The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a
victim of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married
to a Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a
number of years a Russian Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which
he occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events
in Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that
Journal. Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet.
On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor Marsden
was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have
his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually he
was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in bodily health.
However, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care of his wife and
friends. One of the first things he undertook, as soon as he was able, was this
translation of the Protocols.
Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate
acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russian
language on the one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English
style on the other, placed him in a position of advantage which few
others could claim. The consequence is that we have in his version an eminently
readable work, and though the subject-matter is somewhat formless, Mr.
Marsden's literary touch reveals the thread running through the twenty-four
Protocols. It may be said with truth that this work was carried
out at the cost of Mr. Marsden's own life's blood.
May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an
immense service to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt
that it will take its place in the first rank of the English versions of
"THE PROTOCOLS of the Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."
INTRODUCTION
Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The
book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei
Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of
this is in the British
Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to
exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors
the possession of a
copy by anyone in
Soviet land was a crime
sufficient to ensure the
owner's of being shot on sight. The fact is in itself
sufficient proof
of the genuineness of the
Protocols. The Jewish journals, of
course, say that
they are a forgery, leaving it to
be
understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a
work of his own, had concocted them for his
own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York
WORLD, February 17th, 1921, put the
case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus: "The only statement I
care to make about the
PROTOCOLS is
that they fit in with what is going
on. They are
sixteen years old,
and
they have fitted the world
situation up
to this time.
THEY FIT IT NOW." Indeed
they do!
The word "Protocol" signifies a precis gummed on to the
front of a document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this
instance, "Protocol" means minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings
of the Learned Elders of Zion. These Protocols give the substance of addresses
delivered to the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the
converted plan of action of the Jewish Nation developed through the ages and
edited by the Elders themselves up to date. Parts and summaries of the plan
have been published from time to time during the centuries as the secrets of
the Elders have leaked out.
The claim of the Jews that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself
an admission of their genuineness, for they NEVER ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE FACTS
corresponding to the THREATS which the Protocols contain, and, indeed, the
correspondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set aside
or obscured. This the Jews well know and therefore evade.
The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or
reissued, at the First Zionist Congress
held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the Father of Modern Zionism,
the late Theodore Herzl. There has been recently published a volume of Herzl's
"Diaries,"
a translation of
some passages which
appeared in the JEWISH CHRONICLE
of July 14, 1922.
Herzl gives an account of his first visit to
England in 1895,
and
his conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian,
an officer in the English Army, and at heart a
Jew
Nationalist all the time. Goldsmid suggested
to Herzl that
the best way of expropriating the English
aristocracy, and so destroying their power to protect the people of England against Jew domination, was to put excessive taxes on the land.
Herzl thought this an excellent idea, and it is now to
be
found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!
The above
extract from Herzl's DIARY is an extremely significant bit of evidence bearing
on the existence of the
Jew World Plot and authenticity of the Protocols, but any reader of
intelligence will be able from his own knowledge of recent history and from his
own experience to confirm the genuineness of every line of them, and it is in
the light of this LIVING comment that all readers are invited to study Mr.
Marsden's translation of this terribly inhuman document. And here is another
very significant circumstance.
The present successor of
Herzl, as leader of the Zionist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one of
these sayings at the send-off banquet given to
Chief Rabbi Hertz on
October 6, 1920. The Chief Rabbi
was on the point of leaving for HIS Empire tour of H.R.H.,
the Prince of Wales. And this is the "saying" of the Sages which Dr.
Weizmann quoted: "A
beneficent protection which God has instituted in the life of the
Jew is that He has dispersed
him all over the
world." (JEWISH
GUARDIAN, Oct. 8,
1920.) Now compare this
with the last clause
of but one of Protocol XI. "God has granted
to us, His Chosen People, the gift of
dispersion, and from this, which appears to all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now
brought us to the threshold
of sovereignty over all the world."
The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several
things. It proves that the Learned Elders exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann
knows all about them. It proves that the desire for a "National Home"
in Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the Jew's real
object. It proves that the Jews of the world have no intention of settling in
Palestine or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may
all meet "Next Year in Jerusalem" is merely a piece of their
characteristic make-believe. It also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world
menace, and that the Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of
Europe..
WHO ARE THE
ELDERS?
This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden hand.
They are not
the "Board of
Deputies" (the Jewish Parliament in England) or the
"Universal Israelite Alliance"
which sits in Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of
the Allgemeiner Electricitaets Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the subject and doubtless he
was in possession of their names, being, in all likelihood,
one of
the chief leaders himself. Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE,
December 24,
1912, he said: "Three hundred men,
each of whom knows all the others, govern the fate of the
European continent, and they elect their successors
from their entourage."
In the year 1844, on the eve of
the Jewish Revolution of 1848, Benjamin Disraeli, whose real name
was Israel, who was Jew in ethnicity, published his novel, CONINGSBY,
in which occurs this ominous passage: "The world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not
behind the scenes." And he went on to show that
these personages were all
Jews.
Now that Providence has brought to the light of day these secret
Protocols all men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli
at work "behind the scenes" of all the Governments. This revelation
entails on all white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising
AU FOND their attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survival
over all Empires.
Notes I. - "Agentur" and "The Political." There
are two words in this translation which are unusual, the word
"AGENTUR" and "political" used as a substantive, AGENTUR
appears to be a word adopted from the original and it means the whole body of
agents and agencies made use of by the Elders, whether members of the tribe or
their Gentile tools. By "the Political" Mr. Marsden means, not
exactly the "body politic" but the entire machinery of politics.
Notes II - The Symbolic Snake of
Judaism. Protocol III opens with a reference
to the Symbolic
Snake of Judaism.
In
his Epilogue to the
1905 Edition of
the Protocols,
Nilus gives the following interesting account of
this symbol:
"According to the records of
secret Jewish
Zionism, Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C.,
thought out a scheme in theory for a
peaceful conquest of
the whole universe by Zion.
As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and
completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question. These
learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion with the
slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have been
initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the
Snake to represent the Jewish people - the administration was always kept
secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into the
hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the
non-Jewish power of these States.
It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly
adhering to the designed plan, until the course which it has to run is closed
by the return of its head to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has
completed its round of Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of
enchaining Europe, it has encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish
by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL
CONQUEST.
The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished
after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe has been laid low, that is to
say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction effected
everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization and
a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as
French, Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into
the lives of the leading men at the heads of nations.
A map
of the
course of
the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: - Its first stage in
Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where,
about the time of Pericles, the Snake first
started eating into the power of that
country. The second
stage was in Rome in the time of
Augustus, about 69 B.C..
The
third in Madrid in the time of
Charles V, in A.D.
1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of Louis XVI. The fifth in London from
1814 onwards (after the downfall of Napoleon).
The
sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war.
The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn
the head of the Snake under
the
date of 1881. [This
"Snake" is now being drawn through the
Americas and in the United States of America, it is been partially identified as the "Counsel
on Foreign Relations"
(C.F.R.) and the "Tri-
Lateral Commission"].
All these States
which the Snake traversed have had
the foundations of their constitutions shaken,
Germany, with its apparent power, forming no exception to the rule. In economic
conditions, England
and Germany are spared, but only till the
conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on
which at present [i.e.,
1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further
course of the Snake is not
shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter
cities form the
centuries
of the militant Jewish race.
Constantinople
is shown as the last stage of the Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem.
(This map was drawn years before the occurrence of the "Young Turk" -
i.e., Jewish - Revolution in Turkey). den.
