System II

"The few who can understand the system (check money and credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests"
--Letter dated June 25, 1863 to the banking firm of Ikleheimer, Morton and Vandergould from the Rothchilds’s firm, located in London