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Free issue of MICHAEL

“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for

Christendom, wrote German leader Bismarck.

There was no man in the United States great

enough to wear his boots, and ... (money cre-

ators) went anew to grab the riches of the

world. I fear that foreign bankers with their

craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely con-

trol the exuberant riches of America, and use

it to systematically corrupt modem civilization.

They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of

Christendom into wars and chaos in order that

the earth should become their inheritance.”

Gold and silver were for a long time two

metals used simultaneously for coinage. In 1818,

England demonetized silver. Then, as it had

control of gold, but other countries had silver

mines, its financiers did everything possible to

demonetize silver everywhere and establish the

exclusive reign of gold. In 1873 they attacked the

currency of America. We are often told that gold

is, by tradition, the only real currency. From 1789

to 1873 the two metals had the same prestige

in the United States, and the gold standard was

established in the U.S. in 1900

only

. (And was

abolished by President Nixon in 1971.)

Ernest Seyd, agent of High Finance

Let us introduce another figure, who did not

fall under the pistol of a killer. He is one of those

lackeys that London’s finance delegates to the

American continent under the guise of financial

expertise whenever there is a major chain to

forge.

Ernest Seyd was

the agent of inter-

national finance to get

the United States to

pass a bill to demonet-

ize silver and put

America under the rule

of the real (financial)

rulers of the world.

Seyd was an advisor

to the Bank of England,

at least so he said.

Let him tell briefly his

achievement of 1873:

“I went to America in the winter of 1872-73,

authorized to secure, if I could, a bill demonetiz-

ing silver. It was to the interest of those I repre-

sented — the governors of the Bank of England

— to have it done. I took with me £100,000 ster-

ling, with instructions that if it was not sufficient

to accomplish the object to draw for another

£100,000, or as much more as was necessary.

German bankers were also interested in having

the bill passed. I saw the committee of the House

and Senate and paid the money and stayed in

America until I knew the measure was safe.”

The law was signed in the beginning of 1873

by President Grant, who admitted eight months

later that he did not understand the text he had

signed into law. Several Congressmen left written

statements confessing the same ignorance. Seyd

knew better, and he said a year later to Senator

Luckenbach:

“Your people will not now comprehend the

far-reaching extent of that measure — but they

will in after years.”

The Congressional Record of April, 1872

described Seyd as a benefactor: “Emest Seyd, of

London, a distinguished writer and bullionist, who

is now here, has given great attention to the sub-

ject of mint and coinage. After having examined

the first draft of the bill, he made sensible sugges-

tions which the Committee adopted and embod-

ied in the bill.”

Depression trigerred by the bankers

The result of the demonetization of silver was

such a curtailment in the volume of money in the

nation that a terrible depression, lasting several

years, was suffered. Senator Ferry of Michigan

made the following statement regarding the

panic of 1873: “Millions of people were reduced

from good circumstances to penury, or covered

with debt, beneath which burden their backs

must bend until it is unloaded at the grave, where

an innocent posterity must take it up and bear it

on.”

For sure the victims of the Depression must

have been told by these financiers that this result

was the punishment for their sins or their extrava-

gances. Ernest Seyd knew the truth behind this

depression.

Let us finally mention, among this multitude

of bankers, the intervention of Paul Warburg, an

international financier of London, in the prepara-

tion of the Federal reserve Act of 1913, for the

establishment of an American system of cen-

tral banks, serving the interests of International

Finance.

Financiers at top levels do not slumber.

Before the “rumbling” revolt of a world awaken-

ing to reality, they made every effort to defend

Ernest Seyd