Notes III. - The term "Goyim," meaning Gentile or
non-Jews, is used throughout the Protocols and is retained by Mr. Mars.
PROTOCOLS OF THE
MEETINGS OF
THE LEARNED ELDERS OF
ZION
PROTOCOL No. 1
1 .... Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak
of the significance of each thought: by comparisons
and deductions we shall throw light upon
surrounding facts.
2. What I am about to set forth,
then, is our system from the two points of view, that of ourselves
and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non- Jews].
3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts
are more in number than the good,
and therefore the best results in governing them are
attained by violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every
man aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could,
and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare
of all for the sake of securing their own welfare.
4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called
men? What has served for their guidance hitherto?
5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected
to brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same force,
only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature
right lies in force.
6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know
how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract
the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who
is in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself been
infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of
an idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the
triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately,
by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the
blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and
the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism.
GOLD
7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were
liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is
impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation.
It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of
time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on
we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in
the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of
a heap of ashes.
8. Whether a State
exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether
its internal discord
brings it under the power of external foes - in any
case it can be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism
of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the
State, willy- nilly, must take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom.
9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the
above are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State
has two foes and if in regard
to the external foe it is allowed
and not considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as
for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to
attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in what way can the same means
in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of the structure of society and the
commonweal, be called immoral and not permissible?
10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success
to guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any
objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when
such objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning
are superficial? Men in masses
and the men of the masses, being guided solely
by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey
to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a
perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a
chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts
forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.
11.
The political has nothing in
common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral isnot a skilled
politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must
have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities,
like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers
from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful
enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but
we must in no wise be guided by them.
MIGHT IS RIGHT
12.
Our right lies in force. The
word "right" is an abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word
means no more than: Give me what I want in order that thereby I may have a
proof that I am stronger than you.
13.
Where does right begin? Where
does it end?
14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an
impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid
the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right - to
attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing
forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become
the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by
laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.
15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power
will be more invincible than any other, because
it will remain
invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no
cunning can any longer undermine it.
16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge
the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the
machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies
the means. Let us, however,
in our plans, direct our attention
not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.
17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line
from which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many
centuries brought to naught.
18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary
to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its
lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare.
It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless
and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side.
The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;
consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they
should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political,
cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.
19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have
understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings
itself to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors
and the disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the
people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the
affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can
they defend themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan
broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all
homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.
WE ARE DESPOTS
21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated
extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly
among the several
parts of the machinery of the State:
from this the conclusion is
inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that
concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute
despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by
the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be.
The mob is
savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob
seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the
highest degree of savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an
immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to
walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors;
their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into
which it has been inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys,
governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in
the places of dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of these last
I count also the so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of
the others in corruption and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in
political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to
statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the
rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of
agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the
end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when
they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know
how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure
submission and sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the
right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory
sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce
blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of
strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of
duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the programme of violence and
make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the
means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means
themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all
governments into subjection to our super- government. It is enough for them to
know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.
WE SHALL END LIBERTY
25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses
of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many
times repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides
around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of
the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the
pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals,
could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did
not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature
herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities,
just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never
stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from
among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as
the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the
non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political - to
all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon
these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge
of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but
members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. As time went
on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in
the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause.
26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole
legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were
canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end
everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA States. As you will see later,
this helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things,
of getting into our hands the master card - the destruction of the privileges,
or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that
class which was the only defense peoples and countries had against us. On the
ruins of the eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up
the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The
qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is
dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the
motive force.
27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our
relations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most
sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity,
upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human
weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands
over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities.
28.
The abstraction of freedom has
enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that their government is nothing
but the steward of the people who are the owners of the country, and that the
steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove.
29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people
which has placed
at our disposal, and, as it
were, given us the power of appointment.
Protocol No. 2
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible,
should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the
economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance
we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put
both sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions
of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our
international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of
right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the
relations of their subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with
strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons
trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in
our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers,
specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the
whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing
to fit them for rule the information they need from our political
plans from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of
every moment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of
unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any
critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any
account of them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on
hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have
enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them
to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view
that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in
these theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with
their knowledge and without any logical verification of them will put into
effect all the information available from science, which our AGENTUR
specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their
minds in the direction we want.
DESTRUCTIVE EDUCATION
3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words:
think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM.
4.
It is indispensable for us to
take account of the thoughts, characters, tendencies of the nations in order to
avoid making slips in the political and in the direction of administrative
affairs. The triumph of our system
of which the component parts
of the machinery may be variously disposed
according to the temperament
of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical
application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in
the light of the present.
5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that
creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part
played by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be
indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to
create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech
finds its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands.
Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining
ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD in our hands,
notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and
tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each
victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.
PROTOCOL No. 3
1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off.
There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden
is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by
which we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe
will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice.
2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for
we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that
they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they
turn. The GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded them
sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales
would come into equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are
hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their
own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror
which has been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at
their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer
able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers
after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the
blind force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the
blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have
set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal
tendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of
enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for
every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of
confused issues contend.................. A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will
be universal ....
4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the
sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and
unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses
of power will put the final touch in preparing
all institutions for their overthrow
and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.
POVERTY OUR WEAPON
5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever. They were chained
by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might free
themselves. These could be settled with, but from want they will never get
away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual
rights. All these so-called "Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an
idea which can never be realized in practical life. What is it to the
proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in
life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to
scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no
other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we
fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor of what we
dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of our AGENTUR ...
Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for
the necessity he is under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use of
them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain
earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his
masters.
WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy,
who were their one and only defense and foster-
mother for the sake of their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the
well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy,
the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels
who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this
oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces -
Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give support in
accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity)
of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of the
workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy, and
strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the diminution, the KILLING
OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical
weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of
our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy
to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker
more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.
8. By want and the envy and hatred
which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who
hinder us on our way.
9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE
CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A
HINDRANCE THERETO.
10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the
suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity
of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT
IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE,
THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF
SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE
DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know
that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY
EQUALITY, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be
equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own
honor. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of
which we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the
positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not
become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not
correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a
thorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to
authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In the
present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development of
the people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to
promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred
towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no
understanding of the meaning of class and condition.
JEWS WILL BE
SAFE
11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an
ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to
a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us
and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC
CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS
SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly
to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they
have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.
12. "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK
WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL
TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for
it will know how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize
liberalism out of all institutions.
14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and
indulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself
to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like
every other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS
RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER
STATE and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers
at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave
the name of "Great": the secrets of its preparations are well known
to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.
15 Ever since that
time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another,
so that in the end they
should turn also from us in favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE
BLOOD OF
ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING
FOR THE
WORLD.
16.
At the present day we are, as
an international force, invincible, because if attacked by some we are
supported by other States. It is the bottomless rascality of the GOYIM peoples,
who crawl on their bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing
to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a
free social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold
despotism - it is those qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the
premier- dictators of the present
day, the GOYIM peoples suffer
patiently and bear such abuses
as for the least of them they
would have beheaded twenty kings.
17.
What is the explanation of this
phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of the masses of the peoples in their
attitude towards what would appear to be events of the same order?
18.
It is explained by the fact
that these dictators whisper to the peoples through their agents that through
these abuses they are inflicting injury on the States with the highest purpose
- to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international brotherhood of them
all, their solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the
peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule.
