WEBVTT NOTE Section XVIII 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Section 18. The Constitution, having never been signed by anybody, and there being no other open, written, or authentic contract between any parties whatever, by virtue of which the United States government, so called, is maintained, and it being well known that none but male persons of twenty-one years of age and upwards are allowed any voice in the government, and it being also well known that a large number of these adult persons seldom or never vote at all, and that all the 2 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.600 Those who do vote do so secretly, by secret ballot, and in a way to prevent their individual 3 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:40.960 votes from being known, either to the world or even to each other, and consequently, in 4 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:46.140 a way to make no one openly responsible for the acts of their agents or representatives. 5 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:49.720 All these things being known, the questions arise. 6 00:00:49.720 --> 00:00:53.100 Who compose the real governing power in the country? 7 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:59.120 Who are the men, the responsible men, who rob us of our property, restrain us of our 8 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:05.040 of Liberty, subject us to their arbitrary dominion and devastate our homes and shoot 9 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:09.060 us down by the hundreds of thousands if we resist. 10 00:01:09.060 --> 00:01:11.160 How shall we find these men? 11 00:01:11.160 --> 00:01:13.300 How shall we know them from others? 12 00:01:13.300 --> 00:01:16.860 How shall we defend ourselves and our property against them? 13 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:21.160 Who of our neighbors are members of this secret band of robbers and murderers? 14 00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:25.760 How can we know which are their houses that we may burn or demolish them? 15 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.860 Which their property that we may destroy it? 16 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:33.620 Research their persons that we may kill them and rid the world and ourselves of such tyrants 17 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:35.180 and monsters. 18 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:39.660 These are questions that must be answered before men can be free, before they can protect 19 00:01:39.660 --> 00:01:44.560 themselves against this secret band of robbers and murderers who now plunder and slave and 20 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.100 destroy them. 21 00:01:46.100 --> 00:01:51.020 The answer to these questions is that only those who have the will and the power to shoot 22 00:01:51.020 --> 00:01:57.620 down their fellow men are the real rulers in this as in all other so-called civilized countries, 23 00:01:57.620 --> 00:02:02.180 For by no others will civilized men be robbed or enslaved. 24 00:02:02.180 --> 00:02:07.340 Among savages, mere physical strength on the part of one man may enable him to rob, enslave, 25 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:09.220 or kill another man. 26 00:02:09.220 --> 00:02:14.380 Among barbarians, mere physical strength on the part of any body of men, disciplined and 27 00:02:14.380 --> 00:02:20.420 acting in concert, though with very little money or other wealth, may, under some circumstances, 28 00:02:20.420 --> 00:02:26.100 enable them to rob, enslave, or kill another body of men, as numerous or perhaps even more 29 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:32.700 are numerous than themselves, and among both savages and barbarians, mere want may sometimes 30 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:36.700 compel one man to sell himself as a slave to another. 31 00:02:36.700 --> 00:02:42.100 But with so-called civilized peoples, among whom knowledge, wealth, and the means of acting 32 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:47.480 in concert have become diffused, and who have invented such weapons and other means of defense 33 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:53.100 as to render mere physical strength of less importance, and by whom soldiers in any requisite 34 00:02:53.100 --> 00:03:12.740 As a necessary consequence, those who stand ready to furnish this money are the real rulers. 35 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:16.540 It is so in Europe, and it is so in this country. 36 00:03:16.540 --> 00:03:21.620 In Europe, the nominal rulers, the emperors and kings and parliaments, are anything but 37 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:24.620 but the real rulers of their respective countries. 