336.73 Butler, Fabius Melton B97L Lincoln Money Martyred •^^filSipBlipilisPftillBi .-iiS^i5;sn;sSi;;-.'S::^ssiai;12tT; FRED LOCKLEY I RARE WESTERN BOOKS 4227 S. E. Stark St. PORTLAND, ORE. LINCOLN ROOM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY LINCOLN MONEY MARTYRED LINCOLN MONEY MARTYRED By DR. R. E. SEARCH PRICE $2.00 1935 LINCOLN PUBLISHING COMPANY Medical Arts Building SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Copyright, 1935 Lincoln Publishing Company Medical Arts Building Seattle, Washington CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 Chap. 1—The Search for the Cause of Depressions Begins 5 Chap. 2—The Birth of Money 8 The Birth of Usury 9 The Cause of Pogroms and Most Revolutions 10 Chap. 3—The Abuse of the Use of Money 12 Israelites - 12 History of Money 15 Ancient Greece _ 16 Rome 18 Jesus and the Money Changers 23 The Early Protestant Leaders on Usury 27 In Early England 27 Chap. 4 —A History of Money and Banking in Early Europe 28 Bank of Venice 29 The Bank of Genoa 29 The Bank of Amsterdam 30 The Bank of Hamburg 30 Usury the Persistent Cause of Sin and Crime 32 Chap. 5—History of the Origin of the Bank of England 34 The English Banking System Founded 35 Chap. 6—The English or Money Changers' System Started in the United States 36 Alexander Hamilton 37 Chap. 7—The Birth of Lincoln Full Legal Tender Money 44 Lincoln's Letter to Colonel Taylor _ _ 45 Chap. 8—The Foreign Money Changer Kills "America's Greatest Blessing" 46 The Exception Clause 46 The Hazard Circular 47 Chap. 9 —The Money Changers Get Another Bank Law 50 The National Banking Act 51 Rothschild's Letters — . 51 Senator Sherman Tells Rothschild About Bank Law 51 Ikleheimer's Letter 52 Chap. 10—The National Banks Established 55 What Secretary Chase Said of National Bank Law 56 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address..— 57 Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby 58 Chap. 11—The Civil War Ends 58 The Money Changers Start Action Again—Greenbacks Destroyed.. 59 The Effect of Greenback Destruction 60 The Credit Strengthening Act 64 Chap. 12—The Gold Standard Established and Silver Coinage Killed—or "The Crime of '73" 65 Luckenbach's Letters _ 66 The Demonetizing Act 71 Coi2d/2uec/ CONTENTS— PAGE Chap. 13—The People Clamor for More Money 72 The Money Changers Give Their Orders 73 A Bank Letter 73 Chap. 14—The Money Changers Order a Panic 74 Another Bank Letter 74 Chap. 15—Another Valiant Lindbergh 76 From Lindbergh's Book ~ 77 Chap. 16—The Money Changers Add Another Link to the Golden Chain 79 Chap. 17—The Federal Reserve 81 Privileges of the Federal Reserve Bank 83 Whose Money Is It? 84 Reserve Notes Redeemable in Treasury Gold 84 United States Gold Notes Accepted as Gold 85 Chap. 18—The World War 86 Chap. 19—"American Peasants" 88 Chap. 20—The Money Changers Take the United States to the Cleaners 89 Professor Kemmerer Tells How to "Deflate" 90 A "Deflation Party" 91 $520,000,000 Deflation in 1920 92 40,000 Commercial Failures Estimated in 1932 92 "Interst" and How It Works 93 Chap. 21—The Gold Bill 95 Speech of Hon. Lewis T. McFadden 96 Morgenthau and the "Blue Chips" 102 "Sound Money" 107 Chap. 22—The Research Finished 109 Chap. 23—The Virginia Plantation 112 Chap. 24—The Stranger's Story 114 Lincoln's Interview with Schyler Colfax 128 Chap. 25—The Return to the Old Plantation 131 Chap. 26—The Stranger Concludes His Story 134 Chap. 27—The "Awakening" 136 Chap. 28—Conclusion 138 Appendix 143 McGeer's Speech 143 Editorial of "Daily Province"of Vancouver, B. C 145 The Super-World Government Chart 146 Notes on "Chart" 147 What Is Money? 149 "Constitutional Money" 152 Supreme Court Decision on Money 153 : Introduction THE author wishes the reader to understand from the begin- ning that only possibly a comparatively few of our American bankers are to be placed in the class of "Money Changers" here- after spoken of, and can only be censured for their part in con- sciously or unconsciously perpetuating the devastating, unchris- tian banking system that has been fastened upon us. The American bankers have taken the system as it was, feel- ing it was at least legal, and have used it to work out their own economic problems and it is likely a regretable fact that a very few of them ever gave their "business" very much philosophical thought, or speculated on the eventual effect of the system upon the affairs of their nation, and consequently nearly one-half of their number have gone down to bankruptcy and disgrace in the last fifteen years, caught with the rest of us in the awful whirl- pool of money racketeering and manipulation that is drawing the whole civilized world into its vortex. They, of