away.... But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they
are independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all
costs we must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain
this is to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These
measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional
subordination. (Prot. 6.)
See second quotation above.
At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry
vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to
act as a counterpoise to industry.... It is necessary for industry
to deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through
speculation, transfer all the money of the world into our hands,
thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat.
(Prot. 6.)
It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from
the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and
replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material
desires. (Prot. 4.)
We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy
and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper
us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily.
(Prot. 17.)
It is indispensible for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars
should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an
economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of our
superiority in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will
place both sides under the control of our international agents with
their million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers.
(Prot. 2.)
We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes
who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting
that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to
whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal
principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry....
(Prot. 3.)
We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all
movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will
tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in
disgust. (Prot. 5.)
We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of
Protocol 12.
CHAPTER FOUR
THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY
Nilus on the Protocols--Only "the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia" Can Save
the World--Passages from Nilus Omitted by Translators--On Tolstoy--On the
Emancipation of Women--On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful Ally,
England."
In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus's book appeared, printed on
government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, containing a new and elaborated
version of the protocols.
The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his 1905 edition, a
copy of which is in the British Museum, have deliberately omitted
numerous passages from his prologue and epilogue. These passages show
clearly the purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: "We may perhaps be
reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal character of the document
presented. But if it were possible to demonstrate its accuracy by
documents or through the testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were
possible to unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the world
conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very
'mystery of lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain
intact until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.'" Then he goes
on to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, and that
there is only one force that can save it, and that is the "God-Anointed
Tsar of Russia." The omitted portions of the Nilus book show distinctly
that it is a work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus
denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and all movements
leading toward progress.
The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, realizing that these
passages would disclose to intelligent people the real motive of the
Nilus protocols and thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them
in the translations.
Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious Nilus book, which
are his own utterances and do not purport to constitute a part of the
Protocols. They are translated from a photographed copy of the volume in
the British Museum:
* * * * *
"We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man close to us,
now deceased, a manuscript in which are described with unusual
precision and clearness the course and progress of the universal
fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world to an inevitable
catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us about four years ago
(in 1901) with the assurance that it was an accurate copy--a
translation of the original documents stolen by a woman from one of
the most powerful and sacred directors of Freemasonry after one of
the secret meetings of the 'initiates' in France, the present nest
of the Freemason's sect. This manuscript under the general title
'Protocols of Meetings of the Wise Men of Zion' I now call to the
attention of all who wish to see or hear. These 'Protocols' at a
first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to
call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed
with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in
commonplaces. A proud, deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time
secretly growing,--and what is more frightful than all,--a religious
rage boils between the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the
overfilled vessel of violence and vengeance, already approaching
complete triumph.
"It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript
does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols of a
meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided into
parts which are not even always logically connected: the impression
remains that this is a fragment of something much more significant,
the beginning of which has been lost. The origin of the manuscript,
as given by us above, furnishes sufficient explanation of this.
* * * * *
"We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal
character of the document presented. But if it were possible to
demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony of
trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil the faces of
those who are at the head of the world conspiracy and who hold its
bloody strings in their hands, then the very 'mystery of
lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain intact
until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.' In the
complexity of the present criminally-earthly process _we must not
search for direct evidence_; we are forced to content ourselves
with indirect proof and of these it seems that the attention of the
sad Christian observer is fully satisfied.
"The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole republican era
of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of those elected
to office has to this time ever done what he promised to do, if the
demands of his electors did not coincide with the plans of the
government of Zion.
"What has become of unfortunate France!...
"'Let him who has ears, listen!'"
* * * * *
"'Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils;
"'Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a
hot iron;
"'Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which
God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth.'
"Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole
world?!"
* * * * *
"In every age there have been many women 'drowning in sin and led
on by various lusts': the ebb and flow of this sin in woman's heart
characterized whole epochs of particular human defection but at no
time of the seeming triumph of sin have there been women
'constantly studying'--this sign represents entirely a universal
inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic of our epoch.
"Who is ignorant of the so-called 'woman question,' the
emancipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up so
many families and which threatens an even greater disruption in the
future?!...
"For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons her
true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate world
revolution!"
* * * * *
"The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried the
roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different
name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after
having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having
declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present
day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with
its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was
never penurious.
"As to the question why England and no other European government
was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting Sanhedrin,
the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to think that the
cause is to be found in the isolated island position of the
sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship between
the English and the Jews.[*]
[Footnote *: As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries
to prove that the English are the descendants of one of the
scattered tribes of Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course
of contemporary science, is not ashamed to produce whatever
theories are advantageous to them. According to certain tenuous
evidences in the air it seems that a new theory is being produced
according to which the honor of birth relationship with the
God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to America and ... Japan. AVIS A
L'ANGLETERRE!...)]
"Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of Masonic lies
(the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved for them also),
possessing countless millions, in face of the general fall of the
Christian spirit among the European peoples, in whom there was
artificially spread and supported the cult of the golden calf;
having poisoned the idea of godliness and spirituality in the heart
of the peoples by 'scientific' theories, the Sanhedrin--the priest
of the golden idol created by it, has gained control of the
spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, with the help of
its gold, with the sold consciousness of those standing at the helm
of power, and with the help of its faithful ally--England, it has
corrupted and perverted all the political foundations of Europe,
and through them the well-being and spiritual health of its
population. The French revolution, glorified by the Masonized
historical science of 'greatness' and the fall of the 'great'
Napoleon have shown to the world the significance and strength of
the Sanhedrin. But the world did not recognize the new
manifestation of Satan: at that time the words of truth of the
Evangel and the apostolic foresight had become alien to him."
CHAPTER FIVE
FORGERS DISAGREE
The Butmi Protocols--"Representatives of Zion" Not to be Confounded with
"Zionists"--Butmi Contradicts Nilus--Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929
B. C. E.--The "Symbolic Snake"--Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device--Every
Jew Familiar with Plot.
In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and
which contains the "Rabbi's Speech" already considered, there is to be
found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred
writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred
organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of
Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the
title page. With exceeding _naivete_ Butmi published the forged speech
attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the
genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated
speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone
further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of "the documents"
by Serge Nilus.
The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as
follows:
"PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE
OF ZION.
"'(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion
of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)'
Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the
Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction
the author says, in part, as follows:
"'These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in
fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December,
1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories
again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be
reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month,
year, where and when they were composed.
"'The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of
Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal
plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their
authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great
certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the
documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim,
which is joined mostly by Jews....
"'But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place
where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader,
who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic
doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.'"
At the end of the "protocols" published in this edition by Butmi, in
1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured
and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and
in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the
representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be
confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement. The Russian
mystic Serge Nilus, in his later editions, connected the documents with
the Zionist Congress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement,
Dr. Theodore Herzl.
The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives a version of
"the political plan devised by the Wise Men of Zion." This translator,
however, states that the "political plan was conceived 929 years before
the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in
theory."
Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator's Note:
[Illustration: Cyrillic]
[Transliteration:
no esli im ne dat' krovi, oni ne spjat, a borjutsja...
Primechanie perevodchika.
Izlozhennye protokoly podpisany Sionskimi predstaviteljami
(ne smeshivajte s predstaviteljami sionistskago dvizhenija). Oni
vyhvacheny iz celoj knigi protokolov, vsego soderzhanija
kotoroj ne udalos' perepisat' po kratkosti vremeni, dannago
na prochtenie ih perevodchiku etih protokolov. K nim
bylo prilozheno eshhe nebol'shoe pribavlenie i plan zavoevanija
mira Evrejami mirnym putem. Eti protokoly i chertezh dobyty
iz tajnyh hranilishh Sionskoj Glavnoj Kanceljacii,
nyne nahodjashhejsja na francuzskoj territorii.
Na upomjanutom chertezhe znachilsja ves' politicheskij plan
Siona po otnosheniju k imejushhim byt' projdennymi etapam
]
_Translator's Note._
"The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of Zion
(_do not confound them with the representative of the Zionist
movement_). They were taken out of a whole book of protocols, the
entire contents of which it was impossible to copy because of the
short time allowed the translator for reading these protocols. A
small appendix was attached to them and a plan of conquering the
world by the Jews by peaceful means. Those protocols and the Sketch
were taken from the secret depositories of the Main Office of Zion,
now located on French territory.
"The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political plan of
Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through by this
movement and to the means of passing from one to another. The
aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth
of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and the Judean Sages in
theory; according to historical events, it was elaborated and
enlarged by their followers initiated in this plan.
"These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, with
the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head should be composed of
the Jewish Government initiated in the plans of the Wise Men
(always masked even to their people), and the body--the Jewish
nation.
"Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has undermined
or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, according to
their growth, in various continents, but particularly in Europe,
which he should do also in the future, following exactly the
outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road travelled by it
will close by the return of the head of the Snake to Zion,--that is,
until this snake will include in the sphere of its circle all
Europe, and through Europe the whole world, utilizing all forces
conquered by economic means in order to draw the other continents
into the sphere of its cycle....
"For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has made it
possible to carry out everything that was desirable in the
interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities
commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the majority
of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that the decisions
of that majority became the determining factor in questions of
national life. The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent
class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also
rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the republican is the most
desirable and convenient form of government for Zion because it
gives full sway for the activities of the armies of Zion--for
anarchists of thought and action, called socialists.
"All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands of the
nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the ocean of
humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, every member of
which is familiarized with the plan of action worked out in the
course of centuries, from which he cannot deviate. The politics of
the goyim is the politics of accidental circumstances, engineered
by the Jews, and tends not towards perfecting the affairs of the
state, but towards struggle for the sake of greed, or more often
for the personal aggrandizement of the administrators.
"From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory and the
guidance of the world.
"Translation from the French, December 9, 1901."
CHAPTER SIX
THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES
Russia in 1905--The Unsuccessful Revolution--The Reaction and the
Reactionaries--Lutostansky and His Work--The "Symbolic Snake" According to
Lutostansky--Who Plagiarized?--Lutostansky on the English People--Are the
English the "Lost Tribes"?--How the Protocols Were "Doctored" by
Butmi--Conclusion.
