THE ROBERT E. COWAN COLLECTION 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF CHLIFORNIA 
 
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 JUNE. 18Q7, 
 
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LUOklNU iNiO THINGS 
 OR 
 
 THE GREAT CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS 
 
 
 Abraliam Lincoln's Last Warning to the American People. 
 
 "It luis been indeed a trying' hour tor the Repubhc, but 1 see in the 
 near future a crisis approaching" that unnerves me, and causes me to 
 tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corpo- 
 rations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places 
 will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to 
 prolong its REIGN by working on the prejudices of the people un- 
 til ail wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is de- 
 stroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my 
 country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. God grant 
 that my suspicions may prove groundless." 
 
 Was Lincoln mistaken ? Were his suspicions groundless ? We 
 think not, as we shall endeavor to show, beyond all controversy, in 
 these three small volumes. 
 
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LOOKING INTO THINGS 
 
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 OR 
 
 THE GREAT CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS 
 
 BY 
 
 Professor a. Huff 
 
 ,r OP THK 
 
 OF (UNIVEHSITT 
 
 OAKLAND, CAL. 
 
 And dedicated to the sacred memory of Abraham Lincoln, our mar- ♦ 
 tyred President of the United States, whose last warning to the Amer- 
 ican people we reproduce on the front page of these volumes, we 
 remember to have read many years ago, and it has continued to haunt 
 us Uke a phaniom with wonderful significance, from that day, until 
 now we behold a complete fulfillment to the letter of every word 
 in that fearful message. 
 
 Published by the Author, October, 1892. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The author of these small volumes, portraying the conspiracy 
 that overthrew the Republic, is not a professional writer, 
 neither has he ever taken much interest in partisan politics as 
 such, but being a native born American citizen, as well as his 
 ancestors before him, he has always felt a pride in American in- 
 stitutions, and a desire to see our national affairs so conducted 
 that we could transmit them to posterity improved rather than 
 impaired. 
 
 Among our early recollections was the story of the Revolution, 
 which we heard directly from the lips of the heroes who fought 
 that we might enjoy. They were my neighbors in my youth, and 
 from them we received our first lessons in patriotism, and con- 
 sequently an uncompromising love for liberty, equal righis, equal 
 laws and equal opportunities for all , with an unbounded admira- 
 tion for the founders of the Republic as well as for that grand- 
 est of all political documents, that charter of human rights, the 
 Dsclaration of Independence, which we now behold as having 
 bpen overthrown by a band of as heartless and soulless a set of 
 villains as ever scuttled a ship, or cut a throat. And, all we 
 have to do is to look into things^ as becomes loyal American citi- 
 zens, in order to understand that this is so. And the great 
 question that confronts us now is, whether our blood-bought lib- 
 erty is to go down in a eea of blood, or whether there is intelli- 
 gence and patriotism enough in the American people to rescue 
 them from the appalling doom that has befallen other Repub- 
 lics heretofore. The author is one of the hopeful, but he re- 
 alizes the danger, as well as the evil, of delay. Evidently we 
 have been sleeping over a volcano ever since 1873. Evidently 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 it is only the recollection of the recent scourge of the late civil 
 war that has caused a dread of the recurrence of such scenes 
 that has held the people in leash so long, and it is manifestly 
 true, that it only needs a spark now to start a most disastrous 
 conflagration, and this the author desires to avoid by thy use of 
 gentle means, if possible. (Dynamite kicks backwards.) 
 
 For the last thirty-five years of our life we have been deeply 
 interested in science, a devoted student of mental philosophy 
 irom the standpoint of brain knowltdge {phrenology') , in which we 
 bave made new and very valuable discoveries, in connection with 
 other kindred sciences, enough to immort lize any man, all of 
 which renders us ":ore intensely in love with liberty and lib- 
 eral institutions than ever, knowing full well that with the 
 overthrow of the Republic, science wUl soon be relegated to ob- 
 livion for long ages to come, as in the past, when ignorance, big- 
 otry and intoleracce stalked boldly over all the earth. 
 
 It is to i^revent such a. dire calamity, that we rest our pen from 
 science, and wield it for humanity and liberty, kuowing mil 
 well that man, without liberty to think, and act on his own re- 
 sponsibility, is a iravest}/ on nature, an abortion in the universe. 
 ^ Our task accomplished we hope to take up our pen in peace, 
 and go on promulgating science, in all its wonderful and unsur- 
 passed achievements. 
 
 The object then of these little waifs, children of my own 
 brain, is to add my mite, to that of a host of others of the good 
 and true, to try and extricate ourselves from the fearful conse- 
 quences of tlie terrible conspiracy that has already destroyed 
 onr once glorious Republic of America. Let this be my apol- 
 ogy for making this humble offering on the shrine of liberty. 
 (Duty impels us.) 
 
 One point we must mention here by way of contrast to show 
 the difference in regard to national affairs now, and what they 
 were when the author was a youth, sixty years ago, in north- 
 western Ohio. Then you could buy the best of land for %1 25 
 per acre, but you could not buy a white man for any price. 
 Black men in the South were worth $1000 per head. Now, 
 
PKEFAOB. 
 
 good land, near a market city, is held for speculation, at SIOOO 
 per acre, or in a city, at $1000 per front foot ; but men, oh! how 
 cheap, especially about election time, you can buy them for 
 about $1 25 per acre and pay it in whisky and tobacco. Oh! 
 why is it, men are so cheap and dirt is so dear: men cheaper than 
 dirt. 
 
 In those early days we had no millionaires. Lawyers and 
 ^ * ^ ¥: ^ffQJ•Q scarce. No saloons, and so buying and huck- 
 stering in influences, and herding voters was not then under- 
 stood as a business. But now how changed. I feel compelled 
 to exclaim : "Oh! how has the mighty fallen. From being the 
 greatest of nations — thou has descended to the lowest heliy From 
 being the most exalted, the most progressive, the most libei^al, to 
 be the most illiberal, degraded and wretched on earth. 
 
 But why multiply words; the Bepublic is overthrown and the 
 sooner we understand it the better. 
 
 This last sentence may sound strange to some ears, but if you 
 will join me while we look into things you will agree with me. 
 Bemember the saying of Caesar after he had usurped the Im- 
 perial Purjjle in Borne: *'As long as I could make them be- 
 lieve they were free they gave me no trouble, but after they found 
 out the truth, then came revolt." 
 
 Bemember, also, that in the dying throes of the Bepublic of 
 Bome, it had became a moneyed ^oligarchy, just as ours is to- 
 day — history repeating itself. (See Webster's definition of 
 oligarchy.) 
 
 ♦Oligarchy, a G-reek word for few atid rale, a form t'f government in which 
 the Bupreme power is in a few hands. A species of aristocracy. 
 
 Moneyed oligai'chy is a compact between the few in power 
 and the ^\ealthy to rule the State, or for that matter, the civil- 
 ized world. [The Authok.] 
 
 We have read with much pleasure the remarkable book of Mr. 
 Edward Bellamy, entitled ** Looking Backward," and admire its 
 contents very much. Its wonderful picture of a highly en- 
 lightened state of society is possible, if we only had a republi- 
 can form of government once more. It meets the requirements 
 
PRBFAOK. 
 
 of human nature for the development of the good and true, and 
 we hope it may prove to the present enslaved people of the 
 world, what the North Star proved to be to the poor colored 
 slave of only a few years ago ; something that we can travel in 
 pursuit of, at least, until we arrive at the point where freedom 
 is made possible by the restoration of the Republic. So cheer up 
 and scramble on and never mind how dark, and dismal, and 
 cold the night; day will break, the sun will rise, the fogs wij) 
 iiee away, and then we will see the sun shine as beautiful as 
 ever. Don't give up the race, but hie away to the promised land 
 where all mankind are free. 
 
 Edward Bellamy has given us the points of the compass to- 
 ward which to travel, but he has not bridged the streams or 
 swamps, or cleared the roads, and there are. numerous obstruc- 
 tions to remove before we can realize the dream. 
 
 The road may prove a hard road to travel, but if we keep 
 right on we shall be nearing the ideal every day, and the road 
 improving. 
 
 At present the clouds portend a storm, and, for aught we can 
 tell, we may travel through seas of blood to reach the goal. 
 There is time yet for a thirty years' war as Europe once had, in 
 which science and knowledge may be put back a thousand 
 years, but we hope better things. The colored gentlemen never 
 got to the North Star, nor is he likely to, but he got where he 
 is, as free politically as his white brother, but that is not saying 
 much, for he is not free from the usurper any more than his white 
 brothers are. So we must all try and look into things, and 
 when we know a little more we will know that we are all slaves 
 now. 
 
 In looking into things we readily discover that the great 
 charter of human liberty, the Declai-ation of Independence, the 
 foundation principles of our government is all right, as were 
 also the Articles of Confederation in their day, but when we 
 look into the Constitution we soon find some glaring inconsis- 
 tencies, some weak points, some strong points, not consistent 
 with each other, neither consistent with the foundation prin- 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 ciples on which our system of government was supposed to 
 rest, to wit: Liberty for man.. (See Declaration of Independ- 
 ence.) That in consequence of these weak points and incon- 
 gruities, our enemy, the enemy of human liberty, has taken un- 
 due advantage, and so entered the citadel, overthreAv the Repub- 
 lic and enslaved its citizens. Now the all-important question 
 is, how to extricate ourselves from the reign of the usurper and 
 so regain our b]ood-bought liberty ; this is the burning ques- 
 tion now, liberty or slavery for man? '* Whawill be a traitor, 
 knave. Wha sa base as be a slave, let him turn and flee." — 
 Burns. 
 
 When Madame Roland had devoted Jier life service to liberty 
 for France and was about to be executed by her early friends, 
 she cast her longing eyes across the public square, and behold- 
 ing the statue to liberty, she exclaimed : ** Oh, liberty, liberty, 
 how many crimes have been committed in thy name, (then sub- 
 mitted her head to the fatal block) , so now the most dastardly 
 crimes (unprovoked) have been committed in the name of lih- 
 eriy^ and right under the folds of our own flag. 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 Some monHis ago the author began to write up and expose 
 the swindliijg transactions of the Union and Central Pacidc 
 Railroads, but he had not proceeded far when he dis 
 covered a line of conspiracies all linked together in one com- 
 plete chain, of which the Railroads were only one link on the 
 west end, and that this chain extends three-quarters of the way 
 around the globe ; that it has its grappling irons on Mexico and 
 South America, and already has anchored in India, Egypt 
 Africa, China and Japan, in fact, all the world except the Bush- 
 man and Tartar — even the Czar of Russia, who is now re- 
 garded as the most despotic tyrant on earth, is not free from a 
 master that controls both him and his subjects, and makes him 
 more tyranical than be otherwise would be — some mysterious 
 power behind his throne. 
 
 In this little pamphlet. No. 1, we shall treat of liberty as the 
 natural inherent right of man, and^of money and its control, in 
 order that we may control our ov/n destiny. How, by the use 
 and control of this convenient tool of trade and commerce, we 
 may become free, happy and enlightened, or how, by its abuse, 
 under the control of villians and knaves, we may become the 
 most ignominious slaves on earth. That in consequence of this 
 abuse of this implement of trade and commeice the wlmU^ <dv- 
 llized world is groaning in slavery to-day. That our own boasted 
 Republic is no exception to the rule, that is, if our so called Re- 
 public was a Republic, pure and simple, we, the people, conl<l 
 control onr own financial svstem and so regain possession of onr 
 own nation and so control our ovvu destiny, which, evideully 
 and unfortunately for us, we never did, only in name, but the 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 momentous question if, can we now have a republican form of 
 government if we so desire? We think it is both possible and 
 desirable. (So let us have light, more light.) 
 
 INTItODUCTOiiY TO VOLUME 2. 
 
 In pamphlet No. 2, same conspiracy, we will expose other 
 links in the chain. First, the Credit Mobilier swindle, by 
 which the company was hf Jjed, at our expense to vast sums of 
 money and credits, amonnl iiig in the aggregate to nearly a billion 
 of dolhirs, directly and indirectly, with privileges almost un- 
 limited, only a small part of Avhich was ever necessary in con- 
 struction of the roads, in fact, was not used in that way. Just 
 tlieir share of the divide ; how tliey became the State ; assuming 
 the prerogatives of the State ; refusing to p;iy taxes, but control 
 legislation ; control the press and all business, as well as the 
 political affair;^ of the State, until thepeople have no rights, and 
 over whom they now terrorize under various pretexts. 
 
 They also sA up a money standard of their own, thus usurp- 
 ing the prerogative of the nation; also in this same pamphlet 
 an exposition of how silver came to be demonetized. Another 
 link in the same conspiracy, and done so slily that the people 
 did not know it for years — some mysterious power behind the 
 whole business, also the expose of the great American land 
 piracy s.stem, only another link in the chain. 
 
 We will also copy the Constitution of the United States, ver- 
 batim, and show how its most valuable principles have been 
 overthrown, and the Declaration of Independence ignored and 
 destroyed. 'We will also write and submit a new Constitution, 
 on a line with the Declaration of Independence, in order that 
 we may have the Bepubiic pure and simple and unlimited ; 
 the true Industrial Republic. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY TO VOLUME 3. 
 
 In pamphlet No. 3 we will expose the Western Milling AssGr 
 elation, a secret oath-bound crew who fix the price on wheat and 
 bread ; how they defraud the farmer on one hand and starve tlib 
 consumer on the other. We have this confidentially from one 
 once in the business. Also some points on the Indian ring, an- 
 
INTRODTJOTOBT. 
 
 other link in the same chain ; the taxpayers and Indians both 
 robbed ; also show conclusively the nature of the whole scheme 
 for the overthrow of the Republic for many years before the 
 breaking out of the Rebellion ; also the true reasons for the 
 assassination of both Lincoln and Garfield, all in the same con- 
 spiracy, oath-bound as usual. 
 
 In these several pamphlets we shall endeavor to unravel to 
 the satisfaction, of the most obtuse mind, how fearful was the 
 conspiracy portrayed by Lincoln ; how by all the various acts 
 of Congress, for thirty years or more, not one in the interest of 
 the public, but all for the enthroned monopoly, and especially 
 by the very fact of so much secrecy connected with such enact- 
 ments involving hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, 
 but all so carefully covered up and concealed, either ignorantly 
 or by willful lying or silence on the most momentous ques- 
 tions — questions involving not only the present generation, but 
 questions involving the life of the Nation and of generations 
 for ages unborn, thus proving conclusively that these last 
 words of Lincoln were literally true, for the utterance of which, 
 and others of similar import, he paid the penalty of death, and 
 with his assassination the conspirators took possession, and 
 from that day to this have been simply administering on the 
 estate of the defunct Republic. No doubt John Wilkes Booth 
 * * * * ^t * ^^g ^YiQ tool, but is that all? We never did 
 believe the crime was simply the revenge of surrendering 
 rebels ; but we must investigate the plot. 
 
 Now reader let us calmly look into things, but keep these im- 
 mortal lines of Goldsmith in mind: 
 
 *' III fares the land to hastening ills a prey. 
 Where wealth accumulates and men decay." 
 
 (We will answer Goldsmith at the conxjlusion of volume 
 No. 1.) 
 
 So let us- lay aside all prejudice and partisan animosities, and 
 think only of what is just and right and true and good for all 
 mankind, and that will surely prove the best for us all in the 
 
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 near future. Let our motto be " Our Country, right or wrong," 
 
 - Because when she is right 
 We surely can abide her. 
 And when she is wrong 
 "We can help to right her. 
 
 So now, fellow citizens, after one hundred years of experience, 
 good, bad and indifferent, we a^-e certainly better able to see 
 and understand the weak points, as well as the strong ones, and 
 so profit by the past, correct our mistakes, whatever they may 
 be, and so regain our lost fortunes, regain our lost liberty and 
 realize what was contemplated in the foundation principles. 
 
 (See Lincoln's warning, next page.) 
 
CHAPTEPi I. 
 
 * 
 
 THAT TERRIBLE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS — LINCOLN'S LAST WARN- 
 ING —LINCOLN'S INTEGRITY— Lincoln's warning verified. 
 
 RECONSTRUCTION NECCESSARY — OUR ENEMY IN DISGUISE. 
 PRESENT CONDITION— OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. 
 
 We now repeat Abraham Lincoln's last warning to the Ameri- 
 can people : 
 
 ** It has been indeed a trying hour for the Republic, but I see 
 in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and 
 causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result 
 of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of cor- 
 ruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the 
 
country wiD endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the 
 prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few 
 liands and the Eepublic is destroyed . I feel at this moment more 
 anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before,, even in 
 the midst of the war. God grant that my suspicions may prove 
 groundless." 
 
 The abov:i was taken from a letter written by President Lin- 
 coln to a friend in Illinois, just after 'the surrender of General 
 Lee, and before his own assassination, and published in Colum- 
 bia^ Anna D. Weaver's paper. 
 
 Some .very good people style this warning of Lincoln's a 
 prophecy but th's is hardly permissible, Abraham Lincoln 
 was a seer, and being behind the curtains, signing bills and 
 seeing how things were going, he made it known just as soon 
 as he thought it safe to do so, and then it proved too soon for 
 his personal safety. Some of our politicans are trying to dis- 
 countenance this warning. Such effort is useless, in as much as 
 everything in it has had a literal fulfilment in every letter and 
 line, and it would not be surprising if anything and everything 
 relating to it had been hunted up and destroyed by the con- 
 epirators. Of course they would do so now. Did Lincoln lie 
 in regard to the enthroning of a monopoly to issue and control 
 the money? Was he mistaken as to the intentions of the cjn- 
 spirators. No doubt they tried to bribe and bulldose him, and 
 that opened his eyes. No, sirs, his suspicions were not ground, 
 less, and his immediate assassination after the utterance of this, 
 his last warning, only proves too plainly that the culprits who 
 suffered for that terrible crime were not the only criminals, and 
 all subsequent legislation has shown, more and more conclu. 
 sively, the na'ure of the whole horrible tragedy to overthrow 
 the Republic, and they have done it, as we shall show to the 
 most obtuse mind, especially in pamphlets No. 2 and 3 of 
 thes3 series. But these last words of the martyred President 
 were not the only warnings given by him, as well as by 
 others. Hon. Thadeus Stevens (in the U. S. Senate at the 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW 1$. d 
 
 time) , when on his death bed, said: *'Yes, we had to yield. 
 The Seuate was stubborn. We did not, however, until we found 
 the country must be lost or the bankers gratified, and we sought 
 to save the country in spite of the cupidity of the wealthier cit- 
 izens." You see, however, that was only jumping off the grid- 
 iron into the fire. It is all plain now. 
 
 Note how partisan prejudice has been kept alive between 
 Democrats and Republicans, in regard to the most trivial ques- 
 tions, while matters of the most momentous importance to the 
 people and Nation have been passed over in silence or treated 
 with contempt, thus keeping prejudice rampant, until all of 
 Liberty has been lost except the name, whilst monopoly, which 
 is only another name for monarchy, has perpetuated its reign 
 until the constitutional guarantees have been all swept away 
 step by step, until it is painfully evident that the only way out 
 of the horrible dilemma without bloodshed is by reconstruction 
 from the first foundation principles, strictly on a line with the 
 original Declaration of American Independence, that grand old 
 document, the lio"ht of America, the future light of the world, 
 the liberator of all mankind. This is not treason, this is not 
 war; nay, but it is treason not to do so. And to neglect to do so 
 will result in war — horrible, inevitable war. 
 
 So let us study first principles, the principles of liberty, 
 for which only the war of the revolution, or rebellion either, 
 wns justifiable. But study and understand it ^^ell, for we have 
 a great task before us to overthrow the present usurpers in our 
 f.wn country, and possibly the enthroned money power of the 
 civilized world, before we can regain what we once enjoyed of 
 that priceless boon, Uheriy for man. But for the proof of the 
 above we must follow out and expose the monster in all his dia- 
 bolical schemes, even before the war, and during and since the 
 war. But with the assassination of Lincoln our real foe, the 
 usurper, took possession and has been conducting our national 
 affairs entirely in the interest of the conspirators, and from that 
 day to this we, the people, have had no more voice, no more 
 
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 influence in our national affairs than tlitj Tartars of Tartary or 
 the Bushmen of Australia, except to pay taxes and interest. 
 
 This enthroned money power of the world had been regarding 
 our nation as a mere skirmishing ground. Only waiting until 
 we should accumulate valuable property, then it started in -vvith 
 the war of the rebellion. 
 
 Then it started ia like a thief in the niglit. 
 
 And never gave up until it put out the light. 
 
 It began its death work with two airings to ita bow. 
 
 So that if one tailed the other woiald go. 
 
 The men in the lield did their work brave and bold. 
 
 But our foe stole in like a wolf ti* the fold. 
 
 In the year 'sixty- one the war was begun, 
 
 In the year sixty- two it was all very blue, 
 
 In the years sixty-three, sixty-four and sixty-five 
 
 The nation in mourning, but our foe was alive. 
 
 And enthroned was the villain on the spoils of the slain, 
 
 Our chieftain entombed and our nation in chains. 
 
 The rebellion was fought that the republic might live, 
 
 Bui now we behold it laid low in ita grave. 
 
 Now friends and fellow citizens, bound together by one com- 
 mon desire — to wit, the happiness and welfare of humanity — 
 can we see anything in our surroundings and conditions con- 
 firmatory of that wond rf ul forecast of Abraham Lincoln ? 
 
 See the money power of the civilized world — its head in Lon- 
 don, its body in Europe, its clutch at our throats in America, 
 its conspirators in New York ; Tammany Hall, of revolutionary 
 fame, its headquarters, now controlled, and has been for thirty 
 or forty years, by the political bosses of both the leading par' 
 ^ies, and men of wealth and influence and a good representation 
 of priests in black and white frocks, and who from their emi- 
 nence control New York city, county and State, and the United 
 States. See Father McGlynn's lectures, and he knows. He was 
 there. He knew the place when cOtitroUed by the Tweed ring, 
 now the political headquarters of the United States, its backers 
 and abettors in the great, grand, gilded gold and bond room of 
 tlie Brokers' Exchange, where the guilty, gilt edged, gold headed 
 ghouls, worshippers of the god Gold, meet in solemn conclave to 
 
THE OONSPlfiACY THAT iTOV IS, ORH^^^*' ^ 
 
 bay or sell bond slaves, men, women and children, for ages un- 
 born; its chief henchmen the partisan bosses at Washington, 
 who lead or drive the ignorant, blind voting CLittle in hum^n 
 form to cast themselves, soul and body, under the gil led wheels 
 of the golden car of the grinding, crushing, soul destroying 
 Juggernaut. 
 
 So ol this monster beast, enemy of mankind, beware, I pr»y, 
 That sltteth on the waters many, deck'd out in fine array, 
 That talketh kindly like a woman, and with her lips she saith, 
 *»Come unto me all ye that labor and I will give you rest." 
 But beware of the scarlet lady ; there's poison in her breath. 
 She hath a body like a serpent, she will crush you to deatli. 
 The scarlet lady hath a brother, * * ♦ . » •- 
 They conspire to betray us, then enslave TlB« 
 Then mock at Liberty. 
 
 Yes. render, we shall prove conclusively to every unpreju- 
 diced mind, as we look into things, that the people of this mighty 
 and partly free ijation have been betrayed, lost their liberty and 
 been sold into slavery at the instigation of a band of villains at 
 home and abroad, some of whom may have acted their parts un. 
 willingly, but acted it all th^ same as partisans. But as to the 
 principal perpetrators, all understood long beforehand, e\'*^n in 
 its details, and all carried out by preconcerted action. But be- 
 fore doing which we ask your indulgence in the perusal of a 
 few pages in regaid to the foundation principles on which our 
 system of government is. based, as well as some very important 
 principles in natural economic science that cannot be ignored 
 with impunity, and the very attempt to ignore which is always 
 attended with the most disastrous results to civilization and de- 
 clention to barbarism as an inevitable result ; and first in order 
 then is the natural rights of man inherent in his life and con- 
 stitution and on a line with all else in nature. 
 
 In our humble effort at an exposition of this infamous ooa- 
 spiracy we have been fortunate in obtaining from a friend a rare 
 document one probably not intended for the ordinary readar. 
 
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 but, nevertheless of undoubted authorship. We shall use it 
 extensively for reference. See it : 
 
 '*Tbea.surer's Departmeyt, Office of the ) 
 
 ** Secretary, Washington, D. C, August 6th, 1881. J 
 **IIon. Francis A, Walker, Superintendent of Censv^, Washing- 
 ton, J). C. — Sir : As requested in your letter of the 5th inst., I 
 transmit herewith the information compiled under the super- 
 vision of Mr. R. A. Bailey of this office concerning the old 
 loans of the Government, and other matters in relation to the 
 national debt transmitted to me under date of the 1st instant. 
 ** Very respectfully yours, 
 
 ** W, Windom, Secretary." 
 
 From the above oflScial document we obtain most of our facts, 
 and we defy coi*tradiotion, as it would be evidence in any honest 
 court. 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 
 THR NATXTRAIj RIGHTS OF MAN — ROBBER SYSTEMS — INCIPIENT 
 ECONOMIO PRINCIPIiES — RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNS— RIGHTS OF 
 SOVEREIGN NATIONS. 
 
 The sovereignty of the nation is based on the sovereignty of 
 its individuals. Our Government, in contradistinction to mon- 
 archial governments, is based on the principle that the people 
 are sovereign, instead of some one person reigning and being 
 sovereign and ruling by divine right, or the right of kings, and 
 of whom it was claimed the king can do no wrong. The priest 
 chose the king by command of god, the priest also being infal- 
 lible, etc. On the contrary, we the people, are sovereign. See 
 Declaration of Independence, which says : "All just powers of 
 government are derived from the consent of the governed.'* 
 Therefore we, the people are sovereign. For this reason our 
 legislators and oflSloials chosen by the people are our agents, and 
 never should supercede their instructions. The Constitution 
 was framed by the delegates, chosen by the people, to be a rule 
 that neither Congress, President nor officials should ever vio- 
 late, but all be in perfect accord with its provisions, so that laws 
 
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 enacted by them would not infringe on the natural, inalienable 
 rights of the people— laws that would be just and impartial in 
 all their bearings. Our system of government also recognized 
 that all men are created free and equal (politically) ; that they 
 are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights— 
 to wit, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure 
 these rights governments are instituted among men deriving 
 their j ust powers from the consent of the governed."^ Evidently 
 we have greatly departed from these foundation principles. 
 Evidently the departure from these great first principles is the 
 cause of our enslavement to-day, as we shall also prove in this 
 eliort. But there was difficulty then in the way of their fulfil- 
 ment, and there is still some difficulty ; but no valid reason can 
 be given now why they should not be carried out to the letter, 
 as we sha^l also show in this humble work. 
 
 One difficulty at the time was, black chattel slavery existed in 
 many of the States, and the evil had to be tolerated for a season 
 in order that the colonies might be united against the common 
 enemy, Great Britain. "They had to hang together or be hung 
 separately." (So said Franklin.) And the people thm owning 
 black slaves, and believing in it as a part of the divine plan, 
 would not consent to their liberation. So' they wrote better 
 than they practiced. The best of people do that ; sometimes 
 many still do so. But the difficulty of black chattel slavery has 
 at last been eliminated. One more difficulty remains to the 
 complete fulfilment of what was possible in those same founda. 
 tion principles, and that is, woman's emancipation ; but even 
 that is nearing a fulfilment, prejudice dying out. Woman is 
 feminine man just as much <5.s man is masculine man, and 
 constitutes one-half the race ; has the same right to life, liberty 
 and the pursuit of happiness that masculine man has ; and if we 
 were as ready to grant liberty to others as we are to claim it for 
 ourselves, the last prejudice would vanish. Herein is the per- 
 
 *ror the above see Declaration of Independence. It should be suspended in 
 map foim in every citizen's house, as well as every schoolhouse in the laud, and 
 its principles faithfully inculcated in every child. 
 
8 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 feet law of liberty — that each and every person of mature age 
 and sound mind should be permitted to do as they please with 
 themselves and their own, so long as they do not infringe on the 
 selfsame right in others. 
 
 Question— Are you ready to do unto others as ye would that 
 others should do unto you ? 
 
 But now we must pass to consider very briefly some important 
 economic laws, involving the right to life, liberty, and the par 
 suit of happiness. 
 
 The right to life implies the right to the means whereby life 
 is sustained — nature's resources, the earth, air and water, the 
 liberty to use these, to enhance our happiness, and promote the 
 welfare of others dependent on us, but never to deprive others 
 of the selfs'ime rights we claim for ourselves. Herein is the 
 perfect law of equity, of equal and exact justice, on nature' 
 own plan. 
 
 Our motto and practice niust be Live and Let Live, instead of tha 1 
 modern, diabolical practice of cut throat, cut the cuthroat's throat ; 
 or that reptilian code of eat and be eaten in turn ; or, to the 
 victors belong iiie spoils; or that might makes right; or, take 
 all you can get, keep all you have got and pray fer more ; or, 
 still farther, to follow the political code of that old prince of 
 political corruptionists, Simon Cameron,"^ subtraction, division 
 and s lence. But now you see there is a power above the repub- 
 lic, that is greater than the republic, and a power behind every 
 throne to day tnat is greater than the throne. It is still huaian, 
 but Ave call it the organized money power of the civilized world, 
 because it has only one head and is organized to rob all nations, 
 both civilized and savage, by means of its own ordained meth- 
 ods of business. It is a very potential power in civilized soci- 
 ety, for good or evil, but not so potential among savages : first, 
 because the savage has but little of which to be robbed ; second, 
 because he has not adopted their business method, but he spends 
 
 * Subtract from the public, divide with your pards, and ke«p «ilexice. (The thief 
 ioee no more.) 
 
