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Originally posted by energy_wave
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."