Such has been the patient sufferance of these people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems. The history of the present financial order, and its centuries old governmental regime, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, enslavements, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the economic life of the nation. To prove this, let facts be submitted to the candid judgment of the world.
They have perverted the institutions designed for the common defense into mechanisms for the private accumulation of power, thereby inverting the very purpose for which they were established.
They have erected an empire of financial abstraction, defended by legal artifice, which wages a silent war upon the productive capacities of the people and evades the natural checks of a free society.
They have infiltrated the economies of nations, converting public resources and the common heritage into collateral for perpetual debts, thereby enslaving the industry of the present and future to the avarice of the few.
They have, through speculative artifices, inflated the nominal value of assets, creating recurrent calamities which devastate the fortunes of the prudent whilst securing indemnities for the architects of the distress.
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