The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-20

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! was deeply interested in the article
OF Romesh Dutt and the editorial of
your issue OF December s on the sub
Ject, Shall Israel Rule the World?"
The public generally ought to be en-
li%ghtened on that subject; it is one of
intense interest to the whole world.
Only a few, it seems, are aware of the
apostasy of the world on the subject of
interest on money. It is not generally
known by the people that until the
middle Of the sixteenth century the
christian church and world, east and
west, would no more permit the talk
ing of interest on money, or anything
else. than the commission of any other
crime against the ten commandments
level their denunciations. This is as
we'll attested as any fact in history.
Until then interest On money was us
ury without regard to rate. 1t was
not allowed by the common law of
England. According to the Mosaic
law the Jew was not permitted to take
interest from a Jew, but he might of
the stranger Or gentle. England and
Holland led off in the a%postasy to le-
gaiize usury, to win the Jew money
lenders to their side Of the political
contest between Protestant and Catho-
lie Europe. In that it succeeded. 1t
put the Jew money lender to the front
IN political Professionalism in those
countries. Since then the apostasy
mas become almost universal. Even
the Roman Catholic church, that for a
long lime resisted it, now seems to &C
qulesce with the rest Of the world.
however, in an encycllcal letter, May
10, 1891, the present pope said. m
speaking Of the measures that Cypress
the working classes of the world:
The evil has been increased by rapa-
clous usury, which more than once
condemned by the church, is never
theless, under different forms, but
with the same gilt, practiced by avari-
clous and grasping men," AS a Latin
and Bible scholar he undoubtedly used
the word "usury" as meaning the same
as interest, as 1t does in all early
church and Christian literature. This
apostasy now begins to bear fruit; the
Jew money power everywhere farms
public and private debt and uses its
vast resources to corrupt the officials
and lawmakers Of the nations on
these subjects.
In 1884 the bank CT England was
chartered, to enable the money lenders
to reap two interests at the same time
on the same principal. 1t was pro-
vlded that it should hold bonds of the
nation to secure and on which to base
us issues of notes. It's stockholders
thus draw interest on the bonds of
the nation exempt from taxation and
at the same time loan the notes of the
Dank at interest based on and secured
by the bond. That is, two interests at
the same time on the same principal
and capital, the nations bond and the
banks note. This was seen bv the
money lenders to be such a fine
scheme that they decided the bank
must be perpetual. To accomplish
this, a part at least of the public debt
OF the nation must be made perpetual.
And the aristocratic and Jew money
lending classes have seen to it, by sue
cessions Of wars, that the public debt
of England has reached such proper
lions that only the interest on its prin-
cipal can be paid. This influence has
stirred up and made wars in Europe
to the end that all its governments
should likewise become bonded in pub
lie debts so great that only the annual
interest can he maid
In France, Spain and Italy this limit
has been exceeded, and they are on
the verge of bankruptcy. The Jews of
London, Paris and Berlin can bank
rupt the government of any of those
countries any day. England is in no
better condition, only that she robs
and plumbers her dependencies, and
thus for a time keeps up appearances.
For instance, the English government
OF India had robbed and %plundered the
starving people Of that country of
500, 000, 900, to be held as a famine ex-
igency fund. When the famine came
again as usual and the people were
starving, inquiry was made for the
famine fund and the aristocratic
thieves were compelled to admit that
it had been stolen and misappropriat-
ed. Wars and standing armies have
been the prolific means Of thus blank
citing these nations in perpetual inter-
est-draW1ng debts. The bank Of Eng
land system Of double interest has
been copied and duplicated in this
country and many others. wherever
British toryism and the Jew money
power can so far corrupt the govern
ments Of the nations as to accomplish
1t. 1t is the financial prop and STAY
Of British imperial toryism. OF course
If such money systems could exist in
the countries thus attacked bv this
devilish influence, as would enable
their labor and production to more
than pay their annual interest and
taxes. and thus reduce and in +;p,o ,,u