-    they ask in vain for munitions, supplies and raw materials, and
-    they see their vital communications with the Baltic left in the
-    hands of their enemy and ours.
-
-    “Poland and Russia are one problem in this sense. We must
-    support our friends if we are to defeat the Bolsheviks, and
-    their secret abettors the Germans. For it is certain in that
-    while Germany consistently suppresses Bolshevism in Germany
-    she encourages it in Poland and Russia. But we are not
-    supporting our friends. We promised them supplies which did
-    not arrive, and political support which breaks down before
-    German opposition. What is the reason of it? We notice that the
-    _Daily Herald_ and the _Daily News_ are persistently telling
-    the people of this country that we are fighting Bolshevism in
-    obedience to the pressure of the capitalists. Now that is a
-    lie. We are fighting Bolshevism in opposition to a very strong
-    group of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish capitalists, who are
-    secretly working for the Bolshevist cause. Mr. Lansing may or
-    may not be aware of the fact, but he is helping as corrupt a
-    group of international financiers as ever lived. And the object
-    of that group is to support Bolshevism in Russia in order to
-    make a deal with the Bolsheviks. We have mentioned several
-    times the disagreeable fact that the Russian Bolsheviks were
-    Russian Jews. These Jews are at the present moment in control
-    of the Russian Government and they have powerful friends in all
-    the Allied countries who are helping them. We have appealed to
-    the British Jews, but appealed so far in vain, to dissociate
-    themselves formally from a cause which is doing the Jewish
-    people terrible harm in all parts of the world. In reply the
-    Jewish press shower upon us not only abuse but threats. Thus,
-    for example, the _Jewish World_ threatens us with the fate of
-    Mordecai: ‘ ... we wish it no harm, but we would beg it to
-    recollect,’ so it says, ‘_while yet it has its feet upon the
-    earth_, the fate of its anti-Jewish forbear in that narrative,
-    in the hope that it may mend its ways betimes.’
-
-    “We are aware of the significance of that threat. We fully
-    understand what it means, and the secret Allies upon whom the
-    _Jewish World_ reckons when it makes it. We saw them at work
-    in Glasgow and Belfast. We see them at work now in Budapest,
-    where, it is reported, out of thirty members of the Bolshevik
-    Soviet, twenty-six are Jews. We understand the threat, but we
-    do not propose to be deterred in our duty to the British public
-    by the terrorist methods of the Bolsheviks. And we suggest to
-    the British Jewish community—most of whom, we believe, are by
-    no means in sympathy with this crusade—that they are being
-    served very badly in their newspapers, which openly threaten
-    Bolshevik methods and scoff at advice which is tendered in a
-    friendly spirit. In secret, we feel certain, the majority of
-    the British, Jews distrust and dislike the fanatics who are
-    now leading Jewry astray in the cause of a spurious Jewish
-    Imperialism. But they are afraid to dissociate themselves
-    publicly from the dervishes of Judaism. In the meantime these
-    powerful influences are at work in every country, and chiefly
-    in Paris, where they are working powerfully against the cause
-    of Poland. An unseen hand is at this present time stifling the
-    infant Poland in its cradle, and this is being done in the
-    interests of German-Jewish Capitalism. It is a conspiracy which
-    is assisted by so-called Liberal newspapers like the _Daily
-    News_, and so-called Labor newspapers like the _Daily World_;
-    but it is a conspiracy, nevertheless, which is directed against
-    the cause of liberty in Poland and in the interests of alien
-    Capitalism. For it remains true that our labor agitators, while
-    they are the enemies of British Capital, contrive to be the
-    friends of the Capitalism of the enemies of England. Mr. Lloyd
-    George and President Wilson—those champions of liberty—also
-    appear to be more susceptible to the influence of an alien
-    capitalism than to the cry for freedom of long enchained
-    Poland. We ask our readers, who remember the traditional
-    friendship of England with the Polish cause, to mark the note
-    of anguish in Mr. Paderewski’s statement which we publish this
-    morning. He speaks—and he speaks truly—of ‘the bitterness of
-    the disappointment of the Polish population,’ but it is not
-    only the Polish population that is disappointed by the great
-    Danzig betrayal. Every student of Allied interests must see
-    that, whereas a strong Poland might be a bulwark against
-    both German militarism and Russian Bolshevism, a weak Poland
-    must be the vassal of one and the victim of the other. As to
-    the economic side of the question, British commerce may bid
-    farewell to all hope of a connection in Poland if it leaves
-    Poland in such a situation as to be the enforced dependent of
-    Germany.”
-
-
-(_b_) “_Bolshevism and Jewry—a Repudiation_
-
-                                               LONDON MORNING POST,
-                                                  April 23rd, 1919.
-
-    “TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST:—
-
-    We have read with deepest concern and with sincere regret
-    certain articles which have recently appeared in two closely
-    associated Jewish newspapers in this country on the topic of
-    Bolshevism and its ideals. In our opinion, the publication of
-    these articles can have no other effect than to encourage the
-    adoption of the theoretic principles of Russian Bolsheviks
-    among foreign Jews who have sought and found refuge in England.
-    We welcome, accordingly, your suggestion that British Jews
-    should ‘dissociate themselves from a cause which is doing
-    the Jewish people harm in all parts of the world.’ This is
-    profoundly true, and we, on our behalf and on behalf of
-    numbers of British Jews with whom we have conferred, desire
-    to dissociate ourselves absolutely and unreservedly from the
-    mischievous and misleading doctrines which those articles are
-    calculated to disseminate. We repudiate them as dangerous in
-    themselves and as false to the tenets and teachings of Judaism.
