Billions for the Bankers
Debts for the
People
The Real Story of the
Money-Control Over
America
by
Sheldon
Emry
This study on money is not copyrighted. It may be reproduced in whole
or in part for the purpose of helping the American people.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control
the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks),
will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake
up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas
Jefferson
Americans, living in what is called
the richest nation on earth, seem always to be short of money. Wives are
working in unprecedented numbers, husbands hope for overtime hours to earn
more, or take part-time jobs evenings and weekends, children look for odd
jobs for spending money, the family debt climbs higher, and psychologists
say one of the biggest causes of family quarrels and breakups is
"arguments over money." Much of this trouble can be traced to our present
"debt-money" system.
Too few Americans realize why Christian
Statesmen wrote into Article I of the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall
have the Power to Coin Money and Regulate the Value Thereof.
They
did this, as we will show, in prayerful hope it would prevent "love of
money" from destroying the Republic they had founded. We shall see how
subversion of Article I has brought on us the "evil" of which God's Word
had warned.
MONEY IS MAN'S ONLY "CREATION"
Economists use the term
"create" when speaking of the process by which money comes into existence.
Now, creation means making something that did not exist before. Lumbermen
make boards from trees, workers build houses from lumber, and factories
manufacture automobiles from metal, glass and other materials. But in all
these they did not "create," they only changed existing materials into a
more usable and, therefore, more valuable form. This is not so with money.
Here, and here alone, man actually "creates" something out of nothing. A
piece of paper of little value is printed so that it is worth a piece of
lumber. With different figures it can buy the automobile or even the
house. Its value has been "created" in the true meaning of the word
MONEY "CREATING" PROFITABLE
As is seen by the
above, money is very cheap to make, and whoever does the "creating" of
money in a nation can make a tremendous profit! Builders work hard to make
a profit of 5% above their cost to build a house.
Auto makers sell their cars for 1% to 2% above the cost of
manufacture and it is considered good business. But money "manufacturers"
have no limit on their profits, since few cents will print a $1 bill or a
$10,000 bill.
That profit is part of our story, but first let us consider
another unique characteristic of the thing - money, the love of which is
the "root of all evil."
ADEQUATE MONEY SUPPLY NEEDED
An adequate supply
of money is indispensable to civilized society. We could forego many other
things, but without money industry would grind to a halt, farms would
become only self-sustaining units, surplus food would disappear, jobs
requiring the work of more than one man or one family would remain undone,
shipping, and large movements of goods would cease, hungry people would
plunder and kill to remain alive, and all government except family or
tribe would cease to function.
An overstatement, you say? Not at all. Money is the blood of
civilized society, the means of all commercial trade except simple barter.
It is the measure and the instrument by which one product is sold and
another purchased. Remove money or even reduce the supply below that which
is necessary to carry on current levels of trade, and the results are
catastrophic. For an example, we need only look at America's Depression of
the early 1930's.
THE BANKERS DEPRESSION OF THE 1930's
In 1930
America did not lack industrial capacity, fertile-farm land, skilled and
willing workers or industrious farm families. It had an extensive and
highly efficient transportation system in railroads, road networks, and
inland and ocean waterways. Communications between regions and localities
were the best in the world, utilizing telephone, teletype, radio, and a
well-operated government mail system. No war had ravaged the cities or the
countryside, no pestilence weakened the population, nor had famine stalked
the land. The United States of America in 1930 lacked only one thing: an
adequate supply of money to carry on trade and commerce. In the early
1930's, Bankers, the only source of new money and credit, deliberately
refused loans to industries, stores and farms.
Payments on existing loans were required however, and money
rapidly disappeared from circulation. Goods were available to be
purchased, jobs waiting to be done, but the lack of money brought the
nation to a standstill. By this simple ploy America was put in a
"depression" and the greedy Bankers took possession of hundreds of
thousands of farms, homes, and business properties. The people were told,
"times are hard," and "money is short." Not understanding the system, they
were cruelly robbed of their earnings, their savings, and their property.
MONEY FOR PEACE? NO! MONEY FOR WAR? YES!
World War II ended the "depression." The same Bankers who in the
early 30's had no loans for peacetime houses, food and clothing, suddenly
had unlimited billions to lend for Army barracks, K-rations and uniforms!
A nation that in 1934 couldn't produce food for sale, suddenly could
produce bombs to send free to Germany and Japan! (More on this riddle
later.)
With the sudd en increase in money, people were hired, farms
sold their produce, factories went to two shifts, mines re-opened, and
"The Great Depression" was over! Some politicians were blamed for it and
others took credit for ending it. The truth is the lack of money (caused
by the Bankers) brought on the depression, and adequate money ended it.
The people were never told that simple truth and in this article we will
endeavor to show how these same Bankers who control our money and credit
have used their control to plunder America and place us in bondage.