THE 0ON8PIRA0T THAT NOW IS. 9 
 
 much valuable time and labor traveling about, bartering, t'-ad- 
 ing, swapping — one day he swaps sugar for sweetening and the 
 next day swaps sweetening for sugar. His methods are child- 
 like (ignorance is his master) , whilst organized greed of the 
 money power and ignorance on our part is our masters alj-o. So 
 let us look into things. 
 
 But all civilized or half- civilized nations have found it advan- 
 tageous to adopt tokens (stamped money, legalized counters), 
 which all in that nation were bound to respect as the lawful 
 mooey of the realm, and which was in fact a great convenience 
 in trade and commerce — a real labor saving im]3lement in the 
 exchange of commodities. Issued by the sovereign or chief 
 authority of the nation, that all might enjoy its advantages in 
 the transaction of business, the sovereign first giving it for 
 goods or services performed. Thence it went on from subject 
 to subject, doing its work of facilitating exchanges. As long 
 as the king or sovereign lived and reigned, so long was his 
 money good ; or in case the material on which to make his 
 money was scarce, or his people with too much money, and too 
 independent about their service, then he taxed them, and they 
 had to come bringing it back to replenish his treasury. This 
 made hard times, and caused subjects to revolt then just as it 
 does now. 
 
 When Solomon was king and reigned in Jerusalem he made 
 money as plentiful in that city as stones, (see II Chronicles, 
 1st chap., 15th verse ; also 9th chap., 27tli verse.) But in doing 
 this he taxed the peoiDle, thus calling in the gold and silver 
 money, and so contracting the volume of money by using it to 
 decorate the temple and other public and private buildings, and 
 to pay his workmen and his numerous servants and singers, and 
 support his numerous wives and concubines. But the contrac- 
 tion of the currency and high taxes made hard times in the 
 country and revolt among outlying tribes. (See Chronicles, 
 10th and 11th chapters ; read it for yourselves. Ten tribes 
 revolt at one time.) Just as high interest, enormous taxes, 
 
10 liOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 low prices for commodities, lower wages or no work, the 
 volume of money insufficient, looked up, destroyed or 
 concentrated in a few hands m ikes laborers, farmers 
 ind all classes of wealth producers revolt, causing over 
 throw and death to the naticn, just as a lack of blood or con- 
 sentration of it a*-, certain points of the body causes con 
 gestion or paralysis and death to the patient. Bat the two sov- 
 ereign prerogatives of declaring the money and collecting taxes 
 was originally recognized as such and a right that none dare 
 dispute to do so was counted disloyal and treasonable. The king 
 had a right to cull for service, and pay in the king's money, and 
 so the king could call forth an army with banners in a day and 
 pay in the king's monsy. This was evidently a very imj ortant 
 prerogative, without which the king is not povereign at all.* 
 
 Equally important in a republic, without which the republic 
 is not a sovereign nation ; or its people independent and just 
 what we must have before we can have a free and independeN.i 
 nalioti. This important sovereign prerogative of declaring and 
 issuing the money was the general rule in ancient times ; but in 
 modern times the oligarchy rules the civilized world, and for 
 some mysteriou". reason, either ignorance or design, or both, we, 
 the people, have always been deprived of this very important 
 prerogative. We could call foith an army of men to be slaugh- 
 tered at the cannon's mouth — life was cheap ; but the banners 
 or cannons— no, no money to equip the army. It had to be 
 borrowed from some other power or potentate, friendly or un- 
 friendly, and always at great cost and danger. The failui'e to 
 make ample provision in the Constitution for the exercise of this 
 sovereign prerogative was evidently one of the v/eak jjoints. 
 But now we must pass from this part of our subject tu take it up 
 further on, as another great question presents itself for solution. 
 
 ♦Before yoii spell nation with a big Nyou should include this sovereign preroga- 
 tive to declare and issue the money, making the demand clear, decisive and un- 
 equivocal, subject to the will of the bo ve reign people, who must control their own 
 destiny by controlling the money and business methods, whatever the method 
 may be. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 POLITICAL ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES — NATURAL BCONOMIO PRIN- 
 CIPLES — ECONOMIC JUST PRINCIPLES— UNJUST ECONOMIC 
 PRINCIPLES — SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF NATIONS — GONSTITUTIOM 
 OVERTHROWN. 
 
 Economic principles — wealth dependent on labor applied to 
 nature's resources, but necessarily slow of increase. Our 
 practical, scientific, political economists tell us that the most 
 favored nation does not increase in wealth more than 3 per 
 cent per annum over and above all that is eaten up, dies off, 
 burns down and goes to destruction. (The aggregation of prop- 
 erty for which we are indebted should be reckoned out, as it is 
 a delusion and does not help matters out in the long course of 
 time, as all interest comes out of the producers, whether foreign 
 or domestic,) A nation then that aggregates wealth at 3 per 
 cent per annum would in course of time become wealthy. But 
 it does not follow that all the people in that nation will be 
 wealthy : that will depend largely on the internal economic 
 principles adopted by that nation. Any system of barter, trade, 
 finance or exchange that favors one class at the expense of an- 
 other will surely aggrandize the one class and impoverish the 
 other, and, however small the advantage at the beginning, it will 
 eventually aggregate all wealth in the hands of the favored ones, 
 and just as surely enslave those not of the favored class. Hence 
 it also follows that if I, as an individual, am steady, industrious 
 and economical, and lay by 3 per cent per annum, then I am 
 doing well. If I make more somebody else is making less. 
 Speculation is unjust, unnatural and impossible for any cousid- 
 
12 liOOE-lI^G IKTU THlJNGb, OK 
 
 erable length of time. It is a process of getting soniething-for 
 nothing. If I am making 20, 50 or 100 per cent somebody else 
 is being robbed, in some way, of what by natural right belongs 
 to them. Hence great thrift is not possible for any one on any 
 line of equitable dealing. The law. of equity, properly under- 
 stood, is the law of cause and effect. You cannot produce some- 
 thing from nothing, and the only law applicable here is the law 
 of equivalent for equivalent. Hence, following strictly on the 
 line of equity, inteiest, rent, profit is impossible, in the nature 
 of things, and cannot be followed as a system for any consider- 
 able length of time without disastrous results to the people of 
 that nation. There is not an exception to these principles in 
 the world. But it also violates other laws of nature too numer- 
 ous to mention, and ultimately proves disastrous to the thought- 
 less, rich idler, as well as to the overworked producer. 
 
 When the natural laws are violated you cannot escape the 
 legitimate effects. Herein is involved the rise and fall of na- 
 tions, to which there are no exce])tions in the history of the 
 world. But these natural, inexorable laws of Nature, are tha 
 very laws so generally violated or overlooked. But you cannot 
 ignore them, however much you may deplore them. All wise 
 statesmen understand this. Those who live by usury (interest) , 
 rent, speculation and spoliation simply live at the expense of 
 others. It is a violation of both moral and natural law, and no 
 human law or custom of society can make it just. Thomas 
 Jefferson understood when he said, "The fathers have no right 
 to fasten a debt on posterity," and again when he said, **A na- 
 tional debt is as near a national fraud as anything can well be." 
 Experience has proved this correct in our case. Here a great, 
 unnecessary bond debt has proven to be not only an unpardon- 
 able fraud, but an unmitigated curse— a cald-mity, instead of ** a 
 blessing in disguise," as some of our traitor statesmen have assert- 
 ed. It not only draws unjust interest, but it breeds debts unlim- 
 ited, and when the legally constituted authorities legislate to make 
 unnecessary, unjust debt and interest, only one solution of the 
 
THE CONSPIBACY THAT NOW IS. 13 
 
 qnestion can be ^iven, and that is, that it is done to enable the 
 idle nonproducer to live and riot in luxury at the expense of the 
 producers. It is absolutely iucom^^atible with sound repub- 
 lican or democratic principles, where ecjual rights are supposed 
 to be the rule ; bat in all monarchial governments it is the rule 
 to uphold classandclasses at the expense of the masses (who 
 hitherto have constituted the mulsills of society, so called). 
 Hence every, law was made to subserve the classes, the aristoc- 
 nicy and the throne, ULder the plea <A divine righ . But all 
 laws in a republic that favor a class is revoluHonary , is treaso?i 
 to the vf-public; it is monarchy established on the ruins of the repub- 
 lic. But to fasten a great national debt on posterity violates 
 another law of Nature. I see about me aged parents who have 
 reared families. Now, sup^DOse the parents should die baakrup; 
 to-morrow, and a son comes of age next day, would the law be 
 just that would compel the son to pay the parents' debts? Not 
 you would all say, " No, give the child a chance.''^ The parents 
 then have no natural right to fasten a just debt on posterity 
 How much less can a nation fasten an unjust debt on posterity, for 
 the all-sufficient reason that it deprives posterity of the right to 
 the means whereby life is sustained, and so deprives him of life, 
 liberty, and the right to pursue after happiness in his own way . 
 It virtually enslaves him, and relegates him to ignorance^ depri- 
 vation, degradation, barbarism, and death, for something for which 
 he is in no way responsible. 
 
 We must also remember here, that all wealth, of whatever 
 character, is originally the product of labor, expended on Na- 
 ture's resources ; that the mere idler, speculator, beggar or thief 
 ailds nothing to the wealth, but, conceal it as we may, he is a 
 constant expense. Hence too the poverty and degradation 
 
 *Our law-makers now have no law that compels the children to pay the parents* 
 debts directly, but tho whole bondage system does so ; hence the whole bondage 
 pywtejn is wrong, and liouce the law-makers have no just i-r moral right to flu-ust 
 their long. nefarionH fingers into the future of lime and enslave children unborn. 
 Hence the whole bondage system ii unnatural, unjust^and should not, cannot be 
 tolerated. >^ \ B R ^^' y 
 
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14 liOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 of producers are always in exact inverse ratio to the wealth and 
 afflaence of the idle nonproducer. The 3 per cent increase 
 won't go around ; hence the more rich idlers, the more poor 
 beggars, and both unnecessary excresences on society (both 
 wans) — another bane of past ages. ( Now can you see into things ?) 
 The old adage read.=j : " There is only a sixpence difference 
 between the man that works and the man that plays, and the 
 man that plays gets it!" Now how does the idle nonproducer 
 get his wealth? Evidently it is most generally the unjust laws 
 that enable him to get it, as we shall prove further on. But 
 manifestly any law that favors one class or individual must do so 
 at the expense of another class or individual. Evidently also 
 such law must be unjust, tyrannical. 
 
 These are grave questions, but all true statesmen should un- 
 derstand them, and shape legislation accordingly (but how very 
 rare true statesmen) ; hence false systems have been the rule 
 more frequently than true systems. Hence all Europe, for long 
 ages, with but few exceptions, has been victimized by vicious 
 systems, that have robbed producers to enrich the idlers. It is 
 so still, and the same systems have been introduced here early 
 in our history, and has robbed, defrauded and.inipoverished the 
 wealth producers in this unhappy country, until the republic is 
 absolutely overthrown, extinct, except in name only. Even 
 freedom in religion and education is toppling. 
 
 Chief among these false systems is a delusive system of finance, 
 a robber system of transportation, a system of deadly competi- 
 tion among producers, and, fourthly, complete combination in 
 money finance, transportation and exchange, all in the interest 
 of idlers, nonproducers and speculators, with whom government 
 officials co-operate in order to sustain the cormorants, cut-throat 
 corruptionists, etc., for their own aggrandizement and at the 
 expense o*' honest industry, in which struggle the women suffer 
 most, because the most sensitive and helpless, and hence the 
 frequent resort to a life of shame to escajje the immediate pangs 
 of hunger and cold, those inexorable masters of the poverty 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 16 
 
 stricken. But these unjust systems of a barbarian age must go 
 before we can enjoy perfect liberty, or even regain what we once 
 had of that priceless inheritance. The most outrageous of all 
 these unjust robber systems have been fastened on us without 
 our knowledge or consent, and contrary to the cardinal prin- 
 ciples on which our government was founded, as already alluded 
 to. First in order then is to see what rights belong to us as a 
 nation, and also as citizens, and so exchange the false and per- 
 aicious, and introduce the true, the benificent, by reconstruc- 
 tion from first foundation principles — the immortal Declaration 
 of Lidependeyice and Natural Rights of Man. 
 
 The* first question then is, Are we a sovereign nation, with 
 sovereign rights like other nations? (See Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence : *'A11 just powers of government are derived from the 
 consent of the governed.") Our liberation achieved, this prin- 
 ciple was acknowleded by all civilized nations, and we were 
 treated with as a sovereign nation, in which the sovereignly of 
 its individuals is recognized, with self-government by each and 
 each responsible to each, and united government for all, with 
 liberty and independence for each and all. 
 
 Now, with sovereign power always went the right to levy taxes 
 and excises, and to coin, declare and issue its own money, and 
 with that right also the right to make it on any material, whether 
 gold, silver, copper, iron, brass, leather, cloth, paper, bark of 
 trees, skins of animals, wood, precious stones, belts of wampum, 
 measures of oil and flour, cakes of soap, tobacco, animals, 
 slaves (men and women) , at fixed rates. See McCarty's Annual 
 Statistician, 1881, page 509, also 604, in which we find almost 
 everything has been used by the sovereigns of earth on which to 
 place the insigna of sovereignty, his image and superscription. 
 None dare dispute in his realm. It was protected by laws. To 
 counterfeit or deny the king's money or authority was treason, 
 and the culprit was visited with condign punishment, and it was 
 rightly so, so long as the king was king. Why not ? Now re- 
 verse the order. If we had a republic and the people were sov" 
 
16 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 ereign, they would exercise sovereign rights, to declare and 
 issue the money of the realm. As to the material or substance 
 on which the royal prerogative was placed or stamped, that was 
 not the essential principle. Evidently the essential principle 
 was the authority of the sovereign to issue and declare money. 
 Hence this right as well as the right to tax being twin attri- 
 butes of sovereignty, were always hedged about with ample laws 
 for their protection and enforcement by the sovereign, and pro' 
 tect d him in his right as ala-ivful sovereign of the realm ; hence 
 toj, without both of these very essential prerogatives, he would 
 not, could not, be sovereign at all. Neither can we be a sover- 
 eign nation or people without exercising both of these sovereign 
 prerogatives (to levy taxes and issue money.) Bemember that 
 man makes laws, and the laws made by men make money ; that, 
 whatever the money is, it is just what the law mak s it — nothing 
 more, nothing less. If the law makes it an honest dollar, it is so 
 by virtue of law ; if a dishonest dollar, it is so by unjust law. 
 Hear the Hon. William D. Kelly, Eepublican Member of Con- 
 gress from Pennsylvania in 1886: " There never was an honest 
 dollar made but what was made by a government, neither a gold 
 dollar, a paper dollar, nor a silver dollar." Kelly was right, and 
 on a line with the Supreme Court decisions, and we defy all 
 the huckstering lawyers in the nation to prove to the contrary, 
 including Kobert G. Ingersoll, the great. Hear him : ** God 
 makes money." No, sir ; God never made a dollar in the world, 
 neither an honest nor a dishonest dollar, a gold dollar, a silver 
 dollar, a paper nor a leather dollar, a nickel, nor even a brass 
 cent, God made man and man made money (log cabin school- 
 house education). Well, where did Kobert G. ^et his educa- 
 tion? Was it in the holy of holies, or, later on, in the * * * 
 * ■* * ■^, or, still more recently, in the unholy temple of the 
 inon^y ghouls ? 
 
 Now remember, a question correctly stated is already hall 
 debated. The right then to declare and issue the money is a 
 sovereign right of the nation, and in a republic, where sover- 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW T8. 17 
 
 eighty inheres in its people, it is the right of the people to deter- 
 mine for themselves whether they will use money at all or not 
 in their transaction of business and exchange of commodities 
 If they decide to use money, tokens representing value, it is 
 their inherent right to do so. And all their laws for the collec- 
 tion of debts, payment of taxes, exchange of commodities, 
 wages, etc., will be framed to suit the medium through which 
 exchanges are efifect d. If the people, in the exercise of this, 
 their sovereign prerogative, decide not to use money tokens, 
 but exchange commodities direct, then they have the right to do 
 so, as well as to fix the standard of value at which commodities 
 may be exchanged, both at home and abroad ; also make bills of 
 lading and bills of exchange international and binding by 
 treaty, by Congressional enactment, by consent of its people, 
 and so cut off speculation, profit mongering, cornering, and all 
 the host of robbing schemes, and so make it possible and easy 
 to be honest with all mankind, and so treat each other like 
 brothers, instead of cut-throats or robbers, much less that ex- 
 ecrable practice of calling men brothers in order that we may 
 rob and enslave them. 
 
 As an example as to the right of kings, emperors, etc., to coin, 
 declare and issue the money, read the early history of Kome, 
 Greece, Egypt, Persia, Sparta ; read Lycurgus' law making the 
 money of iron ; read also in the New Testament concerning the 
 case where the scribes (lawyers) and pharisees (priests) te pted 
 one Jesus by presenting him a small coin of Caesar* to see if 
 he would recognize the sovereign right of Csesarf to coin and 
 declare money, and collect tribute, but he was not entrapped. 
 He hastily acknowledged both these sovereign rights of Caesar.* 
 These are not exceptional cases, but the rule. All kings, 
 queens, emperors, empresses, sovereign pontiffs and potentates, 
 ,-n all ages, where money was used at all, had a right to demand 
 
 *Why did they not arrest him for being a tramp? He was certainly guilty of 
 that crime. 
 T Judea was a conquered province of Rome at the time. 
 
16 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 service, and pay in the king's money,, or token, for the service 
 performed. Hence, too, the universal custom of engraving the 
 imag .; and supersciption of the reigning sovereign on the money 
 of the realm. Hence, too, we, the people of this sovereign na. 
 tion, must exercise this sovereign prerogative to declare and 
 issue the money. For these reasons we, the people, conferred 
 these sovereign prerogatives of levying taxes, and excises and 
 declaring and issuing the money en Congress, to do these things 
 for us, as our constituted agents. (See the Constitution.) The 
 one sovereign power to levy taxes and excises. Congress has car- 
 ried out on the most gigantic scale — on everything tangible and 
 intangible, in every imaginable form (even our credulity is 
 taxed) . The other sovereign prerogative, to declare and issue 
 the money, Congress has either i'armed out or almost entirely 
 ignored, by limiting its issue to certain materials very scarce 
 and hard to obtain, or else, still worse, issuing something- 
 resembling but still not money, or else, most outrageous of all, 
 conferring power on a corporation not un ler the control of the 
 people, neither delegated in the Constitution, to issue a fraudu- 
 lent representation of money, which is no: money (the bank 
 note is only a promise to pay money) , and all for the purpose of 
 aggrandizing the corporation at the expense of the people (mys- 
 terious power) . We are not unmindful of a decision giving 
 legal sanction to bank notes in some respects when the legal 
 tender cases were last argued in the Supreme Court by Butler 
 and Chittenden, but the fact that the constitutionality of the 
 banking law was not under discussion at the time only shows Low 
 ready is our highest tribunal to serve corporations. But still 
 there is one very material point not yet decided. Would this 
 same court now decide that these bankers' notes are lawful 
 money of the realm when in fact they read on their face only a 
 promise to pay money ? If they do so decide, then the bankers 
 are sovereign, and the people have no rights. How is it anyhow? 
 Evidently the people never knowingly surrendered to the bank- 
 ing oligarchy (mystery inexplicable here). Let us know the 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 19 
 
 worst. (B. F. Butler to the front once more.) The Supreme 
 Court did decide, however, that the bank note was lawful in a 
 limited sense, and by courtesy just what was stipulated in the 
 law, nothing more, nothing less (as much as to say they are not 
 unlawful, they are not counterfeit), but the greenback a lawful 
 money of the realm in peace or war, and to the extent that the 
 law made them lawful money of the realm, nothing more, noth- 
 ing less. But it was limited al ^o by exceptions. (See further 
 on) . See also decisions of United States Supreme Court (Judge 
 Field, only, dissenting — seven to one). What is the reason 
 now that C ngress will not heed the decisions of the Supreme 
 Court, and so dechire and issue the constitutional, lawf nl money, 
 the money of the nation? A.nswer : Because they belong with 
 the conspirators, the oligarchy, and with them Tammany throne, 
 New York, is higher authority than the Supreme Court of the 
 
 United States, with all the people. (The people be d d.) 
 
 But let us look ialo things. We have had the bitter experience 
 now for over one hundred years, law or no law, Constitution or 
 no Constitution; we now understand its diabolical effects. We 
 have had the revohitiou from liheriy to slavery — fifty million 
 slaves on one side, an enthroned oligarchy of millionaires on 
 the other, falsehood, falsc- systems everywhere, no safety any- 
 where, until, between the two thieves, unlimited taxation and 
 no money, but fraudulent representation of money, or the 
 amount entirely inadeciuate to meet tlie requirements of busi- 
 ness, the people have been robbed, ruined, defrauded and en 
 slaved, until Life is a burden, liberty afavce^ and the right to pur- 
 sue aftei' happiness a. snare, a delusion, and a mockery. 
 (Stop thief, stop!) 
 
20 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 PINANCIAIj eights — NATIONAL. EIGHTS OP CITIZENS — CIECDIiATING 
 MEDIUM— EQUITY IN BUSINESS AND COMMEECE ASSUEED — 
 MONEY LOANING NOT THE BEST WAT — EQUITY IN COM- 
 MEECE — EQUITABLE BUSINESS. 
 
 The people have an inherent right to control their own destiny 
 by controlling their own money and legislation. Now, as a 
 people, we must look into things, exercise our senses and judg- 
 ment, and assert our natural, inherent right to control our own 
 destiny, and, to this end, we must control the money, first hav- 
 ing decided whether we will use money in the exchange of com- 
 modities or not, also to determine the material on wh'ch this 
 insignia of sovereignty shall be printed, as well as the amount 
 to print. It is all-important that we have enough money to 
 transact all the business of the nation on a cash basis — no bor- 
 rowing, no premium, or interest ; that, to this end, we declare 
 that in the substance or material use<l three things are neces- 
 sarily considered— first, economy; second, convenience ; third, 
 durability; — all considered and all adapted to the requirements 
 of business and commerce at home and abroad, but always pro- 
 tected, respecteci and defended at home by all loyal citizens of 
 the realm as the money of the sovereign people, whether printed 
 on gold, silver, nickel, copper, leather, paper or cloth, etc., so 
 that there is abundance of it, and carries with ii the insignia 
 of sovereignty, for which the whole nation is bound by law to 
 accept as the lawful money of the realm; that for any person to 
 counterfeit the same is a criminal offense, just as now — but 
 to refuse to accept and respect the money is equivalent to dis- 
 loyalty to the sovereign people. Such person mast be treated 
 
THE OONSPIRAOX THAT NOW IS. 21 
 
 as an alien, without the right to vote, hold office, own real estate, 
 or collect debts in court. Said money must necessarily be ex- 
 ecuted in the highest style of art, as a protection against coun- 
 terfeiting, alteration or mutilation. We would also suggest that 
 the insignia should be the national flag and the superscription 
 of ** In the People We Trust" engraved on one side; on the op- 
 posite side, if metal, a dove with an olive lea" in her mouth and 
 a wreath of flowers around her neck, and the amount in value 
 expressed as usual; and if on some fabric, as cloth, leather or 
 paper, then, in addition to the above, the insignia (fl^ig) should 
 be engraved on one end, and on the front, in the center, should 
 be seated the Goddess of Justice with balances evenly poised, 
 above which should be the words, "In the People We Trust"; 
 on one side of Justice should be a figure of a female, on the 
 other side a male, below in the foreground a group of children 
 playing and above their heads the word ** Liberty," wnilst be- 
 neath their feet the word *' Eureka." On the face of the bill 
 should be the words "Lawful Money of the United States of 
 America; 1, 5, 20, or 50 dollars sovereign money of the realm; 
 on the back of these bills the figure of a ship under sail, waving 
 grain in the ceLter, mountains in the background, and a railroad 
 train on the lower margin carrying the American flag; also men, 
 cattle, horses, sheep in sight, forests on the mountains, and 
 somewhere "Lo," the lonely Indian, fishing or hunting. 
 
 But how to get this sovereign money of the realm into circu- 
 lation without the aid of banks? Answer: The Government 
 ordained by the sovereign people of the nation will pay all per- 
 sons performing service for the public, in whatever line, whether 
 as officials or laborers, will be jDaid in the natijnal money, and 
 as all transportation and communication will be carried on by 
 the ordained Government — ordained by the people at a cost to 
 the people (see pamphlet on Railroads, as well as all other sys- 
 tems of improvements of public or national importance) — the 
 Government, the authorized agent of the p ople, would issue its 
 money for service performed or goods and valuables delivered, 
 
22 liOOKIKCfr INTO THIKaS, OB 
 
 just as it was issued during the war of the rebellion, but never 
 to be converted into bonded debt, as that was. 
 
 Then there should be no way to get money without rendering 
 an equivalent. The millionaire would be an impossibility, as 
 he could get only whit he honestly earned; the poorest man 
 could earn as much as he. Thus the money of the nation, issued 
 by the order of the people for their own convenience and benefit, 
 and only for value received,* all would have the same opportu- 
 nity to get money without borrowing and paying interest to the 
 idle, rich, favored, aristocratic rascals. 
 
 But the national money, issued and limited only by the amount 
 of service or labor performed and valuables delivered, would 
 be limited only by the amount of labor and valuables that could 
 be obtained, and the amount of public improvements necessary 
 for the public good, and no limitations to the public improve- 
 ments. Still another great advantage accrues to us as laborers, 
 citizens. We would own an equal, undivided interest in all 
 public improvements, which constitutes national wealth, common- 
 wealth, in which each and all are interested, with work for all, and 
 work or starvation for the able bodied. Only the idiots, imbe- 
 ciles or disabled would be supported at the public expense, but 
 no dudes, drones, knaves, bankers, speculators, beggars or 
 thieves to be supported. 
 
 And so with equity in commerce, and arbitration to settle all 
 disputes on equitable principles, lawyers become unnecessary. 
 The monkey attorney, with laws of his own ordaining (Legal 
 Jimmy's decisions, going back to the dark ages) becomes obso- 
 lete; he can retire to the shades of oblivion, or sheol, with his 
 
 •We do not antagonize the effort now being made under the present excruciating 
 circumstances, to get government loans, if the people can do it; but it is of doubt- 
 ful utility as a method and not compatible with a sound financial system. It is 
 subject to many abuses. There might be favoritism shown; a host of agents also 
 to be paid, more political patronage involved, the nature of security uncertain and 
 the Vast amounts that would be required to extricate the people from debts of all 
 kinds that would necessadly have to be paid again some time, oven though there 
 was no interest at all to pay, would cause fluctuations in the volume of money and 
 consequent'shrinkage of values. I will add, however, that, as a matter of justice 
 to the people for the amounts of which they have been robbed by the legalized 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 23 
 
 dudes and dudees extinct, the missing link lost. Then also the 
 long-fingered, long armed, dignified Latin court may retire to the 
 gloom and solitude of an "innocuous desuetude"; justice se- 
 cured without reference to the length of your purse, law or no 
 law (arbitration); liberty, with self-government triumphant; 
 equal rights secured. With an abundance cf work for all and 
 equal opportunities for all, and no idlers to support, the toiler 
 would get the benefit of his labor, there need not be any idle 
 hands or empty stomachs, no naked backs, no underfed mothers, 
 no overworked fathers or children, and soon no criminals. 
 
 " We shall live to hail that season 
 
 By gifted men foretold. 
 When man shall live by reason 
 
 And not alone by gold. 
 When man tu man united, 
 And every wrong thing righted. 
 The whole world shall be lighted, 
 
 As Eden was ot old."— McKay. 
 
 But what next ? The people can cooperate — the weaver eat 
 his bread at cost, the farmer wear his coat at cost, the butcher 
 wear his boots at cost, the shoemaker eat his steaks at cost, travel 
 on our own railroads at cost, transport our own goods at cost. 
 Thus the government ordained by us will co operate with us, 
 instead of our rich, idle masters under the government of their 
 uwn ordaining, as now, and so make exchanges at cost, and 
 so he(?uro equivalent for equivalent. With si>eculation cut off, 
 lieiiig in business unnecessary, truth will become tashiouable 
 ouce more, and honesty the best policy, humanity redeemed, 
 good triumphant, the medium of exchange free, man free. Thus 
 
 plunderers, it would be more on the line of justice for the Government to issue itK 
 money and liquidate every honest debt of its private loyal Citizens. It would noi 
 then make repai'atiou for tne vast wrong committed against the people by wicked, 
 outrageous legislation in the interest of a class in the last thirty years, to say noth. 
 iug about furmer legislatiuu. It could not then atone for tUe generation of tho 
 dead and hopelessly bankrupt, made so designedly by those who now get tho 
 nation 8 money without interest to loan back to us on their own terms, and aa thoy 
 keep tbe toll-gate, not one dollar can get into circulation until it has paid toll to 
 baukers — those who control. Thus they oonirol our destiny for gt»od or evil, life or 
 death— mostly death. 
 