19.
And thus the people condemn the
upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks
to this state of things,
the people are destroying every kind
of stability and creating disorders at every
step.
20.
The word "freedom"
brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against
every kind of authority even against God and the laws of nature. For this
reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon
of life as implying a principle of brute force
which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.
21.
These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of blood, and
at such time can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given
blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle
PROTOCOL No. 4
1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is
comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and
thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and
that leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and
therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet
nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization
or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a
screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only
does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it,
thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on
the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And
this is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen
for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very
abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
WE SHALL DESTROY
GOD
3. But even freedom
might be harmless
and have its place in the State economy without
injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested
upon the foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity,
unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very
laws of creation, for they have established subordination. With such a faith as
this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk
contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor
submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS
INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE
"GOYIM" THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN
ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their
minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will
be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take
note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all
disintegrate and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a
speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the
land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that
is, to our classes.
5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to
economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and
heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards
the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is
Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those
material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for
the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of
hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our
lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
PROTOCOL No. 5
1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities in
which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are
attained only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks;
where looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and
harsh laws but not by voluntarily accepted principles: where the feelings
towards faith and country are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form
of rule is to be given to these communities if not that despotism which I shall
describe to you later? We shall create an intensified centralization of
government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We
shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our
subjects by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences
and liberties which have been permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be
distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any
moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by
deed or word.
2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent with the progress
of these days, but I will
prove to you that is is.
3. In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as
on a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to
the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their
minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants of
thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed has
fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also
robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets
into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.
MASSES LED BY
LIES
4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of
cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and
all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs
likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,
observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we
have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of
political actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might have
compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the
unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have
kept our secret organization in the shade. However, it is probably all the same
to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our
despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from
being a matter of indifference.
5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A
COALITION OF THE "GOYIM" OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we
are secured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated
that they can never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the
personal and national reckonings of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds,
which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty
centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere
receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in
mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too
strong - there is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN AN
INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A HAND IN IT.
6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It
is through me that Kings reign." And it was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God
Himself to rule over the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we
may be equal to our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still
struggle against us, but even so, a newcomer is no match for the
old-established settler: the struggle would be merciless between us, such a
fight as the world has never seen. Aye, and the genius on their side would have
arrived too late. All the wheels of the machinery of all States go by the force
of the engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the machinery of
States is - Gold. The science of political economy invented by our learned
elders has for long past been giving royal prestige to capital.
MONOPOLY CAPITAL
7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to
establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in
execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will
give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to
oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to
lead them into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which
have burst into flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate
them. THE PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE
THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS
CALCULATED TO AROUSE RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A
SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY ELOQUENCE.
8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have
accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to
note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance.
Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof
of their benefit to progress.
9. We shall assume
to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties,
of all directions, and we shall
give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL
EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO
A STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY
CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE
"GOYIM" LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE
BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is
not given to the public to understand, because they are understood only by him
who guides the public. This is the first secret.
11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government is
comprised in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings,
habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for
anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in
consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us
in another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all
collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage
any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius
behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people
among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the GOYIM
communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may
drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom
of actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this
collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE
MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED
TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US
WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND
TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT.
In place of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will
be called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all
directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal
dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
PROTOCOL No. 6
1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of
colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend
to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of
the States on the day after the political smash ...
2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an
estimate of the significance of this combination! ...
3. In every possible
way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government by representing it as
the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us.
4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead - We need
not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful
to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which
they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of
their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon
landed property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land-
holding and keep it in a state of humble and unconditional submission.
5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of
contenting themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.
WE SHALL ENSLAVE GENTILES
6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry,
but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a
counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply
capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the
land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should
drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation
transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the
GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before
us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist.
7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to
the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the
GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE
SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO
THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE
FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF
AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY
SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS
AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE
EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE "GOYIM."
8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE
"GOYIM" BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED
ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN
ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA
PROTOCOL No. 7
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces -
are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have
to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides
ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to
our interests, police and soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe,
and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein
we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all
countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create
disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us
an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we
shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of
all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan
obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and
penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called
the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and
assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and
governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside
whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the
benefactors and saviours of the human race.
UNIVERSAL WAR
3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors
of that country which dares to
oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively
together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.
4. The principal factor of success
in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.
5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the
direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired
consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted
by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS,
WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN
OUR HANDS.
In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the
goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by
terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising
against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.
PROTOCOL No. 8
1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might
employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression
and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where
we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and
unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in
expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into
legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces of
civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with
publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with
persons prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL
SCHOOLS. These persons will have consonance of all the secrets of the social
structure, they will know all the languages that can be made up by political
alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside of
human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to play.
These chords are the cast of mind of the GOYIM, their tendencies,
short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and
conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, of whom
I speak, will be taken not from among the GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform
their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to think what
its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of the
GOYIM sign papers without reading them, and they serve either for mercenary
reasons or from ambition.
2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists.
That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the
teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of
bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES,
BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there
will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our
brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and
reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons
who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or
disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp.
PROTOCOL No. 9
1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character
of the people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical
application of them, until such time as the people shall have been re- educated
to our pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their application
cautiously you will see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn
character will change and we shall add a new people to the ranks of those
already subdued by us.
2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our
masonic watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will,
when we come into our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a
watchword, but only an expression of idealism, namely, into "The right of
liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of brotherhood." That is how we shall
put it, - and so we shall
catch the bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have already
wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still
remain a good many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us
it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR
ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN.
I will not enter into further explanations, for this matter
has formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.
JEWISH SUPER-STATE
3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our
Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the
accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in
a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers, shall execute judgment
and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we, as head of all
our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force of will,
because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished
by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING
GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND
MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR
SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS,
DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have
harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING
AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL
ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort
to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT
GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL
SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS.
5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the
question of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO
FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A
CONTESTED STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the
"clear-sighted" force of the GOY kings on their thrones
and the "blind" force of the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the
needful measure against any such possibility: between the one and the other
force we have erected a bulwark in the shape of a mutual terror between them.
In this way the blind force of the people remains our support and we, and we
only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course, direct them along the
road that leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our
guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if
not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our
brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss with
the people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct them on questings
of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that suits us.
8.
Who is going to verify what is
taught in the village schools? But what an envoy of the government or a king on
his throne himself may say cannot but become immediately known to the whole
State, for it will be spread abroad by the voice of the people.
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is
time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the
ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict
but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of
liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the
conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT
PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH
DESTROYED
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE
"GOYIM" BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO
US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by
merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected
something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in
the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid
them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making
anything out of the tangled web of legislation.
12.
This is the origin of the
theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they
guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against
this a maneuver of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail -
the undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the
time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those
capitals will be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
PROTOCOL No.
10
1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and I BEG
YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL
WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the
underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of their
energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest
importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us
when we come to consider the division of authority of property, of the
dwelling, of taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force
of the laws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before the people. In cases
where it is indispensable to touch upon them they must not be categorically
named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition that the
principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping
silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we leave ourselves
freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting notice;
if they were all categorically named they would all appear
to have been already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses
of political power and accepts all their deeds of violence
with the admiring
response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally,
but it's clever!
