Thus in the course of a few weeks names were suc¬ cessfully conjured up out of nothing, and incredible hopes were connected with them in the public mind ; they were given a popularity which a really great man could never hope to attain in the whole course of his life—names which a month before no one had even heard of; whereas old and trusted characters in public and State life died in the height of their efficiency as far as their contemporaries were concerned, or were over¬ whelmed with such abuse that their names seemed likely soon to become symbols of infamy. It was neces¬ sary to study this shameful Jewish method of simul¬ taneousness and from hundreds and hundreds of directions, as if by an incantation, pouring filth in the shape of slander and defamation on the clean garb of honourable men, in order to estimate the full menace of these scoundrels in the Press at its right value.
We shall most quickly and easily grasp that sense¬ less and dangerous human aberration if we compare the democratic parliamentary system with true Ger¬ manic Democracy.
The point most remarkable in the first is that a number, say five hundred, men are elected, who are called upon to decide on every kind of issue. In practice, therefore, they and they only are the Government, for if a Cabinet is selected from their number, which, as far as the country is concerned, undertake to control the business of the State, it is really on a pretence. The so-called Government can, as a matter of fact, take no action without first obtaining the consent of the general assemblage. It cannot, however, be made responsible for anything, since the final decision is never in its hands, but in those of the parliamentary majority. It exists merely to execute the will of the majority in all cases.
It is not the aim of our present-day Democracy to form an assemblage of wise men, but rather to collect together a crowd of subservient