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Gerry McGeer: Lincoln Killed by Bankers

June 21, 2010 by Keith Gardner

Gerald Grattan McGeer was elected to the Canadian parliament in 1935 after serving as mayor of Vancouver in 1934, and to the British Columbia legislature in 1933. He was later appointed to the Senate by Canada’s Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, in 1945. He was reelected as mayor in 1946 and died in office in 1947, at the age of 59.

Gerald Grattan McGeer: Canada's greatest monetary reformer

Gerry McGeer was a populist and maverick of the Liberal Party of Canada, who reformed the police department and suppressed a Communist uprising as mayor. He was most known for packing town halls with his speeches, as he advocated monetary reform, favoring debt-free and commodity-free legal tender, like the Greenback. He wrote a book, Conquest of Poverty, or Money, Humanity and Christianity, in 1935.

Oddly, the Rockefeller Foundation and William Volker Fund economist, Henry Hazlitt, wrote a book with the same title, Conquest of Poverty, in 1975. I wouldn’t waste my time reading funded propaganda by Henry Hazlitt, but I’m sure it promotes freedom for bankers and feudalists to enslave you with land monopoly and gold and debt as money.

As a result of McGeer’s work, Prime Minister Mackenzie King ended the private debt-based monetary system, run much like the Federal Reserve, which was instituted in the 1920s and 1930s, and instituted a public debt-free and commodity-free legal tender. The debt-free and commodity-free currency worked very well for the Canadian people – though I’m sure it was under constant attack by the bankers – until the debt-based monetary system returned in the 1970s, during the banker-created stagflation crisis, and resulted in an explosion of national debt and 95% of the currency in circulation based on debt.

In Chapter Five of his book, we find that Gerry McGeer believed the bankers killed Lincoln for printing the Greenback. John Wilkes Booth was nothing more than a southern assassin hired by northern, southern, and perhaps even British bankers.

“I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy.” — Lincoln

“To orthodox finance, Lincoln became at once ‘a dangerous tyrant’. If he were permitted to put his ideas into practice he would destroy the sovereignty of Money Power.

“Lincoln, released from the problems of the Civil War, following his second election, proceeded at once to free mankind from the burden of unpayable, interest-bearing debt claims. He lost no time in commencing his campaign to free the American people from the slavery of mass usury.

“The oligarchy of high finance saw in the successful Lincoln a statesman enjoying the unchallengeable power of exalted leadership which is the privilege of superior achievement. He was the one man in the world who was willing and able to meet and to overthrow the control over the government which organized finance was seeking to perfect. With the problems of the rebellion out of the way, the bankers knew that Lincoln would devote his undivided attention to developing the monetary system he had proposed to Congress. If Lincoln were allowed to carry out his ideas, the hope that international financiers had of establishing world sovereignty for Money Power would be impossible of fulfillment.” — Gerry McGeer

Vancouver mayor Gerry McGeer at his desk in 1932

You’ll also find his biography, Mayor Gerry: The Remarkable Gerald Grattan McGeer, written by a man named David Ricardo Williams, named after the economist David Ricardo, who defined the Law of Rent, which was made popular by Henry George, another advocate of public debt-free and commodity-free legal tender.

More analysis on the Lincoln assassination, referencing multiple sources, is provided by William R. Carr, with his work, Lincoln, Taylor, Kennedy: The Greenback — Truth, Speculation, and Trivia.

I would have to agree with Gerry McGeer. John Wilkes Booth and the bankers ended Lincoln’s most ambitious plan to more permanently free men of all colors from the North and South from the slavery of usury, the Money Power, the money changers, the international banking cartel.

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The following article and editorial are taken from the Vancouver Daily Province of May 2, 1934:

OTTAWA, May 2, 1934 (CP) – Abraham Lincoln, the martyred emancipator of the slaves, was assassinated through the machinations of a group representative of the international bankers, who feared the United States President's national credit ambitions – and the plot was hatched in Toronto and Montreal. This was the information imparted to the House of Commons committee on banking and commerce Tuesday by Gerald G. McGeer, K.C., Vancouver lawyer and advocate of social credit, during a five-hour attack upon the present financial system.

"The evidence discloses that instead of being a patriot, John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln in a Washington theatre, was a mercenary," Mr. McGeer declared. Basing his beliefs upon an exhaustive study of unexpurgated copies of the evidence given by secret service agents at Booth's trial, he declared the only group that could benefit by Lincoln's death and who had the money to carry out such a plan, was the international bankers.

"The South worshipped Lincoln and looked upon him as the only one who would secure them justice in defeat. If they wished to kill him they had splendid opportunities and could have secured a thousand who would do the job," McGeer said.