-
-    Partly in order to counteract the mistaken policy of the
-    newspapers referred to, the League of British Jews was founded
-    in November, 1917. The proceedings and views of the League are
-    published in a monthly bulletin, entitled _Jewish Opinion_,
-    which can be obtained at the office of the League, 708-709
-    Salisbury House, E.C. 2, and which may eventually be merged
-    in a larger journal appearing at more frequent intervals. For
-    we thoroughly concur with your criticism that ‘the British
-    Jewish community, most of whom,’ as you rightly say, ‘are by no
-    means in sympathy with this (Nationalist) crusade, are being
-    served very badly by their newspapers.’ Meantime we take this
-    opportunity of repudiating in public the particular statements
-    in those newspapers to which you have felt it your duty to call
-    attention.
-
-                                            Yours, etc.,
-
-                                            LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD
-                                            SWAYTHLING
-                                            PHILIP MAGNUS
-                                            MARCUS SAMUEL
-                                            HARRY S. SAMUEL
-                                            LEONARD L. COHEN
-                                            I. GOLLANCZ
-                                            JOHN MONASH
-                                            CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE
-                                            ISIDORE SPIELMANN.”
-
-
-(_c_) “_Prominent London Jews justify anti-Semitic Attack_
-
-    “General Monash, Rothschild, and Montefiore Figure in
-    Agitation.
-
-    “In reply to a recent article in the London _Morning Post_,
-    in which the editor accused the Jews as being Bolsheviks, a
-    letter justifying the stand of the _Post_ in the matter was
-    sent to that paper and signed by Baron Lionel Rothschild, Lord
-    Swaythling, Sir Magnus, Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir Harry Samuel,
-    General Monash, Sir Isidore Spielmann, Claude Montefiore,
-    Leonard Cohen and Professor Galantz.
-
-    “As a result of this letter, a self-sanctifying leading
-    editorial appeared in the _Post_, which cried out in virtuous
-    indignation against all those who had previously questioned
-    that the majority of the Jews are Bolsheviks. The letter,
-    coming as it has, at a time when the anti-Semitic pot is
-    boiling in London, has a peculiarly unfortunate effect. The
-    opinion of London Jewry towards these ten men they consider
-    have betrayed them, may best be left to the imagination.”
-
-It is significant that the feeling that the Jews are largely instrumental
-in promoting Bolshevism and radicalism in general is by no means confined
-to England. The New York _World_ published on January 26, 1919, a
-cable, from Buenos Aires entitled “Argentina Deports Fourteen Hundred
-Bolshevists.” The cable reads as follows:
-
-    “_Buenos Aires, January 25._—Fourteen hundred prisoners,
-    charged with Bolshevist activities, are on board a cruiser here
-    awaiting deportation, according to Secret Service Men. _The
-    majority of them are Russian Jews._ Some Spaniards are among
-    the number.”
-
-In the same connection the New York _Tribune_, on January 24, 1919,
-reported that in Buenos Aires posters were put up in which the Russian
-Jews were blamed “for the recent outbreaks, as well as the anarchistic
-outbreak in 1910,” and it was demanded that “the government rid the
-nation of this Jewish pest.”
-
-In the issue of _The Review_ of March 13, 1920, an article was published
-entitled “Bolshevism in Holland.” The article gives a brief description
-of the Bolshevist movement in Holland. It also gives the names of the
-most prominent leaders of the Bolshevist movement in that country. In
-part the article reads as follows:
-
-    “First among these is Mr. David Wijnkoop, _an Amsterdam Jew_,
-    of a fiery, impetuous temperament, a great orator with a
-    strong hold on the masses. He is the Dutch counterpart of his
-    Russian comrade Trotzky, whom he resembles even in outward
-    appearance, and a faithful henchman of his Moscow _alter ego_
-    in the spreading of the latter’s international propaganda.”
-
-It is a well-known fact that in Hungary, during the Bolshevist revolution
-of 1919, Bela Kun, whose real name is Cohen, a Jew, became the dictator.
-It was often reported in various papers that out of the thirty-one Soviet
-officials in Hungary twenty-six were Jews.
-
-In Austria revolutionary attempts were made to set up a Bolshevist
-government, and the two brothers Alder, as well as Friedrich Adler,
-all of whom are Jews, were the leading spirits of the Bolshevist
-revolutionary propaganda in that country.
-
-In Germany the first Spartacan revolt was almost exclusively under the
-control of Jews. Among others were: Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Radek
-(whose real name is Sobelsohn), Eugene Levine, Muscham.
-
-In the recent attempt to overthrow the Ebert Government and set up a
-Bolshevist Republic, almost all of the leaders in Berlin were Jews. The
-New York _Sun_, under date of March 18, 1920, gives the names of the
-Communist leaders who attempted to overthrow the government as follows:
-Cohn, Daumig, Newmann, Dr. von Kahn, Kurt Bever, Levy.
-
-As to the United States the following should be stated:
-
-While it is a generally recognized fact that the Socialist, Communist,
-Radical, I. W. W., and Bolshevist movements are largely recruited from
-the foreign-born population of various nationalities, nevertheless
-it can scarcely be denied that the moving spirit of the destructive
-revolutionary propaganda is largely Jewish and fomented by Jews. Thus,
-for instance, the notorious “Russian” Soviet Bureau, headed by Ludwig C.
