CHAPTER II. RISE OF THE MONEY POWER SECOND ERA.

The Money Power of the World entered upon a new and grander era of development when steam was applied to manufactures. In 1774, Watt perfected the steam engine; and this new servant of man, mightier than the Genii of oriental fable, was at once set at work propelling manufactures. The power loom, the spinning Jenny and the cotton gin were soon afterward invented, and gave a great impulse to steam manufacturing industry.

The conditions of the time threw steam manufactures entirely into the hands of the London Money Power. Great Britain was the only country in Europe which had coal and iron for steam purposes. The capitalists of the East India Company were the only people in the world with capital to engage in the new industry; for the great trading companies of other countries had been broken down by British conquests. Enriched by the trade of the Orient and the Tropics, these London capitalists at once seized the opportunity events offered them, and embarked energetically in steam manufactures.

The East India Company, as such, did not engage in these manufactures. All the stockholders would not wish to invest in them: so large a corporation would be unwieldy; and the immensity of the monopoly might excite alarm and provoke opposition. It would be much better to operate through smaller corporations. A few capitalists might hold the stock of a great number of them without exciting jealousy; and their management would be quiet and easy. The different corporations were like the regiments of an army: it was easy to form them into brigades, and divisions, and army corps, so as to give them the compact solidity of a grand military organization. It had the flexibility of individual enterprise, and the solidity of a despotism. The Money Kings adopted the policy of single corporate companies for each special enterprise.

They built manufactories of all kinds: they started iron mills, woollen mills, cotton mills. Manufactures of all kinds sprung up on every side. The Money Kings organized new joint stock corporations which built mills and manufactories: new companies which operated mines of coal and iron: and, as commerce wonderfully expanded through manufactures wrought by steam power, they organized new companies, which built vessels to plough the waters of every ocean, and built new warehouses, and established new trading stations all over the earth.

Commerce had languished in previous ages, because the Temperate zone had not sufficient cheap products suited to tropical demand, to offer in exchange for tropical productions. Steam manufactures opened up a new commercial era. They greatly stimulated tropical production, by offering manufactures in those markets. They also greatly stimulated industry in the Temperate zone. In all the countries of the Temperate zone, the demand for the manufactures of Britain was far beyond the ability to pay for them with exports.

The first effect of this state of things was a wave of excitement that swept over Great Britain. An industrial boom was started. Everybody who had money invested in the stock of manufacturing companies, shipping companies, trading companies. In companies for steam manufactures, the Money Kings took care to have the majority of stock: outside companies they knew they could devour at their leisure. The grand Money Kings had such advantages in their immense capital and in their perfect organization, that in commercial crises, often originated, and always manipulated by them, they managed systematically to break down rival companies, and buy them out, and to rob and plunder the minority stockholders; until, in the end, these organized capitalists got into their own hands and very cheap, all, or the greater part of the stock of the various companies, manufacturing, mercantile and shipping, that originated in steam manufactures . They thus reduced to a system and a science the art of crushing rival companies, and freezing out minority stockholders. Their whole career was a systematic course of treachery, fraud and plunder, without a parallel in history. They advanced step by step, always causing a boom in every new enterprise that enlisted much outside capital, and always managing to operate seasons of business disaster, in which they lost a few hundred thousands by falling prices, a loss which they were abundantly able to stand, while making many millions by getting cheap the stock of broken corporations and the stock sold by minority stockholders.

Dealing in futures in Boards of Trade, was then started on a grand scale, a system originated for the purpose of enabling large capitalists to force stocks up or down as they choose, by dint of capital, without any regard to the actual value—the most satanic engine of trickery, fraud and oppression ever devised to enable the strong to plunder the weak. It is the drag net with which the Money Kings destroy multitudes of men of small means, as the fisherman takes fish in his seine. They are fishermen: the rest of mankind are their prey. They are always seeking after spoil. They are always dragging their net for the destruction of the unwary.

But aside from this plunder of the weak and the trusting, the regular profits of the new age of industry were very large. In every country of the Temperate zone, the demand for British manufactures was much greater than could be paid for by exports. And the difference in the balance of trade was always systematically arranged by lending money on mortgage for that amount, or by spending the amount of the deficit in starting some business enterprise in that country. In this way, the adverse balance of trade was not felt by the country falling behind. It bought all it wanted, and the adverse balance of trade actually made times better; for it caused the profits of the Money Kings to be invested in the country, stimulating business into activity. It only had the disadvantage that the business investment did not belong to the nation, but to the Money Kings: and the prosperity it caused was not national prosperity, but was the bloated gains of the Money Kings.

This has been the regular method of the Money Kings for the last hundred years. Starting new manufactures, new shipping companies, new trading companies: getting in all the outside capital possible, and then freezing out minority stockholders, and throttling outside corporations; getting all the nations in debt to them, and making parasite investments to the amount of the deficit of the balance of trade: putting in the profits derived from the East India Company, first: and then, not only putting in its profits, but continually reinvesting all the profits of all their enterprises in the country ; until their investments, accumulating like a rolling ball of snow, at last become an avalanche to bury beneath its weight the prosperity of the world.

THE ROTHSCHILD SYNDICATE

Even in the beginning of this second era of the growth of the Money Power, it realized immense profits—profits so great as enabled the Money Kings to loan the money necessary on both sides to sustain the immense armaments of the wars of the French revolution. They let the British government and the powers warring against France have all the money they required; and they supplied to Napoleon and his allies the loans necessary for his campaigns.

At that time, for the convenience of the Money Kings, the great house of Rothschild was established. The rise of the house of Rothschild has always been shrouded in the mystery that veils all the operations of the Money Power. The house took immense contracts on both sides; and made to both sides immense loans. Where the money came from has always been a mystery. The common explanation given of it is wholly inadequate to account for the sudden rise of the house of Rothschild into such enormous wealth. The only way to account for it is to suppose that the Rothschild family was chosen by the Jew Money Kings as the head and fiscal agency of a grand Jewish syndicate formed at that time, to concentrate under one management the money of the Jew capitalists.

It was a great convenience, and a great source of power. The Rothschilds were chosen, perhaps, in part, on account of their superior business qualifications; and perhaps, in part, because there were three brothers, who could be heads of separate banking houses in London, and Paris and Vienna. By such a syndicate the Jews could lend money and take army contracts on both sides. And if, in the end, one side should achieve a decided triumph, the Rothschild on the winning side could save the Rothschild on the losing side, and thus the money of the Jews would be safe in any event. It was a grand stroke of Jewish skill and policy, the organization of this grand syndicate; but it was the first instance of the organization of a syndicate in the world and it was never known as such; but, with the usual readiness of mankind to believe in the sudden growth of vast fortunes from nothing, the world accepted the rise of the house of Rothschild as an individual fortune, and not a syndicate. In our time, when combination of capital into syndicates is common, the house would be recognized at once as the head of a syndicate. The rise of the house of Rothschild is memorable as the first grand combination of the Jews in a syndicate, for the transaction of a vast business in which all their capital might be combined. The Rothschilds became the head of the Jew Money Kings, and have ever since been the head of the Jews, acting as a syndicate. That house is probably at the head of the Jew Money Power of the world.

When Napoleon fell, there remained but one grand imperialism in the world,—the Imperialism of Capital,—the Jew Money Power, centred in the Money Quarter of London . Since the fall of Napoleon, the nations of Europe have been maintaining war military establishments in time of peace, at an expense far beyond their revenues. The London Money Kings have loaned them money to make up the annual deficit. They have invested in national debts alone about twenty-six billion dollars. Besides these national debts, are the loans to states, and counties, and municipalities and corporations and individuals, amounting in the aggregate, as it is estimated, to over fifty billion dollars more.

And then, there are the immense amounts of their own investments in all the countries of the globe. The wealth of the Money Power is simply beyond calculation. It can not amount to less than $160,000,000,000 . It is probably nearer two hundred billions.

CHAPTER III. RISE OF THE MONEY POWER THIRD ERA.

The Money Power entered upon the third era of its growth with the application of steam to transportation in railroads and steamships.

The Railroad Era began about 1830; but for twenty years after steam was applied to railroads, industry languished throughout all countries of the Temperate zone, for want of sufficient money to transact the business of the world. But little progress was made in applying steam to transportation, until the mines of California first, and then the mines of Australia, and the Rocky Mountains, and old and new mines opened in Mexico and South America gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the circulating medium of the world. In 1850, the age of railroad and steamship building began on a large scale. Then the Money Power was fully embarked in this third era of development.

The Supremacy of the Money Power over Industry, beginning with the application of steam to manufactures, was continued on a still higher plane of power, from 1850 and onward.

The new companies organized out of the dividends of the East India Company soon threw the old parent company into the shade by their gigantic enterprises. The experience of these new corporations seems to have convinced the Money Kings that the territorial sovereignty of the East India Company was a mistake. They found by experience that it was better for them to monopolize industry, commerce and wealth under the protection of a government controlled by them, than to exercise territorial sovereignty themselves. These new corporations began to trade with India, as with the rest of the world.

The East India Company, having no manufactures, was eclipsed as a trading corporation by these new rivals; and it soon came to restrict itself more and more to its territorial sovereignty. The Money Kings soon found that the new corporations were much better instruments for traffic, and they eventually made the East India Company merely their shield in India, behind whose protection they carried on their traffic. That company governed India entirely in their interest; for the same stockholders operated the East India Company and the new corporations born of the new age of steam industry.

They finally found the East India Company a burden, and an embarrassment. They derived the same advantage from the protection of the British government as from the Company, and without the cost and trouble. And moreover, bonuses and other advantages given them by the British government were safe and sure, while advantages and franchises given them by the East India Company might be subsequently annulled as unauthorized and fraudulent. To get rid of the expense and danger of maintaining the sovereignty of India, they, at the time of the Sepoy mutiny, influenced the British government to assume the government of India:—and the East India Company, having served its end in giving birth to those new corporations born of its profits, passed away . The spider's brood, true to their nature, devoured their dam.

The Money Kings Greatly Enlarged Their Operations in the new age of steam transportation. They constantly invested their gains in more manufactures, more ships, and more warehouses, all over the earth. And when they made more profits than were needed for such investments—for their profits grew faster than the wants of commerce—they invested their surplus profits in various countries, in lands, in city houses, in building new railroads; and in buying vast bodies of lands in the Tropics, on which they opened up immense plantations, for the growth of coffee, tea, indigo, rice, opium, spices, and all tropical productions.

They started new enterprises owned by themselves in all the countries of the globe:—tea plantations in China; coffee plantations in Java and Ceylon; sheep ranches in Australia and South Africa and South America; sugar plantations in the West Indies and the Sandwich Islands; gold and silver mines in California, the Rocky Mountains, Australia, Mexico, and South America; diamond mines in India, and South Africa and Brazil; ruby mines in Burmah; lumber mills in Canada, the United States, Norway, Sweden and Poland; city buildings in all countries; and railroads all over the world. These, and many other enterprises employed the boundless capital of the London Money Kings.

City Buildings have been a favourite investment with them in countries of the Temperate zone. They derive two advantages from these investments: the buildings yield a high profit on the investment; and the Money Kings could thus put up rents in other countries, and increase the cost of living. This last point is an essential part of their industrial system.

In order to maintain the manufacturing supremacy of Great Britain, it is necessary that the cost of living should be as cheap there as in other countries. The price of food is necessarily higher in England than in other countries; and this has to be counterbalanced by cheaper rents. Rents are very low in England. By owning many buildings in foreign countries, the Money Kings are able to start a prevailing high standard of rents; which increases their profit on their investment, and raises the cost of living, till it is as high or higher, in other countries, than in England. Furthermore, these high rents increase the value of property, and start foreign capital into real estate speculation, leaving to the Money Kings the safe field of productive industry. — They are wonderfully shrewd, and understand perfectly all the points that benefit their interest, and injure the interest of the rest of the world.

Railroads are Their Favourite Investment in countries of the Temperate zone. The ownership of them not only yields a large return upon the investment, but it gives to the Money Kings entire control of the internal traffic of the countries whose railroads they own. It also enables them to build up cities at points on the railroads known beforehand to themselves; so that, by getting possession of the land around the site, they make hundreds of millions of dollars in speculations in town lots. With incomes derived from all these various sources, and constantly reinvested—with the whole world tributary to them—it is not wonderful that they have grown so rich. Having taken possession of all the lines of business in which money is to be made, it is no wonder that, for forty years, they have been the only people in the world who had a monied capital. No wonder that, continually impoverished by them, the nations of the earth have never had money to build railroads, or water works, or gas works, or any public buildings, but had always to issue bonds and sell them in London, to get money for all public improvements.

In the age of railroads, these Jew capitalists grew exceeding rich. At the beginning of the Era of Railroad Building, in 1850, no country had any capital, these London Money Kings excepted. The Money Kings alone of all the world had money ; and they have taken special care, during the whole era, to make the world continually poorer by constantly increasing its debt to them .

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CHAPTER IV. FOURTH ERA—DEVOURINGS OF MONEY POWER, SINCE 1864: I. AGGRANDIZEMENT OF MONEY POWER GENERAL VIEW.

The Money Power has been continually widening its operations in each successive era of its rise. The first era was the era of the East India Company ; and of commerce based upon tropical products, and the exchange of those products for the productions and the specie of the countries of the Temperate zone. In the second era, the Money Power added steam manufactures to the trade with the Tropics, which it previously held. In the third era of its rise, the Money Power added to its previous sources of wealth the vast power derived from the possession of steam transportation in railroads and steamships.
 
The Fourth Era of the rise of this terrible Imperialism began in 1864. In this era, armed with the immense capital derived from all its sources of wealth, the Money Power of the World entered upon its vast investments in mortgages in real estate; and began its career of monopolizing, at a stroke, whole branches of industry and vast lines of trade. This era will end, if things go on as they are, in the Money Power taking possession of all business, and owning all the property of the earth.
 
Since 1864, the London Jew Money Kings have been continuing their operations on the basis of boundless capital. They have, in this era, vastly extended their operations, and widened the range of their monopolies. Their command of capital is so vast, that they dominate the whole sphere of industry and trade with absolute sway. As against individual enterprises, their power is irresistible. 
Like a Great Serpent, the London Money Power is, in our time, enveloping the industry of the earth in the coils of its capital, and crushing all competitors in its folds and devouring them. And it has grown so great, and its monopoly of business is so enormous, that its annual income,—from interest on loans—from rents of houses and farms—from profits of business,—is so vast, that it is able to take possession of a whole line of business at once, destroying all competitors. Woe to the men who are operating in a line of business which these Money Kings desire to monopolize: they at once envelop the feeble rivals in the folds of their capital, and crush and devour them. They now have sufficient capital to seize upon and monopolize all the business of the earth. And they are rapidly doing it.

PARASITE INVESTMENTS

Indeed, their capital is now so vast that business operations will not afford it adequate employment. They can no longer find adequate investment for their constantly increasing income,—in extending their grand industrial enterprises—in loans to nations, states, and municipalities,—in building ships and warehouses and railroads. They can only find investment,—in building cities—in buying up city property—in purchasing and improving immense bodies of wild lands—in laying and foreclosing mortgages upon improved farms—and in buying up breweries, and flour mills, and lumber mills, and various business interests, all over the earth. They own almost all those business interests now: they will soon own the rest.
 
These parasite investments of the Money Kings are like the fly eggs laid in the nose of the sheep: it is an addition to the amount of bioplasm in the sheep, but, instead of being sheep bioplasm, it is foreign. The eggs will hatch; and instead of the new life adding to the health and vigour of the sheep, it consumes its life. The worms that breed from the eggs burrow into the head, and if they can not be gotten rid of, the sure result is the death of the sheep.—In the same way, the ox fly lays eggs in the back of the ox, that breed worms; which, in their development, make the ox as lively as the investments of the Money Power make the nation where its investments are made. But instead of helping the ox, they feed upon his life : they fever him: and if there are so many of these "wolves," as farmers call them, that the ox cannot bear the frenzy caused by their development, the ox will die. 

But all these parasites, when full grown, do not continue to prey upon the animal whose life tissues have nursed them into growth. When full grown, they, fortunately for the animal, strive to leave the body on which they have preyed. But it is not so with the investments of the Money Kings. They keep planting more and more of their eggs in the body of all the nations; and, when the eggs hatch into parasite enterprises, the parasite enterprises continue to prey upon the country, until at last they will sap its strength, and devour its life.
 
These parasite enterprises of the London Money Kings are like the fly eggs deposited in the body of a caterpillar. If no egg is deposited, the caterpillar spins its cocoon, and at the proper time emerges as a butterfly. But when the fatal egg is deposited, the caterpillar lives on and spins its cocoon, as if in perfect health; but the parasite develops, and continues its work of destruction, and the caterpillar, instead of emerging from its—chrysalis state, dies in its cocoon with its vitals utterly devoured.—This is what the Money Kings are now doing for all the nations. They are laying parasite eggs of capital in the body of every nation. Either the parasite must be gotten rid of, or the nations will perish.

II. DEVOURINGS OF THE MONEY POWER IN INDIA

The Money Power of the World was nursed into imperial grandeur by the trade and wealth of India. India was its primal seat of dominion. In India, its power has always been uncontrolled and absolute. There, it has been allowed to work its will more thoroughly than any where else; and in India we can best perceive the ultimate outcome of its policy.

1ST. PLUNDER OF HINDOO POTENTATES.

Until the middle of the Eighteenth Century, the East India Company was only a mercantile corporation, having a few trading stations in India, and deriving its revenues from traffic. Rising into political power through the courage and genius of Clive, it began its career as devourer, in India, by extorting the hoarded wealth of one Hindoo potentate after another, as the price of its aid or its tolerance; and as the native rulers were successively reduced to bankruptcy and impotence in the crushing coil of the East India Company, that corporation gradually substituted its own administration for that of the native governments. In every advance, it showed the subtlety the crawling insidious guile of the serpent. It enveloped state after state in its coil, and crushed the native governments so relentlessly, and yet so quietly, that when it finally devoured the territory of a fallen potentate, the act attracted but little attention. The East India Company continued its course of quiet gradual appropriation of territory for a century, until the Sepoy revolt in 1857.

2ND. MONOPOLY OF INDUSTRY

In the earlier period of its power, the East India Company took possession of all the trade and industry of the territories under its sway. But after the Age of Steam began, and the great British capitalists formed new joint stock corporations through which to carry on the grand industries arising out of steam manufactures, the East India Company lost its importance as a trading corporation. As we have seen, it finally restricted itself to its territorial sovereignty, and gave up to the new corporations the trade of India, giving them every advantage under its administration.

Under this policy, the new corporations of the London Money Kings, advancing step by step, took possession of the business industries of India.

They first took possession of the internal traffic and the foreign commerce of the country. They bought the native products at prices which yielded the wretched Hindoo producers a mere subsistence; and they sold in the India markets native products and foreign merchandise at the highest prices it was possible to extort. They made all the profits ; and the entire population of India, except the officers and the agents of the Money Kings, was reduced to utter penury.

They continued their encroachments, and gradually got the industry of the country completely under their control. They superseded the old hand manufactures of the country by manufactures wrought by steam, of which these capitalists have entire possession and reap all the profits. And they broke down the old system of transportation, and substituted it by railroads owned by themselves.

For a long time, the Money Kings raised opium, and indigo, and cotton, and rice and other India products, for their commerce, upon lands owned by Hindoos. They made their profit by putting down prices to the lowest point that would yield subsistence to the Hindoo laborer. They thus kept the Hindoo population on the verge of starvation; so that, during the last forty years, frequent famines have carried off millions of the population. 

We know from the Irish famines, that a modern famine is not a dearth of food, so much as the lack of means to buy bread. During one of the famines in Ireland, an American vessel entering the harbour of Cork with provisions sent by American charity to the starving Irish, met two vessels sailing out of the harbour laden with food sent from Ireland to a foreign market. The millions of Hindoos who have perished of hunger, during the last forty years, were the victims of the Money Power putting down prices of labour, and putting up the price of commodities.

3RD. JUNGLE PLANTATIONS

But in the latter era of the growth of the Money Power, since the application of steam to transportation, the Money Kings have realized such vast profits from their world—wide manufactures and commerce, that they have made immense land investments in India. Vast areas of alluvial lands along the plains of the Ganges and the Bramapootra rivers have for ages been covered with the primitive jungle. Much of it is delta lands along the streams; much of it, broad alluvial plains and uplands, stretching from the sea to the foot of the Himalaya Mountains.
 
The Money Kings induced the government to offer these jungle lands at a very low price, and those imperial capitalists bought them. They next wished to populate these jungle lands with a race of Hindoo serfs who would till the soli for wages barely sufficient for subsistence. They offered the Hindoos the alternative of emigration to the jungles in their employment, or of starvation in their village homes. 

Some Five Million Hindoos Died of Famine before they submitted. But the Money Kings triumphed; transplanted the Hindoos; and opened up grand plantations in the jungle. They built railroads; founded cities; and now they own cities, railroads and plantations. They own in fee simple a vast empire in India,—an empire of alluvial lands, more extensive than the ancient empires of Nineveh and Babylon in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris—far more extensive than the Egyptian empire in the valley of the Nile—larger than Greece and Macedon combined—wider in extent than Italy—a broader domain than the whole of Great Britain. They find it cheaper to own the land and hire peasants to cultivate it, than to buy the products of free Hindoo labour. And in that wide empire of alluvial lands owned by them in fee simple, extending from the sea to the Himalayas, and from the heart of India into Burmah, those capitalists are now producing opium, and rice, and indigo, and cotton and india rubber, and quinine, and spices, and tea, and cotton and wheat.

4TH. ALL MARKETS CRUSHED BY INDIA PRODUCTS.

And they throw all these products of a teeming soil and pauper labour upon the markets of the world, making immense profits, and forcing down the price of productions all over the earth to the pauper standard of Hindoo labour. They are now publishing in our papers that they can grow wheat so cheaply upon their jungle lands, that, in competition with them, our Western farmers can only be allowed, in future, fifty cents a bushel for their wheat! Will not Omnipotent Justice blast such wrong doing?!

By the Competition of their Hindoo Plantations, tilled with Hindoo Ryot labour at five cents a day, they force down the price of Carolina rice and Southern cotton to the same level. Raising products upon their own lands with Hindoo pauper labour—shipping their products upon their own railroads into their own seaport cities—and transporting them in their own ships to their own warehouses in every country—these Money Kings are able to crush down the prices of productions in every country, and force the people of all countries to sell their products at any price they choose to offer!!