POWER TO COIN AND REGULATE MONEY
When we can see
the disastrous results of an artificially created shortage of money, we
can better understand why our Founding Fathers, who understood both money
and God's Laws, insisted on placing the power to "create" money and the
power to control it ONLY in the hands of the Federal Congress. They
believed that ALL citizens should share in the profits of its "creation"
and therefore the national government must be the ONLY creator of money.
They further believed that ALL citizens, of whatever State or Territory,
or station in life would benefit by an adequate and stable currency and
therefore, the national government must also be, by law, the ONLY
controller of the value of money.
Since the Federal Congress was the only legislative body
subject to all the citizens at the ballot box, it was, to their minds, the
only safe depository of so much profit and so much power. They wrote it
out in the simple, but all-inclusive: "Congress shall have the Power to
Coin Money and Regulate the Value Thereof."
HOW THE PEOPLE LOST CONTROL TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Instead of the Constitutional method of creating our money and
putting it into circulation, we now have an entirely unconstitutional
system. This has resulted in almost disastrous conditions, as we shall
see.
Since our money was handled both legally and illegally
before 1913, we shall consider only the years following 1913, since from
that year on, ALL of our money has been created and issued by an illegal
method that will eventually destroy the United States if it is not
changed. Prior to 1913, America was a prosperous, powerful, and growing
nation, at peace with its neighbors and the envy of the world. But - in
December of 1913, Congress, with many members away for the Christmas
holidays, passed what has since been known as the FEDERAL RESERVE ACT.
(For the full story of how this infamous legislation was forced through
our Congress, read Conquest or Consent, by W. B. Vennard). Omitting the
burdensome details, it simply authorized the establishment of a Federal
Reserve Corporation, with a Board of Directors (The Federal Reserve Board)
to run it, and the United States was divided into 12 Federal Reserve
"Districts."
This simple, but terrible, law completely removed from
Congress the right to "create" money or to have any control over its
"creation," and gave that function to the Federal Reserve Corporation.
This was done with appropriate fanfare and propaganda that this would
"remove money from politics" (they didn't say "and therefore from the
people's control") and prevent "Boom and Bust" from hurting our citizens.
The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that the
Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers
and therefore is operated for the financial gain of the bankers over the
people rather than for the good of the people. The word "Federal" was used
only to deceive the people.
MORE DISASTROUS THAN PEARL HARBOR
Since that "day
of infamy," more disastrous to us than Pearl Harbor, the small group of
"privileged" people who lend us "our" money have accrued to themselves all
of the profits of printing our money - and more! Since 1913 they have
"created" tens of billions of dollars in money and credit, which, as their
own personal property, they then lend to our government and our people at
interest. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" had become the
secret policy of our National Government. An example of the process of
"creation" and its conversion to people's "debt" will aid our
understanding.
THEY PRINT IT - WE BORROW IT AND PAY THEM INTEREST
We shall start with the need for money. The Federal Government,
having spent more than it has taken from its citizens in taxes, needs, for
the sake of illustration, $1,000,000,000. Since it does not have the
money, and Congress has given away its authority to "create" it, the
Government must go the "creators" for the $1 billion. But, the Federal
Reserve, a private corporation, doesn't just give its money away! The
Bankers are willing to deliver $1,000,000,000 in money or credit to the
Federal Government in exchange for the Government's agreement to pay it
back - with interest! So Congress authorizes the Treasury Department to
print $1,000,000,000 in U.S. Bonds, which are then delivered to the
Federal Reserve Bankers.
The Federal Reserve then pays the cost of printing the
$1,000,000,000 (about $1,000) and makes the exchange. The Government then
uses the money to pay its obligations. What are the results of this
fantastic transaction? Well, $1 billion in Government bills are paid all
right, but the Government has now indebted the people to the Bankers for
$1 billion on which the people must pay interest! Tens of thousands of
such transactions have taken place since 1913 so that by the 1980's, the
U.S. Government is indebted. to the Bankers for over $1,000,000,000,000
(trillion) on which the people pay over $100 billion a year in interest
alone with no hope of ever paying off the principal. Supposedly our
children and following generations will pay forever and forever!
AND THERE'S MORE
You say, "This is terrible!"
Yes, it is, but we have shown only part of the sordid story. Under this
unholy system, those United States Bonds have now become "assets" of the
Banks in the Reserve System which they then use as "reserves" to "create"
more "credit" to lend. Current "reserve" requirements allow them to use
that $1 billion in bonds to "create" as much as $15 billion in new
"credit" to lend to States, Municipalities, to individuals and businesses.
Added to the original $1 billion, they could have $16 billion of "created
credit" out in loans paying them interest with their only cost being
$1,000 for printing the original $1 billion! Since the U.S. Congress has
not issued Constitutional money since 1863 (over 100 years), in order for
the people to have money to carry on trade and commerce they are forced to
borrow the "created credit" of the Monoply Bankers and pay them
usury-interest!
