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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,
u