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Fourth, such a financial system must also be harmful to the subjects of the Realm in general.
Under the second point it has already been shown how the Bank, in the light of this conversion, must inevitably call in its loans from the Crown and what the Crown will suffer thereby. Let us now consider from where all this is to be taken. Is it not the subjects who are compelled to provide all this for their denuded and despoiled Crown by means of new taxes and appropriations? But as everything that the subjects are able to accumulate by sweat and toil in order to assist the Crown is drawn into the Bank and from the Bank into the hands of the banknote capitalists, the willingness to make such contributions cannot but be
diminished.
The future will one day persuade us, however, of that which few are yet likely to believe, namely that unless the siphons that extend between the Crown and the Bank and the Bank and private individuals are soon cut off, it will be a sheer impossibility for the Crown or the Bank to recover, even if one
were to concentrate there everything that exists in the country, for there are always priests of Baal who come by secret passages at night to consume the sacrifice, and before you know where you are, the Crown and the Realm will fade away and succumb to an incurable consumptive illness, the Bank will flaunt beautiful rooms and a large staff, comprehensive accounts and empty vaults, and a few private individuals will walk away from there stuffed and wealthy.
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