Hatched in Canada

"According to the evidence given at the trial, the plot to assassinate Lincoln was first disclosed in Montreal and Toronto," Mr. McGeer said. "A group of men representing the Confederacy were operating in Canada with headquarters in those cities. During the winter of 1864 and 1865 they were approached by an unknown group with the proposition to assassinate Lincoln.

"They were not from the South nor connected with the Southern government, because representatives of the South in Canada hesitated to consider the proposal until it had been submitted to the South for approval.

"Booth was engaged to organize the assassination. It was proposed to the Southern government as a plot to kidnap Lincoln and hold him as a hostage for the purpose of bargaining for terms of settlement.

Cost No Factor

"In accordance with this plan a request was made to confer commissions in the Southern army upon those who were to engage in the actual kidnapping or assassination of Lincoln.

"The men responsible for instigating the crime were unknown, but in evidence given at the trial they were described as a group which could undertake anything without regard to cost.

"Booth was never a Southern patriot in the real sense. He was never in the Southern army, and one of his associates was a deserter from that army.

"Shortly before Lincoln was assassinated one of the men engaged by Booth declared that he was going away on a visit and that he would return with plenty of gold.

"Lincoln was wont to describe the men opposing his green-back currency policy as 'the secret foes of the nation.' The battle between Lincoln and the sound money men of the day was well known. In 1864 he was elected on a platform that contained a plank declaring for national currency.

"Lincoln was the most powerful reformer of his day. Had he lived he would have established a national currency system in the United States.

"There was only one group in the world at that time who could finance anything they cared to attempt without regard to cost, and who had any reason to desire the death of Lincoln.

"They were the men opposed to his national currency programme and who had fought him throughout the whole Civil War on his policy of green-back currency.

"They were the men interested in the establishment of the gold standard system and the right of the bankers to manage the currency and credit of every nation in the world.

"With Lincoln out of the way they were able to proceed with that plan and did proceed with it in the United States. Within eight years after Lincoln's assassination silver was demonetized and the gold standard money system set up in the United States."

McGeer at Ottawa

All the despatches from Ottawa suggest that Mr. McGeer has achieved a real personal triumph with his speech before the Commons committee on banking and currency. By virtue of that single speech he appears to have become a national figure, as Bryan became a national figure in the United States through a single speech on a similar topic nearly forty years ago.

The people who haunt the halls and committee rooms on Parliament Hill and the lounges and corridors of the Chateau Laurier are practised tasters of speeches. They live in an atmosphere of public speaking. They are accustomed to listen to the best Canada can produce and they not infrequently hear the best from other lands. It is no mean compliment, then, when the men sit for six hours listening to the criticisms and theories and plans of the crusader from the West.

Mr. McGeer has gone far in the past two or three years, and all through the marvelous energy, vitality and industry and the native ability stored up in himself. He was easily the central figure in the session of the Legislature at Victoria. He turned the Public Accounts Committee from its usual practice of tracking down petty partisan expenditures to a study of public finance. He forced his plan through the committee and the committee report through the Legislature. He was a whole opposition in himself. For days on end he stole the show from the Premier and the government. Now, in his single day on Parliament Hill, he has stolen the show again.

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Whatever the answer, the fact remains that Gerry McGeer has done more, probably, than any other man to make the monetary question a national issue in Canada. It is hardly likely he has reformed the ideas of the hard-boiled committee on currency and banking. He probably never expected he would. But as the prophet of a New Deal in Canada, [that's inaccurate editorial content from the Vancouver Daily Province newspaper: as McGeer advocated social credit, not FDR's big-state socialism] he has got his plan before the country. He has made criticism which can not be ignored or treated with contempt. Whether they are right or wrong in their criticisms, Gerry McGeer, Major Douglas and the other honest critics of the existing monetary system have now gained enough currency for their criticisms and theories to demand a better answer than has yet been given by the upholders of things as they are."

Gerald Grattan McGeer, a crusading labor lawyer representing the Vancouver Trades & Labour Council (Canada) got a chance to interrogate and lecture the vaunted Lord MacMillan Banking Commission, sent over from England in the Depression years to "fix things up". McGeer, who had done his homework, got banker Graham Towers to admit, "If Parliament wants to change the form of operating the banking system, then certainly that is within the power of Parliament." So they did. Usury-free money for nearly 20 years: a nearly debt-free era of investment in the Commons and in the people of Canada.

Additional background:

Bank of Canada Challenged in Legal Action: "Restore the Use of the Bank of Canada for Canadians" - Global Financial Powers Confronted