WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH WORLD JEWISH GOVERNMENT

 Tsarkoye Sielo, Russia, 1905

PREFACE

(Translated by Victor E. Marsden)

The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a victimof the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married to aRussian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number ofyears a Russian Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which heoccupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events inRussia 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 CaptainCromie was murdered by Jews, Victor Marsden was arrested and throwninto the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have his name calledout for execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually he was allowed toreturn to England very much of a wreck in bodily health. However, herecovered under treatment and the devoted care of his wife and friends. One ofthe first things he undertook, as soon as he was able, was this translation ofthe Protocols. Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for thework. His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russianlanguage on the one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style onthe 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, andthough the subject-matter is somewhat formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touchreveals 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. He told the writer of this Preface that hecould not stand more than an hour at a time of his work on it in the BritishMuseum, as the diabolical spirit of the matter which he was obliged to turninto English made him positively ill.

Mr. Marsden's connection with the MORNING POST was not severed by hisreturn to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of specialcorrespondent of that journal in the suite of H.R.H., the Prince ofWales on his Empire tour. From this he returned with the Prince, apparentlyin much better health, but within a few days of his landing he was takensuddenly ill, and died after a very brief illness.

May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immenseservice to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt that itwill take its place in the first rank of the English versions of "THEPROTOCOLS of the Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."

INTRODUCTION

Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way ofintroduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by SergyeiNilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museumbearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were knownto exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, andunder his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was acrime sufficient to ensure the owner's of being shot on sight. The fact is initself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewishjournals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understoodthat Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, hadconcocted 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 thefront of a document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In thisinstance, "Protocol" means minutes of the proceedings of the Meetingsof the Learned Elders of Zion. These Protocols give the substance ofaddresses delivered to the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion. Theyreveal the converted plan of action of the Jewish Nation developedthrough the ages and edited by the Elders themselves up to date. Partsand summaries of the plan have been published from time to time during thecenturies as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out. The claim of the Jewsthat the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an admission of theirgenuineness, for they NEVER ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE FACTS corresponding tothe THREATS which the Protocols contain, and, indeed, thecorrespondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set asideor 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 thepresidency 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 ofJuly 14, 1922. Herzl gives an account of his first visit to Englandin 1895, and his conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew broughtup as a Christian, an officer in the English Army, and at heart a JewNationalist all the time. Goldsmid suggested to Herzl that thebest way of expropriating the English aristocracy, and so destroying their powerto protect the people of England against Jew domination, was to putexcessive taxes on the land. Herzl thought this an excellent idea, and itis now to be found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!

The above extract from Herzl's DIARY is an extremely significant bitof evidence bearing on the existence of the Jew World Plot andauthenticity of the Protocols, but any reader of intelligence will beable from his own knowledge of recent history and from his own experience toconfirm the genuineness of every line of them, and it is in the light of thisLIVING comment that all readers are invited to study Mr. Marsden'stranslation 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 ofthese sayings at the send-off banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz onOctober 6, 1920. The Chief Rabbi was on the point of leaving for HISEmpire tour of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales. And this is the "saying"of the Sages which Dr. Weizmann quoted: "A beneficent protectionwhich God has instituted in the life of the Jew is that He has dispersed him allover 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. Weizmannknows all about them. It proves that the desire for a "NationalHome" in Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal partof the Jew's real object. It proves that the Jews of the world have no intentionof settling in Palestine or any separate country, and that their annualprayer that they may all meet "Next Year in Jerusalem" ismerely a piece of their characteristic make-believe. It also demonstrates thatthe Jews are now a world menace, and that the Aryan races willhave 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. Theyare not the "Board of Deputies" (the Jewish Parliamentin England) or the "Universal Israelite Alliance" whichsits in Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of the AllgemeinerElectricitaets Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the subject anddoubtless he was in possession of their names, being, in all likelihood, one ofthe chief leaders himself. Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE, December24, 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, BenjaminDisraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a "damped,"or baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs thisominous 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 Protocolsall men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli atwork "behind the scenes" of all the Governments. This revelationentails on all white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising AUFOND their attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survivalover 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 appearsto be a word adopted from the original and it means the whole body of agents andagencies made use of by the Elders, whether members of the tribe or theirGentile 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, Nilusgives the following interesting account of this symbol:

"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon andother Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theoryfor a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion. As historydeveloped, this scheme was worked out in detail and completed by men who weresubsequently initiated in this question. These learned men decided by peacefulmeans to conquer the world for Zion with the slyness of the SymbolicSnake, whose head was to represent those who have been initiated into theplans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the Snake torepresent the Jewish people - the administration was always kept secret, EVENFROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into thehearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all thenon-Jewish power of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has stillto finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the coursewhich 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 hasencircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it hasencompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor tosubdue the other countriesby an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST. The return of thehead of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished after the powerof 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 moralcorruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French,Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the livesof the leading men at the heads of nations. A map of the course of the SymbolicSnake is shown as follows: - Its first stage in Europe was in 429B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of Pericles, the Snake firststarted eating into the power of that country. The second stage was in Romein the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C.. The third in Madrid in thetime 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 1871after the Franco-Prussian war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, overwhich 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 ofAmerica, it is been partially identified as the "Counsel on ForeignRelations" (C.F.R.) and the "Tri-Lateral Commission"]. Allthese States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations of theirconstitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming noexception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germanyare spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by theSnake, on which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. Thefurther course of the Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate itsnext movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now wellknown to us to what extent the latter cities form the centuries of the militantJewish race. Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake'scourse before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before theoccurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish - Revolutionin 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 significanceof each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light uponsurrounding facts.

2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the twopoints 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 numberthan the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained byviolence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims atpower, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rareindeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all forthe sake of securing their own welfare.

4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What hasserved for their guidance hitherto?

5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjectedto brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same force, onlydisguised. 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 mustknow how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea toattract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushinganother who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent hashimself 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 isprecisely here that the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins ofgovernment are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered togetherby a new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single dayexist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of theold already weakened by liberalism.

GOLD

7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who wereliberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom isimpossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. Itis enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of timefor that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we getinternecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in themidst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of aheap of ashes.

8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether itsinternal discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it canbe accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism ofCapital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that theState, 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 theabove are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has twofoes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not consideredimmoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep theenemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or insuperior 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 immoraland not permissible?

10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any successto guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when anyobjection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and whensuch objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoningare superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely bypetty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a preyto party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of aperfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chanceor packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forthsome ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.

11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler whois governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstableon his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and tomake-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices inpolitics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively andmore certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be theattributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guidedby them.