24 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 a truly honest national money, for which every loyal citizen 
 would be responsible to each other and to all the world, to th« 
 extent of of all he could perform and all he had to exchange. 
 Hence each and all would be the redeemers of the money, and 
 the money would be as constantly redeemed by them in things 
 having intrinsic value in themselves, whether the money had 
 intrinsic value in its substance or not. Thus the lawful money 
 of the realm would perform the functions of facilitating ex- 
 changes of commodities, without regard to the intrinsic value of 
 its substance. All the value required is lawful recognition. 
 What the law recognizes will pay i^ny debt in any honest court 
 or anywhere else in the realm. Gold money or silver money 
 can do no more. The law itself can have no other object than 
 the happiness of the people. To this end all laws must be made, 
 and made to conform to equal and exact justice to all, no priv- 
 ileges to any. Law itself can never fav^r one class except at the 
 expense of others, to whom it is tyranny. Laws of monarchial 
 governments do this, but not so of laws democratic, laws repub_ 
 lican, made for the good of man, but not for man's destruction. 
 But why conduct business on the bankers', brokers' and business 
 men's paper, on which 90 per cent of all the business is now 
 done? Theii paper has no intrinsic value in substance, and all 
 the bankers, brokers and business men combined are not as re- 
 liable for their paper notes, checks, etc., as the whole nation is 
 for its money, for the all-sufficient reason that they, the bankers, 
 brokers and business men, are only a part of the nation them- 
 selves, and therefore only a part of the nation's responsibility, 
 and ecjually bound for the national money — all is more respon- 
 sible than part. So long as they are citizens of the nation tbey 
 too must be subject to law, just as all loyal citizens are. This 
 lawful money of the realm must be issued only to those render- 
 ing service or delivering goods. This the poorest man can do; 
 the rich can do no more. So the distribution would be impar- 
 tial. The rich, idle speculator could live on his money only 
 whilst it lasted. He could not get it for nothing to loan back to 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS, 26 
 
 US at a premium, as lie does now, and so liTe off us, as he does 
 now. He could not eat his supper and save it at the same time 
 (at our expense) , as he does under the enthroned monopoly of 
 his own ordaining. 
 
 As to the amount of money to be issued, the ordained govern- 
 ment will go on issuing the money just as long as the people 
 are willing to redeem it in service or valuables. Thus the only 
 limitation to the amount of money to issue would be the amount 
 of service or labor the people could perform and the value of 
 goods delivered . Thus every man or woman could be employed ; 
 none ever need be idle so long as nature's resources are unde- 
 veloped. Thus the money would find its way into circulation 
 in sufficient amount, without the paying of a premium (inter- 
 est), just the way it got into circulation during the rebellion 
 (nothing unconstitutional in that) , instead of issuing it to the 
 rich, idle villainous few, who now live off me and you. But 
 see, the enthroned monopoly now gets its government money 
 into circulation by buying votes and purchasing influences of 
 lawyers, judges. Congressmen, etc. Then with the balance they 
 go into business, loaning us the bank notes or money out of our 
 own national treasury, on mortgages on our property at half 
 value, interest double, and so live off us, without rendering 
 service or value, and so we become better servants than chat- 
 tel slaves — no loss to them if we die to morrow (slaves cheap as 
 dirt). 
 
 And your children are equally bound to be 
 
 The servants of the high-toued oligar-kee (oligarchy). 
 
 *' He that is borrower is servant to he that is lender," as was 
 said by one of old. It is so still, as true as ever, and these 
 scribes (lawyers) , priests, pharisees (hypocrits) , are stili devour- 
 ing wiaows' houses and robbing orphans, as of old, and intro" 
 dncing hell* on earth, as usual (Stop thief, stop!) 
 
 ♦See definition of hell- Sheol. Hebrew Hades, Greek; English thegrave, the 
 place of the dead. See Josephus; also revised New Testament. Look into thing*. 
 "Be sure you arc right, then go ahead.'' 
 
3L00KING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 BEGINNING OF CONSPIKACY— CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS— EXPO- 
 SURE OF CONSPIEACY -THE BEGINNING OF REBELLION — OLD 
 DEMAND NOTES—CONSPIRATOES AT WORK — IGNORANCE OF 
 POLITICIANS — LEGERDEMAIN IN FINANCE 
 
 Constitutional weakness is the inherent cause of the overthrow. 
 Too many limitations always proved weakly. But now we m'lst 
 go on Avith the expose of the old fraudulent system of bondage 
 and servitude, to show you why and how it came about, that the 
 people of this once great republic lost their liberty and became 
 enslaved, and also how to recover our lost liberty. Remember, 
 that vse had been recognized by all civilized nations as a sover- 
 eign nation, yet our own law-makers always seemed to hesitate 
 as to the sovereign right of the people of the nation to control 
 their own finances on a basis commensurate with their other 
 sovereign rights. We could levy and pay taxes to our hearts' 
 content; but a republican money — oh, no, that would never do, 
 and the amount of gold and silver mon^y in the country was 
 never sufficient to do the business of the country. All men of 
 s nse knew that, and we had no mines until recently, and even 
 now they are utterly inadequate to meet the requirements of 
 the business, as from 90 to 95 per cent of the business transac- 
 tions is done on bankers', brokers' or business men's paper; so 
 we are at their mercy — no independence here. And so some 
 times going forwarvis on shams or no money, and again back- 
 ward in consequence of our shams and frauds. We have been 
 so constantly cursed and outraged as to completely paralyze all 
 honest effort,, all honest industry, and so force bankruptcy and 
 ruin on millions of the people, with losses incalculable in the 
 aggregate— hundreds of millions of dollars about once in ten to 
 
THE CONSPIRACT THAT NOW IS. 27 
 
 twenty years between these devastating paralytic strokes, in 
 
 which thousands of men, women and children were driven to 
 
 degradationy despair^ and death, by some mighty Moloch, some 
 
 mysterious power to them unknown, but terribly destructive in 
 
 its effects on society and civilization. (Mystery of mysteries,) 
 
 So that with many lawful awful debts to pay, but no lawful 
 
 money with which to pay the awful lawful debts, and debts could 
 
 not be paid with labor or goods except by the consent of the 
 
 creditar, and that not easily obtained, debt, with usury, and 
 
 bondage became the inevitable doom. 
 
 "A vicious monster of such lildeous mien. 
 That to be hated needs but to be seen."— The Mystery of Aces. 
 
 But almost omnipotent for mischief — a dangerous power. Now, 
 reader, be patient whilst I unravel one of the most gigantic con- 
 spiracies to rob and enslave the people of this nation that ever 
 transpired on earth, compared to which the crime of CsBsar as- 
 suming the imperial purple and of Cataline's conspiracy and 
 the treasoniof Benedict Arnold are trifles. Although the begin- 
 ning of the conspiracy was long before the war of the rebellion, 
 which, in fact, was only a part of the scheme. Kemember also 
 that many of the perpetrators themselves were deceived and 
 made to assume a roll through party discipline that they did not 
 understand, but to the original plotters all understood, long be- 
 forehand, every point carefully adjusted even to the details, and 
 carried out on the line of preconcerted action. Our task for the 
 present begins with the war of the rebellion; in Pamphlets Nos. 
 2 and 3 we shall pursue our foe through the dark ages. But 
 what we shall expose is not the public acts so generally pub* 
 lished and understood, but to expose the secret plotting and 
 scheming so carefully covered up as not to be understood by the 
 public, or, still worse, the public misled by wilful or ignorant 
 lying. The beginning of the rebellion was one link in the 
 conspiracy, but a very important link to our enemy the foe of 
 liberty. 
 
 The year 1861 brings ua to tho breaking out of the rebellion, 
 Abraham Lincoln being thou President, and Salmon P. Chase, 
 
28 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 Secretary. Soon an extra session of Congress was called, and 
 on July 17th, 1861, the issuing of $60,000,000* in United States 
 demand notes, to tide the nation over until the next regular ses- 
 sion of Congress, was determined upon. This sum proved quite 
 suiScient, $60,030,000 being issued and made receivable by the 
 Executive, Lincoln and Chase, for duties on imports, for which 
 the Government had alwaps demanded coin. These notes, issued 
 from h^iUd to hand, with the power to tax — both sovereign pre- 
 rogatives of the nation — became par with gold, and always re- 
 mained at par with gold; even in the darkest days of the rebel- 
 lion they bore the same premium as gold, I mention this because 
 the partisan press has done a great deal of hard lying in regard 
 to these so called old demand notes. For the truth of this see 
 the London Times' prices current. *From the year 1861 until 
 1880 they were not legal tender, lawful money, in England; 
 neither was our gold and silver money legal tender, nor is it 
 now. But business men could use them to pay duties to our 
 own Government on their goods sent here to be sold, and so they 
 served the purpose of a convenif nee in trade and commerce, just 
 as well or better than coin, being more convenient. (Now note, 
 that this is just exactly the functions that money should perform, 
 nothing more, nothing less.) Of course these notes were a 
 promise to pay on demand in coin, but, remember, coin pay- 
 ments had already been suspended, and not one dollar of them 
 was redeemed until January 1st, 1879 a period of nineteen 
 years without a redeemer; just receivable by the Government 
 that issued them, as an honest government should always do 
 with its money^issued. 
 
 We have occasionally met with a soldier or citizen that got 
 some of these demand notes early in the war, and after keeiing 
 them some time, got a premium eijual to gold; but in this mat- 
 ter the business men generally kept this to themselves and 
 profited by'\he igpoyance of the holder. The wise-looking, 
 owl -eyed banker understood this trick, and as fast as he got hold 
 
 ♦Sec Wiadom'B official document, page 78. 
 
THE CON3PIRA.0Y THAT NOW IS. 29 
 
 of these demand notes— received by the Government for duties 
 on goods imported into the country — he sold them at a premium 
 with his gold and silver to business men with which to pay du- 
 ties to the Government. This he continued to do until January 
 1st, 1879. This was a great source of profit to Shylock — and a 
 secret to him. In regard to the value of these notes at home and 
 abroad the public was k pt in ignorance as much as possible. 
 
 But now comes a bill before Congress, January 22d, 1862 (see 
 Windom's official document, page 80), providing for the issuing 
 of a legal tender, national money. It reads: **Tiiis note is a 
 legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and 
 exchangeable for bonds of the United States bearing 6 per cent 
 interest when presented in amounts of fifty dollars or multiples 
 thereof." This full legal tender money, iesued by the exercise 
 of the sovereign power of the Government, would have paid 
 any debt and purchased any property in the United States. Sub- 
 sequent events prove this. Even the gold and silver money and 
 bullion could have all been bought and paid for with this money. 
 No money can do more. Now notice the feature in this bill 
 making the legal tender notes exchangeable foi: bonds after July 
 1st, 1863. (See Windom*s document, page 156 ) This was the 
 time when the depreciated greenback began to be converted into 
 interest bearing bonds, dollar for dollar. This feature met the 
 approval of the money changers of Wall street. New York. But 
 the feature making it a full legal tender by the exercise of the 
 sovereign prerogative — right of the Government — stirred up the 
 finance fakirs equal to the howling dervishes of India. Thad 
 Stevens, then in Congress from Pennsylvania, said : "It raised 
 a howl equal to that of the money changers in the temple ab 
 Jerusalem when one Jesus drove them forth.*' See the Windom 
 document, page 83. 
 
 These finance fakirs then swarmed to "Washington like vul- 
 tures, and into the lobby they besieged the Senate, where they 
 found their associate jugglers, and so overpowered the House 
 and destroyed the legal tender feature of the bill. (The Senat 
 
80 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OS 
 
 was always their favorite resort. See Thacl Stevens' dying 
 testimony in regard to national bankers and the Senate, in 
 the introductory.) But, reader, is it not strange that these 
 citizen bankers should presume to dictate the financial policy 
 of the nation, and absolutely prevent Congress from exercising 
 this sovereign right in behalf of its people ? Is it not strange 
 that a handful of curbstone brokers, gutter snipes, bulls and 
 bears, gamblers on margins, can dictate our finances, and so 
 control the destiny of our sixty million ptople for life or death ? 
 Yet they did it, and that shows the animus of our foes. And is 
 it not strange that a few scavengers can get laws made that will 
 enable them to live and riot and rot in luxury, whilst millions 
 toil and slave and die? Yet it is so, and these scavengers live by 
 devouring the substance of their fellows — a system of canibal 
 civilization— a system by which the scribes (lawyers) and pharisees 
 (hypocrites) live now, and go on devouring the houses of widows 
 and orphans, just as they did of old, and call it Christian civili- 
 zation. Rather call it the oligarchy of pagan Rome resurrected. 
 
 But many of these psuedo statesmen plead ignorpnce. See 
 Windom's document, page 81. Senator Fessenden says : ** No 
 one seems to know much on finances." In fact the mere politi- 
 tician never does. He just knows enough to get tlnre and 
 d(»uble his salary. And those ignorant statesmen were changing 
 their minds daily. — Ibid. Secretary Chase recommends these 
 measures. See Windom's document, same page; also the Na- 
 tional Banking law, which he afterwards regretted as the mis- 
 take of his life. See further on. 
 
 These vampires, vultures from the robbers roost (New York) , 
 knew what they were doing. They who have ruled and degraded 
 the world for thousands of years by a system of legerdemain in 
 finance, and kept the people impoverished and in ignorance 
 through all these generations, thought to continue their reign 
 forever. But the log schoolhouse -will defeat their scheming 
 yet. These notes, not legal tender, but exchangeable for bonds 
 of the United States when presented in amounts of fifty dollars 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 8 1 
 
 (S50) or multiples thereof, as before stated, became the method 
 by which the Government money — greenbacks — non-interest 
 bearing, was converted into interest bearing bond debt. This 
 they call:jd borrowing money, and so continued on and on issu- 
 ing greenbacks and converting them into bonds on which to 
 base their base bank notes, on which to obtain interest again — 
 interest twice. Now, reader, see the incentive to the banker to 
 clutch every greenback and convert it into bonds, as it was 
 good to him for ^1,90 by virtue of his bank charter. So he was 
 no slow to convert his greenbacks into bonds, and so retire the 
 Government money and inflate with bank notes instead, to be 
 loaned on mortgages, and the country and people loaded down 
 with oxerwhelnmig , everlasting, crushing debt. 
 
 The money based on the entire wealth and sovereign power 
 of the nation, a full and comj)lete legal tender, was not permit - 
 tod to be born as such. The reason why the people never knew — 
 some mysterious power behind the republic not then visible 
 (see further on) — but the fraudulent misrepresentation of money, 
 a promise on its face to pay money which they did not have. 
 But with an exceptional clause on its back, a hypocritical de- 
 vice to deceive the unwary farmer and soldier, susceptible of a 
 double meaning, thus mutilated, shorn of sovereign power, legal 
 tender only in part, it was thus repudiated by its maker, the 
 United States Government — virtually a bastard, denied by its 
 parents, discredited in its own house, the United States Treas- 
 ury, It reads on its back as follows : '* This note is legal tender 
 at its face value for all debts, public and private, except interest 
 on the ])ublic debt and duties on imports" [to the Government].* 
 Thus it was legal tender to soldier, sailor, citizen, but not to 
 the bondholder lor interest on his bond, but would be legal 
 ton<ler for the payment of the principal after the bond was due, 
 
 ♦Hod. Thadeus Stevens of PennBlvanIa, the honest old commoner, Member of 
 Congress, and on the Finance Committee, in favor of fuU legal tender, opposed the 
 exceptional clause, and with tears and sorrowing warned Congress and the people 
 of the result, all of which has proved fearfully true. Oh, thla mysterious power! 
 
8? LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 after five years and certainly within twenty.* The interest bear- 
 ing debt was very small at this time — merely nominal — until 
 after these notes were issued and bagan to be converted into 
 bonds. Then it was a currency — paper money— debt until the 
 change in the stipulation in 1869 and 1870. 
 
 Now, reader, I have been thus particular in order to show you 
 where the national debt had its incubation, in the issuing of 
 bonds to take up greenbacks, as there has been a flood of lies 
 told and published by the partisan press in regard to the Gov- 
 ernment borrowing money — coin — at home and abroad with 
 which to carry on the war. The Government did no such thing; 
 it made the money, such as it was, to carry on the war, and then 
 it created the national bond debt for the bankers to base their 
 bank notes on. The National Banking law was passed February, 
 1863. 
 
 QuEEBTES. — Now, If thcsc notes were not money, then the 
 Government never borrowed any money. 
 
 And, still further, if these greenbacks were not money, then 
 the Government never paid the soldier at all. Evidently the 
 soldier was to be paid in money. Peny this who dare. Did it 
 ever occur to the soldier that he was performing service for notes 
 that would be converted into bonds after the war was over, and 
 on which he and his children and grandchildren would pay 
 interest a hundred times over ? And, still further, if these notes 
 were money, then our agents, Congress and officials have com- 
 mitted tliL most heinous, unpardonable crime agaiiirA the people 
 ever perpetrated on earth — dowmnght robbery^ nothing else — on 
 which the sun ever shown, by converting the hard earned money 
 into an interest bearing bond debt, and all done so slily, that 
 the principals, the people — millions of them — don't know how 
 it was done. Bat it is just like all the tricks of the fakirs and 
 gamblers coTibined — now you see it and now you don't. 
 
 ♦But until that time the Interest. 6 per cent, must be paid in coin. See Wlu- 
 dom's document, pages 80 and 81. 
 
THE CONSPIBACY THAT NOW IS. ST 
 
 We appeal to the bankers themselves, judges and lawyers to 
 answer the above. We do not expect the partisan politician to 
 do so; the mere politician don't know much, never did. 
 
 See here, soldier, farmer, in what money were you paid for 
 service performed and valuables delivered? Why, in green- 
 backs, of course. Who made them? Government, of course. 
 Did it compel you to take them? Yes; it was that or nothing. 
 
 Now, look here, you blind guides, tools of the enthroned 
 monopoly, you who set yourselves up as authority, you editors, 
 lawyers, and law-makers, and presume to be the legal lights of 
 the world, here are your tracks in the meal not yet cold, here is 
 the bill providing for the issuing of these treasury notes— green- 
 backs. We copy the act verbatim. See Windom's document, 
 page 156. Deny it who dare. 
 
 Legal Tender Notes.— "The act of February 5th, 1862 (XII 
 Statutes, 345) , authorized the issue of $50,000,000 United States 
 notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer at the treasury of 
 the United States, and of such denominations, not less than live 
 dollars, as the Secretary of the Treasury might deem expedient, 
 $50,000,000 to be applied to the redemption of old demand notes 
 of act of July 17th, 1871. These notes to be legal tender in 
 payment of all debts, public and private,'*' within the United States, 
 except duties on importsf and interest on the public debt [as 
 
 *You Bee by this very act that the principal of the bond debt could be paid in 
 this same money after the bonds became due. But still the bond dabt was very 
 small at that early date. A lot of bonds had been authorized— $250,000,000 July 
 17th, 1861. See the Windom document, page 78. Only one-third could be sold. 
 See same document, page 79. Debt merely nominal; no coin bonds as yet; noth- 
 ing to hinder the Government from printing more legal tenders and paying the 
 bends at the time stipulated— five years, or within tweuty years, strictly according 
 to agreement. These notes have always been legal tender in payment of private 
 debts— are now. 
 
 TThey have also been made receivable by the G«.vernment for duties on imports 
 by edict of Secretary Sherman, January let, 1879. But so much of the stipulation 
 as related to the payment of the public debt in this same kind of money was repu- 
 diated by the twin villainous acts of Congress of 1869 and 1870— see further on; 
 President Grant signed the bills— called the credit strengthening and refunding 
 acts; also engineered by that traitor statesman in sheep's clothing. Secretary Sher- 
 
84 LOOKING INTO THINUS, OB 
 
 aforesaid], and to be exchangeable for six per cent United States 
 bonds." 
 
 The act of July 11th, 1862 (XII Statues, 532), authorized an 
 additional issue of ^150,000,000, of such denominations as the 
 Secretary of the Treasury might deem expedient, but no such 
 note should be for a fractional part of a dollar, and not more 
 than $35,000,000 of a lower denomination than five dollars, these 
 notes to be a legal tender as before authorized. The act of 
 March 3d, 1863 (XII Statutes, 710) , authorized an additional 
 issue of $150,000,000, of such denomination, not less than one 
 dollar as the Secretary of the Treasury might i3rescribe, which 
 notes were made **a legal tender as before authorized." The 
 same act limited the time in which treasury notes might be ex- 
 changed for bonds to July 1st, 1863. See Wiudom's document, 
 page 156. 
 
 The amount of notes authorized by this act was to be in lieu 
 of $100,000,000 authorized by the resolution of January 17th, 
 1863. See XII Stptutes, 822. Length of loan indefinite.* 
 iimount authorized, $4:50,000,000. Amount issued, including re- 
 issue, $1,640,559,94:7. Highest amount outstanding at one time, 
 June 30, 1864, $440,338,902; sold at par; interest none.f Out- 
 standing June 30th, 1880, $346,681,016." 
 
 Jugglery, mystery and boodle here inexplicable. See Win- 
 
 dom's official document, page 91. February 1st, 1866— War all 
 over; Lincoln dead; McCullock, Secretary. But go on. April 
 12th, 1866, one year after General Lee's surrender (see Windom's 
 
 * Now. reader, how was it, anyhow ? Were these purposely depreciatad treasury 
 notes— greenbacks— a loan to soldier and farmer, which they were bound to 
 accept as pay tor service performed and valuables delivered, as before stated ? It 
 seems so, and that he would have it all to pay again some time, with interest and 
 double interest? Yes. Well then, if so, soldier and farmer was not given to un- 
 derstand it in that light when he was being paid. Mystt ry and jugylery iuexplic- 
 ablel But these notes— greenbacks— issued to farmer and soldier as so much cash 
 to which th» y were justly entitled, were gathered in by banker and sp cuiator 
 after the war was ovtr, and converted into United States six per cent bonds, dollar 
 lor dollar. 
 
 T Did it ever occur to the soldier when he was fighting the battles that every 
 time he was paid he was that much deeper in debt; and on inierest? Yet such is 
 the fact. Look into things and don't be fooled. 
 
THE OONSPIRAOY TJEAT NOW IS. 35 
 
 document, page 91, or XIV Statutes, SI)— These 6-20 bonds 
 were made to cover in all previous issues of both bonds and 
 notes (greenbacks) , also all that came afterwards, and be a 
 baf*is for bank notes, to loan to the soldier, farmer and citizen 
 by the banker bondholder in lieu of greenbacks converted into 
 bonds and then destroyed. These 5-20 currency bonds, so called 
 because the principal was payable in the legal tender paper 
 money at maturity, any time after five years and certainly within 
 twenty. See Windom's document, page 81, as previously re- 
 ferred to. But here is the famous 5-20 bond act, the identical 
 document. We publish it verbatim as it passed both houses of 
 Congress, and became a law, as aforesaid, April 12th, 1866 : 
 
 *' Be it enacted, etc., that the act entitled *An Act to Provide 
 Ways and Means to Support the Government,' approved March 
 3d, 1865, shall be extended and construed to authorize the Sec- 
 retary of the Treasury, at his discretion, to receive any notes 
 or other obligation issued under any act of Congress, whether 
 bearing interest or not, in exchange for any description of bonds 
 authorized by the act* to which this is an amendment, and also 
 to dispose of any description of bonds authorized by said act 
 either in the United States or elsewhere, to such an amount and 
 at such rates as he may think advisable, for lawful money of the 
 United States, orfrrany treasury notes, certificates of indebt- 
 edness, or certificates of dex^osit, or other representatives of 
 valuef which have been or which may be issued under any act of 
 
 ♦This act ought to be entitled An Act to Destroy the Republic, Enthrone the 
 Money Power and Enslave the People. Any other reading is misleading. Note 
 the time— April 12th, 1866, one year after the surrender of Lee and the assassina- 
 tion of Linboln. 
 
 1 Just what became of the various bank notes that were in t]»e country previous to 
 the war seems to be a mystery, some writers asserting that they v ere taken in by 
 the bankers and depoi^ited with the Government, for which they received green- 
 backs in lieu. In either case there seems to be an opening here whereby the old 
 dead and buried wild-cat bank frauds got converted Into national banks, and now 
 constitute a part of the national debt, on which we are paying interest twice. It 
 looks highly probable, but this is one of the unsolved mysteries as yet. More 
 mystery 1 
 
36 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 Congress; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
 authorize any increase of the public debt. 
 
 [These tricksters counted the greenback^, as public debt, non 
 interest bearing, but converted into bonds they became interest 
 bearing. This was the trick that misled the public, and by 
 which they are still deceived. ] 
 
 '^ Provided, Thsitoi United States notes — greenbacks — not more 
 than ten millions of dollars may be retired and canceled within 
 six months from the passage of this act, and thereafter not more 
 than four millions of dollars in one month; and provided further. 
 That the act to which this is an amendment shall continue and 
 remain in full force in all of its provisions except as modified 
 by this act." 
 
 Under this act there was issued ^958,485,550 of bonds.* These 
 bonds to be exchanged for greenbacks (and the greenbacks — 
 United States notes — received for bonds were destroyed) were 
 issued drawing 6 per cent interest, payable in the lawful money 
 of the United States — of which there were three kinds, namely, 
 gold, silver, and United States legal tender notes — at any time 
 after five years and within twenty years, as before stated. "The 
 expense of making the exchange of the notes was 355-1000 of 
 one per cen', nominally par." See Windom's document, page 
 155. During and after the retiring and destruction of the green 
 backs there was a lot of refunding certificates to take up — treas- 
 ury notes (greenbacks) , old demand notes, fractional currency, 
 postal "currency, good as gold, but most y converted into 5-20 
 currency bonds, or, still later on, into four per cent gold bonds, 
 making a total of interest bearing bond debt of over $1,800,- 
 000,000 Here we have it — one billion eight hundred million 
 of interest bearing bond debt made, beginning in 1865, increas- 
 ing greatly after April 12th, and reaching its climax in 1880, 
 but, counting the treasury notes as debt (base deception), never 
 
 ♦These tricksters, knowing theiniquity contained in this law, thoucht to make 
 a law that future Congresses could not repealf ftad BO make bond slavery per- 
 petual. 
 
THE C0NSP1RA.CX THAT UP W IS, . 87 
 
 all told, reaching above $2,000,000,000. TlienSTCsrxffew no in- 
 terest until after conversion into bonds; hence were not a bur- 
 den, bat a great benefit as money, as a convenience in trade and 
 commerce. 
 
 Now, how much interest beiring bond debt was made for the 
 purpose of carrying on the war? Evidently not much. This 
 one billion eight hundred million of interest bearing bond debt;, 
 ma le after the war is over, dedacte.l from $2, 703,000,000 all 
 told, leaves but a small remainder. Liars, be dumb; your doom 
 has come. Bond debt to ba=?e bank notes on! Deny it who 
 dare. No wonder Lincoln was assassinated. Dead men tell no 
 tales. 
 
 Any and all bonds so issued to take up greenbacks became a 
 basis for bank notes, and the bank notes were never any better 
 than graenbacks— in fact not near so good. Not being le^^al 
 tender, the banker bondholder could not be compelled to take 
 his own bank notes, on his Government bonds, even after the 
 bonds became due. But with the greenback it was diffirent: 
 he originally had no claim for anything else after the bonds 
 became due. Study the meaning of 5-20 currency bonis. 
 Mysticism here! But can anything be more plain than that 
 the interest bearing national debt was not made to carry on the 
 war, for it was nearly all made after the war was ov6r. The 
 interest bearing bond debt was very small as yet, in April, 1865, 
 at the time of Lincoln's assassination, but rapidly increased by 
 conversion of the national money, non interest bearing, into in- 
 terest bearing bond debt. It was all called debt, but you must 
 learn to discriminate between interest bearing bond debt and 
 non interest bearing Government money in circulation. This 
 process was continued on and on until 1880, and later even. 
 The old demand notes, alw ys good as gold, now constitute a 
 part of the fraudulent national debc. Mysterious influence I 
 
38 liOOKlHQ INTO THIVaS, OB 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 OONSPIRAOY AND JUQQLEBY IN FINANOB — THE CONSTITUTION 
 VIOLATED —THE MYSTERY OP GOLD BASIS EXPOSED — CON- 
 SPIRACY SUCCESSFUL — BOND SLAVERY ESTABLISHED — THE 
 FAROE OF SPECIE RESUMPTION. 
 
 By partisan trickery and treachery, the people are deceived 
 by both the political parties. 
 
 Both Democrats and Republicans always counted the green- 
 back money as a part of the national debt, but even then it drew 
 no interest. Admitting it to be so, then the more of that kind of 
 money the farmer and soldier got the more he was in debt, and 
 the more he has to pay now, and with double interest at that. 
 Oh, what inconsistency, deception and jugglery in finance! 
 Quackery in finance is boodle, and causes hell on earth, and 
 these quack financiers ought to have a dose of their own medi- 
 cine some place here, or hereafter, but it looks now as though 
 they might escape altogether. Henry Ward Beecher, the hell 
 repeal preacher, repealed that famous institution fifty years too 
 soon. Now, will our quill quibbling editors, shystering law- 
 yers, and jughanule politicians dry up their mirage of legal lore 
 about the Government borrowing money to carry on the war ? 
 They did issue some coin bonds; they were a 10-40 bond, on 
 which they expected to obtain coin, but failing in that, only 
 $75,000,000 were ever issued (see VVindom's document, page 79), 
 and these no doubt were bartered off for greenbacks fast enough, 
 especially after the National Banking law was passed (see same 
 page) . 
 
