The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

fence in manipulating the financial laws
of England, now began the same kind
of Operations" in the United States.
They established an agent in Belmont,
who went at once into politics. The
result was that under the false pretense
of Strengthening the public credit"
the five-twenty bonds trebled in value
to the Shylock purchasers. Senator Voor-
hees put the lowest cost to the people
Of this swindle at five hundred millions
of dollars. Another senator, Garrett
Davis, put it at seven hundred and fifty
millions.
1t was in the interests of this enormous
piece of legalized larceny that the Roths-
child forces started their since famous
New York organ, the Imperialist, which
openly advocated the overthrow of dem
Ocratic institutions, and the establish
ment of Imperialism as a sword and
shield for capital, but which finally re-
tired from view with the statement that
owing to the prejudice of the people and
their love for the false idol the consti>
tuition" the imperialists could accomplish
their designs better through the repub>
lican party
Having pocketed the spoils of the
'credit-stengthening act" the next move
Of the Rothschild raiders was to force
the immediate refunding of the whole
national debt in "coin"-which was done
in 1870 Then, the only further way to
Increase the value of bonds and money
ut the expense of all other property, was
to unload and demonetize a part Of the
coin" in which our securities were at
last Enthusiastically payable, and to make
the small remainder of that coin the
Standard of values. Decentralization was
promptly planned and stealthily
achieved.
1t is now positively known that ou1
fraudulent mint act of 1872 in its
whole general outline, method and pur-
pose, was an importation from Eng
land. Thanks to the researches of Alex
ander Del Mar into the records of the
British parliament the facts have been
unearthed and settled The summary is
this:
When the English minis were closed
to silver in 1916, the power to reopen
them at any time was left preroga-
tive of the crown, under advice of the
prlvy council. This power remained in
the sovereign of Great Britain until Feb.
10, 1870. A bill was then introduced in
the house Of commons by Robert Lowe
to consolidate and amend the, law relat-
Ing to the coinage and her majesty's
mint" Mr.. Lowe gave assurance that
the bill was not to "alter" but to s'per-
feet" existing law. In the house of
lordS the marquis Of LansdOwne de-
clared that mo innovation of any kind
bill" Lord Kinnaird complained that it
had not received due consideration" as
1t had passed through the other house
after midnight, and amendments were
Ahei OuuSCu NY LltulUeIS WIZ represented
establishments interested in the ques-
tlon.' The upshot was that this bill,
by leaving out one section Of the former
law and changing another section, took
away the royal power to remonetize sill
yer. 1t also took away from the crown
the right to make foreign coins like the
India rupee, legal tender within a
fortnight of it's enactment" says Mr.. Del
Mar, 'this mint bill, passed by false pre-
lenses in England, was in the hands of
John Jay Knox, our comptroller of the
currency at Washington. There the Eng
1sh mint fraud of 1870 served as model
OF the United States mint fraud, begun
at the same time but consummated in
1873"
The injury Of decentralization inflicted
upon the world by the Jewish monarch
OF England is stupendous beyond cal
culat1on. But a British statistician-not
to notice any ''crazy American silver1te"
has approximately summed it up. In
1893 J. Barr Robertson, one OF the most
distinguished living authorities on the
statistics of money, read a paper before
the British Society Of Arts, In which.