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THE PROTOCOLS
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THE PROTOCOLS AND CF
84 WORLD REVOLUTION
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INCLUDING A
TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS
OF THE
“PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS
OF THE ZIONIST MEN
OF WISDOM”

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Мө. ХХІ, 33
Мрк. XIII, 29
(Откр. І.
Даll. ,
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„БІЙЗ% ЕСТЬ, ПРИ ЦВЁРСТИ“.
О томъ, чему не желаютъ вѣрить
что такъ близко.
Поселищается ..to,ну стаду Хрхочу.
4-е изданіе биирії „Близъ
грядущіn антихрiсть и
царство діавола на зем.
лѣ“, передѣланное II зна•
чительно дополненное
11оздиЪtiшiмi паслѣдова•
ніяміі і паблюденіяхII.
Вы, братія, не во тьмѣ, чтобы
день (Господень) засталъ вас,
какъ тать (1 Сол. 5, 4).
Претерпѣршій же до конца
спасется. (Мат. 24, 13
А.
1
Ceprbe Hanycs.


TRANSLATION
IT IS NEAR, AT THE DOOR
Matt. XXIV, 33
MARK XIII, 29
LUKE XXI, 31
Rev. I, 3. XXII, 10
Dan. XII, 4
CONCERNING SOMETHING PEOPLE DO NOT WISH
TO BELIEVE
AND WHICH IS SO NEAR
FOURTH EDITION OF THE BOOK, “NEAR IS THE COMING
OF ANTI-CHRIST AND THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL ON
EARTH,” REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED BY
LATER RESEARCHES AND INVESTIGATION
SERGE NILUS
Dedicated to the small herd of Christ
“Ye, brethren, do not remain in the dark so that the day (of the Lord) shall not
catch ye as thieves.” (1 Sol. 5, 4.)
“ He who suffers to the end shall be saved.” (Matt. 24, 13.)
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the goal of good. For this reason we must not hesitate at
bribery, fraud, and treason when these can help us to reach
our end. In politics it is necessary to seize the property of
others without hesitation if in so doing we attain submission
and power.
Our government, following the line of peaceful conquest,
has the right to substitute for the horrors of war less notice-
able and more efficient executions, these being necessary to
keep up terror, which induces blind submission. A just but
inexorable strictness is the greatest factor of governmental
power. We must follow. a program of violence and hypocrisy,
not only for the sake of profit, but also as a duty and for the
sake of victory.
A doctrine based on calculation is as potent as the means
employed by it. That is why not only by these very means,
but by the severity of our doctrines, we shall triumph and
shall enslave all governments under our super-government.
Even in olden times we shouted among the people the words
“ Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.” These words have
been repeated so many times since by unconscious parrots,
which, flocking from all sides to the bait, have ruined the
prosperity of the world and true individual freedom, formerly
so well protected from the pressure of the mob. The would be
clever and intelligent Goys did not discern the symbolism
of the uttered words; did not notice the contradiction in the
meaning and the connection between them; did not notice that
there is no equality in nature; that there can be no liberty,
since nature herself has established inequality of mind, char-
acter, and ability, as well as subjection to her laws. They
did not reason that the power of the mob is blind; that the
upstarts selected for government are just as blind in politics
as is the mob itself, whereas the initiated man, even though
a fool, is capable of ruling, while the uninitiated, although a
genius, will understand nothing of politics. All this has been
overlooked by the Goys.
Meanwhile dynastic government has been based upon this,
that the father passed to his son the knowledge of the course
of political evolution, so that nobody except the members of
the dynasty could possess this knowledge, and no one could
disclose the secrets to the governed people. In the course of
time the meaning of the dynastic transmission of the true
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understanding of politics has been lost, thus contributing to
the success of our cause.
In all parts of the world the words “ Liberty, Equality, and
Fraternity” have brought whole legions into our ranks through
our blind agents, carrying our banners with delight. Mean-
while these words were worms which ruined the prosperity
of the Goys, everywhere destroying peace, quiet, and solidar-
ity, undermining all the foundations of their states. You will
see subsequently that this aided our triumph, for it also gave
us, among other things, the opportunity to grasp the trump
card, the abolition of privileges; in other words, the very es-
sence of the aristocracy of the Goys, which was the only
protection of peoples and countries against us.
On the ruins of natural and hereditary aristocracy we built
an aristocracy of our intellectual class — the money aristocracy.
We have established this new aristocracy on the qualification
of wealth, which is dependent upon us, and also upon science,
which is promoted by our wise men.
Our triumph was also made easier because, through our
connections with people who were indispensable to us, we
always played upon the most sensitive chords of the human
mind, namely, greed, and the insatiable selfish desires of man.
Each of these human weaknesses taken separately is capable
of killing initiative and of placing the will of the people at the
disposal of the buyer of their activities.
Abstract liberty offered the opportunity for convincing the
masses that government is nothing but the manager represent-
ing the owner of the country, namely, the people, and that
this manager can be discarded like a pair of worn-out gloves.
The fact that the representatives of the nation can be de-
posed, delivers them into our power and practically places
their appointment in our hands.
Protocol No. II
IT is necessary for us that wars, whenever possible, should
I bring no territorial advantages; this will shift war to an
economic basis and force nations to realize the strength of our
predominance; such a situation will put both sides at the
mercy of our million-eyed international agency, which will be
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ule the peoples in alohal rights, in a limiternational right:
unhampered by any frontiers. Then our international rights
will do away with national rights, in a limited sense, and will
rule the peoples in the same way as the civil power of each
state regulates the relation of its subjects among themselves.
The administrators chosen by us from among the people
in accordance with their capacity for servility will not be ex-
perienced in the art of government, and consequently they will
easily become pawns in our game, in the hands of our scien-
tists and wise counselors, specialists trained from early child-
hood for governing the world. As you are aware, these
specialists have obtained the knowledge necessary for govern-
ment from our political plans, from the study of history, and
from the observation of every passing event. The Goys are
not guided by the practice of impartial historical observation,
but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for its
results. Therefore, we need give them no consideration. Until
the time comes let them amuse themselves, or live in the hope
of new amusements or in the memories of those past. Let
that play the most important part for them which we have
induced them to regard as the laws of science (theory). For
this purpose, by means of our press, we increase their blind
faith in these laws. Intelligent Goys will boast of their
knowledge, and verifying it logically they will put into prac-
tice all scientific information compiled by our agents for the
purpose of educating their minds in the direction which we
require.
Do not think that our assertions are without foundation:
note the successes of Darwinism, Marxism, and Nietzscheism,
engineered by us. The demoralizing effects of these doctrines
upon the minds of the Goys should be already obvious to us.
It is essential that we take into consideration the modern
ideas, temperaments, and tendencies of peoples in order that
no mistakes in politics and in guiding administrative affairs
may be made. The triumph of our system, parts of whose
mechanism must be adapted in accordance with the tempera-
ment of the peoples with whom we come in contact, cannot
be realized unless its practical application is based upon a
résunié of the past as related to the present.
There is one great force in the hands of modern states which
arouses thought movements among the people. That is the
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to register complaints of the people, and to express and foment
dissatisfaction. The triumph of free babbling is incarnated
in the press; but governments were unable to profit by this
power and it has fallen into our hands. Through it we have
attained influence, while remaining in the background. Thanks
to the press, we have gathered gold in our hands, although
we had to take it from rivers of blood and tears.
But it cost us the sacrifice of many of our own people.
Every sacrifice on our part is worth a thousand Goys before
God.
Protocol No. III
TO-DAY I can tell you that our goal is close at hand.
1 Only a small distance remains, and the cycle of the Sym-
bolic Serpent — the symbol of our people — will be complete.
When this circle is completed, then all the European states
will be enclosed in it as in strong claws.
The modern constitutional scales will soon tip over, for we
have set them inaccurately, thus insuring an unsteady balance
for the purpose of wearing out their holder. The Goys
thought it had been sufficiently strongly made and hoped that
the scales would regain their equilibrium, but the holder — the
ruler — is screened from the people by his representatives,
who fritter away their time, carried away by their uncon-
trolled and irresponsible authority. Their power, moreover,
has been built up on terrorism spread through the palaces.
Unable to reach the hearts of their people, the rulers cannot
unite with them to gain strength against the usurpers of
power. The visible power of royalty and the blind power of
the masses, separated by us, have both lost significance, for
separated, they are as helpless as the blind man without a
stick.
To induce the lovers of authority to abuse their power, we
have placed all the forces in opposition to each other, having
developed their liberal tendencies towards independence. We
have excited different forms of initiative in that direction;
we have armed all the parties; we have made authority the
target of all ambitions. We have opened the arenas in different
states, where revolts are now occurring, and disorders and
bankruptcy will shortly appear everywhere.
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Unrestrained babblers have converted parliamentary ses-
sions and administrative meetings into oratorical contests.
Daring journalists, impudent pamphleteers, make daily attacks
on the administrative personnel. The abuse of power is defi-
nitely preparing the downfall of all institutions and every-
thing will be overturned by the blows of the infuriated mobs.
The people are shackled by poverty to heavy labor more
surely than they were by slavery and serfdom. They could
liberate themselves from those in one way or another, whereas
they cannot free themselves from misery. We have in-
cluded in constitutions rights which for the people are
fictitious and are not actual rights. All the so-called
“rights of the people” can exist only in the abstract and can
never be realized in practice. What difference does it make
to the toiling proletarian, bent double by heavy toil, oppressed
by his fate, that the babblers receive the right to talk, journal-
ists the right to mix nonsense with reason in their writings, if
the proletariat has no other gain from the constitution than the
miserable crumbs which we throw from our table in return for
his vote to elect our agents. Republican rights are bitter irony
to the poor man, for the necessity of almost daily labor prevents
him from using them, and at the same time deprives him of
his guarantee of a permanent and certain livelihood by making
him dependent upon strikes, organized either by his masters
or by his comrades.
Under our guidance the people have exterminated aristoc-
racy, which was their natural protector and guardian, for its
own interests are inseparably connected with the well-being
of the people. Now, however, with the destruction of this
aristocracy the masses have fallen under the power of the
profiteers and cunning upstarts, who have settled on the
workers as a merciless burden.
We will present ourselves in the guise of saviors of the
workers from this oppression when we suggest that they enter
our army of Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we
always extend our help, under the guise of the rule of brother-
hood demanded by the human solidarity of our social masonry.
The aristocracy which benefited by the labor of the people by
right was interested that the workers should be well fed,
healthy, and strong.
We, on the contrary, are concerned in the opposite — in the
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degeneration of the Goys. Our power lies in the chronic mal-
nutrition and in the weakness of the worker, because through
this he falls under our power and is unable to find either
strength or energy to combat it.
Hunger gives to capital greater power over the worker than
the legal authority of the sovereign ever gave to the aristoc-
racy. Through misery and the resulting jealous hatred we
manipulate the mob and crush those who stand in our way.
When the time comes for our universal ruler to be crowned,
the same hands will sweep away everything which may be an
obstacle in our way.
The Goys are no longer accustomed to think without
our scientific advice. Consequently, they do not see the im-
perative need of upholding that which we will sustain by all
means when our kingdom is established, namely, the teaching
in the schools of the only true science, the first of all sciences
— the science of the construction of human life, of social ex-
istence, which requires the division of labor and, consequently,
the separation of people into classes and castes. It is neces-
sary that all should know that equality cannot exist, owing to
the different nature of various kinds of work; that there can-
not be the same responsibility before the law in the case of an
individual who by his actions compromises an entire caste
and another who does not affect anything but his own honor.
The correct science of the social structure, to the secrets of
which we do not admit the Goys, would demonstrate to all
that occupation and labor must be differentiated so as not to
cause human suffering by the discrepancy between education
and work. The study of this science will lead the masses to
a voluntary submission to the authorities and to the govern-
mental system organized by them. Whereas, under the present
state of science, and due to the direction of our guidance
therein, the people, in their ignorance, blindly believing the
printed word, and owing to the misconceptions which have
been fostered by us, feel a hatred towards all classes whom
they consider superior to themselves, since they do not under-
stand the importance of each caste.
This hatred will be still more accentuated by the economic
crisis, which will stop financial transactions and all industrial
life. Having organized a general economic crisis by all pos-
sible underhand means, and with the help of gold which is all
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in our hands, we will throw great crowds of workmen into
the street, simultaneously, in all countries of Europe. These
crowds will gladly shed the blood of those of whom they, in
the simplicity of their ignorance, have been jealous since
childhood and whose property they will then be able to loot.
They will not harm our people because we will know of the
time of the attack and we will take measures to protect them.
We have persuaded others that progress will lead the Goys
into a realm of reason. Our despotism will be of such a
nature that it will be in a position to pacify all revolts by wise
restrictions and to eliminate liberalism from all institutions.
When the people saw that they obtained concessions and
license in the name of liberty, they imagined that they were
the masters, and rushed into power; but like every blind per-
son, they encountered innumerable obstacles; they rushed to
seek a leader, with no thought of returning to the old one, and
laid power at our feet. Remember the French Revolution,
which we have called “great”; the secrets of its preparation
are well known to us, for it was the work of our hands.
Since then we have carried the masses from one disappoint-
ment to another, so that they will renounce even us in favor
of a despot sovereign of Zionist blood, whom we are preparing
for the world.
At present, as an international force, we are invulnerable,
because if we are attacked by one state we are supported by
other states. The unlimited baseness of the Goy peoples, who
grovel before force, who are pitiless towards weakness, who
are merciless to misdemeanors and lenient to crimes, who are
unwilling to tolerate the contradictions of a free social struc-
ture; patient unto martyrdom in bearing with the violence
of daring despotism — this is what helps our independence.
They tolerate and permit such abuses from their modern
premiers — dictators — for the least of which they would be-
head twenty kings.
How can such a phenomenon be explained, such an illogical
conception on the part of the mass of the people towards
events of seemingly the same nature? This phenomenon can
be explained by the fact that these dictators through their
agents whisper to their people that by these abuses they injure
the states for a supreme purpose, namely, for the attainment
of the happiness of the people, their universal fraternity, soli-
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darity, and equality. Of course, they are not told that this
unification will be achieved only under our rule. Thus, the
people condemn the just and acquit the unjust, more and more.
convinced that they can do what they please. Owing to this,
the people destroy all stability and create disorder on every
occasion.
The word “Liberty” brings all society into conflict with all
authority, be it that of God or Nature. This is why, at the
moment of our enthronement, we shall strike this word from
the dictionary as being the symbol of brute power, which
turns the masses into bloodthirsty beasts. It is true, how-
ever, that these beasts go to sleep as soon as they have drunk
blood, and then it is easy to shackle them; but if the blood is
not given to them they will not sleep and will struggle.
PROTOCOL No. IV
D VERY republic passes through several stages. The first
U stage is like the early period of insane ravings of a blind
man throwing himself right and left. The second is the
demagogy which breeds anarchy, which inevitably leads to
despotism, not of a legal and open character and, consequently,
responsible, but an unseen and unknown despotism, no less
effective because exercised by some secret organization, acting
even less ceremoniously because it is hidden under the cover
and behind the backs of different agents. The change of these
agents will even help the secret organizations, as it will thus
be able to rid itself of the necessity of spending money to
reward employees of long terms of service.
Who and what can overthrow an unseen power? For such
is the character of our power. External Masonry acts as a
screen for it and its aims, but the plan of action of this power,
and its very headquarters, will always remain unknown to the
people.
Liberty could also be harmless and remain on the state
program without detriment to the well-being of the people
1 The reference is probably to those Masonic Lodges in Continental
Europe which, contrary to the fundamental principles of Anglo-Saxon
Lodges, have been converted into quasi political and anti-Christian or-
ganizations. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Article
“Freemasonry," Vol. XI, p. 84.
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if it were to retain the ideas of the belief in God and human
fraternity, free from the conception of equality for such a con-
ception is in contradiction to the laws of nature which establish
subordination. With such à faith the people would be
governed by the guardians of the parish and would thrive
quietly and obediently under the guidance of their spiritual
leader, accepting God's dispensation on earth. It is for this
reason that we must undermine faith, tearing from the minds
of the Goys the very principal of God and Soul, and substitut-
ing mathematical formulas and material needs.
In order that the minds of the Goys may have no time to
think and notice things, it is necessary to divert them in the
direction of industry and commerce. Thus all nations will
seek their own profit, and while engaged in the struggle they
will not notice their common enemy. But in order that liberty
should finally undermine and ruin the Goy's society, it is
necessary to put industry on a basis of speculation. The result
of this will be that everything, absorbed by industry from the
land, will not remain in the hands of the Goys, but will be
directed towards speculation; that is, it will come into our
coffers.
The intense struggle for supremacy, the shocks to economic
life, will create, moreover have already created, disappointed,
cold, and heartless societies. These societies will have com-
plete disgust for high politics and religion. Their only guide
will be calculation, i.e., gold, for which they will have a real
cult because of the material delights which it can supply. It
will be at that stage that the lower classes of the Goys, not
for the sake of doing good, nor even for the sake of wealth,
but solely because of their hatred towards the privileged, will
follow us against our competitors for power, the intelligent
Goys.
PROTOCOL No. V
W H AT form of government can be given to societies in
W which bribery has penetrated everywhere, where riches
are obtained only by clever tricks and semi-fraudulent means,
where corruption reigns, where morality is sustained by puni-
tive measures and strict laws and not by voluntary acceptance of
moral principles, where cosmopolitan convictions have elimi-
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nated patriotic feelings and religion? What form of govern-
ment can be given to such societies other than a despotism
such as I shall describe?
We will create a strong centralized government, so as to
gather the social forces into our power. We will mechanically
regulate all the functions of political life of our subjects by
new laws. These laws will gradually eliminate all the con-
cessions and liberties permitted by the Goys. Our kingdom
will be crowned by such a majestic despotism that it will be
able, at all times and in all places, to crush both antagonistic
and discontented Goys.
We may be told that the despotism outlined by me is in-
consistent with modern progress, but I will prove to you that
the contrary is the case.
At the time when people considered rulers as an incarnation
of the will of God, they subjected themselves without murmur
to the autocracy of the sovereigns; but as soon as we inspired
them with the thought of their personal rights, they began to
regard the rulers as ordinary mortals. The holy anointment
fell from the heads of sovereigns in the opinion of the people;
and when we deprived them of their belief in God, then author-
ity was thrown into the street, where it became public property
and was seized by us. Moreover, the art of governing the
masses and individuals by means of cunningly constructed
theories and phraseology, by rulers of social life, and other
devices not understood by the Goys, belongs, among other
faculties, to our administrative mind, which is educated in
analysis and observation, and is also based upon skillful reason-
ing in which we have no competitors, just as we have none
in the preparation of plans for political action and solidarity.
Only the Jesuits could be compared to us in this; but we were
able to discredit them in the mind of the senseless mob as a
visible organization, whereas we, with our secret organization,
remained in the dark. After all, is it not the same to the
world who will be its master — whether it be the head of
Catholicism or our despot of Zionist blood ? To us, however,
the Chosen People, it is by no means a matter of indifference,
Temporarily, a world coalition of the Goys would be able
to hold us in check, but we are insured against this by roots
of dissension so deep among them that they cannot now be
extracted. We have set at variance the personal and national
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interests of the Goys; we have incited religious and race
hatred, nurtured by us in their hearts for twenty centuries.
Owing to all this, no state will obtain the help it asks for from
any side because each of them will think that a coalition against
us will be disadvantageous to it. We are too powerful — we
must be taken into consideration. No country can reach even
an insignificant private understanding without our being secret
parties to it.
Per me reges regnant — “ Through me the sovereigns
reign.” The prophets have told us that we were chosen by
God himself to reign over the world. God endowed us with
genius to enable us to cope with the problem. Were there
a genius in the opposing camp, he would struggle against us,
but a newcomer is not equal to an old inhabitant. The struggle
between us would be of such a merciless nature as the world
has never seen before; moreover their genius would be too
late.
All the wheels of government mechanism move by the ac-
tion of the motor which is in our hands, and that motor is
gold. The science of political economy, invented by our wise
men, has long ago demonstrated the royal prestige of capital.
To attain freedom of action, capital must obtain freedom to
monopolize industry and trade; this is already being done by
an unseen hand in all parts of the world. Such liberty will
give political power to traders, and will aid in subjugating
the people. At present it is more important to disarm peoples
than to lead them to war; it is more important to utilize flam-
ing passions for our purposes than to extinguish them; more
important to grasp and interpret the thoughts of others in
our own way than to discard them.
The most important problem of our government is to weaken
the popular mind by criticism; to disaccustom it to thought,
which creates opposition; to deflect the power of thought into
mere empty eloquence.
At all times both peoples and individuals have mistaken
words for deeds, as they are satisfied with the visible, rarely
noticing whether the promise is performed in the fields of
social life.
* Therefore, we will organize ostensible institutions which
will prove eloquently their good work in the direction of
“progress.”
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We will appropriate to ourselves the liberal aspect of all
parties, of all shades of opinion, and we will provide our
orators with the same aspect, and they will talk so much that
they will exhaust the people by their speeches and cause them
to turn away from orators in disgust.
To control public opinion it is necessary to perplex it by the
expression of numerous contradictory opinions until the Goys
get lost in the labyrinth, and come to understand that it is best
to have no opinion on political questions.
Such questions are not intended to be understood by the
people, since only he who rules knows them. This is the first
secret.
The second secret necessary for the success of governing
consists in so multiplying popular failings, habits, passions,
and conventional laws that no one will be able to disentangle
himself in the chaos, and consequently, people will cease to
understand each other. This measure would help us to sow
dissension within all parties, to disintegrate all those collective
forces which still do not wish to subjugate themselves to us;
to discourage all individual initiative which might in any
degree hamper our work.
There is nothing more dangerous than individual initiative;
if it has a touch of genius it can accomplish more than a mil-
lion people among whom we have sown dissensions. We must
direct the education of the Goy societies so that their arms
will drop hopelessly when they face every task where inj-
tiative is required. The intensity of action resulting from
individual freedom of action dissipates its force when it en-
counters another person's freedom. This results in heavy
blows at morale, disappointments and failures..