-A. K. Martens, a German, was almost exclusively composed of Jews. Those
-who were in charge of responsible departments in the Bureau were as
-follows:
-
-    Abraham Heller          Manager of the Commercial Department
-    Nuorteva                Whose real name is said to be Neuberger,
-                              Manager of the Propaganda Department
-    Gregory Weinstein       General Office Manager
-    Morris Hillquit }       Counselors at law for the Soviet Bureau
-    Charles Recht   }
-
-All of the five Socialists who were recently ousted from the Assembly
-of the state of New York by an overwhelming vote were Jews. Their names
-are: Louis Waldman, August Classens, Samuel A. de Witt, Samuel Orr,
-and Charles Solomon. During the trial of these men one of the most
-sensational pieces of evidence introduced by the state to show that the
-Socialist Party advocated the overthrow of the government by violence
-and revolution, was a book published in Yiddish by the Jewish Socialist
-Federation of America. This federation is a part of the Socialist Party.
-The official report of the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly of the
-State of New York remarks that in the book published in Yiddish, the
-principles of Socialism, “were not camouflaged, as they frequently are
-in English” (page 31). The book in question typifies the extreme of
-revolutionary Socialism in the United States. We quote some of the more
-striking passages:
-
-    “Workingmen cannot depend on ‘_peaceful_ evolution’; they must
-    prepare for a revolution, and class-dictatorship” (page 207).
-
-    “The Socialist movement rouses the workingmen to revolution;
-    it preaches to them class-struggle, awakens within them
-    class-consciousness, makes all necessary preparations for a
-    Socialistic order. When society is ready for the overturn, when
-    the Socialist organization feels that the moment has come, it
-    will make the revolution. To predict when and how this should
-    be done is impossible. This is a thing which must be determined
-    separately in every country, because the circumstances in every
-    country are different. No sooner than the revolution is made,
-    however, the first aim of the Socialists must be to seize the
-    government, the state, by whatever means they can succeed
-    in doing this with and then their rule must establish the
-    dictatorship of the Proletariat.
-
-    “This dictatorship will be employed for one thing, _to
-    eliminate capitalism by force, take away by force the capital
-    from private owners_ and transfer it to the ownership of the
-    community.”
-
-    “Socialists seek to be elected into the government principally
-    for the sake of propaganda.”
-
-    “To the Socialist at present, the meaning of class struggle,
-    _Internationale, and dictatorship of the Proletariat must be
-    clear. He must understand that Socialism is not a reform
-    movement. He must know that Socialism is a Revolutionary
-    world-perspective, and that the Socialist movement is a
-    Revolutionary movement._”
-
-The radical periodicals published in this country in Russian are almost
-entirely managed and completely controlled by Jews. For instance, the
-_Russki Golos_ has an editorial staff composed of four men, all of
-whom are Jews, namely, Weinbaum, Zvesdichiy, Sokolov, Gisenkin. The
-official organ of the Russian Communist Branch of the American Communist
-Party, the _Novy Mir_, is edited by two Jews, namely, N. Hourwitch, and
-Stoklitzky. The Bolshevist weekly, _Pravda_, is edited by two Jews,
-namely, Finkelstein and Weinstein. The Ukrainian Bolshevist tri-weekly
-publication, _Robitnik_, is published by a Jew, K. Pitlar. At the same
-time, even leaving out the well-known Yiddish publication _The Jewish
-Daily Forward_, with pronounced pro-Bolshevist tendencies, the new
-Anarchistic periodical, _The Communist World_, published in English, has
-the following men on its editorial staff, all of whom are Jews:
-
-    Maximilian Cohen               Editor
-    B. D. Wolfe                    Associate Editor
-    George Ashkenouzi              Business Manager
-    H. Winitsky                    Executive Secretary
-
-Winitsky was recently convicted of criminal anarchy in the New York
-Courts.
-
-Again, with the recently founded Communist Party of America, the rôle
-of the Jew is very important, inasmuch as its founder is Louis Fraina,
-an Italian Jew. Examples of this kind could be multiplied almost
-indefinitely. For this reason we must content ourselves with a reference
-to an article published in the New York _Call_. This is the official
-organ of the Socialist Party of America, which is issued under the motto:
-
-    “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your
-    chains, and a world to gain.”
-
-The president of this publication is S. Block, a Jew. The article in
-question, entitled “Chicago Workers Plan Big May Day Demonstrations,”
-deals with the arrangements for the May Day Parade of the Chicago radical
-labor organizations in 1919. It enumerates some of the organizations
-which were represented in the conference which planned the demonstrations:
-
-    “Joint Board, Cloak Makers’ Union
-    11 branches of the Workmen’s Circle
-    Millinery Workers, Local Union, 47
-    Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Branch
-    The Hebrew Trades
-    The Brushmakers’ Union
-    The 13th Ward Jewish Socialist Branch
-    The Karl Marx Jewish Socialist Branch
-    Yipsel Jewish Socialist Branches 1 and 4
-    Carpenters’ Union, Local 504
-    West Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
-    The Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
-    The 15th Ward Campaign Committee
-    West Side Jewish Socialist Branch
-    Amalgamated Local Union, 39
-    Waist Makers’ Union, 100
-    International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
-    Bakers’ Union, 237
-    Capmakers’ Union, Local 5
-    Young People’s Progressive Dramatic Club
-    City Central Committee, Jewish Socialist Branches
-    City Central Committee, Workmen’s Circle
-    Douglas Park Jewish Socialist Branch”
-
-Indeed, it can scarcely be denied that the Jewish labor organizations as
-enumerated by this Socialist publication itself were in complete control
-of the whole May Day parade in one of the biggest cities in the United
-States.