RIGHT IS MIGHT

12. Our right lies in force. The word "right" is anabstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give mewhat 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, animpersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid theflood 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 existingforces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to becomethe sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power bylaying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.

15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of powerwill be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible untilthe moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longerundermine it.

16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit willemerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course ofthe machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. Theresult justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attentionnot 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 linefrom which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor ofmany centuries brought to naught.

18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessaryto have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, itslack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, orits own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind,senseless and un- reasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from anyside. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though theyshould 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 toruin.

19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can haveunderstanding 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, bringsitself to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honorsand the disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the peoplecalmly and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairsof the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defendthemselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into asmany parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and therebybecomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.

WE ARE DESPOTS

21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaboratedextensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly amongthe several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion isinevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one thatconcentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolutedespotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not bythe 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 seizesfreedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highestdegree of savagery.

22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to animmoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours towalk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholicliquors; 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 inthe places of dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of theselast I count also the so-called "society ladies," voluntaryfollowers of the others in corruption and luxury.

23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquersin political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential tostatesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rulefor governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agentsof some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, thegood. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when theyshould serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how toseize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submissionand sovereignty.

24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has theright to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactorysentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produceblind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strengthin the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, forthe 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 whichit makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by thedoctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments intosubjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we aretoo merciless for all disobedience to cease.

WE SHALL END LIBERTY

25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among themasses of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,"words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from allsides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away thewell-being of the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so wellguarded 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 theirabstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot befreedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters,and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to herlaws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstartselected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the sameblind 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 thepolitical - to all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all thetime it was based upon these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passedon to the son a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise thatnone should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to thegoverned. As time went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the trueposition of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of ourcause.

26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality,Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, wholelegions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words werecanker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting anend everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations ofthe GOYA States. As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph: itgave us the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands themaster card - the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the veryexistence of the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class which was the onlydefense peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the eternal andgenealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy ofour educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications forthis aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, andin knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force.

27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in ourrelations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the mostsensitive 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 humanweaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands overthe 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 inall countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people whoare the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like aworn-out glove.

29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of thepeople which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power ofappointment.

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 theeconomic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistancewe give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put bothsides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millionsof eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Ourinternational rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense ofright, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules therelations 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 bepersons trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily becomepawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be theiradvisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairsof the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have beendrawing to fit them for rule the information they need from our political plansfrom the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of everymoment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use ofunprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without anycritical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any accountof them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes ofnew 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 acceptas the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we areconstantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories.The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with theirknowledges and without any logical verification of them will put into effect allthe information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialistshave cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in thedirection 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 seewhat a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of theGOYIM.

4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts,characters, tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in thepolitical and in the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of oursystem of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously disposedaccording to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of successif the practical application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessonsof the past in the light of the present.

5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force thatcreates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The partplayed by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to beindispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and tocreate discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speechfinds its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to makeuse of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we havegained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks tothe Press we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding that we havehad 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 worthin 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 isready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolizeour people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will belocked in its coil as in a powerful vice.

2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, forwe have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order thatthey may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which theyturn. The GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded themsufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scaleswould come into equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - arehemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their ownuncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror whichhas been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at theirpeople, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able tocome to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers afterpower. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blindforce of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind manand his stick, both are powerless apart.

3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we haveset all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberaltendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form ofenterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target forevery ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot ofconfused issues contend .... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will beuniversal ....

4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests thesittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists andunscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of powerwill put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow andeverything 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 firmlythan ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way andanother, they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but from wantthey will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as tothe masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called "PeoplesRights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized inpractical life. What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over hisheavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, ifjournalists 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 thosepitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting infavor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants ofour AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor man are no more than abitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of toiling almost all daygives him no present use of them, but the other hand robs him of all guaranteeof regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by hiscomrades 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 ownadvantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people.Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen intothe grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless andcruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.

7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from thisoppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces -Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give support inaccordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) ofour SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor ofthe 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 KILLINGOUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physicalweakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave ofour will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energyto set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the workermore 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 movethe mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on ourway.

9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BECROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE AHINDRANCE THERETO. (The Biblical "Anti-Christ?")

10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless promptedby the suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgentnecessity 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 OFKNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMANLIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY,THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all toknow that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOTBE 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 butonly his own honor. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into thesecrets of which we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all menthat the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they maynot become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does notcorrespond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After athorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit toauthority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In thepresent state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development ofthe people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptingsintended to mislead and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred towards allconditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of themeaning of class and condition.

JEWS WILL BE SAFE

11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of anECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industryto a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open tous and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMICCRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERSSIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rushdelightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of theirignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they willthen be able to loot.

12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILLBE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.

13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIMto the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it willknow how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterizeliberalism out of all institutions.

14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions andindulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itselfto be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like everyother blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHEDTO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE andit has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the FrenchRevolution, 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 workof our hands.

15 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from onedisenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us infavor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THEWORLD.

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 thebottomless rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies toforce, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent tocrimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patientunto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is those qualitieswhich are aiding us to independence. From the premier- dictators of the presentday, the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for theleast of them they would have beheaded twenty kings.

17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curiousinconsequence of the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what wouldappear to be events of the same order?

18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to thepeoples through their agents that through these abuses they are inflictinginjury on the States with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of thepeoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity andequality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unificationmust 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 thisstate of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creatingdisorders at every step.

20. The word "freedom" brings out the communities ofmen to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority evenagainst God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come intoour kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implyinga principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.

21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when theyhave drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted intotheir chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue tostruggle.

PROTOCOL No. 4

1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these iscomprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither andthither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, andthat leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, andtherefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yetnevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization orother, 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 notinjuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it, thanks tocontinual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on therewarding of long services.

2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? Andthis is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as ascreen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even itsvery 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 Stateeconomy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon thefoundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected withthe conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, forthey have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might begoverned by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly underthe guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of Godupon earth. This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINEALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERYPRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICALCALCULATIONS 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 nationswill be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not takenote of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for alldisintegrate and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industryon a speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn fromthe land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, thatis, to our classes.

5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered toeconomic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold andheartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towardsthe higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that isGold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of thosematerial delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for thesake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatredtowards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow ourlead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.

PROTOCOL No. 5

1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities inwhich corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches areattained only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; whereloseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh lawsbut not by voluntarily accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith andcountry are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to begiven to these communities if not that despotism which I shall describe to youlater? We shall create an intensified centralization of government in order togrip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulatemechanically 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 havebeen permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be distinguished by adespotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in everyplace 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 notconsistent 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 ason a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without amurmur to the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated intotheir minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard theoccupants of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord'sAnointed has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, andwhen we also robbed them of their faith in God the might of power wasflung upon the streets into the place of public proprietorship and was seized byus.