We will so tire the Goys by all this that we will force them
to offer us an international power, which by its position will
enable us conveniently to absorb, without destroying, all gov-
ernmental forces of the world and thus to form a super-
government. In lieu of modern rulers, we will place a monster
which will be called the Super-Governmental Administration.
Its hands will be stretched out like pincers in every direction
so that this colossal organization cannot fail to conquer all the
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PROTOCOL No. VI
W E will soon begin to establish great monopolies — reser-
VV voirs of huge wealth, upon which even the large for-
tunes of the Goys will depend to such an extent that they will
be drowned, together with the governmental credits, on the
day following the political catastrophe.
You economists, here present, will please carefully weigh
the significance of this scheme! ...
We must develop, by all means, the importance of our super-
government by representing it as the protector and reward-
giver of all those who willingly submit to us.
The aristocracy of the Goys as a political force is dead.
We do not need to take it into consideration; but as land-
owners they are harmful to us because they can be independent
in their resources of life. For this reason we must deprive
them of their land at any cost.
To attain this object, the best method is to increase land
taxes — the indebtedness of the land. These measures will
keep land ownership in subjection.
The aristocracy of the Goys, which as a matter of heredity
is unable to be satisfied with small things, will soon be ruined.
At the same time it is necessary to patronize trade and
industry vigorously, and more important, to encourage specu-
lation, whose function is to act as a counterbalance to in-
dustry. Without speculation, industry will increase private
capital and tend to the amelioration of land ownership by
freeing it from indebtedness created by the loans granted by
agricultural banks. It is necessary that industry should suck
out of the land both labor and capital and through speculation
deliver into our hands all the money of the world, thus throw-
ing all the Goys into the ranks of the proletarians. Then the
Goys will bow before us in order to obtain the mere right of
existence.
To destroy Goy industry we will create among the Goys
as an aid to speculation the strong demand for boundless
luxury which we have already developed.
Let us raise wages, which, however, will be of no benefit to
the workers, for we will simultaneously cause the rise in
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prices of objects of first necessity under the pretext that this
is due to the decadence of agriculture, and of the cattle
industry.
We will also artfully and deeply undermine the sources of
production by teaching the workmen anarchy and the use of
alcohol, at the same time taking measures to expel all the in-
telligent Goys from the land.
That the true situation should not be noticed by the Goys
until the proper time, we will mask it by a pretended desire
to help the working classes and great economic principles, an
active propaganda of which principles is being carried on
through the dissemination of our economic theories.
PROTOCOL No. VII
THE intensification of armament and the increase of the
1 police force are essential to the realization of the above-
mentioned plans. It is necessary that there should be besides
ourselves in all countries only the mass of the proletariat, a
few millionaires devoted to us, policemen, and soldiers.
We must create unrest, dissensions, and hatred throughout
Europe and through European affiliations, also on other con-
tinents. In this there is a twofold advantage: First, we will
hold all countries under our influence, since they will realize
that we have the power to create disorders or to restore order
whenever we wish. All countries have come to regard us as
a necessary burden. Second, we will entangle by intrigues all
the threads stretched by us into all the governmental bodies
by means of politics, economic treaties, or financial obligations.
To attain these ends we will worm our way into parleys and
negotiations, armed with cunning, but in so-called “official
language " we will assume the opposite tactics of seeming
honest and reasonable. In this way the peoples and the gov-
ernments of the Goys, taught by us to regard only the surface
of that which we show them, will look upon us as benefactors
and saviors of mankind.
We must be able to overcome all opposition by provoking
a war by the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose
us. Should, however, those neighbors, in their turn, decide to
unite against us we must respond by a world war.
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of the Goys, accustomed to performing their administrative
duties without questioning their aim, and without thinking
why they are necessary. The Goy administrators sign papers
without reading them and work for profit or for pride.
We will surround our government by a whole world of
economists. It is for this reason that economics is the chief
science taught to the Jews. We will be surrounded by a
crowd of bankers, traders, capitalists, and most important of
all, by millionaires, because in essence everything will be
decided by a question of figures.
Meanwhile, as it is not yet safe to give the responsible
government posts to our brother Jews, we will give them to
people whose record and whose character are such that there
is an abyss between them and the people; also to people for
whom, in case of disobedience to our orders, there will remain
nothing but condemnation or exile — thus forcing them to
protect our interests to their last breath.
PROTOCOL No. IX
TN applying our principles, turn your attention to the charac-
1 ter of the people in whose countries you will be resident
and among whom you will act, for a general similar applica-
tion of them before the reëducation of a people according to
our plan cannot be successful. But by advancing carefully
in their application you will see that before ten years have
passed the most obstinate character will have changed, and
we can then count another people among those who already
have submitted to us.
When we are enthroned we will substitute for the liberal
words of our Masonic catchword, “ Liberty, Equality, and
Fraternity,” another group of words expressing simply ideas,
namely, “the right of Liberty, the duty of Equality, the ideal
of Fraternity.” Thus we will speak and ... we shall have
the goat by the horns. . . . De facto, we have already de-
stroyed all governments except our own, although de jure
there are still many left. At present, if any of the govern-
ments raises a protest against us, it is done only as a matter
of form, and at our desire, and by our order, because their
anti-Semitism is necessary to enable us to control our smaller
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brothers. I will not further explain this, as it has already been
the object of numerous discussions.
In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-
government exists under such extra-legal conditions that it is
common to designate it by an energetic and strong word — a
Dictatorship.
I can honestly state that at the present time we are law-
makers; we are the judges and inflict punishment; we execute
and pardon; we, as the chief of all our armies, ride the leader's
horse. We rule by indomitable will because we hold in our
hands the fragments of a once strong party now subject to
us. We possess boundless ambition, burning greed for merci-
less revenge, and bitter hatred.
From us emanates an all-embracing terror. People of all
opinions and of all doctrines are in our service; people who
desire to restore monarchies, demagogues, socialists, commun-
ists, and other utopians. We have had to put all of them to
work; every one of them is undermining the last remnant of
authority, is trying to overthrow all existing order. All the
governments have been tortured by this procedure; they beg
for peace, and for the sake of peace are prepared to make any
sacrifice, but we will not give them peace until they recognize
our international super-government openly and with sub-
mission.
The masses have begun to demand the solution of the social
problem by means of an international agreement. The division
into parties has delivered all of them to us, because in order to
conduct a party struggle money is required, and we have it all.
We might fear the union of the intelligent power of the
Goys' rulers with the blind power of the masses, but we have
taken all measures against such a possibility. Between the
two powers we have raised a wall in the form of mutual terror;
thus the blind power of the people continues to be our sup-
port, and we alone will act as its leader and, naturally, we
will direct it towards our goal.
To prevent the hand of the blind from freeing itself from
our guidance, we must from time to time keep in close touch
with the masses, if not through personal contact then through
our most devoted brethren. When we become a recognized
power we will personally address the masses in open places,
and we will expound political problems in the desired direction.
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sentatives consider that pleasure is above everything? It
is important to know one detail in our policy. It will help
us in discussing division of authority, freedom of speech, of the
press, of religion (faith), the right of assembly, equality before
the law, inviolability of property and of the home, indirect
taxes and the retrospective force of law. All such ques-
tions should never be directly and openly discussed before the
masses. When it becomes necessary for us to discuss them,
they should not be elaborated but merely mentioned, without
going into details, pointing out that modern legal principles
are being accepted by us. The significance of this reticence lies
in the fact that a principle which has not been openly declared
gives us freedom of action to exclude unnoticed one point or
another, whereas if elaborated the principle becomes as good
as established.
The people feel an especial love and admiration towards the
political genius, and they always react to their acts of violence
as follows:
“Yes, of course it is villainy, but how clever!- It is a trick
but cleverly done! So majestically! so impudently! ...".
We count upon attracting all nations to the construction of
the foundations of the new edifice which has been planned by
us. It is for this reason that it is necessary for us first of all
to acquire that spirit of daring, enterprise, and force which,
through our agents, will enable us to overcome all obstacles
in our path.
When we accomplish our coup d'état, we will say to the
peoples: “ Everything went badly; all of you have suffered.
We will abolish the cause of your sufferings, that is to say,
nationalities, frontiers, and national currencies. Of course
you are free to condemn us, but would your judgment be just
if you were to pronounce it before giving a trial to what we
will give you?” Thereafter they will exalt us with a sentiment
of unanimous delight and hope. The voting system which we
have used as a tool for our enthronement, and to which we
have accustomed even the most humble members of humanity
by organizing meetings and prearranged agreements, will
have performed its last service and will make its last appear-
ance in the expression of a unanimous desire to become more
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closely acquainted with us before having pronounced a
judgment.
To attain this we must force all to vote, without class dis-
crimination, to establish the autocracy of the majority, which
cannot be obtained from the intellectual classes alone. Through
this method of accustoming every one to the idea of self-
determination, we will shatter the Goy family and its educa-
tional importance. We will not allow the formation of
individual minds, because the mob, under our guidance, will
prevent them from distinguishing themselves or even express-
ing themselves. The mob has become accustomed to listen
only to us who pay it for obedience and attention. We will
thus create such a blind power that it will be unable to move
without the guidance of our agents, sent by us to replace their
leaders.
The masses will submit to this régime because they will
know that their earnings, perquisites, and other benefits depend
upon these leaders.
The plan of government must emanate already formed from
one head, as it would be impossible to put it together if disin-
tegration by many minds into small pieces is allowed. That
is why we only are allowed to know the plan of action ; but we
must not discuss it in order not to affect its ingenuity, the
correlation between its component parts, the practical force
of the secret meaning of its every clause. Were such a plan
to be submitted to and altered by frequent voting, it would
reflect the stamp of the misconceptions of every one who has
not penetrated its depth and the correlation of its aims. For
this reason our plans must be strongly and clearly conceived.
Consequently, the inspired work of our leader must not be
thrown to the mercy of the mob or even of a limited group.
These plans will not immediately upset contemporary insti-
tutions. They will only alter their organization, and conse-
quently the entire combination of their development, which
will thus be directed according to the plans laid down by us.
More or less the same institutions exist in different coun-
tries under different names, such as representative bodies,
ministries, senate, state council, legislative and executive
bodies. It is not necessary for me to explain to you the con-
necting mechanism of these different institutions, as it is well
known to you. I only call to your attention that every one of
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the aforesaid institutions fulfills some important governmental
function, and, moreover, I beg you to notice that the word
“important” refers not to the institution but to the function.
Consequently, it is not the institutions that are important but
their functions. Such institutions have divided among them-
selves all the functions of government, namely, administrative,
legislative, and executive powers; therefore, their functions in
the state organism have become similar to those in a human
body. If one part of the governmental machine is injured,
the state itself falls ill, in the same way as the human body,
and then it dies.
When we injected the poison of liberalism into the state
organism, its entire political complexion changed; the states
became infected with a mortal disease, namely, the decomposi-
tion of the blood. It is only necessary to await the end of
their agony.
Constitutional governments were born of liberalism, which
replaced the autocracy that was the salvation of the Goys,
for the constitution, as you well know, is nothing more than a
school for dispute, discussion, disagreement, fruitless party agi-
tation, dissension, party tendencies — in other words, a school
for everything which weakens the efficiency of government.
The platform no less than the press condemned the authorities
to inaction and impotency and thereby rendered them useless-
and superfluous, for which reason they were overthrown in
many countries. The rise of the republican era then became
possible, and then we substituted for the ruler a caricature of
government — a president chosen from the mob, from among
our creatures, our slaves. This was the kind of mine we laid
under the Goys, or, more correctly, under the Goy nations.
In the near future we will make the president a responsible
officer, whereupon we will no longer stand on ceremony in
carrying out the things for which our dummy will be responsi-
ble. What difference does it make to us that the ranks of
those aiming at authority will thin out, that confusion will re-
sult from inability to find presidents, confusion which will
definitely disorganize the country?
To accomplish our plan, we will engineer the election of
presidents whose past record contains some hidden scandal,
some “Panama ” — then they will be faithful executors of
our orders from fear of exposure, and from the natural desire
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of every man who has reached authority to retain the privi-
leges, advantages, and dignity connected with the position of
president. The Chamber of Deputies will elect, protect, and
screen presidents, but we will deprive it of the right of
initiating laws or of amending them, for this right will be
granted by us to the responsible president, a puppet in our
hands. Of course then the power of the president will become
the target of numerous attacks, but we will give him the means
of self-protection by giving him the right of directly applying
to the people, for their decision, over the heads of their repre-
sentatives. In other words, he will turn to the same blind
slave — to the majority of the mob. Moreover, we will em-
power the president to proclaim martial law. We will justify
this prerogative under the pretext that the president, as chief
of the national army, must control it in order to protect the
new republican constitution, which he, as a responsible repre-
sentative of this constitution, is bound to defend.
It is obvious that under such conditions the keys to the
shrine will be in our hands, and nobody except ourselves will
be able to guide the legislative power.
We will also take away from the Chamber, with the intro-
duction of the new republican constitution, the right of inter-
pellation in regard to governmental measures, under the
pretext that political secrets must be preserved. With the
aid of this new constitution we will reduce the number of
representatives to the minimum, thus also reducing to the
same extent political passions and passion for politics. If, in
spite of this, those remaining are recalcitrant, we will abolish
them completely by appealing to the majority of the people.
The appointment of the president and vice presidents of the
Chamber and Senate will be the prerogative of the president.
Instead of continuous parliamentary sessions, we will shorten
them to a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief ex-
ecutive, will have the right to convene or dissolve parliament,
and in the case of dissolution, defer the appointment of a new
parliament. But to prevent the president from being held
responsible before our plans are matured for the results of all
these essentially illegal actions inaugurated by us, we will
give the ministers and other high administrative officials sur-
rounding the president the idea of circumventing his orders
by issuing instructions of their own. Consequently, they will
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The following is the program of the new constitution which
we are preparing. We will make laws and control the courts
in the following manner:
1. By suggestions to the legislative body.
2. By means of orders issued by the president as general
statutes, decrees of the Senate, and decisions of the Council
of State, as regulations passed by the ministries.
3. And when the opportune moment arrives — in the form
of a coup d'état.
Having thus roughly outlined the modus agendi, we will now
take up in detail those measures by which we will complete the
development of the governmental mechanism in the above
direction. By these measures, I mean the freedom of the
press, the right of assembly, religious freedom, electoral rights,
and many other things which must disappear from the human
repertoire, or must be fundamentally altered on the day fol-
lowing the declaration of the new constitution. It is only at
this moment that it will become possible for us to announce
all our decrees, for at any time in the future every perceptible
change would be dangerous, and this for the following
reasons: If these changes should be introduced and rigidly
enforced, it might cause despair by creating the fear of further
changes in a similar direction ; if, however, they are made
with a tendency to subsequent leniency, then it might be said
that we have recognized our mistakes, which would undermine
the faith in the infallibility of the new authority; it might also
be said that we were frightened, and that we were forced to
make concessions for which nobody would be thankful since
they would be considered as legitimately due.
Any of these impressions would be detrimental to the prestige
of the new constitution. It is necessary for us that, from the
first moment of its proclamation, when the people are still
dumbfounded by the accomplished revolution and are in a
state of terror and surprise, they should realize we are so
strong, so invulnerable, and so mighty that we shall in no
case pay attention to them, and not only will we ignore their
opinions and desires, but be ready to and capable of suppress-
ing at any moment or place any sign of opposition with in-
disputable authority. We shall want the people to realize that
we have taken at once everything we wanted, and that we shall
under no circumstances share our power with them. Then
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they will close their eyes to everything out of fear and will
await further developments.
The Goys are like a flock of sheep — we are wolves.
Do you know what happens to sheep when wolves get into
the fold?
They will also close their eyes to everything because we
will promise to return to them all their liberties after the
enemies of peace have been subjugated and all the parties
pacified.
Is it necessary to say how long they would have to wait
for the return of their liberties?
Why have we conceived and inspired this policy for the
Goys without giving them an opportunity to examine its inner
meaning if not for the purpose of attaining by a circuitous
method what is unattainable for our scattered race by a direct
road?
This constituted a base for our organization of secret
masonry which is not known to and whose aims are not even
suspected by these cattle, the Goys. They have been decoyed
by us into our numerous ostensible organizations, which appear
to be Masonic lodges, so as to divert the attention of their
coreligionists.
God has given us, his chosen people, the power to scatter,
and what to all appears to be our weakness, has proved to
be our strength, and has now brought us to the threshold of uni-
versal rule.
Little remains to be built on these foundations.
PROTOCOL No. XII
THE word “Liberty” can be differently interpreted. We
I will define it as follows:
Liberty is the right to do that which is permitted by law.
Such a definition of this word will eventually serve us, because
liberty will be in our power; and also because the laws will either
destroy or construct only what we desire in accordance with
the above mentioned program.
We will deal with the press in the following manner: What
is the present role of the press ? It serves to arouse furious
passions or egotistic party dissensions which may be necessary
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for our purpose. It is empty, unjust, inaccurate, and most
people do not understand what end it serves. We will shackle
it and keep a tight rein on it. We will also do the same with
other printed matter, for what use would it be for us to rid
ourselves of attacks on the part of the periodical press if we
remain open to criticism through pamphlets and books ? We
will convert the products of publicity, now so expensive, owing
to the need of censorship, into a source of income for our
state. We will impose a special stamp tax. When a news-
paper printing shop is started, bonds will have to be deposited,
which will guarantee our government from all attacks on the
part of the press. In case of an attack, we will mercilessly
impose fines. Such measures as stamps, bonds, and fines, the
payment of which is guaranteed by the bonds, will bring a huge
income to the government. It is true that party papers might
not fear the loss of money, so we will suppress these after the
second attack on us. No one shall touch the prestige of our
political infallibility and remain unpunished. The pretext for
stopping a publication will be that the publication in question
excites public opinion without cause or reason. I ask you to
bear in mind i hat among those who attack us there will be
also organs established by us, but they will attack exclusively
those points which we plan to change.
Not one notice will be made public without our control.
This is already being done by us, since the news from all
parts of the world is received through several agencies in
which it is centralized.
These agencies will then be completely in our power and
they will publish only such news as we will permit.
If we have already managed to subjugate the minds of the
Goys to such an extent that almost all of them see world
events through colored glasses which we put over their eyes;
if, even at present, there is not one state which bars our access
to state secrets, so termed by the stupid Goes, then what will it
be when we, in the person of our universal sovereign, are the
recognized rulers of the world?
Let us return to the future of the press. Anybody who
wishes to become an editor, a librarian, or a printer, will be
obliged to obtain a diploma, which in case of disobedience will
be immediately revoked.
With such measures, thought will become an educational in-
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The predominant place will be held by periodicals of an
official character. They will always stand guard over our
interests and consequently their influence will be comparatively
limited.
In the second category we will place semi-official organs,
whose aim will be to attract the indifferent and little interested.
The third category will be our ostensible opposition, which
at least in one of its publications will represent the opposition
to us. Our real enemies will mistake this seeming opposition
as belonging to their own group and will thus show us their
cards.
All our newspapers will represent different tendencies,
namely, aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anar-
chistic, so long of course as the constitution lasts. Like the
Indian God VISHNU, these periodicals will have one hundred
arms, each of which will reach the pulse of every group of
public opinion. When the pulse beats faster, these arms will
guide opinion toward our aims, since the excited person loses
the power of reasoning and is easily led. Those fools who
believe that they repeat the opinions expressed by the news-
papers of their party will be repeating our opinions or those
which we desire them to have. Imagining that they are fol-
lowing the press of their party, they will follow the flag which
we will fly for them.
In order that our newspaper militia may carry out our pro-
gram, we must organize the press with great care. Under the
title of the Central Department of the press, we will organize
literary meetings at which our agents unnoticed will give the
passwords and countersigns. Discussing and contradicting
our policies, although always superficially, without touching
their essence, our press will conduct an empty fire against
official newspapers so as to give iis only an opportunity to ex-
press ourselves in greater detail than we were able to in our pre-
liminary declarations. This, of course, will be done when it
is useful to us.
These attacks against us will also seem to convince the peo-
ple that complete liberty of the press still exists, and it will
give our agents the opportunity to declare that the papers
opposing us are mere wind-bags, since they are unable to find
any real ground to refute our orders.
Such measures, which will escape the notice of public atten-
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criminality has stopped. Cases of criminal activity must only
be known to their victims or their accidental witnesses, and to
these alone.
Protocol No. XIII
THE need of daily bread forces the Goys to silence and com-
I pels them to remain our obedient servants. The agents taken
from among them for our press will discuss the facts they are
ordered to publish, when it is inconvenient for us to publish
statements openly in official documents. While discussion and
dispute are taking place, we will simply pass the measures we
desire and present them to the public as an accomplished fact.
Nobody will dare to demand the rejection of measures thus
passed, and the more so as they will be interpreted as an im-
provement. At this point the press will divert the thoughts of
the people to new problems (we having accustomed the people
always to seek new emotions). Those brainless creators of
destiny, who heretofore have been unable to understand and do
not now understand that they are ignorant of matters which
they undertake to discuss, will also hasten to discuss these new
problems. Political questions are meant to be understood only
by those who have created them and have been directing them
for many centuries.
From all this you will realize that by aiming to control the
opinion of the mob we will only facilitate the functioning of
our mechanism, and you will also notice that we seek approba-
tion, not for actions but for words uttered by us on various
occasions. We always declare that we are guided in all our
policies by the hope and certainty of serving the general good.
To divert the over-restless people from discussing political
problems, we now make it appear that we provide them with
new problems, namely, those pertaining to industry. Let them
become excited over this subject as much as they like. The
masses will consent to remain inactive, to rest from so-called
political activity (to which we ourselves accustomed them for
the purpose of helping us in our struggle against the Goy gov-
ernment), only on condition of a new occupation in which we
can show them supposedly the same political background.
To prevent them from reaching any independent decisions,
we will divert their minds by amusements, games, pastimes,
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passions, and cultural centers for the people. We will soon
begin to offer prize contests, through the press, in the field of
art, and sports of all kinds. Such attractions will definitely
deflect the mind from problems over which we would otherwise
have to fight with the people. By losing more and more the
custom of independent thought, they will begin to talk in
unison with us, because we alone will provide new lines of
thought through persons with whom of course we will presum-
ably have no connection.
