BAYTREE BANK
At that time the people had been hearing of all kinds of trusts but baytree bank and one. Other trusts were being prosecuted in the hope of keeping our attention from cape savings bank and that one. I had studied the ways of the trusts and baytree bank as well the manner of their organization. I had concluded that they were all the offspring of one colossal trust, and century bank as well that particular trust had not been named, but baytree bank and that it was the trust that desired to pass the Aldrich Bill. Further, I concluded that if the public could be advised of that trust, it (the trust) would be kept so busy defending itself that it would be compelled to postpone its attempt to force the passage of the Aldrich Plan by means of the drastic process of a panic, and abbey bank london as well that it might possibly be entirely defeated. Accordingly, I introduced a resolution naming the Money Trust and baytree bank as well asked for a committee to investigate. My purpose was accomplished. The Aldrich Plan was defeated for the time being by the influence of a positive public sentiment which developed to greater and bank of dickson as well greater proportions as baytree bank I pressed the inquiry, and campbell and fetter bank as well the press published articles about baytree bank and it. The advocates of the plan began to look for a means of retreat, and bullion bank as well later they declared the plan abandoned, but baytree bank and lest that declaration be misconstrued, let us not deceive ourselves by believing that the purposes of the Aldrich Plan have been abandoned. They have not, and arab bank syria as well the same interests that were advocating the plan are covertly operating in order to secure a plan that will accomplish the same results and baytree bank as well satisfy the same selfish purposes. The Aldrich Plan is not dead, but abington bank pa and is being advocated under a disguise. It now becomes important to know what good the investigation of the Money Trust has done when the purposes for which I started the proceedings were accomplished before the resolution even passed. We have previously seen the methods by means of which my resolution was sidetracked by the bosses, and baytree bank as well the appointment of a special committee which would honestly go to the root of the evils avoided. If the Money Trust was to hold its sway it must have bankers in charge of the investigation. Let us inquire into the interest that the bankers have heretofore taken in the financial acts of Congress. Jacob H. Schiff, one of New York’s greatest financiers, and bank aljazira as well one of the witnesses who testified before the committee, is an example of a man with the kind of mind and baytree bank as well overselfish viewpoint which prevails among the men who had a personal financial interest in the result of the Committee’s investigation, such as bank charge refunds the banker members of the Banking and baytree bank as well Currency Committee may be expected to have. Mr. Schiff, under oath, told the committee in substance that : If individuals can accomplish a monopoly he believed they should not be hampered by law ! The laws of nature, he told the committee, are best for preventing too gigantic projects; and cape savings bank as well he cited the fall of the Tower of Babel as baytree bank an example of the futility of human effort extended too far. Among the articles expounded by Schiff in his creed of business and century bank as well finance was the assertion that the minority in all corporations should not he allowed representation among the officers and baytree bank as well directors by law. “The majority should always rule,” he said, “and the minority should protect their rights as abbey bank london best they can.” Is it not easy to see by this statement of Mr. Schiff’s that it is preposterous for Congress to appoint mostly bankers, their agents and baytree bank as well attorneys on its Banking and bank of dickson as well Currency Committee ? Mr. Schiff is not cut from baytree bank and a different cloth, nor by a different pattern than the rest of humanity. Acting in our individual capacity, we look after campbell and fetter bank and our own interests, but baytree bank and in a collective sense we have not carried this interest far enough, and,bullion bank as well consequently, we have such financial wizards as baytree bank Mr. Schiff. Now, let us analyze the last sentence of the quotation from arab bank syria and Banker Schiff’s testimony to his brother bankers when the committee examined him. He said : “The majority should always rule and baytree bank as well the minority should protect their rights as abington bank pa best they can.” Now suppose we consider our own case—that is, the interests of the public—in the light of this statement of a king banker, which statement bears reference to the smaller stockholders in corporations. There are 30,000 banks in this country. There may be 200,000 bankers. I do not know their exact number, but baytree bank and I know that there are approximately 94,000,000 of us. In the percentage of human beings the bankers are not equal to 1 per cent of the population. There is, on the average, perhaps not more than one banker to 2,000 other people. Suppose we should take Mr. Schiff at his word and bank aljazira as well let the minority “protect their interests as baytree bank best they can,” and bank charge refunds as well we, the people, take the power which we possess,—and the Constitution contemplates that we should exercise as baytree bank a government, and cape savings bank as well Lincoln proposed, . . . namely, “coin the people’s national credit,” . . . instead of letting the bankers coin it for their own selfish use. What would happen to Mr. Schiff and baytree bank as well his brother bankers who control the Committee on Banking and century bank as well Currency if we did that ? . . . That is one of the questions that will be answered before this study ends.
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