MASSES LED BY LIES

4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means ofcleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common andall sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing,belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared onanalysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species ofskill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plansof political actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alonemight have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyesof the unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the whilehave kept our secret organization in the shade. However, it is probably all thesame to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicismor 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 COALITIONOF THE "GOYIM" OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we aresecured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated thatthey can never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the personaland national reckonings of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds, whichwe 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 receivesupport if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mindthat 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 ANINCONSIDERABLE 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 torule over the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may beequal to our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggleagainst 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 neverseen. Aye, and the genius on their side would have arrived too late. All thewheels of the machinery of all States go by the force of the engine, which is inour hands, and that engine of the machinery of States is - Gold. The science ofpolitical economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been givingroyal prestige to capital.

MONOPOLY CAPITAL

7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free toestablish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put inexecution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will givepolitical force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress thepeople. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead theminto war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burstinto flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate them. THEPRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLICMIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSERESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTYCLOQUENCE.

8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, haveaccepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarelypause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed byperformance. Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will giveeloquent 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 WHOWILL SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS ANDPRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.

10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO ASTATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANYCONTRADICTORY 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 HAVENO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to thepublic to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides thepublic. This is the first secret.

11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government iscomprised in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings,habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible foranyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people inconsequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve usin another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate allcollective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourageany kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. THEREIS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius behindit, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people amongwhom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the GOYIMcommunities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they maydrop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedomof actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From thiscollision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESEMEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TOOFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE USWITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD ANDTO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT (European Common Market?). In place of therulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be called theSuper-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions likenippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannotfail to subdue all the nations of the world.

PROTOCOL No. 6

1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs ofcolossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will dependto such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit ofthe States on the day after the political smash ...

2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike anestimate of the significance of this combination! ...

3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of ourSuper-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all thosewho 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 beharmful to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources uponwhich they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprivethem of their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdensupon landed property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will checkland- holding and keep it in a state of humble and un-conditional submission.

5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapableof 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 acounterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiplycapital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing theland from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry shoulddrain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculationtransfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the GOYIMinto 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 shallbring to the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed amongthe GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing upeverything. WE SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRINGANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE INPRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THEDECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLYAND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TODRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THEFACE 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 SERVETHE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICHOUR 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 haveto get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besidesourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to ourinterests, 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 allcountries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to createdisorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in usan indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues weshall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of allStates by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. Inorder to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration duringnegotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "officiallanguage," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask ofhonesty 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 theirnotice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of thehuman race.

UNIVERSAL WAR

3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition bywar with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if theseneighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then wemust offer resistance by a universal war.

4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy ofits undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take actionin the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching thedesired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretlypromoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power"- THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADYENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

PROTOCOL No. 8

1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponentsmight employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades ofexpression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for thosecases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormallyaudacious and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be setforth in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principlescast into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forcesof civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself withpublicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, withpersons prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIALSCHOOLS (Rhode Scholers?). These persons will have consonance of allthe secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that canbe made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted withthe whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which theywill have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the GOYIM, theirtendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classesand conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, ofwhom I speak, will be taken not from among the GOYIM, who are accustomedto perform their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble tothink what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. Theadministrators of the GOYIM sign papers without reading them, and theyserve 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 theteaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation ofbankers, 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 entrustingresponsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in thehands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and thepeople 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 ourinterests to their last gasp.

PROTOCOL No. 9

1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the characterof the people in whose country you live and act; a general, identicalapplication of them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educatedto our pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their applicationcautiously you will see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborncharacter will change and we shall add a new people to the ranks of thosealready subdued by us.

2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of ourmasonic watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,"will, when we come into our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of awatchword, but only an expression of idealism, namely, into "The rightof liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of brotherhood." That ishow we shall put it, - and so we shall catch the bull by the horns ... DEFACTO we have already wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although DEJURE there still remain a good many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise aprotest against us it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by ourdirection, for THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENTOF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. I will not enter into further explanations, for thismatter 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. OurSuper-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in theaccepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am ina position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, thelaw-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shallspare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. Werule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerfulparty, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESSAMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE.

4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OURSERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS,DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. Wehave harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT ISBORING AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALLESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; theyexhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WEWILL NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONALSUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS (European Common Market??).

5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling thequestion of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISIONINTO FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ONA 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 againstany such possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected abulwark in the shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blindforce of the people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide themwith 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 fromour 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 ourbrethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss withthe people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct them onquestings of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction thatsuits us.

8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? Butwhat an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannotbut become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad bythe voice of the people.

9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM beforeit is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold ofthe ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in astrict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license ofliberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, intothe conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUTPRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREEEXISTENCE.

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 FALSEALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.

11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, andby merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erectedsomething grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in thefact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirelyhid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of makinganything 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 haveagainst this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest heartsquail - the undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which,before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whencethose capitals will be blown into the air with all their organizations andarchives.

PROTOCOL No. 10

1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and IBEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICALWITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceivethe underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best oftheir energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatestimportance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to uswhen 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 thelaws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly andopenly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon themthey must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared withoutdetailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged byus. The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming aprinciple we leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of itwithout attracting notice; if they were all categorically named they would allappear to have been already given.

2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniusesof political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiringresponse: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... atrick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, whatimpudent audacity!" ...

OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER

3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting thenew fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. Thisis why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and tostore up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible mightof the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down allhindrances on our way.

4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THEVARIOUS PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORNOUT WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES,FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCESENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOUBEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILLTHE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPESAND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ONTHE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OFTHE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THENHAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY AUNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.

5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OFCLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority,which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, byinculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIMthe importance of the family and its educational value and remove thepossibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, willnot let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed tolisten to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shallcreate a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in anydirection without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders ofthe mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that uponthese leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of allkinds 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 intofractional parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us tohave cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturbits artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical forceof the secret meaning of each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a laborof this kind by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the stamp of allratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depthand nexus of its plottings. We want our schemes to be forcible and suitablyconcocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDEto the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.

7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down justyet. They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in thewhole combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along thepaths laid down in our schemes.

POISON OF LIBERALISM

8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately oneand the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislativeand Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation ofthese institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only takenote of the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds to someimportant 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 theinstitutions which are important but their functions. These institutions havedivided up among themselves all the functions of government - administrative,legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs inthe human body. If we injure one part in the machinery of State, the State fallssick, like a human body, and ... will die.