The role of liberal Utopians will be definitely terminated
when our government is recognized. Until that time, they will
do us good service. For this reason we will still direct thought
towards different fantastic theories which will appear to be pro-
gressive. For it was by the word “progress” that we have
successfully turned the brains of the stupid Goes. There are
no brains among the Goys to realize that this word is but a
cover for digression from the truth, unless it is applied to ma-
terial inventions, since there is but one truth and there is no
room for progress. Progress, being a false conception, serves
to conceal the truth so that nobody may know it except our-
selves, God's elect, who are its guardians.
When our kingdom is established, our orators will discuss the
great problems which have stirred humanity for the purpose
of bringing it finally under our blessed rule.
Who will then suspect that all these problems were insti-
gated by us, according to a political plan which has not been dis-
closed by any one during so many centuries.
Protocol No. XIV
W HEN we become rulers we will not tolerate the exist-
W ence of any other religion except our own, which pro-
claims one God, with whom our fate is bound up because we
are the Chosen People, and our fate has determined the fate of
the world. For this reason we must destroy all other religions.
If the result of this produces modern atheists, as a transitory
step, this will not interfere with our plans but will act as an
example to those generations which will listen to our teach-
ing of the religion of Moses, which, owing to its solid and
thoughtful system, will eventually lead to the domination of
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all nations by us. We will also lay stress on the mystical truth
of Masonic teaching which, we will assert, is the foundation
of its whole educative power.
On every possible occasion we will then publish articles in
which we will compare our beneficial rule with that of the
past. The benefits of peace, although attained through cen-
turies of unrest, will serve to demonstrate the beneficial char-
acter of our rule. The mistakes made by the Goys during their
administration will be pictured by us in the most vivid colors.
We will cause such disgust towards the administration of the
Goys that the masses will prefer the peace of serfdom to the
rights of the much lauded liberty which has so cruelly tortured
them and drained from them the very source of human exist-
ence, and by which they were exploited by a mass of adven-
turers, ignorant of what they were doing. The useless changes
of government, to which we ourselves prompted the Govs,
when we were undermining their governmental apparatus, will
become such a nuisance to the people by that time, that they
will prefer to endure anything from us rather than risk a
repetition of former unrest and hardships. We will, moreover,
lay particular stress on the historical mistakes made by the
Goy governments, which caused humanity to suffer for many
centuries for lack of understanding of all matters pertaining to
its true welfare, and because of their search for fantastic
schemes of social welfare. The Goys did not notice that such
schemes instead of improving mutual relationship, which is
the basis of human existence, have only made it worse.
The whole force of our principles and measures will lie
in the fact that they are put forward and interpreted by us as
being in sharp contrast to the decayed social order of former
times.
Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the
Goy religion, but nobody will ever discuss our religion in the
light of its true aspect, and nobody will ever thoroughly under-
stand it, except our own people, who will never dare to disclose
its secrets.
· In countries so-called advanced we have created insane,
dirty, and disgusting literature. For a short time after our
entrance into power we will encourage its publication in order
that the contrast between it and the speeches and programs
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has been the Russian Autocracy - our only dangerous enemy
throughout the world, with the exception of the Pope. Re-
member Italy drowning in blood; she did not touch a hair on
the head of Sulla who had shed that blood. Sulla had become
powerful in the eyes of the people, although they were tor-
tured by him; his manly return to Italy placed him beyond
persecution. The people do not touch those who hypnotize
them by bravery and steadfastness of spirit.
Meanwhile, until our rule is established, we, on the con-
trary, will organize and multiply free masonic lodges in all
the countries of the world. We will attract to them all those
who are and who may become public-spirited, because in these
lodges will be the chief source of information and from them
will emanate our influence.
All these lodges will be centralized under one management,
known only to us and unknown to all others; these lodges will
be administered by our wise men. The lodges will have their
own representative in this management in order to screen the
above mentioned Masonic government; he will give the pass-
word and elaborate the program. We will tie the knot of all
revolutionary liberal elements in these lodges. Their member-
ship will consist of all strata of society. The most secret polit-
ical plans will be known to us and will fall under our leadership
on the very day of their origination. Among the members of
these lodges will be almost all the agents of the international
and national police, whose work is indispensable for us, inas-
much as the police not only are able to take independent meas-
ures against the rebellious, but may also serve to mask our
actions, provoke discontent, and so forth.
Most people who become members of secret societies are
adventurers, career makers, and irresponsible persons in gen-
eral, with whom we will have no difficulty in dealing and who
will help us to set in motion the mechanism of the machine
planned by us. If this world becomes perturbed, it will only
prove that it was necessary for us to disorganize it so as to
destroy its too great solidarity. If a plot is laid, it must be
headed by one of our most trustworthy servants. It is only
natural that we want nobody but ourselves to guide the work
of the Masons, 1 for we know where we are trending, we know
1 It is important to point out that some of the Jews themselves in
their writings have claimed that Masonry is largely controlled by
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the final aim of every action. The Goys, however, understand
nothing, not even the immediate results. They are usually con-
cerned about the momentary satisfaction of their ambitions in
achieving their intentions. They do not notice, however, that
the intention itself was not initiated by them, but that it was
we who gave them the idea.
The Goys become members of the lodges out of pure curi-
osity, or hoping to receive their share in the public funds.
There are others who come for the purpose of seizing the
opportunity of putting before the public their impossible and
baseless hopes. They long for the emotion of success and for
the applause which we grant them lavishly. We create their
success in order to utilize the self-deception that is born with
it and by which people, without noticing, begin to follow
our suggestions without suspecting them, and being fully con-
vinced that their infallibility originates its own ideas and,
therefore, does not need those of others. You have no idea
how easy it is to bring even the most intelligent Goes to a
state of unconscious credulity, and, on the other hand, how easy
it is to discourage them by the smallest failure, or merely by
ceasing to applaud them, thus bringing them into servitude
for the sake of achieving new success. To the same extent as
our people ignore success for the sake of carrying out their
plans, so are the Goys ready to sacrifice all their plans for the
sake of success. Their psychology makes the problem of di-
rection easier for us. Those tigers in appearance have the
souls of sheep and nonsense filters through their heads. As a
hobby we have given them the dream of submerging human
individualism through the symbolic idea of collectivism.
They have not yet discovered and will not discover that this
hobby is a clear infringement on the principal law of nature,
which, from the beginning of the world, created a being unlike
all others, precisely for the sake of expressing his individuality.
If we were able to lead them to such insane and blind
Jewish influence. In this connection the statement of Dr. Isaac M. Wise
may be recalled :
“Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, decrees, charges,
passwords and explanations are Jewish, from the beginning to the end,
with the exception of only one by-decree and a few words in the obli-
gation.” (Dr. Isaac M. Wise, The Israelite, August 3rd and 17th, 1855;
quoted by Samuel Oppenheim in his pamphlet “ Jews and Masonry in
the United States before 1810,” American Jewish Historical Society,
New York, 1910, No. 19, pp. 1, 2.)
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beliefs, does it not obviously prove the low level of development
of the Goy mind as compared to our mind ? It is precisely the
thing which guarantees our success.
How far sighted were our wise men of old when they said
that to attain a serious object one must not stop at the means,
nor should one count the victims sacrificed to the cause. We
have not counted the victims from among the Goys, those
seeds of cattle. Although we have sacrificed many of our
own peoples, we have already given them in return a formerly
undreamed-of position on earth. The comparatively few vic-
tims from among our own people have saved our race from
destruction.
Death is the unavoidable end of all. It would be better to
accelerate this end for those who interfere with our cause
than for our people or for us, ourselves, the creators of this
cause to die. We kill Masons in such a way that none but the
brothers suspect, not even the victims; they all die when it
is necessary, apparently from a natural death. Knowing this,
even the brethren, in their turn, dare not protest. It is through
such measures that we have uprooted the heart of protest
against our orders from among the Masons. Preaching liber-
alism to the Goys, at the same time we hold our people and our
agents under iron discipline. ..
Through our influence the enforcement of the Goy laws
has been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has
been undermined by the liberal interpretations introduced by
us. The courts decide as we dictate the most important
principles, both political and moral, viewing the cases in the
light presented by us for the Goy administration. This we
accomplished naturally through agents, with whom we have
ostensibly no connection, namely, through the press or other-
wise. Even senators and high officials blindly follow our ad-
vice. The purely animal mind of the Goys is incapable of
analysis and observation, and even less so of foreseeing to
what results the development of the principle involved in a case
may lead.
It is through this difference in the process of reasoning be-
tween us and the Goys that it becomes possible clearly to demon-
strate the stamp of God's elect as compared to the instinctive
and bestial mentality of the Goys. They see, but they cannot
foresee, and they cannot invent anything except material
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In general, our judges will be selected only from among
those who will clearly understand that they must punish people
and enforce the laws, and not indulge in dreams of liberalism
at the expense of the educational plan of the government, as is
now imagined by the Goys. The method of changing the per-
sonnel will also serve to undermine the collective solidarity of
the governmental officials and will attach them to the cause
of the government, which decides their fate. The younger
generation of judges will be so educated as to prevent any
criminal activity which might interfere with the inter-relation-
ship which we have established for our subjects.
At present the Goy judges, lacking a clear conception of the
nature of their duties, make exceptions to all kinds of crimes.
This occurs because the present rulers, when appointing judges,
do not take the trouble to encourage the sense of duty and
conscientiousness in the work to be performed by them. As
the animal sends out its young in search of prey, so the Goys
are giving their subjects responsible offices without taking
the time to explain their functions. Owing to this, their rule
is undermined by their own efforts and through the actions of
their own administration. Let us use the result of such actions
as one more example of the advantage of our own rule.
We will eliminate liberalism from all the important strategic
positions in our administration upon which depend the train-
ing of our subjects for our social order. These positions will
be given only to those who have been trained by us for gov-
ernmental work.
In answer to a possible remark, that the putting of old
officials on the retired list may prove expensive for the treas-
ury, I can state first, that, prior to their dismissal, some private
work will be found for them to replace what they are los-
ing, and secondly, I may also remark, that all the world's
money will be concentrated in our hands; consequently, our
government need not fear expense.
Our autocracy will be consistent in every respect, and con-
sequently every manifestation of our great power will be re-
spected and unconditionally obeyed. We will ignore grumbling
and discontent, and all active manifestations of either will be
suppressed by punishment, which will serve as an example to
the rest of the people.
We will abolish the right of appellate courts to annul judi-
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the memory of the people all those facts pertaining to former
centuries which are not to our advantage, leaving only those
which emphasize the mistakes of the Goy governments. The
study of practical life, of obligatory social order, of the inter-
relationship of human beings, the avoidance of evil, egotistical
examples that plant the seed of evil, and other questions of a
pedagogical nature, will head the educational program. This
program will differ for each caste, never allowing education to
be of a uniform character. Such a system is of special im-
portance.
Each caste must be educated with strict limitations, accord-
ing to its particular occupation and the nature of the work.
Accidental genius has always been able and always will be able
to rise to a higher caste; but, for the sake of this rare exception,
to open the door to the inefficient, and to admit them to higher
castes or ranks, enabling them to occupy positions of others
born and trained to fill them — is absolute insanity. You, your-
self, know what happened to the Goys when they yielded to
this nonsense.
In order to implant the sovereign firmly in the minds and
hearts of his subjects, it is necessary to acquaint the people,
during his term of office, both in schools and in public places,
with the importance of his activity and the benevolence of his
enterprises.
We will abolish all unlicensed teaching. Students will have
the right to gather, with their relatives, in their colleges as if
in clubs. During these gatherings, on holidays, the teachers
will read supposedly unbiased lectures on problems of human
relationship, on the law of imitation, on the cruelty of un-
restricted competition, and finally, on new philosophical theo-
ries which have not yet been disclosed to the world.
We will promote these theories into dogmatic beliefs, using
them as stepping-stones to our faith. After having presented
our program of action for the present and for the future,
I will read to you the principles of these theories.
In short, knowing from the experience of many centuries
that men live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are
imbued only by means of education given to persons of all
ages, of course by different methods but meeting with equal
success, we will absorb and appropriate to our own advantage
the last traces of independent thought, which for a long time
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have been directed to the goal and to the ideas necessary to
us. The system of enslaving thought is already in action
through so-called visual education.
This system tends to turn the Goys into thoughtless, obedient
animals, expecting to see in order to understand. In France
one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already announced a
new program of visual education.
Protocol No. XVII
THE lawyer's profession makes people grow cold, cruel,
stubborn and unprincipled, and compels them to take an
abstract or purely legal viewpoint in all matters. They have
learned to consider solely the personal gain derived from every
case they handle and not the possibility of the social benefit
of its results. They rarely refuse to take a case and always,
strive for acquittal at all cost, clinging to minor technical
points of a legal nature. In this way they demoralize the
courts. Therefore we will limit this profession, converting it
into an executive public office. Lawyers will be deprived of
the right of contact with their clients on the same basis as are
the judges. They will receive their cases only from the court,
preparing them on the strength of written reports and docu-
ments and defending their clients after they have been ex-
amined in court on the basis of the facts obtained during the
trial. They will receive a salary, regardless of whether the
defense has been successful or not. They will act as simple
exponents of the case on behalf of the defense in counterbalance
to the public prosecutor, who will act as exponent on behalf
of the prosecution. This will shorten legal procedure and
establish an honest and impartial defense, conducted not for
the sake of personal gain, but based on the personal conviction
of the lawyer. This will also eliminate the existing bribery
among fellow lawyers and prevent their allowing the side to
win which pays.
We have already taken care to discredit the clergy of the
Goys and thus to undermine their function, which at the
present time could have been very much in our way. Their
influence over the people diminishes daily.
To-day freedom of religion has been proclaimed every-
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where; consequently, it is only a question of a few years before
the complete collapse of Christendom. It will be still easier to
deal with other religions, but it is too early to discuss this
problem. We will confine clericalism and clericals within such
a narrow field that their influence will have an effect opposite
to what it used to have.
When the moment comes to annihilate the Vatican com-
pletely, an invisible hand, pointing towards this court, will guide
the masses in their assault. When, however, the masses
attack, we will come forward as defenders to prevent too
much bloodshed. By this method we will penetrate its very
heart and will not leave it until we have undermined its
power.
The King of Israel will become the real Pope of the
Universe, the Patriarch of the International Church.
But until we have accomplished the re-education of the
youth to new transitional religions and finally to our own, we
will not openly attack the existing churches, but will fight them
by means of criticism, thus creating dissension.
In general, our press will denounce governmental activities
and religion, and will expose the inefficiency of the Goys in the
most unscrupulous terms, so as to humiliate them to such an ex-
tent as only our ingenious race is capable of doing. Our rule
will simulate the God Vishnu, who resembles us physically ;
each of our hundred hands will hold one of the springs of the
social machine. We will see everything without the aid of the
official police; in its present organization, however, which we
have worked out for the Goys, the police prevent the govern-
ment from seeing anything. According to our program, one-
third of our subjects will watch the others from a pure sense of
duty, as volunteers for the government. Then it will not be
considered disgraceful to be a spy and an informer; on the
contrary, it will be regarded as praiseworthy. Unfounded re-
ports, however, will be severely punished to prevent abuse of
this privilege.
Our agents will be recruited both from among the highest
and the lowest ranks of society; they will be selected from
among the pleasure-loving governmental officials, editors,
printers, booksellers, salesmen, workmen, drivers, butlers, etc.
This police force will have no official rights or credentials,
which give opportunity for the abuse of power, and conse-
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should be able to say, “If only the king could know it,” or,
“The king will know about this.”
With the establishment of an official police guard the mystical
prestige of authority vanishes at once; with a certain amount
of audacity, every one considers himself superior to authority;
the assassin realizes his strength and only has to watch his
opportunity to make an attempt against an official. We
preached differently for the Goys, but we can see the results to
which open methods of protection have led them.
We will arrest criminals upon the first more or less well-
founded suspicion. Because of the fear of a possible mistake
political criminals should not be given the opportunity to
escape; indeed towards political crime we will show no mercy.
If, in exceptional cases, it may seem possible to allow the in-
vestigation of motives which have led to ordinary criminal
offences, there is no excuse for those who attempt to deal with
matters which no one can understand except the government.
Moreover, not even all governments are capable of under-
standing the right policy.
PROTOCOL No. XIX
THOUGH we will not allow individuals to become involved
1 in politics, we will, on the other hand, encourage the sub-
mission for the approval of the government of all petitions and
reports containing suggestions and plans for bettering the
condition of the people. This will bring to our knowledge
the shortcomings or merely the fantastic aspirations of our
subjects. These suggestions we will answer either by favor-
able action or by refusals proving the lack of intelligence and
the errors of those who have submitted such suggestions. .'
Sedition is nothing but the barking of a lap dog at an ele-
phant. From the point of view of a government which is well
organized, not from the police standpoint but with regard to its
social basis, the lap dog barks at the elephant because he does
not realize his strength. It is only necessary for the elephant
to show his strength once and the dog barks no more; he
begins to wag his tail the moment he sees the elephant.
In order to eliminate the prestige of martyrdom from polit-
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honest gain. I say honest because the control of property will
prevent legal theft.
This social reform must come from above, for the time is
ripe and it is becoming necessary as a guarantee of peace.
The tax on the poor is the seed of revolution, and it acts
detrimentally to the government, which loses the great in
its pursuit of the little. Moreover, the taxation of capital
will lessen the increase of wealth in private hands, in which
at present we have concentrated it as a counterweight to the
governmental power of the Goys, namely, to the state
treasury.
Progressive taxation, assessed according to the amount of
capital, will produce a much greater revenue than the present
system of taxing every one at an equal rate, which is useful to
us now only as a means of exciting revolt and discontent among
the Goys. The power of our sovereign will rest mainly in
equilibrium and in guarantees of peace. For these, the capi-
talists must cede a part of their income so as to protect the
action of the government machine. Public needs must be met
by those who can best afford to do so and by those from whom
there is something to take.
Such a measure will eliminate the hatred of the poor towards
the rich, as they will be regarded as the financial supporters of
the state and the upholders of peace and prosperity. The
poor will also see that the rich are providing the necessary
means to insure this end.
To prevent intelligent taxpayers from being too discontented
with the new system of taxation, they will be furnished with
detailed reports of the disbursement of public funds, exclusive
of such as are appropriated for the needs of the throne and
administrative institutions.
The sovereign will not own property, since everything in the
state will seem to belong to him and these two conceptions
would contradict each other. Private means would eliminate
his right to own everything.
The relatives of the sovereign, aside from his descendants
who will also be supported by the state, must join the
ranks of government officials, or otherwise work for the right
of holding property. The privilege of being of royal blood
must not entitle them to rob the state treasury.
Sales, profits, or inheritances will be taxed by a progressive
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stamp tax. The transfer of property, whether in cash or
otherwise, without the required stamp, will place the payment
of the tax on the original owner, dating from the time of the
transfer until the time of the reported failure to record the
transaction. Transfer vouchers must be shown weekly at the
local branch of the state treasury, together with a statement of
the names, surnames, and the permanent addresses both of the
original and of the new owner. The recording of the names
of those participating in a transaction will be necessary in all
transactions involving more than a certain amount for ordinary
expenditure. The sale of prime necessities will be taxed only
by a stamp tax, which will represent a certain small per cent of
the cost of the particular article.
Just calculate how many times the amount received from
such taxes will exceed the income of the Goy governments.
The state bank must keep a definite reserve fund, and all
sums in excess must be put back into circulation. The cost
of public works will be met out of this surplus fund. The
initiative of such works emanating from the government will
also tie the working class to the interests of the government
and the rulers. Some of this money will be allotted to prizes
for inventions and for the purposes of production.
Even small sums in excess of a certain definite and broadly
calculated fund, should not be allowed to be kept in the state
treasury, because money is intended to circulate, and every
impediment to circulation is detrimental to the governmental
mechanism, which the money lubricates; the congestion of
lubricating substances can stop the proper functioning of the
mechanism.
The substituțion of bonds for a part of the currency has
created just such an impediment. The result of this has already
become sufficiently evident.
We will also establish an auditing office, so as to enable the
sovereign to find at all times a full account of state revenues
and expenses, except for the current month not yet made up,
and that of the previous month not yet presented.
The only person who will not be interested in robbing the
state treasury will be the sovereign, its owner. This is the
reason why his control will prevent the possibility of loss or
misappropriation.
Receptions for the purpose of etiquette, which waste the
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valuable time of the sovereign, will be abolished, because the
ruler needs time for control and thought. Then his power will
not be frittered away on the people surrounding the throne
for the sake of appearance and brilliance, and who have only
their own and not the public interest in mind.
The economic crises were created by us for the Goys only
by the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge amounts
of capital were kept idle and were taken away from the nations,
which were thus compelled to apply to us for loans. Payment
of interest on these loans burdened the state finances and made
the states subservient to capital. The concentration of industry
having taken production out of the hands of the artisan and put
it into the hands of capitalists, sucked all the power out of the
people and also out of the state.
The present issue of money generally does not coincide with
the need per capita, and consequently it cannot satisfy all the
needs of the working classes. The issue of currency, must
correspond with the increase in population, and children must
be reckoned as consumers from the day of their birth. The
revision of the issue of currency is an essential problem for the
whole world.
You know that gold currency was detrimental to the gov-
ernments that accepted it, for it could not satisfy the require-
ments for money, since we took as much gold as possible out
of circulation.
We must issue a currency based on the value of the working
power, whether it be of paper or wood. We will issue money
in proportion to the normal demands of every subject, adding
a certain amount at every birth and decreasing it with every
death.
Every department (the French administrative divisions),
every district, will be in charge of its own accounts.
To avoid any delay in paying government expenses, the terms
of such payments will be decreed by order of the sovereign;
this will eliminate any favoritism of the ministry (of finance)
over any other department to the detriment of the others.
The budget of revenues and the budget of expenditure will
be placed side by side, in order that they may always be com-
pared with each other.
