The Bankers Manifesto of 1892

Revealed by US Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. from Minnesota before
the US Congress sometime during his term of office between the years of
1907 and 1917 to warn the citizens.


"We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for
the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion.
Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the
popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare
our designs without fear of any organized resistance.
The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United
States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take
immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt
them.

At the coming Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must
attend and direct its movement, or else there will be set on foot such
antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This at the
present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis.
Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (
conspiracy) and legislation.

The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and
mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.

When through the process of the law, the common people have lost their
homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the
influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power
of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers. People
without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.

History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among
our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world.
While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political
antagonism.

The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known
as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the
reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.

By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in
fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the
common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so
generously planned and successfully accomplished." 


  
  
  
  
    
    




  

  


        

  
QUOTES FROM CONGRESSMAN LINDBERGH

        
    

  
    
  
  • "This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic
trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson)
signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be
legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by
this banking and currency bill."[4]
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Also quoted as:
    
    
    
      
  • "This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on
Earth. When the
President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary
Power will be legalized, the people may not know it immediately but the
day of reckoning is only a few years removed.... The worst legislative
crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill."
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  • "A radical is one who speaks the truth."[4]
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  • "The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means
another panic,
if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government
to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead." - The
Aldrich Plan (History of
central banking in the United States) was a forerunner to that
which spawned the Federal Reserve.
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  • "To cause high prices, all the Federal Reserve Board will
do will
be to lower the rediscount rate..., producing an expansion of credit
and a rising stock market; then when ... business men are adjusted to
these conditions, it can check ... prosperity in mid career by
arbitrarily raising the rate of interest. It can cause the pendulum of
a rising and falling market to swing gently back and forth by slight
changes in the discount rate, or cause violent fluctuations by a
greater rate variation and in either case it will possess inside
information as to financial conditions and advance knowledge of the
coming change, either up or down. This is the strangest, most dangerous
advantage ever placed in the hands of a special privilege class by any
Government that ever existed. The system is private, conducted for the
sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of
other people's money. They know in advance when to create panics to
their advantage, They also know when to stop panic. Inflation and
deflation work equally well for them when they control finance."
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"The financial system [...] has been turned over to the
      Federal
      Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority
      of [...] a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted
      for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from
      the use of other people's money."