9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalismits whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized witha mortal illness - blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end oftheir death agony.

10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took theplace of what was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; andA CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS,misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, partywhims - in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the personalityof State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESSEFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE,and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed theyhave been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICSBECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY ACARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDSTOF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the minewhich we have laid under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOYpeoples.

WE NAME PRESIDENTS

11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility ofpresidents.

12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms incarrying 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, ifthere should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, adeadlock which will finally disorganize the country? ...

13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrangeelections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark,undiscovered stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will betrustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear ofrevelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power,namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with theoffice of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, willprotect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to proposenew, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to theresponsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of thepresidents will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but weshall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to thepeople, 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 themob. Independently of this we shall invest the president with the right ofdeclaring a state of war. We shall justify this last right on the ground thatthe president as chief of the whole army of the country must have it at hisdisposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution,the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representativeof this constitution.

14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of theshrine will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longerdirect the force of legislation.

15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republicanconstitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on governmentmeasures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shallby 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, evenin this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring appeal and a reference tothe majority of the whole people ... Upon the president will depend theappointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate.Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to afew months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will havethe right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolongthe time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order thatthe consequences of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not,prematurely for our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of thepresident, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHERADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURESOF 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 individualofficial.

16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of suchof the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annulthem when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will havethe right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the governmentconstitutional working, the pretext both for the one and the other being therequirements for the supreme welfare of the State.

WE SHALL DESTROY

17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little bylittle, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we arecompelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for thetransition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and thenthe time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.

18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destructionof the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples,utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which we shallarrange for - of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give usone king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes ofdisorders - frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts - who will give uspeace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives."

19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THEPOSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT ISINDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIRGOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE,ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OFDISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKEREFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.

20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space themoment we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.

PROTOCOL No. 11

1. The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression ofthe authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part ofthe Legislative Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the lawsand decrees of the ruler.

2. This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall makeLaw, Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals to the LegislativeCorps, (2) by decrees of the president under the guise of generalregulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions of the State Council inthe guise of ministerial orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasionshould arise - in the form of a revolution in the State.

3. Having established approximately the MODUS AGENDI we willoccupy ourselves with details of those combinations by which we have still tocomplete the revolution in the course of the machinery of State in the directionalready indicated. By these combinations I mean the freedom of the Press, theright of association, freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and manyanother that must disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo aradical alteration the day after the promulgation of the new constitution. It isonly 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 followingreasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity and in a sense ofseverity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair caused by fear ofnew alterations in the same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought in asense of further indulgences it will be said that we have recognized our ownwrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of the infallibility of ourauthority, or else it will be said that we have become alarmed and are compelledto show a yielding disposition, for which we shall get no thanks because it willbe supposed to be compulsory ... Both the one and the other are injurious to theprestige of the new constitution. What we want is that from the first moment ofits promulgation, while the peoples of the world are still stunned by theaccomplished fact of the revolution, still in a condition of terror anduncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are so strong, soinexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power, that in no case shall wetake any account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their opinionsor wishes, we are ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expressionor manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place, that we have seizedat 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 becontent 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. Andyou know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? ....

5. There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for weshall keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away assoon 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 bekept waiting for this return of their liberties ....

7. For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy andinsinuated it into the minds of the GOY without giving them any chance toexamine its underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in aroundabout 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 SECRETMASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTEDBY, 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 ofthe dispersion, and in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, hascome forth all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold ofsovereignty over all the world.

9. There now remains not much more for us to build up upon thefoundation we have laid.

PROTOCOL No. 12

1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted invarious ways, is defined by us as follows -

2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. Thisinterpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, becauseall freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or createonly 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 partplayed by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions whichare needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It isoften vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not theslightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle itwith a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of theprinting press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks ofthe 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 censoringit, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: weshall law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money beforepermitting 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 onthe 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 ofcaution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge incometo the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for thesake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. Noone shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our governmentinfallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged pleathat it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I BEGYOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANSESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVEPRE-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 arereceived by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts ofthe world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will givepublicity only to what we dictate to them.

5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the mindsof the GOY communities to such an extent the they all come near lookingupon the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles weare setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single Statewhere there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOYstupidity calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall beacknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all theworld ....

6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Everyone desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged toprovide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of anyfault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OFTHOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICHWILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS ANDFANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who doesnot know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginingswhich give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towardsauthority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced theconception 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 inthought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and fallingexclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake ofprotest ....

FREE PRESS DESTROYED

7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on allprinted matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and booksof less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets inorder, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worstform of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may forcewriters into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especiallyas they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves toinfluence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will becheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitionswithin bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependentupon 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 thepublisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to doso. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shallnullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.

8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educativeforces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority ofthe journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of theprivately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influenceupon the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shallourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must inno wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published byus will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, therebycreating 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. Theywill always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence willbe comparatively insignificant.

10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part itwill be to attack the tepid and indifferent.

11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, offposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like thevery antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulatedopposition 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, ofcourse, 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 anyone of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands willlead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses allpower of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will thinkthey are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will berepeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vainbelief 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 musttake special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title ofcentral department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at whichour agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords ofthe day. By discussing andcontroverting, but always superficially, withouttouching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fightfusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasionfor us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outsetin official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.

14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THATOUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SOGIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTYBABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections toour orders.

ONLY LIES PRINTED

15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the publiceye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing theattention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanksto such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required,to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuadeor to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions,according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feelingour ground before stepping upon it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUROPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS INWHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to theaforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refutethem except very superficially.

16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of ourpress, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-officialorgans.

17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there areforms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs ofthe 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 informationunless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist willventure to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practiceliterature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other .... Thesesores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a fewthe prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mobfollow after him with enthusiasm.

18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It isindispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which wecould at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to thecapitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of theprovinces. 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, THECAPITALS 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 thepsychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss anaccomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has beenaccepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.

19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OFOUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESSOF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BETHOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HASDISAPPEARED ... Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remainknown 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 beour humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among the GOYIMwill at our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issuedirectly in official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of thediscussion so raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as wewish and then offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dareto demand the abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will berepresented as an improvement ... And immediately the press will distract thecurrent of thought towards, new questions, (have we not trained people alwaysto be seeking something new?). Into the discussions of these new questionswill throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers of fortunes who are notable even now to understand that they have not the remotest conception about thematters which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political areunattainable for any save those who have guided it already for many ages, thecreators.

