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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. The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor
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 4th (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 the 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 expand their energies in
fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers
to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that
has been so
generously planned and successfully accomplished."
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