-
-One more fact of importance which should be mentioned is that four
-Anarchists, who were convicted and sentenced to terms of twenty years
-by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
-York, were Jews. Their names are: Jacob Abrams, Samuel Lippman, Hyman
-Lachowsky, Mollie Stimer.
-
-Finally, we refer to the well-known activities of Emma Goldman and
-Alexander Berkman, both of whom are Jews, and who were deported on the
-Soviet Ark “Buford.”
-
-Of course, it is significant that the radical labor movement is largely
-controlled by Jewish internationalists, but still more significant
-appears the fact that recently several rabbis have taken a definite stand
-in support of the Red movement. We shall refer here to two instances.
-On October 25, 1919, the New York _Tribune_ stated that Rabbi Judah
-L. Magnes had publicly announced that “he was a Bolshevik and in full
-sympathy with their doctrines and ideals.” The article referred to is
-entitled “Bolshevik Talk Forces Magnes Out.” Therein it is revealed that
-on account of his public announcement that he was in full sympathy with
-Trotzky, Rabbi Magnes was forced to resign from the American Jewish
-Committee. It is important to bear in mind that at that time Rabbi Magnes
-was one of the most honored members of the Jewish community. Rabbi Magnes
-was deputed in 1916 to represent in Europe the American Jewish Relief
-organization, The Joint Distribution Committee, which, among other
-activities, solicited and distributed money and supplies to the Jews in
-territories occupied by the Central Powers. Whenever there is a great
-mass meeting Rabbi Magnes appears as the chief spokesman on behalf of the
-Jews in New York City, as has happened several times since his expulsion
-from the American Jewish Committee. Rabbi Magnes was one of the founders
-of the People’s Council, which was dissolved by the United States
-Government during the war. Here is a tentative enumeration of Rabbi
-Magnes’s activities as stated in the _Tribune_ article above referred to:
-
-    “Dr. Magnes was one of the organizers of the American-Jewish
-    Committee which has been engaged in philanthropic work among
-    the Jews for the last fifteen years. Most of the work of the
-    committee was confined to countries where the people were
-    oppressed. Dr. Magnes has held many important posts and at one
-    time was Rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El. Shortly after we entered
-    the war he became a strong pacifist and was active in the
-    People’s Council.
-
-    “There was a movement started on the East Side early in the
-    summer to make Dr. Magnes the Socialist candidate for Congress.
-    The persons who attempted this move are now supporting
-    Congressman London for reëlection. Dr. Magnes is chairman of
-    the American Jewish Kehillah.”
-
-The other instance is that of Rabbi Maxwell Silver of Temple Shaari
-Zedek, Brooklyn, who, on January 8, 1920, was ousted by his congregation
-early in January, 1920, because of alleged radical utterances. “It was
-charged that he drew class lines and spoke of the rich as oppressors.”
-(See New York _Times_, January 8, 1920.) This fact alone might not be of
-great importance, but the action of the New York Association of Reformed
-Rabbis, as reported in the New York daily press, is significant:
-
-    “After the dismissal of Rabbi Maxwell Silver, of Congregation
-    Shaari Zedek, of Brooklyn, the New York Association of
-    Reformed Rabbis undertook the mediation of the trouble between
-    the congregation and the Rabbi, and as a result pointed
-    out that the whole difficulty was due to an _unfortunate
-    misunderstanding_. Thereupon the trustees decided to recommend
-    the reinstatement of Rabbi Silver, and we are happy to state
-    that such reinstatement was ratified by the congregation after
-    a special meeting last night. By a special resolution the New
-    York Association of Reformed Rabbis expresses its confidence in
-    the worthiness of Rabbi Silver and also in the good intentions
-    of the Congregation Shaari Zedek to serve the cause of Israel.”
-
-It is also a peculiar fact to consider that certain powerful Jewish
-bankers were instrumental and active in spreading Bolshevism, which now
-threatens the whole world. In this connection we refer the reader to one
-of the “Sisson Documents,” published by the United States Government in
-1917 under the title “German Bolshevist Conspiracy”:
-
-    On September 21, 1917, one of the leading German Spartacan
-    leaders, a Jew, by name of Furstenberg, wrote a letter to a
-    Bolshevist by the name of Raphael Scholan, who became later one
-    of the Bolshevist commissaries in Soviet Russia, as follows:
-
-                                         STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21, 1917.
-
-    “TO MR. RAPHAEL SCHOLAN, Haparanda.
-
-    DEAR COMRADE:
-
-    The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the
-    enterprise of Comrade Trotzky, upon receipt of a telegram from
-    the Chairman of the ‘Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.’ A lawyer,
-    probably Mr. Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the
-    transportation of same, together with that of the money, to
-    Lulea and Vardo, the firm of Essen & Son, Lulea, as to the
-    consignee and the confidential persons to whom the sum demanded
-    by Comrade Trotzky is to be handed. Fraternal greetings!
-
-                                                (sgd) FURSTENBERG.”
-
-Rumors that international Jewish financiers have been supporting the
-Bolsheviki in Russia are persistent.
-
-Who are the international financiers? Perhaps the answer is to be found
-in the following cable dispatch of the Wolff Agency on the German
-situation in 1919, published by _La Vieille France_ in the issue of
-February 13, 1919:
-
-    “The deputy Hyemann has revealed the curious fact: The
-    Bolshevist movement is supported by financiers. The banker,
-    Bleichroeder, has contributed two millions to the _Extremist
-    Journal_.”
-
-It is of course known that Bleichroeder is one of the most powerful
-Jewish financiers in Germany.
-
-It will be remembered that the Protocols bring out very distinctly two
-ideas, namely, economic and social dissensions of all kinds, including
-anarchism and communism and also a _world war_.
