480 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



President of the United States will be cousins in the royal 

 sense of the word. They will elect each other; they will 

 transmit their thrones to their descendants." Thomas H. 

 Benton in U. S. Senate. 



"The bank has thrown herself into the political arena 

 to control the presidential election. If she succeeds in that 

 election, she will wish to consolidate her power by getting 

 control of all other elections. Government of States, 

 judges of the courts, Representatives and Senators in 

 Congress, all must belong to her. The Senate especially 

 must belong to her, for there lies the power to confirm 

 nominations and to try impeachments. To get possession 

 of the Senate, the legislatures of a majority of the States 

 will have to be acquired. The whole government will fall 

 into the hands of this money power. An oligarchy will 

 be established, but that oligarchy will in a few years ripen 

 into a monarchy." Thomas H. Benton, in U. S. Senate. 



1 ' Place the money power in the hands of a combina- 

 tion of a few individuals, and they, by expanding or 

 contracting the currency, may raise or sink prices at pleas- 

 ure; and by purchasing when at the greatest depression, 

 and selling when at the greatest elevation, may command 

 the whole property and industry of the community, and 

 control its fiscal operations. The banking system concen- 

 trates and places this power in the hands of those who 

 control it. Never was an engine invented better calculated 

 to place the destiny of the many in the hands of the few, 

 or less favorable to that equality and independence which 

 lies at the bottom of our free institutions."^^ C. Cal- 

 houn, in U. S. Senate. 



The following able and eloquent speech made in the 

 House, February 29th, 1888, by Gen. James B. Weaver, 

 of Iowa, is so pertinent to the subject, and such a thorough 

 exposition of the manner in which the people's money has, 

 and still is being used, that we publish it entire. The bill 



