Further to my mention of Gottfried Feder’s Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money, and Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism I now segue further back in time to 1890 on the theme of ‘money’ … and ‘dragons’.
It is the year of the [wood] dragon after all.
Here is an audio reading by ‘Flood’
Contents and highlights of Volume 1:
(I didn’t really resonate with Volume 2)
Chapter I - RISE OF THE MONEY POWER - FIRST ERA
An Imperialism of Capital has grown up within the last two centuries from small beginnings, until it is now the mightiest power that has ever existed on the earth
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
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
Chapter IV - FOURTH ERA—DEVOURINGS OF MONEY POWER, SINCE 1864
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.
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 businessmen, 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
II. The Money Power Devoured Our Commercial Marine
III. The Money Power Destroyed Our New York Merchants
IV. The Money Power Devoured our Railroads
Chapter VI - DEVOURINGS OF THE MONEY POWER IN THE UNITED STATES (continued)
V . The Money Power Devours Our Oil Industry
VI. The Money Power Devours Chicago
VII. The Money Power Crushes all our Industries by Inducing the Crash of 1873
VIII. The Money Kings Devour our New England Mills
IX The Money Power Devoured Our Iron Industry
X. The Money Power Has Devoured The Cotton Trade
XI. The Money Power Has Devoured The Wheat And Grain Trade
XII. The Money Power Has Devoured The Live Stock Trade In Cattle
XIII. The Money Power Has Devoured The Trade In Hogs And Pork And Bacon
XIV. The Money Kings Devoured The Dressed Beef Traffic
XV The Money Power Has Devoured Our Whiskey Trade
XVI The Money Power Has Devoured Our Export Trade
XVII The Money Power Devours Our Currency
Thus the Money Power has advanced step by step in this country, until it has devoured almost every branch of our national industry :
1. For years it has kept our currency constricted ; and it has devoured thousands of millions of dollars worth of our produce at half price, by maintaining panic prices through scarcity of money .
2. It has thus kept us constantly in debt through an adverse balance of trade, and has devoured our gold and silver as fast as produced from the mines .
3. The Money Power has devoured all our mercantile shipping ;
4. Our import trade ;
5. Our railroads ;
6. Our oil production and trade ;
7. Our New England Mills ;
8. Our iron industry ;
9. Much property in Chicago and other cities ;
10. Our cotton trade ;
11. Our wheat and grain trade ;
12. Our live stock trade in cattle ;
13. Our trade in hogs, pork and bacon ;
14. Our dressed beef trade ;
15. Our currency ;
And it has, throughout all its operations, conducted its encroachments with such cunning, craft, stealth, and subtlety, that its amazing course of ravage has not been known or even suspected by the outside public
Chapter VII - DEVOURINGS OF THE MONEY POWER IN THE U. S. - Industries Now Being Devoured By the Money Power.
Coal Mines
Gold and Silver Mines
Our Lumbar Trade
Flour Manufacturers
The Cattle Ranches of the Western Plains
All Branches Of Production and Trade in Our Country
The Retail Trade
Our Farms
Chapter VIII - DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORK OF THE MONEY POWER IN THIS COUNTRY
Remember - this was written in 1890
thanks for posting.
I've been listening to this audioversion https://www.bitchute.com/video/URv6N68qISzj/
Before the reading of the book, it plays some old audio clips w/Michael Collins Piper, Daryl Bradford Smith and others.