Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1922-08-10

vate citizens encroached upon the
State; the lords usurped the prerorga-
tives of the King; the security of the
rights OF the individuals disappeared
Each man held what he or his order
| were strong enough to hold, and no
more. Even in the Middle, Ages, it
| required all the resolute courage of the
strongest Kings to redeem the sover-
eign prerogatives which the feudal
lards had arrogantly usurped. So
AS chaos gave to the systematic
government, the state was seen to have
reconquered the sovereign attributes
which the naughty mobiles had usurped
and thereafter no lord had courts of
his own, warfare of his own, or money
coinage of his own. The Kings law,
the Kings Courts, the Kings money,
were supreme and exclusive.
Was gold usable as money, before
the King placed his stamp upon it and
declared, by law, that certain amount
of gold thus stamped, should be a
guinea? Did God make pounds, shill-
ings, and pence, or did the King do it?
Was silver usable as money until SIM
ilarly favored by the law and the roy
al stamp. Could one take silver cup
and go into the market, and pass it
about as money? Could the King,
himself, take, the gold plate off his
table, and go into the market, and
circulate the gold plate as money,
Before the passage OF ihe law max
ing the stamped gold legal tender
money does not exist. The law and
the stamp make the money out of the
gold. God made the pine tree, but
the saw mill made the lumber. God
made the chicken, but the cook makes
the fricasee. God made the swine,
but man made the sausage.
Ricardo declared that the universal
adoption of gold and silver as money
metals had been an immense benefit
to the world, for they drove out such
clumsy currency as the Wooden Stick
OF England, Tally Rod" of the Brit
ish exchequer), the, Tobacco of Mary
land and Virginia, the Peltries, of the
Western States, Wampum of New
England, Leather of France and
/ Spain, Bark in China, Lead of Burmah
etc.,-but he said that the time had
come when still greater benefit to
the world would result from the aban-
donment of metallic money, altogeth-
er, and the adoption of a scientific
paper currency.
Upon this all independent thinkers
who understand the subject, have long
been agreed. Those who really know
how completely the Money Trust DOM
mates the world, and how that re-
morseless tyranny is based upon me-
tallic money, cannot but deonunce
with divine Indignation, the horrible
greed of the comparatively few mon
ey changers who use the coin fetch
10 hypnotic and plunder the nations
of earth. When gold threatens to be
plentiful, Gas was the case after the
discoveries in California; the money
changer loses his affection for gold
and pays his court to silver; when sill
yer becomes too common and gold
scarce, silver loses favor and gold is
again the Money Kings favorite. Ev-
en- now, paid writers of the Money
Trust are demonstrating with admira-
} bic skill the fact that the present pan
ic has been caused by the huge in
crease in the output of the gold mines.
Why does the money trust want to
limit the supply OF real money? For
the same reason that any other Trust
wants to limit the supply. The Bank
ers seek control, and the smaller the
volume of real money, the more easily
they can control it. If the bankers
control the money, they rule. Even
the Emperor of Germany, with all of
his imperious arbitrariness. would new
| a. Ior 70 l,al l.
ted the Rothschilds, Bleichroders, and
other monarchs of the realm of mon
ey. This tyranny of the banker is
worldwide. Come war or peace,
come famine and pestlence, come sew
en- fat years or seven lean year, the
banker rules! and he does it with
COIN. He first chains the nations
| to the word coin" then he gets his
grip on the supply of Coin thus
ne holds the chain which fetters the
globe.
How simple it would be to shatter
:he chain and escape this odious serv-
tude, by doing precisely what Louis
| kossuth proposed to do for Hungary
BY the exercise of that right which the
Chancellor of Great Britain declar-
| ed to be part OF the supreme pow
er of every State "a scientific system
of paper currency could be created
based on the strength of the State,
answering the needs of every citizen
OF the State, and absolute independent
of the bankers. To smash the Money
Trust, whose monstrous rapacity preys
upon every nation. il is but necessary
that the State shall assert its inherent
Ipower to create its own currency. A