AND THERE'S STILL MORE
In addition to the vast
wealth drawn to them through this almost unlimited usury, the Bankers who
control the money at the top are able to approve or disapprove large loans
to large and successful corporations to the extent that refusal of a loan
will bring about a reduction in the price that that Corporation's stock
sells for on the market. After depressing the price, the Bankers' agents
buy large blocks of the stock, after which the sometimes multi-million
dollar loan is approved, the stock rises, and is then sold for a profit.
In this manner billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock.
This practice is so refined today that the Federal Reserve Board need only
announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "rediscount
rate" to send stocks up and down as they wish. Using this method since
1913, the Bankers and their agents have purchased secret or open control
of almost every large corporation in America. Using that control, they
then force the corporations to borrow huge sums from their banks so that
corporation earnings are siphoned off in the form of interest to the
banks. This leaves little as actual "profits" which can be paid as
dividends and explains why stock prices are so depressed, while the banks
reap billions in interest from corporate loans. In effect, the bankers get
almost all of the profits, while individual stockholders are left holding
the bag.
The millions of working families of America are now indebted
to the few thousand Banking Families for twice the assessed value of the
entire United States. And these Banking Families obtained that debt
against us for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping!
THE INTEREST AMOUNT IS NEVER CREATED
The only way
new money (which is not true money, but is "credit" representing a debt),
goes into circulation in America is when it is borrowed from Bankers. When
the State and people borrow large sums, we seem to prosper. However, the
Bankers "create" only the amount of the principal of each loan, never the
extra amount needed to pay the interest. Therefore. the new money never
equals the new debt added. The amounts needed to pay the interest on loans
is not "created," and therefore does not exist!
Under this kind of a system, where new debt always exceeds
the new money no matter how much or how little is borrowed, the total debt
increasingly outstrips the amount of money available to pay the debt. The
people can never, ever get out of debt!
An example will show the viciousness of this usury-debt
system with its "built-in" shortage of money.
IF $60,000 IS BORROWED, $255,931.20 MUST BE PAID
BACK
When a citizen goes to a Banker to borrow
$60,000 to purchase a home or a farm, the Bank clerk has the borrower
agree to pay back the loan plus interest. At 14% interest for 30 years,
the Borrower must agree to pay $710.92 per month for a total of
$255,931.20. The clerk then requires the citizen to assign to the Banker
the right of ownership of the property if the Borrower does not make the
required payments. The Bank clerk then gives the Borrower a $60,000 check
or a $60,000 deposit slip crediting the Borrower's checking account with
$60,000.
The Borrower then writes checks to the builder,
subcontractors, etc., who in turn write checks. $60,000 of new "checkbook"
money is thereby added to "money in circulation."
However, and this is the fatal flaw in a usury system, the
only new money created and put into circulation is the amount of the loan,
$60,000. The money to pay the interest is NOT created, and therefore was
NOT added to "money in circulation."
Even so, this Borrower (and those who follow him in
ownership of the property) must earn and TAKE OUT OF CIRCULATION $255,931,
almost $200,000 MORE than he put IN CIRCULATION when he borrowed the
original $60,000! (By the way, it is this interest which cheats a ll
families out of nicer homes. It is not that they can't afford them; it is
because the Banker's usury forces them to pay for 4 homes to get one!)
Every new loan puts the same process in operation. Each
borrower adds a small sum to the total money supply when he borrows, but
the payments on the loan (because of interest) then deduct a much LARGER
sum from the total money supply.
There is therefore no way all debtors can pay off the
money-lenders. As they pay the principal and interest, the money in
circulation disappears. All they can do is struggle against each other,
borrowing more and more from the money-lenders each generation. The
money-lenders (Bankers), who produce nothing of value, slowly, then more
rapidly, gain a death grip on the land, buildings, and present and future
earnings of the whole working population. Proverbs 22:7 has come to pass
in America. The borrowers have become the servants of the lenders. No
wonder God Almighty forbids interest on loans.
SMALL LOANS DO THE SAME THING
If you haven't
quite grasped the impact of the above, let us consider a small auto loan
for 3 years at 18% interest. Step 1: Citizen borrows $5,000 and pays it
into circulation (it goes to the dealer, factory, miner, etc.) and signs a
note agreeing to pay the Banker $6,500. Step 2: Citizen pays $180 per
month of his earnings to the Banker. In 3 years he will take OUT of
circulation $1,500 more than he put IN circulation.