-
-In a recently published book which has created much interest, entitled
-“The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue,” by Joseph Goriĉar and
-Lyman Beecher Stowe, the authors advanced the theory that Jewish bankers
-have during the last century played an important rôle in European war
-conspiracies. Mr. Goriĉar was, during the early part of the late war,
-Austro-Hungarian Consul in Berlin. We refer to one of the most important
-passages in the book bearing upon the subject:
-
-    “The pro-war bankers of 1854 as well as those of
-    1914 originated in the Semitic banking center of
-    Frankfort-on-the-Main in Germany, the birthplace of the
-    Bethmann-Hollwegs, the Goldschmidts, the Seligmans, Jacob
-    Schiff,[29] and the Rothschilds.
-
-    “All the vast wealth of the banking house of the Rothschilds,
-    amounting at the beginning of the war to some twenty billion
-    francs, was made chiefly in war operations, war financing.
-    The Rothschild brothers of the Central Empires have in fact
-    sometimes financed simultaneously rival groups of belligerents.
-
-    “Frankfort-on-the-Main is, and has been for more than a
-    hundred years, the chief source of financial backing for
-    wars. Kings, emperors, and war ministers have had to await
-    the pleasure of these bankers before issuing their ultimata.
-    To that centre have been added Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest,
-    the other important centres of Jewish world finance. In Vienna
-    the Rothschilds’ word is law; in Berlin, the Hahnemans,
-    Bleichroeders, Mendelssohns, especially the last named, who of
-    late years have controlled Russia’s finances. To these same
-    sources may be traced the origin of the World War.” (Pages 56
-    and 57.)
-
-The “Protocols” have already attracted public attention in various
-countries. The attitude which the Jewish leaders will take in regard
-to them is a matter of great interest and deep concern. Until now they
-have kept silent. Only on rare occasions have the Jews referred, though
-very indirectly, to the question of the existence of a Jewish world
-conspiracy. The most explicit utterance on the subject in the United
-States is that of Rabbi Stephen Wise, in his address to the Congregation
-of Free Synagogues in Carnegie Hall, on March 1, 1920. The reports of the
-address in the daily press are rather meager. We set forth in full the
-report which appeared in the New York _Tribune_ on the following day:
-
-    “‘JEWISH PLOT’ ONLY AMONG APOSTATES, SAYS DR. WISE
-
-    “BELIEVES MEN WHO FORSWEAR ANCIENT FAITH WOULD SEIZE POWER FOR
-    OWN ENDS
-
-    “Speaking to the congregation of the Free Synagogue in Carnegie
-    Hall yesterday on the subject of ‘The Jewish Conspiracy,’ which
-    has had its most recent revival in a story published in the
-    London _Morning Post_, charging that Jews were in a plot to
-    seize control of the world, Dr. Stephen S. Wise said that the
-    only serious ‘conspiracy’ among the Jews to-day emanated from
-    the young men who foreswore their ancient faith.
-
-    “Saying that oppression and injustice have attended the
-    followers of the Jewish faith for centuries, Dr. Wise added
-    that they had a right to be vindictive, but that it was not in
-    their nature to be so.
-
-    “‘It is the Jew who has been reduced to such a state of
-    degradation by oppression that he lies when he swears
-    allegiance to another faith which has not even touched his
-    heart, who becomes a dangerous element in the life of the
-    world,’ said Dr. Wise.
-
-    “‘The conspiracy,’ if there is one, is among those of Jewish
-    birth who are or seem ashamed of their origin. They follow
-    false gods or none at all, and among them will be those who may
-    seize power for their own ends.”
-
-
-CONCLUSION
-
-In conclusion it must be stated that the motives which have actuated
-the publication of this book are not anti-Semitic. The object—already
-indicated in the introduction—is to call the attention of the American
-people to a document which may throw important light upon the
-international Bolshevist movement which menaces directly the vital
-interests of the United States.
-
-That this attention is amply justified appears from a review of the
-recent publication of the Protocols in England, which appeared in the
-London _Times_ on May 8, 1920. The article is so significant that it is
-reprinted in its entirety.
-
-    “THE JEWISH PERIL.”[30]
-
-    A DISTURBING PAMPHLET
-
-    _Call for Inquiry_
-
-    (From a correspondent)
-
-    The _Times_ has not as yet noticed this singular little book.
-    Its diffusion is, however, increasing, and its reading is
-    likely to perturb the thinking public. Never before have a
-    race and a creed been accused of a more sinister conspiracy.
-    We in this country, who live in good fellowship with numerous
-    representatives of Jewry, may well ask that some authoritative
-    criticism should deal with it, and either destroy the ugly
-    “Semitic” bogy or assign their proper place to the insidious
-    allegations of this kind of literature.
-
-    In spite of the urgency of impartial and exhaustive criticism,
-    the pamphlet has been allowed, so far, to pass almost
-    unchallenged. The Jewish Press announced, it is true, that
-    the anti-Semitism of the “Jewish Peril” was going to be
-    exposed. But save for an unsatisfactory article in the March
-    5 issue of the _Jewish Guardian_, and for an almost equally
-    unsatisfactory contribution to the _Nation_ of March 27, this
-    exposure is yet to come. The article of the _Jewish Guardian_
-    is unsatisfactory, because it deals mainly with the personality
-    of the author of the book in which the pamphlet is embodied,
-    with Russian reactionary propaganda, and the Russian secret
-    police. It does not touch the substance of the “Protocols of
-    the Learned Elders of Zion.” The purely Russian side of the
-    book and its fervid “Orthodoxy” is not its most interesting
-    feature. Its author, Professor S. Nilus, who was a minor
-    official in the Department of Foreign Religions at Moscow, had,
-    in all likelihood, opportunities of access to many archives and
-    unpublished documents. On the other hand, the world-wide issue
-    raised by the “Protocols” which he incorporated in his book and
-    are now translated into English as “The Jewish Peril,” cannot
-    fail not only to interest, but to preoccupy. What are the
-    theses of the “Protocols” with which, in the absence of public
-    criticism, British readers have to grapple alone and unaided?
