THE PLAN herein outlined was carried out. In 1873 a bill to reform the coinage and mint laws was introduced. There was no intimation or words in the bill demonetizing silver. The bill was discussed in a mild debate, showing the importance of free coinage of silver to which nearly all were agreed. The bill passed the Senate without a roll call, no one voting against it. The bill, as enrolled, became a law, and the forgery in it was not discovered till three years later, 1876. A great “howl” went up from Congress. Grant, as President, signed the bill without reading it, and it had gone through as the Englishman had predicted, to be forged later. On the attempt to repeal the bill, the American Bankers Association, all the big money lenders in the U. S., and an agent from London representing the monied interests in England, got behind the bill, flooding the country with literature and speeches in favor of the single gold standard. The effect of the bill was to double the value of all bonds, notes and mortgages held by the monied interests, and to depreciate, by one-half, the value of the products and other property of the people, cotton going down to 5c a pound and wheat to 50c a bushel. The entire story of this transaction is told in a book, “A Tale of Two Nations,” now being reprinted by The Mundus Publishing Co., Monte Ne, Arkansas.

From the establishment of the Gold Standard, by fraud, the tale of financial manipulation from then to now, with the buying out of the Gold reserve by monied interests, undermining the very basis of finances, constitutes the greatest crime done against a free people in the history of this country. It is such in its subtle influence and the far-reaching effects of its gigantic proportions as to make it imperative for every lover of Liberty and of Humanity to rise today in the demand that the government