... a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently
done, what impudent audacity!" ... OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new
fundamental structure, the project for which
has been drawn
up by us. This is why, before
everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store up in
ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the
spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances
on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE
VARIOUS PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN
OUT WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT -
NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE,
TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS
CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU."
... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS
TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT
WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST
UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS
BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR
THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US
BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF
CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which
cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating
in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the
importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility
of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let
them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen
to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create
a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any
direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders
of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that
upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of
all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain,
because it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into
fractional parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to
have cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb
its artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical force
of the secret meaning of each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of numerous votings
is to impress upon it the
stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to
penetrate the depth and nexus of its plotting. We want our schemes to be
forcible and suitably concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF
GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just
yet. They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the
whole combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along
the paths laid down in our schemes.
POISON OF
LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one
and the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council,
Legislative and Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the
relation of these institutions to one another, because you are aware of all
that; only take note of the fact that each of the above-named institutions
corresponds to some important function of the State, and I would beg you to
remark that the word "important" I apply not to the institution but
to the function, consequently it is not the institutions which are important
but their functions. These institutions have divided up among themselves all the functions of government - administrative, legislative, executive,
wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we
injure one part in the machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a human
body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism
its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with
a mortal illness - blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of
their death agony.
10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of
what was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A
CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS,
misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party
whims - in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the
personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO
LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE,
and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they
have been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS
BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A
CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST
OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine which
we have laid under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOY peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11.
In the near future we shall
establish the responsibility of presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in
carrying through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible.
What do we care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if
there should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a
deadlock which will finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange
elections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark,
undiscovered stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will be
trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of
revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power,
namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with
the office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will
protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to propose
new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to
the responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of
the presidents will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but
we shall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to
the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their
representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that some blind slave of ours -
the majority of the mob. Independently of this we shall invest the president
with the right of declaring a state of war. We shall justify this last right on
the ground that the president as chief of the whole army of the country must
have it at his disposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican
constitution, the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representative
of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the shrine
will lie in our hands,
and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican
constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government
measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we
shall by the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a
minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the passion
for politics. If, however, they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst
into flame, even in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring appeal
and a reference to the majority of the whole people ... Upon the president will
depend the appointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the
Senate. Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their
sittings to a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive
power, will have the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the
latter case, to prolong the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary
assembly. But in order that the consequences of all these acts which in
substance are illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, upon the
responsibility established by use of the president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE
MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they
will be made the scapegoats in his place ... This part we especially recommend
to be given to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of
Ministers, but not to an individual official.
16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such
of the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul
them when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have
the right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government constitutional working, the pretext
both for the one and the other being the requirements
for the supreme welfare of the State.
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by
little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we
are compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the
transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and
then the time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction
of the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the
peoples, utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter
which we shall arrange for - of their rulers,
will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king over all the earth
who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders - frontiers,
nationalities, religions, State debts - who will give us peace and quiet which
we cannot find under our rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS
INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR
GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED,
STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE
INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER
ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment
we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.
PROTOCOL No.
11
1. The State Council
has been, as it were, the emphatic
expression of the authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of
the Legislative Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the laws
and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall make
Law, Right and Justice (1) in the
guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2)
by decrees of the president under the guise of general regulations, of orders
of the Senate and of resolutions of the State Council in the guise of
ministerial orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the
form of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy
ourselves with details of those combinations by which we have still
to complete the revolution in the course
of the machinery of State in
the direction already indicated. By these combinations I mean the freedom of
the Press, the right of association, freedom of conscience, the voting
principle, and many another that must disappear for ever from the memory of
man, or undergo a radical alteration the day after the promulgation of the new
constitution. It is only at the moment that we shall be able at once to
announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be
dangerous, for the following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with
harsh severity and in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a
feeling of despair caused by fear of new alterations in the same direction; if,
on the other hand, it be brought in a sense of further indulgences it will be
said that we have recognized our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the
prestige of the infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said that we
have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding disposition, for which
we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory ... Both
the one and the other are injurious to the prestige of the new constitution.
What we want is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the
peoples of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact of the
revolution, still in a condition of terror and uncertainty, they should
recognize once for all that we are so strong, so inexpugnable, so
super-abundantly filled with power, that in no case shall we take any account
of them, and so far from paying any attention to their opinions or wishes, we
are ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression or
manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place, that we have seized
at once everything we wanted and shall in no case divide our power with them
... Then in fear and trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be
content to await what will be the end of it
all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves.
And you know what happens
when the wolves get hold of
the flock? ....
5. There is another
reason also why they will close their eyes: for we shall
keep promising them to
give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have quelled the
enemies of peace and tamed all parties ....
6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a time they will be
kept waiting for this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and
insinuated it into the minds of the GOY without giving them any chance to
examine its underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in
a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct
road? It is this which has served as the basis for our organization of SECRET
MASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED
BY, THESE "GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE "SHOW"
ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the
dispersion, and in this which appears in all
eyes to be our weakness, has come forth
all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold
of sovereignty over all the world.
9.
There now remains not much more
for us to build up upon the foundation we have
laid.
PROTOCOL No. 12
1.
The word "freedom,"
which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This
interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because
all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create
only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part
played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions
which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It
is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the
slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it
with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the
printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of
the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of
publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity
of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to
our State: we shall law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of
caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or
of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against
any kind of attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if
such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as
stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will
bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might
not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the
second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole
of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will
be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or
justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL
ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT
WE HAVE PRE- DETERMINED TO ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL.
Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are
received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of
the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give
publicity only to what we dictate to them.
5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds
of the GOY communities to such an extent the they all come near looking upon
the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are
setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where
there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls
State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme
lords of the world in the person
of our king of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one
desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to
provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any
fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF
THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR
GOVERNMENT, WHICH
WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND
FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom
blessings are the direct roads
to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among
themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of
progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has
failed to establish its limits.................. All
the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought.
Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively
into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest ....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all
printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and books
of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets in
order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worst
form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force
writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially
as they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to
influence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be
cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions
within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent
upon us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against
us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions in print the
publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do
so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall
nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.
8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative
forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of
the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the
privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence
upon the public mind.......... If we give permits
for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same
proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For
which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in
appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and
bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our
trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front
rank will stand
organs of an official character. They will always
stand guard over our
interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.
10. In the second
rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, off
position, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like
the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this
simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -
aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of
course, as the constitution exists......... Like
the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a
hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the
public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead
opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of
judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are
repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our
opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that
they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag
which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our newspaper militia
in this sense we must take special
and minute care in
organizing this matter.
Under the title
of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at
which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and
watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always
superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will
carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the
purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could
well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course,
that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT
OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND
SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE
EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections
to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye
but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the
attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government.
Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be
required, to excite or to tranquilize the public mind on political questions,
to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their
contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very
cautiously feeling our ground before stepping
upon it......... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR
OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN
WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the
aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute
them except very superficially.
16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press,
in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are
forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of
the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old,
not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of
information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one
journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever
admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other........................................ These
sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret
of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country -
the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is
indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we
could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the
capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the
provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same -
ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER,
THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE
NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at
the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an
accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been
accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces. 19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW
REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT
ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS
NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED
EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED Cases of the manifestation of criminality should
remain known only to their victims and to
chance witnesses - no more.