An Important Fact is learned from the course of the Money Power in India. The Money Kings find it more profitable to own lands and till them with pauper labour, than to buy the products reared by the free natives of the soil. They regard the purchase of cheap lands a good investment. They will doubtless continue the purchase of India lands, until they own all the lands of India, and all property of every kind, and the Hindoos become serfs, cultivating their lands, and filling positions in various departments of their service.

How can it be otherwise? Every department of industry in that country, except agriculture in part, is in their hands. They have in possession every source of profit. They and their agents realize all the profits that are made: nobody else makes more than a subsistence. The Money Power has India enveloped in its coils. It is only a question of time when the Serpent will complete the devouring of all its lands and all its property.

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And we shall perceive as we proceed, that the Boa Constrictor has our country in almost the same condition as India. If things go on, in a few years more the Money Kings will own a wider empire of farming lands in the United States than in India ; and the American farmer will be reduced to the condition of the Hindoo peasant labourer working for a few cents a day, or he may look on and see the lands he has lost cultivated by Chinese and Hindoos. We shall be reduced to the condition of slaves. There is a bottomless pit before us. The Money Power is preparing to plunge us into it.

CHAPTER V. FOURTH ERA — DEVOURINGS OF THE MONEY POWER IN THE U. S.

Space will not admit of a full narration of the manner in which the Money Power is devouring industry and trade and wealth, throughout the world. While the head and the den of the Serpent are in England, its coils extend all over the earth. It is everywhere ruining business men, and taking possession of their business and property. In Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in South America, in Mexico, in Canada, in Australia, and in the Islands of the sea, it is constantly pursuing its deadly business of monopolizing the industry, trade and wealth of the world, by ruining people engaged in independent enterprise. But space will only admit of a statement, in part, of its devouring the industries of the United States.

This Knot of London Jew Capitalists is having its way in the United States more completely than anywhere else in the world, except India. In England, the Landed Aristocracy holds its own against the Money Power, in part, by the law of primogeniture, which enables it to maintain possession of the land, and much city property; and by the marriages of the sons of the landed aristocracy with the daughters of rich Englishmen associated with the Jew Money Kings and sharing their profits.

But, in America, the Money Power has had free course to ravage and devour.

I. THE MONEY POWER HAS KEPT OUR CURRENCY
CONSTRICTED.

The Money Kings have always had to have American products, as the basis of their trade with the population of Britain, and with the whole earth. They needed our cotton for their English manufactures: our wheat and pork, and beef, to feed their British operatives: our hops, and barley, for the manufacture of malt liquors, for British and foreign consumption: our fats, for the manufacture of soaps; and our tobacco, for the British and foreign markets. Great Britain afforded them only coal, and iron and labour. American productions have constituted the grand basis of their world-wide manufactures and commerce.

It was, therefore, their interest to buy our products cheap; and, to that end, it was their interest to have in this country as low a scale of prices as possible. An effectual means of securing a low rate of prices for cotton tobacco, wheat, cotton, cheese, and all our products, was to keep money scarce in this country, and its purchasing value very high.

And during almost our entire existence as a nation, the scarcity of money, which the Money Kings have caused, has enabled them to keep down prices to the lowest point, and cause our people to suffer from chronic hard times.

1ST. THE CRASH OF 1837.

Our people once carried the idea that industry should be left to take care of itself, to the extreme of holding that the general Government should not supply currency to the country, but should leave it to be supplied by the states, and by individuals. Our currency was on a specie basis; and it was held that the proper proportion between specie and currency was, specie to the amount of one-third of the paper circulating medium, to be kept in the vaults of banks.

This Abominable Currency System placed our currency, and the price of our products, completely under the control of the London Money Kings. For the Money Kings always had the balance of trade against us; and they always purposely kept us drained of specie, so that, on a specie basis of one-third of the circulation, we could maintain only a sparse currency.

But, in 1836, our system of paper money was expanded to a point in some measure adequate to meet the business wants of the country. For the first time, our produce went up to a fair price, sufficient to give us prosperity. We then had a paper circulation of $136,000,000; certainly not an inflated currency for the amount of our population and trade, being less than half the amount of currency per capita we had in 1870.

But, we did not have Specie enough to maintain the one-third specie basis. The Money Kings had no idea of paying a fair price for the American produce they were obliged to have. It was increasing the value of our exports; and would soon enable us to pay with our products for the imports we bought of them; and we should soon have been able to secure specie enough for a safe basis for our circulating medium. They wished to keep money scarce, and prices low; so as to compel us to sell them our products so cheap as to keep the balance of trade against us. By thus keeping us in debt to them, they could keep us drained of specie, and keep money scarce and prices low, perpetually.

To this end, money must be made scarce, and times hard. The state banks were banking on a specie basis, and had not nearly specie enough to redeem their issues. It was only necessary for one prominent bank to fail, in order to cause a run on all the banks, and a suspension of specie payments; with a consequent contraction of the currency, scarcity of money and low prices, again.
The Money Kings made a heavy draft for specie on New York. A prominent bank in New York failed, and the state banks all over the country went down like a house of cards. Contraction of the currency followed at once. In 1842, five years after the panic, we had in the whole country only $64,000,000 of currency, being only a little over three dollars per capita of the population! It was horrible. A tide of bankruptcy without a precedent overswept the country. For thirteen years, from 1837 to 1850, scarcity of money continued, keeping our prosperity depressed, and making our prices low enough to satisfy the avarice of the London Money Kings, who got our wheat, and cotton, and pork and beef at any price they chose to offer.
The astonishing folly of our people in allowing the Money Kings to put down prices in this country by means of a scarcity of currency will excite the wonder of a later and wiser age. These Money Kings never buy anything of us they can do without. They have always had to have a certain amount of our cotton, pork and beef and wheat and barley and hops. They can not do without them. If we sustain the price at a fair rate they will have to pay it. And yet, from 1837 to 1850, we allowed them, by draining us of specie, to contract our currency to three dollars per capita, and put our prices down to starvation rates! What lamentable ignorance of the principles of political economy! By allowing the Money Kings to keep our currency contracted, we allowed them to cheat us out of about $100,000,000 a year in the value of our exports to get us deeper into debt to them every year, and to keep our people oppressed with direful poverty. Our fathers showed great unwisdom. Are their children wiser ?
Our produce had an actual value, which the Money Kings would have had to pay. But by basing our currency on specie, of which they could drain us, we kept our produce at an artificially low price. We thus lost every year a hundred million dollars by putting our products at an artificial price below their real value. The Money Kings are wise: they no doubt laughed in their sleeve at our simplicity in thus allowing a price to be fixed upon our products below their real value.

The London Money Kings organized the crash of 1837. They drew on New York heavily for specie, just before the panic. The balance of trade is always against us and in their favour, and they could draw for specie as long and as heavily as they pleased. And they continued to draw specie, till the end they aimed at was accomplished, and the panic began. There can be no doubt that they did it with full intent to bring about the panic that followed.

2ND. THE CRASH OF 1857.

There was no expansion of the currency after 1837, till after the discovery of the gold mines of California. In 1850, the state banks again began to expand, and once more we had fair prices for produce, and prosperous times. The expansion continued till 1857. There was no undue inflation. The currency was not in excess of the legitimate needs of business, and prices were not too high.

But the currency was in excess of our capability of redeeming it in specie. All the gold taken out of the mines in California was sent direct to London, to pay, in part, the balance of trade against us. The London Money Kings took care that we should not have specie enough to constitute a one-third basis for a currency adequate to the business wants of the country. They, having the power to regulate the amount of specie we were allowed to keep, did not choose to leave in the United States specie enough to furnish a basis for an amount of currency adequate to give us fair prices.

The fall of a Trust Company Bank in Ohio started a panic and brought on a general crash of the state banks, with the natural result of hard times, and a cheap market, in which the Money Kings could buy our produce at their own price.

The Panic of 1857 Was, Beyond Question, Engineered by the London Money Kings. They took especial pains to get possession of the circulation of the Ohio Trust Company Bank, whose fall caused the panic, and they made extraordinary drafts upon it for specie, amounting to $5,000,000, so as to insure its fall. Of two things one is certain: Either the Money Kings owned the Trust Company Bank, so that they could get possession of its circulation at any time, and start the panic; or else they took especial pains to gather up its circulation, so that they might drain it of specie. From the name of the institution,—“Trust Company,”—in the light of our own times, when these Money Kings are starting “Trusts” all over the world, it seems most probable that the Trust Company Bank was established by the London Money Power for the express purpose of using it as an instrument to start the panic.

In either case, they are pilloried before the eyes of our people, as making secret war upon our prosperity. It is like the secret underhanded methods of the Money Kings to start a ban in this country, in order to have it ready, at any moment they chose, to start a panic by its fall; on purpose to break down our prosperity, and give them a cheap market in which to purchase our products, necessary to their commercial system.

The Boa Constrictor thus Kept Itself Coiled about our currency system, and it has constricted our currency every time it expanded sufficiently to give us fair prices. They have thus been able to buy our products at little more than half their value, cheating us in this manner out of hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and keeping us in poverty. By the low prices thus maintained, the Money Power has kept the balance of trade hundreds of millions against us every year; and this adverse balance of trade has been kept even, by lending us money to build railroads, and to use in every form of public improvement; thus by its loans coiling around our industry and our property, and constantly devouring it.

The Money Kings are public enemies, all the more dangerous because they work by such sly, secret undermining methods.

For forty years, from 1820 to 1860, prices were kept down and times hard. Twice we were about to become prosperous, in 1836, and in 1856; when both times, the Money Kings promptly crushed our rising prosperity. In the forty years, from 1820 to 1860, they cheated us, by these low prices, out of at least four billions of dollars—enough to have made us the richest and most prosperous people on the globe.

One great Benefit of the Late War was, that it caused the Federal Government to furnish a currency that was not subject to collapse by the Money Kings withdrawing specie from the country. The Money Kings brought on the crash of 1873. But they could not do it by withdrawing specie. They were under the necessity of resorting to other means. Before presenting the means by which the crash of 1873 was brought about, it will be better to bring up the account of their working in the country to that date, so that their operations upon the currency in 1873 may be better understood.

II. THE MONEY POWER DEVOURED
OUR COMMERCIAL MARINE.

The War afforded the Money Power the opportunity to strike us a deadly blow, in taking possession of our merchant shipping. The means by which they accomplished this was in perfect accord with their watchful craft and cunning. One of their ship building establishments built the steam cruisers which swept the seas, capturing many American vessels. Their depredations so raised the cost of marine insurance, that American vessels could no longer compete with those of Great Britain. Under such circumstances, American ship owners became willing to sell their ships. The Money Kings had gained so much money by their world-wide operations that, as soon as the vessels were offered for sale, they were ready to purchase them. In a few months the American ships were all purchased by the Money Kings, and transferred from the American to the British flag. At one grand gulp the Boa Constrictor swallowed down the American navy.

While we had our commercial marine, we received for our produce the ruling price in the foreign port; and the profits were divided between the American producer, the American merchant who exported the produce, and the American ship owner who carried it. But thenceforth, we only received the New York price: the Money Kings realized all the profits beyond our own shores.

But this was too much for them to be willing for us to receive. They wished to get closer to the producer, and leave to our people as small a part of the price of our products as possible. Having driven us off the ocean, they now invaded our frontiers, resolved upon conquering and taking possession of every branch of industry in the country. The history of the encroachments of the Money Power upon our industries is one long tragedy.

III. THE MONEY POWER DESTROYED OUR
NEW YORK MERCHANTS.

The first step in the encroachments of the Money Power upon our national industries, was their overthrow of the great New York wholesale merchants. It began its movement against them immediately after the War. But it proceeded to the accomplishment of its aim with such subtlety and craft, that our people have not known of the destruction of the grandest merchants in the country.

I Only Found It Out in 1880, when I spent some time in New York city. The man at whose house I boarded told me one day in conversation that he had been rich, but had failed in business: he then obtained a support by taking boarders.

“Misery loves company,” said he; “and the only consolation I have is that all the tall trees of the forest fell, when I went down. Why sir,” he continued, “not more than three or four business men in New York, who were prominent in business before the War, are in business now. They all failed. Nobody knew what hurt them; but, from some cause, nobody knows what, business took new channels; their business left them; and they broke. How business changed in New York since the War,” he continued meditatively, “is incomprehensible to everybody.”

Here was a grand effect; and I began to search out the cause. I was then familiar with the methods of the Money Kings. I had been watching their course for years in this country, and it was not difficult to find and follow their trail, on the war path against the New York merchants.

A Still Hunt was started against the New York wholesale merchants. The London Money Kings owned the English manufactures and the mercantile shipping houses. They started branch houses in New York filled them with splendid stocks of goods—and then they started the English Drummer System in this country. The Drummer System was originated in England, over half a century ago, to accomplish the same purpose there against the old merchants of Great Britain, that was now wrought out by it in the United States. The Money Kings, by means of it, drew all the trade of the country to their own New York branch houses.

The Western and Southern merchants had been in the habit of visiting New York City, once or twice a year, to buy new stocks of goods. But now, the drummers of the Money King branch houses offered the Southern and Western merchants goods, by sample, of better quality, and at lower prices, than they could get them in New York. The old New York merchants waited for their customers to come. When, supplied by drummers, they quit coming, the old merchants, suppressed by English branch houses, failed, and retired from business.

It would be an interesting investigation to discover to what extent the Money Kings subsidized the old mercantile houses of New York City in their campaign. It is usually their custom to get some of the business interests already established on their side—reorganize them with a vast capital—take a controlling interest of the stock of the new companies to themselves—but leave them under the old name, and the old management. It seems that they adopted this policy toward only a few of the mercantile houses of New York City. The few old houses that remained standing doubtless became the allies of the Money Power. But they seem to have made almost a clean sweep substituting new houses for the old.

In their conquest of the New York merchants, the Money Kings employed the tactics which they always use. As they availed themselves of their immense capital to put down prices on the New York merchants, so their method always is to put down prices on every business interest they assail. The unfailing sign of their assault on a business, is a putting down of prices in the business.

The Money Kings Always Operate Through Joint Stock Corporations in order to conceal their operations. A company is started in mercantile or other business by three or four persons associated in a joint stock corporation. It can not be known but that those persons constitute the entire company. There is nothing to indicate that the stockholders are the London Money Kings, and that the company is operated on British capital. It seems to the public that it is an American firm. But if the Company books of one of these conquering Companies that break down old business interests could be inspected, it would be found that the stockholders who furnish its unlimited capital are in London.

IV. THE MONEY POWER DEVOURED OUR RAILROADS

The secretive methods of the Money Power are nowhere more fully displayed than in the manner in which it got possession of our railroads.

The advantages of owning our railroads were so vast and so obvious, that the Money Power, having boundless wealth could not fail to purchase them.

1ST. THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR OWNERSHIP
OF OUR RAILROADS

was laid with consummate skill and craft. They took their first steps at the time of their construction.

1. MANY LINES, LIKE THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL,

were avowedly built and run by London capitalists. — Many lines of railroad were built by them in the West in consideration of land grants. —And many lines have been pushed by large railroad companies through new districts of country, for the sake of the trade to be obtained.

2. THE MONEY KINGS GOT THE OTHER ROADS

by means of mortgages. The great Trunk Lines, and indeed, almost all the railroads east of the Mississippi, were built by the issue of bonds, and were ironed by the Money Kings for first mortgage bonds. The Money Kings always got possession of the roads under an arrangement of the mortgage.

Some of us recollect, along in the 50's, what hard work we had to build our railroads. We had no wealth: we had to build them with our poverty. We had no capital: we had to build them with debt. When two cities wished to link themselves with an iron girdle, they issued bonds to the extent of their credit: they induced all the counties along the line to issue bonds; and these bonds were always sold in London—the only place in the world where there was any cash capital—in order to get money to build the road-bed. Sometimes it required several issues of bonds, with intervals of despondency, and even despair, before the road-bed was completed. When the road-bed, or a considerable part of it, was completed, it was well known that the London Money Kings would furnish the iron and rolling stock, at the rate of $10,000 a mile, secured on first mortgage bonds.

I recollect that in 1855 to 1857, one of our cities was making tremendous efforts to build a railroad reaching toward a great business center. After two or three efforts made with intervals of deep despondency, over one hundred miles of the road-bed was at last completed; and one of the most distinguished citizens of the state was sent to London, to negotiate for the iron for the road. He succeeded in his object; but, being a man of enlarged views, he came back astounded. He said he found men from all over the world in London on the same business as himself: all wishing to get iron for railroads, at $10,000 a mile, secured on first mortgage bonds: and they all got the iron. He said, “These London capitalists are sure to get the railroads for the first mortgage bonds; and no man can foresee the consequences. It will certainly work a mighty change in the condition of the earth, when these capitalists get possession of all the land transportation of the world. No man can tell what the result will be.”

We are now seeing some of the evils which this statesman of a generation ago dimly foreshadowed.

In this railroad financiering we have a fair specimen of the management of these Jew capitalists. When the railroads were first started, they made but little money. The system of operating them was as yet crude and imperfect and the business that has since grown up along them, and made them profitable, was as yet in its infancy. As a rule, the Money Kings got possession of the railroads under some arrangement of the first mortgage bonds.

The Money Kings are the owners of our railroads. It is known that the Erie railroad is owned by the great house of John Bidall Martin, in Lombard Street, London. A mortgage was placed upon the Milwaukee and St. Paul, last July, for $150,000,000, which was taken in Lombard street, London. John Bidall Martin was the head of a syndicate which foreclosed the mortgage on the Wabash railroad system, two years ago.

A favourite method with these capitalists of holding railroads, is to have them bonded to them on mortgage security. They never pay for these bonds more than about forty-five per cent. of their face value. Whatever else goes unpaid, the interest on these bonds must be met, or the mortgage is foreclosed. The Roads are thus mortgaged for their full value, and the owners of the bonds are really the owners of the railroads. The mortgage, together with some preferred stock on which interest is sometimes paid, absorbs the earnings of the road. The rest of the stock receives no dividends, and is of no actual value. The bond holders are practically the owners of the roads. It is only a question of time when the bond holders will take possession of their prey. They would do it at any time if the management of those who may hold the stock does not suit them. But the probability is that they keep in their hands a controlling interest of the stock, so as to secure the present control of the roads.
In the second place, it is certain that

2ND. IF THE MONEY KINGS WERE EVER IN POSSESSION
OF THE RAILROADS, THEY OWN THEM STILL.

1. THE LAWS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY PROVE

that, if the London Money Kings ever got possession of the Railroads, they have them still. We could never have bought them back by any possibility, unless the Balance of Trade were in our favour. For, without such a favourable Balance of Trade, our people could never possibly have the means to buy the railroads back. But the Balance of Trade has been steadily against us all the while. Hence, it is perfectly manifest that the railroads are still in the hands of the Money Power. This is as certain as any fact in the world of nature. For the laws of political economy are as fixed as the laws of nature.

2. THE HISTORY OF THE MONEY POWER PROVES

that no Americans have ever bought back Railroads once in possession of the Money Kings. It is a fixed rule with the Money Kings never to take an interest in any business, without having a controlling interest in the stock; and having got a controlling interest in any enterprise, they work it, and never sell it. They are always buying property: They never sell; except indeed, batches of stock, to gulls, in Wall street operations! If the Money Power ever got a controlling interest in American railroads, they never sold it out again, and no Americans ever had in their own ownership the controlling interest in such American railroads.

3. AN OBJECTION

may be presented here, that many American railroads, and those the most valuable, are notoriously owned by Americans: that the Vanderbilts own the New York Central system—that Jay Gould owns a large system in his own right—that Tom Scott owned the Pennsylvania Central—that Garrett owns the Baltimore and Ohio—and that Huntingdon owns the Chesapeake and Ohio and its connections.

This is a matter of such importance to the American people that it ought to be thoroughly sifted. These men have claimed to be the owners of these grand railroad systems; —but are they ? Or are they merely the agents of the London Money Kings, holding the railroads in trust for them?

3RD. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT AMOUNTS TO
SCIENTIFIC DEMONSTRATION

proves that these men are the agents of the London Money Kings.

It is remarkable that very many peculiar facts have come to light about these railroad magnates, which prove at our American "railroad kings," so-called, are only the agents of the London Money Kings. The proof is stronger than could be expected, when the Money Kings everything in their power to conceal their ownership. They have always systematically concealed their trace, so that no direct evidence of their ownership can be found. Their actions are always in the dark.—But a midnight murderer or a burglar can be convicted on circumstantial evidence. So, if the ownership of the railroads by the London Money Kings were a felony, there is sufficient proof to send them to state prison.

1. JAY GOULD AN AGENT FOR BRITISH CAPITALIST'S

A large number of facts prove this: —

1) In 1873, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk were full partners in the ownership of the New York and Erie R.R. Holding $23,000,000 of railroad stocks, they were thought to be worth over $10,000,000 each. They were full partners, and were supposed to be worth about the same amount. It is perfectly evident that Fisk and Gould were not the real owners of the Erie railroad. As the trail of a serpent can only be seen when the snake crosses a dusty road, so the track of the Money Kings can usually be seen only when it runs across the grave of an agent. The settlements made at death frequently show that the reputed millionaire was only an agent of the Money Kings.

When Fisk was killed, in 1873, he, as has been stated, was thought to be worth $11,000,000, as he was holding that amount of railroad stock. But when his estate was wound up, his family received only a few thousand dollars. Thus the settlement of his estate after his death, showed conclusively that Fisk was only an agent, holding, in connection with Gould, the Erie railroad for the real stockholders in Great Britain. There can be no doubt that Jay Gould, his partner, was their agent also.

Once finding Mr. Gould acting as the agent of the Money Kings, creates a strong presumption, that, in his subsequent operations, he is also the agent of European capitalists. But the case does not rest on mere presumption. It is perfectly certain that, in all his subsequent operations, Jay Gould has been only an agent of the London Money Kings, holding the railroads ostensively owned by him in trust for them.

2) Jay Gould's Railroad System belongs to the Money Kings. In 1873, Jay Gould could hardly have been worth more than his partner, Jim Fisk. In the hard times that followed 1873, nobody in America could make much money. Yet, in 1878, Jay Gould came out West with forty million dollars, as it was given out through the newspapers, and bought ten thousand miles of railroad; and the American people were made to believe that it was his money, and that he himself owned, in his own right, the railroads of the Gould system. His wealth was regarded as enormous. He was reputed the richest man in America. His wealth has been estimated as high as two hundred million dollars.

