THE CON
The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, The Head of It All by David Graham Phillips
– Cosmopolitan – March 1906
Excerpt That Demonstrates the Connections Between the Skulls and Bones Secret Society and the Federal Reserve
Alphonso Taft was the founder of an American political dynasty, and a Bonesman alongside William H. Russell in the Class of 1833. He descended from Peter Robert Taft who had migrated to America from England in 1640 and Alphonso was the father of President Wililam H. Taft.
As U.S. Attorney General in 1876-77, Alphonso Taft helped organize the backroom settlement of the deadlocked 1876 presidential election. The bargain gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency (1877-81) and withdrew the U.S. troops from the South, where they had been enforcing blacks’ rights.
Young William Howard Taft at Yale (S&B 1878) was U.S. President from 1909 to 1913 and the only man who has served as both President and Chief Justice of the United States. His father, Alphonso Taft (S&B co-founder 1833) was appointed Secretary of War by President Ulysses Grant, and later U.S. Attorney General.
As Attorney General, Alphonso helped fashion the commission that decided who won the 1876 election. The commission found in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, (DKE), originally a junior secret society at Yale, and the only national Greek letter fraternity initially founded at Yale.
In 1882, Alphonso was appointed U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary. He then moved to Russia for two years, leaving in 1886. He died in 1891. His son, William Howard Taft, appointed by President McKinley, to be the first civil governor of the Philippines, displaced a disgruntled General Arthur MacArthur (General Douglas MacArthur’s father) who had been the military governor.
William Taft was elected President of the United States in 1909. During his administration, lawmakers sent Constitutional amendments to the states which provided for the direct election of Senators and a Federal Income tax.
The foundation for the Federal Reserve System was laid during Taft’s administration and was signed into law furtively by his successor, Woodrow Wilson on Christmas Eve 1913.
W. H. Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Harding in 1921, and served until his death in 1930. Teddy Roosevelt (DKE), who became president after McKinley’s assassination, appointed Taft to serve as Secretary of War (1904-08). While Secretary, he was the “master overseer and troubleshooter” for the Panama Canal; provisional governor of Cuba; and acting Secretary of State, while the Secretary of State John Hay was ill.
Robert A. Lovett was Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1941-1945), Secretary of Defense (1951-53), and a leading member of the CFR. Until his death in 1986, Lovett was one of the “most powerful men in the United States for nearly 40 years.” And as a partner in the investment house of Brown Brothers, Harriman, Lovett had connections to another interesting group of “Boodle Boys” ( an old slang term for members of the Order of Skull and Bones.)
President Taft made Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) his Secretary of War (1911-13).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Stimson
Stimson was appointed to high government posts by seven presidents. He was Governor General of the Philippines (1926-1928), Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and Secretary of War under Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1940-1946). He was “ultimately responsible” for the internment of Japanese-American citizens in WWII and oversaw the Manhattan Project, America’s atomic bomb program. Stimson also took credit for swaying Truman into dropping “the bomb” on Japan. Henry groomed a generation of “cold warriors,” in what was known as “Stimson’s Kindergarten”. Among Stimson’s students were General George C. Marshall, John J. McCloy, Dean Acheson (DKE), three “Bonesmen” from the Bundy family, and Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918).
1904 The New Imperialism
As this period of expansion came to be called, took further shape in 26th President Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
That year, when the government of the Dominican Republic went bankrupt, Roosevelt feared that European nations might intervene in the Hemisphere to collect their debts. Asserting the responsibilities implied by American Exceptionalism, Roosevelt declared it a moral imperative for America to police the Western Hemisphere. His Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine expanded America’s authority “in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence” to include “the exercise of an international police power” in the Western Hemisphere. In his speech to Congress on December 6, 1904, Roosevelt rejected any suspicion of imperialism. “It is not true,” he declared, “that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Still, his Corollary stripped away the Monroe Doctrine’s requirement that American military action be a response to acts of aggression against either America or her neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
It could now be based upon America’s own perception of any circumstance requiring police action.
In This Picturesque Village, the Rent Hasn’t Been Raised Since 1520
Tenants in German Enclave Pray Daily, For Good Fortune and the Souls of Bankers
Every day, retired florist Rita Wunderle prays for the souls of bankers.
Despite daily headlines about banker-fueled economic crisis and an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, her 145 neighbors pray, too.
Mrs. Wunderle lives in the Fuggerei, a Roman Catholic housing settlement for the poor that Jakob Fugger “The Rich” built in this southern German city nearly 500 years ago. Praying for Mr. Fugger and his descendants to enter the Pearly Gates is a condition for living here, at an annual rent of 1 Rhein guilder, the same as in 1520. In today’s money, that’s 88 euro cents, or about $1.23.
Fuggerei is a Roman Catholic housing settlement in Augsburg, Germany, established in 1520 by Jakob Fugger “The Rich” to help the poor. The main gate, left, is locked each night and stragglers are fined for coming in late.
Jakob the Rich was Wall Street long before it existed. He minted coins for the Vatican, bankrolled the Holy Roman Empire and helped steer Europe’s spice trade in the early 16th century to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful financiers in history. He left more than seven tons of gold to his successors — and a good deed.<snip>