"Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious
ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have bequeathed to
us.
"It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and
protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a
country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of
the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards
possession and rule over the movements of public opinion.
"The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to
yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them easy prey for
us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid
of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our
artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through the
medium of genuine sentiment.
"It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat
and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting in
this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, whenever we
shall need them. We will use them as weapons for upheavals and
revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move our cause
forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with a quick pace,
nearer our goal--to reign over the entire world, as it was promised
by our Father Abraham."
[_For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, out of many that
might be selected, are taken from the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which
were afterwards elaborated and presented as facts.
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