 No, sirs; the war was principally carried on as follows : First 
 three months with coin in the Treasury, received for duties on 
 
THE CONSPIRAOY THAT NOW IS. 89 
 
 imports, as usual, and the next six months with the demand 
 notes, made receivable for duties on imports, issue of July 17th, 
 1861; then the balance of the time with these sams puriDosely 
 depreciated greenbacks, quoted as low as 35 cents on the dollar 
 as compared with coin, June, 1863, but on a par with both bonds 
 and bank notes. Now, will our jughandle politicians tell us 
 which it was that was up and which it was that was down ? Was 
 it coin that was up? If so, then the bank note was down, the 
 same as the bond and the greenback. Also tell us how either 
 the bond or bank note helped to carry on the war or improve 
 the credit of the Government, and why were the greenbacks re- 
 tired, converted into 5-20 six per cent bonds when interest was 
 paid in coin, when in currency 7 3-10 per cent, greenbacks and 
 bonds nominally par with each other, and being rapidly ex- 
 changed, uutil 1869-70, and afterwards converted into 4 and 4% 
 per cent bonds untill879-80, or until the minimum of ^346,000,- 
 000 only of greenbacks remained unconverted into bonds, so 
 that of all the greenbacks ever issaed they were all converted 
 into bonds except this $316,000,000, thus making a bond debt on 
 which to base bank notes ? (Proof positive — deny it who dare.) 
 
 But with 1869-70 came another infamous scheme — a change of 
 contract from a currency debt to a coin debt. See VVindom's 
 document, page 93. It reads as follows verbatim : 
 
 " The essential conditions of the new loan appear to me to be 
 theso : 
 
 •* First — That the principal and interest* shall be made pay- 
 able in coin.f 
 
 ** Second — That the bonds known as the 5-20 l^onds shall be 
 received in exchange for the new bonds." 
 
 Now see the Constuittion of the United States, Appendix D, 
 art. 1, sec. 10 : Congress shall not pass any bill of attainder, 
 ex post facto law, or grant any title of nobility. Now, if this 
 change here made from currency bonds to coin bonds is not a 
 
 • Note the words principal and interest, instead of interest only, as before. 
 TNot gold coin eitJier, but coin. 
 
40 LOOKUP G INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 change of contract and an ex post facto law and unconstitutional, 
 then it would not be unconstitutional to grant titles of nobility 
 and crown a king. This great, unconstitutional, contract repu- 
 diating scheme of strengthening the public credit by promising 
 to pay in coin under the plea of saving 2 per cent interest was a 
 farce, a delusion, and a fraud. (Conspiracy.) In this infamous 
 transaction the bankers, bondhohlers, realized a marginal rise 
 in value on their i onds of ^600,000,000 in one night.* (Myster- 
 ious power !) Had it not been for this infamous change in the 
 contract the 5 20 currency bonds could all have been paid in 
 greenbacks, commencing in 1870, strictly in accordance with the 
 original contract. In this case the banker bondholder would have 
 got his interest in coin, according to original stipulation, and got 
 the same kind of money back that he gave for the bonds, but also 
 greatly enhanced in value, whilst we would have had a full vol- 
 ume of money all the while, perpetual prosperity, and no national 
 debt now, or any unusual amount of private debts. So you see 
 the national debt is^ fraud, and principally all the private debts. 
 Mortgages, railroad bond debts, State debts, city, county, town, 
 and school district debts are chickens hatched from the same 
 cormorant brood — enthroned oligarchy, the few in office com- 
 bined with the money monopoly. 
 
 Let me give the true reasons for this change in the contract. 
 A few men practically own all the gold in the world. If they 
 do not have ihe gold in their immedia e possession, they have 
 obligations that require gold payment; and so if you try to pay 
 one gold debt you always have to make another gold debt, and 
 that makes debt everlasting and enslaves all nations, and a na- 
 tion once enslaved to gold is always enslaved to gold. In this 
 connection the matter of ly^ to 2 percent difference in the inter- 
 est cuts no figure in the infamous transaction. The whole debt 
 ami inter st and all other debts— and their name is legion— have 
 
 * But these two acts, brought about by bribery, corruption, and no doubt per- 
 jury, also forgery. See Congressional doc, Plum's Expose, further on. 
 
THE CONSPIKA.CT THAT NOW IS. 41 
 
 grown out of the change made in the character of the debt from 
 that of easy payment in greenbacks made receivable for all 
 taxes, the equivalent of coin, on a line with the original con- 
 tract, to a gold debt impossible of payment, all chargeable to 
 this villanous change of contract. 
 
 Another important feature of great advantage to those having 
 the monopoly of gold is its scarcity, in consequence of which 
 the owners can monopolize the whole product, and in certain 
 emergencies control and dictate ]egislation all in their own in- 
 terest, and as often as the emergencies arise double or treble 
 their wealth and incomes in a few months or years. Secondly, 
 the usefulness of silver money as a medium of exchange, although 
 much more abundant than gold, is greatly crippled by being 
 based on gold at the diclation of the gocd bug humbug^ (* * * * 
 *****). See, it requires fourteen to sixteen ounces of cilver 
 money to be equal to ooe ounce of gold; so silver money does not 
 amount to much as an increase in the volume of money. If we 
 must have metal money, why not make an ounce of silver money 
 legal tender, lawful money, for just as much as an ounce of gold? 
 Oh! the reason is plain. . We are not a nation of froemtn; neither 
 is there a nation of freemen in all Europe; neither has there been 
 for thousaFds of years. The republic of Venice catne the| nearest 
 to it, especially in regard to a sy.stem of money, whilst France 
 has the best system now. But we are all under the dominion of 
 the gold -bug humbug dynasty of the * * * * ***** 
 now, and it is headed, and has been for ages untold, by a secret, 
 oath-bound crew, whose object is to keep the people in poverty, 
 ignorance, and servitude, and so rule over them and live off 
 them It aims to do so still. This gold-bug humbug has 
 usually lived in grand style near the throne which it ruled. 
 
 In addition to the above, the privilege of issuing paper notes 
 based on their coin, said to be in their own vaults — very doubt- 
 ful; the bank note only a promise to pay in coin; the coin hid 
 away in a stocking or shipped out of the country; the coin re- 
 deemer fled when wanted; the safe saved, the key in the broker*. 
 
42 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 pocket; but three to five to ten or fifteen dollars in unredeemed 
 notes in the pockets of the people, not worth the paper they 
 were written on. This was one grand privilege for the bankers 
 No wonder he dies hard. This is the specie basis system. Evi- 
 dently it always was a fraud, practiced on the ignorant, gullible 
 public. This was another great privilege. As the law permitted 
 thorn to loan their notes — promises to pay — and collect interest 
 or use them in business, they were enabled to make interest from 
 three to five times on their actual coin in cash in their own 
 vaults — its r^resence doubtful. Whenever they found they 
 could make more by breaking up than continuing, they would 
 break up and go somewhere else to start a new bank, but leave 
 an agent, a lawyer, to collect interest, foreclose mortgages, etc., 
 for the notes loaned, but never redeemed. This system was 
 simply a great confidence game, in which the people lost both 
 confidence and land, and all upheld by law. But for the further 
 exposition of these infamous schemes see pamphlets Nos. 2 and 
 3 of this conspiracy. We must now return to the acts of Con- 
 gress of 1869 and 1870, changing (Tarrency sixes into 4 and 43^ 
 interest bearing gold bonds — imposs'ble of payment. An ex 
 post facto law, unconstitutional ; the people betrayed, deceived, 
 and outraged by banker and law-maker, who are now enthroned 
 on the back of the limited republic, enforcing the^r edicts and 
 dictates of Wall street. New York, Tammany, London, Berlin. 
 and * ^ ^ * . 
 
 But the character of the debt having been changed from a cur- 
 rency debt to a coin debt, and the destruction of the nation*8 
 own money (the greenback) , nori interest bearing, decided on 
 under the plea of reaching specie basis or resumption of specie 
 payments; of tliis scheme Horace Greeley said the way to reach 
 specie resumption was just to resume — beg^n to pay; but John 
 Sherman was dictator and edict-maker then, and said it had to 
 be done by issuing bonds to take up greenbacks, thus changing 
 the greenback money into bond debt and then into ashes. This 
 scheme was kept from the public by the whole rascally clan, by 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT WOW IS. iS 
 
 willful, wicked lying, as long as T30ssible. Millions of onr in- 
 telligent citizens (asses) don't understand it yet. But, oh! 
 reader, we are not done, we are not free from this monster. Yet 
 look info things. See the havoc caused by calling in and convert- 
 ing $1,800,000,000 of hard-earned but fraudulent representation 
 of money, by taxation and exchange, converting it into bond 
 debt, to pay interest on forever, thus making bond slavery a 
 fixed institution. They called khis paying the public debt— base 
 lie, it was making public debt; it was simply base treason. We 
 see the effect now, and know the cause; it cannot be concealed 
 any longer. This infamous currency contraction mill of the 
 golden god dynasty bankrupted 47,G03 fairly average honest busi- 
 ness men to make millionaires of a few treacherous, traitorous, 
 treasonable tricksters; and still the deadly devastation goes on. 
 The Mint was also stopped and silver demonetized without the 
 knowledge of the people. To make the death struggle of the 
 republic more certain, this money destroying, soul devouring, 
 gadgrind miU ground out millions of tramps, and made crim- 
 inals of thousands of heretofore honest men It robbed the 
 widows and orphans everywhere, sending thousands to untimely 
 graves, and the public deceived by willful or ignorant lying. 
 
 Amid all this bankruptcy and ruin, under the plea of reaching 
 specie resumption or specie basis, all they had to do at any 
 time was to honor the Government money by receiving it for 
 taxes.* But the Government money was doomed. Not yet re- 
 ceivable or respected by its maker, it was still bartered for bonds 
 and destroyed until the limit of $346,000,000 was reached. Then 
 8})e('iG resumption took place by edict of Secretary Sherman 
 making it receivable by the Government for duties on imports* 
 Just what Horace Greeley advised; just what an honest Govern- 
 ment would always do; just what Lincoln and Chase did before 
 the moneyed oligarchy got into power. No need of contraction; 
 
 *In proof of this assertion, see It is now twelve years since the degraded green, 
 back was mad© receivable for taxes— duties to the Government; since when it 
 lias always been good as gold coin. 
 
44 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 no need of a great, overshc:cl owing national debt. Ho\7 truly 
 did the great Jefferson express the truth when he said : "A 
 national debt is as near a national fraud as anything can well 
 be." We can see it now, and the men who cannot begin to see 
 into things after tLirty years of grinding experience ought to be 
 slaves; but even they have no right to vote to enahive their wives 
 or children or those of their neighbors. (Ignoramuses, stop 
 voting.) Kemember, that when the first SCO,000,000,000 of de- 
 mand notes was issued those cut throat villains tried to depre 
 ciate them, because there was no coin in the Treasury to redeem 
 them with. But President Lincoln and Secretary Chase, advised 
 of the situation, decided at once to receive them for duties on 
 imports. TLey immediately became par with gold, and remained 
 so until they too were finally converted into bonds after 1879. 
 Now they constituta a part of the national debt, for hankers to 
 base their base notes on, and dnw interest on what they owe. 
 So the contract had to be changed.* 
 
 Of tliis infamous refunding scheme Hon Benjamin Wade, 
 then in the United States Senate from Ohio, said : '*I an for 
 the laboring poit.'on of the people; the rich can take care of 
 themselves.! We never agreed to jmy the 5 20 bonds in go' d, 
 and I never will consent t ) have one payment for the bon i- 
 holders and anoti;er for tbe people." Wade was right. We 
 know it now, and John Sherman, with all his ill gotten w« aMh, 
 is so much proof of this. lie engineered this infamous bill, the 
 treacherous old * * * * villain. Had it not been for this 
 /nfimons scheme, perpetrated against the tax paying producers 
 of the nation, and the nature of the fraud kept in the dark, the 
 
 * In pamphlet No. 2 we shaU expose Btill fnrtber tbe fraud of gold basis and 
 Bpecie reHniiij)tion. It ahvays was a sham, a farce, au old-fashioned couudence 
 game It smells of wild cat. pole-cot, his cat. 
 
 1 IJca'ltr, wliy shonhi ve provide by legislation for the rich, idle villain, but yo" 
 Bee tLd,t is just what we have been doing. Stop thjef, stop! 
 
 The tollers are the rifrhtfnl heirs to all this iieritage. 
 Then \.'liy, oh! man, do yon toil and slave 
 1 hat i.Jle <iroues may live? 
 God never made us so. 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 45 
 
 pnMio misled, by willful, traitorous lying, there never would 
 Lave been any national debt, or any enthroned corporation cre- 
 ated to issue and control the money, assassinate presidents, and 
 rob and enslave a nation of freemen. 
 
 Now when we consider these several villainous acts together — 
 to wit, the mutilation of the legal tender greenbacks, followed 
 by their conversion into bonds, for basis for bank notes, at the 
 dictation of foreign autocrats of London, Berlin, and the ***** 
 ***** ^ *, the change of the bonds from currency sixes ■•nto 
 gold bonds — they constitute the most dastardly crime, fraud 
 upon fraud, and wholesale scheme of robbery and plunder ever 
 perpetrated on any people in the annals of history in the same 
 length of time — llie natioaal debt all a fraud. Lincoln opposed 
 it in its incipient stages, and was killed. Vice-President John- 
 son succeeded Lincoln, and opposed it, and he wa>i politically 
 degraded and destroyed. Also Seymour, Democratic nominee 
 for President, opposed the fraud, and was withdrawn by August 
 Belmont (banker, agent of the Kothschilds), chairman of the 
 Democratic National Central Committee, on the eve of an elec- 
 tion. (Mysterious transaction by the enthroned money power.) 
 Garfield did not belong to the gold ring of Tammany, and they 
 could not trust him. He had to be slain, not simply because of 
 his political opinions, but because he was opposed to church and 
 state as well He might be in the way. Study Guiteau's state- 
 ments when on trial for the murder of Garfield. They are very 
 significant. They were * * * * . jje claims he was only 
 an instrument in the hands of God to take Garfield out of the 
 way. A.11 made plain in volume 3. But now let us return to 
 our subject. The remaining $346,090,000 greenbacks, being re- 
 ceivable by the Government (its maker) for duties on imports 
 (t5»xes) , is as good as gold. The sovereign power to declare and 
 issue money and levy taxes being united now, why not exercise 
 this power, already conceded by the Supreme Court. Oh, the rea- 
 son is plain. The oligarchy reigns and rules, the limited republic 
 c?e/M?ic/, citizens no rights (never had much), bond slaves the 
 
46 LOOXINO INTO THIKOS, OB 
 
 same as chattel slaves and don't need money. And so the con- 
 spiracy goes on IriumphanUy. Now, reader, I have followed this 
 line in detail to prove to you the nature of the national debt, 
 that it was never necessary, but was concocted by the conspir- 
 ators to destroy the natiion's money and the liberty of the people, 
 and to aggrandize themselves. Thus an infamous crime was 
 committed against the people of the nation — treason, treason^ 
 noihing less. 
 
 OHAPTEB VII. 
 
 CONSPIKACT TBIUMPHANT — BOND SLAVERY PERPETUAIj— INDICT- 
 MENT FOR TREASON — IGNORANCE AND CONSPIRACY — PARTY 
 TRICKERY AND DECEPTION — TREACHERY OF SHERMAN. 
 
 But the republic defunct, our enemy goes on reveling in his 
 ill-gotten gains and gloating over his victims. 
 
 How often we hear it said that the national debt was made for 
 money borrowed to carry on the war — base falsehood. The debt 
 was made by the destruction of the very money paid to the 
 soldier and citizen for service performed and valuables deliv- 
 ered. Then, to consummate the infamous villainy, converted 
 into interest bearing l ond debt after the war is over, for the 
 soldier and farmer to pay interest on, as well as their children 
 and grandchildren after them forever — one billion eight hun • 
 dred million dollars in order that the banker might have bonds 
 on which to base his bank notes (see banking law further on*) , 
 and so draw interest twice on what was a fraud in the first place; 
 and so farmer and soldier pay twice on the same fraud, and when 
 he borrows the bank notes he pays interest' again, compounded 
 
 *Some very simple minded people tell us that these benificent bankers were 
 prompted by patriotism to loan their money to save tha coiantry, dnd must now be 
 paid. This evidently is a mistake. They do not want the debt paid, never did, 
 and they hav« been doing all in their power to prevent us from ever paying it. It 
 is bonds perpetual they want. 
 
THE CONSPIRA.CT THAT NOW IS. 47 
 
 three or four times, before the money can be got into circula- 
 tion. So the bankers' notes loaned on mortgages are now sweep- 
 ing the land from under farmers' and soldiers' feet, and, in con- 
 sequence of unlimited taxation and bond debt, the people have 
 already paid on the original bond debt of ^1,800 ;000,000 more 
 than S4:,000,000 in principal and interest, and still the debt not 
 half paid, and private debts (mortgages incalculable) they are 
 still paying, and the same time buying in theso long time, frau- 
 dulent, forged gold bonds at a premium of 263^3 cents. See 
 Secretary Windom's last great feat in financial jugglery further 
 on . This premium made possible hj forgery, perjury and fraud. 
 See Congressman Plum's expose, further on. This whole in- 
 famous business of destroying greenbacks — contracting the cur- 
 rency, converting it into bonds — was begun early in the war and 
 carred on very slily. Lincoln opposed it then, find said : ** If a 
 government contracted a debt with a certain amount of money 
 in circulation, and then diminished the volume of money be- 
 fore the debt was paid, it was the most heinous crime a govern- 
 ment could commit against its people." We know now by a 
 most bitter experience of twenty-eight years that this is true, 
 and we now indict the reigning oligarchy as guilty of tlie greatest 
 of crimes — treason — and treason is the capital crime in the cal- 
 endar, covers all other crimes. Conspiracy against the liberty 
 of the people is equivalent to a conspiracy to overthrow a mon- 
 archy. Why not? If one is treason, so is the other» and the 
 instigators are guilty of every crime under the sun. It was not 
 merely a mistake in policy — the ringleaders understood it. 
 Lincoln, though "dead, yet speaketh." On the same line Salmon 
 P. Chase said : " My agency in procuring the National Bank act 
 was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monop- 
 oly that afifects every interest of the country. It should be 
 repealed. But before that can be accomplished the people will 
 be arrayed on one side and the bank^ on the other in such a con- 
 flict as was never witnessed in this country." Chase, though 
 dead, yet speaketh. Let the conflict come on. Give us liberty or 
 
48 IiOOEINO INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 death^-lihevty for man* death to the enthroned monopoly that has 
 destroyed the republic. See Lincoln's warning once more. See 
 Secretary Chase's speech in the Windom document, pages 80 81, 
 in which he favored the banking law, but which he regretted 
 afterwards (just quoted). See also his speech, same document, 
 page 83, in regard to premium on gold, but the greenback not a 
 depreciated currency. This was good Republican doctrine until 
 the oligarchy got possession of the Gove-nment after Lincoln's 
 assassination. Then all was changed. See also Fessenden's 
 speech once more, in which he pleads ignorance. But the trait- 
 orous crew of tricksters from the throne of TamT.any, New York, 
 understood the matter, and so consummated the diabolical plot. 
 Be it remmbered, that during the war the Republican party and 
 Us press. Tribune and others, steadily maintained that the green- 
 back was the lawful money of the country, and as constantly 
 quoted gold at a premium, whilst the Democratic party and its 
 press quite as generally adhered to coin or coin basis as the 
 standard and the greenback unconstitutional and a depreciated 
 currency. With the Republican party this counted for disloy, 
 alty. But the war over, Lincoln dead," Johnson broken down- 
 Greeley deceased, the Republican pai*ty and its press changed 
 their tone and stigmatized the same money, repudiated the child 
 of their own creation and plotted its destruction. Mysterious 
 infiaence — dictation from Tammany; both parties disloyal now; 
 both opposed to national paper money; both in favor of bond- 
 age, bond frauds and the fraudulent bank notes based on long 
 time gold bonds, and gold as the standard money of the world — 
 base lie again. There is no standard money of the world; never 
 was. Every nation does, or should, fix their own standard; all 
 do not, however. We have ours fixed for us now by the * * * 
 * * * * , and that fixes us. Gold debt impossible of pay - 
 ment and bank notes not legal tender is paraded as the grandest 
 
 • Bv liberty we do not mean license to Impose burdens on others, or treat them 
 wrongfully in any way. Our enemy has exercised that kind of liberty too much 
 already. There is a perfect law of liberty. See further on. 
 
THB OONSPIBAOY THAT NOW IS. ^9 
 
 financial system the world ever saw! See John Sherman's Mana- 
 fiold, Ohio, speech in 1876 (base fraud) — th3 country prosper- 
 ous (base lie), business men realizing 10 per cent on their 
 investments. 
 
 Oh, John Sherman, look here. Greenbacks purposely depre- 
 ciated by law, and bought up at an average of 50 cents on the dol- 
 lar, in C-in, then converted into interest beariLg bonds, dollar for 
 dollar. Then the bonds made par by legal enactments (the credit 
 strengthening and refunding schemes in 1869 and 1870) — one 
 hundred per cent by this fraudulent scheme. Then the infam- 
 ous banking law alreudy in existence. You deposit your new 
 coin bonds (still yours and drawing interest) and draw 90 per 
 cent in bank notes to loan at 10 to 30 per cent interest, on which 
 you pay no interest to the Government, but to loan to the people. 
 Thus your available aesets are doubled once more by legal en- 
 actment, your wealth quadrupled in four to six^years by laws of 
 your own ordaining. But what becomes of those not in busi- 
 ness — the toilers? Oh, John, you had better flee the wrath to 
 come. The people will find you out. (Business is business.) 
 Your great financial system is the grandest scheme to p^et the 
 money out of the pockets of the toilers, and into your own 
 pocket, the world ever saw, sure enough. But why this somer- 
 sault — why this change of base ? Once the Republican party 
 fathered the national money, then it changed its tone and adopted 
 the fraudulent born child of sin, of rubber parentage. Some 
 invisible mysterious power somewhere, evidently from Europe. 
 Dictation from London, Berlin, and Wall street; dictation from 
 Tammany's throne. 
 
 So you see gold payment is impossible, and slavery to gold- 
 bug humbugs inevitable. Can you see now what gold debt and 
 goKl basis means? It would be better that all the gold in the 
 world should be sank in the middle of the sea than that man- 
 kind should be any longer enslaved to gold, with inevitable 
 debt, gold bonds to base bank notes on, interest twice or 
 thrice, all a fraud. So the war for the destruction of the na- 
 
50 LOOKING INTO THINOS, OB 
 
 tion's own money, such as it was, and the substitution of bank 
 notes, with debt everlasting, went on and on until the republic was 
 destroyed, our national, natural, inherent right to control our owe 
 destiny revolutionized, and the people in hopeless bondage, the 
 bonds to be paid in gold that a few men own, and which you 
 cannot get without buying, and that only makes more debt. 
 Look here, reader. The debts of the world now payable in gold 
 amount to ^150,000,000.000. To satisfy these debts there is only 
 $3,700,000,000 gold coin in all the world. How do you expect to 
 pay these gold debts (frauds)? 
 
 But Jauuary 1st, 1879, John Sherman issued hia edict, green- 
 backs receivable for duties on imports, since which time the 
 degraded greenback is as good or better than gold. Thus, you 
 see, the lawful paper money is just as lawful and just as good 
 as the lawful gold-bug money, and always better than bankers' 
 notes. The danger now is that an edict from an unfriendly sec- 
 retary might countermand the edict ('f Sherman, and so destroy 
 the utility of the nation's own money. Evidently we are the 
 subjects of the enthroned oligarchy, and an edict from one of 
 their appointed officials means more than any law of Congress. 
 Now that we see what an edict from an appointed official can do, 
 we are forced to exclaim : Oh, John Sherman, why did you 
 delay your edict so long? You undoubtedly knew the effect it 
 would have, and if you had only issued your edict in time we 
 would never have had any bonded debt at all. But we see the 
 banking law was already m existence, and the enthroned monop- 
 oly wanted bonds to base their bank notes on, and so you were 
 willing to sell the whole iiation into bondage just to accommo- 
 date them. Perhaps it was an accommodation to yourself, John, 
 as you are a banker and millionaire ? How much did you and 
 your partners in crime make? What of those immense amounts 
 that no man can number — hundreds of millions and billions? 
 Not merely the interest on the national bond nest-egg, with bank 
 notes to loan (interest twice), but with control of money went 
 everything else — the manipulation of all trade, traffic, transpor- 
 
THE OONSPIRAOY THAT NOW IS. 51 
 
 tation, legislation, official position, luxurious living, good 
 fitanamg, honors at home and abroad, in good odor with 
 the European dynasties, in league with the devil — you 
 dance, dodge the people with the devil all round the 
 wond. But listen. The day of reckoning is at hand. What 
 you ha\e made is best told by what we have lost. Let us 
 see. Forty billions of debt of all kinds for us to pay interest on; 
 our homes lost, the accumulations of ages lost; thirty years of 
 toil lost; our tempers lost; liheriy lost, and our children enslaved 
 for generations unborn; men cheaper than dirt, women a drug in 
 the market; the countrv full of violence, on the verge of despair; 
 millionaires on one hand, beggars and criminals multiplying; 
 virtue dying out. And yet these lying politicians are still reit- 
 erating the same old, stereotyped lie — the country prosperous. 
 Base lie. The speculators only are prosperous; the masses, the 
 toilers, have lost all, and are in hopeless bondage and despair. 
 Deny it who dare. These horrible conditions are the effect of a 
 cause sufficient to produce them, just as certain as that the sun 
 shines. The immediate cause is vicious legislation that cannot 
 be concealed any longer. We see the effect; we know the cause. 
 Even though the cause may be covered up, the truth will out, 
 and then how transparent the whole thing becomes. Don't tell 
 us it is providential; it smells of vicious legislation. Vicious 
 legislation is destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap- 
 piness, and so produces hell on earth. The rich, idle villains are 
 the cause of the poor beggars. But during all this diabolical 
 transaction you blubbered and shed tears all over the country in 
 regard to the depreciated greenback — depreciated by your own 
 treacherous gang — and the horrors of greenback inflation, which 
 you now pretend to dread as you would a poisonous sirocco, all 
 on account, as you say, of the disturbance in business it would 
 cause and the consequent losses to the laboring classes. You 
 treacherous villains, it is not the laboring element that loses by 
 inflation of national money; it is the banker. It is contraction 
 uf the national money volume that destroys the laboring cle- 
 
52 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 ment, and inflation with bank notes makes millionaires of book- 
 ers and slavey beggars and criminals of toilers. And yet the 
 bank note was never any better than the degraded greenback. 
 It is not receivable now for duties on imports; neither will bank 
 notes pay a debt in court if the creditor declines to receive 
 them; but with the greenback how different. It will now pay 
 any and all taxes and any honest debt in any honest court, ex- 
 cept the fraudulent bond debt. See all the legal tender deci- 
 sions, United States Supreme Court, Judge Field, only, dis- 
 senting. 
 
 But the bank note, made receivable by courtesy, had a power 
 to draw interest and rob the toilers, and they hare done their 
 work only too well, for as greenback inflation diminished bank 
 notes were issued and loaned, and tlie country inflated with bank 
 notes, Joans and mortgages multiplied. No objections to bank 
 note inflation, and overwhelming, everlasting debt for the de^ 
 spoiled, mortgaged, debr -ridden toilers — worse than chattel 
 slavery. Mysterious power! 
 
 It is often said that the Government bonds were to be paid in 
 coin, principal and interest. I answer : Only one issue of such 
 bonds ever was made that I can find in the Windom document, 
 and it claims to give ali, and that a 10 40 bond, authorizing 
 $900,000,000, bearing 6 per cent interest. The same bill also 
 provided for the issue of $300,000,000 in treasury notes (green- 
 backs) and $50,000,000 fractional currency. It was passed 
 March 3d, 1863. Of these 10 40 bonds only $75,000,000 was ever 
 issued, but thes?, like ali other bonds and notes were finally 
 converted into the 5 20 currency bonds, or, still later on, into 
 gold bonds under the credit strengthening and refunding acts. 
 See Windom's official document, page 83. It seems as though 
 these bonds were issued with the expectation of realizing coin 
 on their sale, but as they found they could not obtain coin they 
 bartered the seventy five million for greenbacks. On this point 
 the document is not plain* neither is it necessary, as all bonds 
 of every description, except the Union and the Central Pacific 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 53 
 
 Kailroad bonds, were refunded under a change of contract. "We 
 shall treat of the railroad bonds separately in pamphlet No. 2. 
 They are now called currency sixes, because the interest is 6 per 
 cent in gold coin, but the principal paid in currency (green- 
 backs) when due, just the same as the (thers before they were 
 refunded, in 1870. It is barely possible that some disposition 
 was mad<3 of these 10-40 bonds by which the gold shipped to 
 England was obtained from California. On this point the official 
 document (Windom's) is silent— manipulated by Government 
 agents (bankers). Too much secrecy and mystery. As there 
 has been much said and published, falsely, in regard to the Gov- 
 ernment borrowing money abroad to carry on the war, which 
 must be paid in coin, I will now give the only reliable facts in 
 relation to the matter that I can find. I copy verbatim. See 
 Windom's official document, page 79: 
 
 *• In March, 1863, it became necessary to transmit a consider- 
 able amount of funds to London for a special purpose, for which 
 an appropriation had been mada by Congress, and it was thought 
 advisable to deposit a certain amount of securities witV a Lon- 
 don banker against which bills might be drawn.* So to meet 
 th^'s, 5 20 bonds to the amount of $10,000,000 were accordingly 
 placed in the hands of two distinguished citizens, to whose care 
 the negotiation was committed.! The negotiation failed, and 
 ^6,000,000 of the bonds was returned to the Treasury. It was 
 
 * The Windom rtocnment is silent in reference to the character of the obliga- 
 tions that had to be be met in London, but the most probable solution is that it 
 was to pay for a lot of muskets purchased of Austria early in the war before our 
 own manufacture was completed. 
 T Five-twenty bonds were never coin bonds (interest only in coin.) 
 I One of these distinguished citizens was Jay Cook. See Windom's document* 
 page 87. This Jay Co..k was also the president of the first National Bank organ- 
 ized under the law, his bank located at Washington, D. C. Who the other geutle- 
 man was does not appear, but evidently he was a national banker also, as the 
 national bankers were the only authorized agents of the Q-overnment in negotiat- 
 ing bouds and trading them ofif for greenbacks, treasury notes, etc. But these 
 gentlemen failed to negotiate in behalf of the Government that sent them. The 
 reason is plain. They could do better as co-conspirators, acting for tiiemselves to 
 •ubvert and overthrow the GK>verument. 
 
