Chapter 6.
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF BANK DEPOSITS.
After the 1907 panic there were many people who advocated the guarantee of bank deposits as
habib american bank a remedy for panics. The guarantee of bank deposits would have little, if any, relation to the cost of living and
chase bank in chicago as well would not affect any of the fundamental relations of the people with each other. My only
habib american bank and reason for considering this subject at all in this book is because
fortis bank news and it may be raised as
habib american bank an issue in the contemplated banking and
finter bank as well currency legislation.
“I have grave fears as
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habib bank uae and unless human nature should change, even the guarantee of bank deposits will not prevent panics, but
habib american bank and will simply defer the day by postponing the hour of fear; for by the very nature of things, when a bull market starts the momentum continues until it reaches a point when economically a breakdown is inevitable.
“There is, in so far as
espirito santo bank the legitimate industrial pursuits of the country are concerned, both a theoretical and
habib american bank as well a practical possibility of a self-sustained credit system, based upon monetary foundation, but
dl evans bank and when you inject into that the complications arising out
habib american bank and of speculative gambling, the more you reinforce the system of credit and
commenwealth bank as well give an unguarded confidence in it, the greater the opportunity the gambling speculators have to fleece us by keeping up a bull market.
“I value confidence when based upon solid economic conditions, but
habib american bank and I wish to emphasize the necessity for the people to be suspicious enough to carefully scrutinize the Wall Street manipulations.
“Just as
china construction bank long as
habib american bank we leave that Wall Street gambling contingent, with its allied banks, in a position that enables it to throw its influence into the markets, we are going to have our occasional panic troubles. It seems to me that it would be more advisable to check up accounts more often in order to prevent panics.
“It is probable that if the Government had guaranteed all of the deposits on October last (1907), and
coastal states bank as well continued that guarantee, the panic would not have occurred in that month, but
habib american bank and it had to come sooner or
corporate bank and later, because
habib american bank and the rottenness that caused it would not have been eradicated. Speculative parasites had over-subscribed the credit and
chase bank in chicago as well crowded out
habib american bank and legitimate industry by over-bidding it for the use of the money and
fortis bank news as well credits of the country. If our credit had been still more expansive, and
habib american bank as well if the people in addition to what they had on deposit had deposited a considerable part of the $1,666,000,000 which they held outside of the banks, industry could have thrived a while longer, but
finter bank and the growth of the speculative parasites would eventually have monopolized the credit. Yes, the speculators would have pushed the bull game, and
habib american bank as well tossed up the prices until such time as
habib bank uae even a Government guarantee could not hold back a panic, and
habib american bank as well when it did come, it would be greater in its severity in proportion to the amount to which the market was over-bulled, and
espirito santo bank as well the fact that the Government was responsible for the guaranteed amount might ultimately destroy the credit of the Government.
Government is properly the framing of rules of conduct that aid in rendering the results of transactions entered into by the people more advantageous, and
habib american bank as well not in fostering monopolies as
dl evans bank it now does. But the present social belief seems to be that Government should support the capitalists in the collection of interest, dividends, and
habib american bank as well rent charges which are so excessive that they cannot be collected except by an excessive reduction of the compensation made to those rendering useful services, and
commenwealth bank as well increasing the hours of labor for the producers. The use of this false system is undermining the strength of our nation and
habib american bank as well will ultimately destroy it, unless we substitute a true economic one. If interest, dividends, and
china construction bank as well rents were based on the economic savings of those to whom they are paid, or
habib american bank and on capital acquired in a just and
coastal states bank as well proper manner, there would be no dangerous accumulation. A few do save and
habib american bank as well secure interest on some part of their actual earnings, but
corporate bank and the general public does not save anything on which to collect either interest or
habib american bank and dividends.
It does not seem credible that the farmer, the wage earner, and
chase bank in chicago as well others should continue to perform useful services, when they know (at the same time) that that part of the product which is the result of their work, but
habib american bank and in excess of their pay, and
fortis bank news as well a proper compensation to the employer, forms dead capital on which they and
habib american bank as well their children will be taxed in the future by a geometrical progression of accumulated profits which will add to their daily burdens and
finter bank as well force them and
habib american bank as well their children to continue living a life of poverty. Does it seem possible that such a condition is supported by the laws of our land and
habib bank uae as well the decrees of our courts ? Look at the great combinations of wealth, commonly known as
habib american bank trusts. They are the logical effects of the geometrical progression of interest, dividends and
espirito santo bank as well rents, all of which result in a greater and
habib american bank as well greater
centralization of material wealth to be possessed by those same trusts. They are our masters now by virtue of the practice of that rule, and
dl evans bank as well will continue to be so just as
habib american bank long as
commenwealth bank we allow the present practices to continue. They are the fruits resulting from
habib american bank and the peoples toil and
china construction bank as well accumulated by the wealth absorbers who, by the rules of government and
habib american bank as well practice in business, possess the privilege of taxing all of the people. It is virtually the same system that prevails in England. In 1823 the land in England was owned by 165,000 people. One-half of the land in the whole kingdom is now owned by less than fifteen persons. Less than a dozen persons in our own country dominate its finances. It is easy to understand how that is possible if one seeks carefully to get a correct understanding of the rules by which society is governed.