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10 Abraham Lincoln Eulogized by Bismarck Conversations of Famous Statesman With Neighbor Youth Recalled "S OMETIMES there comes a man down from the solitude who in the isolation and the frugality of the wilderness has learned the verities of life and acquired the strength of character to stay un- corrupted among the lures and the sham ot our arti ficial society. Such a man was Abraham Lincoln. His coming va I fortunate event for the people of the United States of America and it will be forever a day of sorrow for all the nations in Christendom that his blood was needed to seal anew the covenant of their Union." Thus spoke Bismarck. It was in the late summer of 1876. Bismarck had returned to the quietness of Friedrichsruhe in search of recuperation after the travails of the Congress of Berlin. The fiasco his statesmanship had suffered at the hands of Disraeli was preying upon his mind. He knew the economic conditions of Germany to be in a bad state. The boom after the Franco-Prussian War had led to many speculative excesses of German busi ness. For uhei ior purposes these excesses had been aided and abetted by the uniting of international financiers who thereby had gotten the power to bring about the total collapse of Germany's economic struc ture by the withdrawal of their financial support. So when Disraeli as spokesman for the Rothschilds had threatened Germany with a money panic Bismarck could not do otherwise than accede to the political demands of England. Bismarck was by far too prudent a man to discuss at large the true reason for his defeat as a statesman. Very few would have understood cr heeded him in making this excuse. An expose of the chicanery of the big Jew bankers would not have altered any of the circumstances and might have been very injurious by destroying the self-confidence of German business. However, his mind was busy to evolve the means of preventing in the future the eventuality of letting a clique of international financiers pret:ribe the political actions of the statesmen of Germany. So he came to search for wisdom in the speeches, letters and mes sages of Abraham Lincoln. He knew that this great American had been confronted by the sinister intrigues of the selfsame clique, had outplayed them and foiled them. I was in the habit at the time of wandering from my grandfather's garden into the adjoining grounds of Friedrichsruhe. and for some reason Bismarck seemed to take delight in talking to me. a boy just out of school. Maybe his heart was full with the wisdom of Lincoln, ar.d deeming it unwise to discuss him with his contemporaries who might have misinterpreted him, and not caring to formulate his thoughts in writing, he may have thought clearness of conceptions for him self by teaching me the greatness of the Emancipator. And I was a truth-hungry listener and eager to hear about the man whom Bismarck pronounced to have been the wisest statesman born in Christianity. Conspiracy of Long Standing UryHFRE cannot be any question, in fact I know" 1 Bismarck speaking "that many years before the actual outbreak of the Civil War in North America it had been secretly decreed by the inner financial circle of Europe to split the United States apart into two co equal federations There was fear that the United States with its growth as a nation would aspire to establish its economic and financial freedom, as it had achieved its political independence, by setting up a monetary regime of its own, inimical to the interests of the European bankers, and which in the end might up set altogether Europe's capitalistic control of the world. "Of course, in this inner circle the voice of the Rothschilds was paramount. These bankers saw for themselves golden opportunities in the eventuality of a split that would divide a strong, self-reliant, debt-free republic into two weak, bickering, money-borrowing democracies easy to be exploited with the help of Jewish financial jugglery. So they sent adroit clandes tine agents into the field to bring about an open break between the North and the South by agitating both sides of the slavery question. This question had natu rally a very strong hold on the popular imagination, and using it as a leverage the hirelings of the Jew bankers found it easy enough work to raise the partisanship of the American people to the pitch of : Here abolition ! Here secession ! "I doubt whether Abraham Lincoln had before his inauguration the least inkling of the underhanded work of these foreign agents. Though never by any means an extremist he had been a consistent anti-slavery partisan, and it was because of his decided partisan ship that he had been nominated and elected as Presi dent of the United States. However, such was the character of the man that as soon as he had entered into the presidency he ceased to be a partisan and be came conscious only of the fact that he was the Presi dent of all the people of the United States. In the high consciousness of his official impartiality the light came to him, and his heart being free from all rancor and selfish desires he saw clearly the evil design of Europe's dark financiers who were seeking to use him as their tool. "Meanwhile the open break between the North and the South had become unavoidable. The Southern Confederacy was organized, and war was started. The masters of European finance were busily