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Chapter Seven:
THE MONEY TRUST CREATES THE FED
How would you like to have the Wall Street Journal one
week ahead of publication?
Some people do have this privilege, not advance issues of
Wall Street Journal; but advance knowledge of Federal Reserve
policies... what they will be tomorrow, next week, next month and
next year.
From time to time the Fed makes pronouncements and
before the pronouncement they have to decide what to pronounce.
They get together, they discuss, they make plans and then they
issue statements.
The meetings are always secret, known only to the Fed
Directors. However, if we knew what Chairman Alan Greenspan
was going to announce on monetary and credit policies, what the
discount rate will be, or what the prime rate will be, we could
quickly make a fortune, because that knowledge has impact on
Treasury bill rates, on metals markets, on the stock market and on
real estate markets.
The Federal Reserve system is a private system owned by
the banks and gives only banks this advance information.
The idea for the Fed was conceived on a small island in the
Atlantic Ocean off Glynn County, Georgia. Back in 1910 Jekyl
Island was a private club used by an elitist group of
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Wall Street financiers as a hideaway to discuss extra private business
away from prying public ears. It was on Jekyl Island that the money
trust designed its plan for Congressional approval of a private money
monopoly.
American public opinion at the turn of the century was hostile to
the idea of a central bank and generally opposed any further power for
Wall Street interests. Yet a central bank along European lines offered
vast secure profits for any financial group that could persuade Congress
to enact central bank legislation. An elastic fiat and credit system
offered power not possible with gold and silver as rigid disciplines on
the financial system.
The clandestine Jekyl Island meeting was to design a plan to bring
a central bank to the United States disguised as a regional banking
system.... while the bankers publicly opposed what they privately
proposed.
This dissimulation was so successful that, according to private
secretary Joseph Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson, in signing the Federal
Reserve Act actually believed he was removing financial power from
Wall Street interests.
President Wilson when governor of New Jersey in 1911 had
declared:
The greatest monopoly in this country is the
money monopoly. So long as that exists, our old
variety of freedom and individual energy of
development are out of the question.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.
Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men....
This is the greatest question of all: and to this statesmen
must address themselves with earnest
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determination to serve the long future and the true liberties of free
men. (1)
Wilson may actually have believed his own statement that the
Federal Reserve System was "the keystone of the great arch of the
Democratic Administration."® What then is the reality behind this
financial power known 100 years ago as the "money trust" or the
"money power" and today as an elite group that can profit from a
central bank?
To answer this question we have to go back in history and look at
the 19th century trusts and the financial tip of the trust pyramid as it
existed in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Between 1870 and the onset of World War One, American
industry was concentrated under the control or influence of a handful of
financiers, mostly in New York. John Moody, editor of the standard
reference, Moody's Manual of Corporation Securities, recorded the
trustification of American industry in a monumental volume of statistics
and evidence.® Moody was a sympathetic observer and like Clarence
Barron® another acute observer, considered trusts to be both useful and
inevitable.
Criticism of the industrial trusts was widespread. John Moody's
The Truth About Trusts with its wealth of detail demonstrated the
pervasive money powers dominating the steel, non-ferrous metals, oil,
tobacco, shipping, sugar and railroad industries - specifically the power
of J. P. Morgan, the Rockefeller brothers, Edward Harriman, John
McCormick, Henry Havemeyer and Thomas F. Ryan.
In tracing the early history of the drive for an American central
bank by the "money power," two historical episodes stand out:
(1) the 1907 financial panic used by the bankers and their allies to
urge the necessity for a central bank (although
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the panic was precipitated by Wall Street, this was not proven until
many years later.)
(2) the meteoric rise of German banker Paul Warburg with his
missionary zeal to promote a carbon copy of the German Reichsbank in
the United States.
In 1907 there were still a few capitalists willing to challenge Wall
Street and dispute its iron grip on financial power. Among these
outsiders was Montana copper millionaire Frederick Augustus Heinze,
who was selected as the key target for the 1907 panic. Heinze brought
his copper fortune to New York and joined with C. W. Morse of the Ice
Trust. Jointly they acquired control of Mercantile National Bank, using
the assets of the Bank of North America already dominated by Morse.
Heinze and Morse then acquired control of the Knickerbocker
Trust Company, allied with the Trust Company of America and Lincoln
Trust. They then incorporated a speculative vehicle, the United Copper
Company. It was stock market games with United Copper that
precipitated the 1907 crisis. Banks under control of the "money trust"
called their loans to United Copper and began a run on the Heinze-
Morse Mercantile National Bank. It is now generally agreed "that the
1907 panic was precipitated by the struggle to get rid of Heinze. " (5)
In 1913 the money trust and the 1907 panic were investigated by
the Pujo Committee, which recorded the enormous power of the J. P.
