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of will, because in our hands are
the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. AND THE
WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS
ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE,
HATREDS
AND MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN
OUR
SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING
MONARCHISTS,
DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY
KIND. We
have harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN
ACCOUNT IS BORING
AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture;
they exhort to tranquility,
are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM
PEACE UNTIL THEY
OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH
SUBMISSIVENESS.
5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the
question of Socialism by way of
an international agreement. DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN
THEM INTO OUR
HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE
MONEY,
AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the
"clear-sighted" force of the GOY kings
on their thrones and the "blind" force of the GOY mobs, but we have
taken all the needful measure
against any such possibility: between the one and the other force we
have erected a bulwark in the
shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of
the people remains our support
and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course,
direct them along the road that
leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from
our guiding hand, we must every
now and then enter into close communion with it, if not actually in
person, at any rate through some of
the most trusty of our brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only
authority we shall discuss with
the people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct
them on questings of the political in
such wise as may turn them in the direction that suits us.
8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But
what an envoy of the government
or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but become immediately
known to the whole State, for
it will be spread abroad by the voice of the people.
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is
time we have touched them with
craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs
which move their mechanism. These
springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them
by the chaotic license of
liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law,
into the conduct of elections, into
the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION
AND TRAINING AS
BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH DESTROYED
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE "GOYIM" BY
REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE
FALSE
ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and
by merely twisting them into
contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something grandiose
in the way of results. These
results found expression in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED
THE LAW: afterwards
they entirely hid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything
out of the tangled web of legislation.
12. This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if
they guess what is going on
before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a maneuver
of such appalling terror that
the very stoutest hearts quail - the undergrounds, metropolitans,
those subterranean corridors which,
before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from
whence those capitals will be
blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
PROTOCOL No. 10
1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and I BEG
YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT
GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH OUTSIDE
APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the underlying
meaning of things when
their representatives give the best of their energies to enjoying
themselves? For our policy it is of the
greatest importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of
assistance to us when we come to
consider the division of authority of property, of the dwelling, of
taxation (the idea of concealed taxes),
of the reflex force of the laws. All these questions are such as ought
not to be touched upon directly and
openly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch
upon them they must not be
categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed
exposition that the principles of
contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping silence
in this respect is that by not
naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this
or that out of it without
attracting notice; if they were all categorically named they would all
appear to have been already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses
of political power and accepts
all their deeds of violence with the admiring response: "rascally,
well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever!
... a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently
done, what impudent audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the
new fundamental structure, the
project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why, before
everything, it is indispensable for us to
arm ourselves and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless
audacity and irresistible might of
the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down
all hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE
VARIOUS PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN
WORN OUT
WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT -
NATIONALITIES,
FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO
PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING
YOU."...
THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A
UNANIMOUS
TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE
INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING
EVEN
THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS
OF
MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES
AND
WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO
MAKE
CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF
CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute
majority, which cannot be got
from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in
all a sense of self-importance, we
shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the family and its
educational value and remove the
possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by
us, will not let them come to the
front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us
only who pay it for obedience and
attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which
will never be in a position to move in
any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us
as leaders of the mob. The people
will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these
leaders will depend its earnings,
gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain,
because it will never be
clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts in
the minds of many. It is allowable,
therefore, for us to have cognizance of the scheme of action but not
to discuss it lest we disturb its
artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical
force of the secret meaning of
each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind
by means of numerous votings is to
impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings
which have failed to penetrate
the depth and nexus of its plotting. We want our schemes to be
forcible and suitably concocted.
Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the
fangs of the
mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just
yet. They will only effect
changes in their economy and consequently in the whole combined
movement of their progress, which
will thus be directed along the paths laid down in our schemes.
POISON OF LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one
and the same thing.
Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and
Executive Corps. I need not explain to
you the mechanism of the relation of these institutions to one
another, because you are aware of all
that; only take note of the fact that each of the above-named
institutions corresponds to some
important function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that
the word "important" I apply not
to the institution but to the function, consequently it is not the
institutions which are important but
their functions. These institutions have divided up among themselves
all the functions of government -
administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to
operate as do the organs in the
human body. If we injure one part in the machinery of State, the State
falls sick, like a human body,
and... will die.
9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism
its whole political
complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal
illness - blood poisoning. All
that remains is to await the end of their death agony.
