An Introduction to the "jewish ProtocolsN 59

conditions is given to them, and then another. The fact-shortage is

acute. There is a whole marketful of explanations that explain nothing,

only deepen the confusion. The government itself seems to be hampered,

and whenever it starts on a line of investigation finds itself mysteriously

tangled up so that procedure is difficult. This governmental aspect is also

clearly set forth in the Protocols. Add to this the onslaught O!l the human

tendency toward religion, which is usually the last barrier to fall before

violence and robbery unashamed stalk forth.

To conclude this general view of the method, rather this part of the

method, the confusion itself, which all Jewish influences converge to

produce, it is expected to produce another more deeply helpless state.

And that state is Exhaustion. It needs no imagination to see what this

means. Exhaustion is to-day one of the. conditions that menace the

people. The war and its strain began the exhaustion: the "peace" and its

confusion have about completed it. The people believe in little and

expect less. Confidenceis gone. Initiative is nearly gone. The failure

of movements falsely heralded as "people's movements" has gone far to

make the people think that no people's movement is possible. So say the

Protocols:

"To wear everyone out by dissensions, animosities, feuds, famine,

inoculation of diseases, want, until the Gentiles see no other way of

escape except by an appeal to our money power. - Protocol X.

"We will so wear out and exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they

will be compelled to offer us an international authority, which by its

position will enable us to absorb without disturbance all the

governmental forces of the world and, thus form a

super-government. We must so direct the education of the Gentile

Society that its hands will drop in the weakness of discouragement

in the face of any undertaking where initiative is needed"

• Protocol V.

The Jews have never been worn out or exhausted. They have never

been nonplussed. That is the true psychic characteristic of those who have

a clue to the maze. It is the unknown that exhausts the mind, the constant

wandering around among tendencies , and influences whose source is not