PROTOCOL No.
13
1. The need for daily forces the GOYIM to keep silence and be our
humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among the GOYIM will at our
orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in
official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so
raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and then
offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to demand
the abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will be
represented as an improvement ... And immediately the press will distract the
current of thought towards, new questions, (have we not trained people always
to be seeking something new?). Into the discussions of these new questions will
throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers of fortunes who are not able
even now to understand that they have not the remotest conception about the
matters which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political are
unattainable for any save those who have guided it already for many ages, the creators.
2. From all this you will see that in seeming the opinion of the mob we
are only facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it
is not for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that we
seem to seek approval. We are constantly making public declaration that we are
guided in all our undertakings by the hope, joined to the conviction, that we
are serving the common weal.
WE DECEIVE WORKERS
3. In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from
discussions of questions of the political we are now putting forward what we
allege to be new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In
this sphere let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remain
inactive, to take a rest from what they suppose to be political (which we
trained them to in order to use them as a means of combating the GOY
governments) only on condition of being found new employments, in which we are
prescribing them something that looks like the same political object. In order
that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER
DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES ....SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO
PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their
minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose
them. Growing more and more disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions of
their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we because we alone
shall be offering them new directions for thought............................ of
course through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.
4. The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally
played out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will
continue to do us good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct their
minds to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and
apparently progressive: for have we not with complete success turned the
brainless heads of the GOYIM with progress, till there is not among the GOYIM
one mind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in
all cases where it is not a question of material inventions, like a fallacious
idea, serves to obscure truth so that none may know it except us, the Chosen of
God, its guardians.
5. When, we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great
problems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end
under our beneficent rule.
6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERE STAGE-MANAGED
BY US ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS GUESSED AT IN
THE COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES?
PROTOCOL No. 14
1. When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us that
there should exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our
destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom our
same destiny is united with the destinies of the world. We must therefore sweep away all other forms
of belief. If this gives
birth to the atheists whom we see to-day, it will not, being only a transitional
stage, interfere with our views, but will serve as a warning for those
generations which will hearken to our preaching of the religion of Moses, that,
by its stable and thoroughly elaborated system has brought all the peoples of
the world into subjection to us. Therein we
shall emphasize its mystical
right, on which, as we shall say, all its educative power is based ....
Then at every possible opportunity we shall publish articles in
which we shall make comparisons between our beneficent rule and those of past
ages. The blessing of tranquility, though it be a tranquility forcibly brought
about by centuries of agitation, will throw into higher relief the benefits to
which we shall point. The errors of the GOYIM governments will be depicted by
us in the most vivid hues. We shall
implant such an abhorrence of them that the peoples
will prefer tranquility in a state of
serfdom to those rights of vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and
exhausted the very sources of human existence, sources which have been
exploited by a mob of rascally adventurers who know not what they do......................................... USELESS
CHANGES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT TO WHICH WE INSTIGATED THE
"GOYIM" WHEN WE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR STATE STRUCTURES, WILL HAVE SO
WEARIED THE PEOPLES BY THAT TIME THAT THEY WILL PREFER TO SUFFER ANYTHING UNDER
US RATHER THAN RUN THE RISK OF ENDURING AGAIN ALL THE AGITATIONS AND MISERIES THEY
HAVE GONE THROUGH.
WE SHALL FORBID
CHRIST
2. At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes
of the GOY governments which
have tormented humanity for so many centuries by their lack of understanding of
everything that constitutes the true good of humanity in their chase after
fantastic schemes of social blessings, and have never noticed that these
schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of the universal
relations which are the basis of human life
....
3. The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that we shall present
them and expound them as a splendid contrast
to the dead and decomposed old order of things in social life.
4. Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various
beliefs of the "GOYIM," BUT NO
ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION OUR FAITH FROM ITS TRUE POINT OF VIEW
SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS WHO WILL NEVER DARE TO
BETRAY ITS SECRETS.
5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A
SENSELESS, FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entrance to
power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a
telling relief by contrast to the speeches, party program, which will be
distributed from exalted quarters of ours.......... Our
wise men, trained to become leaders of the GOYIM, will compose speeches, projects,
memoirs, articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds of the
GOYIM, directing them towards such understanding and forms of knowledge as have
been determined by us.
PROTOCOL No. 15
1. When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of COUPS
D'ETAT prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitely
acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that comes about,
perhaps even a whole century)
we shall make it our task to see that against us such things as plots shall no longer
exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all who take arms (in
hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new institution of
anything like a secret society
will also be punished with death; those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us
and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far
removed from Europe. IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH THOSE "GOY"
MASONS WHO KNOW TOO
MUCH; such of
these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear of exile.
We shall promulgate a law making all former members of secret societies liable
to exile from Europe as the center of rule.
2.
Resolutions of our government
will be final, without appeal.
3. In the GOY societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted
discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to
employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard
must be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the
future. The attainment of that well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices,
is the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges as justification for
its existence not only its privileges but its obligations. The principal
guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this
aureole is attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall
carry on its face the emblems of inviolability from mystical causes - from the
choice of God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND
ONLY SERIOUS FOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind
the example when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head
of Sulla who had poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his
might in him, but his intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with
inviolability. The people do not lay a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his
daring and strength of mind.
SECRET SOCIETIES
4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act in
the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the
countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are
prominent in public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal
intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring
under one central administration, known to us alone and to all others
absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The lodges
will have their representatives who will serve to screen the above- mentioned
administration of MASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword and program.
In these lodges we shall tie together the knot which binds together all
revolutionary and liberal elements. Their composition will be made up of all
strata of society. The most secret political plots will be known to us and fall
under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS
OF THESE LODGES WILL BE ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
POLICE since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the
police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the
insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts for
discontents, ET CETERA.
5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies
are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly
light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using to
wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows
agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to stir up in order to
break up its too great solidarity. BUT IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A
PLOT, THEN AT THE HEAD OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR MOST
TRUSTED SERVANTS. It is natural that we and no other should lead MASONIC
activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know the final goal of every
form of activity whereas the GOYIM have knowledge of nothing, not even of the
immediate effect of action; they put before themselves, usually, the momentary
reckoning of the satisfaction of their self- opinion in the accomplishment of
their thought without even remarking that the very conception never belonged to
their initiative but to our instigation of their thought ....
GENTILES ARE STUPID
6.
The GOYIM enter the lodges out
of curiosity or in the hope by their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to obtain a hearing before the
public for their impracticable and groundless fantasies: they thirst for the
emotion of success and applause, of which we are remarkably generous. And the
reason why we give them this success is to make use of the nigh conceit of
themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes them to
assimilate our suggestions without being on their guard against them in the
fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibility which is giving
utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for them to borrow
those of others You
cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of
high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the
heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing more than
the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a slavish
submission for the sake of winning a renewal
of success.......... BY SO MUCH AS OURS DISREGARD
SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS, BY SO
MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs
materially facilitates for us the task of setting them in the required
direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely
through their heads.
We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of
individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM.................. They have never yet
and they
never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest
violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the
very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose
of instituting individuality ....
7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid
blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly
clear proof, of the degree
to which the mind of the GOYIM
is undeveloped in comparison
with our mind? This it is, mainly, which guarantees our success.
GENTILES ARE CATTLE
8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when
they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or
to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end We have not counted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle,
though we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we have now already given them such a
position on the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively
small numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our nationality
from destruction.