But of late years, facts have transpired, which show conclusively that Jay Gould is only the agent of the Money Power, to hold and operate their railroads:—
The Wabash System is one-half of the ten thousand miles of railroad in the Gould System. Some years ago, the Wabash System became embarrassed, and was placed in the hands of a receiver. Mr. Gould no doubt supposed that it might affect his credit for the American people to suppose that he could not sustain the credit of his roads; so he had an interview with a New York reporter, which fell under my eye, in which he said that much the greater number of the stockholders of the Wabash System were in Great Britain, and only a few in the United States: —and Jay Gould is one of the few! —It is evident that Jay Gould is not the owner of the Wabash System! 

The rest of the ten thousand miles of the Gould System consists of the Missouri Pacific, the Missouri Kansas and Texas, the Texas Pacific, and the Iron Mountain Railroads. The Texas Pacific did not belong to May Gould, for its stockholders have had it taken out of the Gould System by process of law.—The Missouri Kansas and Texas did not belong to him; for its stockholders also, have brought suit and withdrawn the Road out of the Gould System.

Indeed, a short time since, Mr. Gould had an interview with a reporter, which I saw, in which he stated that he held more stock in the Missouri Pacific than all his other investments put together. The Missouri Pacific is a Road three hundred miles long, running from St. Louis to Kansas City. And Mr. Gould's stock in that road amounts to more than all his other investments put together! And he does not even own all of that three hundred miles of railroad.—And yet Mr. Gould was the ostensible owner of ten thousand miles of railroad and worth two hundred million dollars!! 

When we find one of the ostensible great owners of a grand railroad system to be merely an agent of the Money Power, it gives rise to a strong presumption that the other reputed owners of great railroad systems are also agents of the Money Power.

2. VANDERBILT AN AGENT OF THE MONEY POWER

There is a large amount of cumulative evidence to prove that Commodore Vanderbilt was an agent of the Money Kings: —

I) Commodore Vanderbilt was originally a poor man. He first rose into prominence as the manager of a line of steamers, running in the Isthmus route from New York to San Francisco. But when he quit the ship line and went into Wall street speculation in railroad stocks, he was worth only one million dollars. Manifestly, therefore, he was not the owner of the steamship line, but was holding and operating it as the agent for the stockholders, who were largely English.

If Commodore Vanderbilt was the agent of the Money Kings in operating the steamship line, and was afterwards transferred by them to Wall street, to operate for them there, it will explain many things otherwise unaccountable.

2) Vanderbilt always operated in Wall street as a bull. In other words, he was always buying railroad stocks. I recollect reading a work written when his operations were the wonder of the whole country, in which the author said that Vanderbilt had an unlimited purse back of him. Nobody knew where he got his money, but the money at his command was practically without limit. Frequently he had the whole street against him, but he was always able to put down any combination that was formed against him. He had more money at his command than could be brought against him in all America.

It is idle to suppose that Vanderbilt was able to carry his vast operations through, with the one million dollars he was worth when he went into Wall street. Many of the operators there who combined against him were each far richer than he. We can only account for his immense operations, which required the command of unlimited capital to carry them to the successful issue he always attained, on the hypothesis that he was the agent of the London Money Kings to buy up railroad stocks for them.

I recollect that when Vanderbilt bought out Harlem, a little railroad some twenty odd miles long, the whole world was astonished that one man was able to buy and own an entire railroad. He soon afterwards bought the Hudson River railroad, and the New York Central; and he continued to purchase railroads, until he owned a grand system extending far into the Northwest. It was impossible for Commodore Vanderbilt to have conducted his immense operations with his own limited capital. If he was the agent of the Money Kings, all is explained.

3) At his death, Commodore Vanderbilt was reputed to be worth one hundred million dollars. When, in his will, he divided out only three and one half millions among his children, that fact confirmed me in my belief that he was an agent of the Money Power, and that the three and one half million dollars was all he was really worth; and that, in giving the rest of the property, including the railroads, to his son Wm. H. Vanderbilt, he simply transferred the agency to him. This view was confirmed by the fact that Wm. H. Vanderbilt, immediately after his father's death, went to London, as I believed, to see his principals, and have his agency confirmed.

4) A fact which occurred in 1880, was, to my mind, conclusive evidence that Wm. H. Vanderbilt was only an agent. He then transferred a controlling interest in the New York Central System to a syndicate of New York capitalists, avowedly representing English capitalists, for $50,000,000; which he at once invested in four per cent United States bonds. Now, I do not think that Mr. Vanderbilt would have done that, if the property had been his. The transaction is contrary to all the laws of human motive

I] The stock made him a Railroad King—one of the most influential men in America. And it was paying him far more than four per cent.

2] A man owning a grand railroad system under his own absolute control would not jeopardize his interests, by selling a controlling interest to foreign capitalists. Nor would an astute financier like Vanderbilt have sold a controlling interest in a grand railroad system which must have been paying much more than four per cent., to invest the money in four per cent. bonds. It is not in human nature to make so bad a bargain.

3] Nor does it accord with the pride of a railroad magnate thus to abdicate power, and step down and out. If Mr. Vanderbilt was a free agent, his action is inexplicable by all the laws of human motive.

4] But if he was an agent of the London Money Kings, and an order came from headquarters to make the transfer, he would have to "obey orders."

5] And this was probably the fact. Mr. Vanderbilt was a haughty irritable man, and exceedingly indiscreet in his utterances. If an agent, he was not the best man to keep in such a responsible position. His utterances, "d__ the people," and "I do not run my roads for the benefit of the people", exposed him to popular odium, and would not commend him to his principals.

6] At the next election after his transfer of stock Mr. Vanderbilt was elected a director in all the roads of the system; but he was made president of only a subordinate road. He was evidently very much humiliated, and made a meek speech in which he said he had no doubt the new arrangement would be more agreeable to the stockholders.

7] He did with the United States bonds bought by him just what he would have done if he were an agent acting under orders from his superiors in London. What did he do with them? Did he keep them in New York, as he would naturally have done if they had been his own? No: he at once deposited them in London, in the banking house of John Bidall Martin, in Lombard Street.

5) The provisions of the will of Wm. H. Vanderbilt bear out the idea that he was an agent of the London Money Kings. He divided his property among his children more equally than his father had done; but he gave to one son $56,000,000, a controlling interest in the railroad system; and he provided that all the property should remain together. This arrangement would secure the control of the railroad system to the Money Kings, as effectually as the arrangement made by his father.

I do not doubt, however, that Gould and the Vanderbilts are rich in their own right. The Money Kings pay their agents well. Their rule is to give them a large, though minority interest, in the property they manage. And then, the position of Commodore Vanderbilt, and later, of Jay Gould, and Wm. H. Vanderbilt, would give them vast opportunities of making a great deal of money for themselves in operations in Wall street. But all the cumulative facts prove that Commodore Vanderbilt was an agent of the Money Kings—facts which are wholly inconsistent with the idea that the Vanderbilt family really owns the railroads it holds in possession.

If the grand so called "Railroad King" in America, is only an agent of the London Money Kings, what a commentary upon the grandeur of those imperial capitalists!

3. Tom Scott was the reputed owner of the Pennsylvania Central;—but, since his death, we hear nothing of his heirs being the owners of that railroad system.

4. C. P. Huntingdon has been the reputed owner of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and connections. Where did he make the money to buy it?

(I) At the time the Central Pacific Railroad was projected, Huntingdon was a grocer with limited means in San Francisco. He and his coadjutors built the Central Pacific Railroad. Many facts indicate that they were merely the agents of the Money Power in that enterprise. The United States government aid was only paid when a stipulated number of miles of railway had been completed: the men in the construction company had not the means to do so much work before receiving the government subsidy. All Americans who have a grand enterprise in hand go to London to get the money to accomplish it. Now, the Money Kings would not have suffered Huntingdon and company to remain principals in the ownership of the road for the construction of which the Money Kings furnished the money. They would certainly demand, as the only condition on which they would furnish the money for construction, that the franchise should be transferred to them, and that Huntingdon and his friends should become their agents to build and operate the road.

(2) When Huntingdon appeared before a Congressional Committee, he insisted that the Central Pacific road was in very straitened circumstances. When a member of the Committee asked him if he shared the depressed financial condition of the road, he paused for a considerable time before replying; and finally answered with extreme caution,—"No: I am said to be rich."—He insisted that he had made no money out of the Central Pacific; but that everything he was worth had been realized from other enterprises.
I take all this to be a reserved statement of the actual truth. The Money Kings would get the lion's share of the profits of constructing and operating the Central Pacific; to Huntingdon and the others would be allowed the jackal's portion.

(3) But, if Huntingdon made no money out of the Central Pacific Railroad, where did he get the money to buy the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the other railroads of the system ? We are forced to the conclusion that Huntingdon does not own those railroads at allthat he is the agent of the Money Kings, and holds his roads, as Gould does his system, in trust for the real owners.

His answer to the Congressional Committee indicates such a state of facts. He said "I am said to be rich." Such would be the cautious language of a man who was thought to be the owner of a great railroad system, when he knew himself to be the agent of the Money Power.

5. In the case of Garrett, the facts fully comport with the idea that he is the agent of the Money Kings; but not at all with the idea of a man owning a vast railroad system in his own right. But as it would be necessary to comment on his personal misfortunes, in order to make out the case, it is passed without further notice. It is sufficient to say that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is fully mortgaged to London bond holders.

The whole question of the ownership of the American railroads is veiled in mystery. But, however carefully it is hidden, the Money Kings have the property securely in their hands.

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Everything proves that the Money Kings are the owners of our railroads. The author of a pamphlet given me in London, in 1864, told the truth when he said of the Money Kings, as will be hereafter quoted,—“We are the railway builders of the world, and the actual owners of the greater part of the railways.” They have had plenty of time since then, to have purchased what they did not then own; and they have been very busy in Wall Street, during the entire interval.

CHAPTER VII. DEVOURINGS OF THE MONEY POWER IN THE U. S. INDUSTRIES NOW BEING DEVOURED BY THE MONEY POWER.

The Money Power, as we have seen, has already devoured many of our great lines of industry. It is now enveloping every industry it has not already devoured, and is crushing them in the folds of its capital, preparatory to devouring them.

I. THE MONEY POWER IS CRUSHING OUR COAL MINES
By their monopoly of transportation, the railroads are securing a monopoly of the coal supply for mines owned by them. In some instances, before the passage of the Interstate Commerce Law, they refused transportation to coal of other companies. They usually form a separate company which owns the coal mines, and they have given special rates to such companies.

Even under the "Interstate Law" regulating railroad traffic, their monopoly of coal mines is not hindered; for even if they made equal charges for their own coal and that of other companies, yet the charge for themselves is simply paid to themselves; so that they can still undersell all competitors. This state of things must give to mines owned by railroads the monopoly of the coal trade, and all other mines must be sold to them, or closed.

II. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING OUR GOLD AND SILVER MINES
As a rule, persons having gold or silver mines to develop always go to the Money Kings or their agents for the capital to develop them. And the Money Kings never put any money into a mine without having a majority of the stock given them, so as to secure to them its absolute control. They must have the lion's share in any enterprise before they will invest in it. They usually put in one of the original stockholders as their agent and manager; and generally the mine is so managed as to freeze out the other stockholders.

A shaft is sunk down upon the "lead;" if it proves to be rich, only the poorer levels nearer the surface are worked, till the outside stockholders become discouraged and sell out their stock cheap; then the mine is worked efficiently. But if, on the other hand, the mine proves to be a pocket, like the Emmy Mine in Utah, it is puffed in the papers until outsiders have bought the stock; then the true state of things is revealed. Having full control of the mine, they are able, with their agent, to manipulate it as they please; and finally they thus get control of all valuable mines.

III. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING OUR LUMBER TRADE
It is evident that the Money Power has not yet gotten possession of all our lumber forests and lumber mills; for, where it has gotten possession of an industry, it stiffens up prices to a uniform and profitable rate. The fluctuation in the price of lumber, and the cuts in prices between different dealers are evidence of the war of the Money Power upon all independent lumber men. The war can have but one issue. The ownership of the railroads gives such an advantage to the Money Kings in shipping their lumber to market, that, in the end, competitors must be crushed The Money Power will get possession of the coal mines and the lumber trade, as it has gotten possession of the mercantile trade of New York City, of the oil wells of Pennsylvania, and of the great lines of traffic.

IV. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING OUR FLOUR MANUFACTURES
Having full control of the wheat market, it would be the policy of the Money Power to make all possible profit out of the wheat before it reaches the consumer. To this end, the Money Power must manufacture the wheat into flour. The high price of flour in comparison with wheat shows that the agents of the Money Power have a large number of flouring mills in their possession. The occasional sharp falls in the flour market, crushing mill owners of small capital, and the occasional purchase of mills by the Money Kings, as in a recent deal in Minneapolis, show that the Money Power has not yet gotten full possession of the flour mills.

The possession of the railroad transportation gives such an advantage to the Money Kings in the flour market as must, ere long, with the further advantage of their immense capital, give them entire possession of the flour manufacture. Their recent purchase of flour mills in Minneapolis shows their desire to obtain such advantageous ground in the business as will enable them to crush all competitors and get possession of the entire business.

V. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING THE CATTLE RANCHES OF THE WESTERN PLAINS
The London Money Kings are resolved to possess not only the trade in beef, but also the production of cattle. They laid their plans years ago, for monopolizing the cattle production of the Plains. It was they who killed off the buffalo. The destruction of the buffalo was thus effected: A high price was offered for buffalo hides in whatever quantity they were offered. All men who wished to hunt buffalo could get an outfit on credit and pay for it in buffalo hides. On these terms, an army of buffalo hunters was organized. Hunters lined the banks of the streams where the buffaloes came to drink, and by shooting them down, drove the herds away; and thus continued to shoot them as, parched with thirst, they came to the streams to drink. Some shot the buffaloes; some skinned the carcasses; some hauled off hides. In two or three years, the buffaloes numbering many millions were exterminated.

Nobody but the London Money Kings could have thus effected the extermination of the buffalo. None but they look so far ahead. Only they had money enough to equip such an army of slaughterers. Only they, in their immense world-wide commerce, had a market for such a vast number of hides. They had been obtaining hides for their trade in leather, shoes, and other leather products, from Buenos Ayres, in South America. It was only necessary to substitute buffalo hides for South American, for two or three years, to secure the extermination of the Buffalo.

The Money Kings saw a grand enterprise in devoting the Western Plains to the production of beef. As soon as the buffaloes were exterminated, they began to buy cattle in Texas, and cows and calves and young cattle in all the states, to start ranches on the Plains. This caused a boom in cattle all over the country; and multitudes of enterprising Americans organized cattle companies, and started cattle ranches all over the West, from Texas to Montana, mortgaging their property, and taking money out of their business, in order to take stock in the cattle companies. The boom in prices was kept up until the Plains were fully occupied with ranches; for the Money Kings had entire control of the cattle market; and they offered high prices as long as it was their interest to induce Americans to invest in the beef production. In a few years, the Western Plains were fully stocked with cattle ranches.

When the ranches were established, it was time for the Constrictor to tighten its folds. The agents of the Money Power were the only buyers in the cattle market. The Money Kings themselves owned many cattle ranches in the West. They could always have a supply of their own cattle in the Market to be offered to their agents, the cattle buyers, at a very low price, so as to force down the market on other cattle owners. It would make no difference to them how low the price of their cattle—for they were selling to themselves. It was money out of one pocket into the other. They thus kept down the market for cattle, until almost all American cattle companies are now broke.

A gentleman largely interested in cattle companies told me, two years ago, that, at that time, fifty-seven per cent. of the cattle companies were broke. When we remember that many of the remaining forty-three per cent. of the cattle companies are owned by the Money Kings, it is evident that almost all the American cattle companies have failed, and that the Money Power has now almost completed its devouring of the cattle companies.

In order to destroy these American cattle companies, and also to crush the farmers raising cattle, the Money Kings have forced down the price of cattle, in defiance of the law of supply and demand. The market for beef is active, and growing with the growth of our population. The supply of beef has greatly diminished in the last few years; two winters ago, a million cattle perished upon the Plains, from Texas to the Canada line; four hundred thousand perished in Montana alone. The cattle market is never glutted. Beef is consumed as fast as it is offered. Prices ought to be good in the presence of an increasing demand and a decreasing supply.

Furthermore, the consumer pays as high for beef as he formerly paid when beef cattle brought a fair price. There is no reason why beef cattle should not now command a fair price. There is demand enough; and the retail price is high enough. In view of the circumstances of the case, the pressing down of beef cattle to less than half price is an outrage upon our people. Beef cattle down to half price, with an active demand for beef, and a high retail price in the meat store; It is a shame! 

It shows conclusively that the Money Power should no longer be allowed to control our prices.

The Money Power is now crushing and devouring the cattle companies, as it, a few years ago, crushed and devoured the other business interests of our country. It put down the price of cotton goods until it broke the New England Mills, and then put up the price again when it had gotten possession of the mills; It put down the price of oil until it broke the oil men of Pennsylvania, and then, when it had gotten possession of the business, it put up the price of oil; It put down the price of iron wares until it got possession of the iron mills, and then it put up the price of iron.—So now, the Money Kings are putting down the price of beef cattle, until they get possession of the cattle ranches, and the farms of our farmers, and then, when they themselves have entire possession of the cattle production, they will put up the price of cattle fast enough.

VI. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING ALL BRANCHES OF PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN OUR COUNTRY
A new era of the growth of the Money Power has recently arisen.

It is originating vast Trusts which take possession of an entire branch of production or trade, and crush out all competition by the might of capital. A trust is a device for concentrating the investments of several Money Kings in a single line of business under a single head. For instance; where many Money Kings have invested in a line of trade, by organizing a trust, they put all their business houses in that line and their stocks of goods into a single company, and place them under one management. The trust is thus able to control the amount of production, and all prices in that line of business; and it can destroy all outside companies that are not in the trust. Thus, two years ago, a coffee trust was originated, which at once set to work to destroy all the coffee merchants not in the ring. It put down the price of coffee so low as to break down the competitors of the trust and no sooner was this accomplished, than the trust put up the price of coffee to more than double.

These trusts are, in effect, corporations without a charter—without any authority from the state; and they are thus above governmental control. It is a new step the Imperialism of Capital is taking. Through these trusts, the Money Kings purpose to do as they choose, and crush out all competition with a high hand. They used to conceal their track, and hide their meanness as far as possible from the public eye. But now, emboldened by success, and intoxicated with the pride of imperial power, they unmask their aims, confident of their ability to over-ride all opposition.

1. The Standard Oil Company is a great trust operating with many millions of capital, and throttling all competition in the petroleum market.

2. Many Americans invested their means in the manufacture of cotton seed oil. But the Money Kings wanted then the oil for the manufacture of their bogus lard and butter. And they organized a "Cotton Seed Oil Trust" with millions of capital, and are taking possession of the entire industry.

3. A "Sugar Trust" has been organized, to take possession of the sugar production and traffic.

4. A "Whiskey Trust" is monopolizing the manufacture and sale of distilled liquors.

5. Recently, a "Cattle Trust" has been organized, to take entire possession of all cattle ranches, and the raising of cattle and production of beef.

6. Grand Trusts, each with millions of capital, are monopolizing production and traffic in salt, lead, cordage, nails, coke, lumber, sheet zinc, copper, crucible steel, and other products. Well did the English writer of the pamphlet soon to be quoted, say, "Nothing is too large, and nothing too small for English capital, and English enterprise."

All these Trusts, like the Coffee Trust, will put down prices till competition is destroyed, and then they will double the price of the article they monopolize. Individual competition against these grand monopolies is hopeless. If an outside company goes into the Trust, they stop its business, and give to it a part of the profits; till other establishments have been started sufficient to supply the market without it, and then the idle establishment, with its trade and its business connection all gone, is kicked out in the cold to die. On the other hand, if individual enterprises do not go into the Trust, goods are put down in the markets which they supply, and their business is taken away. In the Trust, or out of it, outside enterprises are bound to be destroyed.

But Trusts do not merely war upon individual competitors. There is another aspect of their operations, in which they especially war upon our national prosperity.

Trusts are of two kinds,—I) Those which operate in industrial products which are protected by our tariff; and 2) Those which operate in branches of production in which we fully supply our own market and export a portion of the product. To the latter class belong the Standard Oil Company, and the Cotton Seed Oil Trust, and the Whiskey Trust. To the former, belong the Crucible Steel Trust, the Cordage Trust, and other various manufactures.

In the manufactures which fully supply our own markets, we ought very soon to take possession of the markets of the world. And we would soon do so, if production went on unobstructed. But the Trusts come in and arrest production, and keep us limited to the supply of our own markets, in order to maintain high prices, for their own profit. The Trusts do not merely injure the public by putting up prices;—but in order to put up the price, they commit a crime against the nation, by arresting our prosperity, and preventing us from supplying the markets of the world.

The Money Kings who are at the head of the Trusts are the London Jews who want to keep possession of the markets of the world for their English manufactures; and the only way in which they can do this, is to arrest our growth by means of these Trusts. Such a crime against the national prosperity ought to be punished by the heaviest penalty.

Of a like tendency is the work of the Trusts which operate in those products, to which, not supplying our own markets, we afford protection by the tariff. The object of the Trusts is, to continue to obtain the high price derived from the tariff. And in order to effect this, they arrest production, so as to prevent our production from fully supplying our own markets and thus cheapening the price by home competition. They do this, in the first place, in order to get the high price of tariff protection. But they have another object which they desire especially to accomplish,—to prevent us from fully supplying our own market, and thus save it, in part, to their English manufactures. They know that, with unimpeded manufactures, we would in a few years fully supply our own market, and then, with our great advantages, would soon drive English manufactures out of the markets of the world. They wish especially to prevent this and, as the only means of doing it, they organize these trusts, to limit our production, and keep us continually dependent upon English manufactures.

These trusts are really a conspiracy against the nation; and they ought to be treated as such. They are worse than murder; for they destroy many individuals by the slow torture of financial ruin. And they also strike at the national prosperity and the national life. They ought to be suppressed.

VII. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING THE RETAIL TRADE
The Money Power long since engrossed the great wholesale trade of the Eastern cities, and much of the wholesale trade in the West. It is now making rapid strides toward the monopoly of the retail trade of our cities and country towns.