10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of
what was the only safeguard
of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW,
IS NOTHING
ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings, quarrels,
disagreements, fruitless party
agitations, party whims - in a word, a school of everything that
serves to destroy the personality of
State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS
EFFECTIVELY THAN THE
PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby
rendered
them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have been
in many countries deposed.
THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION;
AND
THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT
- BY A
PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES,
OR
SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine which we have laid under
the GOY people, I should
rather say, under the GOY peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of
presidents.
12. By that time we shall he in a position to disregard forms in
carrying through matters for which
our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we care if the
ranks of those striving for power
should be thinned, if there should arise a deadlock from the
impossibility of finding presidents, a
deadlock which will finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange
elections in favor of such
presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain, some
"Panama" or other - then they
will be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of
fear of revelations and from the
natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the
retention of the privileges, advantages
and honor connected with the office of president. The chamber of
deputies will provide cover for, will
protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to
propose new, or make changes in
existing laws, for this right will be given by us to the responsible
president, a puppet in our hands.
Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then become a target
for every possible form of attack,
but we shall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of
an appeal to the people, for the
decision of the people over the heads of their representatives, that
is to say, an appeal to that some
blind slave of ours - the majority of the mob. Independently of this
we shall invest the president with
the right of declaring a state of war. We shall justify this last
right on the ground that the president as
chief of the whole army of the country must have it at his disposal,
in case of need for the defense of
the new republican constitution, the right to defend which will belong
to him as the responsible
representative of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the
shrine will lie in our hands, and
no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force of
legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican constitution, take from the
Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures, on the
pretext of preserving political
secrecy, and, further, we shall by the new constitution reduce the
number of representatives to a
minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the
passion for politics. If, however,
they should, which is hardly to he expected, burst into flame, even in
this minimum, we shall nullify
them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the majority of the whole
people ... Upon the president will
depend the appointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the
Chamber and the Senate. Instead of
constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to a
few months. Moreover, the
president, as chief of the executive power, will have the right to
summon and dissolve Parliament, and,
in the latter case, to prolong the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in
order that the consequences of all these acts which in substance are
illegal, should not, prematurely for
our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the
president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE
MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN,
for doing
which they will be made the scapegoats in his place ... This part we
especially recommend to be given
to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of
Ministers, but not to an individual
official.
16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such
of the existing laws as admit of
various interpretation; he will further annul them when we indicate to
him the necessity to do so,
besides this, he will have the right to propose temporary laws, and
even new departures in the
government constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and
the other being the requirements
for the supreme welfare of the State.
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by
little, step by step, all that at the
outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled to introduce into
the constitutions of States to
prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind
of constitution, and then the time
is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction
of the constitution; the
moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly
wearied by the irregularities and
incompetence - a matter which we shall arrange for - of their rulers,
will clamor: "Away with them and
give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate
the causes of disorders - frontiers,
nationalities, religions, State debts - who will give us peace and
quiet which we cannot find under our
rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE
EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO
TROUBLE IN
ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO
UTTERLY
EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY
THE USE
OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO
THAT THE
"GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE
SOVEREIGNTY IN
MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the
moment we long for is hardly likely
ever to arrive.
PROTOCOL No. ll
1. The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression of
the authority of the ruler: it will
be, as the "show" part of the Legislative Corps, what may be called
the editorial committee of the laws
and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall make
Law, Right and Justice (l) in the
guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2) by decrees of the
president under the guise of general
regulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions of the State
Council in the guise of ministerial
orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the form
of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy
ourselves with details of
those combinations by which we have still to complete the revolution
in the course of the machinery of
State in the direction already indicated. By these combinations I mean
the freedom of the Press, the
right of association, freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and
many another that must
disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo a radical
alteration the day after the
promulgation of the new constitution. It is only at the moment that we
shall be able at once to
announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every noticeable alteration
will be dangerous, for the
following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh
severity and in a sense of severity and
limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair caused by fear of new alterations in the same direction;
if, on the other hand, it be brought in a sense of further indulgences
it will be said that we have
recognized our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of
the infallibility of our authority,
or else it will be said that we have become alarmed and are compelled
to show a yielding disposition,
for which we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory... Both the one and the
other are injurious to the prestige of the new constitution. What we
want is that from the first moment
of its promulgation, while the peoples of the world are still stunned
by the accomplished fact of the
revolution, still in a condition of terror and uncertainty, they
should recognize once for all that we are
so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power,
that in no case shall we take any
account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their
opinions or wishes, we are ready and
able to crush with irresistible power all expression or manifestation
thereof at every moment and in
every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and
shall in no case divide our power
with them ... Then in fear and trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be content to
await what will be the end of it all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you
know what happens when the
wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we
shall keep promising them to
give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have
quelled the enemies of peace and
tamed all parties....
