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PROTOCOL 20
FINANCIAL PROGRAMME
Progressive taxation – Stagnant capital – the ruinous Gold Standard
1. To-day we shall touch upon the financial program, which I put off
to the end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning
and the decisive point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will
remind you that I have already spoken before, by way of a hint, when
I said that the sum total of our actions is settled by the question
of figures.
2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will
avoid, from a principle of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the
masses of the people with taxes, remembering that it (the
government) plays the part of father and protector. But as State
organization costs dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the
funds required for it. I will, therefore, elaborate with particular
precaution the question of equilibrium in this matter.
3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that
everything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be
translated into fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful
confiscation of all sums, of every kind, for the regulation of their
circulation in the State. From this follows that taxation will best
be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this manner the dues
will be paid; without straitening or ruining anybody; in the form of
a percentage of the amount of property. The rich must be aware that
it is their duty to place a part of their superfluities at the
disposal of the State, since the State guarantees them security of
possession of the rest of their property and the right of honest
gains, I say honest, for the control over property will do away with
robbery on a legal basis.
4. This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for
it – it is indispensable as a pledge of peace.
WE SHALL DESTROY CAPITAL
5. The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to
the detriment of the State which in hunting after the trifling is
missing the big. Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists
diminishes the growth of wealth in private hands, in which we have
in these days concentrated it, as a counterpoise to the government
strength of the goyim – their State finances.
6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much
larger revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is
useful to us now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and
discontent among the goyim.
7. The force, upon which our king will rest, consists in the
equilibrium and the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things
it is indispensable that the capitalists should yield up a portion
of their incomes, for the sake of the secure working of the
machinery of the State. State needs must be paid by those who will
not feel the burden and have enough to take from.
8. Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the
rich, in whom he will see a necessary financial support for the
State; will see in him the organizer of peace and well-being, since
he will see that it is the rich man who is paying the necessary
means to attain these things.
9. In order that payers of the educated classes should not too much
distress themselves over the new payments, they will have full
accounts given them of the destination of those payments, with the
exception of such sums as will be appropriated for the needs of the
throne and the administrative institutions.
10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own, once all
in the State represents his patrimony, or else the one would be in
contradiction to the other; the fact of holding private means would
destroy the right of property in the common possessions of all.
11. Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be
maintained by the resources of the State, must enter the ranks of
servants of the State or must work to obtain the right to property;
the privilege of royal blood must not serve for the spoiling of the
treasury.
12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the
payment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property,
whether money or other, without evidence of payment of this tax,
which will be strictly registered by names, will render the former
holder liable to pay interest on the tax, from the moment of
transfer of these sums, up to the discovery of his evasion of
declaration of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented
weekly at the local treasury office, with notifications of the name,
surname and permanent place of residence of the former and the new
holder of the property. This transfer with register of names must
begin from a definite sum which exceeds the ordinary expenses of
buying and selling necessaries, and these will be subject to payment
only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit.
13. Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these
will cover the revenue of the goyim States.
WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS
14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement
of reserve sums, and all that is collected above that complement
must be returned into circulation. On these sums will be organized
public works. The initiative in works of this kind, proceeding from
State sources, will blind the working class firmly to the interests
of the State and to those who reign. From these same sums also a
part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and
productiveness.
15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite
and freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for
money exists to be circulated and any kind of stagnation of money
acts ruinously on the running of the State machinery, for which it
is the lubricant; a stagnation of the lubricant may stop the regular
working of the mechanism.
16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the
token of exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The
consequences of this circumstance are already sufficiently
noticeable.
17. A court of account will also be instituted by us, and in it the
ruler will find at any moment a full accounting for State income and
expenditure, with the exception of the current monthly account, not
yet made up, and that of the preceding month, which will not yet
have been delivered.
18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the
State is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will
remove the possibility of leakages of extravagances.
19. The representative function of the ruler, at receptions, for the
sake of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be
abolished in order that the ruler may have time for control and
consideration. His power will not then be split up into fractional
parts among time-serving favorites who surround the throne for its
pomp and splendor, and are interested only in their own and not in
the common interests of the State.
20. Economic crises have been produced by us for
the goyim by no
other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge
capitals have stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were
constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals for
loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with the
payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of these
capitals....The concentration of industry in the hands of
capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all
the juices of the peoples and with them also the States.…
21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond with
the requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the
needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to correspond with
the growth of population and thereby children also must absolutely
be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth.
The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.
22. You are aware that the gold standard has been the ruin of the
States which adopted it, for it has not been able to satisfy the
demands for money, the more so that we have removed gold from
circulation as possible.
GENTILE STATES BANKRUPT
23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of
working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We
shall make the issue of money in accordance with the normal
requirements of each subject, adding to the quantity with every
birth and subtracting with every death.
24. The accounts will be managed by each department (the French
administrative division), each circle.
25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying out of money
for State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by
decree of the ruler; this will do away with the protection by a
ministry of one institution to the detriment of others.
26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried out side
by side that they may not be obscured by distance one to another.
