Quotes from the Video The Money Masters

Executive Summary

• The excellent documentary The Money Masters was so good, it was necessary to record some quotes.

Introduction

This is a breakthrough documentary on private banking interests.

Private Bankers Create the 1877 Crisis

Despite this report by the silver commission, Congress took no action. The next year 1877 riots broke out from Pittsburgh to Chicago, the torches of starving vandals lit up the sky. The bankers huddled to decide what to do. They decided to hang on.

Now that they were back in control to a certain extent, they were not about to give it up at the meeting of the American Bankers Association that year they urge their membership to do everything in their power to put down the notion of a return to greenbacks. The ABA Secretary James Bill, authored a letter to the members which blatantly called on the banks to subvert not only Congress, but the press.

“It is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly newspapers, especially the agricultural and religious press as will oppose the greenback issue of paper money, and that you will also withhold patronage from all applicants who are not willing to oppose the government issue of money to repeal the act creating banknotes or to restore it to circulation, the government issue of money will be to provide the people with money, and will therefore seriously affect our individual profits as bankers and lenders. See your congressman at once and engage him to support our interest that we may control legislation.”

James Garfield Elected President

The American people elected Republican James Garfield president, Garfield understood how the economy was being manipulated, as a congressman he had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and was a member of Banking and Currency after his inauguration he slammed the money changers publicly in 1881.

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation, and depression, originated.”

Unfortunately, within a few weeks of making the statement. On July, Second of 1881, President Garfield was assassinated money changers are gathering strength fast, they began a periodic fleecing of the flock, as they called it by creating economic booms, followed by further depressions, so they could buy up 1000s of homes and farms for pennies on the dollar. And at 91, the money changers prepared to take the American economy down again, and their methods and motives were laid out with shocking clarity and a memo set out by the American Bankers Association, The ABA, an organization in which most bankers remembers. Notice that this memo called for bankers to create a depression on a certain date, three years in the future. According to the Congressional Record. Here is how it read in part, on September 1.

“We will not renew our loans under any consideration on September 1 We will demand our money, we will foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi and 1000s of them, east of the Mississippi as well at our price, then the farmers will become tenants, as an England.”

These depressions could be controlled because America was on the gold money standard since gold is scarce, It’s one of the easiest commodities to manipulate people wanted silver money legalized again so they could escape the stranglehold the money changers had on gold money. People wanted silver money reinstated reversing Mr sands act of 1873 by then called the crime of 73 by 1896 the issue of more silver money had become the central issue in the presidential campaign. William Jennings Bryan, a senator from Nebraska ran for president as a Democrat on the free silver issue at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he made an emotional speech, which won him the nomination and titled crown of thorns, and cross of goal though Brian was only 36 years old at the time. This speech is widely regarded as the most famous oration ever made before a political convention, and the dramatic conclusion Brian said, We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them, You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon across at all. For America. The bankers lavishly supported the Republican candidate, William McKinley who favored the gold standard. The resulting contest was among the most fiercely contested presidential races in American history. Brian made over 600 speeches in 27 states that my candlelight campaign got manufacturers and industrialists, to inform their employees that if Brian were elected, all factories and plants would close and there would be no work. The Rose succeeded McCamley bade Brian by a small margin. Brian ran for president again in 1900 and in 1908 but fell short. Each time during the 1912 Democratic Convention, Brian was a powerful figure who helped Woodrow Wilson win the nomination. When Wilson became president, he appointed Brian, as Secretary of State, but Brian soon became disenchanted with the Wilson administration. Brian served only two years in the Wilson administration before resigning in the 1915 over the highly suspicious sinking of the Lusitania. The event which was used to drive America into World War One. Although William Jennings Bryan never gained the presidency. His efforts delayed the money changers for 17 years, from attaining their next goal, a new privately owned central bank for America.