9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end
nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of
this affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE BROTHERHOOD CAN
EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH
SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS..................................... Knowing
this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare
not protest. By
such methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY the very root of
protest against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the GOY we at
the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state of unquestioningly
submission.
10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of the GOYIM has been
reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal
interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and
fundamental affairs and questions, JUDGES DECIDE AS WE DICTATE TO THEM, see
matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the
GOYIM, of course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to
have anything in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other means...................................... Even
senators and the higher administration accept our
counsels. The purely brute mind of the GOYIM is incapable of use for analysis
and observation, and still more for the foreseeing whither a certain manner of
setting a question may tend.
11. In this difference in capacity for thought between the GOYIM and
ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the Chosen
People and of our higher quality of humanness, in contradistinction to the brute
mind of the GOYIM. Their eyes are open, but see nothing
before them and do not invent
(unless perhaps, material things). From this it is plain that nature herself
has destined us to guide and rule the world.
WE DEMAND SUBMISSION
12. When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its
blessing, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain,
stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in a
position to know them perfectly. The main feature which will run right through
them is submission to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose
height. Every abuse will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of
all down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the representative
of power. Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will be so
mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious to try experiments with
their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the
administration on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the
State, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single case
of illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.
13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of the
administration - all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first
examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable, that
is, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the sake of gain, of
its supreme prestige. The sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault,
will count as a soldier falling on the administrative field of battle in the
interest of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of those
who hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the public
highway to their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT
WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY ARE
VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION
OF MEN BY PENALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES
OF THE JUDGES Such
qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not in a public square which is
the educationally basis of human life.
14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly because
old men more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are less capable of
submitting to new directions, and secondly because this will give us the possibility by this measure
of securing elasticity in the changing
of staff, which
will thus the more easily bend
under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place will have to give blind
obedience to deserve it. In general, our judges will be elected by us only from
among those who thoroughly understand that the part they have to play is to
punish and apply laws and not to dream about the manifestations of liberalism
at the expense of the educational scheme of the State, as the GOYIM in these
days imagine it to be This
method of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any collective
solidarity of those in the same service and will bind all to the interests of
the government upon which their fate will depend. The young generation of
judges will be trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any
abuses that might disturb the established order of our subjects among
themselves.
15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences to every
kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office, because the
rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office take no care to
inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which is
demanded of them. As a brute beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do
the GOYIM give to them for what purpose such place was created. This is the
reason why their governments are being ruined by their own forces through the
acts of their own administration.
16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions yet
another lesson for our government.
17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic posts
of our government on which depends the training
of subordinates for our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been
trained by us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the
retirement of old servants will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly,
they will be provided with some private service in place of what they lose,
and, secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be
concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government that has to
fear expense.
WE SHALL BE CRUEL
18.
Our absolutism will in all things
be logically consecutive and therefore in each one of its decrees
our supreme will be respected and unquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all
murmurs, all discontents of every kind and will destroy to the root every kind
of manifestation of them in act by punishment of an exemplary character.
19. We shall abolish the right of cessation, which will be transferred
exclusively to our disposal - to the cognizance of him who rules, for we must
not allow the conception among the people of a thought that there could be such
a thing as a decision that is not right of judges set up by us. If, however,
anything like this should occur, we shall ourselves cassate the decision, but
inflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge for lack of
understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as will prevent a
repetition of such cases................................... I
repeat that it must be born in mind that we shall know
every step of our administration which only needs to be closely watched for the
people to be content with us, for it has the right to demand from a good
government a good official.
20. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL
GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our subjects will
discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every act,
their every inter-relation as subjects one with another, as well as their
relations to the ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought
that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if
they wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE AUTOCRACY
OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON "APOTHEOSIS," especially
when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their own in place
of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. They will be rejoiced that
we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who
desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples
of the world in regard to the secrets of our
polity are ever through the ages only children under age, precisely as are also their governments.
21. As you see, I found
our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government
which is a father for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may
use it for the benefit of directing humanity towards that order which is
defined by nature, namely, submission. Everything in the world is in a state of
submission, if not to man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in
all cases, to what is stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for
the sake of good.
22. We are obliged
without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a breach of established
order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies a great educational problem.
23. When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown offered
him by Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The indispensable victims
offered by him in consequence of their suitability will never reach the number of victims
offered in the course of centuries by the mania
of magnificence, the emulation between the GOY governments.
24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples,
making to them from the tribune
speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute over all the world.
PROTOCOL No. 16
1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except
ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES, by
reeducating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE
PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH
THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTED
WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON
THE GOVERNMENT.
2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also
all that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a
few dozen of persons chosen for their preeminent capacities from among the
number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR
HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A
TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN
FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.
3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with
questions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see
for yourselves from the example of the universal education in this direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their education
all those principles which have so
brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove
every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make
out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the
support and hope of peace and quiet.
WE SHALL CHANGE
HISTORY
4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in which
there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of the
program of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of
previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which
depict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of practical
life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to another,
of avoiding bad and selfish
examples, which spread
the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature,
will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on
a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the
teaching. This treatment of the question has special importance.
5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits
corresponding to its destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS
ALWAYS MANAGED AND ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF
LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL
GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF
THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW
YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED
THIS CRYING ABSURDITY.
6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and
minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct
the whole nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning and
his acts and all his beneficent initiatives.
7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of
all ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in the
educational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on
holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of
human relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories not
yet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to the stage of
a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the completion of this exposition of our program
of action in the present
and the future
I will read you the
principles of these theories.
8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people
live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed
by people only by the aid of education provided
with equal success
for all ages of growth,
but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own
use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past
been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of bridling
thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by OBJECT
LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking submissive
brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an
idea of them.... In
France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a new
program of teaching by object lessons.
PROTOCOL No. 17
1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent,
unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint.
They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense
and not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline to
undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs,
caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize
justice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames which
will keep it inside this sphere of executive public service. Advocates, equally
with judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with litigant; they
well receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of report and
documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated in court
on facts that have appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard to
the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters on
law-business in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who
will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten
business before the courts. In this way will be established a practice of
honest unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by
conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt
bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY
2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF
"GOYIM," and thereby to ruin their mission
on earth which
in these days might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by
day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE
HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT
OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we
shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be
premature to speak of this now. We shall act clericalism and clericals into
such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion
to its former progress.
3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of
an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the
nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its
defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall
penetrate to its very bowels
and be sure we shall
never come out again until
we have gnawed through the
entire strength of this place.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE
PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH [The Antichrist??].
5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are reeducating youth in new
traditional religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER
ON EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED
TO PRODUCE SCHISM ....
6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT
State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower
their prestige in the manner
which can only be practiced
by the genius of our gifted tribe ....
7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is
found its personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the
springs of the machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the
aid of official police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated
for the use of the GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In our programs
ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense of
duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no
disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations,
however, will be cruelly punished that there may be development of abuses of
this right.
8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks
of society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in
amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and
salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights
and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and
consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report:
verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group
of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be
performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not
denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.
9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO
DENOUNCE TO THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been
noticed doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL
THE WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF
SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION. 10.
Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels,
by out theories of the superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the
customs of the GOYIM................................................................................... But
how else were we to procure that
increase
of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of their administration? Among the
number of
those methods one of the most important is - agents for the restoration of
order, so placed as to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of
developing and displaying their evil inclinations - obstinate self-conceit,
irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and foremost, venality.