2. From all this you will see that in seeming the opinion of the mobwe are only facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark thatit is not for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question thatwe seem to seek approval. We are constantly making public declaration that weare guided in all our undertakings by the hoope, joined to the conviction, thatwe are serving the common weal.

WE DECEIVE WORKERS

3. In order to distract people who may be too troublesome fromdiscussions of questions of the political we are now putting forward what weallege to be new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. Inthis sphere let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remaininactive, to take a rest from what they suppose to be political (which wetrained them to in order to use them as a means of combating the GOYgovernments) only on condition of being found new employments, in which weare prescribing them something that looks like the same political object. Inorder that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHERDISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES ....SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORTIN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their minds fromquestions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them. Growingmore and more dis- accustomed to reflect and form any opinions of their own,people will begin to talk in the same tone as we because we alone shall beoffering them new directions for thought ... of course through such persons aswill not be suspected of solidarity with us.

4. The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finallyplayed out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they willcontinue to do us good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct theirminds to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparentlyprogressive: for have we not with complete success turned the brainless heads ofthe GOYIM with progress, till there is not among the GOYIM onemind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in allcases 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 greatproblems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the endunder our beneficent rule.

6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERESTAGE-MANAGED BY US ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH ASGUESSED AT IN THE COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES?

PROTOCOL No. 14

1. When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us thatthere should exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom ourdestiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom oursame destiny is united with the destinies of the world. We must therefore sweepaway all other forms of belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we seeto-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 ourpreaching of the religion of Moses, that, by its stable and thoroughlyelaborated 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, allits educative power is based .... Then at every possible opportunity we shallpublish articles in which we shall make comparisons between our beneficent ruleand those of past ages. The blessing of tranquillity, though it be atranquillity forcibly brought about by centuries of agitation, will throw intohigher relief the benefits to which we shall point. The errors of the GOYIMgovernments will be depicted by us in the most vivid hues. We shall implant suchan abhorrence of them that the peoples will prefer tranquillity in a state ofserfdom to those rights of vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity andexhausted the very sources of human existence, sources which have been exploitedby a mob of rascally adventurers who know not what they do .... USELESSCHANGES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT TO WHICH WE INSTIGATED THE "GOYIM" WHENWE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR STATE STRUCTURES, WILL HAVE SO WEARIED THE PEOPLES BYTHAT TIME THAT THEY WILL PREFER TO SUFFER ANYTHING UNDER US RATHER THAN RUN THERISK 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 historicalmistakes of the GOY governments which have tormented humanity for so manycenturies by their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the truegood of humanity in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, andhave never noticed that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never abetter 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 factthat we shall present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the deadand decomposed old order of things in social life.

4. Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the variousbeliefs of the "GOYIM," BUT NO ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDERDISCUSSION OUR FAITH FROM ITS TRUE POINT OF VIEW SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLYLEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS WHO WILL NEVER DARE TO BETRAY ITS SECRETS.

5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED ASENSELESS, FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entranceto power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide atelling relief by contrast to the speeches, party program, which will bedistributed from exalted quarters of ours .... Our wise men, trained to becomeleaders of the GOYIM, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs, articles,which will be used by us to influence the minds of the GOYIM, directingthem towards such understanding and forms of knowledge as have been determinedby us.

PROTOCOL No. 15

1. When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of COUPSD'ETAT prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitelyacknowledged (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 againstus such things as plots shall no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slaywithout mercy all who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into ourkingdom. Every kind of new institution of anything like a secret society willalso be punished with death; those of them which are now in existence, are knownto us, serve us and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile tocontinents 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 willbe kept in constant fear of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all formermembers of secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the center ofrule.

2. Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.

3. In the GOY societies, in which we have planted and deeplyrooted discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is toemploy merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regardmust be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of thefuture. The attainment of that well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, isthe duty of any kind of government that acknowledges as justification for itsexistence not only its privileges but its obligations. The principal guaranteeof stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this aureole isattained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on itsface the emblems of inviolability from mystical causes - from the choice of God.SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND ONLY SERIOUSFOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind theexample when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head ofSulla who had poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his mightin 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 andstrength of mind.

SECRET SOCIETIES

4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act inthe contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all thecountries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominentin public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal intelligenceoffice and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one centraladministration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, whichwill be composed of our learned elders. The lodges will have theirrepresentatives who will serve to screen the above-mentioned administration ofMASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword and program. In these lodges weshall tie together the knot which binds together all revolutionary and liberalelements. Their composition will be made up of all strata of society. The mostsecret political plots will be known to us and fall under our guiding hands onthe very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BEALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since theirservice is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a positionnot only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also toscreen our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA.

5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societiesare those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostlylight-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using towind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows agitatedthe meaning of that will be that we have had to stir up in order to break up itstoo great solidarity. BUT IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A PLOT, THEN ATTHE 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 weknow whither we are leading, we know the final goal of every form of activitywhereas the GOYIM have knowledge of nothing, not even of the immediateeffect of action; they put before themselves, usually, the momentary reckoningof the satisfaction of their self- opinion in the accomplishment of theirthought without even remarking that the very conception never belonged to theirinitiative but to our instigation of their thought ....

GENTILES ARE STUPID

6. The GOYIM enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the hopeby their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order toobtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundlessfantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we areremarkably generous. And the reason why we give them this success is to make useof the nigh conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensiblydisposes them to assimulate our suggestions without being on their guard againstthem in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibilitywhich is giving utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible forthem to borrow those of others .... You cannot imagine to what extent the wisestof the GOYIM can be brought to a state of unconscious naivete in thepresence of this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same timehow 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 toreduce 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 THROUGHTHEIR PLANS, BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICEANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materiallyfacilitates for us the task of setting them in the required direction. Thesetigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely throughtheir heads. We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorptionof individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM .... They havenever yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse isa manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has establishedfrom the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely forthe purpose of instituting individuality ....

7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupidblindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree towhich 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 whenthey said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means orto count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end .... We have notcounted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle, though we havesacrificed many of our own, but for that we have now already given them such aposition on the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparativelysmall numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved ournationality from destruction.

9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that endnearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders ofthis affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE BROTHERHOODCAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATHSENTENCE, 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 suchmethods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY the very root ofprotest against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the GOYwe at the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state ofunquestioningly submission.

10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of the GOYIMhas been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by theliberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important andfundamental 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 haveanything in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other means .... Evensenators and the higher administration accept our counsels. The purely brutemind of the GOYIM is incapable of use for analysis and observation, andstill more for the foreseeing whither a certain manner of setting a question maytend.

