Part 19 (1/2)

The Protocols, which overlook nothing, propose a very definite plan with regard to the Press. As in the mult.i.tude of other matters with which these remarkable doc.u.ments deal, there are the two phases--”what we have done,” and ”what we will do.”

As early as the Second Protocol, the Press comes in for attention. It is significant that it makes its appearance in the same Protocol in which the ”No Annexations” program was announced 20 years before the World War, in the same Protocol in which it is announced that Gentile rulers will be allowed to appear before the people for a short period, while Jewish influences were organizing themselves behind the seats of power, and in the same Protocol where Darwinism, Marxism and Nietzscheism are claimed among the most ”demoralizing” doctrines which Jewish influence has disseminated. These are very curious statements, but not stranger than the actuality that has come to pa.s.s.

Says the Second Protocol:

”There is one great force in the hands of modern governments which creates thought movements among the people, that is, the Press. The presumed role of the Press is to indicate supposedly indispensable needs, to register popular complaints, and to create discontent. The triumph of 'free speech' (babbling) rests in the Press. But governments are unable to profit by this power, and it has fallen into our hands.

Through it we have attained influence while remaining in the shadow.

Thanks to it, we have ama.s.sed gold, though it has cost us torrents of blood and tears.”

In the same Protocol, ”our Press” is spoken of as the agency through which are disseminated ”those theories of life which we have induced them (the Gentiles) to regard as the dictates of science.”

”To this end we shall certainly endeavor to inspire blind confidence in these theories by means of our Press.”

Then follows the claim made concerning the three most revolutionary theories in the physical, economic and moral realms, namely Darwinism, Marxism and Nietzscheism.

In the Third Protocol the claim is made that this control of the Press is being used to break down respect for authority:

”Daring journalists and audacious pamphleteers make daily attack upon the personnel of the administration. This abuse of authority is definitely preparing the downfall of all inst.i.tutions, and everything will be overturned by blows coming from the infuriated populace.”

Again, in the Seventh Protocol, discussing the progress which the World Program has already made, the part played by the Press is indicated:

”We must force the Gentile governments to adopt measures which will promote our broadly conceived plan already approaching its triumphal goal, by bringing to bear the pressure of stimulated public opinion, which has in reality been organized by us with the help of the so-called 'great power' of the Press. With few exceptions not worth considering, it is already in our hands.”

Thus twice is the claim made to control of the Press. ”It has fallen into our hands,” says the Second Protocol. ”It is already in our hands,”

says the Seventh. In the Second Protocol the Press is represented as furthering revolutionary physical, economic and moral philosophies; while in the Seventh it is used to create the ”pressure of stimulated public opinion” for the purpose of ”forcing Gentile governments to adopt measures which will promote our broadly conceived plan, already approaching its triumphal goal.”

A word of comment may be made here upon the claim of the Second Protocol that ”thanks to it (the Press), we have ama.s.sed gold, though it has cost us torrents of blood and tears.”

This is a statement which can be ill.u.s.trated in many ways. ”Though it has cost us torrents of blood and tears” is an admission upon which the Protocols throw light, a light which also s.h.i.+nes upon the Jewish argument regarding responsibility for the recent war, namely, that Jewish World Financial Power could not have willed the war seeing that Jews suffered so heavily in Eastern Europe. The Protocols frankly recognize the possibility of Jews suffering during the establishment of the World Program, but it consoles them with the thought that they fall as soldiers for the good of Israel. The death of a Jew, we are told in the Protocols, is more precious in the sight of G.o.d than the death of a thousand ”seed of cattle,” which is one of the delicate names applied to the Gentiles.

The reference to the ama.s.sment of gold is very clear. It does not apply to owners.h.i.+p of publications and a share in their profits only, but also the use that may be made of them through silence or outcry to promote International Jewish Financiers' schemes. The Rothschilds bought editors as they bought legislators. It was a preliminary of nearly every scheme they floated to first ”fix” the newspapers, either for silence or claque boosting. In matters of war and peace; in the removal of administrations inimical to Jewish financial or political plans; in the elimination by public exposure of ”Gentile fronts” whom their Jewish masters wished to be rid of; in the gradual building up of reputation and influence for ”rising men” who had been chosen for work in the future--in these and like matters the Press very greatly aided the International Cabal in attaining its end.

All the details of the foregoing paragraph can be ill.u.s.trated at length by instances which have occurred in the United States within the past 15 years.

There was once a Senator of the United States who--but that story ill.u.s.trates another point also, and will be reserved until that point is reached in this series of discussions.

The Twelfth Protocol, however, contains the entire plan of Control of the Press, reaching from the present time into the future when the Jewish World Government shall be established. The reader is invited to read carefully and thoughtfully the deep and wide outreaching of this plan.

Keep also in mind the boast that has been made for generations that no publication that has handled the Jewish Question in a manner distasteful to the Jewish powers has been allowed to live.

”What role is played at present by the Press? It serves to inflame the pa.s.sions of selfish partisans.h.i.+p which our interests require. It is shallow, lying and unfair, the most people do not understand what end it serves.”

In that quotation we have the same low estimate which was noted when we studied ”the estimate of human nature” which the Protocols contain.

Now, for the Plan of Press Control: We separate the points for convenience:

”We shall handle the Press in the following manner:

1. ”We shall saddle it and keep tight rein upon it. We shall do the same also with other printed matter, for of what use is it to rid ourselves of attacks in the Press, if we remain exposed to criticism through pamphlets and books?”