PROTOCOL No. 18
1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures
of secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we
shall arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents
finding expression through the co- operation of good speakers. Round these
speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will
give us the pretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the
part of our servants from among the number of the GOYIM police ....
2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the
sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger
on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements... It must
be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it frequently
discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption of
consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware
that we have broken the prestige of the GOY kings by frequent attempts upon
their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are easily moved
by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political
colors. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR WEAKNESS IN
ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE
PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.
3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant
guard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist
against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is
compelled to hide from it.
4. If we should
admit this thought,
as the GOYIM have done and are doing, we should IPSO FACTO
be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty,
at no distant date.
GOVERNMENT BY FEAR
5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will
employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his
own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his
authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will
receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the well-being
of every citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order in the common
life of the pack ....
6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS
STRENGTH.
7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men and
women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all appearance by chance,
and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect as it will appear for
good order. This will sow an example of restraint also in others. If a
petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and forcing his
way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the petition and before the
eyes of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is
handed in reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a control of
the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for is existence that the people
may be able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king
will hear it."
8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF
AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself
master of it, the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when
occasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority... For the GOYIM we have been preaching
something else, but by that very fact we are enabled to see what
measures of overt defense have brought them to ....
9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less,
well-grounded SUSPICION: it cannot
be allowed that out of fear of a possible
mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a
political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally merciless.
If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of
the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for
persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody except the
government can understand anything.................................... And
it is not all governments that understand true policy.
PROTOCOL No. 19
1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political we
shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with
proposals for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the
amelioration of the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects
or else the fantasies of our subjects, to which we shall respond either by
accomplishing them or by a wise rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of one
who judges wrongly.
2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap- dog at
an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but from the
public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire
unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to take a
good example to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs
will cease to yap and will wag their tails the
moment they set eyes on an elephant.
3. In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we
shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of
abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception
of this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will
brand it with the same contempt.
4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that
the GOYIM should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was
for this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly - in cleverly compiled
school- books on history, we have advertised the martyrdom alleged
to have been accredited by sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal.
This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals and has brought
thousands of GOYIM into the ranks of our livestock cattle.
PROTOCOL No. 20
1. To-day we shall
touch upon the financial program,
which I put off to the end of my report as being
the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive point of our plans. Before
entering upon it I will remind you that I have already spoken before by way of
a hint when I said that the sum total of our actions is settled by the question
of figures.
2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid,
from a principle of self- preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the
people with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector.
But as State organization cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the
funds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular precaution
the question of equilibrium in this matter.
3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that
everything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into
fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of
every kind for the regulation of their circulation in the State. From this
follows that taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In
this manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in the
form of a percentage of the amount of property. The rich must be aware that it is their duty to place a part of their
superfluities at the disposal of the State
since the State guarantees them security of
possession of the rest of their property and the right of honest gains, I say
honest, for the control over property will do away with robbery on a legal basis.
4. This social reform
must come from above, for the time is ripe for it - it is indispensable as a pledge of peace.
WE SHALL DESTROY CAPITAL
5. The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to the
detriment of the State which is hunting after the trifling is missing the big.
Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of wealth in
private hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoise
to the government strength of the GOYIM - their State finances.
6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much
larger revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful to
us now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among the GOYIM.
7. The force upon which our king will rest consists
in the equilibrium and the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is
indispensable that the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake of the secure working
of the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid by those who will
not feel the burden and have enough to take from.
8. Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich,
in whom he will see a necessary financial support
for the State,
will see in him the organizer of peace and well-being since he
will see that it is the rich man who is paying the necessary means to attain
these things.
9. In order that payers of the educated
classes should not too much distress themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts
given them of the destination of those payments, with the exception of such
sums as will be appropriated for the needs of the throne and the administrative
institutions.
10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in
the State represented his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction
to the other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right of
property in the common possessions of all.
11.
Relatives of him who reigns,
his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by the resources of the State, must
enter the ranks of servants of the State or must work to obtain the right to
property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve for the spoiling of the treasury.
12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the
payment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or
other, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names, will render the former holder
liable to pay interest on the tax from
the moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of
declaration of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at the
local treasury office with notifications of the name, surname and permanent
place of residence of the former and the new holder of the property. This
transfer with register of names must begin from a definite sum which exceeds
the ordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be
subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit.
13. Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover the revenue of the
GOYIM States.
WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS
14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement of
reserve sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returned
into circulation. On these sums will be organized public works. The initiative
in works of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will blind the working
class firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign. From these
same sums also a part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and productiveness.
15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite and
freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money exists to
be circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running
of the State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the
lubricant may stop the regular working of the
mechanism.
16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the token
of exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this circumstance are already sufficiently noticeable.
17.
A court of account will also be
instituted by us, and in it the ruler will find at any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with the exception of the current
monthly account, not yet made up, and that of the preceding
month, which will not yet have been delivered.
18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the
State is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the
possibility of leakages of extravagances.
19. The representative function of the ruler at receptions for the sake
of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order
that the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power will not
then be split up into fractional parts among time-serving favorites who
surround the throne for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in their
own and not in the common interests of the State.
20. Economic crises have been producer by us for the GOYIM by no other
means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have
stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to
apply to those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the
finances of the State with the payment of interest and made them the bond
slaves of these capitals The concentration of industry in the hands
of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices
of the peoples and with them also the States ....
21.
The present issue of money in
general does not correspond with the requirements per head, and cannot
therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to
correspond with the growth of population and thereby children also must
absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth.
The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.
22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES
WHICH ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY,
THE MORE SO THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.
GENTILE STATES
BANKRUPT
23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of
working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make
the issue of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject,
adding to the quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.
24. The accounts will be managed
by each department (the French
administrative division), each circle.
25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying our of money for
State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed
by decree of the ruler;
this will do away with the protection by a ministry of one
institution to the detriment of others.
26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried
out side by side that they may not be obscured by distance one to another.
27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and
principles of the GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarm
nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the
disorderly darkness into which the GOYIM by their irregularities have plunged
the finances. The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their
beginning with drawing up a single budget which year after year grows owing to
the following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they
demand a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months,
after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a
liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up in
accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from the
normal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a year, and so the annual budget is
trebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of
the GOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and
that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the GOY States to bankruptcy.
28. You understand perfectly
that economic arrangements of this kind, which have been suggested to the GOYIM by us, cannot be
carried on by us.
29. Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want of
understanding of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damocles
over the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a
temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm of our bankers. Foreign
loans are leeches which there is no possibility of removing from the body of
the State until they fall off of themselves or the State flings them off. But
the GOY States do not tear them off; they go on in persisting in putting more
on to themselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary
blood-letting.
TYRANNY OF USURY
30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan?
A loan is - an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage
obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a
charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in
interest a sum equal to the
loan borrowed, in forty years
it is paying a double sum, in sixty - treble, and all the while the debt remains an
unpaid debt.
31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation
per head the State is baling out the last coppers
of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts
with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of
collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest.
32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffled their money
from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the
necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the
wealth of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us
the tribute of subjects.
33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones in regard to
State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of
financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their countries
debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been
accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.
34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will
be no State interest- bearing paper, except
a one per- cent series,
so that there will be no payment
of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of the
State. The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to
industrial companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of
profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowed money like these
companies, for the State borrows to spend and not to use in operations.