11. In this difference in capacity for thought between the GOYIMand ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the ChosenPeople and of our higher quality of humanness, in contradistinction to thebrute mind of the GOYIM. Their eyes are open, but see nothing before themand do not invent (unless perhaps, material things). From this it isplain 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 itsblessing, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain,stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in aposition to know them perfectly. The main feature which will run right throughthem is submission to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandioseheight. Every abuse will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility ofall down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the representative ofpower. Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will be so mercilesslypunished that none will be found anxious to try experiments with their ownpowers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the administration on whichdepends the smooth running of the machinery of the State, for slackness in thisproduces slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality or abuse of powerwill be left without exemplary punishment.

13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service ofthe administration - all this kind of evil will disappear after the very firstexamples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable, thatis, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the sake of gain, ofits supreme prestige. The sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault,will count as a soldier falling on the administrative field of battle in theinterest of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of thosewho hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the public highwayto their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT WHENEVERTHEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATINGTHE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION OF MEN BYPENALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES OF THEJUDGES .... Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not ina public square which is the educationally basis of human life.

14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstlybecause old men more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are lesscapable of submitting to new directions, and secondly because this will give usthe 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 keephis place will have to give blind obedience to deserve it. In general, ourjudges will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly understandthat the part they have to play is to punish and apply laws and not to dreamabout the manifestations of liberalism at the expense of the educational schemeof the State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine it to be .... Thismethod of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any collectivesolidarity of those in the same service and will bind all to the interests ofthe government upon which their fate will depend. The young generation of judgeswill be trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any abusesthat might disturb the established order of our subjects among themselves.

15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences toevery kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office, becausethe rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office take no care toinculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which isdemanded of them. As a brute beast lets out its young in search of prey, so dothe GOYIM give to them for what purpose such place was created. This isthe reason why their governments are being ruined by their own forces throughthe acts of their own administration.

16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions yetanother lesson for our government.

17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategicposts of our government on which depends the training of subordinates for ourState structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trainedby us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the retirement ofold servants will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will beprovided with some private service in place of what they lose, and, secondly, Ihave 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 andtherefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will be respected andunquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of everykind and will destroy to the root every kind of manifestation of them in act bypunishment of an exemplary character.

19. We shall abolish the right of cessation, which will be transferredexclusively to our disposal - to the cognizance of him who rules, for we mustnot allow the conception among the people of a thought that there could be sucha 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, butinflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge for lack ofunderstanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as will prevent arepetition of such cases .... I repeat that it must be born in mind that weshall know every step of our administration which only needs to be closelywatched for the people to be content with us, for it has the right to demandfrom a good government a good official.

20. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNALGUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our subjects willdiscern 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 theirrelations to the ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thoughtthat it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, ifthey wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THEAUTOCRACY OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON "APOTHEOSIS,"especially when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put theirown in place of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. They will berejoiced that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wiseparents who desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. Forthe peoples of the world in regard to the secrets of our polity are ever throughthe 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 tocompel the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government which is afather for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may use it forthe 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 notto man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases, to whatis stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for the sake of good.

22. We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, whocommit a breach of established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evillies a great educational problem.

23. When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crownoffered him by Europe he will become patriarch of the world. Theindispensable victims offered by him in consequence of their suitability willnever reach the number of victims offered in the course of centuries by themania of magnificence, the emulation between the GOY governments.

24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making tothem from the tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute overall the world.

PROTOCOL No. 16

1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces exceptours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES,by re-educating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILLBE PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICHTHEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTEDWITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPONTHE GOVERNMENT.

2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as alsoall that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a fewdozen of persons chosen for their pre-eminent capacities from among the numberof the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR HALLSMILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY,BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERSNEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.

3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons withquestions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can seefor yourselves from the example of the universal education in this direction ofthe GOYIM. We must introduce into their education all those principleswhich have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power weshall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education andshall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rulesas the support and hope of peace and quiet.

WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY

4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in whichthere are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of theprogram of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts ofprevious centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those whichdepict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study ofpractical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one toanother, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection ofevil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefrontof the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for eachcalling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This treatmentof the question has special importance.

5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limitscorresponding to its destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HASALWAYS 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 TOLET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIRPLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW YOURSELVES INWHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYINGABSURDITY.

6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts andminds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instructthe whole nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning andhis acts and all his beneficent initiatives.

7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners ofall ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in theeducational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, onholidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions ofhuman relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories notyet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to the stage of adogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the completion ofthis exposition of our program of action in the present and the future I willread you the principles of these theories.

8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that peoplelive and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by theaid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but ofcourse by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use thelast scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past beendirecting towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of bridlingthought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by OBJECTLESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinkingsubmissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in orderto 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 defenseand not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline toundertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs,caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralizejustice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames whichwill keep it inside this sphere of executive public service. Advocates, equallywith judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with litigant; theywell receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of reportand documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated incourt on facts that have appeared. They will receive an honorarium withoutregard to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters onlaw-business in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor whowill be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten businessbefore the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honestunprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction.This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargainbetween 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 stillbe a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the worldis falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THATNOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THATCHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still lessdifficulty 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 theirinfluence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.

3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the fingerof 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 itsdefenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shallpenetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until wehave gnawed through the entire strength of this place.

4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THEPATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH (Antichrist??).

5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are re-educating youth in newtraditional religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY AFINGER ON EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISMCALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM ....

6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICTState affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using themost unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige inthe manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe ....

7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, inwhom 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 theaid of official police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaboratedfor the use of the GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In ourprograms ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATIONfrom a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. Itwill then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfoundeddenunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be developmentof abuses of this right.

8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranksof society, from among the administrative class who spend their time inamusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen,workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights and not beingempowered to take any action on their own account, and consequently a policewithout any power, will only witness and report: verification of their reportsand arrests will depend upon a responsible group of controllers of policeaffairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie andthe municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything seen or heardconcerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsiblefor concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.

9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TODENOUNCE TO THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have beennoticed doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALLTHE WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OFSERVICE 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 thesuperhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of the GOYIM.... But how else were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing todisorders in the midst of their administration? .... Among the number of thosemethods one of the most important is - agents for the restoration of order, soplaced as to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of developingand displaying their evil inclinations - obstinate self-conceit, irresponsibleexercise of authority, and, first and foremost, venality.

PROTOCOL No. 18

1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measuresof secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shallarrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents findingexpression through the co- operation of good speakers. Round these speakers willassemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us thepretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of ourservants from among the number of the GOYIM police ....

2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for thesake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a fingeron them but only introduce into their midst observation elements .... It must beremembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it frequently discoversconspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness ofweakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware that we havebroken the prestige of the GOY kings by frequent attempts upon theirlives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are easily moved by afew liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political colors.WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISINGOVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OFAUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.