54 LOOKING INTO THINOS, OB 
 
 thought advisable that the amount of $4,000,000 should remain, 
 and that exchange should be drawn against it and the bonds dis- 
 posed of abroad if a favorable market should be found," etc. 
 So little or nothing came of this. **Buttomeet these bills, 
 soon to mature, in London, gold was shipped from California." 
 See Windom's document, same place. 
 
 Now note particularly the time — March 3d, 1863. Just one 
 month prior to this the National Banking law had been passed. 
 So the distinguished gentlemen just referred to, bankers them- 
 selves, could sa/ to these London bankers: * 'Now, gentlemen, 
 as bankers and citizens, we will co-operate together to make all 
 we can in this transaction. Here is the scheme now ready. We 
 have the National Banking law just passed, in accordance with 
 your advice [ see Hazzard's circular] . We can now invest our coin 
 in depreciated greenback treasury notes at fifty cents or less on 
 the dollar. Then present these treasury notes at the Secretary's 
 oAice and receive bonds, dollar for dollar, drawing 6 per cent 
 interest. This equals 12 per cent on our coin investment— our 
 incomes doubled at once, our wealth doubled. Th?n deposit 
 these bonds with the Secretary at Washington, as heretofore 
 stated. Then go to the Comptroller of Currency and for each 
 one hundred dollars of these same bonds deposited, and draw- 
 ing interest to us in coin at 6 per cent, draw ninety dollars in 
 bank notes, to loan to farmers and business men over our own 
 counters, on our own terms — interest again for us [but none to 
 the Government] ; our bank notes printed cheaper than we could 
 print them ourselves; our available assets doubled once more/ 
 incomes doubled once more; four dollars on interest for each 
 coin dollar invested, with interest on interest compounding. You 
 see, there is millions in it for us. This is much 1 etter than 
 dealing with the Government. For further information of this 
 see the Hazzard circular, further on; it is of a few months' <dar- 
 lier date (but very secret). 
 
 I must now call your attention to a very important point in 
 this matter. Here is a nut for our lawyers, legal lutninaries, to 
 
THE OO SSPIRAOY THAT NOW IS. 55 
 
 crack. If these distinguished citizens, agents of our Govern- 
 ment, failed to negotiate a loan on United States bonds, how 
 come these London bankers to hold these claims against our 
 nation? Did they steal them? Did our Government receive 
 value for them? Ifc is not evident that we did directly. The 
 transaction then, whatever it was, was between these distin- 
 guished citizens of both England and the United States, in 
 which neither of the governments are implicated; neither has 
 either government any civil legal power in the matter. What- 
 ever jurisdiction either government has in the matter is of a 
 criminal character, and if this transaction has been detrimental 
 to either nation, or its people, it is of the utmost importance 
 that each and both nations look into fche matter. If neither na- 
 tion is a party to the transaction, then it must have been a trans- 
 action between these distinguished citizens, in which they con- 
 fided entirely in each other f jr its fulfilment, and every bond 
 held abroad is simply so much evidence of unauthorized com- 
 plicity between these distinguished citizens. Now we come to 
 the final question. If this complicity was of the nature of a con- 
 spiracy to injure our nation and its citizens, would England un- 
 dertake to justify or defend her conspiring citizens? Certainly 
 not. In doing what these individuals did then they must have 
 done it confiding in each other; and from their standpoint they 
 could readily see that it would be only a few years until these 
 distinguished citizens of both countries would own all the prop- 
 erty in the United States, our Government be overthrown, and 
 our i^eople enslaved. Now we have it — now we come to the 
 famous Hazzard circular, which, though not positive proof of 
 conspiracy, yet it is the stronp-est possible circumstantial evi- 
 dence of the conspiracy, and when taken in connection with all 
 the facts from that day to this, the evidence is simply over- 
 whelming — Lincoln was right — and every excuse or apology 
 offered in extenuation by any party is evidence of their own 
 guilt or ignorance, and the law never excuses ignorance. So 
 look out how you take sides with conspirators. 
 
56 liOOKING INTO THINGS, OK 
 
 We read and learn how in the early history of our country 
 our trusted agents — Adams, Jay, Franklin, and Jefferson-— nego- 
 tiated with Holland, France, and Spain, for which the United 
 States was responsible; but this infamous transaction between 
 distinguished citizens (bankers) of the United States and Lon 
 don is a dog of another color, and cannot constitute an honor- 
 able foreign national debt in any sense. The above trusted 
 agents — Adams, Jay, Franklin, and Jefferson — in the discharge 
 of their mission, Avent directly to the sovereign heads of the 
 nations, presented their credentials and were duly received, 
 their mission considered and acted on with the full knowledge 
 and consent of the Government, our Government becoming 
 responsible to the foreign Government furnishing the money, 
 or interceding with its own citizons to do so, and holding our 
 Government responsible for the transaction. See Windom's 
 document, from 5th to 31st page. Look into things. Don't be 
 fooled. 
 
 CHAPTEE yill. 
 
 THE PliOT DISCLOSED — liEGALIZED ROBBERY — THE HAZZARD CIR- 
 CULAR — EARLY TREACHERY OF SHERMAN — CONSTITUTIONAL 
 WEAKNESS — INFLUENCE OF HAMILTON — NATIONAL BANKS. 
 
 V 
 
 We have next in order a chapter in the conspiracy not visible 
 for a long time, but plain enough now. See Hazzard's circular— 
 the enthroning of the money monopoly. The mysterious power! 
 
 Just listen. A leaflet from a London conspirator (banker) by 
 the name of Hazzard to his co-conspirators — bankers in Amer- 
 ica, in New York — one of which gets miscarried (alas! that they 
 did not all miscarry), in 1862, early in the war, reveals the 
 
58 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 plot.* See the Hazzard circular, published by the Chicago 
 Express Publishing Company; price 10 cents. 
 
 jgi^"^ These treacherous haD«l3 were not visible to the public 
 when the conspirators were at their diabolical work, and the 
 Senate— that high toned, dignified body of men of wealth and 
 influenc , not elected by the jjeople — was in full sympathy and 
 connivance with the conspirators, with only a few honorable 
 exceptions, now Senators, mostly millionaires, right on the line 
 with the old Roman Senators after she became a moneyed oli- 
 garchy. See defioition. But see the Hazzard circular: 
 
 '• We are now waitiug to get the Secretary of the TreaBury [Chasej to make this 
 recommendation to Congress. It will not do to let the greenback circulate as 
 money any length of time. We cannot control that. fMysterious power!] We 
 must get coutrol of labcr by controlling wages. TWs can be done by controlling 
 money." 
 
 Here, my reader, is the key note to the whole situa- 
 ation— conspiracy. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary, recommended 
 the National Banking law, and John Sherman, then in the Sen- 
 ate, introduced the bill. 
 
 Lincoln, a true and honest statesman, saw this feature and it 
 unnerved him. All true statesmen understand these things and 
 they always ring out the warning notes. Franklin, Jefferson, 
 Calhoun, Malison, Randolphs, (father and son) Monroe, Han- 
 cock, Jackson, Wade, Stevens, Butler, Cooper, Heath, Harper, 
 Weaver, DeLamatyr and a score of others, all constantly sound- 
 ing the alarm. Our enemy so vigilant, so secret, so corrupt, 
 they spare no expense for by the control of this convenient im- 
 plement of trade and commerce — money — the destiny of nations 
 is in their hands, to make them free, enlightened and happy, or 
 
 •"Chattel slavery is about to be destroyed in the United States by the war power. 
 This I and my European friends do not object to, as it is but the owning of the 
 laborer and carries with it the care of the laborer. We prefer the European plan, 
 led on by England— capital control of labor by controlling money. [Myisterious 
 power,] The great debt, that oapitaUsts must see to, that is made out of the war 
 must be used as a measure to control the volume of money. To accomplish thl« 
 the bo.id.s must be used as a banking basis." 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 59 
 
 to make of them ignominious slaves. Our enemy chooses the 
 latter, because by impoverishing us he keep:^ us in ignorance 
 and servitude, knowing that an enlightened people would throw 
 off th » yoke. Who so blind as not to see this now after a grind- 
 ing experience of twenty-eight years? Evidently the whole 
 plot had been prearranged and understood long beforehand. 
 Just think, only twenty-eight years ago the property of this na- 
 tion belonged to the people who had made it — no considerable 
 debt — but now it is rapidly going into the hands oi those who 
 control the money, but who never earned an ^honest dollar in 
 their lives, ought to prove to the most obtuse mind that some- 
 thing is wrong somewhere — some mysterious power at the 
 bottom of the whole business. What is it some people 
 imagine, that when they know gold money from silver money, 
 and paper money from either, it is all they need to know about 
 money, but if they would study its use as a convenience in trade 
 and commerce, also its abuse, in the hands of knaves and villians 
 and see what destruction and desolation can be wrought by its 
 contro], you will then shudder at the name of oligarchy ; and 
 when you understand that in consequenceof a fradulent national 
 debt and a false system of finance forced upon the people with- 
 out their knowledge or consent, with a false system of trade and 
 deadly competition, a robber system of transportation and tax- 
 ation for the benefit of capital, until the aggregate debts of all 
 kinds drawing interest, from industry to nonproducing specu- 
 lators and idlers, not less than forty billions, two-thirds of all 
 the wealth now in Ja few hands and the balance rapidly going. 
 Do you expect to get out by following the same false system — 
 vain delusion — If every debt of every description was now can* 
 celed and all the property restored to the people who made it, 
 the same system to remain in force thirty year^ would produce 
 like results. Evidently the conspirators don't intend you shall 
 ever be free. They intend you and yourchildren and your ohild- 
 rens' children shall be bond slaves to them and their children 
 forever. Tkat is the European plan. (See Hazzard circular 
 
60 liOOKINQ INTO THZNaS, OB 
 
 further on.) But in all this infamous transaction the dogged 
 silence of the public, partisan press, with but few exceptions, 
 indicate that that they are either in the conspiracy or igno- 
 rant, blind leaders of the blind. Oh I base, base conspiracy, the 
 mysterious power above the limited republic and the power 
 behind every throne to enlave the people of every nation. 
 Such, my reader, is the status of this hidden, hideous money 
 power. The mystery of mysteries I 
 
 But how will we become free from the money power of the 
 civilized world ? The answer is plain. If vicious laws can en- 
 slave us, just laws can make us free. In a republic where all 
 just powers of government are derived from the governed, **we, 
 the people, ^^ must control the money, for if we do not we cannot 
 control our own destiny. On the contrary, place this power to 
 control the money in the hands of a corporation, as now, and 
 they will as surely control our destiny for good or ill. On this 
 point hear the immortal Bandolph, the eccentric Virginia 
 statesman, in regard to the old national bank. * 'Charter this 
 bank with ten million of capital, and let them learn their 
 power, then find if you can, means to bell the cat. You will find 
 that you have placed a club in their hands with which they can 
 break your own heads, for they can fix the price of every acre 
 of land from Florida to the Lake of the Woods." Bandolph was 
 right. We chartered our oligarchy (banks) with nearly two 
 billions of fraudulent, unnecessary bonds, to base their base 
 bank notes on, and now they are breaking our heads and rob- 
 bing us of land and labor from Florida to the Lake of the Woods 
 and from Maine to California. And twenty-eight years of bit- 
 ter experience proves that they absolutely fix the price of every 
 day's work, every pound of beef, every loaf of bread, every 
 bushel of wheat, every yard of cloth, every day*s rent, and 
 every nickle spent. Enormous power, my friends, to confer on 
 a corporation to be used at discretion. Enthroned money power, 
 sure enough. Yes; that is just what it amounts to. Lincoln 
 understood it. And all done by our silver mounted senators, 
 
THE OONSPIRA.OY THAT NOW IS. 61 
 
 mis-representatives, lawyers and bankers — combined traitors. 
 In one month after chattel slavery was oestroyed l>y proclama- 
 tion of President Lincoln, January 3, 1863, John Sherman in 
 the United States Senate, February, 1863, introduced the na- 
 tional bank bill by which the banking bondholders is enabled 
 to make interest on his money twice whilst ordinary money 
 loaners cannot make it but once. This is a great royal preroga- 
 tive in itself, but that is not all; after he has got his royal charter 
 he gets hundreds of millions more right out of our own treasury 
 to loan back to us for all he can get, say 10, 20, 30, 50 or 70 per 
 cent, ui)on depending our necessities, but always on approved 
 B curity. 
 
 This infamous, treasonable bill was hurredly passed through 
 both houses of congress and sighed by President Lincoln in five 
 days from its introduction, by the rich, high toned, silver 
 mounted senators, in full connivance with the silk hat aristoc- 
 racy hot from the throne of Tammany, New York, whilst Lincoln 
 and other loyal members of congress were all engrossed by the 
 war. *Hasty legislation, sure CLOUgh, for a measure fraught 
 with such great advantages to the few favored ones and such 
 fearful effects to the unsnspectiug many in which the dostiny of 
 a nation was to be determined. Conspirc^cy — stolen legislation — 
 nothing else. A most diabolical outrage fastened on the coun- 
 try by a foreign oligarchy in connivance with traitors at home. 
 Yes; in one month after chattel slavery was abolished, both 
 blacks and whites, soldiers and citizens, men, women and-child- 
 ren's lives, liberty and fortunes were placed at the mercy of a 
 corporation without our knowledge or consent — not a syllable 
 in the Constitution, not a word in any party platform, or in the 
 public press, or even dreamed of by the people in relation 
 thereto— yet that corporation succeeded in its treacherous work 
 and has controlled business and legislation to such an extent as 
 to absorb the 3 ^er cent, net, accumulations of ages, and make 
 
 ♦Oh, this mysterious power ; so silent, bo treacherouB. 
 
62 liOOKINa INTO THINGS, OK 
 
 debts on posterity for a^es to come. Oh! for a Jackson or a 
 Jefferson, Democrat or Republican, to compel them to bring in 
 their deposits and then cut off the monster's head, Tha*: Con- 
 gress had power, under the Constitution, to coin and issue 
 money, whether gold, silver or paper, has always been con- 
 tended for by our ablest statesmen, and at that time, also, by 
 Lincoln, Stevens and others. See, also, all the legal tender de- 
 cisions of the United States Supreme Court. But for Congress to 
 confer such unlimited power on a corporation, a third party, 
 ■would be an unwarranted assumption of power not delegated in 
 the Constitution, and for Congress to do so is to utterly over- 
 throw and ultimately destroy the foundation on wiiich our gov- 
 ernment was supposed to rest, to wit: The sovereignty of the 
 people and nation* and substitute the sovereignty of a corpora- 
 tion not responsible to the people. It is revolutionary, it is 
 treason to the people and nation. Still bear in mind, that in a 
 republic, all just powers of government are derived from the 
 consent of the governed; even minorities have inaJienable rights. 
 But as W6 ** look into things" it becomes painfully evident that 
 there always was an inherent weakness in the Constitution 
 which we must now understand and eliminate, but in doing so 
 we are glad to know that we need not disturb the foundation 
 principles on which the Constitution itself was supposed to 
 rest, to wit : The Declaration of Independence ^ that charter of 
 human liberty, equal rights, equal laws, and equal opiDortunities. 
 That even the minority have certain inalienable, rights — rights 
 svhich the law cannot wrest from them without their consent. 
 Even individuals have thw right to life, liberty and the pursuit 
 of happiness, until he forfeits the same by tresi^assinng on the 
 self same rights in others. So, even, majority rule is limited 
 by the welfare of the whole. 
 
 **Thus far can'st thou go and no further.*' And so from this 
 embodiment of justice, the light of America, the hope cf tha 
 
 *No principal can erer permit an agent to go on appointing agents withomt hli 
 consent for it wo«ld ignore and ruin the principal. 
 
THE CONSPTRAOT THAT NOW IS. 63 
 
 worldf from which we may reconstruct and so regain onr blood 
 bought liberty. Kemember, that according to the wise pro- 
 visions, we have a natural inherent right to do so. (See Dec- 
 laration of Independence.) 
 
 CHAPTEE IX. 
 
 TNFIiUT^NCE OF HAMILTON — HAMILTON'S LIMITED EEPUBLIC — NA- 
 TIONAL BANKS — Jackson's veto — Hamilton's oligaechy — 
 
 VETO POWER of PRESIDENTS — TAMMANY RING RULE. 
 
 The influence of Alexander Hamilton in the formation of the 
 Constitution a cause for its weakness and defects. 
 
 It is often asserted that Hamilton was in favor of a limited 
 Monarchy but we have not been able to find such declaration in 
 his public acts. But that he had a great influence in the forma- 
 tion of the Constitution, no one will deny that witl look into 
 tilings and, as we do, not desire to do the memory of the de- 
 ceased any injustice. We simply give the facts as we find 
 them. It is very plain, however, that he was in favor of a iim- 
 ited 7'epubhc. He was not willing to trust to the people, hence, 
 his opposition to the doctrines and teachings of Franklin, Paine, 
 Hancock, Madison, Munros, Burr, Randolph and others. He 
 could not trust the people to control or direct their own destiny. 
 On the contrary he insisted that they must be con- 
 trolled or restrained in some way by some extran- 
 eous power, potentate or provision, human or divine, 
 in some very important particulars, for which, see his 
 proposed Constitution, submitted to the Convention in federalist 
 papers, published by Lipincott & Co., edited by J. C. Hamil- 
 ton, a grandson of Alexander Hamilton, page 31. This proposed 
 Constitution, though not exactly as ours is now, is almost 
 tilmost identical in some very important respects, and we now 
 ]5:now, by a bitter experience of meai^ '^ars, that these limita- 
 
64 liOOMiffd tmo THllfdii, OR 
 
 tions are more destructive to life, liberty and happiness, than 
 Monarchy limited or unlimited. 
 
 In his proposed Constitution there ^was to be no limit to the 
 power to levy taxes. (Great power.) He also made promise 
 for the veto power of the President.* He also provided for a 
 Senate composed of middle-aged men of wealth and influence, 
 not elected by the people, but without whose sanction no law 
 could be passed, but these Senators could secure their saats by 
 means of their wealth and influence — chiefly their wealth, as 
 now. No power was conferred in his Constitution for coining, 
 declaring or issuing money of any kind, not even metal money. 
 He readily recognized this sovereign prerogative in regard to 
 other nations, but no power vested in our own nation to coin, 
 declare or issue money. Of course it would be dependent on 
 some power or potentate, foreign or domestic, to furnish the 
 money. Thus shorn of an important sovereign prerogative, it 
 was not in fact a sovereign nation — not in fad a republic. Thus 
 the wealfJi^, born with a silver spoon in their mouth, could con- 
 duct the business and political affairs of the nation in their 
 interest. It would be a government of the wealthy by the 
 wealthy and for the wealthy. Thus, the Senators and the wealthy 
 once in power, the people are powerless to control their own 
 destiny. Our chosen representatives become so many ciphers — 
 a dead weight, an unnecessary expense, held in check by the 
 same power, and the power unlimited; an oligarchy pure and 
 simple, and unlimited whenever they chose to exercise it. See 
 Webster's unabridged. Perhaps it was this traitor statesman in 
 sheep's clothing, secretary of Washington, that manipulated 
 the old fraud miscalled continental money, as it was based on 
 the Spanish milled dollar that we did not have, but expected to 
 get some time, somehow, providentially or otherwise. You see, 
 however, that he was a great stickler for the king's money, or 
 perhaps he was a secret emissary of the King of * * * * 
 
 •In a republic thoTeto power mnet belong to the people, so they can control 
 heir own destiny. 
 
THE OONSPIBAOY THAT NOW IS. 65 
 
 and sworn confederate of the * * * ^ * * , all made 
 plain in pamphlet No. 3. But it is very evident he was iu 
 favor of a limited republic. The people could not be trusted to 
 govern themselves, and so control their own destiny; they mus^ 
 be held in check somehow by somebody, friendly or unfriendly. 
 Now, my reader, be patient. Permit me to explain some 
 things in regard to the state of affairs at the time when the so- 
 called continental currency was issued, as there has been very 
 much published that is misleading in regard to it. 
 
 First. — There was no United States then as now. The thirteen 
 states or colonies had only confederated together, proclaimed 
 their freedom from Cjlreat Britain and entered into an agreement 
 (articles of confederation) to stand together against their com- 
 mon enemy. 
 
 Second — They had no constitution empowering the Congress 
 to issue money of any kind as they have now — not even metal 
 money. The several States had existed as so many separate 
 forms of government, each legislating to suit themselves* up to 
 that time, 1776, and later, 1790; so that each had a money system 
 of their own to suit themselves. 
 
 Third — They had no President as now. Washington was the 
 first President elected after the Constitution was adopted, as 
 above. They had lived wi'hout the Constitution from 1776 to 
 1789, thirteen years, and had neither a President nor a Senate. 
 The Continental Congress was a truly representative body, and 
 aimed to carry out the will of the i^eople, their constituents. 
 
 Fourth — The Continental Congress was not composed of two 
 houses, higher and lower, as they are now. They were all of 
 one grade, and they chose their own president (or chairman, John 
 Hancock), who simply presided over their deliberations, signed 
 bills, etc., but had no veto power. 
 
 Fifth — As they had no power given them to coin, declare or 
 issue money, they never did so. To do so would have been an 
 usurpation of power. All they could do, and that was wha 
 
 • OrlglnaUy colonies of Great Britain. 
 
66 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB . 
 
 they did, was to give a printed promise to do sometbing some 
 time, and this is the purport of the promise as engraved on the 
 face of sample bills which are still in existence: Continental 
 Congress promise to pay sixty Spanish milled dollars, or their 
 equivalent in gold or silver bullion, six months after the treaty 
 of peace and the acknowledgment of the independence of iho 
 United States. And as they gained their independendence, but 
 uot the Spanish milled dollar or gold and silver bullion (which 
 was very scarce then) , they seem to have changed their minds — 
 they seem to have very wisely concluded that as all had lost, but 
 none had lost so much as the men who had lost their lives, and 
 as the living had gained their liberty, they were all gainers, and 
 so quit even and let it die, they did not redeem it. They could 
 not do so without taxing the living and the widows and orphans 
 of the dead, and making the people who had lost pay ove; 
 again — wise conclusion. See the Windom official document, 
 page 31. 
 
 But now we must go on with Hamilton- and his checks on the 
 liberty of the people. See Federalist papers, page 33, where 
 he estimates values by the money of the King of Spain — Span- 
 ish king's money all right; his sovereign right respected, his 
 money the lawful money of the realm,* but the republic having 
 no lawful money of its own, a mere suppliant at some other 
 body's throne. Thus limited, deprived of this necessary imple- 
 ment of trade and commerce, the republic was doomed from the 
 beginning — denied a right always awarded all sovereign nations 
 under the sun except oars. How absurd! Thus we would have 
 a republic without freedom, but with the right to tax unlimited. 
 You will see how the so-called governmant could levy taxes to 
 an unlimited amount, and compel us to pay, money or no money, 
 and perform service, pay or no pay. Thus deprived, it has coma 
 to pass that we have no right now, only the right to pay taxes. 
 Tiiis we now object to. Slaves nre exempt from taxation in ali 
 
 •Tefbe a S^aator a man mxiBt have a r^^Ityyaltied ato»«|lU)ije<wd S]^ai>*ib 
 miUtdcMlari. - 
 
THE CONSPIKAOY THAT NOW IS. 67 
 
 civilized countries under the sun. Such were the provisions in 
 the Constitution proposed bj this distinguished statesman. It 
 did not even provide for the coining of metal money — gold or 
 silver. But his proposed Constitution was considerably modi- . 
 lied in some respects, but not much in regard to money. The 
 Constitution finally adopted did provide that Congress should 
 have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, 
 emit bills of credit, etc., but these etceteras have been variously 
 construed from time to time to suit interested parties and rob 
 and defraud the people. 
 
 Hamilton tJ^ave expression to his opinion in the matter by hav- 
 ing a National Bank law passed in Congress on the 8th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1791, at the first session of Congress under the Constitu- 
 tion, George Washington being at that time President and Alex- 
 ander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury. See Windom's 
 ofiicial document, page 22 — thirty-nine members in favor, twenty 
 opposed. Among those opposed were James Madison, James 
 Monroe, Edmund Kandolph, then Attorney General, and Thomas 
 Jefi'ersoD, then Secretary of State; other opponents not named, 
 but all opposing it on the ground of unconstitutionality — not a 
 word in the Constitution providing for its establishment. It 
 was a joint stock concern, with" ^10,000,000 of capital. The 
 Government, so called, a stockholder, took $2,000,000 in stock, 
 borrowed the specie of Holland, and paid it in "like a little 
 man." How the others paid does not appear — probably stole in 
 on the Government's shoulders, as they do now. See Windom's 
 document, pages 27-35. Even the Government so called made 
 money off its subjects, but withdrew its stock and paid its bor- 
 rowed money — probably got ashamed of its partners. The 
 balance went on to the end of its charter, banking on Govern- 
 ment deposits, just as ours do now. It spent much money influ- 
 encing legislation, just as ours do now; it had more power than 
 the President, just as ours has now; it was a source of profit to 
 the stockholders, Government and all, but the profits to custom- 
 ers, the people, were doubtful, probably a little belter than no 
 
68 liOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 money or the irresponsible -wildcat bank notes. But it was a pro. 
 lific source cf corruption, just as ours is now — very secret and 
 very select, its methods past finding out even by the committee 
 appointed for the purpose. Still their capstal was very limited, 
 nejther were they backed up by all the money in the icorld, as 
 ours are now; neither had they learned their power, as ours have 
 now; their organizations were not so perfect as to rob every 
 branch of industry, as it is now. Their first charter expired in 
 1811. See Windom's document, page 22. 
 
 But in 1816 they obtained a charter for a second national bank, 
 (Calhoun in favor this time), and went on more corrupt than 
 ever, with Nicholas Biddle as chief, until the expiration of the 
 charter in 1836. This time they chartered this second so-called 
 United States bank with ^35,000,000 of capital, largely British 
 stockholders. Just how much stock the British subjects held 
 the public never knew. That was their own business. But 
 Jackson being elected^ 1832, he compelled them to bring in 
 the government deposits and set his democratic-republican foot 
 on the thing, and cut off its head ; too transparentUy unconsti- 
 tutional — Old JNick has got too much power — (in partnership 
 with the. Senate) ; more power than the President ; just as Nick 
 the Third now has; he was banking on government deposits and 
 getting interest on what he owed, just as our Nicks do ; it was 
 a system of jugglery in finance just like the Windom system. 
 (See further on.) But no danger now to our horde of young 
 Nicks ; charters made perpetual by royal edict of Secrviarj Sher- 
 Sherman , a prince of the realm. See further on. These 
 schemers, or another brood of them, tried to get reinstated 
 in 1840 by the election of General W. H. Harrison. This was 
 the celebrated hard cider (with a stick in it) campaign. Gen- 
 eral Harrison dying, "Vice President John Tyler took the chair, 
 and when they got the bill through once more (in connivance 
 with the Senate) , he cut off the other end of the thing with his 
 long sword — veto. In both of these campaigns these tricksters 
 spent millions to get into power, but were defeated, and so were 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 6d 
 
 hel(3 at bay until the war of the rebellion, then they stole in 
 through the Senate and have kept on with their treacherous 
 plot from that day to this. 80 you see Humilt* n was in favor 
 of a limited republic controlled by a moneyed oligarchy. 
 
 But of these cheeks so conspicuous of late and so destructive 
 to liberty and the natural rights of man, proposed by Hamilton 
 as a check on the people, the power of the Pesident exercised by 
 Cleveland so frequently, one hundred and forty four times more 
 than was done by all the Presidents previously, and wheneyer 
 the matter in question was not in accord with his policy, and 
 his policy was always tin accord with New York dictation. 
 (Tammany rule.) 
 
