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of printing office; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of
attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we
shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and
fines secured by their deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that
party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at
the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our
government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that
it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I beg you to note that among
those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but they will attack
exclusively points that we have pre-determined to alter.
Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control.
[H: FACE IT,
READERS! THAT IS WHY WE ARE “NOT” IN COMPETITION WITH THIS GROUP OF
MANIPULATORS.
TRUTH ONLY GIVES YOU AN “OPPORTUNITY” TO MAKE CHANGES
–
OFTEN YOUR OWN PERCEPTIONS, PERSPECTIVES AND ATTITUDES.
WE CAN
ONLY OFFER A WAY AND “YOU” MUST DO WHAT YOU WILL WITH IT – FOR THAT IS
THE “FREE-WILL” CHOICE OF MAN INDIVIDUAL AND SOVEREIGN.] Even now this is
already being attained by us inasmuch as news items are received by a few agencies, in
whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be
already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.
If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the goy communities
to such an extent that they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the
colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses, if already now there
is not a single State where there exists for us any barriers to admittance into what goy
stupidity calls State secrets, what will our position be then, when we shall be acknowledged
supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world…
Let us turn again to the future of the printing press. Every one desirous of being a publisher,
librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore,
which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded.
With such measure the
instrument of thought will become an educative means in the hands of our government,
which no longer allows the mass of the nation to be led astray in by-ways and fantasies
about the blessings of progress.
Is there any one of us who does not know that these
phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical
relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the
idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed
to establish its limits… All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in
thought. Every one of them is hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively
into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest…
We turn to the periodical press.
We shall impose on it, on all printed matter, stamp taxes
per sheet and deposits of caution-money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double.
We shall reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of
magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this
measure may force writers into such lengthy productions that will be little read, especially as
they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental
development in the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and read voraciously. The
tax will bring vapid literary ambitions with bounds and the liability to penalties will make
literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of
writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions. Before
accepting any production for publication in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to
the authorities for permission to do so.
Thus we will KNOW BEFOREHAND of all tricks
preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject
treated of.