1ST. THE FIRST STROKE OF THE MONEY POWER AT THE RETAIL TRADE
of the country was the establishment of the great house of A.T. Stewart & Co., in New York City. A.T. Stewart was a Scotchman who, for years, occupied a little narrow place on Broadway a few feet wide, where he peddled needles, and thread and tape. He suddenly bloomed out in a palatial building, with a thousand clerks behind his counters, and twenty million dollars worth of goods upon his shelves. At the same time, there was a branch house of A.T. Stewart & Co., in Glasgow, Scotland, and another in Germany; besides establishments in Belfast, Ireland, and in Paris. The peculiarity of his style of business was, that he had in his House a number of departments; and, in the various departments, goods of every variety, of the best quality, and at the cheapest wholesale prices.

I. Many stories have been told to deceive the public, as to the means by which Stewart could sell such excellent goods so cheap. One story was that he bought his goods at auction, and very cheap, because they were the tail end of stocks, and damaged; and that Mrs. Stewart renovated them, and thus enabled him to fool the ladies of New York, and make them believe them new goods. The story is absurd. A.T. Stewart could not have kept up his stock by auction purchases; nor could he have obtained such goods at auction. It is only a clumsy attempt to account for a fact inexplicable by all the laws of business.

2. A.T. Stewart could not have accumulated in any regular business the immense fortune of one hundred million dollars which he was credited with possessing at the time of his death. His colossal business, so suddenly established, and the excellent quality and low price of his goods, can only be accounted for on the hypothesis that the London Money Kings appointed him head agent and Manager of a great retail house which they established in New York, and supplied with goods, in order to strike the first blow for the monopoly of the retail trade of New York City. This accounts for the immense establishment which sprung up like Jonah's gourd, in a night, and the colossal business; it also accounts for the superior quality of the goods; and it explains how, supplied from the manufactory direct he could retail his goods at wholesale prices.

3. The events following his death show conclusively that A.T. Steward was an agent of Money Kings.

I) He was closely watched by Judge Hilton, who dined with him every Sunday on pretext of friendship, but really, no doubt, to talk over business and compare notes. At his death, Stewart left his business in Hilton's hands. And the American people were soon afterward shocked by the intelligence that Judge Hilton had cheated poor Mrs. Stewart out of all her husband's property, giving her only one million dollars for the entire estate of which Stewart died possessed.

Now, this is absurd. Mrs. Stewart was a very sensible woman. She had a perfect knowledge of the value of her husband's estate. Judge Hilton could not cheat her out of one hundred million dollars worth of property, giving her only one million dollars for it. But if he showed her papers that proved Stewart to be the agent of the London Money Kings, she would sign the transfer conveying to Judge Hilton the property that belonged to the Money Kings, and say nothing about it.

2) The heirs of A.T. Stewart afterwards brought suit against Hilton for the property, alleging that he had obtained it from Mrs. Stewart by fraud, and the whole matter was investigated in court. It was there proved under oath, by Hilton and the book-keeper of the House, that A.T. Stewart was only worth about $8,000,000—that he owned no interest in any real estate—that he had no interest in the palatial building in which the business was done—that he had no interest in the grand buildings erected by A.T. Stewart & Co. at Saratoga—no interest in the house of A.T. Stewart & Co. in Glasgow, Scotland, nor in the German house. It was sworn that he had no interest in the business, except a commission on sales. In other words, he was simply the agent of the London Money Kings, who were the "Co." that owned the business.

3) The arrangement Hilton made of the business showed that he was only an agent in the matter. If the business had been really Hilton's, he would have continued to carry it on and make millions out of it every year, as Stewart had done. But instead, he closed out the business in a short time, attempting to deceive the public as to the cause of failure, by the farce of giving offence to the Jews, by excluding them from the hotel built by Stewart, at Saratoga.

2ND. THESE MAMMOTH RETAIL STORES EVERYWHERE
I. Three immense establishments were started in New York City on the model of Stewart's, keeping in the various departments everything, the goods excellent, and retailed at wholesale prices. And these stores were avowedly in the hands of agents.

2. And now, in all large cities, are to be found these immense retail establishments on the plan of the house of A.T. Stewart, and each with an agent at its head, managing the business for a percentage of the profits. There are several such stores in Kansas City. One of them does such an immense business that, as I was informed, the commissions of the manager amount to over sixty thousand dollars a year. The Money Kings pay their agents well.

3RD. THESE STORES ARE BREAKING DOWN ALLOTHER MERCHANTS.
The House of A.T. Stewart broke down one thousand retail merchants in New York City, many of whom became his clerks. In all our cities, these grand agency retail stores are monopolizing the retail trade. I found such stores in many of our country towns. They always keep immense stocks of goods of all kinds in their various departments, which they sell at retail at wholesale prices:—and their counters are swarming with customers. The old merchants are being driven from business.

I have found these stores in different towns in Missouri, and Iowa and Kansas, where I have lectured. The American merchants are driven from business, and have to leave town. All who live by the merchants are also thrown out of employment. The towns are slowly dying. I recollect, in a town in Iowa, where I delivered the lecture on the Money Power, on the next morning as I walked along the street, a man came out of his grocery store and invited me to enter. When I went in, he wrung my hand with tears in his eyes, and said:

"Ah Sir, one of those Jew stores you told about last night is established here in town. They make a specialty of groceries, they say, and profess to sell them at cost. My business is ruined, and the business of the dry goods merchants also. The people are swarming into the Jew store to get things cheap. And I do not know what we are going to do."

What can they do but get out? How can a man with only a moderate individual capital compete with people who have the capital of the world at their back? They can afford to sell at a loss for a time, till they get possession of the trade. The American merchants can only give up the struggle and retire from business. If things go on as they are, in a few years more, the Money Power will have monopolized the retail traffic, as it has monopolized and is now monopolizing all the other branches of business in the country.

The Money Kings never carry any business by storm. Their approaches are always quiet and stealthy, their methods secret and tortuous. But they never yet have failed of accomplishing their end. A few years more will put them in possession of all the mercantile business of the country.

4TH. A NEW DISCOVERY; A NEW METHOD OF ATTACK BY THE MONEY KINGS.
While this work has been passing through the press, I have heard of a new method of attack upon the stores of our country towns. It is like every thing else that the Money Power originates,—very effective, and sure of success if not arrested; and it has all the traits of secretiveness, cunning, craft and slyness, that mark every thing that emanates from that source.

The * * * * Store System, as stated by one who knows, is based upon the following plan:—If a person has a small capital to engage in the business,—$500 or more,—the promoters of the plan will furnish him goods at a very low price to that amount, and as much more without interest, to be paid out of the business. On the other hand, the party binds himself to purchase a certain amount of goods every month not large; and to sell the goods for cash, and at a fixed price, from thirty to fifty per cent. lower than any other merchant can afford to sell them. He will thus inevitably bankrupt all competitors.

This System has purchasing agents all over the country, to buy up bankrupt stocks as fast as the old merchants are broke. This system, of course, must be furnished with goods from New York, at first; but after the merchants begin to break rapidly, the bankrupt stocks, purchased very cheap, will keep up the supply of goods, until the new stores are in full possession of all the business.

A list is made out of all the states and territories, with the available towns still unoccupied—one store to be started at a place.

This System is already widely established over the country, and, as my informant says, is making the merchants "open their eyes wide." The Money Power is resolved to root out our country town merchants, and themselves take possession of the business.

VIII. THE MONEY POWER IS DEVOURING OUR FARMS
So vast is the income of the Money Power from its various sources of wealth, that it can no longer find investment for it in its immense loans to the nations of the old world—in its loans to states and counties and cities and municipalities and corporations—in building new warehouses and ships for its ever extending commerce—in erecting new factories—in building new railroads—in opening new mines—in starting new mercantile establishments. All these vast branches of enterprise can not afford the Money Power sufficient investment for its enormous and constantly increasing income.

It can only find investment in mortgages of city property and improved farms, and in the purchase of new and grand branches of business.

1ST. FARMS MORTGAGED.
Until I began to lecture on the Money Power, I had no idea of the extent to which our farms have been mortgaged to the Money Kings. I thought that perhaps one-twentieth of the farms were mortgaged. I knew that Dakota was shingled over with mortgages; but I supposed that the condition of Dakota was exceptional. I was astonished upon reading an article in a New York paper, evidently intended to soothe the public mind, stating that the public need feel no uneasiness about Dakota—that statistics proved that there are more land mortgages in the state of New York in proportion to area and value, than in Dakota! I was astounded at the statement. The Lord have mercy on New York!!

I thought that, in Missouri, the people surely are out of debt. I knew that they are economical, and not over venturesome and enterprising. What was my surprise when, in the first place where I delivered my lecture on the Money Power, a good citizen said to me:—

"I don't know much about prophecy. But I do know that what you say about these foreign capitalists is true. To my certain knowledge, at least two-thirds of the farms in this community are mortgaged to foreign capital."

I travelled widely through Missouri, and everywhere I found statements that two-thirds to three-fourths of the farms are under mortgage!! —In Iowa, the same state of fact exists. In some counties of that state, where farms used to sell for twenty-five dollars per acre, the farms were mortgaged for one-third of their value; and after a number of farms were bought in by the mortgagee for eight dollars an acre, the amount of the mortgage, all the lands receded to that price.—A gentlemen told me that, in one of the counties of Iowa where he had investigated the state of things, the property valuation of the county was $3,000,000, and there are $2,000,000 worth of property mortgaged. Perhaps this is an average of the condition of things in the state.

In Kansas, a very large proportion of the farms are mortgaged—a much larger proportion than in Iowa or Missouri.

In Nebraska, as I am informed, the agents of the Money lenders are to be found in every neighbourhood. They go through the country like lightning-rod agents, urging the farmers to borrow money on five years time, secured by mortgage on their farms.

2ND. LAND LOAN AGENCIES
In any of the large cities, if you go into the office of one of the Farm Loan Agencies which has agents all over the state, and ask for a loan on your farm, the agent will ask where it lies; tell him the county, and he will ask the township; and as soon as you tell him, he will step to the wall and, after a moment, will draw down the map of your township and will show you your farm. They are prepared to mortgage and buy every farm in the whole country.

A banker said to me:—"The money line of these Land Loan Companies always has three points,—the agent in the West, who loans the money; the intermediary in the East, from whom he gets it;—but the third point in the line is always London. There is where the money comes from."

How the Money for the loans is obtained was told me by an agent who loans large amounts every year, through a large number of subagents. He sent his mortgages to a little bank in an Eastern state; from which the money was sent to him. That bank transferred the mortgage to the third party from which the money came originally. And this third party is the Money Power of London, or some of its immediate agents.

The Money Kings hide their trail in these loan transactions without difficulty. They need only to buy up the stock of a bank or an insurance company, in some Eastern state; and then, through such an agency, they can loan millions of dollars:—and the American people think it is simply Eastern American capital! Thus, a little bank in Connecticut can loan millions of dollars every year, when it is only making in its regular business some twenty thousand dollars a year.

The Money is London Capital, as is evident from the vast amount of it loaned in this country. Billions of dollars have been loaned upon farm mortgages, to say nothing of the vast amounts loaned on city property. No American banks or insurance companies could loan such immense amounts of money.
he London Money Kings have, in this country, an income of many hundred millions of dollars, every year, derived from interest on loans—from the profits of their various lines of investment—from the various industries they have monopolized—and from the various lines of traffic they have taken possession of. They invest in the United States all the income derived from their investments in this country; and statistics prove that, besides this, they are sending to this country, annually, a large amount of specie for investment, being a portion of their profits derived from their vast trade with the outside world. It is manifest that the Money Power is loaning in the United States many hundred million dollars every year.

We have about reached the end of our tether. About two-thirds of the farms of the country are now mortgaged for one-third of their value, on five years time. In the ten great states of the West and Northwest,—Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, the valuation of farm property, according to the census of 1880, making a liberal allowance for the increase of value, amounts to $7,000,000,000. It is estimated that the farm mortgages in those states amount to $3,400,000,000. The farms are usually mortgaged for one-third of their value on five years time. The amount of farm mortgages given above is probably excessive. One-half the estimate is most probably nearer to a correct statement. We may perhaps safely say that, in the above ten states, two-thirds of the farms are now under mortgage for one-third of their value on five years time.

How much of the other one-third of the farms is now owned by the Money Power it is impossible to say. Thousands of agents have been loaning money all over the country for more than twenty years, on improved farms and plantations. Down South, in Mississippi or Alabama, ask in any neighbourhood about the grand plantations of the past, and they will tell you those plantations are under mortgage or owned, as the phrase is, "by foreign capital." The Southern plantations passed into the hands of the Money Power in the hard years following the war; the Western farms are passing to them now. Many of the plantations of the South and many of the improved farms of the West have had the mortgages on them foreclosed, and now belong to the Money Power. If we include the farms on which mortgages have been foreclosed together with those now mortgaged, we can see what an immense area of our country the Money Power will own, when the mortgages they now hold shall have been foreclosed.

3RD. THE MONEY POWER IS CRUSHING THE FARMERS
so that they can not pay their mortgages and save their farms. Having two-thirds of the farms of the country mortgaged to them, the Money Kings are putting down the price of all farming products, so that it is impossible for the farmers to pay off their mortgages. The Money Kings are the only purchasers of produce, and by establishing Boards of Trade which are absolutely subject to their control, they are able, through them, to fix prices to suit themselves. By the agency of the Boards of Trade, and by their monopoly of the traffic in all farming products, they have put down the price of farming products, until it is impossible for the farmers to pay off the mortgages on their farms.

1. THE MONEY POWER HAS PUT DOWN THE PRICE OF BEEF
We have already seen how the Money Kings have put down the price of Beef, in defiance of the laws that regulate business prices, wholly setting aside and annulling the law of supply and demand.

2. THE MONEY POWER HAS BROKEN DOWN THE WHEAT MARKET
Two years ago, our wheat crop was fifty million bushels short. It was naturally expected that the price of wheat would rise. I saw a quotation from a Liverpool paper, at the time, stating that it was expected that the price of wheat would be high, owing to the short American crop and the active demand, and expressing surprise at the low price of wheat that prevailed in America. The price was put down by the imperial power of the Money Power over the American markets.

When it was known that the wheat crop was fifty million bushels short, the price of wheat was seventy cents a bushel. It was naturally supposed that the price would go up. A syndicate of Cincinnati capitalists, acting on this business probability, organized with a capital of $12,000,000, to operate in the Chicago market; not to put up the price of wheat to ninety cents or a dollar a bushel, which the condition of things would have warranted, but merely to keep the price up to the existing rate of seventy cents a bushel. They had capital enough to make their operations a sure success under the rules of the Chicago Board of Trade, which only allowed wheat to be sold as it was delivered into the elevator. The regular average amount of delivery was about three hundred car-loads a day, and they had money enough to purchase this amount of daily delivery, until they could make their operation a success.

But the wheat operators of Chicago had the elevators all over the Northwest full of wheat; they ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to rescind the rule which prohibited the sale of wheat except as delivered into the elevators, and allow it to be sold out of the cars; and when their order was obeyed, they rushed down to Chicago from all over the Northwest three thousand car loads of wheat a day! They sold the Cincinnati syndicate wheat at seventy cents a bushel, till their $12,000,000 was gone; and then, when they had broken the syndicate, they at once put down the price of wheat to sixty cents a bushel!
It was a great outrage! When the wheat crop was fifty million bushels short, and the supply was inadequate to meet the demand, wheat, according to all the laws that regulate prices, ought to have gone up to at least one dollar a bushel. To put down the price, under such circumstances, lower than it had ever been before, was an outrage—a violation of all the laws of trade—a revolutionary overthrow of the law of supply and demand. In the same way, and at the same time,

3. THE MONEY POWER BROKE DOWN THE COTTON MARKET
Two years ago, a Southern syndicate was formed, to sustain the cotton market at the low price at which cotton was then held. A capitalist at Houston, Texas, headed the movement, with $15,000,000 at his back.—But the Money Kings now own many of the cotton plantations of the South; and they delivered cotton to the syndicate at the price offered, till the $15,000,000 were gone; and then, when they had broken the syndicate, they immediately put down the price of cotton one and one-half cents a pound!

The Money Kings have the cotton market completely in their grasp. As one of their agents said, "the planters had as well struggle against the course of the seasons as against the prices fixed by the Money Power." They have put down the price of cotton, until it will not pay wages to the labourers who produce it. It could not be grown at all at the present price, if the negro labourers did not take their pay in a part of the crop, so that they share the oppression and poverty of the planters. The negro laborers are barely able to subsist, by raising their own provisions; but they are brought down to the condition of the Hindoo peasant.

4TH. TWO YEARS AGO WAS AN ERA
in the history of American prices. That was the time when the Money Power boldly and openly went into the Board of Trade and crushed all opposition, and put down prices to suit themselves, in open defiance of the law of supply and demand, and all the laws that regulate prices. Before that time, other persons dared to operate in Boards of Trade, on the indication of the markets under the Law of Supply and Demand. But the Cincinnati and Southern syndicates were so completely crushed, that no man will ever again dare to interfere with the Money Kings in their manipulation of prices in Boards of Trade. The Money Kings then made so terrible an example of their opponents as to deter all others from repeating the offense.

The Cincinnati syndicate was so sure that, with a short supply of wheat and an active demand, they could sustain their move in the Chicago Board of Trade, that some of them were tempted, when hard pressed, to use other people's money in their possession. For this offense they were prosecuted, and sent to state prison.—After such terrible examples, no one will ever dare again to interfere with the Money Kings in their regulation of prices.

Boards of Trade are instruments controlled at will by the London Money Kings, and may be made to register their will. Under the rule of the Chicago Board of Trade the Cincinnati syndicate was perfectly safe in its operation; they had enough money to pay for all the wheat that could be offered them under the rule of the Board of Trade. When Armour went into the Board of Trade, and demanded that the rule should be changed, so as to enable the agents of the Money Kings to break down the Cincinnati syndicate, and the Board of Trade at once complied with the demand, the fact was thereby established that Boards of Trade are conquered by the London Money Kings, and made agencies by which to regulate prices as they see best, and that all persons are to be broken down who attempt to sustain against them the law of supply and demand. That was a practical announcement of the fact that

The old law of supply and demand is wholly abrogated, and the will of the Money Kings is put in its place, as the sole regulator of prices in our modern age.

The law of supply and demand can only regulate prices when there is a free market, and the free competition of buyers and sellers operates to regulate prices. But there is no such competition now; the agents of the Money Power are the only buyers of all produce. Boards of Trade are subdued by them, and answer to their manipulations. By the might of Capital, they can regulate prices in any Board of Trade. They control absolutely the Chicago Board of Trade, and Chicago regulates the price of produce for the whole country. They can fix all prices to suit themselves by their imperial power over the markets, in utter disregard of the law of supply and demand, and in utter violation of all the laws that regulate prices.

The time has come for the public to consider this question of prices, and find out some new way in which we may regulate prices, and keep them at a proper and uniform standard. They can never suffer the Money Kings to regulate prices and ruin our farmers by their arbitrary exercise of imperial power, thus subverting all the legitimate laws of trade.

As long as it is left to them, they will do as they have been doing; they will put down the prices of all produce while it is in the hands of the farmers, so as to buy it cheap; and then, when it is in their own hands, they will put up the price, so as to sell it high! This has been their regular habit for years. How long are the American people going to stand it? How long will they suffer themselves to be plundered by these capitalists? When the old method of regulating prices by the law of supply and demand is no longer operative,

WE MUST FIND SOME OTHER WAY BY WHICH TO REGULATE PRICES.

And it will not be difficult to find a much better way. One method will be presented in this work, later on. Either it, or some other method will have to be adopted, if we do not intend for the Money Kings to freeze out all our farmers, and get possession of their farms.

5TH. THE MONEY POWER DETERMINED TO HAVE THE FARMS
No farm product, except hogs, brings a fair price. And the price of hogs is owing to hog cholera. With the danger of cholera, the farmers would not raise hogs at all, but for the inducement of a fair price. No Western farmer, at present prices of grain, and beef, and other produce, can pay wages, pay taxes, and support his family in comfort—much less pay off his mortgage. Some of the newspapers, setting forth the views of the Money Power, are already saying that the farm labourer of the Northwest must submit to a reduction of wages. And other newspapers declare that our farmers must lose their farms, and let us have the Tenant Farm System that prevails in Europe.

The wages of the farm labourer may be reduced, but this will not save the farmers. At the present price of produce, no mortgage can be paid off.

A distinguished gentleman of Iowa told me that he, not long since, travelled in the same seat with a general agent for farm loans who has many subagents in different counties of the state; and, in the course of conversation, he asked him if the farmers could pay off their mortgages? The agent laughed at the idea. He said it was impossible—that he had orders not to foreclose, except as a last resort.—The Money Power means to have the farms;—but it wishes to appear indulgent.

Conversing with a banker in Kansas, a very clever gentleman, I spoke to him of the great evils that would follow the loss of the farms. He laughed pleasantly, and said, "I think the farmers will have to lose their farms."—From present appearances that must be the result. If things continue in their present grooves, in a few years more, the Money Power will have foreclosed its mortgages, and will own in fee simple two-thirds or three-fourths, or even a larger proportion, of the farms of the country.

And then, when the farms have been devoured, it will be an easy matter to finish the merchants and grocers of the country towns. When the Money Kings own the farms of the Northwest, as they do many of the cotton plantations of the South, they will pay off their peasant farm laborers, as they now pay off the negro laborers on their Southern cotton plantations, with orders to their own stores. Then all the outside merchants who are not already broke by the stores established by the Money Power, will have to give up business. The merchants will have the sad grace accorded to them which the Cyclops accorded to Ulysses, of being the last to be devoured.

Then the Money Kings will have accomplished their aim. They will have everything in the country. America will be the Ireland of the New World—its people peasants, groaning under the yoke of foreign landlordism.

PART II. THE GREAT RED DRAGON A SYMBOL OF THE LONDON MONEY POWER.
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CHAPTER I. THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS.

The Seven Heads and Ten Horns appear three times in the book of Revelation: 1) In the 12th chapter, upon the body of the Great Red Dragon; 2) In the 13th chapter, upon the body of the Beast like a leopard, that rises up out of the Sea; and 3) In the 17th chapter, on the body of the Scarlet-coloured Beast, that has a Woman upon its back, called the Beast from the Pit.

In all cases, the seven heads have the same signification.

The following is the text of the passage where the Seven Heads and Ten Horns appear upon the body of the Dragon:—

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” Rev. xii: 3.

