Place the money power in the hands
of a combination of a few individuals
and they, by expanding or contract
ing the currency, may raise or sink
prices at pleasure, and by purchasing
when at the greatest depression, and
selling when at the greatest elevation,
may command the whole property and
industry of the community. The
banking system concentrates and
places this power in the hands of those
who control it. Never was an engine
invented better calculated to place the
destinies of the many in the hands of
the few. John C. Calhoun.
"I see in the near future a crisis ap
proaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of
the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon tjie preju
dice or the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and tha re
public is destroyed. I feel at this mo
ment more anxiety for the safety of
the country than ever before, even in
the midst of war." Abraham Lincoln.
"Monarchy is sometimes hinted at
as a possible refuge from the powers
of the people. I would be scarcely
justified were I to omit exercising a
warning voice against returning to
despotism. It is the effort to place
capital above labor in the structure of
the government. I bid the laboring
people beware of surrendering a power
which they now possess and when sur
rendered, their power will be lost."
Abraham Lincoln.
