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America Created It's Own Money In 1750 |
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by Charles G. Binderup Rense Entered into the database on Saturday, June 11th, 2005 @ 16:13:42 MST |
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The following historical story is taken from a radio address given by Congressman
Charles G. Binderup of Nebraska, some 50 years ago and was reprinted in Unrobing
the Ghosts of Wall Street: Colonies More Prosperous Than The Home Country Before the American War for Independence in 1776, the colonized part of what
is today the United States of America was a possession of England. It was called
New England, and was made up of 13 colonies, which became the first 13 states
of the great Republic. Around 1750, this New England was very prosperous. Benjamin
Franklin was able to write:
"There was abundance in the Colonies, and peace was reigning on every
border. It was difficult, and even impossible, to find a happier and more prosperous
nation on all the surface of the globe. Comfort was prevailing in every home.
The people, in general, kept the highest moral standards, and education was
widely spread." When Benjamin Franklin went over to England to represent the interests of
the Colonies, he saw a completely different situation: the working population
of this country was gnawed by hunger and poverty. "The streets are covered
with beggars and tramps," he wrote. He asked his English friends how England,
with all its wealth, could have so much poverty among its working classes. His friends replied that England was a prey to a terrible condition: it had
too many workers! The rich said they were already overburdened with taxes, and
could not pay more to relieve the needs and poverty of this mass of workers.
Several rich Englishmen of that time actually believed, along with Mathus, that
wars and plague were necessary to rid the country from man-power surpluses. Franklin's friends then asked him how the American Colonies managed to collect
enough money to support their poor houses, and how they could overcome this
plague of pauperism. Franklin replied: Thanks To Free Money Issued By The Nation His friends could not believe their ears, and even less understand this fact,
since when the English poor houses and jails became too cluttered, England shipped
these poor wretches and down-and- outs, like cattle, and discharged, on the
quays of the Colonies, those who had survived the poverty, dirtiness and privations
of the journey. At that time, England was throwing into jail those who could
not pay their debts. They therefore asked Franklin how he could explain the
remarkable prosperity of the New England Colonies. Franklin replied: "That is simple. In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is
called 'Colonial Scrip.' We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods
and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating
ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no
interest to pay to no one." The Bankers Impose Poverty The information came to the knowledge of the English Bankers, and held their
attention. They immediately took the necessary steps to have the British Parliament
to pass a law that prohibited the Colonies from using their scrip money, and
then ordered them to use only the gold and silver money that was provided in
sufficient quantity by the English bankers. Then began in America the plague
of debt-money, which has never since brought so many curses to the American
people. The first law was passed in 1751, and then completed by a more restrictive
law in 1763. Franklin reported that one year after the implementation of this
prohibition on Colonial money, the streets of the Colonies were filled with
unemployment and beggars, just like in England, because there was not enough
money to pay for the goods and work. The circulating medium of exchange had
been reduced by half. Franklin added that this was the original cause of the American Revolution
- and not the tax on tea nor the Stamp Act, as it has been taught again and
again in history books. The financiers always manage to have removed from school
books all that can throw light on their own schemes, and damage the glow that
protects their power. Franklin, who was one of the chief architects of the American independence,
wrote it clearly:
This point of view of Franklin was confirmed by great statesmen of his era:
John Adams, Jefferson, and several others. A remarkable English historian, John
Twells, wrote, speaking of the money of the Colonies, the Colonial Scrip: "In a bad hour, the British Parliament took away from America its representative
money, forbade any further issue of bills of credit, these bills ceasing to
be legal tender, and ordered that all taxes should be paid in coins. Consider
now the consequences: this restriction of the medium of exchange paralyzed all
the industrial energies of the people. Ruin took place in these once flourishing
Colonies; most rigorous distress visited every family and every business, discontent
became desperation, and reached a point, to use the words of Dr. Johnson, when
human nature rises up and assets its rights." Another writer, Peter Cooper, expresses himself along the same lines. After
having said how Franklin had explained to the London Parliament the cause of
the prosperity of the Colonies, he wrote:
Today, in America as well as in Europe, we are under the regime of the Scrip
of the Bankers instead of the scrip of the nation. Hence the public debts, everlasting
interest charges, taxes that plunder purchasing power, with the only result
being a consolidation of the financial dictatorship. There is only one cure for America's ultimate financial collapse and that is for
Congress to exercise Clause 30 of the "Federal" Reserve Act, buy the
outstanding shares of stock, shut down this unconstitutional system and sell off
their assets to reimburse the people of this nation for this unspeakable theft
of their wealth. This is the first installment of postings on this issue, new
ones will be put up as soon as manpower allows. |