1 The words in parentheses would seem to be a comment of Nilus's.
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From this calculation it is evident that under the system
of universal taxation the government takes the last penny
from the poor taxpayers in the form of taxes in order to pay
interest to foreign capitalists, from whom the money was bor-
rowed, instead of collecting these same pennies for its needs
free from all interest.
So long as the loans were domestic, the Goys only shifted
the money from the pockets of the poor into those of the
rich; but when we bribed the proper persons to make the loans
foreign, then national riches poured into our hands and all
the Goys began to pay us the tribute of subjects.
The carelessness of the reigning Goys in statemanship, the
corruption of their ministers, the ignorance of other officials
of financial problems, has forced their countries into debt to
our banks to such an extent that they can never pay off their
debts. It should be realized, however, that we have gone to
great pains in order to bring about such a state of affairs.
Impediments to the circulation of money will not be allowed
by us, and therefore there will be no government bonds,
except one per cent bonds, so that the payment of interest
should not deliver the power of the state to the sucking of
leeches. The right of issuing bonds will be exclusively
granted to industrial corporations, which will easily pay the
interest out of their profits. The government, however, does
not derive profit on borrowed money as these corporations
do, since the state borrows money for expenditure and not
for production.
Industrial bonds will also be bought by the government,
which instead of being, as at present, the payer of tribute on
loans, will become a sound creditor. Such a measure will
prevent stagnation in the circulation of money, as well as indo-
lence and laziness, which were useful to us so long as the Goys
remained independent, but are not wanted by us in our gov-
ernment.
How apparent is the shortsightedness of the purely bestial
brains of the Goys! It manifested itself when they borrowed
money for at interest. It did not occur to the Goys that,
at any rate, this money, with the additional interest on it, would
have to be taken from the resources of the country and paid
to us. Would it not have been more simple to take the needed
money from their own people? .
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This proves the genius of our distinguished mind, for we
were able to present the question of loans to them in such a
light that they saw in loans an advantage for themselves.
Our estimates, which we will produce when the time comes,
will be based on the experience of centuries, on all those ex-
periments which were conducted by us at the expense of the
Goy governments; our estimates will prove to be clear and
definite, and will obviously demonstrate the advantage of our
new system. They will end all those abuses which made it
possible for us to master the Goys, but which cannot be per-
mitted in our reign.
We will so organize the accounting system that neither the
sovereign himself nor the most humble clerk will be able to
deflect the smallest sum from its destination or direct it into a
different channel from that indicated in our original financial
plan.
It is impossible to govern without a definite plan. Traveling
along a definite road with an indefinite supply of provisions
destroys heroes and knights.
The Goy rulers, to whom we once gave advice to neglect
governmental duties for grandiose receptions, etiquette, and
pleasures, only concealed our rule. The accounts of the power-
ful favorites who replaced the sovereign were drawn up by our
agents, and they always satisfied the shallow minds by promises
that in the future there would be savings and improvements.
Savings from what? From new taxes ?. This might have
been asked but was not asked by those who read our reports
and plans. You know to what their carelessness has led them,
what financial disorganization they have reached in spite of
the wonderful diligence of their people.
PROTOCOL No. XXI
I WILL add one more detail regarding domestic loans in ad-
Idition to the report which I made at the last meeting. I
will not speak any more of foreign loans, for they filled our
coffers with the national money of the Goys. There will be no
foreigners in our government, nobody outside.
We profited by the corruption of the administrators and by
the negligence of the rulers in receiving sums that were
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doubled, trebled, and even more, loaning the Goy governments
money which in reality was not needed by the states at all.
Who could do the same with regard to us? Therefore, I will
only set forth details in regard to domestic loans.
In announcing such a loan, the governments open a sub-
scription to their bonds. To make them accessible to all, they
vary the denomination from one hundred to thousands, and the
first subscribers are allowed to buy below face value. The
following day the price is artificially raised on the pretext that
everybody hurried to buy the bonds. In a few more days
there is a pretense that the treasury is filled and that it is not
known what to do with the money, which has been oversub-
scribed. (What was the use of taking it?) The subscription
is evidently considerably in excess of the amount asked for.
Therein lies the effect, for it is thus demonstrated that the
public has confidence in the government obligations.
But after the comedy has been played the fact of the debt
appears, and it is usually a heavy one. In order to pay the
interest, new loans have to be issued, which do not liquidate
but increase the original debt. Then when the borrowing
capacity of the government has been exhausted, it becomes
necessary to meet the interest on the loan — not the loan
itself — by new taxes. These taxes are nothing but a debit
used to cover a debit.
Then comes the period of conversions, but these only de-
crease the payment of interest while they do not annul the
debts. Moreover, they cannot be made without the consent
of the bondholders. When a conversion is advertised, an offer
is made to return the money to those who are not willing to
convert their bonds. If everybody were to demand his nioney,
the government would be caught in its own net and would be
unable to return all the money. Fortunately, the Goy subjects,
ignorant of financial affairs, always preferred to suffer a fall
in the value of their securities and a reduction of interest to the
risk of new investments; thus, they have given these govern-
ments more than one opportunity of throwing off a deficit of
several millions. At present, with the existence of foreign
loans, the Goys cannot play such tricks, for they know that
we would demand all the money back.
Thus, an avowed bankruptcy will be the best proof of the lack
of common interest between the people and their government.
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evil which we were forced to do during so many centuries has
served in the end to true happiness to the restoration of
order? Although by means of violence, order will nevertheless
be established. We will be able to prove that we are bene-
factors, who have brought true welfare and individual freedom
to the tortured world, insuring at the same time the possibility
of enjoying peace, quiet, and dignity of relationships, upon the
sole condition, of course, that obedience to the laws established
by us is practiced. We will also make it clear that freedom does
not mean license and in doing whatever people please, no more
than dignity and power imply the right to propound destruc-
tive doctrines, like freedom of conscience, equality, and similar
things. Individual freedom by no means imports the right
of disturbing oneself and others, disgracing oneself by making
ridiculous speeches in disorderly gatherings, and implies that
true liberty means individual inviolability through an honest
and strict obedience to social laws; that moreover, human
dignity implies the conception of one's rights as well as the idea
of legal inhibitions which prohibit fantastic dreams about the
Ego.
Our power will be glorious because it will be mighty; it will
rule and guide, and not helplessly crawl after leaders and
orators, shouting insane words which they call great principles,
and which in reality are simply Utopian. Our power will lead
to order, which, in turn, brings happiness to the people. The
prestige of this power will excite mystical adoration, and the
peoples will bow before it. True power does not yield to any
right, even be it that of God. None will dare approach it in
order to deprive it even of an atom of its might.
PROTOCOL No. XXIII
TO teach the people obedience they must be taught modesty,
1 and to accomplish this the production of luxuries must
be limited. We will thus improve customs, demoralized by
rivalry, resulting from luxury.
We will restore handicraft, which will undermine the private
capital of, manufacturers. This is necessary, because big manu-
facturers often influence, although not always consciously, the
thoughts of the people against the government.
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A people, practicing handicraft, does not know what
unemployment means, and this makes them cling to existing
conditions and consequently to the power of authority. Un-
employment is most dangerous for a government. It will have
finished its work for us as soon as authority falls into our
hands.
Drunkenness will also be forbidden by law and will be pun-
ishable as a crime against human decency, for man becomes
bestial under the influence of alcohol.
Once more I state, that people obey blindly only the hand
that is strong and entirely independent of them, in which they
see a sword of defense and a stronghold against the blows
of social misfortune. Why should the sovereign have an
angel's heart? They want to see in him the personification of
night and power. .
The sovereign who will replace the present existing govern-
ments, dragging along their existence in the midst of a society
demoralized by us, which denies even the power of God and
from whose midst rises on all sides the flames of anarchy, must
primarily undertake to extinguish this all-consuming fire.
Therefore, he must destroy such a society, if necessary drown
it in its own blood, in order to resurrect it as a well-organized
army, which consciously struggles against the infection of any
anarchy affecting the state organism.
He, God's elect, is chosen from above for the purpose of
crushing the insane forces that are moved by instinct and not
by intellect, by bestiality and not by humanitarianism. These
forces are now triumphant, and assume the form of robberies
and all kinds of violence exercised in the name of liberty and of
right. They have destroyed all social order, so as to establish
the throne of the King of Israel; but their rôle will be ended
with his coming into power. Then it will be necessary to
sweep them from his path, on which not a twig or an im-
pediment shall remain.
Then we will say to the peoples : Pray to God and bow
before him who bears the mark of predestination, to whom
God Himself showed His Star, so that none but He Himself
should free you from all sinful forces and from evil.
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PROTOCOL No. XXIV
N OW I shall refer to the manner in which we will strengthen
the dynastic roots of King David so as to cause this dynasty
to endure until the last day. This method will consist chiefly
of the same principles which enabled our Wise Men to con-
serve their power to cope with universal problems and to guide
the education of the thoughts of humanity at large.
A few members of the seed of David will train the sovereigns
and their successors, who will be selected not by right of
inheritance, but according to their personal ability. To them
the deep political mysteries and the plan of our rule will be con-
fided, but in such a wise manner that nobody will know these
secrets. The aim of this method is to prove to all that power
will not be given to the uninitiated in the mysteries of politi-
cal art.
Only such people will be taught how to apply the above men-
tioned plans in practice, by comparing them with the experi-
ences of many centuries, and only they will be initiated in the
conclusions drawn from all the observations of political, eco-
nomic, and social movements and sciences; in short, only they
will know the true spirit of the laws, irrevocably established by
nature for the purpose of regulating human relationship..
Direct descendants of the sovereign will often be prevented
from inheriting the throne if, during the period of their study,
they show signs of frivolity, lenience, or other tendencies
detrimental to authority, which would make them incapable
of government and dangerous to the prestige of the Crown.
Only those of an undoubtedly able and firm, even cruel char-
acter, will receive the reins of government from our Wise Men.
In case of illness, loss of will-power, or any other form of
inefficiency, the sovereigns will be compelled to hand over the
reins of government to new and able hands.
The sovereign's immediate plan of action and its application
in the future will be unknown even to the so-called closest
advisers.
Only the sovereign and his three sponsors will know the
future.
In the person of the sovereign, with his immovable will over
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Part Two
Evidence as to Origin And Authenticity
I. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE ACTUAL
POLICIES OF THE BOLSHEVIKI AND
THE PROTOCOLS
THE most striking fact in connection with the Protocols
1 is the close resemblance which their ruthless program
bears in many respects to the policies actually put into effect
by the Bolsheviki in Russia. Indeed, without this fact before
us, the necessity for a serious consideration of the Protocols
would be much less apparent. If the evidence shows that the
Bolshevist movement is a movement conducted under Jewish
leadership and principally controlled by Jews, and, further-
more, that it closely corresponds with the political program
outlined in the Procotols, then, indeed, we have facts of grave
significance supporting the authenticity of the Protocols.
1. JEWISH CHARACTER OF THE BOLSHEVIST MOVEMENT
IN RUSSIA
With regard to the question as to how far the Bolshevist
movement is a Jewish movement in the sense that it is under
Jewish control, there is some disagreement. Certain promi-
nent Jews in this country, while admitting that most of the
Bolshevist leaders in Russia are Jews, claim that this is a
mere coincidence, and claim further that the Bolshevist lead-
ers are only apostate Jews who do not adhere to the Jewish
religion. The evidence, however, is not very convincing on
either point, for on the one hand the proportion of Jews
among the Bolshevist leaders in Russia is so large that it
1 The Jewish sayings cited in this volume show that some of the
great Jewish leaders maintain that the apostasy of a Jew in the matter
of religion does not prevent him from remaining for all other purposes
a Jew, or release him from his obligations as such.
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strongly tends to show that it is not accidental but must be
otherwise explained, while on the other hand, as to the allega-
tion of apostasy, this seems to be principally based upon
evidence that the Jewish leaders in Russia are denouncing
religion in general on the ground that it is the bulwark of
the capitalistic system and the enemy of the Socialistic State,
in accordance with the teachings of Karl Marx and his fol-
lowers. Such evidence, however, does not prove very much
if in practice only the Christian church is actually attacked.
It is important to note in this connection that Karl Marx
himself was a Jew, as are also practically all of the best
known leaders of radical socialism, such as Bebel, Bernstein,
Lassalle, Hillquit, the brothers Adler (in Austria), etc. The
legend now prominently displayed by the Bolsheviki in Russia,
that “religion is the opium of the people,” was the saying
of Karl Marx himself, while it was Bebel who said: “ Chris-
tianity and Socialism stand towards each other as fire and
water."
Moreover, there is evidence that there has been a marked
persecution of Christian priests and their congregations by
the Bolsheviki, and that the Jewish rabbis have not been
molested. Generally speaking, we believe that the preponder-
ance of evidence strongly tends to show that Bolshevismı is
Jewish in character in the sense that it is under the control
principally of Jews who occupy, either openly or secretly,
almost all of the positions of importance in the Soviet govern-
ment in Russia. This was equally true in regard to the recent
Spartacan and Bolshevist revolutions in Germany and Hun-
gary. The one important exception is Lenin himself, Trotzky
and almost all the other important Bolshevist leaders to-day
being members of the Jewish race.
Evidence that the Bolsheviki in Russia have conducted a
campaign of persecution against the Christian religion, while
protecting the Jewish religion, will be considered below under
the heading, “The Destruction of Religion and Christianity.”
For the present we shall confine ourselves to other evidence
which tends to show that the Bolshevik movement in Russia
is under Jewish leadership and may be regarded as primarily
a Jewish movement.
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(a) Testimony before the Overman Committee
The testimony of a number of reliable witnesses before the
Overman Committee is to the effect that from the very begin-
ning the leadership of the Bolshevist revolution in Russia has
been principally Jewish and that the movement had powerful
support from Jews returning to Russia in the spring of 1917.
This testimony was taken early in the year 1919 and is con-
tained in the printed Senate Report (a public document)
entitled, “Bolshevik Propaganda — Hearings before a Sub-
committee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States
Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, pursuant to S. Res. 439 and
469."
Among the witnesses who testified as to the Jewish char-
acter of the Bolshevist movement before the Senate Com-
mittee was Dr. George A. Simons, a Methodist clergyman
who had been for many years in charge of a church and other
property belonging to the American Methodists in Petrograd.
He was there during the Kerensky régime and during the
Bolshevist régime until October 6, 1918.
Dr. Simons testified that “at the beginning of the so-called
new régime [Kerensky's] there was a disposition to glorify
the Allies and to make a great deal of what the French Revo-
lution had stood for; within from six to eight weeks there
was an undercurrent just the opposite, and things began to
loom up in a pro-German way.” 1
He then told of the arrival of Lenin from Switzerland via
Germany, and of Bronstein (alias Trotzky) from New York,
. and how they conducted a vigorous agitation in Russia while
Kerensky was “running up and down the front.” He then
goes on to testify as follows:
MR. SIMONS. “Kerensky was spending a good deal of his
time running up and down the front, trying to hearten the
Russian soldiers in their warfare, and he was generally ac-
credited with being a fine orator and doing splendid work, and
I do not doubt but what he did manage to keep the men longer
than they otherwise would have stayed in, but we were told
there were hundreds of agitators who had followed in the trail
of Trotzky-Bronstein, these men having come over from the
1 “ Bolshevik Propaganda. · Hearings before a Subcommittee on the
Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress,” p. III.
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lower East Side of New York. I was surprised to find scores
of such men walking up and down Nevsky. Some of them,
when they learned that I was the American pastor in Petro-
grad, stepped up to me and seemed very much pleased that
there was somebody who could speak English, and their broken
English showed that they had not qualified as being real Amer-
icans; and a number of these men called on me, and a number
of us were impressed with the strange Yiddish element in this
thing right from the start, and it soon became evident that
more than half of the agitators in the so-called Bolshevik
movement were Yiddish.”
SENATOR NELSON. “Hebrews ? ”
MR. SIMONS. “They were Hebrews, apostate Jews. I do
not want to say anything against the Jews, as such. I am not
in sympathy with the anti-Semitic movement, never have been,
and do not ever expect to be. I am against it. I abhor all po-
groms of whatever kind. But I have a firm conviction that this
thing is Yiddish, and that one of its bases is found in the East
Side of New York.”
SENATOR NELSON. “Trotzky came over from New York
during that summer, did he not?”
MR. SIMONS. “He did.”
SENATOR OVERMAN. “You think he brought these people
with him?"
MR. SIMONS. “I am not able to say that he brought them
with him. I think that most of them came after him, but that
he was responsible for their coming."
MR. SIMONS further states (Senate Report, p. 114):
“ The latest startling information, given me by some one who
says that there is good authority for it — and I am to be
given the exact figures later on and have them checked up
properly by the proper authorities — is this, that in December,
1918, in the northern community of Petrograd, so-called —
that is what they call that section of the Soviet régime under
the presidency of the man known as Mr. Apfelbaum — out of
388 members, only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all
the rest Jews, with the exception possibly of one man, who
is a negro from America, who calls himself Prof. Gordon,
and 265 of the members of this northern commune government,
that is sitting in the old Smolny Institute, came from the lower
East Side of New York — 265 of them. ... In fact, I
am very much impressed with this, that moving around here
I find that certain Bolsheviki propagandists are nearly all Jews
— apostate Jews. I have been in the so-called People's House,
at 7 East Fifteenth Street, New York, which calls itself also
the Rand School of Social Science, and I have visited that at
least six times during the last eleven weeks or so, buying their
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Ambassador Francis. When he returned to Russia he re-
mained in Moscow from May, 1918, until August 26, 1918.
He states on page 47:
“The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not in-
terested in the particular national ideals of Russia.”
On page 69 he testified:
“ The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about two-
thirds Russian Jews and perhaps one-sixth or more of some of
the other nationalities, like the Letts, or the Armenians.”
Testimony of Mr. William W. Welsh
Mr. Welsh was employed by the National City Bank and
was in Russia from October, 1916, until September, 1918. He
states on page 269:
“In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the Bol-
shevik leaders are Jewish.”
In regard to the men who went to Russia from the East
Side of New York, at the outbreak of the revolution, he
stated :
“There were some — not many, but there were some — real
Russians; and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born,
and not Russian Jews.”.
The witness also stated that he knew “several cases ” in
which well-to-do Jews had been persecuted in the same way
as other Russian bourgeois. On page 270 he states:
“Bolshevism cannot be explained along racial lines alone.
The Bolsheviks are made up of the very worst elements of
many races. It is important, however, that Jews in this coun-
try should not favor Bolshevism because of any liberties or
privileges which they may think are being accorded to the
Jews in Russia by the Bolsheviks. They should study the
facts carefully and not be prejudiced by any racial feeling, or
they are sure to bring the odium of Bolshevism unjustly to the
door of the Jew. The best Jews in this country would do well
to brand the Jewish Bolsheviks in Russia as anti-Jews, which
they really are, for they bring nothing but discredit to the Jew-
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these men on all sorts of labor conditions, (committees?) to
regulate the hours of labor and the rates of remuneration, and
quite a number of them spoke English.”
Testimony of Theodor Kryshtofovich
This witness testified that he left Petrograd on December 15,
1918, and that he had been there continuously for the three
years previous to that date; that he belonged to no political
party in Russia, but had lived among the peasants and work-
men, teaching them agriculture. He at one time had been
employed by the Russian Department of Agriculture, as an
agent, in the United States.
On page 424 he testified in regard to the Jewish aspect
of the movement as follows:
“ And, besides these refugees, most of the people that are
governing Russia now are Jews. I am not against Jews in
general. They are a very capable and energetic people, but,
as you Americans say, the right man must be in the right place.
Their place is in the commission houses, in banks, in the offices,
but not in the government of a fine agricultural country. They
do not understand anything about agriculture, about produc-
tion, about keeping materials, and about distribution. They do
not know anything about those things at all.”
SENATOR Wolcott. “You mean those that are in charge
of the Bolsheviki, do you not?”
MR. KRYSHTOFOVICH. “I am talking about the Bolsheviki ;
because if you take out Bolshevik government, Lenine is a
Russian and all these constellations that are turning around
this sun are Jews. They have changed their names. For in-
stance, Trotzky is not Trotzky, but Bronstein. We have Apfel-
baum, and so on, and so on.”
(b) Other Evidence
It is important that other official documents pertaining to
the Bolshevist activities in Russia also refer to the question
which we are now discussing, namely, the Jewish character
of the Bolshevist régime. In this connection we quote from
the British White Book, Russia No. I (1919), entitled “A
Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia, presented to
Parliament by Command of His Majesty. April, 1919."
This document was published in London at the government
printing office in 1919. In exhibit No. 33, a cablegram dis-
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patched by Mr. Alston to Earl Curzon, from Vladivostok to
London, February 8, 1919 (“telegraphic — following from
consul at Ekaterinburg, 6th February”), the following is
stated :
“From examination of several labourer and peasant wit-
nesses, I have evidence to the effect that very smallest per-
centage of this district were pro-Bolshevik, majority of labour-
ers sympathising with summoning of Constituent Assembly.
Witnesses further stated that Bolshevik leaders did not repre-
sent Russian working classes, most of them being Jews
(page 33).
In a cable dispatch from General Knox to the British War
Office on February 5, 1919, from Omsk, Siberia, details are
given as to the murder of the Imperial Russian family. This
cable reads in part as follows:
“With regard to the murder of the Imperial family at Ekat-
erinburg, there is further evidence to show that there were two
parties in the local Soviet, one which was anxious to save Im-
perial family, and the latter, headed by five Jews, two of whom
were determined to have them murdered. These two Jews, by
name Vainen and Safarof, went with Lenine when he made a
journey across Germany” (page 41).
Again, in a report made by Rev. B. S. Lombard to Earl
Curzon on March 23, 1919, referring to the results of the
Bolshevist régime in Russia, among other things, the follow-
ing is stated :
“ All business became paralyzed, shops were closed, Jews
became possessors of most of the business houses, and horrible
scenes of starvation became common in the country districts.
The peasants put their children to death rather than see them
starve. In a village on the Dvina, not far from Schlusselburg,
a mother hanged three of her children” (page 57).
Mr. Henry C. Emery, formerly Chairman of the United
States Tariff Board, recently wrote a treatise on Bolshevism,
of which Lord Bryce has said:
“It seems to me the sanest and clearest exposition of Bol-
shevist theory and practice that I have seen and confirms my
view that between them and us there can be no peace.”