laying their plans how to turn the situation to their immediate pecuniary advantage as well as to assure the perma nency of the schism between the Southern Confederacy and the Northern Federation. But in all their calcula tions they were underestimating by far the strength By CONRAD SIEM of character and the resourcefulness of Abraham Lincoln. "His new personality as President was to them rather a great surprise. They had not seriously op posed his candidacy for the presidency. On the con trary their secret agents had done their full share in helping to elect him. thinking that this unsophisticated backwoodsman would prove himself an easy victim to oriental cunning. But Lincoln on assuming the re sponsibility of his high office had been gifted with the clear vision that saw through all the moves of their nefarious game. He fully realized that it would not be so much the southern states whom he would have to fight as it would be the cabals of the Jew-ridden Eu ropean capitalistic system. "This realization must have caused this high-minded man many heavy and sorrowful hours. He practically stood alone. He did not know who of his advisers, officials or generals had been tainted by the blandish ments of the invisible money power. He could not lay bare to the people his knowledge of the sinister forces that for their own evil purposes had brought the calamity upon the country. It would have added only to the confusion by bringing on additional dissensions. Besides the people at large would have failed to com prehend the exotic scheme and might have derided him. So like the wise man that he was he concluded to keep his own council in watching and meeting the moves of the Hidden Hand. Eliminated International Finance uT TP TO his day it had been the general belief of the LJ modern world that wars could be fought only with the assistance of the bankers. In fact at the time all the European statesmen were laboring more or less under the hallucination that without the consent of the Rothschilds wars could not occur. These bankers were the principal lenders of money to the nations, and by their acceptances national bonds were converted into cash. Any nation negotiating loans outside of the reg ular channels or issuing fiat money would soon lose its credit at home and abroad, and without money or credit wars cannot be fought. "The ruling condition then seemed to make the reckonings of Dark Finance conclusive that the Civil War would be of short duration and would have to terminate as soon as it Dark Finance saw fit to shut down on the credit of the Northern Federation with a peace that would permanently establish two co-equal democracies on the North American continent. Lincoln saw clearly how the money devils were figuring and he has proven his true greatness by evolving and fear lessly applying the correct counter move. "I don't believe that Lincoln, before his election to the presidency, had ever given much thought to mat ters of national or international finance. Like all of us he had been largely accepting the money rule as it was without analyzing the principles on which it was based. When, however, he was confronted by the exigencies of the Civil War and saw his country in danger of partition his keen mind penetrated through all the false glamour of international finance, and his innate truthfulness and strong common sense helped him to brush aside all its pretentiousness and to arrive at the bottom fact that the source of all money is the labor and the thrift of the people. So to his high sim plicity it became just the question how to make the savings of the people directly available to the gov ernment without the intermediation of professional financiers. "Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War the United States Congress, misled undoubtedly by hired lobbyists, had authorized issues of fiat paper currency. Lincoln perceived clearly how such a procedure would quickly undermine the credit of the government not alone with foreign nations but as well withits own people. Therefore he refused to sanction further like issues, but prevailed upon Congress to authorize gov ernment loans to be floated by selling the United States bonds directly to the people. And in connection with this came his master stroke by suggesting: 'On the security of these bonds deposited uith the Treasury, the government may issue circulating notes.' If lie Had Not Died OY THIS stroke Lincoln succeeded in eliminating U at once the influence of international finance in the national financial affairs of the United States. All the bankers of the country, with the exception, of course, of some New York banking institutions, were only too eager to avail themselves of the opportunity of procuring national currency for business purposes by depositing United States bonds with the Treasurer of the government. Therefore for business as well as patriotic reasons they did everything within their power to induce their depositors to invest their savings m government bonds. And the larire ownership by the general public of government bonds was bound to enhance both the thrift and the loyalty of the people. So the credit of the government with its own people became fortified to the extent of making it inviolate to the intrigues and manipulations of international finance. "Lincoln's financial innovation was in every respect correct in principle. In war its application