Morgan firm. (6)
During the years 1900 to 1920 the money trust was effectively
controlled by the banking firm of J. P. Morgan, comprising Morgan
himself until his death in 1913, then his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. and the
firm's dozen to 15 partners in association with their Rockefeller,
Harriman and Kuhn Loeb allies. After an extended documented inquiry,
the 1912 Pujo Committee concluded that the "money trust" was
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Far more dangerous than all that has happened to us in the
past in the way of elimination of competition in industry, is the
control of credit through the domination of these groups over
banks and industries.
It is impossible that there should be competition with all the
facilities for raising money or selling large issues of bonds in the
hands of these few bankers and their partners and allies, who
together dominate the financial policies of most of the existing
systems....
The acts of this inner group, as here described, have,
nevertheless, been more destructive of competition than anything
accomplished by the trusts, for they strike at the very vitals of
potential competition in every industry that is under their
protection, a condition which if permitted to continue, will render
impossible all attempts to restore normal competitive conditions in
the industrial world. (7)
In the public debate over creation of a Federal Reserve System in
the United States, the 1907 crash was repeatedly used as the reason to
install a central bank in the United States. The Fed was put forward as a
way to stop financial panics. However, the 1907 panic was deliberately
created by the "Standard Oil crowd" and the Morgan firm.
In other words, the same group that stood to benefit from a central
bank created the panic used to persuade the electorate that a central
bank was vital.
How well this private monopoly has maintained its power over the
intervening decades since 1913 is the conclusion of a 1976
Congressional staff report. After identifying the closed shop directors of
the Federal Reserve
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System in the mid-1970s this Congressional investigation concludes:
In summary the Federal Reserve directors are apparently
representative of a small elite group which dominates much of the
economic life of this nation. (8)
What is important to note is that the Federal Reserve is a private
system with private stockholders. The money trust of the 19th century
has been granted a legal monopoly while almost all other industry is
subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is monopoly, and monopoly
requires political power to keep in place. It is also noteworthy that
writing on the Federal Reserve glosses over the private ownership, yet
the very aspect of the Federal Reserve that needs to be publicly
discussed is its private nature, who owns what and what advantages
accrue to ownership.
Where J. P. Morgan sat on the councils of New York City finance
in 1907, David Rockefeller sat in the 1970s and Alan Greenspan sits
today. Wall Street Journal in 1977 showed how these insiders used
privileged Fed information for personal advantage. In 1907 it was J. P.
Morgan who summoned the Treasury Secretary for an interview. In
1980 David Rockefeller summons Henry Kissinger for a meeting.
How did the Money Trust pull off this coup -establishment of a
central bank under their control in a country that strongly opposed the
idea? Justice Brandeis describes the process as follows:
The development of our financial oligarchy, ...with which the
history of political despotism has familiarized us - usurpation
proceeding by gradual encroachment rather than by violent acts;
and by "subtle and often long concealed concentration. "
It was by processes such as these that Caesar Augustus
became master of Rome. The makers of
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our Constitution had in mind like dangers to our political liberty,
when they provided so carefully for the separation of
governmental powersS 10)
The J. P. Morgan firm which dominated the Money Trust
understood this process of "subtle" and "gradual encroachment" to
perfection. The firm even publicly opposed the Federal Reserve bill
which they had privately put together.
The Morgan partners understood this process and were carefully
chosen. In exchange for absolute loyalty they received guaranteed
opportunities to make personal fortunes from the political and financial
power of the monopoly. While Morgan was nominally only senior
partner he held final and absolute powers within the firm.
Few Morgan partners entered politics. Most partners preferred to
work quietly behind the scenes. In the period 1900 - 1930, four partners
were exceptions to this rule and by tracing their political moves we can
today identify how they used duplicity to bring about objectives.
These four partners were E. P. Davison, Dwight Whitney Morrow,
Edward R. Stettinius and George W. Perkins. In an earlier book we
described how the firm of Morgan manipulated the Bolshevik
Revolution so the Morgan firm would profit whoever won in Russia.
Morgan partner Davison was head of the Red Cross War Council
in 1917-1919 and worked with W. Boyd Thompson, another Morgan
ally who aided the Bolshevik side of the Revolution with funds. Dwight
W. Morrow used his influence to get arms and diplomatic support for
the Bolsheviks (we reprinted a Morrow memorandum on this in
Bolshevik Revolution). Thomas Lamont used his influence in London to
soften the British position against the Bolsheviks.
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Yet the Morgan firm and other partners gave help to the White
Russians fighting the Bolsheviks and was prominent in the Siberian
intervention.
