Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-02-10
BEHIND THE MARK-WHO is
WHO AND WHY.
(By John Bush)

theater, presenting series of para
mount productions of covetous mot
ives concealed by philanthropic
masks.
People not familiar with the theat-
rical world, its strife, tragedy, envy
and sadness, are naturally easily mis-
led as regards conditions when they
stage, with its picturesque settings
lights, the thrilling music blended
with the songs, pranks and merry
laugh of the performers.
The same is true of the thousands
of people who are not familiar with
newspaper propaganda, the character
istics of the propagators and their OBJ
ject in view.
1t was the immortal Lincoln who
said, "You can fool some of the peo-
pie all the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you can not fool
all the people all the time"
Many of the American people who
were fooled by the many covetous
schemes of the money changers in
recent years are now becoming aware
of the mask. In 1913 the money lend
ers, skulking behind philanthropic
mask, put into effect the Federal Re-
serve Banks. So cleverly concealed
was the motive that few saw the real
design. Under this system the United
States is divided into twelve dis
tricts, and in one city of each of the
districts there is established a Fed
eral Reserve Bank. Every national
bank is required to become a stock
holder to an amount equal to six per
cent of its capital and surplus in the
Federal Reserve Bank of the district
in which it is situated. and the privi-
lege Of becoming stockholders or mem
bers is given to state banks and trust
companies on certain conditions. A
Federal Reserve Bank does not do
business with the general public as
bankers usually do, but is rather a
bankers bank, it's customers being
chiefly the constituent or member
banks. Thus the regulation and sup
ervision Of practically the entire bank
ing business of the country is brought
under the control of the Federal Re-
serve Board which is appointed to
manage and direct the system as a
whole. This board consists of seven
members, namely the Secretary of the
| Treasury and COMPTROLLER of the Cur
rency, as representing the govern
ment, and five other members who are
appointed by the president. The five
so annolnted are required to devote
their entire time to the business of the
board, and one of them is designated
by the president as Governor and an
other as Wire Governor of the Board.
This plan may seem perfectly legiti-
mate. To those who know that no
president in recent years has been or
will IN the near future be elected to
the chief executive office of the United
States who was not or is not wanted
| by capitalist class. know that the
president had to and naturally did ap-
point the men who he was told to
mention.
All of the members so appointed are
links of the worlds great financial
chain. Thus it is apparent that all
government money is practically in
the hands of a comparatively few
men. With this plan perfected it was
this group, skulking behind the mask
OF democracy. though we knew we
were allied with the most despotic ma
tlons of the world, made the people of
America believe with the aid of their
press that America was sending the
t1oWer of her manhood to Europe to
fight for world democracy. 4neir OBJ
lect was not only to destroy Germany
and her merchant marine but to en-
tail an expense upon the United States
government that would necessitate
the borrowing of vast sums of monev
upon which interest must be paid.
1t was this same element, which
crouched behind the anti saloon
league. poured it's gold into the cof-
fers of the league and brought about
the ratification of the XVIII Amend
ment. Whether is is conducive to the
best interests of the nation as a whole
to have the revenue derived from the
manufacture, sale and transportation
of intoxicating liquors taken from the
government and allow thousands of
bootleggers to make fortunes bv sell
| ing poison, the writer is not posing
as Judge. The point he is wanting
to make clear is that the XVIII
Amendment is project promoted and
perfected by the money lenders which
enables them to loan more money to
the government "Debt is the prolific
mother of folly and of crime" This
is an old and true adage of which the
American people should take cogni-
zance. To the extent person or per-
sons become endebted to others to
that degree they become subject to
their creditors.
Inasmuch as our nation is a nation
of the people, by and for the peonle,
and it is the people who must nay the
debts and the interest, it is quite ap-
parent that we are subjects to our
creditors and our nation has become
an oliparchy, plain, pure and simple.
| 1t is the money lenders. concealed
behind all sorts of masks, who rule the
nation, not the peonle as many believe.
Marine Engineers Sign Agreement
Washington = President VIM. H.
Brown of the National Marine En-
gineers' Beneficial Association, an
nounces the signing of six months
wage agreement with the Shipping
Board, in which the union accepts the
Is per cent reduction demanded by
the Board. Certain concessions in the
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