Every loan of Banker "created" money (credit) causes the
same thing to happen. Since this has happened millions of times since 1913
(and continues today), you can see why America has gone from a prosperous,
debt-free nation to a debt-ridden nation where practically every home,
farm and business is paying usury-tribute to some Banker. The
usury-tribute to the Bankers on personal, local, State and Federal debt
totals more than the combined earnings of 25% of the working people. Soon
it will be 50% and continue up.
THIS IS WHY BANKERS PROSPER IN GOOD TIMES OR BAD
In the millions of transactions made each year like those above,
little actual currency changes hands, nor is it necessary that it do so.
95% of all "cash" transactions in the U.S. are by check, so the Banker is
perfectly safe in "creating" that so-called "loan" by writing the check or
deposit slip, not against actual money, but AGAINST YOUR PROMISE TO PAY IT
BACK! The cost to him is paper, ink and a few dollars in salaries and
office costs for each transaction. It is "check-kiting" on an enormous
scale. The profits increase rapidly, year after year, as shown below.
These are a few taken from Arizona newspapers in January,
1979.
Valley Bank posts 49% gain in profits
Gains of 49 percent in net income and 51 percent in
operating income were posted last year by Valley National Bank.
Those gains brought net income to $33,969,-000' in the year
ended Dec..31 and operating income to $34,459.000. The year before those
totals were $22,836.000 and $22,807,000 respectively.
Bank's profits rise 21%
Arizona Bank announced on Monday it had achieved a 21.2
percent increase in net income in 1978 over 1977. On the basis of
operating income, excluding the 1977 sale of the Arizona Bank Building for
$l,336,369, the bank said the increase was 43.9 percent.
Tostenrud said loans and deposits increased in the last
year: Deposits 18.8 percent to $1.353 billion and loans 21.9 percent to
$951 million.
THE COST TO YOU?
EVENTUALLY,
EVERYTHING!
In 1910 the U.S. Federal debt was only $1
billion, or $12.40 per citizen. State and local debts were practically
non-existent.
By 1920, after only 6 years of Federal Reserve shenanigans,
the Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $226 per person.
In 1960 the Federal debt reached $284 billion, or $1,575 per
citizen and State and local debts were mushrooming.
By 1981 the Federal debt passed $1 trillion and was growing
exponentially as the Banker's tripled the interest rates. State and local
debts are now MORE than the Federal, and with business and personal debts
totaled over $6 trillion, 3 times the value of all land and buildings in
America.
If we signed over to the money-leaders all of America we
would still owe them 2 more Americas (plus their usury, of course!)
However, they are too cunning to take title to everything.
They will instead leave you with some "illusion of ownership" so you and
your children will continue to work and pay the Ban kers more of your
earnings on ever-increasing debts. The "establishment" has captured our
people with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they
had marched in with a uniformed army.
FOR THE GAMBLERS AMONG MY READERS
To grasp the
truth that periodic withdrawal of money through interest payments will
inexorably transfer all wealth in the nation to the receiver of interest,
imagine yourself in a poker or dice game where everyone must buy the chips
(the medium of exchange) from a "banker" who does not risk chips in the
game, but watches the table and every hour reaches in and takes 10% to 15%
of all the chips on the table. As the game goes on, the amount of chips in
the possession of each player will go up and down with his "luck."
However, the TOTAL number of chips available to play the
game (carry on trade and business) will decrease rapidly.
The game will get low on chips, and some will run out. If
they want to continue to play, they must buy or borrow them from the
"banker." The "banker" will sell (lend) them ONLY if the player signs a
"mortgage" agreeing to give the "banker" some real property (car, home,
farm, business, etc.) if he cannot make periodic payments to pay back all
of the chips plus some EXTRA ones (interest). The payments must be made on
time, whether he wins (makes a profit) or not.
It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play,
eventually the "banker" will end up with all of his original chips back,
and except for the very best players, the rest, if they stay in long
enough, will lose to the "banker" their homes, their farms, their
businesses, perhaps even their cars, watches, rings, and the shirts off
their backs!
Our real-life situation is MUCH WORSE than any poker game.
In a poker game none is forced to go into debt, and anyone can quit at any
time and keep whatever he still has. But in real life, even if we borrow
little ourselves from the Bankers, the local, State, and Federal
governments borrow billions in our name, squander it, then confiscate our
earnings from us and pay it back to the Bankers with interest. We are
forced to play the game, and none can leave except by death. We pay as
long as we live, and our children pay after we die. If we cannot pay, the
same government sends the police to take our property and give it to the
Bankers. The Bankers risk nothing in the game; they just collect their
percentage and "win it all." In Las Vegas and at other gambling centers,
all games are "rigged" to pay the owner a percentage, and they rake in
millions. The Federal Reserve Bankers' "game" is also rigged, and it pays
off in billions!
In recent years Bankers added real "cards" to their 'game.
"Credit" cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade.
Actually, they are ingenious devices by which Bankers collect 2% to 5% of
every retail sale from the seller and 18% interest from buyers. A real
"stacked" deck!
