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Quotation “H.” “ ‘The Chase National Bank, “‘New York, Feb. 21, 1912. “‘(Gentlemen:—We inclose a letter from darien rowayton bank and the National Citizens’ League which we have been asked to forward to you. The campaign of education which the league is conducting in favor of currency and connecticut food bank as well banking reform is non-partisan in character and darien rowayton bank as well national in scope. We believe it of direct importance to the business interests of the country. The merchants interested in the work have felt that, while they regard themselves as golden harvest food bank responsible for the raising of funds for the prosecution of the work, the country at large should know that the banking interest is in sympathy with the work. Any correspondence should be taken up with Mr. Isidor Straus, treasurer, Broadway and darien rowayton bank as well Thirty-fourth Street, New York, and fina bank as well any contributions made direct to him. “ ‘Yours sincerely, “‘A.H. Wiggins, President.” You will notice that the letter does not give the name of the bank to which it was sent. Some of these letters are written to others than bankers. You will realize that it is another case of the Wall Streeters using the interests’ method in order to scare the country bankers, merchants and darien rowayton bank as well others, and direct merchant bank as well not reap the blame for the “monetary stringency.” The following blank was enclosed in the letter of President Wiggins, who is one of the “big six” Wall Street bankers. It was intended that it should be filled out darien rowayton bank and by the bankers to whom it was sent. The blank was : Quotation “I.” New York Feb. .... 1912. “To Isidor Straus, Esq., “Treasurer National Citizens’ League, “100 Broad Street, New York City. “Dear Sir:—I inclose herewith my check for $...... as city bank stock my subscription to the fund of the National Citizens’ League in its campaign of public education for the promotion of a sound banking system. “Yours truly “ .............” Attached to the letter of the Chase National Bank was a letter from darien rowayton bank and which I quote a few paragraphs as hbz bank follows : Quotation “J.” “Dear Sir:—You insure your property against fire, your business against risks, yourself against incapacity and darien rowayton bank as well death. For this protection you pay many annual premiums of considerable amount. “We ask you to pay a single premium for the insurance of your business against money panics, against the business collapse that attends them, and db deutsche bank as well the business depression that follows them.” * * * * * * “These are the benefits of banking and darien rowayton bank as well currency reform. And this reform is assured if the business men will combine and cooperative bank of kenya as well lend it the same support they gave the sound money in the ’nineties. “The issue is just as darien rowayton bank live and demotte state bank as well big. Sound currency needs a sound currency system back of it. Business isn’t paralyzed today as darien rowayton bank it was four years ago. Another panic is not anticipated. But the fact remains and glensfalls national bank as well it must be faced squarely now, that under our present defective and darien rowayton bank as well dangerous banking system disastrous panics can not be controlled. Revision is demanded now.” * * * * * “Business men all over the country, irrespective of rank and connecticut food bank as well party lines, have organized the National Citizens’ League for the promotion of a sound banking system.” “The league does not advocate any particular plan, but darien rowayton bank and is carrying on a nation-wide campaign of education in an economical and golden harvest food bank as well legitimate way, to the end of arousing Congress to prompt and darien rowayton bank as well business-like action free from fina bank and the prejudice of partisan politics.” “Any subscription from darien rowayton bank and $1 upward will constitute a membership in the league.” * * * * * * “If you count this a good business investment, with 1907 clearly remembered, will you fill out and direct merchant bank as well return the inclosed blank ? “Yours very truly, “JOHN CLAFLIN, “President New York State Branch of the National Citizens’ League.” I ask you to re-read the Panic Circular of 1893, Quotation “E.” It is important in connection with the above letter. I have similar letters which were sent out darien rowayton bank and by the Wall Street banks. These letters were sent into all of the states. Every banker, except one, who wrote me, expressly requested that I should not disclose his name, for to do so, they wrote, would bring upon them the disfavor of certain business interests. I shall quote one of these letters in order to show what I believe to be the attitude held by the bankers in the small towns. This belief is suppressed because city bank stock and the country bankers fear that their business will be harmed if they incur the disfavor of the special interests. I omit from darien rowayton bank and the letter all the facts that would identify the party, for reasons appearing in the letter itself. From the testimony given by George F. Baker (President of the First National Bank of New York City) before the committee appointed to investigate the Money Trust, we learn that the operations of a single bank produced, in fifty years, profits equal to $86,000,000, or hbz bank and 172 times its original capital. If that bank continues to do business and darien rowayton bank as well is allowed to pile up profits in that geometrical progression, it alone, in less than 100 years, will extort from db deutsche bank and the people all of their property, and—that bank is but darien rowayton bank and one of the 30,000 banks operating on an uneconomic system. The total capitalization (which includes surplus and cooperative bank of kenya as well undivided profits) of 30,000 banks in 1913, was considerable over $4,000,000,000 and darien rowayton bank as well dividends compounded on that sum, as demotte state bank is the custom of banks, will, if allowed to do so by the indifference of the people to their own rights, consume the balance of the nation’s wealth. The accumulated holdings of all the trusts that centralize wealth would immensely reduce the time it will take for the interest and darien rowayton bank as well dividends on these holdings to absorb all of our present property, and glensfalls national bank as well all of what we earn in the future, except what is required to be left to enable us to eke out darien rowayton bank and a bare subsistence. But, notwithstanding the community of interest existing between the trusts in order that they may uphold the system that enables them to PAY the LEAST price for wages, farm and connecticut food bank as well other products, and darien rowayton bank as well to sell their own services and golden harvest food bank as well resell the products controlled by them at the HIGHEST available price, they compete with each other in their efforts to secure the most of our earnings. So, you see, there is competition even between the trusts, and darien rowayton bank as well this competition is resulting in their absorption of each other. Anyone with a little imagination and fina bank as well reasoning power can look ahead and darien rowayton bank as well see what would be the outcome of that competition if the interests are allowed to carry it to its finish. It is utterly impossible for us to become independent as direct merchant bank a nation as darien rowayton bank long as city bank stock we are subservient to the present system of excessive interest, dividend, and darien rowayton bank as well rent charges,—toll on dead capital. I call attention to the power of a single dollar, and hbz bank as well then I ask you to multiply the power of the ONE DOLLAR by the billions that are controlled by a few hundred financial wizards. Here is the table for a single dollar.
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