38 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:30.140 They are little or nothing else than mere tools, employed by the wealthy to rob, enslave, 39 00:03:30.140 --> 00:03:34.420 and if need be, murder those who have less wealth or none at all. 40 00:03:34.420 --> 00:03:40.060 The Rothschilds, and that class of moneylenders whom they are the representatives and agents, 41 00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:44.140 men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes 42 00:03:44.140 --> 00:03:49.140 of honest industry, and less upon the most ample security and at the highest rate of 43 00:03:49.140 --> 00:04:03.140 stand ready at all times to lend money in the unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers who call themselves governments to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved. 44 00:04:03.140 --> 00:04:11.140 They lend their money in this manner, knowing that it is to be expended in murdering their fellow men, for simply seeking their liberty and their rights, 45 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:17.140 writes, knowing also that neither the interest nor the principle will ever be paid, except 46 00:04:17.140 --> 00:04:22.300 as it will be extorted under the terror of the repetition of such murders as those for 47 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:24.640 which the money lent is to be expended. 48 00:04:24.640 --> 00:04:30.440 These moneylenders, the Rothschilds for example, say to themselves, if we lend a hundred million 49 00:04:30.440 --> 00:04:35.580 sterling to the Queen and Parliament of England, it will enable them to murder twenty, fifty 50 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:37.580 The Theory of Money and Credit 51 00:05:05.580 --> 00:05:21.580 Or, if we lend this sum to the Emperor of Austria, it will enable him to murder so many of his people as to strike terror into the rest, and thus enable him to keep them in subjection and extort money from them for twenty or fifty years to come. 52 00:05:21.580 --> 00:05:27.880 And they say the same in regard to the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Emperor 53 00:05:27.880 --> 00:05:34.080 of France, or any other ruler so called, who in their judgment will be able, by murdering 54 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:39.860 a reasonable portion of his people, to keep the rest in subjection and extort money from 55 00:05:39.860 --> 00:05:45.500 them for a long time to come, to pay the interest and principle of the money lent to him. 56 00:05:45.500 --> 00:05:50.340 And why are these men so ready to lend money for murdering their fellow men? 57 00:05:50.340 --> 00:06:09.340 They lend money to be expended in the robbing, enslaving and murdering of their fellow men solely because on the whole such loans pay better than any others. 58 00:06:09.340 --> 00:06:18.340 They lend money to be expended in the robbing, enslaving, and murdering of their fellow men solely because on the whole such loans pay better than any others. 59 00:06:18.340 --> 00:06:23.340 They are no respecters of persons, no superstitious fools that reverence monarchs. 60 00:06:23.340 --> 00:06:32.340 They care no more for a king or an emperor than they do for a beggar, except as he is a better customer and can pay them better interest for their money. 61 00:06:32.340 --> 00:06:48.340 If they doubt his ability to make his murders successful for maintaining his power and thus extorting money from his people in future, they dismiss him as unceremoniously as they would dismiss any other hopeless bankrupt who should want to borrow money to save himself from open insolvency. 62 00:06:48.340 --> 00:06:49.580 Insolvency. 63 00:06:49.580 --> 00:06:53.580 When these great lenders of blood money, like the Rothschilds, have loaned vast sums in 64 00:06:53.580 --> 00:06:58.820 this way for purposes of murder to an emperor or a king, they sell out the bonds taken by 65 00:06:58.820 --> 00:07:04.420 them in small amounts to anybody and everybody who are disposed to buy them at satisfactory 66 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:06.620 prices to hold as investments. 67 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:11.260 They the Rothschilds thus soon get back their money with great profits, and are now ready 68 00:07:11.260 --> 00:07:15.740 to lend money in the same way again to any other robber and murderer called an emperor 69 00:07:15.740 --> 00:07:21.460 or a king who they think is likely to be successful in his robberies and murders and able to pay 70 00:07:21.460 --> 00:07:24.800 a good price for the money necessary to carry them on. 71 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:29.180 This business of lending blood money is one of the most thoroughly sorted, cold-blooded 72 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:34.600 and criminal that was ever carried on to any considerable extent amongst human beings. 73 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.820 It is like lending money to slave traders or to common robbers and pirates to be repaid 74 00:07:39.820 --> 00:07:44.260 out of their plunder, and the men who loan money to governments so called for the purposes 75 00:07:44.260 --> 00:08:12.560 When these emperors and kings so called have obtained their loans, they proceed to hire and train immense numbers of professional murderers called soldiers and employ them in shooting down all who resist their demands for money. 76 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:20.560 In fact, most of them keep large bodies of these murderers constantly in their service as their only means of enforcing their extortions. 77 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:28.560 There are now, I think, four or five millions of these professional murderers constantly employed by the so-called sovereigns of Europe. 78 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:39.560 The enslaved people are, of course, forced to support and pay all these murderers, as well as to submit to all the other extortions which these murderers are employed to enforce. 