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
Those who do vote do so secretly, by secret ballot, and in a way to prevent their individual
votes from being known, either to the world or even to each other, and consequently, in
a way to make no one openly responsible for the acts of their agents or representatives.
All these things being known, the questions arise.
Who compose the real governing power in the country?
Who are the men, the responsible men, who rob us of our property, restrain us of our
of Liberty, subject us to their arbitrary dominion and devastate our homes and shoot
us down by the hundreds of thousands if we resist.
How shall we find these men?
How shall we know them from others?
How shall we defend ourselves and our property against them?
Who of our neighbors are members of this secret band of robbers and murderers?
How can we know which are their houses that we may burn or demolish them?
Which their property that we may destroy it?
Research their persons that we may kill them and rid the world and ourselves of such tyrants
and monsters.
These are questions that must be answered before men can be free, before they can protect
themselves against this secret band of robbers and murderers who now plunder and slave and
destroy them.
The answer to these questions is that only those who have the will and the power to shoot
down their fellow men are the real rulers in this as in all other so-called civilized countries,
For by no others will civilized men be robbed or enslaved.
Among savages, mere physical strength on the part of one man may enable him to rob, enslave,
or kill another man.
Among barbarians, mere physical strength on the part of any body of men, disciplined and
acting in concert, though with very little money or other wealth, may, under some circumstances,
enable them to rob, enslave, or kill another body of men, as numerous or perhaps even more
are numerous than themselves, and among both savages and barbarians, mere want may sometimes
compel one man to sell himself as a slave to another.
But with so-called civilized peoples, among whom knowledge, wealth, and the means of acting
in concert have become diffused, and who have invented such weapons and other means of defense
as to render mere physical strength of less importance, and by whom soldiers in any requisite
As a necessary consequence, those who stand ready to furnish this money are the real rulers.
It is so in Europe, and it is so in this country.
In Europe, the nominal rulers, the emperors and kings and parliaments, are anything but
but the real rulers of their respective countries.
They are little or nothing else than mere tools, employed by the wealthy to rob, enslave,
and if need be, murder those who have less wealth or none at all.
The Rothschilds, and that class of moneylenders whom they are the representatives and agents,
men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes
of honest industry, and less upon the most ample security and at the highest rate of
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.
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,
writes, knowing also that neither the interest nor the principle will ever be paid, except
as it will be extorted under the terror of the repetition of such murders as those for
which the money lent is to be expended.
These moneylenders, the Rothschilds for example, say to themselves, if we lend a hundred million
sterling to the Queen and Parliament of England, it will enable them to murder twenty, fifty
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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.
And they say the same in regard to the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Emperor
of France, or any other ruler so called, who in their judgment will be able, by murdering
a reasonable portion of his people, to keep the rest in subjection and extort money from
them for a long time to come, to pay the interest and principle of the money lent to him.
And why are these men so ready to lend money for murdering their fellow men?
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.
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.
They are no respecters of persons, no superstitious fools that reverence monarchs.
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.
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.
Insolvency.
When these great lenders of blood money, like the Rothschilds, have loaned vast sums in
this way for purposes of murder to an emperor or a king, they sell out the bonds taken by
them in small amounts to anybody and everybody who are disposed to buy them at satisfactory
prices to hold as investments.
They the Rothschilds thus soon get back their money with great profits, and are now ready
to lend money in the same way again to any other robber and murderer called an emperor
or a king who they think is likely to be successful in his robberies and murders and able to pay
a good price for the money necessary to carry them on.
This business of lending blood money is one of the most thoroughly sorted, cold-blooded
and criminal that was ever carried on to any considerable extent amongst human beings.
It is like lending money to slave traders or to common robbers and pirates to be repaid
out of their plunder, and the men who loan money to governments so called for the purposes
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.
In fact, most of them keep large bodies of these murderers constantly in their service as their only means of enforcing their extortions.
There are now, I think, four or five millions of these professional murderers constantly employed by the so-called sovereigns of Europe.
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.
It is only in this way that most of the so-called governments of Europe are maintained.
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers,
organized, disciplined and constantly on the alert.
And the so-called sovereigns in these different governments are simply the heads or chiefs
of different bands of robbers and murderers.
And these heads or chiefs are dependent upon the lenders of blood money for the means to
carry on their robberies and murders.
They could not sustain themselves a moment but for the loans made to them by these blood-money
loan-mongers, and their first care is to maintain their credit with them, for they know their
end is come the instant their credit with them fails.
Consequently, the first proceeds of their extortions are scrupulously applied to the
payment of the interest on their loans.
In addition to paying the interest on their bonds, they perhaps grant to the holders of
them great monopolies in banking, like the banks of England, of France and of Vienna,
With the agreement that these banks shall furnish money whenever in sudden emergencies, it may
be necessary to shoot down more of their people.
Perhaps also, by means of tariffs on competing imports, they give great monopolies to certain
branches of industry in which these lenders of blood-money are engaged.
They also by unequal taxation exempt wholly or partially the property of these loan-mongers
and throw corresponding burdens upon those who are too poor and too weak to resist.
Thus it is evident that all these men who call themselves by high-sounding names of
emperors, kings, sovereigns, monarchs, most Christian majesties, most Catholic majesties,
high mightinesses, most serene and potent princes, and the like, and who claim to rule by the
grace of God or by divine right, that is, by special authority from heaven, are intrinsically
not only the merest miscreants and wretches engaged solely in plundering, enslaving and
and Murdering Their Fellow Men, but that they are also the merest hangers-on, the servile,
obsequious, fawning dependents and tools of those blood-money lonemongers, on whom they
rely for the means to carry on their crimes.
These lonemongers, like the Rothschilds, laugh in their sleeves and say to themselves, these
despicable creatures who call themselves emperors and kings and majesties, and most serene and
potent princes, who profess to wear crowns and sit on thrones, who deck themselves with
with ribbons and feathers and jewels, and surround themselves with hired flatterers
and lickspittals, and who we suffer to strut around and palm themselves off upon fools
and slaves, as sovereigns and lawgivers, specially appointed by Almighty God, and to hold themselves
out as the sole fountains of honors and dignities and wealth and power.
All these miscreants and imposters know that we make them, and use them, that in us they
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,
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,
or to pay over to us such a share of the proceeds of their robberies as we see fit to demand.