is limited only by the necessity of the country and by the capacity for work of the people. In peace it must be applied with such moderation as will best protect the steadfast growth of the country, the standards of liv ing and the security of the savings of the people. Anyhow at the time its introduction made it a mere question of duration for the North to win the war. It assured the preservation of the Union of the United States of America. "The Rothschilds perceived perhaps more quickly than any other concern the whole significance of Lin coln's masterful financial counter move. The back woodsman had beaten these shrewd Jew bankers at their own game. Although they persevered in many dark and devious ways seeking to embroil him in for eign complications and domestic troubles, Lincoln easily spotted all their moves and checked them. And they got to fear him. Surreptitiously the Rothschilds bought up, principally through South German affiliations, large amounts of the new United States bonds so that they might have the chance when the time came to sit in at the new game. "Of highest interest to me is the question how Lin coln if be had not been assassinated would have pro ceeded upon the conclusion of peace to keep the United States immune from the cabals and intrigues of Jewish finance. To learn this I have been Studying lately' his letters, messages and speeches, and reading between the lines I feel fully convinced that he had worked out in his mind a comprehensive plan the de tails of which he was too wise to divulge before the time was ripe for him to act. " 'Capital is only the fruit of labor' is a truism he uttered in one of his early messages to the United States Congress. There was not one iota of abstract socialism about the make-up of Lincoln. To me it sounds like a declaration of economic independence, telling the world at large that the United States was not in need of any foreign capital to develop its re sources. So behind this utterance there must have been in his mind a concrete constructive plan of making the savings of the American people the sole means of the economic development of the United States to the ex clusion of any direct participation by foreign capital unless it were through the purchase of L'nited States government bonds, which bonds could always be kijt at a premium by being convertible into the national currency. "Reasoning then along the line of his mental meth ods I conceive it to have been his intention to cause upon the cessation of war the organization of a new central national institution whose function it would be to direct impartially and disinterestedly the financial and economic affairs of the republic in a way which would banish forever the sinister intrigues of greed, give to the nation its harmonious development, and af ford to the savings of the people all sorts of safe op portunities to share directly in the growing affluence of the country. What Btsmarck Feared 4 41 INCOLN was too farsighted a man not to see 1 i the American democracy could not consiste endure if the economic development of the country was left to the discretion and mercy of concentrated wealth, of foreign financiers and of political and legislative ers who would all more or less put their private ad vancements above the common welfare. To neutr; their self-seeking endeavors an inner council with discretionary powers was needed, which council on a basis of co-sovereignty with the administrative and legislative bodies could exercise disinterested super vision of all monetary matters appertaining to the just distribution of wealth. In short, he realized the truth that a republic in order to be consistent needs like every other living organism a head, a stomach, and a heart. And to give an organic heart to the Unite I States was Abraham Lincoln's great intention. "The inner financial circle of Europe was itself well aware of the high intention of Abraham Lincoln. It knew further that the great love of the Ameri people and their full confidence would give Lincoln the power to consummate his plan, and that the ful fillment of his plan would spell the downfall of 1 rope's capitalistic control of the world. So by the dark inner council the death of Abraham Lincoln wa decreed. It was an easy matter for its hirelings to in cite the half-witted actor to commit the actual deed. "In the death of Abraham Lincoln Christianitv has received its greatest setback. In the United States there was no one big enough to step into his ihoes. The unholy money game of Israel is again in full swing in the new world. I am fearsome that the Jew bankers will acquire with their crooked financial con ning complete control over the exuberant wealth of America and will use their ill-gotten gains to corrupt systematically our modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge all Christendom into war and chaos it it will further the end of 'Israel inheriting the earth.' " There were more talks from time to time by Bis marck to me dealing mostly on the work he proposed to do for the unification of Germany's economic structure to assure its independence and its immunity from the sharp practice of international finance and the pertur bations in business caused by the lack of the proper co-ordination of the industrial and commercial p"r" suits and activities of the people. On the whole my mind was as yet too immature fully to digest his