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service and would cheapen money, but the certificates issued to
the Federal Reserve Banks are locked in their vaults and thereby
kept out of circulation, and the certificates issued to foreigners
are sent out of the country.
The Rothschilds, through the Sassoons (one of the female
branches of their family), own and control the banks of China
and India. They also own, control and operate the immensely
profitable, illicit opium trade.
A number of rich Catholics undertook to organize a competitor
bank to rival the Rothschild power. I have been unable
to discover when this enterprise was launched, but it was sometime
about 1830. The Rothschilds crushed it. The Jewish Encyclopedia
admits that
"Following the failure of the Catholic bank, Union Generals,
leaving the Rothschilds still more absolutely the undisputed
leaders of French finance, but leaving also a legacy of
hatred which had much influence on the growth of the anti-
Semitic movement in France."*
It says further:
"It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up
a Catholic competitor to the Rothschilds that at the present
time (1905) the latter are the guardians of the papal treasure."**
If this latter statement is true the Rothschilds control in
addition to their own fortune the immense liquid resource of
the Catholic Church, which is second only to the Rothschilds'
in wealth and power. It is probably not literally true since the
private banking firm did not do commercial banking. It is likely
that the papal treasure is deposited with the Bank of England
or some other bank "front," but even so it contributes to the
Rothschild power.
It should be observed from the above quotation that the
Rothschilds brought on a major depression which provoked anti-Semitism.
I identify this as the catastrophe of 1839-1840,
known as the "hungry forties," which our American historians
have wrongfully ascribed to the veto of the charter of the Second
Bank of the United States by Andrew Jackson in 1836.
The next major depression in this country and throughout
the world was in 1873—"the crime of '73." This was brought
about by the demonetization of silver. The Rothschilds had already
brought about the demonetization of silver in Germany
** Jewish Ency. Vol. 2, p. 497.