-    They are, roughly:—
-
-    (1) There is, and has been for centuries, a secret
-    international political organization of the Jews.
-
-    (2) The spirit of this organization appears to be an undying
-    traditional hatred of the Christian world, and a titanic
-    ambition for world domination.
-
-    (3) The goal relentlessly pursued through centuries is
-    the destruction of the Christian national States, and the
-    substitution for them of an international Jewish dominion.
-
-    (4) The method adopted for first weakening and then destroying
-    existing bodies politic is the infusion of disintegrating
-    political ideas of carefully measured progressive disruptive
-    force, from liberalism to radicalism, and socialism to
-    communism, culminating in anarchy as a _reductio ad absurdum_
-    of egalitarian principles. Meanwhile Jewry remains immune
-    from these corrosive doctrines. “We preach Liberalism to
-    the Gentiles, but on the other hand we keep our own nation
-    in entire subjection” (page 55). Out of the welter of world
-    anarchy, in response to the desperate clamour of distraught
-    humanity, the stern, logical, wise, pitiless rule of “the King
-    of the Seed of David” is to arise.
-
-    (5) Political dogmas evolved by Christian Europe, democratic
-    statesmanship and politics, are all equally contemptible to
-    the Elders of Zion. To them statesmanship is an exalted secret
-    art, acquired only by traditional training, and imparted to a
-    select few in the secrecy of some occult sanctuary. “Political
-    problems are not meant to be understood by ordinary people;
-    they can only be comprehended, as I have said before, by rulers
-    who have been directing affairs for many centuries.”
-
-    (6) To this conception of statesmanship the masses are
-    contemptible cattle, and the political leaders of the Gentiles,
-    “upstarts from its midst as rulers, are likewise blind in
-    politics.” They are puppets, pulled by the hidden hand of
-    the “Elders,” puppets mostly corrupt, always inefficient;
-    easily coaxed, or bullied, or blackmailed into submission,
-    unconsciously furthering the advent of Jewish dominion.
-
-    (7) The Press, the theatre, stock exchange speculations,
-    science, law itself, are, in the hands that hold all the
-    gold, so many means of procuring a deliberate confusion and
-    bewilderment of public opinion, demoralization of the young,
-    and encouragement of the vices of the adult, eventually
-    substituting, in the minds of the Gentiles, for the idealistic
-    aspiration of Christian culture the “cash basis” and a
-    neutrality of materialistic scepticism, or cynical lust for
-    pleasure.
-
-    Such are the main theses of the “Protocols.” They are not
-    altogether new, and can be found scattered throughout
-    anti-Semitic literature. The condensed form in which they are
-    now presented lends them a new and weird force.
-
-    Incidentally, some of the features of the would-be Jewish
-    programme bear an uncanny resemblance to situations and events
-    now developing under our eyes. Professor Nilus’s book was,
-    undoubtedly, published in Russia in 1905. The copy of the
-    original at the British Museum bears the stamp of August 10,
-    1906. This being so, some of the passages assume the aspect
-    of fulfilled prophecies, unless one is inclined to attribute
-    the prescience of the “Elders of Zion” to the fact that they
-    really are the hidden instigators of these events. When one
-    reads (page 8) that “it is indispensable for our plans that
-    wars should not produce any territorial alterations,” one is
-    most forcibly reminded of the cry, “peace without annexations”
-    raised by all the radical parties of the world, and especially
-    in revolutionary Russia. And again:—
-
-    We will create a universal economic crisis, by all possible
-    underhand means and with the help of gold, which is all in
-    our hands. Simultaneously we will throw on to the streets
-    huge crowds of workmen throughout Europe. We will increase the
-    wages, which will not help the workmen as, at the same time, we
-    will raise the price of prime necessities ... it is essential
-    for us at all costs to deprive the aristocracy of their lands.
-    To attain this purpose, the best method is to force up rates
-    and taxes. These methods will keep the landed interests at
-    their lowest possible ebb.
-
-    Nor can one fail to recognize Soviet Russia in the following:—
-
-    “... in governing the world the best results are obtained by
-    means of violence and intimidation.... In politics, we must
-    know how to confiscate property without any hesitation, if
-    by so doing we can obtain subjection and power. Our State,
-    following the way of peaceful conquest, has the right of
-    substituting for the terrors of war, executions less apparent
-    and more expedient, which are necessary to uphold terror,
-    producing blind submission.... By new laws we will regulate
-    the political life of our subjects as though they were so
-    many parts of a machine. Such laws will gradually restrict
-    all freedom and liberties allowed by the Gentiles.... It is
-    essential for us to arrange that, besides ourselves, there
-    should be in all countries nothing but a huge proletariat,
-    so many soldiers and police loyal to our cause; ... in order
-    to demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile Governments of
-    Europe, we will show our power to one of them by means of
-    crime and violence, that is to say, a reign of terror; ... our
-    programme will induce a third part of the populace to watch the
-    remainder from a pure sense of duty or from the principle of
-    voluntary service.”