 Rememembef too that his policy was expressed in advance of 
 his iniu^uration by letters to his frien Is in Ojngresi urging 
 that body to pass a law before adjournment providing for the 
 retirement of the remaining greenbacks and stopping the coin- 
 age of silver. Remember that ex-Preside^t Hayes in his inau- 
 gural insisted on the same thing, and that Fernando Wood 
 (Democrat) of New York seconded Haj^es' scheme by introduc- 
 ing a new long time gold bond scheme to bank on. No partisan 
 quarrel then— Tammany rule; Democrats and Republicans both 
 obedient to their masters; no war on hand then to make a 
 national debt necessary. Remember too that Grant early in his 
 administration sent a few million dollars surplus coin to New 
 York to buy up greenbacks without informing the ring mast rs 
 previously of his intention. This act of his bankrupted some 
 of the gamblers on margins. They immediately sent for him, 
 cornered him, and made him promise then and there never to 
 do the like again without notifying them beforehand. President 
 Grant was their most obedient henchman ever afterwards. His 
 first act was to veto a very just bill for the equalization of 
 oldiers' bounties, for the passage of which he had pledged him- 
 self, but signed a bill to double up his own salary. He also 
 ligned the credit strengthening and refunding fraud. The In 
 iian thieving ring was fixed up good as new, silver demonetized 
 
THE CONSPIRAOr THAT NOW IS. 71 
 
 and other frauds perpetrated too numerous to mention.* The 
 salary grab, although unconstitutional, has never been repealed 
 or corrected. The credit s rengthening act, also unconstitu- 
 tional, still stands as the policy. Neither has silver been 
 restor 'I— demonetized by stealth, bribery and perjury, all un- 
 constitutional of <Jourse— and our masters exultingly ask us: 
 What are you going to do about it? Rather let us now ask our 
 masters: What are you going to do next? We can only conjec- 
 ture, probably sell men for debt as chattels, just as Rome diA.f 
 Some mysterious power somewhere behind the whole business. 
 See further on. 
 
 President Harrison notifies members of Congress in advance 
 that they need not pass any bill for the free coinage of silver, 
 as he will not sign it if they do (plutocrat) ; and now we remem- 
 ber that to do so would not be in a(^cordance with the * * * ♦ 
 * * * * . Bee President Hayes.' objection to silver coin- 
 age. Well, who is the **** ****^ Who are 
 our masters? Who are the rulers of this limited republic any- 
 hovv? Oh! they are in Europe, and in connivance with Tam- 
 many of New York. We will trace him up soon. 
 
 Whether Hamilton was in favor of a limited monarchy or not, 
 he was evidently in favor of a limited republic. The veto 
 power of the President was one limitation. Then the Senate, 
 that high-toned body, not elected by the people, to dictate ap- 
 pointments at home and abroad — a kingly prerogative; also the 
 power to make treaties or annul them, and such powers of legis- 
 lation that no law can pass without their sanction — absolute 
 power. Then the republic shorn of its sovereign right to de-- 
 clare and issue its own money, dependent on some domestic or 
 
 ♦Neither nan any legislatu»n be accomplished of any importance without the 
 consent of Tammany. Such is the veto power. 
 
 T Probably the only reason why they do not sell men for debt now is, because 
 the European plan causes less trouble— -uo care for the workers. See the Hazzard 
 circular. 
 
72 liOOEHNQ INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 foreign power to do this for us. Now can you see, with these 
 three checks, all favorites of Hamilton, but with unlimited 
 power for levying taxes — the plan of Hamilton also — no wonder 
 the republic was overthrown; no wonder ^e lost what little lib- 
 erty we had. The republic was too limited to stand alone. No 
 rights only the right to pay taxes; and when the money power 
 was enthroned they just went on piling up taxes, tariffs for rev- 
 enue, internal, external, eternal and infernal, just to show their 
 authority. Then squander hundreds of millions and billions 
 among their pet partisans, corporations and salary grabbers; 
 then, still further, divide out any surplus cash in the treasury 
 among themselves, and loan it back to us until they have gotten 
 their deaiJi-gtnp (mortgages) on all we ever did own. See J. B, 
 Weaver's and Plumb's expose, further on; also Windom's sys- 
 tem of financial jugglery. Thus provided for, our oligarchy, 
 in company with his high toned, silver-mounted, silver-tongued, 
 silver-lined, grandly-dined and highly-wined Senators, mounted 
 on the back of the limited republic, booted, heeled and spurred, 
 his curb bit in the President's mouth, the gag rein in his own 
 hand — no money for campaign expenses unless you do so and 
 so. Candidates take money; then they dare not expose, but are 
 eompelled to do their master's bidding or be exposed and de- 
 feated. See Dorsey's expose of the Garfield campaign, himself 
 chairman of the Republican National Committee, to be found 
 in the archives at Washington, or of Robert G. Ingersoll, New 
 York. So you see he can bring the presidents to their knees or 
 kill them, and so ride rough shod over the people in company 
 with his pot-bellied, plethoric, purse-proud, autocratic, self- 
 imposed Senators, millionaires, who have got their seats by 
 means fair or foul, mostly foul— eighty -eight Senators from forty- 
 four States, with kingly prerogatives for their respective States*^ 
 
 And who, that they may win the race. 
 
 Must first secure their trenchmen; 
 Then after they have won their place 
 
 Proceed to place their henchmen 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW 13. 7S 
 
 No thanks to us. Thus we have eighty-eight kings in the self- 
 constituted imperial dynasty of the Amevican Senate in full part- 
 nership with the money ghouls, who, to aggrandize themselves, 
 are destroying civil liberty and civilization with their imperial 
 prerogative, to hold the people's representatives in check, and so 
 in full connivance with the money bags and barrels of New 
 York, Tammany's throne, to keep the people in poverty, igno- 
 rance and slavery forever. Thus the enthroned monopoly can 
 ride like a grandee groom in company with his high-toi.ed 
 senatorial groomsmen going to meet his gay dudee bride. What 
 care they for our lost liber'^y, the cries of the suffering and 
 dying? What care they for the ini^rease of crime, for then they 
 double the police force, which we have to pay? What care they 
 for the increase of insanity and suicides? They are deaf to all 
 this. What care they for the widow's wail or the orphan's tears? 
 They are music in these sinners' ears. But these high-toned 
 Senators get themselves selected by the use of their wealth and 
 influence— married relations, etc. See Standard Oil Paine, the 
 Camrons (father and son) , Stanford, Fair, Ingalls, Sharon, Tabor, 
 Hearst. Calvin Brice of New York, warm from the throne (Tam- 
 many), buys a seat from Ohio — Ohio scarce of senatorial tim- 
 ber. And when one of these finance fakirs gets seated it 
 requires as much power to unseat him as it would to dethrone a 
 king. The State must revolt and revolutionize to overthrow the 
 rich, rascally villain, and then they go into hysteria. See Ingalls. 
 But at last one of these royal cubs gets left — the great skin and 
 bones of this Kansas dictator of the Senate, with a Robesperian 
 head on his shoulders, blown away in a gentle zephyr (cyclone) — 
 proof positive that the gentle zephyrs are good in their place — 
 blown East of course, gone to join ** Beans" Pomeroy; got too 
 far west for a young man of aristocratic aspirations; better stay 
 east now and bloat up with your peers, young man. But, oh! 
 what a loss to the Senate he was — such a grand man to keep 
 political p,i- 'san prejudice alive. He could sit on a nest of 
 stale partisan eggs a lifetime to hatch out one goslin that was 
 
74 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 only a goose at last. But the people may congratulate them* 
 selves. One silver- mounted Senator of wealth and influence, a 
 patrician, dismounted counts more than twenty ordinary mem- 
 bers of plebeian extraction in the lower house, and might in an 
 emergency stand for more than all the lower house, that repre- 
 sents the common people — a rather strong check, a gag rein. 
 
 Now study Lincoln's last warning, study the meaning of en- 
 throned monoply— to issue and control the money instead of the 
 people controlling it themselves, until the people have lost 
 control of everything and the republic is destroyed. Even the 
 ballot is a ridiculous farce unless you use it for the good of the 
 public, including yourself. You now vote for the Democratic 
 or Republican candidates, but they both stand in with the en- 
 throned monopoly and the ballot only seals your doom. No 
 wonder Lincoln was unnerved when he saw the situation. Will 
 we ever learn, even by bitter experience? 
 
 We must look into things. Here is the tool, the entering 
 wedge, that has done it, viz., the National Banking law. Re- 
 member how it was smuggled through Congress in five days, 
 during the war. It looks as innocent as a cherub, but beware 
 of its fangs. It is written that the old serpent, Beelzebub, was 
 more subtle thun any beast of the field. So was Nick Biddle 
 the Second, and so is our young Nick the Third — very secret, 
 very sly, and very treacherous. And so the limited republic 
 was doomed to an early grave. 
 
 This law was dictated by a monster in Europe desirous only 
 of power and gain. See the Hazzard circular. Here is the 
 mysterious power now above the limited republic — the power 
 behind every throne, the power to enslave every nation, the 
 mystery of mysteries, even the mystery of godliness, but all 
 made plain in these series, especially in Nos. 2 and 3. This 
 infamous bill, smuggled through Congress by traitors at home 
 and abroad, is the enemy of light* and knowledge, the enemy 
 of hberly, the enemy of mankind, 
 
 * Give UB light, more light. 
 
THE CONSPIEACT THAT NOW IS. 76 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 NATIONAL BANKING LAW — NATIONAL BANKS AS AGENTS — NATIONAL 
 BANKS SECKECY — BANKER's NOTES VS. NATIONAL MONEY — 
 BANK CHARTERS VIOLATED — THE SENATE A CHECK. 
 
 The National Bank law, the establishment of a privileged 
 class, inconsistent with Republican institutions and therefore 
 unconstitutional. 
 
 Its provisions are that a company of five men may obtain a 
 charter for a national bank by depositing $50,000 in United 
 States bonds with the Secretary of the Treasury where it will 
 remain as collateral security, but continue to draw interest 
 from the Government to themselves, then with a certificate of 
 such deposit they go to the Comptroller of the Currency and re- 
 ceive $45,000 in national bank notes to take home and loan ever 
 their own counter to business men and receive interest 
 thus dr<*wing interest almost twice on their original 
 investment, but paying no interest themselves while 
 the people pay twice, first on the bonds and then on the notes. 
 Before the money can be got into circulation the bankers' avail- 
 able assets are almost doubled by legal enactments. The first 
 thing, remember, is that the Government prints the bank notes, 
 ready for signing, cheaper than bankers could print them — about 
 % to 1 per cent for printing the notes and keeping the books by 
 the Comptroller. Thus the favorite banker can go on loaning 
 the notes over their own counter at 8, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 70 per 
 cent, according to whbitever men's necessities compelled them to 
 pay, and the bankers make the necessity by withholding his 
 notes from circulation until he gets his price and,, he manages to 
 invalidate or evade all laws in regard to interest and taxes. Thus 
 
76 liOOKINQ INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 he makes 16 to 74 per cent on the bank notes and bonds, exempi 
 from taxation, thus not even paying the expense of schooling 
 his own children. But why should the law provide for one 
 class and not for another ? Why should one class live in idle- 
 ness at the expense of' another class ? If Congress can legislate 
 wealth, why not legislate to make us all wealthy? Of course 
 this is impossible in the nature of things; therefore all legisla- 
 tion favoring a class impoverishes the class not thus favored. 
 
 The national banks, once established and authorized as the 
 agents of the Government — (see Windom's official document, 
 page 49, concerning old national banks, and pages 87 and 166, 
 concerning present national banks) — immediately assumed con- 
 trol, g"ving advice and dictating what must be done, just as 
 though they were the only parties interested (also secretly con- 
 spired), and they watched their interests very close, so close 
 that they became a barricade between the people and Congress, 
 and with officials always ready to interpose and prevent any 
 legislation for the public. It might curtail their profits. They 
 became the great tollgate through whose doors the bank notes 
 and all other money found its way into circulation. 
 
 The Government being tax collector with unlimted powers, 
 the bankers receivers and distributors, governed only by their 
 own greed and avarice, took all they could get, kept all they 
 had, and preyed for more — business is business, you know. So 
 they watched while we worked, and stole while we slept, and 
 prayed and preyed while we wept. And so with the public 
 partisan press, muzzled; the lawyers, judges and officials dumb 
 as beetles; the clergy interested only in inesent revenue and 
 future salvation. Thus the people were studiously kept in igno- 
 rance. But why on earth should there be any secrets between 
 the people and their lawfully constituted agents, officials, mem- 
 bers of Congress, etc., when in fact there should be the utmost 
 frankness between them. Every law, every enactment should 
 be fully and fairly discussed and its effects fairly explained to 
 the people, who have a right to know all the,,acts of their agents, 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 77 
 
 just as any principal has a right to know what his agents are 
 doing. But see the National Banking law, stolen in like many 
 others too tedious to mention, but made plain further on, and 
 not one in twenty knows or understands them after twenty-five 
 years of existence. 
 
 The people cever knowing what is done inside the barricade 
 until it is too late, the barricade soon becomes an impenetrable 
 bastile for the conspiring traitors, but the people ignorant of 
 the most momentous questions, involving hundreds of millions 
 and billions, even life and death and the overthrow of the na- 
 tion, all involved , but so secret, so sly, that the people never 
 did find out except by the most bitter, heart-rending experience. 
 Now we can contemplate the ruined homes, the men turned out 
 to tramp, die and starve, the widows and orphans made desolate, 
 the republic overthrown, to make a few millionaires that are de- 
 structive to morality, virtue, honesty and integrity. (Millionaires 
 are dangerous.) But see the advantage to the banker. He can 
 eat liis supper and save it at the same time under this new-fangled 
 system of legerdemain in finance. The Government bonds 
 issued to retire greenback inflation — bonds on interest — and 
 inflate with bank notes based on bonds never so good as green- 
 backjj, must be borrowed to get into circulation, and so make a 
 great multitude of individual debts (mortgages) and a great 
 national debt. This infamous National Banking law was never 
 sent out broadcast like other public documents pertaining 
 to national matters. Instance the issues of the war — bloody 
 shirt, the tariff, etc. So you see that although the purposely 
 depreciated greenback was a fraud, the bond an unnecessary 
 fraud, but the bank note, whether based on gold , silver or bonds, 
 is a fraud, an unmitigated curse; the most vile, dishonest rep- 
 resentation of money the wo7^ id ever saw — worse than no money; 
 a source of corruption; a cancer on the body politic; a scab; a 
 polluting, festering sore, full of all manner of uncleanness; a 
 system of refined cruelty the most relentless and far reaching 
 ever fastened on any people, savage or civilized, in any age of 
 
78 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 the world — extending to generations unborn; a two-edged 
 sword; a secret and dangerous enemy, incompatible with repub- 
 lican government, where the r^eople have a right to know all that 
 transpires, where equal rights should be the rule, and no secrets, 
 Bu* what has become of your 3 per cent net increase in wealth ? 
 Oh! all swallowed up m profits to the privileged class, who toil 
 not, neither do they spin, but who live and not and rot in lux- 
 ury at the expense (.f those who do. 
 
 The banker has another advantage not contemplated when his 
 charter was first granted. It was for twenty years, at the expi- 
 ration of which time he was expected to settle up, cancel his 
 charter, and liquidate all claims. But now, by edict of Secre- 
 tary Sherman, he is relieved from ever settling up and redeem- 
 ing his notes. The oligarchy is a law unto themselves, a double- 
 dyed system of villainy — two great systems of debt, national 
 and individual, established in lieu of the money destroyed. 
 So you see that with the ending of the rebellion and the libera- 
 tion of 3,000,000 slaves, but the enthroning of the money mo- 
 nopoly (see Lincoln's warning), it has its clutch on our throats, 
 and our teeming millions, ever increasing (now sixty-five mill- 
 ions), all bondslavcs; the law not to be repealed (vested rights), 
 just as though no one else had any rights only the bondholdiag 
 bankers. The Government so called became a wet nurse for the 
 whole band of conspirators, who are now whittling away at our 
 throats, sapping the last drop of life blood of the people and 
 nation. Their methods secret and past finding out. But why 
 not issue an honest, national money, by exercise of the sovereign 
 power of the nation, to be protected and respected by all law- 
 abiding citizens as the money of the realm, whether printed on 
 gold, silver, nickel, copper, paper, cloth or leather, as of old,* 
 as set forth alread in this volume and put in circulation for ser- 
 
 *A national money, national check token, bill of exchange, draft, all the same; 
 no more necessity for printing the national money on gold or silver than there is 
 |yi printing a visiting card on gold or silver, Metal money a superstition. 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 79 
 
 vice performed and valuables delivered, v^ith no interest to pay, 
 no speculative bankers (»r idle conspirators to serve, no dicta- 
 tion from Tammany, who, when congressional enactments suits 
 them they obey the laws, and when they do not they set them 
 at defiance and issue their own edict to suit the case. See 
 here ; Secretary Sherman, an appointed official and banker him- 
 self, on the inside ring of the bastile, one of the oligarchy, 
 advised bankers whose charters were about to expire to just; 
 change officials or change the name of their bank and organize 
 as a new bank and so go on indefinitely. This has much to do 
 in keeping up the premium on bonds. This is just why our 
 masters want perpetual national debt, and perxietual national 
 debt means perpetual servitude for the people, and is an unmit- 
 igated curse under which the whole civilized world is writliing 
 and groaning in agony today, and has been for ages. But is the 
 base, dishonest bank note, based on fraudulent, unnecessary 
 bonds, one whit more safe than the national money issued to the 
 people for service performed and valuables delivered, (no in- 
 terest to pay), as already alluded to in this volume? Of course 
 not. So you see we have no use for the bank note, or wild cat, 
 or stink cat either. No national debt, no bond necessary to pay 
 interest on, no middle men necessary to be a toll gatherer, collect- 
 ing interest twice, which we pay twice, and so live off of us, on 
 what he owes the public. No monopoly necessary to issue and 
 control the money, no secret conclaves, no stolen legislation, no 
 bashle between the people and their agents' officials, no edicts 
 by the appointed henchmen of the oligarchy, the self-imposed, 
 self-constituted Senate in connivance with the Throne of Tam- 
 many. It is a grave mistake to suppose that the Senate is a rep- 
 resertative body, in any sense, for it is not. It was never in- 
 tended to be. I', was intended to hold the people in check, and 
 it has done its work eo effectually that the people's rights and 
 liberties have been destroyed until the people have no rights — 
 only the right to pay interest and taxes and iLterest and taxes im- 
 unlimited, and I defy anyone to show me where Congress has 
 
80 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 done one act of legislation for the general benefit of the public 
 since the money power has been enthroned ; but legislation in- 
 calculable for the benefit of the money power has been the rule. 
 JBut, further, to issue bonds sufficient for basis for bank notes 
 •to meet the requirements of business and keep everybody em- 
 ployed in our country, of sixty million people, would require, at 
 least, $bO per capita, and would require a perpetual bond debt 
 of $3,000,000,000, and increasing all the while — interest twice — 
 all accruing to. the enthroned monopoly. But the money issued 
 by the government, for service performed and valuables de- 
 livered, no interest anywhere, all net accumulations, all im- 
 ;provements made accrues to the public and constitutes national 
 wealth with liberty restored and with equal rights and equal 
 opportunities for all. Remember too that we now live subject 
 ■to an oligarchy that makes the laws to suit themselves, or sim- 
 ply issues their edicts to suit the case ; but with a republican 
 form of government, pure, simple and unlimited, based on the 
 sovereignty of the people as per Declaration of Independence. 
 :See Initiative further on. No law of importance could be 
 passed and enforced without the consent of the people. But 
 see now, under the reign of the Golden God Dynasty, we slave 
 and toil and starve and die. Under edicts issued by the oli- 
 garchy we eat, sleep, work, worship, weep, laugh, sorrow or sin. 
 Under edicts we are robbed, imprisoned, hanged, burned, dried 
 or frozen, killed, drowned and murdered. Under edicts issued 
 by the irresponsible, self-constituted, self-ordained oligarchy 
 for their own aggrandizement at our expense — see the reports of 
 suffering everywhere, but especially from Kansas, Nebraska, 
 Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota. Oklahoma, Texas, etc. Let us have 
 the Republic pure and simple and unlimited. The voice of an 
 enlightened people is the voice of God. Let us have Light. (Ig- 
 norance is not bliss.) 
 
 The favorite banks have numerous privileges not enjoyed by 
 common folks. They are made a depository for Government 
 money, without interest, which they loan at enormous interests 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 81 
 
 See Secretary Windom's system of jugglery, further on ; alsc 
 the law allowing him to do so. The banker makes rules also 
 for receiving citizens' money on deposit at a low rate of inter- 
 est and loaning it again at a high rate. See also the long ten- 
 tacles of tliis huge octopus (devil fish) , which reaches into 
 state, city, county and town treasuries. The officials every- 
 where subservient ; levying taxes under any and every pretext 
 for uecessary expenses and collecting all they possibly can, 
 spending vast amounts extravagantly and then still having sur- 
 plus cash depositing it with the legalized, exploiting, despoil- 
 JDg dynasty. Study this monster in all his work. Seethe Key- 
 stone bank of Pennsylvania and how public sworn officials 
 favor their favorite depositors. See how the United States ex- 
 aminer Drew and Comptroller Lacy gives Wannamaker the 
 wink and he gets his deposits out and the trap falls on the 
 unwary taxpayers, who lose a cool million. See Nashville, 
 Tennessee, a short time ago, also Cleveland, Ohio, (about 
 a million), also the State Treasury of Kansas, a few years ago, 
 robbed twice. But are these exceptional cases? No ; they are 
 the rule everywhere, the exceptional cases rare indeed, from the 
 cliipf officials of the Government to the lowest tax collector en- 
 1 ig collections. If we complain he tells us to work a little 
 haider, bo a little more economical and it will fill come out right 
 in the end. Poor folks don't pay the taxes anyhow. Well, how 
 is it that the rich, idle, speculator that never earned an honest 
 dollar in his life, pays his taxes. Oh! he pays his by working 
 bis jaw and getting deposits, and he tells you to stick to your 
 old i^arty. The money rules and always will. Thus the 
 fools submit and thus the money power, safely entrenched 
 within the bastile^ by laws of his own ordaining and 
 rides on triumphantly, but the people are learning, by a most bit- 
 ter experience, the nature of the conspiracy in all its details. 
 But the citizen is learning after his money is gone that 
 his money is never so safe as when in his own custody. He is 
 also learning that honest money is not what dishonest bankers, 
 
82 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 conspiring lawyers, lawmakers want, but dishonest money 
 bankers' notes based on unnecessary, fraudulent bonds, hidden, 
 uncertain gold, all a farce, a fraud, a lie, a cheat. If the law- 
 maker was honest, he has it in his power to make honest money, 
 but being dishonest he conspires with the dishonest villain, 
 (banker), to swindle the honest, confiding people, loot his own 
 constituents, feather his own nest at their expense to the tune of 
 hundreds of millions and billions lost to us. But as a good 
 many of our members of Congress, especially Senators and of- 
 ficials, judges, lawyers, idlers, speculators and cormorants all 
 belong to the same inside ring of the same monopoly, spoken of 
 by Lincoln, they have their secret political and business con- 
 claves to concoct their nefarious schemes, (no reporters ad- 
 mitted), not merely for securing interest, and double interest, 
 but to agree as to what legislation they will need to enable them 
 to form all kinds of trusts, combines, syndicates, etc., in rela- 
 tion to tariffs and transportations, the amount of money to issue 
 or retire, and Presidents to elect, defeat or assassinate. So this 
 /errife/e tragedy still goes on unheeded and unchecked, the 
 people constantly victimized by the greedy vampires of the 
 plutocratic dynasty. Now reader would you like to belong to 
 this infamous, soulless, cut-throat den of rats, vultures, cormo- 
 rants, hyenas of the robbers' roost of spread eagles, gutter 
 snipes, lame ducks, bulls, bears, etc., etc. It de^jends alto- 
 gether on the length of your purse— $30,000 and the oath of a 
 villain and $30,000 more in bank for a margin. 
 
 Sixty thousand dollars in all is about the on y perquisite, just 
 a trifle of honor or honesty, as much as is necessary among 
 thieves, to wit, *'a fair divide." And you can be one of those 
 royal cubs of the moneyed oligarchy, a prince of the realm, an 
 heir to the throne of Tammany, and heir presumptive of the 
 Golden God— dynasty of the civilized w?o?'/d— from whence you can 
 contemplate yourself as an imperial /j/w^ocra/ of the realm of helly 
 hades, sheot, etc., with full powers to enforce your edicts, man- 
 dates, decrees, and so keep your throne warm by the sweat and 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. Od 
 
 blood of those who toil and slave and die, and keep your soul 
 saturated with the sobs and sighs of the orphans and the wails 
 of widows whose homes have been made desolate by your clan; 
 then hie you away to glory to pre empt in the heavenly land. 
 
 Sixty thousand dollars, cheap as dirt to become a member of 
 the great gadgrind mill of the money ghouls, and so control 
 the destiny of man on earth **** #***^ 
 
 CHAPTER XI, 
 
 weaver's expose— steal and divide — EARLY WORK OP CON- 
 SPIRATORS — WEAVER AND LINCOLN VINDICATED — PARTY 
 TREACHERY. 
 
 The Government a depositor with the national banks for vast 
 amounts without interest for twenty-fivo years, but so adroitly 
 concealed as not to be understood. 
 
 Now we come to examine another link in this fearful conspir- 
 acy — one still more completely covered up *than any heretofore 
 exposed in the whole plot of crime, infamy and treachery. We 
 had supposed the national bond nest egg to bank on, with the 
 various powers it conferred, was sufficient to gratify the greed 
 of the most avaricious, lucre-loving souls on earth; but here is 
 another scheme, another link, in the infamous plot concocted 
 during the war but so stealthily covered up and kept from the 
 public for twenty-five years (see the law concerning deposits 
 further on) , as to completley deceive the confiding people. But 
 the war over the cry went forth. The nation, a nation of free- 
 men, a national debt to pay, but home industry protected and 
 nothing but unprecedented prosperity for the people. But 
 what was the villains doing instead of paying off the public 
 debt? They were just fixing it so that it never could be paid, 
 and the vast revenues they were collecting was being divided 
 out among themselves. In addition to converting the green- 
 
84 liOOKINQ INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 backs into bonds, they were also depositing out the surplus cash 
 with the favorite banks throughout the country. (Time un- 
 limited instead of paying off the national debt — base fraud, un- 
 mitigated lie.) The m ney was being deposited out at the dis- 
 cretion of the Secretary and the Secretaries were very free to 
 help themselves in the exercise of this discretionary power, all 
 provided for by the ingenious lawyer and high-toned, wealthy 
 bankers, comprising the Congress, the people never dream- 
 ing that such nefarious work was being done. Even business 
 men, but few of them, knew of this treacherous scheme being 
 carried on, and many members of Congress seems to be igno- 
 rant of it, it was done so slily. These deposits were of any sur- 
 plus money in the Treasury on satisfactory security with no in- 
 terest to the Government whatever. This was a favor to nsi- 
 tional banks, who, by their charters, were entitled to the inside 
 ring and who have continued to divide the contents of tha 
 Treasury among their pards, (a la Simon Cameron.) This in 
 famous scheme was first publicly exposed by James B. Weaver 
 in Congress, but even since this expose, the partisan press, Dem- 
 ocratic and Republican, dare not publish the facts to the dear 
 people as both parties are under obligations to these beneficent 
 bankers for money subscribed to carry on their campaigns*, and 
 so the money power rests secure on its throne which, like all 
 other thrones, rests on ^the ignorance of the people ; but the 
 light is beginning to break. 
 
 Hon. J. B. Weaver of Iowa, in the House of Congress, Feb 
 urary 29, 1888, during Cleveland's ^administration, H. B. 5034, 
 Congressional Document, said : 
 
 *'Sir, this country is now within the grasp of a gigantic, cold- 
 blooded money trust, which limits the money output, pre- 
 scribes the conditions on which it deigns to accept the currency 
 at the hands of the Government, determines the channels 
 
 *See James G. Blaine's speech in Chicago, October, 1888, in which he admitted 
 that the bankers got Government money without interest. They just subscribed 
 to the Democratic campaign fund. Why did he not expose the nepubliqana also ; 
 one was just as deep in the mud as the other was in the mire. Tricksters don't 
 leU on themselves. 
 
THE CONSPIRA.CY THAT NOW IS. 35 
 
 through which it shall reach the people, and the terms upoi. 
 
 which it shall be doled oi^t. 
 
 " This trust usurps the sovereignty of the nation, mocks ali 
 the suffering of its victims, and relies upon the painful "neces- 
 sities " of the situation to keep them in subjection. [Applause. ] 
 
 *' For a quarter of a century this trust has overawed Congress, . 
 and at this time is setting at defiance laws which it does not ap- 
 prove. It is a national organization, with ramifications every- 
 where. It holds annual sessions, has an executive council 
 which meets in secret, and is clothed with power to collect 
 large sums of money and to disburse the same for purposes 
 which are not made public. It is the architect of our present, 
 financial^slruoture. They have built it to suit the cupidity of 
 the usurer, and so as to administer to the devouring appetite of 
 money ghouls, rather than to serve the legitimate wants of busi- 
 ness and trade. Tliey have made it a snare, a delusion, and a 
 rack of torture to those who are content to accumulate wealth by 
 production, and it has proved a bed of quicksand to business 
 energy and honest thrift. 
 
 "I regard the situation to-day as not presenting a contest be- 
 tween the people and any Executive Department of this Gov- 
 ernment, but a contest between the people and a non-political 
 moneyed oligarchy that controls all departments and seeks tO' 
 control all political j)arties. 
 
 " Where is the money which this resolution seeks to have 
 paid out in the purchase of Government bonds? It is not in the 
 Treasury. Fifty-nine millions of it are in national banks, and 
 they are using it without interest. The Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury has serious doubt about his authority under the law of 
 March 3, 1881, to purchase bonds with the money. It is a little 
 singular that some doubt did not arise in his mind as to his 
 power to deposit this amount of money in the national banks. 
 
 "Under what law did he deposit it? You will find the law 
 on page 365 of Loans and the Currency: 
 
 All national banking associations designated for that purpose by the Secretary ■ 
 of the Treasury shall be depositories of public money, except receipts from cus-. 
 tome, uiider such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary, and they may 
 also be employed as financial agents of the Government. 
 
