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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 12 Num. 46
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 12 Num. 46
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INTERNATIONALISM: AN OLD TRICK
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In 1930-31, Father Charles Coughlin gave a series of radio
sermons, later transcribed into a book, "By The Sweat of Thy
Brow" (The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1931). Father
Coughlin defined labor as a fundamental human right, as did Union
General (and Congressman) James B. Weaver (*A Call To Action*,
1892). Wrote General Weaver:
All men have a natural right to a portion of the soil; and
as the use of the soil is indispensable to life, the right
of all men to the soil is as sacred as their right to life
itself.
The child... comes into this world clothed with all the
natural rights which Adam possessed when he was the sole
inhabitant of the earth. Liberty to occupy the soil in his
own right, to till it unmolested as soon as he has the
strength to do so and to live upon the fruits of his toil
without paying tribute to any other creature, are among the
most sacred and essential of these rights; and any state of
society which deprives men of these natural and inalienable
safeguards, is an organized rebellion against the
providence of God, a conspiracy against human life and a
menace to the peace of the community.
-+- The Laborer -+-
Father Coughlin, while acknowledging that "labor" includes
creative and intellectual labor, limits his definition to the
bulk of laborers: miners, farmers and factory workers:
There is not one item in life which is independent of the
laborer. Identified with every gold coin which is sent on
its mission of wealth; intimately related to every
locomotive which moves freight and produce and human beings
across our continent; back of every airplane that skims
past the skyline and over the clouds, there is some human
being who has delved into the earth to fetch forth the
gold, to fabricate the engine, and to spin for us the
silken wings which fill the sky.
He then goes on to stress that work is a human right, based on
"the law of self-preservation which the Creator of human life has
so impressed upon every individual that it supersedes every other
law and annuls every man-made legislation which unreasonably
comes in conflict with it." Coughlin's "three fundamental
notions of life" are:
1) Man is a social citizen.
2) He and every other citizen has the right to preserve his life.
3) The primary law of physical preservation is essentially
connected with labor.
-+- Where Money Is King -+-
But mass consumption cannot keep up with mass production. As the
machinery has improved, two contrary things occur: (1) the
laborer is not as necessary, since the machine can do ever more
of his labor, and (2) since the laborer is no longer as
necessary, he becomes seasonally unemployed and cannot so easily
afford (consume/purchase) the items of mass production. Coughlin
is ahead of his time when he urges that there be less hours
worked by those already employed so that =all= may be employed.
The "radio priest" also condemned the vast gap in wealth between
the few ultra rich and the masses of workers just struggling to
provide for themselves and their families. (Quoting from Pope
Leo XIII: "the concentration of many branches of trade in the
hands of a few individuals, a small number of very rich men have
been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a
yoke that is little better than slavery itself.") Coughlin is not
a communist nor a socialist, but he does urge that a living wage
must be paid to all workers.
Money, says Coughlin, is "substantially related to labor." Man
is a social citizen (see point #1, above). Each citizen is a
unit of a nation "whose social duties obligate him first to the
political family of his fellow citizens." (This does not imply
no obligation to mankind in general, but the =first= obligation
is to "the political family of his fellow citizens.") It follows
from this that the ultra rich cannot use their great wealth in a
manner contrary to the general good of their countrymen.
So how can these ultra rich (the one-third of one percent who
control half the wealth of the country) commandeer "the many
billions of American dollars made by American laborers" and
expend them "building factories and creating industries abroad"?
Coughlin warns that eventually "these foreign nations will be our
competitors," that eventually they will force down the wages paid
to American workers. Add to this the billions of dollars sent
abroad as foreign aid:
...American money to the extent of eighteen billion dollars
loaned abroad since [World War I]. From the year 1920 to
1928 foreign loans amounting to 14.5 billion dollars were
publicly offered and accepted. Since that date other loans
have been negotiated privately... Add to this the 12
billion dollars of a government war loan. And the result
is, that Europe and South America owe us today at least 30
billion dollars, the interest on which these nations are
now unable to pay...
If gold or money is substantially related to labor, then
the exportation of American gold in such abnormal and
stupendous quantities is equivalent to the exportation of
sixty billion hours of American labor valued at 50 cents an
hour [1930 rates], or enough to keep approximately 30
million workmen busy for one whole year.
Yes, says Coughlin, here on earth the ultra rich own their
wealth; but they are the =stewards= of that wealth. He quotes
from St. Thomas Aquinas:
The temporal goods which God permits to a man are his in
regard to property. But in regard to use they are not his
alone, but others also who can be sustained by what is
superfluous to him. If the individual owner neglects his
social responsibilities, it is the duty of the State to
enforce their observance.