-
-    Bearing in mind when this was published, we see, fifteen
-    years later, a government established in Russia of which
-    a high percentage of the leaders are Jews, whose _modus
-    operandi_ follows the principles quoted, and whose mainstay
-    is a Communist Party, which answers to the last quotation.
-    We see this, and it seems uncanny. The trouble is that all
-    this fosters indiscriminate anti-Semitism. That the latter is
-    rampant in Eastern Europe is a fact. That its propaganda in
-    France, England, and America is growing is a fact also. Do
-    we want, and can we afford to add exacerbated race-hatred to
-    all our political, social, and economic troubles? If not, the
-    question of the “Jewish Peril” should be taken up and dealt
-    with. It is far too interesting, the hypothesis it presents is
-    far too ingenious, attractive, and sensational not to attract
-    the attention of our none too happy and none too contented
-    public. The average man thinks that there is something very
-    fundamentally wrong with the world he lives in. He will eagerly
-    grasp at a plausible “working hypothesis.”
-
-    What are these “Protocols”? Are they authentic? If so, what
-    malevolent assembly concocted these plans, and gloated over
-    their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence comes the
-    uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in parts fulfilled, in parts
-    far gone in the way of fulfilment? Have we been struggling
-    these tragic years to blow up and extirpate the secret
-    organization of German world dominion only to find beneath
-    it another more dangerous because more secret? Have we, by
-    straining every fibre of our national body, escaped a “Pax
-    Germanica” only to fall into a “Pax Judaeica”? The “Elders of
-    Zion,” as represented in their “Protocols,” are by no means
-    kinder taskmasters than William II and his henchmen would have
-    been.
-
-    All these questions, which are likely to obtrude themselves
-    on the reader of the “Jewish Peril,” cannot be dismissed by
-    a shrug of the shoulders unless one wants to strengthen the
-    hand of the typical anti-Semite and call forth his favourite
-    accusation of the “conspiracy of silence.” An impartial
-    investigation of these would-be documents and of their history
-    is most desirable. That history is by no means clear from the
-    English translation. They would appear, from internal evidence,
-    to have been written by Jews for Jews, or to be cast in the
-    form of lectures, and notes for lectures, by Jews to Jews. If
-    so, in what circumstances were they produced and to cope with
-    what inter-Jewish emergency? Or are we to dismiss the whole
-    matter without inquiry and to let the influence of such a book
-    as this work unchecked?
-
-The publishers believe that the vast majority of the Jews in this country
-have never heard of the Protocols, and would denounce the plan which
-they set forth. The Jews here, constituting about three per cent of the
-population, enjoy the same rights and privileges as other citizens. All
-are equal before the law and all are free from persecution on religious
-grounds. American Jews are regarded by their fellow citizens, and for
-the most part doubtless regard themselves, as Americans of Jewish faith.
-They have indeed a special ground for gratitude to the country of their
-adoption, for they have found here opportunities which they did not enjoy
-in many other countries. They have shared in all the activities leading
-to prosperity and they have prospered. That they do, in fact, recognize
-their favorable situation is shown by the statements two of them are
-reported by the New York _Times_, in its issue of May 4, 1920, to have
-made at a mass meeting held on the preceding evening at Cooper Union
-under the auspices of the Independent Order of Brith Abraham, to express
-the gratitude of the Jewish people to Great Britain for taking the
-mandate for Palestine. Judge Gustave Hartman, Grand Master of the order,
-is reported to have said in part:
-
-“We didn’t know what a home was until we reached this greatest of all
-republics, the United States of America. Here we are given free and equal
-opportunity under the free institutions of this country. In this country
-the Jews have lived and prospered, and in all this country there are no
-better citizens than the Jewish people.”
-
-Judge Otto A. Rosalsky said “that it became the duty of the Jewish
-citizens of America to cherish the ideals of this country and keep them
-intact, so that they might be handed down to their children’s children.”
-
-Doubtless American Jews will recognize the menace to American
-institutions and American prosperity of any such political conspiracy as
-is outlined in the Protocols. But the situation demands more than tacit
-disapproval on their part. Bearing in mind the close parallelism shown
-to exist between the “Protocols” and the actual policies of Bolshevism
-as practiced in Russia, the dominant position occupied by the Jews in
-the Soviet Government, and the open sympathy and approval given to
-international Bolshevism by prominent Jews outside of Russia, it is
-vitally necessary that the American Jews should by word and deed express
-their condemnation not only of Bolshevism, but of any plan or program for
-world domination similar to that contained in the Protocols. Aside from
-their position on these matters, there is no likelihood of any change
-in the favorable situation of the Jews in this country unless by their
-own conduct they convince the American people that they are hostile to
-our institutions or to our system of government, or that they desire
-to constitute within the borders of the United States a race apart,—to
-be treated as members of a foreign nation, enjoying special rights,
-privileges, or immunities.
-
-
-
-
-FOOTNOTES
-
-
-[1] “Actions Committee” has the same meaning as Executive Committee.
-
-[2] The GOYS—the Gentiles.
-
-[3] The reference is probably to those Masonic Lodges in Continental
-Europe which, contrary to the fundamental principles of Anglo-Saxon
-Lodges, have been converted into _quasi_ political and anti-Christian
-organizations. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Article
-“Freemasonry,” Vol. XI, p. 84.
-
-[4] This probably means the practice which arose of not adhering to the
-letter of the law but of judging by conscience. In European countries
-jurors are not compelled to render their verdict pursuant to the
-technical provisions of law.
