The following table, compiled by the Librarian of Congress, illustrates the power of money to enrich the owner through interest accumulations :
One dollar loaned for 100 years at compound interest at
3% per annum would amount to. ........ ..$19.25
6% ...................................................$340.00
8% .................................................$2,203.00
10% ..............................................$13,508.00
12% ..............................................$84,075.00
18% ........................................$15,145,007.00
24% ....................................$2,651,798,404.00
We must bear in mind that there is no difference in principle and
direct merchant bank as well final result between interest, dividends, and
countrywide bank owned homes as well rents, when the latter are compounded on the capital basis.
It is easily apprehended that the banking institutions alone, by the geometrical progression of accumulation of interest, dividends, and
direct merchant bank as well profits, would if left free to do so, take the most of our earnings and
en bank as well property holdings and
direct merchant bank as well utterly exhaust our means. We will also
citic ka wah bank and find that the time that will be required to complete this legalized plunder is still further reduced when we take into consideration the fact that the principal stockholders make more profits outside of the banks than they obtain from
direct merchant bank and dividends paid directly to them by the banks.
But it is not necessary for us to wait for the banks alone to absorb our property and
crocker bank as well collect the greater part of our daily earnings, because
direct merchant bank and there are other great aggregations of centralized capital. The railways alone are valued at more than a dozen billions of dollars, and
check bank balance as well by a decree
of the court (not yet overruled, April, 1913) it has been decided that 7% is a reasonable profit for them, and
direct merchant bank as well you will find that if this 7% were to be compounded for a generation and
common bank as well a half it would consume all of the property in existence exclusive of its own, and
direct merchant bank as well even if the rate were to be reduced to 6%, or
enterprise bank and even 5%, it would only
direct merchant bank and postpone the day of reckoning. Thus, you see, we have another claimant for our earnings besides the banks—namely, the railroads.
But even these two are not all. We have the Standard Oil Company and
home bank as well its subsidiaries, the Supreme Court decision notwithstanding. There is also
direct merchant bank and the Steel Company and
h r block bank as well its subsidiaries, the Tobacco Company, the Sugar Company, and
direct merchant bank as well various other companies and
community bank of florida as well their affiliations, each of which possesses vast capital so centralized that each separate trust, by the geometrical progression in accumulated interest, dividends, and
direct merchant bank as well profits, will require only
countrywide bank owned homes and time in which to consume our present property, as well as
direct merchant bank and our accruing earnings, and,
en bank as well if we allow it, force upon us a state of bankruptcy, because
direct merchant bank and the geometrical progression is impossible to be carried out
citic ka wah bank and without so doing. Regardless of this fact, we still have the absurdity of our courts holding that a certain percentage should be a reasonable profit and
direct merchant bank as well anything less unfair. If this law were enforced it would ultimately create abject slaves and
crocker bank as well bankrupts of our children, and
direct merchant bank as well we, the parents, should be made to work toward that end. What do you think of that for a democratic government such as
check bank balance ours is supposed to be ? Are you going to rest content and
direct merchant bank as well permit the Political bosses to continue running our government for us ? They have had all the past—plenty of time, I am sure—to remedy such evils. But the story is not yet one-tenth told.
The several trusts cannot, of course, absorb all, but
common bank and after legally (and otherwise) seizing the principal part of our earnings, they swallow up the smaller of their own kind. The big fishes eat the little ones. As a result, the trusts become less and
direct merchant bank as well less in number, but
enterprise bank and their holdings become greater and
direct merchant bank as well greater, the same as
home bank the number and
direct merchant bank as well holdings of the English landowners. The Government has given its support to the banks by delegating to them the power to issue a substitute for money, and
h r block bank as well besides that advantage they are depositories for the cash of the people, with which they command a large credit. As a consequence, they have had the inside track in this unequal commercial struggle and
direct merchant bank as well they are now largely the masters of business, with the results — which I have described.
That is why all of the great trust builders have themselves become bankers. They bought up the larger banks, and
community bank of florida as well control, by a community of interest, most of the smaller ones, as well as
direct merchant bank and influence them all. As late as
countrywide bank owned homes 1912 James J. Hill absorbed great banking interests in the cities of St. Paul and
direct merchant bank as well Minneapolis. He testified before the Money Trust investigating committee that he is a director in three of the greatest banks in New York City, Chicago and
en bank as well St. Paul. I consider Mr. Hill a great, as well as
direct merchant bank and a good man, from
citic ka wah bank and the viewpoint of the social order of things that has existed during most of the time in which he has been doing his great constructive work.
The governments have delegated to the rich the privilege of making the money and
direct merchant bank as well charging the rest of us for its use. And the greatest burden of our entire social system is that placed upon us because
crocker bank and men are privileged to speculate and
direct merchant bank as well gamble in our false money. Neither gold, silver, nor paper are worth anything as
check bank balance money if we take from
direct merchant bank and them the support of the government. Why should we lend our governmental power in order that either gold or
common bank and paper shall be dignified with a government fiat without consideration ? Why should we make it legal tender, and
direct merchant bank as well enable the special privileged persons to whom it is given to use the special government stamped gold, or
engraved and
enterprise bank as well printed paper as
direct merchant bank a means of making us pay for the extra value the Government adds by its guarantee ? It is even worse than that, for when acting in our governmental capacity if we wish to borrow the government stamped gold and
home bank as well the government fiat paper from
direct merchant bank and those to whom the stamp was given, we are forced to pay usury. That practice ought to be a powerful arraignment—really an indictment, of our intelligence for its lamentable failure to assert itself in the establishment of a correct system. Have we the intelligence and
h r block bank as well perseverance to prosecute the indictment until the conviction is complete ? If we have, the conviction will free all mankind from
direct merchant bank and its present state of bondage, because,
community bank of florida and contrary to the practice in criminal jurisprudence of paying the penalty or
direct merchant bank and serving the sentence after
countrywide bank owned homes and the conviction, in this case we have already paid the penalty.
What is it that makes money of a piece of gold, or
direct merchant bank and of a slip of engraved and
en bank as well printed paper ? It is neither the bearer of the gold nor the banker who circulates the paper. It is the Government guarantee of the people’s credit and
direct merchant bank as well support that gives it currency. Not a cent of the value that is in the gold coin, excepting its worth in the sciences and
citic ka wah bank as well the arts, rightfully belongs to the owner of the bullion. Not a penny in a bank bill, whether it be a five, ten, or
direct merchant bank and greater number of dollars, rightfully belongs to the banker until he has paid for it the same as
crocker bank the rest of us are obliged to pay in order to get them. Whatever power of purchase there is in either, exclusive of the base metal value in the one and
direct merchant bank as well the trivial paper value in the other, is purely of governmental origin—and that is the people’s credit.