3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificantguard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could existagainst him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and iscompelled to hide from it.

4. If we should admit this thought, as the GOYIM have done andare doing, we should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not forour ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.

GOVERNMENT BY FEAR

5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler willemploy his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his ownor dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, hisauthority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it willreceive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the well-beingof every citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order in the commonlife of the pack ....

6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HISSTRENGTH.

7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by amob of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks abouthim, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out ofrespect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of restraintalso in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand apetition and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive thepetition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that allmay know that what is handed in reaches its destination, that consequently,there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires foris existence that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew ofthis," or: "the king will hear it."

8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OFAUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himselfmaster of it, the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and whenoccasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority ....For the GOYIM we have been preaching something else, but by that veryfact 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 apossible mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspectedof a political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literallymerciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit areconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibilityof excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody exceptthe government can understand anything .... And it is not all governments thatunderstand true policy.

PROTOCOL No. 19

1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political weshall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition withproposals for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for theamelioration of the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defectsor else the fantasies of our subjects, to which we shall respond either byaccomplishing them or by a wise rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of onewho judges wrongly.

2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap- dogat an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but fromthe public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entireunconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to take agood example to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs will ceaseto 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 weshall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind ofabominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conceptionof this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and willbrand it with the same contempt.

4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain thatthe GOYIM should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. Itwas for this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly - incleverly compiled school- books on history, we have advertised the martyrdomalleged to have been accredited by sedition-mongers for the idea of thecommonweal. This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberalsand 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 offto the end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning and thedecisive point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you that Ihave already spoken before by way of a hint when I said that the sum total ofour 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 thepeople with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector.But as State organization cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain thefunds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular precautionthe question of equilibrium in this matter.

3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction thateverything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated intofact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums ofevery kind for the regulation of their circulation in the State. From thisfollows that taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property. Inthis manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in theform of a percentage of the amount of property. The rich must be aware that itis their duty to place a part of their superfluities at the disposal of theState since the State guarantees them security of possession of the rest oftheir property and the right of honest gains, I say honest, for the control overproperty will do away with robbery on a legal basis.

4. This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe forit - 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 thedetriment 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 inprivate hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoiseto the government strength of the GOYIM - their State finances.

6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give muchlarger revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful tous now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among the GOYIM.(Now we know the purpose of the 16th Amendment!!).

7. The force upon which our king will rest consists in the equilibriumand the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensablethat the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake ofthe secure working of the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid bythose 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 himthe organizer of peace and well-being since he will see that it is the rich manwho is paying the necessary means to attain these things.

9. In order that payers of the educated classes should not too muchdistress themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts giventhem of the destination of those payments, with the exception of such sums aswill be appropriated for the needs of the throne and the administrativeinstitutions.

10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all inthe State represented his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradictionto the other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right ofproperty in the common possessions of all.

11. Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will bemaintained by the resources of the State, must enter the ranks of servants ofthe State or must work to obtain the right to property; the privilege of royalblood must not serve for the spoiling of the treasury.

12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to thepayment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money orother, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registeredby names, will render the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax fromthe moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion ofdeclaration of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at thelocal treasury office with notifications of the name, surname and permanentplace of residence of the former and the new holder of the property. Thistransfer with register of names must begin from a definite sum which exceeds theordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be subjectto 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 willcover the revenue of the GOYIM States.

WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS

14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement ofreserve sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returnedinto circulation. On these sums will be organized public works. The initiativein works of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will blind the workingclass firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign. From thesesame sums also a part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness andproductiveness.

15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definiteand freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money existsto be circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts ruinously on therunning of the State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation ofthe lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism.

16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the tokenof exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of thiscircumstance are already sufficiently noticeable.

17. A court of account will also be instituted by us, and in it theruler 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 ofthe preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered.

18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing theState is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove thepossibility of leakages of extravagances.

19. The representative function of the ruler at receptions for thesake of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished inorder that the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power willnot then be split up into fractional parts among time-serving favorites whosurround the throne for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in theirown and not in the common interests of the State.

20. Economic crises have been producer by us for the GOYIM byno other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals havestagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to applyto those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances ofthe State with the payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of thesecapitals .... The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists out ofthe hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples andwith them also the States .... (Now we know the purpose of the FederalReserve Bank Corporation!!).

21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond with therequirements 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 therebychildren also must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the dayof their birth. The revision of issue is a material question for the wholeworld.

22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATESWHICH ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THEMORE 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 ofworking-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make theissue 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 Frenchadministrative division), each circle.

25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying our of moneyfor State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree ofthe ruler; this will do away with the protection by a ministry of oneinstitution to the detriment of others.

26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried out side byside that they may not be obscured by distance one to another.

27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions andprinciples of the GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarmnobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of thedisorderly darkness into which the GOYIM by their irregularities haveplunged the finances. The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists intheir beginning with drawing up a single budget which year after year growsowing to the following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, thenthey 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 aliquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up inaccordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from thenormal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a year, and so the annual budget istrebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of theGOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes,and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the GOY States tobankruptcy. (The United States was declared "bankrupt"at the Geneva Convention of 1929! [see 31 USC 5112, 5118, and 5119).

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 ofunderstanding of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damoclesover the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by atemporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm of our bankers. Foreign loansare leeches which there is no possibility of removing from the body of the Stateuntil they fall off of themselves or the State flings them off. But the GOYStates do not tear them off; they go on in persisting in putting more on tothemselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntaryblood-letting.

TYRANNY OF USURY

30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreignloan? A loan is - an issue of government bills of exchange containing apercentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loanbears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away ininterest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a doublesum, 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 taxationper head the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in orderto settle accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed moneyinstead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additionalinterest.

32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffledtheir money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when webought up the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the externalsphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the GOYIMbegan to pay us the tribute of subjects.

33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones inregard to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want ofunderstanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have madetheir countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay ithas not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble andmoney.

34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore therewill be no State interest-bearing paper, except a one per- cent series, so thatthere will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength outof the State. The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be givenexclusively to industrial companies who will find no difficulty in payinginterest out of profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowedmoney like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and not to use inoperations. (Now we know why President Kennedy wasassassinated in 1963 when he refused to borrow any more of the "BankNotes" from the bankers of the Federal Reserve Bankand began circulating non-interest bearing "Notes"of the "United States of America"!!!).

35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which frombeing as now a paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into alender 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 GOYIMso long as they were independent but are not desirable under our rule.