The following is the text of the passage where these Seven Heads and Ten Horns appear upon the body of the Beast from the Sea:—

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” Rev. xiii 1.:

In the 17th chapter of Revelation, where the Seven Heads and Ten Horns appear upon the body of the Beast from the Pit, they are elaborately described by the angel to John. The following is the text of the passage:—

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

“And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

“The beast that thou sawest was;
“And is not;
“and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit;
“and go into perdition:

“and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

“And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
“The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
“And there are seven kings:
“five are fallen;
“and one is;
“and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
“And the horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
“These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. * *
* * * * “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Rev. xvii: 3-13, and 18.

In each of the above instances, while they appear upon different bodies, the Seven Heads and Ten Horns are the same, and symbolize the same powers. In the 17th Chapter, the angel explains to John that the Seven Heads and ten horns symbolize “seven kings,” prophetic phrase for seven kingdoms or empires. The angel says “five are fallen; and one is; and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh he must continue for a short space”

From this explanation, we are able to understand

THE APPEARANCE OF THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS,

as they appear on the body of the Dragon. As the Dragon stands uplifted before the woman, five heads hang down dead, underneath its neck, symbolizing the five empires which had fallen at the time the Revelation was given. The Sixth Head is on the end of the Serpent’s neck, and on it are ten horns. The Seventh Head is the Serpent’s head, jutting out through the top of the Sixth head, and dominating all. Such is the appearance of the Dragon, with its Seven heads and Ten horns.

What is the symbolic signification of the Seven Heads and Ten Horns? What power do they symbolize?

Before giving the true exposition, it will be best to notice

1. THE ERRONEOUS INTERPRETATION FORMERLY
GIVEN OF THE SEVEN HEADS. 

In former interpretations, the Headed Beast was interpreted as symbolizing the Roman Empire, exclusively. This interpretation could be made, only by an entire misapplication of the facts of history. The Five Heads that had fallen at the time of the vision, have been interpreted as symbolizing the five forms of administration that existed under the Roman Republic,—Kings, Consuls, Decemvirs, Military Tribunes, and Dictators.

1ST. I OBJECT TO THIS,

1. That there were only two forms of government in Rome that had fallen at the time the vision was given,—the Kings; and the Republic.

The Republic was always a government of the Senate and the People, throughout its entire existence. And, during its entire existence, the Executive of the Republic was in the hands of the Consuls, except during brief intervals.

 

2. AGAIN, I OBJECT TO THE INTERPRETATION, THAT

It is a violation of all the facts of history to call the Decemvirate, the Military Tribunes, and the Dictators, such forms of the Roman government as would be symbolized by “heads.”

1) The Decemvirate was a brief rule of ten persons who had been sent to Greece, to obtain new institutions, and who ruled about a year, while they put the institutions in operation. They were overthrown in a popular uprising against the crime of one of their number.

2) The Military Tribunes were a temporary arrangement, that lasted only a few years. It was only another name for the Consuls; and it was adopted, in order that one of the officers might be a Plebeian. It was merely a temporary expedient for a special purpose, and was soon set aside.

3) The Dictatorship only existed in times of great public danger when a Dictator was appointed, whose authority only lasted six months. It is absurd to call the Dictatorship a “head” of the Beast. What sort of head is that, which comes on and falls of constantly? Such a symbol is ridiculous.

4) These forms of administration can not be called “heads”. The government of the Roman Republic was continuous all the while; and these changes of administration did not affect its identity in the least.

France, since the Revolution of 1789-93, has had nine different dorms of executive administration,—the Monarchy, Convention, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Monarchy again, the Republic, the Empire, and the Republic. All these were much more fundamental than those changes of the Roman executive. And yet, France has been the same power all the while.—Who would think of saying that any prophecy would represent France, during the last hundred years, by a beast with nine heads? The idea is absurd. The French nation has been the same, all the while.

3. I OBJECT TO THIS APPLICATION OF THE SYMBOL THAT

If the Different Forms of the Roman Administration Are to be Continued as Heads, then the Triumvirate of Octavius, Antony and Lepidus must be counted also; and it will make six heads that had lived, instead of five!!

4. I OBJECT TO THIS INTERPRETATION THAT

A Head, in Prophecy is Never the Symbol of a Mere Form of Administration. A head in prophecy, always symbolizes a kingdom, or an empire. The four heads of the Macedonian Leopard, in the second vision of Daniel symbolize the four kingdoms into which the Macedonian Empire was divided.—And these seven heads, in like manner, represent seven empires that have risen in the earth.

2ND. BUT THE GREATEST ABSURDITY OF THIS EXPOSITION

remains to be stated.—By making the “Seven Heads” symbolize the seven forms of Roman administration, former expositors had to find fulfilment for the Seventh Head in some form of Roman power; and they found it in the Heathen Roman Empire.

1. BUT THE DRAGON IS A POWER OF THE LATTER DAYS.

This is certain.

1) It is contemporary with the Beast from the Pit; and all expositors agree that the Beast from the Pit is a power that has not yet risen.

2) In the Great Final War of the Earth, just before the Millennium, the Dragon is engaged in the war, in alliance with the Beast from the Pit and the False Prophet.

3) And all the facts respecting the Dragon, in the Apocalypse, prove that it is a power of the Latter Days.

The idea of making the dragon symbolize the Heathen Roman Empire is perfectly absurd. It is this kind of interpretation,—such a straining of all the facts of history, such a jumble of symbolism and imagery,—that has made of this grand symbol, the Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, an epithet of contempt and derision, hurled by the scoffer against all prophecy.

II. THE TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE SEVEN
HEADS AND TEN HORNS.

The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns is a most remarkable symbol. It is so peculiar, so complex, and yet so simple, that it will not fit any powers but those it was intended to set forth.

As the four heads of the Macedonian Leopard, in the second vision of Daniel, symbolize the four kingdoms into which the Macedonian empire was divided, so here, the Seven Heads symbolize seven empires. But, as we might suppose, from the analogy of the vision of Daniel, that the seven empires were contemporary like those of the Macedonian Beast, it is expressly stated that they are consecutive.

The Seven Heads Symbolize Seven Empires having relations with the people of God, and existing from the earliest times down to a time yet future. Of these empires, five had fallen at the time of the vision.

1ST. EXPOSITION OF THE FIRST FIVE HEADS.

The first Five Dead Heads hanging down under the neck of the Dragon symbolize five empires that had fallen at the time the revelation was given: “five are fallen”.

1. THE FIRST DEAD HEAD HANGING DOWN

under the neck of the Serpent. Symbolizes the Egyptian empire; which under the Eighteenth Dynasty, as we learn from the records of the Egyptian monuments, recently deciphered, extended over Western Asia beyond the Euphrates and the Tigris. It was the Nineteenth Dynasty which persecuted Israel. The Pharaoh of the Persecution, under whom Moses was born, was the second king of the Nineteenth Dynasty. The Pharaoh of the Exodus died at Memphis, some twenty years after that event, with his Asiatic empire all lost, and with Egypt divided between himself and two rival kings, who reigned in the Delta. The great Egyptian empire fell before the judgments of God, visited upon Egypt for the deliverance of His people.

2. THE SECOND DEAD HEAD HANGING DOWN

beneath the neck of the Dragon is a Lion’s head, and symbolizes the Assyrian empire, which carried away the Ten Tribes into captivity in Media.

3. THE THIRD DEAD HEAD HANGING DOWN

is also a Lion’s head, and symbolizes the Babylonian empire, which carried Judah away captive to Babylon.

4. THE FOURTH DEAD HEAD HANGING DOWN

is a Bear’s head, and symbolizes the Persian empire, which restored the Jews to their own land, and always treated them kindly.

5. THE FIFTH DEAD HEAD HANGING DOWN

beneath the neck of the Dragon is a Leopard’s head, and symbolizes the Macedonian empire, which, under Alexander the Great, overthrew the Persian empire, and which, under Antiochus Epiphanes, afflicted the Jews with a grievous persecution. These five empires had fallen, when the vision of Revelation was given.

2ND. EXPOSITION OF THE SIXTH HEAD,
WITH ITS TEN HORNS.

The Sixth Head was the Roman Empire, which was then in existence, and of which the angel said “One now is”. The Sixth Head, the Roman Empire, was slain by the “sword” of the Northern Barbarians, in the year 476, A. D., at which time historians date the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Northern Barbarians Planted Their Kingdoms in the territories of the Roman Empire. In the year 476, A.D.,—the very year of the fall of the Western Roman Empire,—we find, for the first time, Ten Kingdoms within its boundaries.

In the eye of prophecy, the Babylonian, the Persian, and Macedonian empires continued to exist geographically, after their fall as political powers; just as Ireland and Poland are still recognized as having a geographical existence, after they have ceased to be political powers. According to prophecy, the Roman territory was that part of the Roman Empire which was not covered by the Babylonian, Persian and Macedonian empires,—the territory extending from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube, and thence westward, within the Rhine and the Danube, to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and including England and a part of Scotland.
Within This Territory, We Find Ten Barbarian Kingdoms in the year 476, A.D. And there have been Ten Kingdoms in the territories of the Roman Empire ever since that time.

Not always the same kingdoms: sometimes, some would fall, and others would rise in their place: sometimes, in eras of transition, there have been one or two more or less than ten kingdoms. But when these eras of transition were over, and Europe returned to its normal condition, there would be Ten Kingdoms again. There have been Ten Kingdoms in Southern and Western Europe, for thirteen hundred years: there are Ten Kingdoms in Europe now, within the limits of the Roman Empire.

These Ten Kingdoms are fully set forth in my work, “Key to Prophecy,” and it is not necessary to present them further here.

These Ten Kingdoms within the territories of the Roman Empire are symbolized by the Ten Horns, which grew out of the dead Sixth Head. This Sixth Head corresponds with the fourth beast of the second vision of Daniel. That beast symbolized the Roman Empire: so here, the Sixth Head. That beast had ten horns; so, on the Sixth head here, are the same ten horns.

3RD. THE SEVENTH HEAD.

The Seventh Head is the Serpent head,—the empire of the Dragon. It is the subject of this work to prove that the Seventh or Dragon Head symbolizes the London Money Power—the Imperialism of Capital centred in London. We will proceed in the next chapter to give the proof. At present we will proceed to the identification of

4TH. THE BEAST FROM THE PIT.

After explaining to John the Seven Heads and Ten Horns, the angel goes on to give an explanation of the Scarlet Beast,—the Beast from the Pit. The angel says of him: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition.” And he says again: “The beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is one of the seven.”

1. This shows that the Beast from the Pit rises after all the other seven empires have risen,—after the rise of the Dragon Empire, the Seventh Head. “He is the Eighth.”

After the rise of the Dragon empire, another empire rises, which is the Eighth in order of time, but which is actually not a new empire but is one of the first Seven Empires: that is, it is a new imperial power, in whose dominion one of the dead six empires comes to life again, and is re-established.

All expositors agree that the Roman Empire,—the dead Sixth Head,—is to be re-established in the dominion of the Beast from the Pit. There are many other prophecies which foreshow this re-establishment of the Roman Empire. The re-establishment of the Roman Empire under the dominion of the Beast from the Pit is set forth with great clearness in the 13th chapter of Revelation, and also is the First and Second Visions of Daniel.

In the 13th chapter of Revelation, this re-establishment of the Roman Empire is set forth. The context reads as follows:— 

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, 
“and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the names of blasphemy. 
“And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. 
“And I saw one of his heads as it had been wounded to death [or slain;] and his deadly wound was healed. 
“ And the Dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.” 
“And all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power to the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him.” Rev. XIII: 1-4.

I have, in one place, slightly transposed this passage, so as to give the proper order of sequence. 

The Seven Heads here, as has been already explained, are I) Egypt; 2) Assyria; 3) Babylon; 4) Persia; 5) Macedon; 6) Rome; 7) The Dragon head; which I expound as the symbol of the Money Power. This is the point now being established.

2. IT IS IMPORTANT TO FIX THE TIME

when the vision begins.

The Beast, in its first rise from the Sea, represents Medieval Europe, after the fall of the Roman Empire, under the Ten Kingdoms. This is evident both from history, and from the symbolism of the Beast:—

1) The Ten horns represent the Kingdoms of the Northern Barbarians who overran the Roman Empire. It is Europe under the Ten Kingdoms that is here represented. That the time is during the reign of the Ten Kingdoms is evident from the fact that the ten horns in the symbol are crowned; which shows that they are reigning in the era set forth in the vision.

2) The Beast rises up out of “the Sea.” The “Sea” is a prophetic image frequently employed, to represent a chaotic condition of society, in which all the elements of social life are unsettled. Such was the condition of the territory of the Roman Empire after the fall of the Western empire. All the institutions of Roman civilization were broken down: society was dissolved by the Barbarians who over swept the Roman Empire, ravaging, destroying, burning; until the remnants of the Roman population were reduced to the condition of serfs, hoveled in the forests which grew up in the cultivated provinces that were reduced to desolation. Out of this chaos modern Europe emerged.

3) When the Beast rose it had the Sixth or Roman head “as it had been wounded unto death,” that is, freshly slain. This was true of the Roman Empire, which was just recently slain by the “sword” of the Northern Barbarians.

All the symbolism shows that the Beast represents Europe during the era of the reign of the Ten Kingdoms, after the fall of the Roman Empire.

4) The description of the Beast also agrees perfectly with Europe under the Ten Kingdoms.

1] “The Beast was like a leopard.”—In the Macedonian Leopard (Daniel vii), the spots indicate the great number of Grecian states that entered into the Macedonian empire. The Amphyctionic Council of the Grecian states made Phillip, King of Macedon, and afterwards Alexander, the head of Greece for the war with Persia, while each state continued to maintain its independence.

So here, the spots of the Leopard indicate the Ten Kingdoms of Europe, which have maintained a sort of loose combination through their community of religion and interest, but have always maintained their independence as separate states.—They were combined during the Crusades by a common religious enthusiasm; and all through the Middle Ages, they were united in their allegiance to the Papacy.—In Modern Times, community of interest has caused them to combine against any preponderant nation, to maintain the Balance of Power. The ten crowned horns have thus been united on the head of the Beast from the Sea.

2] “The feet were as the feet of a bear.”—The Persian bear was slow in its conquests; and these bear feet show that the states of Europe were, like Persia, slow in their military operations. And indeed, the Ten Kingdoms of Europe have always been slow and sluggish in any military conquests, and generally close their slow wars with but little or no conquests on either side.

3] “His mouth was as the mouth of a lion.”—This lion mouth tears and ravages, and shows the ferocity of the European states in their furious and bloody wars.

There can the no doubt that the Beast from the Sea represents Roman Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, under the dominion of the Ten Kingdoms.

3. THE HEALING OF THE DEADLY WOUND.

The Seer defers the mention of the deadly wound, until he speaks of the healing of the wound. The first act which John saw was the healing of the deadly wound. This symbolizes the Restoration of the slain Roman head to life,—the re-establishment of the Roman Empire.

After the healing of the dead Sixth Head, that head, when restored to life, is the Beast from the Pit. This fully explains the symbolism of the Beast from the Pit:—

1) It shows the Beast from the Pit was the Eighth Empire in the order of time, but was not a new head, but one of the seven heads, being the Sixth Head restored to life.

2) We also perceive how the Beast from the Pit might be called “The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” It is the Roman Empire; it is not, in its new form, actually the Roman Empire but the German empire; and yet, it is the Roman Empire, re-established under a new form.

3) The Beast from the Pit is the Roman Empire re-established, under the imperial supremacy of Prussia over the kingdoms of Southern and Western Europe. The symbolism plainly shows that the power under which the Roman Empire is to be re-established is Prussia:—

1] From the nature of the symbolism, none of the ten horns can be the Beast from the Pit. For a horn can not be a head, much less can a horn be a Beast. The horns are all on the Sixth Head of the Beast: they are all accounted for; and none of them can be the Beast from the Pit.

This shows that none of the Ten Kingdoms of Western and Southern Europe can be the Beast from the Pit. This excludes all the kingdoms in the territories of the Roman Empire, within the Rhine and the Danube, from the head of the Adriatic westward to the Atlantic, including England and part of Scotland. Neither France, nor Austria, nor Italy, nor Spain, nor Britain, can be the Beast from the Pit; for they are horns on the head of the Beast. A common sense analysis of the symbol would have prevented all the blunders that have been made in expounding the Beast from the Pit as the symbol of the French empire.

2] The Beast from the Pit must, from the nature of the symbol, be some power in Europe outside of the Rhine and the Danube. It must be either Prussia or Russia.

But it is not Russia, because in prophecy, Russia is called by name as at the head of Europe, at an era after the Beast from the Pit has fallen.(*)

Hence, as the Beast from the Pit can not be any of the ten kingdoms of Europe within the Rhine and the Danube, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, can not be Russia, it must be Prussia.

The very nature of the symbolism demonstrates the fact that Prussia is the Beast from the Pit.

We will find that identifying Prussia as the Beast from the Pit is a strong point of the evidence in proving the Dragon to be the symbol of the London Money Power.

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* This will be fully explained in my work on “The United States in Prophecy.”

CHAPTER III. PROOF THAT THE DRAGON IS THE SYMBOL OF THE LONDON MONEY POWER.

By illustrations given in the last chapter, the reader can perceive the method by which the symbols of prophecy are identified with the powers they symbolize. We are now ready to proceed to identify the Dragon as the symbol of the London Money Power.

And here, I wish to say that, if there were not more evidence to prove that the Dragon is the symbol of the London Money Power, than there is to prove the identity of the other symbols of prophecy with the powers they symbolize, I should not venture to advance the idea at all, in this age of general scoffing of prophecy.

But there is about eight times as much evidence to prove that the Dragon is the symbol of the London Money Power, as there is to prove the identity of any other prophetic symbol with the power it symbolizes.—There is one Historical Mark, three Parallelisms of Character, and two Coincidences of Fact, to prove that the Lion with Eagle's Wings is the symbol of the Babylonian empire; and one Historical Mark, two Parallelisms of Character, and three Coincidences of Fact, to prove that the Bear is the symbol of the Persian empire.—But, on the other hand, there are no less than six Historical Marks, twenty Parallelisms of Character, and twenty-two Coincidences of Fact, to prove that the Dragon is the symbol of the London Money Power. It seems as though divine inspiration had purposed to give such an array of evidence to establish the fact that the Dragon is the symbol of the Money Power, as would force conviction upon the most incredulous.

The Marks, the Parallelisms of Character, and the Coincidences of Fact, which prove that the Lion with Eagle's Wings is the symbol of the Babylonian empire, and the Bear, of the Persian, are not very striking;—but the Historical Marks, the Parallelisms of Character, and the Coincidences of Fact, which prove the Dragon is the symbol of the London Money Power, are, all of them, striking, and some of them very remarkable-so remarkable, indeed, that no idea of a chance resemblance can be entertained for a moment. They prove that Divine inspiration intended thus to mark the Dragon unmistakably as the symbol of the London Money Power. It is evident that Divine Providence wished to make the proof of the identity of the Dragon with the Money Power so certain than none can doubt; but that, as it is said in another prophecy of the Dragon in the Old Testament, “He who runs may read”. The proof dispels all doubt, and compels belief.
As the world may be slow to accept the fact that the Dragon is the symbol of the Money Power, I shall array the evidence in regular order, even at the risk of seeming tedious.

I. FIRST PROOF THAT THE DRAGON IS THE SYMBOL,
OF THE LONDON MONEY POWER:
HISTORICAL MARKS.

1ST. RECAPITULATION.

Let us now briefly review the facts respecting the Seven Heads and Ten Horns:

1. The angel says of the seven heads, “there are seven kings,” that is, kingdoms or empires. Of these seven empires he says, “five are fallen”.—These are the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Babylonian, the Persian, and the Macedonian empires, which had all fallen at the time the vision was given.

2. The angel continues, “And one is.” This was the Roman empire, which was in existence at the time when the Revelation was given.

I) Immediately after the fall of the Roman empire, ten Barbarian kingdoms were planted in its territories, which have been in existence ever since. These Ten Kingdoms are symbolized by the Ten Horns which grew upon the dead Sixth Head of the Beast.

3. The angel continues, “And the other, [the Seventh Head] is not yet come; and when he cometh he must continue a short space.”—This is the Dragon head; and, as I shall prove, it symbolizes the London Money Power.

4. The angel then proceeds to explain the Beast from the Pit as an Eighth empire, but not an eighth head, being the Sixth Head come to life again, or the Roman empire re-established.—This Eighth empire, as we have seen, is the empire of Prussia at the head of Germany, extended over Southern and Western Europe.
5. The Dragon gives to Prussia its imperial dominion, as we learn from the 13th Chapter of Revelation, “The Dragon gave to the Beast his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

6. And then the prophet saw that the Dragon and the Beast wielded a united imperial sway over the empire: “they worshipped the Dragon which gave power onto the beast: and they worshipped the beast saying, who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? ”

2ND. SIX IMPORTANT HISTORICAL MARKS

are here found, which will go far toward enabling us to identify the Dragon empire:—

First Mark:—The Dragon empire is the seventh empire in order of time.—Hence it is an empire which rises after the fall of the Roman empire, 476 A.D.

Second Mark:—The Dragon empire, “When he cometh must continue a short space.”

I. Both of these marks prove that the Dragon empire is not the Papacy: for I) The Papacy rose in the Pontificate of Leo the Great (440 A.D.-460 A.D.) before the fall of the Western Roman empire; and 2) The Papacy, instead of continuing “a short space,” has been in existence more than 1,400 years.

Leaving the Papacy aside, what empire has risen since the fall of the Roman empire, 476 A.D.?

2. It can not be the empire of Charlemagne; nor that of Charles V; nor that of Napoleon I. For those empires were only the temporary rising into power of one of the horns; and in each instance the access of power continued only for a generation. The nature of the symbol precludes the idea that either of these empires could be the Seventh Head; for, as has been said, a horn can not become a head. The ten horns are all upon the Sixth Head: they are all accounted for: from the nature of the symbol, neither of them can be the Dragon.

3. Aside from these empires and the Papacy, no empire has risen in Europe since the fall of the Roman empire, 476 A.D., except the Money Power of London. It is the seventh empire of the earth. It is the grandest Imperialism that has ever existed in the world.—This is especially an age of industry; and it has established an empire over industry, of which it is the head. It is at the head of the mighty movement of the age in which the whole world is marching. The kingdoms of Europe are all dependent upon it for loans. They all truckle to it, and do its will. They are kingdoms: it is an empire.—Being the one empire that has risen since the fall of the Roman empire, it is the seventh empire: and this Mark proves it to be the power symbolized by the Dragon.