course, knew that for each dollar in money deposited in their bank, they could loan out ten dollars worth of their checks, or credit, or bookkeeping money, and in return demand in payment MONEY, and until recently, gold money at that. The disastrous end of such a vile system is inevitable now, as it has ever been down through the centuries ; the same that caused Oliver Goldsmith to write "111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men decay." So we should not be surprised when we find that when the government of old Egypt fell, four per cent of the people owned all the wealth. When the Babylonian civilization collapsed, three per cent of the people owned all the wealth. When old Persia went down to destruction two per cent of the people owned all the wealth. When ancient Greece went down to ruin one-half of one per cent of the people owned all the wealth. When the Roman Empire fell by the wayside, two thousand people owned the wealth of the civilized world and then followed the Dark Ages from which they did not recover until wealth was scattered by continuous wars, a great share of it being therein destroyed. It is said at this time that less than two (2) per cent of the people control ninety (90) per cent of the wealth of America. The foregoing disasters as well as our own present condition were all brought about by the same thing ; namel}^, the power in the hands of individuals or private groups to issue and control the value and volume of the money of the nation. This right, of course, being obtained by bribery, corruption, trickery, treason, murder, etc. Will our present citizens of America carry on in hope and ignorance and let our nation collapse as did the above mentioned, ' and also Russia, or will they arouse and inform themselves of the true conditions and stamp out the merciless system that always brings destruction, and do as Lincoln intended doing, establish a really equitable monetary system and an economic security for all? The author hopefully dedicates this volume as a help to America to inform herself on the subject of money, its uses and abuses. It has been necessary for obvious reasons, to relate in Chap- ters 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 of this narrative the details concerning, and surrounding the death of President Lincoln in the form of fiction, as many scattered factors, happenings and writings, must be con- nected up to make a completed whole ; and it is hoped the end to be obtained may justify the means, namely—the arousing of the interest of our people here in Lincoln's homeland, to a point where they will individually and collectively inform themselves of the true state of affairs in this their sorely beleagued nation, and correct the unholy practices that have brought about such detestable conditions. It is hoped that America may soon be able to supply such a remedy as will make it forever impossible for any individual or group to so manipulate our national affairs ; and by correctly applying the rugged principles of our great Constitution, so that our vast wealth of natural resources shall be justly distributed to each and all, and every man, woman, and child shall have a "Fully Guaranteed Economic Security from Birth to Death." This should bring about a condition where no one would need to worry or "think" of the necessities of life, which would then conform to the teachings of Him who was the promulgator of the principles on which our Constitution and Government was established, when He said, "Take no thought for your life, what ' ye shall drink ; or yet for your body, what ye shall put on. In this, the newer version of the dastardly murder of Amer- ica's best loved and greatest citizen, friend and champion of the common people may be found not only the story of the greatest crime ever committed against the people of this great common- wealth, but the knowledge that it was the forging of the most important link in the chain which greed, special privilege, and money manipulation have fastened around the throats of all Americans, and bound us in a limitless morass of bonded debt and mortgages. Without his premature death the future actions of the im- mortal Lincoln might well have brought about the revision or repeal of the vicious laws forced upon him in the emergency of civil war; and the establishment of a real National Currency System, based on a full legal tender "Greenback" which he had called, "America's Greatest Blessing," that would have enabled our beloved country to forge ahead to a brilliant future, a great united nation of happy people for which he worked so faithfully to the last, and to have us established as he would have wished us to be—FOREVER FREE.