36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brutebrains of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have beenborrowing from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all thesame these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got bythem from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could havebeen 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 havecontrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they haveeven seen in them an advantage for themselves.

38. Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in thelight 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 toall men the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to those abusesto which we owe our mastery over the GOYIM, but which cannot be allowedin our kingdom.

39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither theruler nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to diverteven the smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it inanother direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan ofaction. (Is this why a "private corporation,"known as the "Internal Revenue Service," is incharge of collecting the "payments" of the "IncomeTaxes" and the IRS always deposits those "payments"to the Federal Reserve bank and never to the Treasuryof the United States??).

40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marchingalong an undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by theway heroes and demi-gods.

41. The GOY rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should bedistracted from State occupations by representative receptions, observances ofetiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our rule. The accounts offavorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up forthem by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds bypromises that in the future economics and improvements were foreseen ....Economics from what? From new taxes? - were questions that might have been butwere not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.

42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, towhat pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding theastonishing industry of their peoples ....

PROTOCOL No. 21

1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add adetailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothingmore, because they have fed us with national moneys of the GOYIM, but forour State there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.

2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators andslackness of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, bylending to the GOY governments moneys which were not at all needed by theStates. Could anyone do the like in regard to us? .... Therefore, I shall onlydeal with the details of internal loans.

3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and opensubscriptions for their own bills of exchange, that is, for theirinterest-bearing paper. That they may be within the reach of all the price isdetermined at from a hundred to a thousand; and a discount is made for theearliest 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 thetreasury safes are as they say overflowing and there's more money than they cando with (why then take it?). The subscription, it is alleged, covers manytimes 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 ofexchange.

4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that adebit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment ofinterest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do notswallow up but only add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhaustedit becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THEINTEREST ON IT. These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit .... (NOWWE NOW OF THE PURPOSE OF THE BULLSHIT CRY FOR BALANCING THE BUDGET!!)

5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the paymentof interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made withoutthe consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made toreturn the money to those who are not willing to convert their paper. Ifeverybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, thegovernment would be hooked on their own files and would be found insolvent andunable to pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the GOYgovernments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferredlosses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments oftheir moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled these governments to throwoff their shoulders a debit of several millions.

6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by theGOYIM for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.

7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to thevarious countries the absence of any means between the interest of the peoplesand of those who rule them.

8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this pointand upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated byso-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. Ifleft for long at the disposition of a government these funds evaporate in thepayment of interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the deposit ofequivalent amount of RENTS.

9. And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the Statetreasuries of the GOYIM.

10. When we ascend the throne of the world all these financial andsimilar shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away soas not to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since weshall not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of pricesset upon our values, which we shall announce by law at the price whichrepresents their full worth without any possibility of lowering or raising. (Raisinggives the pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we made a beginning inrelation to the values of the GOYIM.)

11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government creditinstitutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial valuesin accordance with government views. These institutions will be in a position tofling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day, orto buy up for the same amount. In this way all industrial undertakings will comeinto dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what immense power weshall thereby secure for ourselves ....

PROTOCOL No. 22

1 In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have endeavoredto depict with care the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of whatis going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming already inthe near future, the secret of our relations to the GOYIM and offinancial 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 WECAN PROCURE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE.

3. Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule ispredestined by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that allthat evil which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at theend of ends the cause of true well- being - the bringing of everything intoorder? Though it be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same itwill be established. We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who haverestored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also freedom of theperson, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, withproper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observanceof the laws established by us. We shall make plain therewith that freedom doesnot consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license any more thanthe dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right of everyone topromulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience,equality and a like, that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the rightto agitate oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, andthat true freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably andstrictly observes all the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrappedup in consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of rights of each, andnot 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 shriekingthemselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles andwhich are noting else, to speak honestly, but utopian .... Our authority will bethe crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man. Theaureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before itand a reverent fear before it of all the peoples. True force makes no terms withany right, not even with that of God: none dare come near to it so as to take somuch as a span from it away.

PROTOCOL No. 23

1. That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessaryto inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production ofarticles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased byemulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall re-establish small master productionwhich will mean laying a mine under the private capital of manufactures. This isindispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale oftenmove, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in directionsagainst the government. A people of small masters knows nothing of unemploymentand this binds him closely with existing order, and consequently with thefirmness of authority. For us its part will have ben played out the momentauthority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be prohibited bylaw and punishable as a crime against humanness of man who is turned into abrute under the influence of alcohol.

2. Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to thestrong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel thesword of defense and support against social scourges .... What do they want withan angelic spirit in a king? What they have to see in him is the personificationof force and power.

3. The supreme lord who will replace all now existing ruler, draggingin their existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have deniedeven the authority of God, from whose midst breads out on all sides the fire ofanarchy, must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame. Thereforehe will be obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he should drenchthem with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the form ofregularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind of infectionthat may cover the body of the State with sores.

4. This Chosen One of God is chosen from above todemolish the senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishnessand humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery and everykind of violence under the mask of principles of freedom and every kind ofviolence under the mask of principles of freedom and rights. They haveoverthrown all forms of social order to erect on the ruins of the throne of the Kingof the Jews; but their part will be played out the moment he enters into hiskingdom. Then it will be necessary to sweep them away from his path, on whichmust 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 sealof the predestination of man, to which God himself has led his star that noneother but Him might free us from all the before-mentioned forces and evils.

PROTOCOL No. 24

1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of KingDavid to the last strata of the earth.

2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that whichto this day has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of theconduct of the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education ofthought of all humanity.

3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kingsand their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent capacities,inducting them into the most secret mysteries of the political, into schemes ofgovernment, 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 beentrusted 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 ofthe aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all theobservations on the politico-economic moves and social sciences - in a word, allthe spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself forthe regulation of the relations of humanity.

5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne ifin their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualitiesthat are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and inthemselves dangerous for kingly office.

6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it beto 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 ofincapacity. kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and capablehands.

8. The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all the moreso for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closestcounselors.

KING OF THE JEWS

9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will knowwhat is coming.

10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is master ofhimself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysteriousways. None will know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions, andtherefore none will dare to stand across an unknown path.

11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king mustcorrespond in capacity to the plan of government it has to contain. It is forthis reason that he will ascend the throne not otherwise than after examinationof his mind by the aforesaid learned elders.

12. That the people may know and love their king, it is indispensablefor him to converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures thenecessary clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from another byus by the terror.

13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for boththese forces separately to fall under our influence.

14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of hispassions, and especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he givebrute instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganizesthe capacities of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts tothe worst and most brutal side of human activity.

15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all theworld of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personalinclinations.

16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachable.