The Bankers Manifesto of 1892
Revealed by US Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, SR from Minnesota before the
US Congress sometime during his term of office between the years of 1907 and
1917 to warn the citizens. "We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and
guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs
of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently
yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can
declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance. The Farmers
Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be
carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to
control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them. At the coming
Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must attend and direct its
movement, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as
may require force to overcome. This at the present time would be premature. We
are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every
possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation. The courts
must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages
foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When through the process of the law, the
common people have lost their homes; they will be more tractable and easily
governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a
central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers.
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. History repeats
itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who
are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this,
the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism. The question of
tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic
Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to
view through the Republican Party. By thus dividing voters, we can get them to
expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except
as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all
that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished."
THE BANKERS' MANIFESTO OF 1934 From New American, February 1934. "Capital
must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation.
Debts must be collected, and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as
possible. When through a process of law, the common people have lost their
homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm
of the law applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading
financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is
well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an IMPERIALISM of
capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, we can get them to expend
their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as
teachers of the common herd. Thus, by discrete action we can secure for
ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished."
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