35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which from
being as now a paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a
lender of money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money,
parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful for us among the GOYIM
so long as they were independent but are not desirable under our rule.
36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute
brains of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing
from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these
very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from
their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been
simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people?
37. But it is a proof
of the genius of our chosen mind that we have
contrived to present the matter
of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in them an
advantage for themselves.
38.
Our accounts, which we shall
present when the time comes, in the light of centuries of experience gained
by experiments made by us on the GOY States, will be distinguished by clearness
and definiteness and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our
innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which we owe our mastery
over the GOYIM, but which cannot be allowed in our kingdom.
39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither the
ruler nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert
even the smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in
another direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of action.
40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching
along an undetermined road and with
undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way heroes and demigods.
41. The GOY rulers,
whom we once upon a time advised
should be distracted from State occupations by representative receptions,
observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our rule. The
accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were
drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to
short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economics and improvements were foreseen................... Economics from what?
From new taxes? - were questions that might have been but were
not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.
42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch
of financial disorder they
have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples.
PROTOCOL No. 21
1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add a
detailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign
loans I shall say nothing
more, because they have fed us with national moneys
of the GOYIM, but for our
State there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.
2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators and
slackness of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over,
by lending to the GOY governments moneys
which were not at all needed by the States. Could
anyone do the like in regard to us?........ Therefore,
I shall only deal with the details of internal loans.
3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open
subscriptions for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their
interest-bearing paper. That they may be within the reach of all the price is
determined at from a hundred
to a thousand; and a discount is made for the earliest
subscribers. Next day by
artificial means the price of them goes up, the alleged reason being that
everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury safes are as they
say overflowing and there's more money than they can do with. The subscription,
it is alleged, covers many times over the issue total of the loan; in this lies
the whole stage effect - look you, they say, what confidence is shown in the
government's bills of exchange.
4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a
debit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment of
interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not
swallow up but only add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted
it becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THE INTEREST
ON IT. These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit ....
5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the payment
of interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without
the consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made to
return the money to those who are not willing to convert their paper. If
everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the
government would be hooked on their
own files and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. By
good luck the subjects of the GOY governments, knowing nothing about financial
affairs, have always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest to
the risk of new investments of their moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled
these governments to throw off their shoulders a debit of several millions.
6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the
GOYIM for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.
7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various
countries the absence
of any means between the interest of the peoples and of those who rule them.
8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point
and upon the following: nowadays all internal
loans are consolidated by so-called flying
loans, that is, such as have terms of
payment more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings
banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition of a government
these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are
placed by the deposit of equivalent amount of
RENTS.
9.
And these last it is which
patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of the GOYIM.
10. When we ascend
the throne of the world all these
financial and similar
shifts, as being
not in accord with our
interests, will be swept away so as not to leave a trace, as also will be
destroyed all money markets, since we shall not allow the prestige of our power
to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set upon our values, which we shall
announce by law at the price which represents their full worth without any
possibility of lowering or raising. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering,
which indeed was where we made a beginning in relation to the values of the GOYIM.)
11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit
institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial values
in accordance with government views. These institutions will be in a position
to fling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day,
or to buy up for the same amount. In this way all industrial undertakings will
come into dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what immense power
we shall thereby secure for ourselves.
PROTOCOL No. 22
1. In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have endeavored
to depict with care the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of what
is going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming already in
the near future, the secret of our relations to the GOYIM and of financial
operations. On this subject there remains still a little for me to add.
2. IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR DAY - GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE
CAN PROCURE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE.
3. Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is
predestined by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all
that evil which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at the
end of ends the cause of true well- being - the bringing of everything into
order? Though it be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same it
will be established. We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who
have restored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also freedom of
the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet,
with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict
observance of the laws established by us. We shall make plain therewith that freedom
does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license
any more than the dignity
and force of a man do not consist in the right
of everyone to promulgate
destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and a
like, that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate
oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true
freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly
observes all the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped up in
consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of rights of each, and not
wholly and solely in fantastic imaginings about the subject of one's EGO.
4.
One authority will be glorious
because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide, and not muddle along
after leaders and orators shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words
which they call great principles and which are noting else, to speak honestly,
but utopian Our authority will be the crown of order, and
in that is included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of this authority
will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a reverent fear before
it of all the peoples. True force makes no terms with any right,
not even with that of God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a
span from it away.
PROTOCOL No. 23
1. That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary
to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of
articles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased by
emulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall reestablish small master production
which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of manufactures. This
is indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale
often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in
directions against the government. A people of small masters knows nothing of
unemployment and this binds him closely with existing order, and consequently
with the firmness of authority. For us its part will have been played out the
moment authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be
prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against humanness of man who is
turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol.
2. Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the
strong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword of defense and support against
social scourges ....
What do they
want with an angelic spirit in a king? What they have to see in him is the
personification of force and power.
3. The supreme lord who will replace all now existing ruler, dragging
in their existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have
denied even the authority of God, from whose midst breads out on all sides the
fire of anarchy, must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame.
Therefore he will be obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he
should drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the
form of regularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind of
infection that may cover the body of the State with sores.
4. This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the
senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and
humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery and every kind
of violence under the mask of principles of freedom and every kind of violence
under the mask of principles of freedom and rights. They have overthrown all
forms of social order to erect on the ruins of the throne of the King of the Jews; but their
part will be played out the moment
he enters into his kingdom. Then it will be necessary to sweep them away
from his path, on which must be left no knot, no splinter.
5. Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the world:
Give thanks to God and bow the knee before him who bears
on his front the seal of the predestination of man, to which God himself has led
his star that none other but Him might free us from all the before-mentioned forces and evils.
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1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of King
David to the last strata of the earth.
2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that which
to this day has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the
conduct of the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education of
thought of all humanity.
3. Certain members of the seed of David
will prepare the kings and their heirs,
selecting not by right
of heritage but by eminent capacities, inducting them into the most secret
mysteries of the political, into schemes of government, but providing always
that none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of this mode of
action is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted to those who
have not been inducted into the secret places of its art ....
4. To these persons only will be taught the practical application of
the aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all
the observations on the politico-economic moves and social sciences - in a word, all the spirit
of laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself
for the regulation of the relations of humanity.
5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne if in
their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities
that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in
themselves dangerous for kingly office.
6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be
to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned elders.
7. In case of falling sick with weakness
of will or other form of incapacity. kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and
capable hands.
8. The king's plan of action for the current moment,
and all the more so for the future, will be
unknown, even to those who are called his closest counselors.
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9.
Only the king and the three who
stood sponsor for him will know what is coming.
10.
In the person of the king who
with unbending will is master of himself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None will know what the king wishes to attain by his
dispositions, and therefore none will dare to stand across an unknown path.
11.
It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must correspond in capacity to the plan of
government it has to contain. It is for this reason that he will ascend the
throne not otherwise than after examination of his mind by the aforesaid
learned elders.
12. That the people may know and love their king, it is indispensable
for him to converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from another by us by the terror.
13.
This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these forces separately to fall under our influence.
14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his passions, and especially of sensuality: on no
side of his character must he give brute instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the
capacities of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts to the
worst and most brutal side of human activity.
15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all the
world of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personal inclinations.
16.
Our supreme lord must be of an
exemplary irreproachable.
