Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-04-17

the State OF Minnesota:
Whereas, Prior to the adoption of
the Constitution of the United States,
each state was possessed of its in
herent right to issue money and
regulate the value thereof; and
Whereas, When the Constitution of
the United States was adopted, the
thirteen states created by the Ar
ticles of Confederation and each
separate state admitted into the Union
thereafter on an equal footing with
the original states, including Mime
sofa, surrendered to the Congress of
the United States its right of issuing
money in lieu of the provisions of
Article l, section 8, clause 5, OF the
Federal Constitution, which reads as
follows: Congress shall have power
to coin money and regulate the value
thereof; and
Whereas, Congress, instead of exer-
cising its power and duty to coin and
regulate the value of money, as pro-
vided for in Article l, section 8, clause
5 of the Constitution of the United
States, has delegated that monopo-
listic power to a group of individuals
and private corporations of great
wealth who have, through their own
ership and control of money and
credit created numerous depressions
causing financial distress among the
masses; and
Whereas, The Legislature of the
State of Minnesota, in regular session
assembled, did on April 20, 1889,
adopt Resolution No. 81, H. F. 1901
memorializing Congress to exercise
it's power and duty to coin (issue)
money and regulate the value there
of; and
Whereas, The Congress of the
United States has totally ignored the
foregoing Resolution and has con-
sistently failed to exercise its power
and duty as provided for in Article
l, section 8, clause S, of the Consti-
tuition of the United States; and
Whereas, BY virtue of this failure,
the great mass of people in the United
States, who labor and toll in the pro-
duction of the wealth of the nation,
have periodically suffered intense fl
nancial distress through initiation and
deflation of money and credit ma
nipulated through the medium of the
Gold Standard and the unconstitu-
tionally created Federal Reserve
Banks; and
Whereas, Congress, first through the
adoption of a monetary system re-
deemable' in gold, commonly called
the Gold Standard, enabled the In
ternational Bankers to acquire own
ership and control of the nations
money, and thus monopolize and ma
nipulate it in the exploitation and
economic enslavement of the toiling
masses; and second, through the UNI
constitutional creation of the Federal
eminent owned, but are owned, con-
trolled and manipulated by the In
ternational Bankers to which Con-
gress has unconstitutionallyd delegated
this monopoliStic power to issue
money and regulate the value there
of; and
Whereas, The unconstitutionally
created Federal Reserve Banks, in
stead of providing sound monetary
system or adequate medium of ex-
change for the nation, it has been
the instrumentality by which the tan
gible wealth of the nation has been
diverted from those who by the sweat
of their brows have produced it and
delivered it into the hands of a group
of international money manipulators
who never have produced any part of
| it; and
Whereas, In this manner and other
wise, Congress has utterly failed to
provide the citizens of Minnesota and
of all the other, states of the Union
with constitutional money to serve
as an adequate medium of exchange
as provided for in Article l, section
8, clause 5, of the Constitution of the
United States, but instead has I'M
constitutionally delegated to the In
ternational Bankers the gre a e S t
medium of exploitation ever devised
by man for the economic enslave-
ment of the toiling masses that con-
stitute the real citizenry of our ma
ton; and
Whereas, 1t becomes an indisputable
fact that Congress has broken faith
with the State of Minnesota and all
the other states of the Union, and
that majority of its members have
violated their oath of office and have
failed to perform their solemn duty
of providing all the states of the
Union with constitutional money to
serve as an adequate medium of ex-
change as provided for in Article l.,
section 8, clause 5, of the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
Therefore, Be 1t Enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Mime
sofa:
Section 1. That the State of Mime
sofa hereby re-asserts its constitution
al and sovereign right to provide its
citizens with a sound and adequate
monetary system or medium of ex-
change.
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