That the Dragon empire is the London Money Power is corroborated by the other Historical Marks mentioned of the Dragon:—

Third Mark:—The Dragon empire a power of modern times.—In the 13th Chapter of Revelation it is contemporary with the healed head, or Beast from the Pit,—the Prussian empire. And all expositors agree that the Beast from the Pit is a power that has not yet risen. In the 13th Chapter of Revelation, the Dragon is represented as aiding in the rise of the empire of the Beast from the Pit, and as wielding with it a partnership imperial sway.—The Dragon empire is certainly a power of modern times, existing contemporaneously with the Beast from the Pit, a power that has not yet risen. This agrees perfectly with the Money Power, which has also risen in modern times.

Fourth Mark: —The Dragon is represented, in the 13th Chapter of Revelation, as attaining its highest power at a time yet future.—This agrees with the Money Power, which is, in our time, rapidly rising in power, and will reach its highest point of dominion at some time yet future.

Fifth Mark:—The Dragon empire is the Seventh head: the Beast from the Pit, or Prussian empire, is the eighth, in order of time.—Therefore it rises after the Dragon empire; the Dragon empire being in existence at the time of its rise, and aiding it to attain its imperial dominion. Hence, if the Prussian empire is about to be established in the near future, the Dragon empire is now in existence.—And as the Money Power is the only such imperial power now in existence, it must be the Dragon.

Sixth Mark:—The Dragon empire was only to continue a short space.—And, as it is in existence at a time yet future, according to prophecy, its rise to imperial dominion can not be very far in the past.—This agrees with the Money Power, which, as we have seen, rose to imperial dominion in the year 1757, A.D., and has now been in existence one hundred and thirty years.

The Dragon Agrees With the Money Power in all these particulars. There is no other power now in existence that agrees with these marks in any particular. The Historical Marks of the prophecies point unmistakably to the Money Power as the imperialism symbolized by the Dragon.

This Far, the Conclusions Reached Are Sure. It is impossible to dispute them. The clear statements of prophecy are irresistible.—1) It is certain that the Roman empire is not yet re-established.—2) It is certain that the Dragon empire is in existence before the re-establishment of the Roman empire, and aids in its re-establishment—3) It is certain that, if the Roman empire is about to be re-established at an early day, the Dragon empire is now in existence.—4) It is certain, as the Dragon empire is to “continue only a short space” that, as it is in existence at a time yet future, it has risen to imperial power in very recent times.—5) It is certain that the Dragon is a power of modern times.

On the other hand, the Money Power is the only great Imperialism that is now in existence.—The Money Power is an Imperialism that has not been long risen.—The Money Power is an Imperialism that is still rising.—The Money Power is an Imperialism which has, by its loans, enabled Prussia to crush Austria and France, and to become the first power in Europe; and which, according to present indications, will soon, by its loans, enable Prussia and her allies, Britain, Austria and Italy, to crush Russia and France and attain to imperial dominion over Southern and Western Europe, and thus re-establish the Roman empire.—And just as the Money Power has wielded the power of Britain in the past, it will wield the power of Prussia, the Beast from the Pit, in the future.—All these Marks point unmistakably to the Money Power as the Imperialism symbolized by the Dragon.

CHAPTER V. PROOF THAT THE DRAGON IS THE SYMBOL OF THE LONDON MONEY POWER, CONTINUED.

III.  Third Proof:  Coincidences of Fact.

We have now seen the twenty Parallelisms of Character by which the Great Red Dragon is proved to be the symbol of the London Money Power.  But these Parallelisms are only part of the evidence.  We have seen that a symbol is also identified with the power symbolized, by Coincidences of Fact, where certain things are stated of the symbol, which represent similar things that are true of the power symbolized.  There are twenty-two Coincidences of Fact, which prove that the Money Power is the Imperialism symbolized by the Great Red Dragon.  These will now be presented:—

1st.  The Dragon and Beast.

First Coincidence of Fact:—In the 13th Chapter of Revelation, it is said “the dragon gave to the beast his power, and his seat and great authority.” And again, “they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the beast.”

It has already been explained how, according to the 13th and 17th Chapters of Revelation, the Roman Empire is to be re-established under the dominion of Prussia, extended over Southern and Western Europe.  And it is here stated how the Roman empire is to be re-established under the headship of Prussia,—” the Dragon gave to the Beast [Prussia] his power, and his seat and great authority.”

This Establishment of the Prussian Empire over Southern and Western Europe by the aid of the London Money Power is not yet accomplished; but it is so near in the future that we may now see the means of fulfilment.  We know that the loans of the London Money Power to the nations of Europe enable them to keep up their standing armies, and to meet the expenses of war.  No country in Europe can sustain a war without the loans of the Money Power.  In the great war of 1870, between Prussia and France, the entire world thought France would be the victor, because she had the greater financial resources.  But the Money Power gave to Prussia unlimited loans, and enabled her to put two millions of men into the field, so that she crushed France like an eggshell, in a campaign of only a little more than four months.

If we now observe the state of Europe, we shall perceive that its present condition indicates that the great nations are on the eve of a great war; in which Prussia and her allies will triumph through the aid of the Money Power.

Europe is Now Divided Into Two Hostile Camps:

Russia and France, on the one side; and Prussia and Britain, and Austria and Italy on the other.  Of these two coalitions, Russia and France are, in respect of military force, much the more powerful.  They are able to bring into the field, in round numbers, six million soldiers; while Prussia and her allies can only bring into the field, in round numbers, four million men.

But the Money Power is a New Force in the Field.  It alone has imperial power in our age, sustaining kings, and in war giving the victory by its loans, where it pleases.  No nation in Europe can put forth all its strength in war, without the loans of the Money Power.  And, in the Great War now impending in Europe, the aid of the Money Power will be given to Prussia and her allies.  Loans will be refused to France and Russia, and those powers will be unable, for want of money, to bring their vast forces into the field.  Prussia and her allies will have unlimited loans, and will be able to equip and keep in the field all their forces:  the sure result will be that Prussia and her allies will be the victors in the conflict; and Prussia will become imperial over Southern and Western Europe.

In the New Era of the Imperialism of the Money Power, it needs a grand imperial government that can enforce its demands all over the earth.  The British government is now its subservient instrument;—but Great Britain is not sufficiently powerful to enforce its demands against the great nations of the earth.  It needs a more powerful nation to be its instrument.  And Germany, under the headship of Prussia, is the nation it has chosen.

The Pamphlet given me, in England, shows the desire of the Money Power to have a great Imperialism capable of ruling the world, to further and support its claims.  The writer of the pamphlet said that, in order to support the claims of British capitalists, it was necessary for England to be the most powerful nation on the globe; and that it was the policy of England, in order to this end, that the nations should be divided up into small states, so that England could subdue and control them.

In the Table of Contents of the pamphlet, appear the following headings:— “England has a Money Interest in Every Nation.” “Every War a War upon England.” “England Should invariably Chastise.” “English Rule a Blessing to Foreign Nations.” —The writer proceeds:—

“Having her property [the property of the Money Kings] dispersed all over the earth, England should, for her own protection, constitute herself the police of the world; as she is the carrier, the banker, the merchant, the Annuitant, the post-office of the world.  When the outrage of war is committed on England's commerce,—that is, whenever any war is undertaken,—it should be the standing order of the people of England to their public servants that, the instant any country marches an army across its own border, the English fleet in the district shall blockade every port of the offending power, and if necessary, bombard the maritime towns; that the British fleet throughout the world shall seize upon and make prize of everything afloat belonging to the offender; and further, that a British army shall, without a moment's delay, be sent to assist the nation invaded, and protect our property.”

The writer next proceeds to set forth the power of Great Britain to maintain this imperial position. He sets forth the resources of Britain under three heads,— “Naval Supremacy:” “The Military Character of the People” and “The Wealth of England.” —He says:—

“England is the only nation which has at all times maintained its army without a conscription.  * * * * * No one doubts our means of supplying the waste of war.  The cost [of the Crimean war] that has crippled Russia for twenty years, has never for a moment been felt by us.  The large outlay during the Crimean war did not curtail the smallest luxury of the poorest Englishman.  The war was thoroughly popular, as all wars are in England.  There is no instance of public meetings to protest against a war; for the people of England often urge a war, but never tire of one.”

The writer of the pamphlet advocates the breaking up of all the great powers (this was in 1864), into small states, which could not resist the power of Great Britain.  He says:—

“A combination of such states as Denmark, Holland and Belgium would give us little more trouble than a Caffir war, or an attack by the Maories of New Zealand.  * * * * * It is England's interest then that there shall be no large territories; and, fortunately, nature has limited within comparatively narrow bounds the extent of country which can most beneficially embrace one community.  * * * * * England can avail herself of these natural limits without the slightest injury to mankind; and should never fail to assist every people who are struggling for a separate existence.”

This writer represents the interest of the Money Power. His statements show that the Money Power feels the need of a great Imperialism able to dominate all nations, in order to further and guard its interest.  This writer evidently hoped that Great Britain would become such an Imperialism, by breaking up the great nations of the earth, fomenting discontents, and supporting revolts.—But the tendency throughout Europe and America is toward the growth of great nations.  It is now evident that Great Britain is not powerful enough to dominate the earth.

But the Money Power desires such an Imperialism as its agent, as is evident from the foregoing quotations.  Such an Imperialism is indispensable to it.  And as there is no hope of Great Britain becoming such an overmastering Imperialism, the Money Power has chosen Prussia to become its grand Imperial Agent in the future, and is raising Prussia to imperial power for that purpose.  Hence it aided Prussia by its loans to crush France; and it is now preparing, by its policy and its loans, to exalt Prussia to an imperialism over Southern and Western Europe.

Thus will be fulfilled the statement of prophecy:— “The dragon [the Money Power] gave to the beast [the Prussian empire] his power, and his seat and great authority,” i.e. imperial dominion.

Second Coincidence of Fact:—We see from the Dragon giving power to the Beast, that the Dragon does not symbolize a political power.

For one political power never gives power to another, but exercises it itself.  Thus, France will not give political power to Spain, nor Great Britain to Ireland, nor Russia to Poland.  Political powers always exercise their own political power, and will not give it to another state.  If the Dragon were a political power, it would not give power to the Beast [the Prussian empire], but would exercise it itself.

This fact harmonizes perfectly with the Dragon being the symbol of the Money Power.  The Money Power is not a political Imperialism.  It needs some political government as its political agent, to legislate in its interest, and fight its battles.

The two foregoing Coincidences of Fact are already in part fulfilled.  The Money Power has not yet raised Prussia to imperial rule over Southern and Western Europe.  The work is not yet completed.  But it is begun, and is far on the way toward accomplishment.  The Money Power, by its loans, enabled Prussia to crush Austria and France.  Its loans have enabled her to re-establish the German empire, and from being the weakest of the five great powers, to become the mightiest power in Europe.  It only needs one more step, which will be taken in the next war in Europe; and then, the Money Power will have completed its work, and given to Prussia imperial power and dominion over Southern and Western Europe.—So much is already done, that we can readily see the way to the single remaining step.

2nd.  The Two Horned Beast.

There is presented in the 13th chapter of Revelation, another beast, a Two Horned Beast, which is seen” coming up out of the earth.”

This Beast has been the vix crucis of expositors.  No expositor has ever applied it to any power that has yet risen, to the satisfaction of himself, or others.  This Beast is the Dragon.

John says of it:— “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth.  * * * * * And he spake as a dragon.  * * * * * and he causes the earth, and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed.”

1.  I prove that the Two Horned Beast is the dragon by Three Marks, mentioned in the above passage:—

I.) The first mark that proves that this Beast is the Dragon, is the manner in which John saw it “£coming up out of the earth.” —This is the action of a serpent, not of a quadruped.  When John saw the Beast rise up out of the Sea, the action was instantaneous: “I saw a beast rise up out of the Sea.”  The beast rose out of the Sea, and that was the end of its rising.  But it was different with this Two Horned Beast:  John “beheld” it for a long time; and all the time he “beheld” it, it was “coming up out of the earth,” —This slow crawl out of the ground is the action of a serpent crawling up out of its den, and of nothing else.

2.) I identify this Two Horned Beast with the Dragon by its voice: “He spake as a dragon.” —Now, we know a horse by its neigh, and a chicken by its crow, as well as by sight; and we recognize a serpent by its hiss.  In all nature, a serpent is the only beast whose voice is a hiss.  If this beast spake as a dragon, it hissed; for a hiss is the only sound a serpent utters.  The Two Horned Beast hissed:  It was the Dragon.

But we are not left to inference on this point.

3.) That this Two Horned Beast is the Dragon, is established beyond the possibility of a doubt by Divine inspiration representing it as doing the same thing the dragon had just before, in the same Chapter, been represented as doing.—It has just before been stated that the Dragon gave to the Beast whose deadly wound was healed “his power, and his seat and great authority.”  And here, it is said, this Two Horned Beast “causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed.” —This is just the same thing the Dragon does:  The dragon gave to the beast whose deadly wound was healed imperial power:  this Two Horned Beast causeth all men to render to the imperial beast worship or homage.—The act is the same in both instances:  this Two Horned Beast is the Dragon.

I have been careful to prove the identity of this Two Horned Beast with the Dragon, because,
2.  There are eight Coincidences of Fact between this Two Horned Beast and the Money Power; and all of them so remarkable as to make it absolutely certain that this Two Horned Beast is the symbol of the Money Power.
1.) The following is the text respecting this Two Horned Beast:—

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth:
“And he had two horns like a lamb:
“And he spake as a dragon.
“And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, ['i.e., in his presence']
“and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
“And he doeth great wonders, so that he causeth fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
“And [he] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by those miracles [or wonders] which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
“saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and causeth that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
“Here is wisdom.  Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:  for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six.  Revelation xiii:  11-18.

2) Let us note the Coincidences of Fact, presented between this Two Horned Beast and the Money Power:—

Third Coincidence of Fact:— “He had two horns like a lamb.” —In prophecy, a horn is a symbol of a kingdom or political power.  Thus, the ten horns symbolize the Ten Kingdoms of Modern Europe within the territories of the Roman empire.  The two horns on the head of the Persian Ram, (Dan. viii,) symbolize the two kingdoms of Media and Persia, united in the Persian empire.  So here, these Two Horns on the head of the Serpent, symbolize two kingdoms whose power the Dragon wields.  The horns being lamb-like horns, indicates that the two kingdoms under the control of the Serpent are especially Christian kingdoms.

These two horns symbolize the two kingdoms of England and Scotland, which were united, in the reign of Queen Anne, into the United-kingdoms of Great Britain.  Great Britain is the name, then established by law, for the two united kingdoms of England and Scotland.  And these are the two most pre-eminently Christian kingdoms in the world.

Prophecy only recognizes England and Scotland as the two horns on the head of the Dragon.  The Money Power rules Great Britain with absolute sway.  The British Parliament always registers its will.  No matter what party is in power, Great Britain always legislates for trade, and, when necessary, fights for trade.  When the Landed Aristocracy ruled the country, they had Corn Laws, to keep up the price of grain for the benefit of the Land Owners.  But when the Money Power wanted free trade in grain and provisions, for the benefit of manufacturers and merchants, Parliament submitted to its will, and threw over the policy of the Tory Landed Aristocracy.

The Tory party, representing the landed Aristocracy, has had to advance to the ground of the Money Power, and plant itself on the platform of the Whigs, in order to live.  The British Parliament is now the creature of the Money Power.  The Money Power rules Great Britain.  Prophecy, with striking fidelity to fact, represents Great Britain,—England and Scotland,—as the two horns on the head of the Serpent.

Fourth Coincidence of Fact: John saw this two Horned Serpent “coming up out of the earth.” —He looked at it for a long time, “beheld” it,—and all the time he” beheld” it, it was still” coming up out of the earth.”  It was always crawling up out of the ground, but never got entirely out.  Though constantly crawling up out of the ground, a part of it always remained in the ground.—This is a strange and, seemingly, impossible state of facts,—a snake always crawling up out of its den, and yet never getting entirely out.  And yet this strange thing is true of the Money Power.

The Money Power always acts through joint stock corporations.  The stockholders and bondholders of the various corporations all over the world, are in London.  There is the Serpent's den.  The stockholders are hidden from the world in their den.  The world only sees the directors and the officers of the corporations, and their hired operatives.—But as the stockholders make more money, they organize more corporations, and elect more directors, and more officers, and employ more operatives.  So that the Serpent is constantly growing greater in its den; and as it grows in the den, more of its body crawls up out of the den, and becomes visible to the public eye.

What a strange astonishing similitude is this! and yet it fits the Money Power perfectly.  And it will not suit any other power that has ever risen upon the earth.  God foresaw the action of the Money Power, and He chose a symbol that resembles it perfectly, and mentioned facts respecting the symbol that exactly suit the Money Power.—It must be a terrible monster which Divine Omniscience took such pains to point out, by making its symbol unmistakable.
Fifth Coincidence of Fact:—The Two Horned Serpent “exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,” —or in his presence.—The first beast, as we have seen, is the Prussian empire; and the statement in the text means that the Money Power will exercise all the power of the Prussian empire in the presence of the empire.

We can Understand how the Money Power will Wield the Power of the Prussian Empire, by observing the manner in which it is now exercising the power of the British empire.  In Great Britain, the Money Power is the power behind the Throne, greater than the Throne.  It wields the power of the British government by controlling the Parliament, and has been doing so for more than a century.  It is avowed that the British government is administered in the interests of the manufacturing and commercial classes.  No matter what party is in power, all parties alike do the will of the Money Power.

We had, a few years ago, a remarkable instance of the subserviency of the British government to the Money Kings.  When Disraeli was Prime Minister, the Tory Administration entered upon a new career of bold imperialism, in its treatment of other countries.  This imperial policy of the Tories was stigmatized by the Liberal party as” Jingoism.”  Gladstone appealed to the moral sentiment of the Liberals, who are the most religious portion of the British population, against the” Jingoism” of the Tories, and unseated them from power on that issue alone.  But immediately after the Gladstone administration came into power, it out-jingoed Jingo.

It happened that the Khedive of Egypt was unable to pay the interest on his debt to the Money Kings.  Those capitalists appealed to the British government; and the Gladstone Administration at once proceeded to enforce their claims against Egypt.  It did what had never been done before by the British government.  It invaded Egypt, conquered the country, discrowned the Khedive, and administered the government in the interest of the Money Power.  The British government debased itself to become “receiver” for the Money Kings.

And this high handed outrage upon a weak state was justified before the world by the plea that it was necessary, in order that those imperial capitalists might receive the interests on their loans.  And so thoroughly established is this grand Imperialism of Capital, that all the nations of Europe accepted this plea as perfect justification.

A Principle is Established in this Transaction that is full of Menace to the Nations of the Earth.  It is now recognized as an established principle that the monetary claims of the Money Power are higher than the right to national existence!!  So long as a country which the Money Power has ruined can pay the interest on its debts—well.—But when it is reduced to bankruptcy, and can no longer pay the interest, it thereby forfeits its national existence; and the Money Power has a right to have it conquered, in order to secure its debt!!!
 
This is the logic of the conquest of Egypt!  It is well for the nations to ponder it!!!

The British Government also Conquered Burmah, three years ago, in the interest of the Money Power.  The cause of the conquest was kept quiet until, last year, a Mr. Robert Sutherland, in making a trip from India to England, passed through the United States, and in an interview with the reporter of a New York paper stated the facts.

Mr. Sutherland stated to the reporter that he is “Resident Manager of the Burmah and Bombay Trading Corporation, one of the largest Trading Companies [of the Money Power] in the East.”  Mr. Sutherland further said: “Burmah possesses the only Ruby mines in the world, and they are very valuable.  The desire of the French in Tonquin to get control of these, and the Teat forests, led to the recent trouble with King Theebaw, and the overthrow of that monarch's rule.  He repudiated a very large claim against him by the Bombay and Burmah Corporation, claiming that the agents had made false returns.”

And no doubt they did; for they defraud and cheat everybody.  But the corporation appealed to the British government.  And, continues Mr. Sutherland:— “To prevent his trading with the French, the British government took up the claim of the Corporation, its members being British subjects, and the war over its enforcement led to Theebaw's capture, and the extension of the British protectorate over the whole of Burmah.”

In plain English, this statement means that this corporation of the Money Power claimed exclusive commercial rights in Burmah.  They cheated the Burman Emperor, making false returns, and when the Burman government exercised its right to abrogate its trade relations with the corporation, the British government, at the instance of the Trading Company, invaded Burmah, dethroned the emperor and sent him prisoner to India, and annexed Burmah as a conquered province.

Some years ago, the British government invaded China, because the Chinese government excluded the opium which the corporations of the Money Power were producing in India, and forced China, at the cannon's mouth, to receive the opium and allow its people to be debauched, in order that the Money Power might continue to reap its profits!

If the British government had conquered China, and made its emperor a captive, and annexed the country to its dominions, the act would have been on a par with the conquest of Egypt and Burmah.  The claims of the Money Power are advancing.  Its imperial policy requires the conquest and complete subjugation of any nation that is ruined by it, or which attempts to resist its oppression!

If any have doubted that this London Money Power is a great Imperialism, they can doubt no longer.  It may have seemed doubtful to some, while I stated its course in the United States, whether the picture of its imperial power might not be overdrawn.  But when we see it reducing Egypt to bankruptcy, and plundering Burmah by fraud, and then having those countries conquered in order to enforce its claims, none can doubt its proud and haughty claims to imperial supremacy.

Great Britain can crush China, and conquer Egypt and Burmah, in the interest of the Money Power.

But Great Britain is not powerful enough to enforce its claims against the United States, or any of the great nations of Europe; and hence the necessity, as already mentioned, of the Money Power raising Prussia to imperial dominion, in order to use its power for the enforcement of its claims.  It will have need of the Prussian power to enforce its claims against every country on the globe; for it is bankrupting all nations, as it is the United States; and every country will have to take ground against it, as Burmah did, or be reduced to bankruptcy like Egypt.  And the fate of resistance, and of bankruptcy, is the same,—the conquest and the annexation of the victim nation.  In this way the Prussian empire would attain to universal dominion, by enforcing the claims of the Money Power.

If the Money Power is not checked in its career, it will carry out its policy to the full extent.  It will bankrupt all the nations of the earth, and have them conquered, and their resources administered by a political imperialism in partnership with the Money Power, which will act as “receiver” for bankrupt nations, as England has done with Egypt.—The people of that empire would, in the end, become its grand agents, and share with it the plunder of the world.