As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the "literature"
produced under the auspices of the Russian Black Hundred organizations
which sought to save the Czar's throne by pogroms, I examined a large
number of publications brought out in Russia during the period when "the
Russian Mystic," Sergius Nilus, published his pretended discovery, the
"Protocols." His book, "The Great in the Small and anti-Christ,"
appeared in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian
revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar's government. A new
organization was formed for the support of the Russian throne. It was
known as "the Union of the Russian People,"--"the Black Hundred,"--whose
program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia adopted a definite,
anti-Jewish policy of vengeance--a pogrom policy. The "Black Hundred"
held the Jews responsible for Russia's defeat in the war and for the
attempted revolution,--and neither the Czar nor his loyal organization of
the "Black Hundred" ever forgave Count Sergius Witte, who won for Russia
at the Portsmouth Peace Conference what she had lost on the
battlefields, for inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to
Russia. "The Black Hundreds" nicknamed Witte "the Jewish Count of
Portsmouth." They attacked him and attempted to assassinate him. They
assassinated at that time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and
Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobomania that Sergius
Nilus published his book introducing the "Protocols" in Russia.
[Illustration: Cyrillic
FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1907
CONTAINING ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-BRITISH ATTACKS.]
[Transliteration:
TALMUD i EVREI
Talmud est' religioznyj katehizis.
Evrei i dejanija ih po ucheniju talmuda.
Kompiljacija iz raznyh talmudov i kommentariev chlena-sotrudnika
Imperatorskago Pravoslavnago Palestinskago Obshhestva
Dvorjanina otstavnogo uchitelja klass. gimnazii.
_I. Ljutostanskago._
KNIGA SHESTAJA.
IZDANIE TRET'E
ispravlennoe i znachitel'no dopolnennoe.
IZDATEL'
A. N. Pershin.
S.-PETERBURG
Tipografija T-va "SVET", Nevskij, 136.
1907.
]
[Illustration: Cyrillic
FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED
IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE
PROTOCOLS.]
[Transliteration:
Ob'jasnenie sionskago simvolicheskago zmeja.
[Illustration: P]redstavlennyj politicheskij plan
v obraze zmija, ochen' drevnij, byl
izmyshlen iudejskimi mudrecami v
teorii, po mere zhe istoricheskih sobytij
razrabatyvaem i dopolnjaem prosveshhennymi
v etom posledovateljami.
Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat'
mir dlja Ciona, s hitrost'ju simvolicheskago
zmija. Glava zmija izobrazhaet
mudrecov sionskih, a--tulovishhe narod
iudejskij. Propolzaja v gosudarstvennyja
nedra, zmij etot podtachivaet ili pozhiraet
vse ne iudejskija gosudarstvennyja
sily, po mere ih rosta na raznyh
kontinentah, no osobenno v Evrope,
chto on dolzhen delat' i v budushhem,
pri tochnom sledovanii po prednachertanijam
plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago
im puti ne somknetsja vozvratom glavy zmija na
Sion, to est' poka etot zmij ne zakljuchit v sfere
svoego kruga vsju Evropu, a cherez nee ves' mir. Pervym
delom starajutsja vnesti vezde bezverie i upadok nravstvennosti,
pol'zujas' vsemi zavoevannymi ekonomicheskim
]
[Illustration: Cyrillic
FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED
IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE
PROTOCOLS.]
[Transliteration:
iv
putem silami, chtoby zavlech' v sferu svoego cikla ostal'nye
kontinenty. Tak kak vozvrat glavy zmija mog sovershit'sja
lish' po sglazhennym razvalinam gosudarstvennoj
moshhi vseh evropejskih stran, cherez padenie etoj moshhi,
ot ekonomicheskago razstrojstva i razorenija, vsjudu vnosimago
Sionom cherez nravstvennyj upadok. Rastlenie,
vnosimoe s pomoshh'ju zhidovok, vydajushhih sebja za francuzhenok
i ital'janok, kotoryja dazhe fiktivno prinimajut
i kreshhenie, potom delajutsja zhenami vazhnyh lic,
na podobie biblejskoj Esfiri, a pri nih vsegda soputstvujut
Mardohei i proizvodjat svoju politiku v
pol'zu zhidovstva. Eti-to mnimyja francuzhenki i ital'janki
javljajutsja samymi luchshimi nositel'nicami rasputstva
nravov s mesta na mesto. Eti zhenshhiny sluzhat dlja
teh, kotorye, blagodarja im, vsegda nuzhdajutsja v den'gah,
a potomu ohotno torgujut sovest'ju, chtoby dobyt'
deneg vo chto by to ni stalo. Den'gi zhe tol'ko
ssuzhajutsja takim torgovcam sovesti, chto bystro vozvrashhajutsja
v ruki, ssuzhavshija ih, potomu chto s pomoshh'ju
teh zhe zhenshhin rastrachivajutsja skoro posle
ih poluchenija. Sionskija seti razstavleny na vseh putjah
"goev" i cikl zmija podvigaetsja v XX stoletii
bystrotoj kur'erskago dvizhenija k namechennoj svoej celi.