Mr. Emery comes to the conclusion that Bolshevism is the
promotion of a relentless and universal class war, and that
“a Bolshevik is a man who believes in the overthrow of the
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“In the newspaper Communist,' issued on April 12, 1919,
No. 72, which paper was published in the City of Kharkoff,
13 Karl Liebnecht Street, telephone No. 8—40, Mr. M. Cohan,
in his article ‘Services of the Jewry to the working class,'
wrote as follows: .
“Various kinds of reactionary regimental organizations
and radas are working out agrarian “laws,” are giving away
the land to the workmen, are establishing an eight-hour day,
and throwing out other crumbs to the working masses with
the sole object to remain in power. But let us unmask them
and let us see what there is behind this servile mask. Let us,
for instance, analyze their attitude towards the Jews. On all
the territory which is occupied by the Don, Kuban and Vol-
untary gangs, the Jews are being annihilated and oppressed.
One is unable to trace a Jew holding any office, be it impor-
tant or unimportant, and this is called “equality and frater-
nity.” The Voluntary executioners scream about their hu-
manitarianism and at the same time they oppress a whole
nation which always had the esteem of the whole world. It
should not be forgotten that the Jewish people, who for cen-
turies were oppressed by kings and czars, are the real prole-
tariat, the real internationale, which has no country.
“* Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Rus-
sian social revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands
of the Jews. Would the dark oppressed masses of the Rus-
sian workmen and peasants have been able to throw off the ·
yoke of the bourgeoisie by themselves ? No, it was precisely
the Jews who led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the
Internationale, and not only have led, but are also now lead-
ing the Soviet cause which remains in their safe hands. We
may be quiet as long as the chief command of the Red Army
is in the hands of comrade Leon Trotzky. It is true that there
are no Jews in the ranks of the Red Army as far as privates
are concerned, but in the committees and in Soviet organiza-
tions, as commissars, the Jews are gallantly leading the
masses of the Russian proletariat to victory. It is not without
reason that during the elections to all Soviet institutions the
Jews are winning by an overwhelming majority. It is not
without reason, let us repeat, that the Russian proletariat has
elected as its head and leader the Jew comrade Bronstein-
Trotzky. The symbol of Jewry, which for centuries has
struggled against capitalism, has become also the symbol of the
Russian proletariat, which can be seen even in the fact of the
adoption of the Red five-pointed star, which in former times,
as it is well-known, was the symbol of Zionism and Jewry.
With this sign comes victory, with this sign comes the death
of the parasites of the bourgeoisie, and let the supporters of
Denikine, Krasnov and Kolchak tremble, these oppressors
and executioners of the advance guard of Socialism — of the
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gallant Jewish people. Their servility before the working
masses will not help them, and Jewish tears will come out of
them in sweat of drops of blood.'”
The publishers of the newspaper “On to Moscow” print a
footnote to the article of Mr. Cohan which reads:
“The issue of the newspaper ‘Communist' is kept at the
office and everybody is invited to ascertain its authenticity." .
2. PARALLELISM BETWEEN PROTOCOLS AND BOLSHEVIST
POLICIES
(a) The Policy of Terror
It will be recalled that the Protocols advocate a mass terror,
a “program of violence.” In this connection also the actual
Bolshevist policies are in complete harmony with the pro-
gram of the Protocols. With reference to this point it be-
comes important to quote the Krasnaya Gazeta (Red Gazette),
the official organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers', Red
Army, and Peasants' Deputies, which body is presided over
by Zinovieff, alias Apfelbaum, a Jew. On August 31, 1918,
in an editorial article, the following is stated:
“The interests of the revolution require the physical anni-
hilation of the bourgeois class. It is time for us to start.”
More explicitly the program of violence is defined by the
same paper on September 1, 1918, in an article entitled “ Blood
for Blood.” Therein it is stated :
“We will turn our hearts into steel, which we will temper
in the fire of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom.
We will make our hearts cruel, hard, and immovable, so that
no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at
the sight of a sea of enemy blood. We will let loose the flood-
gates of that sea. Without mercy, without sparing, we will
kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thou-
sands; let them drown themselves in their own blood. For the
blood of Lenin and Uritzki, Zinovieff and Volodarski, let there
be floods of blood of the bourgeois — more blood, as much as
possible.”
Mr. Zinovieff — Apfelbaum went into further details as
to the number of Russians whom he proposed to kill for the
· sake of Mr. Trotzky's régime. In a speech of Zinovieff's,
reported in the Northern Commune, published in Petrograd
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on September 19, 1918, No. 109, the following plain statement
is quoted:
“To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist
militarism. We must win over to our side 90,000,000 of the
100,000,000 of population of Russia under the Soviets. As for
the rest, we have nothing to say to them; they must be anni-
hilated.”
To be sure that the Jewish Bolsheviks were not boasting, the
following report of the American Consul General at Moscow,
dated September 3, 1918, is of the utmost significance. This
report, which was published in the “ Memorandum on Certain
Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in Russia,” Washington,
Government Printing Office, 1919, reads in part as follows:
"Since May the so-called Extraordinary Commission to
Combat Counter-revolution has conducted an openly avowed
campaign of terror. Thousands of persons have been sum-
marily shot without even the form of trial. Many of them
have no doubt been innocent of even the political views which
were supposed to supply the motive of their execution."
The American Consul General concludes his report by
stating :
“The situation cries aloud to all who will act for the sake of
humanity.” 1
Trotzky made an attempt to justify “mass terror" in an
article signed by him in the official daily newspaper Izvestia on
January 10, 1919, under the title “ Military Specialists and the
Red Army.” In this article Trotzky states among other things
as follows:
“Terror as the demonstration of the will and strength of the
working class, is historically justified, precisely because the
proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the
Intelligentsia, pacify the professional men of various cate-
gories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own
aims within the fields of their specialties.” 2
The London Times of November 14, 1919, printed a letter
“sent by a British Officer in South Russia to his wife” stating
that “the letter is published exactly as sent, except that names
1 “Memorandum on Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in
Russia," p. II. Compiled by the U. S. State Department in October,
1919.
? Page 12 of the same memorandum.
ually ssional the politily beeath of th
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witness is the Rev. R. Courtier-Forster, late British Chaplain
at Odessa and the Russian Ports of the Black Sea. Space
permits the reprint here of only the following passages from
this important testimony as to one chapter of the Bolshevist
terror:
“While I was still British chaplain of Odessa the city was
deluged with blood. When the Bolshevist elements, grafting
on to their main support the 4,000 criminals released from
the city gaols, attempted to seize the town, people of educa-
tion, regardless of social position, offered what armed re-
sistance was in their power. Workmen, shop assistants, sol-
diers, professional men, and a handful of officers fought for
freedom and liberty through the streets of the great port for
three days and nights against the bloody despotism of the
Bolshevists. Tramcars were overturned to make barricades,
trenches dug in the streets, machine-guns placed in the upper
windows of houses to move the thoroughfare with fire. The
place became an inferno. The Bolshevists were victorious.
On capturing Odessa Railway Station, which had been de-
fended by a few officers and a number of anti-Bolshevist
soldiers, the Bolshevists bayoneted to death the 19 wounded
and helpless men laid on the waiting-room floor to await Red
Cross succour.
“Scores of other men who fell wounded in the streets also
became victims to the triumphant Bolshevist criminals. The
majority of these wretched and unhappy sufferers completely
disappeared. Inquiries at the hospitals and prisons revealed
the fact that they were not there, and no trace of them was
to be found. A fortnight later there was a terrible storm on
the Black Sea, and the bodies of the missing men were washed
up on the rocks of Odessa breakwater and along the shore;
they had been taken out to sea in small boats, stones tied to
their feet, and then been dropped over alive into deep water.
Hundreds of others were captured and taken on board the
Almaz and the Sinope, the largest cruiser of the Black Sea
Fleet. Here they became victims of unthinkable tortures.
“On the Sinope General Chormichoff and some other per-
sonal friends of my own were fastened one by one with iron
chains to planks of wood and pushed slowly, inch by inch,
into the ship's furnaces and roasted alive. Others were tied
to winches, the winches turned until the men were torn in two
alive. Others were taken to the boilers and scalded with
boiling steam; they were then moved to another part of the
ship and ventilating fans set revolving that currents of cold
air might blow on the scalds and increase the agony of the
torture. The full names of 17 of the Sinope victims were
given me in writing by members of their families or their
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cution by shooting, drowning, etc., have run into very large
figures, they are undoubtedly few in comparison with the
number who have been deliberately starved by the Bolsheviki.
In pursuance of their avowed policy of exterminating the
bourgeois class the Soviet government divided the people into
four categories with respect to the receipt of food, the bour-
geoisie being placed in the last two categories as to which the
allowance of food was insufficient to support life. A report
by “Mr. E.” found in the British White Book, “Russia No. 1”
(1919), relating to the conditions in February, 1919, shows
that the last two categories have been done away with alto-
gether. The report states that the Bolsheviki have published
statistics “ showing that the fourth category was not necessary,
as there were so few members.” “This proves,” he says,
" that the 4th category people have either been exterminated
or have been forced to work under the Bolsheviks in order
to live.” The same witness states that the amount of food
given to the first category was constantly varying according
to the supplies. The rations allowed the four categories in
October, 1918, are shown by the Bolshevist paper Vooruzheny
Narod (The Armed People):
“The Commissary of Food of the Petrograd Labor Com-
mune states that on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
for four days, the following products will be given on the pres-
entation of the bread cards, according to category:
Ist category — 1 lb. (Russian) of bread and 3 lb. of
potatoes
2nd category — 1/2 lb. of bread and 2 lb. of potatoes
3rd category — 14 lb. of bread and i lb. of potatoes
4th category — 1/2 lb. of potatoes.”
Many witnesses have referred to the cruelty of this cate-
gory system. Of course, these rations for the 3rd and 4th
categories are quite insufficient to support life, and as the
bourgeois classes were not only placed in these categories,
but were also persecuted and prevented from getting employ-
ment in many cases, it is not surprising that hundreds of
thousands of them were exterminated by these measures.
As to the question of how the Jewish element in the popu-
lation came out on the question of food as compared with the
* British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 86.
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Christian element there is little evidence at hand, but we may
refer to one statement in a memorandum of a Mr. B. contained
in the British White Book, “Russia No. 1 (1919)," as follows:
“At the Putilof Works anti-Semitism is growing, probably
because the food supply committees are entirely in the hands
of Jews — and voices can be heard sometimes calling for a
‘pogrom.'”1
Wholesale starvation in Russian cities is one of the most
striking features of Russia's tragedy. The bourgeoisie, and
especially the intellectual classes of the Russian people, are
systematically underfed by the treacherous rationing system
of the Jewish Soviet officials. Manual labor as well as the
intellectual workers are subjected to a most villainous tyranny,
namely, to the tyranny of starvation. It is proper to pro-
pound the question: Is this policy carried out in accordance
with the stipulation of the Protocols which reads as follows:
“Our power lies in the chronic malnutrition and in the weak-
ness of the worker, because through this he falls under our
power and is unable to find either strength or energy to coun-
teract it.” (Protocol No. III.)
(b) The Program of Hypocrisy
As already seen, the Protocols call for a program of hypoc-
risy as well as terror. The nature of the Bolshevist régime
viewed from this angle is graphically described by Mr. Roger
E. Simmons in his testimony before the Overman Committee.
On pages 298 and 299 of the Senate Report he states:
"Along the trans-Siberian line, proceeding slowly, I had a
chance of reading the literature that the Bolsheviki were dis-
tributing in connection with their active propaganda ; also the
decrees, proclamations, and the public formal announcements
of all kinds of the local and national authorities. Many of
these sounded plausible, aimed to be constructive, ostensibly,
and in their idealism and promises were golden. I could see
how people would be attracted, and for the first 8 to 10 weeks
understood their sanguine hopes. But after this time disin-
tegration was rapid and I saw the awful results. The modus
operandi was not in line with theories. They talked ideals but
did not act ideals. Practices showed there was decided im-
· morality; decidedly, the game was not being played squarely,
1 British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 68.
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the people being deceived by the leaders. I suspected it from
the very beginning from what I saw in Siberia. If you will let
me, I will read to you a significant admission in that connection.
“This statement was written to me, at my request, by an
American that it could be given to the American Consul Gen-
eral. It reads as follows:
“* Bonch Bruevitch, the executor of the acts of all the
People's Commissars, not a strong man, but a close friend of
Lenine's, who, working in the same office, is able to influence
Lenine strongly. A power in the government as long as
Lenine lives. He states that the Bolsheviki have not worked
out a code of morals yet, and until they do, the end justifies
the means. Any lies or dictatorial methods are worth using
as long as they are in the interests of the working classes. A
close friend of his says he has no compunctions, lying when-
ever there is an advantage to be gained from it for the Soviets.'
“The movement is immoral, absolutely."
In this connection it is of the utmost importance to call the
attention of the reader to the statement of one of the best
known Jewish Soviet officials, Zinovieff — Apfelbaum, Presi-
dent of the Petrograd Soviet, regarding the means of spreading
world-wide propaganda. The passage as quoted before proves
how closely the policies advocated in the Protocols resemble
the Jewish policies as carried out by the Soviet officials in
Russia. This is what Zinovieff stated on February 2, 1919:
“We are willing to sign an unfavorable peace with the allies
... It would only mean that we should put no trust whatever
in the bit of paper we would sign. We should use the breath-
ing space so obtained in order to gather our strength in order
that the mere continued existence of our government would
keep up the world-wide propaganda which Soviet Russia has
been carrying on for more than a year.” 1
(c) The Destruction of Religion and Christianity
Here again the actual policies of the Bolsheviki fully co-
incide with the Protocols.
The most important passage in the Protocols as to the
policy advocated in regard to religion is the following:
“Liberty could also be harmless and remain on the state
program without detriment to the well-being of the people
if it were to retain the ideas of the belief in God and human
1 “Memorandum. Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in
Russia.” Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919, p. 20.
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fraternity, free from the conception of equality which is in
contradiction to the laws of nature which establish subordina-
tion. With such a faith the people would be governed by the
guardians of the parish and would thrive quietly and obedi-
ently under the guidance of their spiritual leader, accepting
God's dispensation on earth. It is for this reason that we must
undermine faith, tearing from the minds of the Goys the very
principle of God and Soul, and substituting mathematical for-
mulas and material needs.”
It appears from the above excerpt that the Protocols advo-
cate the destruction of religion and the religious spirit among
the Gentiles on the ground that they are the political as well
as the moral bulwarks of the Gentile states. In another place
the Protocols state that the most formidable antagonist of the
Jews in the past has been Rome, i.e., the Roman Catholic
Church.
The Bolsheviki, whatever their real motives may be, have
from the moment they came into power in Russia conducted
a campaign of violence and persecution against the Christian
religion, in the guise of a campaign against religion in gen-
eral. While they have not attacked the Jewish religion or
the Jewish rabbis, they have murdered and persecuted Chris-
tian priests and harassed their congregations in the churches.
While professing to be merely following the Socialist teach-
ings of Karl Marx (himself a Jew), who attacked religion in
general as the creature of capitalism, the Bolshevist campaign
against religion is in fact directed against Christianity.
Evidence of the above is found in the sworn testimony of
several witnesses before the Overman Committee and in offi-
cial reports of the British government and elsewhere.
An English clergyman, the Rev. B. S. Lombard, in a report
to Earl Curzon, dated March 23, 1919, referring to the con-
ditions in Soviet Russia, stated as follows:
“The treatment of the priests was brutal beyond everything.
Eight of them were incarcerated in a cell in our corridor.
Some of us saw an aged man knocked down twice one morning
for apparently, no reason whatever, and they were employed to
perform the most degrading work and made to clean out the
filthy prison hospital.” 1
Mr. George A. Simons testified before the Overman Com-
mittee, in answer to a question of Senator King, as follows:
- British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 57.
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SENATOR KING. “Did you find, then, that atheism perme-
ates the ranks of the Bolsheviki ?”
MR. SIMONS. “Yes, sir. And the anti-Christ spirit as
well.”
The testimony of Mr. Simons on this subject was as fol-
lows:
SENATOR KING. “What I am trying to get at is, for my
information, why Bolshevism is bitterly opposed to all sorts of
religion or sacraments of the church — Christianity ; because
I suppose that they recognize that Christianity is the basis
of law and order and of orderly government. I was wonder-
ing if you had discovered why they were so bitter against
Christianity, and if you found that all the Bolsheviks were
atheistic or rationalistic or anti-Christian?”
MR. SIMONS. “My experience over there under the Bol-
sheviki régime has led me to come to the conclusion that the
Bolsheviki religion is not only absolutely anti-religious, athe-
istic, but has it in mind to make all real religious work im-
possible as soon as they can achieve that end which they are
pressing. There was a meeting — I cannot give you the date
offhand; it must have been in August, 1918— held in a large
hall that had once been used by the Young Men's Christian
Association in Petrograd for their work among the Russian
soldiers. The Bolsheviki confiscated it; put out the Y. M. C. A.
In that large hall there was a meeting held which was to be
a sort of religious dispute. Lunacharsky, the Commissar of
the People's Enlightenment, as he was called, and Mr. Spitz-
berg, who was the Commissar of Propaganda for Bolshevism,
were the two main speakers. Both of those men spoke in very
much the same way as Emma Goldman has been speaking.
I have been getting some of her literature, and recently I have
been very much amazed at the same line of argumentation with
regard to the attack on religion and Christianity and so-called
religious organizations.”
SENATOR KING. “She is the Bolshevik who has been in
jail in this country and who will be deported as soon as her
sentence is over?”
MR. SIMONS. “I do not know as she will be deported.”
SENATOR King. “I think she will be.”
MR. SIMONS. “She ought to be put somewhere where she
cannot issue any more of that literature. Lunacharsky and
Spitzberg came out with pretty much the same things that she
has been saying and printing. This is one of these theses : ‘All
that is bad in the world, misery and suffering that we have
had, is largely due to the superstition that there is a God.'”
SENATOR KING. “I noticed in yesterday's paper that in
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SENATOR NELSON. “Do you not think that the church in
the end will prove the rallying center for the anti-Bolshevik
forces ? ”
MR. SIMMONS. “I think it certainly will be one of the prin-
cipal factors; no doubt of it. That priest took the occasion,
knowing that I was an official of the American Government,
thinking that it was the last duty he could perhaps perform
for Russia, to beg me to go back and tell the American people,
' For God's sake, send us help.' He was speaking, gentlemen,
not for himself, but for the large class of people that he
represented.” 1
TESTIMONY OF MR. THEODOR KRYSHTOFOVICH
“As you know, gentlemen, the Russians are a very religious
people. Like here in the United States, there are very many
denominations there, but most of the people belong to the Greek
Church. Of course, the priests and religious people are not very
pleasant to the Bolsheviki, because the Bolsheviki deny any
religion or any religious sentiment. They oppose the Russian
clergy and the Russian clergy oppose the Bolsheviki, and the
Russian priests are treated very badly. For instance, they
are set to do streetwork, cleaning the streets, paving streets,
digging ditches, and so on. The workmen told me several
times, 'The Bolsheviki are sending out priests to work in the
streets. Why do they not send their rabbis ?' And that is
true. The Jewish Rabbis are not sent to work on the streets.
The Bolsheviki are opposing religion to such an extent that
lately when I was going to Petrograd they raised a question
of teaching atheism in the schools. They boast that they have
opened so many schools, but they do not say that they closed
as many schools as they opened. We had schools in connection
with the churches, in connection with every church there was.
a school, and all these schools are closed now.” 2
Further evidence that the Bolsheviki, although attacking
Christianity, protect the Jewish religion, is found in the fol-
lowing article, which appeared on the 5th of July, 1919, in the
weekly publication Soviet Russia, page 15. The article is
entitled “Soviet Tolerance.” It reads as follows:
“ The New York Jewish Daily, 'The Day,' in its issue of
June 24th has the following cablegram from its European cor-
respondent, N. Shiffrin: ‘Glad Tidings from Russia. “The
Zionists have organized throughout Russia Food Co-operative
Societies which are united in every city into Central Co-opera-
1 Senate Report, “ Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 316.
2 Senate Report, “ Bolshevik Propaganda," p. 431,
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tive Associations united in the All-Russian Federation of Jew-
ish Food Co-operative Associations. The Federation is in part
subsidized by the Moscow Soviet Government. All schools
of the Zionists in which the language of instruction is ancient
Hebrew, as well as the Hebrew High School in Minsk, have
been taken over by the government. They have been incorpo-
rated in the Public School System which is maintained by the
Commissariat of Public Education.'”
The significant part of this article consists in the fact that
the old Hebrew is a religious language in which the Talmud
is written. The old Hebrew can serve only for the study
of the Talmud as well as of other Jewish religious writings.
Thus, while combating the Christian religion, the Bolsheviki
are extending protection to the Jewish religion and to the
synagogues.
In a pamphlet entitled “The Russian Church under the Bol-
sheviks,” recently published in England, is printed the appeal
of Father Serge Orlov, “ who played an important part in the
Reform movement in the Russian church,” and who is now in
Switzerland, where the National Consistory has expressed its
sympathy for the Russian people by composing a special prayer
for the liberation of Russia from the Bolsheviks. We quote
the following passages from this appeal of Father Orlov:
“Owing to Bolshevism the Orthodox Russian Church is
passing through so acute a crisis that there is serious danger
to the fundamental idea of the whole of Christianity.
“ Bolshevism is essentially hostile to Christ, and manifests
even greater hatred towards Christianity than did the pagan
power of the first centuries.
“ Bolshevism and the Christian Church cannot exist side
by side.
“ The persecution of the Church began in January, 1918,
and has been increasing since then. The Bolsheviks issued
a decree on the disestablishment of the Church, although never
had the Russian Church been so firmly in the grip of the
secular authorities as in Soviet Russia. The Church has not
only been robbed but treated with contumely. Every com-
missary has the right of prohibiting a service if he suspects
the priest or his congregation of counter-revolutionary ten-
dencies. Practically whenever he chooses he can close a
church, turn it into a cinema, mock at the ancient sacred relics,
and in general insult people's religious feelings.
