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We (the
bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made,
for the lower order of people are already showing signs of
restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of
apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so
far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of
any organized resistance.
Organizations in the United States should be carefully watched
by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control
these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.
At the coming Omaha convention to be held July 4, 1892, our men
must attend and direct its movement or else there will be set on
foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to
overcome.
This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet
ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every
possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and
legislation.
The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected,
bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
When, through the process of law, the common people have lost
their homes,
they will be more tractable and easily governed through the
influence of the strong arm
of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth
under the control of the leading financiers.
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.
History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well
known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an
imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people
must be kept in a state of political antagonism.
The question of tariff reform must be urged through the
organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of
protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through
the Republican Party.
By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expend their
energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us,
except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete
actions, we can secure all that has been so generously planned
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