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27

Free issue of MICHAEL

In the previous article, we drew a sketch of the

dominion exercised by international finance upon

the civilization of two continents over the last two

hundred and fifty years. We pointed out Lincoln’s

remarkable part in liberating America from a yoke

whose horror he fully understood. At no other time

in the past did the internationalists find their mon-

opoly so directly threatened. Several contemporary

documents inform us of their activities as well as of

the thoughts that animated them.

Money created by Abraham Lincoln

It is a known fact that Lincoln issued money at

three different occasions without going through

the banks and without signing any debentures

(bonds) for a total of $450 millions. These were

the greenbacks of which some $346 millions

remained in circulation some 15 years later after

much litigation. This was the first time the United

States Government ever executed the mandate

given it by the Constitution: to coin money and

regulate its value, thus removing the burden

imposed by the internationalists since the begin-

ning of the Republic.

This could be duplicated by other countries

and signify the end of their dominion by pri-

vate profiteers. The intervention therefore came

rapidly. The American Bankers Association sent a

circular letter to all their members that read:

“Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all in your power

to sustain such prominent daily and weekly

newspapers... as will oppose the greenback issue

of paper money and that you will also withhold

patronage from all applicants who are not willing

to oppose the government issue of money.”

The United States was in the midst of Civil War,

or the Secession War (1861-1865). The people’s

sufferings in no way touched the internationalists

who had decided three years previously that a war

must be fomented to weaken the United States

so as to better establish their monopolies. Their

greatest set-back was that during this very war

the leader of the country they wished to dominate

dared to oppose their financial power. To Lincoln’s

bravery and honesty they would have to oppose a

campaign of influence upon the leaders of Amer-

ican financial circles and upon the President’s

close circle.

Who are the REAL rulers of the world?

by

Louis Even

(Part II)

The infamous Hazard circular signed in 1862

by a group of the London-based internationalists,

favored the abolition of slavery only to replace it

by a more subtle form of slavery. It was only fitting

that a circular in favor of abolitionism came from

a London group since the internationalists had

decided that the London group would support the

North financially, while the group from Paris would

give their financial support to the South. The war

must last long enough to weaken the American

Nation and to shackle it.

The Hazard circular was thus sent to all Amer-

ican bankers, as well as to all senators and mem-

bers of Congress: “Slavery is likely to be abolished

by the war power and chattel slavery destroyed.

This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for

slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with

it the care of the laborers, while the European plan,

led by England, is that capital (money lenders) shall

control labor by controlling wages.” (Banishing

purchasing power at will and making the laborers

victims of unemployment.)

“This can be done by controlling the money.

The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made

out of the war, must be used as a measure to con-

trol the volume of money. To accomplish this the

bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are

now waiting to get the Secretary of the Treasury to

make this recommendation to Congress.

“ It will not do to allow the ‘greenback,’ as it is

called, to circulate as money, any length of time,

for we cannot control them. But we can control the

bonds, and through them the bank issue.”

Ten years later, America saw chattel slavery

replaced by financial dictatorship, and Horace

Greeley could write in 1872: “We have strucken

the shackles from four million human beings and

brought all laborers to a common level, not so

much by the elevation of the former slaves as by

practically reducing the whole working popula-

tion, white and black, to a condition of serfdom.

While boasting of our noble deeds, we are care-

ful to conceal the ugly fact that by our 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.”

A contemporary statesman, chancellor Bismark

of Germany, had both the position and knowledge

to understand better than most what was taking

place. His revelation to a German, Conrad Siem,

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