YES, IT'S POLITICAL, TOO!
Democrat, Republican,
and Independent voters who have wondered why politicians always spend more
tax money than they take in should now see the reason. When they begin to
study our "debt-money" system, they soon realize that these politicians
are not the agents of the people but are the agents of the Bankers, for
whom they plan ways to place the people further-in debt. It takes only a
little imagination to see that if Congress had been "creating," and
spending or issuing into circulation the necessary increase in the money
supply, THERE WOULD BE NO NATIONAL DEBT, and the over $4 Trillion of other
debts would be practically non-existent. Since there would be no ORIGINAL
cost of money except printing, and no CONTINUING costs such as interest,
Federal taxes would be almost nil. Money, once in circulation, would
remain their and go on serving its purpose as a medium of exchange for
generation after generation and century after century, just as coins do
now, with NO payments to the Bankers whatever!
MOUNTING DEBTS AND WARS
But instead of peace and
debt-free prosperity, we have ever-mounting debt and periodic wars. We as
people are now ruled by a system of Banker-owned Mammon that has usurped
the mantle of government, disguised itself as our legitimate government,
and set about to pauperize and control our people. Itis now a centralized,
all-powerful political apparatus whose main purposes are promoting war,
spending the peoples' money, and propagandizing to perpetuate itself in
power. Our two large political parties have become its servants, the
various departments of government its spending agencies, and the Internal
Revenue its collection agency.
Unknown to the people, it operates in close cooperation with
similar apparatuses in other nations. which are also disguised as
"governments." Some, we are told, are friends. Some, we are told, are
enemies. "Enemies" are built up through international manipulations and
used to frighten the American people into going billions of dollars more
into debt to the Bankers for "military preparedness," "foreign aid to stop
communism," "minority rights," etc. Citizens, deliberately confused by
brainwashing propaganda, watch helplessly while our politicians give our
food, goods, and money to Banker-controlled alien governments under the
guise of "better relations" and "easing tensions." Our Banker-controlled
government takes our finest and bravest sons and sends them into foreign
wars with obsolete equipment and inadequate training, where tens of
thousands are murdered, and hundreds of thousands are crippled. Other
thousands are morally corrupted, addicted to drugs, and infected with
venereal and other diseases, which they bring back to the United States.
When the "war" is over, we have gained nothing, but we are scores of
billions of dollars more in debt to the Bankers, which was the reason for
the "war" in the first place!
AND THERE'S MORE
The profits from these massive
debts have been used to erect a complete and almost hidden economic and
political colossus over our nation. They keep telling us they are trying
to do us "good," when in truth they work to bring harm and injury to our
people. These would-be despots know it is easier to control and rob an
ill, poorly-educated and confused people than it is a healthy and
intelligent population, so they deliberately prevent real cures for
diseases, they degrade our educational systems, and they stir up social
and racial unrest. For the same reason they favor drug use, alcohol,
racial intermarriage, sexual promiscuity, abortion, pornography, and
crime. Everything which debilitates the minds and bodies of the people is
secretly encouraged, as it makes the people less able to oppose them or
even to understand what is being done to them.
Family, morals, love of Country, the Christian religion, all
that is honorable is being swept away, while they try to build their new,
subservient man. Our new "rulers" are trying to change our whole racial,
social, religious, and political order, but they will not change the
debt-money economic system by which they rob and rule. Our people have
become tenants and "debt-slaves" to the Bankers and their agents in the
land our fathers conquered. It is conquest through the most gigantic fraud
and swindle in the history of mankind. And we remind you again: The key to
their wealth and power over us is their ability to create "money" out of
nothing and lend it to us at interest. If they had not been allowed to do
that, they would never have gained secret control of our nation. How true
Solomon's words are: "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is
servant to the lender" (Proverbs 22:7).
God Almighty warned in the Bible that one of the curses
which would come upon His People for disobeying His Laws was: The stranger
that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come
down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he
shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail [Deut. 28: 44-45].
Most of the owners of the largest banks in America are of
Eastern European ancestry and connected with the Rothschild European
banks. Has that warning come to fruition in America?
Let us now consider the correct method of providing the
medium of exchange (money) needed by our people.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL WAY - EVERY CITIZEN A STOCKHOLDER
If we would have used the Constitutional way of "creating" the
money needed in the nation, the Federal Congress would spend most of its
time and study on the issuance and control of an adequate supply of stable
money for the people. If an increase of population and production required
an increase in the medium of exchange, Congress would authorize the
"coining," (i.e., printing) of the determined amount. Some could be used
to pay current legitimate expenses of the Federal Government, with the
balance paid directly to the citizens. Records for payment would be
similar to Social Security records, except a citizen would be recorded at
birth, instead of when he first goes to work. Each person on the records
as of the date of the Congressional authorization would receive an equal
amount just as if he were a stockholder holding one' share. Just think - a
payment of only $20 to each citizen would put $4 billion of debt-free and
interest-free money into circulation.
Such a suggestion always scares the Bankers. Their
propagandists will immediately cry, "printing press money." and warn that
it would soon be "worthless" and would "cause inflation."
The truth is their immense usury chases on their "created"
credit (our debt) is the sole cause of "inflation." All prices on all
industry, trade and labor must be raised periodically to pay the ever
increasing usury charges. That is the ONLY cause of higher prices, and the
money-changers spend millions in propaganda to keep you from realizing
that.
The money-creators (Bankers) know that if we ever tried a
Constitutional issue of debt-free, interest-free currency, even a limited
issue, the benefits would be apparent .immediately. That they must
prevent. Abraham Lincoln was the last President to issue such debt-free
and interest-free currency (in 1863) and he was assassinated shortly
thereafter.
NO BANKER'S PLUNDER
Under a Constitutional system
no private banks would exist to rob the people. Government banks under the
control of the people's representatives would issue and control all money
and credit. They would issue not only actual currency, b ut could lend
limited credit at no interest for the purchase of capital goods, such as
homes. A $60,000 loan would require only $60,000 repayment, not $255,931
as it is now. Everyone who supplied materials and labor for the home would
get paid just as they do today, but the Bankers would NOT get
$195,931inusury, AND THAT IS WHY THEY RIDICULE AND DESTROY ANYONE
SUGGESTING GOVERNMENT (CITIZENS') MONEY WITHOUT INTEREST AND WITHOUT
DEBT.
History tells us of debt-free and interest-free money issued
by governments. The American colonies did it in the 1700's and their
wealth soon rivaled England and brought restrictions from Parliament,
which led to the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln did it in 1863 to help
finance the Civil War. He was later assassinated by an agent of the
Rothschild Bank. No debt-free or interest-free money has been issued in
America since then. Several Arab nations issue interest-free loans to
their citizens today. The Saracen Empire for bad interest on money for
1,000 years, and its wealth outshone even Saxon Europe. Mandarin China
issued its own money, interest-free and debt-free, and historians and
collectors of art today consider those centuries to be China's time of
greatest wealth, culture and peace.
Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935
and on, accounting for its startling rise from the depression to a world
power in 5 years. Germany financed its entire government and war operation
from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the whole
Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German power over Europe and
bring Europe back under the heel of the Bankers. Such history of money
does not even appear in the textbooks of public (government) schools
today.
Issuing money which doesn't have to be paid back in interest
leaves the money available to use in the exchange of goods and services
and its only continuing cost is replacement as the paper wears out. Money
is the paper ticket by which such transfers are made and should always be
in sufficient quantity to transfer all possible production of the nation
to ultimate consumers.
It is as ridiculous for a nation to say to its citizens,
"You must consume less because we are short of money," as it would be for
an Airline to say "Our p1anes are flying, but we can't take you because we
are short of tickets."
STABLE MONEY
Money, issued in such a way, would
derive its value in exchange from the fact that it had come from the
highest legal source in the nation and would be declared to be legal to
pay all public and private debts. Issued by a sovereign nation, not in
danger of collapse, it would need no gold or silver or other so-called
"precious" metals to back it. As history shows, the stability and
responsibility of the government issuing it is the deciding factor in the
acceptance of that government's currency - not gold, silver, or iron
buried in some hole in the ground. Proof is America's currency today. Our
gold and silver are practically gone, but our currency is accepted. But if
the government was about to collapse, our currency would be worthless.
Also, money issued through the peoples' legitimate government would not be
under the control of a privately owned corporation whose individual owners
benefit by causing the money amount and value to fluctuate and the people
to go into debt.
Under the present debt-usury system, the extra burden of
usury forces workers and businesses to demand more money for the work and
goods to pay their ever-increasing debts and taxes. This increase in
prices and wages is called "inflation." Bankers, politicians and
"economists" blame it on everything but the real cause, which is the usury
levied on money and debt by the Bankers. This "inflation" benefits the
money-lenders, since it wipes out savings of one generation so they cannot
finance or help the next generation, who must then borrow from the
money-lenders, and pay a large part of their life's labor to the usurer.
With an adequate supply of interest-free money, little
borrowing would be required and prices would be established by people and
goods, not by debts and usury.
CITIZEN CONTROL
If the Federal Congress failed to
act, or acted wrongly, in the supply of money, the citizens would use the
ballot or recall petition to replace those who prevented correct action
with others whom the people believe would pursue a better money policy.
