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.
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 4, 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 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 expend their
energies in fighting over questions of no
importance to us, except as teachers to
the common herd. Thus, by discrete actions,
we can secure all that has been so
generously planned and successfully
accomplished.