What is the morality of "those Americans who made their money by
the sweat of the brows of American laborers and then expend
tremendous portions of it in foreign countries to build up
competitors in the industrial market against their fellow
citizens"?
American money has been (and is being) exported abroad where it
"will compete in neutral markets with our own industries."
-+- "Scribes" Have Wrought Desolation -+-
Almost 2500 years ago, it is recorded "that a condition somewhat
similar to ours was extant... among the Jewish people. For
personal reasons their leaders preferred to be blind to the
situation, thinking that they could quell the disturbance in the
public mind by the childish trick of crying, >>'Peace, Peace':
when there was no peace.<< (Jeremias 8:11)"
"The scribes [journalists] who depended for their livelihood upon
the great men of the nation were content to remain silent lest
their revenues be revoked. In fact they even co-operated in this
childish diplomacy of propagating the lie >>'Peace, Peace': when
there was no peace.<<"
"No wonder, therefore, that the prophet expressed himself in
unmistakable language when he wrote that 'the lying pen of the
scribes hath wrought our desolation.' (Jeremias 8:8)"
"A similar circumstance has arisen today. The modern scribe or
journalist or publisher... too often finds himself openly
partisan at the expense of honesty and brazenly optimistic at the
expense of truth as he comforts himself with the sophistry that
all the news is not good for the people. Only that news is good
which benefits the apostles of privilege."
-+- Internationalism: An Old Trick -+-
Internationalism is a recurring scheme favored by those wanting
to hog wealth and power. Alexander the Great was imbued with
political internationalism "when he desired to Persianize the
entire world... So was Augustus Caesar. So was Napoleon whose
secret ambition was to make the world his footstool and France
his throne." And so did Adolph Hitler seek eventual world
conquest for his Third Reich. And so does/did international
communism seek world conquest. Communism
according to its founder, Adam Weishaupt, from whom Karl
Marx drew his inspiration... is necessarily identified with
atheism... This is the first tenet of communism...
The second general belief of communism is expressed by the
word 'internationalism.'
Internationalism is "a heresy which strikes at the root of
patriotism and prosperity: and aims not at elevating all peoples
to the standard of American living, but rather at the leveling of
our standard to the common denominator of foreign misery."
-+- Loathsome Re-birth of Internationalism -+-
"The most loathsome after-birth of the [First] World War has been
the revival of this internationalism which in its last analysis
is nothing more than universal class rule. On the one hand the
Soviet desires to control the entire world by the military arm of
an enslaved laboring class. And on the part of certain captains
of industry and finance there seems to be a determination to rule
the universe through the agency of wealth."
"Identified both with the League of Nations and with the World
Court... is this new Colossus called the International Bank." In
the minds of many, the birth of the International Bank is a story
into which is woven "the J.P. Morgan Banking Company... the Bank
of England; [and] the names of certain gentlemen in our Federal
Reserve Bank... Acting in collusion, these men succeeded in
lowering American money to 3.5 percent; then exported more than
500 million dollars in gold to Europe..."
"Now that our gold has been poured into Europe, these same
international bankers of Wall Street and of Washington are
anxious that our nation shall surrender its independence by
becoming a member of 'The Permanent Court of International
Justice of the League of Nations.'"
(Coughlin's "International Bank" may or may not be the same as
the "Bank for International Settlements." Since Coughlin is
speaking circa 1930 of a "new Colossus called the International
Bank," it seems likely he is referring to the Bank for
International Settlements. In Charles Higham's
highly-recommended book on how corporate America continued doing
business with Nazi Germany, even during World War II -- *Trading
With the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949* --
background is given on the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS): "The Bank for International Settlements was a joint
creation in 1930 of the world's central banks, including the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Its existence was inspired by
Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi Minister of Economics and president of the
Reichsbank." The BIS turned into "a money funnel for American
and British funds to flow into Hitler's coffers and to help
Hitler build up his war machine.")
-+- Abraham Lincoln's Warning to America -+-
Just before he died, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to a close
friend in Illinois. Here is part of what he is reported to have
said:
Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that the [Civil War]
is nearing its close. It has cost a great amount of
treasure and of blood. But I see in the near future, a
crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my country.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The
money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic
is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of
war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
Extrapolating from Coughlin's analysis, with its 1930s
perspective, we now know that in the struggle between the two
"evil empires" -- International Communism and International
Corporatism -- the latter appears to have triumphed. The lust
for wealth, power and world conquest is =not= something "brand
new," but its current disguise of benevolence and "'Peace,
Peace': when there is no peace" =is= new. Do not be deceived;
beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
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