79 00:08:39.560 --> 00:08:44.560 It is only in this way that most of the so-called governments of Europe are maintained. 80 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:50.000 These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, 81 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.700 organized, disciplined and constantly on the alert. 82 00:08:53.700 --> 00:08:58.200 And the so-called sovereigns in these different governments are simply the heads or chiefs 83 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.100 of different bands of robbers and murderers. 84 00:09:01.100 --> 00:09:05.000 And these heads or chiefs are dependent upon the lenders of blood money for the means to 85 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.320 carry on their robberies and murders. 86 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.560 They could not sustain themselves a moment but for the loans made to them by these blood-money 87 00:09:11.560 --> 00:09:16.360 loan-mongers, and their first care is to maintain their credit with them, for they know their 88 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.720 end is come the instant their credit with them fails. 89 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:24.400 Consequently, the first proceeds of their extortions are scrupulously applied to the 90 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:27.120 payment of the interest on their loans. 91 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:31.080 In addition to paying the interest on their bonds, they perhaps grant to the holders of 92 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:36.320 them great monopolies in banking, like the banks of England, of France and of Vienna, 93 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:41.160 With the agreement that these banks shall furnish money whenever in sudden emergencies, it may 94 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:45.200 be necessary to shoot down more of their people. 95 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:49.880 Perhaps also, by means of tariffs on competing imports, they give great monopolies to certain 96 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:54.360 branches of industry in which these lenders of blood-money are engaged. 97 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:59.640 They also by unequal taxation exempt wholly or partially the property of these loan-mongers 98 00:09:59.640 --> 00:10:04.320 and throw corresponding burdens upon those who are too poor and too weak to resist. 99 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.240 Thus it is evident that all these men who call themselves by high-sounding names of 100 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:15.600 emperors, kings, sovereigns, monarchs, most Christian majesties, most Catholic majesties, 101 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:21.540 high mightinesses, most serene and potent princes, and the like, and who claim to rule by the 102 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:27.820 grace of God or by divine right, that is, by special authority from heaven, are intrinsically 103 00:10:27.820 --> 00:10:33.280 not only the merest miscreants and wretches engaged solely in plundering, enslaving and 104 00:10:33.280 --> 00:10:38.960 and Murdering Their Fellow Men, but that they are also the merest hangers-on, the servile, 105 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.280 obsequious, fawning dependents and tools of those blood-money lonemongers, on whom they 106 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:47.120 rely for the means to carry on their crimes. 107 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:52.000 These lonemongers, like the Rothschilds, laugh in their sleeves and say to themselves, these 108 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:57.720 despicable creatures who call themselves emperors and kings and majesties, and most serene and 109 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:03.120 potent princes, who profess to wear crowns and sit on thrones, who deck themselves with 110 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.440 with ribbons and feathers and jewels, and surround themselves with hired flatterers 111 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:12.720 and lickspittals, and who we suffer to strut around and palm themselves off upon fools 112 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:19.160 and slaves, as sovereigns and lawgivers, specially appointed by Almighty God, and to hold themselves 113 00:11:19.160 --> 00:11:23.680 out as the sole fountains of honors and dignities and wealth and power. 114 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:29.680 All these miscreants and imposters know that we make them, and use them, that in us they 115 00:11:29.680 --> 00:11:41.680 that we live, move, and have their being, that we require them, as the price of their position, to take upon themselves all the labor, all the danger, and all the odium of all the crimes they commit for our profit, 116 00:11:41.680 --> 00:11:54.680 and that we will unmake them, strip them of their gougas, and send them out into the world as beggars, or give them over to the vengeance of the people they have enslaved the moment they refuse to commit any crime we require of them, 117 00:11:54.680 --> 00:12:00.280 or to pay over to us such a share of the proceeds of their robberies as we see fit to demand.