 [Congress here surrendered to the national bankers. The; 
 
 AUTHOK. ] 
 
 "Now, Mr. Chairman, when was that law passed? It was 
 passed in June, 1864, daring the struggle for the pres3rvation 
 of the Union, when the Government had to disburse large sums . 
 of money in various parts of the country in payment of the 
 Army and in payment for supplier. That was the necessity 
 under which that law was passed, and, the necessity having, 
 ceased, the rule ought to cease also. 
 
86 liOOKlNa INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 ** There was no design in the passage of that law to make th« 
 national bank depositories of Government funds for their con- 
 venience and benefit. It was the convenience of the Govern- 
 ment that was uppermost in the minds of Congress, and when 
 the necessity ceased the deposit of money in the national bauKs 
 should have ceased also. But, sir, it is true that there are fifty 
 or more national banks in this country that have been literally 
 stuffed with Government money for the past quarter of a cen- 
 tury ; i: oney wrung from the people by unjust and oppressive 
 taxation has been stuffed into the banks, and by them loaned 
 back to the poor wretches from whom it was extorted. Who on 
 this floor will deny that? Fifty-nine millions! Where is it? 
 Scattered promiscuously over the country, without regard to 
 the convenience of the Government, utterly in defiance of sound 
 policy, and solely with reference to the convenience and at the 
 behest of the banks. 
 
 •* Let me give you a specimen or two. I find on the list I 
 hold in my hand the Hamilton National Bank, of Fort Wayne, 
 Ind., which has nearly ^100,000 of the public money. Whose 
 bank is that? That is the bank in which an ex-Secretary of the 
 Treasury (Mr. McCuUoch) is largely interested. His salary as 
 Secretary of the Treasury ceased long ago, but his profits from 
 the use of this S100,000 of Government money continues and 
 amounts to nearly or quite as much per annum as his salary 
 used to be He is using the people's money that has been 
 wrung from them at the expense of their homes, at the expense 
 of thousands of hungry children all over this country who are 
 hnlf clad, half fed, and less than half educated, [Applause.] 
 Who else have their clutches on this Government money ? The 
 Chase National Bank of New York has ^1, 100,000. Who pre- 
 sides over the Chase National Bank? Mr. Cannon, late Comp- 
 troller of the Currency. He still has his hand in the Treasury, 
 and is using without interest $1,100,000 of Government funds, 
 the profit upon which far exceeds the salary which he received 
 when he was Comptroller of the Currency. Then comes the 
 First National Bank of New York. That is the bank that was 
 caught with ^43,000,000 of the public money in it when Mr. 
 Sherman was Secret;iry of the Treasury, and when its own capi- 
 tal stock amounted to less than a quarter of a million dollars. 
 What kin I of oflicial honesty was this, and what an example to 
 the country ! 
 
 Thftt bank to-day has .^1, 100,000 of Government money wluch 
 it has the use of without interest. While the farmers of my 
 district and my State are ground down by their mortgages and 
 crushed into the earth by their debts, this gentleman and his 
 bank are the favored ones and have the free use of $1,100,000 of 
 the people's money. 
 
THE C0NSI>IRACT THAT NOW IS. 87 
 
 Th^^rj we linve the National Bank of the Repnhlic in New York 
 witli $930,000 of the G«)verniDeiit money. W ho presi es over 
 that bank ? Jolin Jay Knox, an ex Com]itrollpr of thp Currpucy. 
 He too lias his arm into the Treasnry up to t! p olhow, • n<l the 
 protit which he derives from the nse of t]iisS930.()00 of th^ Gov- 
 ernment funds far exceeds the sahiry which he received when 
 he was Comptroller. 
 
 Next we come to the National .Bank of the Ivepnhlic in the 
 city of Washington, a bank in the same city with the national 
 Treasury, and alongside of it. What nfce-sity is thpi'p tor a 
 Governmei t depository here in Vv'ashinpffon ? Every bculy knows 
 that it is a mere ^ratnitv to the bank, and I denounce it as a 
 shampless exhibition of bad official morals. 
 
 This National Bank of the Republic is presided over, lam 
 told, by ex Postmaster-General Creswell. It has $165,000 of 
 pnblie fnnds. 
 
 Mi;. B\YNE— Did the gentleman mention the National Bank 
 of thp R'M^'i^^lic? 
 
 Mr. Weaver — Yes, sir; a V>ank here in Wash i no ton. 
 
 Mr. Bayne— That is not located alongside the Treasury De- 
 partmpnt. 
 
 Mr. We.wefc— How far from it? 
 
 Mr. Baynr— Down on ISeventh street. [Laughter.] Ond 
 word moi-c* 
 
 Mr. Weaver- No siv; I do not wish to be further inter* 
 iMiptpd. Mv timp \a liniitfd. 
 
 Mr. Bayne— M»'. Creswpil j^ not president of that bank. 
 
 Mr. Weavf'R — Wei I, Ml (jreswpll's bank is using Govern- 
 ment money, a^ I undeistand. If I have the wrong bank l<y the 
 ear I have not th^^ w)Ong px-Fostmaster General by tlip par. 
 [Liughter. ] I m^y have placed the right man in tlie wrong 
 place 
 
 Now I com''^ to the Wtstern National Bank of New Yf)rk. 
 That bank, it wiM be remt-ml)f^jpd, was orjianized during the 
 fce(?ond sessi.>n of the lu;vty ninth Contrress by three ])rominpnt 
 TrpHKury .)fli«*i5ns. concerning one of whom (pra'-e to his n.^hes) 
 I Kv M L'ot sa\' a word but two otiier Tn^asnry officials, the Tipas- 
 iirer of the United States. Mr Jirdan, an<i ilip Hub tronsnrer of 
 the United States, Mr. Oanda, were prominent in organizing 
 that bink, ard are ])r'>rnirieiit s^ockhol.lers in it to day. How 
 mivh Govei'nmpnt money lias this buiik y One million one hnn- 
 drpd thniman'l d::l ars it «lejH>^it>d bonis to the amount of 
 $;l 000.000 an I receivpd SI. 100.000 of Government fun<ls. wh ch 
 orp beinp: used by this bank, as n'l t])» «e other ex officials are 
 usino: (Tf)vernmpnt fMnl.*^, tor their own profit and a«lvan*aae. 
 F. O. "Mfitln-isson. one of tlip prominent chr.raofpv*; in the inlam- 
 ous sugar tnist, vvi»s cons^ icuous in organizing- thib bank and is 
 
88 
 
 liOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 a prominent stockholder in it. I examined the record with 
 regard to this bank aad I want to give what it says. The book 
 wliich designates the amount that these banks shall receive shows 
 this o'-der cu..ceiniLg the Western National, Mr. Jordan's bank: 
 
 Fill the bank from banks outside of New York. 
 
 Is not that. good ? [Laughter. J 
 
 I have a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury concerning 
 this bink which T desire to read for the edification and and in- 
 struction of this House. It is dated Washington, D. C, Octo- 
 ber 8, 18/7, and is directed to the Treasurer of the United 
 States : 
 
 Sir: The Western National Bank of New York city has been designated a United 
 State-fi depos-itory, and the security fi\id for the present at $1,000,000 of United 
 Statt P 4 p. r cent bonds, lu ord«'r to avoid the usual delay in obtaining a ba anco 
 by accumulating revenue deposits I will t'^auk you. when the bonds are received, 
 to be Citused to be transferred to said bank irom national bank depositories other 
 than th BO in New \vik city such amounts as m;:y be depositea therein to the 
 c edit of your gi-ueral account, in excess of their authorizeu balances, until the 
 Bill, of $1, Ou.OCO iB re.i«->'«^'), which am«/Unt the Western National Bank will be 
 authorized to hold as a fixed balance. 
 
 Eespt-ci. Lilly yuuiB. ' C. S. FAIECHILDS, Secretary. 
 
 This Secretary Fairchilds was Cltveland's Secretary after the 
 retirement of Jord in and Manning on account of ill health and 
 enough money to stock their own bank. (Discretionary power 
 of the Secretary — see the law. Cleveland's clubs, warm from 
 the throne of Tammany, New York.) So you see Democrats 
 and Rf^publicans sailing in the same piratical craft. After hav- 
 ing scuttled the ship of State and fastened its passengers down 
 below the hatchways of everlasting bondage to corporate rule, 
 they divide out our Treasury as their lawful prey and the people 
 their lawful slaves — the spoils system . bee Wordsworth's Rob 
 Boy: 
 
 For why? Because the gold old rule sufficeth them ; the simple plan 
 That they should take who have the power, and they should rule who can, 
 
 And then [Mr. Weaver continuing] at this session of Congress 
 the Secretary of the Treasury has sent in an item showing a de- 
 fit iency in tlie tetegtaphic expenditures, and he states in his 
 letter that the deticiency is solely owingto the large amounts of 
 deposits placed m the national banks. Ihat is to say, the cost 
 of this telegraphinc:, both to and from the banks tbut are using 
 this Government money for nothing, is j)aid out ol the Treasury 
 of the United States; aud in order to meet this expense an item 
 has been allowed in the urgent deticiency bill which ijassed this 
 House. What excuse is there for this? 
 
THE OONSPIBAOY THAT NOW IS. 89 
 
 Mr. BATNB-^Wbat is the date of the letter jnst read by the 
 gentleman? 
 
 Mb. Weaver— October 8, 1887. 
 
 Then we have also the Third National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y. 
 Whose bank is that? It is a banu controlled by gentlemen 
 promineut in the Standard Oil Trust. Yes, the {Standard Oil 
 Company has its hands in the Treasury also, through this and 
 other bauks. Think of the burning shame and disgrace of such 
 a tran-action! No wonder the people are losing confidence in 
 the Government. 
 
 Mk. Webek— May I ask the gentleman 
 
 Mr. Weaver — I cannot yield to the gentleman. 
 
 A Membi£R (on the Republican side) — We will extend your 
 time. 
 
 Mr. Weaver— No, you will not, I fear. 
 
 The Chairman — The gentleman fiom Iowa declines to yield. 
 
 Mk, We web — This Standard Oil bank, the Third National 
 B:iiik of jjuffalo, has ^165,000 of Government money; and the 
 Seabjard National Bank of New York, in which Darnel O'Day, 
 the general manager of the St mdard Oil Pjpe Line, and J. J. 
 Vandergrift, the president of the Stin lard Oil Pipe Line, are 
 pr »minent stockholders, has $515, OjO of GovernmRnt money. 
 
 The president and tieasurer of the American Bankers' Asso- 
 ciation are presiding over national bauks which have been desig- 
 nate I as depositories, and twelve out of the twenty-one mem- 
 bers uf the executive council of that "trust." are also connected 
 with banks that are depositories and that are using Government 
 moaey. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, it is true that one and all of lhe?e "trusts" that 
 are choking the very life out of the people of this country are, 
 through their national banks, using to a greater or less extent 
 the Government money, and are using it to oppress the people, 
 I say this is a public outrage and villainous shame. Here Con- 
 gress has been sitting for nearly three months, and not a half 
 dozen voices have been raised against it, not a move has been 
 maite to remedy the evil or to rebuke the crime. On the con- 
 trary, efforts have been ma le to extend the privileges of the 
 batiks. I denounce it, and I trust I shall be p irdoned by my 
 L)emocratic brethren for my Jefft^rsonian and Jacksonian eccdn- 
 tricities on this subject. I think we have reached i time when 
 t le Democratic party can afford to be Democratic. 
 
 •Now, Mr. Chairman, I have already indicate 1 that this money 
 is n )t in the Treasury, but in the banks. The baiks are simply 
 the lenses through which, like a radiation, this money reache<l 
 the people. It is now in circulation, and the basinets. of the 
 country has adjusted itself to it. 
 
 Now, I repeat the question: Why was this money placed in 
 
90 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 the ban\s in tbe first place? I know the answer, and the only 
 answer waich can be given. It was done to avoid a panic which 
 was 'lien impeodiog. Let us giant that to be true. I assert 
 here and now that; if you recall that money as this bill is intended 
 to do, yv>u will inevitably precipitate a panic, and nothing can 
 prevent it. You cannot lake it from circulation again through 
 the banks without serious embarrassment. 
 
 Tiiis bill will not have the effect which is desired, nor will 
 the >:ecretary of the Treasury undertake to carry it out He 
 dare not. He may undertake to buy a few bonds with the sur- 
 plus a 'tually in the Treasury and not in the banks, or which 
 may I, ere,. fter accumulate. He will not undertake the respon 
 sibilityof calling the money into the Treasury in thepre^.ect 
 stringency in the money market, The banks, sir, are the masters 
 ni the situa'.ion. and not the Secretary; but, you will answer, 
 we can demand the money of the banks or compel them to sell 
 their bonds hehl for deposits. You can do nothing of the kind. 
 They will say to you: Our bonds are valuable and we do not 
 want to sell. If you want your money we will call in our loans 
 and pay, but you, Mr. Secretary, must take the lesponsibility of 
 a panic, which is likely to follow, Tiiat is what they will say. 
 Another fact Mr. Chairman: The Secretary has increased the 
 premium on these bonds by this enormous system of deposits, 
 and this bill proposes to authorize him to buy tbe bonds at the 
 premium to which his wretched policy has boomed them. This 
 is something worse than folly. By this policy he boomed the 
 price of the bonds in the haads of the bondholders, and now 
 you propose to buy these bonds back at the increased price. 
 
 Well, indeed, may the Secretary of tlie Treasury hesitate He 
 was authorized, if he saw proper, to buy under the law of 
 March 3, 1881, but he was never authorized by any law to first 
 boom the bonds and then buy them back at the increased pre- 
 mium. 
 
 It this proposition passes and the Secretaiy undertakes to call 
 in his money, I. say to the business men of the country they had 
 better prepare to stand from under.. You all know that as well 
 as I do. What shall be done, then? Ah, I will tell you the 
 r^^medy. What power have we over these bondholders? I wish 
 1 Lad everv tax-payer of the country within sound of my voice. 
 What have we the power to do? More than ^2,400,000,000 of 
 interest have been paid by the people to bondholders since the 
 close of the war, and more than $1,600,000,000 of pnncipii, 
 making $4,000,000,000, a sum as great as the present national 
 debt of England !* 
 
 * It will now take more wheat and cotton to pay the balance at present pricea 
 than it would hav» taken in the first place to have paid the whole fraudulent 
 «8 prices were thea. 
 
THE CONSPIRACY TKJlX KOW lU^-^ ' 91 
 
 What isi the present proposition? It is that we shall compel 
 the people of the United States to pay over 25 per cent, pre- 
 mium on the bonds lield by these bondholders. Why, that is 
 not a statutory obiigaMon. Have we ever contracted to pay it ? 
 We have t]|k3 money in the Treasury and we Lav« the moral 
 right to insist on payment at par under the sovereign power 
 possessed by the Government. 
 
 England at one time insisted upon this right and exercised 
 tht^ power. You will find the whole matter ably set forth in 
 Senator Sherman's speech on the credit-strenglheniDg act and 
 the funding bill previous to the issue of these very bonds. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, at the proper time I give notice I will move as 
 a substitute that which I ask the Clerk to read. 
 
 The Ckrk read as follows : 
 
 Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Trcacurv is hereby authoriTe<l 
 and directed to apply the surplus money now in he TivtiaU-y and huch s-jrplas 
 money as may hereafter be iu the Treaaury ar-i not '»iherwiRt appiopiiateo. to 
 the redemption of United States bonds at T)ar until aU of said bonds, toge^h'-r 
 with the accrued interest thereon, aie called atid i)did;and from and aU-m* Ibe 
 date fixed in the call of the Secretary of the T'-^-asary for rlie pi'-senration and 
 payment of said bonds, all interest thereon shall c^ase. And in making calls for 
 bonds for redemption, as aforesaid, the Secretdry shall first c-i.'. the bonds he^d to 
 Eecure Government deposits. 
 
 Mr. Mills — I do not yield to have that pending. I only 
 yielded the gentleman thirty minutes for debate. 
 
 Mr. Weaver— I desire to offer it at the proper time. I had 
 it read as a part of my remarks. 
 
 Now, sir, I have the entire list in my hand of the national 
 depositories Avhich have been createJ unler tije policy of the 
 Treasury Department, and they number 298, whi3h number has 
 probably been increased by the addition of eight or ten since 
 the list was prepared. I append the list, and usk that it he 
 printed in the Record. 
 
 Mr. Springer — When was this policy inaugurated? 
 
 Mr. Weaver— In October last. 
 
 Mr. Randall — Earlier than that. 
 
 Mr. Weaver— It was inaugurated in October, as I under- 
 stand it — that is, the present extended policy ; but the law was 
 passed in 1864, and to a limited extent banks have been des- 
 ignated by all the Secretaries. The policy, however, of depos- 
 iting the par value of 4:% per cent, bonds and 110 on 4 per cent, 
 bonds was inaugurated hj the present Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury during last summer fall. The policy theretofore obtaining 
 only gave the banks from 80 to 90 per cent. 
 
 Now we can begin to see why the internal revenue was and is 
 still continued and collected even when the high protective 
 tariff afforded more revenue than our officials could squander. 
 
92 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 This revenue, collected at Government expense, was paid over 
 to these favorite banks at the discretion of the Secretaries, some- 
 times on the seeiiritj of bonds deposited and sometimes other- 
 \\ise, but all these great secretaries and other officials were evi- 
 dently good to themselves. Evidently it was just done to pro- 
 vide for these favorite banks by furnishing them money to loan. 
 Is this plain enough? the Governments collector for the golden 
 God of dynasty, and the people the slaves and victimized by 
 both. Our only apology for publishing this expose in full in 
 this small volume is because this expose, although made three 
 years ago, during Cleveland's subserviency, has never been 
 refuted by either the Democratic or Republican press, neither 
 dare they for they are both in the same boat, both tarred with 
 the same stick and both belong to the same masters, so tl ey 
 simply join drives, apply the party lash, double up their sala- 
 ries, multiply their officials and greatly increasing the spoils of 
 office by corrupt means, then join hands to defeat the man that 
 makes the expose at the very next election. Not only Weaver, 
 but any and every man that stands in their way. Democrat or 
 Republican, and so kill, defeat or destroy the men that dare to 
 tell the truth. Lincoln first, then Johnson, bulldozed for at- 
 tempting to carry Lincoln's policy. Garfield would not obey 
 Wall street's dictation, and so he had to be put out of the way 
 by an instrument in the hands of God. (God and Wall street in 
 partnership.) But go on, Greeley, Phillips, Butler, Lowe, 
 Gillett, Delematyr, Ladd, Ewing, General Carey, Therman, 
 Ste^^ens, Wade, Plumb, also S ymour, Democratic nominee for 
 President, politically slaughtered by his own party at the com- 
 mand of Tammany, also Peter Cooper, the great philanthropist, 
 vilified to his grave because he opposed their schemes. The 
 above, both Democrats and Republicans, crucified for telling 
 the truth. So that with the honest men of both political parties 
 out of the way the conspirators continue on with their death 
 dealinir work. As partisans, however, they pretend to be ter- 
 ribly opposed to each other on some trifling points — a few cents 
 
THE OONSPIBAOX THAT HOW JA» 93 
 
 difference on the tariff is enough to inaugurate a blood and 
 thunder campaign and occupy Congress, session after session, 
 and koep the blind fools quarreling over protection that pro- 
 tects capital only. It was never intended for anything else. 
 As long ago as 1840 and 1844 the agitation for a high protective 
 tariff was urged on the ground of giving encouragement to cap- 
 italists to invest in the infant industries until they could stand 
 alone against foreign importations. The protection of labor 
 was not thought of then— there was no labor strikes then in this 
 country. But at last, during the war, capital got protection in 
 the high protective tariff and our infant industries have grown 
 to be giants and the protected capitalists are breaking our heads. 
 What the people need now is protection against capital The 
 capitalists are our masters. We want protection that protects 
 everybody alike. And. whereas, between Whigs and Demo- 
 crats, and Democrats and Kapublicans, there is a never ending 
 dispute in regard to high or low tariff, we would suggest that 
 both the -»]d parties agree to leave it out to arbitrators and let 
 the new party, composed of the farmers, mechanics^ laborers 
 and the horny-handed^ honest yeomanry of the country, now 
 coming into power, settle this much vexed question to suit 
 themselves. 
 
 But, you see, whilst the tariff, as of old, is the great bugaboo 
 of contention and animosity, but when it comes to dividing out 
 the Treasury and despoiling the people they chum together like 
 twins and adopt the same methods as that old plutocrat, Simon 
 Cameron—subtraction, division and silence, (Stop thief, stop!) 
 But follow on. Look into things. See what discretionary power 
 for an official to exercise, and he only an appointed official at 
 that. Being one of the ring, a chosen vassel, he could select 
 his own favorite banks, first his own, of course. See Secretary 
 Sherman's own bank— forty-three million, security satisfactory. 
 Why yes ; his own long face. McCuUoch, Secretary also ; his 
 bank named after his favorite chief, Hamilton; his face satisfac- 
 tory also. (Stop thief, stop I) See, Mr. Camron (Democrat), 
 
94 ijOoking into things, OB 
 
 latp Gomptroller, backs up his cart; Eecnrity satisfactory. Then 
 John J. Knox knocks the persimmons with his long pole (face). 
 Also Postmaster Creswell makes a dive. Then Jordan and 
 Daniel Manning, ex President Grover Cleveland's cubs, Seore- 
 tai*y and Treasurer, just dividing out our Treasnry among them- 
 Belves. But why not pay off the bond debt with this surplus 
 cash? Oh! the bonds are not due yet; time of payment changed 
 by forgery. See Hon. Ralph Plumb's expose further on No 
 check to the villainy until all the political thieves havR grown 
 rich — x uever ending system of robbery. Now comes the close 
 of Mr. Weaver's expose: 
 
 Mk. McMilltn— Will thf* gentleman from Towa r?ot state that 
 thstt wa^ because the bonds were under par when the sysiem wcs 
 in ■uoura^oil ? 
 
 Mr. Weaver— I Vnow; but po w^r? the dppo=iit.s nnd^r pnr — 
 v^ry far below t^ie valur of the b)n is in the lu irk-t Oar bonds 
 hi.\e not l>f en below pur for many yea-s, {ind ^hp poiir*/ of in- 
 croasinrr the deposits was orJejed by the [)r^senr Sicret;try, as I 
 am a' I vised. 
 
 TiiR rHAiRMAT^ — The time of the g^ntl^man from Iowa has 
 expii-ed. 
 
 nJR. B\YNE — [ ask unanimous consent that the gentleman's 
 tim^^ l.'p *'xUmi 'e 1. 
 
 1\.'b. Mills- 1 must ohj^'ct to ^hnt. We hnve n^•t the time. 
 Wf w;jnt lo ^yt a vote on tiiis. if i.tossible. Tae p:en' lenii.n f j om 
 Mair.e will now take the fl(K)r, a<"M-or<linfr to arrant- ment. 
 
 .Jn. ^'^ PAVER —I am very mnch oblif^ed to the 'leiitleman from 
 Ttxas for his conrtpsv already ext'^idf^ 1. I know Iv <!^sires to 
 st^cui>' s^ e <ly action, and I shall not it sist; nnd I tIiciefor=) 
 a-k m^r Jv to print the list of national bank depuci'ones in 
 the Rfioord. 
 
 Tht.ie w:ts no objection.',' 
 
 Eere foil )W-« a list of 2*8 banks, all branches of this infamous 
 o'.ithroned monopoly of t]\e money pow(-r, with power to fix 
 the <lestiny of the people and nation for life or de; th. But, 
 says our lawyer politician, the faim^r don't need to meddle 
 hi self about politif*al fiffiivs. A.11 he has to do is to work a 
 little hnrder, be a little more economif^d, p«y up Ins taxes and 
 interest, and it will h11 con^e out right in the end. But thes 
 21)8 banks, all of whom have had money, more or less, out of 
 
TBE OONSFIBACY THAT NOW IS. 95 
 
 our own Treasury without interest, some of them for twenty- 
 five years. High tariff, plenty of surplus money in the Treas- 
 ury to divide out with the enthroned monopoly to loan back to 
 us. Do you see the point now? It issues its edicts. If you 
 submit they rob and then starve you; if you resist the Govern- 
 ment enforces their edicts (with more edicts). Grant early in 
 his reign admonished the people that they must be law abiding. 
 Harrison in his triumphal display of himself at Portland, Or., 
 reiterates the injunction. So all these diabolical laws and 
 edicts must be obeyed. The oligarchy rules. 
 
 Our officials are their obedient henchmen and we must be 
 obedient: law abiding citizens. (Edicts and all.) This expose 
 was made public by Weaver, February 29, 1888, and it still 
 stands undisputed ; but has the partisan press gwen it pubho 
 ity? iVb ; it dare n^t do it, or the enthroned monopoly would 
 starve them. They hold conventions, but no change of policy,* 
 and so the people are virtually being crucified between the two 
 old partisan thieves. Partisan prejudice still kept alive and 
 the reign of the enthroned money power still assured. (See 
 Lincoln's warning once more. See Secretary Chase also.) But 
 now comes another expose. Evidently a law, has been tampered 
 with. Enforce that, too ? Why, yes, if it favors the banker- 
 bondholder at th9 expense of the people ; not otherwise. See 
 it? 
 
 * The Democratic party is not democratic neither is the Republican party re- 
 publican, both sailing under false colors. . 
 
96 LOOSING 13XT0 THINGS. Oft 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 LINCOLN VINDICATED— EABLY CONSPIEAOY AND FORGERY — THH 
 FORGERY — THE CONSPIRATORS RUN MAD — CONSPIRATORS RON 
 DOWN— CONSPIRACY EXPOSED. 
 
 Bond forgery exopssd by Ralph Plumb, member of Congress 
 from Illinois, also Windom's financial jugglery. 
 
 Congressional Document, March 5th, 1888, Hon. Ralph 
 
 Plumb in Congress on the Refunding Act : 
 
 •* I come now, Mr. Chairman, to the consideration of the act 
 passed July 14, 1870, known as the refunding act, under which 
 the 4 per cent, bonds, so called, were issued, and with the in- 
 dulgence of the committee I will make a brief statement of 
 facts, such as I desired to make some days ago in respect to the 
 variance found to exist between the laws as passed by Congress 
 and as it is published in the Statutes at Large. An editorial in 
 a prominent public journal, which claimed that the law as 
 found in the statutes authorized the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury to call for redemption outstanding bonds in the order pre- 
 scribed by law, caused me to investigate that question, and in 
 doing so I determined to examine carefully the refunding act of 
 July 14, 1870, and all the facts attending its passage. In thus 
 pursuing the investigation I noticed that the report of the com- 
 mittee of conference between the two Houses on the funding 
 bill, and which was agreed toin the House of Representa- 
 tives by a yea and nay vote, in providing for issuing one 
 thousand millions of 4 per cent, bonds declared that said bonds 
 were **redeemable at the pleasure of the United States for 
 thirty years from the date of their issue,'* while in the act as 
 published in the Statutes at Large the preposition "for" is omit- 
 ted and * 'after" is inserted in its stead. This essential variance 
 between the acts as voted upon and as printed in the Statutes at 
 Large, so interested me that I determined to ascertain if possi- 
 ble, which was correct, and for that purpose went to the btate 
 Department and there examined the enrolled bill as signed by 
 the Speaker of the House, the President Of the Senate, and as 
 approved by the President. To my great surprise I found that 
 
THE OONSPIRAOr THAT NOW IS. 97 
 
 the word *'for" as above described had been erased and the 
 word *'after" inserted in its stead, so that the enrolled blW reads 
 **after" instead of *'for." 
 
 Thinking it possible that the Enrolling Clerk had found that 
 the record made by tho Secretary of the Senate contained the 
 word *'after" and had made the erasure and alteration in the 
 bill before it was signed, I next had recourse to the records 
 made by both the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the 
 House in the original daily Journal of the proceedings of their 
 respective bodies, a certified copy of which is before mr, and in 
 both these original records the word "for" stands unaltered, just 
 as it was when the yeas and nays were recorded on the final pas- 
 sage of the bill and presumably as it was when^the enrolled bill 
 was signed. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, it would be difficult to find in our language two 
 worJs with more opposite definitions than these prepositions 
 **for" and "after." Webster says, ''The radical sense of 'for' 
 is to go, to pass, to advance, to reach or stretch," and that it 
 signi'iCs "during," and Worcester adopts the same definition. 
 
 On the other hand, the same authorities define the word 
 "after" to mean following, or later in time. 
 
 It follows, then, as the law stands now upon the record of 
 both Houses of Congress the bonds commonly called 4 percents 
 are redeemable at the pleasure of the United States at any time 
 during thirty years. 
 
