Although these words were written with Europe in view (the United States not yet having been Judaized) their import is clear. At the present moment the number of business concerns in the hands of Jewish creditors, through “loans,” is very large. The Jewish idea in business is to “borrow,” instead of making the business stand on its own feet. The trail of that idea is seen all over our land today. “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 of industry. _Without speculation, industry will cause private wealth to increase and tend to improve the position of agriculture by freeing the land_ from indebtedness for loans by the land banks. _It is necessary for industry to deplete the land_ both of laborers and capital, and, through speculation, transfer all the money in the world into our hands.... “To destroy Gentile industry, we shall, as an incentive to this speculation, encourage among the Gentiles a strong demand for luxuries, all-enticing luxuries.” There is the Idea—Extravagance and Debt support the Jewish money-lender’s power. He does not lend to build industry, but to drain it. Independent industrial or agricultural wealth menaces his rule. Industry must be curbed by speculation; speculation must be encouraged by extravagance; an industrious people soon works itself free of its debt slavery; therefore invent new excitements to keep it in debt. Entice people from the farms, and so forth, and so forth, all which devices are now well known to the world. “_We will force up wages_, which, however, will be of no benefit to workers, for _we will at the same time cause a rise in the price of prime necessities, pretending_ that this is due to the decline of agriculture and cattle raising. _We will also artfully and deeply undermine the sources of production_ by instilling in the workmen ideas of anarchy and encourage them in the use of alcohol....” That wages were forced up, that they were of little profit to the workers, that prices did rise, that the above excuses were given, that anarchistic ideas now being circulated among the workers are Jewish and are circulated by Jews, that the illicit liquor business (as once was the legal liquor business) is entirely in the hands of Jews—these things everyone knows to be true. The Protocols have been in non-Jewish knowledge since 1896. The British Museum has possessed a copy since 1906. Were they written by a _prophet who foresaw_, or by a _power that foreordained_?