Since the creation of money and its issuance in sufficient quantity would
be one of the few functions of Congress, the voter could decide on a
candidate by his stand on money, instead of the hundreds of lesser, and
deliberately confusing, subjects which are presented to us today. And
since money is, and would remain, a national function, local differences
or local factions would not be able to sway the people from the nation's
(citizens') interest. All other problems, except the nation's defense,
would be taken care of in the State, County, or City governments where
they are best handled and most easily corrected.
An adequate national defense would be provided by the same
citizen-controlled Congress, and there would be no Bankers behind the
scenes, bribing politicians to give $200 billion of American military
equipment to other nations, disarming us, while alien nations prepare to
attack and invade the United States of America.
A DEBT-FREE AMERICA
With debt-free and
interest-free money, there would be no high and confiscatory taxation, our
homes would be mortgage free with no $10,000-a-year payments to the
Bankers, nor would they get $1,000 to $2,500 per year from every
automobile on our roads. We would need no "easy payment" plans,
"revolving" charge accounts, loans to pay medical or hospital bills, loans
to pay taxes, loans to pay for burials, loans to pay loans, nor any of the
thousand and one usury-bearing loans which now suck the life-blood of
American families. There would be no unemployment, divorces caused by
debt, destitute old people, or mounting crime, and even the so-called
"deprived" classes would be deprived of neither job nor money to buy the
necessities of life.
Criminals could not become politicians, nor would
politicians become criminals in the pay of the Money-lenders. Our
officials, at all government levels, would be working for the people
instead of devising means to spend more money to place us further in debt
to the Bankers. We would get out of the entangling foreign alliances that
have engulfed us in four major wars and scores of minor wars since the
Federal Reserve Act was passed, alliances which are now used to prevent
America from preparing her own defense in the face of mounting danger from
alien powers.
A debt-free America would mean mothers would not have to
work. With mother at home, juvenile delinquency would decrease rapidly.
The elimination of the usury and debt would be the equivalent of a 50%
raise in the purchasing power of every worker. With this cancellation of
all debts, the return to the people of all the property and wealth the
parasitic Bankers and their quasi-legal agents have stolen by usury and
fraud, and the ending of their theft of $300 Billion (or more) every year
from the people, America would be prosperous and powerful beyond the
wildest dreams of its citizens today. And we would be at peace! (For a
Bible example of cancellation of debts to money lenders and restoration of
property and money to the people, read Nehemiah 5: 1-13.)
WHY YOU HAVEN'T KNOWN
We realize this small, and
necessarily incomplete, article on money may be charged with
oversimplification. Some may say that if it is that simple the people
would have known about it, and it could not have happened. But this
MONEY-LENDERS' consPIRACY is as old as Babyl on, and even in America it
dates far back before the year 1913. Actually, 1913 may be considered the
year in which their previous plans came to fruition, and the way opened
for complete economic conquest of our people. The consPIRACY is old enough
in America so that its agents have been, for many years, in positions such
as newspaper publishers, editors, columnists, church ministers, university
presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, movie
makers, radio and TV commentators, politicians from school board members
to U.S. presidents, and many others.
CONTROLLED NEWS AND INFORMATION
These agents
control the information available to our people. They manipulate public
opinion, elect whom they will locally and nationally, and never expose the
crooked money system. They promote school bonds, municipal bonds,
expensive and detrimental farm programs, "urban renewal," foreign aid, and
many other schemes which will put the people more into debt to the
Bankers. Thoughtful citizens wonder why billions are spent on one program
and billions on another which may duplicate it or even nullify it, such as
paying some farmers not to raise crops, while at the same time building
dams or canals to irrigate more farm land. Crazy or stupid? Neither. The
goal is more debt. Thousand of government-sponsored ways to waste money go
on continually. Most make no sense, but they are never exposed for what
they really are, builders of "billions for the bankers and debts for the
people."
So-called "economic experts" write syndicated columns in
hundreds of newspapers, craftily designed to prevent the people from
learning the simple truth about our money system. Commentators on radio
and TV, preachers, educators, and politicians blame the people as
wasteful, lazy, or, spend-thrift, and blame the workers, and consumers for
the increase in debts and the inflation of prices, when they know the
cause is the debt-money system itself. Our people are literally drowned in
charges and counter-charges designed to confuse them and keep them from
understanding the unconstitutional and evil money-system that is so
efficiently and silently robbing the farmers, the workers, and the
businessmen of the fruits of their labors and of their freedoms.
When some few Patriotic people or organizations who know the
truth begin to expose them or try to stop any of their mad schemes, they
are ridiculed and smeared as "right-wing extremists," "super-patriots,"
"ultra-rightists," "bigots," "racists," even "fascists" and
"anti-Semites." Any name is used which will cause them to shut up or will
at least stop other people from listening to the warning they are giving.
Articles and books such as you are now reading are kept out of schools,
libraries, and book stores.
