Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow

[Garson O'Toole]

Thanks for locating those great citations, Ken. And many thanks for
pointing out the existence of that remarkable database.
Garson

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ken Hirsch <kenhirsch at ftml.net> wrote:
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> Congressional Record=97House
> Volume 81, p. 2528
> March 19, 1937
> http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/getdoc?CONG-RECORD-ID=3DCR-1937-0319
> Congressman Charles Binderup on the floor of the House of Representatives:
>
>  It was Henry Ford who said, in substance, this: =93It is perhaps well
>  enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our
>  banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be
>  a revolution before tomorrow morning.=94
>
> Binderup's speech was also printed in
> Social Justice, Father Coughlin's Weekly Review
> Volume  III, No. 16 (April 19, 1937), pp. 5,10
> "Depression Plotted by Federal Reserve, Charge of Binderup"
> http://www.unz.org/Publication/SocialJustice-1937apr19
>
>
> I have a very low opionion of Binderup's reliability, since he
> is responsible for popularizing the "Colonial Scrip" hoax:
>
> http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new=
> -england-prosperous/
>
>
> The attribution of the "revolution before morning" quote to Andrew Jackson
> is almost certainly an example of what I like to call "quotum
> entanglement". The alleged Ford quote no doubt appeared next to some
> similarly-themed quote from Andrew Jackson and someone copied it with the
> attribution that appeared before the quote instead of after (or vice
> versa). I once found a quote from John William Gardner attributed to James
> Garfield for no apparent reason except that the quotes must have been
> sorted alphabetically by author.
>
> Please note this new source of searchable texts, many from the 20th century=
> :
>
>  http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllBooks?View=3DSearch
>  http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllPeriodicals?View=3DSearch
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>
> Ken Hirsch
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