 See here is evidently a change made in a law thirty years ago, 
 by some designing villain who no doubt made a fortune by it, 
 but at an expense of millions to the people who pay taxes, and 
 still the villain goes unpunished. Had it not been for this al- 
 teration of a plain law, all these infamous bonds, (a fraud in 
 the first place) could have been paid without one cent of pre- 
 mium with this surplus cash. Had I, or any other ordinary 
 man, made the least change in any legal document, wherein a 
 few dollars and cents were involved, 1 would have lost my 
 claim and been sent to prison as a felon, but these high toned 
 villains, there is no law for them. But what do the rascals do? 
 They just go on stealthily and defeat the man 'at the very next 
 election, as usual, that dared to expose the crime. Oh for a 
 rope to hang the dastardly villains; but no hanging for stealing, 
 (the oligarchy rules). Now comes Windom's system of finan- 
 cial jugglery, August and September, 1890. There comes the 
 
98 IiOOEINa INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 ery from all over this once happy country now — ruin, despair 
 and degradation • farmers unable to pay their taxes or interest 
 on mortgages, they beg Congr ss and the Legislatures to legis- 
 late for them, but no, Congress is deaf to their entreaties. But 
 look on the other side and see those that want money to grind 
 the farmer and business men of the country — Here is more of 
 the work of the gad grind mill of the ghouls. See the rich, 
 idler speculator who has imported luxuries until the trade is 
 against us. The bankers have not enough money to supply the 
 demand. Millions of dollors are loaned in a day in New York 
 alone at fabulous interest — 30 to 70 per cent, is asked and paid — 
 but to tide the bulls and bears over and furnish them with gold 
 to loan at robber rates, our Secretary of the Treasury, Windom, 
 dumps the Treasury into the pool by buying up these changed, 
 manipulated, forged bonds — penitentiary deserving fraud — and 
 paying a premium of 25 to 26% cents, and takes up millions of 
 these same bonds. Goverment credit, good? Yes, too good, 
 made so by forgery to rob the tax-ridden farmer and toilers pro- 
 ducer everywhere. Oh 1 what a tyrant is this enthroned money 
 power. 
 
 But beware, you villains ; you have stolen too much. When 
 the honest yeomanry, the horny-handed farmer and the dear 
 people find out your tricks — how you get your money, without 
 interest, right out of their own Treasury to loan back to them on 
 bankers' own terms — maybe bankers will flee the wrath to come. 
 Your greed has outrun your discretion. You have gotten more 
 than you can get away with. You may be glad to getaway without 
 it, Shylock like. Every dollar of premium that has ever been 
 paid on these Government bonds has been in consequence of 
 this forgery and the system of depositing Government surplus 
 money out in the banks without interest, time indefinite, on sat- 
 isfactory security, sometimes bonds, sometimes long faces— see 
 the law— at the discretion of the secretary; stolen legislatioa 
 in both instances, to enable officials to stuff their own banks and 
 the banks of their favorites with Government money without 
 
TrtK CONSPIRACY THAT NOW 13. 99 
 
 interest.* They simply subscribe to the campaign fund, and so 
 help to get their co-conspirators re elected to their seats. So 
 
 that, with a Congress as venal as they are penal, their nefarious 
 
 work goes on. But a little more lighten the subject. Now see 
 
 Secretary Windom's transaction. See San Francisco Chronicle, 
 
 September 16th, a republican paper. Stop thief, stop ! 
 
 " Secretary Windom, in a very few words, has disposed (d the 
 contention that the present stringency in the New York money 
 market, which it is attempted to dignify with th^ title of a crisis, 
 is in anv way due to the linancial policv of the Administration. 
 He points out that on March 1, 1889 there was in the Treasury 
 a surplus of 848,000, and that within oi<:yhteen months from that 
 time there had been paid off $171,000,000 of bonds at a cost, in 
 round numbers, of $200,000,000. Daring the same period of 
 time, under Cleveland's administration, there were paid off only 
 $62,000,000 of bonds, and there remained in the Treasury a sur- 
 plus of $76,000,000, though bonds m-ght have been purchased at. 
 the time." 
 
 The point is phin. To pay a debt of $171,000,000 he pays in 
 gold $200,000,000. Now, my reader, tell mewhy it is that United 
 States 4 to 4% per cent bonds sell at 25 to 30 per cent premium ? 
 Is it in consequence of the 4 per cent interest? Hardly. Is it 
 all attributable to the National Banking law that enables the 
 banker to make interest almost twice on his bond ? Well, that 
 has much to do with it, of course, but that is not all. See Sec- 
 retary Windom once more. If this last transaction don't show 
 up the iniquity of outrageous legislation for the last thirty 
 years, then printer's ink is useless. See the Secretary using his 
 discretionary power — fii'st to boom the bonds by deposits of 
 money on bonds as security, without interest, for far more than 
 their face value, to make premiums possible; then go in the 
 market and buy them in. (Stop thief, stop!) See San Fran- 
 cisco Chronicle of September 16th, 1890, published without 
 comment : 
 
 •'It has been said frequently in criticism of this Administra- 
 tion that the stringency was due partly to the withdrawal of 
 
 ♦ Already there has been paid In premiumi of $69,000,000. 
 
100 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 deposits from the banks. This is arrant nonsense. There was 
 about 843,000,000 on deposit in the banks when Harrison was 
 inaugurated. I drew in $17,000,000 of it, and itwts terrible 
 work. Yet it did not make a r^'pple. The last call was made 
 nine months ago. 
 
 *' Now permit me to tell you what the effect was. This money 
 was deposited on the security of bonds— SlOO, 000 of 4 per cent 
 bonds, receiving $110,000 in money; $100,000 of 4% percent 
 bonds, receiving $100,000 in money. I called that in. Instead 
 of a contraction every teller who had $1000 in 4 per cent bonds 
 got $1700 sent to him."* 
 
 Note.— Pay particular attention to this 10 per cent more than 
 the face of the bonds deposited, no interest, to the Government. 
 
 Now, reader, look into things. If you had one of these infam- 
 ous, fraudulent, forged Government bonds, and you were one of 
 the chartered aristocracy of the enthroned monopoly, and you 
 could telegraph to our Secretary of the Treasury, and he would 
 deposit with you the face value of your bond and 10 per cent 
 m re, without interest, to use your lifetime and bequeath to 
 your children, or to loan to needy customers on your own terms, 
 you would not sell the bond at its face value, would you ? Yet 
 that is just why the banker-bondholder wanted bonds to base his 
 bank notes on, and the longer time the better for our masters, 
 *' The people be damned." The people have no rights that their 
 masters are bound to respect. A little more" of the " European 
 plan," Hence too the forgery. Is not this plain enough? But 
 still nothing is being done to dethrone the monster. 
 
 Men of America! wherefore plow 
 For the frauds who lay you low? 
 Wherefore weave with toil and care 
 The rich robes the dudees wear? 
 
 —Parody on Shelley's "Toilers of England." 
 
 As we loolc into things we discover that legislation, forgery and 
 edicts fixes all for our masters, the enthroned monopoly, the 
 
 ♦These very last figures, $1700, must be a mistake of the printer, as it does not 
 coincide with the other figures; it would make it much more than 10 per cent. 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. lUl 
 
 organized oligarchy, and that fixes us everlastingly.* Had it 
 not been for the alteration of that one little word [for to after) 
 after the bill had passed both Houses of Congress, rendering it 
 impossible for the Government to pay the bonds until after 
 thirty years, the Government could have called them in and 
 paid them at par at any time when it had surplus cash. Remem- 
 ber, these bonds were issued between 1870 and 1880 to refund 
 old 5-20 currency sixes, all the same old fraud — greenbacks re- 
 tired in the first place. 
 
 But here is another sweet morsel. The people of the United 
 States must be unexceptionally good slaves. See their indent- 
 ures at auction, 30 per cent more than their face value. Better 
 than colored folks ; the people of the United States all at auc- 
 tion in one batch at the gilded palace, bond room brokers' ex- 
 change New York, branch of the enthroned money power of the 
 civilized world. 
 
 See Secretary Windom's conversation with gold-bug gam- 
 blers. Here it is : 
 
 "What will you give for the 4 per cents? Mr. Fairchild paid 
 130 at one time." 
 
 **It may be so," said Mr. Windom, **but it may likewise be 
 that he paid too much. I certainly will not pay 130." 
 
 *'Have you had any intimation of any large lot that is likely 
 to be offered." 
 
 *'I have not, though I might have. "We ought to use the 
 money for purchasing the 4^/^ per cents which fall due next 
 September. I should be willing, however, to make a small rea- 
 sonable commission, but I do not think that 130 would be rea- 
 sonable. A number of bankers pressed it and I said I would 
 not pay that price for them." 
 
 ** Would you go to 127?" 
 
 Mr. Windom leaned back in his chair and smiled quickly as 
 he answered : "I really think the stringency is greatly exag- 
 gerated. I don't myself think that there is any necessity to 
 make an offer for the 4 per cents. It is only in deference to the 
 opinions of other people, and not my own, as there is no such 
 pressing necessity for it, when you remeinbei> the fact that 
 there are S45,000,000 more in circulation now than there was 
 
 "■And now John Sherman would issue $200,000,000 more new long-time bonds 
 with which to refund these old frauds once more. See further on. 
 
1(M2 LOOKING INtpO THTN08, OR 
 
 on^ year ago, wliicli shows tliut there is no hoarding of the pub" 
 lie m')iiey by the Treasury. 
 
 ''Taere is no doubt, I admit," continued Mr. Windom, *'that 
 there is s(jiue pressure f.)r money, but it is, in my opinion, as I 
 have already aid, greatly exaggerate.!. When the Democrats 
 came into power, in l«8o, there wis a surplus of ^21,000,000 in 
 the Tre.is iry! At that time there were 11^194.000,01)0 of 3 per 
 cent bonds subject to call at any moment, which could be paid 
 at par Instead of paying it off tUey permitted that surplus to 
 accumulate until on September 1st, eighteen months after they 
 hii\ comf^ into power, there was $76,000,000 in the Treasury and 
 $562 000,000 bonds piid off." 
 
 Bat this is not the only sale of the people. They are sold 
 every day at wholesale and retail ; sometimes by btate blocks, 
 city blocks, county bh^cks, township block, in blocks by school 
 districts, and as blockheads by the acre, about election time, 
 and pai<l for in whisky and tobacco. They ars^ sold to boudo- 
 crats. Democrats, Republican rats. Railroad-rats, Aristocrats, 
 Plutocrats, S.yndicates and Sunday -cats. 
 
 Secretary William Windom did not buy in these forged 
 bonds at this enormous premium to accommodate the *' poor, 
 white trash, the mudsills of society," but to supi)ly the on- 
 throned monopoly, with money to loan to b siness men, specu- 
 lators themselves, at enormous rates of interest, 30 to 70 per 
 percent, to be again recovered by the speculating business men 
 off of their hard working, medy customers, with interest com- 
 pounded. Yery likely our Secretray, William Windom, shared 
 in the spoils. It is a part of the system of jugglery to divide 
 the sj)oils. 
 
 Our legislators tell us you cannot legislate wealth, and I agree 
 with them. That is what hurts the 3 per cent earned — won't go 
 around. It takes an army of toilers a lifetime to make a million- 
 aire of one of these villains, and when he is made ho is tenfold 
 more the child of hell than ever. Oh! this wonderful system 
 of legerdemain in finance. John Sherman said it was the 
 grandest system of * anking and finance the world ever saw. See 
 his famous Mansfield, Ohio, speech in 1876 or 1878. As a 
 banker you are correct, John. It is the best scheme on earth to 
 enable the rich, idle villain to get the money out of the pockets 
 of Uie poor toilers and into their own pockets the world ever saw, 
 sure enough. Bond slavery made perpetual, led on by England, 
 backed up by Europe; no care for the laborer. See all Europe, 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 103 
 
 Egypt, India, where millions die by starvation in order that the 
 oiibs of royal bond lords and land lords may live and riot and 
 rot in luxury and idleness at the expense of the toilers, who 
 \jDork and slave arid starve and die. 
 
 But for corruption in high places go now and see how our 
 officials live and riot in druukenness at Washington and still 
 amass their millions. Then follow your great high chief, the 
 principal henchman of the enthroned monopoly, as he goes his 
 rounds on business and pleasure, fixing up his fences in advance 
 that he may succeed himself (as Tammany's principal herder 
 and drover) . At San Francisco he is fondled and coddled, pam- 
 pered, boodled, dumdoodled and boozled. A triumphal recep- 
 tion on a grand scale, the reception card solid gold; the bay all 
 aglow, the city a blaze of splendor, heavenly, magnificent, 
 gorgeously grand, outrivaled only by the grand illuminatwn of 
 Rome and its adjacent waters when the illustrious Nero, the 
 Roman Jldler, Sodomite galoot, in a magnificent garden afloat and 
 on a voluptuous bed decked out in flowers, perfumes and spices, 
 and in plain view of the assembled populace, displayed him- 
 self in ubiquitous, unpropitious^ innocuous desuetude SiS a. samplar 
 of rotten Rome. 
 
 Then go on to the feast of Harrison, Belshazzar and crew at the 
 grand Palace de Hole, tick ts 320 per bloat, and 250 only could 
 be bought, and these by nobles and politicians, none others for 
 sale on any conditions. The plebeans and ordinary mortals 
 were not admitted under any circumstances. Then the grand 
 menu, enough to make the stomachs of gourmands break (try- 
 ing to outrival Belshazzar or Vitelleas of old, on whose luxu- 
 rious table were 70,000 different kinds of meat), and equally 
 true that citizens were starving on the street. A great, grand 
 vice royal regal feast of the gad-grind mills of the money ghouls, 
 composed of the guilty, gilt-edged aristocracy of the inside 
 ling, the coufidential press crew, and gold bugs, and humbugs 
 not a few, with political pot boilers all in the stew, also bam- 
 boozlers, buldosers, dam boodlers, pious preachers, grim croak- 
 
104 , IiOOKINO INTO TEUN&S, OB 
 
 ers, wine-soakers, gold-gamblers, oath-breakers, bribe takera, 
 more too of lick-spittle, stink-finger, dirt-eating lawyers, 
 brawlers and crawlers, and many more of brandy-smashers, 
 lobby-stakera, finance fakirs, heart-breakers, maiden mashers, 
 gin slingersy i'awning skinners, officials in blue, with a sprinkle 
 of simpletons, silly things, dudes, du-dees and doo-dee-does, 
 a great, grand spew, the whole kitii and kin held together by 
 the cohesive power of public plunder. Now look on this. 
 
 Now, rtiader, permit me to call your attention for a moment 
 to another episode that transpired a ftw months earlier and at 
 the village of Ashlani, Wis. At Ashland is located a United 
 StatesLand Office. From the authorities came a notice to settlers 
 on government land that unless they appeared on a day given 
 and filed on their claims they would forfeit the same. So the 
 claimants hurried to the Land Office to secure their claims. 
 On arriving there they formed in lines to await their turns, when 
 suddenly they were visited by a cyclone of wind and snow and 
 an intense cold, so that the work went on very slowly. The 
 peo 1 ', fearing that if they left the lines they would lose their 
 claims, ' ontinued, both men and women, to stand up to their 
 knees in snow, day and night, freezing and starving, until some 
 of them actually fainted away, but were finally relieved by the 
 humane citizens of A>hland. Now, reader, contrast this treat- 
 ment of the honest, inlustrious, horny-handed yeomanry with 
 the treatment awarded t^ boodlers at the Palace de Hote by offi- 
 cials in high places. 
 
 See your salary grabbing, land gra^^bing, bond forgers, per- 
 jurers — the whole villainous crew to whom has been given the 
 power to control our destiny, for good or ill. No wonder we 
 ha^e been torn and gored and eaten up by bulls and bears who 
 now rake and riot and rot in luxury and idleness whilst honest 
 citizens suffer and die. 
 
 In the early days of the Grecian and Roman republics they 
 printed their money on any substance most convenient, but 
 when they had become great and powerful and had carried 
 
THB OONSPIBACT THAT 2T0W IS. 105 
 
 home the valuable metals of all nations, and had made slaves of 
 their enemies, the noble, high-toned Senators, and patricians, 
 then proceeded to enslave their less favored citizens. This 
 was accomplished by making a change in their money system. 
 For this purpose a decree was issued requiring that their money 
 should be printed on gold. A few men then owned principally 
 all the gold in the world. This was giving free coinage, which 
 gave them the monopoly of money, and as it proved entirely in- 
 adequate to meet the requirements of business, paying taxes, 
 etc., they soon began loaning their money at higher and higher 
 rates of interest until 100 per cent was asked and paid, but 
 soon, also, the few owned all the land and all the property and 
 held all tKe oflSoes, fixed their own salaries, enormously high, 
 and spent their time in idleness, extravagance, excess and de- 
 bauchery, the most hideous the world ever saw. The Senators, 
 high toned, the rich few, bought their way to the Senate just as 
 ours do now. Their Csesars bought their way to the throne 
 as ours do now. The people were sold like sheep in the sham • 
 bles just as ours are now. The people were sold also for debt 
 as private citizens until men and women slaves became a drug 
 in the market at $5 per head for poets, artists and artisans of 
 the highest order, and no law for their ptotection; their masters 
 could kill them with impunity and throw their carcasses in the 
 roadway for scavengers to feed upon. Such was rotten Rome 
 after she became an oligarchy, and to the same conditions are we 
 tending, so look into things before it is everlastingly too late. 
 But now comes John Sherman, the high priest of the Repub- 
 lican party, with another new scheme to make the national 
 debt perpetual and banking and bond slavery everlasting. The 
 wily old schemer, tool of the money power himself, brings in 
 another bill for the issue of ^200,000,000 new, long-time, gold 
 bonds to meet a deficiency likely to occur in August, 1891, of 
 $51,000,000. See Forum for February. (Partisan press silent 
 as usual.) Why $200,000,000 to meet a deficiency of $51,- 
 000,000, and money enough in the Treasury to meet that? (8se 
 
106 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 Secretary Foster's report four months later on.) And after a 
 profligate Congress had squandered $1,000,000,000 in two years, 
 a considerable portion of which was for premium on forged, 
 fraudulent bonds (see Plumb's expose once more) and other 
 outrages too numerous to mention, it would now saddle a long- 
 time bond debt on its suffering, starving, underfed, overworked, 
 mortgage-ridden, toiling victims, in order that bankers and 
 their pards may have more bonds to base their bank notes on 
 and obtain deposits with which to make good times for it and 
 their plundering, plutocratic crew. 
 
 No war on hand now; you slimy old trickster; $200,000,000 
 added to the national debt; 180 new banks with $1,000,000, each; 
 bankers available assets almost doubled; their incomes doubled; 
 a magnificent gift to their partners in crime in order that their 
 high toned, criminal crew may live and riot and rot, in luxury, 
 extravagance, rapacity and idleness, as usual; more millionaires, 
 more tramps, more men, women and children doomed to degra- 
 dation, desolation despair and death.* 
 
 It means more Hell on earth, more saicides, more insanity, 
 more divorces, more dives, more crime, more degradation and 
 starvation for toilers. Well, Sherman, you old reincarnated 
 pagan, there ought to be a hell on earth for such as you, so you 
 could have a taste of your own medicine during your lifetime — 
 scientific theology. I am heartily glad I left the Republican 
 party before it fell from grace, sold out to * * * , because 
 totally depraved, and went into partnership with Beelzebub. 
 
 The following paragraph by John Ruskin, the English re- 
 former, is appropriate just now : 
 
 ** There is really nothing more monstrous in any recorded 
 savagery or absurdity of mankind than that governments should 
 be able to get money for any folly they choose to commit by 
 selling to capitalists the right of taxing future generations to 
 the end of time. All the cruelist wars inflicted, all the basest 
 
 'This enthroned monopoly calls this a sound financial systam. If so, thtn any 
 •ystsm of robbery is sound— so is rot. 
 
THE CONSPIRACY THAT NOW IS. 107 
 
 luxuries grasped by the idle classes, are thus paid for by the 
 
 poor a hundred times over," 
 
 An3\Yer to Goldsmith's lines : 
 
 lU fares the land to hateful hells a prey; 
 Where wealth accumulates hell's to pay. 
 
 The barbarous bondage system of the dark ages must go. 
 
 The bondage system is a monster of such hideom mien 
 That to be hated needs but to be seen. 
 Scourge of the ages, destroyer of mankind, 
 Thy god is gold, the golden calf thy shrine. 
 
 Transplant of Europe, poisonous upas tree, 
 Thy presence presages slavery here ; 
 The widow's wail, the orphan's tear 
 Are music in thy stolid ear. 
 This monster beast of ancient date 
 
 Lies folded now in every State, 
 Its crooked ways past finding out. 
 But of its want there is no doubt. 
 
 Men of America! your duty now is plain; 
 This cruel Shylock system must be slain. 
 Up goes the axe, down goes the spade, 
 To lop a head and dig a srave. 
 
 Now let the East attack it at the head, 
 The West oppose its stealthy tread; 
 Then will the South and Middle States 
 Bounce the serpent with their flails. 
 
 Thy venerable age cannot save thee. 
 Sworn enemy of the brave and free. 
 Up, fellow slaves, be free or die 
 Crush the reptile or no why. 
 
 But now reader le^ us look into things and see if we can de- 
 vise any way by which we can extricate ourselves from this 
 mighty octopus, the enthroned monopoly of Lincoln that destroyed 
 the republic and now gloats over our lost liberty, with the im- 
 pertinent question, "What are you going to do about it?" Well, 
 we admit with mortification and rpgret that we have lost all and 
 feel deeply our degradation, still we are human and the right 
 to life, liberty and happiness is inherent in our nature. 
 
 •'Hope springs ever in the human breast, 
 Mftn never is, but alwayt to b« blest."— Pope. 
 
108 iiOOKINO INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 And we hereby declare our unalterable, unconquerable hos- 
 tility to the ursurper (oligarchy) ; hostility to tyrants is obedience 
 to Godf and now we demand of Congress and officials a reckon- 
 ing and accounting for our lost liberty, lost property and im- 
 mense indebtedness; and we further demand the restoration of 
 our losses and of our sovereign rights as citizens and as a nation, 
 as per Declaration of Independence, for which alone the war of 
 the Kevolution and the war of the Kebellion was fought and 
 gained. We, the people, behold with sadness, sorrow and 
 shame, the sundering of the supposed safeguards of the Con- 
 stitution until we see plainly its provisions have proven only a 
 rope of sand in the hands of designing villains. We also see 
 that laws made by Congress are too much like frail, rotten nets 
 of the fishermen that serve only to entangle the small fish while 
 the sharks and gudgeons break through and then turn and de- 
 vour alL Therefore, we, the people, regard this as the last 
 chance at a peaceful solution of the trouble, and we now call on 
 Congress to return to their allegiance to the people whom you 
 call your constituents and show your sincerity by making pro- 
 visions at the incoming session for a convention of delegates, to 
 be chosen by the people, in the near future, to meet and frame 
 a new Constitution, based on said Dec aration of American In- 
 dependence, which will guarantee to the nation all sovereign 
 powers necessary for the restoration and perpetuation of the lib- 
 erty of the people; that said convention should meet not later 
 than 1893; said convention to consist of about one hundred 
 members, from every State in the Union, and no more than 
 three from any one State; that the delegates to said convention 
 must be representative of all classes of interests; not merely a 
 convention of officials, or lawyers or bankers, or farmers or 
 mechanics, but of loyal citizens, male and female; that when 
 said convention assembles and organize they will go to work de- 
 liberately, free from partisan bias, until their business is accuio- 
 plished, when they will submit their work to the people of the 
 United States for adoption or rejection; and further, that Con- 
 
THE CONSPIEAOr THAT NOW IS. 109 
 
 gresa shall make provision for all necessary expenses of the con- 
 vention and carrying the same to completion on the most 
 economical plan. We, the people, demand the above so as to 
 enable us to control our own destiny as a sovereign nation com- 
 mensurate with the sovereign rights of any nation. By refusing 
 to do this the people will know, without doubt, whose agents you 
 are. If you have any dOubt as to the constitutionality of such 
 national convention the vote, of the people will remove that 
 doubt. Remember, the people by their chosen delegates made 
 the present Constitution, and ju^»t so the people's delegates may 
 make, alter or amend the same. Remember, also, that Congress 
 itself cams into existence, in the first place, by virtue of the 
 will of the people. Will members of Congress now return to 
 their allegiance to the people? If not, why not? and if not, 
 cease drawing salaries from us. You have no right to tax slaves. 
 We belong to masters (corporations) of your own ordaining and 
 that takes all the traffic will bear now. No doubt our masters 
 pay you well. If not, why tax them. Taxaiion without repre- 
 sentation is anti-democratic and anti-republican and unendurable. 
 
 We, the people, have tried a limited republic governed by a 
 foreign and domestic oligarchy long enough to know that it is 
 the most tyrannical system of government on earth, not even 
 excepting the government of Russia. We, the people, will 
 have no patchwork, no more apologies, no half-way measures, 
 no compromises with the usurper. If we have any thrones in 
 America they must be cold thrones— too many warm thrones now 
 on earth. 
 
 This is not revolutionary ^ hut evolutionary^ all perfectly consist- 
 ent with the first foundation principles upon which our govern- 
 ment rests, and all -r.ade plain and possible, so that we have a 
 right to. life and the means whereby life is sustained — liberty 
 to do as we please with ourselves, and our own own, so lon^ as 
 we do not infringe on the selfsame rights of others, and so be 
 permitted to pursue alter our own happiness and welfare, now 
 and forever; and we further declare that the false systems inaug- 
 
110 liOOKINO INTO THINGS, OR 
 
 urated by said usurper must be eliminated and the rights of the 
 people restored to them, as individuals comprising the nation, 
 and as a nation to coin, declare and issue the money of the na- 
 tion, whatever that may be, to be commensurate with the re- 
 quiremtnts of business without paying immense revenue 
 (mt rest usury) to the usurper now in power for the privilege 
 of tr.nsacting our own legitimate business, so that we may be 
 permitted to so regulate our own commerce, transportation and 
 trade iu the the interest of all, instead of the sole interest of 
 the wealthy, iJle few, as now. 
 
 That to be a member of this convention the delegate must be 
 a loyal citizen of the United States, of mature age ami sound 
 mind; second, he or she must be in favor of a republican form 
 of government, pure, simple and unlimited, and in strict ac- 
 c( rd with the Declaration of Independence. To this end he 
 c nnot be an ojBficial or agent, in any capacity whatever, of the 
 u urpers, either as representative elect or by appointment. Said 
 delegate must also ignore all past partisan affilations and labor 
 o'^ly for the reconstruction of the Government for the good of 
 the whole people, by the people and for the people — a republic 
 pure, simple and unlimited, instead of a government of the 
 w( althy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy as now. 
 
 That when such convention has assembled and organized, it 
 is found that there is a superabundance of representation of any 
 particular class of citizens, or that any of its delegates be not 
 entirely in sympathy with the objects of the convention, the con- 
 vention shall have power to purge itself of such persons or par- 
 ties. To this end we call upon the loyal, liberal press and citi- 
 zens everywhere to give voice and influence to the foregoing 
 call in response to an humble citizen. 
 
 Now, my reader, we will say in conclusion that if you have 
 been an attentive reader you will see how hopeless is the task of 
 extricating ourselves from the thraldom under which we are 
 struggling unless we do take the very steps pointed out in these 
 
THE OONSPIRAOY THAT NOW IS. Ill 
 
 pages. They are perfectly peaceful and all provided for in that 
 greatest of all political documents under the sun, the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, for which the War of the Revolution was 
 fought and won, to wit, liberty for man. Now permit me to 
 point out one feature that should be prominent in the new 
 Constitution in order that we may realize the republic pure and 
 simple and unlimited. Here is the little joker by which this 
 whole business may be carefully adjusted. It should have been 
 provided for in the first place in the Constitution, but, as you 
 will have observed if you have been an attentive reader, the 
 Constitution was manipulated in such a mysterious manner that 
 it absolutely overthrew the very foundation principles of the 
 republic which it was supposed to subserve. We will now give 
 you in a few words the plank in a platform adopted at the State 
 Convention of the California Nationalists. It has been tried in 
 Switzerland and has served the purpose admirably. It is known 
 as the *'Iniatiave, Imperative Mandate and Referendum." Its 
 meaning is obscure, but put in English it means this : That all 
 laws necessary and desirable for the welfare of the people must 
 originate with the people, and that when the people demand of 
 the legislative body, by petition or otherwise, the enactment of 
 certain laws which they deem necessary for their welfare and 
 happiness, and signed by 3 per cent of the people, the legisla- 
 tive body must take action or resign (Imperative Mandate) , and 
 formulate the same into law and submit it to a vote of the peo- 
 ple for adoption or rejection before it can be enforced (Referen- 
 dum) . Thus the veto power would be in the hands of the peo- 
 ple, just where it must be in a republic. This would be exactly 
 on a line with the Declaration of Independence, which says : 
 "All just powers of the government are derived from the con- 
 sent of the governed." Thus the government would be admin- 
 istered for the good of the public. (See Declaration of Inie- 
 pendence.) Now had this provision been embodied in the very 
 first article of the Constitution itself, and all other articles in 
 the Constitution been in accord with this, then due regard had 
 
112 LOOKING INTO THINGS, OB 
 
 to other articles also in the Declaration of Tndependence^to wit, 
 that all men are created equal (politically) , that they are endowed 
 by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which 
 are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Re- 
 member, these are inalienable. Even the law cannot wrest these 
 natural, inalienable rights from us. The law can only protect 
 each and all in these selfsame rights so long as we do not forfeit 
 them by our misconduct — the misconduct of trying to deprive 
 others of these selfsame natural and inalienable rights that we 
 claim for ourselves. This then is the natural law of perfect 
 liberty for nmn^ already alluded to in this volume, and without 
 which man is a travesty in nature, an abortion in the universe, 
 a menial paralytic, an irresponsible , idiotic monstrosity. With no 
 liberty to think, no liberty to act. He cannot grow to be a Man, 
 
The readers of this volume, also vohniie No. 2, will notice 
 spaces occupied by stars, thus * * ''^. This is done for pru- 
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 chaser, no difference who, or where, or how, will send us their 
 name and address, and we will in due time send the key words, 
 without additional expense, so you will understand the whole 
 plot. 
 
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