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“But it is strange that the greater the persecution of the
Russian Church the nearer and dearer does it become to the
tortured Russian people. Indeed, the priests of the Russian
Church boldly denounce the Bolsheviks. Not one of the secular
rulers has accused them so openly as Tikhon, the All-Russian
Patriarch, over whom the Damocles sword of the Bolsheviks
is always hanging. But the sword can only kill the body, and
not the spirit.
“ As early as last February, Patriarch Tikhon excommuni-
cated the Bolsheviks, the excommunication being read in the
churches. At that time the persecution of the clergy had al-
ready commenced, but the Patriarch had not been arrested.
It was only later, in the autumn of 1918, during the univer-
sal Terror, that he was placed under domiciliary arrest in his
apartments in the Kremlin, with a guard of Chinese, Letts and
Red Army men, and deprived of his rations. But even as a
prisoner the Patriarch issued declarations against the Bolshe-
viks, in which he severely denounced them.
“It is not enough," writes the Patriarch, “that you have
stained the hands of the Russian people with the blood of their
brethren. You have instigated the people to open, shameless
robbery. You have befogged their consciences and stifled
their conviction of sin, but under whatever name you disguise
an evil deed, murder, violence and robbery will always remain
crimes and deeds of evil that clamor to Heaven for vengeance.
Yes, we are going through a dreadful time under your domin-
ion, and it will be long before it fades from the hearts of the
nation, where it has dimmed the image of God and impressed
that of the beast.
“But as yet the Bolsheviks have not dared to raise their
hand against the aged Patriarch. Apparently he is alive."
A faint idea of what the Bolsheviks are doing to the
Russian Church may be gathered from the following:
“According to information received from A. Kartashov,
former Minister of Cults, by December, 1918, the Bolsheviks
had killed ten archbishops and bishops; it is difficult to ascer-
tain the number of priests killed. It reaches several hundreds.
The Patriarch is a prisoner in his own house. According to
the (later) message from the Archbishop of Omsk, President
of the Supreme Administration of the Orthodox Church, to
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of Kiev,
twenty bishops and hundreds of priests have been assassinated.
Some were buried alive. "Wherever the Bolsheviks are in
power,' says the Archbishop of Omsk, 'the Christian Church
is persecuted with even greater ferocity than in the first three
centuries of the Christian era.'
“When, in January, 1919, the town of Yuriev (Dorpat)
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was taken by the Bolsheviks, Bishop Platon was arrested.
The Reval papers thus describe the Bishop's last moments.
The Bolsheviks burst into his house at night, dragged him from
his bed. Barefoot and clad only in his under-linen, the Bishop,
with 17 other persons, was dragged down to the cellars of the
house they had been arrested in. Here the Red executioners
rushed at them with their axes and killed them.
“ Near Kotlas, all the ten monks of the monastery, with the
prior at their head, were shot for agitation against the Soviet
authorities.”
Information has come from Omsk that as a result of a
judicial investigation of the Bolshevik terror in Perm, the
following has been discovered:-
“ Archbishop Andronik was buried alive; Vassili, Archbishop
of Chernigov, who had come to Moscow to inquire about the
fate of Archbishop Andronik, was cut down and killed with
his two companions. Bishop Feofan was first tortured, then
dipped several times into the river through a hole in the ice,
and finally drowned in the River Kama. Besides this, it was
discovered that 50 priests had been executed. Before being
· killed they were horribly tortured.
“At the evacuation of Cherdyn the Bolsheviks took with
them among other hostages a highly respected priest, Nicolas
Koniurov, whom they subjected to atrocious torments.
“During a severe frost they stripped the old man naked and
poured water over him until he was transformed into a statue
of ice.”
(“The Russian Church under the Bolsheviks," pages 1,
2, 3.)
The statement of the Rev. R. Courtier-Forster, British
Chaplain at Odessa, already cited under the head of “Terror,”
contains the following passage as to the martyrdom of Chris-
tians under the Bolsheviki:
" It was the martyrdom of the two Metropolitans and the
assassination of so many Bishops and the killing of hundreds
of various Christian ministers of religion, regardless of denom-
ination or school of thought, that proved the undoing of the
Scourge. Russian Orthodox clergy, Protestant Lutheran
pastors, Roman Catholic priests, were tortured and done to
death with the same light-hearted indiscrimination in the name
of Toleration and Freedom. Then it was that the Scourge,
seeing the last remnants of Liberty ground under the heel of
a tyranny more brutal in its methods than a mediaeval torture
chamber, published another full-page cartoon representing
Moses descending from the Burning Mount, bringing in his
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support of the Bolshevik cause and that they refused to sell
grain for rubles without value, the Bolsheviki took the class
issue to the villages. Lenine calls this movement awakening
class consciousness of the peasantry. He organized for this
work 'poor committees,' as they are called in translation.
These committees of soldiers go out to the villages to inflame
the dissatisfied elements and to extract by force food from the
peasants. ... But Lenine sends the poor committees, agita-
tors, to incite peasants who have no land to conspire against
those who have, and to take the guns he gives them for fight-
ing, robbing, and plundering neighbors in their own and neigh-
boring villages who have land. When you come later to
read, gentlemen, the history of the Russian revolution, some
of the bloodiest fights, you will find, and worst horrors, have
occurred in villages. Those simple, peace-loving people have
been living among themselves for centuries in more or less
harmony under their communistic system. But all of a
sudden Lenine, by his nefarious policies, sets the passions
of the demoralized class aflame and turns them against the
other two classes. Instead of promoting brotherly love and
helping to make the sentiment of the nation one for the good
of all, as we are striving to do in America, the Bolsheviki are
trying by jealousy and animosity to disintegrate the population
of various localities into classes with a view of the honest
toiler being overcome and subjected. Now this is a serious
matter. The peasantry represent 85 per cent of the 160,000,000
Russians.
“ In Russia class hatred is seen manifested everywhere. I
will mention one illustration which I saw in Petrograd - the
undressing of a woman. I had heard about it before. It was
about 6:30, growing dark, as I was walking down the Nevsky
Prospect on my way home. I heard a yell of distress from a
woman up a street running perpendicularly to the Nevsky.
There two soldiers were removing the cloak — a very good
substantial cloth coat — from a woman. And when protests
were made by the standers-by, the answer was, “We have
blacked your boots and washed your clothes for many years.
Now you bourgeoisie have got to bow to us and wash our
clothes and black our boots.' Undressing to steal clothes went
on to a considerable extent in Moscow, Petrograd and Kiev,
according to reports. It went as far as taking off besides
cloaks the very dresses of women, and where they could handle
it, taking also the clothes and overcoats off men. ...
“Now, you can see that all their practices aimed to invite
people to do acts of that kind showing intense hatred — I wish
I could think of another word, it is more than hatred — de-
testation — against people that they thought were a little
higher up. Now, remember, as I pointed out in the first place
this hatred is against a good many of these people in the cities,
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“The Soviet government, composed solely of Bolsheviks,
of a portion only of the manual proletariat' is a government
in name only. Rightly stated, it is a well-organized institution
functioning to further the social revolution, the overthrow
of all recognized standards of morality and civilization.” 1
That gradual despotism shown by the testimony of these
witnesses to exist in 1918 has tended to become more and
more complete is shown by evidence of a recent date. The
British White Book, “Russia No. 1 (1919), Collection of
Reports on Bolshevism in Russia," contains a report of a
Mr. C. who was formerly connected with a commercial com-
pany which had a branch in Moscow. This document bears
the date of January 21, 1919. Among other information
therein contained is the following:
“All factories nationalized; only about half of them work-
ing. Men all anti-Bolshevik. Very discontented with condi-
tions of life, and with the working of the factories. Condi-
tions getting worse and worse every day. A great many of
the men have gone to the country, as it is practically impossible
to live in the towns. . . . In Petrograd more attempts to strike
than in Moscow; this is because in Moscow the workmen are
more under the power of the government, and they do not dare
to strike. Even if they did there is nothing to gain by it, for
the government would simply stop their wages, discharge a
good many, and probably cancel their bread cards.”
As recently as in the fall of 1919 conditions in the factories
were reported to be intolerable. The Soviet officials have
gone far beyond that part of the program of Karl Marx in
his “ Communist Manifesto," which prescribes “ Equal liability
of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially
for agriculture.” The Soviet government's Code of Labor
Laws, translated into English and published in New York
in Soviet Russia, the organ of the Russian Soviet Bureau, in
its issue of February 21, 1920, imposes compulsory labor upon
every one, male or female, between the ages of sixteen and
sixty, unless physically disqualified, and enforces iron disci-
pline of the most tyrannical nature.
Moreover, the New York World of Friday, April 9, 1920,
published an article entitled “Mobilize Russian Labor," in
which it was stated that Trotzky, addressing the ninth conven-
tion of the Communist Party at Moscow on March 27, 1920,
1 Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 299.
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directed his address chiefly to defining the relation between the
mobilization of industry to the industrial rehabilitation of
Russia, and stated:
“Mobilization is more necessary now than it was formerly,
because we have to deal with the peasant population and
masses of unskilled labor which cannot be utilized to the full-
est extent by any other means than military discipline. Trades
unions are capable of organizing great masses of qualified
workers, but 30 per cent of the people cannot be reached by
this means.”
An elaborate system among the workmen had been gradu-
ally established and at present the communist spy reporting
directly to the Soviets has almost mediaeval powers of execut-
ing a man merely for the reason that he is opposed to the
tyranny of the Soviets. Moreover, by the weapon of starva-
tion, the workman is compelled to work more hours than
under any preceding form of government. The very right to
strike is entirely denied the workmen. Every strike is called
sabotage against the Soviets and every act of sabotage is
forbidden under pain of capital punishment. Supplementary
Decree No. 27 deals specifically with incitements to strike.
Persons violating such decree are brought before the Extraor-
dinary Committees to Combat Counter-revolution.
This situation strikingly recalls a passage in the Protocols
where it is stated :
“Civilization cannot exist without absolute despotism, for
government is carried on not by the masses, but by their leader
whoever he may be.”
Is Trotzky this leader ?
Immediately before his departure from the United States
for Russia in order to join his brethren who were engaged
in the destruction of the Russian state, Trotzky made the
following boast :
“I stand forth the world's greatest internationalist. I shall
rule Russia."
Then he made this appeal to the audience:
“On with our world civil war! On with the world revolu-
tion! Down with the governments ! ”
Unfortunately, the wise step taken by the British Govern-
ment in arresting Trotzky at Halifax while on his way to
Russia was countermanded, and Lieut.-Colonel J. B. Maclean,
proprietor of Maclean's Magazine, published at Toronto, in
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II. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE PROTOCOLS
AND JEWISH WRITINGS
There are many passages in the writings and speeches
of well-known Jewish leaders at various times during the last
hundred years which show a remarkable parallelism with soine
of the important ideas set forth in the Protocols. The fol-
lowing instances may be cited as a result of a search which
is by no means exhaustive. In each case we cite a passage
taken verbatim from the Protocols, followed under the title
of “ Substantiations” by parallel quotations from well-known
Jews.
I. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
(a) “The prophets have told us that we were chosen by
God himself to reign over the world. God endowed us with
genius to enable us to cope with the problem.” (Protocol
No. V.)
(b) “God has given us, his chosen people, the power to
scatter, and what to all appears to be our weakness has
proved to be our strength, and has now brought us to the
threshold of universal rule.” (Protocol No. XI.) .
(c) “When the King of Israel places the crown on his
sacred head, offered him by Europe, he will be the Patriarch
of the World.” (Protocol No. XV.)
Substantiations
(a) “ The men of all nations shall be subject to Israel, but
those who have ruled over you shall be destroyed with the
sword.”
(Apocalypse of Baruch (LXXII), a well-known Jewish
work of the first century A.D.)
(b) “Our task is great and holy and its success is guaran-
teed. Catholicism, our greatest foe, lay wounded in its brains.
The net which is being spread by Israel all over the surface of
the earth will spread day by day, and the glorious prophecies
of our holy rights will be finally realized. The time is ap-
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preparation of the world for a purified, developed and univer-
salized Judaism."
(Cl. G. Montefiore, “Outlines of Liberal Judaism," p. 163.
London. 1912.)
(2) “Liberal Judaism has higher ambitions for the Jewish
people. Above all, it seeks to preserve the Jewish religion in
full beauty and power, and to extend its workings to a sphere
co-extensive with the universe of men.”1
(Rabbi Mattuck, quoted by Paul Goodman in his article on
“Zionism and Liberal Judaism," in the Zionist Review, No-
vember, 1911. Reprinted by Petty & Sons, Ltd., Whitehall
Printeries, Leeds, pp. 2 and 3.)
(j) “It is not given to every one to understand that which
is not yet finished. ... Yes! The likelihood of realizing
our demands and proposals grows with our numbers and with
the increase in our strength. For the present we have reason
to be satisfied with the spirit in which our aspirations were
regarded by the mighty ones of the earth. Do not demand
more than this intimation from your Action Committee. In
this respect you must have implicit confidence in it. You may
freely question it regarding all other matters.”
(Theo. Hertzl, “Congress Addresses," delivered at London,
August 13, 1900, at the Zionist Congress. Published by the
Federation of American Zionists, New York, 1917.)
(k) “Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of
the globe large enough to satisfy the reasonable requirements
of the nation: the rest we shall manage for ourselves."
(Theo. Hertzl,“ The Jewish State," p. 11.)
2. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
(a) “We must follow a program of violence and hypoc-
risy, not only for the sake of profit, but also as a duty and
for the sake of victory." (Protocol No. I.)
(b) “When we finally become rulers ... we will see to
it that no plots are hatched against us. To effect this we
will kill heartlessly all who take up arms against the estab-
lishment of our rule.” (Protocol No. XV.)
Substantiations
(a) “Our people who are receiving the new country from
the Society will also thankfully accept the new constitution it
offers them. Should they, however, show signs of rebellion,
they will be promptly crushed.” (Theo. Hertel, “ The Jewish
State," P. 38.)
? All italics in Part Two of this book are our own unless otherwise
stated.
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(6) “The interests of the revolution require the physical
annihilation of the bourgeois class. It is time for us to start.”
(Red Gazette, Aug. 31, 1918, No. 159. Published by the Pet-
rograd Soviet of the Workmens' & Soldiers' Deputies, presided
over by the Jew, Apfelbaum — Zinoviev.)
(c) “Blood and mercilessness must be our slogans.” (Leon
Trotzky, International Communist Congress, Moscow, March,
1919. Quoted, New York Evening Sun, March 18, 1919.)
3. EXTRACTS FROM PROTOCOLS
(a) “We will also artfully and deeply undermine the
sources of production by teaching the workmen Anarchy
and the use of alcohol, at the same time taking measures to
expel all the intelligent Goys from the land.
“That the true situation should not be noticed by the
Goys until the proper time, we will mask it by a pretended
desire to help the working classes and great economic prin-
ciples, an active propaganda of which principles is being
carried on through the dissemination of our economic theo-
ries." (Protocol VI.)
(b) “We will present ourselves in the guise of saviors of
the workers from this oppression, when we suggest that
they enter our army of Socialists, Anarchists, Communists,
to whom we always extend our help under the guise of the
rule of brotherhood demanded by the human solidarity of
our social masonry.” (Protocol III.)
Substantiations
(a) “When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the
cause of the workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinher-
ited of the world, the radical quality within him there, too, goes
to the roots of things, and in Germany he becomes a Marx and
a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward Bernstein ; in Austria he
becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in Russia, a
Trotzky. Just take for a moment the present situation in
Russia and in Germany. The revolution set creative forces
free, and see what a large company of Jews was available for
immediate service. Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviki,
and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority Socialists — whatever
they be called . . . Jews are to be found among the trusted
leaders and the routine workers of all those revolutionary
parties."
(Rabbi J. L. Magnes in his address delivered at the opening
session of the first Jewish Labor Congress, January 16, 1919,
New York City. See the Jewish Forum, February, 1919,
p. 722.)
(b) “ The Jew, therefore, does take an active part in revo-
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lutions; and he participates in them in so far as he is a Jew,
or more correctly in so far as he remains Jewish.”
(Bernard Lazare, “Anti-Semitism: Its History and Causes,"
p. 312. Published by International Library Publishing Co.,
New York, 1903.)
(c) “We must not, however, leave these problems (social)
and this reform (social) outside of our Jewish thought, our
Jewish activities. We must not let them be taken by active
Christians and stamped as specifically Christian.
(Rabbi Montefiore, “ Outlines of Liberal Judaism," pp. 266
and 267. London, 1912.)
(d) “Das Volk, a Jewish periodical published in America,
writes in 1905:
“One cannot blame 'us that people with different mentalities
and views as Social Democrats, Anarchists, and so on, are
filled with our socialist territorial ideas, and enter in our ranks
in order to struggle for a better future of the Jewish people.
On the contrary, it shows that life itself has raised our ideal
and drives all under our banner.'”
(The Jewish Life, March, 1906, p. 173. Jewish newspaper
published in Russian, found in New York Public Library.)
(e) The following quotation is an estimate by Bernard
Lazare, Jewish writer, of the part which was and is played
by the Jews in the revolutionary movement throughout the
world:
“Their [i.e., the Jews'] contribution to present-day Social-
ism was, as is well known, and still is, very great. The Jews,
it may be said, are situated at the poles of contemporary soci-
ety. They are found among the representatives of industrial
and financial capitalism, and among those who have vehe-
mently protested against capital. Rothschild is the antithesis
of Marx and Lassalle; the struggle for money finds its counter-
part in the struggle against money, and the world-wide outlook
of the stock-speculator finds its answer in the international
proletarian and revolutionary movement. It was Marx who
gave the first impulse to the founding of the Internationale
through the manifesto of 1847, drawn up by himself and En-
gels. Not that it can be said that he founded the Interna-
tionale, as is maintained by those who persist in regarding the
Internationale as a secret society controlled by the Jews.
Many causes led to the organization of the Internationale, but
from Marx proceeded the idea of a Labor Congress, which
was held at London in 1864, and resulted in the founding of
that society. The Jews constituted a very large proportion
of its members, and in the General Council of the society, we
find Karl Marx, Secretary for Germany and Russia, and James
Cohen, Secretary for Denmark. Many of the Jewish members
of the Internationale took part subsequently in the Commune,
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political truth, if you are convinced in the above, you universal
sons of Israel, you will come to us, you will listen to our appeal
and you will prove that you accept it."
(In 1860, Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, the well-known Jewish
leader in France, founded the Universal Jewish Alliance
(Alliance Israélite Universelle). On this occasion he issued
a circular appeal to the Jewish organizations throughout the
world. The above quotation is from this circular appeal.
Quoted by A. Shmakoff, “ Jewish Speeches," p. 131.)
(j) “It is our opinion that the Jewish question can be
solved only by the Jews themselves. . . . We no longer want
to wear the mask of any other nationality.”
(Theo. Hertül, in Congress Addresses delivered at Basle,
December 26, 1901, p. 28. Published by the Federation of
American Zionists, 1917, New York.)
(k) “ Furthermore, it is well understood in Germany and
in Austria that the Jews of Russia have never had real citizen-
ship in Russia, and although a Jew may have been born in
Russia, that does not necessarily imply that he has been a citi-
zen of Russia. Realizing that, and for other apparent reasons,
the German and Austrian Governments are making every
effort to secure the coöperation and good-will of the large Jew-
ish population, now under their control.”
(Rabbi Judas L. Magnes. See his letter to Mr. Byrlavski,
June, 1916. Published in the Report of the Commission of
the American Jewish Relief Fund. New York City, March,
1917.)
(1) " Let us forget whence we spring. No more talk of
‘German’ or of Portuguese' Jews. Though scattered over
the earth we are nevertheless a single people.”
(Rabbi Salomon Lipmann-Cerfberr in his opening speech
delivered on July 26, 1806, at the meeting preparatory to the
Synedrion. Quoted by H. S. Chamberlain in his “ Founda-
tions of the Nineteenth Century," Vol. I, p. 329.)
(m) “Israel is a nationality. We are born Jews, 'natu' be-
cause we are born Jews. A child born from Jewish parents is
Jewish. The very birth casts on him all the duties of an Israel-
ite. It is not through circumcision that we obtain our Israelan
quality. Nay, circumcision is in no way analogous to Christian
baptism. We are not Israelites because we are circumcised,
but, on the contrary, we circumcise our children because we
are Israelites. We acquire the Jewish character through our
birth, and we can never lose it nor get rid of it. Even if a Jew
denies his religion, even if he is baptised, he does not cease
to be an Israelite. All Israelite duties continue to remain
with him.”
(Archives Israélites, 1864. Quotation from Ed. Drumont,
“ La France Juive," Vol. I, p. 14, 12th ed. Paris: C. Marpont
E. Flammarion.)
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III. PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE PROTOCOLS
AND CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE
JEWS OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA
There are a number of important policies in the Protocols
which find a striking parallel in certain activities and move-
ments among Jews in various parts of the world outside of
Russia. Among these policies of the Protocols are: the control
of the press for political purposes, securing international or
so-called “minority” rights for the Jews, the stirring up of
class hatred and social disorder, and the promotion of revolu-
tions and internationalism.
“SECRET KINGDOM OF THE PRESS”.
1. The boast is made in the Protocols that in Europe the
press, with unimportant exceptions, is under Jewish control.
It is indeed true that the Jewish influence in the press in many
parts of the world is very powerful. Just how powerful it
is in America it is difficult to state. It is certainly a great
and growing power in New York City. A Jewish magazine,
The American Jewish News, recently pointed with pride to
the great number of newspapers in New York which are
either controlled by the Jews or in which Jews occupy im-
portant strategic positions. In the article referred to, which
was published in the issue of March 28, 1919, under the title
“Men Who Make Our Newspapers,” the following statement
is made:
“While it is an accepted fact that certain of our industries
to-day are almost entirely directed and supported by Jewish
minds and labor, there are nevertheless just as many which
are not generally conceded to come within the same classifica-
tion which have at their head men of Jewish descent. Most
important among these latter is the greatest of all public insti-
tutions — the press.
