Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-08-25
Get Rsckefeller's Money Scheme into
Your Heads.

Yet Rocke1eller'S money SCneme lnt0
Your Heads.
Mr.. Thomas Platt, who represents
Republicanism and the money of the
State of New York, says that Senator
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, ought to be
the next Republican vice president
that is to say, the presiding officer of
the Senate, where the laws are made.
Senator Aldrich says that the
country needs 70 flexible currency"
A,drich 10 the fsther-in-law Of young
Rockefeller. He and John d. Rookie
feller ore, q 1t we're, brothers.
The kind of lexible currency that
Aidrich wan b il the kind of currency
thst Rockefeller can stretch to suit
hh 's1eHible" plans.
The proposition that will come up
before Congress is Rockefeller propo-
Sition presented by Aldrich. You may
be sure that in some form or other it
will be adopted and made into law
You ought to know exactly what il
means.
This new Rockefeller money law
means exactly this:
For the first time in the history of
the whole world one individual man
is dealing in hundreds and thousands
of millions. That man is John D.
Rockefeller.
Nobody knows the vast sums that
he OWES, the vast interests that he
controls. Fortunately he is a mild
man, appare nifty not ambitious or
imaginative.
His power COULD make him the
most dangerous man in the world.
Already the Wall street men say
that to oppose Rockefeller means an.
Inhalation.
They know Aat he owns all the oil
Of the country.
They say that he controls the Penn.
sylvxnia Railroad, the New York Cen.
tral Railroad; that he is partner
with ooald in the Gould railroads
that he controls the copper, and heav.
en- knows what besides.
He certainly controls the BANKS,
and the banks, as you know make the
money.
Banks MAKE money as follows: They
invest certain sum in Government
bonds, and for every hundred thous-
and dollars Of Government bonds that
they own they are allowed to manu-
/. facture 90, 0ea worth OF greenbacks.
The Government continues to pay
them interest on the bonds that they
own, and they lend out this manufac-
tured money to the public for the
highest rate they can get, however
extor tionate.
The soldiers with which Rockefeller
plays are dollars. He has thousand
millions OF them at least, and his
plans require very many millions more.
He wants more money.
This is how he means to get it:
Aldrtch, his son y father-in-law, will
pass bill permitting the banks
Rockefeller controls them) to manu-
facture money, using as basis OTHER
securities besides Government bonds.
Thus, If 1r. Rockefeller owns five
hundred millions of other "approved
securities" he gan put these securi-
ties IN HI own bank and they can
manufacture for him four hundred
and Atty AillioAs of dollars of NEW
money.
With this Me- money he can buy
osos8 securities, and with THESE Sc
curi0es aoaiA = basis, he can manu-
Acture RoRb new money.
OF course, R. Rockefeller will name
the secarities 1hat banks can use in
the making Of cash.
Can you not zee the result of such a
flexible" currency as is suggested by
yeung'Ar. 3ockefeller's father-in-law?
II would simply mean an endless
oaein Of 1suG for the Rockefeller
family.
He Is limited now to his thousand
millions OF cash, but this new plan
would easily give him a Thousand nil
lions more with which to operate aud
gain QpAtrol Of the country's resourc-
60 railroads, telegraphs, trusts,
Eb Aa1Ee AdGEisl life.
EG Asss taeu In mind when you
hear the congressman and Senators
VINO represent" you, plausibly and
with loud words of patriotism explain
Ing in Congress their vote to give
Rockefeller the country. Chicago
American.