(Editors Note: To the best of our knowledge, this article was first printed in Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise in 1919. It was reprinted again in 1946 in The NEW WORLD NEWS, after the Florida Attorney General secured it from a known member of the communist party, who acknowledged that it was then still a part of the communist program.)
In May of 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, the Allied forces obtained a copy of some of the "Communist Rules of Revolution." And now, nearly 50 years later, we are still being affected by them.
A. Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity. thereby:
1. Get peoples minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and immoral movies.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and disgrace.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
6. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
7. Cause breakdown of the old moral virtues - honesty, sobriety, self restraint, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
That is quite a list, is it not? Now, stop to think - how many of these rules are being carried out in this nation today?
Oh, Eternal Father, since it has pleased our Divine Saviour to reveal to mankind in our present century the power residing in His Holy Face, we now avail ourselves of this Treasure in our great needs. Since our Saviour Himself promised that by offering to You, Oh Eternal Father, the Holy Face disfigured in the Passion, we can procure the settlement of all the affairs of our household, and that nothing whatsoever will be refused us, we now come before Your Throne.
Offering to You, Oh God, this adorable Countenance, disfigured with painful bruises and covered with shame and confusion, we beg through the merits of this Holy Face to obtain these, our most pressing needs. Grant us pardon, Eternal Father, for the worst crimes of our age, which are atheism, blasphemy, and the desecration of Your holy days.
Avert from us destruction by war and its consequences which look through the malice of revolutionary men who have risen up to stamp out religion from the face of the earth through false indoctrination, and who now stand ready to impose their wicked designs with militaristic force. May this offering of the Holy Face of our Saviour before Your throne of majesty obtain for us deliverance from these evils. Amen.
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