To-day I can tell you that our goal is close at hand. Only a small
distance remains, and the cycle of the _Symbolic 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
uncontrolled 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_.
Unrestrained babblers have converted parliamentary sessions and
administrative meetings into oratorical contests. Daring journalists,
impudent pamphleteers, make daily attacks on the administrative
personnel. The abuse of power is definitely preparing the downfall of
all institutions and everything 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 included 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,
journalists 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 aristocracy, 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 brotherhood 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 degeneration
of the GOYS. Our power lies in the chronic malnutrition 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 aristocracy. 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 imperative 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
existence, which requires the division of labor and, consequently, the
separation of people into classes and castes_. It is necessary that all
should know that _equality cannot exist, owing to the different nature
of various kinds of work_; that there cannot 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
governmental 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
understand 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 possible underhand means, and
with the help of gold which is all 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 person, 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 disappointment 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
structure; 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 behead 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, solidarity,
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, however, 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.