; to them lying is as much a necessary of life as mewing is to a cat. Their sole object is to break the national and popular powers of resistance, to prepare them for the slavery of inter¬ national capital and of their masters, the Jews.
What did the State do to counteract this wholesale poisoning of the nation ? Nothing, absolutely nothing !
A few feeble warnings, a few fines for offences too egregious to be overlooked, and that was all.
The defence put up by Government in those days against the Press—controlled mainly by Jews—which was slowly corrupting the nation, followed no definite line nor had it determination ; but worse than all it had no fixed objective. The intelligence of the officials entirely missed the point, both in estimating the import¬ ance of the struggle, choice of methods and settlement of a definite plan. They tinkered with it ; now and then, if too sorely bitten, they scotched some jour¬ nalistic viper for a few weeks, or even months, but they always let the nest of snakes continue in peace as before.