-
-[5] It is important to point out that _some of the Jews themselves_ in
-their writings have claimed that Masonry is largely controlled by Jewish
-influence. In this connection the statement of Dr. Isaac M. Wise may be
-recalled:
-
-“Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, decrees, charges,
-passwords and explanations are Jewish, from the beginning to the
-end, with the exception of only one by-decree and a few words in the
-obligation.” (Dr. Isaac M. Wise, _The Israelite_, August 3rd and 17th,
-1855; quoted by Samuel Oppenheim in his pamphlet “Jews and Masonry in the
-United States before 1810,” American Jewish Historical Society, New York,
-1910, No. 19, pp. 1, 2.)
-
-[6] The words in parentheses would seem to be a comment of Nilus’s.
-
-[7] The words in parentheses are inserted by the editors.
-
-[8] The Jewish sayings cited in this volume show that some of the great
-Jewish leaders maintain that the apostasy of a Jew in the matter of
-religion does not prevent him from remaining for all other purposes a
-Jew, or release him from his obligations as such.
-
-[9] “Bolshevik Propaganda. Hearings before a Subcommittee on the
-Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress,” p. 111.
-
-[10] Ambassador Francis, in his testimony before the Overman Committee,
-stated that Dr. George A. Simons is an absolutely reliable and
-trustworthy man (p. 977), and that the same is true of Mr. Roger E.
-Simmons, whose testimony is cited below.
-
-[11] “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 310.
-
-[12] “Russia’s Agony,” pp. 137, 138, published by Edward Arnold, London,
-1918.
-
-[13] “Memorandum on Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in
-Russia,” p. 11. Compiled by the U. S. State Department in October, 1919.
-
-[14] Page 12 of the same memorandum.
-
-[15] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 86.
-
-[16] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 68.
-
-[17] “Memorandum. Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in Russia.”
-Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919, p. 20.
-
-[18] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 57.
-
-[19] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” pp. 136 and 137.
-
-[20] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 139.
-
-[21] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 316.
-
-[22] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 431.
-
-[23] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 301.
-
-[24] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 946.
-
-[25] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 299.
-
-[26] All italics in Part Two of this book are our own unless otherwise
-stated.
-
-[27] Quoted from A. Shmakoff. Address in defense of T. Vekshin and
-others, p. 36. Moscow: University Printing Office. 1907.
-
-[28] The full text of Article 12 of the Treaty between the Allied and
-Associated Powers and Poland is the following:
-
-    “Poland agrees that the stipulations in the foregoing Articles,
-    so far as they affect persons belonging to racial, religious or
-    linguistic minorities, constitute obligations of international
-    concern and shall be placed under the guarantee of the League
-    of Nations. They shall not be modified without the assent of
-    the majority of the Council of the League of Nations. The
-    United States, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan
-    hereby agree not to withhold their assent from any modification
-    in these Articles which is in due form assented to by a
-    majority of the Council of the League of Nations.
-
-    “Poland agrees that any member of the Council of the League
-    of Nations shall have the right to bring to the attention of
-    the Council any infraction of the Council, or any danger of
-    infraction of any of these obligations, and that the Council
-    may thereupon take such action as it may deem effective in the
-    circumstances.
-
-    “Poland further agrees that any difference of opinion as to
-    questions of law or fact arising out of these Articles between
-    the Polish Government and any one of the Principal Allied and
-    Associated Powers, or any other power, a member of the Council
-    of the League of Nations, shall be held to be a dispute of an
-    international character under Article 14 of the Covenant of the
-    League of Nations. The Polish Government hereby consents that
-    any such dispute shall, if the other party thereto demands, be
-    referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The
-    decision of the Permanent Court shall be final and shall have
-    the same force and effect as an award under Article 13 of the
-    Covenant.”
-
-[29] It has been stated by one of the leaders of Zionism, namely, Israel
-Zangwill, author of “The Children of the Ghetto,” that Mr. Jacob Schiff
-financed “the Japanese war against Russia.” This statement is made in a
-pamphlet entitled “The Problems of the Jewish Race,” p. 14, published by
-the Judean Publishing Company, New York City.
-
-In its report of a Socialist meeting held in Carnegie Hall on March 23,
-1917, to celebrate the revolution in Russia, the New York _Times_ on
-March 24, 1917, says:
-
-“An authority on Russian affairs, George Kennan, told of how a movement
-by the Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom, financed by Jacob
-Schiff, had at the time of the Russo-Japanese war spread among 50,000
-Russian officers and men in Japanese prison camps the gospel of the
-Russian revolutionists.”
-
-The Jewish character of the first Russian revolution was strongly
-emphasized in a report presented to the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II,
-by the Russian Foreign Minister, Count Lamsdorf, on January 3, 1906,
-published in full in English translation in “The American Hebrew and
-Jewish Messenger,” in its issue of July 13, 1918. Therein it is stated
-that a very considerable part in the revolutionary activities was played
-by the Jews, “who individually, as ringleaders in other organizations,
-as well as through their own (the Jewish Bund in the Western
-Provinces), have always come forward as the most bellicose element of
-the revolution.” Count Lamsdorf further stated: “We may feel entitled
-to assume that the above mentioned foreign support of the Russian
-revolutionary movement comes from Jewish capitalist circles.... In June,
-1905, a special Anglo-Jewish committee was openly established in England
-for the purpose of collecting money for arming fighting groups of Russian
-Jews: The well-known anti-Russian publicist, Lucien Wolf, was the leading
-member of this committee.... The Jews in America ... collect money for
-helping the pogrom sufferers and for arming the Jewish youth.”
-
-[30] The Jewish Peril. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. London:
-Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1920.
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