Sixth Coincidence of Fact.—This Two Horned Serpent is represented as “ saying onto them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and did live.”

For a long time, I was perplexed as to the meaning of this “image of the beast.”  But the meaning is simple and plain.

We have here a remarkable prophecy predicting the representative form of government.  In the age when the Revelation was given, the representative form of government had never been thought of.  The state always acted for itself, through the Monarch, or a Constituent Assembly in which governmental power was vested.  The idea had never occurred to any one to have a representative body in which the governmental power should be vested.  Such a Representative Body, whether called Congress, or Parliament, or by any other name, is the representation or the image of the State.  Each member is the representative or “image” of his constituents, and the whole body is the representative, or “image” of the nation.  A Congress “representing” the nation would naturally, and with strict propriety, be called the image of the nation.

It is astonishing how perfectly all parts of this prophecy hold together.  It is truly wonderful that we should have here, in Revelation, a plain and distinct prediction of the representative form of government, long before it grew up in modern times. This “Image of the Beast” is the Reichstag, or German Parliament, which will be extended over the states of Southern and Western Europe.  All the states that become a part of the German empire will represent themselves in the Reichstag.  This Reichstag will be the representative body, or “Image” of the empire; and this” Image “will” speak,” and govern the empire.

It is by means of this Parliament or “Image,” that” the Dragon shall exercise all the power of the” Prussian empire in the presence of the empire.  The Dragon will control the Parliament with its money, and will thus control the Prussian empire, as it has the British empire, during the last century.

Seventh Coincidence of Fact:  This Two Horned Serpent “had power to give life to the image of the beast [the imperial Parliament,] that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

1.  That is, the Prusso-German empire will aspire to universal dominion.  Influenced by the Money Power, the Imperial Parliament will enact laws inflicting death upon all who refuse to submit to its sway.  It will be the policy of the Money Power to have a grand universal empire, by means of which it will be able to plunder all nations, and get possession of all the property in the world.

2.  But there is another fact indicated in this statement:—When the German empire shall first be established over Southern and Western Europe, the several nations which enter the empire will retain their independence in respect of all internal affairs, merely entering into a union for trade purposes, and for the administration of foreign relations.—But with the universal tendency of imperial power to centralize itself, the German Parliament will assume ascendancy over the subject states, and will compel all, under penalty of death, to submit to its sway.—And in this encroachment upon the rights of the subject kingdoms, the Dragon will be the active agent, furthering the aims of despotism.
Eighth Coincidence of Fact:—This to Horned Serpent “ doeth great wonders, so that he causeth fire to come down from heaven on the earth, in the sight of men.”

This is a startling statement.  I used to think that when the power symbolized by this Two Horned Beast should rise, and begin to “cause fire to come down from heaven,”  I would be sure to recognize it; for, when it should “cause fire to come down from heaven,”  its identity would be unmistakable.

But the Money Power had been “causing fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men” for over forty years, before I recognized its identity. “Fire from heaven” is lightning:  lightning is electricity.  For more than forty years the Money Power has been “causing fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men,” to run the telegraph.  In all our Cities, it” causeth fire to come down from heaven,” to run the electric lights.  In all the cities, and many of the towns,” fire from heaven” runs telephones.  And in many of the cities, electric motors run street cars by” fire from heaven.”

And the Money Power causeth all this “fire to come down from heaven.” As fast as any new electric invention is made, the Money Power buys the patent, organizes electrical companies all over the world, and sets the invention in operation.  Edison is evidently its paid agent.  He has spent over a million dollars in electrical experiments.  He has in his laboratory forty assistants, and is expending at least $40,000 a year in his experiments.  He can not personally afford any such outlay.  He must be the agent of the Money Power; and as fast as he makes a new invention, they buy it, and put it into operation.  They only paid him $6,000 a year, for seventeen years, for the telephone—nothing like the value of the invention; but enough, seeing that they paid him while experimenting, and supported his laboratory.

The Money Power owns the telegraph lines, the electric light companies, the electric street car companies, and all the applications of electric force.  All over the earth, it constantly “causeth fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men”!!

Who can doubt that the Two Horned Serpent is the Symbol of the Money Power?

Ninth Coincidence of Fact:—The Two Horned Serpent “had power to do great miracles” or wonders.

We live in an age of wonders. It is a common expression to speak of the “wonders of steam,” the “wonders of electricity,” the “wonders of mechanical invention.”
And all these “wonders” the Money Power has set in operation by its capital.  It has built the steam ships—the railroads—the telegraph lines—the telephones—the electric railway lines—the water works—the gas works:—and it has set in operation, by its capital, the thousand mechanical wonders in use in every kind of manufactures.

Tenth Coincidence of Fact:—The Two Horned Serpent “deceived them that dwell on the earth as to those miracles [or wonders] which it had power to do.”

This is perfectly fulfilled in the Money Power, which is now deceiving mankind as to the wonders it is working with its capital.  It lauds itself as a great benefactor of mankind.  The blessings of Capital are constantly held up before the public.  We are constantly told that Capital is necessary to our civilization—that it is beneficent in its operations—that Capital is indeed men's chief benefactor—that the world cannot do without Capital.  It is triumphantly asked where would the world now be without the railroads, the telegraphs and the thousand inventions Capital has set in operation?  We are continually reminded that the human race ought to realize the benefits it derives from Capital, and ought to be profoundly grateful for them.  And the inference is suggested that, in recognition of these benefits, mankind ought, in all things, to do the bidding and consult the interests of Capital!!

By these self laudations put forth through the press controlled by it, the Money Power is deceiving mankind.

It is admitted that the wonders Capital has wrought have been of the greatest benefit to mankind.  No one would be willing to go back to the old days of stage coaches and tallow candles.  We can not do without our railroads, and steamships, our telegraph lines, our water works, our gas works, our electric lights, our street railways, and all the appliances of our modern civilization.—But there is a consequence of all this that the Money Power keeps out of view.

By Means of these things, the Money Power is Rapidly Bankrupting Mankind, and getting all wealth into its own hands.  There is more work now being done by steam than could be done, with old methods, by five such races as now people the earth.  The Money Power has taken possession of steam, and mechanical inventions; and it is making all the profit derived from those sources.—Let a small knot of capitalists make all the profit on the labour of five such races as now people the earth—let them make it, not for one year or one generation, but for ages; and let them constantly reinvest, and enlarge their operations; and let them invest their profits, age by age, in property of all kinds:—and it is only a question of time, when they will do all business, and own all property.
We reach the same conclusion by another course of fact.  When the Money Power began its career, 175 years ago, it is a moderate estimate to put its capital at $50,000,000.  The commerce of the world has always been needing capital; and business has always afforded the best opportunities of investment.  The capital of the Money Power would certainly double itself once in fifteen years.  Then it has doubled 11 3/5 times since 1715.  If this is the case, the capital of the Money Power now amounts to $163,840,000,000.  This is probably below the mark.  The wealth of the Money Power can hardly be less than $200,000,000,000.

This is a vast amount; but the facts bear it out.  In the First Era of the growth of the Money Power, down to 1775, it had use for all its capital in extending its operations. In the Second Era,—from 1775 to 1830,—it had sufficient capital to make immense loans to the monarchs of Europe.—In the Third Era,—from 1830 to 1864,—it had money enough to make loans for building railroads, water works, gas works, &c.; but it waited for the people to come for the money.—But since 1864, in the Fourth Era of its growth, it has been going into all kinds of enterprises; and now it is seeking new investments, and begging people to sell it their property all over the earth.  The Money Power has so much money, now, that it can not find investment for it.  In one more double it will about have all the property of the earth.  In the beginning of its career, a double of its capital meant $100,000,000.  Now a double of its capital means $400,000,000,000.  And all the property of the world is less that $600,000,000,000.

The labour wrought by steam and invention is too vast, for a few capitalists to be suffered to monopolize these grand agencies of industry for their own exclusive benefit. The monopoly of those appliances in the hands of a few capitalists is ruining the world.

The monopoly of steam industry must be stopped, and some way must be discovered by which the masses of mankind may be allowed a chance to share the profits derived from steam and invention.

How well Divine Inspiration foreknew the craft of the Money Power, and how thoroughly it has exposed it.  In exposing the pretence of the Money Power as to the beneficent influence of capital, it has completely unmasked the deception of the claim that the operations of Capital, as now carried on, are beneficent to mankind. The exposure of its deception is the first step toward a new and better order of things, in which the operations of steam and invention, instead of inuring to the exclusive benefit of the Money Power, shall be used by the people of every country for their own national and individual prosperity.

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Mankind is slow to accept a new thought, and some persons may be unwilling to believe that the Money Power is thus taking possession of all the property of the world.  But divine Inspiration declares that such is its purpose:—

Eleventh Coincidence of Fact:—This Two Headed Serpent “ causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

This “mark” is the brand in the hand or on the body, by which slaves were marked, in ancient times. It is the aim of the Money Power to get all industry and all business into its hands, and reduce all mankind to the condition of its paid servants, branded in the hand, or on the forehead, with the badge of servitude.

A very intelligent man, after hearing my lecture, suggested to me that the” mark in the hand” designates the multitude of operatives who render manual service to the Money Power; while the “mark in the forehead” designates those who render to the Money Power brain service.  This would include all great agents, having control of departments of industry or trade; all editors who wield their pens in the service of the Money Power; all lobbyists and legislator who sell themselves to promote the aims of the Money Power; and all in any department of business,—lawyers and other professional men,—who render brain service to the Money Power.

The mind shrinks from the idea that a grand Imperialism of Capital should get every department of industry and enterprise into its possession, so that none except its paid agents can do any business.  But we have seen how entirely the Money Power has obtained control of all business, in India.  We have seen how it is monopolizing almost all business in the United States, except farming and retail traffic—and how it is rapidly getting possession of these.  We have seen how one more double, which will only take fifteen years, will give it more than all the property of Christendom, and two more doubles will give it all the property in the world.

A.T. Stewart broke down one thousand retail merchants in New York City, so at they could not buy nor sell, until they failed in business; then they took the “mark in the hand,” and went behind his counters; and they could sell all the goods the New York people wanted to buy.

Some time ago, Armour began a campaign against the butchers of Davenport, Iowa.  He wanted them to sell his meats.  They refused:  they wanted to buy and kill their own cattle; for there is a grand profit in buying and killing cattle and selling beef, at present prices.  But Armour determined to coerce them:  he began to sell dressed beef in Davenport so low that the butchers could sell no beef.  They surrendered, and agreed to sell Armour's beef; they took the “mark in the hand” ; and then they could sell all the beef the people of Davenport wanted to buy.

Business men are now being driven out, not of the beef trade only, but of many lines of business.  The Money Kings have already obtained possession largely of the wholesale trade, and of all the great lines of business in the country.  They have the import and the export trade:  they buy all our products of every kind.  They have almost everything except merchandising and the farms; and, as we have seen, they are rapidly getting possession of the retail trade, by the retail stores which they are establishing throughout the country; and will soon have possession of our farms, by their foreclosure of mortgages.

The New York Times expects the Money Power to get possession of the farms by foreclosure of mortgages, and in a leading editorial, published Aug.  12th, 1877, it anticipates this result, and prepares the public mind for it.  It says:—

“There seems to be but one remedy, and it must come,—a change of ownership of the soil, and the creation of a class of land owners, on the one hand, and of tenant farmers on the other,—something similar in both cases to that which has long existed and now exists in the old countries of Europe.  * * * * Everything seems ripe for the change.

“Then will begin a new era in agriculture, and one that seems very desirable.  * * * * * Those farmers who are land poor must sell, and become tenants, instead of owners of the soil.”

The Times regards the farmers losing their farms as inevitable, and it looks forward with complacency to the time when all our farms will be devoured by the Money Power.  When that event occurs, the farmers will be serfs upon the soil redeemed by their fathers from the wilderness.

In a few years more, if things go on in their present grooves, this prophecy will be fulfilled; and no man in America can buy or sell, unless he is the paid agent of the Money Power.  And if it is not checked, it will, ere long, extend its ownership over the whole world, and make all mankind its employees and servants, with its brand in their hand, or on their forehead.

Twelfth Coincidence of Fact:—The number of the name of the Beast: “Here is wisdom.  Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast:  for it is the number of a man; for his number is six hundred and three score and six.”
The manner in which this number of the name of the Beast is mentioned makes it evident that the number of the name is a very important means of identifying this two horned beast with the power it symbolizes.

From a very early period, the Christian fathers turned their minds to the exposition of this symbolic number.  Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, in Gaul, who lived in the Second Century, gives three names that have this number 666.—The first name was Euatnhes, which he merely mentions, and passes by, with the remark, “but we affirm nothing respecting this.” —The second name he gives is Lateinos.  This name has been very generally adopted by expositors, who supposed this Serpent to be the Papacy.

The third Name which Irenaeus Gives as Containing the Number 666, is Teitan; and this name he himself adopts.

It may be that this is the Name intended by divine Inspiration; and that, when this Dragon Imperialism shall be fully developed and known to the world, and its history be complete, it shall have a ruler or king in whose name the fated number will appear. But in the present state of our knowledge of the subject, I accept Teitan as the fated number; and it is my belief that this is the number that was intended in the text; And for the following reasons:—

1.  Titan Was the Great Legendary Giant

of the Olden Time.  We still use the name to designate any colossal power.  I believe that one reason why divine Inspiration called this Serpent Titan, was to indicate its immense power, its huge proportions, its Titanic strength.

1) The Money Power is the most colossal empire that has ever risen upon the earth.  It is a Titanic empire; the greatest that has ever existed.  And the Serpent, its symbol, is a “great” Serpent, stretching its mighty folds all over the earth.  It is a titanic Serpent.

2) In its relations with the Beast, the Dragon has all the power; for “The Dragon gave power to the beast;” and this Serpent “exerciseth all the power of the first beast in his presence.”
 
3) So, in the third vision of Daniel, the Little Horn which was the symbol of the Roman empire, grows so great, at last that its top stands up among the stars.  It becomes a “titan” Horn.  And the vision of it was so terrible that it entirely unnerved the prophet, so that he was sick for three weeks.

This horn became a Titan Horn only after the re-establishment of the Roman empire, under the joint rule of the Money Power and Prussia.  The power of this Joint empire shall be so colossal that nothing can represent it but a titan Horn rising up above the earth, till its top is among the stars.—The fact that this “Little Horn” became a “titan” Horn has never been observed by expositors.

2.  but the special reason why the dragon is designated
by the name “titan,” is its antagonism to god.

1) The Titans, according to the Heathen legend, warred against Jupiter, and hurled their missiles against Olympus; and they were only beaten, at last, by Jupiter smiting them with his thunderbolts.  Titan according to the legend, was the king of the Titans, and was thus the Arch-rebel against the gods.

2) It is believed that the legendary war of the Titans against the gods, was the heathen mythological form of the rebellion of Satan and his angels against God.  So that, the Satan of the Bible is the mythological Titan.

3) In the biblical idea, Satan is embodied in the serpent.  And the Dragon, in the book of Revelation, is called the Devil and Satan.  This indicates that the Dragon symbolizes that power which, in the political world, is the great antagonist of God, as Satan is in the spiritual world.

4) The Dragon is the Great Antichristian Power of the Latter Days.  In its full development, the head of the Dragon power is the Antichrist.

1] We have seen how the Jews are even now hoping and expecting to overthrow Christianity.  A very intelligent Jew once, in the heat of discussion, gave me the idea of the Christ which the modern “reformed” Jew holds.  He said the prosperity of the Jews in the earth—he did not choose to say their dominion—is what is set forth in the writings of the Prophets under the figure of the Christ.

In the Jewish idea, the Dominion of the Jew Money Power is the Christ.  And, at the least, I think that the head or king of the Money Power will claim to be the Christ.

Christ means “The Anointed One,” in allusion to his being the promised royal descendant of David, the promised King of Israel.  The Money Power, it seems, will at last choose a king, who is to be the acknowledged king of Israel,—the long expected, the long promised One,—the Christ.  They will not claim that he is Divine or the Son of God.  For they deny that, in the Deity, there is the relation of Father and Son.  They deny the Divine Trinity.  They “deny the Father and the Son.”  They recognize only the unity of God.
The Jews have always expected a temporal sovereign as the Christ.  They rejected the Lord Jesus, because He said “My Kingdom is not of this world.”  They expect a Christ whose kingdom is of this world—who is merely a temporal monarch.  The time will probably come when, in the plenitude of its power, the Jew Money Power will set up a king, and declare him the promised Messiah.  They will declare him the founder of a new Dynasty that is to rule the earth forever.

They will proclaim him the first of a line of kings,—Anointed Ones,—who, in their expectation, will all bear the title of “the Christs” ; as the kings of Egypt were called “the Pharaohs,” and the emperors of Rome,” the Caesars.” —The present attitude of the Jew Money Power is a stern menace to Christianity.

2] The Jew London Money Kings would break down our churches.  In monopolizing the trade of our towns, and getting possession of our farms, the Money Power hopes to succeed in accomplishing the aims against Christianity which the Jews are known to entertain.  If the Money Power should succeed in its aims, our churches will inevitably be broken down.  Strike down our farming yeomanry and the tradesmen of our towns, and who would sustain our churches?  our schools?  Our churches in town and country would be pastorless for want of support.  Our school systems would fall into wreck in the universal poverty that would prevail.  Our Christian civilization would lie in ruins.

It is well known that the Jews, in our day, entertain strong hope of overthrowing Christianity.—Prof. Godet, of Lausanne, utters the following warning of the danger threatening Christendom from the hostility of the Jews.  He says:—

“On hearing this word 'Jewish,' many of you perhaps smile.  That which bears that title does not seem to them very dangerous for the Church.  They do not say, 'Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?' but 'Can anything dangerous to us come out from thence?'  To this contemptuous smile, I will oppose another, that of the Israelites themselves,—I mean the intelligent Israelites,—when they see us Christians bestirring ourselves for the propagation of the gospel, * * * * * and carrying the religion of the Bible to the ends of the earth.  'This religion,' they say quietly, 'is our religion.  All these pains you are taking for us.  * * * * * For the God of the Christian is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,—the God of the Jews.  The doctrine of Jesus is none other than that of our prophets.  One thing only separates us from these Christians,—the worship of the Christ.  Let this absurd dogma of the divinity of a man,one that is contrary to the most elementary principles of Monotheism, let this last remnant of the ancient paganism living on in Christianity fall to the ground, and the gospel, thus purified, is Judaism.  Christians, we are waiting for you!  It is not we who are coming over to you; it is you who are coming over to us.' * * * * * So think, and so speak clear sighted Jews.” (1)

Inspector Lictor Platt, in a recent course of lectures before the University of Berlin, said:—

“Everywhere one thought rules the Jews—the thought that the Christian idea shall at last be vanquished by the Jewish; and their common effort is directed to this end,—to supplant Christianity in the collective life of the nations.” (2)

The Christian Editor of one of the leading evangelical papers of North Germany writes in the same strain:

“Among the Jews themselves, the conclusion is reached, not that the Jews will have to return to Christianity, but that the Christians will have to be turned to the Jewish faith.” —Neue Evang. Kirchen-Zeitung, Feb. 4, 1882.

A Jewish writer, quoted in the same paper, asserts with all assurance “Reformed Judaism is the confession to which the dominating church must return, if she will complete her reformation.” —Neue Evang. Kirchen-Zeitung, Nov. 19, 1881.

I have taken the above quotations from Dr. Kellogg's book, The Jews.  The author of that work says:

“This attitude of aggressive antagonism to Christianity, which the Jews are assuming, however little noticed by the unthinking many who never look behind acts and events for agents and causes, is a sign of the times as grave as it is remarkable.  The confident expectation and determination of these enfranchised Jews, that not Christianity, but Judaism,—divested indeed of what was ceremonial and temporary,—shall yet win the world against Christianity, when we remember their control of the Capital of the world, their profits, and their confessedly marvellous success in modern life, acquires a serious significance.” —The Jews, page 210.

The Jews are fully conscious of their Imperialism of Capital, and are looking forward to the time when, in full possession of all the industry, and wealth and property of the world, they can give entire direction to secular affairs, and form to religious belief.  Let them get possession of our farms, and the business of our towns, and they will not hesitate to attempt to crush out our churches, by reducing their members to such poverty that they will be unable to sustain the expense of public worship.

If the Dragon empire, in its ultimate development, is the Antichrist, there is a peculiar fitness in Divine Inspiration calling it “Titan,” the Satan of heathen mythology.

The Greeks had a well known method of expressing names by numbers.  Each letter of the alphabet had as its equivalent a definite number.  According to this system, the name Titan has the number 666.  The Greek spelling of the name was Teitan.  The numeral equivalent of these letters are as follows:

T 300 + 5 + 10 + 300 + 1 + 50=666,

3rd.  The Dragon and the Man-child.

We now turn to the symbol of the Dragon in the 12th Chapter of Revelation, where are presented ten other Coincidences of Fact.  Until now, we were not prepared to take up the exposition of the Coincidences of Fact set forth in this symbol of the Dragon, inasmuch as it was necessary, first, to understand the relations of the Dragon to Great Britain and the Prussian empire.
The following is the text in the 12th chapter of Revelation:

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
“And she, being with child, cried travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and ten crowns on his heads.
“And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth.
“And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
“And she brought forth a man-child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
“And her child was caught up unto God and to His throne.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days.
“And there was war in heaven:  Michael and his angels fought against the dragon:  and the dragon fought and his angels; and prevailed not:  neither was their place found any more in heaven.
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:  he was cast out, and his angels were cast out with him.
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:  for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Rev. xii:  1-11.

In the remaining portion of the chapter there are other Coincidences of Fact, which prove that the Dragon is a symbol of the Money Power; but, as they require, in order to bring them to bear on the question, a comparison with other prophecies not yet explained, they are omitted.  But, without them, there are, in the part of the chapter already quoted, ten Coincidences of Fact, which prove beyond the possibility of doubt that the Dragon is the symbol of the Money Power.

Before presenting these Coincidences, it is first necessary to give an
1.  exposition of the other symbols.

In the 12th Chapter of Revelation, the scene is laid in

1) The Lower Aerial Heaven.

The Lower Aerial Heaven, in the Book of Revelation, is Always the Symbol of America, considered geographically as a country.  The principle on which this symbolism is based is very simple and clear.