Morrow retired from his Morgan partnership in the 1920s and
after a year as Chairman of the Aircraft Board became U.S.
Ambassador to Mexico (1927-1930) and a United States Senator in
1931. Stettinius supervised all war purchases for the United States in
World War One - to the considerable advantage of Morgan-dominated
firms.
George Perkins was a founder in 1912 and then Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Progressive Party - a Morgan political
vehicle to split the Republican Party and ease Woodrow Wilson into the
White House. David Rockefeller used the same tactic with John
Anderson in the 1980 election.
The device used by the Morgan firm to control American finance
and industry was the voting trust. The handful of directors, usually three
in a voting trust, was selected by J. P. Morgan personally. These
directors, members of the Morgan inner group, and the voting directors
in turn selected directors of banks and firms.
Thus the voting trust for Guaranty Trust had two Morgan partners:
Thomas W. Lamont and William H. Porter, plus George F. Baker, who
was president of Morgan-controlled First National Bank. This group
selected other outside Guaranty Trust directors, and Guaranty Trust in
turn controlled numerous firms, lesser banks and financial institutions.
This Morgan complex was, in 1912, able to dominate Wall Street
banks, and so the "Money Trust." Morgan control was simplicity itself,
based on a pyramid of power principle. Morgan partners selected
directors of major financial institutions, and in return for the privileges
of directorship, the loyalty of these outside directors to the Morgan
firm was guaranteed. In turn these financial
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institutions controlled industrial and railroad trusts and
combinations. The system worked well in the late 19th century
and the early 20th century. This is how Woodrow Wilson and
Colonel House saw this "Money Trust":
I think Woodrow Wilson's remark that the "money trust"
was the most pernicious of all trusts is eminently correct. .a
few individuals and their satellites control the leading banks
and trust companies in America... they also control the
leading corporations..} 12 ^
The Money Trust was legalized in 1913 as the Federal
Reserve System, a suitably innocuous name that disguises the fact
that it is a private central bank.
The history of the system can be traced through three stages:
the original plan created secretly in 1910, the promotion of
Woodrow Wilson for President by the Money Power and then
finally by what we can only describe as illegal passage of the
Federal Reserve bill through the Congress.
Representative Lindbergh from Minnesota, father of the
world famous flier, was one of the most consistent and ardent
critics of the Morgan group during his ten years in the House of
Representatives. He is said to be the only man in Congress who
read the entire 20 volumes of the Aldrich Monetary Commission.
Such a Niagara of words poured over Congressmen raised the
suspicion among reasonable people that those interests
responsible for it are purposely making it impossible for
Congressmen to digest it. Of the Aldrich Banking and Currency
Plan, Lindbergh said:
The Aldrich Banking and Currency Plan is a monstrous
scheme to place under one control all the finances of the
country, public and private. It would create one great central
association with fifteen branches to encompass all the
states.. ..It would admit of no membership except banks and
trust
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companies, and exclude the smaller ones of these. The rest of the
world would not only be excluded from holding stock, but by the
nature of the association, powers and relations of finances to
commerce, it would dictate the terms on which business should be
done. With that power centered in the great city banks and these
banks controlled by the trusts and money powers, the politics as
well as the business of the country would be under its dictation. (13)
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Endnotes to Chapter Seven:
(1) Louis D. Brandeis, Other People's Money; and How Bankers Use
It, (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.) p. 1.
(2) Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson as I Knew Him (New York:
Doubleday, 1921).
(3) John Moody, The Trust About The Trusts (New York: Moody
Publishing Company, 1904).
(4) Clarence W. Barron, They Told Barron (New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1930).
(5) Dictionary of American Biography, Frederick Heinze. The
Engineering and Mining Journal commented, "This was the
beginning of the panic of 1907."
(6) U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Banking
and Currency. Money Trust Investigation (Washington, D.C.,
1913) and Committee to Investigate the Concentration of Control
of Money and Credit, Report. (62nd Congress, 3rd session. House
Report No. 1593), known as the Pujo Committee Report.
(7) The Story Of Our Money, p. 187.
(8) U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Banking,
Currency and Housing. Federal Reserve Directors: A Study of
Corporate and Banking Influence. August, 1976. (94th Congress,
2nd session). Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office,
1976.
(9) See Wall Street Journal, August 29, 1977.
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(10) The Story of Our Money, op. cil, pp. 188-89.
(11) Antony Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (New
Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1974). See particularly
pages 89-100 and the chapter, "J. P. Morgan gives a little help to
the other side."
(12) Colonel E. M. House to Senator Culbertson (July 26, 1911);
Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, (Boston
and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926-28), I. 159.
(15) Cited in The Story of Our Money, op. cil, p. 189.
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Chapter Eight:
THE JEKYL ISLAND CONSPIRACY
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