6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a time they will be
kept waiting for this return of
their liberties....
7. For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and
insinuated it into the minds of the
GOY without giving them any chance to examine its underlying meaning?
For what, indeed, if not in
order to obtain in a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road? It
is this which has served as the basis for our organization of SECRET
MASONRY WHICH IS NOT
KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY, THESE
"GOY"
CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE "SHOW" ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN
ORDER TO
THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the
dispersion, and in this which appears in
all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which
has now brought us to the threshold
of sovereignty over all the world.
9. There now remains not much more for us to build up upon the
foundation we have laid.
PROTOCOL No. 12
1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is
defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This
interpretation of the word will at the
proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in
our hands, since the laws will
abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part
played by the press to-day? It
serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our
purpose or else it serves selfish
ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the
majority of the public have not the
slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and
bridle it with a tight curb: we shall
do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where
would be the sense of getting rid
of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and
books? The produce of publicity,
which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of
censoring it, will be turned by
us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall law
on it a special stamp tax and require
deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any
organ of the press or of printing
offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any
kind of attack on the part of the
press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we
shall inflict fines without mercy. Such
measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by
these deposits, will bring in a
huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might not
spare money for the sake of
publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No
one shall with impunity lay a
finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for
stopping any publication will be
the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion
or justification. I BEG YOU TO
NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS
ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE
HAVE PRE¬
DETERMINED TO ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR
CONTROL.
Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news
items are received by a few
agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the
world. These agencies will then be
already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate
to them.
5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds
of the GOY communities to
such an extent the they all come near looking upon the events of the
world through the colored glasses
of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now
there is not a single State where
there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity
calls State secrets: what will our
positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the
world in the person of our king
of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one
desirous of being a
publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself
with the diploma instituted
therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded.
With such measures THE
INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF
OUR
GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE
LED
ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is
there any one
of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct
roads to foolish imaginings which
give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress,
or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every
kind of emancipation, but has
failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are
anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in
thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and
falling exclusively into license,
that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all
printed matter, stamp taxes per
sheet and deposits of caution- money, and hooks of less than 30 sheets
will pay double. We shall
reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the
number of magazines, which are
the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that
this measure may force writers into
such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as
they will be costly. At the same time
what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down for our
profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring
vapid literary ambitions within
bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent
upon us. And if there should be
any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find
any person eager to print their
productions in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to
the authorities for permission to do
so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us
and shall nullify them by getting
ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.
8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative
forces, and therefore our
government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals.
This will neutralize the injurious
influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession
of a tremendous influence upon
the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall
ourselves found thirty, and so on in the
same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the
public. For which reason all
journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby
creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious
opponents, who will thus fall into
our trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They
will always stand guard over our
interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively
insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it
will be to attack the tepid and
indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, off
position, which, in at least one of
its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our
real opponents at heart will accept
this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -
aristocratic, republican, revolutionary,
even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists
.... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they
will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on
any one of the public opinions
as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in
the direction of our aims, for an
excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to
suggestion. Those fools who will think
they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will
be repeating our opinion or any
opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are
following the organ of their party
they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must
take special and minute care in
organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the
press we shall institute literary
gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue
the orders and watchwords of the
day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially,
without touching the essence of the
matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the
official newspapers solely for the
purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than
could well be done from the
outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY,
THAT OUR
SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH
AND SO
GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US
ARE
EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial
objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public
eye but absolutely sure, are the
best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the
confidence of the public to the side of our
government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from
time to time may be required,
to excite or to tranquilize the public mind on political questions, to
persuade or to confuse, printing
now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they
may be well or ill received, always
very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it.... WE
SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH
OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION
ORGANS OF
THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR
VIEWS owing
to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even
need to refute them except very
superficially.
16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our
press, in case of need, will be
energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are
forms which reveal masonic
solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are
bound together by professional
secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give
away the secret of his sources of
information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not
one journalist will venture to
betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice
literature unless his whole past has
some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be immediately
revealed. So long as they remain
the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the
majority of the country - the mob follow
after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame
there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall
upon the capital, and we shall
represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent
hopes and impulses of the
provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the
same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS
THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS
SHOULD
FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS,
I.E., OF A
MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the
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