John received his Revelation on the Isle of Patmos, in the Aegean Sea.  The Revelation, like all the other prophecies, was given by vision.  The Isle of Patmos is in the Southeastern part of Europe.—As the Seer looked out toward the West, he beheld Europe spread out before his eye; and, beyond it, was another country, up in the air above Europe; and above this country was the highest Heaven, where the Throne of God was placed.  Above the earth of Roman Europe was a sky, in which sun and moon and stars were held

This was the Apocalyptic Landscape which John beheld in his vision.  He was, no doubt, familiar with the geography of his time, and recognized the outlines of Roman Europe, which he called “the Earth.”  He naturally, in accordance with the ideas of his age, supposed the Eastern Continent to be the whole of the world, and that there was nothing on this earth beyond.  He therefore called the country which he saw in the air, above Europe,” Heaven.”  But that country was America; and was placed in the Apocalyptic landscape above Europe, in the air, in perfect accordance with the laws of perspective.
In Accordance with the Laws of Perspective, the Foreground of a Landscape is always at the bottom of a picture, and the background, at the top.  As John looked toward the West, therefore, he saw Roman Europe at the bottom of the landscape, as though on the ground, while America would appear above, at the top of the landscape.—But, with three thousand miles of perspective, America would be diminished to a point, and be invisible.  In this respect, the law of perspective would have to be set aside; and America would be brought into the foreground sufficiently to be clearly visible, and placed above Europe, as though in air.  In accordance with the law of perspective, America, in the book of Revelation, is always presented in the landscape in the lower aerial heaven.

2) A Glorious Woman

appears in the Lower Aerial Heaven,—America,— “clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” Expositors generally agree that this Woman is the symbol of the Christian Church.  The Two Witnesses, in the 11th Chapter of Revelation, are also the symbols of the Church.  As the Two Witnesses prophesy clothed with sackcloth” one thousand two hundred and three score days,” so the Woman is in the wilderness” one thousand two hundred and three score days.”

The mistake into which expositors have fallen, in supposing that the woman is presented here before she fled into the wilderness, has been the cause of much error in the interpretation of this vision.  Owing to this error, expositors have looked for the fulfilment of the vision in events that occurred in the Early History of the Church.

But, in the sixth verse, where it is said, “The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days,” it does not mean that the woman then fled into the wilderness for the first time.  Several considerations make this evident:—

I] The Greek verb rendered “fled” is not in the imperfect tense, so as to indicate action beginning and continuing; but it is in the aorist, indicating completed action. The woman was not then making her first flight into the wilderness:  she had been there for a long time, and only emerged from obscurity for a brief space, at this time, and now returned to it again.

2] The woman fled into the wilderness, “where,” says the Seer, “she hath a place.”  She had been in her “place” a long time; she now returned to her “place.”
3] This return to her “place” is like her subsequent return, in the 14th verse, where the woman again flies to her “place” in the wilderness.  In both instances, the woman flies to her refuge; but it does not mean, in either case, that she flies thither for the first time.  Hence, the woman flying to her “place” does not give us any clue to the era of the vision:  that must be learned from other facts.

3) A Man-Child

was born of this woman,—the Christian Church,—in the Lower Aerial Heaven, “who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.”

This Man-child is the symbol of the United States; as is evident from the concurrent teachings of prophecy:—

I] The Man-child is born in the Lower Aerial Heaven, which is America as a country.

2] The Man-child is represented as born, the child of the Church.  And the United States is, in a remarkable manner, the child of the Christian Church, as I have shown in my lecture on The United States in Prophecy.  All the American Colonies were founded and settled by Christians seeking a refuge in the New World, where they might worship God according to the dictates of their conscience.  There were the Puritans in New England, the Baptists in Rhode Island, the Dutch Calvinists in New York, the Swedish Lutherans in New Jersey, the Scotch Covenanters from New York to North Carolina, the English Quakers in Pennsylvania, the Episcopalians in Virginia, the French Huguenots in South Carolina, and the German Moravians in Georgia.  The United States is emphatically the Child of the Church.

3] In the first vision of Daniel, the United States is represented under the symbol of the” Stone” which was” cut out of a mountain without hands” ; which is interpreted by the Prophet as a kingdom set up by the God of heaven.  This is very similar to the representation of the origin of the United States, the Man-child,—in the book of Revelation.  In Daniel, God is represented as the founder of the country, without anything being said of any human instrumentality:  Here in Revelation, the human instrumentality, the Church, is especially mentioned.  But the divine or Providential origin of the country is set forth in both instances.

4] The Man-child was “to rule all nations with a rod of iron.”  And it is the accordant voice of prophecy that the United States is to be a world-wide Republic, ruling all the nations of the earth.

5] “The Man-child was caught up unto God and to His Throne.” This indicates the providential deliverance of our country in the War of Independence, and the providential protection that has kept us throughout our entire career as a nation.
Having identified all the other symbols of this vision of the 12th chapter of Revelation, we are now ready to identify the Dragon, beyond the possibility of doubt or question.—We have identified the Woman, the Man-child, and the place of his birth.  This being done, we cannot mistake the interpretation of the Dragon.

2.  coincidences of fact.

Thirteenth Coincidence of Fact:—In the birth hour of The Man-child, “ The Dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

The United States was born as a nation in the War of Independence.  At that time, the Great Red Dragon attempted to devour the infant nation.  Great Britain was the power which then attempted to destroy our national existence.  We must, therefore, either identify the Dragon with the British government, or with some power in Britain, behind the throne, greater than the throne.

As we have seen, the Dragon is not the symbol of Great Britain.  The Dragon is the seventh grand form of Imperialism in the world:  Great Britain is no such Imperialism.  England and Scotland are Two of the Ten Kingdoms of Europe.  They are represented in prophecy as the two horns on the head of the Dragon.  Moreover, Prophecy represents Great Britain and the United States as united in the great future war against the Dragon and the Beast.—The Dragon is not the symbol of Great Britain as a nation.

Hence, the Dragon must represent some power having its seat in Britain, and having the British government under its control; and which influenced Great Britain to war against the United States, in our War of Independence.—This is just the historical status of the Money Power.  It controls the British government with autocratic sway.  It has controlled it for over a hundred years.

The Money Power was the prime mover in the oppression of the American Colonies, which drove them to revolt.  The Landed Aristocracy, the Moneyed Capitalists, and the Mercantile Class of Great Britain were all united in holding stock in the British East India Company, which was then the Money Power; and their combined influence had complete control of the British Parliament.

During the trial of Warren Hastings, there were, in the administration party, a large number of the stockholders of the East India Company who had seats in Parliament.  But the Administration party was in a minority in the Company, which sustained Hastings against the government.  Many of the Opposition in Parliament were, no doubt, also stockholders.  The connection of the Company with the government was very close; so that it would carry in Parliament any policy on which the Company was united.

In England, the Money Power is a Third Estate, greater than King and Parliament.  In 1775, as now, the British Parliament was the pliant tool of the money Power, and registered its will.  It was not yet the age of steam, and the Money Power looked to Colonial dependencies as the chief source of gain.  With its experience in India, it naturally desired to make another India of the American Colonies; and it derived great profits from their commerce, and great revenues from their taxation.

No sooner was the Seven Years War over, than the Money Power, impelled the British Parliament into a system of oppressive taxation and commercial restrictions, which drove the Colonies into Revolution.  The whole question in dispute between the Colonies and the Mother country was taxation, industry and trade; matters in which the Money Power was specially interested, and in which it wished to enforce the policy that would promote its interest.  The tax on tea, which drove the Colonies to revolt, was enacted for the special benefit of a corporation connected with the East India Company, which had a great quantity of tea on hand.  While the nominal tax was retained, the tea was made lower than before in the interest of the Company, so as to enable it to sell.  The law of the British Parliament for the benefit of the East India Company was the special occasion of the Revolution.

The Money Power through its control of Parliament drove the Colonies to revolution; and then, instead of attempting to allay discontent by concession, it attempted to destroy our national existence, by war.

There can be no doubt that the Dragon, which wished to devour our infant nation in the War of Independence, was the Money Power, which then ruled the British Parliament.

This Coincidence of Fact, alone, is sufficient to prove that the Dragon is the symbol of the London Money Power.

Fourteenth Coincidence of Fact:— “On his heads,” were ”seven crowns.” The Seventh or Dragon Head was, at that time, a crowned Imperialism.

In 1775, the East India Company which was the head of the Money Power was a crowned Imperialism.  According to history it became an imperial power in 1757, at the victory of Plassy.  In 1764, it was ruling an empire in Bengal of forty million subjects, having greater revenues than the most powerful kingdom of Europe.—In 1775, the Dragon head had just become a crowned Imperialism.
Fifteenth coincidence of Fact:—The tail of the Dragon “drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth.”

In the Revolutionary War, the British forces overran about one-third of the United States.  In the latter years of the Revolution, the British forces held their headquarters in New York City, and broke down all organized resistance in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and overran part of Virginia.  About one-third of the country was thus “cast down” by the invading forces.  The tail of the Dragon “cast down one-third of the stars” that glittered on our flag.

Sixteenth Coincidence of Fact:—But the Dragon did not succeed:” the Man-child was caught up onto God and to His Throne.”

This catching up of the Man-child to the Highest Heaven, as beheld by John, symbolized the providential deliverance of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and the Divine protection of our country ever since.  Our Revolutionary fathers all recognized the hand of Divine Providence in the success of our country.  Washington, speaking of the events of the Revolution, said:—

“The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he who lacked faith must have been worse than an infidel; and he more than wicked who had not gratitude to acknowledge his obligations.”

Seventeenth Coincidence of Fact:— “And there was war in heaven:  Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon:  and the Dragon fought and his angels.”  Here is a future war represented as occurring in America,—the Lower Aerial Heaven,—between the Dragon and Michael.

The place where this war occurs is clearly set forth:  It is the same Lower Aerial Heaven where the Man-child was born.  The Man-child is now grown up to man's estate, and is called Michael.  In the fourth vision of Daniel, also, Michael is presented as the symbol of the United States.

I could not for a long time see the basis of this symbolism.  I could not see the point of similarity between Michael and the United States, which always lies at the foundation of all symbolism.

But it is very plain.  Michael is the Archangel the Chief of the Hosts of God in heaven.  Divine Inspiration always regards the United States from the standpoint of its future grandeur and glory, when it shall rule the whole earth in righteousness, for God. There is a striking fitness in the Leader of the Hosts of God in heaven being made the symbol of the United States, the great future leader of the Hosts of God on earth, during the grand millennial age.

Only the fact that there is to be a future war between the Dragon and Michael, between the Money Power and the United States, can be learned from this passage.

In the fourth vision of Daniel, there is a synchronous prophecy, which represents the Prussian empire as invading the United States.  Speaking of the King who” shall do according to his will” —which is the Prussian empirethe angel tells Daniel that he shall overthrow many countries, and says:— “He shall enter also into the glorious land.” Daniel xi: 41.

In Daniel viii: 9, it is said of the Roman empire, there presented under the symbol of a little horn, that It waxed exceeding great toward the South, and toward the East, and toward the glorious land. “As the Roman empire actually grew great toward the South, and East and West, it is manifest that its Westward growth is here set forth as a growth” toward the glorious land, the growth toward the East and South being previously mentioned.  This shows that “the glorious land” lies toward the West of Europe.  That designation can only point out the United States.

The Angel Called our Country “the Glorious Land,” in view of its future destiny, as an Universal Republic, giving religion, liberty and civilization to the world throughout all coming ages.  The warlike entrance of the Wilful King,—the Prussian empire,—into the Glorious Land, foretells a Prussian invasion of the United States.

Putting the two Prophecies Together, they Foretell an invasion of the United States, by the Prussian empire as the agent of the Money Power.  In the future the Money Power will exercise the power of the Prussian empire, as it now exercises the power of Great Britain.  As it influenced the British government to invade China; and to conquer Egypt and Burmah, so it will influence the German empire when extended over Southern and Western Europe, to invade the United States.

Prophecy does not say what cause of quarrel the Money Power will have against our country.  It does not say whether we shall be utterly bankrupted as Egypt was, and unable to pay the interest on our vast debt to the Money Power; or whether we shall attempt to resist its encroachments before we are finally ruined, as Burmah did.  Whatever its ground of umbrage, the Money Power will set the Prussian empire upon us.

And Prussia will not be reluctant to undertake the conquest.  Our Republic is a standing menace to monarchy.  We are the most powerful nation on the globe; and our influence in the world is even mightier from our moral power, than from our national greatness.  If things could go on prosperously with us for thirty years more, Europe would become Republican by the progress of liberal ideas.  The despotic Prussian empire over Southern and Western Europe will never be safe while the Great Republic of the West stands.  The stability of monarchical institutions requires that the American Republic shall be overthrown and subjugated.

The Invasion would not be Attempted with a small Army.  Prussia, at the head of Southern and Western Europe, and backed by the unlimited loans of the Money Power, might easily put two million men in the field.  It is probable that the army of invasion will reach that number.  The British government, under the rule of the Tories, will give its support to the Prussian empire, and lend its fleets for the transportation of the invading army and its supplies.  According to military probabilities, the line of invasion will be the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, and thence down east of Lake Erie, in an attempt to take possession of the line of the Alleghanies, and cut off the Eastern and Middle States from the West and South.

And together with this, having command of the ocean the invaders will probably attempt to seize and capture New York City from Long Island, and renew the attempt of Burgoyne to cut off New England from the West, by taking possession of the line of the Hudson.

The statements of Prophecy indicate a conflict of unexampled magnitude.  Prussia invaded France with one million men; the rest of her forces being kept at home to guard the frontiers.  And the invading army crushed France almost without a struggle.  But when Prussia shall invade America, it will be Greek meeting Greek, and the mightiest conflict will ensue on which the sun has ever shone.

Eighteenth Coincidence of Fact: “The Dragon prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.  And the great Dragon was cast out, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

When this great future conflict comes, we shall understand the design of Providence in permitting the outbreak of the late War.  It will then be seen that our Civil War saved our country and the world.  If, when this future invasion comes, we were distracted by a sectional issue, and unarmed, as we were in 1860, our position in the face of a grand invasion would be hopeless.  Before we could prepare for war, the heel of the despot would be upon our neck.  But when the invasion comes we shall be thoroughly armed with the weapons of our Civil War; and, all distracting issues past, North and South will present a solid front to the foe.  We shall be fighting for religion and liberty, for home and property rights.  The country will be fired with unexampled enthusiasm. The fiery valour of the South will be united with the cool stubborn courage of the North; and together they will be irresistible.  We learned in the late War the value of flanking movements, and developed a new arm of war in mounted infantry.  When the invader shall march into the country, we will meet him in front, and envelope him with flanking movements.  He must either fight or retreat.  There will be quick, hard rapid fighting.  Prophecy indicates that we press the fighting, and put the invaders on the defensive.  We attack; we defeat them; We drive them out of the country.

Thenceforth, the Money Power has no place in the United States.

Nineteenth Coincidence of Fact:—It is said that the Dragon” deceiveth the whole world.”

The Money Power has deceived the whole world down to the present time.  It has deceived the whole world as to its existence.  It has hidden itself in its London den, and made the world believe that the agents it appointed to manage the companies it organized in the various countries, were the owners of the companies they manage.  It has deceived the whole world as to the right laws of industry, making the world believe that the system of industry which is reducing the world to bankruptcy is beneficial to mankind.  It has deceived and betrayed everybody who has trusted it, systematically “freezing out” those who have put money into enterprises controlled by it.  It has deceived the whole world by booms in city property, and by booms in business enterprises, which it has started for the purpose of robbing the public of its money invested in them.  It has deceived the whole world, and made it believe that prices should be left to regulate themselves by the law of supply and demand;—when it constantly regulates prices, by the might of capital, through the instrumentality of Boards of Trade, which are absolutely controlled by it.  It deceives the whole world in making people believe that Capital is beneficent;—when it is using its capital to bankrupt the world, and reduce mankind to the condition of serfdom.—The Money Power is the Arch-deceiver.

Twentieth Coincidence of Fact:—The Dragon is called “the accuser of our brethren.”

This will probably be fulfilled in the future.  When the Money Power shall be exposed, the people of God will denounce it from pulpit and platform.  Then the Money Power, through the papers which it controls will denounce all who take ground against it with all manner of false accusation.

So fearful will be its accusations at only they will dare to assail it, who take their life in their hand, and “love not their lives onto death.” In many papers, the Jews a majority of the stock, and have them completely under their control.  Others they will suborn with bribes.  The Shimeis of the press will be manifest as the mouth-pieces of the Dragon, by their accusations of those who expose the Money Power.

Twenty-first Coincidence of Fact:—But the accused overcame the Dragon, “ by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.”

God reigns.  The Money Power shall fall, though all wealth and influence and power be on its side.  They who expose it, though they be “the weak of this world shall confound the mighty.”

But they will “overcome him,” not by human might, but” by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. The “blood of the Lamb” has redeemed the human race from the thraldom of evil; and He, unto whom” all power in heaven and earth is given,” will not suffer the Money Power to deprive mankind of its promised Millennium of blessedness, and grind it down beneath oppression and wrong.  He will guard His servants,—will give “the word of their testimony” power to rouse the people.—Let them present “the word of their testimony,” —the testimony of prophecy against the Dragon, which will be the power of God to overthrow this titanic evil.

Twenty-second Coincidence of Fact:  Divine inspiration here calls the Dragon “ that old serpent called the devil and Satan.”

The Jew Money Power is the embodiment of evil in the Latter Days.  It is the enemy of God and man.  The Jew Money Kings are infidels to a man.  They embody the very spirit of Antichrist:  holding only to the unity of God, they “deny both the Father and the Son.”  They wish to break down all industry, as it has heretofore existed in the world:  They wish to break down all business men, and reduce them to poverty, and dependence on themselves:  They wish to break down society as it now exists, and reorganize it on the basis of their own ascendancy, and the subordination of mankind to them:  They loathe Christianity, and wish to break it down and substitute for it an infidel Judaism.  Hoping to establish a universal monarchy under the rule of a Jewish king, they are in principle opposed to Republicanism.  Desiring, in this country, to take from the people all their property and reduce them to the condition of peasants, they know that they can not accomplish their aims while Republicanism exists.  They know that a free people will not submit to such wrong, and that they can only establish their power by the overthrow of Republicanism.

Already from some of their agents we have ominous utterances of a purpose to subvert Republicanism.  If the Money Power should get possession of our farms, and succeed in breaking down the business men of our towns, the days of the Republic will be numbered.  Then we may fear that the state of things suggested in the following article in the Nevada Chronicle, will be inaugurated:—

“We need a stronger government; the wealth of the country [the Money Power and its agents] demands it. * * * * * The Capital of the country demands protection.  The wealth of the country has to bear the burden of the government, and it shall control it.  The people are becoming educated up to this theory rapidly, and the sooner this theory is recognized in the constitution and the laws, the better it will be for the people.  * * * * * To avert fearful bloodshed,—a strong central government should be established as soon as possible.”

The Money Kings will establish an empire in this country, if they get possession of all industry and property.

It will not be difficult for them to bring it about.  With their absolute control of industry, they can make times so hard as to cause intolerable suffering.  Stopping the construction of railroads, and city improvements, and manufactures and iron mills, they can fill the country with hundreds of thousands of starving tramps.  They can then get their paid emissaries to pretend great sympathy for the people, as their emissaries lead the Nihilists of Russia, and the Liberals of Central Europe and Italy.  And when they become popular leaders, they can easily excite the starving people to outbreaks and insurrections.  Such outbreaks are always easily suppressed by military force; and in the victory over the outbreaks, an Imperial government might be established.  Such outbreaks are always suppressed; and their suppression is the method by which Republics are converted into imperial despotisms.

Let the Money Power succeed in carrying out its aims, and our country is ruined.  The grand yeomanry of our country is our pride and safety.  It is the backbone of the Republic—the strong column that upholds the temple of our liberties and our Christian civilization.  Let our farmers lose their farms, and our yeomanry become peasants, and all is lost.

This is the greatest crisis the world has ever known.  Upon its issue depends the destiny of mankind forever.  It will determine whether the world shall go on to a millennium of liberty, peace and blessedness, or be crushed by the triumph of the forces that are striving to arrest the progress of our age, and bring upon the world a new Feudal Era, in which the mass of mankind will be reduced to the condition of serfdom beneath the yoke of an Aristocracy of Jew Money Kings, who will grind man down beneath the heel of oppression forever.

For, that yoke, once fixed upon the world, can never be shaken off.  The Money Kings, with a mighty government under their control, would keep the masses of mankind reduced to the condition of peasants in hopeless bondage.  In this age of warfare with cannon and gunpowder, an unarmed peasantry could never cast off the yoke of the Money Power, in control of the government, and having possession of all wealth.—There are two Millenniums before the world:  one, a millennium of peace and blessedness, under the reign of Liberty and Religion; the other, the reign of Oppression and Wrong, under the rule of the Money Power.  The present crisis will determine which shall dominate the earth, from now to the end of time.  The destinies of the Future are now hanging in the balance.  Either the Money Power must go down, or the hopes of humanity must set in darkness.

Well is the Money Power called Satan, for it is the very incarnation of Satanic malignity and evil.

Who can doubt that the Great Red Dragon is the symbol of the Jew London Money Power?  Its identity with it is proved by six Historical Marks—by twenty wonderful Parallelisms of Character—and by twenty-two strange and startling Coincidences of Fact.  There are thus forty-eight separate and distinct points of resemblance; in respect of historical facts, of resemblances of character, and of coincidences between facts mentioned of the symbol and facts true of the Money Power.  The proofs that the Dragon is the symbol of the Money Power are just eight times as numerous as those which prove that the Lion with Eagle's Wings is the symbol of the Babylonian empire, or the Bear, the symbol of the Persian empire; and, in their strange and wonderful similarities, these proofs are a hundredfold stronger than those which identify any of the other symbols of the prophetic scriptures with the powers they set forth.  Divine Inspiration has heaped proof upon proof, evidence upon evidence, until the mind almost wearies of it; and until no dispassionate mind can resist the mass of evidence that forces conviction.

The proof presented in this work is not one-sixth of the evidence presented in the prophetic scriptures, that the London Money Power is the grand Imperialism so bitterly denounced in the Bible as the great Archenemy of God and man; and which is foretold in prophecy, as destined to rise and be overthrown, in the Latter Days.  When all the evidence is before the public, it will convince the most incredulous mind that God, in the inspired prophecies of scripture, has depicted the Dragon in this perfectly unmistakable manner, in order to save mankind from its power.

1. Lectures in Defense of the Christian Faith, pp.  316, 317.
2. Neue Evang.  Kirchen-Zeitung. Berlin, Aug.  27, 1881.