27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and
principles of the goyim will be clothed by us in such forms as will
alarm nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in
consequence of the disorderly darkness into which the goyim by their
irregularities have plunged the finances. The first irregularity, as
we shall point out, consists in their beginning with drawing up a
single budget which year after year grows owing to the following
cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they demand
a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months,
after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends
with a liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year
is drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the
annual departure from the normal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a
year, and so the annual budget is trebled in ten years. Thanks to
such methods, allowed by the carelessness of the goy States, their
treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and that has
swallowed up remainders and brought all the goy States to
bankruptcy.
28. You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this
kind, which have been suggested to the goyim by us, cannot be
carried on by us.
29. Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want of
understanding of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of
Damocles over the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their
subjects by a temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm of
our bankers. Foreign loans are leeches which there is no possibility
of removing from the body of the State, until they fall off of
themselves, or the State flings them off. But the goy States do not
tear them off; they go on in persisting in putting more on to
themselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary
blood-letting.
TYRANNY OF USURY
30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign
loan? A loan is – an issue of government bills of exchange
containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the
loan capital. If the loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in
twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to
the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in
sixty – treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.
31. From this calculation it is obvious that, with any form of
taxation per head, the State is baling out the last coppers of the
poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealthy foreigners,
from whom it has borrowed money, instead of collecting these coppers
for its own needs without the additional interest.
32. So long as loans were internal
the goyim only shuffled their
money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we
bought up the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the
external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash-boxes
and all the goyim began to pay us the tribute of subjects.
33. If the superficiality of goy kings on their thrones in regard to
State affairs and the venality of ministers, or the want of
understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling
persons, have made their countries debtors to our treasuries, to
amounts quite impossible to pay, it has not been accomplished
without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.
34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore
there will be no State interest-bearing paper, except a one per-cent
series, so that there will be no payment of interest to leeches that
suck all the strength out of the State. The right to issue
interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial
companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of
profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowed money
like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and not to use
in operations.
35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government, which
from being, as now, a paper of tribute by loan operations, will be
transformed into a lender of money at a profit. This measure will
stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and idleness, all of
which were useful for us among the goyim so long as they were
independent but are not desirable under our rule.
36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely
brute brains of the goyim, as expressed in the fact that they have
been borrowing from us, with payment of interest, without ever
thinking that all the same these very moneys, plus an addition for
payment of interest, must be got by them from their own State
pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler
than to take the money they wanted from their own people?
37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have
contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light
that they have even seen in them an advantage for themselves.
38. Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in the
light of centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on
the goy States, will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness
and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our
innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which we owe
our mastery over the goyim, but which cannot be allowed in our
kingdom.
39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither
the ruler nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a
position to divert even the smallest sum from its destination
without detection or to direct it in another direction except that
which will be once fixed in a definite plan of action.
40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching
along an undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to
ruin by the way heroes and demi-gods.
41. The goy rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be
distracted from State occupations by representative receptions,
observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our
rule. The accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the
sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every
time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in
the future economics and improvements were foreseen....Economics
from what? From new taxes? – were questions that might have been but
were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.
42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to
what pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding
the astonishing industry of their peoples....
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PROTOCOL 21
LOANS AND CREDIT
Bankruptcy – Abolition of money markets
1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add a
detailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say
nothing more, because they have fed us with national moneys of the
goyim, but for our State there will be no foreigners, that is,
nothing external.
2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators and
slackness of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times
over, by lending to the goy governments moneys which were not at all
needed by the States. Could anyone do the like in regard to
us....Therefore, I shall only deal with the details of internal
loans.
3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open
subscriptions for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their
interest-bearing paper. That they may be within the reach of all the
price is determined at from a hundred to a thousand; and a discount
is made for the earliest subscribers. Next day by artificial means
the price of them goes up, the alleged reason being that everyone is
rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury safes are as they
say overflowing and there’s more money than they can do with. The subscription, it is alleged, covers many times
over the issue total of the loan; in this lies the whole stage
effect – look you, they say, what confidence is shown in the
government’s bills of exchange.
4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a
debit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the
payment of interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new
loans, which do not swallow up but only add to the capital debt. And
when this credit is exhausted it becomes necessary by new taxes to
cover, not the loan, but only the interest on it. These taxes are a
debit employed to cover a debit....
5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the
payment of interest without covering the debt, and besides they
cannot be made without the consent of the lenders; on announcing a
conversion, a proposal is made to return the money to those who are
not willing to convert their paper. If everybody expressed his
unwillingness and demanded his money back, the government would be
hooked on their own files and would be found insolvent and unable to
pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the goy
governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always
preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk
of new investments of their moneys, and have thereby many a time
enabled these governments to throw off their shoulders a debit of
several millions.
6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by
the goyim for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.
7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the
various countries the absence of any means between the interest of
the peoples and of those who rule them.
8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this
point and upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are
consolidated by so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms
of payment more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid
into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the
disposition of a government these funds evaporate in the payment of
interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the deposit of
equivalent amount of rents.
9. And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State
treasuries of the goyim.
10. When we ascend the throne
of the world all these financial and similar shifts, as being
not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not
to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets,
since we shall not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken
by fluctuations of prices set upon our values, which we shall
announce by law at the price which represents their full worth
without any possibility of lowering or raising.