Some, who are especially vocal in their exposure of the
treason against our people, are harassed by government agencies such as
the EPA, OSHA, the IRS, and others, causing them financial loss or
bankruptcy. Using the above methods, they have been completely successful
in preventing most Americans from learning the things you have read in
this pamphlet. However, in spite of their control of information, they
realize many citizens are learning the truth. Therefore, to prevent
violence or armed resistance to their plunder of America, they plan to
register all firearms and eventually to disarm all citizens. They have to
eliminate most guns, except those in the hands of their government police
and army.
TELL THE PEOPLE
The "almost hidden" conspirators
in politics, religion, education, entertainment, and the news media are
working for a Banker-owned United States in a Banker-owned world under a
Banker-owned World Governments!
Love of Country, compassion for your Race, and concern for
your children should make you deeply interested in this, America's
greatest problem, for our generation has not suffered under the "yoke" as
the coming generations will. Usury and taxes will continue to take a
larger and larger part of the annual earnings of the people and put them
into the pockets of the Bankers and their political Agents. Increasing
"government" regulations will prevent citizen protest and opposition to
their control. Is it possible that your grandchildren will own neither
home nor car', but will live in "government-owned" apartments and ride to
work in "government-owned" buses (both paying usury to the Bankers), AND
BE ALLOWED TO KEEP JUST ENOUGH OF THEIR EARNINGS TO BUY A MINIMUM OF FOOD
AND CLOTHING while their Rulers wallow in luxury? In Asia and eastern
Europe it is called "communism;" in America it is called "Democracy" and
"Capitalism."
America will not shake off her Banker-controlled
dictatorship as long as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers.
International financiers, who control most of the governments of the
nations, and most sources of information, seem to have us completely
within their grasp. They are afraid of only one thing: an awakened
Patriotic Citizenry, armed with the truth, and with a trust, in Almighty
God for deliverance. This pamphle t has given you the truth about their
iniquitous system. What you do with it is in your hands, as in the hands
of Divine Providence. "The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth
his trust in the Lord shall be safe (Proverbs 29: 25).
May Jesus Christ both enlighten and have mercy on America
AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM?
The Federal
Reserve has never been audited by the government since it took over our
money and credit in 1913. In 1975 a bill, H.R. 4316, to require an audit
was introduced in Congress.
During the April, 1975 hearings, this author submitted a
statement favoring the audit, as did many others. Due to pressure from the
money controllers, it was not passed. No audit of the Fed has ever been
made.
WHY HAVEN'T THEY TOLD YOU?
Why haven't they told
you about this scandal - the greatest fraud in history which has caused
Americans and others to spill oceans of blood, pay trillions of dollars
interest on fraudulent loans and burden themselves with unnecessary taxes?
Who are "they"? "They" are all of the politicians of the two
old parties and elected officials. All "educational" groups like the
League of Women Voters, the Heritage Foundation and the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU). All news services, such as the Associated Press
and the United Press International. All daily newspapers, including the
New York "Times" and Los Angeles "Times." All weekly "news" magazines,
such as "Time" and "Newsweek." All economics and history professors at all
colleges and universities. All financial newsletter publishers. All labor
leaders. All televangelists, your local minister, priest or rabbi. All of
the above and more are hiding the truth from you.
WHAT SOME FAMOUS MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT THE MONEY QUESTION
PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON: "The system of banking [is] a
blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in
their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are
more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending
money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large
scale."
PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD: "Whoever controls the volumn
of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce".
CONGRESSMAN LOUIST McFADDEN: "The Federal Reserve(Banks)
are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is
not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation
is run by the International Bankers".
HORACE GREELEY: "While boasting of our noble deeds were
careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we
have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is
not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
THOMAS A. EDISON: "People who will not turn a shovel full
of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of
material, will collect more money from the United States than will the
People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the
terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can
issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the
bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and
the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount
of the bond and an addi- tional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort
provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some
useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot
issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and
the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no
good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation
when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and
submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the
fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan".
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON: "A great industrial Nationis
controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated.
The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few
men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government
of free opinion no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of
dominant men". (Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to
friends that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country".
He referred to the Federal Reserve Act passed during his Presidency.)
SIR JOSIAH STAMP,(President of the Bank of England in the
1920's, the second richest man in Britain): "Banking wa s conceived in
iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from
them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of
the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However,
take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will
disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and
better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers
and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create
deposits".
MAJOR L .L. B. ANGUS: "The modern Banking system
manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most
astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in
fact inflate, mint and unmint the modern ledger-entry currency".
RALPH M. HAWTREY (Former Secretary of the British
Treasury): "Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of
payment out of nothing".
ROBERTH HEMPHILL (Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank,
Atlanta, Ga.): "This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent
on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we
are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent
money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic
absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is.
It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and
reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may
collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very
soon".