world, to become its
autocratic masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom and set
up Israel as "the despot" over the peoples of the earth. According to
the Protocols, all this is engineered with the aid and through the
instrumentality of the Freemasons.

The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England, France, the
Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United States, basing all their
arguments on the "Protocols" vouched for by "the Russian mystic" Sergius
Nilus, see in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment of
the prophecies outlined by the so-called "Wise Men of Zion" years ago.
The propagandists are violent and vicious, foaming at their mouths,
appealing to the basest passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their
fingers at "the source of all evil"--at the Jews who constitute but a
fraction of one per cent of the world's population, and who are in
Europe to-day, after the close of the World War, more wretched and
miserable than ever before,--persecuted, hounded and starved.

What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they come to "the Russian
mystic" who revealed them in 1905, and which have now been exhumed from
obscurity for the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point to
the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and confusion?

Nilus, "the Russian mystic," is credited with several versions of how he
had secured the Protocols, and his stories flatly contradict one
another. In 1905 he said that the Protocols were given to him by a
prominent Russian conservative whose name he did not mention, and who in
turn had received them from an unnamed woman who had stolen them from
"one of the most influential leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a
secret meeting of the initiated in France." Then, several years later,
Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the Protocols from "the
headquarters of the Society of Zion in France." Several years
afterwards, in a new edition of his book, Nilus said that the
"Protocols" came from Switzerland and not from France. This time he
named his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died in the
meantime. He added that the Protocols were not Jewish-Masonic but
Zionist documents secretly read at the Zionist Congress in Basle in
1897.

Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing the date of 1917.
A translation of this edition has recently appeared in this country,
containing a brand-new explanation as to how the Protocol