__________________________* Theodore Roosevelt13 Elisha Ely Garrison, Roosevelt, Wilson and the Federal Reserve Law, Christopher Publications, Boston,1931House’s phrase, "take away the power of a President" is significant, because laterPresidents found themselves helpless to change the direction of the government becausethey did not have the power to change the composition of the Federal Reserve Board toattain a majority on it during that President’s term of office. Garrison also wrote in thisbook,"Paul Warburg is the man who got the Federal Reserve Act together after the AldrichPlan aroused such nationwide resentment and opposition. The mastermind of both planswas BaronAlfred Rothschild of London."Colonel Edward Mandell House * was referred to by Rabbi Stephen Wise in hisautobiography, Challenging Years as "the unofficial Secretary of State". House noted thathe and Wilson knew that in passing the Federal Reserve Act, they had created aninstrument more powerful than the Supreme Court. The Federal Reserve Board ofGovernors actually comprised a Supreme Court of Finance, and there was no appeal fromany of their rulings.In 1911, prior to Wilson’s taking office as President, House had returned to his home inTexas and completed a book called Philip Dru, Administrator. Ostensibly a novel, it wasactually a detailed plan for the future government of the United States, "which wouldestablish Socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx", according to House. This "novel"predicted the enactment of the graduated income tax, excess profits tax, unemploymentinsurance, social security, and a flexible currency system. In short, it was the blueprintwhich was later followed by the Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Rooseveltadministrations. It was published "anonymously" by B. W. Huebsch of New York, andwidely circulated among government officials, who were left in no doubt as to itsauthorship. George Sylvester Viereck ** , who knew House for years, later wrote anaccount of the Wilson-House relationship, The Strangest Friendship in History.14 In1955, Westbrook Pegler, the Hearst columnist from 1932 to 1956, heard of the Philip Drubook and called Viereck to ask if he had a copy. Viereck sent Pegler his copy of the book,and Pegler wrote a column about it, stating:"One of the institutions outlined in Philip Dru is the Federal Reserve System. TheSchiffs, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Rockefellers and Morgans put their faith in House.The Schiff, Warburg, Rockefeller and Morgan interests were personally represented inthe mysterious conference at Jekyll Island. Frankfurter landed on the Harvard law faculty,thanks to a financial contribution to Harvard by Felix Warburg and Paul
__________________________* See House note in "Biographies"** See Viereck note in "Biographies"14 George Sylvester Viereck, The Strangest Friendship in History, Woodrow Wilson and Col. House,Liveright, New York, 1932Warburg, and so we got Alger and Donald Hiss, Lee Pressman, Harry Dexter White andmany other protégés of Little Weenie." *House’s openly Socialistic views were forthrightly expressed in Philip Dru,Administrator; on pages 57-58, House wrote:"In a direct and forceful manner, he pointed out that our civilization was fundamentallywrong, inasmuch, among other things, as it restricted efficiency; that if society wereproperly organized, there would be none who were not sufficiently clothed and fed. Theresult, that the laws, habits and ethical training in vogue were alike responsible for theinequalities in opportunity and the consequent wide difference between the few and themany; that the results of such conditions was to render inefficient a large part of thepopulation, the percentage differing in each country in the ratio that education andenlightenment and unselfish laws bore to ignorance, bigotry and selfish laws." 15In his book, House (Dru) envisions himself becoming a dictator and forcing on the peoplehis radical views, page 148: "They recognized the fact that Dru dominated the situationand that a master mind had at last risen in the Republic." He now assumes the title ofGeneral. "General Dru announced his purpose of assuming the powers of a dictator . . .they were assured that he was free from any personal ambition . . . he proclaimed himself‘Administrator of the Republic.’" *This pensive dreamer who imagined himself a dictator actually managed to place himselfin the position of the confidential advisor to the President of the United States, and thento have many of his desires enacted into law! On page 227, he lists some of the laws hewishes to enact as dictator. Among them are an old age pension law, laborers insurancecompensation, cooperative markets, a federal reserve banking system, cooperative loans,national employment bureaus, and other "social legislation", some of which was enactedduring Wilson’s administration, and others during the Franklin D. Roosevelt’sadministration. The latter was actually a continuation of the Wilson Administration,__________________________* The present writer was with Viereck in his suite at the Hotel Belleclaire when Pegler called and asked forthe book. Viereck sent it over by his secretary. He grinned and said Pegler seemed very excited. "He oughtto get a good column out of that," Viereck told me. Indeed Pegler did get a good column out of it.Unfortunately for him, he had gone too far in mentioning the Warburgs. As long as he confined his attacksto La Grand Bouche (Eleanor Roosevelt), and her spouse, he had been permitted to continue, but now that
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