11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government
credit institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of
industrial values in accordance with government views. These
institutions will be in a position to fling upon the market five
hundred millions of industrial paper in one day, or to buy up for
the same amount. In this way all industrial undertakings will come
into dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what immense
power we shall thereby secure for ourselves....
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PROTOCOL 22
POWER OF GOLD
The secret of what is coming – Mysticism of the new authority and
the reverent fear of the people
1. In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have
endeavored to depict with care the secret of what is coming, of
what is past, and of what is going on now, rushing into the flood of
the great events coming already in the near future, the secret of
our relations to the goyim and of financial operations. On this
subject there remains still a little for me to add.
2. In our hands is the greatest power of our day – gold: in two
days we can procure from our storehouses any quantity we may please.
3. Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is
predestined by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to
prove that all that evil which for so many centuries we have had to
commit has served at the end of ends the cause of true well-being –
the bringing of everything into order? Though it be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all
the same it will be established. We shall contrive to prove that we
are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the
true good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we shall
enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of
relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observance of the
laws established by us. We shall make plain therewith that freedom
does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled
license any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist
in the right of everyone to promulgate destructive principles in the
nature of freedom of conscience, equality and a like, that freedom
of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate oneself
and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that
true freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who
honorably and strictly observes all the laws of life in common,
that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness of the rights and
also of the absence of rights of each, and not wholly and solely in
fantastic imaginings about the subject of one’s ego.
4. One authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful,
will rule and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators
shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call
great principles and which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but
utopian....Our authority will be the crown of order, and in that is
included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of this authority
will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a reverent
fear before it of all the peoples. True force makes no terms with
any right, not even with that of God: none dare come near to it so
as to take so much as a span from it away.
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PROTOCOL 23
INSTILLING OBEDIENCE
Cutting down of luxury goods – The supreme lord to replace all
existing rulers
1. That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is
necessary to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce
the production of articles of luxury. By this we shall improve
morals which have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury.
We shall re-establish small master production which will mean laying
a mine under the private capital of manufacturers. This is
indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand
scale often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the
masses in directions against the government. A people of small
masters knows nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely
with existing order, and consequently with the firmness of
authority. For us its part will have been played out the moment
authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be
prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against humanness of man
who is turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol.
2. Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the
strong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they
feel the sword of defense and support against social
scourges....What do they want with an angelic spirit in a king? What
they have to see in him is the personification of force and power.
3. The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers,
dragging in their existence among societies demoralized by us,
societies that have denied even the authority of God, from whose
midst breaks out on all sides the fire of anarchy, must first of all
proceed to quench this all-devouring flame. Therefore he will be
obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he should
drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in
the form of regularly organized troops, fighting consciously with
every kind of infection that may cover the body of the State with
sores.
4. This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the
senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness
and humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery
and every kind of violence under the mask of principles of freedom
and rights. They have overthrown all forms of social order to erect,
on the ruins, the throne of the King of the Jews; but their part
will be played out the moment he enters into his kingdom. Then it
will be necessary to sweep them away from his path, on which must be
left no knot, no splinter.
5. Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the
world: Give thanks to God and bow the knee before him who bears on
his front the seal of the predestination of man, to which God
Himself has led His star that none other but Him might free us from
all the before-mentioned forces and evils.
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PROTOCOL 24
QUALITIES OF THE RULER
Selecting and training the seed of David
1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of king
David to the last strata of the earth.
2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that
which to this day has rested the force of conservatism, by our
learned elders, of the conduct of the affairs of the world, in the
directing of the education of thought of all humanity.
3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kings and
their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent
capacities, inducting them into the most secret mysteries of the
political, into schemes of government, but providing always that
none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of this mode
of action is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted
to those who have not been inducted into the secret places of its
art....
4. To these persons only will be taught the practical application of
the aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many
centuries, all the observations on the politico-economic moves and
social sciences – in a word, all the spirit of laws which have been
unshakably established by nature herself for the regulation of the
relations of humanity.
5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne,
if, in their time of training, they exhibit frivolity, softness and
other qualities that are the ruin of authority, which render them
incapable of governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly
office.
6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it
be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our
learned elders.
7. In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of
incapacity, kings must, by law, hand over the reins of rule to new
and capable hands….
8. The king’s plan of action for the current moment, and all the
more so for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are
called his closest counselors.
KING OF THE JEWS
9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will know
what is coming.
10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is master of
himself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its
mysterious ways. None will know what the king wishes to attain by
his dispositions, and therefore none will dare to stand across an
unknown path.
11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must
correspond in capacity to the plan of government it has to contain.
It is for this reason that he will ascend the throne not otherwise
than after examination of his mind by the aforesaid learned elders.
13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for
both these forces separately to fall under our influence.
14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his passions,
and especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he
give brute instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all
else disorganizes the capacities of the mind and clearness of views,
distracting the thoughts to the worst and most brutal side of human
activity.
15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all
the world of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all
personal inclinations.
16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachable mind.
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