“ Hardly a newspaper of importance thrives in this city but it
has at its head or in some position of paramount influence a
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man in whose fibre there is Jewish energy. And with one ex-
ception the achievements of these men who mould and inter-
pret American public opinion could provide material for books
of incalculable inspiration."
The article proceeds to refer to several large dailies in New
York which are owned or controlled by Jews, with biographical
sketches of these men and their subordinates. At the end of
the article it is stated that the men mentioned are “but a few
of a great number."
That there is nothing new in the Jewish policy of control-
ling the press is shown by the following statement of Isaac-
Adolphe Crémieux, who in 1860 founded the Alliance Israélite
Universelle.
“Consider the governmental and public offices as nothing.
Look upon all honors as upon nonsense. Do not pay any at-
tention for the time being to money itself. ... Capture the
press! Through it everything will come to you in the natural
course of events.” 1
The complete dictatorship over the press exercised by the
Jewish Bolshevist leaders in Soviet Russia is such a generally
accepted fact that it needs no extended comment. All news-
papers that have attempted in any way to criticize the Bol-
shevist government have been ruthlessly suppressed, and many
writers who have dared to criticize Trotzky have been executed.
The policy of the Bolsheviks is well expressed by one of
the Soviet officials, N. Bukharin, in “The Communist Pro-
gram,” published by the Soviet printing office, called “The
Communist,” Moscow, 1918, Chapter VII, pp. 20-23:
“The Communist (Bolshevist) party receives from all sides
accusations and even threats like the following: 'You close
newspapers, you arrest people, you forbid meetings, you
trample under foot freedom of speech and of the press, you
reconstruct autocracy, you are oppressors and murderers.' It
is necessary to discuss in detail this question of the ‘liber-
ties’ in a Soviet Republic.
“At present the following is clear for the workingmen and
the peasants. The Communist party not only does not demand
any liberty of the press, of speech, meetings, unions, etc., for
1 Quoted from A. Shmakoff. Address in defense of T. Vekshin
and others, p. 36. Moscow: University Printing Office. 1907.
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the bourgeois enemies of the people, but, on the contrary, it
demands that the government should be always in readiness to
close the bourgeois press; to disperse the meetings of the ene-
mies of the people, to forbid them to lie, slander, and spread
panic; to crush ruthlessly all attempts at a restoration of the
bourgeois régime. This is precisely the meaning of the dic-
tatorship of the proletariat.'
"MINORITY RIGHTS" IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROTOCOLS
2. From a practical point of view it is of the utmost im-
portance to Christian countries to ascertain whether the Jews
are to be treated as citizens who enjoy equal rights and equal
duties with the rest of the community, or whether they are to
have, in addition, special privileges uniform in every country
because they are Jews.
The American Constitution grants equal rights to all citi-
zens of the United States, without distinction as to race or
religion. The same conception of citizenship prevails in
a majority of the western European countries (Great
Britain, Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Norway,
and Sweden).
During the last two years, however, the Jews in various
countries have adopted a peculiar policy, threatening the funda-
mental principles of equal citizenship, by demanding special
national or minority rights in central and eastern European
states. During the Peace Conference the Jews maintained an
influential delegation at Paris which insisted that such rights
be granted to the Jews in Poland, Austria, Roumania, Jugo-
slavia, Czechoslovakia and Ukrainia. A special Bill of Jewish
Rights was presented by the Jewish delegation to the Peace
Conference. This bill contained the following stipulations:
“First — New guarantees of citizenship for those born in
the territories affected, or resident therein since August, 1909.
“Second — All citizens to enjoy equal civil, religious, na-
tional and political rights, without distinction of birth, race,
nationality or religion.
“ Third — The right to use the language of any national
minority in business, private intercourse, public meetings or
the press shall be guaranteed; nor shall there be any restriction
of such language in the schools or other institutions, nor shall
the validity of any transaction or document be affected by the
use of any language whatsoever.
“ Fourth — The state shall recognize the several national
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minorities as constituting distinct autonomous organizations,
having the right to establish, manage and control schools and
religious, educational, charitable and social institutions.
“Fifth — Each national minority shall be allotted its pro-
portion of state, departmental and municipal funds, based on
the ratio of its numbers in the respective areas, as well as in
the entire population.
“Sixth — Proportional representation of national minorities
in elected bodies.
"Seventh — Those observing any other day except Sunday
as Sabbath shall not be required to perform on such days acts
they regard as desecrations, and shall be permitted to conduct
business on Sunday if they so desire.
“Eighth — The signatories to the treaty, or any minority
which may be affected by failure to observe its provisions, shall
be entitled to submit complaints for adjudication to the League
of Nations, which will assume jurisdiction.” (New York
Tribune, June 12, 1919.)
This Bill of Rights was strongly endorsed by the American
Jewish Congress held in Philadelphia in December, 1918. We
quote an article in the New York Tribune of May 14, 1919,
on this subject :
“NATIONS MUST GUARANTEE RACIAL RIGHTS, SAYS MACK.
“CHAIRMAN OF JEWISH DELEGATION TO PARIS CABLES RE-
SULTS OF ITS EFFORTS.
“According to a cable received by the Zionist Organization
of America from its president, Judge Julian W. Mack, who is
now in Paris, heading the American Jewish Congress delega-
tion to the peace conference, and chairman of the Jewish
delegations from every part of Europe, the treaty offered to
Germany requires Poland and other nations to accept separate
provisions guaranteeing rights to racial, religious and linguis-
tic minorities within their boundaries.
“ Judge Mack says the word 'national' is not included in
the treaty as now formulated, but that a decision on this point
is expected in a few days.
“He expresses himself as sanguine that the substance of the
demands adopted by the American Jewish Congress, held in
Philadelphia last December, will be obtained.”
Moreover, the Bill of Rights was endorsed by most of the
recognized Jewish organizations throughout the world.
“NINE MILLION JEWS PRESENT BILL OF RIGHTS AT PARIS," is
the title under which the universal support of Hebrew national
rights within the boundaries of other nations was recorded
by the New York Tribune on June 12, 1919.
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Mr. Edward Dillon, in his book “ The Inside Story of the
Peace Conference,” referring to these national rights and to
the support which was extended to the Jewish demands, stated
that the Allied policy was “looked upon as anything but dis-
interested.” Mr. Dillon further said:
“Unhappily this conviction was subsequently strengthened
by certain of the measures decreed by the Supreme Council be-
tween April and the close of the Conference. The misgivings
of other delegates turned upon a matter which at first sight
may appear so far removed from any of the pressing issues of
the twentieth century as to seem wholly imaginary. They
feared that a religious — some would call it racial — bias lay
at the root of Mr. Wilson's policy. It may seem amazing to
some readers, but it is none the less a fact, that a considerable
number of delegates believed that the real influences behind
the Anglo-Saxon peoples were Semitic.
“ They confronted the President's proposal on the subject
of religious inequality, and, in particular, the odd motive al-
leged for it, with the measures for the protection of minorities
which he subsequently imposed on the lesser states, and which
had for their keynote to satisfy the Jewish elements in eastern
Europe. And they concluded that the sequence of expedients
framed and enforced in this direction were inspired by the
Jews, assembled in Paris for the purpose of realizing their
carefully thought-out program, which they succeeded in hav-
ing substantially executed. However right or wrong these
delegates may have been, it would be a dangerous mistake to
ignore their views, seeing that they have since become one of
the permanent elements of the situation. The formula into
which this policy was thrown by the members of the Confer-
ence, whose countries it affected, and who regarded it as fatal
to the peace of eastern Europe, was this: 'Henceforth the
world will be governed by the Anglo-Saxon peoples, who, in
turn, are swayed by their Jewish elements.'” (Pages 496, 497.)
Mr. Dillon emphasizes that the Jewish demands for special
national privileges were largely fomented by western Jews,
including those of the United States. He even states that
among the many Jews who were present at the Paris Peace
Conference “the largest and most brilliant contingent was
sent by the United States.” (Page 12.) According to this
author, “Their principal mission, with which every fair-
minded man sympathized heartily, was to secure for their
kindred in Eastern Europe rights equal to those of the popu-
lations in whose midst they reside. And to the credit of the
Poles, Rumanians, and Russians, who were to be constrained
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to remove all the existing disabilities, they enfranchised the
Hebrew elements spontaneously. But the western Jews who
championed their eastern brothers, proceeded to demand a
further concession which many of their own co-religionists
hastened to disclaim as dangerous — a kind of autonomy
which Roumanian, Polish and Russian statesmen, as well
as many of their Jewish fellow-subjects, regarded as tanta-
mount to the creation of a state within a state.” (Page 13.)
The treaties imposed by the Allies upon, Poland, Rumania,
Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Greece granted all, or
nearly all the demands of the Jews contained in the above
“Bill of Rights,” while Austria and Hungary gave pledges
in their treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, that
they would protect “minority rights” in the same general
way defined in the treaties with the other five powers.
These treaties, as Mr. Dillon correctly points out, go much
further than to guarantee to the Jews residing in these sev-
eral countries full political equality with other citizens, and
freedom from persecution or discrimination on account of
race or religion. Not only did the treaties contain such guar-
antees, — which, Mr. Dillon states, the small powers in ques-
tion were quite willing to give, — but they contained a principle
new to international law, viz. that a racial minority should be
treated in various relations as a separate entity within the
State, with separate rights of its own, which it is permitted
to enforce against the national government. An illustration
of this new principle is found in certain articles of the treaty
with Poland relating to educational matters. By these articles
the Polish State is actually compelled to permit the Jews, in
towns and districts where they constitute “a considerable
proportion" of the population, to administer primary educa-
tion in their own language in the Jewish schools, supported
by an allocated part of the state funds. The articles of the
treaty which create this extraordinary “minority right” are
quoted verbatim below. The two articles must be read to-
gether and compared with each other to bring out their full
meaning:
“ ARTICLE 9
“Poland will provide in the public educational system in
towns and districts in which a considerable proportion of
Polish nationals of other than Polish speech are residents
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adequate facilities for ensuring that in the primary schools the
instruction shall be given to the children of such nationals
through the medium of their own language. This provision
shall not prevent the Polish Government from making the
teaching of the Polish language obligatory in the said schools.
“In towns and districts where there is a considerable pro-
portion of Polish nationals belonging to racial, religious or
linguistic minorities, these minorities shall be assured an
equitable share in the enjoyment and application of the sums
which may be provided out of the public funds under the
State, municipal or other budget, for educational, religious
or charitable purposes.
“The provision of this article shall apply to Polish citizens
of German speech only in that part of Poland which was
German territory on August 1, 1914.
“ARTICLE 10
“Educational Committees appointed locally by the Jewish
Committees of Poland will, subject to the general control of
the State, provide for the distribution of the proportional
share of the public funds allocated to the Jewish schools in
accordance with Article 9, and for the organization and man-
agement of these schools.
“ The provisions of Article 9 concerning the use of lan-
guages in schools shall apply to these schools.”
In some central European countries the Jews took prompt
advantage of the favorable feeling created in Paris by the
Jewish leaders towards the Jewish national demands. Thus,
for instance, in Ukrainia a special ministry for Jewish affairs
was established, headed by Krasny Pinhoos, a Jew. Accord-
ing to information contained in an editorial article in the New
Witness of April 11, 1919, the new minister of the Jews “ told
a press representative that the Jews take part in the spiritual
and social life of the Ukraine under conditions of equality
with those of the rest of the population, but that in affairs
appertaining to the Jewish community they would govern
themselves.”
The New Witness made a rather peculiar deduction from
the above statement of Mr. Pinhoos:
“But it is anyhow a good thing that in one country at least
the Jewish race should be regarded and should consent to be
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regarded as something different and separate. We presume
that as soon as the Jewish State in Palestine is established, Mr.
Pinhoos will change his title to that of Jewish Ambassador.
Mr. Pinhoos hopes that before long there will be many other
such ministries established, but while Isaacs and Mond can
govern England and dictate to the Peace Conference, there is
not much hope that they will desire to rule the affairs of
Whitechapel.”
Mr. Israel Zangwill, in a recent address at the Poale Zion
Conference in London, went a step further when he stated
that the race which produced “a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a
Montagu, a Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotzky” should be repre-
sented as an independent member of the League of Nations.
(See Mr. Zangwill's statement in The Jewish Chronicle, Feb-
ruary 27, 1920, No. 2656, p. 28.)
In view of the adoption of this policy by the Jews in Paris,
Americans are justified in ascertaining just what is the posi-
tion of the American Jewry with respect to enforcing such
a program here. Our Constitution knows no such thing as
foreign national rights enjoyed by persons who at the same
time enjoy the privileges of American citizens. A subject of
a foreign nationality when he becomes an American citizen
renounces his former allegiance, and it is upon this condition
only that he becomes a member of our body politic.
Nevertheless in the United States itself, where the Jews
enjoy an absolute equality of rights with all other citizens, they
have recently endeavored to build up an institution which is
entirely opposed to the spirit of the American Constitution,
namely, a special Jewish court which tries cases pertaining
only to the Jews. This institution is known as “The Jewish
Court of Arbitration” and holds its sessions in one of the
Municipal Court rooms in New York City. This fact was
briefly recorded by the New York Times in its issue of Feb-
ruary 19, 1920, in an article under the title, “ Jews Here Start
Modern Sanhedrin.” While this significant fact may have
passed almost unnoticed by the American public, nevertheless
it has already attracted attention in France.
It is unthinkable to any American brought up under a sys-
tem of government which has provided a check against the
oppression of minorities by the majority, that special rights
should be granted to any of the ethnic elements of our popu-
lation, such as the Jews, the Chinese, the Negroes, or any other
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racial group, or that any of these groups should by virtue of
such special rights diminish our sovereignty by a treaty pro-
vision similar to Article XII of the special treaty with Poland.
By this article Poland agreed that any member of the Council
of the League of Nations should have the right to bring to the
attention of the Council any infraction or any danger of in-
fraction of any of these obligations (the national rights of
the Jews), and that the Council may thereupon take such
action and give such directions as it may deem proper and
effective in the circumstances.?
The whole question of Jewish double national rights is of
the utmost importance, since the recognized Zionist leaders
and the international Zionist organizations have on various
occasions strongly urged the adoption of such double rights.
Such rights and privileges for the Jews indeed are more than
“national rights”; they are in one sense international rights
common to Jews living in different countries. In other words,
under such a system they would enjoy both the rights of citi-
zenship of the particular country in which they live, and in
addition, special privileges granted to them alone. The grant-
ing of such privileges to the Jews would constitute a series
of international rights conferred exclusively upon the Jewish
1 The full text of Article 12 of the Treaty between the Allied and
Associated Powers and Poland is the following:
“ Poland agrees that the stipulations in the foregoing Articles, so far
as they affect persons belonging to racial, religious or linguistic minori-
ties, constitute obligations of international concern and shall be placed
under the guarantee of the League of Nations. They shall not be modi-
fied without the assent of the majority of the Council of the League
of Nations. The United States, the British Empire, France, Italy and
Japan hereby agree not to withhold their assent from any modification
in these Articles which is in due form assented to by a majority of the
Council of the League of Nations.
“ Poland agrees that any member of the Council of the League of
Nations shall have the right to bring to the attention of the Council
any infraction of the Council, or any danger of infraction of any of
these obligations, and that the Council may thereupon take such action
as it may deem effective in the circumstances.
“ Poland further agrees that any difference of opinion as to ques-
tions of law or fact arising out of these Articles between the Polish
Government and any one of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers,
cr any other power, a member of the Council of the League of Na-
tions, shall be held to be a dispute of an international character under
Article 14 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The Polish Gov-
ernment hereby consents that any such dispute shall, if the other party
thereto demands, be referred to the Permanent Court of International
Justice. The decision of the Permanent Court shall be final and shall
have the same force and effect as an award under Article 13 of the
Covenant.”
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race. The Protocols of the Zionist Men of Wisdom contem-
plate this very thing in the following language:
“Then our international rights will sweep away the national
rights in a limited sense and will rule countries in the same
manner as the civil power of each state regulates the relation-
ship of its subjects among themselves.” (Protocol No. II.)
It is a question to what extent the demands for Jewish
minority rights in eastern European states may be a part of
the general Zionist movement. To this movement little at-
tention can be given in this volume. It is sufficient to quote
a portion of an article published in the New York Globe on
January 25, 1919, under the title “Want Brandeis to Govern
Judea.” The staff correspondent of the New York Globe and
Chicago Daily News in London, under date of December 31,
1918, refers to the Zionist movement and the exposition of
its objects and purposes by one of its leaders, Ittimar Ben Avi:
"If the plans and ambitions of the recently proclaimed na-
tion of Judea are fulfilled, Louis Brandeis, now Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, will be the first of the new
rulers of Israel. The dream of the renationalization of Pales-
tine which has lived for 2,000 years in the hearts of the Jews
is fast entering the realm of reality. Judea is sending its dele-
gates to the peace conference. Its existence as a nation has
been recognized by the allies, its declaration of independence
has been signed and its diplomats and politicians are already
busy moulding the future of its institutions.
“ Ittimar Ben Avi is the first of its peace delegates to reach
London. An impassioned idealist who already visions Judea
enrolled among the great powers of the world, is Ben Avi.
But his idealism and his oratorical agitations on behalf of
Judea have not impaired his worth as a diplomat.
UNDER BRITISH TRUSTEESHIP
“' Israel cannot leap to its feet, full grown and capable,' he
explained. “It has been scattered and dormant too long. As
delegate to the peace conference, I am to outline the demands
of the new Judea. The first and most important of these is
the political desire of the new Hebrew nation. We desire a
British trusteeship for a period of twenty-five years. We do
not want to establish a parliament or congress in Judea for at
least twenty-five years. The British have emancipated us from
the Turk. Great Britain is more capable of governing or over-
seeing Palestine as a colony than any one other country.
“If the English will agree to this our plan then includes
the appointment by England of a Zionist as governor-general
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The predominant influence of the Jews in the Bolshevist
movement throughout the world is a question which is pub-
licly discussed in the European press. The Budapest corre-
spondent of the London Times some time ago stated:
“Hungary is being terrorized by Jewish agitators.” (Amer-
ican Jewish News, May 2, 1919.)
Charges of this kind have appeared in the press in many
European countries. In this connection we call the attention
of the reader to an article of the Morning Post, entitled “ An
Insult to Poland,” August 30, 1919. In this article, among
other things, the following is stated :
“It is unfortunately true that Bolshevism is very largely
a Jewish movement. In Russia the Jewish Bolsheviks have
taken a terrible revenge upon all whom they regarded as
enemies, and also upon all who protected the Russian peas-
antry against the exactions of the Jewish usurers.”
This article closes with the following sentence:
“And we warn Jews also, not for the first time. They are
showing themselves not Englishmen of the Jewish faith, as
we used to consider them, but a nation with a foreign policy
of their own — and that policy hostile to the friends of Eng-
land. And that is what in the end Englishmen will not stand.”
The three following documents are also of importance:
'(a) An editorial article which appeared in the London
Morning Post on April 8, 1919, entitled “Bolstering the
Bolshevik.”
(6) A letter signed by Lionel Rothschild and nine other
well-known British Jews to the editor of the London Morning
Post, which practically justifies the stand that was taken by
that paper.
(c) Comment on the two above-mentioned documents pub-
lished in the American Jewish News on May 2, 1919.
We set forth in full these three documents.
(a) “Bolstering the Bolshevik
“ The news from Russia fluctuates from day to day. It is
now reported that the situation on the Murmansk Coast has
somewhat improved; but the situation in Archangel is obvi-
ously critical. Our soldiers have driven off formidable at-
tacks; but the fighting is close and desperate. From South
Russia the Bolsheviks reported that Odessa had been captured,
and although we may hope that if this is true the Allied forces
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were safely evacuated, there remains a terrible anxiety as to
the fate which may have overtaken our devoted friends in
South Russia. For these critical situations we do not blame
the War Office; but we do blame Allied policy which has
trified with the whole situation and has alternated between
large promises to our Allies and obsequious approaches to our
enemies. We are informed that although the anti-Bolshevist
Armies in Russia have been promised arms and supplies in
abundance, what they have actually received has been con-
temptible. The result is that they are fighting almost naked
and in many cases without arms. We may be certain both our
soldiers and our allies in Russia are putting up a brave and
desperate fight for their lives and their cause, but in these cir-
cumstances they must feel that they have been forgotten, if
not betrayed, by those upon whom they looked for support.
And so it is in Poland. We hear from trustworthy sources
that the spirit of the Poles is magnificent. They are ready to
become a strong and trusty support of the Allies upon the east-
ern borders of Germany; but they ask in vain for munitions,
supplies and raw materials, and they see their vital communica-
tions with the Baltic left in the hands of their enemy and ours.
“ Poland and Russia are one problem in this sense. We
must support our friends if we are to defeat the Bolsheviks,
and their secret abettors the Germans. For it is certain in that
while Germany consistently suppresses Bolshevism in Ger-
many she encourages it in Poland and Russia. But we are not
supporting our friends. We promised them supplies which
did not arrive, and political support which breaks down before
German opposition. What is the reason of it? We notice that
the Daily Herald and the Daily News are persistently telling
the people of this country that we are fighting Bolshevism in
obedience to the pressure of the capitalists. Now that is a lie.
We are fighting Bolshevism in opposition to a very strong
group of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish capitalists, who
are secretly working for the Bolshevist cause. Mr. Lansing
may or may not be aware of the fact, but he is helping as cor-
rupt a group of international financiers as ever lived. And the
object of that group is to support Bolshevism in Russia in order
to make a deal with the Bolsheviks. We have mentioned sev-
eral times the disagreeable fact that the Russian Bolsheviks
were Russian Jews. These Jews are at the present moment
in control of the Russian Government and they have powerful
friends in all the Allied countries who are helping them. We
have appealed to the British Jews, but appealed so far in vain,
to dissociate themselves formally from a cause which is doing
the Jewish people terrible harm in all parts of the world. In
reply the Jewish press shower upon us not only abuse but
threats. Thus, for example, the Jewish World threatens us
with the fate of Mordecai: '... we wish it no harm, but we
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would beg it to recollect,' so it says, “while yet it has its
feet upon the earth, the fate of its anti-Jewish forbear in that
narrative, in the hope that it may mend its ways betimes.'
“We are aware of the significance of that threat. We fully
understand what it means, and the secret Allies upon whom
the Jewish World reckons when it makes it. We saw them at
work in Glascow and Belfast. We see them at work now in
Budapest, where, it is reported, out of thirty members of
the Bolshevik Soviet, twenty-six are Jews. We understand the
threat, but we do not propose to be deterred in our duty to the
British public by the terrorist methods of the Bolsheviks. And
we suggest to the British Jewish community — most of whom,
we believe, are by no means in sympathy with this crusade —
that they are being served very badly in their newspapers,
which openly threaten Bolshevik methods and scoff at advice
which is tendered in a friendly spirit. In secret, we feel cer-
tain, the majority of the British Jews distrust and dislike the
fanatics who are now leading Jewry astray in the cause of a
spurious Jewish Imperialism. But they are afraid to disso-
ciate themselves publicly from the dervishes of Judaism. In
the meantime these powerful influences are at work in every
country, and chiefly in Paris, where they are working power-
fully against the cause of Poland. An unseen hand is at this
present time stifling the infant Poland in its cradle, and this
is being done in the interests of German-Jewish Capitalism. It
is a conspiracy which is assisted by so-called Liberal news-
papers like the Daily News, and so-called Labor newspapers
like the Daily World; but it is a conspiracy, nevertheless, which
is directed against the cause of liberty in Poland and in the
interests of alien Capitalism. For it remains true that our
labor agitators, while they are the enemies of British Capital,
contrive to be the friends of the Capitalism of the enemies of
England. Mr. Lloyd George and President Wilson — those
champions of liberty — also appear to be more susceptible to
the influence of an alien capitalism than to the cry for free-
dom of long enchained Poland. We ask our readers, who re-
member the traditional friendship of England with the Polish
cause, to mark the note of anguish in Mr. Paderewski's state-
ment which we publish this morning. He speaks — and he
speaks truly — of 'the bitterness of the disappointment of the
Polish population, but it is not only the Polish population that
is disappointed by the great Danzig betrayal. Every student
of Allied interests must see that, whereas a strong Poland
might be a bulwark against both German militarism and Rus-
sian Bolshevism, a weak Poland must be the vassal of one and
the victim of the other. As to the economic side of the ques-
tion, British commerce may bid farewell to all hope of a con-
nection in Poland if it leaves Poland in such a situation as to
be the enforced dependent of Germany."
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(c) “Prominent London Jews justify anti-Semitic Attack
“General Monash, Rothschild and Montefiore Figure
in Agitation.
“In reply to a recent article in the London Morning Post,
in which the editor accused the Jews as being Bolsheviks, a
letter justifying the stand of the Post in the matter was sent
to that paper and signed by Baron Lionel Rothschild, Lord
Swaythling, Sir Magnus, Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir Harry
Samuel, General Monash, Sir Isidore Spielmann, Claude Mon-
tefiore, Leonard Cohen and Professor Galantz. .
“As a result of this letter, a self-sanctifying leading edi-
torial appeared in the Post, which cried out in virtuous indigna-
tion against all those who had previously questioned that the
majority of the Jews are Bolsheviks. The letter, coming as it
has, at a time when the anti-Semitic pot is boiling in London,
has a peculiarly unfortunate effect. The opinion of London
Jewry towards these ten men they consider have betrayed them,
may best be left to the imagination.”
It is significant that the feeling that the Jews are largely
instrumental in promoting Bolshevism and radicalism in gen-
eral is by no means confined to England. The New York
World published on January 26, 1919, a cable from Buenos
Aires entitled “ Argentina Deports Fourteen Hundred Bol-
shevists.” The cable reads as follows:
" Buenos Aires, January 25. — Fourteen hundred prisoners,
charged with Bolshevist activities, are on board a cruiser here
awaiting deportation, according to Secret Service Men. The
majority of them are Russian Jews. Some Spaniards are
among the number.”
In the same connection the New York Tribune, on Jan-
uary 24, 1919, reported that in Buenos Aires posters were put
up in which the Russian Jews were blamed “for the recent
outbreaks, as well as the anarchistic outbreak in 1910," and
it was demanded that “the government rid the nation of this
Jewish pest.”
In the issue of The Review of March 13, 1920, an article
was published entitled “Bolshevism in Holland." The article
gives a brief description of the Bolshevist movement in Hol-
land. It also gives the names of the most prominent leaders
of the Bolshevist movement in that country. In part the
article reads as follows:
“First among these is Mr. David Wijnkoop, an Amsterdam
Jew, of a fiery, impetuous temperament, a great orator with
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a strong hold on the masses. He is the Dutch counterpart of
his Russian comrade Trotzky, whom he resembles even in out-
ward appearance, and a faithful henchman of his Moscow
alter ego in the spreading of the latter's international propa-
ganda.”
It is a well-known fact that in Hungary, during the Bolshe-
vist revolution of 1919, Bela Kun, whose real name is Cohen,
a Jew, became the dictator. It was often reported in various
papers that out of the thirty-one Soviet officials in Hungary
twenty-six were Jews.
In Austria revolutionary attempts were made to set up a
Bolshevist government, and the two brothers Alder, as well
as Friedrich Adler, all of whom are Jews, were the leading
spirits of the Bolshevist revolutionary propaganda in that
country.
In Germany the first Spartacan revolt was almost exclu-
sively under the control of Jews. Among others were: Rosa
Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Radek (whose real name is Sobel-
sohn), Eugene Levine, Muscham.
In the recent attempt to overthrow the Ebert Government
and set up a Bolshevist Republic, almost all of the leaders in
Berlin were Jews. The New York Sun, under date of
March 18, 1920, gives the names of the Communist leaders
who attempted to overthrow the government as follows: Cohn,
Daumig, Newmann, Dr. von Kahn, Kurt Bever, Levy.
As to the United States the following should be stated:
While it is a generally recognized fact that the Socialist,
Communist, Radical, I. W. W., and Bolshevist movements
are largely recruited from the foreign-born population of
various nationalities, nevertheless it can scarcely be denied
that the moving spirit of the destructive revolutionary propa-
ganda is largely Jewish and fomented by Jews. Thus, for
instance, the notorious “Russian” Soviet Bureau, headed by
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, a German, was almost exclusively
composed of Jews. Those who were in charge of responsible
departments in the Bureau were as follows:
Abraham Heller .... Manager of the Commercial
Department
Nuorteva . . . . . . . Whose real name is said to
be Neuberger, Manager of
the Propaganda Department
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Gregory Weinstein ... General Office Manager
Morris Hillquit) .Counselors at law for the So-
Charles Rechts
viet Bureau
All of the five Socialists who were recently ousted from the
Assembly of the state of New York by an overwhelming vote
were Jews. Their names are: Louis Waldman, August Clas-
sens, Samuel A. de Witt, Samuel Orr, and Charles Solomon.
During the trial of these men one of the most sensational
pieces of evidence introduced by the state to show that the
Socialist Party advocated the overthrow of the government
by violence and revolution, was a book published in Yiddish
by the Jewish Socialist Federation of America. This federa-
tion is a part of the Socialist Party. The official report of the
Judiciary Committee of the Assembly of the State of New
York remarks that in the book published in Yiddish, the prin-
ciples of Socialism,“ were not camouflaged, as they frequently
are in English” (page 31). The book in question typifies the
extreme of revolutionary Socialism in the United States. We
quote some of the more striking passages :
“Workingmen cannot depend on peaceful evolution’; they
must prepare for a revolution, and class-dictatorship” (page
207).
“ The Socialist movement rouses the workingmen to revolu-
tion; it preaches to them class-struggle, awakens within them
class-consciousness, makes all necessary preparations for a
Socialistic order. When society is ready for the overturn,
when the Socialist organization feels that the moment has
come, it will make the revolution. To predict when and how
this should be done is impossible. This is a thing which must
be determined separately in every country, because the circum-
stances in every country are different. No sooner than the
revolution is made, however, the first aim of the Socialists
must be to seize the government, the state, by whatever means
they can succeed in doing this with and then their rule must
establish the dictatorship of the Proletariat.
“This dictatorship will be employed for one thing, to elimi-
nate capitalism by force, take away by force the capital from
private owners and transfer it to the ownership of the
community.”
“Socialists seek to be elected into the government princi-
pally for the sake of propaganda.”
“To the Socialist at present, the meaning of class struggle,
Internationale, and dictatorship of the Proletariat must be
clear. He must understand that Socialism is not a reform
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movement. He must know that Socialism is a Revolutionary
world-perspective, and that the Socialist movement is a
Revolutionary movement."
The radical periodicals published in this country in Russian
are almost entirely managed and completely controlled by
Jews. For instance, the Russki Golos has an editorial staff
composed of four men, all of whom are Jews, namely, Wein-
baum, Zvesdichiy, Sokolov, Gisenkin. The official organ of
the Russian Communist Branch of the American Communist
Party, the Novy Mir, is edited by two Jews, namely, N. Hour-
witch, and Stoklitzky. The Bolshevist weekly, Pravda, is
edited by two Jews, namely, Finkelstein and Weinstein. The
Ukrainian Bolshevist tri-weekly publication, Robitnik, is pub-
lished by a Jew, K. Pitlar. At the same time, even leaving
out the well-known Yiddish publication The Jewish Daily
Forward, with pronounced pro-Bolshevist tendencies, the new
Anarchistic periodical, The Communist World, published in
English, has the following men on its editorial staff, all of
whom are Jews:
Maximilian Cohen ..... Editor
B. D. Wolfe . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
George Ashkenouzi . . . . . Business Manager
H. Winitsky.. ....... Executive Secretary
Winitsky was recently convicted of criminal anarchy in the
New York Courts.
Again, with the recently founded Communist Party of
America, the role of the Jew is very important, inasmuch as
its founder is Louis Fraina, an Italian Jew. Examples of
this kind could be multiplied almost indefinitely. For this
reason we must content ourselves with a reference to an article
published in the New York Call. This is the official organ
of the Socialist Party of America, which is issued under the
motto:
“Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose
but your chains, and a world to gain.”
The president of this publication is S. Block, a Jew. The
article in question, entitled “ Chicago Workers Plan Big May
Day Demonstrations," deals with the arrangements for the
May Day Parade of the Chicago radical labor organiza-
tions in 1919. It enumerates some of the organizations
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which were represented in the conference which planned the
demonstrations :
“ Joint Board, Cloak Makers' Union
II branchers of the Workmen's Circle
Millinery Workers, Local Union, 47
Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Branch
The Hebrew Trades
The Brushmakers' Union
The 13th Ward Jewish Socialist Branch
The Karl Marx Jewish Socialist Branch
Yipsel Jewish Socialist Branches i and 4
Carpenters' Union, Local 504
West Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
The Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
The 15th Ward Campaign Committee
West Side Jewish Socialist Branch
Amalgamated Local Union, 39
Waist Makers' Union, 100
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Bakers' Union, 237
Capmakers' Union, Local 5
Young People's Progressive Dramatic Club
City Central Committee, Jewish Socialist Branches
City Central Committee, Workmen's Circle
Douglas Park Jewish Socialist Branch ”
Indeed, it can scarcely be denied that the Jewish labor or-
ganizations as enumerated by this Socialist publication itself
were in complete control of the whole May Day parade in
one of the biggest cities in the United States.
One more fact of importance which should be mentioned
is that four Anarchists, who were convicted and sentenced
to terms of twenty years by the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York, were Jews. Their
names are: Jacob Abrams, Samuel Lippman, Hyman Lachow-
sky, Mollie Stimer.
Finally, we refer to the well-known activities of Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman, both of whom are Jews, and
who were deported on the Soviet Ark “ Buford.”
Of course, it is significant that the radical labor movement
is largely controlled by Jewish internationalists, but still more
significant appears the fact that recently several rabbis have
taken a definite stand in support of the Red movement. We
shall refer here to two instances. On October 25, 1919, the
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tion of Reformed Rabbis, as reported in the New York daily
press, is significant :
“After the dismissal of Rabbi Maxwell Silver, of Congre-
gation Shaari Zedek, of Brooklyn, the New York Associa-
tion of Reformied Rabbis undertook the mediation of the
trouble between the congregation and the Rabbi, and as a
result pointed out that the whole difficulty was due to an un-
fortunate misunderstanding. Thereupon the trustees decided
to recommend the reinstatement of Rabbi Silver, and we are
happy to state that such reinstatement was ratified by the con-
gregation after a special meeting last night. By a special
resolution the New York Association of Reformed Rabbis
expresses its confidence in the worthiness of Rabbi Silver and
also in the good intentions of the Congregation Shaari Zedek
to serve the cause of Israel.”
It is also a peculiar fact to consider that certain powerful
Jewish bankers were instrumental and active in spreading
Bolshevism, which now threatens the whole world. In this
connection we refer the reader to one of the “Sisson Docu-
ments,” published by the United States Government in 1917
under the title “German Bolshevist Conspiracy”:
On September 21, 1917, one of the leading German Sparta-
can leaders, a Jew, by name of Furstenberg, wrote a letter to
a Bolshevist by the name of Raphael Scholan, who became
later one of the Bolshevist commissaries in Soviet Russia, as
follows:
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21, 1917.
“ To MR. RAPHAEL SCHOLAN,
Haparanda
DEAR COMRADE:
The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for
the enterprise of Comrade Trotzky, upon receipt of a tele-
gram from the Chairman of the ‘Rhein-Westphalian Syndi-
cate.' A lawyer, probably Mr. Kestroff, obtained ammunition
and organized the transportation of same, together with that
of the money, to Lulea and Vardo, the firm of Essen & Son,
Lulea, as to the consignee and the confidential persons to
whom the sum demanded by Comrade Trotzky is to be handed.
Fraternal greetings!
(sgd) FURSTENBERG.”
Rumors that international Jewish financiers have been sup-
porting the Bolsheviki in Russia are persistent.
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Who are the international financiers? Perhaps the answer
is to be found in the following cable dispatch of the Wolff
Agency on the German situation in 1919, published by
La Vieille France in the issue of February 13, 1919:
“The deputy Hyemann has revealed the curious fact: The
Bolshevist movement is supported by financiers. The banker,
Bleichroeder, has contributed two millions to the Extremist
Journal.'
It is of course known that Bleichroeder is one of the most
powerful Jewish financiers in Germany.
It will be remembered that the Protocols bring out very dis-
tinctly two ideas, namely, economic and social dissensions of
all kinds, including anarchism and communism and also a
world war.
In a recently published book which has created much in-.
terest, entitled “ The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue,"'
by Joseph Goriĉar and Lyman Beecher Stowe, the authors
advanced the theory that Jewish bankers have during the last
century played an important rôle in European war conspira-
cies. Mr. Goriĉar was, during the early part of the late war,
Austro-Hungarian Consul in Berlin. We refer to one of the
most important passages in the book bearing upon the subject :
“The pro-war bankers of 1854 as well as those of 1914
originated in the Semitic banking center of Frankfort-on-the-
Main in Germany, the birthplace of the Bethmann-Hollwegs,
the Goldschmidts, the Seligmans, Jacob Schiff, 1 and the Roths-
childs.
It has been stated by one of the leaders of Zionism, namely, 'Israel
Zangwill, author of "The Children of the Ghetto," that Mr. Jacob
Schiff financed “the Japanese war against Russia." This statement is
made in a pamphlet entitled “The Problems of the Jewish Race,”
p. 14, published by the Judean Publishing Company, New York City.
In its report of a Socialist meeting held in Carnegie Hall on March
23, 1917, to celebrate the revolution in Russia, the New York Times on
March 24, 1917, says:
“An authority on Russian affairs, George Kennan, told of how a
movement by the Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom, financed
hy Jacob Schift, had at the time of the Russo-Japanese war spread
among 50,000 Russian officers and men in Japanese prison camps the
gospel of the Russian revolutionists."
The Jewish character of the first Russian revolution was strongly
emphasized in a report presented to the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II,
by the Russian Foreign Minister, Count Lamsdorf, on January 3, 1906,
published in full in English translation in “ The American Hebrew and
Jewish Messenger," in its issue of July 13, 1918. Therein it is stated
that a very considerable part in the revolutionary activities was played
by the Jews, “who individually, as ringleaders in other organizations.
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“All the vast wealth of the banking house of the Roths-
childs, amounting at the beginning of the war to some twenty
billion francs, was made chiefly in war operations, war financ-
ing. The Rothschild brothers of the Central Empires have in
fact sometimes financed simultaneously rival groups of bellig-
erents.
“Frankfort-on-the-Main is, and has been for more than a
hundred years, the chief source of financial backing for wars.
Kings, emperors, and war ministers have had to await the
pleasure of these bankers before issuing their ultimata. To
that centre have been added Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest, the
other important centres of Jewish world finance. In Vienna
the Rothschilds' word is law; in Berlin, the Hahnemans, Bleich-
roeders, Mendelssohns, especially the last named, who of late
years have controlled Russia's finances. To these same
sources may be traced the origin of the World War.” (Pages
56 and 57.)
The “Protocols ” have already attracted public attention in
various countries. The attitude which the Jewish leaders will
take in regard to them is a matter of great interest and deep
concern. Until now they have kept silent. Only on rare
occasions have the Jews referred, though very indirectly, to
the question of the existence of a Jewish world conspiracy.
The most explicit utterance on the subject in the United States
is that of Rabbi Stephen Wise, in his address to the Congre-
gation of Free Synagogues in Carnegie Hall, on March 1,
1920. The reports of the address in the daily press are rather
meager. We set forth in full the report which appeared in
the New York Tribune on the following day:
"' JEWISH PLOT' ONLY AMONG APOSTATES, SAYS DR. WISE
“ BELIEVES MEN WHO FORSWEAR ANCIENT FAITH WOULD SEIZE
POWER FOR OWN ENDS
“Speaking to the congregation of the Free Synagogue in
Carnegie Hall yesterday on the subject of “The Jewish Con-
spiracy,' which has had its most recent revival in a story pub- .
as well as through their own (the Jewish Bund in the Western Prov.
inces), have always come forward as the most bellicose element of the
revolution.” Count Lamsdorf further stated: “We may feel entitled
to assume that the above mentioned foreign support of the Russian
revolutionary movement comes from Jewish capitalist circles, ... In
June, 1905, a special Anglo-Jewish committee was openly established in
England for the purpose of collecting money for arming fighting
groups of Russian Jews : The well-known anti-Russian publicist, Lucien
Wolf, was the leading member of this committee. ... The Jews in
America . . . collect money for helping the pogrom sufferers and for
arming the Jewish youth.”
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over their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence
comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in parts ful-
filled, in parts far gone in the way of fulfilment? Have we
been struggling these tragic years to blow up and extirpate
the secret organization of German world dominion only to find
beneath it another more dangerous because more secret?
Have we, by straining every fibre of our national body, es-
caped a “ Pax Germanica ” only to fall into a “Pax Judaeica "?
The “Elders of Zion,” as represented in their“ Protocols,” are
by no means kinder taskmasters than William II and his
henchmen would have been.
All these questions, which are likely to obtrude themselves
on the reader of the “ Jewish Peril," cannot be dismissed by
a shrug of the shoulders unless one wants to strengthen the
hand of the typical anti-Semite and call forth his favourite
accusation of the “conspiracy of silence." An impartial in-
vestigation of these would-be documents and of their history
is most desirable. That history is by no means clear from the
English translation. They would appear, from internal evi-
dence, to have been written by Jews for Jews, or to be cast
in the form of lectures, and notes for lectures, by Jews to Jews.
If so, in what circumstances were they produced and to cope
with what inter-Jewish emergency ? Or are we to dismiss the
whole matter without inquiry and to let the influence of such
a book as this work unchecked ?
• The publishers believe that the vast majority of the Jews
in this country have never heard of the Protocols, and would
denounce the plan which they set forth. The Jews here, con-
stituting about three per cent of the population, enjoy the same
rights and privileges as other citizens. All are equal before
the law and all are free from persecution on religious grounds.
American Jews are regarded by their fellow citizens, and for
the most part doubtless regard themselves, as Americans of
Jewish faith. They have indeed a special ground for grati-
tude to the country of their adoption, for they have found
here opportunities which they did not enjoy in many other
countries. They have shared in all the activities leading to
prosperity and they have prospered. That they do, in fact,
recognize their favorable situation is shown by the statements
two of them are reported by the New York Times, in its issue
of May 4, 1920, to have made at a mass meeting held on the
preceding evening at Cooper Union under the auspices of the
Independent Order of Brith Abraham, to express the grati-
tude of the Jewish people to Great Britain for taking the man-
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date for Palestine. Judge Gustave Hartman, Grand Master
of the order, is reported to have said in part:
“We did n't know what a home was until we reached this
greatest of all republics, the United States of America. Here
we are given free and equal opportunity under the free insti-
tutions of this country. In this country the Jews have lived
and prospered, and in all this country there are no better citi-
zens than the Jewish people.”
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky said “that it became the duty of
the Jewish citizens of America to cherish the ideals of this
country and keep them intact, so that they might be handed
down to their children's children.”
Doubtless American Jews will recognize the menace to
American institutions and American prosperity of any such
political conspiracy as is outlined in the Protocols. But the
situation demands more than tacit disapproval on their part.
Bearing in mind the close parallelism shown to exist between
the “ Protocols ” and the actual policies of Bolshevism as prac-
ticed in Russia, the dominant position occupied by the Jews
in the Soviet Government, and the open sympathy and ap-
proval given to international Bolshevism by prominent Jews
outside of Russia, it is vitally necessary that the American
Jews should by word and deed express their condemnation
not only of Bolshevism, but of any plan or program for world
domination similar to that contained in the Protocols. Aside
from their position on these matters, there is no likelihood
of any change in the favorable situation of the Jews in this
country unless by their own conduct they convince the Ameri-
can people that they are hostile to our institutions or to our
system of government, or that they desire to constitute within
the borders of the United States a race apart, — to be treated
as members of a foreign nation, enjoying special rights, privi-
leges, or immunities.
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